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

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

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

Genesis 2.5: 5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

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

Genesis 2.7: 7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis 2.19: 19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.

Genesis 2.20: 20 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.

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

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

Genesis 2.23: 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

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

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

Genesis 3.1: 3Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

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

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

Genesis 3.5: 5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Genesis 3.6: 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

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

Genesis 3.8: 8 They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis 4.7: 7 If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis 4.14: 14 Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis 6.7: 7 Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Genesis 6.9: 9 This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis 6.17: 17 I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

Genesis 6.18: 18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

Genesis 6.19: 19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

Genesis 6.20: 20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.

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

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

Genesis 7.2: 2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis 7.13: 13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—

Genesis 7.14: 14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis 7.23: 23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

Genesis 8.1: 8God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

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

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

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

Genesis 8.5: 5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genesis 8.13: 13 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

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

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

Genesis 8.17: 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”

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

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

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

Genesis 8.21: 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

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

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

Genesis 9.2: 2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.

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

Genesis 9.5: 5 I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.

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

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

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

Genesis 9.10: 10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.

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

Genesis 9.12: 12 God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

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

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

Genesis 9.15: 15 I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Genesis 9.16: 16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

Genesis 9.17: 17 God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

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

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

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

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

Genesis 9.23: 23 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.

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

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

Exodus 1.1: 1Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):

Exodus 1.5: 5 All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

Exodus 1.7: 7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Exodus 1.9: 9 He said to his people, “Behold,1 the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

Exodus 1.10: 10 Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

Exodus 1.11: 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 1.12: 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.

Exodus 1.14: 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Exodus 1.15: 15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,

Exodus 1.16: 16 and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

Exodus 1.17: 17 But the midwives feared God,2 and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

Exodus 1.18: 18 The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”

Exodus 1.19: 19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

Exodus 1.20: 20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

Exodus 1.22: 22 Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

Exodus 3.1: 3Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.

Exodus 3.2: 2 Yahweh’s1 angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Exodus 3.3: 3 Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”

Exodus 3.4: 4 When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!”

Exodus 3.5: 5 He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”

Exodus 3.6: 6 Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”

Exodus 3.7: 7 Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Exodus 3.8: 8 I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Exodus 3.9: 9 Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Exodus 3.10: 10 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

Exodus 3.11: 11 Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

Exodus 3.12: 12 He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

Exodus 3.13: 13 Moses said to God, “Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?”

Exodus 3.14: 14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Exodus 3.15: 15 God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.

Exodus 3.16: 16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

Exodus 3.17: 17 I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

Exodus 3.18: 18 They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.’

Exodus 3.19: 19 I know that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.

Exodus 3.20: 20 I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do among them, and after that he will let you go.

Exodus 3.21: 21 I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.

Exodus 3.22: 22 But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing. You shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall plunder the Egyptians.”

Exodus 5.1: 5Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”

Exodus 5.2: 2 Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

Exodus 5.3: 3 They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.”

Exodus 5.4: 4 The king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!”

Exodus 5.5: 5 Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.”

Exodus 5.6: 6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,

Exodus 5.7: 7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Exodus 5.8: 8 You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to our God.’

Exodus 5.9: 9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”

Exodus 5.10: 10 The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw.

Exodus 5.11: 11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”

Exodus 5.12: 12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

Exodus 5.13: 13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”

Exodus 5.14: 14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”

Exodus 5.15: 15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?

Exodus 5.16: 16 No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”

Exodus 5.17: 17 But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’

Exodus 5.18: 18 Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”

Exodus 5.19: 19 The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!”

Exodus 5.20: 20 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood along the way, as they came out from Pharaoh.

Exodus 5.21: 21 They said to them, “May Yahweh look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!”

Exodus 5.22: 22 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?

Exodus 5.23: 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people. You have not rescued your people at all!”

Exodus 6.1: 6Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.”

Exodus 6.3: 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.

Exodus 6.4: 4 I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

Exodus 6.5: 5 Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.

Exodus 6.6: 6 Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments.

Exodus 6.7: 7 I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Exodus 6.8: 8 I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.’”

Exodus 6.9: 9 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

Exodus 6.11: 11 “Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.”

Exodus 6.12: 12 Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?”

Exodus 6.13: 13 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 6.14: 14 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.

Exodus 6.15: 15 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.

Exodus 6.16: 16 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.

Exodus 6.17: 17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.

Exodus 6.18: 18 The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.

Exodus 6.19: 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

Exodus 6.20: 20 Amram took Jochebed his father’s sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. The years of the life of Amram were one hundred thirty-seven years.

Exodus 6.23: 23 Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Exodus 6.24: 24 The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

Exodus 6.25: 25 Eleazar Aaron’s son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families.

Exodus 6.26: 26 These are that Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, “Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.”

Exodus 6.27: 27 These are those who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 6.29: 29 Yahweh said to Moses, “I am Yahweh. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I tell you.”

Exodus 6.30: 30 Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”

Exodus 8.1: 8Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Exodus 8.2: 2 If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs.

Exodus 8.3: 3 The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs.

Exodus 8.4: 4 The frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.”’”

Exodus 8.5: 5 Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’”

Exodus 8.6: 6 Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

Exodus 8.7: 7 The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.

Exodus 8.8: 8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, “Entreat Yahweh, that he take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh.”

Exodus 8.9: 9 Moses said to Pharaoh, “I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only.”

Moses said, “Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.

Exodus 8.11: 11 The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only.”

Exodus 8.12: 12 Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.

Exodus 8.13: 13 Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.

Exodus 8.15: 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

Exodus 8.16: 16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’”

Exodus 8.17: 17 They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 8.18: 18 The magicians tried with their enchantments to produce lice, but they couldn’t. There were lice on man, and on animal.

Exodus 8.19: 19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is God’s finger;” but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

Exodus 8.20: 20 Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Exodus 8.21: 21 Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground they are on.

Exodus 8.22: 22 I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end you may know that I am Yahweh on the earth.

Exodus 8.23: 23 I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign shall happen by tomorrow.”’”

Exodus 8.24: 24 Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses. In all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.

Exodus 8.25: 25 Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!”

Exodus 8.26: 26 Moses said, “It isn’t appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God. Behold, if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, won’t they stone us?

Exodus 8.27: 27 We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us.”

Exodus 8.28: 28 Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me.”

Exodus 8.29: 29 Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you. I will pray to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don’t let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Yahweh.”

Exodus 8.31: 31 Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. There remained not one.

Exodus 8.32: 32 Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.

Exodus 9.1: 9Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Exodus 9.3: 3 behold, Yahweh’s hand is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.

Exodus 9.4: 4 Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.”’”

Exodus 9.5: 5 Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing in the land.”

Exodus 9.6: 6 Yahweh did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died.

Exodus 9.7: 7 Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn’t let the people go.

Exodus 9.8: 8 Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.

Exodus 9.9: 9 It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt.”

Exodus 9.10: 10 They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became boils and blisters breaking on man and on animal.

Exodus 9.11: 11 The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.

Exodus 9.12: 12 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.

Exodus 9.13: 13 Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Exodus 9.14: 14 For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

Exodus 9.15: 15 For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;

Exodus 9.16: 16 but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

Exodus 9.17: 17 because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.

Exodus 9.18: 18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.

Exodus 9.19: 19 Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. The hail will come down on every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn’t brought home, and they will die.”’”

Exodus 9.20: 20 Those who feared Yahweh’s word among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.

Exodus 9.21: 21 Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.

Exodus 9.22: 22 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”

Exodus 9.23: 23 Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.

Exodus 9.24: 24 So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

Exodus 9.25: 25 The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.

Exodus 9.26: 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

Exodus 9.27: 27 Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

Exodus 9.28: 28 Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

Exodus 9.29: 29 Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.

Exodus 9.30: 30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you don’t yet fear Yahweh God.”

Exodus 9.31: 31 The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley had ripened and the flax was blooming.

Exodus 9.32: 32 But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up.

Exodus 9.33: 33 Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.

Exodus 9.34: 34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

Exodus 9.35: 35 The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.

Leviticus 2.1: 2“‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.

Leviticus 2.2: 2 He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests. He shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Leviticus 2.3: 3 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.

Leviticus 2.4: 4 “‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

Leviticus 2.5: 5 If your offering is a meal offering made on a griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil.

Leviticus 2.6: 6 You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering.

Leviticus 2.7: 7 If your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

Leviticus 2.8: 8 You shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things to Yahweh. It shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.

Leviticus 2.9: 9 The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Leviticus 2.10: 10 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.

Leviticus 2.11: 11 “‘No meal offering which you shall offer to Yahweh shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Leviticus 2.12: 12 As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to Yahweh, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the altar.

Leviticus 2.13: 13 Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God1 to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

Leviticus 2.14: 14 “‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits fresh heads of grain parched with fire and crushed.

Leviticus 2.15: 15 You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering.

Leviticus 2.16: 16 The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Leviticus 4.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,

Leviticus 4.3: 3 if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin which he has sinned a young bull without defect to Yahweh for a sin offering.

Leviticus 4.4: 4 He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before Yahweh.

Leviticus 4.5: 5 The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4.6: 6 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before the veil of the sanctuary.

Leviticus 4.7: 7 The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4.8: 8 He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering from it: the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,

Leviticus 4.9: 9 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall remove,

Leviticus 4.10: 10 as it is removed from the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.

Leviticus 4.11: 11 He shall carry the bull’s skin, all its meat, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung

Leviticus 4.12: 12 —all the rest of the bull—outside of the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. It shall be burned where the ashes are poured out.

Leviticus 4.13: 13 “‘If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and are guilty;

Leviticus 4.14: 14 when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4.15: 15 The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull shall be killed before Yahweh.

Leviticus 4.16: 16 The anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4.17: 17 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil.

Leviticus 4.18: 18 He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 4.20: 20 Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.

Leviticus 4.21: 21 He shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.

Leviticus 4.22: 22 “‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,

Leviticus 4.23: 23 if his sin in which he has sinned is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without defect.

Leviticus 4.24: 24 He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Yahweh. It is a sin offering.

Leviticus 4.25: 25 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.

Leviticus 4.26: 26 All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 4.27: 27 “‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,

Leviticus 4.28: 28 if his sin which he has sinned is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without defect, for his sin which he has sinned.

Leviticus 4.29: 29 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.

Leviticus 4.30: 30 The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

Leviticus 4.31: 31 All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 4.32: 32 “‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.

Leviticus 4.33: 33 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.

Leviticus 4.34: 34 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

Leviticus 4.35: 35 He shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 5.1: 5“‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 5.2: 2 “‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.

Leviticus 5.3: 3 “‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.

Leviticus 5.4: 4 “‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good—whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him—when he knows of it, then he will be guilty of one of these.

Leviticus 5.5: 5 It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned;

Leviticus 5.6: 6 and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.

Leviticus 5.7: 7 “‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

Leviticus 5.8: 8 He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering. He shall wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.

Leviticus 5.9: 9 He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.

Leviticus 5.10: 10 He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.

Leviticus 5.11: 11 “‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah1 of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

Leviticus 5.12: 12 He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. It is a sin offering.

Leviticus 5.13: 13 The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as the meal offering.’”

Leviticus 5.15: 15 “If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding Yahweh’s holy things, then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel2 of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.

Leviticus 5.16: 16 He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong regarding the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 5.17: 17 “If anyone sins, doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, though he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 5.18: 18 He shall bring a ram without defect from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn’t know it, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 5.19: 19 It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before Yahweh.”

Leviticus 9.1: 9On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;

Leviticus 9.2: 2 and he said to Aaron, “Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without defect, and offer them before Yahweh.

Leviticus 9.3: 3 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without defect, for a burnt offering;

Leviticus 9.4: 4 and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Yahweh; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today Yahweh appears to you.’”

Leviticus 9.5: 5 They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting. All the congregation came near and stood before Yahweh.

Leviticus 9.6: 6 Moses said, “This is the thing which Yahweh commanded that you should do; and Yahweh’s glory shall appear to you.”

Leviticus 9.7: 7 Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as Yahweh commanded.”

Leviticus 9.8: 8 So Aaron came near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.

Leviticus 9.9: 9 The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar;

Leviticus 9.10: 10 but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Leviticus 9.12: 12 He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.

Leviticus 9.13: 13 They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head. He burned them upon the altar.

Leviticus 9.14: 14 He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.

Leviticus 9.15: 15 He presented the people’s offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.

Leviticus 9.16: 16 He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.

Leviticus 9.17: 17 He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, in addition to the burnt offering of the morning.

Leviticus 9.18: 18 He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people. Aaron’s sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar;

Leviticus 9.19: 19 and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver;

Leviticus 9.20: 20 and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar.

Leviticus 9.21: 21 Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before Yahweh, as Moses commanded.

Leviticus 9.22: 22 Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.

Leviticus 9.23: 23 Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people; and Yahweh’s glory appeared to all the people.

Leviticus 9.24: 24 Fire came out from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

Numbers 2.2: 2 “The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall encamp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it.”

Numbers 2.3: 3 Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

Numbers 2.4: 4 His division, and those who were counted of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

Numbers 2.5: 5 Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar. The prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.

Numbers 2.6: 6 His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

Numbers 2.7: 7 The tribe of Zebulun: the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.

Numbers 2.8: 8 His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

Numbers 2.9: 9 All who were counted of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.

Numbers 2.10: 10 “On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Numbers 2.11: 11 His division, and those who were counted of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

Numbers 2.12: 12 “Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

Numbers 2.13: 13 His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

Numbers 2.14: 14 “The tribe of Gad: the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.

Numbers 2.15: 15 His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

Numbers 2.16: 16 “All who were counted of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second.

Numbers 2.17: 17 “Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.

Numbers 2.18: 18 “On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.

Numbers 2.19: 19 His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty thousand five hundred.

Numbers 2.20: 20 “Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh. The prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

Numbers 2.21: 21 His division, and those who were counted of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

Numbers 2.22: 22 “The tribe of Benjamin: the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.

Numbers 2.23: 23 His army, and those who were counted of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

Numbers 2.24: 24 “All who were counted of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.

Numbers 2.25: 25 “On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

Numbers 2.26: 26 His division, and those who were counted of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

Numbers 2.27: 27 “Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher. The prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran.

Numbers 2.28: 28 His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.

Numbers 2.29: 29 “The tribe of Naphtali: the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.

Numbers 2.30: 30 His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

Numbers 2.31: 31 “All who were counted of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.”

Numbers 2.32: 32 These are those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses. All who were counted of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

Numbers 2.33: 33 But the Levites were not counted among the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Numbers 2.34: 34 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers’ houses.

Numbers 3.1: 3Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.

Numbers 3.2: 2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Numbers 3.3: 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.

Numbers 3.4: 4 Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh when they offered strange fire before Yahweh in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their father.

Numbers 3.6: 6 “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.

Numbers 3.7: 7 They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.

Numbers 3.8: 8 They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

Numbers 3.9: 9 You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Numbers 3.10: 10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood, but the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

Numbers 3.12: 12 “Behold,1 I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine,

Numbers 3.13: 13 for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am Yahweh.”

Numbers 3.15: 15 “Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.”

Numbers 3.16: 16 Moses counted them according to Yahweh’s word, as he was commanded.

Numbers 3.17: 17 These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Numbers 3.18: 18 These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.

Numbers 3.19: 19 The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

Numbers 3.21: 21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites.

Numbers 3.22: 22 Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, even those who were counted of them were seven thousand five hundred.

Numbers 3.23: 23 The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.

Numbers 3.24: 24 Eliasaph the son of Lael shall be the prince of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites.

Numbers 3.25: 25 The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

Numbers 3.26: 26 the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.

Numbers 3.27: 27 Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites. These are the families of the Kohathites.

Numbers 3.28: 28 According to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.

Numbers 3.29: 29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle.

Numbers 3.30: 30 The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

Numbers 3.31: 31 Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, the screen, and all its service.

Numbers 3.32: 32 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.

Numbers 3.33: 33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.

Numbers 3.34: 34 Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.2

Numbers 3.35: 35 The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.

Numbers 3.36: 36 The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,

Numbers 3.37: 37 the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.

Numbers 3.38: 38 Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.

Numbers 3.39: 39 All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

Numbers 3.40: 40 Yahweh said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

Numbers 3.41: 41 You shall take the Levites for me—I am Yahweh—instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.”

Numbers 3.42: 42 Moses counted, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

Numbers 3.43: 43 All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

Numbers 3.45: 45 “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.

Numbers 3.46: 46 For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,

Numbers 3.47: 47 you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel3 of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs4);

Numbers 3.48: 48 and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”

Numbers 3.49: 49 Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;

Numbers 3.50: 50 from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels,5 according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

Numbers 3.51: 51 and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to Yahweh’s word, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Numbers 5.2: 2 “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse.

Numbers 5.3: 3 You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”

Numbers 5.4: 4 The children of Israel did so, and put them outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

Numbers 5.6: 6 “Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty,

Numbers 5.7: 7 then he shall confess his sin which he has done; and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.

Numbers 5.8: 8 But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest’s, in addition to the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.

Numbers 5.9: 9 Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.

Numbers 5.10: 10 Every man’s holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.’”

Numbers 5.12: 12 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,

Numbers 5.13: 13 and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and this is kept concealed, and she is defiled, there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act;

Numbers 5.14: 14 and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she isn’t defiled;

Numbers 5.15: 15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah1 of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.

Numbers 5.17: 17 The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

Numbers 5.18: 18 The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

Numbers 5.19: 19 The priest shall cause her to take an oath and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

Numbers 5.20: 20 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband’s authority, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband—”

Numbers 5.21: 21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

Numbers 5.22: 22 and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

Numbers 5.23: 23 “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.

Numbers 5.24: 24 He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

Numbers 5.25: 25 The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.

Numbers 5.26: 26 The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.

Numbers 5.27: 27 When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse among her people.

Numbers 5.28: 28 If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.2

Numbers 5.29: 29 “‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled,

Numbers 5.30: 30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.

Numbers 5.31: 31 The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’”

Numbers 8.2: 2 “Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.’”

Numbers 8.3: 3 Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lamp stand, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Numbers 8.4: 4 This was the workmanship of the lamp stand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work. He made the lamp stand according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses.

Numbers 8.6: 6 “Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

Numbers 8.7: 7 You shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.

Numbers 8.8: 8 Then let them take a young bull and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.

Numbers 8.9: 9 You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.

Numbers 8.10: 10 You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,

Numbers 8.11: 11 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.

Numbers 8.12: 12 “The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.

Numbers 8.13: 13 You shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.

Numbers 8.14: 14 Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

Numbers 8.15: 15 “After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. You shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.

Numbers 8.16: 16 For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.

Numbers 8.17: 17 For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.

Numbers 8.18: 18 I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

Numbers 8.19: 19 I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, so that there will be no plague among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.”

Numbers 8.20: 20 Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.

Numbers 8.21: 21 The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before Yahweh and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.

Numbers 8.22: 22 After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

Numbers 8.24: 24 “This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;

Numbers 8.25: 25 and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more,

Numbers 8.26: 26 but shall assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall perform no service. This is how you shall have the Levites do their duties.”

Numbers 9.1: 9Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Numbers 9.2: 2 “Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.

Numbers 9.3: 3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season. You shall keep it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances.”

Numbers 9.4: 4 Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover.

Numbers 9.5: 5 They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

Numbers 9.6: 6 There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

Numbers 9.7: 7 Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?”

Numbers 9.8: 8 Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you.”

Numbers 9.10: 10 “Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.

Numbers 9.11: 11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Numbers 9.12: 12 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.

Numbers 9.13: 13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

Numbers 9.14: 14 “‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh, then he shall do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’”

Numbers 9.15: 15 On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.

Numbers 9.16: 16 So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

Numbers 9.17: 17 Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.

Numbers 9.18: 18 At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.

Numbers 9.19: 19 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept Yahweh’s command, and didn’t travel.

Numbers 9.20: 20 Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled.

Numbers 9.21: 21 Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled; or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.

Numbers 9.22: 22 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled.

Numbers 9.23: 23 At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh they traveled. They kept Yahweh’s command, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.

Deuteronomy 1.1: 1These 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 Yahweh1 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 God2 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,3 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 offspring4 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 1.33: 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 3.1: 3Then 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 cubits1 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 3.16: 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 3.24: 24 “Lord2 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 4.1: 4Now, 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 4.25: 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.

Deuteronomy 6.1: 6Now 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 6.5: 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.”

Deuteronomy 7.1: 7When 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.

Deuteronomy 8.1: 8You 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.

Joshua 2.1: 2Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.

Joshua 2.2: 2 The king of Jericho was told, “Behold,1 men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land.”

Joshua 2.3: 3 Jericho’s king sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land.”

Joshua 2.4: 4 The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came from.

Joshua 2.5: 5 About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them.”

Joshua 2.6: 6 But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.

Joshua 2.7: 7 The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.

Joshua 2.9: 9 She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

Joshua 2.10: 10 For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

Joshua 2.11: 11 As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

Joshua 2.12: 12 Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;

Joshua 2.13: 13 and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.”

Joshua 2.14: 14 The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”

Joshua 2.15: 15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.

Joshua 2.16: 16 She said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way.”

Joshua 2.17: 17 The men said to her, “We will be guiltless of this your oath which you’ve made us to swear.

Joshua 2.18: 18 Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.

Joshua 2.19: 19 It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

Joshua 2.20: 20 But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you’ve made us to swear.”

Joshua 2.21: 21 She said, “Let it be as you have said.” She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the window.

Joshua 2.22: 22 They went and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them all along the way, but didn’t find them.

Joshua 2.23: 23 Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, crossed the river, and came to Joshua the son of Nun. They told him all that had happened to them.

Joshua 2.24: 24 They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”

Joshua 3.1: 3Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over.

Joshua 3.2: 2 After three days, the officers went through the middle of the camp;

Joshua 3.3: 3 and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, and the Levitical priests bearing it, then leave your place and follow it.

Joshua 3.4: 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits1 by measure—don’t come closer to it—that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before.”

Joshua 3.5: 5 Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.”

Joshua 3.6: 6 Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and cross over before the people.” They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

Joshua 3.7: 7 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

Joshua 3.8: 8 You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”

Joshua 3.9: 9 Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.”

Joshua 3.10: 10 Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.

Joshua 3.11: 11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord2 of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.

Joshua 3.12: 12 Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

Joshua 3.13: 13 It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap.”

Joshua 3.14: 14 When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,

Joshua 3.15: 15 and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),

Joshua 3.16: 16 the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.

Joshua 3.17: 17 The priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.

Joshua 4.1: 4When all the nation had completely crossed over the Jordan, Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

Joshua 4.3: 3 and command them, saying, ‘Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you’ll camp tonight.’”

Joshua 4.4: 4 Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, a man out of every tribe.

Joshua 4.5: 5 Joshua said to them, “Cross before the ark of Yahweh your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;

Joshua 4.6: 6 that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’

Joshua 4.7: 7 then you shall tell them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant. When it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.’”

Joshua 4.8: 8 The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel. They carried them over with them to the place where they camped, and laid them down there.

Joshua 4.9: 9 Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.

Joshua 4.10: 10 For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.

Joshua 4.11: 11 When all the people had completely crossed over, Yahweh’s ark crossed over with the priests in the presence of the people.

Joshua 4.12: 12 The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.

Joshua 4.13: 13 About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war, passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.

Joshua 4.14: 14 On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

Joshua 4.16: 16 “Command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, that they come up out of the Jordan.”

Joshua 4.17: 17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, “Come up out of the Jordan!”

Joshua 4.18: 18 When the priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet had been lifted up to the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.

Joshua 4.19: 19 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.

Joshua 4.20: 20 Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal.

Joshua 4.21: 21 He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’

Joshua 4.22: 22 Then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

Joshua 4.23: 23 For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you until you had crossed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had crossed over,

Joshua 4.24: 24 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh’s hand is mighty, and that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.’”

Joshua 8.1: 8Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.

Joshua 8.2: 2 You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

Joshua 8.3: 3 So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.

Joshua 8.4: 4 He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

Joshua 8.5: 5 I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

Joshua 8.6: 6 They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them,

Joshua 8.7: 7 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.

Joshua 8.8: 8 It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to Yahweh’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”

Joshua 8.9: 9 Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.

Joshua 8.10: 10 Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

Joshua 8.11: 11 All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up and came near, and came before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.

Joshua 8.12: 12 He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Joshua 8.13: 13 So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.

Joshua 8.14: 14 When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

Joshua 8.15: 15 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

Joshua 8.16: 16 All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

Joshua 8.17: 17 There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.

Joshua 8.18: 18 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.”

Joshua 8.19: 19 The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and entered into the city and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.

Joshua 8.20: 20 When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

Joshua 8.21: 21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned back and killed the men of Ai.

Joshua 8.22: 22 The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

Joshua 8.24: 24 When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

Joshua 8.25: 25 All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.

Joshua 8.26: 26 For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

Joshua 8.27: 27 Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to Yahweh’s word which he commanded Joshua.

Joshua 8.28: 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

Joshua 8.29: 29 He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.

Joshua 8.30: 30 Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,

Joshua 8.31: 31 as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings.

Joshua 8.32: 32 He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

Joshua 8.33: 33 All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

Joshua 8.34: 34 Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

Joshua 8.35: 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.

Joshua 9.1: 9When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it

Joshua 9.2: 2 they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

Joshua 9.3: 3 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

Joshua 9.4: 4 they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,

Joshua 9.5: 5 and old and patched sandals on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.

Joshua 9.6: 6 They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”

Joshua 9.7: 7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us? How could we make a covenant with you?”

Joshua 9.9: 9 They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,

Joshua 9.10: 10 and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.

Joshua 9.11: 11 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take supplies in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them. Tell them, “We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us.”’

Joshua 9.12: 12 This our bread we took hot for our supplies out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become moldy.

Joshua 9.13: 13 These wine skins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become old because of the very long journey.”

Joshua 9.14: 14 The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from Yahweh’s mouth.

Joshua 9.15: 15 Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

Joshua 9.16: 16 At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

Joshua 9.17: 17 The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

Joshua 9.18: 18 The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

Joshua 9.19: 19 But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them.

Joshua 9.20: 20 We will do this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.”

Joshua 9.21: 21 The princes said to them, “Let them live.” So they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.

Joshua 9.22: 22 Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live among us?

Joshua 9.23: 23 Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”

Joshua 9.24: 24 They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

Joshua 9.25: 25 Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.”

Joshua 9.26: 26 He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn’t kill them.

Joshua 9.27: 27 That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for Yahweh’s altar to this day, in the place which he should choose.

Judges 1.1: 1After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, 1 saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

Judges 1.2: 2 Yahweh said, “Judah shall go up. Behold,2 I have delivered the land into his hand.”

Judges 1.3: 3 Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot.” So Simeon went with him.

Judges 1.4: 4 Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.

Judges 1.5: 5 They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him. They struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Judges 1.6: 6 But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

Judges 1.7: 7 Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God3 has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Judges 1.8: 8 The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

Judges 1.9: 9 After that, the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland.

Judges 1.10: 10 Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

Judges 1.11: 11 From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.)

Judges 1.12: 12 Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”

Judges 1.13: 13 Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.

Judges 1.14: 14 When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”

Judges 1.15: 15 She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

Judges 1.16: 16 The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

Judges 1.17: 17 Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.

Judges 1.18: 18 Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.

Judges 1.19: 19 Yahweh was with Judah, and drove out the inhabitants of the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

Judges 1.20: 20 They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove the three sons of Anak out of there.

Judges 1.21: 21 The children of Benjamin didn’t drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

Judges 1.22: 22 The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and Yahweh was with them.

Judges 1.23: 23 The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)

Judges 1.24: 24 The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”

Judges 1.25: 25 He showed them the entrance into the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go.

Judges 1.26: 26 The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.

Judges 1.27: 27 Manasseh didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

Judges 1.28: 28 When Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.

Judges 1.29: 29 Ephraim didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.

Judges 1.30: 30 Zebulun didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, and became subject to forced labor.

Judges 1.31: 31 Asher didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob;

Judges 1.32: 32 but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they didn’t drive them out.

Judges 1.33: 33 Naphtali didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to forced labor.

Judges 1.34: 34 The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;

Judges 1.35: 35 but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.

Judges 1.36: 36 The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

Judges 2.1: 2Yahweh’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,1 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 2.14: 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 5.1: 5Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

Judges 6.1: 6The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, so Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

Judges 6.2: 2 The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made themselves the dens which are in the mountains, the caves, and the strongholds.

Judges 6.3: 3 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.

Judges 6.4: 4 They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey.

Judges 6.5: 5 For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.

Judges 6.6: 6 Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.

Judges 6.8: 8 Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel; and he said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage.

Judges 6.9: 9 I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land.

Judges 6.10: 10 I said to you, “I am Yahweh your God. You shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.” But you have not listened to my voice.’”

Judges 6.11: 11 Yahweh’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.

Judges 6.12: 12 Yahweh’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!”

Judges 6.13: 13 Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

Judges 6.14: 14 Yahweh looked at him, and said, “Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”

Judges 6.15: 15 He said to him, “O Lord,1 how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”

Judges 6.16: 16 Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”

Judges 6.17: 17 He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.

Judges 6.18: 18 Please don’t go away until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you.”

Judges 6.19: 19 Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah 2 of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.

Judges 6.20: 20 The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.”

Judges 6.21: 21 Then Yahweh’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then Yahweh’s angel departed out of his sight.

Judges 6.22: 22 Gideon saw that he was Yahweh’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen Yahweh’s angel face to face!”

Judges 6.23: 23 Yahweh said to him, “Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die.”

Judges 6.24: 24 Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it “Yahweh is Peace.”3 To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 6.25: 25 That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it.

Judges 6.26: 26 Then build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”

Judges 6.27: 27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night.

Judges 6.28: 28 When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.

When they inquired and asked, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”

Judges 6.30: 30 Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.”

Judges 6.31: 31 Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar!”

Judges 6.32: 32 Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal,4 saying, “Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar.”

Judges 6.33: 33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.

Judges 6.34: 34 But Yahweh’s Spirit came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together to follow him.

Judges 6.35: 35 He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they also were gathered together to follow him. He sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.

Judges 6.36: 36 Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,

Judges 6.37: 37 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”

Judges 6.38: 38 It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.

Judges 6.39: 39 Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”

Judges 6.40: 40 God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

Judges 8.1: 8The 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 shekels1 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 8.30: 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 9.1: 9Abimelech 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 9.13: 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 Beer1 and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.

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.

Ruth 1.1: 1In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

Ruth 1.2: 2 The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab and lived there.

Ruth 1.3: 3 Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons.

Ruth 1.4: 4 They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years.

Ruth 1.5: 5 Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.

Ruth 1.6: 6 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how Yahweh 1 had visited his people in giving them bread.

Ruth 1.7: 7 She went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her. They went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

Ruth 1.8: 8 Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

Ruth 1.9: 9 May Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.”

Ruth 1.10: 10 They said to her, “No, but we will return with you to your people.”

Ruth 1.11: 11 Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

Ruth 1.12: 12 Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, ‘I have hope,’ if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons,

Ruth 1.13: 13 would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for Yahweh’s hand has gone out against me.”

Ruth 1.14: 14 They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.

Ruth 1.15: 15 She said, “Behold,2 your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

Ruth 1.16: 16 Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God3 my God.

Ruth 1.17: 17 Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

Ruth 1.18: 18 When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

Ruth 1.19: 19 So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”

Ruth 1.20: 20 She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi.4 Call me Mara,5 for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Ruth 1.21: 21 I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

Ruth 1.22: 22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

Ruth 3.1: 3Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

Ruth 3.2: 2 Now isn’t Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he will be winnowing barley tonight on the threshing floor.

Ruth 3.3: 3 Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor; but don’t make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

Ruth 3.4: 4 It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall note the place where he is lying. Then you shall go in, uncover his feet, and lay down. Then he will tell you what to do.”

Ruth 3.6: 6 She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her.

Ruth 3.7: 7 When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid down.

Ruth 3.8: 8 At midnight, the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet.

She answered, “I am Ruth your servant. Therefore spread the corner of your garment over your servant; for you are a near kinsman.”

Ruth 3.10: 10 He said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich.

Ruth 3.11: 11 Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.

Ruth 3.12: 12 Now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than I.

Ruth 3.13: 13 Stay this night, and in the morning, if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, good. Let him do the kinsman’s duty. But if he will not do the duty of a kinsman for you, then I will do the duty of a kinsman for you, as Yahweh lives. Lie down until the morning.”

Ruth 3.14: 14 She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”

Ruth 3.15: 15 He said, “Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it.” She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; then he went into the city.

Ruth 3.16: 16 When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, “How did it go, my daughter?”

Ruth 3.17: 17 She said, “He gave me these six measures of barley; for he said, ‘Don’t go empty to your mother-in-law.’”

Ruth 3.18: 18 Then she said, “Wait, my daughter, until you know what will happen; for the man will not rest until he has settled this today.”

Ruth 4.1: 4Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.

Ruth 4.2: 2 Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.

Ruth 4.3: 3 He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.

Ruth 4.4: 4 I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.”

Ruth 4.5: 5 Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”

Ruth 4.6: 6 The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.”

Ruth 4.7: 7 Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his sandal, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of formalizing transactions in Israel.

Ruth 4.8: 8 So the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” then he took off his sandal.

Ruth 4.9: 9 Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.

Ruth 4.10: 10 Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

Ruth 4.11: 11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

Ruth 4.12: 12 Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring1 which Yahweh will give you by this young woman.”

Ruth 4.13: 13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.

Ruth 4.14: 14 The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.

Ruth 4.15: 15 He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

Ruth 4.16: 16 Naomi took the child, laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to him.

Ruth 4.17: 17 The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi”. They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

Ruth 4.18: 18 Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,

Ruth 4.19: 19 and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab,

Ruth 4.20: 20 and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon,

Ruth 4.21: 21 and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed,

Ruth 4.22: 22 and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.

1 Samuel 1.1: 1Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

1 Samuel 1.2: 2 He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

1 Samuel 1.3: 3 This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh1 of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.

1 Samuel 1.4: 4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions;

1 Samuel 1.5: 5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

1 Samuel 1.6: 6 Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

1 Samuel 1.7: 7 So year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.

1 Samuel 1.8: 8 Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

1 Samuel 1.9: 9 So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.

1 Samuel 1.10: 10 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

1 Samuel 1.11: 11 She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

1 Samuel 1.13: 13 Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.

1 Samuel 1.14: 14 Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”

1 Samuel 1.15: 15 Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

1 Samuel 1.16: 16 Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”

1 Samuel 1.17: 17 Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God2 of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”

1 Samuel 1.18: 18 She said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more.

1 Samuel 1.19: 19 They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.

1 Samuel 1.20: 20 When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel,3 saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”

1 Samuel 1.21: 21 The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice and his vow.

1 Samuel 1.22: 22 But Hannah didn’t go up, for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever.”

1 Samuel 1.23: 23 Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may Yahweh establish his word.”

1 Samuel 1.24: 24 When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah4 of meal, and a container of wine, and brought him to Yahweh’s house in Shiloh. The child was young.

1 Samuel 1.26: 26 She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.

1 Samuel 1.27: 27 I prayed for this child, and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

1 Samuel 1.28: 28 Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.

1 Samuel 2.11: 11 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.

1 Samuel 2.12: 12 Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

1 Samuel 2.13: 13 The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;

1 Samuel 2.14: 14 and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. They did this to all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.

1 Samuel 2.15: 15 Yes, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”

1 Samuel 2.16: 16 If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”

1 Samuel 2.17: 17 The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.

1 Samuel 2.18: 18 But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 2.19: 19 Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

1 Samuel 2.20: 20 Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May Yahweh give you offspring2 from this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh.” Then they went to their own home.

1 Samuel 2.21: 21 Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

1 Samuel 2.22: 22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

1 Samuel 2.23: 23 He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.

1 Samuel 2.24: 24 No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.

1 Samuel 2.25: 25 If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

1 Samuel 2.26: 26 The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.

1 Samuel 2.27: 27 A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?

1 Samuel 2.28: 28 Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

1 Samuel 2.29: 29 Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’

1 Samuel 2.30: 30 “Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

1 Samuel 2.31: 31 Behold,3 the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.

1 Samuel 2.32: 32 You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever.

1 Samuel 2.33: 33 The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes4 and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age.

1 Samuel 2.34: 34 This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.

1 Samuel 2.35: 35 I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever.

1 Samuel 2.36: 36 It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”

Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.

1 Samuel 4.2: 2 The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. When they joined battle, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men of the army in the field.

1 Samuel 4.3: 3 When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has Yahweh defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s get the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come among us and save us out of the hand of our enemies.”

1 Samuel 4.4: 4 So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

1 Samuel 4.5: 5 When the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded.

1 Samuel 4.6: 6 When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” They understood that Yahweh’s ark had come into the camp.

1 Samuel 4.7: 7 The Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has come into the camp.” They said, “Woe to us! For there has not been such a thing before.

1 Samuel 4.8: 8 Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

1 Samuel 4.9: 9 Be strong and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!”

1 Samuel 4.10: 10 The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell.

1 Samuel 4.11: 11 God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

1 Samuel 4.12: 12 A man of Benjamin ran out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.

1 Samuel 4.13: 13 When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out.

1 Samuel 4.14: 14 When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, “What does the noise of this tumult mean?”

1 Samuel 4.15: 15 Now Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.

1 Samuel 4.16: 16 The man said to Eli, “I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army.”

1 Samuel 4.17: 17 He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”

1 Samuel 4.18: 18 When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

1 Samuel 4.19: 19 His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to giving birth. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.

1 Samuel 4.20: 20 About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have given birth to a son.” But she didn’t answer, neither did she regard it.

1 Samuel 4.21: 21 She named the child Ichabod,1 saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

1 Samuel 4.22: 22 She said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken.”

1 Samuel 5.1: 5Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

1 Samuel 5.2: 2 The Philistines took God’s ark, and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.

1 Samuel 5.3: 3 When the people of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before Yahweh’s ark. They took Dagon and set him in his place again.

1 Samuel 5.4: 4 When they arose early on the following morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before Yahweh’s ark; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso was intact.

1 Samuel 5.5: 5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon’s house step on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

1 Samuel 5.6: 6 But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.

1 Samuel 5.7: 7 When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with us, for his hand is severe on us and on Dagon our god.”

1 Samuel 5.8: 8 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?”

They answered, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried over to Gath.” They carried the ark of the God of Israel there.

1 Samuel 5.9: 9 It was so, that after they had carried it there, Yahweh’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, so that tumors broke out on them.

As God’s ark came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here to us, to kill us and our people.”

1 Samuel 5.11: 11 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly panic throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.

1 Samuel 5.12: 12 The men who didn’t die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

1 Samuel 6.1: 6Yahweh’s ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

1 Samuel 6.2: 2 The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with Yahweh’s ark? Show us how we should send it to its place.”

1 Samuel 6.3: 3 They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don’t send it empty; but by all means return a trespass offering to him. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.”

1 Samuel 6.4: 4 Then they said, “What should the trespass offering be which we shall return to him?”

They said, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

1 Samuel 6.5: 5 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.

1 Samuel 6.6: 6 Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed?

1 Samuel 6.7: 7 “Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart and two milk cows on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;

1 Samuel 6.8: 8 and take Yahweh’s ark and lay it on the cart. Put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a box by its side; and send it away, that it may go.

1 Samuel 6.9: 9 Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us. It was a chance that happened to us.”

1 Samuel 6.10: 10 The men did so, and took two milk cows and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

1 Samuel 6.11: 11 They put Yahweh’s ark on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.

1 Samuel 6.12: 12 The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.

1 Samuel 6.13: 13 The people of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

1 Samuel 6.14: 14 The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood there, where there was a great stone. Then they split the wood of the cart and offered up the cows for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

1 Samuel 6.15: 15 The Levites took down Yahweh’s ark and the box that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone; and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh.

1 Samuel 6.16: 16 When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

1 Samuel 6.17: 17 These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

1 Samuel 6.18: 18 and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone on which they set down Yahweh’s ark. That stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.

1 Samuel 6.19: 19 He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into Yahweh’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.

1 Samuel 6.20: 20 The men of Beth Shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?”

1 Samuel 6.21: 21 They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have brought back Yahweh’s ark. Come down and bring it up to yourselves.”

1 Samuel 8.2: 2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.

1 Samuel 8.3: 3 His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

1 Samuel 8.4: 4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah.

1 Samuel 8.5: 5 They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

1 Samuel 8.6: 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.”

1 Samuel 8.7: 7 Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.

1 Samuel 8.8: 8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so they also do to you.

1 Samuel 8.9: 9 Now therefore listen to their voice. However you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who will reign over them.”

1 Samuel 8.10: 10 Samuel told all Yahweh’s words to the people who asked him for a king.

1 Samuel 8.11: 11 He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots.

1 Samuel 8.12: 12 He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

1 Samuel 8.13: 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.

1 Samuel 8.14: 14 He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.

1 Samuel 8.15: 15 He will take one tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers, and to his servants.

1 Samuel 8.16: 16 He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.

1 Samuel 8.17: 17 He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.

1 Samuel 8.18: 18 You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

1 Samuel 8.19: 19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,

1 Samuel 8.20: 20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”

1 Samuel 8.21: 21 Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.

1 Samuel 8.22: 22 Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.”

2 Kings 1.2: 2 Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”

2 Kings 1.3: 3 But Yahweh’s1 angel said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, ‘Is it because there is no God2 in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?

2 Kings 1.4: 4 Now therefore Yahweh says, “You will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.”’” Then Elijah departed.

2 Kings 1.5: 5 The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, “Why is it that you have returned?”

2 Kings 1.6: 6 They said to him, “A man came up to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you, and tell him, “Yahweh says, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”’”

2 Kings 1.7: 7 He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?”

2 Kings 1.8: 8 They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.”

2 Kings 1.9: 9 Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold,3 he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’”

2 Kings 1.10: 10 Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

2 Kings 1.11: 11 Again he sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. He answered him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down quickly!’”

2 Kings 1.12: 12 Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then God’s fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

2 Kings 1.13: 13 Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight.

2 Kings 1.14: 14 Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight.”

2 Kings 1.15: 15 Yahweh’s angel said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.”

2 Kings 1.16: 16 He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”

2 Kings 1.17: 17 So he died according to Yahweh’s word which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son.

2 Kings 1.18: 18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 2.1: 2When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

2 Kings 2.2: 2 Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel.”

Elisha said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

2 Kings 2.3: 3 The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?”

2 Kings 2.4: 4 Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho.”

He said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.

2 Kings 2.5: 5 The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?”

2 Kings 2.6: 6 Elijah said to him, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan.”

He said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” Then they both went on.

2 Kings 2.7: 7 Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood opposite them at a distance; and they both stood by the Jordan.

2 Kings 2.8: 8 Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they both went over on dry ground.

2 Kings 2.9: 9 When they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.”

2 Kings 2.10: 10 He said, “You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it will be so for you; but if not, it will not be so.”

2 Kings 2.11: 11 As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

2 Kings 2.12: 12 Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.

2 Kings 2.13: 13 He also took up Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.

2 Kings 2.14: 14 He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?” When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over.

2 Kings 2.15: 15 When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho facing him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

2 Kings 2.16: 16 They said to him, “See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps Yahweh’s Spirit has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley.”

2 Kings 2.17: 17 When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, “Send them.”

Therefore they sent fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn’t find him.

2 Kings 2.18: 18 They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t go?’”

2 Kings 2.19: 19 The men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is barren.”

2 Kings 2.20: 20 He said, “Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it.” Then they brought it to him.

2 Kings 2.21: 21 He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or barren wasteland.’”

2 Kings 2.22: 22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to Elisha’s word which he spoke.

2 Kings 2.23: 23 He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

2 Kings 2.24: 24 He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.

2 Kings 2.25: 25 He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

2 Kings 3.1: 3Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.

2 Kings 3.2: 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

2 Kings 3.3: 3 Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from them.

2 Kings 3.4: 4 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.

2 Kings 3.5: 5 But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

2 Kings 3.6: 6 King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.

2 Kings 3.7: 7 He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab to battle?”

He said, “I will go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

2 Kings 3.9: 9 So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.

2 Kings 3.10: 10 The king of Israel said, “Alas! For Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”

2 Kings 3.11: 11 But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there a prophet of Yahweh here, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him?”

One of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah, is here.”

2 Kings 3.12: 12 Jehoshaphat said, “Yahweh’s word is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

2 Kings 3.13: 13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother.”

The king of Israel said to him, “No, for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”

2 Kings 3.14: 14 Elisha said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.

2 Kings 3.15: 15 But now bring me a musician.” When the musician played, Yahweh’s hand came on him.

2 Kings 3.16: 16 He said, “Yahweh says, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’

2 Kings 3.17: 17 For Yahweh says, ‘You will not see wind, neither will you see rain, yet that valley will be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your other animals.

2 Kings 3.18: 18 This is an easy thing in Yahweh’s sight. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.

2 Kings 3.19: 19 You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’”

2 Kings 3.20: 20 In the morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

2 Kings 3.21: 21 Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armor, young and old, and stood on the border.

2 Kings 3.22: 22 They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.

2 Kings 3.23: 23 They said, “This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the plunder!”

2 Kings 3.24: 24 When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land attacking the Moabites.

2 Kings 3.25: 25 They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped all the springs of water, and cut down all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth all they left was its stones; however the men armed with slings went around it, and attacked it.

2 Kings 3.26: 26 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.

2 Kings 3.27: 27 Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

2 Kings 4.1: 4Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

2 Kings 4.2: 2 Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?”

2 Kings 4.3: 3 Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.

2 Kings 4.4: 4 Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”

2 Kings 4.5: 5 So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil.

2 Kings 4.6: 6 When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.”

He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

2 Kings 4.7: 7 Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”

2 Kings 4.8: 8 One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

2 Kings 4.9: 9 She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually.

2 Kings 4.10: 10 Please let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When he comes to us, he can stay there.”

2 Kings 4.12: 12 He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.

2 Kings 4.13: 13 He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’”

2 Kings 4.15: 15 He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the door.

2 Kings 4.16: 16 He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.”

2 Kings 4.17: 17 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.

2 Kings 4.18: 18 When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers.

2 Kings 4.20: 20 When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.

2 Kings 4.21: 21 She went up and laid him on the man of God’s bed, and shut the door on him, and went out.

2 Kings 4.22: 22 She called to her husband, and said, “Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.”

2 Kings 4.23: 23 He said, “Why would you want go to him today? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath.”

2 Kings 4.24: 24 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to.”

2 Kings 4.25: 25 So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite.

2 Kings 4.26: 26 Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’”

2 Kings 4.27: 27 When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

2 Kings 4.28: 28 Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”

2 Kings 4.29: 29 Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”

2 Kings 4.30: 30 The child’s mother said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.”

2 Kings 4.31: 31 Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.”

2 Kings 4.32: 32 When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and lying on his bed.

2 Kings 4.33: 33 He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.

2 Kings 4.34: 34 He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the child’s flesh grew warm.

2 Kings 4.35: 35 Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself out on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

2 Kings 4.36: 36 He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he called her.

2 Kings 4.37: 37 Then she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; then she picked up her son, and went out.

2 Kings 4.38: 38 Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

2 Kings 4.39: 39 One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds from it, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew; for they didn’t recognize them.

2 Kings 4.40: 40 So they poured out for the men to eat. As they were eating some of the stew, they cried out, and said, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.

2 Kings 4.41: 41 But he said, “Then bring meal.” He threw it into the pot; and he said, “Serve it to the people, that they may eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.

2 Kings 4.42: 42 A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”

2 Kings 4.43: 43 His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?”

But he said, “Give the people, that they may eat; for Yahweh says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’”

2 Kings 4.44: 44 So he set it before them, and they ate, and had some left over, according to Yahweh’s word.

2 Kings 5.1: 5Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

2 Kings 5.2: 2 The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.

2 Kings 5.3: 3 She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.”

2 Kings 5.4: 4 Someone went in, and told his lord, saying, “The maiden who is from the land of Israel said this.”

2 Kings 5.5: 5 The king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.”

He departed, and took with him ten talents1 of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

2 Kings 5.6: 6 He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, “Now when this letter has come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.”

2 Kings 5.7: 7 When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

2 Kings 5.8: 8 It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

2 Kings 5.9: 9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.

2 Kings 5.10: 10 Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”

2 Kings 5.11: 11 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’

2 Kings 5.12: 12 Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them, and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

2 Kings 5.13: 13 His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’”

2 Kings 5.14: 14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

2 Kings 5.15: 15 He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, “See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”

2 Kings 5.16: 16 But he said, “As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.”

2 Kings 5.17: 17 Naaman said, “If not, then, please let two mules’ burden of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahweh.

2 Kings 5.18: 18 In this thing may Yahweh pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon. When I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, may Yahweh pardon your servant in this thing.”

2 Kings 5.20: 20 But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”

2 Kings 5.21: 21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”

2 Kings 5.22: 22 He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent2 of silver and two changes of clothing.’”

2 Kings 5.23: 23 Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.

2 Kings 5.24: 24 When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed.

2 Kings 5.25: 25 But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you come from, Gehazi?”

2 Kings 5.26: 26 He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

2 Kings 5.27: 27 Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring3 forever.”

2 Kings 6.1: 6The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us.

2 Kings 6.2: 2 Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live.”

2 Kings 6.4: 4 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

2 Kings 6.5: 5 But as one was cutting down a tree, the ax head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.”

2 Kings 6.6: 6 The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.

2 Kings 6.8: 8 Now the king of Syria was at war against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”

2 Kings 6.9: 9 The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, “Beware that you not pass this place; for the Syrians are coming down there.”

2 Kings 6.10: 10 The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once or twice.

2 Kings 6.11: 11 The king of Syria’s heart was very troubled about this. He called his servants, and said to them, “Won’t you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?”

2 Kings 6.12: 12 One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”

2 Kings 6.13: 13 He said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him.”

2 Kings 6.14: 14 Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night, and surrounded the city.

2 Kings 6.15: 15 When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”

2 Kings 6.16: 16 He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

2 Kings 6.17: 17 Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see.” Yahweh opened the young man’s eyes; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.

2 Kings 6.18: 18 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.”

2 Kings 6.19: 19 Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” He led them to Samaria.

2 Kings 6.20: 20 When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “Yahweh, open these men’s eyes, that they may see.”

Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the middle of Samaria.

2 Kings 6.21: 21 The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”

2 Kings 6.22: 22 He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”

2 Kings 6.23: 23 He prepared a great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel.

2 Kings 6.24: 24 After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.

2 Kings 6.25: 25 There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab1 of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

2 Kings 6.26: 26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”

2 Kings 6.27: 27 He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

2 Kings 6.29: 29 So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”

2 Kings 6.30: 30 When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body.

2 Kings 6.31: 31 Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

2 Kings 6.32: 32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

2 Kings 6.33: 33 While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

2 Kings 7.1: 7Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah1 of fine flour will be sold for a shekel,2 and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”

2 Kings 7.2: 2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?”

2 Kings 7.3: 3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?

2 Kings 7.4: 4 If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”

2 Kings 7.5: 5 They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, no man was there.

2 Kings 7.6: 6 For the Lord3 had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots, and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.”

2 Kings 7.7: 7 Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

2 Kings 7.8: 8 When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried things from there also, and went and hid them.

2 Kings 7.9: 9 Then they said to one another, “We aren’t doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let’s go and tell the king’s household.”

2 Kings 7.10: 10 So they came and called to the city gatekeepers; and they told them, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, not even a man’s voice, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.”

2 Kings 7.11: 11 He called the gatekeepers; and they told it to the king’s household within.

2 Kings 7.12: 12 The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, “I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.’”

2 Kings 7.13: 13 One of his servants answered, “Please let some people take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are consumed. Let’s send and see.”

2 Kings 7.14: 14 Therefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent them out to the Syrian army, saying, “Go and see.”

2 Kings 7.15: 15 They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the path was full of garments and equipment which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.

2 Kings 7.16: 16 The people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah4 of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel,5 according to Yahweh’s word.

2 Kings 7.17: 17 The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate; and the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.

2 Kings 7.18: 18 It happened as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two seahs6 of barley for a shekel,7 and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria;”

2 Kings 7.19: 19 and that captain answered the man of God, and said, “Now, behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, might such a thing be?” and he said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”

2 Kings 7.20: 20 It happened like that to him; for the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died.

2 Kings 8.1: 8Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”

2 Kings 8.2: 2 The woman arose, and did according to the man of God’s word. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

2 Kings 8.3: 3 At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land.

2 Kings 8.4: 4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”

2 Kings 8.5: 5 As he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, begged the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”

2 Kings 8.6: 6 When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”

2 Kings 8.7: 7 Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. He was told, “The man of God has come here.”

2 Kings 8.8: 8 The king said to Hazael, “Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

2 Kings 8.9: 9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, “Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

2 Kings 8.10: 10 Elisha said to him, “Go, tell him, ‘You will surely recover;’ however Yahweh has shown me that he will surely die.”

2 Kings 8.11: 11 He settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept.

He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their little ones in pieces, and rip up their pregnant women.”

2 Kings 8.13: 13 Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?”

2 Kings 8.14: 14 Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?”

2 Kings 8.15: 15 On the next day, he took a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died. Then Hazael reigned in his place.

2 Kings 8.16: 16 In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being king of Judah then, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.

2 Kings 8.17: 17 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign. He reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 8.18: 18 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he married Ahab’s daughter. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

2 Kings 8.19: 19 However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.

2 Kings 8.20: 20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

2 Kings 8.21: 21 Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.

2 Kings 8.22: 22 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

2 Kings 8.23: 23 The rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 8.24: 24 Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 8.25: 25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

2 Kings 8.26: 26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel.

2 Kings 8.27: 27 He walked in the way of Ahab’s house, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house; for he was the son-in-law of Ahab’s house.

2 Kings 8.28: 28 He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.

2 Kings 8.29: 29 King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

2 Kings 9.1: 9Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

2 Kings 9.2: 2 When you come there, find Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him rise up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.

2 Kings 9.3: 3 Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Yahweh says, “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’ Then open the door, flee, and don’t wait.”

2 Kings 9.4: 4 So the young man, even the young man, the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead.

2 Kings 9.5: 5 When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting. Then he said, “I have a message for you, captain.”

2 Kings 9.6: 6 He arose, and went into the house. Then he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of Yahweh, even over Israel.

2 Kings 9.7: 7 You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.

2 Kings 9.8: 8 For the whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall,1 both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.

2 Kings 9.9: 9 I will make Ahab’s house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.

2 Kings 9.10: 10 The dogs will eat Jezebel on the plot of ground of Jezreel, and there shall be no one to bury her.’” Then he opened the door and fled.

2 Kings 9.11: 11 When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?”

He said, “He said to me, ‘Yahweh says, I have anointed you king over Israel.’”

2 Kings 9.13: 13 Then they hurried, and each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.”

2 Kings 9.14: 14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;

2 Kings 9.15: 15 but king Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) Jehu said, “If this is your thinking, then let no one escape and go out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.”

2 Kings 9.16: 16 So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.

2 Kings 9.17: 17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.”

Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”

2 Kings 9.18: 18 So one went on horseback to meet him, and said, “the king says, ‘Is it peace?’”

The watchman said, “The messenger came to them, but he isn’t coming back.”

2 Kings 9.19: 19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, “The king says, ‘Is it peace?’”

2 Kings 9.20: 20 The watchman said, “He came to them, and isn’t coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”

They got his chariot ready. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him on Naboth the Jezreelite’s land.

He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?”

2 Kings 9.23: 23 Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, “This is treason, Ahaziah!”

2 Kings 9.24: 24 Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

2 Kings 9.25: 25 Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:

2 Kings 9.26: 26 ‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.”

2 Kings 9.27: 27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.

2 Kings 9.28: 28 His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in David’s city.

2 Kings 9.29: 29 In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.

2 Kings 9.30: 30 When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.

2 Kings 9.31: 31 As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”

2 Kings 9.32: 32 He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?”

So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.

2 Kings 9.34: 34 When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”

2 Kings 9.35: 35 They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.

He said, “This is Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel,

2 Kings 9.37: 37 and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they won’t say, “This is Jezebel.”’”

Isaiah 45.1: 45Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

Isaiah 45.10: 10 Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’

Daniel 1.1: 1In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

Daniel 1.2: 2 The Lord1 gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; 2 and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god. He brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.

Daniel 1.3: 3 The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, even of the royal offspring3 and of the nobles;

Daniel 1.4: 4 youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and who had the ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.

Daniel 1.5: 5 The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king.

Daniel 1.6: 6 Now among these were of the children of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Daniel 1.7: 7 The prince of the eunuchs gave names to them: to Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.

Daniel 1.8: 8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

Daniel 1.9: 9 Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

Daniel 1.10: 10 The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? Then you would endanger my head with the king.”

Daniel 1.11: 11 Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

Daniel 1.12: 12 “Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

Daniel 1.13: 13 Then let our faces be examined before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king’s dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.”

Daniel 1.14: 14 So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.

Daniel 1.15: 15 At the end of ten days, their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s dainties.

Daniel 1.16: 16 So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they would drink, and gave them vegetables.

Daniel 1.17: 17 Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

Daniel 1.18: 18 At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.

Daniel 1.19: 19 The king talked with them; and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king.

Daniel 1.20: 20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

Daniel 3.1: 3Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits,1 and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 3.2: 2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Daniel 3.3: 3 Then the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

Daniel 3.4: 4 Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,

Daniel 3.5: 5 that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.

Daniel 3.6: 6 Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”

Daniel 3.7: 7 Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Daniel 3.8: 8 Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.

Daniel 3.10: 10 You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;

Daniel 3.11: 11 and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.

Daniel 3.12: 12 There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, have not respected you. They don’t serve your gods, and don’t worship the golden image which you have set up.”

Daniel 3.13: 13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.

Daniel 3.14: 14 Nebuchadnezzar answered them, “Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?

Daniel 3.15: 15 Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”

Daniel 3.16: 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

Daniel 3.17: 17 If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

Daniel 3.18: 18 But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”

Daniel 3.19: 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

Daniel 3.20: 20 He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

Daniel 3.21: 21 Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.

Daniel 3.22: 22 Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Daniel 3.23: 23 These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.

Daniel 3.24: 24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, “Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire?”

Daniel 3.25: 25 He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”

Daniel 3.26: 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!”

Daniel 3.27: 27 The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the smell of fire wasn’t even on them.

Daniel 3.28: 28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

Daniel 3.29: 29 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”

Daniel 3.30: 30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 4.2: 2 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.

Daniel 4.4: 4 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.

Daniel 4.5: 5 I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

Daniel 4.6: 6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

Daniel 4.7: 7 Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in; and I told the dream before them; but they didn’t make known to me its interpretation.

Daniel 4.8: 8 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. I told the dream before him, saying,

Daniel 4.9: 9 “Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.

Daniel 4.10: 10 Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the middle of the earth; and its height was great.

Daniel 4.11: 11 The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth.

Daniel 4.12: 12 The leaves of it were beautiful, and it had much fruit, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shade under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.

Daniel 4.13: 13 “I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky.

Daniel 4.14: 14 He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

Daniel 4.15: 15 Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth.

Daniel 4.16: 16 Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let an animal’s heart be given to him. Then let seven times pass over him.

Daniel 4.17: 17 “‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

Daniel 4.18: 18 “This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”

Daniel 4.19: 19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, “Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you.”

Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries.

Daniel 4.20: 20 The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and its sight to all the earth;

Daniel 4.21: 21 whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit plentiful, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:

Daniel 4.22: 22 it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

Daniel 4.23: 23 “Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, ‘Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.

Daniel 4.24: 24 “This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king:

Daniel 4.25: 25 that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

Daniel 4.26: 26 Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you will have known that the heavens do rule.

Daniel 4.27: 27 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

Daniel 4.29: 29 At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.

Daniel 4.30: 30 The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Daniel 4.31: 31 While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.

Daniel 4.32: 32 You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.’”

Daniel 4.33: 33 This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

Daniel 4.34: 34 At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever;

Daniel 4.36: 36 At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.

Daniel 4.37: 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

Daniel 5.1: 5Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

Daniel 5.2: 2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought to him; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.

Daniel 5.3: 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.

Daniel 5.4: 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Daniel 5.5: 5 In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Daniel 5.6: 6 Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

Daniel 5.7: 7 The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

Daniel 5.8: 8 Then all the king’s wise men came in; but they could not read the writing, and couldn’t make known to the king the interpretation.

Daniel 5.9: 9 Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.

Daniel 5.10: 10 The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.

Daniel 5.11: 11 There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. The king Nebuchadnezzar your father, yes, the king, your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;

Daniel 5.12: 12 because an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting of dreams, showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”

Daniel 5.13: 13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?

Daniel 5.14: 14 I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light, understanding, and excellent wisdom are found in you.

Daniel 5.15: 15 Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.

Daniel 5.16: 16 But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts. Now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

Daniel 5.17: 17 Then Daniel answered before the king, “Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

Daniel 5.18: 18 “You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

Daniel 5.19: 19 Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to.

Daniel 5.20: 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

Daniel 5.21: 21 He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

Daniel 5.22: 22 “You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

Daniel 5.23: 23 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

Daniel 5.24: 24 Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.

Daniel 5.25: 25 “This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’

Daniel 5.28: 28 PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Daniel 5.29: 29 Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Daniel 5.31: 31 Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

Daniel 6.1: 6It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;

Daniel 6.2: 2 and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these local governors might give account to them, and that the king should suffer no loss.

Daniel 6.3: 3 Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

Daniel 6.4: 4 Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

Daniel 6.5: 5 Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”

Daniel 6.6: 6 Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Darius, live forever!

Daniel 6.7: 7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

Daniel 6.8: 8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”

Daniel 6.10: 10 When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

Daniel 6.11: 11 Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.

Daniel 6.12: 12 Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: “Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?”

The king answered, “This thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”

Daniel 6.13: 13 Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”

Daniel 6.14: 14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.

Daniel 6.15: 15 Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.”

Daniel 6.16: 16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”

Daniel 6.17: 17 A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

Daniel 6.18: 18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No musical instruments were brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

Daniel 6.19: 19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.

Daniel 6.20: 20 When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”

Daniel 6.22: 22 My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

Daniel 6.23: 23 Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

Daniel 6.24: 24 The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

Daniel 6.25: 25 Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth:

Daniel 6.26: 26 “I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel;

Daniel 6.28: 28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

Daniel 7.1: 7In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.

Daniel 7.2: 2 Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke out on the great sea.

Daniel 7.3: 3 Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another.

Daniel 7.4: 4 “The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it.

Daniel 7.5: 5 “Behold, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’

Daniel 7.6: 6 “After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The animal also had four heads; and dominion was given to it.

Daniel 7.7: 7 “After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there was a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it. It had ten horns.

Daniel 7.8: 8 “I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

Daniel 7.11: 11 “I watched at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. I watched even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.

Daniel 7.12: 12 As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.

Daniel 7.13: 13 “I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

Daniel 7.14: 14 Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.

Daniel 7.15: 15 “As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

Daniel 7.16: 16 I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this.

Daniel 7.17: 17 ‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth.

Daniel 7.18: 18 But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’

Daniel 7.19: 19 “Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of bronze; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;

Daniel 7.20: 20 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows.

Daniel 7.21: 21 I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them,

Daniel 7.22: 22 until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

Daniel 7.23: 23 “Thus he said, ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and will tread it down, and break it in pieces.

Daniel 7.24: 24 As for the ten horns, ten kings will arise out of this kingdom. Another will arise after them; and he will be different from the former, and he will put down three kings.

Daniel 7.25: 25 He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

Daniel 7.26: 26 “‘But the judgment will be set, and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.

Daniel 7.27: 27 The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’

Daniel 7.28: 28 “Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”

Daniel 8.1: 8In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.

Daniel 8.2: 2 I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.

Daniel 8.3: 3 Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns. The two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.

Daniel 8.4: 4 I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward. No animals could stand before him. There wasn’t any who could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself.

Daniel 8.5: 5 As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west over the surface of the whole earth, and didn’t touch the ground. The goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

Daniel 8.6: 6 He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power.

Daniel 8.7: 7 I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him. There was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand.

Daniel 8.8: 8 The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky.

Daniel 8.9: 9 Out of one of them came out a little horn, which grew exceedingly great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious land.

Daniel 8.10: 10 It grew great, even to the army of the sky; and it cast down some of the army and of the stars to the ground, and trampled on them.

Daniel 8.11: 11 Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.

Daniel 8.12: 12 The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.

Daniel 8.13: 13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, “How long will the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot be?”

Daniel 8.14: 14 He said to me, “To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary will be cleansed.”

Daniel 8.15: 15 When I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. Then behold, there stood before me something like the appearance of a man.

Daniel 8.16: 16 I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”

Daniel 8.17: 17 So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face; but he said to me, “Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.”

Daniel 8.18: 18 Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.

Daniel 8.19: 19 He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

Daniel 8.20: 20 The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

Daniel 8.21: 21 The rough male goat is the king of Greece. The great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

Daniel 8.22: 22 As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.

Daniel 8.23: 23 “In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.

Daniel 8.24: 24 His power will be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy awesomely, and will prosper in what he does. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.

Daniel 8.25: 25 Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many in their security. He will also stand up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken without hand.

Daniel 8.26: 26 “The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it belongs to many days to come.”

Daniel 8.27: 27 I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days. Then I rose up, and did the king’s business. I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it.

Daniel 9.1: 9In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,

Daniel 9.2: 2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word1 came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.

Daniel 9.3: 3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

“Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,

Daniel 9.5: 5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.

Daniel 9.6: 6 We haven’t listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

Daniel 9.7: 7 “Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

Daniel 9.8: 8 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

Daniel 9.9: 9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.

Daniel 9.10: 10 We haven’t obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

Daniel 9.11: 11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice.

“Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.

Daniel 9.12: 12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.

Daniel 9.13: 13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

Daniel 9.14: 14 Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

Daniel 9.15: 15 “Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned. We have done wickedly.

Daniel 9.16: 16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.

Daniel 9.17: 17 “Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.

Daniel 9.18: 18 My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.

Daniel 9.19: 19 Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

Daniel 9.20: 20 While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

Daniel 9.21: 21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.

Daniel 9.22: 22 He instructed me and talked with me, and said, Daniel, “I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding.

Daniel 9.23: 23 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.

Daniel 9.24: 24 “Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

Daniel 9.25: 25 “Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One,2 the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

Daniel 9.26: 26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One3 will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.

Daniel 9.27: 27 He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”

Hosea 1.1: 1Yahweh’s1 word that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

Hosea 1.2: 2 When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”

Hosea 1.3: 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.

Hosea 1.4: 4 Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

Hosea 1.5: 5 It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”

Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah2; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.

Hosea 1.7: 7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God,3 and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”

Hosea 1.9: 9 He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi4; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

Hosea 1.10: 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

Hosea 1.11: 11 The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.

Hosea 2.8: 8 For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,

and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

Hosea 2.18: 18 In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field,

Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

Hosea 2.22: 22 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil;

Hosea 3.1: 3Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”

Hosea 3.2: 2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer 1 and a half of barley.

Hosea 3.3: 3 I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.”

Hosea 3.4: 4 For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

Hosea 3.5: 5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

Hosea 4.2: 2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;

Hosea 4.4: 4 “Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.

Hosea 4.16: 16 For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer.

Hosea 5.6: 6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh;

Hosea 7.2: 2 They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness.

Hosea 7.5: 5 On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine.

Hosea 7.11: 11 “Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding.

Luke 1.1: 1Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

Luke 1.2: 2 even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

Luke 1.3: 3 it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

Luke 1.4: 4 that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.

Luke 1.5: 5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

Luke 1.6: 6 They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Luke 1.7: 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

Luke 1.8: 8 Now while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his division

Luke 1.9: 9 according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

Luke 1.10: 10 The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.

Luke 1.11: 11 An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

Luke 1.13: 13 But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Luke 1.14: 14 You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Luke 1.15: 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

Luke 1.16: 16 He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.

Luke 1.17: 17 He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’a and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

Luke 1.18: 18 Zacharias said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”

Luke 1.19: 19 The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

Luke 1.20: 20 Behold,1 you will be silent and not able to speak until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”

Luke 1.21: 21 The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled that he delayed in the temple.

Luke 1.22: 22 When he came out, he could not speak to them. They perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them, and remained mute.

Luke 1.23: 23 When the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house.

Luke 1.24: 24 After these days Elizabeth his wife conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,

Luke 1.25: 25 “Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

Luke 1.26: 26 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,

Luke 1.27: 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary.

Luke 1.28: 28 Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!”

Luke 1.29: 29 But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be.

Luke 1.30: 30 The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

Luke 1.31: 31 Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and shall name him ‘Jesus.’

Luke 1.32: 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,

Luke 1.33: 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

Luke 1.34: 34 Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”

Luke 1.35: 35 The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

Luke 1.36: 36 Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

Luke 1.38: 38 Mary said, “Behold, the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word.”

Luke 1.39: 39 Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah,

Luke 1.41: 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Luke 1.42: 42 She called out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

Luke 1.43: 43 Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

Luke 1.44: 44 For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!

Luke 1.45: 45 Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”

Luke 1.50: 50 His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.

Luke 1.54: 54 He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,

Luke 1.56: 56 Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house.

Luke 1.57: 57 Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son.

Luke 1.58: 58 Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

Luke 1.59: 59 On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

Luke 1.61: 61 They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name.”

Luke 1.64: 64 His mouth was opened immediately and his tongue freed, and he spoke, blessing God.

Luke 1.65: 65 Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.

Luke 1.66: 66 All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him.

Luke 1.67: 67 His father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

Luke 1.69: 69 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

Luke 1.70: 70 (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),

Luke 1.74: 74 to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies,

Luke 1.75: 75 in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

Luke 1.77: 77 to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,

Luke 1.80: 80 The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

Luke 11.1: 11When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

Luke 11.5: 5 He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

Luke 11.6: 6 for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’

Luke 11.7: 7 and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?

Luke 11.8: 8 I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

Luke 11.9: 9 “I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Luke 11.10: 10 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

Luke 11.11: 11 “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

Luke 11.12: 12 Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?

Luke 11.13: 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

Luke 11.14: 14 He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.

Luke 11.15: 15 But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

Luke 11.17: 17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.

Luke 11.18: 18 If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

Luke 11.19: 19 But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

Luke 11.20: 20 But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you.

Luke 11.21: 21 “When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.

Luke 11.22: 22 But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his plunder.

Luke 11.23: 23 “He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters.

Luke 11.24: 24 The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’

Luke 11.26: 26 Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

Luke 11.27: 27 It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”

Luke 11.28: 28 But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

Luke 11.29: 29 When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

Luke 11.30: 30 For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation.

Luke 11.31: 31 The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.

Luke 11.32: 32 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.

Luke 11.33: 33 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.

Luke 11.34: 34 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

Luke 11.36: 36 If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”

Luke 11.37: 37 Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

Luke 11.38: 38 When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

Luke 11.39: 39 The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

Luke 11.40: 40 You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

Luke 11.41: 41 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

Luke 11.42: 42 But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

Luke 11.43: 43 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

Luke 11.44: 44 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”

Luke 11.45: 45 One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”

Luke 11.46: 46 He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.

Luke 11.47: 47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Luke 11.48: 48 So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

Luke 11.49: 49 Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

Luke 11.50: 50 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

Luke 11.51: 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

Luke 11.52: 52 Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

Luke 11.53: 53 As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

Luke 11.54: 54 lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

The following words used in the World English Bible (WEB) are not very common, either because they refer to ancient weights, measures, or money, or because they are in some way unique to the Bible.

Abba is a Chaldee word for father, used in a respectful, affectionate, and familiar way, like papa, dad, or daddy. Often used in prayer to refer to our Father in Heaven.

Adultery is having sexual intercourse with someone besides your own husband or wife. In the Bible, the only legitimate sexual intercourse is between a man and a woman who are married to each other.

Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. It is sometimes used to mean the beginning or the first.

“Angel” literally means “messenger” or “envoy,” and is usually used to refer to spiritual beings who normally are invisible to us, but can also appear as exceedingly strong creatures or as humans.

“Apostle” means a delegate, messenger, or one sent forth with orders. This term is applied in the New Testament in both a general sense connected with a ministry of establishing and strengthening church fellowships, as well as in a specific sense to “The 12 Apostles of the Lamb” (Revelation 21:14). The former category applies to a specific ministry that continues in the Church (Ephesians 4:11-13) and which includes many more than 12 people, while the latter refers to the apostles named in Matthew 10:2-4, except with Judas Iscariot replaced by Matthias (Acts 1:26).

An assarion is a small Roman copper coin worth one tenth of a drachma, or about an hour’s wages for an agricultural laborer.

An aureus is a Roman gold coin, worth 25 silver denarii. An aureus weighed from 115 to 126.3 grains (7.45 to 8.18 grams).

Baptize means to immerse in, or wash with something, usually water. Baptism in the Holy Spirit, fire, the Body of Christ, and suffering are also mentioned in the New Testament, along with baptism in water. Baptism is not just to cleanse the body, but as an outward sign of an inward spiritual cleansing and commitment. Baptism is a sign of repentance, as practiced by John the Baptizer, and of faith in Jesus Christ, as practiced by Jesus’ disciples.

A bath is a liquid measure of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial gallons.

A batos is a liquid measure of about 39.5 liters, 10.4 U. S. gallons, or 8.7 imperial gallons.

Beersheba is Hebrew for “well of the oath” or “well of the seven.” A city in Israel.

A cherub is a kind of angel with wings and hands that is associated with the throne room of God and guardian duty. See Ezekiel 10.

A choenix is a dry volume measure that is a little more than a liter (which is a little more than a quart). A choenix was the daily ration of grain for a soldier in some armies.

a woman who is united to a man for the purpose of providing him with sexual pleasure and children, but not being honored as a full partner in marriage; a second-class wife. In Old Testament times (and in some places now), it was the custom of middle-eastern kings, chiefs, and wealthy men to marry multiple wives and concubines, but God commanded the Kings of Israel not to do so (Deuteronomy 17:17) and Jesus encouraged people to either remain single or marry as God originally intended: one man married to one woman (Matthew 19:3-12; 1 Corinthians 7:1-13).

A cor is a dry measure of about 391 liters, 103 U. S. gallons, or 86 imperial gallons.

Crucify means to execute someone by nailing them to a cross with metal spikes. Their hands are stretched out on the crossbeam with spikes driven through their wrists or hands. Their feet or ankles are attached to a cross with a metal spike. The weight of the victim’s body tends to force the air out of his lungs. To rise up to breathe, the victim has to put weight on the wounds, and use a lot of strength. The victim is nailed to the cross while the cross is on the ground, then the cross is raised up and dropped into a hole, thus jarring the wounds. Before crucifixion, the victim was usually whipped with a Roman cat of nine tails, which had bits of glass and metal tied to its ends. This caused chunks of flesh to be removed and open wounds to be placed against the raw wood of the cross. The victim was made to carry the heavy crossbeam of his cross from the place of judgment to the place of crucifixion, but often was physically unable after the scourging, so another person would be pressed into involuntary service to carry the cross for him. Roman crucifixion was generally done totally naked to maximize both shame and discomfort. Eventually, the pain, weakness, dehydration, and exhaustion of the muscles needed to breathe make breathing impossible, and the victim suffocates.

A cubit is a unit of linear measure, from the elbow to the tip of the longest finger of a man. This unit is commonly converted to 0.46 meters or 18 inches, although that varies with height of the man doing the measurement. There is also a “long” cubit that is longer than a regular cubit by a handbreadth. (Ezekiel 43:13)

Cummin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance. It is used as a spice.

Darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or Lolium temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the seeds reveal a great difference. Darnel seeds aren’t good for much except as chicken feed or to burn to prevent the spread of this weed.

denarii: plural form of denarius, a silver Roman coin worth about a day’s wages for a laborer.

A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer. A denarius was worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus.

The word “devil” comes from the Greek “diabolos,” which means “one prone to slander; a liar.” “Devil” is used to refer to a fallen angel, also called “Satan,” who works to steal, kill, destroy, and do evil. The devil’s doom is certain, and it is only a matter of time before he is thrown into the Lake of Fire, never to escape.

A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas, about as much as 2 Roman denarii, or about 2 days wages. It was commonly used to pay the half-shekel temple tax.

A drachma is a Greek silver coin worth about one Roman denarius, or about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.

El-Elohe-Israel means “God, the God of Israel” or “The God of Israel is mighty.”

An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, 4.8 imperial gallons, or a bit more than half a bushel.

Gehenna is one word used for Hell. It comes from the Hebrew Gey-Hinnom, literally “valley of Hinnom.” This word originated as the name for a place south of the old city of Jerusalem where the city’s rubbish was burned. At one time, live babies were thrown crying into the fire under the arms of the idol, Moloch, to die there. This place was so despised by the people after the righteous King Josiah abolished this hideous practice that it was made into a garbage heap. Bodies of diseased animals and executed criminals were thrown there and burned.

a sharp, pointed prodding device used to motivate reluctant animals (such as oxen and mules) to move in the right direction.

Gospel means “good news” or “glad tidings,” specifically the Good News of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection for our salvation, healing, and provision; and the hope of eternal life that Jesus made available to us by God’s grace.

Hades: The nether realm of the disembodied spirits. Also known as “hell.” See also “Sheol”.

Har-magedon, also called Armegeddon, is most likely a reference to hill (“har”) of Megiddo, near the Carmel Range in Israel. This area has a large valley plain with plenty of room for armies to maneuver.

One homer is about 220 liters, 6.2 U. S. bushels, 6.1 imperial bushels, 58 U. S. gallons, or 48.4 imperial gallons.

a stage actor; someone who pretends to be someone other than who they really are; a pretender; a dissembler

Ishmael is the son of Abraham and Hagar. Ishmael literally means, “God hears.”

“Jesus” is Greek for the Hebrew name “Yeshua,” which is a short version of “Yehoshua,” which comes from “Yoshia,” which means “He will save.”

A kodrantes is a small coin worth one half of an Attic chalcus or two lepta. It is worth less than 2% of a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.

Lepta are very small, brass, Jewish coins worth half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s daily wages.

Leviathan is a poetic name for a large aquatic creature, possibly a crocodile or a dinosaur.

Name for the food that God miraculously provided to the Israelites while they were wandering in the wilderness between Egypt and the promised land. From Hebrew man-hu (What is that?) or manan (to allot). See Exodus 16:14-35.

the union of a husband and a wife for the purpose of cohabitation, procreation, and to enjoy each other’s company. God’s plan for marriage is between one man and one woman (Mark 10:6-9; 1 Corinthians 7). Although there are many cases of a man marrying more than one woman in the Old Testament, being married to one wife is a requirement to serve in certain church leadership positions (1 Timothy 3:2,12; Titus 1:5-6).

Maschil is a musical and literary term for “contemplation” or “meditative psalm.”

A mina is a Greek coin worth 100 Greek drachmas (or 100 Roman denarii), or about 100 day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.

Myrrh is the fragrant substance that oozes out of the stems and branches of the low, shrubby tree commiphora myrrha or comiphora kataf native to the Arabian deserts and parts of Africa. The fragrant gum drops to the ground and hardens into an oily yellowish-brown resin. Myrrh was highly valued as a perfume, and as an ingredient in medicinal and ceremonial ointments.

Nicolaitans were most likely Gnostics who taught the detestable lie that the physical and spiritual realms were entirely separate and that immorality in the physical realm wouldn’t harm your spiritual health.

Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet. It is sometimes used to mean the last or the end.

a leather container for holding a small scroll containing important Scripture passages that is worn on the arm or forehead in prayer. These phylacteries (tefillin in Hebrew) are still used by orthodox Jewish men. See Deuteronomy 6:8.

Praetorium: the Roman governor’s residence and office building, and those who work there.

A quadrans is a Roman coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is about one day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.

Rabbi is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “my teacher,” used as a title of respect for Jewish teachers.

Rahab is either (1) The prostitute who hid Joshua’s 2 spies in Jericho (Joshua 2,6) and later became an ancestor of Jesus (Matthew 1:5) and an example of faith (Hebrews 11:31; James 2:25); or (2) Literally, “pride” or “arrogance” — possibly a reference to a large aquatic creature (Job 9:13; 26:12; Isaiah 51:9) or symbolically referring to Egypt (Psalm 87:4; 89:10; Isaiah 30:7).

to change one’s mind; turn away from sin and turn toward God; to abhor one’s past sins and determine to follow God.

The Greek word for “saints” literally means “holy ones.” Saints are people set apart for service to God as holy and separate, living in righteousness. Used in the Bible to refer to all Christians and to all of those who worship Yahweh in Old Testament times.

A Samaritan is a resident of Samaria. The Samaritans and the Jews generally detested each other during the time that Jesus walked among us.

To declare or set apart something as holy. To purify and separate a person from sin.

A sata is a dry measure of capacity approximately equal to 13 liters or 1.5 pecks.

Satan means “accuser.” This is one name for the devil, an enemy of God and God’s people.

A scribe is one who copies God’s law. They were often respected as teachers and authorities on God’s law.

Selah is a musical term indicating a pause or instrumental interlude for reflection.

The term “sexual immorality” in the New Testament comes from the Greek “porneia,” which refers to any sexual activity besides that between a husband and his wife. In other words, prostitution (male or female), bestiality, homosexual activity, any sexual intercourse outside of marriage, and the production and consumption of pornography all are included in this term.

A measure of weight, and when referring to that weight in gold, silver, or brass, of money. A shekel is approximately 16 grams, about a half an ounce, or 20 gerahs (Ezekiel 45:12).

“Soul” refers to the emotions and intellect of a living person, as well as that person’s very life. It is distinguished in the Bible from a person’s spirit and body. (1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12)

A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)

Spirit, breath, and wind all derive from the same Hebrew and Greek words. A person’s spirit is the very essence of that person’s life, which comes from God, who is a Spirit being (John 4:24, Genesis 1:2; 2:7). The Bible distinguishes between a person’s spirit, soul, and body (1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12). Some beings may exist as spirits without necessarily having a visible body, such as angels and demons (Luke 9:39, 1 John 4:1-3).

Stadia is plural for “stadion,” a linear measure of about 184.9 meters or 606.6 feet (the length of the race course at Olympia).

A stater is a Greek silver coin equivalent to four Attic or two Alexandrian drachmas, or a Jewish shekel: just exactly enough to cover the half-shekel Temple Tax for two people.

Tartarus is the Greek name for an underworld for the wicked dead; another name for Gehenna or Hell.

Teraphim are household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.

“Yah” is a shortened form of “Yahweh,” which is God’s proper name. This form is used occasionally in the Old Testament, mostly in the Psalms. See “Yahweh.”

“Yahweh” is God’s proper name. In Hebrew, the four consonants roughly equivalent to YHWH were considered too holy to pronounce, so the Hebrew word for “Lord” (Adonai) was substituted when reading it aloud. When vowel points were added to the Hebrew Old Testament, the vowel points for “Adonai” were mixed with the consonants for “Yahweh,” which if you pronounced it literally as written, would be pronounced “Yehovah” or “Jehovah.” When the Old Testament was translated to Greek, the tradition of substituting “Lord” for God’s proper name continued in the translation of God’s name to “Lord” (Kurios). Some English Bibles translate God’s proper name to “LORD” or “GOD” (usually with small capital letters), based on that same tradition. This can get really confusing, since two other words (“Adonai” and “Elohim”) translate to “Lord” and “God,” and they are sometimes used together. The ASV of 1901 (and some other translations) render YHWH as “Jehovah.” The most probable pronunciation of God’s proper name is “Yahweh.” In Hebrew, the name “Yahweh” is related to the active declaration “I AM.” See Exodus 3:13-14. Since Hebrew has no tenses, the declaration “I AM” can also be interpreted as “I WAS” and “I WILL BE.” Compare Revelation 1:8.

Zion is a name which originally referred one of the mountains of Jerusalem. It became a term synonymous with Jerusalem itself. The term “Heavenly Zion” is also used to refer the future dwelling place of God’s people.

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1 2:4 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 2:12 or, aromatic resin

3 2:18 or, suitable for, or appropriate for.

1 3:24 cherubim are powerful angelic creatures, messengers of God with wings. See Ezekiel 10.

1 4:1 or, lay with, or, had relations with

2 4:1 or, became pregnant

1 6:4 or, giants

2 6:15 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

1 7:20 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

1 1:9 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

2 1:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 3:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

1 2:13 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 5:11 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

2 5:15 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

1 3:12 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

2 3:34 + 22,000 is the sum rounded to 2 significant digits. The sum of the Gershonites, Kohathites, and Merarites given above is 22,300, but the traditional Hebrew text has the number rounded to 2 significant digits, not 3 significant digits.

3 3:47 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

4 3:47 A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.

5 3:50 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1365 shekels is about 13.65 kilograms or about 30 pounds.

1 5:15 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

2 5:28 or, seed

1 1:3 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:6 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

3 1:8 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

4 1:8 or, seed

1 3:11 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

2 3:24 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 2:2 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 3:4 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters, so 2,000 cubits is about 920 meters.

2 3:11 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:2 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

3 1:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 2:5 “Bochim” means “weepers”.

1 6:15 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

2 6:19 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

3 6:24 or, Yahweh Shalom

4 6:32 “Jerub-Baal” means “Let Baal contend”.

1 8:26 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 1700 shekels is about 17 kilograms or 37.4 pounds.

1 9:21 “Beer” is Hebrew for “well”, i.e., a village named for its well.

1 1:6 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:15 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

3 1:16 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

4 1:20 “Naomi” means “pleasant”.

5 1:20 “Mara” means “bitter”.

1 4:12 or, seed

1 1:3 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

3 1:20 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for “heard by God.”

4 1:24 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

1 2:6 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 2:20 or, seed

3 2:31 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

4 2:33 or, blind your eyes with tears

1 4:21 “Ichabod” means “no glory”.

1 1:3 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:3 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

3 1:9 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 5:5 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds

2 5:22 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds

3 5:27 or, seed

1 6:25 A kab was about 2 liters, so a fourth of a kab would be about 500 milliliters or about a pint

1 7:1 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks

2 7:1 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.

3 7:6 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

4 7:16 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks

5 7:16 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.

6 7:18 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks

7 7:18 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.

1 9:8 or, male

1 45:5 or, equip

1 1:2 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

2 1:2 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

3 1:3 or, seed

1 3:1 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

1 9:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 9:25 “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”).

3 9:26 “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”).

1 1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:6 Lo-Ruhamah means “not loved”.

3 1:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

4 1:9 Lo-Ammi means “not my people”.

1 2:1 ‘Ammi’ in Hebrew

2 2:1 ‘Ruhamah’ in Hebrew

3 2:6 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 3:2 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels

a 1:17 Malachi 4:6

1 1:20 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

2 1:37 or, “For everything spoken by God is possible.”

3 1:55 or, seed