\p Genesis 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Genesis 5.1: \v 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
\p Genesis 5.2: \v 2 He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.\f + \fr 5:2 \ft “Adam” and “Man” are spelled with the exact same consonants in Hebrew, so this can be correctly translated either way.\f*
\p Genesis 5.3: \v 3 Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
\p Genesis 5.4: \v 4 The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
\p Genesis 5.5: \v 5 All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
\p
\p Genesis 5.6: \v 6 Seth lived one hundred five years, then became the father of Enosh.
\p Genesis 5.7: \v 7 Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
\p Genesis 5.8: \v 8 All of the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.
\p
\p Genesis 5.9: \v 9 Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.
\p Genesis 5.10: \v 10 Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
\p Genesis 5.11: \v 11 All of the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.
\p
\p Genesis 5.12: \v 12 Kenan lived seventy years, then became the father of Mahalalel.
\p Genesis 5.13: \v 13 Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters
\p Genesis 5.14: \v 14 and all of the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
\p
\p Genesis 5.15: \v 15 Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Jared.
\p Genesis 5.16: \v 16 Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
\p Genesis 5.17: \v 17 All of the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
\p
\p Genesis 5.18: \v 18 Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, then became the father of Enoch.
\p Genesis 5.19: \v 19 Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
\p Genesis 5.20: \v 20 All of the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.
\p
\p Genesis 5.21: \v 21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Methuselah.
\p Genesis 5.22: \v 22 After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
\p Genesis 5.23: \v 23 All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.
\p Genesis 5.24: \v 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.
\p
\p Genesis 5.25: \v 25 Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, then became the father of Lamech.
\p Genesis 5.26: \v 26 Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
\p Genesis 5.27: \v 27 All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
\p
\p Genesis 5.28: \v 28 Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, then became the father of a son.
\p Genesis 5.29: \v 29 He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”
\p Genesis 5.30: \v 30 Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
\p Genesis 5.31: \v 31 All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
\p
\p Genesis 5.32: \v 32 Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
\p Genesis 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Genesis 9.1: \v 1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.
\p Genesis 9.2: \v 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.
\p Genesis 9.3: \v 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
\p Genesis 9.4: \v 4 But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
\p Genesis 9.5: \v 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.
\p Genesis 9.6: \v 6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
\p Genesis 9.7: \v 7 Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”
\p
\p Genesis 9.8: \v 8 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
\p Genesis 9.9: \v 9 “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
\p Genesis 9.10: \v 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.
\p Genesis 9.11: \v 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.”
\p Genesis 9.12: \v 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:
\p Genesis 9.13: \v 13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
\p Genesis 9.14: \v 14 When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
\p Genesis 9.15: \v 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.
\p Genesis 9.16: \v 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.”
\p Genesis 9.17: \v 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.”
\p
\p Genesis 9.18: \v 18 The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
\p Genesis 9.19: \v 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
\p
\p Genesis 9.20: \v 20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
\p Genesis 9.21: \v 21 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
\p Genesis 9.22: \v 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
\p Genesis 9.23: \v 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.
\p Genesis 9.24: \v 24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
\p Genesis 9.25: \v 25 He said,
\q1 “Canaan is cursed.
\q2 He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
\p
\p Genesis 9.26: \v 26 He said,
\q1 “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem.
\q2 Let Canaan be his servant.
\q1
\p Genesis 9.27: \v 27 May God enlarge Japheth.
\q2 Let him dwell in the tents of Shem.
\q2 Let Canaan be his servant.”
\p
\p Genesis 9.28: \v 28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
\p Genesis 9.29: \v 29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.
\p Exodus 0.0: \id EXO World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Exodus
\toc1 The Second Book of Moses, Commonly Called Exodus
\toc2 Exodus
\toc3 Exo
\mt2 The Second Book of Moses,
\mt3 Commonly Called
\mt1 Exodus
\p Exodus 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Exodus 1.1: \v 1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):
\p Exodus 1.2: \v 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
\p Exodus 1.3: \v 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
\p Exodus 1.4: \v 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
\p Exodus 1.5: \v 5 All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
\p Exodus 1.6: \v 6 Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
\p Exodus 1.7: \v 7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
\p
\p Exodus 1.8: \v 8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.
\p Exodus 1.9: \v 9 He said to his people, “Behold,\f + \fr 1:9 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
\p Exodus 1.10: \v 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.”
\p Exodus 1.11: \v 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
\p Exodus 1.12: \v 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.
\p Exodus 1.13: \v 13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
\p Exodus 1.14: \v 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.
\p
\p Exodus 1.15: \v 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,
\p Exodus 1.16: \v 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.”
\p Exodus 1.17: \v 17 But the midwives feared God,\f + \fr 1:17 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
\p Exodus 1.18: \v 18 The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”
\p
\p Exodus 1.19: \v 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.”
\p
\p Exodus 1.20: \v 20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
\p Exodus 1.21: \v 21 Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
\p Exodus 1.22: \v 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.”
\p Exodus 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Exodus 2.1: \v 1 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.
\p Exodus 2.2: \v 2 The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
\p Exodus 2.3: \v 3 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
\p Exodus 2.4: \v 4 His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.
\p Exodus 2.5: \v 5 Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.
\p Exodus 2.6: \v 6 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
\p
\p Exodus 2.7: \v 7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”
\p
\p Exodus 2.8: \v 8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.”
\p The young woman went and called the child’s mother.
\p Exodus 2.9: \v 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.”
\p The woman took the child, and nursed it.
\p Exodus 2.10: \v 10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,\f + \fr 2:10 \ft “Moses” sounds like the Hebrew for “draw out”.\f* and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
\p
\p Exodus 2.11: \v 11 In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
\p Exodus 2.12: \v 12 He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
\p
\p Exodus 2.13: \v 13 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”
\p
\p Exodus 2.14: \v 14 He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?”
\p Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”
\p Exodus 2.15: \v 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
\p
\p Exodus 2.16: \v 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
\p Exodus 2.17: \v 17 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
\p Exodus 2.18: \v 18 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
\p
\p Exodus 2.19: \v 19 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”
\p
\p Exodus 2.20: \v 20 He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”
\p
\p Exodus 2.21: \v 21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
\p Exodus 2.22: \v 22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom,\f + \fr 2:22 \ft “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there”.\f* for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”
\p
\p Exodus 2.23: \v 23 In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
\p Exodus 2.24: \v 24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
\p Exodus 2.25: \v 25 God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.
\p Exodus 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Exodus 3.1: \v 1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.
\p Exodus 3.2: \v 2 Yahweh’s\f + \fr 3:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* 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.
\p Exodus 3.3: \v 3 Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”
\p
\p Exodus 3.4: \v 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!”
\p He said, “Here I am.”
\p
\p Exodus 3.5: \v 5 He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”
\p Exodus 3.6: \v 6 Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”
\p Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.
\p
\p Exodus 3.7: \v 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.
\p Exodus 3.8: \v 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.
\p Exodus 3.9: \v 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.
\p Exodus 3.10: \v 10 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
\p
\p Exodus 3.11: \v 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?”
\p
\p Exodus 3.12: \v 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.”
\p
\p Exodus 3.13: \v 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?”
\p
\p Exodus 3.14: \v 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.’”
\p Exodus 3.15: \v 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.
\p Exodus 3.16: \v 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.
\p Exodus 3.17: \v 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.”’
\p Exodus 3.18: \v 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.’
\p Exodus 3.19: \v 19 I know that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.
\p Exodus 3.20: \v 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.
\p Exodus 3.21: \v 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.
\p Exodus 3.22: \v 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.”
\p Exodus 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Exodus 4.1: \v 1 Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”
\p
\p Exodus 4.2: \v 2 Yahweh said to him, “What is that in your hand?”
\p He said, “A rod.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.3: \v 3 He said, “Throw it on the ground.”
\p He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.
\p
\p Exodus 4.4: \v 4 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail.”
\p He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.
\p
\p Exodus 4.5: \v 5 “This is so that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
\p Exodus 4.6: \v 6 Yahweh said furthermore to him, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.”
\p He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
\p
\p Exodus 4.7: \v 7 He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.”
\p He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.
\p
\p Exodus 4.8: \v 8 “It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
\p Exodus 4.9: \v 9 It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.10: \v 10 Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord,\f + \fr 4:10 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai”.\f* I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.11: \v 11 Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?
\p Exodus 4.12: \v 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.13: \v 13 Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.14: \v 14 Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
\p Exodus 4.15: \v 15 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
\p Exodus 4.16: \v 16 He will be your spokesman to the people. It will happen that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.
\p Exodus 4.17: \v 17 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.18: \v 18 Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.”
\p Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.19: \v 19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.20: \v 20 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.
\p Exodus 4.21: \v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
\p Exodus 4.22: \v 22 You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
\p Exodus 4.23: \v 23 and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me;” and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’”
\p
\p Exodus 4.24: \v 24 On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.
\p Exodus 4.25: \v 25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.26: \v 26 So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.
\p
\p Exodus 4.27: \v 27 Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.”
\p He went, and met him on God’s mountain, and kissed him.
\p Exodus 4.28: \v 28 Moses told Aaron all Yahweh’s words with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.
\p Exodus 4.29: \v 29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.
\p Exodus 4.30: \v 30 Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
\p Exodus 4.31: \v 31 The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
\p Exodus 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Exodus 5.1: \v 1 Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”
\p
\p Exodus 5.2: \v 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.”
\p
\p Exodus 5.3: \v 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.”
\p
\p Exodus 5.4: \v 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!”
\p Exodus 5.5: \v 5 Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.”
\p Exodus 5.6: \v 6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,
\p Exodus 5.7: \v 7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
\p Exodus 5.8: \v 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.’
\p Exodus 5.9: \v 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.”
\p
\p Exodus 5.10: \v 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.
\p Exodus 5.11: \v 11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
\p Exodus 5.12: \v 12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
\p Exodus 5.13: \v 13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
\p Exodus 5.14: \v 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?”
\p
\p Exodus 5.15: \v 15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?
\p Exodus 5.16: \v 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.”
\p
\p Exodus 5.17: \v 17 But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’
\p Exodus 5.18: \v 18 Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”
\p
\p Exodus 5.19: \v 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!”
\p
\p Exodus 5.20: \v 20 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood along the way, as they came out from Pharaoh.
\p Exodus 5.21: \v 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!”
\p
\p Exodus 5.22: \v 22 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
\p Exodus 5.23: \v 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!”
\p Exodus 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Exodus 6.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.”
\p
\p Exodus 6.2: \v 2 God spoke to Moses, and said to him, “I am Yahweh.
\p Exodus 6.3: \v 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.
\p Exodus 6.4: \v 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.
\p Exodus 6.5: \v 5 Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.
\p Exodus 6.6: \v 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.
\p Exodus 6.7: \v 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.
\p Exodus 6.8: \v 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.’”
\p
\p Exodus 6.9: \v 9 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
\p
\p Exodus 6.10: \v 10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 6.11: \v 11 “Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.”
\p
\p Exodus 6.12: \v 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?”
\p Exodus 6.13: \v 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.
\p
\p Exodus 6.14: \v 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.
\p Exodus 6.15: \v 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.
\p Exodus 6.16: \v 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.
\p Exodus 6.17: \v 17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.
\p Exodus 6.18: \v 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.
\p Exodus 6.19: \v 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
\p Exodus 6.20: \v 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.
\p Exodus 6.21: \v 21 The sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
\p Exodus 6.22: \v 22 The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri.
\p Exodus 6.23: \v 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.
\p Exodus 6.24: \v 24 The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.
\p Exodus 6.25: \v 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.
\p Exodus 6.26: \v 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.”
\p Exodus 6.27: \v 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.
\p
\p Exodus 6.28: \v 28 On the day when Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
\p Exodus 6.29: \v 29 Yahweh said to Moses, “I am Yahweh. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I tell you.”
\p
\p Exodus 6.30: \v 30 Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”
\p Exodus 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Exodus 7.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
\p Exodus 7.2: \v 2 You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
\p Exodus 7.3: \v 3 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 7.4: \v 4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
\p Exodus 7.5: \v 5 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from among them.”
\p
\p Exodus 7.6: \v 6 Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.
\p Exodus 7.7: \v 7 Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
\p
\p Exodus 7.8: \v 8 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\p Exodus 7.9: \v 9 “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.’”
\p
\p Exodus 7.10: \v 10 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded. Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
\p Exodus 7.11: \v 11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments.
\p Exodus 7.12: \v 12 For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
\p Exodus 7.13: \v 13 Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
\p
\p Exodus 7.14: \v 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.
\p Exodus 7.15: \v 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he is going out to the water. You shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him. You shall take the rod which was turned to a serpent in your hand.
\p Exodus 7.16: \v 16 You shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. Behold, until now you haven’t listened.”
\p Exodus 7.17: \v 17 Yahweh says, “In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold: I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
\p Exodus 7.18: \v 18 The fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river.”’”
\p Exodus 7.19: \v 19 Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood. There will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”
\p
\p Exodus 7.20: \v 20 Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
\p Exodus 7.21: \v 21 The fish that were in the river died. The river became foul. The Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the river. The blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 7.22: \v 22 The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
\p Exodus 7.23: \v 23 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.
\p Exodus 7.24: \v 24 All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn’t drink the river water.
\p Exodus 7.25: \v 25 Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river.
\p Exodus 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Exodus 8.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
\p Exodus 8.2: \v 2 If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs.
\p Exodus 8.3: \v 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.
\p Exodus 8.4: \v 4 The frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.”’”
\p Exodus 8.5: \v 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.’”
\p Exodus 8.6: \v 6 Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 8.7: \v 7 The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
\p
\p Exodus 8.8: \v 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.”
\p
\p Exodus 8.9: \v 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.”
\p
\p Exodus 8.10: \v 10 Pharaoh said, “Tomorrow.”
\p Moses said, “Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.
\p Exodus 8.11: \v 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.”
\p
\p Exodus 8.12: \v 12 Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.
\p Exodus 8.13: \v 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.
\p Exodus 8.14: \v 14 They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
\p Exodus 8.15: \v 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
\p
\p Exodus 8.16: \v 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.’”
\p Exodus 8.17: \v 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.
\p Exodus 8.18: \v 18 The magicians tried with their enchantments to produce lice, but they couldn’t. There were lice on man, and on animal.
\p Exodus 8.19: \v 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.
\p
\p Exodus 8.20: \v 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.
\p Exodus 8.21: \v 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.
\p Exodus 8.22: \v 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.
\p Exodus 8.23: \v 23 I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign shall happen by tomorrow.”’”
\p Exodus 8.24: \v 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.
\p
\p Exodus 8.25: \v 25 Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!”
\p
\p Exodus 8.26: \v 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?
\p Exodus 8.27: \v 27 We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us.”
\p
\p Exodus 8.28: \v 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.”
\p
\p Exodus 8.29: \v 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.”
\p Exodus 8.30: \v 30 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 8.31: \v 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.
\p Exodus 8.32: \v 32 Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.
\p Exodus 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Exodus 9.1: \v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
\p Exodus 9.2: \v 2 For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
\p Exodus 9.3: \v 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.
\p Exodus 9.4: \v 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.”’”
\p Exodus 9.5: \v 5 Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing in the land.”
\p Exodus 9.6: \v 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.
\p Exodus 9.7: \v 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.
\p
\p Exodus 9.8: \v 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.
\p Exodus 9.9: \v 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.”
\p
\p Exodus 9.10: \v 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.
\p Exodus 9.11: \v 11 The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
\p Exodus 9.12: \v 12 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.
\p
\p Exodus 9.13: \v 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.
\p Exodus 9.14: \v 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.
\p Exodus 9.15: \v 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;
\p Exodus 9.16: \v 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,
\p Exodus 9.17: \v 17 because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.
\p Exodus 9.18: \v 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.
\p Exodus 9.19: \v 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.”’”
\p
\p Exodus 9.20: \v 20 Those who feared Yahweh’s word among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.
\p Exodus 9.21: \v 21 Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.
\p
\p Exodus 9.22: \v 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.”
\p
\p Exodus 9.23: \v 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.
\p Exodus 9.24: \v 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.
\p Exodus 9.25: \v 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.
\p Exodus 9.26: \v 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.
\p
\p Exodus 9.27: \v 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.
\p Exodus 9.28: \v 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.”
\p
\p Exodus 9.29: \v 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.
\p Exodus 9.30: \v 30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you don’t yet fear Yahweh God.”
\p
\p Exodus 9.31: \v 31 The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley had ripened and the flax was blooming.
\p Exodus 9.32: \v 32 But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up.
\p Exodus 9.33: \v 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.
\p Exodus 9.34: \v 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.
\p Exodus 9.35: \v 35 The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.
\p Exodus 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Exodus 10.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs among them;
\p Exodus 10.2: \v 2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”
\p
\p Exodus 10.3: \v 3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
\p Exodus 10.4: \v 4 Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
\p Exodus 10.5: \v 5 and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won’t be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.
\p Exodus 10.6: \v 6 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’” He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.
\p
\p Exodus 10.7: \v 7 Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”
\p
\p Exodus 10.8: \v 8 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will go?”
\p
\p Exodus 10.9: \v 9 Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old. We will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh.”
\p
\p Exodus 10.10: \v 10 He said to them, “Yahweh be with you if I let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.
\p Exodus 10.11: \v 11 Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!” Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
\p
\p Exodus 10.12: \v 12 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.”
\p Exodus 10.13: \v 13 Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
\p Exodus 10.14: \v 14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, nor will there ever be again.
\p Exodus 10.15: \v 15 For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 10.16: \v 16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.
\p Exodus 10.17: \v 17 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”
\p
\p Exodus 10.18: \v 18 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 10.19: \v 19 Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea.\f + \fr 10:19 \ft “Red Sea” is the translation for the Hebrew “Yam Suf”, which could be more literally translated “Sea of Reeds” or “Sea of Cattails”. It refers to the body of water currently known as the Red Sea, or possibly to one of the bodies of water connected to it or near it.\f* There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
\p Exodus 10.20: \v 20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go.
\p
\p Exodus 10.21: \v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”
\p Exodus 10.22: \v 22 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
\p Exodus 10.23: \v 23 They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
\p
\p Exodus 10.24: \v 24 Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, “Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you.”
\p
\p Exodus 10.25: \v 25 Moses said, “You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.
\p Exodus 10.26: \v 26 Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don’t know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there.”
\p
\p Exodus 10.27: \v 27 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he wouldn’t let them go.
\p Exodus 10.28: \v 28 Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!”
\p
\p Exodus 10.29: \v 29 Moses said, “You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more.”
\p Exodus 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p Exodus 11.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “I will bring yet one more plague on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.
\p Exodus 11.2: \v 2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.”
\p Exodus 11.3: \v 3 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.
\p
\p Exodus 11.4: \v 4 Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the middle of Egypt,
\p Exodus 11.5: \v 5 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of livestock.
\p Exodus 11.6: \v 6 There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor will be any more.
\p Exodus 11.7: \v 7 But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal, that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
\p Exodus 11.8: \v 8 All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
\p
\p Exodus 11.9: \v 9 Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh won’t listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”
\p Exodus 11.10: \v 10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go out of his land.
\p Exodus 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p Exodus 12.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
\p Exodus 12.2: \v 2 “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
\p Exodus 12.3: \v 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;
\p Exodus 12.4: \v 4 and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls. You shall make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat.
\p Exodus 12.5: \v 5 Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats.
\p Exodus 12.6: \v 6 You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
\p Exodus 12.7: \v 7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.
\p Exodus 12.8: \v 8 They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
\p Exodus 12.9: \v 9 Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
\p Exodus 12.10: \v 10 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
\p Exodus 12.11: \v 11 This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.
\p Exodus 12.12: \v 12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.
\p Exodus 12.13: \v 13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 12.14: \v 14 This day shall be a memorial for you. You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh. You shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
\p
\p Exodus 12.15: \v 15 “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
\p Exodus 12.16: \v 16 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, only that may be done by you.
\p Exodus 12.17: \v 17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
\p Exodus 12.18: \v 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.
\p Exodus 12.19: \v 19 There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
\p Exodus 12.20: \v 20 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’”
\p
\p Exodus 12.21: \v 21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.
\p Exodus 12.22: \v 22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
\p Exodus 12.23: \v 23 For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
\p Exodus 12.24: \v 24 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
\p Exodus 12.25: \v 25 It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.
\p Exodus 12.26: \v 26 It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
\p Exodus 12.27: \v 27 that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’”
\p The people bowed their heads and worshiped.
\p Exodus 12.28: \v 28 The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
\p
\p Exodus 12.29: \v 29 At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.
\p Exodus 12.30: \v 30 Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
\p Exodus 12.31: \v 31 He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!
\p Exodus 12.32: \v 32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”
\p
\p Exodus 12.33: \v 33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”
\p Exodus 12.34: \v 34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
\p Exodus 12.35: \v 35 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
\p Exodus 12.36: \v 36 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.
\p
\p Exodus 12.37: \v 37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children.
\p Exodus 12.38: \v 38 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.
\p Exodus 12.39: \v 39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, and they had not prepared any food for themselves.
\p Exodus 12.40: \v 40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
\p Exodus 12.41: \v 41 At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 12.42: \v 42 It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed by all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
\p
\p Exodus 12.43: \v 43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,
\p Exodus 12.44: \v 44 but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
\p Exodus 12.45: \v 45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
\p Exodus 12.46: \v 46 It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.
\p Exodus 12.47: \v 47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
\p Exodus 12.48: \v 48 When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
\p Exodus 12.49: \v 49 One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”
\p Exodus 12.50: \v 50 All the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
\p Exodus 12.51: \v 51 That same day, Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
\p Exodus 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p Exodus 13.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 13.2: \v 2 “Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine.”
\p
\p Exodus 13.3: \v 3 Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
\p Exodus 13.4: \v 4 Today you go out in the month Abib.
\p Exodus 13.5: \v 5 It shall be, when Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
\p Exodus 13.6: \v 6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 13.7: \v 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you. No yeast shall be seen with you, within all your borders.
\p Exodus 13.8: \v 8 You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
\p Exodus 13.9: \v 9 It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
\p Exodus 13.10: \v 10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
\p
\p Exodus 13.11: \v 11 “It shall be, when Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and will give it you,
\p Exodus 13.12: \v 12 that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have. The males shall be Yahweh’s.
\p Exodus 13.13: \v 13 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.
\p Exodus 13.14: \v 14 It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.
\p Exodus 13.15: \v 15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of livestock. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’
\p Exodus 13.16: \v 16 It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.”
\p
\p Exodus 13.17: \v 17 When Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt”;
\p Exodus 13.18: \v 18 but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 13.19: \v 19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you.”
\p Exodus 13.20: \v 20 They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
\p Exodus 13.21: \v 21 Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
\p Exodus 13.22: \v 22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn’t depart from before the people.
\p Exodus 14.0: \c 14
\p
\p Exodus 14.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 14.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.
\p Exodus 14.3: \v 3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’
\p Exodus 14.4: \v 4 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.
\p
\p Exodus 14.5: \v 5 The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”
\p Exodus 14.6: \v 6 He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him;
\p Exodus 14.7: \v 7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with captains over all of them.
\p Exodus 14.8: \v 8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.\f + \fr 14:8 \ft or, defiantly.\f*
\p Exodus 14.9: \v 9 The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
\p
\p Exodus 14.10: \v 10 When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 14.11: \v 11 They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?
\p Exodus 14.12: \v 12 Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
\p
\p Exodus 14.13: \v 13 Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today.
\p Exodus 14.14: \v 14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”
\p
\p Exodus 14.15: \v 15 Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.
\p Exodus 14.16: \v 16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. Then the children of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry ground.
\p Exodus 14.17: \v 17 Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
\p Exodus 14.18: \v 18 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.”
\p Exodus 14.19: \v 19 The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
\p Exodus 14.20: \v 20 It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night.
\p
\p Exodus 14.21: \v 21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
\p Exodus 14.22: \v 22 The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
\p Exodus 14.23: \v 23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
\p Exodus 14.24: \v 24 In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
\p Exodus 14.25: \v 25 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”
\p
\p Exodus 14.26: \v 26 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.”
\p Exodus 14.27: \v 27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
\p Exodus 14.28: \v 28 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
\p Exodus 14.29: \v 29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
\p Exodus 14.30: \v 30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
\p Exodus 14.31: \v 31 Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.
\p Exodus 15.0: \c 15
\p
\p Exodus 15.1: \v 1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said,
\q1 “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
\q2 He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.2: \v 2 Yah is my strength and song.
\q2 He has become my salvation.
\q1 This is my God, and I will praise him;
\q2 my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.3: \v 3 Yahweh is a man of war.
\q2 Yahweh is his name.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.4: \v 4 He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea.
\q2 His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.5: \v 5 The deeps cover them.
\q2 They went down into the depths like a stone.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.6: \v 6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power.
\q2 Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.7: \v 7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you.
\q2 You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.8: \v 8 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up.
\q2 The floods stood upright as a heap.
\q2 The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.9: \v 9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder.
\q2 My desire will be satisfied on them.
\q2 I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’
\q1
\p Exodus 15.10: \v 10 You blew with your wind.
\q2 The sea covered them.
\q2 They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.11: \v 11 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods?
\q2 Who is like you, glorious in holiness,
\q2 fearful in praises, doing wonders?
\q1
\p Exodus 15.12: \v 12 You stretched out your right hand.
\q2 The earth swallowed them.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.13: \v 13 “You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed.
\q2 You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.14: \v 14 The peoples have heard.
\q2 They tremble.
\q2 Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.15: \v 15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed.
\q2 Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab.
\q2 All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.16: \v 16 Terror and dread falls on them.
\q2 By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone,
\q2 until your people pass over, Yahweh,
\q2 until the people you have purchased pass over.
\q2
\p Exodus 15.17: \v 17 You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance,
\q2 the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in;
\q2 the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.18: \v 18 Yahweh will reign forever and ever.”
\p
\p Exodus 15.19: \v 19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.
\p Exodus 15.20: \v 20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.
\p Exodus 15.21: \v 21 Miriam answered them,
\q1 “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
\q1 The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
\p
\p Exodus 15.22: \v 22 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
\p Exodus 15.23: \v 23 When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.\f + \fr 15:23 \ft Marah means bitter.\f*
\p Exodus 15.24: \v 24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
\p Exodus 15.25: \v 25 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.
\p Exodus 15.26: \v 26 He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
\p
\p Exodus 15.27: \v 27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.
\p Exodus 16.0: \c 16
\p
\p Exodus 16.1: \v 1 They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 16.2: \v 2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
\p Exodus 16.3: \v 3 and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
\p
\p Exodus 16.4: \v 4 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
\p Exodus 16.5: \v 5 It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”
\p
\p Exodus 16.6: \v 6 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening, you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 16.7: \v 7 In the morning, you shall see Yahweh’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?”
\p Exodus 16.8: \v 8 Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”
\p Exodus 16.9: \v 9 Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come close to Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.’”
\p Exodus 16.10: \v 10 As Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, Yahweh’s glory appeared in the cloud.
\p Exodus 16.11: \v 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 16.12: \v 12 “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God.’”
\p
\p Exodus 16.13: \v 13 In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
\p Exodus 16.14: \v 14 When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.
\p Exodus 16.15: \v 15 When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.
\p Exodus 16.16: \v 16 “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: ‘Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer\f + \fr 16:16 \ft An omer is about 2.2 liters or about 2.3 quarts\f* a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.’”
\p Exodus 16.17: \v 17 The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less.
\p Exodus 16.18: \v 18 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They each gathered according to his eating.
\p Exodus 16.19: \v 19 Moses said to them, “Let no one leave of it until the morning.”
\p Exodus 16.20: \v 20 Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.
\p Exodus 16.21: \v 21 They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
\p Exodus 16.22: \v 22 On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
\p Exodus 16.23: \v 23 He said to them, “This is that which Yahweh has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’”
\p Exodus 16.24: \v 24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses ordered, and it didn’t become foul, and there were no worms in it.
\p Exodus 16.25: \v 25 Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field.
\p Exodus 16.26: \v 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none.”
\p Exodus 16.27: \v 27 On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
\p Exodus 16.28: \v 28 Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
\p Exodus 16.29: \v 29 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”
\p Exodus 16.30: \v 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
\p
\p Exodus 16.31: \v 31 The house of Israel called its name “Manna”,\f + \fr 16:31 \ft “Manna” means “What is it?”\f* and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
\p Exodus 16.32: \v 32 Moses said, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
\p Exodus 16.33: \v 33 Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations.”
\p Exodus 16.34: \v 34 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
\p Exodus 16.35: \v 35 The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
\p Exodus 16.36: \v 36 Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.\f + \fr 16:36 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f*
\p Exodus 17.0: \c 17
\p
\p Exodus 17.1: \v 1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to Yahweh’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
\p Exodus 17.2: \v 2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.”
\p Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
\p
\p Exodus 17.3: \v 3 The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”
\p
\p Exodus 17.4: \v 4 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
\p
\p Exodus 17.5: \v 5 Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.
\p Exodus 17.6: \v 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
\p Exodus 17.7: \v 7 He called the name of the place Massah,\f + \fr 17:7 \ft Massah means testing. \f* and Meribah,\f + \fr 17:7 \ft Meribah means quarreling.\f* because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”
\p
\p Exodus 17.8: \v 8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
\p Exodus 17.9: \v 9 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”
\p Exodus 17.10: \v 10 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
\p Exodus 17.11: \v 11 When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
\p Exodus 17.12: \v 12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.
\p Exodus 17.13: \v 13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
\p Exodus 17.14: \v 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
\p Exodus 17.15: \v 15 Moses built an altar, and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”.\f + \fr 17:15 \ft Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi\f*
\p Exodus 17.16: \v 16 He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”
\p Exodus 18.0: \c 18
\p
\p Exodus 18.1: \v 1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.
\p Exodus 18.2: \v 2 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,
\p Exodus 18.3: \v 3 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom,\f + \fr 18:3 \ft “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there”.\f* for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.
\p Exodus 18.4: \v 4 The name of the other was Eliezer,\f + \fr 18:4 \ft Eliezer means “God is my helper”. \f* for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”
\p Exodus 18.5: \v 5 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses’ sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.
\p Exodus 18.6: \v 6 He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.”
\p
\p Exodus 18.7: \v 7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.
\p Exodus 18.8: \v 8 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.
\p Exodus 18.9: \v 9 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
\p Exodus 18.10: \v 10 Jethro said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
\p Exodus 18.11: \v 11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”
\p Exodus 18.12: \v 12 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.
\p
\p Exodus 18.13: \v 13 On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
\p Exodus 18.14: \v 14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?”
\p
\p Exodus 18.15: \v 15 Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
\p Exodus 18.16: \v 16 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”
\p Exodus 18.17: \v 17 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.
\p Exodus 18.18: \v 18 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
\p Exodus 18.19: \v 19 Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.
\p Exodus 18.20: \v 20 You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
\p Exodus 18.21: \v 21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
\p Exodus 18.22: \v 22 Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.
\p Exodus 18.23: \v 23 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”
\p
\p Exodus 18.24: \v 24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
\p Exodus 18.25: \v 25 Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
\p Exodus 18.26: \v 26 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
\p Exodus 18.27: \v 27 Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.
\p Exodus 19.0: \c 19
\p
\p Exodus 19.1: \v 1 In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
\p Exodus 19.2: \v 2 When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.
\p Exodus 19.3: \v 3 Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, “This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
\p Exodus 19.4: \v 4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.
\p Exodus 19.5: \v 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
\p Exodus 19.6: \v 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
\p
\p Exodus 19.7: \v 7 Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.
\p Exodus 19.8: \v 8 All the people answered together, and said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do.”
\p Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 19.9: \v 9 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 19.10: \v 10 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
\p Exodus 19.11: \v 11 and be ready for the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
\p Exodus 19.12: \v 12 You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.
\p Exodus 19.13: \v 13 No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain.”
\p
\p Exodus 19.14: \v 14 Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
\p Exodus 19.15: \v 15 He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”
\p
\p Exodus 19.16: \v 16 On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
\p Exodus 19.17: \v 17 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.
\p Exodus 19.18: \v 18 All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
\p Exodus 19.19: \v 19 When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
\p Exodus 19.20: \v 20 Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
\p
\p Exodus 19.21: \v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.
\p Exodus 19.22: \v 22 Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break out on them.”
\p
\p Exodus 19.23: \v 23 Moses said to Yahweh, “The people can’t come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, ‘Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.’”
\p
\p Exodus 19.24: \v 24 Yahweh said to him, “Go down! You shall bring Aaron up with you, but don’t let the priests and the people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he break out against them.”
\p
\p Exodus 19.25: \v 25 So Moses went down to the people, and told them.
\p Exodus 20.0: \c 20
\p
\p Exodus 20.1: \v 1 God\f + \fr 20:1 \ft After “God”, the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph Tav” (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker.\f* spoke all these words, saying,
\p Exodus 20.2: \v 2 “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
\p
\p Exodus 20.3: \v 3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
\p
\p Exodus 20.4: \v 4 “You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
\p Exodus 20.5: \v 5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
\p Exodus 20.6: \v 6 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
\p
\p Exodus 20.7: \v 7 “You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God,\f + \fr 20:7 \ft or, You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain\f* for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
\p
\p Exodus 20.8: \v 8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
\p Exodus 20.9: \v 9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work,
\p Exodus 20.10: \v 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;
\p Exodus 20.11: \v 11 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
\p
\p Exodus 20.12: \v 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
\p
\p Exodus 20.13: \v 13 “You shall not murder.
\p
\p Exodus 20.14: \v 14 “You shall not commit adultery.
\p
\p Exodus 20.15: \v 15 “You shall not steal.
\p
\p Exodus 20.16: \v 16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
\p
\p Exodus 20.17: \v 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
\p
\p Exodus 20.18: \v 18 All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
\p Exodus 20.19: \v 19 They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”
\p
\p Exodus 20.20: \v 20 Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”
\p Exodus 20.21: \v 21 The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.
\p
\p Exodus 20.22: \v 22 Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
\p Exodus 20.23: \v 23 You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.
\p Exodus 20.24: \v 24 You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
\p Exodus 20.25: \v 25 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.
\p Exodus 20.26: \v 26 You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’
\p Exodus 21.0: \c 21
\p
\p Exodus 21.1: \v 1 “Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:
\p
\p Exodus 21.2: \v 2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
\p Exodus 21.3: \v 3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
\p Exodus 21.4: \v 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
\p Exodus 21.5: \v 5 But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’
\p Exodus 21.6: \v 6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
\p
\p Exodus 21.7: \v 7 “If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
\p Exodus 21.8: \v 8 If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
\p Exodus 21.9: \v 9 If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.
\p Exodus 21.10: \v 10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
\p Exodus 21.11: \v 11 If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
\p
\p Exodus 21.12: \v 12 “One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
\p Exodus 21.13: \v 13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
\p Exodus 21.14: \v 14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
\p
\p Exodus 21.15: \v 15 “Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
\p
\p Exodus 21.16: \v 16 “Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
\p
\p Exodus 21.17: \v 17 “Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
\p
\p Exodus 21.18: \v 18 “If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;
\p Exodus 21.19: \v 19 if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
\p
\p Exodus 21.20: \v 20 “If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.
\p Exodus 21.21: \v 21 Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property.
\p
\p Exodus 21.22: \v 22 “If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.
\p Exodus 21.23: \v 23 But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,
\p Exodus 21.24: \v 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
\p Exodus 21.25: \v 25 burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
\p
\p Exodus 21.26: \v 26 “If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
\p Exodus 21.27: \v 27 If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake.
\p
\p Exodus 21.28: \v 28 “If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.
\p Exodus 21.29: \v 29 But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and this has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
\p Exodus 21.30: \v 30 If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.
\p Exodus 21.31: \v 31 Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.
\p Exodus 21.32: \v 32 If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels\f + \fr 21:32 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 30 shekels is about 300 grams or about 10.6 ounces.\f* of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
\p
\p Exodus 21.33: \v 33 “If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
\p Exodus 21.34: \v 34 the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
\p
\p Exodus 21.35: \v 35 “If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.
\p Exodus 21.36: \v 36 Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
\p Exodus 22.0: \c 22
\p
\p Exodus 22.1: \v 1 “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
\p Exodus 22.2: \v 2 If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.
\p Exodus 22.3: \v 3 If the sun has risen on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
\p Exodus 22.4: \v 4 If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.
\p
\p Exodus 22.5: \v 5 “If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten by letting his animal loose, and it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.
\p
\p Exodus 22.6: \v 6 “If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
\p
\p Exodus 22.7: \v 7 “If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, he shall pay double.
\p Exodus 22.8: \v 8 If the thief isn’t found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out whether or not he has put his hand on his neighbor’s goods.
\p Exodus 22.9: \v 9 For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.
\p
\p Exodus 22.10: \v 10 “If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;
\p Exodus 22.11: \v 11 the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, he has not put his hand on his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
\p Exodus 22.12: \v 12 But if it is stolen from him, the one who stole shall make restitution to its owner.
\p Exodus 22.13: \v 13 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.
\p
\p Exodus 22.14: \v 14 “If a man borrows anything of his neighbor’s, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.
\p Exodus 22.15: \v 15 If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.
\p
\p Exodus 22.16: \v 16 “If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
\p Exodus 22.17: \v 17 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
\p
\p Exodus 22.18: \v 18 “You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
\p
\p Exodus 22.19: \v 19 “Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.
\p
\p Exodus 22.20: \v 20 “He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.
\p
\p Exodus 22.21: \v 21 “You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
\p
\p Exodus 22.22: \v 22 “You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
\p Exodus 22.23: \v 23 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
\p Exodus 22.24: \v 24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
\p
\p Exodus 22.25: \v 25 “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.
\p Exodus 22.26: \v 26 If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
\p Exodus 22.27: \v 27 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
\p
\p Exodus 22.28: \v 28 “You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
\p
\p Exodus 22.29: \v 29 “You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses.
\p “You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.
\p Exodus 22.30: \v 30 You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
\p
\p Exodus 22.31: \v 31 “You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.
\p Exodus 23.0: \c 23
\p
\p Exodus 23.1: \v 1 “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
\p
\p Exodus 23.2: \v 2 “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
\p Exodus 23.3: \v 3 You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.
\p
\p Exodus 23.4: \v 4 “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
\p Exodus 23.5: \v 5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.
\p
\p Exodus 23.6: \v 6 “You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
\p
\p Exodus 23.7: \v 7 “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
\p
\p Exodus 23.8: \v 8 “You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
\p
\p Exodus 23.9: \v 9 “You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
\p
\p Exodus 23.10: \v 10 “For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,
\p Exodus 23.11: \v 11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.
\p
\p Exodus 23.12: \v 12 “Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.
\p
\p Exodus 23.13: \v 13 “Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.
\p
\p Exodus 23.14: \v 14 “You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
\p Exodus 23.15: \v 15 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.
\p Exodus 23.16: \v 16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
\p Exodus 23.17: \v 17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\p Exodus 23.18: \v 18 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.
\p
\p Exodus 23.19: \v 19 You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God.
\p “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
\p
\p Exodus 23.20: \v 20 “Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
\p Exodus 23.21: \v 21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
\p Exodus 23.22: \v 22 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
\p Exodus 23.23: \v 23 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
\p Exodus 23.24: \v 24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.
\p Exodus 23.25: \v 25 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.
\p Exodus 23.26: \v 26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
\p Exodus 23.27: \v 27 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
\p Exodus 23.28: \v 28 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
\p Exodus 23.29: \v 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.
\p Exodus 23.30: \v 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.
\p Exodus 23.31: \v 31 I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
\p Exodus 23.32: \v 32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
\p Exodus 23.33: \v 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
\p Exodus 24.0: \c 24
\p
\p Exodus 24.1: \v 1 He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.
\p Exodus 24.2: \v 2 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near. The people shall not go up with him.”
\p
\p Exodus 24.3: \v 3 Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”
\p
\p Exodus 24.4: \v 4 Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
\p Exodus 24.5: \v 5 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 24.6: \v 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
\p Exodus 24.7: \v 7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “We will do all that Yahweh has said, and be obedient.”
\p
\p Exodus 24.8: \v 8 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”
\p
\p Exodus 24.9: \v 9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
\p Exodus 24.10: \v 10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire \f + \fr 24:10 \ft or, lapis lazuli\f* stone, like the skies for clearness.
\p Exodus 24.11: \v 11 He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
\p
\p Exodus 24.12: \v 12 Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”
\p
\p Exodus 24.13: \v 13 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.
\p Exodus 24.14: \v 14 He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them.”
\p
\p Exodus 24.15: \v 15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
\p Exodus 24.16: \v 16 Yahweh’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud.
\p Exodus 24.17: \v 17 The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
\p Exodus 24.18: \v 18 Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
\p Exodus 25.0: \c 25
\p
\p Exodus 25.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 25.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.
\p Exodus 25.3: \v 3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, bronze,
\p Exodus 25.4: \v 4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,
\p Exodus 25.5: \v 5 rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides,\f + \fr 25:5 \ft or, fine leather\f* acacia wood,
\p Exodus 25.6: \v 6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
\p Exodus 25.7: \v 7 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.
\p Exodus 25.8: \v 8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
\p Exodus 25.9: \v 9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.
\p
\p Exodus 25.10: \v 10 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits,\f + \fr 25:10 \ft 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.\f* its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
\p Exodus 25.11: \v 11 You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.
\p Exodus 25.12: \v 12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
\p Exodus 25.13: \v 13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
\p Exodus 25.14: \v 14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
\p Exodus 25.15: \v 15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.
\p Exodus 25.16: \v 16 You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.
\p Exodus 25.17: \v 17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.
\p Exodus 25.18: \v 18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
\p Exodus 25.19: \v 19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.
\p Exodus 25.20: \v 20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.
\p Exodus 25.21: \v 21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I will give you.
\p Exodus 25.22: \v 22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
\p
\p Exodus 25.23: \v 23 “You shall make a table of acacia wood. Its length shall be two cubits, and its width a cubit, and its height one and a half cubits.
\p Exodus 25.24: \v 24 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
\p Exodus 25.25: \v 25 You shall make a rim of a hand width around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.
\p Exodus 25.26: \v 26 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.
\p Exodus 25.27: \v 27 the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.
\p Exodus 25.28: \v 28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
\p Exodus 25.29: \v 29 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.
\p Exodus 25.30: \v 30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.
\p
\p Exodus 25.31: \v 31 “You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. The lamp stand shall be made of hammered work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
\p Exodus 25.32: \v 32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lamp stand out of its one side, and three branches of the lamp stand out of its other side;
\p Exodus 25.33: \v 33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lamp stand;
\p Exodus 25.34: \v 34 and in the lamp stand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
\p Exodus 25.35: \v 35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lamp stand.
\p Exodus 25.36: \v 36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.
\p Exodus 25.37: \v 37 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.
\p Exodus 25.38: \v 38 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.
\p Exodus 25.39: \v 39 It shall be made of a talent\f + \fr 25:39 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* of pure gold, with all these accessories.
\p Exodus 25.40: \v 40 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.
\p Exodus 26.0: \c 26
\p
\p Exodus 26.1: \v 1 “Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. You shall make them with the work of a skillful workman.
\p Exodus 26.2: \v 2 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits,\f + \fr 26:2 \ft 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.\f* and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
\p Exodus 26.3: \v 3 Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.
\p Exodus 26.4: \v 4 You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling, and you shall do likewise on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second coupling.
\p Exodus 26.5: \v 5 You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one another.
\p Exodus 26.6: \v 6 You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps. The tabernacle shall be a unit.
\p
\p Exodus 26.7: \v 7 “You shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains.
\p Exodus 26.8: \v 8 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
\p Exodus 26.9: \v 9 You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.
\p Exodus 26.10: \v 10 You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outermost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outermost in the second coupling.
\p Exodus 26.11: \v 11 You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
\p Exodus 26.12: \v 12 The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent—the half curtain that remains—shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.
\p Exodus 26.13: \v 13 The cubit on the one side and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
\p Exodus 26.14: \v 14 You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
\p
\p Exodus 26.15: \v 15 “You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.
\p Exodus 26.16: \v 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the width of each board.
\p Exodus 26.17: \v 17 There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
\p Exodus 26.18: \v 18 You shall make twenty boards for the tabernacle, for the south side southward.
\p Exodus 26.19: \v 19 You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
\p Exodus 26.20: \v 20 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,
\p Exodus 26.21: \v 21 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
\p Exodus 26.22: \v 22 For the far side of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.
\p Exodus 26.23: \v 23 You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far side.
\p Exodus 26.24: \v 24 They shall be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
\p Exodus 26.25: \v 25 There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
\p
\p Exodus 26.26: \v 26 “You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
\p Exodus 26.27: \v 27 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the far side westward.
\p Exodus 26.28: \v 28 The middle bar in the middle of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
\p Exodus 26.29: \v 29 You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars. You shall overlay the bars with gold.
\p Exodus 26.30: \v 30 You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.
\p
\p Exodus 26.31: \v 31 “You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. It shall be the work of a skillful workman.
\p Exodus 26.32: \v 32 You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.
\p Exodus 26.33: \v 33 You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the covenant in there within the veil. The veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.
\p Exodus 26.34: \v 34 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.
\p Exodus 26.35: \v 35 You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lamp stand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. You shall put the table on the north side.
\p
\p Exodus 26.36: \v 36 “You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
\p Exodus 26.37: \v 37 You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold. You shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.
\p Exodus 27.0: \c 27
\p
\p Exodus 27.1: \v 1 “You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits\f + \fr 27:1 \ft 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.\f* long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.\f + \fr 27:1 \ft The altar was to be about 2.3×2.3×1.4 meters or about 7½×7½×4½ feet.\f*
\p Exodus 27.2: \v 2 You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.
\p Exodus 27.3: \v 3 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze.
\p Exodus 27.4: \v 4 You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.
\p Exodus 27.5: \v 5 You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.
\p Exodus 27.6: \v 6 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
\p Exodus 27.7: \v 7 Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it.
\p Exodus 27.8: \v 8 You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.
\p
\p Exodus 27.9: \v 9 “You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side.
\p Exodus 27.10: \v 10 Its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
\p Exodus 27.11: \v 11 Likewise for the length of the north side, there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
\p Exodus 27.12: \v 12 For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
\p Exodus 27.13: \v 13 The width of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
\p Exodus 27.14: \v 14 The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
\p Exodus 27.15: \v 15 For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
\p Exodus 27.16: \v 16 For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.
\p Exodus 27.17: \v 17 All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of bronze.
\p Exodus 27.18: \v 18 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of bronze.
\p Exodus 27.19: \v 19 All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of bronze.
\p
\p Exodus 27.20: \v 20 “You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
\p Exodus 27.21: \v 21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
\p Exodus 28.0: \c 28
\p
\p Exodus 28.1: \v 1 “Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
\p Exodus 28.2: \v 2 You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
\p Exodus 28.3: \v 3 You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.
\p Exodus 28.4: \v 4 These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.
\p Exodus 28.5: \v 5 They shall use the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
\p
\p Exodus 28.6: \v 6 “They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.
\p Exodus 28.7: \v 7 It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.
\p Exodus 28.8: \v 8 The skillfully woven band, which is on it, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
\p Exodus 28.9: \v 9 You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel.
\p Exodus 28.10: \v 10 Six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.
\p Exodus 28.11: \v 11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel. You shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.
\p Exodus 28.12: \v 12 You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel. Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.
\p Exodus 28.13: \v 13 You shall make settings of gold,
\p Exodus 28.14: \v 14 and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work. You shall put the braided chains on the settings.
\p
\p Exodus 28.15: \v 15 “You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.
\p Exodus 28.16: \v 16 It shall be square and folded double; a span\f + \fr 28:16 \ft 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.)\f* shall be its length, and a span its width.
\p Exodus 28.17: \v 17 You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;
\p Exodus 28.18: \v 18 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire,\f + \fr 28:18 \ft or, lapis lazuli \f* and an emerald;
\p Exodus 28.19: \v 19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
\p Exodus 28.20: \v 20 and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.
\p Exodus 28.21: \v 21 The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.
\p Exodus 28.22: \v 22 You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
\p Exodus 28.23: \v 23 You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
\p Exodus 28.24: \v 24 You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
\p Exodus 28.25: \v 25 The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart.
\p Exodus 28.26: \v 26 You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.
\p Exodus 28.27: \v 27 You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
\p Exodus 28.28: \v 28 They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.
\p Exodus 28.29: \v 29 Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.
\p Exodus 28.30: \v 30 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Yahweh. Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.
\p
\p Exodus 28.31: \v 31 “You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
\p Exodus 28.32: \v 32 It shall have a hole for the head in the middle of it. It shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.
\p Exodus 28.33: \v 33 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, all around its hem; with bells of gold between and around them:
\p Exodus 28.34: \v 34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.
\p Exodus 28.35: \v 35 It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.
\p
\p Exodus 28.36: \v 36 “You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, ‘HOLY TO YAHWEH.’
\p Exodus 28.37: \v 37 You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash. It shall be on the front of the sash.
\p Exodus 28.38: \v 38 It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.
\p Exodus 28.39: \v 39 You shall weave the tunic with fine linen. You shall make a turban of fine linen. You shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.
\p
\p Exodus 28.40: \v 40 “You shall make tunics for Aaron’s sons. You shall make sashes for them. You shall make headbands for them, for glory and for beauty.
\p Exodus 28.41: \v 41 You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.
\p Exodus 28.42: \v 42 You shall make them linen pants to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the waist even to the thighs.
\p Exodus 28.43: \v 43 They shall be on Aaron and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place, that they don’t bear iniquity, and die. This shall be a statute forever to him and to his offspring after him.
\p Exodus 29.0: \c 29
\p
\p Exodus 29.1: \v 1 “This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams without defect,
\p Exodus 29.2: \v 2 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.
\p Exodus 29.3: \v 3 You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.
\p Exodus 29.4: \v 4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.
\p Exodus 29.5: \v 5 You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
\p Exodus 29.6: \v 6 You shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.
\p Exodus 29.7: \v 7 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.
\p Exodus 29.8: \v 8 You shall bring his sons, and put tunics on them.
\p Exodus 29.9: \v 9 You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them. They shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. You shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
\p
\p Exodus 29.10: \v 10 “You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.
\p Exodus 29.11: \v 11 You shall kill the bull before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Exodus 29.12: \v 12 You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.
\p Exodus 29.13: \v 13 You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.
\p Exodus 29.14: \v 14 But the meat of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp. It is a sin offering.
\p
\p Exodus 29.15: \v 15 “You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
\p Exodus 29.16: \v 16 You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.
\p Exodus 29.17: \v 17 You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
\p Exodus 29.18: \v 18 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p
\p Exodus 29.19: \v 19 “You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
\p Exodus 29.20: \v 20 Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot; and sprinkle the blood around on the altar.
\p Exodus 29.21: \v 21 You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.
\p Exodus 29.22: \v 22 Also you shall take some of the ram’s fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),
\p Exodus 29.23: \v 23 and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.
\p Exodus 29.24: \v 24 You shall put all of this in Aaron’s hands, and in his sons’ hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
\p Exodus 29.25: \v 25 You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p
\p Exodus 29.26: \v 26 “You shall take the breast of Aaron’s ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It shall be your portion.
\p Exodus 29.27: \v 27 You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is raised up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons.
\p Exodus 29.28: \v 28 It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering. It shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to Yahweh.
\p
\p Exodus 29.29: \v 29 “The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.
\p Exodus 29.30: \v 30 Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.
\p
\p Exodus 29.31: \v 31 “You shall take the ram of consecration and boil its meat in a holy place.
\p Exodus 29.32: \v 32 Aaron and his sons shall eat the meat of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Exodus 29.33: \v 33 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.
\p Exodus 29.34: \v 34 If anything of the meat of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
\p
\p Exodus 29.35: \v 35 “You shall do so to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.
\p Exodus 29.36: \v 36 Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it. You shall anoint it, to sanctify it.
\p Exodus 29.37: \v 37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy.
\p
\p Exodus 29.38: \v 38 “Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
\p Exodus 29.39: \v 39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening;
\p Exodus 29.40: \v 40 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah\f + \fr 29:40 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin\f + \fr 29:40 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons, so a fourth of a hin is about 1.6 liters.\f* of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
\p Exodus 29.41: \v 41 The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 29.42: \v 42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
\p Exodus 29.43: \v 43 There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.
\p Exodus 29.44: \v 44 I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar. I will also sanctify Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest’s office.
\p Exodus 29.45: \v 45 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
\p Exodus 29.46: \v 46 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Yahweh their God.
\p Exodus 30.0: \c 30
\p
\p Exodus 30.1: \v 1 “You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.
\p Exodus 30.2: \v 2 Its length shall be a cubit,\f + \fr 30:2 \ft 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.\f* and its width a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
\p Exodus 30.3: \v 3 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.
\p Exodus 30.4: \v 4 You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.
\p Exodus 30.5: \v 5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
\p Exodus 30.6: \v 6 You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you.
\p Exodus 30.7: \v 7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.
\p Exodus 30.8: \v 8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
\p Exodus 30.9: \v 9 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.
\p Exodus 30.10: \v 10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.”
\p
\p Exodus 30.11: \v 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 30.12: \v 12 “When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you count them; that there be no plague among them when you count them.
\p Exodus 30.13: \v 13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel\f + \fr 30:13 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs\f + \fr 30:13 \ft a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains\f*); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 30.14: \v 14 Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 30.15: \v 15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel,\f + \fr 30:15 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.
\p Exodus 30.16: \v 16 You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.”
\p
\p Exodus 30.17: \v 17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 30.18: \v 18 “You shall also make a basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
\p Exodus 30.19: \v 19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.
\p Exodus 30.20: \v 20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 30.21: \v 21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. This shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations.”
\p
\p Exodus 30.22: \v 22 Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 30.23: \v 23 “Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels;\f + \fr 30:23 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 500 shekels is about 5 kilograms or about 11 pounds.\f* and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;
\p Exodus 30.24: \v 24 and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin\f + \fr 30:24 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.\f* of olive oil.
\p Exodus 30.25: \v 25 You shall make it into a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
\p Exodus 30.26: \v 26 You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the covenant,
\p Exodus 30.27: \v 27 the table and all its articles, the lamp stand and its accessories, the altar of incense,
\p Exodus 30.28: \v 28 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.
\p Exodus 30.29: \v 29 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.
\p Exodus 30.30: \v 30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.
\p Exodus 30.31: \v 31 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.
\p Exodus 30.32: \v 32 It shall not be poured on man’s flesh, and do not make any like it, according to its composition. It is holy. It shall be holy to you.
\p Exodus 30.33: \v 33 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.’”
\p
\p Exodus 30.34: \v 34 Yahweh said to Moses, “Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense. There shall be an equal weight of each.
\p Exodus 30.35: \v 35 You shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
\p Exodus 30.36: \v 36 You shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the covenant in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.
\p Exodus 30.37: \v 37 The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.
\p Exodus 30.38: \v 38 Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people.”
\p Exodus 31.0: \c 31
\p
\p Exodus 31.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 31.2: \v 2 “Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
\p Exodus 31.3: \v 3 I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,
\p Exodus 31.4: \v 4 to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,
\p Exodus 31.5: \v 5 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship.
\p Exodus 31.6: \v 6 Behold, I myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
\p Exodus 31.7: \v 7 the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the covenant, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,
\p Exodus 31.8: \v 8 the table and its vessels, the pure lamp stand with all its vessels, the altar of incense,
\p Exodus 31.9: \v 9 the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base,
\p Exodus 31.10: \v 10 the finely worked garments—the holy garments for Aaron the priest, the garments of his sons to minister in the priest’s office—
\p Exodus 31.11: \v 11 the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do.”
\p
\p Exodus 31.12: \v 12 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 31.13: \v 13 “Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
\p Exodus 31.14: \v 14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
\p Exodus 31.15: \v 15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.
\p Exodus 31.16: \v 16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
\p Exodus 31.17: \v 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’”
\p
\p Exodus 31.18: \v 18 When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.
\p Exodus 32.0: \c 32
\p
\p Exodus 32.1: \v 1 When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.2: \v 2 Aaron said to them, “Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.3: \v 3 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.
\p Exodus 32.4: \v 4 He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molded calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.5: \v 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.6: \v 6 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
\p
\p Exodus 32.7: \v 7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!
\p Exodus 32.8: \v 8 They have turned away quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
\p
\p Exodus 32.9: \v 9 Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
\p Exodus 32.10: \v 10 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.11: \v 11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
\p Exodus 32.12: \v 12 Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.
\p Exodus 32.13: \v 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring\f + \fr 32:13 \ft or, seed\f* as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
\p
\p Exodus 32.14: \v 14 So Yahweh turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people.
\p
\p Exodus 32.15: \v 15 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides. They were written on one side and on the other.
\p Exodus 32.16: \v 16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
\p
\p Exodus 32.17: \v 17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.18: \v 18 He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.”
\p Exodus 32.19: \v 19 As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.
\p Exodus 32.20: \v 20 He took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.
\p
\p Exodus 32.21: \v 21 Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”
\p
\p Exodus 32.22: \v 22 Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.
\p Exodus 32.23: \v 23 For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, which shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’
\p Exodus 32.24: \v 24 I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them take it off.’ So they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.25: \v 25 When Moses saw that the people were out of control, (for Aaron had let them lose control, causing derision among their enemies),
\p Exodus 32.26: \v 26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on Yahweh’s side, come to me!”
\p All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.
\p Exodus 32.27: \v 27 He said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’”
\p Exodus 32.28: \v 28 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. About three thousand men fell of the people that day.
\p Exodus 32.29: \v 29 Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, for every man was against his son and against his brother, that he may give you a blessing today.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.30: \v 30 On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.31: \v 31 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.
\p Exodus 32.32: \v 32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.33: \v 33 Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot him out of my book.
\p Exodus 32.34: \v 34 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
\p Exodus 32.35: \v 35 Yahweh struck the people, because of what they did with the calf, which Aaron made.
\p Exodus 33.0: \c 33
\p
\p Exodus 33.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’
\p Exodus 33.2: \v 2 I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
\p Exodus 33.3: \v 3 Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”
\p
\p Exodus 33.4: \v 4 When the people heard this evil news, they mourned; and no one put on his jewelry.
\p
\p Exodus 33.5: \v 5 Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’”
\p
\p Exodus 33.6: \v 6 The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
\p
\p Exodus 33.7: \v 7 Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it “The Tent of Meeting.” Everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.
\p Exodus 33.8: \v 8 When Moses went out to the Tent, all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.
\p Exodus 33.9: \v 9 When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and Yahweh spoke with Moses.
\p Exodus 33.10: \v 10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
\p Exodus 33.11: \v 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.
\p
\p Exodus 33.12: \v 12 Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’
\p Exodus 33.13: \v 13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.”
\p
\p Exodus 33.14: \v 14 He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
\p
\p Exodus 33.15: \v 15 Moses said to him, “If your presence doesn’t go with me, don’t carry us up from here.
\p Exodus 33.16: \v 16 For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?”
\p
\p Exodus 33.17: \v 17 Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”
\p
\p Exodus 33.18: \v 18 Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”
\p
\p Exodus 33.19: \v 19 He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
\p Exodus 33.20: \v 20 He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”
\p Exodus 33.21: \v 21 Yahweh also said, “Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.
\p Exodus 33.22: \v 22 It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;
\p Exodus 33.23: \v 23 then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”
\p Exodus 34.0: \c 34
\p
\p Exodus 34.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
\p Exodus 34.2: \v 2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.
\p Exodus 34.3: \v 3 No one shall come up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain. Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.”
\p
\p Exodus 34.4: \v 4 He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; then Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.
\p Exodus 34.5: \v 5 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name.
\p Exodus 34.6: \v 6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
\p Exodus 34.7: \v 7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
\p
\p Exodus 34.8: \v 8 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
\p Exodus 34.9: \v 9 He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
\p
\p Exodus 34.10: \v 10 He said, “Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.
\p Exodus 34.11: \v 11 Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
\p Exodus 34.12: \v 12 Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;
\p Exodus 34.13: \v 13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;
\p Exodus 34.14: \v 14 for you shall worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
\p
\p Exodus 34.15: \v 15 “Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
\p Exodus 34.16: \v 16 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
\p
\p Exodus 34.17: \v 17 “You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
\p
\p Exodus 34.18: \v 18 “You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
\p
\p Exodus 34.19: \v 19 “All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.
\p Exodus 34.20: \v 20 You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before me empty.
\p
\p Exodus 34.21: \v 21 “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
\p
\p Exodus 34.22: \v 22 “You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.
\p Exodus 34.23: \v 23 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\p Exodus 34.24: \v 24 For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
\p
\p Exodus 34.25: \v 25 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall not be left to the morning.
\p
\p Exodus 34.26: \v 26 “You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God.
\p “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
\p
\p Exodus 34.27: \v 27 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write these words; for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
\p
\p Exodus 34.28: \v 28 He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
\p
\p Exodus 34.29: \v 29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
\p Exodus 34.30: \v 30 When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
\p Exodus 34.31: \v 31 Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.
\p Exodus 34.32: \v 32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
\p Exodus 34.33: \v 33 When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
\p Exodus 34.34: \v 34 But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
\p Exodus 34.35: \v 35 The children of Israel saw Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face shone; so Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
\p Exodus 35.0: \c 35
\p
\p Exodus 35.1: \v 1 Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, “These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them.
\p Exodus 35.2: \v 2 ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.
\p Exodus 35.3: \v 3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.’”
\p
\p Exodus 35.4: \v 4 Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying,
\p Exodus 35.5: \v 5 ‘Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as Yahweh’s offering: gold, silver, bronze,
\p Exodus 35.6: \v 6 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,
\p Exodus 35.7: \v 7 rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
\p Exodus 35.8: \v 8 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
\p Exodus 35.9: \v 9 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.
\p
\p Exodus 35.10: \v 10 “‘Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that Yahweh has commanded:
\p Exodus 35.11: \v 11 the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
\p Exodus 35.12: \v 12 the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;
\p Exodus 35.13: \v 13 the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the show bread;
\p Exodus 35.14: \v 14 the lamp stand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the oil for the light;
\p Exodus 35.15: \v 15 and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;
\p Exodus 35.16: \v 16 the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base;
\p Exodus 35.17: \v 17 the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;
\p Exodus 35.18: \v 18 the pins of the tabernacle, the pins of the court, and their cords;
\p Exodus 35.19: \v 19 the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place—the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons—to minister in the priest’s office.’”
\p
\p Exodus 35.20: \v 20 All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
\p Exodus 35.21: \v 21 They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh’s offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.
\p Exodus 35.22: \v 22 They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, earrings, signet rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering of gold to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 35.23: \v 23 Everyone with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, rams’ skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought them.
\p Exodus 35.24: \v 24 Everyone who offered an offering of silver and bronze brought Yahweh’s offering; and everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.
\p Exodus 35.25: \v 25 All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun: the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
\p Exodus 35.26: \v 26 All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair.
\p Exodus 35.27: \v 27 The rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate;
\p Exodus 35.28: \v 28 with the spice and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
\p Exodus 35.29: \v 29 The children of Israel brought a free will offering to Yahweh; every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.
\p
\p Exodus 35.30: \v 30 Moses said to the children of Israel, “Behold, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
\p Exodus 35.31: \v 31 He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship;
\p Exodus 35.32: \v 32 and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze,
\p Exodus 35.33: \v 33 in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
\p Exodus 35.34: \v 34 He has put in his heart that he may teach, both he and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
\p Exodus 35.35: \v 35 He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.
\p Exodus 36.0: \c 36
\p
\p Exodus 36.1: \v 1 “Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded.”
\p
\p Exodus 36.2: \v 2 Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it.
\p Exodus 36.3: \v 3 They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They kept bringing free will offerings to him every morning.
\p Exodus 36.4: \v 4 All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did.
\p Exodus 36.5: \v 5 They spoke to Moses, saying, “The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make.”
\p
\p Exodus 36.6: \v 6 Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, “Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing.
\p Exodus 36.7: \v 7 For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much.
\p
\p Exodus 36.8: \v 8 All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. They made them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.
\p Exodus 36.9: \v 9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits,\f + \fr 36:9 \ft 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.\f* and the width of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.
\p Exodus 36.10: \v 10 He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.
\p Exodus 36.11: \v 11 He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second coupling.
\p Exodus 36.12: \v 12 He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite to one another.
\p Exodus 36.13: \v 13 He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.
\p
\p Exodus 36.14: \v 14 He made curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains.
\p Exodus 36.15: \v 15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.
\p Exodus 36.16: \v 16 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
\p Exodus 36.17: \v 17 He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second coupling.
\p Exodus 36.18: \v 18 He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
\p Exodus 36.19: \v 19 He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
\p
\p Exodus 36.20: \v 20 He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.
\p Exodus 36.21: \v 21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.
\p Exodus 36.22: \v 22 Each board had two tenons, joined to one another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.
\p Exodus 36.23: \v 23 He made the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.
\p Exodus 36.24: \v 24 He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
\p Exodus 36.25: \v 25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards
\p Exodus 36.26: \v 26 and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
\p Exodus 36.27: \v 27 For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
\p Exodus 36.28: \v 28 He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.
\p Exodus 36.29: \v 29 They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners.
\p Exodus 36.30: \v 30 There were eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets—under every board two sockets.
\p
\p Exodus 36.31: \v 31 He made bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
\p Exodus 36.32: \v 32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.
\p Exodus 36.33: \v 33 He made the middle bar to pass through in the middle of the boards from the one end to the other.
\p Exodus 36.34: \v 34 He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
\p
\p Exodus 36.35: \v 35 He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.
\p Exodus 36.36: \v 36 He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them.
\p Exodus 36.37: \v 37 He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;
\p Exodus 36.38: \v 38 and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of bronze.
\p Exodus 37.0: \c 37
\p
\p Exodus 37.1: \v 1 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits,\f + \fr 37:1 \ft 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.\f* and its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
\p Exodus 37.2: \v 2 He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it around it.
\p Exodus 37.3: \v 3 He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet—two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side.
\p Exodus 37.4: \v 4 He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
\p Exodus 37.5: \v 5 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
\p Exodus 37.6: \v 6 He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its width.
\p Exodus 37.7: \v 7 He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work, at the two ends of the mercy seat:
\p Exodus 37.8: \v 8 one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.
\p Exodus 37.9: \v 9 The cherubim spread out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
\p
\p Exodus 37.10: \v 10 He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its width was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.
\p Exodus 37.11: \v 11 He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.
\p Exodus 37.12: \v 12 He made a border of a hand’s width around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it.
\p Exodus 37.13: \v 13 He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that were on its four feet.
\p Exodus 37.14: \v 14 The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table.
\p Exodus 37.15: \v 15 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.
\p Exodus 37.16: \v 16 He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.
\p
\p Exodus 37.17: \v 17 He made the lamp stand of pure gold. He made the lamp stand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it.
\p Exodus 37.18: \v 18 There were six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lamp stand out of its one side, and three branches of the lamp stand out of its other side:
\p Exodus 37.19: \v 19 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower; so for the six branches going out of the lamp stand.
\p Exodus 37.20: \v 20 In the lamp stand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
\p Exodus 37.21: \v 21 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.
\p Exodus 37.22: \v 22 Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
\p Exodus 37.23: \v 23 He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold.
\p Exodus 37.24: \v 24 He made it of a talent\f + \fr 37:24 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* of pure gold, with all its vessels.
\p
\p Exodus 37.25: \v 25 He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square: its length was a cubit, and its width a cubit. Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it.
\p Exodus 37.26: \v 26 He overlaid it with pure gold: its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.
\p Exodus 37.27: \v 27 He made two golden rings for it under its molding crown, on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles with which to carry it.
\p Exodus 37.28: \v 28 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
\p Exodus 37.29: \v 29 He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.
\p Exodus 38.0: \c 38
\p
\p Exodus 38.1: \v 1 He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits,\f + \fr 38:1 \ft 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.\f* its width was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.
\p Exodus 38.2: \v 2 He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
\p Exodus 38.3: \v 3 He made all the vessels of the altar: the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of bronze.
\p Exodus 38.4: \v 4 He made for the altar a grating of a network of bronze, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.
\p Exodus 38.5: \v 5 He cast four rings for the four corners of bronze grating, to be places for the poles.
\p Exodus 38.6: \v 6 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with bronze.
\p Exodus 38.7: \v 7 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
\p
\p Exodus 38.8: \v 8 He made the basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p
\p Exodus 38.9: \v 9 He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;
\p Exodus 38.10: \v 10 their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
\p Exodus 38.11: \v 11 For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
\p Exodus 38.12: \v 12 For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
\p Exodus 38.13: \v 13 For the east side eastward fifty cubits,
\p Exodus 38.14: \v 14 the hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
\p Exodus 38.15: \v 15 and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
\p Exodus 38.16: \v 16 All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.
\p Exodus 38.17: \v 17 The sockets for the pillars were of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. Their capitals were overlaid with silver. All the pillars of the court had silver bands.
\p Exodus 38.18: \v 18 The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height along the width was five cubits, like the hangings of the court.
\p Exodus 38.19: \v 19 Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of bronze; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
\p Exodus 38.20: \v 20 All the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of bronze.
\p
\p Exodus 38.21: \v 21 These are the amounts of materials used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
\p Exodus 38.22: \v 22 Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 38.23: \v 23 With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.
\p
\p Exodus 38.24: \v 24 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents\f + \fr 38:24 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces.\f* and seven hundred thirty shekels, according to the shekel\f + \fr 38:24 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces.\f* of the sanctuary.
\p Exodus 38.25: \v 25 The silver of those who were counted of the congregation was one hundred talents\f + \fr 38:25 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds\f* and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels,\f + \fr 38:25 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* according to the shekel of the sanctuary:
\p Exodus 38.26: \v 26 a beka\f + \fr 38:26 \ft a beka is about 5 grams or about 0.175 ounces\f* a head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel\f + \fr 38:26 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.
\p Exodus 38.27: \v 27 The one hundred talents\f + \fr 38:27 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.\f* of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil: one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, one talent per socket.
\p Exodus 38.28: \v 28 From the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels\f + \fr 38:28 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1775 shekels is about 17.75 kilograms or about 39 pounds.\f* he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.
\p Exodus 38.29: \v 29 The bronze of the offering was seventy talents\f + \fr 38:29 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds\f* and two thousand four hundred shekels.\f + \fr 38:29 \ft 70 talents + 2400 shekels is about 2124 kilograms, or 2.124 metric tons.\f*
\p Exodus 38.30: \v 30 With this he made the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the altar,
\p Exodus 38.31: \v 31 the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins around the court.
\p Exodus 39.0: \c 39
\p
\p Exodus 39.1: \v 1 Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Exodus 39.2: \v 2 He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
\p Exodus 39.3: \v 3 They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in with the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.
\p Exodus 39.4: \v 4 They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. It was joined together at the two ends.
\p Exodus 39.5: \v 5 The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Exodus 39.6: \v 6 They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.
\p Exodus 39.7: \v 7 He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Exodus 39.8: \v 8 He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
\p Exodus 39.9: \v 9 It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span,\f + \fr 39:9 \ft 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.)\f* and its width a span, being double.
\p Exodus 39.10: \v 10 They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;
\p Exodus 39.11: \v 11 and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire,\f + \fr 39:11 \ft or, lapis lazuli \f* and an emerald;
\p Exodus 39.12: \v 12 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
\p Exodus 39.13: \v 13 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.
\p Exodus 39.14: \v 14 The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
\p Exodus 39.15: \v 15 They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
\p Exodus 39.16: \v 16 They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
\p Exodus 39.17: \v 17 They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
\p Exodus 39.18: \v 18 The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in its front.
\p Exodus 39.19: \v 19 They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.
\p Exodus 39.20: \v 20 They made two more rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
\p Exodus 39.21: \v 21 They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Exodus 39.22: \v 22 He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
\p Exodus 39.23: \v 23 The opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.
\p Exodus 39.24: \v 24 They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.
\p Exodus 39.25: \v 25 They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;
\p Exodus 39.26: \v 26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Exodus 39.27: \v 27 They made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons,
\p Exodus 39.28: \v 28 the turban of fine linen, the linen headbands of fine linen, the linen trousers of fine twined linen,
\p Exodus 39.29: \v 29 the sash of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Exodus 39.30: \v 30 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet: “HOLY TO YAHWEH”.
\p Exodus 39.31: \v 31 They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Exodus 39.32: \v 32 Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so they did.
\p Exodus 39.33: \v 33 They brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
\p Exodus 39.34: \v 34 the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen,
\p Exodus 39.35: \v 35 the ark of the covenant with its poles, the mercy seat,
\p Exodus 39.36: \v 36 the table, all its vessels, the show bread,
\p Exodus 39.37: \v 37 the pure lamp stand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,
\p Exodus 39.38: \v 38 the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent,
\p Exodus 39.39: \v 39 the bronze altar, its grating of bronze, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,
\p Exodus 39.40: \v 40 the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting,
\p Exodus 39.41: \v 41 the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.
\p Exodus 39.42: \v 42 According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
\p Exodus 39.43: \v 43 Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them.
\p Exodus 40.0: \c 40
\p
\p Exodus 40.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 40.2: \v 2 “On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Exodus 40.3: \v 3 You shall put the ark of the covenant in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
\p Exodus 40.4: \v 4 You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lamp stand, and light its lamps.
\p Exodus 40.5: \v 5 You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the covenant, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
\p
\p Exodus 40.6: \v 6 “You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Exodus 40.7: \v 7 You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.
\p Exodus 40.8: \v 8 You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
\p
\p Exodus 40.9: \v 9 “You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture, and it will be holy.
\p Exodus 40.10: \v 10 You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar, and the altar will be most holy.
\p Exodus 40.11: \v 11 You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.
\p
\p Exodus 40.12: \v 12 “You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.
\p Exodus 40.13: \v 13 You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.
\p Exodus 40.14: \v 14 You shall bring his sons, and put tunics on them.
\p Exodus 40.15: \v 15 You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”
\p Exodus 40.16: \v 16 Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
\p
\p Exodus 40.17: \v 17 In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up.
\p Exodus 40.18: \v 18 Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.
\p Exodus 40.19: \v 19 He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 40.20: \v 20 He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
\p Exodus 40.21: \v 21 He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the covenant, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 40.22: \v 22 He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside of the veil.
\p Exodus 40.23: \v 23 He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 40.24: \v 24 He put the lamp stand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.
\p Exodus 40.25: \v 25 He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 40.26: \v 26 He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;
\p Exodus 40.27: \v 27 and he burned incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 40.28: \v 28 He put up the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
\p Exodus 40.29: \v 29 He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 40.30: \v 30 He set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.
\p Exodus 40.31: \v 31 Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.
\p Exodus 40.32: \v 32 When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 40.33: \v 33 He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
\p
\p Exodus 40.34: \v 34 Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.
\p Exodus 40.35: \v 35 Moses wasn’t able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.
\p Exodus 40.36: \v 36 When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys;
\p Exodus 40.37: \v 37 but if the cloud wasn’t taken up, then they didn’t travel until the day that it was taken up.
\p Exodus 40.38: \v 38 For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
\p 1 Samuel 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p 1 Samuel 7.1: \v 1 The men of Kiriath Jearim came and took Yahweh’s ark, and brought it into Abinadab’s house on the hill, and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep Yahweh’s ark.
\p 1 Samuel 7.2: \v 2 From the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long; for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after Yahweh.
\p 1 Samuel 7.3: \v 3 Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
\p 1 Samuel 7.4: \v 4 Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
\p 1 Samuel 7.5: \v 5 Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you.”
\p 1 Samuel 7.6: \v 6 They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
\p 1 Samuel 7.7: \v 7 When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
\p 1 Samuel 7.8: \v 8 The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”
\p 1 Samuel 7.9: \v 9 Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.
\p 1 Samuel 7.10: \v 10 As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines came near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel.
\p 1 Samuel 7.11: \v 11 The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 7.12: \v 12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer,\f + \fr 7:12 \ft “Ebenezer” means “stone of help”.\f* saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”
\p 1 Samuel 7.13: \v 13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped coming within the border of Israel. Yahweh’s hand was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 7.14: \v 14 The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel recovered its border out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 7.15: \v 15 Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
\p 1 Samuel 7.16: \v 16 He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
\p 1 Samuel 7.17: \v 17 His return was to Ramah, for his house was there; and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to Yahweh there.
\p Psalms 1.0: \c 1
\ms1 BOOK 1
\q1
\p Psalms 1.1: \v 1 Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,
\q2 nor stand on the path of sinners,
\q2 nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
\q1
\p Psalms 1.2: \v 2 but his delight is in Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* law.
\q2 On his law he meditates day and night.
\q1
\p Psalms 1.3: \v 3 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,
\q2 that produces its fruit in its season,
\q2 whose leaf also does not wither.
\q2 Whatever he does shall prosper.
\q1
\p Psalms 1.4: \v 4 The wicked are not so,
\q2 but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
\q1
\p Psalms 1.5: \v 5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,
\q2 nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
\q1
\p Psalms 1.6: \v 6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,
\q2 but the way of the wicked shall perish.
\p Psalms 23.0: \c 23
\d A Psalm by David.
\q1
\p Psalms 23.1: \v 1 Yahweh is my shepherd:
\q2 I shall lack nothing.
\q1
\p Psalms 23.2: \v 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures.
\q2 He leads me beside still waters.
\q1
\p Psalms 23.3: \v 3 He restores my soul.
\q2 He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
\q1
\p Psalms 23.4: \v 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
\q2 I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
\q1 Your rod and your staff,
\q2 they comfort me.
\q1
\p Psalms 23.5: \v 5 You prepare a table before me
\q2 in the presence of my enemies.
\q1 You anoint my head with oil.
\q2 My cup runs over.
\q1
\p Psalms 23.6: \v 6 Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life,
\q2 and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.
\p Psalms 59.0: \c 59
\d For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.
\q1
\p Psalms 59.1: \v 1 Deliver me from my enemies, my God.
\q2 Set me on high from those who rise up against me.
\q1
\p Psalms 59.2: \v 2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity.
\q2 Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
\q1
\p Psalms 59.3: \v 3 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul.
\q2 The mighty gather themselves together against me,
\q2 not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
\q1
\p Psalms 59.4: \v 4 I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me.
\q2 Rise up, behold, and help me!
\q1
\p Psalms 59.5: \v 5 You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel,
\q2 rouse yourself to punish the nations.
\q2 Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\p Psalms 59.6: \v 6 They return at evening, howling like dogs,
\q2 and prowl around the city.
\q1
\p Psalms 59.7: \v 7 Behold, they spew with their mouth.
\q2 Swords are in their lips,
\q2 “For”, they say, “who hears us?”
\q1
\p Psalms 59.8: \v 8 But you, Yahweh, laugh at them.
\q2 You scoff at all the nations.
\q1
\p Psalms 59.9: \v 9 Oh, my Strength, I watch for you,
\q2 for God is my high tower.
\q1
\p Psalms 59.10: \v 10 My God will go before me with his loving kindness.
\q2 God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
\q1
\p Psalms 59.11: \v 11 Don’t kill them, or my people may forget.
\q2 Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
\q1
\p Psalms 59.12: \v 12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips,
\q2 let them be caught in their pride,
\q2 for the curses and lies which they utter.
\q1
\p Psalms 59.13: \v 13 Consume them in wrath.
\q2 Consume them, and they will be no more.
\q1 Let them know that God rules in Jacob,
\q2 to the ends of the earth. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\p Psalms 59.14: \v 14 At evening let them return.
\q2 Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.
\q1
\p Psalms 59.15: \v 15 They shall wander up and down for food,
\q2 and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.
\b
\q1
\p Psalms 59.16: \v 16 But I will sing of your strength.
\q2 Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning.
\q1 For you have been my high tower,
\q2 a refuge in the day of my distress.
\q1
\p Psalms 59.17: \v 17 To you, my strength, I will sing praises.
\q2 For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.
\p Proverbs 0.0: \id PRO World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Proverbs
\toc1 The Proverbs
\toc2 Proverbs
\toc3 Pro
\mt1 The Proverbs
\p Proverbs 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Proverbs 1.1: \v 1 The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.2: \v 2 to know wisdom and instruction;
\q2 to discern the words of understanding;
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.3: \v 3 to receive instruction in wise dealing,
\q2 in righteousness, justice, and equity;
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.4: \v 4 to give prudence to the simple,
\q2 knowledge and discretion to the young man:
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.5: \v 5 that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning;
\q2 that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.6: \v 6 to understand a proverb, and parables,
\q2 the words and riddles of the wise.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.7: \v 7 The fear of Yahweh\f + \fr 1:7 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* is the beginning of knowledge;
\q2 but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.8: \v 8 My son, listen to your father’s instruction,
\q2 and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.9: \v 9 for they will be a garland to grace your head,
\q2 and chains around your neck.
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.10: \v 10 My son, if sinners entice you,
\q2 don’t consent.
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.11: \v 11 If they say, “Come with us.
\q2 Let’s lay in wait for blood.
\q2 Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.12: \v 12 Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol,\f + \fr 1:12 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.13: \v 13 We’ll find all valuable wealth.
\q2 We’ll fill our houses with plunder.
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.14: \v 14 You shall cast your lot among us.
\q2 We’ll all have one purse.”
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.15: \v 15 My son, don’t walk on the path with them.
\q2 Keep your foot from their path,
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.16: \v 16 for their feet run to evil.
\q2 They hurry to shed blood.
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.17: \v 17 For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.18: \v 18 but these lay in wait for their own blood.
\q2 They lurk secretly for their own lives.
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.19: \v 19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain.
\q2 It takes away the life of its owners.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.20: \v 20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street.
\q2 She utters her voice in the public squares.
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.21: \v 21 She calls at the head of noisy places.
\q2 At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.22: \v 22 “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?
\q2 How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery,
\q2 and fools hate knowledge?
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.23: \v 23 Turn at my reproof.
\q2 Behold,\f + \fr 1:23 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I will pour out my spirit on you.
\q2 I will make known my words to you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.24: \v 24 Because I have called, and you have refused;
\q2 I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.25: \v 25 but you have ignored all my counsel,
\q2 and wanted none of my reproof;
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.26: \v 26 I also will laugh at your disaster.
\q2 I will mock when calamity overtakes you,
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.27: \v 27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
\q2 when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind,
\q2 when distress and anguish come on you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.28: \v 28 Then they will call on me, but I will not answer.
\q2 They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.29: \v 29 because they hated knowledge,
\q2 and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.30: \v 30 They wanted none of my counsel.
\q2 They despised all my reproof.
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.31: \v 31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way,
\q2 and be filled with their own schemes.
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.32: \v 32 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them.
\q2 The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
\q1
\p Proverbs 1.33: \v 33 But whoever listens to me will dwell securely,
\q2 and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”
\p Proverbs 2.0: \c 2
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.1: \v 1 My son, if you will receive my words,
\q2 and store up my commandments within you,
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.2: \v 2 so as to turn your ear to wisdom,
\q2 and apply your heart to understanding;
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.3: \v 3 yes, if you call out for discernment,
\q2 and lift up your voice for understanding;
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.4: \v 4 if you seek her as silver,
\q2 and search for her as for hidden treasures:
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.5: \v 5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh,
\q2 and find the knowledge of God.\f + \fr 2:5 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f*
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.6: \v 6 For Yahweh gives wisdom.
\q2 Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.7: \v 7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright.
\q2 He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.8: \v 8 that he may guard the paths of justice,
\q2 and preserve the way of his saints.
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.9: \v 9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
\q2 equity and every good path.
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.10: \v 10 For wisdom will enter into your heart.
\q2 Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.11: \v 11 Discretion will watch over you.
\q2 Understanding will keep you,
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.12: \v 12 to deliver you from the way of evil,
\q2 from the men who speak perverse things,
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.13: \v 13 who forsake the paths of uprightness,
\q2 to walk in the ways of darkness,
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.14: \v 14 who rejoice to do evil,
\q2 and delight in the perverseness of evil,
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.15: \v 15 who are crooked in their ways,
\q2 and wayward in their paths,
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.16: \v 16 to deliver you from the strange woman,
\q2 even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.17: \v 17 who forsakes the friend of her youth,
\q2 and forgets the covenant of her God;
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.18: \v 18 for her house leads down to death,
\q2 her paths to the departed spirits.
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.19: \v 19 None who go to her return again,
\q2 neither do they attain to the paths of life.
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.20: \v 20 So you may walk in the way of good men,
\q2 and keep the paths of the righteous.
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.21: \v 21 For the upright will dwell in the land.
\q2 The perfect will remain in it.
\q1
\p Proverbs 2.22: \v 22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land.
\q2 The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
\p Proverbs 3.0: \c 3
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.1: \v 1 My son, don’t forget my teaching;
\q2 but let your heart keep my commandments:
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.2: \v 2 for they will add to you length of days,
\q2 years of life, and peace.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.3: \v 3 Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you.
\q2 Bind them around your neck.
\q2 Write them on the tablet of your heart.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.4: \v 4 So you will find favor,
\q2 and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.5: \v 5 Trust in Yahweh with all your heart,
\q2 and don’t lean on your own understanding.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.6: \v 6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
\q2 and he will make your paths straight.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.7: \v 7 Don’t be wise in your own eyes.
\q2 Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.8: \v 8 It will be health to your body,
\q2 and nourishment to your bones.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.9: \v 9 Honor Yahweh with your substance,
\q2 with the first fruits of all your increase:
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.10: \v 10 so your barns will be filled with plenty,
\q2 and your vats will overflow with new wine.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.11: \v 11 My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline,
\q2 neither be weary of his correction;
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.12: \v 12 for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects,
\q2 even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.13: \v 13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom,
\q2 the man who gets understanding.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.14: \v 14 For her good profit is better than getting silver,
\q2 and her return is better than fine gold.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.15: \v 15 She is more precious than rubies.
\q2 None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.16: \v 16 Length of days is in her right hand.
\q2 In her left hand are riches and honor.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.17: \v 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness.
\q2 All her paths are peace.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.18: \v 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her.
\q2 Happy is everyone who retains her.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.19: \v 19 By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth.
\q2 By understanding, he established the heavens.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.20: \v 20 By his knowledge, the depths were broken up,
\q2 and the skies drop down the dew.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.21: \v 21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes.
\q2 Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.22: \v 22 so they will be life to your soul,
\q2 and grace for your neck.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.23: \v 23 Then you shall walk in your way securely.
\q2 Your foot won’t stumble.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.24: \v 24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid.
\q2 Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.25: \v 25 Don’t be afraid of sudden fear,
\q2 neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes;
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.26: \v 26 for Yahweh will be your confidence,
\q2 and will keep your foot from being taken.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.27: \v 27 Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due,
\q2 when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.28: \v 28 Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again;
\q2 tomorrow I will give it to you,”
\q2 when you have it by you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.29: \v 29 Don’t devise evil against your neighbor,
\q2 since he dwells securely by you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.30: \v 30 Don’t strive with a man without cause,
\q2 if he has done you no harm.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.31: \v 31 Don’t envy the man of violence.
\q2 Choose none of his ways.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.32: \v 32 For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh,
\q2 but his friendship is with the upright.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.33: \v 33 Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked,
\q2 but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.34: \v 34 Surely he mocks the mockers,
\q2 but he gives grace to the humble.
\q1
\p Proverbs 3.35: \v 35 The wise will inherit glory,
\q2 but shame will be the promotion of fools.
\p Proverbs 4.0: \c 4
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.1: \v 1 Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction.
\q2 Pay attention and know understanding;
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.2: \v 2 for I give you sound learning.
\q2 Don’t forsake my law.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.3: \v 3 For I was a son to my father,
\q2 tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.4: \v 4 He taught me, and said to me:
\q2 “Let your heart retain my words.
\q2 Keep my commandments, and live.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.5: \v 5 Get wisdom.
\q2 Get understanding.
\q2 Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.6: \v 6 Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you.
\q2 Love her, and she will keep you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.7: \v 7 Wisdom is supreme.
\q2 Get wisdom.
\q2 Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.8: \v 8 Esteem her, and she will exalt you.
\q2 She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.9: \v 9 She will give to your head a garland of grace.
\q2 She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.10: \v 10 Listen, my son, and receive my sayings.
\q2 The years of your life will be many.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.11: \v 11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom.
\q2 I have led you in straight paths.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.12: \v 12 When you go, your steps will not be hampered.
\q2 When you run, you will not stumble.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.13: \v 13 Take firm hold of instruction.
\q2 Don’t let her go.
\q2 Keep her, for she is your life.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.14: \v 14 Don’t enter into the path of the wicked.
\q2 Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.15: \v 15 Avoid it, and don’t pass by it.
\q2 Turn from it, and pass on.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.16: \v 16 For they don’t sleep unless they do evil.
\q2 Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.17: \v 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
\q2 and drink the wine of violence.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.18: \v 18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light
\q2 that shines more and more until the perfect day.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.19: \v 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness.
\q2 They don’t know what they stumble over.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.20: \v 20 My son, attend to my words.
\q2 Turn your ear to my sayings.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.21: \v 21 Let them not depart from your eyes.
\q2 Keep them in the center of your heart.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.22: \v 22 For they are life to those who find them,
\q2 and health to their whole body.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.23: \v 23 Keep your heart with all diligence,
\q2 for out of it is the wellspring of life.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.24: \v 24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth.
\q2 Put corrupt lips far from you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.25: \v 25 Let your eyes look straight ahead.
\q2 Fix your gaze directly before you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.26: \v 26 Make the path of your feet level.
\q2 Let all of your ways be established.
\q1
\p Proverbs 4.27: \v 27 Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left.
\q2 Remove your foot from evil.
\p Proverbs 5.0: \c 5
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.1: \v 1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom.
\q2 Turn your ear to my understanding,
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.2: \v 2 that you may maintain discretion,
\q2 that your lips may preserve knowledge.
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.3: \v 3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey.
\q2 Her mouth is smoother than oil,
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.4: \v 4 but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood,
\q2 and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.5: \v 5 Her feet go down to death.
\q2 Her steps lead straight to Sheol.\f + \fr 5:5 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead. \f*
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.6: \v 6 She gives no thought to the way of life.
\q2 Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.7: \v 7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me.
\q2 Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.8: \v 8 Remove your way far from her.
\q2 Don’t come near the door of her house,
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.9: \v 9 lest you give your honor to others,
\q2 and your years to the cruel one;
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.10: \v 10 lest strangers feast on your wealth,
\q2 and your labors enrich another man’s house.
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.11: \v 11 You will groan at your latter end,
\q2 when your flesh and your body are consumed,
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.12: \v 12 and say, “How I have hated instruction,
\q2 and my heart despised reproof;
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.13: \v 13 neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers,
\q2 nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.14: \v 14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin,
\q2 among the gathered assembly.”
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.15: \v 15 Drink water out of your own cistern,
\q2 running water out of your own well.
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.16: \v 16 Should your springs overflow in the streets,
\q2 streams of water in the public squares?
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.17: \v 17 Let them be for yourself alone,
\q2 not for strangers with you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.18: \v 18 Let your spring be blessed.
\q2 Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.19: \v 19 A loving doe and a graceful deer—
\q2 let her breasts satisfy you at all times.
\q2 Be captivated always with her love.
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.20: \v 20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress?
\q2 Why embrace the bosom of another?
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.21: \v 21 For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes.
\q2 He examines all his paths.
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.22: \v 22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him.
\q2 The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
\q1
\p Proverbs 5.23: \v 23 He will die for lack of instruction.
\q2 In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
\p Proverbs 6.0: \c 6
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.1: \v 1 My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor,
\q2 if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.2: \v 2 you are trapped by the words of your mouth;
\q2 you are ensnared with the words of your mouth.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.3: \v 3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,
\q2 since you have come into the hand of your neighbor.
\q1 Go, humble yourself.
\q2 Press your plea with your neighbor.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.4: \v 4 Give no sleep to your eyes,
\q2 nor slumber to your eyelids.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.5: \v 5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
\q2 like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.6: \v 6 Go to the ant, you sluggard.
\q2 Consider her ways, and be wise;
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.7: \v 7 which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
\q2
\p Proverbs 6.8: \v 8 provides her bread in the summer,
\q2 and gathers her food in the harvest.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.9: \v 9 How long will you sleep, sluggard?
\q2 When will you arise out of your sleep?
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.10: \v 10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
\q2 a little folding of the hands to sleep:
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.11: \v 11 so your poverty will come as a robber,
\q2 and your scarcity as an armed man.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.12: \v 12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity,
\q2 is he who walks with a perverse mouth,
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.13: \v 13 who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,
\q2 who motions with his fingers,
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.14: \v 14 in whose heart is perverseness,
\q2 who devises evil continually,
\q2 who always sows discord.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.15: \v 15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly.
\q2 He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.16: \v 16 There are six things which Yahweh hates;
\q2 yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.17: \v 17 arrogant eyes, a lying tongue,
\q2 hands that shed innocent blood,
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.18: \v 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes,
\q2 feet that are swift in running to mischief,
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.19: \v 19 a false witness who utters lies,
\q2 and he who sows discord among brothers.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.20: \v 20 My son, keep your father’s commandment,
\q2 and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.21: \v 21 Bind them continually on your heart.
\q2 Tie them around your neck.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.22: \v 22 When you walk, it will lead you.
\q2 When you sleep, it will watch over you.
\q2 When you awake, it will talk with you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.23: \v 23 For the commandment is a lamp,
\q2 and the law is light.
\q2 Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.24: \v 24 to keep you from the immoral woman,
\q2 from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.25: \v 25 Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart,
\q2 neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.26: \v 26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread.
\q2 The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.27: \v 27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap,
\q2 and his clothes not be burned?
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.28: \v 28 Or can one walk on hot coals,
\q2 and his feet not be scorched?
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.29: \v 29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife.
\q2 Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.30: \v 30 Men don’t despise a thief
\q2 if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry;
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.31: \v 31 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times.
\q2 He shall give all the wealth of his house.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.32: \v 32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding.
\q2 He who does it destroys his own soul.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.33: \v 33 He will get wounds and dishonor.
\q2 His reproach will not be wiped away.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.34: \v 34 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband.
\q2 He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.
\q1
\p Proverbs 6.35: \v 35 He won’t regard any ransom,
\q2 neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
\p Proverbs 7.0: \c 7
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.1: \v 1 My son, keep my words.
\q2 Lay up my commandments within you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.2: \v 2 Keep my commandments and live!
\q2 Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.3: \v 3 Bind them on your fingers.
\q2 Write them on the tablet of your heart.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.4: \v 4 Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.”
\q2 Call understanding your relative,
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.5: \v 5 that they may keep you from the strange woman,
\q2 from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.6: \v 6 For at the window of my house,
\q2 I looked out through my lattice.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.7: \v 7 I saw among the simple ones.
\q2 I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.8: \v 8 passing through the street near her corner,
\q2 he went the way to her house,
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.9: \v 9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day,
\q2 in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.10: \v 10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute,
\q2 and with crafty intent.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.11: \v 11 She is loud and defiant.
\q2 Her feet don’t stay in her house.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.12: \v 12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares,
\q2 and lurking at every corner.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.13: \v 13 So she caught him, and kissed him.
\q2 With an impudent face she said to him:
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.14: \v 14 “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me.
\q2 Today I have paid my vows.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.15: \v 15 Therefore I came out to meet you,
\q2 to diligently seek your face,
\q2 and I have found you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.16: \v 16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry,
\q2 with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.17: \v 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.18: \v 18 Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning.
\q2 Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.19: \v 19 For my husband isn’t at home.
\q2 He has gone on a long journey.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.20: \v 20 He has taken a bag of money with him.
\q2 He will come home at the full moon.”
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.21: \v 21 With persuasive words, she led him astray.
\q2 With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.22: \v 22 He followed her immediately,
\q2 as an ox goes to the slaughter,
\q2 as a fool stepping into a noose.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.23: \v 23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver,
\q2 as a bird hurries to the snare,
\q2 and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.24: \v 24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me.
\q2 Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.25: \v 25 Don’t let your heart turn to her ways.
\q2 Don’t go astray in her paths,
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.26: \v 26 for she has thrown down many wounded.
\q2 Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
\q1
\p Proverbs 7.27: \v 27 Her house is the way to Sheol,\f + \fr 7:27 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead. \f*
\q2 going down to the rooms of death.
\p Proverbs 8.0: \c 8
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.1: \v 1 Doesn’t wisdom cry out?
\q2 Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.2: \v 2 On the top of high places by the way,
\q2 where the paths meet, she stands.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.3: \v 3 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city,
\q2 at the entry doors, she cries aloud:
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.4: \v 4 “I call to you men!
\q2 I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.5: \v 5 You simple, understand prudence!
\q2 You fools, be of an understanding heart!
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.6: \v 6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things.
\q2 The opening of my lips is for right things.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.7: \v 7 For my mouth speaks truth.
\q2 Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.8: \v 8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness.
\q2 There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.9: \v 9 They are all plain to him who understands,
\q2 right to those who find knowledge.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.10: \v 10 Receive my instruction rather than silver,
\q2 knowledge rather than choice gold.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.11: \v 11 For wisdom is better than rubies.
\q2 All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.12: \v 12 “I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling.
\q2 Find out knowledge and discretion.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.13: \v 13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil.
\q2 I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.14: \v 14 Counsel and sound knowledge are mine.
\q2 I have understanding and power.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.15: \v 15 By me kings reign,
\q2 and princes decree justice.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.16: \v 16 By me princes rule,
\q2 nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.17: \v 17 I love those who love me.
\q2 Those who seek me diligently will find me.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.18: \v 18 With me are riches, honor,
\q2 enduring wealth, and prosperity.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.19: \v 19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold,
\q2 my yield than choice silver.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.20: \v 20 I walk in the way of righteousness,
\q2 in the middle of the paths of justice,
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.21: \v 21 that I may give wealth to those who love me.
\q2 I fill their treasuries.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.22: \v 22 “Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work,
\q2 before his deeds of old.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.23: \v 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,
\q2 before the earth existed.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.24: \v 24 When there were no depths, I was born,
\q2 when there were no springs abounding with water.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.25: \v 25 Before the mountains were settled in place,
\q2 before the hills, I was born;
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.26: \v 26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,
\q2 nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.27: \v 27 When he established the heavens, I was there.
\q2 When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.28: \v 28 when he established the clouds above,
\q2 when the springs of the deep became strong,
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.29: \v 29 when he gave to the sea its boundary,
\q2 that the waters should not violate his commandment,
\q2 when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.30: \v 30 then I was the craftsman by his side.
\q2 I was a delight day by day,
\q2 always rejoicing before him,
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.31: \v 31 rejoicing in his whole world.
\q2 My delight was with the sons of men.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.32: \v 32 “Now therefore, my sons, listen to me,
\q2 for blessed are those who keep my ways.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.33: \v 33 Hear instruction, and be wise.
\q2 Don’t refuse it.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.34: \v 34 Blessed is the man who hears me,
\q2 watching daily at my gates,
\q2 waiting at my door posts.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.35: \v 35 For whoever finds me, finds life,
\q2 and will obtain favor from Yahweh.
\q1
\p Proverbs 8.36: \v 36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul.
\q2 All those who hate me love death.”
\p Proverbs 9.0: \c 9
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.1: \v 1 Wisdom has built her house.
\q2 She has carved out her seven pillars.
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.2: \v 2 She has prepared her meat.
\q2 She has mixed her wine.
\q2 She has also set her table.
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.3: \v 3 She has sent out her maidens.
\q2 She cries from the highest places of the city:
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.4: \v 4 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”
\q2 As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.5: \v 5 “Come, eat some of my bread,
\q2 Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.6: \v 6 Leave your simple ways, and live.
\q2 Walk in the way of understanding.”
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.7: \v 7 One who corrects a mocker invites insult.
\q2 One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.8: \v 8 Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you.
\q2 Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.9: \v 9 Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser.
\q2 Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.10: \v 10 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom.
\q2 The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.11: \v 11 For by me your days will be multiplied.
\q2 The years of your life will be increased.
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.12: \v 12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself.
\q2 If you mock, you alone will bear it.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.13: \v 13 The foolish woman is loud,
\q2 undisciplined, and knows nothing.
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.14: \v 14 She sits at the door of her house,
\q2 on a seat in the high places of the city,
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.15: \v 15 to call to those who pass by,
\q2 who go straight on their ways,
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.16: \v 16 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.”
\q2 as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.17: \v 17 “Stolen water is sweet.
\q2 Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
\q1
\p Proverbs 9.18: \v 18 But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there,
\q2 that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.\f + \fr 9:18 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\p Proverbs 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Proverbs 10.1: \v 1 The proverbs of Solomon.
\q1 A wise son makes a glad father;
\q2 but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.2: \v 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing,
\q2 but righteousness delivers from death.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.3: \v 3 Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry,
\q2 but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.4: \v 4 He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand,
\q2 but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.5: \v 5 He who gathers in summer is a wise son,
\q2 but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.6: \v 6 Blessings are on the head of the righteous,
\q2 but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.7: \v 7 The memory of the righteous is blessed,
\q2 but the name of the wicked will rot.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.8: \v 8 The wise in heart accept commandments,
\q2 but a chattering fool will fall.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.9: \v 9 He who walks blamelessly walks surely,
\q2 but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.10: \v 10 One winking with the eye causes sorrow,
\q2 but a chattering fool will fall.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.11: \v 11 The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life,
\q2 but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.12: \v 12 Hatred stirs up strife,
\q2 but love covers all wrongs.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.13: \v 13 Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment,
\q2 but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.14: \v 14 Wise men lay up knowledge,
\q2 but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.15: \v 15 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city.
\q2 The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.16: \v 16 The labor of the righteous leads to life.
\q2 The increase of the wicked leads to sin.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.17: \v 17 He is in the way of life who heeds correction,
\q2 but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.18: \v 18 He who hides hatred has lying lips.
\q2 He who utters a slander is a fool.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.19: \v 19 In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience,
\q2 but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.20: \v 20 The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver.
\q2 The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.21: \v 21 The lips of the righteous feed many,
\q2 but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.22: \v 22 Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth,
\q2 and he adds no trouble to it.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.23: \v 23 It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness,
\q2 but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.24: \v 24 What the wicked fear, will overtake them,
\q2 but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.25: \v 25 When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more;
\q2 but the righteous stand firm forever.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.26: \v 26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes,
\q2 so is the sluggard to those who send him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.27: \v 27 The fear of Yahweh prolongs days,
\q2 but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.28: \v 28 The prospect of the righteous is joy,
\q2 but the hope of the wicked will perish.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.29: \v 29 The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright,
\q2 but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.30: \v 30 The righteous will never be removed,
\q2 but the wicked will not dwell in the land.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.31: \v 31 The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom,
\q2 but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
\q1
\p Proverbs 10.32: \v 32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
\q2 but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.
\p Proverbs 11.0: \c 11
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.1: \v 1 A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh,
\q2 but accurate weights are his delight.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.2: \v 2 When pride comes, then comes shame,
\q2 but with humility comes wisdom.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.3: \v 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them,
\q2 but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.4: \v 4 Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath,
\q2 but righteousness delivers from death.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.5: \v 5 The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way,
\q2 but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.6: \v 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them,
\q2 but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.7: \v 7 When a wicked man dies, hope perishes,
\q2 and expectation of power comes to nothing.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.8: \v 8 A righteous person is delivered out of trouble,
\q2 and the wicked takes his place.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.9: \v 9 With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor,
\q2 but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.10: \v 10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices.
\q2 When the wicked perish, there is shouting.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.11: \v 11 By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted,
\q2 but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.12: \v 12 One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom,
\q2 but a man of understanding holds his peace.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.13: \v 13 One who brings gossip betrays a confidence,
\q2 but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.14: \v 14 Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls,
\q2 but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.15: \v 15 He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it,
\q2 but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.16: \v 16 A gracious woman obtains honor,
\q2 but violent men obtain riches.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.17: \v 17 The merciful man does good to his own soul,
\q2 but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.18: \v 18 Wicked people earn deceitful wages,
\q2 but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.19: \v 19 He who is truly righteous gets life.
\q2 He who pursues evil gets death.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.20: \v 20 Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh,
\q2 but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.21: \v 21 Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished,
\q2 but the offspring\f + \fr 11:21 \ft or, seed\f* of the righteous will be delivered.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.22: \v 22 Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout,
\q2 is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.23: \v 23 The desire of the righteous is only good.
\q2 The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.24: \v 24 There is one who scatters, and increases yet more.
\q2 There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.25: \v 25 The liberal soul shall be made fat.
\q2 He who waters shall be watered also himself.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.26: \v 26 People curse someone who withholds grain,
\q2 but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.27: \v 27 He who diligently seeks good seeks favor,
\q2 but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.28: \v 28 He who trusts in his riches will fall,
\q2 but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.29: \v 29 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind.
\q2 The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.30: \v 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.
\q2 He who is wise wins souls.
\q1
\p Proverbs 11.31: \v 31 Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth,
\q2 how much more the wicked and the sinner!
\p Proverbs 12.0: \c 12
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.1: \v 1 Whoever loves correction loves knowledge,
\q2 but he who hates reproof is stupid.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.2: \v 2 A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh,
\q2 but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.3: \v 3 A man shall not be established by wickedness,
\q2 but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.4: \v 4 A worthy woman is the crown of her husband,
\q2 but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.5: \v 5 The thoughts of the righteous are just,
\q2 but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.6: \v 6 The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood,
\q2 but the speech of the upright rescues them.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.7: \v 7 The wicked are overthrown, and are no more,
\q2 but the house of the righteous shall stand.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.8: \v 8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom,
\q2 but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.9: \v 9 Better is he who is little known, and has a servant,
\q2 than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.10: \v 10 A righteous man respects the life of his animal,
\q2 but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.11: \v 11 He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread,
\q2 but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.12: \v 12 The wicked desires the plunder of evil men,
\q2 but the root of the righteous flourishes.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.13: \v 13 An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips,
\q2 but the righteous shall come out of trouble.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.14: \v 14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth.
\q2 The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.15: \v 15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,
\q2 but he who is wise listens to counsel.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.16: \v 16 A fool shows his annoyance the same day,
\q2 but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.17: \v 17 He who is truthful testifies honestly,
\q2 but a false witness lies.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.18: \v 18 There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword,
\q2 but the tongue of the wise heals.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.19: \v 19 Truth’s lips will be established forever,
\q2 but a lying tongue is only momentary.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.20: \v 20 Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil,
\q2 but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.21: \v 21 No mischief shall happen to the righteous,
\q2 but the wicked shall be filled with evil.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.22: \v 22 Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh,
\q2 but those who do the truth are his delight.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.23: \v 23 A prudent man keeps his knowledge,
\q2 but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.24: \v 24 The hands of the diligent ones shall rule,
\q2 but laziness ends in slave labor.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.25: \v 25 Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down,
\q2 but a kind word makes it glad.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.26: \v 26 A righteous person is cautious in friendship,
\q2 but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.27: \v 27 The slothful man doesn’t roast his game,
\q2 but the possessions of diligent men are prized.
\q1
\p Proverbs 12.28: \v 28 In the way of righteousness is life;
\q2 in its path there is no death.
\p Proverbs 13.0: \c 13
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.1: \v 1 A wise son listens to his father’s instruction,
\q2 but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.2: \v 2 By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things,
\q2 but the unfaithful crave violence.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.3: \v 3 He who guards his mouth guards his soul.
\q2 One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.4: \v 4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing,
\q2 but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.5: \v 5 A righteous man hates lies,
\q2 but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.6: \v 6 Righteousness guards the way of integrity,
\q2 but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.7: \v 7 There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing.
\q2 There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.8: \v 8 The ransom of a man’s life is his riches,
\q2 but the poor hear no threats.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.9: \v 9 The light of the righteous shines brightly,
\q2 but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.10: \v 10 Pride only breeds quarrels,
\q2 but wisdom is with people who take advice.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.11: \v 11 Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away,
\q2 but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.12: \v 12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
\q2 but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.13: \v 13 Whoever despises instruction will pay for it,
\q2 but he who respects a command will be rewarded.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.14: \v 14 The teaching of the wise is a spring of life,
\q2 to turn from the snares of death.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.15: \v 15 Good understanding wins favor,
\q2 but the way of the unfaithful is hard.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.16: \v 16 Every prudent man acts from knowledge,
\q2 but a fool exposes folly.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.17: \v 17 A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
\q2 but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.18: \v 18 Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline,
\q2 but he who heeds correction shall be honored.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.19: \v 19 Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul,
\q2 but fools detest turning from evil.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.20: \v 20 One who walks with wise men grows wise,
\q2 but a companion of fools suffers harm.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.21: \v 21 Misfortune pursues sinners,
\q2 but prosperity rewards the righteous.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.22: \v 22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
\q2 but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.23: \v 23 An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields,
\q2 but injustice sweeps it away.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.24: \v 24 One who spares the rod hates his son,
\q2 but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 13.25: \v 25 The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul,
\q2 but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.
\p Proverbs 14.0: \c 14
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.1: \v 1 Every wise woman builds her house,
\q2 but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.2: \v 2 He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh,
\q2 but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.3: \v 3 The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back,
\q2 but the lips of the wise protect them.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.4: \v 4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean,
\q2 but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.5: \v 5 A truthful witness will not lie,
\q2 but a false witness pours out lies.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.6: \v 6 A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it,
\q2 but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.7: \v 7 Stay away from a foolish man,
\q2 for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.8: \v 8 The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way,
\q2 but the folly of fools is deceit.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.9: \v 9 Fools mock at making atonement for sins,
\q2 but among the upright there is good will.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.10: \v 10 The heart knows its own bitterness and joy;
\q2 he will not share these with a stranger.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.11: \v 11 The house of the wicked will be overthrown,
\q2 but the tent of the upright will flourish.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.12: \v 12 There is a way which seems right to a man,
\q2 but in the end it leads to death.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.13: \v 13 Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful,
\q2 and mirth may end in heaviness.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.14: \v 14 The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways;
\q2 likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.15: \v 15 A simple man believes everything,
\q2 but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.16: \v 16 A wise man fears and shuns evil,
\q2 but the fool is hot headed and reckless.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.17: \v 17 He who is quick to become angry will commit folly,
\q2 and a crafty man is hated.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.18: \v 18 The simple inherit folly,
\q2 but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.19: \v 19 The evil bow down before the good,
\q2 and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.20: \v 20 The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor,
\q2 but the rich person has many friends.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.21: \v 21 He who despises his neighbor sins,
\q2 but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.22: \v 22 Don’t they go astray who plot evil?
\q2 But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.23: \v 23 In all hard work there is profit,
\q2 but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.24: \v 24 The crown of the wise is their riches,
\q2 but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.25: \v 25 A truthful witness saves souls,
\q2 but a false witness is deceitful.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.26: \v 26 In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress,
\q2 and he will be a refuge for his children.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.27: \v 27 The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life,
\q2 turning people from the snares of death.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.28: \v 28 In the multitude of people is the king’s glory,
\q2 but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.29: \v 29 He who is slow to anger has great understanding,
\q2 but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.30: \v 30 The life of the body is a heart at peace,
\q2 but envy rots the bones.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.31: \v 31 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker,
\q2 but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.32: \v 32 The wicked is brought down in his calamity,
\q2 but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.33: \v 33 Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding,
\q2 and is even made known in the inward part of fools.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.34: \v 34 Righteousness exalts a nation,
\q2 but sin is a disgrace to any people.
\q1
\p Proverbs 14.35: \v 35 The king’s favor is toward a servant who deals wisely,
\q2 but his wrath is toward one who causes shame.
\p Proverbs 15.0: \c 15
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.1: \v 1 A gentle answer turns away wrath,
\q2 but a harsh word stirs up anger.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.2: \v 2 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge,
\q2 but the mouth of fools gush out folly.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.3: \v 3 Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere,
\q2 keeping watch on the evil and the good.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.4: \v 4 A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
\q2 but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.5: \v 5 A fool despises his father’s correction,
\q2 but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.6: \v 6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure,
\q2 but the income of the wicked brings trouble.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.7: \v 7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge;
\q2 not so with the heart of fools.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.8: \v 8 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh,
\q2 but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.9: \v 9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh,
\q2 but he loves him who follows after righteousness.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.10: \v 10 There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way:
\q2 whoever hates reproof shall die.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.11: \v 11 Sheol\f + \fr 15:11 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* and Abaddon are before Yahweh—
\q2 how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.12: \v 12 A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved;
\q2 he will not go to the wise.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.13: \v 13 A glad heart makes a cheerful face,
\q2 but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.14: \v 14 The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge,
\q2 but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.15: \v 15 All the days of the afflicted are wretched,
\q2 but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.16: \v 16 Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh,
\q2 than great treasure with trouble.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.17: \v 17 Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is,
\q2 than a fattened calf with hatred.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.18: \v 18 A wrathful man stirs up contention,
\q2 but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.19: \v 19 The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch,
\q2 but the path of the upright is a highway.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.20: \v 20 A wise son makes a father glad,
\q2 but a foolish man despises his mother.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.21: \v 21 Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom,
\q2 but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.22: \v 22 Where there is no counsel, plans fail;
\q2 but in a multitude of counselors they are established.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.23: \v 23 Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth.
\q2 How good is a word at the right time!
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.24: \v 24 The path of life leads upward for the wise,
\q2 to keep him from going downward to Sheol.\f + \fr 15:24 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.25: \v 25 Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud,
\q2 but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.26: \v 26 Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked,
\q2 but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.27: \v 27 He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house,
\q2 but he who hates bribes will live.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.28: \v 28 The heart of the righteous weighs answers,
\q2 but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.29: \v 29 Yahweh is far from the wicked,
\q2 but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.30: \v 30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart.
\q2 Good news gives health to the bones.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.31: \v 31 The ear that listens to reproof lives,
\q2 and will be at home among the wise.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.32: \v 32 He who refuses correction despises his own soul,
\q2 but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.
\q1
\p Proverbs 15.33: \v 33 The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom.
\q2 Before honor is humility.
\p Proverbs 16.0: \c 16
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.1: \v 1 The plans of the heart belong to man,
\q2 but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.2: \v 2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes;
\q2 but Yahweh weighs the motives.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.3: \v 3 Commit your deeds to Yahweh,
\q2 and your plans shall succeed.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.4: \v 4 Yahweh has made everything for its own end—
\q2 yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.5: \v 5 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh:
\q2 they shall certainly not be unpunished.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.6: \v 6 By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for.
\q2 By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.7: \v 7 When a man’s ways please Yahweh,
\q2 he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.8: \v 8 Better is a little with righteousness,
\q2 than great revenues with injustice.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.9: \v 9 A man’s heart plans his course,
\q2 but Yahweh directs his steps.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.10: \v 10 Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king.
\q2 He shall not betray his mouth.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.11: \v 11 Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s;
\q2 all the weights in the bag are his work.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.12: \v 12 It is an abomination for kings to do wrong,
\q2 for the throne is established by righteousness.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.13: \v 13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings.
\q2 They value one who speaks the truth.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.14: \v 14 The king’s wrath is a messenger of death,
\q2 but a wise man will pacify it.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.15: \v 15 In the light of the king’s face is life.
\q2 His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.16: \v 16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold!
\q2 Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.17: \v 17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil.
\q2 He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.18: \v 18 Pride goes before destruction,
\q2 and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.19: \v 19 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor,
\q2 than to divide the plunder with the proud.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.20: \v 20 He who heeds the Word finds prosperity.
\q2 Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.21: \v 21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent.
\q2 Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.22: \v 22 Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it,
\q2 but the punishment of fools is their folly.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.23: \v 23 The heart of the wise instructs his mouth,
\q2 and adds learning to his lips.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.24: \v 24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
\q2 sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.25: \v 25 There is a way which seems right to a man,
\q2 but in the end it leads to death.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.26: \v 26 The appetite of the laboring man labors for him;
\q2 for his mouth urges him on.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.27: \v 27 A worthless man devises mischief.
\q2 His speech is like a scorching fire.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.28: \v 28 A perverse man stirs up strife.
\q2 A whisperer separates close friends.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.29: \v 29 A man of violence entices his neighbor,
\q2 and leads him in a way that is not good.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.30: \v 30 One who winks his eyes to plot perversities,
\q2 one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.31: \v 31 Gray hair is a crown of glory.
\q2 It is attained by a life of righteousness.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.32: \v 32 One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty;
\q2 one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
\q1
\p Proverbs 16.33: \v 33 The lot is cast into the lap,
\q2 but its every decision is from Yahweh.
\p Proverbs 17.0: \c 17
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.1: \v 1 Better is a dry morsel with quietness,
\q2 than a house full of feasting with strife.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.2: \v 2 A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame,
\q2 and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.3: \v 3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold,
\q2 but Yahweh tests the hearts.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.4: \v 4 An evildoer heeds wicked lips.
\q2 A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.5: \v 5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker.
\q2 He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.6: \v 6 Children’s children are the crown of old men;
\q2 the glory of children are their parents.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.7: \v 7 Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool,
\q2 much less do lying lips fit a prince.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.8: \v 8 A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it;
\q2 wherever he turns, he prospers.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.9: \v 9 He who covers an offense promotes love;
\q2 but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.10: \v 10 A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding
\q2 than a hundred lashes into a fool.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.11: \v 11 An evil man seeks only rebellion;
\q2 therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.12: \v 12 Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man,
\q2 rather than a fool in his folly.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.13: \v 13 Whoever rewards evil for good,
\q2 evil shall not depart from his house.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.14: \v 14 The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam,
\q2 therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.15: \v 15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous,
\q2 both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.16: \v 16 Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom,
\q2 since he has no understanding?
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.17: \v 17 A friend loves at all times;
\q2 and a brother is born for adversity.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.18: \v 18 A man void of understanding strikes hands,
\q2 and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.19: \v 19 He who loves disobedience loves strife.
\q2 One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.20: \v 20 One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity,
\q2 and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.21: \v 21 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves.
\q2 The father of a fool has no joy.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.22: \v 22 A cheerful heart makes good medicine,
\q2 but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.23: \v 23 A wicked man receives a bribe in secret,
\q2 to pervert the ways of justice.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.24: \v 24 Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding,
\q2 but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.25: \v 25 A foolish son brings grief to his father,
\q2 and bitterness to her who bore him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.26: \v 26 Also to punish the righteous is not good,
\q2 nor to flog officials for their integrity.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.27: \v 27 He who spares his words has knowledge.
\q2 He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.
\q1
\p Proverbs 17.28: \v 28 Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise.
\q2 When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
\p Proverbs 18.0: \c 18
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.1: \v 1 A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness,
\q2 and defies all sound judgment.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.2: \v 2 A fool has no delight in understanding,
\q2 but only in revealing his own opinion.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.3: \v 3 When wickedness comes, contempt also comes,
\q2 and with shame comes disgrace.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.4: \v 4 The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters.
\q2 The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.5: \v 5 To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good,
\q2 nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.6: \v 6 A fool’s lips come into strife,
\q2 and his mouth invites beatings.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.7: \v 7 A fool’s mouth is his destruction,
\q2 and his lips are a snare to his soul.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.8: \v 8 The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels:
\q2 they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.9: \v 9 One who is slack in his work
\q2 is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.10: \v 10 Yahweh’s name is a strong tower:
\q2 the righteous run to him, and are safe.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.11: \v 11 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
\q2 like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.12: \v 12 Before destruction the heart of man is proud,
\q2 but before honor is humility.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.13: \v 13 He who answers before he hears,
\q2 that is folly and shame to him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.14: \v 14 A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness,
\q2 but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.15: \v 15 The heart of the discerning gets knowledge.
\q2 The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.16: \v 16 A man’s gift makes room for him,
\q2 and brings him before great men.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.17: \v 17 He who pleads his cause first seems right;
\q2 until another comes and questions him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.18: \v 18 The lot settles disputes,
\q2 and keeps strong ones apart.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.19: \v 19 A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city.
\q2 Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.20: \v 20 A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth.
\q2 With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.21: \v 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue;
\q2 those who love it will eat its fruit.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.22: \v 22 Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing,
\q2 and obtains favor of Yahweh.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.23: \v 23 The poor plead for mercy,
\q2 but the rich answer harshly.
\q1
\p Proverbs 18.24: \v 24 A man of many companions may be ruined,
\q2 but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
\p Proverbs 19.0: \c 19
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.1: \v 1 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity
\q2 than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.2: \v 2 It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge,
\q2 nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.3: \v 3 The foolishness of man subverts his way;
\q2 his heart rages against Yahweh.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.4: \v 4 Wealth adds many friends,
\q2 but the poor is separated from his friend.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.5: \v 5 A false witness shall not be unpunished.
\q2 He who pours out lies shall not go free.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.6: \v 6 Many will entreat the favor of a ruler,
\q2 and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.7: \v 7 All the relatives of the poor shun him:
\q2 how much more do his friends avoid him!
\q2 He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.8: \v 8 He who gets wisdom loves his own soul.
\q2 He who keeps understanding shall find good.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.9: \v 9 A false witness shall not be unpunished.
\q2 He who utters lies shall perish.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.10: \v 10 Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool,
\q2 much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.11: \v 11 The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger.
\q2 It is his glory to overlook an offense.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.12: \v 12 The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion,
\q2 but his favor is like dew on the grass.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.13: \v 13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father.
\q2 A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.14: \v 14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers,
\q2 but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.15: \v 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep.
\q2 The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.16: \v 16 He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul,
\q2 but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.17: \v 17 He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh;
\q2 he will reward him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.18: \v 18 Discipline your son, for there is hope;
\q2 don’t be a willing party to his death.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.19: \v 19 A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty,
\q2 for if you rescue him, you must do it again.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.20: \v 20 Listen to counsel and receive instruction,
\q2 that you may be wise in your latter end.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.21: \v 21 There are many plans in a man’s heart,
\q2 but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.22: \v 22 That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness.
\q2 A poor man is better than a liar.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.23: \v 23 The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment;
\q2 he rests and will not be touched by trouble.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.24: \v 24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
\q2 he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.25: \v 25 Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence;
\q2 rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.26: \v 26 He who robs his father and drives away his mother,
\q2 is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.27: \v 27 If you stop listening to instruction, my son,
\q2 you will stray from the words of knowledge.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.28: \v 28 A corrupt witness mocks justice,
\q2 and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.
\q1
\p Proverbs 19.29: \v 29 Penalties are prepared for scoffers,
\q2 and beatings for the backs of fools.
\b
\p Proverbs 20.0: \c 20
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.1: \v 1 Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler.
\q2 Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.2: \v 2 The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion.
\q2 He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.3: \v 3 It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife,
\q2 but every fool will be quarreling.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.4: \v 4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter;
\q2 therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.5: \v 5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water,
\q2 but a man of understanding will draw it out.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.6: \v 6 Many men claim to be men of unfailing love,
\q2 but who can find a faithful man?
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.7: \v 7 A righteous man walks in integrity.
\q2 Blessed are his children after him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.8: \v 8 A king who sits on the throne of judgment
\q2 scatters away all evil with his eyes.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.9: \v 9 Who can say, “I have made my heart pure.
\q2 I am clean and without sin?”
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.10: \v 10 Differing weights and differing measures,
\q2 both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.11: \v 11 Even a child makes himself known by his doings,
\q2 whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.12: \v 12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
\q2 Yahweh has made even both of them.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.13: \v 13 Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty.
\q2 Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.14: \v 14 “It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer;
\q2 but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.15: \v 15 There is gold and abundance of rubies,
\q2 but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.16: \v 16 Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger;
\q2 and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.17: \v 17 Fraudulent food is sweet to a man,
\q2 but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.18: \v 18 Plans are established by advice;
\q2 by wise guidance you wage war!
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.19: \v 19 He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets;
\q2 therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.20: \v 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother,
\q2 his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.21: \v 21 An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning,
\q2 won’t be blessed in the end.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.22: \v 22 Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.”
\q2 Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.23: \v 23 Yahweh detests differing weights,
\q2 and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.24: \v 24 A man’s steps are from Yahweh;
\q2 how then can man understand his way?
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.25: \v 25 It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication,
\q2 then later to consider his vows.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.26: \v 26 A wise king winnows out the wicked,
\q2 and drives the threshing wheel over them.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.27: \v 27 The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp,
\q2 searching all his innermost parts.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.28: \v 28 Love and faithfulness keep the king safe.
\q2 His throne is sustained by love.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.29: \v 29 The glory of young men is their strength.
\q2 The splendor of old men is their gray hair.
\q1
\p Proverbs 20.30: \v 30 Wounding blows cleanse away evil,
\q2 and beatings purge the innermost parts.
\b
\p Proverbs 21.0: \c 21
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.1: \v 1 The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses.
\q2 He turns it wherever he desires.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.2: \v 2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,
\q2 but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.3: \v 3 To do righteousness and justice
\q2 is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.4: \v 4 A high look and a proud heart,
\q2 the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.5: \v 5 The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit;
\q2 and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.6: \v 6 Getting treasures by a lying tongue
\q2 is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.7: \v 7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away,
\q2 because they refuse to do what is right.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.8: \v 8 The way of the guilty is devious,
\q2 but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.9: \v 9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop
\q2 than to share a house with a contentious woman.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.10: \v 10 The soul of the wicked desires evil;
\q2 his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.11: \v 11 When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom.
\q2 When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.12: \v 12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked,
\q2 and brings the wicked to ruin.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.13: \v 13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor,
\q2 he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.14: \v 14 A gift in secret pacifies anger,
\q2 and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.15: \v 15 It is joy to the righteous to do justice;
\q2 but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.16: \v 16 The man who wanders out of the way of understanding
\q2 shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.17: \v 17 He who loves pleasure will be a poor man.
\q2 He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.18: \v 18 The wicked is a ransom for the righteous,
\q2 the treacherous for the upright.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.19: \v 19 It is better to dwell in a desert land,
\q2 than with a contentious and fretful woman.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.20: \v 20 There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise;
\q2 but a foolish man swallows it up.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.21: \v 21 He who follows after righteousness and kindness
\q2 finds life, righteousness, and honor.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.22: \v 22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty,
\q2 and brings down the strength of its confidence.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.23: \v 23 Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue
\q2 keeps his soul from troubles.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.24: \v 24 The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name—
\q2 he works in the arrogance of pride.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.25: \v 25 The desire of the sluggard kills him,
\q2 for his hands refuse to labor.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.26: \v 26 There are those who covet greedily all day long;
\q2 but the righteous give and don’t withhold.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.27: \v 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination—
\q2 how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.28: \v 28 A false witness will perish.
\q2 A man who listens speaks to eternity.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.29: \v 29 A wicked man hardens his face;
\q2 but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.30: \v 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding
\q2 nor counsel against Yahweh.
\q1
\p Proverbs 21.31: \v 31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle;
\q2 but victory is with Yahweh.
\b
\p Proverbs 22.0: \c 22
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.1: \v 1 A good name is more desirable than great riches,
\q2 and loving favor is better than silver and gold.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.2: \v 2 The rich and the poor have this in common:
\q2 Yahweh is the maker of them all.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.3: \v 3 A prudent man sees danger and hides himself;
\q2 but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.4: \v 4 The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh
\q2 is wealth, honor, and life.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.5: \v 5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked:
\q2 whoever guards his soul stays from them.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.6: \v 6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
\q2 and when he is old he will not depart from it.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.7: \v 7 The rich rule over the poor.
\q2 The borrower is servant to the lender.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.8: \v 8 He who sows wickedness reaps trouble,
\q2 and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.9: \v 9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed;
\q2 for he shares his food with the poor.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.10: \v 10 Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out;
\q2 yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.11: \v 11 He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully
\q2 is the king’s friend.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.12: \v 12 Yahweh’s eyes watch over knowledge;
\q2 but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.13: \v 13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!
\q2 I will be killed in the streets!”
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.14: \v 14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit.
\q2 He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.15: \v 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child:
\q2 the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.16: \v 16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich,
\q2 both come to poverty.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.17: \v 17 Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise.
\q2 Apply your heart to my teaching.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.18: \v 18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you,
\q2 if all of them are ready on your lips.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.19: \v 19 I teach you today, even you,
\q2 So that your trust may be in Yahweh.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.20: \v 20 Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things
\q2 of counsel and knowledge,
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.21: \v 21 To teach you truth, reliable words,
\q2 to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.22: \v 22 Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor;
\q2 and don’t crush the needy in court;
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.23: \v 23 for Yahweh will plead their case,
\q2 and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.24: \v 24 Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man,
\q2 and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.25: \v 25 lest you learn his ways,
\q2 and ensnare your soul.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.26: \v 26 Don’t you be one of those who strike hands,
\q2 of those who are collateral for debts.
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.27: \v 27 If you don’t have means to pay,
\q2 why should he take away your bed from under you?
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.28: \v 28 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone
\q2 which your fathers have set up.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 22.29: \v 29 Do you see a man skilled in his work?
\q2 He will serve kings.
\q2 He won’t serve obscure men.
\b
\p Proverbs 23.0: \c 23
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.1: \v 1 When you sit to eat with a ruler,
\q2 consider diligently what is before you;
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.2: \v 2 put a knife to your throat,
\q2 if you are a man given to appetite.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.3: \v 3 Don’t be desirous of his dainties,
\q2 since they are deceitful food.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.4: \v 4 Don’t weary yourself to be rich.
\q2 In your wisdom, show restraint.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.5: \v 5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not?
\q2 For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.6: \v 6 Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye,
\q2 and don’t crave his delicacies:
\q2
\p Proverbs 23.7: \v 7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is.
\q2 “Eat and drink!” he says to you,
\q2 but his heart is not with you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.8: \v 8 The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up,
\q2 and lose your good words.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.9: \v 9 Don’t speak in the ears of a fool,
\q2 for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.10: \v 10 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone.
\q2 Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.11: \v 11 for their Defender is strong.
\q2 He will plead their case against you.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.12: \v 12 Apply your heart to instruction,
\q2 and your ears to the words of knowledge.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.13: \v 13 Don’t withhold correction from a child.
\q2 If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.14: \v 14 Punish him with the rod,
\q2 and save his soul from Sheol.\f + \fr 23:14 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.15: \v 15 My son, if your heart is wise,
\q2 then my heart will be glad, even mine.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.16: \v 16 Yes, my heart will rejoice
\q2 when your lips speak what is right.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.17: \v 17 Don’t let your heart envy sinners,
\q2 but rather fear Yahweh all day long.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.18: \v 18 Indeed surely there is a future hope,
\q2 and your hope will not be cut off.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.19: \v 19 Listen, my son, and be wise,
\q2 and keep your heart on the right path!
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.20: \v 20 Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine,
\q2 or those who gorge themselves on meat:
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.21: \v 21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor;
\q2 and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.22: \v 22 Listen to your father who gave you life,
\q2 and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.23: \v 23 Buy the truth, and don’t sell it.
\q2 Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.24: \v 24 The father of the righteous has great joy.
\q2 Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.25: \v 25 Let your father and your mother be glad!
\q2 Let her who bore you rejoice!
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.26: \v 26 My son, give me your heart;
\q2 and let your eyes keep in my ways.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.27: \v 27 For a prostitute is a deep pit;
\q2 and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.28: \v 28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber,
\q2 and increases the unfaithful among men.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.29: \v 29 Who has woe?
\q2 Who has sorrow?
\q2 Who has strife?
\q2 Who has complaints?
\q2 Who has needless bruises?
\q2 Who has bloodshot eyes?
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.30: \v 30 Those who stay long at the wine;
\q2 those who go to seek out mixed wine.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.31: \v 31 Don’t look at the wine when it is red,
\q2 when it sparkles in the cup,
\q2 when it goes down smoothly.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.32: \v 32 In the end, it bites like a snake,
\q2 and poisons like a viper.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.33: \v 33 Your eyes will see strange things,
\q2 and your mind will imagine confusing things.
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.34: \v 34 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea,
\q2 or as he who lies on top of the rigging:
\q1
\p Proverbs 23.35: \v 35 “They hit me, and I was not hurt!
\q2 They beat me, and I don’t feel it!
\q2 When will I wake up? I can do it again.
\q2 I can find another.”
\b
\p Proverbs 24.0: \c 24
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.1: \v 1 Don’t be envious of evil men,
\q2 neither desire to be with them;
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.2: \v 2 for their hearts plot violence
\q2 and their lips talk about mischief.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.3: \v 3 Through wisdom a house is built;
\q2 by understanding it is established;
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.4: \v 4 by knowledge the rooms are filled
\q2 with all rare and beautiful treasure.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.5: \v 5 A wise man has great power;
\q2 and a knowledgeable man increases strength;
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.6: \v 6 for by wise guidance you wage your war;
\q2 and victory is in many advisors.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.7: \v 7 Wisdom is too high for a fool.
\q2 He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.8: \v 8 One who plots to do evil
\q2 will be called a schemer.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.9: \v 9 The schemes of folly are sin.
\q2 The mocker is detested by men.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.10: \v 10 If you falter in the time of trouble,
\q2 your strength is small.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.11: \v 11 Rescue those who are being led away to death!
\q2 Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.12: \v 12 If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,”
\q2 doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it?
\q1 He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it?
\q2 Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.13: \v 13 My son, eat honey, for it is good,
\q2 the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.14: \v 14 so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul.
\q2 If you have found it, then there will be a reward:
\q2 Your hope will not be cut off.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.15: \v 15 Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous.
\q2 Don’t destroy his resting place;
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.16: \v 16 for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again;
\q2 but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.17: \v 17 Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls.
\q2 Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.18: \v 18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him,
\q2 and he turn away his wrath from him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.19: \v 19 Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers,
\q2 neither be envious of the wicked;
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.20: \v 20 for there will be no reward to the evil man.
\q2 The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.21: \v 21 My son, fear Yahweh and the king.
\q2 Don’t join those who are rebellious;
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.22: \v 22 for their calamity will rise suddenly.
\q2 Who knows what destruction may come from them both?
\b
\p
\p Proverbs 24.23: \v 23 These also are sayings of the wise.
\b
\q1 To show partiality in judgment is not good.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.24: \v 24 He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,”
\q2 peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.25: \v 25 but it will go well with those who convict the guilty,
\q2 and a rich blessing will come on them.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.26: \v 26 An honest answer
\q2 is like a kiss on the lips.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.27: \v 27 Prepare your work outside,
\q2 and get your fields ready.
\q2 Afterwards, build your house.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.28: \v 28 Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause.
\q2 Don’t deceive with your lips.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.29: \v 29 Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me;
\q2 I will repay the man according to his work.”
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.30: \v 30 I went by the field of the sluggard,
\q2 by the vineyard of the man void of understanding:
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.31: \v 31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns.
\q2 Its surface was covered with nettles,
\q2 and its stone wall was broken down.
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.32: \v 32 Then I saw, and considered well.
\q2 I saw, and received instruction:
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.33: \v 33 a little sleep, a little slumber,
\q2 a little folding of the hands to sleep,
\q1
\p Proverbs 24.34: \v 34 so your poverty will come as a robber
\q2 and your want as an armed man.
\p Proverbs 25.0: \c 25
\p
\p Proverbs 25.1: \v 1 These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.2: \v 2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing,
\q2 but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.3: \v 3 As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth,
\q2 so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.4: \v 4 Take away the dross from the silver,
\q2 and material comes out for the refiner;
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.5: \v 5 Take away the wicked from the king’s presence,
\q2 and his throne will be established in righteousness.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.6: \v 6 Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the king,
\q2 or claim a place among great men;
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.7: \v 7 for it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,”
\q2 than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince,
\q2 whom your eyes have seen.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.8: \v 8 Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court.
\q2 What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.9: \v 9 Debate your case with your neighbor,
\q2 and don’t betray the confidence of another,
\q2
\p Proverbs 25.10: \v 10 lest one who hears it put you to shame,
\q2 and your bad reputation never depart.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.11: \v 11 A word fitly spoken
\q2 is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.12: \v 12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold,
\q2 so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.13: \v 13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest,
\q2 so is a faithful messenger to those who send him;
\q2 for he refreshes the soul of his masters.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.14: \v 14 As clouds and wind without rain,
\q2 so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.15: \v 15 By patience a ruler is persuaded.
\q2 A soft tongue breaks the bone.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.16: \v 16 Have you found honey?
\q2 Eat as much as is sufficient for you,
\q2 lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.17: \v 17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house,
\q2 lest he be weary of you, and hate you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.18: \v 18 A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor
\q2 is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.19: \v 19 Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble
\q2 is like a bad tooth or a lame foot.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.20: \v 20 As one who takes away a garment in cold weather,
\q2 or vinegar on soda,
\q2 so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.21: \v 21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat.
\q2 If he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.22: \v 22 for you will heap coals of fire on his head,
\q2 and Yahweh will reward you.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.23: \v 23 The north wind produces rain;
\q2 so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.24: \v 24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop
\q2 than to share a house with a contentious woman.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.25: \v 25 Like cold water to a thirsty soul,
\q2 so is good news from a far country.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.26: \v 26 Like a muddied spring and a polluted well,
\q2 so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.27: \v 27 It is not good to eat much honey,
\q2 nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.
\q1
\p Proverbs 25.28: \v 28 Like a city that is broken down and without walls
\q2 is a man whose spirit is without restraint.
\p Proverbs 26.0: \c 26
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.1: \v 1 Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest,
\q2 so honor is not fitting for a fool.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.2: \v 2 Like a fluttering sparrow,
\q2 like a darting swallow,
\q2 so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.3: \v 3 A whip is for the horse,
\q2 a bridle for the donkey,
\q2 and a rod for the back of fools!
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.4: \v 4 Don’t answer a fool according to his folly,
\q2 lest you also be like him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.5: \v 5 Answer a fool according to his folly,
\q2 lest he be wise in his own eyes.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.6: \v 6 One who sends a message by the hand of a fool
\q2 is cutting off feet and drinking violence.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.7: \v 7 Like the legs of the lame that hang loose,
\q2 so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.8: \v 8 As one who binds a stone in a sling,
\q2 so is he who gives honor to a fool.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.9: \v 9 Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard,
\q2 so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.10: \v 10 As an archer who wounds all,
\q2 so is he who hires a fool
\q2 or he who hires those who pass by.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.11: \v 11 As a dog that returns to his vomit,
\q2 so is a fool who repeats his folly.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.12: \v 12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?
\q2 There is more hope for a fool than for him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.13: \v 13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
\q2 A fierce lion roams the streets!”
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.14: \v 14 As the door turns on its hinges,
\q2 so does the sluggard on his bed.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.15: \v 15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish.
\q2 He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.16: \v 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
\q2 than seven men who answer with discretion.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.17: \v 17 Like one who grabs a dog’s ears
\q2 is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.18: \v 18 Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,
\q2
\p Proverbs 26.19: \v 19 is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.20: \v 20 For lack of wood a fire goes out.
\q2 Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.21: \v 21 As coals are to hot embers,
\q2 and wood to fire,
\q2 so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.22: \v 22 The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels,
\q2 they go down into the innermost parts.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.23: \v 23 Like silver dross on an earthen vessel
\q2 are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.24: \v 24 A malicious man disguises himself with his lips,
\q2 but he harbors evil in his heart.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.25: \v 25 When his speech is charming, don’t believe him,
\q2 for there are seven abominations in his heart.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.26: \v 26 His malice may be concealed by deception,
\q2 but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.27: \v 27 Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it.
\q2 Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 26.28: \v 28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts;
\q2 and a flattering mouth works ruin.
\p Proverbs 27.0: \c 27
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.1: \v 1 Don’t boast about tomorrow;
\q2 for you don’t know what a day may bring.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.2: \v 2 Let another man praise you,
\q2 and not your own mouth;
\q2 a stranger, and not your own lips.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.3: \v 3 A stone is heavy,
\q2 and sand is a burden;
\q2 but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.4: \v 4 Wrath is cruel,
\q2 and anger is overwhelming;
\q2 but who is able to stand before jealousy?
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.5: \v 5 Better is open rebuke
\q2 than hidden love.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.6: \v 6 The wounds of a friend are faithful,
\q2 although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.7: \v 7 A full soul loathes a honeycomb;
\q2 but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.8: \v 8 As a bird that wanders from her nest,
\q2 so is a man who wanders from his home.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.9: \v 9 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart;
\q2 so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.10: \v 10 Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend.
\q2 Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster.
\q2 A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.11: \v 11 Be wise, my son,
\q2 and bring joy to my heart,
\q2 then I can answer my tormentor.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.12: \v 12 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge;
\q2 but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.13: \v 13 Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger.
\q2 Hold it for a wayward woman!
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.14: \v 14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning,
\q2 it will be taken as a curse by him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.15: \v 15 A continual dropping on a rainy day
\q2 and a contentious wife are alike:
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.16: \v 16 restraining her is like restraining the wind,
\q2 or like grasping oil in his right hand.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.17: \v 17 Iron sharpens iron;
\q2 so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.18: \v 18 Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit.
\q2 He who looks after his master shall be honored.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.19: \v 19 Like water reflects a face,
\q2 so a man’s heart reflects the man.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.20: \v 20 Sheol\f + \fr 27:20 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* and Abaddon are never satisfied;
\q2 and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.21: \v 21 The crucible is for silver,
\q2 and the furnace for gold;
\q2 but man is refined by his praise.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.22: \v 22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
\q2 yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.23: \v 23 Know well the state of your flocks,
\q2 and pay attention to your herds:
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.24: \v 24 for riches are not forever,
\q2 nor does the crown endure to all generations.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.25: \v 25 The hay is removed, and the new growth appears,
\q2 the grasses of the hills are gathered in.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.26: \v 26 The lambs are for your clothing,
\q2 and the goats are the price of a field.
\q1
\p Proverbs 27.27: \v 27 There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food,
\q2 for your family’s food,
\q2 and for the nourishment of your servant girls.
\p Proverbs 28.0: \c 28
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.1: \v 1 The wicked flee when no one pursues;
\q2 but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.2: \v 2 In rebellion, a land has many rulers,
\q2 but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.3: \v 3 A needy man who oppresses the poor
\q2 is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.4: \v 4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked;
\q2 but those who keep the law contend with them.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.5: \v 5 Evil men don’t understand justice;
\q2 but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.6: \v 6 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity,
\q2 than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.7: \v 7 Whoever keeps the law is a wise son;
\q2 but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.8: \v 8 He who increases his wealth by excessive interest
\q2 gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.9: \v 9 He who turns away his ear from hearing the law,
\q2 even his prayer is an abomination.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.10: \v 10 Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way,
\q2 he will fall into his own trap;
\q2 but the blameless will inherit good.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.11: \v 11 The rich man is wise in his own eyes;
\q2 but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.12: \v 12 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory;
\q2 but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.13: \v 13 He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper,
\q2 but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.14: \v 14 Blessed is the man who always fears;
\q2 but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.15: \v 15 As a roaring lion or a charging bear,
\q2 so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.16: \v 16 A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment.
\q2 One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.17: \v 17 A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death;
\q2 no one will support him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.18: \v 18 Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe;
\q2 but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.19: \v 19 One who works his land will have an abundance of food;
\q2 but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.20: \v 20 A faithful man is rich with blessings;
\q2 but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.21: \v 21 To show partiality is not good;
\q2 yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.22: \v 22 A stingy man hurries after riches,
\q2 and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.23: \v 23 One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor
\q2 than one who flatters with the tongue.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.24: \v 24 Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,”
\q2 is a partner with a destroyer.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.25: \v 25 One who is greedy stirs up strife;
\q2 but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.26: \v 26 One who trusts in himself is a fool;
\q2 but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.27: \v 27 One who gives to the poor has no lack;
\q2 but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.
\q1
\p Proverbs 28.28: \v 28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves;
\q2 but when they perish, the righteous thrive.
\p Proverbs 29.0: \c 29
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.1: \v 1 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck
\q2 will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.2: \v 2 When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice;
\q2 but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.3: \v 3 Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father;
\q2 but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.4: \v 4 The king by justice makes the land stable,
\q2 but he who takes bribes tears it down.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.5: \v 5 A man who flatters his neighbor
\q2 spreads a net for his feet.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.6: \v 6 An evil man is snared by his sin,
\q2 but the righteous can sing and be glad.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.7: \v 7 The righteous care about justice for the poor.
\q2 The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.8: \v 8 Mockers stir up a city,
\q2 but wise men turn away anger.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.9: \v 9 If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man,
\q2 the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.10: \v 10 The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity;
\q2 and they seek the life of the upright.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.11: \v 11 A fool vents all of his anger,
\q2 but a wise man brings himself under control.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.12: \v 12 If a ruler listens to lies,
\q2 all of his officials are wicked.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.13: \v 13 The poor man and the oppressor have this in common:
\q2 Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.14: \v 14 The king who fairly judges the poor,
\q2 his throne shall be established forever.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.15: \v 15 The rod of correction gives wisdom,
\q2 but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.16: \v 16 When the wicked increase, sin increases;
\q2 but the righteous will see their downfall.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.17: \v 17 Correct your son, and he will give you peace;
\q2 yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.18: \v 18 Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint;
\q2 but one who keeps the law is blessed.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.19: \v 19 A servant can’t be corrected by words.
\q2 Though he understands, yet he will not respond.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.20: \v 20 Do you see a man who is hasty in his words?
\q2 There is more hope for a fool than for him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.21: \v 21 He who pampers his servant from youth
\q2 will have him become a son in the end.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.22: \v 22 An angry man stirs up strife,
\q2 and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.23: \v 23 A man’s pride brings him low,
\q2 but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.24: \v 24 Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul.
\q2 He takes an oath, but dares not testify.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.25: \v 25 The fear of man proves to be a snare,
\q2 but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.26: \v 26 Many seek the ruler’s favor,
\q2 but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.
\q1
\p Proverbs 29.27: \v 27 A dishonest man detests the righteous,
\q2 and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
\p Proverbs 30.0: \c 30
\p
\p Proverbs 30.1: \v 1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; the revelation:
\q1 the man says to Ithiel,
\q2 to Ithiel and Ucal:
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.2: \v 2 “Surely I am the most ignorant man,
\q2 and don’t have a man’s understanding.
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.3: \v 3 I have not learned wisdom,
\q2 neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.4: \v 4 Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended?
\q2 Who has gathered the wind in his fists?
\q2 Who has bound the waters in his garment?
\q2 Who has established all the ends of the earth?
\q2 What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.5: \v 5 “Every word of God is flawless.
\q2 He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.6: \v 6 Don’t you add to his words,
\q2 lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.7: \v 7 “Two things I have asked of you.
\q2 Don’t deny me before I die.
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.8: \v 8 Remove far from me falsehood and lies.
\q2 Give me neither poverty nor riches.
\q2 Feed me with the food that is needful for me,
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.9: \v 9 lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’
\q2 or lest I be poor, and steal,
\q2 and so dishonor the name of my God.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.10: \v 10 “Don’t slander a servant to his master,
\q2 lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.11: \v 11 There is a generation that curses their father,
\q2 and doesn’t bless their mother.
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.12: \v 12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes,
\q2 yet are not washed from their filthiness.
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.13: \v 13 There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes!
\q2 Their eyelids are lifted up.
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.14: \v 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords,
\q2 and their jaws like knives,
\q2 to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.15: \v 15 “The leech has two daughters:
\q2 ‘Give, give.’
\b
\q1 “There are three things that are never satisfied;
\q2 four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’
\q2
\p Proverbs 30.16: \v 16 Sheol,\f + \fr 30:16 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 the barren womb;
\q2 the earth that is not satisfied with water;
\q2 and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.17: \v 17 “The eye that mocks at his father,
\q2 and scorns obedience to his mother:
\q2 the ravens of the valley shall pick it out,
\q2 the young eagles shall eat it.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.18: \v 18 “There are three things which are too amazing for me,
\q2 four which I don’t understand:
\q2
\p Proverbs 30.19: \v 19 The way of an eagle in the air,
\q2 the way of a serpent on a rock,
\q2 the way of a ship in the middle of the sea,
\q2 and the way of a man with a maiden.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.20: \v 20 “So is the way of an adulterous woman:
\q2 She eats and wipes her mouth,
\q2 and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.21: \v 21 “For three things the earth trembles,
\q2 and under four, it can’t bear up:
\q2
\p Proverbs 30.22: \v 22 For a servant when he is king,
\q2 a fool when he is filled with food,
\q2
\p Proverbs 30.23: \v 23 for an unloved woman when she is married,
\q2 and a servant who is heir to her mistress.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.24: \v 24 “There are four things which are little on the earth,
\q2 but they are exceedingly wise:
\q2
\p Proverbs 30.25: \v 25 The ants are not a strong people,
\q2 yet they provide their food in the summer.
\q2
\p Proverbs 30.26: \v 26 The hyraxes are but a feeble folk,
\q2 yet make they their houses in the rocks.
\q2
\p Proverbs 30.27: \v 27 The locusts have no king,
\q2 yet they advance in ranks.
\q2
\p Proverbs 30.28: \v 28 You can catch a lizard with your hands,
\q2 yet it is in kings’ palaces.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.29: \v 29 “There are three things which are stately in their march,
\q2 four which are stately in going:
\q2
\p Proverbs 30.30: \v 30 The lion, which is mightiest among animals,
\q2 and doesn’t turn away for any;
\q2
\p Proverbs 30.31: \v 31 the greyhound;
\q2 the male goat;
\q2 and the king against whom there is no rising up.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 30.32: \v 32 “If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself,
\q2 or if you have thought evil,
\q1 put your hand over your mouth.
\q2
\p Proverbs 30.33: \v 33 For as the churning of milk produces butter,
\q2 and the wringing of the nose produces blood;
\q2 so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”
\p Proverbs 31.0: \c 31
\p
\p Proverbs 31.1: \v 1 The words of king Lemuel; the revelation which his mother taught him.
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.2: \v 2 “Oh, my son!
\q2 Oh, son of my womb!
\q2 Oh, son of my vows!
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.3: \v 3 Don’t give your strength to women,
\q2 nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.4: \v 4 It is not for kings, Lemuel,
\q2 it is not for kings to drink wine,
\q2 nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.5: \v 5 lest they drink, and forget the law,
\q2 and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.6: \v 6 Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish,
\q2 and wine to the bitter in soul.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.7: \v 7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty,
\q2 and remember his misery no more.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.8: \v 8 Open your mouth for the mute,
\q2 in the cause of all who are left desolate.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.9: \v 9 Open your mouth, judge righteously,
\q2 and serve justice to the poor and needy.”
\b
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.10: \v 10 \f + \fr 31:10 \ft Proverbs 31:10-31 form an acrostic, with each verse starting with each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, in order.\f*Who can find a worthy woman?
\q2 For her price is far above rubies.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.11: \v 11 The heart of her husband trusts in her.
\q2 He shall have no lack of gain.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.12: \v 12 She does him good, and not harm,
\q2 all the days of her life.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.13: \v 13 She seeks wool and flax,
\q2 and works eagerly with her hands.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.14: \v 14 She is like the merchant ships.
\q2 She brings her bread from afar.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.15: \v 15 She rises also while it is yet night,
\q2 gives food to her household,
\q2 and portions for her servant girls.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.16: \v 16 She considers a field, and buys it.
\q2 With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.17: \v 17 She arms her waist with strength,
\q2 and makes her arms strong.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.18: \v 18 She perceives that her merchandise is profitable.
\q2 Her lamp doesn’t go out by night.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.19: \v 19 She lays her hands to the distaff,
\q2 and her hands hold the spindle.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.20: \v 20 She opens her arms to the poor;
\q2 yes, she extends her hands to the needy.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.21: \v 21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household;
\q2 for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.22: \v 22 She makes for herself carpets of tapestry.
\q2 Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.23: \v 23 Her husband is respected in the gates,
\q2 when he sits among the elders of the land.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.24: \v 24 She makes linen garments and sells them,
\q2 and delivers sashes to the merchant.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.25: \v 25 Strength and dignity are her clothing.
\q2 She laughs at the time to come.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.26: \v 26 She opens her mouth with wisdom.
\q2 Kind instruction is on her tongue.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.27: \v 27 She looks well to the ways of her household,
\q2 and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.28: \v 28 Her children rise up and call her blessed.
\q2 Her husband also praises her:
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.29: \v 29 “Many women do noble things,
\q2 but you excel them all.”
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.30: \v 30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain;
\q2 but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
\q1
\p Proverbs 31.31: \v 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands!
\q2 Let her works praise her in the gates!
\p Romans 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Romans 6.1: \v 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
\p Romans 6.2: \v 2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
\p Romans 6.3: \v 3 Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
\p Romans 6.4: \v 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
\p Romans 6.5: \v 5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
\p Romans 6.6: \v 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
\p Romans 6.7: \v 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
\p Romans 6.8: \v 8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
\p Romans 6.9: \v 9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!
\p Romans 6.10: \v 10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
\p Romans 6.11: \v 11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
\p
\p Romans 6.12: \v 12 Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
\p Romans 6.13: \v 13 Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
\p Romans 6.14: \v 14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
\p
\p Romans 6.15: \v 15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
\p Romans 6.16: \v 16 Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
\p Romans 6.17: \v 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
\p Romans 6.18: \v 18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
\p
\p Romans 6.19: \v 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
\p Romans 6.20: \v 20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
\p Romans 6.21: \v 21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
\p Romans 6.22: \v 22 But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.
\p Romans 6.23: \v 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.