Genesis 8.0:
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Genesis 8.1: 1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
Genesis 8.2: 2 The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
Genesis 8.3: 3 The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
Genesis 8.4: 4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.
Genesis 8.5: 5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
Genesis 8.6: 6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
Genesis 8.7: 7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
Genesis 8.8: 8 He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
Genesis 8.9: 9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
Genesis 8.10: 10 He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.
Genesis 8.11: 11 The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.
Genesis 8.12: 12 He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.
Genesis 8.13: 13 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
Genesis 8.14: 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
Genesis 8.15: 15 God spoke to Noah, saying,
Genesis 8.16: 16 “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
Genesis 8.17: 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 8.18: 18 Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.
Genesis 8.19: 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
Genesis 8.20: 20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8.21: 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
Genesis 8.22: 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
Genesis 10.0:
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Genesis 10.1: 1 Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 10.2: 2 The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10.3: 3 The sons of Gomer were: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Genesis 10.4: 4 The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Genesis 10.5: 5 Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10.6: 6 The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Genesis 10.7: 7 The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan.
Genesis 10.8: 8 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
Genesis 10.9: 9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.
Genesis 10.10: 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10.11: 11 Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
Genesis 10.12: 12 and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
Genesis 10.13: 13 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
Genesis 10.14: 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
Genesis 10.15: 15 Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
Genesis 10.16: 16 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
Genesis 10.17: 17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
Genesis 10.18: 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
Genesis 10.19: 19 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon—as you go toward Gerar—to Gaza—as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim—to Lasha.
Genesis 10.20: 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.
Genesis 10.21: 21 Children were also born to Shem (the elder brother of Japheth), the father of all the children of Eber.
Genesis 10.22: 22 The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 10.23: 23 The sons of Aram were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
Genesis 10.24: 24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
Genesis 10.25: 25 To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.
Genesis 10.26: 26 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Genesis 10.27: 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
Genesis 10.28: 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
Genesis 10.29: 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
Genesis 10.30: 30 Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
Genesis 10.31: 31 These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations.
Genesis 10.32: 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.
Genesis 26.0:
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Genesis 26.1: 1 There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
Genesis 26.2: 2 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.
Genesis 26.3: 3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
Genesis 26.4: 4 I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,
Genesis 26.5: 5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
Genesis 26.6: 6 Isaac lived in Gerar.
Genesis 26.7: 7 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”
Genesis 26.8: 8 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
Genesis 26.9: 9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’”
Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”
Genesis 26.10: 10 Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”
Genesis 26.11: 11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
Genesis 26.12: 12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
Genesis 26.13: 13 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
Genesis 26.14: 14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
Genesis 26.15: 15 Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
Genesis 26.16: 16 Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
Genesis 26.17: 17 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
Genesis 26.18: 18 Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
Genesis 26.19: 19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
Genesis 26.20: 20 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
Genesis 26.21: 21 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.
Genesis 26.22: 22 He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
Genesis 26.23: 23 He went up from there to Beersheba.
Genesis 26.24: 24 Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
Genesis 26.25: 25 He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.
Genesis 26.26: 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
Genesis 26.27: 27 Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
Genesis 26.28: 28 They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you,
Genesis 26.29: 29 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”
Genesis 26.30: 30 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
Genesis 26.31: 31 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Genesis 26.32: 32 The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
Genesis 26.33: 33 He called it “Shibah”. Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba” to this day.
Genesis 26.34: 34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 26.35: 35 They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.
Genesis 33.0:
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Genesis 33.1: 1 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants.
Genesis 33.2: 2 He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Genesis 33.3: 3 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Genesis 33.4: 4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
Genesis 33.5: 5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?”
He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
Genesis 33.6: 6 Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.
Genesis 33.7: 7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
Genesis 33.8: 8 Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?”
Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”
Genesis 33.9: 9 Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”
Genesis 33.10: 10 Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
Genesis 33.11: 11 Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.
Genesis 33.12: 12 Esau said, “Let’s take our journey, and let’s go, and I will go before you.”
Genesis 33.13: 13 Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
Genesis 33.14: 14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”
Genesis 33.15: 15 Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me.”
He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
Genesis 33.16: 16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
Genesis 33.17: 17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
Genesis 33.18: 18 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
Genesis 33.19: 19 He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.
Genesis 33.20: 20 He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.
Genesis 48.0:
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Genesis 48.1: 1 After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Genesis 48.2: 2 Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.
Genesis 48.3: 3 Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
Genesis 48.4: 4 and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’
Genesis 48.5: 5 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
Genesis 48.6: 6 Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
Genesis 48.7: 7 As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”
Genesis 48.8: 8 Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?”
Genesis 48.9: 9 Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.”
He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.”
Genesis 48.10: 10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
Genesis 48.11: 11 Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”
Genesis 48.12: 12 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
Genesis 48.13: 13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him.
Genesis 48.14: 14 Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
Genesis 48.15: 15 He blessed Joseph, and said,
“The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
Genesis 48.16: 16 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads,
and let my name be named on them,
and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac.
Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
Genesis 48.17: 17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
Genesis 48.18: 18 Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”
Genesis 48.19: 19 His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”
Genesis 48.20: 20 He blessed them that day, saying, “Israel will bless in you, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Genesis 48.21: 21 Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Genesis 48.22: 22 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”
Exodus 7.0:
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Exodus 7.1: 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
Exodus 7.2: 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.
Exodus 7.3: 3 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 7.4: 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.
Exodus 7.5: 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.”
Exodus 7.6: 6 Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.
Exodus 7.7: 7 Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Exodus 7.8: 8 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Exodus 7.9: 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.’”
Exodus 7.10: 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.
Exodus 7.11: 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.
Exodus 7.12: 12 For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
Exodus 7.13: 13 Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
Exodus 7.14: 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.
Exodus 7.15: 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.
Exodus 7.16: 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.”
Exodus 7.17: 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.
Exodus 7.18: 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.”’”
Exodus 7.19: 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.’”
Exodus 7.20: 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.
Exodus 7.21: 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.
Exodus 7.22: 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.
Exodus 7.23: 23 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.
Exodus 7.24: 24 All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn’t drink the river water.
Exodus 7.25: 25 Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river.
Exodus 15.0:
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Exodus 15.1: 1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said,
“I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.
Exodus 15.2: 2 Yah is my strength and song.
He has become my salvation.
This is my God, and I will praise him;
my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
Exodus 15.3: 3 Yahweh is a man of war.
Yahweh is his name.
Exodus 15.4: 4 He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea.
His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
Exodus 15.5: 5 The deeps cover them.
They went down into the depths like a stone.
Exodus 15.6: 6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power.
Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
Exodus 15.7: 7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you.
You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
Exodus 15.8: 8 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up.
The floods stood upright as a heap.
The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
Exodus 15.9: 9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder.
My desire will be satisfied on them.
I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’
Exodus 15.10: 10 You blew with your wind.
The sea covered them.
They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Exodus 15.11: 11 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods?
Who is like you, glorious in holiness,
fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Exodus 15.12: 12 You stretched out your right hand.
The earth swallowed them.
Exodus 15.13: 13 “You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed.
You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
Exodus 15.14: 14 The peoples have heard.
They tremble.
Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.
Exodus 15.15: 15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed.
Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab.
All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
Exodus 15.16: 16 Terror and dread falls on them.
By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone,
until your people pass over, Yahweh,
until the people you have purchased pass over.
Exodus 15.17: 17 You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance,
the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in;
the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
Exodus 15.18: 18 Yahweh will reign forever and ever.”
Exodus 15.19: 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.
Exodus 15.20: 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.
Exodus 15.21: 21 Miriam answered them,
“Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
Exodus 15.22: 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.
Exodus 15.23: 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.
Exodus 15.24: 24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
Exodus 15.25: 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.
Exodus 15.26: 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.”
Exodus 15.27: 27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.
Exodus 16.0:
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Exodus 16.1: 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.
Exodus 16.2: 2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
Exodus 16.3: 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.”
Exodus 16.4: 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.
Exodus 16.5: 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.”
Exodus 16.6: 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.
Exodus 16.7: 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?”
Exodus 16.8: 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.”
Exodus 16.9: 9 Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come close to Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.’”
Exodus 16.10: 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.
Exodus 16.11: 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exodus 16.12: 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.’”
Exodus 16.13: 13 In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
Exodus 16.14: 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.
Exodus 16.15: 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.
Exodus 16.16: 16 “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: ‘Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.’”
Exodus 16.17: 17 The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less.
Exodus 16.18: 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.
Exodus 16.19: 19 Moses said to them, “Let no one leave of it until the morning.”
Exodus 16.20: 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.
Exodus 16.21: 21 They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
Exodus 16.22: 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.
Exodus 16.23: 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.’”
Exodus 16.24: 24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses ordered, and it didn’t become foul, and there were no worms in it.
Exodus 16.25: 25 Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field.
Exodus 16.26: 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none.”
Exodus 16.27: 27 On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
Exodus 16.28: 28 Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
Exodus 16.29: 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.”
Exodus 16.30: 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
Exodus 16.31: 31 The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
Exodus 16.32: 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.’”
Exodus 16.33: 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.”
Exodus 16.34: 34 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
Exodus 16.35: 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.
Exodus 16.36: 36 Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.
Exodus 17.0:
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Exodus 17.1: 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.
Exodus 17.2: 2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.”
Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
Exodus 17.3: 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?”
Exodus 17.4: 4 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
Exodus 17.5: 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.
Exodus 17.6: 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.
Exodus 17.7: 7 He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”
Exodus 17.8: 8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Exodus 17.9: 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.”
Exodus 17.10: 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.
Exodus 17.11: 11 When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
Exodus 17.12: 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.
Exodus 17.13: 13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Exodus 17.14: 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.”
Exodus 17.15: 15 Moses built an altar, and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”.
Exodus 17.16: 16 He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”
Deuteronomy 16.0:
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Deuteronomy 16.1: 1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
Deuteronomy 16.2: 2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16.3: 3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
Deuteronomy 16.4: 4 No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the meat, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.
Deuteronomy 16.5: 5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you;
Deuteronomy 16.6: 6 but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16.7: 7 You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.
Deuteronomy 16.8: 8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work.
Deuteronomy 16.9: 9 You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.
Deuteronomy 16.10: 10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a free will offering of your hand, which you shall give according to how Yahweh your God blesses you.
Deuteronomy 16.11: 11 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16.12: 12 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.
Deuteronomy 16.13: 13 You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press.
Deuteronomy 16.14: 14 You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.
Deuteronomy 16.15: 15 You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
Deuteronomy 16.16: 16 Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.
Deuteronomy 16.17: 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you.
Deuteronomy 16.18: 18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 16.19: 19 You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 16.20: 20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 16.21: 21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.
Deuteronomy 16.22: 22 Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.
Deuteronomy 25.0:
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Deuteronomy 25.1: 1 If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
Deuteronomy 25.2: 2 It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
Deuteronomy 25.3: 3 He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.
Deuteronomy 25.4: 4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
Deuteronomy 25.5: 5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
Deuteronomy 25.6: 6 It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
Deuteronomy 25.7: 7 If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”
Deuteronomy 25.8: 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
Deuteronomy 25.9: 9 then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”
Deuteronomy 25.10: 10 His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his sandal removed.”
Deuteronomy 25.11: 11 When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and grabs him by his private parts,
Deuteronomy 25.12: 12 then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.
Deuteronomy 25.13: 13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.
Deuteronomy 25.14: 14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.
Deuteronomy 25.15: 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 25.16: 16 For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 25.17: 17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt;
Deuteronomy 25.18: 18 how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.
Deuteronomy 25.19: 19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.
2 Samuel 1.0:
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2 Samuel 1.1: 1 After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;
2 Samuel 1.2: 2 on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the earth, and showed respect.
2 Samuel 1.3: 3 David said to him, “Where do you come from?”
He said to him, “I have escaped out of the camp of Israel.”
2 Samuel 1.4: 4 David said to him, “How did it go? Please tell me.”
He answered, “The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead. Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.”
2 Samuel 1.5: 5 David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?”
2 Samuel 1.6: 6 The young man who told him said, “As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed close behind him.
2 Samuel 1.7: 7 When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. I answered, ‘Here I am.’
2 Samuel 1.8: 8 He said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
2 Samuel 1.9: 9 He said to me, ‘Please stand beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life lingers in me.’
2 Samuel 1.10: 10 So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.”
2 Samuel 1.11: 11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise.
2 Samuel 1.12: 12 They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they had fallen by the sword.
2 Samuel 1.13: 13 David said to the young man who told him, “Where are you from?”
He answered, “I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite.”
2 Samuel 1.14: 14 David said to him, “Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh’s anointed?”
2 Samuel 1.15: 15 David called one of the young men, and said, “Go near, and cut him down!” He struck him so that he died.
2 Samuel 1.16: 16 David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’”
2 Samuel 1.17: 17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
2 Samuel 1.18: 18 (and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):
2 Samuel 1.19: 19 “Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places!
How the mighty have fallen!
2 Samuel 1.20: 20 Don’t tell it in Gath.
Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon,
lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,
lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
2 Samuel 1.21: 21 You mountains of Gilboa,
let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings;
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled and cast away,
The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.
2 Samuel 1.22: 22 From the blood of the slain,
from the fat of the mighty,
Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back.
Saul’s sword didn’t return empty.
2 Samuel 1.23: 23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives.
In their death, they were not divided.
They were swifter than eagles.
They were stronger than lions.
2 Samuel 1.24: 24 You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
who clothed you delicately in scarlet,
who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
2 Samuel 1.25: 25 How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle!
Jonathan was slain on your high places.
2 Samuel 1.26: 26 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan.
You have been very pleasant to me.
Your love to me was wonderful,
passing the love of women.
2 Samuel 1.27: 27 How the mighty have fallen,
and the weapons of war have perished!”
2 Kings 8.0:
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2 Kings 8.1: 1 Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”
2 Kings 8.2: 2 The woman arose, and did according to the man of God’s word. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
2 Kings 8.3: 3 At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land.
2 Kings 8.4: 4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”
2 Kings 8.5: 5 As he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, begged the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”
2 Kings 8.6: 6 When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”
2 Kings 8.7: 7 Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. He was told, “The man of God has come here.”
2 Kings 8.8: 8 The king said to Hazael, “Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
2 Kings 8.9: 9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, “Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
2 Kings 8.10: 10 Elisha said to him, “Go, tell him, ‘You will surely recover;’ however Yahweh has shown me that he will surely die.”
2 Kings 8.11: 11 He settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept.
2 Kings 8.12: 12 Hazael said, “Why do you weep, my lord?”
He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their little ones in pieces, and rip up their pregnant women.”
2 Kings 8.13: 13 Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?”
Elisha answered, “Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”
2 Kings 8.14: 14 Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?”
He answered, “He told me that you would surely recover.”
2 Kings 8.15: 15 On the next day, he took a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died. Then Hazael reigned in his place.
2 Kings 8.16: 16 In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being king of Judah then, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings 8.17: 17 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign. He reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
2 Kings 8.18: 18 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he married Ahab’s daughter. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
2 Kings 8.19: 19 However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.
2 Kings 8.20: 20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
2 Kings 8.21: 21 Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
2 Kings 8.22: 22 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
2 Kings 8.23: 23 The rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 8.24: 24 Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 8.25: 25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings 8.26: 26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
2 Kings 8.27: 27 He walked in the way of Ahab’s house, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house; for he was the son-in-law of Ahab’s house.
2 Kings 8.28: 28 He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.
2 Kings 8.29: 29 King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
Proverbs 3.0:
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Proverbs 3.1: 1 My son, don’t forget my teaching;
but let your heart keep my commandments:
Proverbs 3.2: 2 for they will add to you length of days,
years of life, and peace.
Proverbs 3.3: 3 Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you.
Bind them around your neck.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 3.4: 4 So you will find favor,
and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 3.5: 5 Trust in Yahweh with all your heart,
and don’t lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3.6: 6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3.7: 7 Don’t be wise in your own eyes.
Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
Proverbs 3.8: 8 It will be health to your body,
and nourishment to your bones.
Proverbs 3.9: 9 Honor Yahweh with your substance,
with the first fruits of all your increase:
Proverbs 3.10: 10 so your barns will be filled with plenty,
and your vats will overflow with new wine.
Proverbs 3.11: 11 My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline,
neither be weary of his correction;
Proverbs 3.12: 12 for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects,
even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
Proverbs 3.13: 13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom,
the man who gets understanding.
Proverbs 3.14: 14 For her good profit is better than getting silver,
and her return is better than fine gold.
Proverbs 3.15: 15 She is more precious than rubies.
None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
Proverbs 3.16: 16 Length of days is in her right hand.
In her left hand are riches and honor.
Proverbs 3.17: 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness.
All her paths are peace.
Proverbs 3.18: 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her.
Happy is everyone who retains her.
Proverbs 3.19: 19 By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth.
By understanding, he established the heavens.
Proverbs 3.20: 20 By his knowledge, the depths were broken up,
and the skies drop down the dew.
Proverbs 3.21: 21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes.
Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
Proverbs 3.22: 22 so they will be life to your soul,
and grace for your neck.
Proverbs 3.23: 23 Then you shall walk in your way securely.
Your foot won’t stumble.
Proverbs 3.24: 24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid.
Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.
Proverbs 3.25: 25 Don’t be afraid of sudden fear,
neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes;
Proverbs 3.26: 26 for Yahweh will be your confidence,
and will keep your foot from being taken.
Proverbs 3.27: 27 Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due,
when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Proverbs 3.28: 28 Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again;
tomorrow I will give it to you,”
when you have it by you.
Proverbs 3.29: 29 Don’t devise evil against your neighbor,
since he dwells securely by you.
Proverbs 3.30: 30 Don’t strive with a man without cause,
if he has done you no harm.
Proverbs 3.31: 31 Don’t envy the man of violence.
Choose none of his ways.
Proverbs 3.32: 32 For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh,
but his friendship is with the upright.
Proverbs 3.33: 33 Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked,
but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
Proverbs 3.34: 34 Surely he mocks the mockers,
but he gives grace to the humble.
Proverbs 3.35: 35 The wise will inherit glory,
but shame will be the promotion of fools.
Lamentations 1.0:
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Lamentations 1.1: 1 How the city sits solitary,
that was full of people!
She has become as a widow,
who was great among the nations!
She who was a princess among the provinces
has become a slave!
Lamentations 1.2: 2 She weeps bitterly in the night.
Her tears are on her cheeks.
Among all her lovers
she has no one to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her.
They have become her enemies.
Lamentations 1.3: 3 Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction,
and because of great servitude.
She dwells among the nations.
She finds no rest.
All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
Lamentations 1.4: 4 The roads to Zion mourn,
because no one comes to the solemn assembly.
All her gates are desolate.
Her priests sigh.
Her virgins are afflicted,
and she herself is in bitterness.
Lamentations 1.5: 5 Her adversaries have become the head.
Her enemies prosper;
for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions.
Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
Lamentations 1.6: 6 All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion.
Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture.
They have gone without strength before the pursuer.
Lamentations 1.7: 7 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries
all her pleasant things that were from the days of old;
when her people fell into the hand of the adversary,
and no one helped her.
The adversaries saw her.
They mocked at her desolations.
Lamentations 1.8: 8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned.
Therefore she has become unclean.
All who honored her despise her,
because they have seen her nakedness.
Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
Lamentations 1.9: 9 Her filthiness was in her skirts.
She didn’t remember her latter end.
Therefore she has come down astoundingly.
She has no comforter.
“See, Yahweh, my affliction;
for the enemy has magnified himself.”
Lamentations 1.10: 10 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things;
for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary,
concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
Lamentations 1.11: 11 All her people sigh.
They seek bread.
They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul.
“Look, Yahweh, and see;
for I have become despised.”
Lamentations 1.12: 12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
which is brought on me,
with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Lamentations 1.13: 13 “From on high has he sent fire into my bones,
and it prevails against them.
He has spread a net for my feet.
He has turned me back.
He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.
Lamentations 1.14: 14 “The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand.
They are knit together.
They have come up on my neck.
He made my strength fail.
The Lord has delivered me into their hands,
against whom I am not able to stand.
Lamentations 1.15: 15 “The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me.
He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men.
The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.
Lamentations 1.16: 16 “For these things I weep.
My eye, my eye runs down with water,
because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me.
My children are desolate,
because the enemy has prevailed.”
Lamentations 1.17: 17 Zion spreads out her hands.
There is no one to comfort her.
Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob,
that those who are around him should be his adversaries.
Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
Lamentations 1.18: 18 “Yahweh is righteous;
for I have rebelled against his commandment.
Please hear all you peoples,
and see my sorrow.
My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
Lamentations 1.19: 19 “I called for my lovers,
but they deceived me.
My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city,
while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.
Lamentations 1.20: 20 “Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress.
My heart is troubled.
My heart turns over within me,
for I have grievously rebelled.
Abroad, the sword bereaves.
At home, it is like death.
Lamentations 1.21: 21 “They have heard that I sigh.
There is no one to comfort me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble.
They are glad that you have done it.
You will bring the day that you have proclaimed,
and they will be like me.
Lamentations 1.22: 22 “Let all their wickedness come before you.
Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions.
For my sighs are many,
and my heart is faint.
Ezekiel 2.0:
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Ezekiel 2.1: 1 He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.”
Ezekiel 2.2: 2 The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me.
Ezekiel 2.3: 3 He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.
Ezekiel 2.4: 4 The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’
Ezekiel 2.5: 5 They, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse, for they are a rebellious house, yet they will know that there has been a prophet among them.
Ezekiel 2.6: 6 You, son of man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 2.7: 7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse; for they are most rebellious.
Ezekiel 2.8: 8 But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.”
Ezekiel 2.9: 9 When I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was in it.
Ezekiel 2.10: 10 He spread it before me. It was written within and without; and lamentations, mourning, and woe were written in it.
Ezekiel 29.0:
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Ezekiel 29.1: 1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 29.2: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
Ezekiel 29.3: 3 Speak and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers,
that has said, ‘My river is my own,
and I have made it for myself.’
Ezekiel 29.4: 4 I will put hooks in your jaws,
and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales.
I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers,
with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.
Ezekiel 29.5: 5 I’ll cast you out into the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your rivers.
You’ll fall on the open field.
You won’t be brought together or gathered.
I have given you for food to the animals of the earth
and to the birds of the sky.
Ezekiel 29.6: 6 “‘“All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 29.7: 7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke, and paralyzed all of their thighs.”
Ezekiel 29.8: 8 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off man and animal from you.
Ezekiel 29.9: 9 The land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
“‘“Because he has said, ‘The river is mine, and I have made it;’
Ezekiel 29.10: 10 therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.
Ezekiel 29.11: 11 No foot of man will pass through it, nor will any animal foot pass through it. It won’t be inhabited for forty years.
Ezekiel 29.12: 12 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the middle of the countries that are desolate. Her cities among the cities that are laid waste will be a desolation forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.”
Ezekiel 29.13: 13 “‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered.
Ezekiel 29.14: 14 I will reverse the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth. They will be a lowly kingdom, there.
Ezekiel 29.15: 15 It will be the lowest of the kingdoms. It won’t lift itself up above the nations any more. I will diminish them, so that they will no longer rule over the nations.
Ezekiel 29.16: 16 It will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”’”
Ezekiel 29.17: 17 It came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 29.18: 18 “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he had no wages, nor did his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
Ezekiel 29.19: 19 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off her multitude, take her plunder, and take her prey. That will be the wages for his army.
Ezekiel 29.20: 20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he served, because they worked for me,’ says the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 29.21: 21 “In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”
Daniel 2.0:
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Daniel 2.1: 1 In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.
Daniel 2.2: 2 Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be called to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.
Daniel 2.3: 3 The king said to them, “I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”
Daniel 2.4: 4 Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”
Daniel 2.5: 5 The king answered the Chaldeans, “The thing has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill.
Daniel 2.6: 6 But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you will receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.”
Daniel 2.7: 7 They answered the second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”
Daniel 2.8: 8 The king answered, “I know of a certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see the thing has gone from me.
Daniel 2.9: 9 But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation.”
Daniel 2.10: 10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, “There is not a man on the earth who can show the king’s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.
Daniel 2.11: 11 It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”
Daniel 2.12: 12 Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.
Daniel 2.13: 13 So the decree went out, and the wise men were to be slain. They sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.
Daniel 2.14: 14 Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 2.15: 15 He answered Arioch the king’s captain, “Why is the decree so urgent from the king?” Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
Daniel 2.16: 16 Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.
Daniel 2.17: 17 Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
Daniel 2.18: 18 that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 2.19: 19 Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
Daniel 2.20: 20 Daniel answered,
“Blessed be the name of God forever and ever;
for wisdom and might are his.
Daniel 2.21: 21 He changes the times and the seasons.
He removes kings, and sets up kings.
He gives wisdom to the wise,
and knowledge to those who have understanding.
Daniel 2.22: 22 He reveals the deep and secret things.
He knows what is in the darkness,
and the light dwells with him.
Daniel 2.23: 23 I thank you, and praise you,
you God of my fathers,
who have given me wisdom and might,
and have now made known to me what we desired of you;
for you have made known to us the king’s matter.”
Daniel 2.24: 24 Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him: “Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.”
Daniel 2.25: 25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said this to him: “I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah who will make known to the king the interpretation.”
Daniel 2.26: 26 The king answered Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?”
Daniel 2.27: 27 Daniel answered before the king, and said, “The secret which the king has demanded can’t be shown to the king by wise men, enchanters, magicians, or soothsayers;
Daniel 2.28: 28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:
Daniel 2.29: 29 “As for you, O king, your thoughts came on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what will happen.
Daniel 2.30: 30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.
Daniel 2.31: 31 “You, O king, saw, and behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its appearance was terrifying.
Daniel 2.32: 32 As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,
Daniel 2.33: 33 its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.
Daniel 2.34: 34 You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
Daniel 2.35: 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Daniel 2.36: 36 “This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king.
Daniel 2.37: 37 You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory.
Daniel 2.38: 38 Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into your hand, and has made you rule over them all. You are the head of gold.
Daniel 2.39: 39 “After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you; and another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.
Daniel 2.40: 40 The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, it will break in pieces and crush.
Daniel 2.41: 41 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but there will be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.
Daniel 2.42: 42 As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong, and partly broken.
Daniel 2.43: 43 Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they won’t cling to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay.
Daniel 2.44: 44 “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.
Daniel 2.45: 45 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”
Daniel 2.46: 46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odors to him.
Daniel 2.47: 47 The king answered to Daniel, and said, “Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.”
Daniel 2.48: 48 Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 2.49: 49 Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate.
John 5.0:
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John 5.1: 1 After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 5.2: 2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches.
John 5.3: 3 In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;
John 5.4: 4 for an angel went down at certain times into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.
John 5.5: 5 A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
John 5.6: 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”
John 5.7: 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”
John 5.8: 8 Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”
John 5.9: 9 Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked.
Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
John 5.10: 10 So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”
John 5.11: 11 He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”
John 5.12: 12 Then they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your mat and walk’?”
John 5.13: 13 But he who was healed didn’t know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
John 5.14: 14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
John 5.15: 15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
John 5.16: 16 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
John 5.17: 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”
John 5.18: 18 For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
John 5.19: 19 Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
John 5.20: 20 For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
John 5.21: 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
John 5.22: 22 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
John 5.23: 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.
John 5.24: 24 “Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
John 5.25: 25 Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.
John 5.26: 26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
John 5.27: 27 He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
John 5.28: 28 Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice,
John 5.29: 29 and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
John 5.30: 30 I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
John 5.31: 31 “If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
John 5.32: 32 It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.
John 5.33: 33 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
John 5.34: 34 But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.
John 5.35: 35 He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
John 5.36: 36 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
John 5.37: 37 The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
John 5.38: 38 You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent.
John 5.39: 39 “You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
John 5.40: 40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
John 5.41: 41 I don’t receive glory from men.
John 5.42: 42 But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.
John 5.43: 43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
John 5.44: 44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
John 5.45: 45 “Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
John 5.46: 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
John 5.47: 47 But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
John 21.0:
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John 21.1: 1 After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way.
John 21.2: 2 Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.
John 21.3: 3 Simon Peter said to them, “I’m going fishing.”
They told him, “We are also coming with you.” They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.
John 21.4: 4 But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn’t know that it was Jesus.
John 21.5: 5 Jesus therefore said to them, “Children, have you anything to eat?”
They answered him, “No.”
John 21.6: 6 He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.”
They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.
John 21.7: 7 That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It’s the Lord!”
So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around himself (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.
John 21.8: 8 But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits away), dragging the net full of fish.
John 21.9: 9 So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish and bread laid on it.
John 21.10: 10 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.”
John 21.11: 11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of one hundred fifty-three great fish. Even though there were so many, the net wasn’t torn.
John 21.12: 12 Jesus said to them, “Come and eat breakfast!”
None of the disciples dared inquire of him, “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord.
John 21.13: 13 Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.
John 21.14: 14 This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead.
John 21.15: 15 So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?”
He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.”
He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
John 21.16: 16 He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?”
He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.”
He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
John 21.17: 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?”
Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.”
Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
John 21.18: 18 Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”
John 21.19: 19 Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”
John 21.20: 20 Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”
John 21.21: 21 Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”
John 21.22: 22 Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”
John 21.23: 23 This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”
John 21.24: 24 This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.
John 21.25: 25 There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.
Hebrews 5.0:
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Hebrews 5.1: 1 For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
Hebrews 5.2: 2 The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.
Hebrews 5.3: 3 Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.
Hebrews 5.4: 4 Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.
Hebrews 5.5: 5 So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him,
“You are my Son.
Today I have become your father.”
Hebrews 5.6: 6 As he says also in another place,
“You are a priest forever,
after the order of Melchizedek.”
Hebrews 5.7: 7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
Hebrews 5.8: 8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
Hebrews 5.9: 9 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
Hebrews 5.10: 10 named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 5.11: 11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
Hebrews 5.12: 12 For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
Hebrews 5.13: 13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
Hebrews 5.14: 14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
1 Peter 3.0:
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1 Peter 3.1: 1 In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,
1 Peter 3.2: 2 seeing your pure behavior in fear.
1 Peter 3.3: 3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
1 Peter 3.4: 4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.
1 Peter 3.5: 5 For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.
1 Peter 3.6: 6 So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
1 Peter 3.7: 7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
1 Peter 3.8: 8 Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
1 Peter 3.9: 9 not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.
1 Peter 3.10: 10 For,
“He who would love life
and see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit.
1 Peter 3.11: 11 Let him turn away from evil and do good.
Let him seek peace and pursue it.
1 Peter 3.12: 12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears open to their prayer;
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
1 Peter 3.13: 13 Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?
1 Peter 3.14: 14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”
1 Peter 3.15: 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
1 Peter 3.16: 16 having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
1 Peter 3.17: 17 For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
1 Peter 3.18: 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,
1 Peter 3.19: 19 in whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,
1 Peter 3.20: 20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
1 Peter 3.21: 21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 3.22: 22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
Jude 1.0:
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Jude 1.1: 1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
Jude 1.2: 2 Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.
Jude 1.3: 3 Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
Jude 1.4: 4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Jude 1.5: 5 Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
Jude 1.6: 6 Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
Jude 1.7: 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Jude 1.8: 8 Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
Jude 1.9: 9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”
Jude 1.10: 10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
Jude 1.11: 11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
Jude 1.12: 12 These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Jude 1.13: 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
Jude 1.14: 14 About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
Jude 1.15: 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
Jude 1.16: 16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
Jude 1.17: 17 But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1.18: 18 They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”
Jude 1.19: 19 These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
Jude 1.20: 20 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
Jude 1.21: 21 Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
Jude 1.22: 22 On some have compassion, making a distinction,
Jude 1.23: 23 and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
Jude 1.24: 24 Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
Jude 1.25: 25 to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
Revelation 15.0:
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Revelation 15.1: 1 I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished.
Revelation 15.2: 2 I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.
Revelation 15.3: 3 They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,
“Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty!
Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
Revelation 15.4: 4 Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord,
and glorify your name?
For you only are holy.
For all the nations will come and worship before you.
For your righteous acts have been revealed.”
Revelation 15.5: 5 After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.
Revelation 15.6: 6 The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts.
Revelation 15.7: 7 One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
Revelation 15.8: 8 The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.0:
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Wisdom of Solomon 8.1: 1 But she reaches from one end to the other with full strength,
and orders all things well.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.2: 2 I loved her and sought her from my youth.
I sought to take her for my bride.
I became enamoured by her beauty.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.3: 3 She glorifies her noble birth by living with God.
The Sovereign Lord of all loves her.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.4: 4 For she is initiated into the knowledge of God,
and she chooses his works.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.5: 5 But if riches are a desired possession in life,
what is richer than wisdom, which makes all things?
Wisdom of Solomon 8.6: 6 And if understanding works,
who more than wisdom is an architect of the things that exist?
Wisdom of Solomon 8.7: 7 If a man loves righteousness,
the fruits of wisdom’s labor are virtues,
for she teaches soberness, understanding, righteousness, and courage.
There is nothing in life more profitable for people than these.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.8: 8 And if anyone longs for wide experience,
she knows the things of old, and infers the things to come.
She understands subtleties of speeches and interpretations of dark sayings.
She foresees signs and wonders, and the issues of seasons and times.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.9: 9 Therefore I determined to take her to live with me,
knowing that she is one who would give me good counsel,
and encourage me in cares and grief.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.10: 10 Because of her, I will have glory among multitudes,
and honor in the sight of elders, though I am young.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.11: 11 I will be found keen when I give judgement.
I will be admired in the presence of rulers.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.12: 12 When I am silent, they will wait for me.
When I open my lips, they will heed what I say.
If I continue speaking, they will put their hands on their mouths.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.13: 13 Because of her, I will have immortality,
and leave behind an eternal memory to those who come after me.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.14: 14 I will govern peoples.
Nations will be subjected to me.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.15: 15 Dreaded monarchs will fear me when they hear of me.
Among the people, I will show myself to be good, and courageous in war.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.16: 16 When I come into my house, I will find rest with her.
For conversation with her has no bitterness,
and living with her has no pain, but gladness and joy.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.17: 17 When I considered these things in myself,
and thought in my heart how immortality is in kinship to wisdom,
Wisdom of Solomon 8.18: 18 and in her friendship is good delight,
and in the labors of her hands is wealth that doesn’t fail,
and understanding is in her companionship,
and great renown in having fellowship with her words,
I went about seeking how to take her to myself.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.19: 19 Now I was a clever child, and received a good soul fell.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.20: 20 Or rather, being good, I came into an undefiled body.
Wisdom of Solomon 8.21: 21 But perceiving that I could not otherwise possess wisdom unless God gave her to me—
yes, and to know and understand by whom the grace is given—
I pleaded with the Lord and implored him, and with my whole heart I said,
Sirach 31.0:
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Sirach 31.1: 1 Wakefulness that comes of riches consumes the flesh,
And the anxiety thereof puts away sleep.
Sirach 31.2: 2 Wakeful anxiety will crave slumber;
And in a sore disease sleep will be broken.
Sirach 31.3: 3 A rich man toils in gathering money together;
And when he rests, he is filled with his good things.
Sirach 31.4: 4 A poor man toils in lack of substance;
And when he rests, he becomes needy.
Sirach 31.5: 5 He that loves gold shall not be justified;
And he that follows destruction shall himself have his fill of it.
Sirach 31.6: 6 Many have been given over to ruin for the sake of gold;
And their perdition meets them face to face.
Sirach 31.7: 7 It is a stumbling block to those who sacrifice to it;
And every fool shall be taken therewith.
Sirach 31.8: 8 Blessed is the rich that is found without blemish,
And that goes not after gold.
Sirach 31.9: 9 Who is he? and we will call him blessed:
For wonderful things has he done among his people.
Sirach 31.10: 10 Who has been tried by it, and found perfect?
Then let him glory.
Who has had the power to transgress, and has not transgressed?
And to do evil, and has not done it?
Sirach 31.11: 11 His goods shall be made sure,
And the congregation shall declare his alms.
Sirach 31.12: 12 Sittest you at a great table? be not greedy upon it,
And say not, Many are the things upon it.
Sirach 31.13: 13 Remember that an evil eye is a wicked thing:
What has been created more evil than an eye?
Therefore it sheds tears from every face.
Sirach 31.14: 14 Stretch not your hand wherever it looks,
And thrust not yourself with it into the dish.
Sirach 31.15: 15 Consider your neighbor’s liking by your own;
And be discreet in every point.
Sirach 31.16: 16 Eat, as becomes a man, those things which are set before you;
And eat not greedily, lest you be hated.
Sirach 31.17: 17 Be first to leave off for manners’ sake;
And be not insatiable, lest you offend.
Sirach 31.18: 18 And if you sit among many,
Reach not out your hand before them.
Sirach 31.19: 19 How sufficient to a well-mannered man is a very little,
And he does not breathe hard upon his bed.
Sirach 31.20: 20 Healthy sleep comes of moderate eating;
He rises early, and his wits are with him:
The pain of wakefulness, and colic,
And griping, are with an insatiable man.
Sirach 31.21: 21 And if you have been forced to eat,
Rise up in the midst thereof, and you shall have rest.
Sirach 31.22: 22 Hear me, my son, and despise me not,
And at the last you shall find my words true:
In all your works be quick,
And no disease shall come to you.
Sirach 31.23: 23 Him that is liberal of his meat the lips shall bless;
And the testimony of his excellence shall be believed.
Sirach 31.24: 24 The city will murmer at he who is a stingy with his meat;
And the testimony of his stinginess will be sure.
Sirach 31.25: 25 Show not yourself valiant in wine;
For wine has destroyed many.
Sirach 31.26: 26 The furnace proves the temper of steel by dipping;
So does wine prove hearts in the quarreling of the proud.
Sirach 31.27: 27 Wine is as good as life to men,
If you drink it in its measure:
What life is there to a man that is without wine?
And it has been created to make men glad.
Sirach 31.28: 28 Wine drunk in season and to satisfy
Is joy of heart, and gladness of soul:
Sirach 31.29: 29 Wine drunk largely is bitterness of soul,
With provocation and conflict.
Sirach 31.30: 30 Drunkenness increases the rage of a fool to his hurt;
It diminishes strength, and adds wounds.
Sirach 31.31: 31 Rebuke not your neighbor at a banquet of wine,
Neither set him at nothing in his mirth:
Speak not to him a word of reproach,
And press not upon him by asking back a debt.
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1 Maccabees 6.1: 1 And king Antiochus was journeying through the upper countries; and he heard say, that in Elymais in Persia there was a city renowned for riches, for silver and gold;
1 Maccabees 6.2: 2 and that the temple which was in it was rich exceedingly, and that therein were golden shields, and breastplates, and arms, which Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian king, who reigned first among the Greeks, left behind there.
1 Maccabees 6.3: 3 And he came and sought to take the city, and to pillage it; and he was not able, because the thing was known to them of the city,
1 Maccabees 6.4: 4 and they rose up against him to battle: and he fled, and removed thence with great heaviness, to return to Babylon.
1 Maccabees 6.5: 5 And there came one bringing him tidings into Persia, that the armies, which went against the land of Judah, had been put to flight;
1 Maccabees 6.6: 6 and that Lysias went first with a strong army, and was put to shame before them; and that they had waxed strong by reason of arms and power, and with store of spoils, which they took from the armies that they had cut off;
1 Maccabees 6.7: 7 and that they had pulled down the abomination which he had built upon the altar that was in Jerusalem; and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and Bethsura, his city.
1 Maccabees 6.8: 8 And it came to pass, when the king heard these words, he was astonished and moved exceedingly: and he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for.
1 Maccabees 6.9: 9 And he was there many days, because great grief was renewed upon him, and he made account that he should die.
1 Maccabees 6.10: 10 And he called for all his Friends, and said to them, Sleep departs from my eyes, and my heart fails for care.
1 Maccabees 6.11: 11 And I said in my heart, To what suffering am I come, and how great a flood is it, wherein I now am! for I was gracious and beloved in my power.
1 Maccabees 6.12: 12 But now I remember the evils which I did at Jerusalem, and that I took all the vessels of silver and gold that were therein, and sent forth to destroy the inhabitants of Judah without a cause.
1 Maccabees 6.13: 13 I perceive that on this account these evils are come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land.
1 Maccabees 6.14: 14 And he called for Philip, one of his Friends, and set him over all his kingdom,
1 Maccabees 6.15: 15 and gave him his diadem, and his robe, and his signet ring, to the end he should bring Antiochus his son, and nourish him up that he might be king.
1 Maccabees 6.16: 16 And king Antiochus died there in the hundred and forty and ninth year.
1 Maccabees 6.17: 17 And Lysias knew that the king was dead, and he set up Antiochus his son to reign, whom he had nourished up being young, and he called his name Eupator.
1 Maccabees 6.18: 18 And those who were in the citadel shut up Israel round about the sanctuary, and sought always their hurt, and the strengthening of the Gentiles.
1 Maccabees 6.19: 19 And Judas thought to destroy them, and called all the people together to besiege them.
1 Maccabees 6.20: 20 And they were gathered together, and besieged them in the hundred and fifties year, and he made mounds to shoot from, and engines of war.
1 Maccabees 6.21: 21 And there came forth some of those who were shut up, and there were joined to them certain ungodly men of Israel.
1 Maccabees 6.22: 22 And they went to the king, and said, How long will you not execute judgement, and avenge our kindred?
1 Maccabees 6.23: 23 We were willing to serve your father, and to walk after his words, and to follow his commandments;
1 Maccabees 6.24: 24 and for this cause the children of our people besieged the citadel, and were alienated from us; but as many of us as they could light on they killed, and plundered our inheritances.
1 Maccabees 6.25: 25 And not against us only did they stretch out their hand, but also against all their borders.
1 Maccabees 6.26: 26 And, behold, they are encamped this day against the citadel at Jerusalem, to take it: and the sanctuary and Bethsura have they fortified.
1 Maccabees 6.27: 27 And if you° are not beforehand with them quickly, they will do greater things than these, and you shall not be able to control them.
1 Maccabees 6.28: 28 And when the king heard this, he was angry, and gathered together all his Friends, even the rulers of his army, and those who were over the horse.
1 Maccabees 6.29: 29 And there came to him from other kingdoms, and from isles of the sea, bands of hired soldiers.
1 Maccabees 6.30: 30 And the number of his forces was a hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and two and thirty elephants trained for war.
1 Maccabees 6.31: 31 And they went through Idumaea, and encamped against Bethsura, and fought against it many days, and made engines of war; and they of Bethsura came out, and burned them with fire, and fought valiantly.
1 Maccabees 6.32: 32 And Judas removed from the citadel, and encamped at Bethzacharias, near the king’s camp.
1 Maccabees 6.33: 33 And the king rose early in the morning, and removed his army at full speed along the road to Bethzacharias, and his forces made them ready to battle, and sounded with the trumpets.
1 Maccabees 6.34: 34 And they showed the elephants the blood of grapes and mulberries, that they might prepare them for the battle.
1 Maccabees 6.35: 35 And they divided the beasts among the phalanxes, and they set by each elephant a thousand men armed with coats of mail, and helmets of brass on their heads; and for each beast were appointed five hundred chosen horsemen.
1 Maccabees 6.36: 36 These were ready beforehand, wherever the beast was; and wherever the beast went, they went with him; they departed not from him.
1 Maccabees 6.37: 37 And towers of wood were upon them, strong and covered, one upon each beast, girded fast upon him with cunning contrivances; and upon each beast were two and thirty valiant men that fought upon them, beside his Indian
1 Maccabees 6.38: 38 (and the residue of the horsemen he set on this side and that side at the two parts of the army), striking terror into the enemy, and protected by the phalanxes.
1 Maccabees 6.39: 39 Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains shone therewith, and blazed like torches of fire.
1 Maccabees 6.40: 40 And a part of the king’s army was spread upon the high mountains, and some on the low ground, and they went on firmly and in order.
1 Maccabees 6.41: 41 And all that heard the noise of their multitude, and the marching of the multitude, and the rattling of the arms, did quake: for the army was exceedingly great and strong.
1 Maccabees 6.42: 42 And Judas and his army drew near for battle, and there fell of the king’s army six hundred men.
1 Maccabees 6.43: 43 And Eleazar, who was called Avaran, saw one of the beasts armed with royal breastplates, and he was higher than all the beasts, and the king seemed to be upon him;
1 Maccabees 6.44: 44 and he gave himself to deliver his people, and to get him an everlasting name;
1 Maccabees 6.45: 45 and he ran upon him courageously into the midst of the phalanx, and killed on the right hand and on the left, and they parted asunder from him on this side and on that.
1 Maccabees 6.46: 46 And he crept under the elephant, and thrust him from beneath, and killed him; and the elephant fell to the earth upon him, and he died there.
1 Maccabees 6.47: 47 And they saw the strength of the kingdom, and the fierce onset of the army, and turned away from them.
1 Maccabees 6.48: 48 But they of the king’s army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and the king encamped toward Judea, and toward mount Sion.
1 Maccabees 6.49: 49 And he made peace with them of Bethsura; and he came out of the city, because they had no food there to endure the siege, because it was a Sabbath to the land.
1 Maccabees 6.50: 50 And the king took Bethsura, and appointed a garrison there to keep it.
1 Maccabees 6.51: 51 And he encamped against the sanctuary many days; and set there mounds to shoot from, and engines of war, and instruments for casting fire and stones, and pieces to cast darts, and slings.
1 Maccabees 6.52: 52 And they also made engines against their engines, and fought for many days.
1 Maccabees 6.53: 53 But there were no food in the sanctuary, because it was the seventh year, and those who fled for safety into Judea from among the Gentiles had eaten up the residue of the store;
1 Maccabees 6.54: 54 and there were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the famine prevailed against them, and they were scattered, each man to his own place.
1 Maccabees 6.55: 55 And Lysias heard say, that Philip, whom Antiochus the king, whiles he was yet alive, appointed to nourish up his son Antiochus, that he might be king,
1 Maccabees 6.56: 56 was returned from Persia and Media, and with him the forces that went with the king, and that he was seeking to take to him the government.
1 Maccabees 6.57: 57 And he made haste, and gave consent to depart; and he said to the king and the leaders of the army and to the men, We decay daily, and our food is scant, and the place where we encamp is strong, and the affairs of the kingdom lie upon us:
1 Maccabees 6.58: 58 now therefore let’s give the right hand to these men, and make peace with them and with all their nation,
1 Maccabees 6.59: 59 and covenant with them, that they shall walk after their own laws, as aforetime: for because of their laws which we abolished they were angered, and did all these things.
1 Maccabees 6.60: 60 And the saying pleased the king and the princes, and he sent to them to make peace; and they accepted thereof.
1 Maccabees 6.61: 61 And the king and the princes sware to them: thereupon they came forth from the stronghold.
1 Maccabees 6.62: 62 And the king entered into mount Sion; and he saw the strength of the place, and set at nothing the oath which he had sworn, and gave commandment to pull down the wall round about.
1 Maccabees 6.63: 63 And he removed in haste, and returned to Antioch, and found Philip master of the city; and he fought against him, and took the city by force.
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2 Maccabees 1.1: 1 The kindred, the Jews that are in Jerusalem and those who are in the country of Judea, send greeting to the kindred, the Jews that are throughout Egypt, and wish them good peace:
2 Maccabees 1.2: 2 and may God do good to you, and remember his covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, his faithful servants;
2 Maccabees 1.3: 3 and give you all a heart to worship him and do his pleasure with a great heart and a willing soul;
2 Maccabees 1.4: 4 and open your heart in his law and in his statutes, and make peace,
2 Maccabees 1.5: 5 and listen to your requests, and be reconciled with you, and not forsake you in an evil time.
2 Maccabees 1.6: 6 And now we here are praying for you.
2 Maccabees 1.7: 7 In the reign of Demetrius, in the hundred threescore and ninth year, we the Jews have already written to you in the suffering and in the extremity that has come upon us in these years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom,
2 Maccabees 1.8: 8 and set the gate on fire, and shed innocent blood: and we implored the Lord, and were heard; and we offered sacrifice and meal offering, and we lighted the lamps, and we set forth the show bread.
2 Maccabees 1.9: 9 And now see that you° keep the days of the feast of tabernacles of the month Chislev.
2 Maccabees 1.10: 10 Written in the hundred fourscore and eighth year.
THEY that are in Jerusalem and those who are in Judea and the senate and Judas, to Aristobulus, king Ptolemy’s teacher, who is also of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that are in Egypt, send greeting and health.
2 Maccabees 1.11: 11 Having been saved by God out of great perils, as men arrayed against a king, we thank him greatly.
2 Maccabees 1.12: 12 For himself cast forth into Persia those who arrayed themselves against us in the holy city.
2 Maccabees 1.13: 13 For when the prince was come there, and the army with him that seemed irresistible, they were cut to pieces in the temple of Nanaea by the treachery of Nanaea’s priests.
2 Maccabees 1.14: 14 For Antiochus, on the pretense that he would marry her, came into the place, he and his Friends that were with him, that they might take a great part of the treasures in name of a dowry.
2 Maccabees 1.15: 15 And when the priests of Nanaea’s temple had set the treasures forth, and he was come there with a small company within the wall of the precincts, they shut to the temple when Antiochus was come in:
2 Maccabees 1.16: 16 and opening the secret door of the panelled ceiling, they threw stones and struck down the prince, and they hewed him and his company in pieces, and struck off their heads, and cast them to those that were without.
2 Maccabees 1.17: 17 Blessed be our God in all things, who gave for a prey those who had committed impiety.
2 Maccabees 1.18: 18 Whereas we are now about to keep the purification of the temple in the month Chislev, on the five and twentieth day, we thought it necessary to certify you thereof, that you° also may keep a feast of tabernacles, and a memorial of the fire which was given when Nehemiah offered sacrifices, after he had built both the temple and the altar.
2 Maccabees 1.19: 19 For indeed when our fathers were about to be led into the land of Persia, the godly priests of that time took of the fire of the altar, and hid it privily in the hollow of a well that was without water, wherein they made it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.
2 Maccabees 1.20: 20 Now after many years, when it pleased God, Nehemiah, having received a charge from the king of Persia, sent in quest of the fire the descendants of the priests that hid it. When they declared to us that they had found no fire, but thick water,
2 Maccabees 1.21: 21 he commanded them to draw out thereof and bring to him: and when the sacrifices had been offered on the altar, Nehemiah commanded the priests to sprinkle with the water both the wood and the things laid thereupon.
2 Maccabees 1.22: 22 And when it was done, and some time had passed, and the sun shone out, which before was hid with clouds, there was kindled a great blaze, so that all men marveled.
2 Maccabees 1.23: 23 And the priests made a prayer while the sacrifice was consuming, both the priests and all others, Jonathan leading and the rest answering, as Nehemiah did.
2 Maccabees 1.24: 24 And the prayer was after this manner:
O Lord, Lord God, the Creator of all things, who are terrible and strong and righteous and merciful, who alone are King and gracious,
2 Maccabees 1.25: 25 who alone supply every need, who alone are righteous and almighty and eternal, you that save Israel out of all evil, who made the fathers your chosen, and did sanctify them:
2 Maccabees 1.26: 26 accept the sacrifice for all your people Israel, and guard your own portion, and consecrate it.
2 Maccabees 1.27: 27 Gather together our Dispersion, set at liberty those who are in bondage among the heathen, look upon those who are despised and abhorred, and let the heathen know that you are our God.
2 Maccabees 1.28: 28 Torment those who oppress us and in arrogance shamefully entreat us.
2 Maccabees 1.29: 29 Plant your people in your holy place, even as Moses said.
2 Maccabees 1.30: 30 And thereupon the priests sang the hymns.
2 Maccabees 1.31: 31 And as soon as the sacrifice was consumed, then Nehemiah commanded to pour on great stones the water that was left.
2 Maccabees 1.32: 32 And when this was done, a flame was kindled; but when the light from the altar shone near it, all was consumed.
2 Maccabees 1.33: 33 And when the matter became known, and it was told the king of the Persians, that, in the place where the priests that were led away had hid the fire, there appeared the water, wherewith also Nehemiah and those who were with him purified the sacrifice,
2 Maccabees 1.34: 34 then the king, inclosing the place, made it sacred, after he had proved the matter.
2 Maccabees 1.35: 35 And when the king would show favor to any, he would take from them many presents and give them some of this water.
2 Maccabees 1.36: 36 And Nehemiah and those who were with him called this thing Nephthar, which is by interpretation, Cleansing; but most men call it Nephthai.
3 Maccabees 6.0:
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3 Maccabees 6.1: 1 And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the elders who were around him to cease to cry out to the holy God, and prayed thus:
3 Maccabees 6.2: 2 O king, mighty in power, most high, Almighty God, who regulates the whole creation with your tender mercy,
3 Maccabees 6.3: 3 look upon the seed of Abraham, upon the children of the sanctified Jacob, your sanctified inheritance, O Father, now being wrongfully destroyed as strangers in a strange land.
3 Maccabees 6.4: 4 You destroyed Pharaoh, with his army of chariots, when that lord of this same Egypt was uplifted with lawless daring and loud-sounding tongue. Shedding the beams of your mercy upon the race of Israel, you did overwhelm him with his proud army.
3 Maccabees 6.5: 5 When Sennacherim, the grievous king of the Assyrians, exulting in his countless army, had subdued the whole land with his spear, and was lifting himself against your holy city, with boastings grievous to be endured, you, O Lord, did demolish him and did show forth your might to many nations.
3 Maccabees 6.6: 6 When the three friends in the land of Babylon of their own will exposed their lives to the fire rather than serve vain things, you did send a moist coolness through the fiery furnace, and bring the fire upon all their adversaries.
3 Maccabees 6.7: 7 It was you who, when Daniel was hurled, through slander and envy, as a prey to lions down below, did bring him back against unhurt to light.
3 Maccabees 6.8: 8 When Jonah was pining away in the belly of the sea-bred monster, you did look upon him, O Father, and recover him to the sight of his own.
3 Maccabees 6.9: 9 And now, you who hate insolence; you who do abound in mercy; you who are the protector of all things; appear quickly to those of the race of Israel, who are insulted by abhorred, lawless gentiles.
3 Maccabees 6.10: 10 If our life has during our exile been stained with iniquity, deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and destroy us, O Lord, by the death which you prefer.
3 Maccabees 6.11: 11 Let not the vain-minded congratulate vain idols at the destruction of your beloved, saying, Neither did their god deliver them.
3 Maccabees 6.12: 12 You, who are All-powerful and Almighty, O Eternal One, behold! have mercy upon us who are being withdrawn from life, like traitors, by the unreasoning insolence of lawless men.
3 Maccabees 6.13: 13 Let the heathen cower before your invincible might today, O glorious One, who have all power to save the race of Jacob.
3 Maccabees 6.14: 14 The whole band of infants and their parents with tears beseech you.
3 Maccabees 6.15: 15 Let it be shown to all the nations that you are with us, O Lord, and have not turned your face away from us; but as you said that you would not forget them even in the land of their enemies, so do you fulfill this saying, O Lord.
3 Maccabees 6.16: 16 Now, at the time that Eleazar had ended his prayer, the king came along to the hippodrome, with the wild beasts, and with his tumultuous power.
3 Maccabees 6.17: 17 When the Jews saw this, they uttered a loud cry to heaven, so that the adjacent valleys resounded, and caused an irrepressible lamentation throughout the army.
3 Maccabees 6.18: 18 Then the all-glorious, all-powerful, and true God, displayed his holy countenance, and opened the gates of heaven, from which two angels, dreadful of form, came down and were visible to all but the Jews.
3 Maccabees 6.19: 19 And they stood opposite, and filled the enemies’ army with confusion and cowardice; and bound them with immoveable fetters.
3 Maccabees 6.20: 20 And a cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralyzed the vehemence of his spirit.
3 Maccabees 6.21: 21 They turned back the animals upon the armed forces which followed them; and the animals trod them down, and destroyed them.
3 Maccabees 6.22: 22 The king’s wrath was converted into compassion; and he wept at his own machinations.
3 Maccabees 6.23: 23 For when he heard the cry, and saw them all on the verge of destruction, with tears he angrily threatened his friends, saying,
3 Maccabees 6.24: 24 You° have governed badly; and have exceeded tyrants in cruelty; and me your benefactor you° have labored to deprive at once of my dominion and my life, by secretly devising measures injurious to the kingdom.
3 Maccabees 6.25: 25 Who has gathered here, unreasonably removing each from his home, those who, in fidelity to us, had held the fortresses of the country?
3 Maccabees 6.26: 26 Who has thus consigned to unmerited punishments those who in good will toward us from the beginning have in all things surpassed all nations, and who often have engaged in the most dangerous undertakings?
3 Maccabees 6.27: 27 Loose, loose the unjust bonds; send them to their homes in peace, and deprecate what has been done.
3 Maccabees 6.28: 28 Release the sons of the almighty living God of heaven, who from our ancestors’ times until now has granted a glorious and uninterrupted prosperity to our affairs.
3 Maccabees 6.29: 29 These things he said; and they, released the same moment, having now escaped death, praised God their holy Savior.
3 Maccabees 6.30: 30 The king then departed to the city, and called his financier to him, and asked him provide a seven days’ quantity of wine and other materials for feasting for the Jews. He decided that they should keep a gladsome festival of deliverance in the very place in which they expected to meet with their destruction.
3 Maccabees 6.31: 31 Then they who were before despised and near to hades, yes, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths.
3 Maccabees 6.32: 32 Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Savior. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy.
3 Maccabees 6.33: 33 So, also, the king collected a number of guests for the occasion, and returned unceasing thanks with much magnificence for the unexpected deliverance afforded him.
3 Maccabees 6.34: 34 Those who had marked them out as for death and for carrion, and had registered them with joy, howled aloud, and were clothed with shame, and had the fire of their rage ingloriously put out.
3 Maccabees 6.35: 35 But the Jews, as we just said, instituted a dance, and then gave themselves up to feasting, glad thanksgiving, and psalms.
3 Maccabees 6.36: 36 They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus established these days as days of mirth, not for the purpose of drinking or luxury, but because God had saved them.
3 Maccabees 6.37: 37 They requested the king to send them back to their homes.
3 Maccabees 6.38: 38 They were being enrolled from the twenty-fifth of Pachon to the fourth of Epiphi, a period of forty days: the measures taken for their destruction lasted from the fifth of Epiphi till the seventh, that is, three days.
3 Maccabees 6.39: 39 The Ruler over all did during this time manifest forth his mercy gloriously, and did deliver them all together unharmed.
3 Maccabees 6.40: 40 They feasted upon the king’s provision up to the fourteenth day, and then asked to be sent away.
3 Maccabees 6.41: 41 The king commended them, and wrote the following letter, of magnanimous import for them, to the commanders of every city.