Genesis 11.0: 
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Genesis 11.1: 1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
Genesis 11.2: 2 As they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
Genesis 11.3: 3 They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
Genesis 11.4: 4 They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
Genesis 11.5: 5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Genesis 11.6: 6 Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
Genesis 11.7: 7 Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Genesis 11.8: 8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
Genesis 11.9: 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
Genesis 11.10: 10 This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
Genesis 11.11: 11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.12: 12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.
Genesis 11.13: 13 Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.14: 14 Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.
Genesis 11.15: 15 Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.16: 16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
Genesis 11.17: 17 Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.18: 18 Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
Genesis 11.19: 19 Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.20: 20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
Genesis 11.21: 21 Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.22: 22 Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
Genesis 11.23: 23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.24: 24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
Genesis 11.25: 25 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.26: 26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11.27: 27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
Genesis 11.28: 28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.
Genesis 11.29: 29 Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.
Genesis 11.30: 30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.
Genesis 11.31: 31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
Genesis 11.32: 32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
Genesis 14.0: 
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Genesis 14.1: 1 In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar; Arioch, king of Ellasar; Chedorlaomer, king of Elam; and Tidal, king of Goiim,
Genesis 14.2: 2 they made war with Bera, king of Sodom; Birsha, king of Gomorrah; Shinab, king of Admah; Shemeber, king of Zeboiim; and the king of Bela (also called Zoar).
Genesis 14.3: 3 All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).
Genesis 14.4: 4 They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Genesis 14.5: 5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Genesis 14.6: 6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
Genesis 14.7: 7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
Genesis 14.8: 8 The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim
Genesis 14.9: 9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
Genesis 14.10: 10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who remained fled to the hills.
Genesis 14.11: 11 They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.
Genesis 14.12: 12 They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
Genesis 14.13: 13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. They were allies of Abram.
Genesis 14.14: 14 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan.
Genesis 14.15: 15 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
Genesis 14.16: 16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other people.
Genesis 14.17: 17 The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
Genesis 14.18: 18 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.
Genesis 14.19: 19 He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.
Genesis 14.20: 20 Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”
Abram gave him a tenth of all.
Genesis 14.21: 21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself.”
Genesis 14.22: 22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
Genesis 14.23: 23 that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
Genesis 14.24: 24 I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”
Genesis 31.0: 
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Genesis 31.1: 1 Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”
Genesis 31.2: 2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
Genesis 31.3: 3 Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
Genesis 31.4: 4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
Genesis 31.5: 5 and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
Genesis 31.6: 6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
Genesis 31.7: 7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
Genesis 31.8: 8 If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.
Genesis 31.9: 9 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
Genesis 31.10: 10 During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
Genesis 31.11: 11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’
Genesis 31.12: 12 He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
Genesis 31.13: 13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”
Genesis 31.14: 14 Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
Genesis 31.15: 15 Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.
Genesis 31.16: 16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”
Genesis 31.17: 17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
Genesis 31.18: 18 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
Genesis 31.19: 19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
Genesis 31.20: 20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
Genesis 31.21: 21 So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
Genesis 31.22: 22 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
Genesis 31.23: 23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
Genesis 31.24: 24 God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
Genesis 31.25: 25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
Genesis 31.26: 26 Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
Genesis 31.27: 27 Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
Genesis 31.28: 28 and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.
Genesis 31.29: 29 It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’
Genesis 31.30: 30 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”
Genesis 31.31: 31 Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’
Genesis 31.32: 32 Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis 31.33: 33 Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
Genesis 31.34: 34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.
Genesis 31.35: 35 She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.
Genesis 31.36: 36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
Genesis 31.37: 37 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
Genesis 31.38: 38 “These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
Genesis 31.39: 39 That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
Genesis 31.40: 40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Genesis 31.41: 41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 31.42: 42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
Genesis 31.43: 43 Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
Genesis 31.44: 44 Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”
Genesis 31.45: 45 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
Genesis 31.46: 46 Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
Genesis 31.47: 47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
Genesis 31.48: 48 Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
Genesis 31.49: 49 and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
Genesis 31.50: 50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”
Genesis 31.51: 51 Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
Genesis 31.52: 52 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
Genesis 31.53: 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.
Genesis 31.54: 54 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.
Genesis 31.55: 55 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.
Genesis 40.0: 
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Genesis 40.1: 1 After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
Genesis 40.2: 2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.
Genesis 40.3: 3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Genesis 40.4: 4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.
Genesis 40.5: 5 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
Genesis 40.6: 6 Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.
Genesis 40.7: 7 He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”
Genesis 40.8: 8 They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.”
Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.”
Genesis 40.9: 9 The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
Genesis 40.10: 10 and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.
Genesis 40.11: 11 Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”
Genesis 40.12: 12 Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.
Genesis 40.13: 13 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer.
Genesis 40.14: 14 But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
Genesis 40.15: 15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”
Genesis 40.16: 16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.
Genesis 40.17: 17 In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”
Genesis 40.18: 18 Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.
Genesis 40.19: 19 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”
Genesis 40.20: 20 On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
Genesis 40.21: 21 He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;
Genesis 40.22: 22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
Genesis 40.23: 23 Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.
Genesis 46.0: 
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Genesis 46.1: 1 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
Genesis 46.2: 2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!”
He said, “Here I am.”
Genesis 46.3: 3 He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
Genesis 46.4: 4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”
Genesis 46.5: 5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Genesis 46.6: 6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and all his offspring with him,
Genesis 46.7: 7 his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his offspring with him into Egypt.
Genesis 46.8: 8 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
Genesis 46.9: 9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
Genesis 46.10: 10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
Genesis 46.11: 11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Genesis 46.12: 12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
Genesis 46.13: 13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
Genesis 46.14: 14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
Genesis 46.15: 15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
Genesis 46.16: 16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
Genesis 46.17: 17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
Genesis 46.18: 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
Genesis 46.19: 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 46.20: 20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
Genesis 46.21: 21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
Genesis 46.22: 22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
Genesis 46.23: 23 The son of Dan: Hushim.
Genesis 46.24: 24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
Genesis 46.25: 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
Genesis 46.26: 26 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
Genesis 46.27: 27 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
Genesis 46.28: 28 Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
Genesis 46.29: 29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Genesis 46.30: 30 Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”
Genesis 46.31: 31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Genesis 46.32: 32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’
Genesis 46.33: 33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’
Genesis 46.34: 34 that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
Leviticus 21.0: 
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Leviticus 21.1: 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ‘A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people,
Leviticus 21.2: 2 except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,
Leviticus 21.3: 3 and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.
Leviticus 21.4: 4 He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
Leviticus 21.5: 5 “‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh.
Leviticus 21.6: 6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God. Therefore they shall be holy.
Leviticus 21.7: 7 “‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. A priest shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.
Leviticus 21.8: 8 Therefore you shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.
Leviticus 21.9: 9 “‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.
Leviticus 21.10: 10 “‘He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, or tear his clothes.
Leviticus 21.11: 11 He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father or for his mother.
Leviticus 21.12: 12 He shall not go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am Yahweh.
Leviticus 21.13: 13 “‘He shall take a wife in her virginity.
Leviticus 21.14: 14 He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife.
Leviticus 21.15: 15 He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’”
Leviticus 21.16: 16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Leviticus 21.17: 17 “Say to Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.
Leviticus 21.18: 18 For whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,
Leviticus 21.19: 19 or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,
Leviticus 21.20: 20 or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles.
Leviticus 21.21: 21 No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
Leviticus 21.22: 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
Leviticus 21.23: 23 He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”
Leviticus 21.24: 24 So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
Leviticus 25.0: 
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Leviticus 25.1: 1 Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai,
Leviticus 25.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.
Leviticus 25.3: 3 You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits;
Leviticus 25.4: 4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
Leviticus 25.5: 5 What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
Leviticus 25.6: 6 The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
Leviticus 25.7: 7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.
Leviticus 25.8: 8 “‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
Leviticus 25.9: 9 Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
Leviticus 25.10: 10 You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
Leviticus 25.11: 11 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.
Leviticus 25.12: 12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.
Leviticus 25.13: 13 “‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
Leviticus 25.14: 14 “‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
Leviticus 25.15: 15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.
Leviticus 25.16: 16 According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.
Leviticus 25.17: 17 You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
Leviticus 25.18: 18 “‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
Leviticus 25.19: 19 The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
Leviticus 25.20: 20 If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;”
Leviticus 25.21: 21 then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.
Leviticus 25.22: 22 You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
Leviticus 25.23: 23 “‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
Leviticus 25.24: 24 In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
Leviticus 25.25: 25 “‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.
Leviticus 25.26: 26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,
Leviticus 25.27: 27 then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.
Leviticus 25.28: 28 But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
Leviticus 25.29: 29 “‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.
Leviticus 25.30: 30 If it isn’t redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.
Leviticus 25.31: 31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
Leviticus 25.32: 32 “‘Nevertheless, in the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem the houses in the cities of their possession at any time.
Leviticus 25.33: 33 The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
Leviticus 25.34: 34 But the field of the pasture lands of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.
Leviticus 25.35: 35 “‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.
Leviticus 25.36: 36 Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.
Leviticus 25.37: 37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
Leviticus 25.38: 38 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
Leviticus 25.39: 39 “‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
Leviticus 25.40: 40 As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee.
Leviticus 25.41: 41 Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.
Leviticus 25.42: 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.
Leviticus 25.43: 43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
Leviticus 25.44: 44 “‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
Leviticus 25.45: 45 Moreover, of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.
Leviticus 25.46: 46 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
Leviticus 25.47: 47 “‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family,
Leviticus 25.48: 48 after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;
Leviticus 25.49: 49 or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.
Leviticus 25.50: 50 He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.
Leviticus 25.51: 51 If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
Leviticus 25.52: 52 If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.
Leviticus 25.53: 53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
Leviticus 25.54: 54 If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee: he and his children with him.
Leviticus 25.55: 55 For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
Leviticus 27.0: 
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Leviticus 27.1: 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Leviticus 27.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to Yahweh in a vow, according to your valuation,
Leviticus 27.3: 3 your valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
Leviticus 27.4: 4 If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
Leviticus 27.5: 5 If the person is from five years old to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
Leviticus 27.6: 6 If the person is from a month old to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
Leviticus 27.7: 7 If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
Leviticus 27.8: 8 But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall assign a value to him. The priest shall assign a value according to his ability to pay.
Leviticus 27.9: 9 “‘If it is an animal of which men offer an offering to Yahweh, all that any man gives of such to Yahweh becomes holy.
Leviticus 27.10: 10 He shall not alter it, nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good. If he shall at all exchange animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy.
Leviticus 27.11: 11 If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an offering to Yahweh, then he shall set the animal before the priest;
Leviticus 27.12: 12 and the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates it, so it shall be.
Leviticus 27.13: 13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.
Leviticus 27.14: 14 “‘When a man dedicates his house to be holy to Yahweh, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates it, so it shall stand.
Leviticus 27.15: 15 If he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.
Leviticus 27.16: 16 “‘If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Leviticus 27.17: 17 If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.
Leviticus 27.18: 18 But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.
Leviticus 27.19: 19 If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.
Leviticus 27.20: 20 If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;
Leviticus 27.21: 21 but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to Yahweh, as a devoted field. It shall be owned by the priests.
Leviticus 27.22: 22 “‘If he dedicates a field to Yahweh which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,
Leviticus 27.23: 23 then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh.
Leviticus 27.24: 24 In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.
Leviticus 27.25: 25 All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Leviticus 27.26: 26 “‘However the firstborn among animals, which belongs to Yahweh as a firstborn, no man may dedicate, whether an ox or a sheep. It is Yahweh’s.
Leviticus 27.27: 27 If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it; or if it isn’t redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
Leviticus 27.28: 28 “‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man devotes to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed. Everything that is permanently devoted is most holy to Yahweh.
Leviticus 27.29: 29 “‘No one devoted to destruction, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed. He shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 27.30: 30 “‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh.
Leviticus 27.31: 31 If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it.
Leviticus 27.32: 32 All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh.
Leviticus 27.33: 33 He shall not examine whether it is good or bad, neither shall he exchange it. If he exchanges it at all, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.’”
Leviticus 27.34: 34 These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
Numbers 6.0: 
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Numbers 6.1: 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 6.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,
Numbers 6.3: 3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.
Numbers 6.4: 4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
Numbers 6.5: 5 “‘All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.
Numbers 6.6: 6 “‘All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.
Numbers 6.7: 7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head.
Numbers 6.8: 8 All the days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.
Numbers 6.9: 9 “‘If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.
Numbers 6.10: 10 On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 6.11: 11 The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day.
Numbers 6.12: 12 He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
Numbers 6.13: 13 “‘This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
Numbers 6.14: 14 and he shall offer his offering to Yahweh: one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb a year old without defect for a sin offering, one ram without defect for peace offerings,
Numbers 6.15: 15 a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil with their meal offering and their drink offerings.
Numbers 6.16: 16 The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.
Numbers 6.17: 17 He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering and its drink offering.
Numbers 6.18: 18 The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.
Numbers 6.19: 19 The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved the head of his separation;
Numbers 6.20: 20 and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. They are holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
Numbers 6.21: 21 “‘This is the law of the Nazirite who vows and of his offering to Yahweh for his separation, in addition to that which he is able to afford. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.’”
Numbers 6.22: 22 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 6.23: 23 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is how you shall bless the children of Israel.’ You shall tell them,
Numbers 6.24: 24 ‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you.
Numbers 6.25: 25 Yahweh make his face to shine on you,
and be gracious to you.
Numbers 6.26: 26 Yahweh lift up his face toward you,
and give you peace.’
Numbers 6.27: 27 “So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them.”
Numbers 8.0: 
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Numbers 8.1: 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 8.2: 2 “Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.’”
Numbers 8.3: 3 Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lamp stand, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Numbers 8.4: 4 This was the workmanship of the lamp stand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work. He made the lamp stand according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses.
Numbers 8.5: 5 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 8.6: 6 “Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
Numbers 8.7: 7 You shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.
Numbers 8.8: 8 Then let them take a young bull and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.
Numbers 8.9: 9 You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.
Numbers 8.10: 10 You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,
Numbers 8.11: 11 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.
Numbers 8.12: 12 “The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.
Numbers 8.13: 13 You shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.
Numbers 8.14: 14 Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
Numbers 8.15: 15 “After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. You shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.
Numbers 8.16: 16 For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.
Numbers 8.17: 17 For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.
Numbers 8.18: 18 I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
Numbers 8.19: 19 I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, so that there will be no plague among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.”
Numbers 8.20: 20 Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.
Numbers 8.21: 21 The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before Yahweh and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.
Numbers 8.22: 22 After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
Numbers 8.23: 23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 8.24: 24 “This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;
Numbers 8.25: 25 and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more,
Numbers 8.26: 26 but shall assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall perform no service. This is how you shall have the Levites do their duties.”
Numbers 9.0: 
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Numbers 9.1: 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Numbers 9.2: 2 “Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.
Numbers 9.3: 3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season. You shall keep it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances.”
Numbers 9.4: 4 Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover.
Numbers 9.5: 5 They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
Numbers 9.6: 6 There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.
Numbers 9.7: 7 Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?”
Numbers 9.8: 8 Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you.”
Numbers 9.9: 9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 9.10: 10 “Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.
Numbers 9.11: 11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Numbers 9.12: 12 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.
Numbers 9.13: 13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
Numbers 9.14: 14 “‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh, then he shall do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’”
Numbers 9.15: 15 On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
Numbers 9.16: 16 So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
Numbers 9.17: 17 Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.
Numbers 9.18: 18 At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.
Numbers 9.19: 19 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept Yahweh’s command, and didn’t travel.
Numbers 9.20: 20 Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled.
Numbers 9.21: 21 Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled; or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.
Numbers 9.22: 22 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled.
Numbers 9.23: 23 At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh they traveled. They kept Yahweh’s command, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
Numbers 34.0: 
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Numbers 34.1: 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 34.2: 2 “Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),
Numbers 34.3: 3 then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.
Numbers 34.4: 4 Your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and it shall pass southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go from there to Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon.
Numbers 34.5: 5 The border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea.
Numbers 34.6: 6 “‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.
Numbers 34.7: 7 “‘This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for yourselves Mount Hor.
Numbers 34.8: 8 From Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the border shall pass by Zedad.
Numbers 34.9: 9 Then the border shall go to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar Enan. This shall be your north border.
Numbers 34.10: 10 “‘You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham.
Numbers 34.11: 11 The border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain. The border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward.
Numbers 34.12: 12 The border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it.’”
Numbers 34.13: 13 Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;
Numbers 34.14: 14 for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers’ houses, the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers’ houses, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.
Numbers 34.15: 15 The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”
Numbers 34.16: 16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 34.17: 17 “These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers 34.18: 18 You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.
Numbers 34.19: 19 These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Numbers 34.20: 20 Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
Numbers 34.21: 21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
Numbers 34.22: 22 Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.
Numbers 34.23: 23 Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
Numbers 34.24: 24 Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
Numbers 34.25: 25 Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
Numbers 34.26: 26 Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
Numbers 34.27: 27 Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
Numbers 34.28: 28 Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”
Numbers 34.29: 29 These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
Joshua 9.0: 
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Joshua 9.1: 1 When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it
Joshua 9.2: 2 they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
Joshua 9.3: 3 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
Joshua 9.4: 4 they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,
Joshua 9.5: 5 and old and patched sandals on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.
Joshua 9.6: 6 They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”
Joshua 9.7: 7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us? How could we make a covenant with you?”
Joshua 9.8: 8 They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.”
Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”
Joshua 9.9: 9 They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,
Joshua 9.10: 10 and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
Joshua 9.11: 11 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take supplies in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them. Tell them, “We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us.”’
Joshua 9.12: 12 This our bread we took hot for our supplies out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become moldy.
Joshua 9.13: 13 These wine skins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become old because of the very long journey.”
Joshua 9.14: 14 The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from Yahweh’s mouth.
Joshua 9.15: 15 Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.
Joshua 9.16: 16 At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.
Joshua 9.17: 17 The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.
Joshua 9.18: 18 The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.
Joshua 9.19: 19 But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them.
Joshua 9.20: 20 We will do this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.”
Joshua 9.21: 21 The princes said to them, “Let them live.” So they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.
Joshua 9.22: 22 Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live among us?
Joshua 9.23: 23 Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”
Joshua 9.24: 24 They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
Joshua 9.25: 25 Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.”
Joshua 9.26: 26 He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn’t kill them.
Joshua 9.27: 27 That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for Yahweh’s altar to this day, in the place which he should choose.
Joshua 14.0: 
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Joshua 14.1: 1 These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,
Joshua 14.2: 2 by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.
Joshua 14.3: 3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
Joshua 14.4: 4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. They gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.
Joshua 14.5: 5 The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
Joshua 14.6: 6 Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.
Joshua 14.7: 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
Joshua 14.8: 8 Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.
Joshua 14.9: 9 Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.’
Joshua 14.10: 10 “Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.
Joshua 14.11: 11 As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.
Joshua 14.12: 12 Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh said.”
Joshua 14.13: 13 Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
Joshua 14.14: 14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he followed Yahweh, the God of Israel wholeheartedly.
Joshua 14.15: 15 Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.
Joshua 16.0: 
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Joshua 16.1: 1 The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.
Joshua 16.2: 2 It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;
Joshua 16.3: 3 and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, and on to Gezer; and ended at the sea.
Joshua 16.4: 4 The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
Joshua 16.5: 5 This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper.
Joshua 16.6: 6 The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah.
Joshua 16.7: 7 It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.
Joshua 16.8: 8 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;
Joshua 16.9: 9 together with the cities which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
Joshua 16.10: 10 They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the territory of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.
Judges 18.0: 
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Judges 18.1: 1 In those days there was no king in Israel. In those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day, their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.
Judges 18.2: 2 The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!”
They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Judges 18.3: 3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; so they went over there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?”
Judges 18.4: 4 He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”
Judges 18.5: 5 They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.”
Judges 18.6: 6 The priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh.”
Judges 18.7: 7 Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in safety, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with anyone else.
Judges 18.8: 8 They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”
Judges 18.9: 9 They said, “Arise, and let’s go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.
Judges 18.10: 10 When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”
Judges 18.11: 11 The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
Judges 18.12: 12 They went up and encamped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. Therefore they call that place Mahaneh Dan to this day. Behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim.
Judges 18.13: 13 They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
Judges 18.14: 14 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a carved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”
Judges 18.15: 15 They went over there and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.
Judges 18.16: 16 The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
Judges 18.17: 17 The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
Judges 18.18: 18 When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
Judges 18.19: 19 They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”
Judges 18.20: 20 The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.
Judges 18.21: 21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, the livestock, and the goods before them.
Judges 18.22: 22 When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house gathered together and overtook the children of Dan.
Judges 18.23: 23 As they called to the children of Dan, they turned their faces, and said to Micah, “What ails you, that you come with such a company?”
Judges 18.24: 24 He said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away! What more do I have? How can you ask me, ‘What ails you?’”
Judges 18.25: 25 The children of Dan said to him, “Don’t let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household.”
Judges 18.26: 26 The children of Dan went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
Judges 18.27: 27 They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burned the city with fire.
Judges 18.28: 28 There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone else; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city and lived in it.
Judges 18.29: 29 They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish.
Judges 18.30: 30 The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
Judges 18.31: 31 So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.
1 Samuel 19.0: 
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1 Samuel 19.1: 1 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.
1 Samuel 19.2: 2 Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.
1 Samuel 19.3: 3 I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you.”
1 Samuel 19.4: 4 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;
1 Samuel 19.5: 5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”
1 Samuel 19.6: 6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.”
1 Samuel 19.7: 7 Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before.
1 Samuel 19.8: 8 There was war again. David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.
1 Samuel 19.9: 9 An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.
1 Samuel 19.10: 10 Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.
1 Samuel 19.11: 11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
1 Samuel 19.12: 12 So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.
1 Samuel 19.13: 13 Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes.
1 Samuel 19.14: 14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
1 Samuel 19.15: 15 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
1 Samuel 19.16: 16 When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.
1 Samuel 19.17: 17 Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?”
Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’”
1 Samuel 19.18: 18 Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.
1 Samuel 19.19: 19 Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”
1 Samuel 19.20: 20 Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.
1 Samuel 19.21: 21 When Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
1 Samuel 19.22: 22 Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?”
One said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”
1 Samuel 19.23: 23 He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then God’s Spirit came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
1 Samuel 19.24: 24 He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
1 Samuel 31.0: 
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1 Samuel 31.1: 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
1 Samuel 31.2: 2 The Philistines overtook Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
1 Samuel 31.3: 3 The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
1 Samuel 31.4: 4 Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.
1 Samuel 31.5: 5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.
1 Samuel 31.6: 6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.
1 Samuel 31.7: 7 When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
1 Samuel 31.8: 8 On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
1 Samuel 31.9: 9 They cut off his head, stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to the house of their idols, and to the people.
1 Samuel 31.10: 10 They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
1 Samuel 31.11: 11 When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
1 Samuel 31.12: 12 all the valiant men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burned them there.
1 Samuel 31.13: 13 They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
2 Samuel 21.0: 
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2 Samuel 21.1: 1 There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
2 Samuel 21.2: 2 The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);
2 Samuel 21.3: 3 and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless Yahweh’s inheritance?”
2 Samuel 21.4: 4 The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.”
He said, “I will do for you whatever you say.”
2 Samuel 21.5: 5 They said to the king, “The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,
2 Samuel 21.6: 6 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh.”
The king said, “I will give them.”
2 Samuel 21.7: 7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
2 Samuel 21.8: 8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
2 Samuel 21.9: 9 He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
2 Samuel 21.10: 10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
2 Samuel 21.11: 11 David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
2 Samuel 21.12: 12 So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;
2 Samuel 21.13: 13 and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who were hanged.
2 Samuel 21.14: 14 They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land.
2 Samuel 21.15: 15 The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;
2 Samuel 21.16: 16 and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought he would kill David.
2 Samuel 21.17: 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”
2 Samuel 21.18: 18 After this, there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.
2 Samuel 21.19: 19 There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
2 Samuel 21.20: 20 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on every hand, and six toes on every foot, twenty four in count; and he also was born to the giant.
2 Samuel 21.21: 21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.
2 Samuel 21.22: 22 These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
1 Kings 22.0: 
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1 Kings 22.1: 1 They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
1 Kings 22.2: 2 In the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
1 Kings 22.3: 3 The king of Israel said to his servants, “You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do nothing, and don’t take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”
1 Kings 22.4: 4 He said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?”
Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
1 Kings 22.5: 5 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for Yahweh’s word.”
1 Kings 22.6: 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?”
They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
1 Kings 22.7: 7 But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?”
1 Kings 22.8: 8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.”
Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
1 Kings 22.9: 9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, “Quickly get Micaiah the son of Imlah.”
1 Kings 22.10: 10 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
1 Kings 22.11: 11 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”
1 Kings 22.12: 12 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
1 Kings 22.13: 13 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”
1 Kings 22.14: 14 Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”
1 Kings 22.15: 15 When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?”
He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
1 Kings 22.16: 16 The king said to him, “How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in Yahweh’s name?”
1 Kings 22.17: 17 He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’”
1 Kings 22.18: 18 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”
1 Kings 22.19: 19 Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
1 Kings 22.20: 20 Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said one thing; and another said another.
1 Kings 22.21: 21 A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’
1 Kings 22.22: 22 Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’
He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’
He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’
1 Kings 22.23: 23 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”
1 Kings 22.24: 24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”
1 Kings 22.25: 25 Micaiah said, “Behold, you will see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself.”
1 Kings 22.26: 26 The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son.
1 Kings 22.27: 27 Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’”
1 Kings 22.28: 28 Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!”
1 Kings 22.29: 29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.
1 Kings 22.30: 30 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
1 Kings 22.31: 31 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel.”
1 Kings 22.32: 32 When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!” and they came over to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out.
1 Kings 22.33: 33 When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
1 Kings 22.34: 34 A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded.”
1 Kings 22.35: 35 The battle increased that day. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.
1 Kings 22.36: 36 A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”
1 Kings 22.37: 37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
1 Kings 22.38: 38 They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke.
1 Kings 22.39: 39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 22.40: 40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
1 Kings 22.41: 41 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
1 Kings 22.42: 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
1 Kings 22.43: 43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
1 Kings 22.44: 44 Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
1 Kings 22.45: 45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he fought, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
1 Kings 22.46: 46 The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
1 Kings 22.47: 47 There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled.
1 Kings 22.48: 48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go; for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber.
1 Kings 22.49: 49 Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat would not.
1 Kings 22.50: 50 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city. Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
1 Kings 22.51: 51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.
1 Kings 22.52: 52 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin.
1 Kings 22.53: 53 He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways that his father had done so.
2 Kings 0.0: 
The Second Book of Kings
1 Chronicles 0.0: 
The First Book of Chronicles
1 Chronicles 21.0: 
21
1 Chronicles 21.1: 1 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
1 Chronicles 21.2: 2 David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”
1 Chronicles 21.3: 3 Joab said, “May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”
1 Chronicles 21.4: 4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 21.5: 5 Joab gave up the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.
1 Chronicles 21.6: 6 But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
1 Chronicles 21.7: 7 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
1 Chronicles 21.8: 8 David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
1 Chronicles 21.9: 9 Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
1 Chronicles 21.10: 10 “Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
1 Chronicles 21.11: 11 So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:
1 Chronicles 21.12: 12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”
1 Chronicles 21.13: 13 David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
1 Chronicles 21.14: 14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
1 Chronicles 21.15: 15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21.16: 16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.
Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
1 Chronicles 21.17: 17 David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
1 Chronicles 21.18: 18 Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21.19: 19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.
1 Chronicles 21.20: 20 Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
1 Chronicles 21.21: 21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
1 Chronicles 21.22: 22 Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
1 Chronicles 21.23: 23 Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
1 Chronicles 21.24: 24 King David said to Ornan, “No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
1 Chronicles 21.25: 25 So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
1 Chronicles 21.26: 26 David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
1 Chronicles 21.27: 27 Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
1 Chronicles 21.28: 28 At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
1 Chronicles 21.29: 29 For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
1 Chronicles 21.30: 30 But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.
2 Chronicles 8.0: 
8
2 Chronicles 8.1: 1 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built Yahweh’s house and his own house,
2 Chronicles 8.2: 2 Solomon built the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
2 Chronicles 8.3: 3 Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it.
2 Chronicles 8.4: 4 He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath.
2 Chronicles 8.5: 5 Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
2 Chronicles 8.6: 6 and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
2 Chronicles 8.7: 7 As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel;
2 Chronicles 8.8: 8 of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn’t consume, of them Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day.
2 Chronicles 8.9: 9 But of the children of Israel, Solomon made no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
2 Chronicles 8.10: 10 These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two-hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.
2 Chronicles 8.11: 11 Solomon brought up Pharaoh’s daughter out of David’s city to the house that he had built for her; for he said, “My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where Yahweh’s ark has come are holy.”
2 Chronicles 8.12: 12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on Yahweh’s altar, which he had built before the porch,
2 Chronicles 8.13: 13 even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times per year, during the feast of unleavened bread, during the feast of weeks, and during the feast of booths.
2 Chronicles 8.14: 14 He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate, for David the man of God had so commanded.
2 Chronicles 8.15: 15 They didn’t depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
2 Chronicles 8.16: 16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared from the day of the foundation of Yahweh’s house until it was finished. So Yahweh’s house was completed.
2 Chronicles 8.17: 17 Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom.
2 Chronicles 8.18: 18 Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and brought from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
2 Chronicles 20.0: 
20
2 Chronicles 20.1: 1 After this, the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
2 Chronicles 20.2: 2 Then some came who told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea from Syria. Behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar” (that is, En Gedi).
2 Chronicles 20.3: 3 Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
2 Chronicles 20.4: 4 Judah gathered themselves together to seek help from Yahweh. They came out of all the cities of Judah to seek Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 20.5: 5 Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in Yahweh’s house, before the new court;
2 Chronicles 20.6: 6 and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.
2 Chronicles 20.7: 7 Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?
2 Chronicles 20.8: 8 They lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying,
2 Chronicles 20.9: 9 ‘If evil comes on us—the sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this house, and before you (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’
2 Chronicles 20.10: 10 Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned away from them, and didn’t destroy them;
2 Chronicles 20.11: 11 behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.
2 Chronicles 20.12: 12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”
2 Chronicles 20.13: 13 All Judah stood before Yahweh, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
2 Chronicles 20.14: 14 Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, in the middle of the assembly;
2 Chronicles 20.15: 15 and he said, “Listen, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, king Jehoshaphat. Yahweh says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed because of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.
2 Chronicles 20.16: 16 Tomorrow, go down against them. Behold, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
2 Chronicles 20.17: 17 You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’”
2 Chronicles 20.18: 18 Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Yahweh, worshiping Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 20.19: 19 The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, with an exceedingly loud voice.
2 Chronicles 20.20: 20 They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”
2 Chronicles 20.21: 21 When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to Yahweh, and give praise in holy array, as they go out before the army, and say, “Give thanks to Yahweh; for his loving kindness endures forever.”
2 Chronicles 20.22: 22 When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck.
2 Chronicles 20.23: 23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. When they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy each other.
2 Chronicles 20.24: 24 When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped.
2 Chronicles 20.25: 25 When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their plunder, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away. They took plunder for three days, it was so much.
2 Chronicles 20.26: 26 On the fourth day, they assembled themselves in Beracah Valley, for there they blessed Yahweh. Therefore the name of that place was called “Beracah Valley” to this day.
2 Chronicles 20.27: 27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Yahweh had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
2 Chronicles 20.28: 28 They came to Jerusalem with stringed instruments, harps, and trumpets to Yahweh’s house.
2 Chronicles 20.29: 29 The fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that Yahweh fought against the enemies of Israel.
2 Chronicles 20.30: 30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest all around.
2 Chronicles 20.31: 31 Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
2 Chronicles 20.32: 32 He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes.
2 Chronicles 20.33: 33 However the high places were not taken away, and the people had still not set their hearts on the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 20.34: 34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is included in the book of the kings of Israel.
2 Chronicles 20.35: 35 After this, Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. The same did very wickedly.
2 Chronicles 20.36: 36 He joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish. They made the ships in Ezion Geber.
2 Chronicles 20.37: 37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works.” The ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
2 Chronicles 36.0: 
36
2 Chronicles 36.1: 1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36.2: 2 Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36.3: 3 The king of Egypt removed him from office at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
2 Chronicles 36.4: 4 The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
2 Chronicles 36.5: 5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight.
2 Chronicles 36.6: 6 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36.7: 7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of Yahweh’s house to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36.8: 8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 36.9: 9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
2 Chronicles 36.10: 10 At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of Yahweh’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36.11: 11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36.12: 12 He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from Yahweh’s mouth.
2 Chronicles 36.13: 13 He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 36.14: 14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted Yahweh’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36.15: 15 Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place;
2 Chronicles 36.16: 16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
2 Chronicles 36.17: 17 Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed. He gave them all into his hand.
2 Chronicles 36.18: 18 All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36.19: 19 They burned God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.
2 Chronicles 36.20: 20 He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,
2 Chronicles 36.21: 21 to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
2 Chronicles 36.22: 22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
2 Chronicles 36.23: 23 “Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.’”
Ezra 0.0: 
The Book of
Ezra
Ezra 1.0: 
1
Ezra 1.1: 1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Ezra 1.2: 2 “Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Ezra 1.3: 3 Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra 1.4: 4 Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, in addition to the free will offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’”
Ezra 1.5: 5 Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra 1.6: 6 All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with animals, and with precious things, in addition to all that was willingly offered.
Ezra 1.7: 7 Also Cyrus the king brought out the vessels of Yahweh’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;
Ezra 1.8: 8 even those, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
Ezra 1.9: 9 This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,
Ezra 1.10: 10 thirty bowls of gold, four hundred ten silver bowls of a second sort, and one thousand other vessels.
Ezra 1.11: 11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Job 5.0: 
5
Job 5.1: 1 “Call now; is there any who will answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn?
Job 5.2: 2 For resentment kills the foolish man,
and jealousy kills the simple.
Job 5.3: 3 I have seen the foolish taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job 5.4: 4 His children are far from safety.
They are crushed in the gate.
Neither is there any to deliver them,
Job 5.5: 5 whose harvest the hungry eats up,
and take it even out of the thorns.
The snare gapes for their substance.
Job 5.6: 6 For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust,
neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
Job 5.7: 7 but man is born to trouble,
as the sparks fly upward.
Job 5.8: 8 “But as for me, I would seek God.
I would commit my cause to God,
Job 5.9: 9 who does great things that can’t be fathomed,
marvelous things without number;
Job 5.10: 10 who gives rain on the earth,
and sends waters on the fields;
Job 5.11: 11 so that he sets up on high those who are low,
those who mourn are exalted to safety.
Job 5.12: 12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty,
So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
Job 5.13: 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness;
the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
Job 5.14: 14 They meet with darkness in the day time,
and grope at noonday as in the night.
Job 5.15: 15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth,
even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
Job 5.16: 16 So the poor has hope,
and injustice shuts her mouth.
Job 5.17: 17 “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects.
Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
Job 5.18: 18 For he wounds and binds up.
He injures and his hands make whole.
Job 5.19: 19 He will deliver you in six troubles;
yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
Job 5.20: 20 In famine he will redeem you from death;
in war, from the power of the sword.
Job 5.21: 21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,
neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
Job 5.22: 22 You will laugh at destruction and famine,
neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
Job 5.23: 23 For you will be allied with the stones of the field.
The animals of the field will be at peace with you.
Job 5.24: 24 You will know that your tent is in peace.
You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.
Job 5.25: 25 You will know also that your offspring will be great,
Your offspring as the grass of the earth.
Job 5.26: 26 You will come to your grave in a full age,
like a shock of grain comes in its season.
Job 5.27: 27 Look at this. We have searched it. It is so.
Hear it, and know it for your good.”
Job 14.0: 
14
Job 14.1: 1 “Man, who is born of a woman,
is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job 14.2: 2 He grows up like a flower, and is cut down.
He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
Job 14.3: 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one,
and bring me into judgment with you?
Job 14.4: 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
Not one.
Job 14.5: 5 Seeing his days are determined,
the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;
Job 14.6: 6 Look away from him, that he may rest,
until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
Job 14.7: 7 “For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down,
that it will sprout again,
that the tender branch of it will not cease.
Job 14.8: 8 Though its root grows old in the earth,
and its stock dies in the ground,
Job 14.9: 9 yet through the scent of water it will bud,
and sprout boughs like a plant.
Job 14.10: 10 But man dies, and is laid low.
Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Job 14.11: 11 As the waters fail from the sea,
and the river wastes and dries up,
Job 14.12: 12 so man lies down and doesn’t rise.
Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake,
nor be roused out of their sleep.
Job 14.13: 13 “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,
that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past,
that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
Job 14.14: 14 If a man dies, will he live again?
I would wait all the days of my warfare,
until my release should come.
Job 14.15: 15 You would call, and I would answer you.
You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
Job 14.16: 16 But now you count my steps.
Don’t you watch over my sin?
Job 14.17: 17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag.
You fasten up my iniquity.
Job 14.18: 18 “But the mountain falling comes to nothing.
The rock is removed out of its place;
Job 14.19: 19 The waters wear the stones.
The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth.
So you destroy the hope of man.
Job 14.20: 20 You forever prevail against him, and he departs.
You change his face, and send him away.
Job 14.21: 21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it.
They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
Job 14.22: 22 But his flesh on him has pain,
and his soul within him mourns.”
Psalms 11.0: 
11
For the Chief Musician. By David.
Psalms 11.1: 1 In Yahweh, I take refuge.
How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain”?
Psalms 11.2: 2 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows.
They set their arrows on the strings,
that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
Psalms 11.3: 3 If the foundations are destroyed,
what can the righteous do?
Psalms 11.4: 4 Yahweh is in his holy temple.
Yahweh is on his throne in heaven.
His eyes observe.
His eyes examine the children of men.
Psalms 11.5: 5 Yahweh examines the righteous,
but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.
Psalms 11.6: 6 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals;
fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Psalms 11.7: 7 For Yahweh is righteous.
He loves righteousness.
The upright shall see his face.
Psalms 28.0: 
28
By David.
Psalms 28.1: 1 To you, Yahweh, I call.
My rock, don’t be deaf to me,
lest, if you are silent to me,
I would become like those who go down into the pit.
Psalms 28.2: 2 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you,
when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Psalms 28.3: 3 Don’t draw me away with the wicked,
with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors,
but mischief is in their hearts.
Psalms 28.4: 4 Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings.
Give them according to the operation of their hands.
Bring back on them what they deserve.
Psalms 28.5: 5 Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh,
nor the operation of his hands,
he will break them down and not build them up.
Psalms 28.6: 6 Blessed be Yahweh,
because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
Psalms 28.7: 7 Yahweh is my strength and my shield.
My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped.
Therefore my heart greatly rejoices.
With my song I will thank him.
Psalms 28.8: 8 Yahweh is their strength.
He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
Psalms 28.9: 9 Save your people,
and bless your inheritance.
Be their shepherd also,
and bear them up forever.
Psalms 67.0: 
67
For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song.
Psalms 67.1: 1 May God be merciful to us, bless us,
and cause his face to shine on us. Selah.
Psalms 67.2: 2 That your way may be known on earth,
and your salvation among all nations,
Psalms 67.3: 3 let the peoples praise you, God.
Let all the peoples praise you.
Psalms 67.4: 4 Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
for you will judge the peoples with equity,
and govern the nations on earth. Selah.
Psalms 67.5: 5 Let the peoples praise you, God.
Let all the peoples praise you.
Psalms 67.6: 6 The earth has yielded its increase.
God, even our own God, will bless us.
Psalms 67.7: 7 God will bless us.
All the ends of the earth shall fear him.
Psalms 78.0: 
78
A contemplation by Asaph.
Psalms 78.1: 1 Hear my teaching, my people.
Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 78.2: 2 I will open my mouth in a parable.
I will utter dark sayings of old,
Psalms 78.3: 3 Which we have heard and known,
and our fathers have told us.
Psalms 78.4: 4 We will not hide them from their children,
telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh,
his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
Psalms 78.5: 5 For he established a covenant in Jacob,
and appointed a teaching in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers,
that they should make them known to their children;
Psalms 78.6: 6 that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born;
who should arise and tell their children,
Psalms 78.7: 7 that they might set their hope in God,
and not forget God’s deeds,
but keep his commandments,
Psalms 78.8: 8 and might not be as their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal,
whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
Psalms 78.9: 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
turned back in the day of battle.
Psalms 78.10: 10 They didn’t keep God’s covenant,
and refused to walk in his law.
Psalms 78.11: 11 They forgot his doings,
his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
Psalms 78.12: 12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers,
in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Psalms 78.13: 13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through.
He made the waters stand as a heap.
Psalms 78.14: 14 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud,
and all night with a light of fire.
Psalms 78.15: 15 He split rocks in the wilderness,
and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
Psalms 78.16: 16 He brought streams also out of the rock,
and caused waters to run down like rivers.
Psalms 78.17: 17 Yet they still went on to sin against him,
to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
Psalms 78.18: 18 They tempted God in their heart
by asking food according to their desire.
Psalms 78.19: 19 Yes, they spoke against God.
They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
Psalms 78.20: 20 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,
and streams overflowed.
Can he give bread also?
Will he provide meat for his people?”
Psalms 78.21: 21 Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry.
A fire was kindled against Jacob,
anger also went up against Israel,
Psalms 78.22: 22 because they didn’t believe in God,
and didn’t trust in his salvation.
Psalms 78.23: 23 Yet he commanded the skies above,
and opened the doors of heaven.
Psalms 78.24: 24 He rained down manna on them to eat,
and gave them food from the sky.
Psalms 78.25: 25 Man ate the bread of angels.
He sent them food to the full.
Psalms 78.26: 26 He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.
By his power he guided the south wind.
Psalms 78.27: 27 He also rained meat on them as the dust,
winged birds as the sand of the seas.
Psalms 78.28: 28 He let them fall in the middle of their camp,
around their habitations.
Psalms 78.29: 29 So they ate, and were well filled.
He gave them their own desire.
Psalms 78.30: 30 They didn’t turn from their cravings.
Their food was yet in their mouths,
Psalms 78.31: 31 when the anger of God went up against them,
killed some of their fattest,
and struck down the young men of Israel.
Psalms 78.32: 32 For all this they still sinned,
and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
Psalms 78.33: 33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,
and their years in terror.
Psalms 78.34: 34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him.
They returned and sought God earnestly.
Psalms 78.35: 35 They remembered that God was their rock,
the Most High God, their redeemer.
Psalms 78.36: 36 But they flattered him with their mouth,
and lied to him with their tongue.
Psalms 78.37: 37 For their heart was not right with him,
neither were they faithful in his covenant.
Psalms 78.38: 38 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them.
Yes, many times he turned his anger away,
and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
Psalms 78.39: 39 He remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
Psalms 78.40: 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,
and grieved him in the desert!
Psalms 78.41: 41 They turned again and tempted God,
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 78.42: 42 They didn’t remember his hand,
nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
Psalms 78.43: 43 how he set his signs in Egypt,
his wonders in the field of Zoan,
Psalms 78.44: 44 he turned their rivers into blood,
and their streams, so that they could not drink.
Psalms 78.45: 45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;
and frogs, which destroyed them.
Psalms 78.46: 46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar,
and their labor to the locust.
Psalms 78.47: 47 He destroyed their vines with hail,
their sycamore fig trees with frost.
Psalms 78.48: 48 He gave over their livestock also to the hail,
and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Psalms 78.49: 49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,
wrath, indignation, and trouble,
and a band of angels of evil.
Psalms 78.50: 50 He made a path for his anger.
He didn’t spare their soul from death,
but gave their life over to the pestilence,
Psalms 78.51: 51 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
Psalms 78.52: 52 But he led out his own people like sheep,
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalms 78.53: 53 He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid,
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Psalms 78.54: 54 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
Psalms 78.55: 55 He also drove out the nations before them,
allotted them for an inheritance by line,
and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Psalms 78.56: 56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,
and didn’t keep his testimonies,
Psalms 78.57: 57 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers.
They were twisted like a deceitful bow.
Psalms 78.58: 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
Psalms 78.59: 59 When God heard this, he was angry,
and greatly abhorred Israel,
Psalms 78.60: 60 so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh,
the tent which he placed among men,
Psalms 78.61: 61 and delivered his strength into captivity,
his glory into the adversary’s hand.
Psalms 78.62: 62 He also gave his people over to the sword,
and was angry with his inheritance.
Psalms 78.63: 63 Fire devoured their young men.
Their virgins had no wedding song.
Psalms 78.64: 64 Their priests fell by the sword,
and their widows couldn’t weep.
Psalms 78.65: 65 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,
like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
Psalms 78.66: 66 He struck his adversaries backward.
He put them to a perpetual reproach.
Psalms 78.67: 67 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph,
and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,
Psalms 78.68: 68 But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion which he loved.
Psalms 78.69: 69 He built his sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth which he has established forever.
Psalms 78.70: 70 He also chose David his servant,
and took him from the sheepfolds;
Psalms 78.71: 71 from following the ewes that have their young,
he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people,
and Israel, his inheritance.
Psalms 78.72: 72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart,
and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
Psalms 89.0: 
89
A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.
Psalms 89.1: 1 I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever.
With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
Psalms 89.2: 2 I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever.
You established the heavens.
Your faithfulness is in them.”
Psalms 89.3: 3 “I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David, my servant,
Psalms 89.4: 4 ‘I will establish your offspring forever,
and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah.
Psalms 89.5: 5 The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh,
your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
Psalms 89.6: 6 For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh?
Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
Psalms 89.7: 7 a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones,
to be feared above all those who are around him?
Psalms 89.8: 8 Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you?
Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
Psalms 89.9: 9 You rule the pride of the sea.
When its waves rise up, you calm them.
Psalms 89.10: 10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain.
You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
Psalms 89.11: 11 The heavens are yours.
The earth also is yours,
the world and its fullness.
You have founded them.
Psalms 89.12: 12 You have created the north and the south.
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
Psalms 89.13: 13 You have a mighty arm.
Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
Psalms 89.14: 14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.
Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
Psalms 89.15: 15 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you.
They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.
Psalms 89.16: 16 In your name they rejoice all day.
In your righteousness, they are exalted.
Psalms 89.17: 17 For you are the glory of their strength.
In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
Psalms 89.18: 18 For our shield belongs to Yahweh,
our king to the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 89.19: 19 Then you spoke in vision to your saints,
and said, “I have given strength to the warrior.
I have exalted a young man from the people.
Psalms 89.20: 20 I have found David, my servant.
I have anointed him with my holy oil,
Psalms 89.21: 21 with whom my hand shall be established.
My arm will also strengthen him.
Psalms 89.22: 22 No enemy will tax him.
No wicked man will oppress him.
Psalms 89.23: 23 I will beat down his adversaries before him,
and strike those who hate him.
Psalms 89.24: 24 But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
In my name, his horn will be exalted.
Psalms 89.25: 25 I will set his hand also on the sea,
and his right hand on the rivers.
Psalms 89.26: 26 He will call to me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
Psalms 89.27: 27 I will also appoint him my firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth.
Psalms 89.28: 28 I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more.
My covenant will stand firm with him.
Psalms 89.29: 29 I will also make his offspring endure forever,
and his throne as the days of heaven.
Psalms 89.30: 30 If his children forsake my law,
and don’t walk in my ordinances;
Psalms 89.31: 31 if they break my statutes,
and don’t keep my commandments;
Psalms 89.32: 32 then I will punish their sin with the rod,
and their iniquity with stripes.
Psalms 89.33: 33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him,
nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
Psalms 89.34: 34 I will not break my covenant,
nor alter what my lips have uttered.
Psalms 89.35: 35 Once I have sworn by my holiness,
I will not lie to David.
Psalms 89.36: 36 His offspring will endure forever,
his throne like the sun before me.
Psalms 89.37: 37 It will be established forever like the moon,
the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.
Psalms 89.38: 38 But you have rejected and spurned.
You have been angry with your anointed.
Psalms 89.39: 39 You have renounced the covenant of your servant.
You have defiled his crown in the dust.
Psalms 89.40: 40 You have broken down all his hedges.
You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
Psalms 89.41: 41 All who pass by the way rob him.
He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
Psalms 89.42: 42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries.
You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
Psalms 89.43: 43 Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword,
and haven’t supported him in battle.
Psalms 89.44: 44 You have ended his splendor,
and thrown his throne down to the ground.
Psalms 89.45: 45 You have shortened the days of his youth.
You have covered him with shame. Selah.
Psalms 89.46: 46 How long, Yahweh?
Will you hide yourself forever?
Will your wrath burn like fire?
Psalms 89.47: 47 Remember how short my time is,
for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
Psalms 89.48: 48 What man is he who shall live and not see death,
who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
Psalms 89.49: 49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses,
which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
Psalms 89.50: 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants,
how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
Psalms 89.51: 51 With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh,
with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
Psalms 89.52: 52 Blessed be Yahweh forever more.
Amen, and Amen.
Psalms 97.0: 
97
Psalms 97.1: 1 Yahweh reigns!
Let the earth rejoice!
Let the multitude of islands be glad!
Psalms 97.2: 2 Clouds and darkness are around him.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Psalms 97.3: 3 A fire goes before him,
and burns up his adversaries on every side.
Psalms 97.4: 4 His lightning lights up the world.
The earth sees, and trembles.
Psalms 97.5: 5 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh,
at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Psalms 97.6: 6 The heavens declare his righteousness.
All the peoples have seen his glory.
Psalms 97.7: 7 Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images,
who boast in their idols.
Worship him, all you gods!
Psalms 97.8: 8 Zion heard and was glad.
The daughters of Judah rejoiced
because of your judgments, Yahweh.
Psalms 97.9: 9 For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth.
You are exalted far above all gods.
Psalms 97.10: 10 You who love Yahweh, hate evil!
He preserves the souls of his saints.
He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 97.11: 11 Light is sown for the righteous,
and gladness for the upright in heart.
Psalms 97.12: 12 Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous people!
Give thanks to his holy Name.
Psalms 114.0: 
114
Psalms 114.1: 1 When Israel went out of Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language,
Psalms 114.2: 2 Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.
Psalms 114.3: 3 The sea saw it, and fled.
The Jordan was driven back.
Psalms 114.4: 4 The mountains skipped like rams,
the little hills like lambs.
Psalms 114.5: 5 What was it, you sea, that you fled?
You Jordan, that you turned back?
Psalms 114.6: 6 You mountains, that you skipped like rams;
you little hills, like lambs?
Psalms 114.7: 7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
Psalms 114.8: 8 who turned the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of waters.
Psalms 118.0: 
118
Psalms 118.1: 1 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
Psalms 118.2: 2 Let Israel now say
that his loving kindness endures forever.
Psalms 118.3: 3 Let the house of Aaron now say
that his loving kindness endures forever.
Psalms 118.4: 4 Now let those who fear Yahweh say
that his loving kindness endures forever.
Psalms 118.5: 5 Out of my distress, I called on Yah.
Yah answered me with freedom.
Psalms 118.6: 6 Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
Psalms 118.7: 7 Yahweh is on my side among those who help me.
Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.
Psalms 118.8: 8 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh,
than to put confidence in man.
Psalms 118.9: 9 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh,
than to put confidence in princes.
Psalms 118.10: 10 All the nations surrounded me,
but in Yahweh’s name, I cut them off.
Psalms 118.11: 11 They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me.
In Yahweh’s name I indeed cut them off.
Psalms 118.12: 12 They surrounded me like bees.
They are quenched like the burning thorns.
In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.
Psalms 118.13: 13 You pushed me back hard, to make me fall,
but Yahweh helped me.
Psalms 118.14: 14 Yah is my strength and song.
He has become my salvation.
Psalms 118.15: 15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous.
“The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
Psalms 118.16: 16 The right hand of Yahweh is exalted!
The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!”
Psalms 118.17: 17 I will not die, but live,
and declare Yah’s works.
Psalms 118.18: 18 Yah has punished me severely,
but he has not given me over to death.
Psalms 118.19: 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness.
I will enter into them.
I will give thanks to Yah.
Psalms 118.20: 20 This is the gate of Yahweh;
the righteous will enter into it.
Psalms 118.21: 21 I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me,
and have become my salvation.
Psalms 118.22: 22 The stone which the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.
Psalms 118.23: 23 This is Yahweh’s doing.
It is marvelous in our eyes.
Psalms 118.24: 24 This is the day that Yahweh has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it!
Psalms 118.25: 25 Save us now, we beg you, Yahweh!
Yahweh, we beg you, send prosperity now.
Psalms 118.26: 26 Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name!
We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house.
Psalms 118.27: 27 Yahweh is God, and he has given us light.
Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
Psalms 118.28: 28 You are my God, and I will give thanks to you.
You are my God, I will exalt you.
Psalms 118.29: 29 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
Psalms 132.0: 
132
A Song of Ascents.
Psalms 132.1: 1 Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,
Psalms 132.2: 2 how he swore to Yahweh,
and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
Psalms 132.3: 3 “Surely I will not come into the structure of my house,
nor go up into my bed;
Psalms 132.4: 4 I will not give sleep to my eyes,
or slumber to my eyelids;
Psalms 132.5: 5 until I find out a place for Yahweh,
a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Psalms 132.6: 6 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah.
We found it in the field of Jaar:
Psalms 132.7: 7 “We will go into his dwelling place.
We will worship at his footstool.
Psalms 132.8: 8 Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place,
you, and the ark of your strength.
Psalms 132.9: 9 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness.
Let your saints shout for joy!”
Psalms 132.10: 10 For your servant David’s sake,
don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
Psalms 132.11: 11 Yahweh has sworn to David in truth.
He will not turn from it:
“I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
Psalms 132.12: 12 If your children will keep my covenant,
my testimony that I will teach them,
their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
Psalms 132.13: 13 For Yahweh has chosen Zion.
He has desired it for his habitation.
Psalms 132.14: 14 “This is my resting place forever.
I will live here, for I have desired it.
Psalms 132.15: 15 I will abundantly bless her provision.
I will satisfy her poor with bread.
Psalms 132.16: 16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation.
Her saints will shout aloud for joy.
Psalms 132.17: 17 I will make the horn of David to bud there.
I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
Psalms 132.18: 18 I will clothe his enemies with shame,
but on himself, his crown will shine.”
Proverbs 0.0: 
The Proverbs
Proverbs 11.0: 
11
Proverbs 11.1: 1 A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh,
but accurate weights are his delight.
Proverbs 11.2: 2 When pride comes, then comes shame,
but with humility comes wisdom.
Proverbs 11.3: 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them,
but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
Proverbs 11.4: 4 Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11.5: 5 The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way,
but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Proverbs 11.6: 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them,
but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.
Proverbs 11.7: 7 When a wicked man dies, hope perishes,
and expectation of power comes to nothing.
Proverbs 11.8: 8 A righteous person is delivered out of trouble,
and the wicked takes his place.
Proverbs 11.9: 9 With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor,
but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.
Proverbs 11.10: 10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices.
When the wicked perish, there is shouting.
Proverbs 11.11: 11 By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted,
but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 11.12: 12 One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom,
but a man of understanding holds his peace.
Proverbs 11.13: 13 One who brings gossip betrays a confidence,
but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.
Proverbs 11.14: 14 Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls,
but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.
Proverbs 11.15: 15 He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it,
but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.
Proverbs 11.16: 16 A gracious woman obtains honor,
but violent men obtain riches.
Proverbs 11.17: 17 The merciful man does good to his own soul,
but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
Proverbs 11.18: 18 Wicked people earn deceitful wages,
but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
Proverbs 11.19: 19 He who is truly righteous gets life.
He who pursues evil gets death.
Proverbs 11.20: 20 Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh,
but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.
Proverbs 11.21: 21 Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished,
but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
Proverbs 11.22: 22 Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout,
is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
Proverbs 11.23: 23 The desire of the righteous is only good.
The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Proverbs 11.24: 24 There is one who scatters, and increases yet more.
There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
Proverbs 11.25: 25 The liberal soul shall be made fat.
He who waters shall be watered also himself.
Proverbs 11.26: 26 People curse someone who withholds grain,
but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.
Proverbs 11.27: 27 He who diligently seeks good seeks favor,
but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.
Proverbs 11.28: 28 He who trusts in his riches will fall,
but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
Proverbs 11.29: 29 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind.
The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Proverbs 11.30: 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.
He who is wise wins souls.
Proverbs 11.31: 31 Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth,
how much more the wicked and the sinner!
Proverbs 29.0: 
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Proverbs 29.1: 1 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck
will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
Proverbs 29.2: 2 When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice;
but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
Proverbs 29.3: 3 Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father;
but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
Proverbs 29.4: 4 The king by justice makes the land stable,
but he who takes bribes tears it down.
Proverbs 29.5: 5 A man who flatters his neighbor
spreads a net for his feet.
Proverbs 29.6: 6 An evil man is snared by his sin,
but the righteous can sing and be glad.
Proverbs 29.7: 7 The righteous care about justice for the poor.
The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.
Proverbs 29.8: 8 Mockers stir up a city,
but wise men turn away anger.
Proverbs 29.9: 9 If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man,
the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.
Proverbs 29.10: 10 The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity;
and they seek the life of the upright.
Proverbs 29.11: 11 A fool vents all of his anger,
but a wise man brings himself under control.
Proverbs 29.12: 12 If a ruler listens to lies,
all of his officials are wicked.
Proverbs 29.13: 13 The poor man and the oppressor have this in common:
Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.
Proverbs 29.14: 14 The king who fairly judges the poor,
his throne shall be established forever.
Proverbs 29.15: 15 The rod of correction gives wisdom,
but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
Proverbs 29.16: 16 When the wicked increase, sin increases;
but the righteous will see their downfall.
Proverbs 29.17: 17 Correct your son, and he will give you peace;
yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
Proverbs 29.18: 18 Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint;
but one who keeps the law is blessed.
Proverbs 29.19: 19 A servant can’t be corrected by words.
Though he understands, yet he will not respond.
Proverbs 29.20: 20 Do you see a man who is hasty in his words?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Proverbs 29.21: 21 He who pampers his servant from youth
will have him become a son in the end.
Proverbs 29.22: 22 An angry man stirs up strife,
and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
Proverbs 29.23: 23 A man’s pride brings him low,
but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
Proverbs 29.24: 24 Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul.
He takes an oath, but dares not testify.
Proverbs 29.25: 25 The fear of man proves to be a snare,
but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.
Proverbs 29.26: 26 Many seek the ruler’s favor,
but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.
Proverbs 29.27: 27 A dishonest man detests the righteous,
and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
Isaiah 7.0: 
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Isaiah 7.1: 1 In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
Isaiah 7.2: 2 David’s house was told, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
Isaiah 7.3: 3 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field.
Isaiah 7.4: 4 Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
Isaiah 7.5: 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,
Isaiah 7.6: 6 “Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.”
Isaiah 7.7: 7 This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”
Isaiah 7.8: 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people.
Isaiah 7.9: 9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”
Isaiah 7.10: 10 Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
Isaiah 7.11: 11 “Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”
Isaiah 7.12: 12 But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”
Isaiah 7.13: 13 He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
Isaiah 7.14: 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 7.15: 15 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.
Isaiah 7.16: 16 For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
Isaiah 7.17: 17 Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 7.18: 18 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Isaiah 7.19: 19 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.
Isaiah 7.20: 20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
Isaiah 7.21: 21 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep.
Isaiah 7.22: 22 It shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter; for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land.
Isaiah 7.23: 23 It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
Isaiah 7.24: 24 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.
Isaiah 7.25: 25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”
Isaiah 11.0: 
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Isaiah 11.1: 1 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse,
and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
Isaiah 11.2: 2 Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him:
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
Isaiah 11.3: 3 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh.
He will not judge by the sight of his eyes,
neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
Isaiah 11.4: 4 but he will judge the poor with righteousness,
and decide with equity for the humble of the earth.
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;
and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
Isaiah 11.5: 5 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist,
and faithfulness the belt of his waist.
Isaiah 11.6: 6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
and the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together;
and a little child will lead them.
Isaiah 11.7: 7 The cow and the bear will graze.
Their young ones will lie down together.
The lion will eat straw like the ox.
Isaiah 11.8: 8 The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole,
and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
Isaiah 11.9: 9 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain;
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh,
as the waters cover the sea.
Isaiah 11.10: 10 It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.
Isaiah 11.11: 11 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Isaiah 11.12: 12 He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isaiah 11.13: 13 The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.
Isaiah 11.14: 14 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.
Isaiah 11.15: 15 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.
Isaiah 11.16: 16 There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 13.0: 
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Isaiah 13.1: 1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
Isaiah 13.2: 2 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
Isaiah 13.3: 3 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
Isaiah 13.4: 4 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.
Isaiah 13.5: 5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
Isaiah 13.6: 6 Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 13.7: 7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.
Isaiah 13.8: 8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
Isaiah 13.9: 9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
Isaiah 13.10: 10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
Isaiah 13.11: 11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.
Isaiah 13.12: 12 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 13.13: 13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Isaiah 13.14: 14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.
Isaiah 13.15: 15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
Isaiah 13.16: 16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
Isaiah 13.17: 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
Isaiah 13.18: 18 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
Isaiah 13.19: 19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 13.20: 20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
Isaiah 13.21: 21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.
Isaiah 13.22: 22 Wolves will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
Isaiah 31.0: 
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Isaiah 31.1: 1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,
and rely on horses,
and trust in chariots because they are many,
and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel,
and they don’t seek Yahweh!
Isaiah 31.2: 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster,
and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers,
and against the help of those who work iniquity.
Isaiah 31.3: 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
and their horses flesh, and not spirit.
When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble,
and he who is helped shall fall,
and they all shall be consumed together.
Isaiah 31.4: 4 For Yahweh says to me,
“As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey,
if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him,
will not be dismayed at their voice,
nor abase himself for their noise,
so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.
Isaiah 31.5: 5 As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem.
He will protect and deliver it.
He will pass over and preserve it.”
Isaiah 31.6: 6 Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
Isaiah 31.7: 7 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you.
Isaiah 31.8: 8 “The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man;
and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him.
He will flee from the sword,
and his young men will become subject to forced labor.
Isaiah 31.9: 9 His rock will pass away by reason of terror,
and his princes will be afraid of the banner,”
says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion,
and his furnace in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 36.0: 
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Isaiah 36.1: 1 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
Isaiah 36.2: 2 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.
Isaiah 36.3: 3 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him.
Isaiah 36.4: 4 Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
Isaiah 36.5: 5 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
Isaiah 36.6: 6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
Isaiah 36.7: 7 But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar?’”
Isaiah 36.8: 8 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
Isaiah 36.9: 9 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
Isaiah 36.10: 10 Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’”
Isaiah 36.11: 11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
Isaiah 36.12: 12 But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
Isaiah 36.13: 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
Isaiah 36.14: 14 The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.
Isaiah 36.15: 15 Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’
Isaiah 36.16: 16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;
Isaiah 36.17: 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Isaiah 36.18: 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isaiah 36.19: 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
Isaiah 36.20: 20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”
Isaiah 36.21: 21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
Isaiah 36.22: 22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Isaiah 52.0: 
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Isaiah 52.1: 1 Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion.
Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city:
for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.
Isaiah 52.2: 2 Shake yourself from the dust!
Arise, sit up, Jerusalem!
Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!
Isaiah 52.3: 3 For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing;
and you will be redeemed without money.”
Isaiah 52.4: 4 For the Lord Yahweh says:
“My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there:
and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.
Isaiah 52.5: 5 “Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh,
“seeing that my people are taken away for nothing?
Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh,
“and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.
Isaiah 52.6: 6 Therefore my people shall know my name.
Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks.
Behold, it is I.”
Isaiah 52.7: 7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace,
who brings good news,
who proclaims salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
Isaiah 52.8: 8 Your watchmen lift up their voice.
Together they sing;
for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion.
Isaiah 52.9: 9 Break out into joy!
Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem;
for Yahweh has comforted his people.
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
Isaiah 52.10: 10 Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations.
All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Isaiah 52.11: 11 Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing!
Go out from among her!
Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.
Isaiah 52.12: 12 For you shall not go out in haste,
neither shall you go by flight:
for Yahweh will go before you;
and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
Isaiah 52.13: 13 Behold, my servant will deal wisely.
He will be exalted and lifted up,
and will be very high.
Isaiah 52.14: 14 Just as many were astonished at you—
his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—
Isaiah 52.15: 15 so he will cleanse many nations.
Kings will shut their mouths at him;
for they will see that which had not been told them,
and they will understand that which they had not heard.
Jeremiah 4.0: 
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Jeremiah 4.1: 1 “If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;
Jeremiah 4.2: 2 and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”
Jeremiah 4.3: 3 For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
Jeremiah 4.4: 4 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 4.5: 5 Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’
Jeremiah 4.6: 6 Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
Jeremiah 4.7: 7 A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 4.8: 8 For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn’t turned back from us.
Jeremiah 4.9: 9 “It will happen at that day,” says Yahweh, “that the heart of the king will perish, along with the heart of the princes. The priests will be astonished, and the prophets will wonder.”
Jeremiah 4.10: 10 Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”
Jeremiah 4.11: 11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;
Jeremiah 4.12: 12 a full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them.”
Jeremiah 4.13: 13 Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.
Jeremiah 4.14: 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
Jeremiah 4.15: 15 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
Jeremiah 4.16: 16 “Tell the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
Jeremiah 4.17: 17 As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 4.18: 18 “Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
Jeremiah 4.19: 19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Jeremiah 4.20: 20 Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.
Jeremiah 4.21: 21 How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?
Jeremiah 4.22: 22 “For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
Jeremiah 4.23: 23 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.
Jeremiah 4.24: 24 I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.
Jeremiah 4.25: 25 I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.
Jeremiah 4.26: 26 I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, before his fierce anger.
Jeremiah 4.27: 27 For Yahweh says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
Jeremiah 4.28: 28 For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”
Jeremiah 4.29: 29 Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers. They go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.
Jeremiah 4.30: 30 You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.
Jeremiah 4.31: 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”
Jeremiah 21.0: 
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Jeremiah 21.1: 1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,
Jeremiah 21.2: 2 “Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may withdraw from us.”
Jeremiah 21.3: 3 Then Jeremiah said to them, “Tell Zedekiah:
Jeremiah 21.4: 4 ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls; and I will gather them into the middle of this city.
Jeremiah 21.5: 5 I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation.
Jeremiah 21.6: 6 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal. They will die of a great pestilence.
Jeremiah 21.7: 7 Afterward,” says Yahweh, “I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, even those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. He will strike them with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them, have pity, or have mercy.”’
Jeremiah 21.8: 8 “You shall say to this people, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
Jeremiah 21.9: 9 He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he will live, and he will escape with his life.
Jeremiah 21.10: 10 For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good,” says Yahweh. “It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.”’
Jeremiah 21.11: 11 “Concerning the house of the king of Judah, hear Yahweh’s word:
Jeremiah 21.12: 12 House of David, Yahweh says,
‘Execute justice in the morning,
and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor,
lest my wrath go out like fire,
and burn so that no one can quench it,
because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 21.13: 13 Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley,
and of the rock of the plain,’ says Yahweh.
‘You that say, “Who would come down against us?”
or “Who would enter into our homes?”
Jeremiah 21.14: 14 I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh;
and I will kindle a fire in her forest,
and it will devour all that is around her.’”
Jeremiah 49.0: 
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Jeremiah 49.1: 1 Of the children of Ammon. Yahweh says:
“Has Israel no sons?
Has he no heir?
Why then does Malcam possess Gad,
and his people dwell in its cities?
Jeremiah 49.2: 2 Therefore behold, the days come,”
says Yahweh,
“that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon;
and it will become a desolate heap,
and her daughters will be burned with fire:
then Israel will possess those who possessed him,”
says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 49.3: 3 “Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste!
Cry, you daughters of Rabbah!
Clothe yourself in sackcloth.
Lament, and run back and forth among the fences;
for Malcam will go into captivity,
his priests and his princes together.
Jeremiah 49.4: 4 Why do you boast in the valleys,
your flowing valley, backsliding daughter?
You trusted in her treasures,
saying, ‘Who will come to me?’
Jeremiah 49.5: 5 Behold, I will bring a terror on you,”
says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies,
“from all who are around you.
All of you will be driven completely out,
and there will be no one to gather together the fugitives.
Jeremiah 49.6: 6 “But afterward I will reverse the captivity of the children of Ammon,”
says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 49.7: 7 Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says:
“Is wisdom no more in Teman?
Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom vanished?
Jeremiah 49.8: 8 Flee! Turn back!
Dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan;
for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him when I visit him.
Jeremiah 49.9: 9 If grape gatherers came to you,
would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
If thieves came by night,
wouldn’t they steal until they had enough?
Jeremiah 49.10: 10 But I have made Esau bare,
I have uncovered his secret places,
and he will not be able to hide himself.
His offspring is destroyed,
with his brothers and his neighbors;
and he is no more.
Jeremiah 49.11: 11 Leave your fatherless children.
I will preserve them alive.
Let your widows trust in me.”
Jeremiah 49.12: 12 For Yahweh says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely drink.
Jeremiah 49.13: 13 For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”
Jeremiah 49.14: 14 I have heard news from Yahweh,
and an ambassador is sent among the nations,
saying, “Gather yourselves together!
Come against her!
Rise up to the battle!”
Jeremiah 49.15: 15 “For, behold, I have made you small among the nations,
and despised among men.
Jeremiah 49.16: 16 As for your terror,
the pride of your heart has deceived you,
O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
who hold the height of the hill,
though you should make your nest as high as the eagle,
I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 49.17: 17 “Edom will become an astonishment.
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished,
and will hiss at all its plagues.
Jeremiah 49.18: 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh,
“no man will dwell there,
neither will any son of man live therein.
Jeremiah 49.19: 19 “Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation:
for I will suddenly make them run away from it;
and whoever is chosen,
I will appoint him over it.
For who is like me?
Who will appoint me a time?
Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”
Jeremiah 49.20: 20 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom;
and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman:
Surely they will drag them away,
the little ones of the flock.
Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.
Jeremiah 49.21: 21 The earth trembles at the noise of their fall;
there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.
Jeremiah 49.22: 22 Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle,
and spread out his wings against Bozrah.
The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Jeremiah 49.23: 23 Of Damascus:
“Hamath is confounded, and Arpad;
for they have heard evil news.
They have melted away.
There is sorrow on the sea.
It can’t be quiet.
Jeremiah 49.24: 24 Damascus has grown feeble,
she turns herself to flee,
and trembling has seized her.
Anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,
as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah 49.25: 25 How is the city of praise not forsaken,
the city of my joy?
Jeremiah 49.26: 26 Therefore her young men will fall in her streets,
and all the men of war will be brought to silence in that day,”
says Yahweh of Armies.
Jeremiah 49.27: 27 “I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.”
Jeremiah 49.28: 28 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Yahweh says:
“Arise, go up to Kedar,
and destroy the children of the east.
Jeremiah 49.29: 29 They will take their tents and their flocks.
they will carry away for themselves their curtains,
all their vessels, and their camels;
and they will cry to them, ‘Terror on every side!’
Jeremiah 49.30: 30 Flee!
Wander far off!
Dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor,” says Yahweh;
“for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you,
and has conceived a purpose against you.
Jeremiah 49.31: 31 Arise! Go up to a nation that is at ease,
that dwells without care,” says Yahweh;
“that has neither gates nor bars,
that dwells alone.
Jeremiah 49.32: 32 Their camels will be a booty,
and the multitude of their livestock a plunder.
I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners of their beards cut off;
and I will bring their calamity from every side of them,”
says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 49.33: 33 Hazor will be a dwelling place of jackals,
a desolation forever.
No man will dwell there,
neither will any son of man live therein.”
Jeremiah 49.34: 34 Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
Jeremiah 49.35: 35 “Yahweh of Armies says:
‘Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,
the chief of their might.
Jeremiah 49.36: 36 I will bring on Elam the four winds from the four quarters of the sky,
and will scatter them toward all those winds.
There will be no nation where the outcasts of Elam will not come.
Jeremiah 49.37: 37 I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,
and before those who seek their life.
I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger,’ says Yahweh;
‘and I will send the sword after them,
until I have consumed them.
Jeremiah 49.38: 38 I will set my throne in Elam,
and will destroy from there king and princes,’ says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 49.39: 39 ‘But it will happen in the latter days
that I will reverse the captivity of Elam,’ says Yahweh.”
Jeremiah 51.0: 
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Jeremiah 51.1: 1 Yahweh says:
“Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,
and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.
Jeremiah 51.2: 2 I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow her.
They will empty her land;
for in the day of trouble they will be against her all around.
Jeremiah 51.3: 3 Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow,
also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail.
Don’t spare her young men!
Utterly destroy all her army!
Jeremiah 51.4: 4 They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,
and thrust through in her streets.
Jeremiah 51.5: 5 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God,
by Yahweh of Armies;
though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 51.6: 6 “Flee out of the middle of Babylon!
Everyone save his own life!
Don’t be cut off in her iniquity;
for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance.
He will render to her a recompense.
Jeremiah 51.7: 7 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand,
who made all the earth drunk.
The nations have drunk of her wine;
therefore the nations have gone mad.
Jeremiah 51.8: 8 Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed!
Wail for her!
Take balm for her pain.
Perhaps she may be healed.
Jeremiah 51.9: 9 “We would have healed Babylon,
but she is not healed.
Forsake her,
and let’s each go into his own country;
for her judgment reaches to heaven,
and is lifted up even to the skies.
Jeremiah 51.10: 10 ‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness:
come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’
Jeremiah 51.11: 11 “Make the arrows sharp!
Hold the shields firmly!
Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes,
because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it;
for it is the vengeance of Yahweh,
the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah 51.12: 12 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon!
Make the watch strong!
Set the watchmen,
and prepare the ambushes;
for Yahweh has both purposed and done
that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah 51.13: 13 You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures,
your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.
Jeremiah 51.14: 14 Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying,
‘Surely I will fill you with men,
as with the canker worm;
and they will lift up a shout against you.’
Jeremiah 51.15: 15 “He has made the earth by his power.
He has established the world by his wisdom.
By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.
Jeremiah 51.16: 16 When he utters his voice,
there is a roar of waters in the heavens,
and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain,
and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
Jeremiah 51.17: 17 “Every man has become brutish without knowledge.
Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image;
for his molten image is falsehood,
and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 51.18: 18 They are vanity,
a work of delusion.
In the time of their visitation, they will perish.
Jeremiah 51.19: 19 The portion of Jacob is not like these,
for he is the former of all things;
including the tribe of his inheritance:
Yahweh of Armies is his name.
Jeremiah 51.20: 20 “You are my battle ax and weapons of war.
With you I will break the nations into pieces.
With you I will destroy kingdoms.
Jeremiah 51.21: 21 With you I will break in pieces
the horse and his rider.
Jeremiah 51.22: 22 With you I will break in pieces
the chariot and him who rides therein.
With you I will break in pieces
man and woman.
With you I will break in pieces
the old man and the youth.
With you I will break in pieces
the young man and the virgin.
Jeremiah 51.23: 23 With you I will break in pieces
the shepherd and his flock.
With you I will break in pieces
the farmer and his yoke.
With you I will break in pieces
governors and deputies.
Jeremiah 51.24: 24 “I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 51.25: 25 “Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says Yahweh,
“which destroys all the earth.
I will stretch out my hand on you,
roll you down from the rocks,
and will make you a burned mountain.
Jeremiah 51.26: 26 They won’t take a cornerstone from you,
nor a stone for foundations;
but you will be desolate forever,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 51.27: 27 “Set up a standard in the land!
Blow the trumpet among the nations!
Prepare the nations against her!
Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz!
Appoint a marshal against her!
Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm!
Jeremiah 51.28: 28 Prepare against her the nations,
the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion!
Jeremiah 51.29: 29 The land trembles and is in pain;
for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon stand,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51.30: 30 The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting,
they remain in their strongholds.
Their might has failed.
They have become as women.
Her dwelling places are set on fire.
Her bars are broken.
Jeremiah 51.31: 31 One runner will run to meet another,
and one messenger to meet another,
to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.
Jeremiah 51.32: 32 So the passages are seized.
They have burned the reeds with fire.
The men of war are frightened.”
Jeremiah 51.33: 33 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says:
“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden.
Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.”
Jeremiah 51.34: 34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me.
He has crushed me.
He has made me an empty vessel.
He has, like a monster, swallowed me up.
He has filled his mouth with my delicacies.
He has cast me out.
Jeremiah 51.35: 35 May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!”
the inhabitant of Zion will say; and,
“May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
will Jerusalem say.
Jeremiah 51.36: 36 Therefore Yahweh says:
“Behold, I will plead your cause,
and take vengeance for you.
I will dry up her sea,
and make her fountain dry.
Jeremiah 51.37: 37 Babylon will become heaps,
a dwelling place for jackals,
an astonishment, and a hissing,
without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51.38: 38 They will roar together like young lions.
They will growl as lions’ cubs.
Jeremiah 51.39: 39 When they are heated, I will make their feast,
and I will make them drunk,
that they may rejoice,
and sleep a perpetual sleep,
and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 51.40: 40 “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with male goats.
Jeremiah 51.41: 41 “How Sheshach is taken!
How the praise of the whole earth seized!
How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
Jeremiah 51.42: 42 The sea has come up on Babylon.
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Jeremiah 51.43: 43 Her cities have become a desolation,
a dry land, and a desert,
a land in which no man dwells.
No son of man passes by it.
Jeremiah 51.44: 44 I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon,
and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up.
The nations will not flow any more to him.
Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
Jeremiah 51.45: 45 “My people, go away from the middle of her,
and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.
Jeremiah 51.46: 46 Don’t let your heart faint.
Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land.
For news will come one year,
and after that in another year news will come,
and violence in the land,
ruler against ruler.
Jeremiah 51.47: 47 Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon;
and her whole land will be confounded.
All her slain will fall in the middle of her.
Jeremiah 51.48: 48 Then the heavens and the earth,
and all that is therein,
will sing for joy over Babylon;
for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 51.49: 49 “As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,
so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon.
Jeremiah 51.50: 50 You who have escaped the sword, go!
Don’t stand still!
Remember Yahweh from afar,
and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”
Jeremiah 51.51: 51 “We are confounded,
because we have heard reproach.
Confusion has covered our faces,
for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”
Jeremiah 51.52: 52 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
“that I will execute judgment on her engraved images;
and through all her land the wounded will groan.
Jeremiah 51.53: 53 Though Babylon should mount up to the sky,
and though she should fortify the height of her strength,
yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 51.54: 54 “The sound of a cry comes from Babylon,
and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Jeremiah 51.55: 55 For Yahweh lays Babylon waste,
and destroys out of her the great voice!
Their waves roar like many waters.
The noise of their voice is uttered.
Jeremiah 51.56: 56 For the destroyer has come on her,
even on Babylon.
Her mighty men are taken.
Their bows are broken in pieces,
for Yahweh is a God of retribution.
He will surely repay.
Jeremiah 51.57: 57 I will make her princes, her wise men,
her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk.
They will sleep a perpetual sleep,
and not wake up,”
says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
Jeremiah 51.58: 58 Yahweh of Armies says:
“The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown.
Her high gates will be burned with fire.
The peoples will labor for vanity,
and the nations for the fire;
and they will be weary.”
Jeremiah 51.59: 59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.
Jeremiah 51.60: 60 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
Jeremiah 51.61: 61 Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words,
Jeremiah 51.62: 62 and say, ‘Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’
Jeremiah 51.63: 63 It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates.
Jeremiah 51.64: 64 Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’”
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
Ezekiel 1.0: 
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Ezekiel 1.1: 1 Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
Ezekiel 1.2: 2 In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
Ezekiel 1.3: 3 Yahweh’s word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and Yahweh’s hand was there on him.
Ezekiel 1.4: 4 I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north: a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of the middle of it as it were glowing metal, out of the middle of the fire.
Ezekiel 1.5: 5 Out of its center came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: They had the likeness of a man.
Ezekiel 1.6: 6 Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.
Ezekiel 1.7: 7 Their feet were straight feet. The sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze.
Ezekiel 1.8: 8 They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides. The four of them had their faces and their wings like this:
Ezekiel 1.9: 9 Their wings were joined to one another. They didn’t turn when they went. Each one went straight forward.
Ezekiel 1.10: 10 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man. The four of them had the face of a lion on the right side. The four of them had the face of an ox on the left side. The four of them also had the face of an eagle.
Ezekiel 1.11: 11 Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.
Ezekiel 1.12: 12 Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went. They didn’t turn when they went.
Ezekiel 1.13: 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. The fire went up and down among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire.
Ezekiel 1.14: 14 The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
Ezekiel 1.15: 15 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.
Ezekiel 1.16: 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
Ezekiel 1.17: 17 When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn when they went.
Ezekiel 1.18: 18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.
Ezekiel 1.19: 19 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them. When the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
Ezekiel 1.20: 20 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went. The spirit was to go there. The wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
Ezekiel 1.21: 21 When those went, these went. When those stood, these stood. When those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
Ezekiel 1.22: 22 Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like an awesome crystal to look at, stretched out over their heads above.
Ezekiel 1.23: 23 Under the expanse, their wings were straight, one toward the other. Each one had two which covered on this side, and each one had two which covered their bodies on that side.
Ezekiel 1.24: 24 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army. When they stood, they let down their wings.
Ezekiel 1.25: 25 There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads. When they stood, they let down their wings.
Ezekiel 1.26: 26 Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.
Ezekiel 1.27: 27 I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.
Ezekiel 1.28: 28 As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around.
This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.
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.
Daniel 1.0: 
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Daniel 1.1: 1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
Daniel 1.2: 2 The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god. He brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
Daniel 1.3: 3 The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, even of the royal offspring and of the nobles;
Daniel 1.4: 4 youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and who had the ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.
Daniel 1.5: 5 The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king.
Daniel 1.6: 6 Now among these were of the children of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
Daniel 1.7: 7 The prince of the eunuchs gave names to them: to Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
Daniel 1.8: 8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Daniel 1.9: 9 Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.
Daniel 1.10: 10 The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? Then you would endanger my head with the king.”
Daniel 1.11: 11 Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
Daniel 1.12: 12 “Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
Daniel 1.13: 13 Then let our faces be examined before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king’s dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.”
Daniel 1.14: 14 So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.
Daniel 1.15: 15 At the end of ten days, their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s dainties.
Daniel 1.16: 16 So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they would drink, and gave them vegetables.
Daniel 1.17: 17 Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
Daniel 1.18: 18 At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
Daniel 1.19: 19 The king talked with them; and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king.
Daniel 1.20: 20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.
Daniel 1.21: 21 Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus.
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.
Haggai 1.0: 
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Haggai 1.1: 1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
Haggai 1.2: 2 “This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’”
Haggai 1.3: 3 Then Yahweh’s word came by Haggai, the prophet, saying,
Haggai 1.4: 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
Haggai 1.5: 5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
Haggai 1.6: 6 You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”
Haggai 1.7: 7 This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.
Haggai 1.8: 8 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.
Haggai 1.9: 9 “You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
Haggai 1.10: 10 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
Haggai 1.11: 11 I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”
Haggai 1.12: 12 Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh, their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.
Haggai 1.13: 13 Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.
Haggai 1.14: 14 Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,
Haggai 1.15: 15 in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
Matthew 19.0: 
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Matthew 19.1: 1 When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.
Matthew 19.2: 2 Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
Matthew 19.3: 3 Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
Matthew 19.4: 4 He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
Matthew 19.5: 5 and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
Matthew 19.6: 6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”
Matthew 19.7: 7 They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce, and divorce her?”
Matthew 19.8: 8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. 
Matthew 19.9: 9 I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”
Matthew 19.10: 10 His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”
Matthew 19.11: 11 But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given. 
Matthew 19.12: 12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”
Matthew 19.13: 13 Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.
Matthew 19.14: 14 But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”
Matthew 19.15: 15 He laid his hands on them, and departed from there.
Matthew 19.16: 16 Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”
Matthew 19.17: 17 He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” 
Matthew 19.18: 18 He said to him, “Which ones?”
Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’ 
Matthew 19.19: 19 ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Matthew 19.20: 20 The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”
Matthew 19.21: 21 Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Matthew 19.22: 22 But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.
Matthew 19.23: 23 Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty. 
Matthew 19.24: 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”
Matthew 19.25: 25 When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”
Matthew 19.26: 26 Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Matthew 19.27: 27 Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?”
Matthew 19.28: 28 Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 
Matthew 19.29: 29 Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life. 
Matthew 19.30: 30 But many will be last who are first; and first who are last. 
Matthew 25.0: 
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Matthew 25.1: 1 “Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. 
Matthew 25.2: 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 
Matthew 25.3: 3 Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, 
Matthew 25.4: 4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 
Matthew 25.5: 5 Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. 
Matthew 25.6: 6 But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’ 
Matthew 25.7: 7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
Matthew 25.8: 8 The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 
Matthew 25.9: 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ 
Matthew 25.10: 10 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut. 
Matthew 25.11: 11 Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’ 
Matthew 25.12: 12 But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’ 
Matthew 25.13: 13 Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
Matthew 25.14: 14 “For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. 
Matthew 25.15: 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey. 
Matthew 25.16: 16 Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. 
Matthew 25.17: 17 In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two. 
Matthew 25.18: 18 But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
Matthew 25.19: 19 “Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them. 
Matthew 25.20: 20 He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents in addition to them.’
Matthew 25.21: 21 “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
Matthew 25.22: 22 “He also who got the two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents in addition to them.’ 
Matthew 25.23: 23 “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
Matthew 25.24: 24 “He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter. 
Matthew 25.25: 25 I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’
Matthew 25.26: 26 “But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter. 
Matthew 25.27: 27 You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest. 
Matthew 25.28: 28 Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents. 
Matthew 25.29: 29 For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away. 
Matthew 25.30: 30 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Matthew 25.31: 31 “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 
Matthew 25.32: 32 Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 
Matthew 25.33: 33 He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 
Matthew 25.34: 34 Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; 
Matthew 25.35: 35 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. 
Matthew 25.36: 36 I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’
Matthew 25.37: 37 “Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink? 
Matthew 25.38: 38 When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you? 
Matthew 25.39: 39 When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?’
Matthew 25.40: 40 “The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ 
Matthew 25.41: 41 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; 
Matthew 25.42: 42 for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; 
Matthew 25.43: 43 I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’
Matthew 25.44: 44 “Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’
Matthew 25.45: 45 “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’ 
Matthew 25.46: 46 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Mark 1.0: 
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Mark 1.1: 1 The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Mark 1.2: 2 As it is written in the prophets,
“Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
who will prepare your way before you:
Mark 1.3: 3 the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
‘Make ready the way of the Lord!
Make his paths straight!’”
Mark 1.4: 4 John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.
Mark 1.5: 5 All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.
Mark 1.6: 6 John was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.
Mark 1.7: 7 He preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.
Mark 1.8: 8 I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”
Mark 1.9: 9 In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
Mark 1.10: 10 Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
Mark 1.11: 11 A voice came out of the sky, “You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Mark 1.12: 12 Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.
Mark 1.13: 13 He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him.
Mark 1.14: 14 Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,
Mark 1.15: 15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
Mark 1.16: 16 Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
Mark 1.17: 17 Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.”
Mark 1.18: 18 Immediately they left their nets, and followed him.
Mark 1.19: 19 Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets.
Mark 1.20: 20 Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
Mark 1.21: 21 They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught.
Mark 1.22: 22 They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.
Mark 1.23: 23 Immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,
Mark 1.24: 24 saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”
Mark 1.25: 25 Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet, and come out of him!” 
Mark 1.26: 26 The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.
Mark 1.27: 27 They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”
Mark 1.28: 28 The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.
Mark 1.29: 29 Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
Mark 1.30: 30 Now Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.
Mark 1.31: 31 He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever left her immediately, and she served them.
Mark 1.32: 32 At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons.
Mark 1.33: 33 All the city was gathered together at the door.
Mark 1.34: 34 He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. He didn’t allow the demons to speak, because they knew him.
Mark 1.35: 35 Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.
Mark 1.36: 36 Simon and those who were with him searched for him.
Mark 1.37: 37 They found him and told him, “Everyone is looking for you.”
Mark 1.38: 38 He said to them, “Let’s go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason.”
Mark 1.39: 39 He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons.
Mark 1.40: 40 A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.”
Mark 1.41: 41 Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, “I want to. Be made clean.”
Mark 1.42: 42 When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean.
Mark 1.43: 43 He strictly warned him, and immediately sent him out,
Mark 1.44: 44 and said to him, “See you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”
Mark 1.45: 45 But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places. People came to him from everywhere.
Mark 16.0: 
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Mark 16.1: 1 When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.
Mark 16.2: 2 Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.
Mark 16.3: 3 They were saying among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?”
Mark 16.4: 4 for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.
Mark 16.5: 5 Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed.
Mark 16.6: 6 He said to them, “Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!
Mark 16.7: 7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.’”
Mark 16.8: 8 They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.
Mark 16.9: 9 Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
Mark 16.10: 10 She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
Mark 16.11: 11 When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.
Mark 16.12: 12 After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.
Mark 16.13: 13 They went away and told it to the rest. They didn’t believe them, either.
Mark 16.14: 14 Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
Mark 16.15: 15 He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation. 
Mark 16.16: 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned. 
Mark 16.17: 17 These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages; 
Mark 16.18: 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Mark 16.19: 19 So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
Mark 16.20: 20 They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.
Luke 6.0: 
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Luke 6.1: 1 Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate, rubbing them in their hands.
Luke 6.2: 2 But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”
Luke 6.3: 3 Jesus, answering them, said, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him; 
Luke 6.4: 4 how he entered into God’s house, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?”
Luke 6.5: 5 He said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
Luke 6.6: 6 It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was withered.
Luke 6.7: 7 The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.
Luke 6.8: 8 But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Rise up, and stand in the middle.” He arose and stood.
Luke 6.9: 9 Then Jesus said to them, “I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?”
Luke 6.10: 10 He looked around at them all, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other.
Luke 6.11: 11 But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.
Luke 6.12: 12 In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
Luke 6.13: 13 When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:
Luke 6.14: 14 Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew;
Luke 6.15: 15 Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called the Zealot;
Luke 6.16: 16 Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor.
Luke 6.17: 17 He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;
Luke 6.18: 18 as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed.
Luke 6.19: 19 All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.
Luke 6.20: 20 He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said,
“Blessed are you who are poor,
God’s Kingdom is yours.
Luke 6.21: 21 Blessed are you who hunger now,
for you will be filled.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
Luke 6.22: 22 Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. 
Luke 6.23: 23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.
Luke 6.24: 24 “But woe to you who are rich!
For you have received your consolation.
Luke 6.25: 25 Woe to you, you who are full now,
for you will be hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will mourn and weep.
Luke 6.26: 26 Woe, when men speak well of you,
for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.
Luke 6.27: 27 “But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 
Luke 6.28: 28 bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you. 
Luke 6.29: 29 To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also. 
Luke 6.30: 30 Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.
Luke 6.31: 31 “As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them. 
Luke 6.32: 32 If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 
Luke 6.33: 33 If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 
Luke 6.34: 34 If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much. 
Luke 6.35: 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Luke 6.36: 36 “Therefore be merciful,
even as your Father is also merciful.
Luke 6.37: 37 Don’t judge,
and you won’t be judged.
Don’t condemn,
and you won’t be condemned.
Set free,
and you will be set free.
Luke 6.38: 38 “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”
Luke 6.39: 39 He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit? 
Luke 6.40: 40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. 
Luke 6.41: 41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? 
Luke 6.42: 42 Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye. 
Luke 6.43: 43 For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit. 
Luke 6.44: 44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. 
Luke 6.45: 45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.
Luke 6.46: 46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say? 
Luke 6.47: 47 Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like. 
Luke 6.48: 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock. 
Luke 6.49: 49 But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”
Luke 23.0: 
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Luke 23.1: 1 The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.
Luke 23.2: 2 They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”
Luke 23.3: 3 Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
He answered him, “So you say.”
Luke 23.4: 4 Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”
Luke 23.5: 5 But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”
Luke 23.6: 6 But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean.
Luke 23.7: 7 When he found out that he was in Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.
Luke 23.8: 8 Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.
Luke 23.9: 9 He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.
Luke 23.10: 10 The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.
Luke 23.11: 11 Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
Luke 23.12: 12 Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.
Luke 23.13: 13 Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,
Luke 23.14: 14 and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.
Luke 23.15: 15 Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.
Luke 23.16: 16 I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
Luke 23.17: 17 Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast.
Luke 23.18: 18 But they all cried out together, saying, “Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!”—
Luke 23.19: 19 one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.
Luke 23.20: 20 Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,
Luke 23.21: 21 but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!”
Luke 23.22: 22 He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
Luke 23.23: 23 But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
Luke 23.24: 24 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.
Luke 23.25: 25 He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.
Luke 23.26: 26 When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.
Luke 23.27: 27 A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
Luke 23.28: 28 But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 
Luke 23.29: 29 For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ 
Luke 23.30: 30 Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’
Luke 23.31: 31 For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?”
Luke 23.32: 32 There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.
Luke 23.33: 33 When they came to the place that is called “The Skull”, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.
Luke 23.34: 34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”
Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
Luke 23.35: 35 The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
Luke 23.36: 36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,
Luke 23.37: 37 and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”
Luke 23.38: 38 An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
Luke 23.39: 39 One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”
Luke 23.40: 40 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?
Luke 23.41: 41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”
Luke 23.42: 42 He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”
Luke 23.43: 43 Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
Luke 23.44: 44 It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Luke 23.45: 45 The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
Luke 23.46: 46 Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.
Luke 23.47: 47 When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.”
Luke 23.48: 48 All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.
Luke 23.49: 49 All his acquaintances and the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance, watching these things.
Luke 23.50: 50 Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man
Luke 23.51: 51 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom:
Luke 23.52: 52 this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.
Luke 23.53: 53 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.
Luke 23.54: 54 It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.
Luke 23.55: 55 The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.
Luke 23.56: 56 They returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
John 17.0: 
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John 17.1: 1 Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; 
John 17.2: 2 even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 
John 17.3: 3 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. 
John 17.4: 4 I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. 
John 17.5: 5 Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed. 
John 17.6: 6 I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. 
John 17.7: 7 Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, 
John 17.8: 8 for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me. 
John 17.9: 9 I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 
John 17.10: 10 All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 
John 17.11: 11 I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are. 
John 17.12: 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 
John 17.13: 13 But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves. 
John 17.14: 14 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 
John 17.15: 15 I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. 
John 17.16: 16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. 
John 17.17: 17 Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
John 17.18: 18 As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. 
John 17.19: 19 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. 
John 17.20: 20 Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word, 
John 17.21: 21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me. 
John 17.22: 22 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; 
John 17.23: 23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me. 
John 17.24: 24 Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. 
John 17.25: 25 Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. 
John 17.26: 26 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
Romans 9.0: 
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Romans 9.1: 1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit
Romans 9.2: 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
Romans 9.3: 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh
Romans 9.4: 4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
Romans 9.5: 5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
Romans 9.6: 6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.
Romans 9.7: 7 Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
Romans 9.8: 8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.
Romans 9.9: 9 For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”
Romans 9.10: 10 Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
Romans 9.11: 11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
Romans 9.12: 12 it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
Romans 9.13: 13 Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Romans 9.14: 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
Romans 9.15: 15 For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Romans 9.16: 16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
Romans 9.17: 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
Romans 9.18: 18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
Romans 9.19: 19 You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
Romans 9.20: 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
Romans 9.21: 21 Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
Romans 9.22: 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
Romans 9.23: 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
Romans 9.24: 24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
Romans 9.25: 25 As he says also in Hosea,
“I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people;
and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”
Romans 9.26: 26 “It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
Romans 9.27: 27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel,
“If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea,
it is the remnant who will be saved;
Romans 9.28: 28 for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.”
Romans 9.29: 29 As Isaiah has said before,
“Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed,
we would have become like Sodom,
and would have been made like Gomorrah.”
Romans 9.30: 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
Romans 9.31: 31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
Romans 9.32: 32 Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
Romans 9.33: 33 even as it is written,
“Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense;
and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
Philippians 2.0: 
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Philippians 2.1: 1 If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
Philippians 2.2: 2 make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
Philippians 2.3: 3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
Philippians 2.4: 4 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
Philippians 2.5: 5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
Philippians 2.6: 6 who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Philippians 2.7: 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
Philippians 2.8: 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.
Philippians 2.9: 9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,
Philippians 2.10: 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
Philippians 2.11: 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2.12: 12 So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Philippians 2.13: 13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
Philippians 2.14: 14 Do all things without complaining and arguing,
Philippians 2.15: 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
Philippians 2.16: 16 holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
Philippians 2.17: 17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
Philippians 2.18: 18 In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.
Philippians 2.19: 19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.
Philippians 2.20: 20 For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.
Philippians 2.21: 21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 2.22: 22 But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.
Philippians 2.23: 23 Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.
Philippians 2.24: 24 But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.
Philippians 2.25: 25 But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,
Philippians 2.26: 26 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.
Philippians 2.27: 27 For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.
Philippians 2.28: 28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
Philippians 2.29: 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,
Philippians 2.30: 30 because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
Colossians 2.0: 
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Colossians 2.1: 1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
Colossians 2.2: 2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
Colossians 2.3: 3 in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
Colossians 2.4: 4 Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
Colossians 2.5: 5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
Colossians 2.6: 6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
Colossians 2.7: 7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
Colossians 2.8: 8 Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
Colossians 2.9: 9 For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,
Colossians 2.10: 10 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.
Colossians 2.11: 11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,
Colossians 2.12: 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Colossians 2.13: 13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
Colossians 2.14: 14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
Colossians 2.15: 15 Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Colossians 2.16: 16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
Colossians 2.17: 17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
Colossians 2.18: 18 Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Colossians 2.19: 19 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
Colossians 2.20: 20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
Colossians 2.21: 21 “Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”
Colossians 2.22: 22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
Colossians 2.23: 23 These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
1 Timothy 5.0: 
5
1 Timothy 5.1: 1 Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
1 Timothy 5.2: 2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
1 Timothy 5.3: 3 Honor widows who are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 5.4: 4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
1 Timothy 5.5: 5 Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
1 Timothy 5.6: 6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
1 Timothy 5.7: 7 Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
1 Timothy 5.8: 8 But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Timothy 5.9: 9 Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
1 Timothy 5.10: 10 being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
1 Timothy 5.11: 11 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,
1 Timothy 5.12: 12 having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.
1 Timothy 5.13: 13 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
1 Timothy 5.14: 14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
1 Timothy 5.15: 15 For already some have turned away after Satan.
1 Timothy 5.16: 16 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened, that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 5.17: 17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
1 Timothy 5.18: 18 For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”
1 Timothy 5.19: 19 Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.
1 Timothy 5.20: 20 Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
1 Timothy 5.21: 21 I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
1 Timothy 5.22: 22 Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.
1 Timothy 5.23: 23 Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
1 Timothy 5.24: 24 Some men’s sins are evident, preceding them to judgment, and some also follow later.
1 Timothy 5.25: 25 In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.
Hebrews 7.0: 
7
Hebrews 7.1: 1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
Hebrews 7.2: 2 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”,
Hebrews 7.3: 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.
Hebrews 7.4: 4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best plunder.
Hebrews 7.5: 5 They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,
Hebrews 7.6: 6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.
Hebrews 7.7: 7 But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.
Hebrews 7.8: 8 Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.
Hebrews 7.9: 9 We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,
Hebrews 7.10: 10 for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him.
Hebrews 7.11: 11 Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Hebrews 7.12: 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.
Hebrews 7.13: 13 For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.
Hebrews 7.14: 14 For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
Hebrews 7.15: 15 This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,
Hebrews 7.16: 16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;
Hebrews 7.17: 17 for it is testified,
“You are a priest forever,
according to the order of Melchizedek.”
Hebrews 7.18: 18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
Hebrews 7.19: 19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
Hebrews 7.20: 20 Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath
Hebrews 7.21: 21 (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him,
“The Lord swore and will not change his mind,
‘You are a priest forever,
according to the order of Melchizedek.’”
Hebrews 7.22: 22 By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.
Hebrews 7.23: 23 Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.
Hebrews 7.24: 24 But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.
Hebrews 7.25: 25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
Hebrews 7.26: 26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Hebrews 7.27: 27 who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.
Hebrews 7.28: 28 For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.
Hebrews 12.0: 
12
Hebrews 12.1: 1 Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
Hebrews 12.2: 2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12.3: 3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
Hebrews 12.4: 4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
Hebrews 12.5: 5 You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children,
“My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord,
nor faint when you are reproved by him;
Hebrews 12.6: 6 for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines,
and chastises every son whom he receives.”
Hebrews 12.7: 7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
Hebrews 12.8: 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
Hebrews 12.9: 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
Hebrews 12.10: 10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
Hebrews 12.11: 11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12.12: 12 Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, 
Hebrews 12.13: 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
Hebrews 12.14: 14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
Hebrews 12.15: 15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,
Hebrews 12.16: 16 lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
Hebrews 12.17: 17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
Hebrews 12.18: 18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
Hebrews 12.19: 19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
Hebrews 12.20: 20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.
Hebrews 12.21: 21 So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
Hebrews 12.22: 22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
Hebrews 12.23: 23 to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Hebrews 12.24: 24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
Hebrews 12.25: 25 See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
Hebrews 12.26: 26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”
Hebrews 12.27: 27 This phrase, “Yet once more” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
Hebrews 12.28: 28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
Hebrews 12.29: 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
James 4.0: 
4
James 4.1: 1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
James 4.2: 2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
James 4.3: 3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
James 4.4: 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4.5: 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
James 4.6: 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
James 4.7: 7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4.8: 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4.9: 9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
James 4.10: 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
James 4.11: 11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
James 4.12: 12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
James 4.13: 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
James 4.14: 14 Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
James 4.15: 15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
James 4.16: 16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
James 4.17: 17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
1 Peter 0.0: 
Peter’s First Letter
1 Peter 2.0: 
2
1 Peter 2.1: 1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
1 Peter 2.2: 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
1 Peter 2.3: 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
1 Peter 2.4: 4 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
1 Peter 2.5: 5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2.6: 6 Because it is contained in Scripture,
“Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious:
He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”
1 Peter 2.7: 7 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient,
“The stone which the builders rejected
has become the chief cornerstone,”
1 Peter 2.8: 8 and,
“a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.”
For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
1 Peter 2.9: 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter 2.10: 10 In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
1 Peter 2.11: 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1 Peter 2.12: 12 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
1 Peter 2.13: 13 Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
1 Peter 2.14: 14 or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.
1 Peter 2.15: 15 For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
1 Peter 2.16: 16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
1 Peter 2.17: 17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
1 Peter 2.18: 18 Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect: not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
1 Peter 2.19: 19 For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
1 Peter 2.20: 20 For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.
1 Peter 2.21: 21 For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
1 Peter 2.22: 22 who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
1 Peter 2.23: 23 When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.
1 Peter 2.24: 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
1 Peter 2.25: 25 For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
1 John 4.0: 
4
1 John 4.1: 1 Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4.2: 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
1 John 4.3: 3 and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
1 John 4.4: 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
1 John 4.5: 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
1 John 4.6: 6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
1 John 4.7: 7 Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
1 John 4.8: 8 He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
1 John 4.9: 9 By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
1 John 4.10: 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4.11: 11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4.12: 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
1 John 4.13: 13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
1 John 4.14: 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
1 John 4.15: 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
1 John 4.16: 16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
1 John 4.17: 17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.
1 John 4.18: 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
1 John 4.19: 19 We love him, because he first loved us.
1 John 4.20: 20 If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
1 John 4.21: 21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
Revelation 0.0: 
The Revelation to John
Revelation 1.0: 
1
Revelation 1.1: 1 This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
Revelation 1.2: 2 who testified to God’s word and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.
Revelation 1.3: 3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.
Revelation 1.4: 4 John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;
Revelation 1.5: 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—
Revelation 1.6: 6 and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 1.7: 7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
Revelation 1.8: 8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Revelation 1.9: 9 I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 1.10: 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet
Revelation 1.11: 11 saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
Revelation 1.12: 12 I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lamp stands.
Revelation 1.13: 13 And among the lamp stands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.
Revelation 1.14: 14 His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.
Revelation 1.15: 15 His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.
Revelation 1.16: 16 He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.
Revelation 1.17: 17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man.
He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last, 
Revelation 1.18: 18 and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
Revelation 1.19: 19 Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter. 
Revelation 1.20: 20 The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies.
Revelation 10.0: 
10
Revelation 10.1: 1 I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.
Revelation 10.2: 2 He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.
Revelation 10.3: 3 He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.
Revelation 10.4: 4 When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, “Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don’t write them.”
Revelation 10.5: 5 The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky,
Revelation 10.6: 6 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,
Revelation 10.7: 7 but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets.
Revelation 10.8: 8 The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.”
Revelation 10.9: 9 I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book.
He said to me, “Take it, and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”
Revelation 10.10: 10 I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.
Revelation 10.11: 11 They told me, “You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”
Tobit 2.0: 
2
Tobit 2.1: 1 Now when I had come home again, and my wife Anna was restored to me, and my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, and I sat down to eat.
Tobit 2.2: 2 I saw abundance of meat, and I said to my son, “Go and bring whatever poor man you find of our kindred, who is mindful of the Lord. Behold, I wait for you.”
Tobit 2.3: 3 Then he came, and said, “Father, one of our race is strangled, and has been cast out in the marketplace.”
Tobit 2.4: 4 Before I had tasted anything, I sprang up, and took him up into a chamber until the sun had set.
Tobit 2.5: 5 Then I returned, washed myself, ate my bread in heaviness,
Tobit 2.6: 6 and remembered the prophecy of Amos, as he said,
“Your feasts will be turned into mourning,
and all your mirth into lamentation.
Tobit 2.7: 7 So I wept: and when the sun had set, I went and dug a grave, and buried him.
Tobit 2.8: 8 My neighbors mocked me, and said, “He is no longer afraid to be put to death for this matter; and yet he fled away. Behold, he buries the dead again.”
Tobit 2.9: 9 The same night I returned from burying him, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted; and my face was uncovered.
Tobit 2.10: 10 I didn’t know that there were sparrows in the wall. My eyes were open and the sparrows dropped warm dung into my eyes, and white films came over my eyes. I went to the physicians, and they didn’t help me; but Achiacharus nourished me, until I went into Elymais.
Tobit 2.11: 11 My wife Anna wove cloth in the women’s chambers,
Tobit 2.12: 12 and sent the work back to the owners. They on their part paid her wages, and also gave her a kid.
Tobit 2.13: 13 But when it came to my house, it began to cry, and I said to her, Where did this kid come from? Is it stolen? Give it back to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat anything that is stolen.
Tobit 2.14: 14 But she said, “It has been given to me for a gift more than the wages.”
I didn’t believe her, and I asked her to return it to the owners; and I was ashamed of her.
But she answered and said to me, “Where are your alms and your righteous deeds? Behold, you and all your works are known.”
Esther (Greek) 10.0: 
10
Esther (Greek) 10.1: 1 The king levied a tax upon his kingdom both by land and sea.
Esther (Greek) 10.2: 2 As for his strength and valour, and the wealth and glory of his kingdom, behold, they are written in the book of the Persians and Medes for a memorial.
Esther (Greek) 10.3: 3 Mordecai was viceroy to king Ahasuerus, and was a great man in the kingdom, honored by the Jews, and lived his life loved by all his nation. 
Esther (Greek) 10.4: 4 [Mordecai said, “These things have come from God.
Esther (Greek) 10.5: 5 For I remember the dream which I had concerning these matters; for not one detail of them has failed.
Esther (Greek) 10.6: 6 There was the little spring which became a river, and there was light, and the sun and much water. The river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen.
Esther (Greek) 10.7: 7 The two serpents are Haman and me.
Esther (Greek) 10.8: 8 The nations are those nations who combined to destroy the name of the Jews.
Esther (Greek) 10.9: 9 But as for my nation, this is Israel, even those who cried to God and were delivered; for the Lord delivered his people. The Lord rescued us out of all these calamities; and God worked such signs and great wonders as have not been done among the nations.
Esther (Greek) 10.10: 10 Therefore he ordained two lots. One for the people of God, and one for all the other nations.
Esther (Greek) 10.11: 11 And these two lots came for an appointed season, and for a day of judgment, before God, and for all the nations.
Esther (Greek) 10.12: 12 God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance.
Esther (Greek) 10.13: 13 They shall observe these days in the month Adar, on the fourteenth and on the fifteenth day of the month, with an assembly, joy, and gladness before God, throughout the generations forever among his people Israel.
Esther (Greek) 10.14: 14 In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus his son, brought this letter of Purim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, who was in Jerusalem, had interpreted.]
Wisdom of Solomon 6.0: 
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Wisdom of Solomon 6.1: 1 Hear therefore, you kings, and understand.
Learn, you judges of the ends of the earth.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.2: 2 Give ear, you rulers who have dominion over many people,
and make your boast in multitudes of nations,
Wisdom of Solomon 6.3: 3 because your dominion was given to you from the Lord,
and your sovereignty from the Most High.
He will search out your works,
and will inquire about your plans;
Wisdom of Solomon 6.4: 4 because being officers of his kingdom, you didn’t judge rightly,
nor did you keep law,
nor did you walk according to God’s counsel.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.5: 5 He will come upon you awfully and swiftly,
because a stern judgement comes on those who are in high place.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.6: 6 For the man of low estate may be pardoned in mercy,
but mighty men will be mightily tested.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.7: 7 For the Sovereign Lord of all will not be impressed with anyone,
neither will he show deference to greatness;
because it is he who made both small and great,
and cares about them all;
Wisdom of Solomon 6.8: 8 but the scrutiny that comes upon the powerful is strict.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.9: 9 Therefore, my words are to you, O princes,
that you may learn wisdom and not fall away.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.10: 10 For those who have kept the things that are holy in holiness will be made holy.
Those who have been taught them will find what to say in defense.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.11: 11 Therefore set your desire on my words.
Long for them, and you princes will be instructed.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.12: 12 Wisdom is radiant and doesn’t fade away;
and is easily seen by those who love her,
and found by those who seek her.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.13: 13 She anticipates those who desire her, making herself known.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.14: 14 He who rises up early to seek her won’t have difficulty,
for he will find her sitting at his gates.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.15: 15 For to think upon her is perfection of understanding,
and he who watches for her will quickly be free from care;
Wisdom of Solomon 6.16: 16 because she herself goes around, seeking those who are worthy of her,
and in their paths she appears to them graciously,
and in every purpose she meets them.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.17: 17 For her true beginning is desire for instruction;
and desire for instruction is love.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.18: 18 And love is observance of her laws.
To give heed to her laws confirms immortality.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.19: 19 Immortality brings closeness to God.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.20: 20 So then desire for wisdom promotes to a kingdom.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.21: 21 If therefore you delight in thrones and sceptres, you princes of peoples,
honor wisdom, that you may reign forever.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.22: 22 But what wisdom is, and how she came into being, I will declare.
I won’t hide mysteries from you;
but I will explore from her first beginning,
bring the knowledge of her into clear light,
and I will not pass by the truth.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.23: 23 Indeed, I won’t go with consuming envy,
because envy will have no fellowship with wisdom.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.24: 24 But a multitude of wise men is salvation to the world,
and an understanding king is stability for his people.
Wisdom of Solomon 6.25: 25 Therefore be instructed by my words, and you will profit.
1 Maccabees 3.0: 
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1 Maccabees 3.1: 1 And his son Judas, who was called Maccabaeus, rose up in his stead.
1 Maccabees 3.2: 2 And all his kindred helped him, and so did all those who clave to his father, and they fought with gladness the battle of Israel.
1 Maccabees 3.3: 3 And he got his people great glory, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girded his warlike harness about him, and set battles in array, protecting the army with his sword.
1 Maccabees 3.4: 4 And he was like a lion in his deeds, and as a lion’s whelp roaring for prey.
1 Maccabees 3.5: 5 And he pursued the lawless, seeking them out, and he burned up those that troubled his people.
1 Maccabees 3.6: 6 And the lawless shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of lawlessness were sore troubled, and salvation prospered in his hand.
1 Maccabees 3.7: 7 And he angered many kings, and made Jacob glad with his acts, and his memorial is blessed forever.
1 Maccabees 3.8: 8 And he went about among the cities of Judah, and destroyed the ungodly out of the land, and turned away wrath from Israel:
1 Maccabees 3.9: 9 and he was renowned to the utmost part of the earth, and he gathered together such as were ready to perish.
1 Maccabees 3.10: 10 And Apollonius gathered the Gentiles together, and a great army from Samaria, to fight against Israel.
1 Maccabees 3.11: 11 And Judas perceived it, and he went forth to meet him, and struck him, and killed him: and many fell wounded to death, and the rest fled.
1 Maccabees 3.12: 12 And they took their spoils, and Judas took the sword of Apollonius, and therewith he fought all his days.
1 Maccabees 3.13: 13 And Seron, the commander of the army of Syria, heard say that Judas had gathered a gathering and a congregation of faithful men with him, and of such as went out to war;
1 Maccabees 3.14: 14 And he said, I will make myself a name and get me glory in the kingdom; and I will fight against Judas and those who are with him, that set at nothing the word of the king.
1 Maccabees 3.15: 15 And there went up with him also a mighty army of the ungodly to help him, to take vengeance on the children of Israel.
1 Maccabees 3.16: 16 And he came near to the going up of Bethhoron, and Judas went forth to meet him with a small company.
1 Maccabees 3.17: 17 But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas, What? shall we be able, being a small company, to fight against so great and strong a multitude? and we for our part are faint, having tasted no food this day.
1 Maccabees 3.18: 18 And Judas said, It is an easy thing for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with heaven it is all one, to save by many or by few:
1 Maccabees 3.19: 19 for victory in battle stands not in the multitude of an army; but strength is from heaven.
1 Maccabees 3.20: 20 They come to us in fullness of insolence and lawlessness, to destroy us and our wives and our children, for to plunder us:
1 Maccabees 3.21: 21 but we fight for our lives and our laws.
1 Maccabees 3.22: 22 And he himself will discomfit them before our face: but as for you, be you° not afraid of them.
1 Maccabees 3.23: 23 Now when he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly upon them, and Seron and his army were discomfited before him.
1 Maccabees 3.24: 24 And they pursued them in the going down of Bethhoron to the plain, and there fell of them about eight hundred men; but the residue fled into the land of the Philistines.
1 Maccabees 3.25: 25 And the fear of Judas and his kindred, and the dread of them, began to fall upon the nations round about them:
1 Maccabees 3.26: 26 and his name came near even to the king, and every nation told of the battles of Judas.
1 Maccabees 3.27: 27 But when king Antiochus heard these words, he was full of indignation: and he sent and gathered together all the forces of his realm, an exceedingly strong army.
1 Maccabees 3.28: 28 And he opened his treasury, and gave his forces pay for a year, and commanded them to be ready for every need.
1 Maccabees 3.29: 29 And he saw that the money failed from his treasures, and that the tributes of the country were small, because of the dissension and plague which he had brought upon the land, to the end that he might take away the laws which had been from the first days;
1 Maccabees 3.30: 30 and he feared that he should not have enough as at other times for the charges and the gifts which he gave aforetime with a liberal hand, and he abounded above the kings that were before him.
1 Maccabees 3.31: 31 And he was exceedingly perplexed in his mind, and he determined to go into Persia, and to take the tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.
1 Maccabees 3.32: 32 And he left Lysias, an honorable man, and one of the seed royal, to be over the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates to the borders of Egypt,
1 Maccabees 3.33: 33 and to bring up his son Antiochus, until he came again.
1 Maccabees 3.34: 34 And he delivered to him the half of his forces, and the elephants, and gave him charge of all the things that he would have done, and concerning those who lived in Judea and in Jerusalem,
1 Maccabees 3.35: 35 that he should send an army against them, to root out and destroy the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away their memorial from the place;
1 Maccabees 3.36: 36 And that he should make strangers to dwell on all their coasts, and should divide their land to them by lot.
1 Maccabees 3.37: 37 And the king took the half that remained of the forces, and removed from Antioch, from his royal city, the hundred and forty and seventh year; and he passed over the river Euphrates, and went through the upper countries.
1 Maccabees 3.38: 38 And Lysias chose Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s Friends;
1 Maccabees 3.39: 39 and with them he sent forty thousand footmen, and seven thousand horse, to go into the land of Judah, and to destroy it, according to the word of the king.
1 Maccabees 3.40: 40 And they removed with all their army, and came and pitched near to Emmaus in the plain country.
1 Maccabees 3.41: 41 And the merchants of the country heard the fame of them, and took silver and gold exceedingly much, with fetters, and came into the camp to take the children of Israel for servants: and there were added to them the forces of Syria and of the land of the Philistines.
1 Maccabees 3.42: 42 And Judas and his kindred saw that evils were multiplied, and that the forces were encamping in their borders; and they took knowledge of the king’s words which he had commanded, to destroy the people and make an end of them;
1 Maccabees 3.43: 43 and they said each man to his neighbor, Let’s raise up the ruin of our people, and let’s fight for our people and the holy place.
1 Maccabees 3.44: 44 And the congregation was gathered together, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask for mercy and compassion.
1 Maccabees 3.45: 45 And Jerusalem was without inhabitant as a wilderness, there was none of her offspring that went in or went out; and the sanctuary was trodden down, and the sons of strangers were in the citadel, the Gentiles lodged therein; and joy was taken away from Jacob, and the pipe and the harp ceased.
1 Maccabees 3.46: 46 And they gathered themselves together, and came to Mizpeh, near Jerusalem; for in Mizpeh was there a place of prayer aforetime for Israel.
1 Maccabees 3.47: 47 And they fasted that day, and put on sackcloth, and put ashes upon their heads, and tore their clothes,
1 Maccabees 3.48: 48 and laid open the book of the law, concerning which the Gentiles were wont to inquire, seeking the likenesses of their idols.
1 Maccabees 3.49: 49 And they brought the priests’ garments, and the first fruits, and the tithes: and they stirred up the Nazarites, who had accomplished their days.
1 Maccabees 3.50: 50 And they cried aloud toward heaven, saying, What shall we do with these men, and where shall we carry them away?
1 Maccabees 3.51: 51 And your holy place is trodden down and profaned, and your priests are in heaviness and brought low.
1 Maccabees 3.52: 52 And, behold, the Gentiles are assembled together against us to destroy us: you know what things they imagine against us.
1 Maccabees 3.53: 53 How shall we be able to stand before them, except you be our help?
1 Maccabees 3.54: 54 And they sounded with the trumpets, and cried with a loud voice.
1 Maccabees 3.55: 55 And after this Judas appointed leaders of the people, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens.
1 Maccabees 3.56: 56 And he said to those who were building houses, and were betrothing wives, and were planting vineyards, and were fearful, that they should return, each man to his own house, according to the law.
1 Maccabees 3.57: 57 And the army removed, and encamped upon the south side of Emmaus.
1 Maccabees 3.58: 58 And Judas said, Gird yourselves, and be valiant men, and be in readiness against the morning, that you° may fight with these Gentiles, that are assembled together against us to destroy us, and our holy place:
1 Maccabees 3.59: 59 for it is better for us to die in battle, than to look upon the evils of our nation and the holy place.
1 Maccabees 3.60: 60 Nevertheless, as may be the will in heaven, so shall he do.
3 Maccabees 0.0: 
THE THIRD BOOK OF THE MACCABEES
The Third Book of the Maccabees is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches. It is considered to be apocrypha by most other church traditions.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.0: 
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2 Esdras (Latin) 3.1: 1 In the thirties year after the ruin of the city, I Salathiel (also called Esdras) was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart:
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.2: 2 for I saw the desolation of Sion, and the wealth of those who lived at Babylon.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.3: 3 And my spirit was sore moved, so that I began to speak words full of fear to the Most High, and said,
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.4: 4 O Lord that bear rule, did you not not speak at the beginning, when you did fashion the earth, and that yourself alone, and command the dust.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.5: 5 and it gave you Adam, a body without a soul? yet it was the workmanship of your hands, and you did breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.6: 6 And you led him into paradise, which your right hand did plant, before ever the earth came forward.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.7: 7 And to him you gave your one commandment: which he transgressed, and immediately you appointed death for him and in his generations; and there were born of him nations and tribes, peoples and kindred, out of number.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.8: 8 And every nation walked after their own will, and did ungodly things before you, and despised your commandments, and you didn’t forbid them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.9: 9 Nevertheless again in process of time you brought the flood upon those that lived in the world, and destroyed them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.10: 10 And it came to pass that the same hap befell them; like as death was to Adam, so was the flood to these.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.11: 11 Nevertheless one of them you left, Noah with his household, even all the righteous men that came of him.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.12: 12 And it came to pass, that when those who lived upon the earth began to multiply, they multiplied also children, and peoples, and many nations, and began again to be more ungodly than the first.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.13: 13 And it came to pass, when they did wickedly before you, you did choose you one from among them, whose name was Abraham;
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.14: 14 and him you loved, and to him only you showed the end of the times secretly by night:
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.15: 15 and made an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that you would never forsake his seed.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.16: 16 And to him you gave Isaac, and to Isaac you gave Jacob and Esau. And you did set apart Jacob for yourself, but did put by Esau: and Jacob became a great multitude.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.17: 17 And it came to pass, that when you led his seed out of Egypt, you brought them up to the mount Sinai.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.18: 18 You bowed the heavens also, and did shake the earth, and movedst the whole world, and made the depths to tremble, and troubled the course of that age.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.19: 19 And your glory went through four gates, of fire, and of earthquake, and of wind, and of cold; that you might give the law to the seed of Jacob, and the commandment to the generation of Israel.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.20: 20 And yet took you not away from them their wicked heart, that your law might bring forth fruit in them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.21: 21 For the first Adam bearing a wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; and not he only, but all they also that are born of him.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.22: 22 Thus disease was made permanent; and the law was in the heart of the people along with the wickedness of the root; so the good departed away, and that which was wicked abode still.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.23: 23 So the times passed away, and the years were brought to an end: then did you raise you up a servant, called David,
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.24: 24 whom you commanded to build a city to your name, and to offer oblations to you therein of your own.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.25: 25 When this was done many years, then those who inhabited the city did evil,
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.26: 26 in all things doing even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also bare a wicked heart:
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.27: 27 and so you gave your city over into the hands of your enemies.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.28: 28 And I said then in my heart, are their deeds any better that inhabit Babylon? and has she therefore dominion over Sion?
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.29: 29 For it came to pass when I came here, that I saw also impieties without number, and my soul saw many evil-doers in this thirties year, so that my heart failed me.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.30: 30 For I have seen how you suffer them sinning, and have spared the ungodly doers, and have destroyed your people, and have preserved your enemies; and you have not signified
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.31: 31 to any how your way may be comprehended. Are the deeds of Babylon better than those of Sion?
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.32: 32 Or is there any other nation that knows you beside Israel? or what tribes have so believed your covenants as these tribes of Jacob?
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.33: 33 And yet their reward appears not, and their labor has no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the nations, and I see that they abound in wealth, and think not upon your commandments.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.34: 34 Weigh you therefore our iniquities now in the balance, and theirs also that dwell in the world; and so shall it be found which way the scale inclines.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.35: 35 Or when was it that they which dwell upon the earth have not sinned in your sight? or what nation has so kept your commandments?
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.36: 36 You shall find that men who may be reckoned by name have kept your precepts; but nations you shall not find.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.0: 
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2 Esdras (Latin) 7.1: 1 And when I had made an end of speaking these words, there was sent to me the angel which had been sent to me the nights before:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.2: 2 and he said to me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.3: 3 And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then he said to me, There is a sea set in a wide place, that it might be broad and vast.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.4: 4 But the entrance thereof shall be set in a narrow place so as to be like a river;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.5: 5 whoso then should desire to go into the sea to look upon it, or to rule it, if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.6: 6 Another thing also: There is a city built and set in a plain country, and full of all good things;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.7: 7 but the entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, having a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.8: 8 and there is one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.9: 9 If this city now be given to a man for an inheritance, if the heir pass not the danger before him, how shall he receive his inheritance?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.10: 10 And I said, It is so, Lord. Then said he to me, Even so also is Israel’s portion.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.11: 11 Because for their sakes I made the world: and when Adam transgressed my statutes, then was decreed that now is done.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.12: 12 Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, and sorrowful and toilsome: they are but few and evil, full of perils, and charged with great toils.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.13: 13 For the entrances of the greater world are wide and sure, and bring forth fruit of immortality.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.14: 14 If then those who live enter not these strait and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.15: 15 Now therefore why you disquiet yourself, seeing you are but a corruptible man? and why are you moved, whereas you are but mortal?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.16: 16 and why have you not considered in your mind that which is to come, rather than that which is present?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.17: 17 Then answered I and said, O Lord that bear rule, behold, you have ordained in your law, that the righteous should inherit these things, but that the ungodly should perish.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.18: 18 The righteous therefore shall suffer strait things, and hope for wide: but those who have done wickedly have suffered the strait things, and yet shall not see the wide.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.19: 19 And he said to me, You are not a judge above God, neither have you understanding above the Most High.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.20: 20 Yes, rather let many that now be perish, than that the law of God which is set before them be despised.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.21: 21 For God straitly commanded such as came, even as they came, what they should do to live, and what they should observe to avoid punishment.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.22: 22 Nevertheless they were not obedient to him; but spoke against him, and imagined for themselves vain things;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.23: 23 and framed cunning plans of wickedness; and said moreover of the Most High, that he is not; and knew not his ways:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.24: 24 but they despised his law, and denied his covenants; they have not been faithful to his statutes, and have not performed his works.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.25: 25 Therefore, Esdras, for the empty are empty things, and for the full are the full things.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.26: 26 For behold, the time shall come, and it shall be, when these tokens, of which I told you before, shall come to pass, that the bride shall appear, even the city coming forth, and she shall be seen, that now is withdrawn from the earth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.27: 27 And whoever is delivered from the aforesaid evils shall see my wonders.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.28: 28 For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that be with him, and shall rejoice those who remain four hundred years.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.29: 29 After these years shall my son Christ die of those who, and all that have the breath of life.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.30: 30 And the world shall be turned into the old silence seven days, like as in the first beginning: so that no man shall remain.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.31: 31 And after seven days the world, that yet awakens not, shall be raised up, and that shall die that is corruptible.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.32: 32 And the earth shall restore those that are asleep in her, and so shall the dust those that dwell therein in silence, and the secret places shall deliver those souls that were committed to them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.33: 33 And the Most High shall be revealed upon the seat of judgement, and compassion shall pass away, and patience shall be withdrawn:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.34: 34 but judgement only shall remain, truth shall stand, and faith shall wax strong:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.35: 35 and the work shall follow, and the reward shall be showed, and good deeds shall awake, and wicked deeds shall not sleep. 
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.36: 36 And the pit of torment shall appear, and near it shall be the place of rest: and the furnace of shall be showed, and near it the paradise of delight.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.37: 37 And then shall the Most High say to the nations that are raised from the dead, See you° and understand whom you° have denied, or whom you° have not served, or whose commandments you° have despised.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.38: 38 Look on this side and on that: here is delight and rest, and there fire and torments. Thus shall he speak to them in the day of judgement:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.39: 39 This is a day that has neither sun, nor moon, nor stars,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.40: 40 neither cloud, nor thunder, nor lightning, neither wind, nor water, nor air, neither darkness, nor evening, nor morning,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.41: 41 neither summer, nor spring, nor heat, nor winter, neither frost, nor cold, nor hail, nor rain, nor dew,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.42: 42 neither noon, nor night, nor dawn, neither shining, nor brightness, nor light, save only the splendor of the glory of the Most High, whereby all shall see the things that are set before them:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.43: 43 for it shall endure as it were a week of years.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.44: 44 This is my judgement and the ordinance thereof; but to you only have I showed these things.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.45: 45 And I answered, I said even then, O Lord, and I say now: blessed are those who are now alive and keep the statutes ordained of you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.46: 46 But as touching them for whom my prayer was made, what shall I say? for who is there of those who are alive that has not sinned, and who of the sons of men that has not transgressed your covenant?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.47: 47 And now I see, that the world to come shall bring delight to few, but torments to many.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.48: 48 For an evil heart has grown up in us, which has led us astray from these statutes, and has brought us into corruption and into the ways of death, has showed us the paths of perdition and removed us far from life; and that, not a few only, but well near all that have been created.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.49: 49 And he answered me, and said, Listen to me, and I will instruct you; and I will admonish you yet again:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.50: 50 for this cause the Most High has not made one world, but two.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.51: 51 For whereas you have said that the just are not many, but few, and the ungodly abound, hear the answer thereto.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.52: 52 If you have exceedingly few choice stones, will you set for you near them according to their number things of lead and clay?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.53: 53 And I said, Lord, how shall this be?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.54: 54 And he said to me, Not only this, but ask the earth, and she shall tell you; entreat her, and she shall declare to you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.55: 55 For you shall say to her, You bring forth gold and silver and brass, and iron also and lead and clay:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.56: 56 but silver is more abundant than gold, and brass than silver, and iron than brass, lead than iron, and clay than lead.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.57: 57 Judge you therefore which things are precious and to be desired, what is abundant or what is rare.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.58: 58 And I said, O Lord that bear rule, that which is plentiful is of less worth, for that which is more rare is more precious.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.59: 59 And he answered me, and said, Weigh within yourself the things that you have thought, for he that has what is hard to get rejoices over him that has what is plentiful.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.60: 60 So also is the judgement which I have promised: for I will rejoice over the few that shall be saved, inasmuch as these are those who have made my glory now to prevail, and of whom my name is now named.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.61: 61 And I will not grieve over the multitude of those who perish; for these are those who are now like to vapor, and are become as flame and smoke; they are set on fire and burn hotly, and are quenched.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.62: 62 And I answered and said, O you earth, wherefore have you brought forth, if the mind is made out of dust, like as all other created things?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.63: 63 For it were better that the dust itself had been unborn, so that the mind might not have been made therefrom.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.64: 64 But now the mind grows with us, and by reason of this we are tormented, because we perish and know it.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.65: 65 Let the race of men lament and the beasts of the field be glad; let all that are born lament, but let the four-footed beasts and the cattle rejoice.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.66: 66 For it is far better with them than with us; for they look not for judgement, neither do they know of torments or of salvation promised to them after death.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.67: 67 For what does it profit us, that we shall be preserved alive, but yet be afflicted with torment?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.68: 68 For all that are born are defiled with iniquities, and are full of sins and laden with offences:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.69: 69 and if after death we were not to come into judgement, perhaps it had been better for us.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.70: 70 And he answered me, and said, When the Most High made the world, and Adam and all those who came of him, he first prepared the Judgement and the things that pertain to the judgement.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.71: 71 And now understand from your own words, for you have said that the mind grows with us.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.72: 72 They therefore that dwell upon the earth shall be tormented for this reason, that having understanding they have done iniquity, and receiving commandments have not kept them, and having obtained a law they dealt unfaithfully with that which they received.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.73: 73 What then will they have to say in the judgement, or how will they answer in the last times?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.74: 74 For how great a time has the Most High been patient with those who inhabit the world, and not for their sakes, but because of the times which he has foreordained!
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.75: 75 And I answered and said, if I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, show this also to your servant, whether after death, even now when every one of us gives up his soul, we shall be kept in rest until those times come, in which you shall renew the creation, or whether we shall be tormented forthwith.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.76: 76 And he answered me, and said, I will show you this also; but join not yourself with those who are scorners, nor count yourself with those who are tormented.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.77: 77 For you have a treasure of good works laid up with the Most High, but it shall not be showed you until the last times.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.78: 78 For concerning death the teaching is: When the determinate sentence has gone forth from the Most High that a man should die, as the spirit leaves the body to return again to him who gave it, it adores the glory of the Most High first of all.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.79: 79 And if it be one of those that have been scorners and have not kept the way of the Most High, and that have despised his law, and that hate those who fear God,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.80: 80 these spirits shall not enter into habitations, but shall wander and be in torments forthwith, ever grieving and sad, in seven ways.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.81: 81 The first way, because they have despised the law of the Most High.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.82: 82 The second way, because they can’t now make a good returning that they may live.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.83: 83 The third way, they shall see the reward laid up for those who have believed the covenants of the Most High.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.84: 84 The fourth way, they shall consider the torment laid up for themselves in the last days.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.85: 85 The fifth way, they shall see the dwelling places of the others guarded by angels, with great quietness.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.86: 86 The sixth way, they shall see how forthwith some of them shall pass into torment.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.87: 87 The seventh way, which is more grievous than all the aforesaid ways, because they shall pine away in confusion and be consumed with shame, and shall be withered up by fears, seeing the glory of the Most High before whom they have sinned while living, and before whom they shall be judged in the last times.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.88: 88 Now this is the order of those who have kept the ways of the Most High, when they shall be separated from the corruptible vessel.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.89: 89 In the time that they lived therein they painfully served the Most High, and were in jeopardy every hour, that they might keep the law of the lawgiver perfectly.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.90: 90 Wherefore this is the teaching concerning them:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.91: 91 First of all they shall see with great joy the glory of him who takes them up, for they shall have rest in seven orders.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.92: 92 The first order, because they have labored with great effort to overcome the evil thought which was fashioned together with them, that it might not lead them astray from life into death.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.93: 93 The second order, because they see the perplexity in which the souls of the ungodly wander, and the punishment that awaits them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.94: 94 The third order, they see the witness which he that fashioned them bears concerning them, that while they lived they kept the law which was given them in trust.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.95: 95 The fourth order, they understand the rest which, being gathered in their chambers, they now enjoy with great quietness, guarded by angels, and the glory that awaits them in the last days.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.96: 96 The fifth order, they rejoice, seeing how they have now escaped from that which is corruptible, and how they shall inherit that which is to come, while they see moreover the straitness and the painfulness from which they have been delivered, and the large room which they shall receive with joy and immortality.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.97: 97 The sixth order, when it is showed to them how their face shall shine as the sun, and how they shall be made like to the light of the stars, being henceforth incorruptible.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.98: 98 The seventh order, which is greater than all the aforesaid orders, because they shall rejoice with confidence, and because they shall be bold without confusion, and shall be glad without fear, for they hasten to behold the face of him whom in their lifetime they served, and from whom they shall receive their reward in glory.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.99: 99 This is the order of the souls of the just, as from henceforth is announcer to them, and aforesaid are the ways of torture which those who would not give heed shall suffer from henceforth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.100: 100 And I answered and said, shall time therefore be given to the souls after they are separated from the bodies, that they may see that whereof you have spoken to me?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.101: 101 And he said, Their freedom shall be for seven days, that for seven days they may see the things whereof you have been told, and afterwards they shall be gathered together in their habitations.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.102: 102 And I answered and said, if I have found favor in your sight, show further to me your servant whether in the day of judgment the just will be able to intercede for the ungodly or to entreat the Most High for them,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.103: 103 whether fathers for children, or children for parents, or kindred for kindred, or kinsfolk for their next of kin, or friends for those who are most dear.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.104: 104 And he answered me, and said, Since you have found favor in my sight, I will show you this also: The day of judgement is a day of decision, and displays to all the seal of truth; even as now a father sends not his son, or a son his father, or a master his slave, or a friend him that is most dear, that in his stead he may be sick, or sleep, or eat, or be healed:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.105: 105 so never shall anyone pray for another in that day, neither shall one lay a burden on another, for then shall everyone will each bear his own righteousness or unrighteousness.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.106: 106 And I answered and said, How do we now find that first Abraham prayed for the people of Sodom, and Moses for the fathers that sinned in the wilderness:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.107: 107 and Joshua after him for Israel in the days of Achar:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.108: 108 and Samuel in the days of Saul; and David for the plague: and Solomon for those who should worship in the sanctuary:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.109: 109 and Elijah for those that received rain; and for the dead, that he might live:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.110: 110 and Hezekiah for the people in the days of Sennacherib: and many for many?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.111: 111 If therefore now, when corruption is grown up, and unrighteousness increased, the righteous have prayed for the ungodly, wherefore shall it not be so then also?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.112: 112 He answered me, and said, This present world is not the end; the full glory remains not therein: therefore have they who were able prayed for the weak.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.113: 113 But the day of judgement shall be the end of this time, and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is passed away,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.114: 114 intemperance is at an end, infidelity is cut off, but righteousness is grown, and truth is sprung up.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.115: 115 Then shall no man be able to have mercy on him that is cast in judgement, nor to thrust down him that has gotten the victory.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.116: 116 I answered then and said, this is my first and last saying, that it had been better that the earth had not given you Adam: or else, when it had given him, to have restrained him from sinning.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.117: 117 For what profit is it for all that are in this present time to live in heaviness, and after death to look for punishment?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.118: 118 O you Adam, what have you done? For though it was you that sinned, the evil is not fallen on you alone, but upon all of us that come of you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.119: 119 For what profit is it to us, if there be promised us an immortal time, whereas we have done the works that bring death?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.120: 120 And that there is promised us an everlasting hope, whereas ourselves most miserably are become vain?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.121: 121 And that there are reserved habitations of health and safety, whereas we have lived wickedly?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.122: 122 And that the glory of the Most High shall defend them which have led a pure life, whereas we have walked in the most wicked ways of all?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.123: 123 And that there shall be showed a paradise, whose fruit endures without decay, wherein is abundance and healing, but we shall not enter into it,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.124: 124 for we have walked in unpleasant places?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.125: 125 And that the faces of them which have used abstinence shall shine above the stars, whereas our faces shall be blacker than darkness?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.126: 126 For while we lived and committed iniquity, we considered not what we should have to suffer after death.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.127: 127 Then he answered and said, This is the condition of the battle, which man that is born upon the earth shall fight;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.128: 128 that, if he be overcome, he shall suffer as you have said: but if he get the victory, he shall receive the thing that I say.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.129: 129 For this is the way whereof Moses spoke to the people while he lived, saying, Choose you life, that you may live.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.130: 130 Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no, nor me which have spoken to them;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.131: 131 so that there shall not be such heaviness in their destruction, as there shall be joy over those who are persuaded to salvation.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.132: 132 I answered then and said, I know, Lord, that the Most High is now called merciful, in that he has mercy upon them which are not yet come into the world;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.133: 133 and compassionate, in that he has compassion upon those that turn to his law;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.134: 134 and patient, for that he long suffers those that have sinned, as his creatures;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.135: 135 and bountiful, for that he is ready to give rather than to exact;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.136: 136 and of great mercy, for that he multiplies more and more mercies to those who are present, and that are past, and also to them which are to come;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.137: 137 (for if he multiplied not his mercies, the world would not continue with those who dwell therein;)
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.138: 138 and one that forgives, for if he didn’t forgive of his goodness, that they which have committed iniquities might be eased of them, the ten thousandth part of men would not remain living;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.139: 139 and a judge, for if he didn’t pardon those who were created by his word, and blot out the multitude of offences,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.140: 140 there would perhaps be very few left in an innumerable multitude.
4 Maccabees 11.0: 
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4 Maccabees 11.1: 1 And when he had died, disfigured in his torments, the fifth leaped forward, and said,
4 Maccabees 11.2: 2 I intend not, O tyrant, to get excused from the torment which is in behalf of virtue.
4 Maccabees 11.3: 3 But I have come of my own accord, that by the death of me, you may owe heavenly vengeance a punishment for more crimes.
4 Maccabees 11.4: 4 O you hater of virtue and of men, what have we done that you thus revel in our blood?
4 Maccabees 11.5: 5 Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?
4 Maccabees 11.6: 6 But this is worthy of honors, not torments;
4 Maccabees 11.7: 7 had you been capable of the higher feelings of men, and possessed the hope of salvation from God.
4 Maccabees 11.8: 8 Behold now, being alien from God, you make war against those who are religious toward God.
4 Maccabees 11.9: 9 As he said this, the spearbearers bound him, and drew him to the catapelt:
4 Maccabees 11.10: 10 to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion-fashion.
4 Maccabees 11.11: 11 With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said,
4 Maccabees 11.12: 12 A great favor you bestow upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.
4 Maccabees 11.13: 13 He also being dead, the sixth, quite a youth, was brought out; and on the tyrant asking him whether he would eat and be delivered, he said,
4 Maccabees 11.14: 14 I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am as old;
4 Maccabees 11.15: 15 for having been born and reared to the same end, we are bound to die also in behalf of the same cause.
4 Maccabees 11.16: 16 So that if you° think proper to torment us for not eating the unclean, then torment!
4 Maccabees 11.17: 17 As he said this, they brought him to the wheel.
4 Maccabees 11.18: 18 Extended upon which, with limbs racked and dislocated, he was gradually roasted from beneath.
4 Maccabees 11.19: 19 And having heated sharp spits, they approached them to his back; and having transfixed his sides, they burned away his entrails.
4 Maccabees 11.20: 20 And he, while tormented, said, O period good and holy, in which, for the sake of religion, we kindred have been called to the contest of pain, and have not been conquered.
4 Maccabees 11.21: 21 For religious understanding, O tyrant, is unconquered.
4 Maccabees 11.22: 22 Armed with upright virtue, I also shall depart with my kindred.
4 Maccabees 11.23: 23 I, too, bearing with me a great avenger, O inventor of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious.
4 Maccabees 11.24: 24 We six youths have destroyed your tyranny.
4 Maccabees 11.25: 25 For is not your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, your destruction?
4 Maccabees 11.26: 26 Your fire is cold to us, your catapelts are painless, and your violence harmless.
4 Maccabees 11.27: 27 For the guards not of a tyrant but of a divine law are our defenders: through this we keep our reasoning unconquered.
Daniel (Greek) 3.0: 
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Daniel (Greek) 3.1: 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Daniel (Greek) 3.2: 2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
Daniel (Greek) 3.3: 3 Then the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
Daniel (Greek) 3.4: 4 Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,
Daniel (Greek) 3.5: 5 that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.
Daniel (Greek) 3.6: 6 Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”
Daniel (Greek) 3.7: 7 Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
Daniel (Greek) 3.8: 8 Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.
Daniel (Greek) 3.9: 9 They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.10: 10 You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;
Daniel (Greek) 3.11: 11 and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.
Daniel (Greek) 3.12: 12 There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, have not respected you. They don’t serve your gods, and don’t worship the golden image which you have set up.”
Daniel (Greek) 3.13: 13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.
Daniel (Greek) 3.14: 14 Nebuchadnezzar answered them, “Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Daniel (Greek) 3.15: 15 Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”
Daniel (Greek) 3.16: 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
Daniel (Greek) 3.17: 17 If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
Daniel (Greek) 3.18: 18 But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”
Daniel (Greek) 3.19: 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
Daniel (Greek) 3.20: 20 He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
Daniel (Greek) 3.21: 21 Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
Daniel (Greek) 3.22: 22 Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
Daniel (Greek) 3.23: 23 These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
THE SONG OF THE THREE HOLY CHILDREN 
Daniel (Greek) 3.24: 24 They walked in the midst of the fire, praising God, and blessing the Lord.
Daniel (Greek) 3.25: 25 Then Azarias stood, and prayed like this. Opening his mouth in the midst of the fire he said:
Daniel (Greek) 3.26: 26 “Blessed are you, O Lord, you God of our fathers! Your name is worthy to be praised and glorified for evermore;
Daniel (Greek) 3.27: 27 for you are righteous in all the things that you have done. Yes, all your works are true. Your ways are right, and all your judgments are truth.
Daniel (Greek) 3.28: 28 In all the things that you have brought upon us, and upon the holy city of our fathers, Jerusalem, you have executed true judgments. For according to truth and justice you have brought all these things upon us because of our sins.
Daniel (Greek) 3.29: 29 For we have sinned and committed iniquity, in departing from you.
Daniel (Greek) 3.30: 30 In all things we have trespassed, and not obeyed your commandments, or kept them. We haven’t done as you have commanded us, that it might go well with us.
Daniel (Greek) 3.31: 31 Therefore all that you have brought upon us, and everything that you have done to us, you have done in true judgement.
Daniel (Greek) 3.32: 32 You delivered us into the hands of lawless enemies, most hateful rebels, and to an unjust king who is the most wicked in all the world.
Daniel (Greek) 3.33: 33 And now we can’t open our mouth. Shame and reproach have come on your servants and those who worship you.
Daniel (Greek) 3.34: 34 Don’t utterly deliver us up, for your name’s sake. Don’t annul your covenant.
Daniel (Greek) 3.35: 35 Don’t cause not your mercy to depart from us, for the sake of Abraham who is loved by you, and for the sake of Isaac your servant, and Israel your holy one,
Daniel (Greek) 3.36: 36 to whom you promised that you would multiply their offspring as the stars of the sky, and as the sand that is on the sea shore.
Daniel (Greek) 3.37: 37 For we, O Lord, have become less than any nation, and are kept under this day in all the world because of our sins.
Daniel (Greek) 3.38: 38 There isn’t at this time prince, or prophet, or leader, or burned offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place to offer before you, and to find mercy.
Daniel (Greek) 3.39: 39 Nevertheless in a contrite heart and a humble spirit let us be accepted,
Daniel (Greek) 3.40: 40 like the burnt offerings of rams and bullocks, and like ten thousands of fat lambs. So let our sacrifice be in your sight this day, that we may wholly go after you, for they shall not be ashamed who put their trust in you.
Daniel (Greek) 3.41: 41 And now we follow you with all our heart. We fear you, and seek your face.
Daniel (Greek) 3.42: 42 Put us not to shame; but deal with us after your kindness, and according to the multitude of your mercy.
Daniel (Greek) 3.43: 43 Deliver us also according to your marvelous works, and give glory to your name, O Lord. Let all those who harm your servants be confounded.
Daniel (Greek) 3.44: 44 Let them be ashamed of all their power and might, and let their strength be broken.
Daniel (Greek) 3.45: 45 Let them know that you are the Lord, the only God, and glorious over the whole world.”
Daniel (Greek) 3.46: 46 The king’s servants who put them in didn’t stop making the furnace hot with naphtha, pitch, tinder, and small wood,
Daniel (Greek) 3.47: 47 so that the flame streamed out forty nine cubits above the furnace.
Daniel (Greek) 3.48: 48 It spread and burned those Chaldeans whom it found around the furnace.
Daniel (Greek) 3.49: 49 But the angel of the Lord came down into the furnace together with Azarias and his fellows, and he struck the flame of the fire out of the furnace,
Daniel (Greek) 3.50: 50 and made the midst of the furnace as it had been a moist whistling wind, so that the fire didn’t touch them at all. It neither hurt nor troubled them.
Daniel (Greek) 3.51: 51 Then the three, as out of one mouth, praised, and glorified, and blessed God in the furnace, saying,
Daniel (Greek) 3.52: 52 “Blessed are you, O Lord, you God of our fathers, to be praised and exalted above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.53: 53 Blessed is your glorious and holy name, to be praised and exalted above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.54: 54 Blessed are you in the temple of your holy glory, to be praised and glorified above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.55: 55 Blessed are you that behold the depths, and sit upon the cherubim, to be praised and exalted above all forever.
Daniel (Greek) 3.56: 56 Blessed are you on the throne of your kingdom, to be praised and extolled above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.57: 57 Blessed are you in the firmament of heaven, to be praised and glorified forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.58: 58 O all you works of the Lord, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.59: 59 O you heavens, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all for ever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.60: 60 O you angels of the Lord, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.61: 61 O all you waters that are above the sky, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.62: 62 O all you powers of the Lord, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.63: 63 O you sun and moon, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.64: 64 O you stars of heaven, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.65: 65 O every shower and dew, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.66: 66 O all you winds, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.67: 67 O you fire and heat, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.68: 68 O you dews and storms of snow, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.69: 69 O you nights and days, bless you the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.70: 70 O you light and darkness, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.71: 71 O you cold and heat, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.72: 72 O you frost and snow, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.73: 73 O you lightnings and clouds, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.74: 74 O let the earth bless the Lord! Let it praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.75: 75 O you mountains and hills, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.76: 76 O all you things that grow on the earth, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.77: 77 O sea and rivers, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.78: 78 O you springs, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.79: 79 O you whales and all that move in the waters, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.80: 80 O all you fowls of the air, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.81: 81 O all you beasts and cattle, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.82: 82 O you children of men, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.83: 83 O let Israel bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever.
Daniel (Greek) 3.84: 84 O you priests of the Lord, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.85: 85 O you servants of the Lord, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.86: 86 O you spirits and souls of the righteous, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.87: 87 O you who are holy and humble of heart, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
Daniel (Greek) 3.88: 88 O Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever; for he has rescued us from Hades, and saved us from the hand of death! He has delivered us out of the midst of the furnace and burning flame. He has delivered us out of the midst of the fire.
Daniel (Greek) 3.89: 89 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy is forever.
Daniel (Greek) 3.90: 90 O all you who worship the Lord, bless the God of gods, praise him, and give him thanks; for his mercy is forever!”
Deliverance from the Furnace
Daniel (Greek) 3.91: 91 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, “Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire?”
They answered the king, “True, O king.”
Daniel (Greek) 3.92: 92 He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”
Daniel (Greek) 3.93: 93 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!”
Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the middle of the fire.
Daniel (Greek) 3.94: 94 The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the smell of fire wasn’t even on them.
Daniel (Greek) 3.95: 95 Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
Daniel (Greek) 3.96: 96 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”
Daniel (Greek) 3.97: 97 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.