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Numbers 1.1: 1Yahweh1 spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Numbers 1.2: 2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,

Numbers 1.3: 3 from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.

Numbers 1.4: 4 With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house.

Numbers 1.10: 10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

Numbers 1.16: 16 These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes2 of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

Numbers 1.18: 18 They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.

Numbers 1.19: 19 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.

Numbers 1.20: 20 The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.21: 21 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

Numbers 1.22: 22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.23: 23 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

Numbers 1.24: 24 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.25: 25 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

Numbers 1.26: 26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.27: 27 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

Numbers 1.28: 28 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.29: 29 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

Numbers 1.30: 30 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.31: 31 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

Numbers 1.32: 32 Of the children of Joseph: of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.33: 33 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.

Numbers 1.34: 34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.35: 35 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

Numbers 1.36: 36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.37: 37 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

Numbers 1.38: 38 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.39: 39 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

Numbers 1.40: 40 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.41: 41 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.

Numbers 1.42: 42 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.43: 43 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

Numbers 1.44: 44 These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted, and the twelve men who were princes of Israel, each one for his fathers’ house.

Numbers 1.45: 45 So all those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel—

Numbers 1.46: 46 all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

Numbers 1.47: 47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.

Numbers 1.49: 49 “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;

Numbers 1.50: 50 but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.

Numbers 1.51: 51 When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

Numbers 1.52: 52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.

Numbers 1.53: 53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”

Numbers 1.54: 54 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.

Romans 13.1: 13Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

Romans 13.2: 2 Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

Romans 13.3: 3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the authority,

Romans 13.4: 4 for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

Romans 13.5: 5 Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

Romans 13.6: 6 For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.

Romans 13.7: 7 Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Romans 13.8: 8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Romans 13.9: 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,”1 “You shall not covet,” a and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”b

Romans 13.10: 10 Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Romans 13.11: 11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Romans 13.12: 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

Romans 13.13: 13 Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Romans 13.14: 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Judith 13.1: 13But when the evening had come, his servants hurried to depart. Bagoas shut the tent outside, and dismissed those who waited from the presence of his lord. They went away to their beds; for they were all weary, because the feast had been long.

Judith 13.2: 2 But Judith was left alone in the tent, with Holofernes lying along upon his bed; for he was drunk with wine.

Judith 13.3: 3 Judith had said to her servant that she should stand outside her bedchamber, and wait for her to come out, as she did daily; for she said she would go out to her prayer. She spoke to Bagoas according to the same words.

Judith 13.4: 4 All went away from her presence, and none was left in the bedchamber, small or great. Judith, standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lord God of all power, look in this hour upon the works of my hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem.

Judith 13.5: 5 For now is the time to help your inheritance, and to do the thing that I have purposed to the destruction of the enemies which have risen up against us.

Judith 13.6: 6 She came to the rail of the bed, which was at Holofernes’ head, and took down his scimitar from there.

Judith 13.7: 7 She drew near to the bed, took hold of the hair of his head, and said, “Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, this day.”

Judith 13.8: 8 She struck twice upon his neck with all her might, and took away his head from him,

Judith 13.9: 9 tumbled his body down from the bed, and took down the canopy from the pillars. After a little while she went out, and gave Holofernes’ head to her maid;

Judith 13.10: 10 and she put it in her bag of food. They both went out together to prayer, according to their custom. They passed through the camp, circled around that valley, and went up to the mountain of Bethulia, and came to its gates.

Judith 13.11: 11 Judith said afar off to the watchmen at the gates, “Open, open the gate, now. God is with us, even our God, to show his power yet in Israel, and his might against the enemy, as he has done even this day.”

Judith 13.12: 12 It came to pass, when the men of her city heard her voice, they made haste to go down to the gate of their city, and they called together the elders of the city.

Judith 13.13: 13 They all ran together, both small and great, for it was strange to them that she had come. They opened the gate and received them, making a fire to give light, and surrounded them.

Judith 13.14: 14 She said to them with a loud voice, “Praise God! Praise him! Praise God, who has not taken away his mercy from the house of Israel, but has destroyed our enemies by my hand tonight!”

Judith 13.15: 15 Then she took the head out of the bag and showed it, and said to them, “Behold, the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Asshur, and behold, the canopy, in which he laid in his drunkenness. The Lord struck him by the hand of a woman.

Judith 13.16: 16 And as the Lord lives, who preserved me in my way that I went, my countenance deceived him to his destruction, and he didn’t commit sin with me, to defile and shame me.”

Judith 13.17: 17 All the people were exceedingly amazed, and bowed themselves, and worshiped God, and said with one accord, “Blessed are you, O our God, which have this day brought to nothing the enemies of your people.”

Judith 13.18: 18 Ozias said to her, “Blessed are you, daughter, in the sight of the Most High God, above all the women upon the earth; and blessed is the Lord God, who created the heavens and the earth, who directed you to cut off the head of the prince of our enemies.

Judith 13.19: 19 For your hope will not depart from the heart of men that remember the strength of God forever.

Judith 13.20: 20 May God turn these things to you for a perpetual praise, to visit you with good things, because you didn’t spare your life by reason of the affliction of our race, but avenged our fall, walking a straight way before our God.”

4 Maccabees 2.1: 2And what wonder? if the lusts of the soul, after participation with what is beautiful, are frustrated,

4 Maccabees 2.2: 2 on this ground, therefore, the temperate Joseph is praised in that by reasoning, he subdued, on reflection, the indulgence of sense.

4 Maccabees 2.3: 3 For, although young, and ripe for sexual intercourse, he abrogated by reasoning the stimulus of his passions.

4 Maccabees 2.4: 4 And it is not merely the stimulus of sensual indulgence, but that of every desire, that reasoning is able to master.

4 Maccabees 2.5: 5 For instance, the law says, You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.

4 Maccabees 2.6: 6 Now, then, since it is the law which has forbidden us to desire, I shall much the more easily persuade you, that reasoning is able to govern our lusts, just as it does the affections which are impediments to justice.

4 Maccabees 2.7: 7 Since in what way is a solitary eater, and a glutton, and a drunkard reclaimed, unless it be clear that reasoning is lord of the passions?

4 Maccabees 2.8: 8 A man, therefore, who regulates his course by the law, even if he be a lover of money, immediately puts force upon his own disposition; lending to the needy without interest, and cancelling the debt of the incoming Sabbath.

4 Maccabees 2.9: 9 And should a man be parsimonious, he is ruled by the law acting through reasoning; so that he does not glean his harvest crops, nor vintage: and in reference to other points we may perceive that it is reasoning that conquers his passions.

4 Maccabees 2.10: 10 For the law conquers even affection toward parents, not surrendering virtue on their account.

4 Maccabees 2.11: 11 And it prevails over marriage love, condemning it when transgressing law.

4 Maccabees 2.12: 12 And it lords it over the love of parents toward their children, for they punish them for vice; and it domineers over the intimacy of friends, reproving them when wicked.

4 Maccabees 2.13: 13 And think it not a strange assertion that reasoning can in behalf of the law conquer even enmity.

4 Maccabees 2.14: 14 It allows not to cut down the cultivated herbage of an enemy, but preserves it from the destroyers, and collects their fallen ruins.

4 Maccabees 2.15: 15 And reason appears to be master of the more violent passions, as love of empire and empty boasting, and slander.

4 Maccabees 2.16: 16 For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant passions, as it does wrath: for it masters even this.

4 Maccabees 2.17: 17 Thus Moses, when angered against Dathan and Abiram, did nothing to them in wrath, but regulated his anger by reasoning.

4 Maccabees 2.18: 18 For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to be superior to the passions, and to transfer some, and destroy others.

4 Maccabees 2.19: 19 For why, else, does our most wise father Jacob blame Simeon and Levi for having irrationally slain the whole race of the Shechemites, saying, Cursed be their anger.

4 Maccabees 2.20: 20 For if reasoning didn’t possess the power of subduing angry affections, he would not have spoken thus.

4 Maccabees 2.21: 21 For at the time when God created man, He implanted within him his passions and moral nature.

4 Maccabees 2.22: 22 And at that time He enthroned above all the holy leader mind, through the medium of the senses.

4 Maccabees 2.23: 23 And He gave a law to this mind, by living according to which it will maintain a temperate, and just, and good, and manly reign.

4 Maccabees 2.24: 24 How, then, a man may say, if reasoning be master of the passions, has it no control over forgetfulness and ignorance?

4 Maccabees 6.1: 6When Eleazar had in this manner answered the exhortations of the tyrant, the spearbearers came up, and rudely haled Eleazar to the instruments of torture.

4 Maccabees 6.2: 2 And first, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the beauty of piety.

4 Maccabees 6.3: 3 Then tying back his arms and hands, they disdainfully used him with stripes;

4 Maccabees 6.5: 5 But Eleazar, the high-minded and truly noble, as one tortured in a dream, regarded it not all.

4 Maccabees 6.6: 6 But raising his eyes on high to heaven, the old man’s flesh was stripped off by the scourges, and his blood streamed down, and his sides were pierced through.

4 Maccabees 6.7: 7 And falling upon the ground, from his body having no power to support the pains, he yet kept his reasoning upright and unbending.

4 Maccabees 6.8: 8 then one of the harsh spearbearers leaped upon his belly as he was falling, to force him upright.

4 Maccabees 6.9: 9 But he endured the pains, and despised the cruelty, and persevered through the indignities;

4 Maccabees 6.10: 10 and like a noble athlete, the old man, when struck, vanquished his torturers.

4 Maccabees 6.11: 11 His countenance sweating, and he panting for breath, he was admired by the very torturers for his courage.

4 Maccabees 6.13: 13 partly from the sympathy of acquaintance, and partly in admiration of his endurance, some of the attendants of the king said,

4 Maccabees 6.14: 14 Why do you unreasonably destroy yourself, O Eleazar, with these miseries?

4 Maccabees 6.15: 15 We will bring you some meat cooked by yourself, and do you save yourself by pretending that you have eaten swine’s flesh.

4 Maccabees 6.16: 16 And Eleazar, as though the advice more painfully tortured him, cried out,

4 Maccabees 6.17: 17 Let not us who are children of Abraham be so evil advised as by giving way to make use of an unbecoming pretense;

4 Maccabees 6.18: 18 for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,

4 Maccabees 6.19: 19 and ourselves should become a pattern of impiety to the young, as being an example of pollution eating.

4 Maccabees 6.20: 20 It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice,

4 Maccabees 6.21: 21 and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness, by not contending to the death for our divine law.

4 Maccabees 6.22: 22 Wherefore do you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion.

4 Maccabees 6.24: 24 Beholding him so high-minded against misery, and not changing at their pity, they led him to the fire:

4 Maccabees 6.25: 25 then with their wickedly contrived instruments they burned him on the fire, and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils.

4 Maccabees 6.26: 26 And he being at length burned down to the bones, and about to expire, raised his eyes Godward, and said,

4 Maccabees 6.27: 27 You know, O God, that when I might have been saved, I am slain for the sake of the law by tortures of fire.

4 Maccabees 6.28: 28 Be merciful to your people, and be satisfied with the punishment of me on their account.

4 Maccabees 6.29: 29 Let my blood be a purification for them, and take my life in recompense for theirs.

4 Maccabees 6.30: 30 Thus speaking, the holy man departed, noble in his torments, and even to the agonies of death resisted in his reasoning for the sake of the law.

4 Maccabees 6.31: 31 Confessedly, therefore, religious reasoning is master of the passions.

4 Maccabees 6.32: 32 For had the passions been superior to reasoning, I would have given them the witness of this mastery.

4 Maccabees 6.33: 33 But now, since reasoning conquered the passions, we befittingly awared it the authority of first place.

4 Maccabees 6.34: 34 And it is but fair that we should allow, that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries.

4 Maccabees 6.35: 35 Ridiculous would it be were it not so; and I prove that reasoning has not only mastered pains, but that it is also superior to the pleasures, and withstands them.

4 Maccabees 7.1: 7The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions,

4 Maccabees 7.2: 2 and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture,

4 Maccabees 7.3: 3 in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbour of victory over death.

4 Maccabees 7.4: 4 Not so has ever a city, when besieged, held out against many and various machines, as did that holy man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him.

4 Maccabees 7.5: 5 For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging waves of the passions as with a jutting promontory.

4 Maccabees 7.6: 6 O priest worthy of the priesthood! you didn’t pollute your sacred teeth; nor make your appetite, which had always embraced the clean and lawful, a partaker of profanity.

4 Maccabees 7.7: 7 O harmonizer with the law, and sage devoted to a divine life!

4 Maccabees 7.8: 8 Of such a character ought those to be who perform the duties of the law at the risk of their own blood, and defend it with generous sweat by sufferings even to death.

4 Maccabees 7.9: 9 You, father, have gloriously established our right government by your endurance; and making of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by your deeds, have made credible the words of philosophy.

4 Maccabees 7.10: 10 O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigorous than fire, greatest king over the passions, Eleazar!

4 Maccabees 7.11: 11 For as father Aaron, armed with a censer, hastening through the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel,

4 Maccabees 7.12: 12 so, Eleazar, the descendant of Aaron, wasted away by the fire, didn’t give up his reasoning.

4 Maccabees 7.13: 13 And, what is most wonderful, though an old man, though the labors of his body were now spent, and his muscles were relaxed, and his sinews worn out, he recovered youth.

4 Maccabees 7.14: 14 By the spirit of reasoning, and the reasoning of Isaac, he rendered powerless the many-headed instrument.

4 Maccabees 7.15: 15 O blessed old age, and reverend hoar head, and life obedient to the law, which the faithful seal of death perfected.

4 Maccabees 7.16: 16 If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even to death, confessedly religious reasoning is ruler of the passions.

4 Maccabees 7.17: 17 But perhaps some might say, It is not all who conquer passions, as all do not possess wise reasoning.

4 Maccabees 7.18: 18 But they who have meditated upon religion with their whole heart, these alone can master the passions of the flesh;

4 Maccabees 7.19: 19 they who believe that to God they die not; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, they live to God.

4 Maccabees 7.20: 20 This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning, are governed by their passions:

4 Maccabees 7.21: 21 since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God,

4 Maccabees 7.22: 22 and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virtue, would not, for the sake of religion, master his passion?

4 Maccabees 7.24: 24 Whence it is, that even boys, trained with the philosophy of religious reasoning, have conquered still more bitter tortures:

4 Maccabees 7.25: 25 for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the unclean thing,—

4 Maccabees 14.1: 14And more that this, they even urged them on to this ill-treatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of their affections of brotherly love.

4 Maccabees 14.3: 3 Sacred and harmonious concert of the seven kindred as concerning piety!

4 Maccabees 14.4: 4 None of the seven youths turned cowardly, or shrank back from death.

4 Maccabees 14.5: 5 But all of them, as though running the road to immortality, hastened on to death through tortures.

4 Maccabees 14.6: 6 For just as hands and feet are moved sympathetically with the directions of the soul, so those holy youths agreed to death for religion’s sake, as through the immortal soul of religion.

4 Maccabees 14.7: 7 O holy seven of harmonious kindred! for as the seven days of creation, about religion,

4 Maccabees 14.8: 8 so the youths, circling around the number seven, annulled the fear of torments.

4 Maccabees 14.9: 9 We now shudder at the recital of the affliction of those young men; but they not only saw, and not only heard the immediate execution of the threat, but undergoing it, persevered; and that through the pains of fire.

4 Maccabees 14.10: 10 And what could be more painful? for the power of fire, being sharp and quick, speedily dissolved their bodies.

4 Maccabees 14.11: 11 And think it not wonderful that reasoning bore rule over those men in their torments, when even a woman’s mind despised more manifold pains.

4 Maccabees 14.12: 12 For the mother of those seven youths endured the rackings of each of her children.

4 Maccabees 14.13: 13 And consider how comprehensive is the love of offspring, which draws every one to sympathy of affection,

4 Maccabees 14.14: 14 where irrational animals possess a similar sympathy and love for their offspring with men.

4 Maccabees 14.15: 15 The tame birds frequenting the roofs of our houses, defend their fledglings.

4 Maccabees 14.16: 16 Others build their nests, and hatch their young, in the tops of mountains and in the precipices of valleys, and the holes and tops of trees, and keep off the intruder.

4 Maccabees 14.17: 17 And if not able to do this, they fly circling round them in agony of affection, calling out in their own note, and save their offspring in whatever manner they are able.

4 Maccabees 14.18: 18 But why should we point attention to the sympathy toward children shown by irrational animals?

4 Maccabees 14.19: 19 The very bees, at the season of honey-making, attack all who approach; and pierce with their sting, as with a sword, those who draw near their hive, and repel them even to death.

4 Maccabees 14.20: 20 But sympathy with her children didn’t turn away the mother of the young men, who had a spirit kindred with that of Abraham.

1 1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:16 or, chiefs, or, leaders

1 13:9 TR adds “You shall not give false testimony,”

a 13:9 Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21

b 13:9 Leviticus 19:18