\p Exodus 0.0: \id EXO World English Bible (WEB)
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\h Exodus
\toc1 The Second Book of Moses, Commonly Called Exodus
\toc2 Exodus
\toc3 Exo
\mt2 The Second Book of Moses,
\mt3 Commonly Called
\mt1 Exodus
\p Exodus 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Exodus 1.1: \v 1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):
\p Exodus 1.2: \v 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
\p Exodus 1.3: \v 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
\p Exodus 1.4: \v 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
\p Exodus 1.5: \v 5 All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
\p Exodus 1.6: \v 6 Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
\p Exodus 1.7: \v 7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
\p
\p Exodus 1.8: \v 8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.
\p Exodus 1.9: \v 9 He said to his people, “Behold,\f + \fr 1:9 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
\p Exodus 1.10: \v 10 Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”
\p Exodus 1.11: \v 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
\p Exodus 1.12: \v 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.
\p Exodus 1.13: \v 13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
\p Exodus 1.14: \v 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
\p
\p Exodus 1.15: \v 15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,
\p Exodus 1.16: \v 16 and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
\p Exodus 1.17: \v 17 But the midwives feared God,\f + \fr 1:17 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
\p Exodus 1.18: \v 18 The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”
\p
\p Exodus 1.19: \v 19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”
\p
\p Exodus 1.20: \v 20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
\p Exodus 1.21: \v 21 Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
\p Exodus 1.22: \v 22 Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
\p Exodus 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Exodus 2.1: \v 1 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.
\p Exodus 2.2: \v 2 The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
\p Exodus 2.3: \v 3 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
\p Exodus 2.4: \v 4 His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.
\p Exodus 2.5: \v 5 Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.
\p Exodus 2.6: \v 6 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
\p
\p Exodus 2.7: \v 7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”
\p
\p Exodus 2.8: \v 8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.”
\p The young woman went and called the child’s mother.
\p Exodus 2.9: \v 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.”
\p The woman took the child, and nursed it.
\p Exodus 2.10: \v 10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,\f + \fr 2:10 \ft “Moses” sounds like the Hebrew for “draw out”.\f* and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
\p
\p Exodus 2.11: \v 11 In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
\p Exodus 2.12: \v 12 He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
\p
\p Exodus 2.13: \v 13 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”
\p
\p Exodus 2.14: \v 14 He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?”
\p Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”
\p Exodus 2.15: \v 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
\p
\p Exodus 2.16: \v 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
\p Exodus 2.17: \v 17 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
\p Exodus 2.18: \v 18 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
\p
\p Exodus 2.19: \v 19 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”
\p
\p Exodus 2.20: \v 20 He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”
\p
\p Exodus 2.21: \v 21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
\p Exodus 2.22: \v 22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom,\f + \fr 2:22 \ft “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there”.\f* for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”
\p
\p Exodus 2.23: \v 23 In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
\p Exodus 2.24: \v 24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
\p Exodus 2.25: \v 25 God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.
\p Exodus 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Exodus 3.1: \v 1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.
\p Exodus 3.2: \v 2 Yahweh’s\f + \fr 3:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
\p Exodus 3.3: \v 3 Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”
\p
\p Exodus 3.4: \v 4 When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!”
\p He said, “Here I am.”
\p
\p Exodus 3.5: \v 5 He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”
\p Exodus 3.6: \v 6 Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”
\p Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.
\p
\p Exodus 3.7: \v 7 Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
\p Exodus 3.8: \v 8 I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
\p Exodus 3.9: \v 9 Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
\p Exodus 3.10: \v 10 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
\p
\p Exodus 3.11: \v 11 Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
\p
\p Exodus 3.12: \v 12 He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
\p
\p Exodus 3.13: \v 13 Moses said to God, “Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?”
\p
\p Exodus 3.14: \v 14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
\p Exodus 3.15: \v 15 God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
\p Exodus 3.16: \v 16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.
\p Exodus 3.17: \v 17 I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
\p Exodus 3.18: \v 18 They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.’
\p Exodus 3.19: \v 19 I know that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.
\p Exodus 3.20: \v 20 I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do among them, and after that he will let you go.
\p Exodus 3.21: \v 21 I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.
\p Exodus 3.22: \v 22 But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing. You shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall plunder the Egyptians.”
\p Exodus 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Exodus 4.1: \v 1 Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”
\p
\p Exodus 4.2: \v 2 Yahweh said to him, “What is that in your hand?”
\p He said, “A rod.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.3: \v 3 He said, “Throw it on the ground.”
\p He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.
\p
\p Exodus 4.4: \v 4 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail.”
\p He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.
\p
\p Exodus 4.5: \v 5 “This is so that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
\p Exodus 4.6: \v 6 Yahweh said furthermore to him, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.”
\p He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
\p
\p Exodus 4.7: \v 7 He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.”
\p He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.
\p
\p Exodus 4.8: \v 8 “It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
\p Exodus 4.9: \v 9 It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.10: \v 10 Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord,\f + \fr 4:10 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai”.\f* I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.11: \v 11 Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?
\p Exodus 4.12: \v 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.13: \v 13 Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.14: \v 14 Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
\p Exodus 4.15: \v 15 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
\p Exodus 4.16: \v 16 He will be your spokesman to the people. It will happen that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.
\p Exodus 4.17: \v 17 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.18: \v 18 Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.”
\p Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.19: \v 19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.20: \v 20 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.
\p Exodus 4.21: \v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
\p Exodus 4.22: \v 22 You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
\p Exodus 4.23: \v 23 and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me;” and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’”
\p
\p Exodus 4.24: \v 24 On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.
\p Exodus 4.25: \v 25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”
\p
\p Exodus 4.26: \v 26 So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.
\p
\p Exodus 4.27: \v 27 Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.”
\p He went, and met him on God’s mountain, and kissed him.
\p Exodus 4.28: \v 28 Moses told Aaron all Yahweh’s words with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.
\p Exodus 4.29: \v 29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.
\p Exodus 4.30: \v 30 Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
\p Exodus 4.31: \v 31 The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
\p Exodus 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Exodus 5.1: \v 1 Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”
\p
\p Exodus 5.2: \v 2 Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
\p
\p Exodus 5.3: \v 3 They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.”
\p
\p Exodus 5.4: \v 4 The king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!”
\p Exodus 5.5: \v 5 Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.”
\p Exodus 5.6: \v 6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,
\p Exodus 5.7: \v 7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
\p Exodus 5.8: \v 8 You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to our God.’
\p Exodus 5.9: \v 9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”
\p
\p Exodus 5.10: \v 10 The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw.
\p Exodus 5.11: \v 11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
\p Exodus 5.12: \v 12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
\p Exodus 5.13: \v 13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
\p Exodus 5.14: \v 14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”
\p
\p Exodus 5.15: \v 15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?
\p Exodus 5.16: \v 16 No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”
\p
\p Exodus 5.17: \v 17 But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’
\p Exodus 5.18: \v 18 Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”
\p
\p Exodus 5.19: \v 19 The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!”
\p
\p Exodus 5.20: \v 20 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood along the way, as they came out from Pharaoh.
\p Exodus 5.21: \v 21 They said to them, “May Yahweh look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!”
\p
\p Exodus 5.22: \v 22 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
\p Exodus 5.23: \v 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people. You have not rescued your people at all!”
\p Exodus 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Exodus 6.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.”
\p
\p Exodus 6.2: \v 2 God spoke to Moses, and said to him, “I am Yahweh.
\p Exodus 6.3: \v 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.
\p Exodus 6.4: \v 4 I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.
\p Exodus 6.5: \v 5 Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.
\p Exodus 6.6: \v 6 Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments.
\p Exodus 6.7: \v 7 I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
\p Exodus 6.8: \v 8 I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.’”
\p
\p Exodus 6.9: \v 9 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
\p
\p Exodus 6.10: \v 10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 6.11: \v 11 “Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.”
\p
\p Exodus 6.12: \v 12 Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?”
\p Exodus 6.13: \v 13 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
\p
\p Exodus 6.14: \v 14 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.
\p Exodus 6.15: \v 15 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.
\p Exodus 6.16: \v 16 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.
\p Exodus 6.17: \v 17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.
\p Exodus 6.18: \v 18 The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.
\p Exodus 6.19: \v 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
\p Exodus 6.20: \v 20 Amram took Jochebed his father’s sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. The years of the life of Amram were one hundred thirty-seven years.
\p Exodus 6.21: \v 21 The sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
\p Exodus 6.22: \v 22 The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri.
\p Exodus 6.23: \v 23 Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
\p Exodus 6.24: \v 24 The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.
\p Exodus 6.25: \v 25 Eleazar Aaron’s son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families.
\p Exodus 6.26: \v 26 These are that Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, “Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.”
\p Exodus 6.27: \v 27 These are those who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron.
\p
\p Exodus 6.28: \v 28 On the day when Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
\p Exodus 6.29: \v 29 Yahweh said to Moses, “I am Yahweh. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I tell you.”
\p
\p Exodus 6.30: \v 30 Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”
\p Exodus 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Exodus 7.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
\p Exodus 7.2: \v 2 You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
\p Exodus 7.3: \v 3 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 7.4: \v 4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
\p Exodus 7.5: \v 5 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from among them.”
\p
\p Exodus 7.6: \v 6 Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.
\p Exodus 7.7: \v 7 Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
\p
\p Exodus 7.8: \v 8 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\p Exodus 7.9: \v 9 “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.’”
\p
\p Exodus 7.10: \v 10 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded. Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
\p Exodus 7.11: \v 11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments.
\p Exodus 7.12: \v 12 For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
\p Exodus 7.13: \v 13 Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
\p
\p Exodus 7.14: \v 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.
\p Exodus 7.15: \v 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he is going out to the water. You shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him. You shall take the rod which was turned to a serpent in your hand.
\p Exodus 7.16: \v 16 You shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. Behold, until now you haven’t listened.”
\p Exodus 7.17: \v 17 Yahweh says, “In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold: I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
\p Exodus 7.18: \v 18 The fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river.”’”
\p Exodus 7.19: \v 19 Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood. There will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”
\p
\p Exodus 7.20: \v 20 Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
\p Exodus 7.21: \v 21 The fish that were in the river died. The river became foul. The Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the river. The blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 7.22: \v 22 The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
\p Exodus 7.23: \v 23 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.
\p Exodus 7.24: \v 24 All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn’t drink the river water.
\p Exodus 7.25: \v 25 Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river.
\p Exodus 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Exodus 8.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
\p Exodus 8.2: \v 2 If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs.
\p Exodus 8.3: \v 3 The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs.
\p Exodus 8.4: \v 4 The frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.”’”
\p Exodus 8.5: \v 5 Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’”
\p Exodus 8.6: \v 6 Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 8.7: \v 7 The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
\p
\p Exodus 8.8: \v 8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, “Entreat Yahweh, that he take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh.”
\p
\p Exodus 8.9: \v 9 Moses said to Pharaoh, “I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only.”
\p
\p Exodus 8.10: \v 10 Pharaoh said, “Tomorrow.”
\p Moses said, “Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.
\p Exodus 8.11: \v 11 The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only.”
\p
\p Exodus 8.12: \v 12 Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.
\p Exodus 8.13: \v 13 Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.
\p Exodus 8.14: \v 14 They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
\p Exodus 8.15: \v 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
\p
\p Exodus 8.16: \v 16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’”
\p Exodus 8.17: \v 17 They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 8.18: \v 18 The magicians tried with their enchantments to produce lice, but they couldn’t. There were lice on man, and on animal.
\p Exodus 8.19: \v 19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is God’s finger;” but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
\p
\p Exodus 8.20: \v 20 Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
\p Exodus 8.21: \v 21 Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground they are on.
\p Exodus 8.22: \v 22 I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end you may know that I am Yahweh on the earth.
\p Exodus 8.23: \v 23 I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign shall happen by tomorrow.”’”
\p Exodus 8.24: \v 24 Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses. In all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.
\p
\p Exodus 8.25: \v 25 Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!”
\p
\p Exodus 8.26: \v 26 Moses said, “It isn’t appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God. Behold, if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, won’t they stone us?
\p Exodus 8.27: \v 27 We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us.”
\p
\p Exodus 8.28: \v 28 Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me.”
\p
\p Exodus 8.29: \v 29 Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you. I will pray to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don’t let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Yahweh.”
\p Exodus 8.30: \v 30 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 8.31: \v 31 Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. There remained not one.
\p Exodus 8.32: \v 32 Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.
\p Exodus 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Exodus 9.1: \v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
\p Exodus 9.2: \v 2 For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
\p Exodus 9.3: \v 3 behold, Yahweh’s hand is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.
\p Exodus 9.4: \v 4 Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.”’”
\p Exodus 9.5: \v 5 Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing in the land.”
\p Exodus 9.6: \v 6 Yahweh did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died.
\p Exodus 9.7: \v 7 Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn’t let the people go.
\p
\p Exodus 9.8: \v 8 Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.
\p Exodus 9.9: \v 9 It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt.”
\p
\p Exodus 9.10: \v 10 They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became boils and blisters breaking on man and on animal.
\p Exodus 9.11: \v 11 The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
\p Exodus 9.12: \v 12 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.
\p
\p Exodus 9.13: \v 13 Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
\p Exodus 9.14: \v 14 For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
\p Exodus 9.15: \v 15 For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
\p Exodus 9.16: \v 16 but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,
\p Exodus 9.17: \v 17 because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.
\p Exodus 9.18: \v 18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.
\p Exodus 9.19: \v 19 Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. The hail will come down on every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn’t brought home, and they will die.”’”
\p
\p Exodus 9.20: \v 20 Those who feared Yahweh’s word among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.
\p Exodus 9.21: \v 21 Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.
\p
\p Exodus 9.22: \v 22 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”
\p
\p Exodus 9.23: \v 23 Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 9.24: \v 24 So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
\p Exodus 9.25: \v 25 The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.
\p Exodus 9.26: \v 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.
\p
\p Exodus 9.27: \v 27 Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
\p Exodus 9.28: \v 28 Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
\p
\p Exodus 9.29: \v 29 Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.
\p Exodus 9.30: \v 30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you don’t yet fear Yahweh God.”
\p
\p Exodus 9.31: \v 31 The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley had ripened and the flax was blooming.
\p Exodus 9.32: \v 32 But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up.
\p Exodus 9.33: \v 33 Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.
\p Exodus 9.34: \v 34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
\p Exodus 9.35: \v 35 The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.
\p Exodus 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Exodus 10.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs among them;
\p Exodus 10.2: \v 2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”
\p
\p Exodus 10.3: \v 3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
\p Exodus 10.4: \v 4 Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
\p Exodus 10.5: \v 5 and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won’t be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.
\p Exodus 10.6: \v 6 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’” He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.
\p
\p Exodus 10.7: \v 7 Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”
\p
\p Exodus 10.8: \v 8 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will go?”
\p
\p Exodus 10.9: \v 9 Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old. We will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh.”
\p
\p Exodus 10.10: \v 10 He said to them, “Yahweh be with you if I let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.
\p Exodus 10.11: \v 11 Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!” Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
\p
\p Exodus 10.12: \v 12 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.”
\p Exodus 10.13: \v 13 Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
\p Exodus 10.14: \v 14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, nor will there ever be again.
\p Exodus 10.15: \v 15 For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 10.16: \v 16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.
\p Exodus 10.17: \v 17 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”
\p
\p Exodus 10.18: \v 18 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 10.19: \v 19 Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea.\f + \fr 10:19 \ft “Red Sea” is the translation for the Hebrew “Yam Suf”, which could be more literally translated “Sea of Reeds” or “Sea of Cattails”. It refers to the body of water currently known as the Red Sea, or possibly to one of the bodies of water connected to it or near it.\f* There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
\p Exodus 10.20: \v 20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go.
\p
\p Exodus 10.21: \v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”
\p Exodus 10.22: \v 22 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
\p Exodus 10.23: \v 23 They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
\p
\p Exodus 10.24: \v 24 Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, “Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you.”
\p
\p Exodus 10.25: \v 25 Moses said, “You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.
\p Exodus 10.26: \v 26 Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don’t know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there.”
\p
\p Exodus 10.27: \v 27 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he wouldn’t let them go.
\p Exodus 10.28: \v 28 Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!”
\p
\p Exodus 10.29: \v 29 Moses said, “You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more.”
\p Exodus 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p Exodus 11.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “I will bring yet one more plague on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.
\p Exodus 11.2: \v 2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.”
\p Exodus 11.3: \v 3 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.
\p
\p Exodus 11.4: \v 4 Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the middle of Egypt,
\p Exodus 11.5: \v 5 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of livestock.
\p Exodus 11.6: \v 6 There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor will be any more.
\p Exodus 11.7: \v 7 But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal, that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
\p Exodus 11.8: \v 8 All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
\p
\p Exodus 11.9: \v 9 Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh won’t listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”
\p Exodus 11.10: \v 10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go out of his land.
\p Exodus 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p Exodus 12.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
\p Exodus 12.2: \v 2 “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
\p Exodus 12.3: \v 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;
\p Exodus 12.4: \v 4 and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls. You shall make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat.
\p Exodus 12.5: \v 5 Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats.
\p Exodus 12.6: \v 6 You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
\p Exodus 12.7: \v 7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.
\p Exodus 12.8: \v 8 They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
\p Exodus 12.9: \v 9 Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
\p Exodus 12.10: \v 10 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
\p Exodus 12.11: \v 11 This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.
\p Exodus 12.12: \v 12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.
\p Exodus 12.13: \v 13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 12.14: \v 14 This day shall be a memorial for you. You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh. You shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
\p
\p Exodus 12.15: \v 15 “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
\p Exodus 12.16: \v 16 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, only that may be done by you.
\p Exodus 12.17: \v 17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
\p Exodus 12.18: \v 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.
\p Exodus 12.19: \v 19 There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
\p Exodus 12.20: \v 20 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’”
\p
\p Exodus 12.21: \v 21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.
\p Exodus 12.22: \v 22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
\p Exodus 12.23: \v 23 For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
\p Exodus 12.24: \v 24 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
\p Exodus 12.25: \v 25 It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.
\p Exodus 12.26: \v 26 It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
\p Exodus 12.27: \v 27 that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’”
\p The people bowed their heads and worshiped.
\p Exodus 12.28: \v 28 The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
\p
\p Exodus 12.29: \v 29 At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.
\p Exodus 12.30: \v 30 Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
\p Exodus 12.31: \v 31 He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!
\p Exodus 12.32: \v 32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”
\p
\p Exodus 12.33: \v 33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”
\p Exodus 12.34: \v 34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
\p Exodus 12.35: \v 35 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
\p Exodus 12.36: \v 36 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.
\p
\p Exodus 12.37: \v 37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children.
\p Exodus 12.38: \v 38 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.
\p Exodus 12.39: \v 39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, and they had not prepared any food for themselves.
\p Exodus 12.40: \v 40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
\p Exodus 12.41: \v 41 At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 12.42: \v 42 It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed by all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
\p
\p Exodus 12.43: \v 43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,
\p Exodus 12.44: \v 44 but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
\p Exodus 12.45: \v 45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
\p Exodus 12.46: \v 46 It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.
\p Exodus 12.47: \v 47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
\p Exodus 12.48: \v 48 When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
\p Exodus 12.49: \v 49 One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”
\p Exodus 12.50: \v 50 All the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
\p Exodus 12.51: \v 51 That same day, Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
\p Exodus 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p Exodus 13.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 13.2: \v 2 “Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine.”
\p
\p Exodus 13.3: \v 3 Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
\p Exodus 13.4: \v 4 Today you go out in the month Abib.
\p Exodus 13.5: \v 5 It shall be, when Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
\p Exodus 13.6: \v 6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 13.7: \v 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you. No yeast shall be seen with you, within all your borders.
\p Exodus 13.8: \v 8 You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
\p Exodus 13.9: \v 9 It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
\p Exodus 13.10: \v 10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
\p
\p Exodus 13.11: \v 11 “It shall be, when Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and will give it you,
\p Exodus 13.12: \v 12 that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have. The males shall be Yahweh’s.
\p Exodus 13.13: \v 13 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.
\p Exodus 13.14: \v 14 It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.
\p Exodus 13.15: \v 15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of livestock. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’
\p Exodus 13.16: \v 16 It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.”
\p
\p Exodus 13.17: \v 17 When Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt”;
\p Exodus 13.18: \v 18 but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 13.19: \v 19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you.”
\p Exodus 13.20: \v 20 They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
\p Exodus 13.21: \v 21 Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
\p Exodus 13.22: \v 22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn’t depart from before the people.
\p Exodus 14.0: \c 14
\p
\p Exodus 14.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 14.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.
\p Exodus 14.3: \v 3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’
\p Exodus 14.4: \v 4 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.
\p
\p Exodus 14.5: \v 5 The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”
\p Exodus 14.6: \v 6 He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him;
\p Exodus 14.7: \v 7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with captains over all of them.
\p Exodus 14.8: \v 8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.\f + \fr 14:8 \ft or, defiantly.\f*
\p Exodus 14.9: \v 9 The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
\p
\p Exodus 14.10: \v 10 When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 14.11: \v 11 They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?
\p Exodus 14.12: \v 12 Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
\p
\p Exodus 14.13: \v 13 Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today.
\p Exodus 14.14: \v 14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”
\p
\p Exodus 14.15: \v 15 Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.
\p Exodus 14.16: \v 16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. Then the children of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry ground.
\p Exodus 14.17: \v 17 Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
\p Exodus 14.18: \v 18 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.”
\p Exodus 14.19: \v 19 The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
\p Exodus 14.20: \v 20 It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night.
\p
\p Exodus 14.21: \v 21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
\p Exodus 14.22: \v 22 The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
\p Exodus 14.23: \v 23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
\p Exodus 14.24: \v 24 In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
\p Exodus 14.25: \v 25 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”
\p
\p Exodus 14.26: \v 26 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.”
\p Exodus 14.27: \v 27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
\p Exodus 14.28: \v 28 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
\p Exodus 14.29: \v 29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
\p Exodus 14.30: \v 30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
\p Exodus 14.31: \v 31 Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.
\p Exodus 15.0: \c 15
\p
\p Exodus 15.1: \v 1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said,
\q1 “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
\q2 He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.2: \v 2 Yah is my strength and song.
\q2 He has become my salvation.
\q1 This is my God, and I will praise him;
\q2 my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.3: \v 3 Yahweh is a man of war.
\q2 Yahweh is his name.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.4: \v 4 He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea.
\q2 His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.5: \v 5 The deeps cover them.
\q2 They went down into the depths like a stone.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.6: \v 6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power.
\q2 Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.7: \v 7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you.
\q2 You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.8: \v 8 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up.
\q2 The floods stood upright as a heap.
\q2 The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.9: \v 9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder.
\q2 My desire will be satisfied on them.
\q2 I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’
\q1
\p Exodus 15.10: \v 10 You blew with your wind.
\q2 The sea covered them.
\q2 They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.11: \v 11 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods?
\q2 Who is like you, glorious in holiness,
\q2 fearful in praises, doing wonders?
\q1
\p Exodus 15.12: \v 12 You stretched out your right hand.
\q2 The earth swallowed them.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.13: \v 13 “You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed.
\q2 You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.14: \v 14 The peoples have heard.
\q2 They tremble.
\q2 Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.15: \v 15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed.
\q2 Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab.
\q2 All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.16: \v 16 Terror and dread falls on them.
\q2 By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone,
\q2 until your people pass over, Yahweh,
\q2 until the people you have purchased pass over.
\q2
\p Exodus 15.17: \v 17 You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance,
\q2 the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in;
\q2 the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
\q1
\p Exodus 15.18: \v 18 Yahweh will reign forever and ever.”
\p
\p Exodus 15.19: \v 19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.
\p Exodus 15.20: \v 20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.
\p Exodus 15.21: \v 21 Miriam answered them,
\q1 “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
\q1 The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
\p
\p Exodus 15.22: \v 22 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
\p Exodus 15.23: \v 23 When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.\f + \fr 15:23 \ft Marah means bitter.\f*
\p Exodus 15.24: \v 24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
\p Exodus 15.25: \v 25 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.
\p Exodus 15.26: \v 26 He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
\p
\p Exodus 15.27: \v 27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.
\p Exodus 16.0: \c 16
\p
\p Exodus 16.1: \v 1 They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 16.2: \v 2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
\p Exodus 16.3: \v 3 and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
\p
\p Exodus 16.4: \v 4 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
\p Exodus 16.5: \v 5 It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”
\p
\p Exodus 16.6: \v 6 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening, you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 16.7: \v 7 In the morning, you shall see Yahweh’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?”
\p Exodus 16.8: \v 8 Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”
\p Exodus 16.9: \v 9 Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come close to Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.’”
\p Exodus 16.10: \v 10 As Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, Yahweh’s glory appeared in the cloud.
\p Exodus 16.11: \v 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 16.12: \v 12 “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God.’”
\p
\p Exodus 16.13: \v 13 In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
\p Exodus 16.14: \v 14 When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.
\p Exodus 16.15: \v 15 When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.
\p Exodus 16.16: \v 16 “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: ‘Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer\f + \fr 16:16 \ft An omer is about 2.2 liters or about 2.3 quarts\f* a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.’”
\p Exodus 16.17: \v 17 The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less.
\p Exodus 16.18: \v 18 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They each gathered according to his eating.
\p Exodus 16.19: \v 19 Moses said to them, “Let no one leave of it until the morning.”
\p Exodus 16.20: \v 20 Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.
\p Exodus 16.21: \v 21 They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
\p Exodus 16.22: \v 22 On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
\p Exodus 16.23: \v 23 He said to them, “This is that which Yahweh has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’”
\p Exodus 16.24: \v 24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses ordered, and it didn’t become foul, and there were no worms in it.
\p Exodus 16.25: \v 25 Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field.
\p Exodus 16.26: \v 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none.”
\p Exodus 16.27: \v 27 On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
\p Exodus 16.28: \v 28 Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
\p Exodus 16.29: \v 29 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”
\p Exodus 16.30: \v 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
\p
\p Exodus 16.31: \v 31 The house of Israel called its name “Manna”,\f + \fr 16:31 \ft “Manna” means “What is it?”\f* and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
\p Exodus 16.32: \v 32 Moses said, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
\p Exodus 16.33: \v 33 Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations.”
\p Exodus 16.34: \v 34 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
\p Exodus 16.35: \v 35 The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
\p Exodus 16.36: \v 36 Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.\f + \fr 16:36 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f*
\p Exodus 17.0: \c 17
\p
\p Exodus 17.1: \v 1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to Yahweh’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
\p Exodus 17.2: \v 2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.”
\p Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
\p
\p Exodus 17.3: \v 3 The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”
\p
\p Exodus 17.4: \v 4 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
\p
\p Exodus 17.5: \v 5 Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.
\p Exodus 17.6: \v 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
\p Exodus 17.7: \v 7 He called the name of the place Massah,\f + \fr 17:7 \ft Massah means testing. \f* and Meribah,\f + \fr 17:7 \ft Meribah means quarreling.\f* because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”
\p
\p Exodus 17.8: \v 8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
\p Exodus 17.9: \v 9 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”
\p Exodus 17.10: \v 10 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
\p Exodus 17.11: \v 11 When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
\p Exodus 17.12: \v 12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.
\p Exodus 17.13: \v 13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
\p Exodus 17.14: \v 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
\p Exodus 17.15: \v 15 Moses built an altar, and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”.\f + \fr 17:15 \ft Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi\f*
\p Exodus 17.16: \v 16 He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”
\p Exodus 18.0: \c 18
\p
\p Exodus 18.1: \v 1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.
\p Exodus 18.2: \v 2 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,
\p Exodus 18.3: \v 3 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom,\f + \fr 18:3 \ft “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there”.\f* for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.
\p Exodus 18.4: \v 4 The name of the other was Eliezer,\f + \fr 18:4 \ft Eliezer means “God is my helper”. \f* for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”
\p Exodus 18.5: \v 5 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses’ sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.
\p Exodus 18.6: \v 6 He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.”
\p
\p Exodus 18.7: \v 7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.
\p Exodus 18.8: \v 8 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.
\p Exodus 18.9: \v 9 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
\p Exodus 18.10: \v 10 Jethro said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
\p Exodus 18.11: \v 11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”
\p Exodus 18.12: \v 12 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.
\p
\p Exodus 18.13: \v 13 On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
\p Exodus 18.14: \v 14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?”
\p
\p Exodus 18.15: \v 15 Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
\p Exodus 18.16: \v 16 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”
\p Exodus 18.17: \v 17 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.
\p Exodus 18.18: \v 18 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
\p Exodus 18.19: \v 19 Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.
\p Exodus 18.20: \v 20 You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
\p Exodus 18.21: \v 21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
\p Exodus 18.22: \v 22 Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.
\p Exodus 18.23: \v 23 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”
\p
\p Exodus 18.24: \v 24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
\p Exodus 18.25: \v 25 Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
\p Exodus 18.26: \v 26 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
\p Exodus 18.27: \v 27 Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.
\p Exodus 19.0: \c 19
\p
\p Exodus 19.1: \v 1 In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
\p Exodus 19.2: \v 2 When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.
\p Exodus 19.3: \v 3 Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, “This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
\p Exodus 19.4: \v 4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.
\p Exodus 19.5: \v 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
\p Exodus 19.6: \v 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
\p
\p Exodus 19.7: \v 7 Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.
\p Exodus 19.8: \v 8 All the people answered together, and said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do.”
\p Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 19.9: \v 9 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 19.10: \v 10 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
\p Exodus 19.11: \v 11 and be ready for the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
\p Exodus 19.12: \v 12 You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.
\p Exodus 19.13: \v 13 No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain.”
\p
\p Exodus 19.14: \v 14 Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
\p Exodus 19.15: \v 15 He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”
\p
\p Exodus 19.16: \v 16 On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
\p Exodus 19.17: \v 17 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.
\p Exodus 19.18: \v 18 All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
\p Exodus 19.19: \v 19 When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
\p Exodus 19.20: \v 20 Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
\p
\p Exodus 19.21: \v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.
\p Exodus 19.22: \v 22 Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break out on them.”
\p
\p Exodus 19.23: \v 23 Moses said to Yahweh, “The people can’t come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, ‘Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.’”
\p
\p Exodus 19.24: \v 24 Yahweh said to him, “Go down! You shall bring Aaron up with you, but don’t let the priests and the people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he break out against them.”
\p
\p Exodus 19.25: \v 25 So Moses went down to the people, and told them.
\p Exodus 20.0: \c 20
\p
\p Exodus 20.1: \v 1 God\f + \fr 20:1 \ft After “God”, the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph Tav” (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker.\f* spoke all these words, saying,
\p Exodus 20.2: \v 2 “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
\p
\p Exodus 20.3: \v 3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
\p
\p Exodus 20.4: \v 4 “You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
\p Exodus 20.5: \v 5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
\p Exodus 20.6: \v 6 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
\p
\p Exodus 20.7: \v 7 “You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God,\f + \fr 20:7 \ft or, You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain\f* for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
\p
\p Exodus 20.8: \v 8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
\p Exodus 20.9: \v 9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work,
\p Exodus 20.10: \v 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;
\p Exodus 20.11: \v 11 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
\p
\p Exodus 20.12: \v 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
\p
\p Exodus 20.13: \v 13 “You shall not murder.
\p
\p Exodus 20.14: \v 14 “You shall not commit adultery.
\p
\p Exodus 20.15: \v 15 “You shall not steal.
\p
\p Exodus 20.16: \v 16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
\p
\p Exodus 20.17: \v 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
\p
\p Exodus 20.18: \v 18 All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
\p Exodus 20.19: \v 19 They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”
\p
\p Exodus 20.20: \v 20 Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”
\p Exodus 20.21: \v 21 The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.
\p
\p Exodus 20.22: \v 22 Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
\p Exodus 20.23: \v 23 You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.
\p Exodus 20.24: \v 24 You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
\p Exodus 20.25: \v 25 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.
\p Exodus 20.26: \v 26 You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’
\p Exodus 21.0: \c 21
\p
\p Exodus 21.1: \v 1 “Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:
\p
\p Exodus 21.2: \v 2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
\p Exodus 21.3: \v 3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
\p Exodus 21.4: \v 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
\p Exodus 21.5: \v 5 But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’
\p Exodus 21.6: \v 6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
\p
\p Exodus 21.7: \v 7 “If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
\p Exodus 21.8: \v 8 If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
\p Exodus 21.9: \v 9 If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.
\p Exodus 21.10: \v 10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
\p Exodus 21.11: \v 11 If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
\p
\p Exodus 21.12: \v 12 “One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
\p Exodus 21.13: \v 13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
\p Exodus 21.14: \v 14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
\p
\p Exodus 21.15: \v 15 “Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
\p
\p Exodus 21.16: \v 16 “Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
\p
\p Exodus 21.17: \v 17 “Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
\p
\p Exodus 21.18: \v 18 “If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;
\p Exodus 21.19: \v 19 if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
\p
\p Exodus 21.20: \v 20 “If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.
\p Exodus 21.21: \v 21 Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property.
\p
\p Exodus 21.22: \v 22 “If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.
\p Exodus 21.23: \v 23 But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,
\p Exodus 21.24: \v 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
\p Exodus 21.25: \v 25 burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
\p
\p Exodus 21.26: \v 26 “If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
\p Exodus 21.27: \v 27 If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake.
\p
\p Exodus 21.28: \v 28 “If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.
\p Exodus 21.29: \v 29 But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and this has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
\p Exodus 21.30: \v 30 If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.
\p Exodus 21.31: \v 31 Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.
\p Exodus 21.32: \v 32 If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels\f + \fr 21:32 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 30 shekels is about 300 grams or about 10.6 ounces.\f* of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
\p
\p Exodus 21.33: \v 33 “If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
\p Exodus 21.34: \v 34 the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
\p
\p Exodus 21.35: \v 35 “If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.
\p Exodus 21.36: \v 36 Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
\p Exodus 22.0: \c 22
\p
\p Exodus 22.1: \v 1 “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
\p Exodus 22.2: \v 2 If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.
\p Exodus 22.3: \v 3 If the sun has risen on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
\p Exodus 22.4: \v 4 If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.
\p
\p Exodus 22.5: \v 5 “If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten by letting his animal loose, and it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.
\p
\p Exodus 22.6: \v 6 “If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
\p
\p Exodus 22.7: \v 7 “If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, he shall pay double.
\p Exodus 22.8: \v 8 If the thief isn’t found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out whether or not he has put his hand on his neighbor’s goods.
\p Exodus 22.9: \v 9 For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.
\p
\p Exodus 22.10: \v 10 “If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;
\p Exodus 22.11: \v 11 the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, he has not put his hand on his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
\p Exodus 22.12: \v 12 But if it is stolen from him, the one who stole shall make restitution to its owner.
\p Exodus 22.13: \v 13 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.
\p
\p Exodus 22.14: \v 14 “If a man borrows anything of his neighbor’s, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.
\p Exodus 22.15: \v 15 If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.
\p
\p Exodus 22.16: \v 16 “If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
\p Exodus 22.17: \v 17 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
\p
\p Exodus 22.18: \v 18 “You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
\p
\p Exodus 22.19: \v 19 “Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.
\p
\p Exodus 22.20: \v 20 “He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.
\p
\p Exodus 22.21: \v 21 “You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
\p
\p Exodus 22.22: \v 22 “You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
\p Exodus 22.23: \v 23 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
\p Exodus 22.24: \v 24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
\p
\p Exodus 22.25: \v 25 “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.
\p Exodus 22.26: \v 26 If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
\p Exodus 22.27: \v 27 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
\p
\p Exodus 22.28: \v 28 “You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
\p
\p Exodus 22.29: \v 29 “You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses.
\p “You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.
\p Exodus 22.30: \v 30 You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
\p
\p Exodus 22.31: \v 31 “You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.
\p Exodus 23.0: \c 23
\p
\p Exodus 23.1: \v 1 “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
\p
\p Exodus 23.2: \v 2 “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
\p Exodus 23.3: \v 3 You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.
\p
\p Exodus 23.4: \v 4 “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
\p Exodus 23.5: \v 5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.
\p
\p Exodus 23.6: \v 6 “You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
\p
\p Exodus 23.7: \v 7 “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
\p
\p Exodus 23.8: \v 8 “You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
\p
\p Exodus 23.9: \v 9 “You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
\p
\p Exodus 23.10: \v 10 “For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,
\p Exodus 23.11: \v 11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.
\p
\p Exodus 23.12: \v 12 “Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.
\p
\p Exodus 23.13: \v 13 “Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.
\p
\p Exodus 23.14: \v 14 “You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
\p Exodus 23.15: \v 15 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.
\p Exodus 23.16: \v 16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
\p Exodus 23.17: \v 17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\p Exodus 23.18: \v 18 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.
\p
\p Exodus 23.19: \v 19 You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God.
\p “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
\p
\p Exodus 23.20: \v 20 “Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
\p Exodus 23.21: \v 21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
\p Exodus 23.22: \v 22 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
\p Exodus 23.23: \v 23 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
\p Exodus 23.24: \v 24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.
\p Exodus 23.25: \v 25 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.
\p Exodus 23.26: \v 26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
\p Exodus 23.27: \v 27 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
\p Exodus 23.28: \v 28 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
\p Exodus 23.29: \v 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.
\p Exodus 23.30: \v 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.
\p Exodus 23.31: \v 31 I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
\p Exodus 23.32: \v 32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
\p Exodus 23.33: \v 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
\p Exodus 24.0: \c 24
\p
\p Exodus 24.1: \v 1 He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.
\p Exodus 24.2: \v 2 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near. The people shall not go up with him.”
\p
\p Exodus 24.3: \v 3 Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”
\p
\p Exodus 24.4: \v 4 Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
\p Exodus 24.5: \v 5 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 24.6: \v 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
\p Exodus 24.7: \v 7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “We will do all that Yahweh has said, and be obedient.”
\p
\p Exodus 24.8: \v 8 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”
\p
\p Exodus 24.9: \v 9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
\p Exodus 24.10: \v 10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire \f + \fr 24:10 \ft or, lapis lazuli\f* stone, like the skies for clearness.
\p Exodus 24.11: \v 11 He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
\p
\p Exodus 24.12: \v 12 Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”
\p
\p Exodus 24.13: \v 13 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.
\p Exodus 24.14: \v 14 He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them.”
\p
\p Exodus 24.15: \v 15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
\p Exodus 24.16: \v 16 Yahweh’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud.
\p Exodus 24.17: \v 17 The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
\p Exodus 24.18: \v 18 Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
\p Exodus 25.0: \c 25
\p
\p Exodus 25.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 25.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.
\p Exodus 25.3: \v 3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, bronze,
\p Exodus 25.4: \v 4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,
\p Exodus 25.5: \v 5 rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides,\f + \fr 25:5 \ft or, fine leather\f* acacia wood,
\p Exodus 25.6: \v 6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
\p Exodus 25.7: \v 7 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.
\p Exodus 25.8: \v 8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
\p Exodus 25.9: \v 9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.
\p
\p Exodus 25.10: \v 10 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits,\f + \fr 25:10 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
\p Exodus 25.11: \v 11 You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.
\p Exodus 25.12: \v 12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
\p Exodus 25.13: \v 13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
\p Exodus 25.14: \v 14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
\p Exodus 25.15: \v 15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.
\p Exodus 25.16: \v 16 You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.
\p Exodus 25.17: \v 17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.
\p Exodus 25.18: \v 18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
\p Exodus 25.19: \v 19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.
\p Exodus 25.20: \v 20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.
\p Exodus 25.21: \v 21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I will give you.
\p Exodus 25.22: \v 22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
\p
\p Exodus 25.23: \v 23 “You shall make a table of acacia wood. Its length shall be two cubits, and its width a cubit, and its height one and a half cubits.
\p Exodus 25.24: \v 24 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
\p Exodus 25.25: \v 25 You shall make a rim of a hand width around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.
\p Exodus 25.26: \v 26 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.
\p Exodus 25.27: \v 27 the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.
\p Exodus 25.28: \v 28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
\p Exodus 25.29: \v 29 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.
\p Exodus 25.30: \v 30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.
\p
\p Exodus 25.31: \v 31 “You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. The lamp stand shall be made of hammered work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
\p Exodus 25.32: \v 32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lamp stand out of its one side, and three branches of the lamp stand out of its other side;
\p Exodus 25.33: \v 33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lamp stand;
\p Exodus 25.34: \v 34 and in the lamp stand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
\p Exodus 25.35: \v 35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lamp stand.
\p Exodus 25.36: \v 36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.
\p Exodus 25.37: \v 37 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.
\p Exodus 25.38: \v 38 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.
\p Exodus 25.39: \v 39 It shall be made of a talent\f + \fr 25:39 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* of pure gold, with all these accessories.
\p Exodus 25.40: \v 40 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.
\p Exodus 26.0: \c 26
\p
\p Exodus 26.1: \v 1 “Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. You shall make them with the work of a skillful workman.
\p Exodus 26.2: \v 2 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits,\f + \fr 26:2 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
\p Exodus 26.3: \v 3 Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.
\p Exodus 26.4: \v 4 You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling, and you shall do likewise on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second coupling.
\p Exodus 26.5: \v 5 You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one another.
\p Exodus 26.6: \v 6 You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps. The tabernacle shall be a unit.
\p
\p Exodus 26.7: \v 7 “You shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains.
\p Exodus 26.8: \v 8 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
\p Exodus 26.9: \v 9 You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.
\p Exodus 26.10: \v 10 You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outermost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outermost in the second coupling.
\p Exodus 26.11: \v 11 You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
\p Exodus 26.12: \v 12 The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent—the half curtain that remains—shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.
\p Exodus 26.13: \v 13 The cubit on the one side and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
\p Exodus 26.14: \v 14 You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
\p
\p Exodus 26.15: \v 15 “You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.
\p Exodus 26.16: \v 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the width of each board.
\p Exodus 26.17: \v 17 There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
\p Exodus 26.18: \v 18 You shall make twenty boards for the tabernacle, for the south side southward.
\p Exodus 26.19: \v 19 You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
\p Exodus 26.20: \v 20 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,
\p Exodus 26.21: \v 21 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
\p Exodus 26.22: \v 22 For the far side of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.
\p Exodus 26.23: \v 23 You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far side.
\p Exodus 26.24: \v 24 They shall be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
\p Exodus 26.25: \v 25 There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
\p
\p Exodus 26.26: \v 26 “You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
\p Exodus 26.27: \v 27 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the far side westward.
\p Exodus 26.28: \v 28 The middle bar in the middle of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
\p Exodus 26.29: \v 29 You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars. You shall overlay the bars with gold.
\p Exodus 26.30: \v 30 You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.
\p
\p Exodus 26.31: \v 31 “You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. It shall be the work of a skillful workman.
\p Exodus 26.32: \v 32 You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.
\p Exodus 26.33: \v 33 You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the covenant in there within the veil. The veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.
\p Exodus 26.34: \v 34 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.
\p Exodus 26.35: \v 35 You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lamp stand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. You shall put the table on the north side.
\p
\p Exodus 26.36: \v 36 “You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
\p Exodus 26.37: \v 37 You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold. You shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.
\p Exodus 27.0: \c 27
\p
\p Exodus 27.1: \v 1 “You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits\f + \fr 27:1 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.\f + \fr 27:1 \ft The altar was to be about 2.3×2.3×1.4 meters or about 7½×7½×4½ feet.\f*
\p Exodus 27.2: \v 2 You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.
\p Exodus 27.3: \v 3 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze.
\p Exodus 27.4: \v 4 You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.
\p Exodus 27.5: \v 5 You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.
\p Exodus 27.6: \v 6 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
\p Exodus 27.7: \v 7 Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it.
\p Exodus 27.8: \v 8 You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.
\p
\p Exodus 27.9: \v 9 “You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side.
\p Exodus 27.10: \v 10 Its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
\p Exodus 27.11: \v 11 Likewise for the length of the north side, there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
\p Exodus 27.12: \v 12 For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
\p Exodus 27.13: \v 13 The width of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
\p Exodus 27.14: \v 14 The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
\p Exodus 27.15: \v 15 For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
\p Exodus 27.16: \v 16 For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.
\p Exodus 27.17: \v 17 All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of bronze.
\p Exodus 27.18: \v 18 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of bronze.
\p Exodus 27.19: \v 19 All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of bronze.
\p
\p Exodus 27.20: \v 20 “You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
\p Exodus 27.21: \v 21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
\p Exodus 28.0: \c 28
\p
\p Exodus 28.1: \v 1 “Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
\p Exodus 28.2: \v 2 You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
\p Exodus 28.3: \v 3 You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.
\p Exodus 28.4: \v 4 These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.
\p Exodus 28.5: \v 5 They shall use the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
\p
\p Exodus 28.6: \v 6 “They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.
\p Exodus 28.7: \v 7 It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.
\p Exodus 28.8: \v 8 The skillfully woven band, which is on it, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
\p Exodus 28.9: \v 9 You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel.
\p Exodus 28.10: \v 10 Six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.
\p Exodus 28.11: \v 11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel. You shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.
\p Exodus 28.12: \v 12 You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel. Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.
\p Exodus 28.13: \v 13 You shall make settings of gold,
\p Exodus 28.14: \v 14 and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work. You shall put the braided chains on the settings.
\p
\p Exodus 28.15: \v 15 “You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.
\p Exodus 28.16: \v 16 It shall be square and folded double; a span\f + \fr 28:16 \ft A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)\f* shall be its length, and a span its width.
\p Exodus 28.17: \v 17 You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;
\p Exodus 28.18: \v 18 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire,\f + \fr 28:18 \ft or, lapis lazuli \f* and an emerald;
\p Exodus 28.19: \v 19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
\p Exodus 28.20: \v 20 and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.
\p Exodus 28.21: \v 21 The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.
\p Exodus 28.22: \v 22 You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
\p Exodus 28.23: \v 23 You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
\p Exodus 28.24: \v 24 You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
\p Exodus 28.25: \v 25 The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart.
\p Exodus 28.26: \v 26 You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.
\p Exodus 28.27: \v 27 You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
\p Exodus 28.28: \v 28 They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.
\p Exodus 28.29: \v 29 Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.
\p Exodus 28.30: \v 30 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Yahweh. Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.
\p
\p Exodus 28.31: \v 31 “You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
\p Exodus 28.32: \v 32 It shall have a hole for the head in the middle of it. It shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.
\p Exodus 28.33: \v 33 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, all around its hem; with bells of gold between and around them:
\p Exodus 28.34: \v 34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.
\p Exodus 28.35: \v 35 It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.
\p
\p Exodus 28.36: \v 36 “You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, ‘HOLY TO YAHWEH.’
\p Exodus 28.37: \v 37 You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash. It shall be on the front of the sash.
\p Exodus 28.38: \v 38 It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.
\p Exodus 28.39: \v 39 You shall weave the tunic with fine linen. You shall make a turban of fine linen. You shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.
\p
\p Exodus 28.40: \v 40 “You shall make tunics for Aaron’s sons. You shall make sashes for them. You shall make headbands for them, for glory and for beauty.
\p Exodus 28.41: \v 41 You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.
\p Exodus 28.42: \v 42 You shall make them linen pants to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the waist even to the thighs.
\p Exodus 28.43: \v 43 They shall be on Aaron and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place, that they don’t bear iniquity, and die. This shall be a statute forever to him and to his offspring after him.
\p Exodus 29.0: \c 29
\p
\p Exodus 29.1: \v 1 “This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams without defect,
\p Exodus 29.2: \v 2 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.
\p Exodus 29.3: \v 3 You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.
\p Exodus 29.4: \v 4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.
\p Exodus 29.5: \v 5 You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
\p Exodus 29.6: \v 6 You shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.
\p Exodus 29.7: \v 7 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.
\p Exodus 29.8: \v 8 You shall bring his sons, and put tunics on them.
\p Exodus 29.9: \v 9 You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them. They shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. You shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
\p
\p Exodus 29.10: \v 10 “You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.
\p Exodus 29.11: \v 11 You shall kill the bull before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Exodus 29.12: \v 12 You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.
\p Exodus 29.13: \v 13 You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.
\p Exodus 29.14: \v 14 But the meat of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp. It is a sin offering.
\p
\p Exodus 29.15: \v 15 “You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
\p Exodus 29.16: \v 16 You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.
\p Exodus 29.17: \v 17 You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
\p Exodus 29.18: \v 18 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p
\p Exodus 29.19: \v 19 “You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
\p Exodus 29.20: \v 20 Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot; and sprinkle the blood around on the altar.
\p Exodus 29.21: \v 21 You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.
\p Exodus 29.22: \v 22 Also you shall take some of the ram’s fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),
\p Exodus 29.23: \v 23 and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.
\p Exodus 29.24: \v 24 You shall put all of this in Aaron’s hands, and in his sons’ hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
\p Exodus 29.25: \v 25 You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p
\p Exodus 29.26: \v 26 “You shall take the breast of Aaron’s ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It shall be your portion.
\p Exodus 29.27: \v 27 You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is raised up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons.
\p Exodus 29.28: \v 28 It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering. It shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to Yahweh.
\p
\p Exodus 29.29: \v 29 “The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.
\p Exodus 29.30: \v 30 Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.
\p
\p Exodus 29.31: \v 31 “You shall take the ram of consecration and boil its meat in a holy place.
\p Exodus 29.32: \v 32 Aaron and his sons shall eat the meat of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Exodus 29.33: \v 33 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.
\p Exodus 29.34: \v 34 If anything of the meat of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
\p
\p Exodus 29.35: \v 35 “You shall do so to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.
\p Exodus 29.36: \v 36 Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it. You shall anoint it, to sanctify it.
\p Exodus 29.37: \v 37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy.
\p
\p Exodus 29.38: \v 38 “Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
\p Exodus 29.39: \v 39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening;
\p Exodus 29.40: \v 40 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah\f + \fr 29:40 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin\f + \fr 29:40 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons, so a fourth of a hin is about 1.6 liters.\f* of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
\p Exodus 29.41: \v 41 The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 29.42: \v 42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
\p Exodus 29.43: \v 43 There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.
\p Exodus 29.44: \v 44 I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar. I will also sanctify Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest’s office.
\p Exodus 29.45: \v 45 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
\p Exodus 29.46: \v 46 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Yahweh their God.
\p Exodus 30.0: \c 30
\p
\p Exodus 30.1: \v 1 “You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.
\p Exodus 30.2: \v 2 Its length shall be a cubit,\f + \fr 30:2 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and its width a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
\p Exodus 30.3: \v 3 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.
\p Exodus 30.4: \v 4 You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.
\p Exodus 30.5: \v 5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
\p Exodus 30.6: \v 6 You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you.
\p Exodus 30.7: \v 7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.
\p Exodus 30.8: \v 8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
\p Exodus 30.9: \v 9 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.
\p Exodus 30.10: \v 10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.”
\p
\p Exodus 30.11: \v 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 30.12: \v 12 “When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you count them; that there be no plague among them when you count them.
\p Exodus 30.13: \v 13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel\f + \fr 30:13 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs\f + \fr 30:13 \ft a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains\f*); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 30.14: \v 14 Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 30.15: \v 15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel,\f + \fr 30:15 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.
\p Exodus 30.16: \v 16 You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.”
\p
\p Exodus 30.17: \v 17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 30.18: \v 18 “You shall also make a basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
\p Exodus 30.19: \v 19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.
\p Exodus 30.20: \v 20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 30.21: \v 21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. This shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations.”
\p
\p Exodus 30.22: \v 22 Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 30.23: \v 23 “Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels;\f + \fr 30:23 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 500 shekels is about 5 kilograms or about 11 pounds.\f* and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;
\p Exodus 30.24: \v 24 and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin\f + \fr 30:24 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.\f* of olive oil.
\p Exodus 30.25: \v 25 You shall make it into a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
\p Exodus 30.26: \v 26 You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the covenant,
\p Exodus 30.27: \v 27 the table and all its articles, the lamp stand and its accessories, the altar of incense,
\p Exodus 30.28: \v 28 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.
\p Exodus 30.29: \v 29 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.
\p Exodus 30.30: \v 30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.
\p Exodus 30.31: \v 31 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.
\p Exodus 30.32: \v 32 It shall not be poured on man’s flesh, and do not make any like it, according to its composition. It is holy. It shall be holy to you.
\p Exodus 30.33: \v 33 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.’”
\p
\p Exodus 30.34: \v 34 Yahweh said to Moses, “Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense. There shall be an equal weight of each.
\p Exodus 30.35: \v 35 You shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
\p Exodus 30.36: \v 36 You shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the covenant in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.
\p Exodus 30.37: \v 37 The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.
\p Exodus 30.38: \v 38 Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people.”
\p Exodus 31.0: \c 31
\p
\p Exodus 31.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 31.2: \v 2 “Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
\p Exodus 31.3: \v 3 I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,
\p Exodus 31.4: \v 4 to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,
\p Exodus 31.5: \v 5 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship.
\p Exodus 31.6: \v 6 Behold, I myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
\p Exodus 31.7: \v 7 the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the covenant, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,
\p Exodus 31.8: \v 8 the table and its vessels, the pure lamp stand with all its vessels, the altar of incense,
\p Exodus 31.9: \v 9 the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base,
\p Exodus 31.10: \v 10 the finely worked garments—the holy garments for Aaron the priest, the garments of his sons to minister in the priest’s office—
\p Exodus 31.11: \v 11 the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do.”
\p
\p Exodus 31.12: \v 12 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 31.13: \v 13 “Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
\p Exodus 31.14: \v 14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
\p Exodus 31.15: \v 15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.
\p Exodus 31.16: \v 16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
\p Exodus 31.17: \v 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’”
\p
\p Exodus 31.18: \v 18 When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.
\p Exodus 32.0: \c 32
\p
\p Exodus 32.1: \v 1 When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.2: \v 2 Aaron said to them, “Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.3: \v 3 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.
\p Exodus 32.4: \v 4 He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molded calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.5: \v 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.6: \v 6 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
\p
\p Exodus 32.7: \v 7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!
\p Exodus 32.8: \v 8 They have turned away quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
\p
\p Exodus 32.9: \v 9 Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
\p Exodus 32.10: \v 10 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.11: \v 11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
\p Exodus 32.12: \v 12 Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.
\p Exodus 32.13: \v 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring\f + \fr 32:13 \ft or, seed\f* as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
\p
\p Exodus 32.14: \v 14 So Yahweh turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people.
\p
\p Exodus 32.15: \v 15 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides. They were written on one side and on the other.
\p Exodus 32.16: \v 16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
\p
\p Exodus 32.17: \v 17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.18: \v 18 He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.”
\p Exodus 32.19: \v 19 As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.
\p Exodus 32.20: \v 20 He took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.
\p
\p Exodus 32.21: \v 21 Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”
\p
\p Exodus 32.22: \v 22 Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.
\p Exodus 32.23: \v 23 For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, which shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’
\p Exodus 32.24: \v 24 I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them take it off.’ So they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.25: \v 25 When Moses saw that the people were out of control, (for Aaron had let them lose control, causing derision among their enemies),
\p Exodus 32.26: \v 26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on Yahweh’s side, come to me!”
\p All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.
\p Exodus 32.27: \v 27 He said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’”
\p Exodus 32.28: \v 28 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. About three thousand men fell of the people that day.
\p Exodus 32.29: \v 29 Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, for every man was against his son and against his brother, that he may give you a blessing today.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.30: \v 30 On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.31: \v 31 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.
\p Exodus 32.32: \v 32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”
\p
\p Exodus 32.33: \v 33 Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot him out of my book.
\p Exodus 32.34: \v 34 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
\p Exodus 32.35: \v 35 Yahweh struck the people, because of what they did with the calf, which Aaron made.
\p Exodus 33.0: \c 33
\p
\p Exodus 33.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’
\p Exodus 33.2: \v 2 I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
\p Exodus 33.3: \v 3 Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”
\p
\p Exodus 33.4: \v 4 When the people heard this evil news, they mourned; and no one put on his jewelry.
\p
\p Exodus 33.5: \v 5 Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’”
\p
\p Exodus 33.6: \v 6 The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
\p
\p Exodus 33.7: \v 7 Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it “The Tent of Meeting.” Everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.
\p Exodus 33.8: \v 8 When Moses went out to the Tent, all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.
\p Exodus 33.9: \v 9 When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and Yahweh spoke with Moses.
\p Exodus 33.10: \v 10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
\p Exodus 33.11: \v 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.
\p
\p Exodus 33.12: \v 12 Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’
\p Exodus 33.13: \v 13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.”
\p
\p Exodus 33.14: \v 14 He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
\p
\p Exodus 33.15: \v 15 Moses said to him, “If your presence doesn’t go with me, don’t carry us up from here.
\p Exodus 33.16: \v 16 For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?”
\p
\p Exodus 33.17: \v 17 Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”
\p
\p Exodus 33.18: \v 18 Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”
\p
\p Exodus 33.19: \v 19 He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
\p Exodus 33.20: \v 20 He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”
\p Exodus 33.21: \v 21 Yahweh also said, “Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.
\p Exodus 33.22: \v 22 It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;
\p Exodus 33.23: \v 23 then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”
\p Exodus 34.0: \c 34
\p
\p Exodus 34.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
\p Exodus 34.2: \v 2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.
\p Exodus 34.3: \v 3 No one shall come up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain. Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.”
\p
\p Exodus 34.4: \v 4 He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; then Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.
\p Exodus 34.5: \v 5 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name.
\p Exodus 34.6: \v 6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
\p Exodus 34.7: \v 7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
\p
\p Exodus 34.8: \v 8 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
\p Exodus 34.9: \v 9 He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
\p
\p Exodus 34.10: \v 10 He said, “Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.
\p Exodus 34.11: \v 11 Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
\p Exodus 34.12: \v 12 Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;
\p Exodus 34.13: \v 13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;
\p Exodus 34.14: \v 14 for you shall worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
\p
\p Exodus 34.15: \v 15 “Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
\p Exodus 34.16: \v 16 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
\p
\p Exodus 34.17: \v 17 “You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
\p
\p Exodus 34.18: \v 18 “You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
\p
\p Exodus 34.19: \v 19 “All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.
\p Exodus 34.20: \v 20 You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before me empty.
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\p Exodus 34.21: \v 21 “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
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\p Exodus 34.22: \v 22 “You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.
\p Exodus 34.23: \v 23 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\p Exodus 34.24: \v 24 For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
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\p Exodus 34.25: \v 25 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall not be left to the morning.
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\p Exodus 34.26: \v 26 “You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God.
\p “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
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\p Exodus 34.27: \v 27 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write these words; for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
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\p Exodus 34.28: \v 28 He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
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\p Exodus 34.29: \v 29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
\p Exodus 34.30: \v 30 When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
\p Exodus 34.31: \v 31 Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.
\p Exodus 34.32: \v 32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
\p Exodus 34.33: \v 33 When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
\p Exodus 34.34: \v 34 But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
\p Exodus 34.35: \v 35 The children of Israel saw Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face shone; so Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
\p Exodus 35.0: \c 35
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\p Exodus 35.1: \v 1 Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, “These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them.
\p Exodus 35.2: \v 2 ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.
\p Exodus 35.3: \v 3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.’”
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\p Exodus 35.4: \v 4 Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying,
\p Exodus 35.5: \v 5 ‘Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as Yahweh’s offering: gold, silver, bronze,
\p Exodus 35.6: \v 6 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,
\p Exodus 35.7: \v 7 rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
\p Exodus 35.8: \v 8 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
\p Exodus 35.9: \v 9 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.
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\p Exodus 35.10: \v 10 “‘Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that Yahweh has commanded:
\p Exodus 35.11: \v 11 the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
\p Exodus 35.12: \v 12 the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;
\p Exodus 35.13: \v 13 the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the show bread;
\p Exodus 35.14: \v 14 the lamp stand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the oil for the light;
\p Exodus 35.15: \v 15 and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;
\p Exodus 35.16: \v 16 the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base;
\p Exodus 35.17: \v 17 the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;
\p Exodus 35.18: \v 18 the pins of the tabernacle, the pins of the court, and their cords;
\p Exodus 35.19: \v 19 the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place—the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons—to minister in the priest’s office.’”
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\p Exodus 35.20: \v 20 All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
\p Exodus 35.21: \v 21 They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh’s offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.
\p Exodus 35.22: \v 22 They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, earrings, signet rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering of gold to Yahweh.
\p Exodus 35.23: \v 23 Everyone with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, rams’ skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought them.
\p Exodus 35.24: \v 24 Everyone who offered an offering of silver and bronze brought Yahweh’s offering; and everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.
\p Exodus 35.25: \v 25 All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun: the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
\p Exodus 35.26: \v 26 All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair.
\p Exodus 35.27: \v 27 The rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate;
\p Exodus 35.28: \v 28 with the spice and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
\p Exodus 35.29: \v 29 The children of Israel brought a free will offering to Yahweh; every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.
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\p Exodus 35.30: \v 30 Moses said to the children of Israel, “Behold, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
\p Exodus 35.31: \v 31 He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship;
\p Exodus 35.32: \v 32 and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze,
\p Exodus 35.33: \v 33 in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
\p Exodus 35.34: \v 34 He has put in his heart that he may teach, both he and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
\p Exodus 35.35: \v 35 He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.
\p Exodus 36.0: \c 36
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\p Exodus 36.1: \v 1 “Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded.”
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\p Exodus 36.2: \v 2 Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it.
\p Exodus 36.3: \v 3 They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They kept bringing free will offerings to him every morning.
\p Exodus 36.4: \v 4 All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did.
\p Exodus 36.5: \v 5 They spoke to Moses, saying, “The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make.”
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\p Exodus 36.6: \v 6 Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, “Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing.
\p Exodus 36.7: \v 7 For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much.
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\p Exodus 36.8: \v 8 All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. They made them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.
\p Exodus 36.9: \v 9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits,\f + \fr 36:9 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and the width of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.
\p Exodus 36.10: \v 10 He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.
\p Exodus 36.11: \v 11 He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second coupling.
\p Exodus 36.12: \v 12 He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite to one another.
\p Exodus 36.13: \v 13 He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.
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\p Exodus 36.14: \v 14 He made curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains.
\p Exodus 36.15: \v 15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.
\p Exodus 36.16: \v 16 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
\p Exodus 36.17: \v 17 He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second coupling.
\p Exodus 36.18: \v 18 He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
\p Exodus 36.19: \v 19 He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
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\p Exodus 36.20: \v 20 He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.
\p Exodus 36.21: \v 21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.
\p Exodus 36.22: \v 22 Each board had two tenons, joined to one another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.
\p Exodus 36.23: \v 23 He made the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.
\p Exodus 36.24: \v 24 He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
\p Exodus 36.25: \v 25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards
\p Exodus 36.26: \v 26 and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
\p Exodus 36.27: \v 27 For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
\p Exodus 36.28: \v 28 He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.
\p Exodus 36.29: \v 29 They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners.
\p Exodus 36.30: \v 30 There were eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets—under every board two sockets.
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\p Exodus 36.31: \v 31 He made bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
\p Exodus 36.32: \v 32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.
\p Exodus 36.33: \v 33 He made the middle bar to pass through in the middle of the boards from the one end to the other.
\p Exodus 36.34: \v 34 He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
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\p Exodus 36.35: \v 35 He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.
\p Exodus 36.36: \v 36 He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them.
\p Exodus 36.37: \v 37 He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;
\p Exodus 36.38: \v 38 and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of bronze.
\p Exodus 37.0: \c 37
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\p Exodus 37.1: \v 1 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits,\f + \fr 37:1 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
\p Exodus 37.2: \v 2 He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it around it.
\p Exodus 37.3: \v 3 He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet—two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side.
\p Exodus 37.4: \v 4 He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
\p Exodus 37.5: \v 5 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
\p Exodus 37.6: \v 6 He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its width.
\p Exodus 37.7: \v 7 He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work, at the two ends of the mercy seat:
\p Exodus 37.8: \v 8 one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.
\p Exodus 37.9: \v 9 The cherubim spread out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
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\p Exodus 37.10: \v 10 He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its width was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.
\p Exodus 37.11: \v 11 He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.
\p Exodus 37.12: \v 12 He made a border of a hand’s width around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it.
\p Exodus 37.13: \v 13 He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that were on its four feet.
\p Exodus 37.14: \v 14 The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table.
\p Exodus 37.15: \v 15 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.
\p Exodus 37.16: \v 16 He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.
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\p Exodus 37.17: \v 17 He made the lamp stand of pure gold. He made the lamp stand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it.
\p Exodus 37.18: \v 18 There were six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lamp stand out of its one side, and three branches of the lamp stand out of its other side:
\p Exodus 37.19: \v 19 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower; so for the six branches going out of the lamp stand.
\p Exodus 37.20: \v 20 In the lamp stand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
\p Exodus 37.21: \v 21 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.
\p Exodus 37.22: \v 22 Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
\p Exodus 37.23: \v 23 He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold.
\p Exodus 37.24: \v 24 He made it of a talent\f + \fr 37:24 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* of pure gold, with all its vessels.
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\p Exodus 37.25: \v 25 He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square: its length was a cubit, and its width a cubit. Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it.
\p Exodus 37.26: \v 26 He overlaid it with pure gold: its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.
\p Exodus 37.27: \v 27 He made two golden rings for it under its molding crown, on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles with which to carry it.
\p Exodus 37.28: \v 28 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
\p Exodus 37.29: \v 29 He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.
\p Exodus 38.0: \c 38
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\p Exodus 38.1: \v 1 He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits,\f + \fr 38:1 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* its width was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.
\p Exodus 38.2: \v 2 He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
\p Exodus 38.3: \v 3 He made all the vessels of the altar: the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of bronze.
\p Exodus 38.4: \v 4 He made for the altar a grating of a network of bronze, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.
\p Exodus 38.5: \v 5 He cast four rings for the four corners of bronze grating, to be places for the poles.
\p Exodus 38.6: \v 6 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with bronze.
\p Exodus 38.7: \v 7 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
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\p Exodus 38.8: \v 8 He made the basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
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\p Exodus 38.9: \v 9 He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;
\p Exodus 38.10: \v 10 their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
\p Exodus 38.11: \v 11 For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
\p Exodus 38.12: \v 12 For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
\p Exodus 38.13: \v 13 For the east side eastward fifty cubits,
\p Exodus 38.14: \v 14 the hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
\p Exodus 38.15: \v 15 and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
\p Exodus 38.16: \v 16 All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.
\p Exodus 38.17: \v 17 The sockets for the pillars were of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. Their capitals were overlaid with silver. All the pillars of the court had silver bands.
\p Exodus 38.18: \v 18 The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height along the width was five cubits, like the hangings of the court.
\p Exodus 38.19: \v 19 Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of bronze; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
\p Exodus 38.20: \v 20 All the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of bronze.
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\p Exodus 38.21: \v 21 These are the amounts of materials used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
\p Exodus 38.22: \v 22 Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 38.23: \v 23 With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.
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\p Exodus 38.24: \v 24 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents\f + \fr 38:24 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces.\f* and seven hundred thirty shekels, according to the shekel\f + \fr 38:24 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces.\f* of the sanctuary.
\p Exodus 38.25: \v 25 The silver of those who were counted of the congregation was one hundred talents\f + \fr 38:25 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds\f* and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels,\f + \fr 38:25 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* according to the shekel of the sanctuary:
\p Exodus 38.26: \v 26 a beka\f + \fr 38:26 \ft a beka is about 5 grams or about 0.175 ounces\f* a head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel\f + \fr 38:26 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.
\p Exodus 38.27: \v 27 The one hundred talents\f + \fr 38:27 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.\f* of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil: one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, one talent per socket.
\p Exodus 38.28: \v 28 From the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels\f + \fr 38:28 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1775 shekels is about 17.75 kilograms or about 39 pounds.\f* he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.
\p Exodus 38.29: \v 29 The bronze of the offering was seventy talents\f + \fr 38:29 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds\f* and two thousand four hundred shekels.\f + \fr 38:29 \ft 70 talents + 2400 shekels is about 2124 kilograms, or 2.124 metric tons.\f*
\p Exodus 38.30: \v 30 With this he made the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the altar,
\p Exodus 38.31: \v 31 the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins around the court.
\p Exodus 39.0: \c 39
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\p Exodus 39.1: \v 1 Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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\p Exodus 39.2: \v 2 He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
\p Exodus 39.3: \v 3 They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in with the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.
\p Exodus 39.4: \v 4 They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. It was joined together at the two ends.
\p Exodus 39.5: \v 5 The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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\p Exodus 39.6: \v 6 They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.
\p Exodus 39.7: \v 7 He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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\p Exodus 39.8: \v 8 He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
\p Exodus 39.9: \v 9 It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span,\f + \fr 39:9 \ft A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)\f* and its width a span, being double.
\p Exodus 39.10: \v 10 They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;
\p Exodus 39.11: \v 11 and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire,\f + \fr 39:11 \ft or, lapis lazuli \f* and an emerald;
\p Exodus 39.12: \v 12 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
\p Exodus 39.13: \v 13 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.
\p Exodus 39.14: \v 14 The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
\p Exodus 39.15: \v 15 They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
\p Exodus 39.16: \v 16 They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
\p Exodus 39.17: \v 17 They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
\p Exodus 39.18: \v 18 The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in its front.
\p Exodus 39.19: \v 19 They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.
\p Exodus 39.20: \v 20 They made two more rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
\p Exodus 39.21: \v 21 They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Exodus 39.22: \v 22 He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
\p Exodus 39.23: \v 23 The opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.
\p Exodus 39.24: \v 24 They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.
\p Exodus 39.25: \v 25 They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;
\p Exodus 39.26: \v 26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Exodus 39.27: \v 27 They made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons,
\p Exodus 39.28: \v 28 the turban of fine linen, the linen headbands of fine linen, the linen trousers of fine twined linen,
\p Exodus 39.29: \v 29 the sash of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Exodus 39.30: \v 30 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet: “HOLY TO YAHWEH”.
\p Exodus 39.31: \v 31 They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Exodus 39.32: \v 32 Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so they did.
\p Exodus 39.33: \v 33 They brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
\p Exodus 39.34: \v 34 the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen,
\p Exodus 39.35: \v 35 the ark of the covenant with its poles, the mercy seat,
\p Exodus 39.36: \v 36 the table, all its vessels, the show bread,
\p Exodus 39.37: \v 37 the pure lamp stand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,
\p Exodus 39.38: \v 38 the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent,
\p Exodus 39.39: \v 39 the bronze altar, its grating of bronze, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,
\p Exodus 39.40: \v 40 the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting,
\p Exodus 39.41: \v 41 the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.
\p Exodus 39.42: \v 42 According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
\p Exodus 39.43: \v 43 Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them.
\p Exodus 40.0: \c 40
\p
\p Exodus 40.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Exodus 40.2: \v 2 “On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Exodus 40.3: \v 3 You shall put the ark of the covenant in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
\p Exodus 40.4: \v 4 You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lamp stand, and light its lamps.
\p Exodus 40.5: \v 5 You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the covenant, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
\p
\p Exodus 40.6: \v 6 “You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Exodus 40.7: \v 7 You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.
\p Exodus 40.8: \v 8 You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
\p
\p Exodus 40.9: \v 9 “You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture, and it will be holy.
\p Exodus 40.10: \v 10 You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar, and the altar will be most holy.
\p Exodus 40.11: \v 11 You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.
\p
\p Exodus 40.12: \v 12 “You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.
\p Exodus 40.13: \v 13 You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.
\p Exodus 40.14: \v 14 You shall bring his sons, and put tunics on them.
\p Exodus 40.15: \v 15 You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”
\p Exodus 40.16: \v 16 Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
\p
\p Exodus 40.17: \v 17 In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up.
\p Exodus 40.18: \v 18 Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.
\p Exodus 40.19: \v 19 He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 40.20: \v 20 He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
\p Exodus 40.21: \v 21 He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the covenant, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 40.22: \v 22 He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside of the veil.
\p Exodus 40.23: \v 23 He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 40.24: \v 24 He put the lamp stand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.
\p Exodus 40.25: \v 25 He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 40.26: \v 26 He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;
\p Exodus 40.27: \v 27 and he burned incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 40.28: \v 28 He put up the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
\p Exodus 40.29: \v 29 He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 40.30: \v 30 He set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.
\p Exodus 40.31: \v 31 Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.
\p Exodus 40.32: \v 32 When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Exodus 40.33: \v 33 He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
\p
\p Exodus 40.34: \v 34 Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.
\p Exodus 40.35: \v 35 Moses wasn’t able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.
\p Exodus 40.36: \v 36 When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys;
\p Exodus 40.37: \v 37 but if the cloud wasn’t taken up, then they didn’t travel until the day that it was taken up.
\p Exodus 40.38: \v 38 For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
\p Leviticus 0.0: \id LEV World English Bible (WEB)
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\h Leviticus
\toc1 The Third Book of Moses, Commonly Called Leviticus
\toc2 Leviticus
\toc3 Lev
\mt2 The Third Book of Moses,
\mt3 Commonly Called
\mt1 Leviticus
\p Leviticus 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Leviticus 1.1: \v 1 Yahweh\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
\p Leviticus 1.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When anyone of you offers an offering to Yahweh, you shall offer your offering of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock.
\p
\p Leviticus 1.3: \v 3 “‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 1.4: \v 4 He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
\p Leviticus 1.5: \v 5 He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Leviticus 1.6: \v 6 He shall skin the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces.
\p Leviticus 1.7: \v 7 The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire;
\p Leviticus 1.8: \v 8 and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;
\p Leviticus 1.9: \v 9 but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 1.10: \v 10 “‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without defect.
\p Leviticus 1.11: \v 11 He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
\p Leviticus 1.12: \v 12 He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar,
\p Leviticus 1.13: \v 13 but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 1.14: \v 14 “‘If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering from turtledoves or of young pigeons.
\p Leviticus 1.15: \v 15 The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar;
\p Leviticus 1.16: \v 16 and he shall take away its crop and its feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.
\p Leviticus 1.17: \v 17 He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Leviticus 2.1: \v 1 “‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.
\p Leviticus 2.2: \v 2 He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests. He shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 2.3: \v 3 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
\p
\p Leviticus 2.4: \v 4 “‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
\p Leviticus 2.5: \v 5 If your offering is a meal offering made on a griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil.
\p Leviticus 2.6: \v 6 You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering.
\p Leviticus 2.7: \v 7 If your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
\p Leviticus 2.8: \v 8 You shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things to Yahweh. It shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.
\p Leviticus 2.9: \v 9 The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 2.10: \v 10 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
\p
\p Leviticus 2.11: \v 11 “‘No meal offering which you shall offer to Yahweh shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 2.12: \v 12 As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to Yahweh, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the altar.
\p Leviticus 2.13: \v 13 Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God\f + \fr 2:13 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
\p
\p Leviticus 2.14: \v 14 “‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits fresh heads of grain parched with fire and crushed.
\p Leviticus 2.15: \v 15 You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering.
\p Leviticus 2.16: \v 16 The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Leviticus 3.1: \v 1 “‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 3.2: \v 2 He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.
\p Leviticus 3.3: \v 3 He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh. The fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
\p Leviticus 3.4: \v 4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
\p Leviticus 3.5: \v 5 Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 3.6: \v 6 “‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock, either male or female, he shall offer it without defect.
\p Leviticus 3.7: \v 7 If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before Yahweh;
\p Leviticus 3.8: \v 8 and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
\p Leviticus 3.9: \v 9 He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails,
\p Leviticus 3.10: \v 10 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
\p Leviticus 3.11: \v 11 The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 3.12: \v 12 “‘If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 3.13: \v 13 He shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
\p Leviticus 3.14: \v 14 He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
\p Leviticus 3.15: \v 15 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
\p Leviticus 3.16: \v 16 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is Yahweh’s.
\p
\p Leviticus 3.17: \v 17 “‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”
\p Leviticus 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Leviticus 4.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 4.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,
\p Leviticus 4.3: \v 3 if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin which he has sinned a young bull without defect to Yahweh for a sin offering.
\p Leviticus 4.4: \v 4 He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 4.5: \v 5 The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting.
\p Leviticus 4.6: \v 6 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before the veil of the sanctuary.
\p Leviticus 4.7: \v 7 The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Leviticus 4.8: \v 8 He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering from it: the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
\p Leviticus 4.9: \v 9 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall remove,
\p Leviticus 4.10: \v 10 as it is removed from the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.
\p Leviticus 4.11: \v 11 He shall carry the bull’s skin, all its meat, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung
\p Leviticus 4.12: \v 12 —all the rest of the bull—outside of the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. It shall be burned where the ashes are poured out.
\p
\p Leviticus 4.13: \v 13 “‘If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and are guilty;
\p Leviticus 4.14: \v 14 when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.
\p Leviticus 4.15: \v 15 The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull shall be killed before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 4.16: \v 16 The anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting.
\p Leviticus 4.17: \v 17 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil.
\p Leviticus 4.18: \v 18 He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Leviticus 4.19: \v 19 All its fat he shall take from it, and burn it on the altar.
\p Leviticus 4.20: \v 20 Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.
\p Leviticus 4.21: \v 21 He shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
\p
\p Leviticus 4.22: \v 22 “‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,
\p Leviticus 4.23: \v 23 if his sin in which he has sinned is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without defect.
\p Leviticus 4.24: \v 24 He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Yahweh. It is a sin offering.
\p Leviticus 4.25: \v 25 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
\p Leviticus 4.26: \v 26 All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.
\p
\p Leviticus 4.27: \v 27 “‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,
\p Leviticus 4.28: \v 28 if his sin which he has sinned is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without defect, for his sin which he has sinned.
\p Leviticus 4.29: \v 29 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.
\p Leviticus 4.30: \v 30 The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
\p Leviticus 4.31: \v 31 All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.
\p
\p Leviticus 4.32: \v 32 “‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.
\p Leviticus 4.33: \v 33 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.
\p Leviticus 4.34: \v 34 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
\p Leviticus 4.35: \v 35 He shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.
\p Leviticus 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Leviticus 5.1: \v 1 “‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
\p
\p Leviticus 5.2: \v 2 “‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.
\p
\p Leviticus 5.3: \v 3 “‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.
\p
\p Leviticus 5.4: \v 4 “‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good—whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him—when he knows of it, then he will be guilty of one of these.
\p Leviticus 5.5: \v 5 It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned;
\p Leviticus 5.6: \v 6 and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
\p
\p Leviticus 5.7: \v 7 “‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
\p Leviticus 5.8: \v 8 He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering. He shall wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.
\p Leviticus 5.9: \v 9 He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.
\p Leviticus 5.10: \v 10 He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.
\p
\p Leviticus 5.11: \v 11 “‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah\f + \fr 5:11 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
\p Leviticus 5.12: \v 12 He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. It is a sin offering.
\p Leviticus 5.13: \v 13 The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as the meal offering.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 5.14: \v 14 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 5.15: \v 15 “If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding Yahweh’s holy things, then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel\f + \fr 5:15 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
\p Leviticus 5.16: \v 16 He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong regarding the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven.
\p
\p Leviticus 5.17: \v 17 “If anyone sins, doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, though he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
\p Leviticus 5.18: \v 18 He shall bring a ram without defect from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn’t know it, and he will be forgiven.
\p Leviticus 5.19: \v 19 It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before Yahweh.”
\p Leviticus 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Leviticus 6.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 6.2: \v 2 “If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,
\p Leviticus 6.3: \v 3 or has found that which was lost, and lied about it, and swearing to a lie—in any of these things that a man sins in his actions—
\p Leviticus 6.4: \v 4 then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,
\p Leviticus 6.5: \v 5 or any thing about which he has sworn falsely: he shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. He shall return it to him to whom it belongs in the day of his being found guilty.
\p Leviticus 6.6: \v 6 He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.
\p Leviticus 6.7: \v 7 The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty.”
\p
\p Leviticus 6.8: \v 8 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 6.9: \v 9 “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.
\p Leviticus 6.10: \v 10 The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen trousers upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
\p Leviticus 6.11: \v 11 He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
\p Leviticus 6.12: \v 12 The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning. He shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.
\p Leviticus 6.13: \v 13 Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.
\p
\p Leviticus 6.14: \v 14 “‘This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before Yahweh, before the altar.
\p Leviticus 6.15: \v 15 He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial portion, to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 6.16: \v 16 That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Leviticus 6.17: \v 17 It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as are the sin offering and the trespass offering.
\p Leviticus 6.18: \v 18 Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 6.19: \v 19 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 6.20: \v 20 “This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to Yahweh in the day when he is anointed: one tenth of an ephah\f + \fr 6:20 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.
\p Leviticus 6.21: \v 21 It shall be made with oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 6.22: \v 22 The anointed priest that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burned to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 6.23: \v 23 Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”
\p
\p Leviticus 6.24: \v 24 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 6.25: \v 25 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh. It is most holy.
\p Leviticus 6.26: \v 26 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Leviticus 6.27: \v 27 Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.
\p Leviticus 6.28: \v 28 But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.
\p Leviticus 6.29: \v 29 Every male among the priests shall eat of it. It is most holy.
\p Leviticus 6.30: \v 30 No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten. It shall be burned with fire.
\p Leviticus 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Leviticus 7.1: \v 1 “‘This is the law of the trespass offering: It is most holy.
\p Leviticus 7.2: \v 2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar.
\p Leviticus 7.3: \v 3 He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,
\p Leviticus 7.4: \v 4 and he shall take away the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys;
\p Leviticus 7.5: \v 5 and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to Yahweh: it is a trespass offering.
\p Leviticus 7.6: \v 6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
\p
\p Leviticus 7.7: \v 7 “‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.
\p Leviticus 7.8: \v 8 The priest who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.
\p Leviticus 7.9: \v 9 Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is prepared in the pan and on the griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it.
\p Leviticus 7.10: \v 10 Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.
\p
\p Leviticus 7.11: \v 11 “‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh:
\p Leviticus 7.12: \v 12 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil.
\p Leviticus 7.13: \v 13 He shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving with cakes of leavened bread.
\p Leviticus 7.14: \v 14 Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to Yahweh. It shall be the priest’s who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.
\p Leviticus 7.15: \v 15 The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.
\p
\p Leviticus 7.16: \v 16 “‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a free will offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice. On the next day what remains of it shall be eaten,
\p Leviticus 7.17: \v 17 but what remains of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.
\p Leviticus 7.18: \v 18 If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.
\p
\p Leviticus 7.19: \v 19 “‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it;
\p Leviticus 7.20: \v 20 but the soul who eats of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
\p Leviticus 7.21: \v 21 When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 7.22: \v 22 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 7.23: \v 23 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat.
\p Leviticus 7.24: \v 24 The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it.
\p Leviticus 7.25: \v 25 For whoever eats the fat of the animal which men offer as an offering made by fire to Yahweh, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.
\p Leviticus 7.26: \v 26 You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
\p Leviticus 7.27: \v 27 Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 7.28: \v 28 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 7.29: \v 29 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Yahweh shall bring his offering to Yahweh out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
\p Leviticus 7.30: \v 30 With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 7.31: \v 31 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
\p Leviticus 7.32: \v 32 The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
\p Leviticus 7.33: \v 33 He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion.
\p Leviticus 7.34: \v 34 For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 7.35: \v 35 This is the consecrated portion of Aaron, and the consecrated portion of his sons, out of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to Yahweh in the priest’s office;
\p Leviticus 7.36: \v 36 which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations.
\p Leviticus 7.37: \v 37 This is the law of the burnt offering, the meal offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecration, and the sacrifice of peace offerings
\p Leviticus 7.38: \v 38 which Yahweh commanded Moses in Mount Sinai in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai.
\p Leviticus 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Leviticus 8.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 8.2: \v 2 “Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;
\p Leviticus 8.3: \v 3 and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting.”
\p
\p Leviticus 8.4: \v 4 Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Leviticus 8.5: \v 5 Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done.”
\p Leviticus 8.6: \v 6 Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
\p Leviticus 8.7: \v 7 He put the tunic on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him and fastened it to him with it.
\p Leviticus 8.8: \v 8 He placed the breastplate on him. He put the Urim and Thummim in the breastplate.
\p Leviticus 8.9: \v 9 He set the turban on his head. He set the golden plate, the holy crown, on the front of the turban, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Leviticus 8.10: \v 10 Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.
\p Leviticus 8.11: \v 11 He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.
\p Leviticus 8.12: \v 12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
\p Leviticus 8.13: \v 13 Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with tunics, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Leviticus 8.14: \v 14 He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.
\p Leviticus 8.15: \v 15 He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.
\p Leviticus 8.16: \v 16 He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burned it on the altar.
\p Leviticus 8.17: \v 17 But the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Leviticus 8.18: \v 18 He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
\p Leviticus 8.19: \v 19 He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.
\p Leviticus 8.20: \v 20 He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.
\p Leviticus 8.21: \v 21 He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Leviticus 8.22: \v 22 He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
\p Leviticus 8.23: \v 23 He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.
\p Leviticus 8.24: \v 24 He brought Aaron’s sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.
\p Leviticus 8.25: \v 25 He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh;
\p Leviticus 8.26: \v 26 and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh.
\p Leviticus 8.27: \v 27 He put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 8.28: \v 28 Moses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 8.29: \v 29 Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Leviticus 8.30: \v 30 Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.
\p
\p Leviticus 8.31: \v 31 Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the meat at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’
\p Leviticus 8.32: \v 32 What remains of the meat and of the bread you shall burn with fire.
\p Leviticus 8.33: \v 33 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.
\p Leviticus 8.34: \v 34 What has been done today, so Yahweh has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.
\p Leviticus 8.35: \v 35 You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.”
\p Leviticus 8.36: \v 36 Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh commanded by Moses.
\p Leviticus 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Leviticus 9.1: \v 1 On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
\p Leviticus 9.2: \v 2 and he said to Aaron, “Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without defect, and offer them before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 9.3: \v 3 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without defect, for a burnt offering;
\p Leviticus 9.4: \v 4 and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Yahweh; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today Yahweh appears to you.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 9.5: \v 5 They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting. All the congregation came near and stood before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 9.6: \v 6 Moses said, “This is the thing which Yahweh commanded that you should do; and Yahweh’s glory shall appear to you.”
\p Leviticus 9.7: \v 7 Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as Yahweh commanded.”
\p
\p Leviticus 9.8: \v 8 So Aaron came near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
\p Leviticus 9.9: \v 9 The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar;
\p Leviticus 9.10: \v 10 but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Leviticus 9.11: \v 11 The meat and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.
\p Leviticus 9.12: \v 12 He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.
\p Leviticus 9.13: \v 13 They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head. He burned them upon the altar.
\p Leviticus 9.14: \v 14 He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.
\p Leviticus 9.15: \v 15 He presented the people’s offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.
\p Leviticus 9.16: \v 16 He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.
\p Leviticus 9.17: \v 17 He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, in addition to the burnt offering of the morning.
\p Leviticus 9.18: \v 18 He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people. Aaron’s sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar;
\p Leviticus 9.19: \v 19 and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver;
\p Leviticus 9.20: \v 20 and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar.
\p Leviticus 9.21: \v 21 Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before Yahweh, as Moses commanded.
\p Leviticus 9.22: \v 22 Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.
\p
\p Leviticus 9.23: \v 23 Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people; and Yahweh’s glory appeared to all the people.
\p Leviticus 9.24: \v 24 Fire came out from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
\p Leviticus 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Leviticus 10.1: \v 1 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.
\p Leviticus 10.2: \v 2 Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 10.3: \v 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying,
\q1 ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me,
\q2 and before all the people I will be glorified.’”
\p Aaron held his peace.
\p Leviticus 10.4: \v 4 Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp.”
\p Leviticus 10.5: \v 5 So they came near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said.
\p
\p Leviticus 10.6: \v 6 Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.
\p Leviticus 10.7: \v 7 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of Yahweh is on you.” They did according to the word of Moses.
\p Leviticus 10.8: \v 8 Then Yahweh said to Aaron,
\p Leviticus 10.9: \v 9 “You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
\p Leviticus 10.10: \v 10 You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.
\p Leviticus 10.11: \v 11 You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”
\p
\p Leviticus 10.12: \v 12 Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, “Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy;
\p Leviticus 10.13: \v 13 and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons’ portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire; for so I am commanded.
\p Leviticus 10.14: \v 14 The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.
\p Leviticus 10.15: \v 15 The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a portion forever, as Yahweh has commanded.”
\p
\p Leviticus 10.16: \v 16 Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold,\f + \fr 10:16 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* it was burned. He was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,
\p Leviticus 10.17: \v 17 “Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh?
\p Leviticus 10.18: \v 18 Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.”
\p
\p Leviticus 10.19: \v 19 Aaron spoke to Moses, “Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh; and such things as these have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in Yahweh’s sight?”
\p
\p Leviticus 10.20: \v 20 When Moses heard that, it was pleasing in his sight.
\p Leviticus 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p Leviticus 11.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,
\p Leviticus 11.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
\p Leviticus 11.3: \v 3 Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.
\p
\p Leviticus 11.4: \v 4 “‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.
\p Leviticus 11.5: \v 5 The hyrax,\f + \fr 11:5 \ft or rock badger, or cony\f* because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.
\p Leviticus 11.6: \v 6 The hare, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.
\p Leviticus 11.7: \v 7 The pig, because it has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you.
\p Leviticus 11.8: \v 8 You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you.
\p
\p Leviticus 11.9: \v 9 “‘These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.
\p Leviticus 11.10: \v 10 All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all that move in the waters, and all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,
\p Leviticus 11.11: \v 11 and you shall detest them. You shall not eat of their meat, and you shall detest their carcasses.
\p Leviticus 11.12: \v 12 Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters is an abomination to you.
\p
\p Leviticus 11.13: \v 13 “‘You shall detest these among the birds; they shall not be eaten because they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,
\p Leviticus 11.14: \v 14 the red kite, any kind of black kite,
\p Leviticus 11.15: \v 15 any kind of raven,
\p Leviticus 11.16: \v 16 the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
\p Leviticus 11.17: \v 17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
\p Leviticus 11.18: \v 18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
\p Leviticus 11.19: \v 19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
\p
\p Leviticus 11.20: \v 20 “‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.
\p Leviticus 11.21: \v 21 Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have long, jointed legs for hopping on the earth.
\p Leviticus 11.22: \v 22 Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.
\p Leviticus 11.23: \v 23 But all winged creeping things which have four feet are an abomination to you.
\p
\p Leviticus 11.24: \v 24 “‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
\p Leviticus 11.25: \v 25 Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 11.26: \v 26 “‘Every animal which has a split hoof that isn’t completely divided, or doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.
\p Leviticus 11.27: \v 27 Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
\p Leviticus 11.28: \v 28 He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
\p
\p Leviticus 11.29: \v 29 “‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,
\p Leviticus 11.30: \v 30 the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
\p Leviticus 11.31: \v 31 These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.
\p Leviticus 11.32: \v 32 Anything they fall on when they are dead shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. Then it will be clean.
\p Leviticus 11.33: \v 33 Every earthen vessel into which any of them falls and all that is in it shall be unclean. You shall break it.
\p Leviticus 11.34: \v 34 All food which may be eaten which is soaked in water shall be unclean. All drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
\p Leviticus 11.35: \v 35 Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.
\p Leviticus 11.36: \v 36 Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean, but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.
\p Leviticus 11.37: \v 37 If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
\p Leviticus 11.38: \v 38 But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
\p
\p Leviticus 11.39: \v 39 “‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
\p Leviticus 11.40: \v 40 He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 11.41: \v 41 “‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.
\p Leviticus 11.42: \v 42 Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
\p Leviticus 11.43: \v 43 You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them.
\p Leviticus 11.44: \v 44 For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
\p Leviticus 11.45: \v 45 For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
\p
\p Leviticus 11.46: \v 46 “‘This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,
\p Leviticus 11.47: \v 47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’”
\p Leviticus 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p Leviticus 12.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 12.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.
\p Leviticus 12.3: \v 3 In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
\p Leviticus 12.4: \v 4 She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.
\p Leviticus 12.5: \v 5 But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.
\p
\p Leviticus 12.6: \v 6 “‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering.
\p Leviticus 12.7: \v 7 He shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; then she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood.
\p “‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.
\p Leviticus 12.8: \v 8 If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’”
\p Leviticus 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p Leviticus 13.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\p Leviticus 13.2: \v 2 “When a man shall have a swelling in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the priests.
\p Leviticus 13.3: \v 3 The priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body. If the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; so the priest shall examine him and pronounce him unclean.
\p Leviticus 13.4: \v 4 If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.
\p Leviticus 13.5: \v 5 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. Behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days.
\p Leviticus 13.6: \v 6 The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
\p Leviticus 13.7: \v 7 But if the scab spreads on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.
\p Leviticus 13.8: \v 8 The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.
\p
\p Leviticus 13.9: \v 9 “When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest;
\p Leviticus 13.10: \v 10 and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,
\p Leviticus 13.11: \v 11 it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is already unclean.
\p
\p Leviticus 13.12: \v 12 “If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest,
\p Leviticus 13.13: \v 13 then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.
\p Leviticus 13.14: \v 14 But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.
\p Leviticus 13.15: \v 15 The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.
\p Leviticus 13.16: \v 16 Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest.
\p Leviticus 13.17: \v 17 The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.
\p
\p Leviticus 13.18: \v 18 “When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,
\p Leviticus 13.19: \v 19 and in the place of the boil there is a white swelling, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest.
\p Leviticus 13.20: \v 20 The priest shall examine it. Behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil.
\p Leviticus 13.21: \v 21 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.
\p Leviticus 13.22: \v 22 If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague.
\p Leviticus 13.23: \v 23 But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
\p
\p Leviticus 13.24: \v 24 “Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white,
\p Leviticus 13.25: \v 25 then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.
\p Leviticus 13.26: \v 26 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.
\p Leviticus 13.27: \v 27 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.
\p Leviticus 13.28: \v 28 If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar from the burn.
\p
\p Leviticus 13.29: \v 29 “When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,
\p Leviticus 13.30: \v 30 then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch. It is leprosy of the head or of the beard.
\p Leviticus 13.31: \v 31 If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the person infected with itching seven days.
\p Leviticus 13.32: \v 32 On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn’t deeper than the skin,
\p Leviticus 13.33: \v 33 then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch. Then the priest shall isolate the one who has the itch seven more days.
\p Leviticus 13.34: \v 34 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread in the skin, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean.
\p Leviticus 13.35: \v 35 But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,
\p Leviticus 13.36: \v 36 then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean.
\p Leviticus 13.37: \v 37 But if in his eyes the itch is arrested and black hair has grown in it, then the itch is healed. He is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.
\p
\p Leviticus 13.38: \v 38 “When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots,
\p Leviticus 13.39: \v 39 then the priest shall examine them. Behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash. It has broken out in the skin. He is clean.
\p
\p Leviticus 13.40: \v 40 “If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.
\p Leviticus 13.41: \v 41 If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.
\p Leviticus 13.42: \v 42 But if a reddish-white plague is in the bald head or the bald forehead, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head or his bald forehead.
\p Leviticus 13.43: \v 43 Then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the swelling of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,
\p Leviticus 13.44: \v 44 he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.
\p
\p Leviticus 13.45: \v 45 “The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’
\p Leviticus 13.46: \v 46 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside of the camp.
\p
\p Leviticus 13.47: \v 47 “The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;
\p Leviticus 13.48: \v 48 whether it is in warp or woof;\f + \fr 13:48 \ft warp and woof are the vertical and horizontal threads in woven cloth\f* of linen or of wool; whether in a leather, or in anything made of leather;
\p Leviticus 13.49: \v 49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the leather, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of leather; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest.
\p Leviticus 13.50: \v 50 The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days.
\p Leviticus 13.51: \v 51 He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean.
\p Leviticus 13.52: \v 52 He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, in which the plague is, for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.
\p
\p Leviticus 13.53: \v 53 “If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin;
\p Leviticus 13.54: \v 54 then the priest shall command that they wash the thing that the plague is in, and he shall isolate it seven more days.
\p Leviticus 13.55: \v 55 Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn’t changed its color, and the plague hasn’t spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside.
\p Leviticus 13.56: \v 56 If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof;
\p Leviticus 13.57: \v 57 and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire that in which the plague is.
\p Leviticus 13.58: \v 58 The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean.”
\p
\p Leviticus 13.59: \v 59 This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
\p Leviticus 14.0: \c 14
\p
\p Leviticus 14.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p
\p Leviticus 14.2: \v 2 “This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest,
\p Leviticus 14.3: \v 3 and the priest shall go out of the camp. The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,
\p Leviticus 14.4: \v 4 then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
\p Leviticus 14.5: \v 5 The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
\p Leviticus 14.6: \v 6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.
\p Leviticus 14.7: \v 7 He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.
\p
\p Leviticus 14.8: \v 8 “He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
\p Leviticus 14.9: \v 9 It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water. Then he shall be clean.
\p
\p Leviticus 14.10: \v 10 “On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, one ewe lamb a year old without defect, three tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 14:10 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and one log\f + \fr 14:10 \ft a log is a liquid measure of about 300 ml or 10 ounces\f* of oil.
\p Leviticus 14.11: \v 11 The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p
\p Leviticus 14.12: \v 12 “The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 14.13: \v 13 He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy.
\p Leviticus 14.14: \v 14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
\p Leviticus 14.15: \v 15 The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.
\p Leviticus 14.16: \v 16 The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 14.17: \v 17 The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.
\p Leviticus 14.18: \v 18 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 14.19: \v 19 “The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness. Afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;
\p Leviticus 14.20: \v 20 then the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
\p
\p Leviticus 14.21: \v 21 “If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah\f + \fr 14:21 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log\f + \fr 14:21 \ft a log is a liquid measure of about 300 ml or 10 ounces\f* of oil;
\p Leviticus 14.22: \v 22 and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
\p
\p Leviticus 14.23: \v 23 “On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 14.24: \v 24 The priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 14.25: \v 25 He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
\p Leviticus 14.26: \v 26 The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;
\p Leviticus 14.27: \v 27 and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 14.28: \v 28 Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.
\p Leviticus 14.29: \v 29 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 14.30: \v 30 He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, which ever he is able to afford,
\p Leviticus 14.31: \v 31 of the kind he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Yahweh.”
\p
\p Leviticus 14.32: \v 32 This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing.
\p
\p Leviticus 14.33: \v 33 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\p Leviticus 14.34: \v 34 “When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession,
\p Leviticus 14.35: \v 35 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.’
\p Leviticus 14.36: \v 36 The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean. Afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.
\p Leviticus 14.37: \v 37 He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall,
\p Leviticus 14.38: \v 38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
\p Leviticus 14.39: \v 39 The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house,
\p Leviticus 14.40: \v 40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city.
\p Leviticus 14.41: \v 41 He shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over. They shall pour out the mortar that they scraped off outside of the city into an unclean place.
\p Leviticus 14.42: \v 42 They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
\p
\p Leviticus 14.43: \v 43 “If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered,
\p Leviticus 14.44: \v 44 then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean.
\p Leviticus 14.45: \v 45 He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house’s mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.
\p
\p Leviticus 14.46: \v 46 “Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.
\p Leviticus 14.47: \v 47 He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
\p
\p Leviticus 14.48: \v 48 “If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
\p Leviticus 14.49: \v 49 To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
\p Leviticus 14.50: \v 50 He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
\p Leviticus 14.51: \v 51 He shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
\p Leviticus 14.52: \v 52 He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;
\p Leviticus 14.53: \v 53 but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.”
\p
\p Leviticus 14.54: \v 54 This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch,
\p Leviticus 14.55: \v 55 and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house,
\p Leviticus 14.56: \v 56 and for a swelling, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
\p Leviticus 14.57: \v 57 to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean.
\p This is the law of leprosy.
\p Leviticus 15.0: \c 15
\p
\p Leviticus 15.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\p Leviticus 15.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.
\p Leviticus 15.3: \v 3 This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.4: \v 4 “‘Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean.
\p Leviticus 15.5: \v 5 Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p Leviticus 15.6: \v 6 He who sits on anything on which the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.7: \v 7 “‘He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.8: \v 8 “‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.9: \v 9 “‘Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean.
\p Leviticus 15.10: \v 10 Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.11: \v 11 “‘Whomever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.12: \v 12 “‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.13: \v 13 “‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.14: \v 14 “‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest.
\p Leviticus 15.15: \v 15 The priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh for his discharge.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.16: \v 16 “‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p Leviticus 15.17: \v 17 Every garment and every skin which the semen is on shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p Leviticus 15.18: \v 18 If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.19: \v 19 “‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days. Whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.20: \v 20 “‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.
\p Leviticus 15.21: \v 21 Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p Leviticus 15.22: \v 22 Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p Leviticus 15.23: \v 23 If it is on the bed, or on anything she sits on, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.24: \v 24 “‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed he lies on shall be unclean.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.25: \v 25 “‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period. She is unclean.
\p Leviticus 15.26: \v 26 Every bed she lies on all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period. Everything she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period.
\p Leviticus 15.27: \v 27 Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.28: \v 28 “‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
\p Leviticus 15.29: \v 29 On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Leviticus 15.30: \v 30 The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Yahweh for the uncleanness of her discharge.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.31: \v 31 “‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 15.32: \v 32 This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean by it;
\p Leviticus 15.33: \v 33 and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.
\p Leviticus 16.0: \c 16
\p
\p Leviticus 16.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before Yahweh, and died;
\p Leviticus 16.2: \v 2 and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
\p
\p Leviticus 16.3: \v 3 “Aaron shall come into the sanctuary with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
\p Leviticus 16.4: \v 4 He shall put on the holy linen tunic. He shall have the linen trousers on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.
\p Leviticus 16.5: \v 5 He shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
\p
\p Leviticus 16.6: \v 6 “Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.
\p Leviticus 16.7: \v 7 He shall take the two goats, and set them before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Leviticus 16.8: \v 8 Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for Yahweh, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
\p Leviticus 16.9: \v 9 Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for Yahweh, and offer him for a sin offering.
\p Leviticus 16.10: \v 10 But the goat on which the lot fell for the scapegoat shall be presented alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away as the scapegoat into the wilderness.
\p
\p Leviticus 16.11: \v 11 “Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.
\p Leviticus 16.12: \v 12 He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil.
\p Leviticus 16.13: \v 13 He shall put the incense on the fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the covenant, so that he will not die.
\p Leviticus 16.14: \v 14 He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
\p
\p Leviticus 16.15: \v 15 “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.
\p Leviticus 16.16: \v 16 He shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting that dwells with them in the middle of their uncleanness.
\p Leviticus 16.17: \v 17 No one shall be in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.
\p
\p Leviticus 16.18: \v 18 “He shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and some of the goat’s blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar.
\p Leviticus 16.19: \v 19 He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
\p
\p Leviticus 16.20: \v 20 “When he has finished atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.
\p Leviticus 16.21: \v 21 Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is ready.
\p Leviticus 16.22: \v 22 The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.
\p
\p Leviticus 16.23: \v 23 “Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.
\p Leviticus 16.24: \v 24 Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.
\p Leviticus 16.25: \v 25 The fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.
\p
\p Leviticus 16.26: \v 26 “He who lets the goat go as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
\p Leviticus 16.27: \v 27 The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.
\p Leviticus 16.28: \v 28 He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
\p
\p Leviticus 16.29: \v 29 “It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, whether native-born or a stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;
\p Leviticus 16.30: \v 30 for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you. You shall be clean from all your sins before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 16.31: \v 31 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.
\p Leviticus 16.32: \v 32 The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father’s place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.
\p Leviticus 16.33: \v 33 Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.
\p
\p Leviticus 16.34: \v 34 “This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.”
\p It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Leviticus 17.0: \c 17
\p
\p Leviticus 17.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 17.2: \v 2 “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded:
\p Leviticus 17.3: \v 3 Whatever man there is of the house of Israel who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,
\p Leviticus 17.4: \v 4 and hasn’t brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before Yahweh’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood. That man shall be cut off from among his people.
\p Leviticus 17.5: \v 5 This is to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 17.6: \v 6 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on Yahweh’s altar at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 17.7: \v 7 They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’
\p
\p Leviticus 17.8: \v 8 “You shall say to them, ‘Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,
\p Leviticus 17.9: \v 9 and doesn’t bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to Yahweh, that man shall be cut off from his people.
\p
\p Leviticus 17.10: \v 10 “‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
\p Leviticus 17.11: \v 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.
\p Leviticus 17.12: \v 12 Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, “No person among you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.”
\p
\p Leviticus 17.13: \v 13 “‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.
\p Leviticus 17.14: \v 14 For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”
\p
\p Leviticus 17.15: \v 15 “‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. Then he shall be clean.
\p Leviticus 17.16: \v 16 But if he doesn’t wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’”
\p Leviticus 18.0: \c 18
\p
\p Leviticus 18.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses,
\p Leviticus 18.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘I am Yahweh your God.
\p Leviticus 18.3: \v 3 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived. You shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes.
\p Leviticus 18.4: \v 4 You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am Yahweh your God.
\p Leviticus 18.5: \v 5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.6: \v 6 “‘None of you shall approach any close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.7: \v 7 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.8: \v 8 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.9: \v 9 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.10: \v 10 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness; for theirs is your own nakedness.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.11: \v 11 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.12: \v 12 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister. She is your father’s near kinswoman.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.13: \v 13 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s near kinswoman.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.14: \v 14 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.15: \v 15 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.16: \v 16 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.17: \v 17 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near kinswomen. It is wickedness.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.18: \v 18 “‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.19: \v 19 “‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.20: \v 20 “‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.21: \v 21 “‘You shall not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.22: \v 22 “‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.23: \v 23 “‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. No woman may give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.24: \v 24 “‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
\p Leviticus 18.25: \v 25 The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
\p Leviticus 18.26: \v 26 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you
\p Leviticus 18.27: \v 27 (for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled),
\p Leviticus 18.28: \v 28 that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
\p
\p Leviticus 18.29: \v 29 “‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
\p Leviticus 18.30: \v 30 Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am Yahweh your God.’”
\p Leviticus 19.0: \c 19
\p
\p Leviticus 19.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 19.2: \v 2 “Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.3: \v 3 “‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.4: \v 4 “‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.5: \v 5 “‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
\p Leviticus 19.6: \v 6 It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day. If anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned with fire.
\p Leviticus 19.7: \v 7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not be accepted;
\p Leviticus 19.8: \v 8 but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.9: \v 9 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
\p Leviticus 19.10: \v 10 You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.11: \v 11 “‘You shall not steal.
\p “‘You shall not lie.
\p “‘You shall not deceive one another.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.12: \v 12 “‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.13: \v 13 “‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him.
\p “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.14: \v 14 “‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.15: \v 15 “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.16: \v 16 “‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people.
\p “‘You shall not endanger the life\f + \fr 19:16 \ft literally, “blood”\f* of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.17: \v 17 “‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.18: \v 18 “‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.19: \v 19 “‘You shall keep my statutes.
\p “‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals.
\p “‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed;
\p “‘Don’t wear a garment made of two kinds of material.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.20: \v 20 “‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
\p Leviticus 19.21: \v 21 He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering.
\p Leviticus 19.22: \v 22 The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before Yahweh for his sin which he has committed; and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.23: \v 23 “‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden.\f + \fr 19:23 \ft literally, “uncircumcised”\f* For three years it shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.
\p Leviticus 19.24: \v 24 But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 19.25: \v 25 In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.26: \v 26 “‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.27: \v 27 “‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.28: \v 28 “‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.29: \v 29 “‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.30: \v 30 “‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.31: \v 31 “‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.32: \v 32 “‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.33: \v 33 “‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
\p Leviticus 19.34: \v 34 The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.35: \v 35 “‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
\p Leviticus 19.36: \v 36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah,\f + \fr 19:36 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* and a just hin.\f + \fr 19:36 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.\f* I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
\p
\p Leviticus 19.37: \v 37 “‘You shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’”
\p Leviticus 20.0: \c 20
\p
\p Leviticus 20.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 20.2: \v 2 “Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his offspring\f + \fr 20:2 \ft or, seed\f* to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone that person with stones.
\p Leviticus 20.3: \v 3 I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
\p Leviticus 20.4: \v 4 If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and don’t put him to death,
\p Leviticus 20.5: \v 5 then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.6: \v 6 “‘The person that turns to those who are mediums and wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.7: \v 7 “‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.
\p Leviticus 20.8: \v 8 You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.9: \v 9 “‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.10: \v 10 “‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.11: \v 11 “‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.12: \v 12 “‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed a perversion. Their blood shall be upon themselves.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.13: \v 13 “‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.14: \v 14 “‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.15: \v 15 “‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.16: \v 16 “‘If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.17: \v 17 “‘If a man takes his sister—his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter—and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing. They shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his iniquity.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.18: \v 18 “‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made her fountain naked, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.19: \v 19 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister, for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity.
\p Leviticus 20.20: \v 20 If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.21: \v 21 “‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.22: \v 22 “‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.
\p Leviticus 20.23: \v 23 You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
\p Leviticus 20.24: \v 24 But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.25: \v 25 “‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.
\p Leviticus 20.26: \v 26 You shall be holy to me, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.
\p
\p Leviticus 20.27: \v 27 “‘A man or a woman that is a medium or is a wizard shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones. Their blood shall be upon themselves.’”
\p Leviticus 21.0: \c 21
\p
\p Leviticus 21.1: \v 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,
\p Leviticus 21.2: \v 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,
\p Leviticus 21.3: \v 3 and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.
\p Leviticus 21.4: \v 4 He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
\p
\p Leviticus 21.5: \v 5 “‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh.
\p Leviticus 21.6: \v 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.
\p
\p Leviticus 21.7: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 21.8: \v 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.
\p
\p Leviticus 21.9: \v 9 “‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.
\p
\p Leviticus 21.10: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 21.11: \v 11 He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father or for his mother.
\p Leviticus 21.12: \v 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.
\p
\p Leviticus 21.13: \v 13 “‘He shall take a wife in her virginity.
\p Leviticus 21.14: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 21.15: \v 15 He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 21.16: \v 16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 21.17: \v 17 “Say to Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.
\p Leviticus 21.18: \v 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,
\p Leviticus 21.19: \v 19 or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,
\p Leviticus 21.20: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 21.21: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 21.22: \v 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
\p Leviticus 21.23: \v 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.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 21.24: \v 24 So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
\p Leviticus 22.0: \c 22
\p
\p Leviticus 22.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 22.2: \v 2 “Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 22.3: \v 3 “Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 22.4: \v 4 “‘Whoever of the offspring of Aaron is a leper or has a discharge shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man who has a seminal emission,
\p Leviticus 22.5: \v 5 or whoever touches any creeping thing whereby he may be made unclean, or a man from whom he may become unclean, whatever uncleanness he has—
\p Leviticus 22.6: \v 6 the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things unless he bathes his body in water.
\p Leviticus 22.7: \v 7 When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.
\p Leviticus 22.8: \v 8 He shall not eat that which dies of itself or is torn by animals, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 22.9: \v 9 “‘They shall therefore follow my commandment, lest they bear sin for it and die in it, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
\p
\p Leviticus 22.10: \v 10 “‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
\p Leviticus 22.11: \v 11 But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and those who are born in his house shall eat of his bread.
\p Leviticus 22.12: \v 12 If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
\p Leviticus 22.13: \v 13 But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread; but no stranger shall eat any of it.
\p
\p Leviticus 22.14: \v 14 “‘If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest.
\p Leviticus 22.15: \v 15 The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to Yahweh,
\p Leviticus 22.16: \v 16 and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when they eat their holy things; for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 22.17: \v 17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 22.18: \v 18 “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it is any of their vows or any of their free will offerings, which they offer to Yahweh for a burnt offering:
\p Leviticus 22.19: \v 19 that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.
\p Leviticus 22.20: \v 20 But you shall not offer whatever has a defect, for it shall not be acceptable for you.
\p Leviticus 22.21: \v 21 Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a free will offering of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect.
\p Leviticus 22.22: \v 22 You shall not offer what is blind, is injured, is maimed, has a wart, is festering, or has a running sore to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 22.23: \v 23 Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a free will offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
\p Leviticus 22.24: \v 24 You must not offer to Yahweh that which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut. You must not do this in your land.
\p Leviticus 22.25: \v 25 You must not offer any of these as the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner, because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 22.26: \v 26 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 22.27: \v 27 “When a bull, a sheep, or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother. From the eighth day on it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 22.28: \v 28 Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in one day.
\p
\p Leviticus 22.29: \v 29 “When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
\p Leviticus 22.30: \v 30 It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 22.31: \v 31 “Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 22.32: \v 32 You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,
\p Leviticus 22.33: \v 33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am Yahweh.”
\p Leviticus 23.0: \c 23
\p
\p Leviticus 23.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 23.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The set feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.
\p
\p Leviticus 23.3: \v 3 “‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
\p
\p Leviticus 23.4: \v 4 “‘These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.
\p Leviticus 23.5: \v 5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
\p Leviticus 23.6: \v 6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
\p Leviticus 23.7: \v 7 In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
\p Leviticus 23.8: \v 8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 23.9: \v 9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 23.10: \v 10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.
\p Leviticus 23.11: \v 11 He shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
\p Leviticus 23.12: \v 12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 23.13: \v 13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 23:13 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.\f + \fr 23:13 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.\f*
\p Leviticus 23.14: \v 14 You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
\p
\p Leviticus 23.15: \v 15 “‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed.
\p Leviticus 23.16: \v 16 The next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 23.17: \v 17 You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 23:17 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 23.18: \v 18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 23.19: \v 19 You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
\p Leviticus 23.20: \v 20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.
\p Leviticus 23.21: \v 21 You shall make proclamation on the same day that there shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
\p
\p Leviticus 23.22: \v 22 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field, and you must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 23.23: \v 23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 23.24: \v 24 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a solemn rest for you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
\p Leviticus 23.25: \v 25 You shall do no regular work. You shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 23.26: \v 26 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 23.27: \v 27 “However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 23.28: \v 28 You shall do no kind of work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.
\p Leviticus 23.29: \v 29 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day shall be cut off from his people.
\p Leviticus 23.30: \v 30 Whoever does any kind of work in that same day, I will destroy that person from among his people.
\p Leviticus 23.31: \v 31 You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
\p Leviticus 23.32: \v 32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
\p
\p Leviticus 23.33: \v 33 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 23.34: \v 34 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths\f + \fr 23:34 \ft or, feast of tents, or Succoth\f* for seven days to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 23.35: \v 35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
\p Leviticus 23.36: \v 36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.
\p
\p Leviticus 23.37: \v 37 “‘These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day—
\p Leviticus 23.38: \v 38 in addition to the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and in addition to your gifts, and in addition to all your vows, and in addition to all your free will offerings, which you give to Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 23.39: \v 39 “‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
\p Leviticus 23.40: \v 40 You shall take on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.
\p Leviticus 23.41: \v 41 You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month.
\p Leviticus 23.42: \v 42 You shall dwell in temporary shelters\f + \fr 23:42 \ft or, booths\f* for seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in temporary shelters,\f + \fr 23:42 \ft or, booths\f*
\p Leviticus 23.43: \v 43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in temporary shelters\f + \fr 23:43 \ft or, booths\f* when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 23.44: \v 44 So Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 24.0: \c 24
\p
\p Leviticus 24.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 24.2: \v 2 “Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
\p Leviticus 24.3: \v 3 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
\p Leviticus 24.4: \v 4 He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before Yahweh continually.
\p
\p Leviticus 24.5: \v 5 “You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 24:5 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* shall be in one cake.
\p Leviticus 24.6: \v 6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 24.7: \v 7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 24.8: \v 8 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is an everlasting covenant on the behalf of the children of Israel.
\p Leviticus 24.9: \v 9 It shall be for Aaron and his sons. They shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute.”
\p
\p Leviticus 24.10: \v 10 The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.
\p Leviticus 24.11: \v 11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
\p Leviticus 24.12: \v 12 They put him in custody until Yahweh’s will should be declared to them.
\p Leviticus 24.13: \v 13 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 24.14: \v 14 “Bring him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
\p Leviticus 24.15: \v 15 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
\p Leviticus 24.16: \v 16 He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.
\p
\p Leviticus 24.17: \v 17 “‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
\p Leviticus 24.18: \v 18 He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.
\p Leviticus 24.19: \v 19 If anyone injures his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done:
\p Leviticus 24.20: \v 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone.
\p Leviticus 24.21: \v 21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
\p Leviticus 24.22: \v 22 You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 24.23: \v 23 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Leviticus 25.0: \c 25
\p
\p Leviticus 25.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai,
\p Leviticus 25.2: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.3: \v 3 You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits;
\p Leviticus 25.4: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.5: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.6: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.7: \v 7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.
\p
\p Leviticus 25.8: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.9: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.10: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.11: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.12: \v 12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.
\p
\p Leviticus 25.13: \v 13 “‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
\p
\p Leviticus 25.14: \v 14 “‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
\p Leviticus 25.15: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.16: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.17: \v 17 You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\p Leviticus 25.18: \v 18 “‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
\p Leviticus 25.19: \v 19 The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
\p Leviticus 25.20: \v 20 If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;”
\p Leviticus 25.21: \v 21 then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.
\p Leviticus 25.22: \v 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.
\p
\p Leviticus 25.23: \v 23 “‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
\p Leviticus 25.24: \v 24 In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
\p
\p Leviticus 25.25: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.26: \v 26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,
\p Leviticus 25.27: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.28: \v 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.
\p
\p Leviticus 25.29: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.30: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.31: \v 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.
\p
\p Leviticus 25.32: \v 32 “‘Nevertheless, in the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem the houses in the cities of their possession at any time.
\p Leviticus 25.33: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.34: \v 34 But the field of the pasture lands of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.
\p
\p Leviticus 25.35: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.36: \v 36 Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.
\p Leviticus 25.37: \v 37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
\p Leviticus 25.38: \v 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.
\p
\p Leviticus 25.39: \v 39 “‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
\p Leviticus 25.40: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.41: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.42: \v 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.
\p Leviticus 25.43: \v 43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
\p
\p Leviticus 25.44: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.45: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.46: \v 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.
\p
\p Leviticus 25.47: \v 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,
\p Leviticus 25.48: \v 48 after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;
\p Leviticus 25.49: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.50: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.51: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.52: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.53: \v 53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
\p Leviticus 25.54: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 25.55: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 26.0: \c 26
\p
\p Leviticus 26.1: \v 1 “‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\p Leviticus 26.2: \v 2 “‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
\p
\p Leviticus 26.3: \v 3 “‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,
\p Leviticus 26.4: \v 4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
\p Leviticus 26.5: \v 5 Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
\p
\p Leviticus 26.6: \v 6 “‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
\p Leviticus 26.7: \v 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
\p Leviticus 26.8: \v 8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
\p
\p Leviticus 26.9: \v 9 “‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
\p Leviticus 26.10: \v 10 You shall eat old supplies long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.
\p Leviticus 26.11: \v 11 I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.
\p Leviticus 26.12: \v 12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
\p Leviticus 26.13: \v 13 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright.
\p
\p Leviticus 26.14: \v 14 “‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments,
\p Leviticus 26.15: \v 15 and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
\p Leviticus 26.16: \v 16 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
\p Leviticus 26.17: \v 17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.
\p
\p Leviticus 26.18: \v 18 “‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
\p Leviticus 26.19: \v 19 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.
\p Leviticus 26.20: \v 20 Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
\p
\p Leviticus 26.21: \v 21 “‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
\p Leviticus 26.22: \v 22 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.
\p
\p Leviticus 26.23: \v 23 “‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me,
\p Leviticus 26.24: \v 24 then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
\p Leviticus 26.25: \v 25 I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
\p Leviticus 26.26: \v 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.
\p
\p Leviticus 26.27: \v 27 “‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me,
\p Leviticus 26.28: \v 28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
\p Leviticus 26.29: \v 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
\p Leviticus 26.30: \v 30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
\p Leviticus 26.31: \v 31 I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.
\p Leviticus 26.32: \v 32 I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies that dwell in it will be astonished at it.
\p Leviticus 26.33: \v 33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
\p Leviticus 26.34: \v 34 Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
\p Leviticus 26.35: \v 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths when you lived on it.
\p
\p Leviticus 26.36: \v 36 “‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.
\p Leviticus 26.37: \v 37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.
\p Leviticus 26.38: \v 38 You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.
\p Leviticus 26.39: \v 39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.
\p
\p Leviticus 26.40: \v 40 “‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me,
\p Leviticus 26.41: \v 41 I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
\p Leviticus 26.42: \v 42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.
\p Leviticus 26.43: \v 43 The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
\p Leviticus 26.44: \v 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.
\p Leviticus 26.45: \v 45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 26.46: \v 46 These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.
\p Leviticus 27.0: \c 27
\p
\p Leviticus 27.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Leviticus 27.2: \v 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,
\p Leviticus 27.3: \v 3 your valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel\f + \fr 27:3 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of the sanctuary.
\p Leviticus 27.4: \v 4 If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
\p Leviticus 27.5: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 27.6: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 27.7: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 27.8: \v 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.
\p
\p Leviticus 27.9: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 27.10: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 27.11: \v 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;
\p Leviticus 27.12: \v 12 and the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates it, so it shall be.
\p Leviticus 27.13: \v 13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.
\p
\p Leviticus 27.14: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 27.15: \v 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.
\p
\p Leviticus 27.16: \v 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 \f + \fr 27:16 \ft 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels\f* of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels\f + \fr 27:16 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of silver.
\p Leviticus 27.17: \v 17 If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.
\p Leviticus 27.18: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 27.19: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 27.20: \v 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;
\p Leviticus 27.21: \v 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.
\p
\p Leviticus 27.22: \v 22 “‘If he dedicates a field to Yahweh which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,
\p Leviticus 27.23: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 27.24: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 27.25: \v 25 All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs\f + \fr 27:25 \ft A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.\f* to the shekel.\f + \fr 27:25 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f*
\p
\p Leviticus 27.26: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 27.27: \v 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.
\p
\p Leviticus 27.28: \v 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.
\p
\p Leviticus 27.29: \v 29 “‘No one devoted to destruction, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed. He shall surely be put to death.
\p
\p Leviticus 27.30: \v 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.
\p Leviticus 27.31: \v 31 If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it.
\p Leviticus 27.32: \v 32 All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 27.33: \v 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.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 27.34: \v 34 These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
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\toc1 The Fourth Book of Moses, Commonly Called Numbers
\toc2 Numbers
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\mt2 The Fourth Book of Moses,
\mt3 Commonly Called
\mt1 Numbers
\p Numbers 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Numbers 1.1: \v 1 Yahweh\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
\p Numbers 1.2: \v 2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,
\p Numbers 1.3: \v 3 from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.
\p Numbers 1.4: \v 4 With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house.
\p Numbers 1.5: \v 5 These are the names of the men who shall stand with you:
\p Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
\p
\p Numbers 1.6: \v 6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
\p
\p Numbers 1.7: \v 7 Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
\p
\p Numbers 1.8: \v 8 Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.
\p
\p Numbers 1.9: \v 9 Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
\p
\p Numbers 1.10: \v 10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
\p
\p Numbers 1.11: \v 11 Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.
\p
\p Numbers 1.12: \v 12 Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
\p
\p Numbers 1.13: \v 13 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
\p
\p Numbers 1.14: \v 14 Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
\p
\p Numbers 1.15: \v 15 Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”
\p
\p Numbers 1.16: \v 16 These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes\f + \fr 1:16 \ft or, chiefs, or, leaders\f* of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
\p Numbers 1.17: \v 17 Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.
\p Numbers 1.18: \v 18 They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.
\p Numbers 1.19: \v 19 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.
\p
\p Numbers 1.20: \v 20 The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\p Numbers 1.21: \v 21 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 1.22: \v 22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\p Numbers 1.23: \v 23 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 1.24: \v 24 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\p Numbers 1.25: \v 25 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
\p
\p Numbers 1.26: \v 26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\p Numbers 1.27: \v 27 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 1.28: \v 28 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\p Numbers 1.29: \v 29 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 1.30: \v 30 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\p Numbers 1.31: \v 31 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 1.32: \v 32 Of the children of Joseph: of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\p Numbers 1.33: \v 33 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 1.34: \v 34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\p Numbers 1.35: \v 35 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 1.36: \v 36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\p Numbers 1.37: \v 37 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 1.38: \v 38 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\p Numbers 1.39: \v 39 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 1.40: \v 40 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\p Numbers 1.41: \v 41 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 1.42: \v 42 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\p Numbers 1.43: \v 43 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 1.44: \v 44 These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted, and the twelve men who were princes of Israel, each one for his fathers’ house.
\p Numbers 1.45: \v 45 So all those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel—
\p Numbers 1.46: \v 46 all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
\p Numbers 1.47: \v 47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.
\p Numbers 1.48: \v 48 For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 1.49: \v 49 “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;
\p Numbers 1.50: \v 50 but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.
\p Numbers 1.51: \v 51 When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
\p Numbers 1.52: \v 52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.
\p Numbers 1.53: \v 53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”
\p
\p Numbers 1.54: \v 54 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.
\p Numbers 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Numbers 2.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\p Numbers 2.2: \v 2 “The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall encamp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it.”
\p
\p Numbers 2.3: \v 3 Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
\p Numbers 2.4: \v 4 His division, and those who were counted of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 2.5: \v 5 Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar. The prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.
\p Numbers 2.6: \v 6 His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 2.7: \v 7 The tribe of Zebulun: the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.
\p Numbers 2.8: \v 8 His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 2.9: \v 9 All who were counted of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
\p
\p Numbers 2.10: \v 10 “On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
\p Numbers 2.11: \v 11 His division, and those who were counted of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 2.12: \v 12 “Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
\p Numbers 2.13: \v 13 His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 2.14: \v 14 “The tribe of Gad: the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
\p Numbers 2.15: \v 15 His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
\p
\p Numbers 2.16: \v 16 “All who were counted of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second.
\p
\p Numbers 2.17: \v 17 “Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.
\p
\p Numbers 2.18: \v 18 “On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
\p Numbers 2.19: \v 19 His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty thousand five hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 2.20: \v 20 “Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh. The prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
\p Numbers 2.21: \v 21 His division, and those who were counted of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 2.22: \v 22 “The tribe of Benjamin: the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
\p Numbers 2.23: \v 23 His army, and those who were counted of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 2.24: \v 24 “All who were counted of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.
\p
\p Numbers 2.25: \v 25 “On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
\p Numbers 2.26: \v 26 His division, and those who were counted of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 2.27: \v 27 “Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher. The prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran.
\p Numbers 2.28: \v 28 His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 2.29: \v 29 “The tribe of Naphtali: the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
\p Numbers 2.30: \v 30 His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 2.31: \v 31 “All who were counted of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.”
\p
\p Numbers 2.32: \v 32 These are those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses. All who were counted of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
\p Numbers 2.33: \v 33 But the Levites were not counted among the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Numbers 2.34: \v 34 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers’ houses.
\p Numbers 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Numbers 3.1: \v 1 Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.
\p Numbers 3.2: \v 2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
\p
\p Numbers 3.3: \v 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.
\p Numbers 3.4: \v 4 Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh when they offered strange fire before Yahweh in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their father.
\p
\p Numbers 3.5: \v 5 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 3.6: \v 6 “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.
\p Numbers 3.7: \v 7 They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
\p Numbers 3.8: \v 8 They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
\p Numbers 3.9: \v 9 You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.
\p Numbers 3.10: \v 10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood, but the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”
\p
\p Numbers 3.11: \v 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 3.12: \v 12 “Behold,\f + \fr 3:12 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine,
\p Numbers 3.13: \v 13 for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am Yahweh.”
\p
\p Numbers 3.14: \v 14 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
\p Numbers 3.15: \v 15 “Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.”
\p
\p Numbers 3.16: \v 16 Moses counted them according to Yahweh’s word, as he was commanded.
\p
\p Numbers 3.17: \v 17 These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
\p
\p Numbers 3.18: \v 18 These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
\p
\p Numbers 3.19: \v 19 The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
\p
\p Numbers 3.20: \v 20 The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi.
\p These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.
\p
\p Numbers 3.21: \v 21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites.
\p
\p Numbers 3.22: \v 22 Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, even those who were counted of them were seven thousand five hundred.
\p
\p Numbers 3.23: \v 23 The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
\p
\p Numbers 3.24: \v 24 Eliasaph the son of Lael shall be the prince of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites.
\p Numbers 3.25: \v 25 The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,
\p Numbers 3.26: \v 26 the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.
\p
\p Numbers 3.27: \v 27 Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites. These are the families of the Kohathites.
\p Numbers 3.28: \v 28 According to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.
\p
\p Numbers 3.29: \v 29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle.
\p Numbers 3.30: \v 30 The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
\p Numbers 3.31: \v 31 Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, the screen, and all its service.
\p Numbers 3.32: \v 32 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.
\p
\p Numbers 3.33: \v 33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.
\p Numbers 3.34: \v 34 Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.\f + \fr 3:34 \ft + 22,000 is the sum rounded to 2 significant digits. The sum of the Gershonites, Kohathites, and Merarites given above is 22,300, but the traditional Hebrew text has the number rounded to 2 significant digits, not 3 significant digits.\f*
\p
\p Numbers 3.35: \v 35 The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.
\p Numbers 3.36: \v 36 The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,
\p Numbers 3.37: \v 37 the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.
\p Numbers 3.38: \v 38 Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
\p Numbers 3.39: \v 39 All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
\p
\p Numbers 3.40: \v 40 Yahweh said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
\p Numbers 3.41: \v 41 You shall take the Levites for me—I am Yahweh—instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.”
\p
\p Numbers 3.42: \v 42 Moses counted, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
\p Numbers 3.43: \v 43 All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
\p
\p Numbers 3.44: \v 44 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 3.45: \v 45 “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.
\p Numbers 3.46: \v 46 For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,
\p Numbers 3.47: \v 47 you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel\f + \fr 3:47 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs\f + \fr 3:47 \ft A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.\f*);
\p Numbers 3.48: \v 48 and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”
\p
\p Numbers 3.49: \v 49 Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;
\p Numbers 3.50: \v 50 from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels,\f + \fr 3:50 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1365 shekels is about 13.65 kilograms or about 30 pounds.\f* according to the shekel of the sanctuary;
\p Numbers 3.51: \v 51 and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to Yahweh’s word, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Numbers 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Numbers 4.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\p Numbers 4.2: \v 2 “Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,
\p Numbers 4.3: \v 3 from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
\p
\p Numbers 4.4: \v 4 “This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, regarding the most holy things.
\p Numbers 4.5: \v 5 When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in with his sons; and they shall take down the veil of the screen, cover the ark of the Testimony with it,
\p Numbers 4.6: \v 6 put a covering of sealskin on it, spread a blue cloth over it, and put in its poles.
\p
\p Numbers 4.7: \v 7 “On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.
\p Numbers 4.8: \v 8 They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
\p
\p Numbers 4.9: \v 9 “They shall take a blue cloth and cover the lamp stand of the light, its lamps, its snuffers, its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.
\p Numbers 4.10: \v 10 They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.
\p
\p Numbers 4.11: \v 11 “On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
\p
\p Numbers 4.12: \v 12 “They shall take all the vessels of ministry with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.
\p
\p Numbers 4.13: \v 13 “They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.
\p Numbers 4.14: \v 14 They shall put on it all its vessels with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the meat hooks, the shovels, and the basins—all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.
\p
\p Numbers 4.15: \v 15 “When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it; but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. The sons of Kohath shall carry these things belonging to the Tent of Meeting.
\p
\p Numbers 4.16: \v 16 “The duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the requirements of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings.”
\p
\p Numbers 4.17: \v 17 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\p Numbers 4.18: \v 18 “Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;
\p Numbers 4.19: \v 19 but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint everyone to his service and to his burden;
\p Numbers 4.20: \v 20 but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”
\p
\p Numbers 4.21: \v 21 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 4.22: \v 22 “Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;
\p Numbers 4.23: \v 23 you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
\p
\p Numbers 4.24: \v 24 “This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:
\p Numbers 4.25: \v 25 they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, the covering of sealskin that is on it, the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,
\p Numbers 4.26: \v 26 the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the gate of the court which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. They shall serve in there.
\p Numbers 4.27: \v 27 At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities.
\p Numbers 4.28: \v 28 This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting. Their duty shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
\p
\p Numbers 4.29: \v 29 “As for the sons of Merari, you shall count them by their families, by their fathers’ houses;
\p Numbers 4.30: \v 30 you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Numbers 4.31: \v 31 This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
\p Numbers 4.32: \v 32 the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service. You shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden to them by name.
\p Numbers 4.33: \v 33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”
\p
\p Numbers 4.34: \v 34 Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation counted the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,
\p Numbers 4.35: \v 35 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting.
\p Numbers 4.36: \v 36 Those who were counted of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred fifty.
\p Numbers 4.37: \v 37 These are those who were counted of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
\p
\p Numbers 4.38: \v 38 Those who were counted of the sons of Gershon, by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,
\p Numbers 4.39: \v 39 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,
\p Numbers 4.40: \v 40 even those who were counted of them, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty.
\p Numbers 4.41: \v 41 These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh.
\p
\p Numbers 4.42: \v 42 Those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,
\p Numbers 4.43: \v 43 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,
\p Numbers 4.44: \v 44 even those who were counted of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred.
\p Numbers 4.45: \v 45 These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
\p
\p Numbers 4.46: \v 46 All those who were counted of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel counted, by their families and by their fathers’ houses,
\p Numbers 4.47: \v 47 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,
\p Numbers 4.48: \v 48 even those who were counted of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty.
\p Numbers 4.49: \v 49 According to the commandment of Yahweh they were counted by Moses, everyone according to his service and according to his burden. Thus they were counted by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Numbers 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Numbers 5.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 5.2: \v 2 “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse.
\p Numbers 5.3: \v 3 You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”
\p
\p Numbers 5.4: \v 4 The children of Israel did so, and put them outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.
\p
\p Numbers 5.5: \v 5 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 5.6: \v 6 “Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty,
\p Numbers 5.7: \v 7 then he shall confess his sin which he has done; and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.
\p Numbers 5.8: \v 8 But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest’s, in addition to the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.
\p Numbers 5.9: \v 9 Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.
\p Numbers 5.10: \v 10 Every man’s holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.’”
\p
\p Numbers 5.11: \v 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 5.12: \v 12 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,
\p Numbers 5.13: \v 13 and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and this is kept concealed, and she is defiled, there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act;
\p Numbers 5.14: \v 14 and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she isn’t defiled;
\p Numbers 5.15: \v 15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah\f + \fr 5:15 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.
\p Numbers 5.16: \v 16 The priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yahweh.
\p Numbers 5.17: \v 17 The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.
\p Numbers 5.18: \v 18 The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
\p Numbers 5.19: \v 19 The priest shall cause her to take an oath and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.
\p Numbers 5.20: \v 20 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband’s authority, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband—”
\p Numbers 5.21: \v 21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;
\p Numbers 5.22: \v 22 and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”
\p
\p Numbers 5.23: \v 23 “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.
\p Numbers 5.24: \v 24 He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.
\p Numbers 5.25: \v 25 The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.
\p Numbers 5.26: \v 26 The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
\p Numbers 5.27: \v 27 When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse among her people.
\p Numbers 5.28: \v 28 If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.\f + \fr 5:28 \ft or, seed\f*
\p
\p Numbers 5.29: \v 29 “‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled,
\p Numbers 5.30: \v 30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.
\p Numbers 5.31: \v 31 The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’”
\p Numbers 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Numbers 6.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 6.2: \v 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,
\p Numbers 6.3: \v 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.
\p Numbers 6.4: \v 4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
\p
\p Numbers 6.5: \v 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.
\p
\p Numbers 6.6: \v 6 “‘All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.
\p Numbers 6.7: \v 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 \f + \fr 6:7 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* is on his head.
\p Numbers 6.8: \v 8 All the days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.
\p
\p Numbers 6.9: \v 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.
\p Numbers 6.10: \v 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.
\p Numbers 6.11: \v 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.
\p Numbers 6.12: \v 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.
\p
\p Numbers 6.13: \v 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,
\p Numbers 6.14: \v 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,
\p Numbers 6.15: \v 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.
\p Numbers 6.16: \v 16 The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.
\p Numbers 6.17: \v 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.
\p Numbers 6.18: \v 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.
\p Numbers 6.19: \v 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;
\p Numbers 6.20: \v 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.
\p
\p Numbers 6.21: \v 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.’”
\p
\p Numbers 6.22: \v 22 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 6.23: \v 23 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is how you shall bless the children of Israel.’ You shall tell them,
\q1
\p Numbers 6.24: \v 24 ‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you.
\q2
\p Numbers 6.25: \v 25 Yahweh make his face to shine on you,
\q2 and be gracious to you.
\q1
\p Numbers 6.26: \v 26 Yahweh lift up his face toward you,
\q2 and give you peace.’
\p
\p Numbers 6.27: \v 27 “So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them.”
\p Numbers 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Numbers 7.1: \v 1 On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;
\p Numbers 7.2: \v 2 the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were counted;
\p Numbers 7.3: \v 3 and they brought their offering before Yahweh, six covered wagons and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox. They presented them before the tabernacle.
\p Numbers 7.4: \v 4 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 7.5: \v 5 “Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.”
\p
\p Numbers 7.6: \v 6 Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.
\p Numbers 7.7: \v 7 He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service.
\p Numbers 7.8: \v 8 He gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
\p Numbers 7.9: \v 9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.
\p
\p Numbers 7.10: \v 10 The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed. The princes gave their offerings before the altar.
\p
\p Numbers 7.11: \v 11 Yahweh said to Moses, “They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar.”
\p
\p Numbers 7.12: \v 12 He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah,
\p Numbers 7.13: \v 13 and his offering was:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,\f + \fr 7:13 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f*
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.14: \v 14 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\p Numbers 7.15: \v 15 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.16: \v 16 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.17: \v 17 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
\p
\p Numbers 7.18: \v 18 On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, gave his offering.
\p Numbers 7.19: \v 19 He offered for his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.20: \v 20 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\p Numbers 7.21: \v 21 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.22: \v 22 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.23: \v 23 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.
\p
\p Numbers 7.24: \v 24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun,
\p Numbers 7.25: \v 25 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.26: \v 26 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\p Numbers 7.27: \v 27 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.28: \v 28 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.29: \v 29 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
\p
\p Numbers 7.30: \v 30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben,
\p Numbers 7.31: \v 31 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.32: \v 32 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\p Numbers 7.33: \v 33 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.34: \v 34 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.35: \v 35 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
\p
\p Numbers 7.36: \v 36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon,
\p Numbers 7.37: \v 37 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.38: \v 38 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\p Numbers 7.39: \v 39 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.40: \v 40 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.41: \v 41 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
\p
\p Numbers 7.42: \v 42 On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad,
\p Numbers 7.43: \v 43 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.44: \v 44 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\p Numbers 7.45: \v 45 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.46: \v 46 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.47: \v 47 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
\p
\p Numbers 7.48: \v 48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim,
\p Numbers 7.49: \v 49 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.50: \v 50 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\p Numbers 7.51: \v 51 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.52: \v 52 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.53: \v 53 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
\p
\p Numbers 7.54: \v 54 On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh,
\p Numbers 7.55: \v 55 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.56: \v 56 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\p Numbers 7.57: \v 57 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.58: \v 58 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.59: \v 59 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
\p
\p Numbers 7.60: \v 60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin,
\p Numbers 7.61: \v 61 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.62: \v 62 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\p Numbers 7.63: \v 63 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.64: \v 64 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.65: \v 65 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
\p
\p Numbers 7.66: \v 66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan,
\p Numbers 7.67: \v 67 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.68: \v 68 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\p Numbers 7.69: \v 69 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.70: \v 70 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.71: \v 71 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
\p
\p Numbers 7.72: \v 72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher,
\p Numbers 7.73: \v 73 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.74: \v 74 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\p Numbers 7.75: \v 75 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.76: \v 76 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.77: \v 77 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.
\p
\p Numbers 7.78: \v 78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali,
\p Numbers 7.79: \v 79 gave his offering:
\p one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,
\p one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.80: \v 80 one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;
\p
\p Numbers 7.81: \v 81 one young bull,
\p one ram,
\p one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.82: \v 82 one male goat for a sin offering;
\p
\p Numbers 7.83: \v 83 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
\p
\p Numbers 7.84: \v 84 This was the dedication offering of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles;
\p Numbers 7.85: \v 85 each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;
\p Numbers 7.86: \v 86 the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels;
\p Numbers 7.87: \v 87 all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal offering; and twelve male goats for a sin offering;
\p Numbers 7.88: \v 88 and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings: twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty male lambs a year old. This was the dedication offering of the altar, after it was anointed.
\p
\p Numbers 7.89: \v 89 When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to him.
\p Numbers 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Numbers 8.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 8.2: \v 2 “Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.’”
\p
\p Numbers 8.3: \v 3 Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lamp stand, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Numbers 8.4: \v 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.
\p
\p Numbers 8.5: \v 5 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 8.6: \v 6 “Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
\p Numbers 8.7: \v 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.
\p Numbers 8.8: \v 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.
\p Numbers 8.9: \v 9 You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.
\p Numbers 8.10: \v 10 You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,
\p Numbers 8.11: \v 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.
\p
\p Numbers 8.12: \v 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.
\p Numbers 8.13: \v 13 You shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.
\p Numbers 8.14: \v 14 Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
\p
\p Numbers 8.15: \v 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.
\p Numbers 8.16: \v 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.
\p Numbers 8.17: \v 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.
\p Numbers 8.18: \v 18 I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
\p Numbers 8.19: \v 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.”
\p
\p Numbers 8.20: \v 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.
\p Numbers 8.21: \v 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.
\p Numbers 8.22: \v 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.
\p
\p Numbers 8.23: \v 23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 8.24: \v 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;
\p Numbers 8.25: \v 25 and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more,
\p Numbers 8.26: \v 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.”
\p Numbers 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Numbers 9.1: \v 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,
\p Numbers 9.2: \v 2 “Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.
\p Numbers 9.3: \v 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.”
\p
\p Numbers 9.4: \v 4 Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover.
\p Numbers 9.5: \v 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.
\p Numbers 9.6: \v 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.
\p Numbers 9.7: \v 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?”
\p
\p Numbers 9.8: \v 8 Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you.”
\p
\p Numbers 9.9: \v 9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 9.10: \v 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.
\p Numbers 9.11: \v 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.
\p Numbers 9.12: \v 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.
\p Numbers 9.13: \v 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.
\p
\p Numbers 9.14: \v 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.’”
\p
\p Numbers 9.15: \v 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.
\p Numbers 9.16: \v 16 So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
\p Numbers 9.17: \v 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.
\p Numbers 9.18: \v 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.
\p Numbers 9.19: \v 19 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept Yahweh’s command, and didn’t travel.
\p Numbers 9.20: \v 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.
\p Numbers 9.21: \v 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.
\p Numbers 9.22: \v 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.
\p Numbers 9.23: \v 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.
\p Numbers 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Numbers 10.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 10.2: \v 2 “Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.
\p Numbers 10.3: \v 3 When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Numbers 10.4: \v 4 If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
\p Numbers 10.5: \v 5 When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.
\p Numbers 10.6: \v 6 When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
\p Numbers 10.7: \v 7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
\p
\p Numbers 10.8: \v 8 “The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.
\p Numbers 10.9: \v 9 When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.
\p
\p Numbers 10.10: \v 10 “Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God.”
\p
\p Numbers 10.11: \v 11 In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the covenant.
\p Numbers 10.12: \v 12 The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.
\p Numbers 10.13: \v 13 They first went forward according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
\p
\p Numbers 10.14: \v 14 First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.
\p Numbers 10.15: \v 15 Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar.
\p Numbers 10.16: \v 16 Eliab the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun.
\p Numbers 10.17: \v 17 The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.
\p Numbers 10.18: \v 18 The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.
\p Numbers 10.19: \v 19 Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.
\p Numbers 10.20: \v 20 Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad.
\p
\p Numbers 10.21: \v 21 The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.
\p
\p Numbers 10.22: \v 22 The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.
\p Numbers 10.23: \v 23 Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.
\p Numbers 10.24: \v 24 Abidan the son of Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin.
\p
\p Numbers 10.25: \v 25 The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.
\p Numbers 10.26: \v 26 Pagiel the son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher.
\p Numbers 10.27: \v 27 Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali.
\p Numbers 10.28: \v 28 Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward.
\p
\p Numbers 10.29: \v 29 Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.”
\p
\p Numbers 10.30: \v 30 He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”
\p
\p Numbers 10.31: \v 31 Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
\p Numbers 10.32: \v 32 It shall be, if you go with us—yes, it shall be—that whatever good Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you.”
\p
\p Numbers 10.33: \v 33 They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days’ journey. The ark of Yahweh’s covenant went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.
\p Numbers 10.34: \v 34 The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.
\p Numbers 10.35: \v 35 When the ark went forward, Moses said, “Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”
\p Numbers 10.36: \v 36 When it rested, he said, “Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.”
\p Numbers 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p Numbers 11.1: \v 1 The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger burned; and Yahweh’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
\p Numbers 11.2: \v 2 The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.
\p Numbers 11.3: \v 3 The name of that place was called Taberah,\f + \fr 11:3 \ft Taberah means “burning” \f* because Yahweh’s fire burned among them.
\p
\p Numbers 11.4: \v 4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
\p Numbers 11.5: \v 5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;
\p Numbers 11.6: \v 6 but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”
\p Numbers 11.7: \v 7 The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.\f + \fr 11:7 \ft Bdellium is a resin extracted from certain African trees.\f*
\p Numbers 11.8: \v 8 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.
\p Numbers 11.9: \v 9 When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
\p
\p Numbers 11.10: \v 10 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and Yahweh’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was displeased.
\p Numbers 11.11: \v 11 Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
\p Numbers 11.12: \v 12 Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’
\p Numbers 11.13: \v 13 Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’
\p Numbers 11.14: \v 14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
\p Numbers 11.15: \v 15 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”
\p
\p Numbers 11.16: \v 16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.
\p Numbers 11.17: \v 17 I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone.
\p
\p Numbers 11.18: \v 18 “Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat.
\p Numbers 11.19: \v 19 You will not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,
\p Numbers 11.20: \v 20 but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”
\p
\p Numbers 11.21: \v 21 Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’
\p Numbers 11.22: \v 22 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”
\p
\p Numbers 11.23: \v 23 Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”
\p
\p Numbers 11.24: \v 24 Moses went out, and told the people Yahweh’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.
\p Numbers 11.25: \v 25 Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
\p Numbers 11.26: \v 26 But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the Spirit rested on them. They were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.
\p Numbers 11.27: \v 27 A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”
\p
\p Numbers 11.28: \v 28 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”
\p
\p Numbers 11.29: \v 29 Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”
\p
\p Numbers 11.30: \v 30 Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
\p Numbers 11.31: \v 31 A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits\f + \fr 11:31 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* above the surface of the earth.
\p Numbers 11.32: \v 32 The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; \f + \fr 11:32 \ft 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels\f* and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.
\p Numbers 11.33: \v 33 While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
\p Numbers 11.34: \v 34 The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah,\f + \fr 11:34 \ft Kibroth Hattaavah means “graves of lust”\f* because there they buried the people who lusted.
\p
\p Numbers 11.35: \v 35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth.
\p Numbers 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p Numbers 12.1: \v 1 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
\p Numbers 12.2: \v 2 They said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And Yahweh heard it.
\p
\p Numbers 12.3: \v 3 Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.
\p Numbers 12.4: \v 4 Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, “You three come out to the Tent of Meeting!”
\p The three of them came out.
\p Numbers 12.5: \v 5 Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.
\p Numbers 12.6: \v 6 He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
\p Numbers 12.7: \v 7 My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.
\p Numbers 12.8: \v 8 With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”
\p Numbers 12.9: \v 9 Yahweh’s anger burned against them; and he departed.
\p
\p Numbers 12.10: \v 10 The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.
\p
\p Numbers 12.11: \v 11 Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.
\p Numbers 12.12: \v 12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
\p
\p Numbers 12.13: \v 13 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!”
\p
\p Numbers 12.14: \v 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”
\p
\p Numbers 12.15: \v 15 Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again.
\p Numbers 12.16: \v 16 Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
\p Numbers 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p Numbers 13.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 13.2: \v 2 “Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”
\p
\p Numbers 13.3: \v 3 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.
\p Numbers 13.4: \v 4 These were their names:
\m Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
\m
\p Numbers 13.5: \v 5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
\m
\p Numbers 13.6: \v 6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
\m
\p Numbers 13.7: \v 7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
\m
\p Numbers 13.8: \v 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
\m
\p Numbers 13.9: \v 9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
\m
\p Numbers 13.10: \v 10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
\m
\p Numbers 13.11: \v 11 Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
\m
\p Numbers 13.12: \v 12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
\m
\p Numbers 13.13: \v 13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
\m
\p Numbers 13.14: \v 14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
\m
\p Numbers 13.15: \v 15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
\m
\p Numbers 13.16: \v 16 These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
\p Numbers 13.17: \v 17 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country.
\p Numbers 13.18: \v 18 See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
\p Numbers 13.19: \v 19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;
\p Numbers 13.20: \v 20 and what the land is, whether it is fertile or poor, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.
\p
\p Numbers 13.21: \v 21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
\p Numbers 13.22: \v 22 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
\p Numbers 13.23: \v 23 They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.
\p Numbers 13.24: \v 24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
\p Numbers 13.25: \v 25 They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
\p Numbers 13.26: \v 26 They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.
\p Numbers 13.27: \v 27 They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
\p Numbers 13.28: \v 28 However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.
\p Numbers 13.29: \v 29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”
\p
\p Numbers 13.30: \v 30 Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”
\p
\p Numbers 13.31: \v 31 But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”
\p Numbers 13.32: \v 32 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
\p Numbers 13.33: \v 33 There we saw the Nephilim,\f + \fr 13:33 \ft or, giants\f* the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim.\f + \fr 13:33 \ft or, giants\f* We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”
\p Numbers 14.0: \c 14
\p
\p Numbers 14.1: \v 1 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
\p Numbers 14.2: \v 2 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!
\p Numbers 14.3: \v 3 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”
\p Numbers 14.4: \v 4 They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”
\p
\p Numbers 14.5: \v 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
\p
\p Numbers 14.6: \v 6 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.
\p Numbers 14.7: \v 7 They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.
\p Numbers 14.8: \v 8 If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.
\p Numbers 14.9: \v 9 Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”
\p
\p Numbers 14.10: \v 10 But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones.
\p Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
\p Numbers 14.11: \v 11 Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
\p Numbers 14.12: \v 12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
\p
\p Numbers 14.13: \v 13 Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.
\p Numbers 14.14: \v 14 They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are among this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
\p Numbers 14.15: \v 15 Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
\p Numbers 14.16: \v 16 ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’
\p Numbers 14.17: \v 17 Now please let the power of the Lord\f + \fr 14:17 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
\p Numbers 14.18: \v 18 ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
\p Numbers 14.19: \v 19 Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
\p
\p Numbers 14.20: \v 20 Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word;
\p Numbers 14.21: \v 21 but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory—
\p Numbers 14.22: \v 22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
\p Numbers 14.23: \v 23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it.
\p Numbers 14.24: \v 24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.
\p Numbers 14.25: \v 25 Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
\p Numbers 14.26: \v 26 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\p Numbers 14.27: \v 27 “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me.
\p Numbers 14.28: \v 28 Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.
\p Numbers 14.29: \v 29 Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,
\p Numbers 14.30: \v 30 surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
\p Numbers 14.31: \v 31 But I will bring your little ones that you said should be captured or killed in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
\p Numbers 14.32: \v 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
\p Numbers 14.33: \v 33 Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.
\p Numbers 14.34: \v 34 After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
\p Numbers 14.35: \v 35 I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”
\p
\p Numbers 14.36: \v 36 The men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,
\p Numbers 14.37: \v 37 even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
\p Numbers 14.38: \v 38 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
\p
\p Numbers 14.39: \v 39 Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.
\p Numbers 14.40: \v 40 They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised; for we have sinned.”
\p
\p Numbers 14.41: \v 41 Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?
\p Numbers 14.42: \v 42 Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.
\p Numbers 14.43: \v 43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you will fall by the sword because you turned back from following Yahweh; therefore Yahweh will not be with you.”
\p
\p Numbers 14.44: \v 44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp.
\p Numbers 14.45: \v 45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.
\p Numbers 15.0: \c 15
\p
\p Numbers 15.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 15.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,
\p Numbers 15.3: \v 3 and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock—
\p Numbers 15.4: \v 4 then he who offers his offering shall offer to Yahweh a meal offering of one tenth of an ephah\f + \fr 15:4 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour mixed with one fourth of a hin\f + \fr 15:4 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.\f* of oil.
\p Numbers 15.5: \v 5 You shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
\p
\p Numbers 15.6: \v 6 “‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 15:6 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil;
\p Numbers 15.7: \v 7 and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p Numbers 15.8: \v 8 When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to Yahweh,
\p Numbers 15.9: \v 9 then he shall offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 15:9 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil;
\p Numbers 15.10: \v 10 and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p Numbers 15.11: \v 11 Thus it shall be done for each bull, for each ram, for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats.
\p Numbers 15.12: \v 12 According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number.
\p
\p Numbers 15.13: \v 13 “‘All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p Numbers 15.14: \v 14 If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, as you do, so he shall do.
\p Numbers 15.15: \v 15 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so the foreigner shall be before Yahweh.
\p Numbers 15.16: \v 16 One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’”
\p
\p Numbers 15.17: \v 17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 15.18: \v 18 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land where I bring you,
\p Numbers 15.19: \v 19 then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh.
\p Numbers 15.20: \v 20 Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.
\p Numbers 15.21: \v 21 Of the first of your dough, you shall give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your generations.
\p
\p Numbers 15.22: \v 22 “‘When you err, and don’t observe all these commandments which Yahweh has spoken to Moses—
\p Numbers 15.23: \v 23 even all that Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave commandment and onward throughout your generations—
\p Numbers 15.24: \v 24 then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, with its meal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.
\p Numbers 15.25: \v 25 The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh, and their sin offering before Yahweh, for their error.
\p Numbers 15.26: \v 26 All the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, as well as the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for with regard to all the people, it was done unwittingly.
\p
\p Numbers 15.27: \v 27 “‘If a person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.
\p Numbers 15.28: \v 28 The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs when he sins unwittingly before Yahweh. He shall make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.
\p Numbers 15.29: \v 29 You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them.
\p
\p Numbers 15.30: \v 30 “‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.
\p Numbers 15.31: \v 31 Because he has despised Yahweh’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’”
\p
\p Numbers 15.32: \v 32 While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
\p Numbers 15.33: \v 33 Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.
\p Numbers 15.34: \v 34 They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
\p
\p Numbers 15.35: \v 35 Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”
\p Numbers 15.36: \v 36 All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Numbers 15.37: \v 37 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 15.38: \v 38 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes\f + \fr 15:38 \ft or, tassels (Hebrew צִיצִ֛ת)\f* on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe \f + \fr 15:38 \ft or, tassel\f* of each border a cord of blue.
\p Numbers 15.39: \v 39 It shall be to you for a fringe,\f + \fr 15:39 \ft or, tassel\f* that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;
\p Numbers 15.40: \v 40 so that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
\p Numbers 15.41: \v 41 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Yahweh your God.”
\p Numbers 16.0: \c 16
\p
\p Numbers 16.1: \v 1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men.
\p Numbers 16.2: \v 2 They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown.
\p Numbers 16.3: \v 3 They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”
\p
\p Numbers 16.4: \v 4 When Moses heard it, he fell on his face.
\p Numbers 16.5: \v 5 He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.
\p Numbers 16.6: \v 6 Do this: have Korah and all his company take censers,
\p Numbers 16.7: \v 7 put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow. It shall be that the man whom Yahweh chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!”
\p
\p Numbers 16.8: \v 8 Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi!
\p Numbers 16.9: \v 9 Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of Yahweh’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
\p Numbers 16.10: \v 10 and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also?
\p Numbers 16.11: \v 11 Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you complain against him?”
\p
\p Numbers 16.12: \v 12 Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!
\p Numbers 16.13: \v 13 Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?
\p Numbers 16.14: \v 14 Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”
\p
\p Numbers 16.15: \v 15 Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”
\p
\p Numbers 16.16: \v 16 Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.
\p Numbers 16.17: \v 17 Each man take his censer and put incense on it, and each man bring before Yahweh his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each with his censer.”
\p
\p Numbers 16.18: \v 18 They each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.
\p Numbers 16.19: \v 19 Korah assembled all the congregation opposite them to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Yahweh’s glory appeared to all the congregation.
\p Numbers 16.20: \v 20 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\p Numbers 16.21: \v 21 “Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”
\p
\p Numbers 16.22: \v 22 They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
\p
\p Numbers 16.23: \v 23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 16.24: \v 24 “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’”
\p
\p Numbers 16.25: \v 25 Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
\p Numbers 16.26: \v 26 He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”
\p
\p Numbers 16.27: \v 27 So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.
\p
\p Numbers 16.28: \v 28 Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.
\p Numbers 16.29: \v 29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then Yahweh hasn’t sent me.
\p Numbers 16.30: \v 30 But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol,\f + \fr 16:30 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”
\p
\p Numbers 16.31: \v 31 As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.
\p Numbers 16.32: \v 32 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.
\p Numbers 16.33: \v 33 So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. \f + \fr 16:33 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
\p Numbers 16.34: \v 34 All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
\p Numbers 16.35: \v 35 Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
\p
\p Numbers 16.36: \v 36 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 16.37: \v 37 “Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy,
\p Numbers 16.38: \v 38 even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”
\p
\p Numbers 16.39: \v 39 Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which those who were burned had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,
\p Numbers 16.40: \v 40 to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before Yahweh, that he not be as Korah, and as his company; as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
\p
\p Numbers 16.41: \v 41 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!”
\p
\p Numbers 16.42: \v 42 When the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they looked toward the Tent of Meeting. Behold, the cloud covered it, and Yahweh’s glory appeared.
\p Numbers 16.43: \v 43 Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Numbers 16.44: \v 44 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 16.45: \v 45 “Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.
\p
\p Numbers 16.46: \v 46 Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”
\p
\p Numbers 16.47: \v 47 Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. The plague had already begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.
\p Numbers 16.48: \v 48 He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
\p Numbers 16.49: \v 49 Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, in addition to those who died about the matter of Korah.
\p Numbers 16.50: \v 50 Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague was stopped.
\p Numbers 17.0: \c 17
\p
\p Numbers 17.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 17.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods from them, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each man’s name on his rod.
\p Numbers 17.3: \v 3 You shall write Aaron’s name on Levi’s rod. There shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses.
\p Numbers 17.4: \v 4 You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the covenant, where I meet with you.
\p Numbers 17.5: \v 5 It shall happen that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you, cease from me.”
\p
\p Numbers 17.6: \v 6 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, a total of twelve rods. Aaron’s rod was among their rods.
\p Numbers 17.7: \v 7 Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the Tent of the Testimony.
\p
\p Numbers 17.8: \v 8 On the next day, Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.
\p Numbers 17.9: \v 9 Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel. They looked, and each man took his rod.
\p
\p Numbers 17.10: \v 10 Yahweh said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the covenant, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their complaining against me, that they not die.”
\p Numbers 17.11: \v 11 Moses did so. As Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
\p
\p Numbers 17.12: \v 12 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!
\p Numbers 17.13: \v 13 Everyone who keeps approaching Yahweh’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?”
\p Numbers 18.0: \c 18
\p
\p Numbers 18.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
\p Numbers 18.2: \v 2 Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be before the Tent of the Testimony.
\p Numbers 18.3: \v 3 They shall keep your commands and the duty of the whole Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they nor you.
\p Numbers 18.4: \v 4 They shall be joined to you and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent. A stranger shall not come near to you.
\p
\p Numbers 18.5: \v 5 “You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.
\p Numbers 18.6: \v 6 Behold, I myself have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel. They are a gift to you, dedicated to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Numbers 18.7: \v 7 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”
\p
\p Numbers 18.8: \v 8 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.
\p Numbers 18.9: \v 9 This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.
\p Numbers 18.10: \v 10 You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.
\p
\p Numbers 18.11: \v 11 “This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
\p
\p Numbers 18.12: \v 12 “I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh.
\p Numbers 18.13: \v 13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
\p
\p Numbers 18.14: \v 14 “Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.
\p Numbers 18.15: \v 15 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal, shall be yours. Nevertheless, you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.
\p Numbers 18.16: \v 16 You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, according to the shekel\f + \fr 18:16 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.\f + \fr 18:16 \ft A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.\f*
\p
\p Numbers 18.17: \v 17 “But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p Numbers 18.18: \v 18 Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.
\p Numbers 18.19: \v 19 All the wave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your offspring with you.”
\p
\p Numbers 18.20: \v 20 Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
\p
\p Numbers 18.21: \v 21 “To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Numbers 18.22: \v 22 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
\p Numbers 18.23: \v 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Among the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance.
\p Numbers 18.24: \v 24 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’”
\p
\p Numbers 18.25: \v 25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 18.26: \v 26 “Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.
\p Numbers 18.27: \v 27 Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.
\p Numbers 18.28: \v 28 Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh’s wave offering to Aaron the priest.
\p Numbers 18.29: \v 29 Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering to Yahweh, of all its best parts, even the holy part of it.’
\p
\p Numbers 18.30: \v 30 “Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press.
\p Numbers 18.31: \v 31 You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.
\p Numbers 18.32: \v 32 You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best. You shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.’”
\p Numbers 19.0: \c 19
\p
\p Numbers 19.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\p Numbers 19.2: \v 2 “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked.
\p Numbers 19.3: \v 3 You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face.
\p Numbers 19.4: \v 4 Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.
\p Numbers 19.5: \v 5 One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.
\p Numbers 19.6: \v 6 The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer.
\p Numbers 19.7: \v 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.
\p Numbers 19.8: \v 8 He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Numbers 19.9: \v 9 “A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for use in water for cleansing impurity. It is a sin offering.
\p Numbers 19.10: \v 10 He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.
\p
\p Numbers 19.11: \v 11 “He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
\p Numbers 19.12: \v 12 He shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
\p Numbers 19.13: \v 13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles Yahweh’s tabernacle; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet on him.
\p
\p Numbers 19.14: \v 14 “This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
\p Numbers 19.15: \v 15 Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
\p
\p Numbers 19.16: \v 16 “Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
\p
\p Numbers 19.17: \v 17 “For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured on them in a vessel.
\p Numbers 19.18: \v 18 A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.
\p Numbers 19.19: \v 19 The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. He shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.
\p Numbers 19.20: \v 20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean.
\p Numbers 19.21: \v 21 It shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
\p
\p Numbers 19.22: \v 22 “Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”
\p Numbers 20.0: \c 20
\p
\p Numbers 20.1: \v 1 The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.
\p Numbers 20.2: \v 2 There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
\p Numbers 20.3: \v 3 The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
\p Numbers 20.4: \v 4 Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
\p Numbers 20.5: \v 5 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”
\p
\p Numbers 20.6: \v 6 Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. Yahweh’s glory appeared to them.
\p Numbers 20.7: \v 7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 20.8: \v 8 “Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”
\p
\p Numbers 20.9: \v 9 Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.
\p Numbers 20.10: \v 10 Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”
\p Numbers 20.11: \v 11 Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.
\p
\p Numbers 20.12: \v 12 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
\p
\p Numbers 20.13: \v 13 These are the waters of Meribah;\f + \fr 20:13 \ft “Meribah” means “quarreling”.\f* because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
\p
\p Numbers 20.14: \v 14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying:
\p “Your brother Israel says: You know all the travail that has happened to us;
\p Numbers 20.15: \v 15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.
\p Numbers 20.16: \v 16 When we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.
\p
\p Numbers 20.17: \v 17 “Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn away to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.”
\p
\p Numbers 20.18: \v 18 Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.”
\p
\p Numbers 20.19: \v 19 The children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.”
\p
\p Numbers 20.20: \v 20 He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.
\p Numbers 20.21: \v 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
\p
\p Numbers 20.22: \v 22 They traveled from Kadesh, and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
\p Numbers 20.23: \v 23 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
\p Numbers 20.24: \v 24 “Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
\p Numbers 20.25: \v 25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
\p Numbers 20.26: \v 26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron shall be gathered, and shall die there.”
\p
\p Numbers 20.27: \v 27 Moses did as Yahweh commanded. They went up onto Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
\p Numbers 20.28: \v 28 Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
\p Numbers 20.29: \v 29 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
\p Numbers 21.0: \c 21
\p
\p Numbers 21.1: \v 1 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.
\p Numbers 21.2: \v 2 Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”
\p Numbers 21.3: \v 3 Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah.\f + \fr 21:3 \ft “Hormah” means “destruction”.\f*
\p
\p Numbers 21.4: \v 4 They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey.
\p Numbers 21.5: \v 5 The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”
\p
\p Numbers 21.6: \v 6 Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.
\p Numbers 21.7: \v 7 The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.
\p
\p Numbers 21.8: \v 8 Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”
\p Numbers 21.9: \v 9 Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.
\p
\p Numbers 21.10: \v 10 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.
\p Numbers 21.11: \v 11 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.
\p Numbers 21.12: \v 12 From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
\p Numbers 21.13: \v 13 From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
\p Numbers 21.14: \v 14 Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,
\p Numbers 21.15: \v 15 the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”
\p
\p Numbers 21.16: \v 16 From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”
\p
\p Numbers 21.17: \v 17 Then Israel sang this song:
\q1 “Spring up, well! Sing to it,
\q2
\p Numbers 21.18: \v 18 the well, which the princes dug,
\q2 which the nobles of the people dug,
\q2 with the scepter, and with their poles.”
\p From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;
\p Numbers 21.19: \v 19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;
\p Numbers 21.20: \v 20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
\p Numbers 21.21: \v 21 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
\p Numbers 21.22: \v 22 “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”
\p
\p Numbers 21.23: \v 23 Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.
\p Numbers 21.24: \v 24 Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.
\p Numbers 21.25: \v 25 Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
\p Numbers 21.26: \v 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.
\p Numbers 21.27: \v 27 Therefore those who speak in proverbs say,
\q1 “Come to Heshbon.
\q2 Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
\q1
\p Numbers 21.28: \v 28 for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,
\q2 a flame from the city of Sihon.
\q1 It has devoured Ar of Moab,
\q2 The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
\q1
\p Numbers 21.29: \v 29 Woe to you, Moab!
\q2 You are undone, people of Chemosh!
\q1 He has given his sons as fugitives,
\q2 and his daughters into captivity,
\q2 to Sihon king of the Amorites.
\q1
\p Numbers 21.30: \v 30 We have shot at them.
\q2 Heshbon has perished even to Dibon.
\q1 We have laid waste even to Nophah,
\q2 Which reaches to Medeba.”
\p
\p Numbers 21.31: \v 31 Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
\p Numbers 21.32: \v 32 Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
\p Numbers 21.33: \v 33 They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
\p
\p Numbers 21.34: \v 34 Yahweh said to Moses, “Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”
\p
\p Numbers 21.35: \v 35 So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.
\p Numbers 22.0: \c 22
\p
\p Numbers 22.1: \v 1 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
\p Numbers 22.2: \v 2 Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
\p Numbers 22.3: \v 3 Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
\p Numbers 22.4: \v 4 Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.”
\p Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
\p Numbers 22.5: \v 5 He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, there is a people who came out of Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.
\p Numbers 22.6: \v 6 Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.7: \v 7 The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.
\p
\p Numbers 22.8: \v 8 He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
\p
\p Numbers 22.9: \v 9 God came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?”
\p
\p Numbers 22.10: \v 10 Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has said to me,
\p Numbers 22.11: \v 11 ‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt covers the surface of the earth. Now, come curse me them. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.’”
\p
\p Numbers 22.12: \v 12 God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.13: \v 13 Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.14: \v 14 The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.15: \v 15 Balak again sent princes, more, and more honorable than they.
\p Numbers 22.16: \v 16 They came to Balaam, and said to him, “Balak the son of Zippor says, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,
\p Numbers 22.17: \v 17 for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’”
\p
\p Numbers 22.18: \v 18 Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.
\p Numbers 22.19: \v 19 Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else Yahweh will speak to me.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.20: \v 20 God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.21: \v 21 Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
\p Numbers 22.22: \v 22 God’s anger burned because he went; and Yahweh’s angel placed himself in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
\p Numbers 22.23: \v 23 The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned out of the path, and went into the field. Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the path.
\p Numbers 22.24: \v 24 Then Yahweh’s angel stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
\p Numbers 22.25: \v 25 The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. He struck her again.
\p
\p Numbers 22.26: \v 26 Yahweh’s angel went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
\p Numbers 22.27: \v 27 The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel, and she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger burned, and he struck the donkey with his staff.
\p
\p Numbers 22.28: \v 28 Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
\p
\p Numbers 22.29: \v 29 Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.30: \v 30 The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?”
\p He said, “No.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.31: \v 31 Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.
\p Numbers 22.32: \v 32 Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.
\p Numbers 22.33: \v 33 The donkey saw me, and turned away before me these three times. Unless she had turned away from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.34: \v 34 Balaam said to Yahweh’s angel, “I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.35: \v 35 Yahweh’s angel said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak.”
\p So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
\p Numbers 22.36: \v 36 When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.
\p Numbers 22.37: \v 37 Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send for you to summon you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?”
\p
\p Numbers 22.38: \v 38 Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.39: \v 39 Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.
\p Numbers 22.40: \v 40 Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.
\p Numbers 22.41: \v 41 In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there part of the people.
\p Numbers 23.0: \c 23
\p
\p Numbers 23.1: \v 1 Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
\p
\p Numbers 23.2: \v 2 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
\p Numbers 23.3: \v 3 Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.”
\p He went to a bare height.
\p Numbers 23.4: \v 4 God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”
\p
\p Numbers 23.5: \v 5 Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
\p
\p Numbers 23.6: \v 6 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
\p Numbers 23.7: \v 7 He took up his parable, and said,
\q1 “From Aram has Balak brought me,
\q2 the king of Moab from the mountains of the East.
\q1 Come, curse Jacob for me.
\q2 Come, defy Israel.
\q1
\p Numbers 23.8: \v 8 How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
\q2 How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
\q1
\p Numbers 23.9: \v 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him.
\q2 From the hills I see him.
\q1 Behold, it is a people that dwells alone,
\q2 and shall not be listed among the nations.
\q1
\p Numbers 23.10: \v 10 Who can count the dust of Jacob,
\q2 or count the fourth part of Israel?
\q1 Let me die the death of the righteous!
\q2 Let my last end be like his!”
\p
\p Numbers 23.11: \v 11 Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”
\p
\p Numbers 23.12: \v 12 He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”
\p
\p Numbers 23.13: \v 13 Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”
\p
\p Numbers 23.14: \v 14 He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
\p Numbers 23.15: \v 15 He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”
\p
\p Numbers 23.16: \v 16 Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
\p
\p Numbers 23.17: \v 17 He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”
\p
\p Numbers 23.18: \v 18 He took up his parable, and said,
\q1 “Rise up, Balak, and hear!
\q2 Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
\q1
\p Numbers 23.19: \v 19 God is not a man, that he should lie,
\q2 nor a son of man, that he should repent.
\q1 Has he said, and will he not do it?
\q2 Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
\q1
\p Numbers 23.20: \v 20 Behold, I have received a command to bless.
\q2 He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
\q1
\p Numbers 23.21: \v 21 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob.
\q2 Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel.
\q1 Yahweh his God is with him.
\q2 The shout of a king is among them.
\q1
\p Numbers 23.22: \v 22 God brings them out of Egypt.
\q2 He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
\q1
\p Numbers 23.23: \v 23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob;
\q2 Neither is there any divination with Israel.
\q1 Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel,
\q2 ‘What has God done!’
\q1
\p Numbers 23.24: \v 24 Behold, a people rises up as a lioness.
\q2 As a lion he lifts himself up.
\q1 He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey,
\q2 and drinks the blood of the slain.”
\p
\p Numbers 23.25: \v 25 Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”
\p
\p Numbers 23.26: \v 26 But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?’”
\p
\p Numbers 23.27: \v 27 Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”
\p
\p Numbers 23.28: \v 28 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
\p Numbers 23.29: \v 29 Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”
\p
\p Numbers 23.30: \v 30 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
\p Numbers 24.0: \c 24
\p
\p Numbers 24.1: \v 1 When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
\p Numbers 24.2: \v 2 Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.
\p Numbers 24.3: \v 3 He took up his parable, and said,
\q1 “Balaam the son of Beor says,
\q2 the man whose eyes are open says;
\q1
\p Numbers 24.4: \v 4 he says, who hears the words of God,
\q2 who sees the vision of the Almighty,
\q2 falling down, and having his eyes open:
\q1
\p Numbers 24.5: \v 5 How goodly are your tents, Jacob,
\q2 and your dwellings, Israel!
\q1
\p Numbers 24.6: \v 6 As valleys they are spread out,
\q2 as gardens by the riverside,
\q2 as aloes which Yahweh has planted,
\q2 as cedar trees beside the waters.
\q1
\p Numbers 24.7: \v 7 Water shall flow from his buckets.
\q2 His seed shall be in many waters.
\q1 His king shall be higher than Agag.
\q2 His kingdom shall be exalted.
\q1
\p Numbers 24.8: \v 8 God brings him out of Egypt.
\q2 He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
\q1 He shall consume the nations his adversaries,
\q2 shall break their bones in pieces,
\q2 and pierce them with his arrows.
\q1
\p Numbers 24.9: \v 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion,
\q2 as a lioness;
\q2 who shall rouse him up?
\q1 Everyone who blesses you is blessed.
\q2 Everyone who curses you is cursed.”
\p
\p Numbers 24.10: \v 10 Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.
\p Numbers 24.11: \v 11 Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.”
\p
\p Numbers 24.12: \v 12 Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,
\p Numbers 24.13: \v 13 ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond Yahweh’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says’?
\p Numbers 24.14: \v 14 Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”
\p
\p Numbers 24.15: \v 15 He took up his parable, and said,
\q1 “Balaam the son of Beor says,
\q2 the man whose eyes are open says;
\q2
\p Numbers 24.16: \v 16 he says, who hears the words of God,
\q2 knows the knowledge of the Most High,
\q2 and who sees the vision of the Almighty,
\q2 Falling down, and having his eyes open:
\q1
\p Numbers 24.17: \v 17 I see him, but not now.
\q2 I see him, but not near.
\q1 A star will come out of Jacob.
\q2 A scepter will rise out of Israel,
\q1 and shall strike through the corners of Moab,
\q2 and crush all the sons of Sheth.
\q1
\p Numbers 24.18: \v 18 Edom shall be a possession.
\q2 Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession,
\q2 while Israel does valiantly.
\q1
\p Numbers 24.19: \v 19 Out of Jacob shall one have dominion,
\q2 and shall destroy the remnant from the city.”
\p
\p Numbers 24.20: \v 20 He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said,
\q1 “Amalek was the first of the nations,
\q2 But his latter end shall come to destruction.”
\p
\p Numbers 24.21: \v 21 He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said,
\q1 “Your dwelling place is strong.
\q2 Your nest is set in the rock.
\q1
\p Numbers 24.22: \v 22 Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted,
\q2 until Asshur carries you away captive.”
\p
\p Numbers 24.23: \v 23 He took up his parable, and said,
\q1 “Alas, who shall live when God does this?
\q2
\p Numbers 24.24: \v 24 But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim.
\q1 They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber.
\q2 He also shall come to destruction.”
\p
\p Numbers 24.25: \v 25 Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.
\p Numbers 25.0: \c 25
\p
\p Numbers 25.1: \v 1 Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
\p Numbers 25.2: \v 2 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.
\p Numbers 25.3: \v 3 Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel.
\p Numbers 25.4: \v 4 Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”
\p
\p Numbers 25.5: \v 5 Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”
\p
\p Numbers 25.6: \v 6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Numbers 25.7: \v 7 When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.
\p Numbers 25.8: \v 8 He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.
\p Numbers 25.9: \v 9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
\p
\p Numbers 25.10: \v 10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 25.11: \v 11 “Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
\p Numbers 25.12: \v 12 Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace.
\p Numbers 25.13: \v 13 It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’”
\p
\p Numbers 25.14: \v 14 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites.
\p Numbers 25.15: \v 15 The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.
\p
\p Numbers 25.16: \v 16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 25.17: \v 17 “Harass the Midianites, and strike them;
\p Numbers 25.18: \v 18 for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.”
\p Numbers 26.0: \c 26
\p
\p Numbers 26.1: \v 1 After the plague, Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
\p Numbers 26.2: \v 2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”
\p Numbers 26.3: \v 3 Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
\p Numbers 26.4: \v 4 “Take a census, from twenty years old and upward, as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel.”
\p These are those that came out of the land of Egypt.
\p Numbers 26.5: \v 5 Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
\p Numbers 26.6: \v 6 of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
\p Numbers 26.7: \v 7 These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.
\p Numbers 26.8: \v 8 The son of Pallu: Eliab.
\p Numbers 26.9: \v 9 The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram who were called by the congregation, who rebelled against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah when they rebelled against Yahweh;
\p Numbers 26.10: \v 10 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
\p Numbers 26.11: \v 11 Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn’t die.
\p Numbers 26.12: \v 12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;
\p Numbers 26.13: \v 13 of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
\p Numbers 26.14: \v 14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.
\p Numbers 26.15: \v 15 The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;
\p Numbers 26.16: \v 16 of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
\p Numbers 26.17: \v 17 of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
\p Numbers 26.18: \v 18 These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were counted of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
\p Numbers 26.19: \v 19 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
\p Numbers 26.20: \v 20 The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
\p Numbers 26.21: \v 21 The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
\p Numbers 26.22: \v 22 These are the families of Judah according to those who were counted of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.
\p Numbers 26.23: \v 23 The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;
\p Numbers 26.24: \v 24 of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
\p Numbers 26.25: \v 25 These are the families of Issachar according to those who were counted of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.
\p Numbers 26.26: \v 26 The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
\p Numbers 26.27: \v 27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were counted of them, sixty thousand five hundred.
\p Numbers 26.28: \v 28 The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
\p Numbers 26.29: \v 29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
\p Numbers 26.30: \v 30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;
\p Numbers 26.31: \v 31 and Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
\p Numbers 26.32: \v 32 and Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
\p Numbers 26.33: \v 33 Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
\p Numbers 26.34: \v 34 These are the families of Manasseh. Those who were counted of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.
\p Numbers 26.35: \v 35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
\p Numbers 26.36: \v 36 These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
\p Numbers 26.37: \v 37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
\p Numbers 26.38: \v 38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;
\p Numbers 26.39: \v 39 of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
\p Numbers 26.40: \v 40 The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: the family of the Ardites; and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
\p Numbers 26.41: \v 41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.
\p Numbers 26.42: \v 42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.
\p Numbers 26.43: \v 43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were counted of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.
\p Numbers 26.44: \v 44 The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.
\p Numbers 26.45: \v 45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
\p Numbers 26.46: \v 46 The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
\p Numbers 26.47: \v 47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were counted of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred.
\p Numbers 26.48: \v 48 The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;
\p Numbers 26.49: \v 49 of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
\p Numbers 26.50: \v 50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.
\p Numbers 26.51: \v 51 These are those who were counted of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.
\p
\p Numbers 26.52: \v 52 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 26.53: \v 53 “To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
\p Numbers 26.54: \v 54 To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. To everyone according to those who were counted of him shall his inheritance be given.
\p Numbers 26.55: \v 55 Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
\p Numbers 26.56: \v 56 According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.”
\p
\p Numbers 26.57: \v 57 These are those who were counted of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
\p Numbers 26.58: \v 58 These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, and the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.
\p Numbers 26.59: \v 59 The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
\p Numbers 26.60: \v 60 To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
\p Numbers 26.61: \v 61 Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.
\p Numbers 26.62: \v 62 Those who were counted of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not counted among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
\p Numbers 26.63: \v 63 These are those who were counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
\p Numbers 26.64: \v 64 But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
\p Numbers 26.65: \v 65 For Yahweh had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
\p Numbers 27.0: \c 27
\p
\p Numbers 27.1: \v 1 Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
\p Numbers 27.2: \v 2 They stood before Moses, before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,
\p Numbers 27.3: \v 3 “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.
\p Numbers 27.4: \v 4 Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.”
\p
\p Numbers 27.5: \v 5 Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.
\p Numbers 27.6: \v 6 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 27.7: \v 7 “The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
\p Numbers 27.8: \v 8 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.
\p Numbers 27.9: \v 9 If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
\p Numbers 27.10: \v 10 If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.
\p Numbers 27.11: \v 11 If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.’”
\p
\p Numbers 27.12: \v 12 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.
\p Numbers 27.13: \v 13 When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;
\p Numbers 27.14: \v 14 because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
\p
\p Numbers 27.15: \v 15 Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,
\p Numbers 27.16: \v 16 “Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
\p Numbers 27.17: \v 17 who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of Yahweh may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”
\p
\p Numbers 27.18: \v 18 Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.
\p Numbers 27.19: \v 19 Set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and commission him in their sight.
\p Numbers 27.20: \v 20 You shall give authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.
\p Numbers 27.21: \v 21 He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”
\p
\p Numbers 27.22: \v 22 Moses did as Yahweh commanded him. He took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation.
\p Numbers 27.23: \v 23 He laid his hands on him and commissioned him, as Yahweh spoke by Moses.
\p Numbers 28.0: \c 28
\p
\p Numbers 28.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 28.2: \v 2 “Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘See that you present my offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, as a pleasant aroma to me, in their due season.’
\p Numbers 28.3: \v 3 You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old without defect, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
\p Numbers 28.4: \v 4 You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening,
\p Numbers 28.5: \v 5 with one tenth of an ephah\f + \fr 28:5 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin\f + \fr 28:5 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.\f* of beaten oil.
\p Numbers 28.6: \v 6 It is a continual burnt offering which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p Numbers 28.7: \v 7 Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin\f + \fr 28:7 \ft One hin is about 6.5 liters, so 1/4 hin is about 1.6 liters or 1.7 quarts.\f* for each lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to Yahweh in the holy place.
\p Numbers 28.8: \v 8 The other lamb you shall offer at evening. As the meal offering of the morning, and as its drink offering, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p
\p Numbers 28.9: \v 9 “‘On the Sabbath day, you shall offer two male lambs a year old without defect, and two tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 28:9 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering:
\p Numbers 28.10: \v 10 this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
\p
\p Numbers 28.11: \v 11 “‘In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect,
\p Numbers 28.12: \v 12 and three tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 28:12 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, for the one ram;
\p Numbers 28.13: \v 13 and one tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering to every lamb, as a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p Numbers 28.14: \v 14 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
\p Numbers 28.15: \v 15 Also, one male goat for a sin offering to Yahweh shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
\p
\p Numbers 28.16: \v 16 “‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.
\p Numbers 28.17: \v 17 On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.
\p Numbers 28.18: \v 18 In the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work,
\p Numbers 28.19: \v 19 but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. They shall be without defect,
\p Numbers 28.20: \v 20 with their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil. You shall offer three tenths for a bull, and two tenths for the ram.
\p Numbers 28.21: \v 21 You shall offer one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
\p Numbers 28.22: \v 22 and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.
\p Numbers 28.23: \v 23 You shall offer these in addition to the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.
\p Numbers 28.24: \v 24 In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. It shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
\p Numbers 28.25: \v 25 On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
\p
\p Numbers 28.26: \v 26 “‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;
\p Numbers 28.27: \v 27 but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;
\p Numbers 28.28: \v 28 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for each bull, two tenths for the one ram,
\p Numbers 28.29: \v 29 one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
\p Numbers 28.30: \v 30 and one male goat, to make atonement for you.
\p Numbers 28.31: \v 31 Besides the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offerings. See that they are without defect.
\p Numbers 29.0: \c 29
\p
\p Numbers 29.1: \v 1 “‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work. It is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.
\p Numbers 29.2: \v 2 You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;
\p Numbers 29.3: \v 3 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the ram,
\p Numbers 29.4: \v 4 and one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
\p Numbers 29.5: \v 5 and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;
\p Numbers 29.6: \v 6 in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon with its meal offering, and the continual burnt offering with its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p
\p Numbers 29.7: \v 7 “‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;
\p Numbers 29.8: \v 8 but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old, all without defect;
\p Numbers 29.9: \v 9 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the one ram,
\p Numbers 29.10: \v 10 one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
\p Numbers 29.11: \v 11 one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.
\p
\p Numbers 29.12: \v 12 “‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days.
\p Numbers 29.13: \v 13 You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect;
\p Numbers 29.14: \v 14 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each ram of the two rams,
\p Numbers 29.15: \v 15 and one tenth for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
\p Numbers 29.16: \v 16 and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.
\p
\p Numbers 29.17: \v 17 “‘On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
\p Numbers 29.18: \v 18 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
\p Numbers 29.19: \v 19 and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering and their drink offerings.
\p
\p Numbers 29.20: \v 20 “‘On the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
\p Numbers 29.21: \v 21 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
\p Numbers 29.22: \v 22 and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.
\p
\p Numbers 29.23: \v 23 “‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
\p Numbers 29.24: \v 24 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
\p Numbers 29.25: \v 25 and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.
\p
\p Numbers 29.26: \v 26 “‘On the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
\p Numbers 29.27: \v 27 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,
\p Numbers 29.28: \v 28 and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.
\p
\p Numbers 29.29: \v 29 “‘On the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
\p Numbers 29.30: \v 30 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,
\p Numbers 29.31: \v 31 and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and the drink offerings of it.
\p
\p Numbers 29.32: \v 32 “‘On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
\p Numbers 29.33: \v 33 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,
\p Numbers 29.34: \v 34 and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.
\p
\p Numbers 29.35: \v 35 “‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly. You shall do no regular work;
\p Numbers 29.36: \v 36 but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;
\p Numbers 29.37: \v 37 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance,
\p Numbers 29.38: \v 38 and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering, and its drink offering.
\p
\p Numbers 29.39: \v 39 “‘You shall offer these to Yahweh in your set feasts—in addition to your vows and your free will offerings—for your burnt offerings, your meal offerings, your drink offerings, and your peace offerings.’”
\p
\p Numbers 29.40: \v 40 Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Numbers 30.0: \c 30
\p
\p Numbers 30.1: \v 1 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded.
\p Numbers 30.2: \v 2 When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
\p
\p Numbers 30.3: \v 3 “Also, when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s house, in her youth,
\p Numbers 30.4: \v 4 and her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound her soul, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
\p Numbers 30.5: \v 5 But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. Yahweh will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her.
\p
\p Numbers 30.6: \v 6 “If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul,
\p Numbers 30.7: \v 7 and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
\p Numbers 30.8: \v 8 But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. Yahweh will forgive her.
\p
\p Numbers 30.9: \v 9 “But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.
\p
\p Numbers 30.10: \v 10 “If she vowed in her husband’s house or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,
\p Numbers 30.11: \v 11 and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her and didn’t disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she bound her soul shall stand.
\p Numbers 30.12: \v 12 But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. Yahweh will forgive her.
\p Numbers 30.13: \v 13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
\p Numbers 30.14: \v 14 But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges which are on her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her in the day that he heard them.
\p Numbers 30.15: \v 15 But if he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”
\p
\p Numbers 30.16: \v 16 These are the statutes which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.
\p Numbers 31.0: \c 31
\p
\p Numbers 31.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 31.2: \v 2 “Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
\p
\p Numbers 31.3: \v 3 Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.
\p Numbers 31.4: \v 4 You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”
\p Numbers 31.5: \v 5 So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
\p Numbers 31.6: \v 6 Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
\p Numbers 31.7: \v 7 They fought against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses. They killed every male.
\p Numbers 31.8: \v 8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
\p Numbers 31.9: \v 9 The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder.
\p Numbers 31.10: \v 10 All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire.
\p Numbers 31.11: \v 11 They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.
\p Numbers 31.12: \v 12 They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
\p Numbers 31.13: \v 13 Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.
\p Numbers 31.14: \v 14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
\p Numbers 31.15: \v 15 Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?
\p Numbers 31.16: \v 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
\p Numbers 31.17: \v 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
\p Numbers 31.18: \v 18 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
\p
\p Numbers 31.19: \v 19 “Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
\p Numbers 31.20: \v 20 You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”
\p
\p Numbers 31.21: \v 21 Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:
\p Numbers 31.22: \v 22 however the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
\p Numbers 31.23: \v 23 everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.
\p Numbers 31.24: \v 24 You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.”
\p
\p Numbers 31.25: \v 25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 31.26: \v 26 “Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation;
\p Numbers 31.27: \v 27 and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
\p Numbers 31.28: \v 28 Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks.
\p Numbers 31.29: \v 29 Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh’s wave offering.
\p Numbers 31.30: \v 30 Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle.”
\p
\p Numbers 31.31: \v 31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Numbers 31.32: \v 32 Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
\p Numbers 31.33: \v 33 seventy-two thousand head of cattle,
\p Numbers 31.34: \v 34 sixty-one thousand donkeys,
\p Numbers 31.35: \v 35 and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.
\p Numbers 31.36: \v 36 The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep;
\p Numbers 31.37: \v 37 and Yahweh’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
\p Numbers 31.38: \v 38 The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which Yahweh’s tribute was seventy-two.
\p Numbers 31.39: \v 39 The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which Yahweh’s tribute was sixty-one.
\p Numbers 31.40: \v 40 The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom Yahweh’s tribute was thirty-two persons.
\p Numbers 31.41: \v 41 Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Numbers 31.42: \v 42 Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought
\p Numbers 31.43: \v 43 (now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
\p Numbers 31.44: \v 44 thirty-six thousand head of cattle,
\p Numbers 31.45: \v 45 thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,
\p Numbers 31.46: \v 46 and sixteen thousand persons),
\p Numbers 31.47: \v 47 even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\p Numbers 31.48: \v 48 The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.
\p Numbers 31.49: \v 49 They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.
\p Numbers 31.50: \v 50 We have brought Yahweh’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.”
\p
\p Numbers 31.51: \v 51 Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.
\p Numbers 31.52: \v 52 All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.\f + \fr 31:52 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 16,750 shekels is about 167.5 kilograms or about 368.5 pounds.\f*
\p Numbers 31.53: \v 53 The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.
\p Numbers 31.54: \v 54 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.
\p Numbers 32.0: \c 32
\p
\p Numbers 32.1: \v 1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold, the place was a place for livestock.
\p Numbers 32.2: \v 2 Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,
\p Numbers 32.3: \v 3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
\p Numbers 32.4: \v 4 the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”
\p Numbers 32.5: \v 5 They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”
\p
\p Numbers 32.6: \v 6 Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
\p Numbers 32.7: \v 7 Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?
\p Numbers 32.8: \v 8 Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
\p Numbers 32.9: \v 9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.
\p Numbers 32.10: \v 10 Yahweh’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying,
\p Numbers 32.11: \v 11 ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,
\p Numbers 32.12: \v 12 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have followed Yahweh completely.’
\p Numbers 32.13: \v 13 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in Yahweh’s sight was consumed.
\p
\p Numbers 32.14: \v 14 “Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.
\p Numbers 32.15: \v 15 For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.”
\p
\p Numbers 32.16: \v 16 They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones;
\p Numbers 32.17: \v 17 but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
\p Numbers 32.18: \v 18 We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have all received their inheritance.
\p Numbers 32.19: \v 19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.”
\p
\p Numbers 32.20: \v 20 Moses said to them: “If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,
\p Numbers 32.21: \v 21 and every one of your armed men will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh until he has driven out his enemies from before him,
\p Numbers 32.22: \v 22 and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be clear of obligation to Yahweh and to Israel. Then this land shall be your possession before Yahweh.
\p
\p Numbers 32.23: \v 23 “But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.
\p Numbers 32.24: \v 24 Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.”
\p
\p Numbers 32.25: \v 25 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.
\p Numbers 32.26: \v 26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
\p Numbers 32.27: \v 27 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.”
\p
\p Numbers 32.28: \v 28 So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the children of Israel.
\p Numbers 32.29: \v 29 Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle before Yahweh, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;
\p Numbers 32.30: \v 30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”
\p
\p Numbers 32.31: \v 31 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, “As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.
\p Numbers 32.32: \v 32 We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”
\p
\p Numbers 32.33: \v 33 Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan; the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.
\p Numbers 32.34: \v 34 The children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
\p Numbers 32.35: \v 35 Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
\p Numbers 32.36: \v 36 Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities and folds for sheep.
\p Numbers 32.37: \v 37 The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
\p Numbers 32.38: \v 38 Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.
\p Numbers 32.39: \v 39 The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
\p Numbers 32.40: \v 40 Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.
\p Numbers 32.41: \v 41 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.
\p Numbers 32.42: \v 42 Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
\p Numbers 33.0: \c 33
\p
\p Numbers 33.1: \v 1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
\p Numbers 33.2: \v 2 Moses wrote the starting points of their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh. These are their journeys according to their starting points.
\p Numbers 33.3: \v 3 They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover, the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,
\p Numbers 33.4: \v 4 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had struck among them. Yahweh also executed judgments on their gods.
\p Numbers 33.5: \v 5 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.
\p Numbers 33.6: \v 6 They traveled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
\p Numbers 33.7: \v 7 They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon, and they encamped before Migdol.
\p Numbers 33.8: \v 8 They traveled from before Hahiroth, and crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness. They went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
\p Numbers 33.9: \v 9 They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim, there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.
\p Numbers 33.10: \v 10 They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
\p Numbers 33.11: \v 11 They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
\p Numbers 33.12: \v 12 They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
\p Numbers 33.13: \v 13 They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
\p Numbers 33.14: \v 14 They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
\p Numbers 33.15: \v 15 They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
\p Numbers 33.16: \v 16 They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah.
\p Numbers 33.17: \v 17 They traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth.
\p Numbers 33.18: \v 18 They traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
\p Numbers 33.19: \v 19 They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez.
\p Numbers 33.20: \v 20 They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah.
\p Numbers 33.21: \v 21 They traveled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.
\p Numbers 33.22: \v 22 They traveled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.
\p Numbers 33.23: \v 23 They traveled from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount Shepher.
\p Numbers 33.24: \v 24 They traveled from Mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah.
\p Numbers 33.25: \v 25 They traveled from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.
\p Numbers 33.26: \v 26 They traveled from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath.
\p Numbers 33.27: \v 27 They traveled from Tahath, and encamped in Terah.
\p Numbers 33.28: \v 28 They traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.
\p Numbers 33.29: \v 29 They traveled from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah.
\p Numbers 33.30: \v 30 They traveled from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth.
\p Numbers 33.31: \v 31 They traveled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene Jaakan.
\p Numbers 33.32: \v 32 They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor Haggidgad.
\p Numbers 33.33: \v 33 They traveled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah.
\p Numbers 33.34: \v 34 They traveled from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah.
\p Numbers 33.35: \v 35 They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber.
\p Numbers 33.36: \v 36 They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
\p Numbers 33.37: \v 37 They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
\p Numbers 33.38: \v 38 Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
\p Numbers 33.39: \v 39 Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hor.
\p Numbers 33.40: \v 40 The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
\p Numbers 33.41: \v 41 They traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.
\p Numbers 33.42: \v 42 They traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.
\p Numbers 33.43: \v 43 They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.
\p Numbers 33.44: \v 44 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the border of Moab.
\p Numbers 33.45: \v 45 They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad.
\p Numbers 33.46: \v 46 They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon Diblathaim.
\p Numbers 33.47: \v 47 They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
\p Numbers 33.48: \v 48 They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
\p Numbers 33.49: \v 49 They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.
\p Numbers 33.50: \v 50 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
\p Numbers 33.51: \v 51 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, “When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
\p Numbers 33.52: \v 52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.
\p Numbers 33.53: \v 53 You shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given the land to you to possess it.
\p Numbers 33.54: \v 54 You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
\p
\p Numbers 33.55: \v 55 “But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be like pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land in which you dwell.
\p Numbers 33.56: \v 56 It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so I will do to you.”
\p Numbers 34.0: \c 34
\p
\p Numbers 34.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 34.2: \v 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),
\p Numbers 34.3: \v 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.
\p Numbers 34.4: \v 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.
\p Numbers 34.5: \v 5 The border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea.
\p
\p Numbers 34.6: \v 6 “‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.
\p
\p Numbers 34.7: \v 7 “‘This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for yourselves Mount Hor.
\p Numbers 34.8: \v 8 From Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the border shall pass by Zedad.
\p Numbers 34.9: \v 9 Then the border shall go to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar Enan. This shall be your north border.
\p
\p Numbers 34.10: \v 10 “‘You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham.
\p Numbers 34.11: \v 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.
\p Numbers 34.12: \v 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.’”
\p
\p Numbers 34.13: \v 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;
\p Numbers 34.14: \v 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.
\p Numbers 34.15: \v 15 The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”
\p
\p Numbers 34.16: \v 16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 34.17: \v 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.
\p Numbers 34.18: \v 18 You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.
\p Numbers 34.19: \v 19 These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
\p Numbers 34.20: \v 20 Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
\p Numbers 34.21: \v 21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
\p Numbers 34.22: \v 22 Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.
\p Numbers 34.23: \v 23 Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
\p Numbers 34.24: \v 24 Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
\p Numbers 34.25: \v 25 Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
\p Numbers 34.26: \v 26 Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
\p Numbers 34.27: \v 27 Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
\p Numbers 34.28: \v 28 Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”
\p Numbers 34.29: \v 29 These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
\p Numbers 35.0: \c 35
\p
\p Numbers 35.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
\p Numbers 35.2: \v 2 “Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites cities to dwell in out of their inheritance. You shall give pasture lands for the cities around them to the Levites.
\p Numbers 35.3: \v 3 They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their pasture lands shall be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals.
\p
\p Numbers 35.4: \v 4 “The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits\f + \fr 35:4 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* around it.
\p Numbers 35.5: \v 5 You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the pasture lands of their cities.
\p
\p Numbers 35.6: \v 6 “The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities.
\p Numbers 35.7: \v 7 All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their pasture lands.
\p Numbers 35.8: \v 8 Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many, and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levites.”
\p Numbers 35.9: \v 9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p Numbers 35.10: \v 10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
\p Numbers 35.11: \v 11 then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
\p Numbers 35.12: \v 12 The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
\p Numbers 35.13: \v 13 The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
\p Numbers 35.14: \v 14 You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.
\p Numbers 35.15: \v 15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
\p
\p Numbers 35.16: \v 16 “‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
\p Numbers 35.17: \v 17 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
\p Numbers 35.18: \v 18 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
\p Numbers 35.19: \v 19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.
\p Numbers 35.20: \v 20 If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,
\p Numbers 35.21: \v 21 or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
\p
\p Numbers 35.22: \v 22 “‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,
\p Numbers 35.23: \v 23 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him so that he died, and he was not his enemy and not seeking his harm,
\p Numbers 35.24: \v 24 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.
\p Numbers 35.25: \v 25 The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
\p
\p Numbers 35.26: \v 26 “‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge where he flees,
\p Numbers 35.27: \v 27 and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood,
\p Numbers 35.28: \v 28 because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
\p
\p Numbers 35.29: \v 29 “‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
\p
\p Numbers 35.30: \v 30 “‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain based on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify alone against any person so that he dies.
\p
\p Numbers 35.31: \v 31 “‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.
\p
\p Numbers 35.32: \v 32 “‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.
\p
\p Numbers 35.33: \v 33 “‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
\p Numbers 35.34: \v 34 You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, Yahweh, dwell among the children of Israel.’”
\p Numbers 36.0: \c 36
\p
\p Numbers 36.1: \v 1 The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel.
\p Numbers 36.2: \v 2 They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
\p Numbers 36.3: \v 3 If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
\p Numbers 36.4: \v 4 When the jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
\p
\p Numbers 36.5: \v 5 Moses commanded the children of Israel according to Yahweh’s word, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak what is right.
\p Numbers 36.6: \v 6 This is the thing which Yahweh commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best, only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.
\p Numbers 36.7: \v 7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
\p Numbers 36.8: \v 8 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.
\p Numbers 36.9: \v 9 So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’”
\p
\p Numbers 36.10: \v 10 The daughters of Zelophehad did as Yahweh commanded Moses:
\p Numbers 36.11: \v 11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father’s brothers’ sons.
\p Numbers 36.12: \v 12 They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph. Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
\p
\p Numbers 36.13: \v 13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
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\toc1 The Fifth Book of Moses, Commonly Called Deuteronomy
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\p Deuteronomy 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Deuteronomy 1.1: \v 1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
\p Deuteronomy 1.2: \v 2 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.
\p Deuteronomy 1.3: \v 3 In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh\f + \fr 1:3 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* had given him in commandment to them,
\p Deuteronomy 1.4: \v 4 after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.
\p Deuteronomy 1.5: \v 5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,
\p Deuteronomy 1.6: \v 6 “Yahweh our God\f + \fr 1:6 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain.
\p Deuteronomy 1.7: \v 7 Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the places near there: in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South, by the seashore, in the land of the Canaanites, and in Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
\p Deuteronomy 1.8: \v 8 Behold,\f + \fr 1:8 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—to give to them and to their offspring\f + \fr 1:8 \ft or, seed\f* after them.’”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 1.9: \v 9 I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone.
\p Deuteronomy 1.10: \v 10 Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.
\p Deuteronomy 1.11: \v 11 Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!
\p Deuteronomy 1.12: \v 12 How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?
\p Deuteronomy 1.13: \v 13 Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 1.14: \v 14 You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”
\p Deuteronomy 1.15: \v 15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
\p Deuteronomy 1.16: \v 16 I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
\p Deuteronomy 1.17: \v 17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
\p Deuteronomy 1.18: \v 18 I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
\p Deuteronomy 1.19: \v 19 We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.
\p Deuteronomy 1.20: \v 20 I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.
\p Deuteronomy 1.21: \v 21 Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as Yahweh the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 1.22: \v 22 You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, “Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 1.23: \v 23 The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe.
\p Deuteronomy 1.24: \v 24 They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.
\p Deuteronomy 1.25: \v 25 They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 1.26: \v 26 Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God.
\p Deuteronomy 1.27: \v 27 You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
\p Deuteronomy 1.28: \v 28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 1.29: \v 29 Then I said to you, “Don’t be terrified. Don’t be afraid of them.
\p Deuteronomy 1.30: \v 30 Yahweh your God, who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
\p Deuteronomy 1.31: \v 31 and in the wilderness where you have seen how that Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 1.32: \v 32 Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,
\p Deuteronomy 1.33: \v 33 who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
\p Deuteronomy 1.34: \v 34 Yahweh heard the voice of your words and was angry, and swore, saying,
\p Deuteronomy 1.35: \v 35 “Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers,
\p Deuteronomy 1.36: \v 36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it. I will give the land that he has trodden on to him and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 1.37: \v 37 Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.
\p Deuteronomy 1.38: \v 38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
\p Deuteronomy 1.39: \v 39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.
\p Deuteronomy 1.40: \v 40 But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 1.41: \v 41 Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against Yahweh. We will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us.” Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 1.42: \v 42 Yahweh said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up and don’t fight; for I am not among you, lest you be struck before your enemies.’”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 1.43: \v 43 So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.
\p Deuteronomy 1.44: \v 44 The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.
\p Deuteronomy 1.45: \v 45 You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn’t listen to your voice, nor turn his ear to you.
\p Deuteronomy 1.46: \v 46 So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.
\p Deuteronomy 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Deuteronomy 2.1: \v 1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 2.2: \v 2 Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
\p Deuteronomy 2.3: \v 3 “You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.
\p Deuteronomy 2.4: \v 4 Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful.
\p Deuteronomy 2.5: \v 5 Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
\p Deuteronomy 2.6: \v 6 You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.’”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 2.7: \v 7 For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, Yahweh your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 2.8: \v 8 So we passed by from our brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 2.9: \v 9 Yahweh said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 2.10: \v 10 (The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim.
\p Deuteronomy 2.11: \v 11 These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
\p Deuteronomy 2.12: \v 12 The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
\p
\p Deuteronomy 2.13: \v 13 “Now rise up, and cross over the brook Zered.” We went over the brook Zered.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 2.14: \v 14 The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.
\p Deuteronomy 2.15: \v 15 Moreover Yahweh’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.
\p Deuteronomy 2.16: \v 16 So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
\p Deuteronomy 2.17: \v 17 Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
\p Deuteronomy 2.18: \v 18 “You are to pass over Ar, the border of Moab, today.
\p Deuteronomy 2.19: \v 19 When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 2.20: \v 20 (That also is considered a land of Rephaim. Rephaim lived there in the past, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
\p Deuteronomy 2.21: \v 21 a great people, many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them from before Israel, and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;
\p Deuteronomy 2.22: \v 22 as he did for the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day.
\p Deuteronomy 2.23: \v 23 Then the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza: the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)
\p
\p Deuteronomy 2.24: \v 24 “Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
\p Deuteronomy 2.25: \v 25 Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 2.26: \v 26 I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
\p Deuteronomy 2.27: \v 27 “Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.
\p Deuteronomy 2.28: \v 28 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink. Just let me pass through on my feet,
\p Deuteronomy 2.29: \v 29 as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.”
\p Deuteronomy 2.30: \v 30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 2.31: \v 31 Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.”
\p Deuteronomy 2.32: \v 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.
\p Deuteronomy 2.33: \v 33 Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people.
\p Deuteronomy 2.34: \v 34 We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.
\p Deuteronomy 2.35: \v 35 Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.
\p Deuteronomy 2.36: \v 36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Yahweh our God delivered up all before us.
\p Deuteronomy 2.37: \v 37 Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near: all the banks of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.
\p Deuteronomy 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Deuteronomy 3.1: \v 1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan. Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
\p Deuteronomy 3.2: \v 2 Yahweh said to me, “Don’t fear him; for I have delivered him, with all his people, and his land, into your hand. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 3.3: \v 3 So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining.
\p Deuteronomy 3.4: \v 4 We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
\p Deuteronomy 3.5: \v 5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition to a great many villages without walls.
\p Deuteronomy 3.6: \v 6 We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.
\p Deuteronomy 3.7: \v 7 But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves.
\p Deuteronomy 3.8: \v 8 We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.
\p Deuteronomy 3.9: \v 9 (The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)
\p Deuteronomy 3.10: \v 10 We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
\p Deuteronomy 3.11: \v 11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits\f + \fr 3:11 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.)
\p Deuteronomy 3.12: \v 12 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;
\p Deuteronomy 3.13: \v 13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh—all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
\p Deuteronomy 3.14: \v 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)
\p Deuteronomy 3.15: \v 15 I gave Gilead to Machir.
\p Deuteronomy 3.16: \v 16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
\p Deuteronomy 3.17: \v 17 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 3.18: \v 18 I commanded you at that time, saying, “Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it. All of you men of valor shall pass over armed before your brothers, the children of Israel.
\p Deuteronomy 3.19: \v 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,
\p Deuteronomy 3.20: \v 20 until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall each return to his own possession, which I have given you.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 3.21: \v 21 I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, “Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings. So shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over.
\p Deuteronomy 3.22: \v 22 You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God himself fights for you.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 3.23: \v 23 I begged Yahweh at that time, saying,
\p Deuteronomy 3.24: \v 24 “Lord\f + \fr 3:24 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?
\p Deuteronomy 3.25: \v 25 Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 3.26: \v 26 But Yahweh was angry with me because of you, and didn’t listen to me. Yahweh said to me, “That is enough! Speak no more to me of this matter.
\p Deuteronomy 3.27: \v 27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.
\p Deuteronomy 3.28: \v 28 But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.”
\p Deuteronomy 3.29: \v 29 So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.
\p Deuteronomy 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Deuteronomy 4.1: \v 1 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
\p Deuteronomy 4.2: \v 2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
\p Deuteronomy 4.3: \v 3 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.
\p Deuteronomy 4.4: \v 4 But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.
\p Deuteronomy 4.5: \v 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
\p Deuteronomy 4.6: \v 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
\p Deuteronomy 4.7: \v 7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
\p Deuteronomy 4.8: \v 8 What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?
\p
\p Deuteronomy 4.9: \v 9 Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
\p Deuteronomy 4.10: \v 10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”
\p Deuteronomy 4.11: \v 11 You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
\p Deuteronomy 4.12: \v 12 Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.
\p Deuteronomy 4.13: \v 13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
\p Deuteronomy 4.14: \v 14 Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
\p Deuteronomy 4.15: \v 15 Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,
\p Deuteronomy 4.16: \v 16 lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
\p Deuteronomy 4.17: \v 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
\p Deuteronomy 4.18: \v 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
\p Deuteronomy 4.19: \v 19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
\p Deuteronomy 4.20: \v 20 But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
\p Deuteronomy 4.21: \v 21 Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;
\p Deuteronomy 4.22: \v 22 but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land.
\p Deuteronomy 4.23: \v 23 Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
\p Deuteronomy 4.24: \v 24 For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
\p Deuteronomy 4.25: \v 25 When you shall father children and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight to provoke him to anger,
\p Deuteronomy 4.26: \v 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
\p Deuteronomy 4.27: \v 27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away.
\p Deuteronomy 4.28: \v 28 There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
\p Deuteronomy 4.29: \v 29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
\p Deuteronomy 4.30: \v 30 When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.
\p Deuteronomy 4.31: \v 31 For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
\p Deuteronomy 4.32: \v 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it?
\p Deuteronomy 4.33: \v 33 Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
\p Deuteronomy 4.34: \v 34 Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
\p Deuteronomy 4.35: \v 35 It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.
\p Deuteronomy 4.36: \v 36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.
\p Deuteronomy 4.37: \v 37 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
\p Deuteronomy 4.38: \v 38 to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
\p Deuteronomy 4.39: \v 39 Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.
\p Deuteronomy 4.40: \v 40 You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.
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\p Deuteronomy 4.41: \v 41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,
\p Deuteronomy 4.42: \v 42 that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
\p Deuteronomy 4.43: \v 43 Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
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\p Deuteronomy 4.44: \v 44 This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
\p Deuteronomy 4.45: \v 45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
\p Deuteronomy 4.46: \v 46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt.
\p Deuteronomy 4.47: \v 47 They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;
\p Deuteronomy 4.48: \v 48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (also called Hermon),
\p Deuteronomy 4.49: \v 49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
\p Deuteronomy 5.0: \c 5
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\p Deuteronomy 5.1: \v 1 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”
\p Deuteronomy 5.2: \v 2 Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
\p Deuteronomy 5.3: \v 3 Yahweh didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today.
\p Deuteronomy 5.4: \v 4 Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,
\p Deuteronomy 5.5: \v 5 (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you Yahweh’s word; for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn’t go up onto the mountain) saying,
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\p Deuteronomy 5.6: \v 6 “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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\p Deuteronomy 5.7: \v 7 “You shall have no other gods before me.
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\p Deuteronomy 5.8: \v 8 “You shall not make a carved image for yourself—any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
\p Deuteronomy 5.9: \v 9 You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
\p Deuteronomy 5.10: \v 10 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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\p Deuteronomy 5.11: \v 11 “You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God;\f + \fr 5:11 \ft or, You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain;\f* for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
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\p Deuteronomy 5.12: \v 12 “Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.
\p Deuteronomy 5.13: \v 13 You shall labor six days, and do all your work;
\p Deuteronomy 5.14: \v 14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work— neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
\p Deuteronomy 5.15: \v 15 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
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\p Deuteronomy 5.16: \v 16 “Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
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\p Deuteronomy 5.17: \v 17 “You shall not murder.
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\p Deuteronomy 5.18: \v 18 “You shall not commit adultery.
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\p Deuteronomy 5.19: \v 19 “You shall not steal.
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\p Deuteronomy 5.20: \v 20 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
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\p Deuteronomy 5.21: \v 21 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
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\p Deuteronomy 5.22: \v 22 Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.
\p Deuteronomy 5.23: \v 23 When you heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
\p Deuteronomy 5.24: \v 24 and you said, “Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives.
\p Deuteronomy 5.25: \v 25 Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear Yahweh our God’s voice any more, then we shall die.
\p Deuteronomy 5.26: \v 26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?
\p Deuteronomy 5.27: \v 27 Go near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say, and tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you; and we will hear it, and do it.”
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\p Deuteronomy 5.28: \v 28 Yahweh heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, “I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.
\p Deuteronomy 5.29: \v 29 Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!
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\p Deuteronomy 5.30: \v 30 “Go tell them, ‘Return to your tents.’
\p Deuteronomy 5.31: \v 31 But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.”
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\p Deuteronomy 5.32: \v 32 You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.
\p Deuteronomy 5.33: \v 33 You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
\p Deuteronomy 6.0: \c 6
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\p Deuteronomy 6.1: \v 1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess;
\p Deuteronomy 6.2: \v 2 that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
\p Deuteronomy 6.3: \v 3 Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
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\p Deuteronomy 6.4: \v 4 Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.
\p Deuteronomy 6.5: \v 5 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
\p Deuteronomy 6.6: \v 6 These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
\p Deuteronomy 6.7: \v 7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
\p Deuteronomy 6.8: \v 8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
\p Deuteronomy 6.9: \v 9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.
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\p Deuteronomy 6.10: \v 10 It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build,
\p Deuteronomy 6.11: \v 11 and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;
\p Deuteronomy 6.12: \v 12 then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
\p Deuteronomy 6.13: \v 13 You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.
\p Deuteronomy 6.14: \v 14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you,
\p Deuteronomy 6.15: \v 15 for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
\p Deuteronomy 6.16: \v 16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
\p Deuteronomy 6.17: \v 17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
\p Deuteronomy 6.18: \v 18 You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
\p Deuteronomy 6.19: \v 19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
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\p Deuteronomy 6.20: \v 20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”
\p Deuteronomy 6.21: \v 21 then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
\p Deuteronomy 6.22: \v 22 and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
\p Deuteronomy 6.23: \v 23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.
\p Deuteronomy 6.24: \v 24 Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.
\p Deuteronomy 6.25: \v 25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”
\p Deuteronomy 7.0: \c 7
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\p Deuteronomy 7.1: \v 1 When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you;
\p Deuteronomy 7.2: \v 2 and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.
\p Deuteronomy 7.3: \v 3 You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
\p Deuteronomy 7.4: \v 4 For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
\p Deuteronomy 7.5: \v 5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire.
\p Deuteronomy 7.6: \v 6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
\p Deuteronomy 7.7: \v 7 Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;
\p Deuteronomy 7.8: \v 8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
\p Deuteronomy 7.9: \v 9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
\p Deuteronomy 7.10: \v 10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
\p Deuteronomy 7.11: \v 11 You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them.
\p Deuteronomy 7.12: \v 12 It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.
\p Deuteronomy 7.13: \v 13 He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
\p Deuteronomy 7.14: \v 14 You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.
\p Deuteronomy 7.15: \v 15 Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
\p Deuteronomy 7.16: \v 16 You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.
\p Deuteronomy 7.17: \v 17 If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”
\p Deuteronomy 7.18: \v 18 you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:
\p Deuteronomy 7.19: \v 19 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
\p Deuteronomy 7.20: \v 20 Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
\p Deuteronomy 7.21: \v 21 You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God.
\p Deuteronomy 7.22: \v 22 Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
\p Deuteronomy 7.23: \v 23 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.
\p Deuteronomy 7.24: \v 24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.
\p Deuteronomy 7.25: \v 25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
\p Deuteronomy 7.26: \v 26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
\p Deuteronomy 8.0: \c 8
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\p Deuteronomy 8.1: \v 1 You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
\p Deuteronomy 8.2: \v 2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
\p Deuteronomy 8.3: \v 3 He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
\p Deuteronomy 8.4: \v 4 Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
\p Deuteronomy 8.5: \v 5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
\p Deuteronomy 8.6: \v 6 You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
\p Deuteronomy 8.7: \v 7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;
\p Deuteronomy 8.8: \v 8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
\p Deuteronomy 8.9: \v 9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
\p Deuteronomy 8.10: \v 10 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
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\p Deuteronomy 8.11: \v 11 Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;
\p Deuteronomy 8.12: \v 12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them;
\p Deuteronomy 8.13: \v 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
\p Deuteronomy 8.14: \v 14 then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
\p Deuteronomy 8.15: \v 15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;
\p Deuteronomy 8.16: \v 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;
\p Deuteronomy 8.17: \v 17 and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
\p Deuteronomy 8.18: \v 18 But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
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\p Deuteronomy 8.19: \v 19 It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.
\p Deuteronomy 8.20: \v 20 As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
\p Deuteronomy 9.0: \c 9
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\p Deuteronomy 9.1: \v 1 Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,
\p Deuteronomy 9.2: \v 2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”
\p Deuteronomy 9.3: \v 3 Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.
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\p Deuteronomy 9.4: \v 4 Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;” because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.
\p Deuteronomy 9.5: \v 5 Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
\p Deuteronomy 9.6: \v 6 Know therefore that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
\p Deuteronomy 9.7: \v 7 Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
\p Deuteronomy 9.8: \v 8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.
\p Deuteronomy 9.9: \v 9 When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
\p Deuteronomy 9.10: \v 10 Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.
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\p Deuteronomy 9.11: \v 11 It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.
\p Deuteronomy 9.12: \v 12 Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”
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\p Deuteronomy 9.13: \v 13 Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
\p Deuteronomy 9.14: \v 14 Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”
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\p Deuteronomy 9.15: \v 15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
\p Deuteronomy 9.16: \v 16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
\p Deuteronomy 9.17: \v 17 I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
\p Deuteronomy 9.18: \v 18 I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
\p Deuteronomy 9.19: \v 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.
\p Deuteronomy 9.20: \v 20 Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
\p Deuteronomy 9.21: \v 21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
\p Deuteronomy 9.22: \v 22 At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
\p Deuteronomy 9.23: \v 23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice.
\p Deuteronomy 9.24: \v 24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.
\p Deuteronomy 9.25: \v 25 So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
\p Deuteronomy 9.26: \v 26 I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
\p Deuteronomy 9.27: \v 27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
\p Deuteronomy 9.28: \v 28 lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
\p Deuteronomy 9.29: \v 29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
\p Deuteronomy 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Deuteronomy 10.1: \v 1 At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
\p Deuteronomy 10.2: \v 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.”
\p Deuteronomy 10.3: \v 3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two stone tablets like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.
\p Deuteronomy 10.4: \v 4 He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me.
\p Deuteronomy 10.5: \v 5 I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 10.6: \v 6 (The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his place.
\p Deuteronomy 10.7: \v 7 From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.
\p Deuteronomy 10.8: \v 8 At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
\p Deuteronomy 10.9: \v 9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)
\p
\p Deuteronomy 10.10: \v 10 I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and Yahweh listened to me that time also. Yahweh would not destroy you.
\p Deuteronomy 10.11: \v 11 Yahweh said to me, “Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give to them.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 10.12: \v 12 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
\p Deuteronomy 10.13: \v 13 to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?
\p Deuteronomy 10.14: \v 14 Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.
\p Deuteronomy 10.15: \v 15 Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.
\p Deuteronomy 10.16: \v 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
\p Deuteronomy 10.17: \v 17 For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.
\p Deuteronomy 10.18: \v 18 He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.
\p Deuteronomy 10.19: \v 19 Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
\p Deuteronomy 10.20: \v 20 You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
\p Deuteronomy 10.21: \v 21 He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.
\p Deuteronomy 10.22: \v 22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
\p Deuteronomy 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p Deuteronomy 11.1: \v 1 Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
\p Deuteronomy 11.2: \v 2 Know this day—for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm,
\p Deuteronomy 11.3: \v 3 his signs, and his works, which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;
\p Deuteronomy 11.4: \v 4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
\p Deuteronomy 11.5: \v 5 and what he did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place;
\p Deuteronomy 11.6: \v 6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben—how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the middle of all Israel;
\p Deuteronomy 11.7: \v 7 but your eyes have seen all of Yahweh’s great work which he did.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 11.8: \v 8 Therefore you shall keep the entire commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land that you go over to possess;
\p Deuteronomy 11.9: \v 9 and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.
\p Deuteronomy 11.10: \v 10 For the land, where you go in to possess isn’t like the land of Egypt that you came out of, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
\p Deuteronomy 11.11: \v 11 but the land that you go over to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky,
\p Deuteronomy 11.12: \v 12 a land which Yahweh your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
\p Deuteronomy 11.13: \v 13 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
\p Deuteronomy 11.14: \v 14 that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
\p Deuteronomy 11.15: \v 15 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
\p Deuteronomy 11.16: \v 16 Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;
\p Deuteronomy 11.17: \v 17 and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
\p Deuteronomy 11.18: \v 18 Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
\p Deuteronomy 11.19: \v 19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
\p Deuteronomy 11.20: \v 20 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates;
\p Deuteronomy 11.21: \v 21 that your days and your children’s days may be multiplied in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
\p Deuteronomy 11.22: \v 22 For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him—
\p Deuteronomy 11.23: \v 23 then Yahweh will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
\p Deuteronomy 11.24: \v 24 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border.
\p Deuteronomy 11.25: \v 25 No man will be able to stand before you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you.
\p Deuteronomy 11.26: \v 26 Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
\p Deuteronomy 11.27: \v 27 the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today;
\p Deuteronomy 11.28: \v 28 and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
\p Deuteronomy 11.29: \v 29 It shall happen, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
\p Deuteronomy 11.30: \v 30 Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
\p Deuteronomy 11.31: \v 31 For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it.
\p Deuteronomy 11.32: \v 32 You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today.
\p Deuteronomy 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p Deuteronomy 12.1: \v 1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth.
\p Deuteronomy 12.2: \v 2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
\p Deuteronomy 12.3: \v 3 You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place.
\p Deuteronomy 12.4: \v 4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.
\p Deuteronomy 12.5: \v 5 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.
\p Deuteronomy 12.6: \v 6 You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there.
\p Deuteronomy 12.7: \v 7 There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
\p Deuteronomy 12.8: \v 8 You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;
\p Deuteronomy 12.9: \v 9 for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which Yahweh your God gives you.
\p Deuteronomy 12.10: \v 10 But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety,
\p Deuteronomy 12.11: \v 11 then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
\p Deuteronomy 12.12: \v 12 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
\p Deuteronomy 12.13: \v 13 Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
\p Deuteronomy 12.14: \v 14 but in the place which Yahweh chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 12.15: \v 15 Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.
\p Deuteronomy 12.16: \v 16 Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
\p Deuteronomy 12.17: \v 17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free will offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;
\p Deuteronomy 12.18: \v 18 but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.
\p Deuteronomy 12.19: \v 19 Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 12.20: \v 20 When Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.
\p Deuteronomy 12.21: \v 21 If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.
\p Deuteronomy 12.22: \v 22 Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
\p Deuteronomy 12.23: \v 23 Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.
\p Deuteronomy 12.24: \v 24 You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
\p Deuteronomy 12.25: \v 25 You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
\p Deuteronomy 12.26: \v 26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose.
\p Deuteronomy 12.27: \v 27 You shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on Yahweh your God’s altar. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on Yahweh your God’s altar, and you shall eat the meat.
\p Deuteronomy 12.28: \v 28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 12.29: \v 29 When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations from before you where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
\p Deuteronomy 12.30: \v 30 be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”
\p Deuteronomy 12.31: \v 31 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God; for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
\p Deuteronomy 12.32: \v 32 Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
\p Deuteronomy 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p Deuteronomy 13.1: \v 1 If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
\p Deuteronomy 13.2: \v 2 and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let’s go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let’s serve them,”
\p Deuteronomy 13.3: \v 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
\p Deuteronomy 13.4: \v 4 You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him.
\p Deuteronomy 13.5: \v 5 That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 13.6: \v 6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
\p Deuteronomy 13.7: \v 7 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth—
\p Deuteronomy 13.8: \v 8 you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;
\p Deuteronomy 13.9: \v 9 but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.
\p Deuteronomy 13.10: \v 10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
\p Deuteronomy 13.11: \v 11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 13.12: \v 12 If you hear about one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, that
\p Deuteronomy 13.13: \v 13 certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,
\p Deuteronomy 13.14: \v 14 then you shall inquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you,
\p Deuteronomy 13.15: \v 15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, with all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.
\p Deuteronomy 13.16: \v 16 You shall gather all its plunder into the middle of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, with all of its plunder, to Yahweh your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.
\p Deuteronomy 13.17: \v 17 Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers,
\p Deuteronomy 13.18: \v 18 when you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep all his commandments which I command you today, to do that which is right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.
\p Deuteronomy 14.0: \c 14
\p
\p Deuteronomy 14.1: \v 1 You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
\p Deuteronomy 14.2: \v 2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 14.3: \v 3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.
\p Deuteronomy 14.4: \v 4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
\p Deuteronomy 14.5: \v 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.
\p Deuteronomy 14.6: \v 6 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
\p Deuteronomy 14.7: \v 7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
\p Deuteronomy 14.8: \v 8 The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses.
\p Deuteronomy 14.9: \v 9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.
\p Deuteronomy 14.10: \v 10 You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.
\p Deuteronomy 14.11: \v 11 Of all clean birds you may eat.
\p Deuteronomy 14.12: \v 12 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
\p Deuteronomy 14.13: \v 13 the red kite, the falcon, the kite after its kind,
\p Deuteronomy 14.14: \v 14 every raven after its kind,
\p Deuteronomy 14.15: \v 15 the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk after its kind,
\p Deuteronomy 14.16: \v 16 the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,
\p Deuteronomy 14.17: \v 17 the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,
\p Deuteronomy 14.18: \v 18 the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
\p Deuteronomy 14.19: \v 19 All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.
\p Deuteronomy 14.20: \v 20 Of all clean birds you may eat.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 14.21: \v 21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God.
\p You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 14.22: \v 22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.
\p Deuteronomy 14.23: \v 23 You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.
\p Deuteronomy 14.24: \v 24 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when Yahweh your God blesses you,
\p Deuteronomy 14.25: \v 25 then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose.
\p Deuteronomy 14.26: \v 26 You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
\p Deuteronomy 14.27: \v 27 You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
\p Deuteronomy 14.28: \v 28 At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.
\p Deuteronomy 14.29: \v 29 The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
\p Deuteronomy 15.0: \c 15
\p
\p Deuteronomy 15.1: \v 1 At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.
\p Deuteronomy 15.2: \v 2 This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother, because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.
\p Deuteronomy 15.3: \v 3 Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.
\p Deuteronomy 15.4: \v 4 However there will be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess)
\p Deuteronomy 15.5: \v 5 if only you diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today.
\p Deuteronomy 15.6: \v 6 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.
\p Deuteronomy 15.7: \v 7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
\p Deuteronomy 15.8: \v 8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.
\p Deuteronomy 15.9: \v 9 Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
\p Deuteronomy 15.10: \v 10 You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.
\p Deuteronomy 15.11: \v 11 For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
\p Deuteronomy 15.12: \v 12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
\p Deuteronomy 15.13: \v 13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.
\p Deuteronomy 15.14: \v 14 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
\p Deuteronomy 15.15: \v 15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
\p Deuteronomy 15.16: \v 16 It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you,
\p Deuteronomy 15.17: \v 17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.
\p Deuteronomy 15.18: \v 18 It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you; for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
\p Deuteronomy 15.19: \v 19 You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
\p Deuteronomy 15.20: \v 20 You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.
\p Deuteronomy 15.21: \v 21 If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
\p Deuteronomy 15.22: \v 22 You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.
\p Deuteronomy 15.23: \v 23 Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.
\p Deuteronomy 16.0: \c 16
\p
\p Deuteronomy 16.1: \v 1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
\p Deuteronomy 16.2: \v 2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
\p Deuteronomy 16.3: \v 3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
\p Deuteronomy 16.4: \v 4 No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the meat, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.
\p Deuteronomy 16.5: \v 5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you;
\p Deuteronomy 16.6: \v 6 but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt.
\p Deuteronomy 16.7: \v 7 You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.
\p Deuteronomy 16.8: \v 8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work.
\p Deuteronomy 16.9: \v 9 You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.
\p Deuteronomy 16.10: \v 10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a free will offering of your hand, which you shall give according to how Yahweh your God blesses you.
\p Deuteronomy 16.11: \v 11 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
\p Deuteronomy 16.12: \v 12 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.
\p Deuteronomy 16.13: \v 13 You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press.
\p Deuteronomy 16.14: \v 14 You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.
\p Deuteronomy 16.15: \v 15 You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
\p Deuteronomy 16.16: \v 16 Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.
\p Deuteronomy 16.17: \v 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you.
\p Deuteronomy 16.18: \v 18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
\p Deuteronomy 16.19: \v 19 You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
\p Deuteronomy 16.20: \v 20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
\p Deuteronomy 16.21: \v 21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.
\p Deuteronomy 16.22: \v 22 Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.
\p Deuteronomy 17.0: \c 17
\p
\p Deuteronomy 17.1: \v 1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 17.2: \v 2 If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,
\p Deuteronomy 17.3: \v 3 and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,
\p Deuteronomy 17.4: \v 4 and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,
\p Deuteronomy 17.5: \v 5 then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
\p Deuteronomy 17.6: \v 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
\p Deuteronomy 17.7: \v 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 17.8: \v 8 If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.
\p Deuteronomy 17.9: \v 9 You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.
\p Deuteronomy 17.10: \v 10 You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you.
\p Deuteronomy 17.11: \v 11 According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
\p Deuteronomy 17.12: \v 12 The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.
\p Deuteronomy 17.13: \v 13 All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 17.14: \v 14 When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,”
\p Deuteronomy 17.15: \v 15 you shall surely set him whom Yahweh your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
\p Deuteronomy 17.16: \v 16 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”
\p Deuteronomy 17.17: \v 17 He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 17.18: \v 18 It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.
\p Deuteronomy 17.19: \v 19 It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
\p Deuteronomy 17.20: \v 20 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.
\p Deuteronomy 18.0: \c 18
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\p Deuteronomy 18.1: \v 1 The priests and the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire and his portion.
\p Deuteronomy 18.2: \v 2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
\p Deuteronomy 18.3: \v 3 This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest: the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts.
\p Deuteronomy 18.4: \v 4 You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep.
\p Deuteronomy 18.5: \v 5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in Yahweh’s name, him and his sons forever.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 18.6: \v 6 If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose,
\p Deuteronomy 18.7: \v 7 then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
\p Deuteronomy 18.8: \v 8 They shall have like portions to eat, in addition to that which comes from the sale of his family possessions.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 18.9: \v 9 When you have come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations.
\p Deuteronomy 18.10: \v 10 There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who tells fortunes, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
\p Deuteronomy 18.11: \v 11 or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
\p Deuteronomy 18.12: \v 12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.
\p Deuteronomy 18.13: \v 13 You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.
\p Deuteronomy 18.14: \v 14 For these nations that you shall dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.
\p Deuteronomy 18.15: \v 15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
\p Deuteronomy 18.16: \v 16 This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again Yahweh my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 18.17: \v 17 Yahweh said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken.
\p Deuteronomy 18.18: \v 18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
\p Deuteronomy 18.19: \v 19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
\p Deuteronomy 18.20: \v 20 But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 18.21: \v 21 You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?”
\p Deuteronomy 18.22: \v 22 When a prophet speaks in Yahweh’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.
\p Deuteronomy 19.0: \c 19
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\p Deuteronomy 19.1: \v 1 When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
\p Deuteronomy 19.2: \v 2 you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess.
\p Deuteronomy 19.3: \v 3 You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there.
\p Deuteronomy 19.4: \v 4 This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past—
\p Deuteronomy 19.5: \v 5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live.
\p Deuteronomy 19.6: \v 6 Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while hot anger is in his heart and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.
\p Deuteronomy 19.7: \v 7 Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves.
\p Deuteronomy 19.8: \v 8 If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
\p Deuteronomy 19.9: \v 9 and if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways, then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, in addition to these three.
\p Deuteronomy 19.10: \v 10 This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.
\p Deuteronomy 19.11: \v 11 But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;
\p Deuteronomy 19.12: \v 12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
\p Deuteronomy 19.13: \v 13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 19.14: \v 14 You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 19.15: \v 15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
\p Deuteronomy 19.16: \v 16 If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,
\p Deuteronomy 19.17: \v 17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;
\p Deuteronomy 19.18: \v 18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,
\p Deuteronomy 19.19: \v 19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
\p Deuteronomy 19.20: \v 20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.
\p Deuteronomy 19.21: \v 21 Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
\p Deuteronomy 20.0: \c 20
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\p Deuteronomy 20.1: \v 1 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
\p Deuteronomy 20.2: \v 2 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,
\p Deuteronomy 20.3: \v 3 and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
\p Deuteronomy 20.4: \v 4 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 20.5: \v 5 The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
\p Deuteronomy 20.6: \v 6 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.
\p Deuteronomy 20.7: \v 7 What man is there who has pledged to be married to a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”
\p Deuteronomy 20.8: \v 8 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”
\p Deuteronomy 20.9: \v 9 It shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 20.10: \v 10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
\p Deuteronomy 20.11: \v 11 It shall be, if it gives you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you.
\p Deuteronomy 20.12: \v 12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it.
\p Deuteronomy 20.13: \v 13 When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;
\p Deuteronomy 20.14: \v 14 but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
\p Deuteronomy 20.15: \v 15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
\p Deuteronomy 20.16: \v 16 But of the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
\p Deuteronomy 20.17: \v 17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
\p Deuteronomy 20.18: \v 18 that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
\p Deuteronomy 20.19: \v 19 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?
\p Deuteronomy 20.20: \v 20 Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.
\p Deuteronomy 21.0: \c 21
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\p Deuteronomy 21.1: \v 1 If someone is found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him,
\p Deuteronomy 21.2: \v 2 then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.
\p Deuteronomy 21.3: \v 3 It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke.
\p Deuteronomy 21.4: \v 4 The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.
\p Deuteronomy 21.5: \v 5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided.
\p Deuteronomy 21.6: \v 6 All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.
\p Deuteronomy 21.7: \v 7 They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
\p Deuteronomy 21.8: \v 8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.
\p Deuteronomy 21.9: \v 9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 21.10: \v 10 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands and you carry them away captive,
\p Deuteronomy 21.11: \v 11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife,
\p Deuteronomy 21.12: \v 12 then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.
\p Deuteronomy 21.13: \v 13 She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
\p Deuteronomy 21.14: \v 14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 21.15: \v 15 If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,
\p Deuteronomy 21.16: \v 16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;
\p Deuteronomy 21.17: \v 17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 21.18: \v 18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,
\p Deuteronomy 21.19: \v 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.
\p Deuteronomy 21.20: \v 20 They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
\p Deuteronomy 21.21: \v 21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 21.22: \v 22 If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
\p Deuteronomy 21.23: \v 23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
\p Deuteronomy 22.0: \c 22
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\p Deuteronomy 22.1: \v 1 You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.
\p Deuteronomy 22.2: \v 2 If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him.
\p Deuteronomy 22.3: \v 3 So you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found. You may not hide yourself.
\p Deuteronomy 22.4: \v 4 You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 22.5: \v 5 A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 22.6: \v 6 If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young.
\p Deuteronomy 22.7: \v 7 You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 22.8: \v 8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 22.9: \v 9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
\p Deuteronomy 22.10: \v 10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
\p Deuteronomy 22.11: \v 11 You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 22.12: \v 12 You shall make yourselves fringes\f + \fr 22:12 \ft or, tassels\f* on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 22.13: \v 13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,
\p Deuteronomy 22.14: \v 14 accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;”
\p Deuteronomy 22.15: \v 15 then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.
\p Deuteronomy 22.16: \v 16 The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.
\p Deuteronomy 22.17: \v 17 Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
\p Deuteronomy 22.18: \v 18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.
\p Deuteronomy 22.19: \v 19 They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver,\f + \fr 22:19 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 100 shekels is about a kilogram or 2.2 pounds.\f* and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 22.20: \v 20 But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady,
\p Deuteronomy 22.21: \v 21 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 22.22: \v 22 If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.
\p Deuteronomy 22.23: \v 23 If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her,
\p Deuteronomy 22.24: \v 24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
\p Deuteronomy 22.25: \v 25 But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die;
\p Deuteronomy 22.26: \v 26 but to the lady you shall do nothing. There is in the lady no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter;
\p Deuteronomy 22.27: \v 27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her.
\p Deuteronomy 22.28: \v 28 If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her and lies with her, and they are found,
\p Deuteronomy 22.29: \v 29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels\f + \fr 22:29 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.
\p Deuteronomy 22.30: \v 30 A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.
\p Deuteronomy 23.0: \c 23
\p
\p Deuteronomy 23.1: \v 1 He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
\p Deuteronomy 23.2: \v 2 A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
\p Deuteronomy 23.3: \v 3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into Yahweh’s assembly forever,
\p Deuteronomy 23.4: \v 4 because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
\p Deuteronomy 23.5: \v 5 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
\p Deuteronomy 23.6: \v 6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
\p Deuteronomy 23.7: \v 7 You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
\p Deuteronomy 23.8: \v 8 The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 23.9: \v 9 When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.
\p Deuteronomy 23.10: \v 10 If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens to him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp;
\p Deuteronomy 23.11: \v 11 but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.
\p Deuteronomy 23.12: \v 12 You shall have a place also outside of the camp where you go relieve yourself.
\p Deuteronomy 23.13: \v 13 You shall have a trowel among your weapons. It shall be, when you relieve yourself, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover your excrement;
\p Deuteronomy 23.14: \v 14 for Yahweh your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 23.15: \v 15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you.
\p Deuteronomy 23.16: \v 16 He shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 23.17: \v 17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
\p Deuteronomy 23.18: \v 18 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute,\f + \fr 23:18 \ft literally, dog\f* into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 23.19: \v 19 You shall not lend on interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.
\p Deuteronomy 23.20: \v 20 You may charge a foreigner interest; but you shall not your brother interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 23.21: \v 21 When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it, for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
\p Deuteronomy 23.22: \v 22 But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you.
\p Deuteronomy 23.23: \v 23 You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a free will offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.
\p Deuteronomy 23.24: \v 24 When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container.
\p Deuteronomy 23.25: \v 25 When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.
\p Deuteronomy 24.0: \c 24
\p
\p Deuteronomy 24.1: \v 1 When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a certificate of divorce, put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
\p Deuteronomy 24.2: \v 2 When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
\p Deuteronomy 24.3: \v 3 If the latter husband hates her, and write her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;
\p Deuteronomy 24.4: \v 4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled; for that would be an abomination to Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
\p Deuteronomy 24.5: \v 5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 24.6: \v 6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
\p Deuteronomy 24.7: \v 7 If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
\p Deuteronomy 24.8: \v 8 Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
\p Deuteronomy 24.9: \v 9 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 24.10: \v 10 When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
\p Deuteronomy 24.11: \v 11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.
\p Deuteronomy 24.12: \v 12 If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
\p Deuteronomy 24.13: \v 13 You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 24.14: \v 14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.
\p Deuteronomy 24.15: \v 15 In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 24.16: \v 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 24.17: \v 17 You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
\p Deuteronomy 24.18: \v 18 but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 24.19: \v 19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
\p Deuteronomy 24.20: \v 20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 24.21: \v 21 When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
\p Deuteronomy 24.22: \v 22 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
\p Deuteronomy 25.0: \c 25
\p
\p Deuteronomy 25.1: \v 1 If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
\p Deuteronomy 25.2: \v 2 It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
\p Deuteronomy 25.3: \v 3 He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 25.4: \v 4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 25.5: \v 5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
\p Deuteronomy 25.6: \v 6 It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 25.7: \v 7 If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”
\p Deuteronomy 25.8: \v 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
\p Deuteronomy 25.9: \v 9 then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”
\p Deuteronomy 25.10: \v 10 His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his sandal removed.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 25.11: \v 11 When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and grabs him by his private parts,
\p Deuteronomy 25.12: \v 12 then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 25.13: \v 13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.
\p Deuteronomy 25.14: \v 14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.
\p Deuteronomy 25.15: \v 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
\p Deuteronomy 25.16: \v 16 For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 25.17: \v 17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt;
\p Deuteronomy 25.18: \v 18 how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.
\p Deuteronomy 25.19: \v 19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.
\p Deuteronomy 26.0: \c 26
\p
\p Deuteronomy 26.1: \v 1 It shall be, when you have come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it,
\p Deuteronomy 26.2: \v 2 that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
\p Deuteronomy 26.3: \v 3 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.”
\p Deuteronomy 26.4: \v 4 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar.
\p Deuteronomy 26.5: \v 5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father\f + \fr 26:5 \ft or, forefather\f* was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.
\p Deuteronomy 26.6: \v 6 The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.
\p Deuteronomy 26.7: \v 7 Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
\p Deuteronomy 26.8: \v 8 Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;
\p Deuteronomy 26.9: \v 9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
\p Deuteronomy 26.10: \v 10 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me.” You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.
\p Deuteronomy 26.11: \v 11 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 26.12: \v 12 When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.
\p Deuteronomy 26.13: \v 13 You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
\p Deuteronomy 26.14: \v 14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to Yahweh my God’s voice. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
\p Deuteronomy 26.15: \v 15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 26.16: \v 16 Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
\p Deuteronomy 26.17: \v 17 You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.
\p Deuteronomy 26.18: \v 18 Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.
\p Deuteronomy 26.19: \v 19 He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
\p Deuteronomy 27.0: \c 27
\p
\p Deuteronomy 27.1: \v 1 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandment which I command you today.
\p Deuteronomy 27.2: \v 2 It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and coat them with plaster.
\p Deuteronomy 27.3: \v 3 You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over, that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
\p Deuteronomy 27.4: \v 4 It shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall coat them with plaster.
\p Deuteronomy 27.5: \v 5 There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them.
\p Deuteronomy 27.6: \v 6 You shall build Yahweh your God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt offerings on it to Yahweh your God.
\p Deuteronomy 27.7: \v 7 You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.
\p Deuteronomy 27.8: \v 8 You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 27.9: \v 9 Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silent and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of Yahweh your God.
\p Deuteronomy 27.10: \v 10 You shall therefore obey Yahweh your God’s voice, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 27.11: \v 11 Moses commanded the people the same day, saying,
\p Deuteronomy 27.12: \v 12 “These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
\p Deuteronomy 27.13: \v 13 These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
\p Deuteronomy 27.14: \v 14 With a loud voice, the Levites shall say to all the men of Israel,
\p Deuteronomy 27.15: \v 15 ‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’
\p All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\p Deuteronomy 27.16: \v 16 ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\p Deuteronomy 27.17: \v 17 ‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\p Deuteronomy 27.18: \v 18 ‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\p Deuteronomy 27.19: \v 19 ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\p Deuteronomy 27.20: \v 20 ‘Cursed is he who lies with\f + \fr 27:20 \ft i.e., has sexual relations with\f* his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\p Deuteronomy 27.21: \v 21 ‘Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\p Deuteronomy 27.22: \v 22 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\p Deuteronomy 27.23: \v 23 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\p Deuteronomy 27.24: \v 24 ‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbor.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\p Deuteronomy 27.25: \v 25 ‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
\p
\p Deuteronomy 27.26: \v 26 ‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’
\p All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”
\p Deuteronomy 28.0: \c 28
\p
\p Deuteronomy 28.1: \v 1 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
\p Deuteronomy 28.2: \v 2 All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
\p Deuteronomy 28.3: \v 3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
\p Deuteronomy 28.4: \v 4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
\p Deuteronomy 28.5: \v 5 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
\p Deuteronomy 28.6: \v 6 You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.
\p Deuteronomy 28.7: \v 7 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.
\p Deuteronomy 28.8: \v 8 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
\p Deuteronomy 28.9: \v 9 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.
\p Deuteronomy 28.10: \v 10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and they will be afraid of you.
\p Deuteronomy 28.11: \v 11 Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
\p Deuteronomy 28.12: \v 12 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
\p Deuteronomy 28.13: \v 13 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you today, to observe and to do,
\p Deuteronomy 28.14: \v 14 and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 28.15: \v 15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.
\p Deuteronomy 28.16: \v 16 You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.
\p Deuteronomy 28.17: \v 17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
\p Deuteronomy 28.18: \v 18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
\p Deuteronomy 28.19: \v 19 You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out.
\p Deuteronomy 28.20: \v 20 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
\p Deuteronomy 28.21: \v 21 Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.
\p Deuteronomy 28.22: \v 22 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.
\p Deuteronomy 28.23: \v 23 Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
\p Deuteronomy 28.24: \v 24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.
\p Deuteronomy 28.25: \v 25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
\p Deuteronomy 28.26: \v 26 Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.
\p Deuteronomy 28.27: \v 27 Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
\p Deuteronomy 28.28: \v 28 Yahweh will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.
\p Deuteronomy 28.29: \v 29 You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.
\p Deuteronomy 28.30: \v 30 You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.
\p Deuteronomy 28.31: \v 31 Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.
\p Deuteronomy 28.32: \v 32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.
\p Deuteronomy 28.33: \v 33 A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,
\p Deuteronomy 28.34: \v 34 so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.
\p Deuteronomy 28.35: \v 35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
\p Deuteronomy 28.36: \v 36 Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.
\p Deuteronomy 28.37: \v 37 You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
\p Deuteronomy 28.38: \v 38 You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
\p Deuteronomy 28.39: \v 39 You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.
\p Deuteronomy 28.40: \v 40 You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
\p Deuteronomy 28.41: \v 41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
\p Deuteronomy 28.42: \v 42 Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.
\p Deuteronomy 28.43: \v 43 The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.
\p Deuteronomy 28.44: \v 44 He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 28.45: \v 45 All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.
\p Deuteronomy 28.46: \v 46 They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.
\p Deuteronomy 28.47: \v 47 Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
\p Deuteronomy 28.48: \v 48 therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
\p Deuteronomy 28.49: \v 49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,
\p Deuteronomy 28.50: \v 50 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.
\p Deuteronomy 28.51: \v 51 They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
\p Deuteronomy 28.52: \v 52 They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Yahweh your God has given you.
\p Deuteronomy 28.53: \v 53 You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
\p Deuteronomy 28.54: \v 54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,
\p Deuteronomy 28.55: \v 55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
\p Deuteronomy 28.56: \v 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,
\p Deuteronomy 28.57: \v 57 toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
\p Deuteronomy 28.58: \v 58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH your God,
\p Deuteronomy 28.59: \v 59 then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
\p Deuteronomy 28.60: \v 60 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.
\p Deuteronomy 28.61: \v 61 Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you until you are destroyed.
\p Deuteronomy 28.62: \v 62 You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
\p Deuteronomy 28.63: \v 63 It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.
\p Deuteronomy 28.64: \v 64 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
\p Deuteronomy 28.65: \v 65 Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.
\p Deuteronomy 28.66: \v 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.
\p Deuteronomy 28.67: \v 67 In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.
\p Deuteronomy 28.68: \v 68 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.
\p Deuteronomy 29.0: \c 29
\p
\p Deuteronomy 29.1: \v 1 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
\p Deuteronomy 29.2: \v 2 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them:
\p Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
\p Deuteronomy 29.3: \v 3 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
\p Deuteronomy 29.4: \v 4 But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
\p Deuteronomy 29.5: \v 5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.
\p Deuteronomy 29.6: \v 6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
\p Deuteronomy 29.7: \v 7 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we struck them.
\p Deuteronomy 29.8: \v 8 We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
\p Deuteronomy 29.9: \v 9 Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
\p Deuteronomy 29.10: \v 10 All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
\p Deuteronomy 29.11: \v 11 your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,
\p Deuteronomy 29.12: \v 12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today,
\p Deuteronomy 29.13: \v 13 that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
\p Deuteronomy 29.14: \v 14 Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,
\p Deuteronomy 29.15: \v 15 but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today
\p Deuteronomy 29.16: \v 16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed;
\p Deuteronomy 29.17: \v 17 and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them);
\p Deuteronomy 29.18: \v 18 lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
\p Deuteronomy 29.19: \v 19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.
\p Deuteronomy 29.20: \v 20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
\p Deuteronomy 29.21: \v 21 Yahweh will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 29.22: \v 22 The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick,
\p Deuteronomy 29.23: \v 23 that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
\p Deuteronomy 29.24: \v 24 Even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 29.25: \v 25 Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
\p Deuteronomy 29.26: \v 26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them.
\p Deuteronomy 29.27: \v 27 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.
\p Deuteronomy 29.28: \v 28 Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 29.29: \v 29 The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
\p Deuteronomy 30.0: \c 30
\p
\p Deuteronomy 30.1: \v 1 It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,
\p Deuteronomy 30.2: \v 2 and return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,
\p Deuteronomy 30.3: \v 3 that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
\p Deuteronomy 30.4: \v 4 If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.
\p Deuteronomy 30.5: \v 5 Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it. He will do you good, and increase your numbers more than your fathers.
\p Deuteronomy 30.6: \v 6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
\p Deuteronomy 30.7: \v 7 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
\p Deuteronomy 30.8: \v 8 You shall return and obey Yahweh’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today.
\p Deuteronomy 30.9: \v 9 Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,
\p Deuteronomy 30.10: \v 10 if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 30.11: \v 11 For this commandment which I command you today is not too hard for you or too distant.
\p Deuteronomy 30.12: \v 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will go up for us to heaven, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”
\p Deuteronomy 30.13: \v 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who will go over the sea for us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”
\p Deuteronomy 30.14: \v 14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
\p Deuteronomy 30.15: \v 15 Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.
\p Deuteronomy 30.16: \v 16 For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
\p Deuteronomy 30.17: \v 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,
\p Deuteronomy 30.18: \v 18 I declare to you today that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
\p Deuteronomy 30.19: \v 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,
\p Deuteronomy 30.20: \v 20 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
\p Deuteronomy 31.0: \c 31
\p
\p Deuteronomy 31.1: \v 1 Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.
\p Deuteronomy 31.2: \v 2 He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’
\p Deuteronomy 31.3: \v 3 Yahweh your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
\p Deuteronomy 31.4: \v 4 Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.
\p Deuteronomy 31.5: \v 5 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.
\p Deuteronomy 31.6: \v 6 Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 31.7: \v 7 Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.
\p Deuteronomy 31.8: \v 8 Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 31.9: \v 9 Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.
\p Deuteronomy 31.10: \v 10 Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of booths,
\p Deuteronomy 31.11: \v 11 when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
\p Deuteronomy 31.12: \v 12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, learn, fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law,
\p Deuteronomy 31.13: \v 13 and that their children, who have not known, may hear and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 31.14: \v 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.”
\p Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 31.15: \v 15 Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the Tent’s door.
\p Deuteronomy 31.16: \v 16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.
\p Deuteronomy 31.17: \v 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
\p Deuteronomy 31.18: \v 18 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 31.19: \v 19 “Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
\p Deuteronomy 31.20: \v 20 For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
\p Deuteronomy 31.21: \v 21 It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 31.22: \v 22 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.
\p
\p Deuteronomy 31.23: \v 23 He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 31.24: \v 24 When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
\p Deuteronomy 31.25: \v 25 Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, saying,
\p Deuteronomy 31.26: \v 26 “Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, that it may be there for a witness against you.
\p Deuteronomy 31.27: \v 27 For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?
\p Deuteronomy 31.28: \v 28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
\p Deuteronomy 31.29: \v 29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 31.30: \v 30 Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.
\p Deuteronomy 32.0: \c 32
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.1: \v 1 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak.
\q2 Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.2: \v 2 My doctrine will drop as the rain.
\q2 My speech will condense as the dew,
\q2 as the misty rain on the tender grass,
\q2 as the showers on the herb.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.3: \v 3 For I will proclaim Yahweh’s name.
\q2 Ascribe greatness to our God!
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.4: \v 4 The Rock: his work is perfect,
\q2 for all his ways are just.
\q2 A God of faithfulness who does no wrong,
\q2 just and right is he.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.5: \v 5 They have dealt corruptly with him.
\q2 They are not his children, because of their defect.
\q2 They are a perverse and crooked generation.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.6: \v 6 Is this the way you repay Yahweh,
\q2 foolish and unwise people?
\q1 Isn’t he your father who has bought you?
\q2 He has made you and established you.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.7: \v 7 Remember the days of old.
\q2 Consider the years of many generations.
\q1 Ask your father, and he will show you;
\q2 your elders, and they will tell you.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.8: \v 8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
\q2 when he separated the children of men,
\q1 he set the bounds of the peoples
\q2 according to the number of the children of Israel.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.9: \v 9 For Yahweh’s portion is his people.
\q2 Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.10: \v 10 He found him in a desert land,
\q2 in the waste howling wilderness.
\q1 He surrounded him.
\q2 He cared for him.
\q2 He kept him as the apple of his eye.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.11: \v 11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest,
\q2 that flutters over her young,
\q1 he spread abroad his wings,
\q2 he took them,
\q2 he bore them on his feathers.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.12: \v 12 Yahweh alone led him.
\q2 There was no foreign god with him.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.13: \v 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth.
\q2 He ate the increase of the field.
\q1 He caused him to suck honey out of the rock,
\q2 oil out of the flinty rock;
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.14: \v 14 butter from the herd, and milk from the flock,
\q2 with fat of lambs,
\q2 rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
\q2 with the finest of the wheat.
\q2 From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.15: \v 15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked.
\q2 You have grown fat.
\q2 You have grown thick.
\q2 You have become sleek.
\q1 Then he abandoned God who made him,
\q2 and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.16: \v 16 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods.
\q2 They provoked him to anger with abominations.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.17: \v 17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,
\q2 to gods that they didn’t know,
\q2 to new gods that came up recently,
\q2 which your fathers didn’t dread.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.18: \v 18 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful,
\q2 and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.19: \v 19 Yahweh saw and abhorred,
\q2 because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.20: \v 20 He said, “I will hide my face from them.
\q2 I will see what their end will be;
\q1 for they are a very perverse generation,
\q2 children in whom is no faithfulness.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.21: \v 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God.
\q2 They have provoked me to anger with their vanities.
\q1 I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people.
\q2 I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.22: \v 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger,
\q2 that burns to the lowest Sheol,\f + \fr 32:22 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 devours the earth with its increase,
\q2 and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
\b
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.23: \v 23 “I will heap evils on them.
\q2 I will spend my arrows on them.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.24: \v 24 They shall be wasted with hunger,
\q2 and devoured with burning heat
\q2 and bitter destruction.
\q1 I will send the teeth of animals on them,
\q2 with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.25: \v 25 Outside the sword will bereave,
\q2 and in the rooms,
\q2 terror on both young man and virgin,
\q2 the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.26: \v 26 I said that I would scatter them afar.
\q2 I would make their memory to cease from among men;
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.27: \v 27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
\q2 lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,
\q2 lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted,
\q2 Yahweh has not done all this.’”
\b
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.28: \v 28 For they are a nation void of counsel.
\q2 There is no understanding in them.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.29: \v 29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,
\q2 that they would consider their latter end!
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.30: \v 30 How could one chase a thousand,
\q2 and two put ten thousand to flight,
\q1 unless their Rock had sold them,
\q2 and Yahweh had delivered them up?
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.31: \v 31 For their rock is not as our Rock,
\q2 even our enemies themselves concede.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.32: \v 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
\q2 of the fields of Gomorrah.
\q1 Their grapes are poison grapes.
\q2 Their clusters are bitter.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.33: \v 33 Their wine is the poison of serpents,
\q2 the cruel venom of asps.
\b
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.34: \v 34 “Isn’t this laid up in store with me,
\q2 sealed up among my treasures?
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.35: \v 35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
\q2 at the time when their foot slides;
\q1 for the day of their calamity is at hand.
\q2 Their doom rushes at them.”
\b
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.36: \v 36 For Yahweh will judge his people,
\q2 and have compassion on his servants,
\q1 when he sees that their power is gone;
\q2 that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.37: \v 37 He will say, “Where are their gods,
\q2 the rock in which they took refuge;
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.38: \v 38 which ate the fat of their sacrifices,
\q2 and drank the wine of their drink offering?
\q1 Let them rise up and help you!
\q2 Let them be your protection.
\b
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.39: \v 39 “See now that I myself am he.
\q2 There is no god with me.
\q1 I kill and I make alive.
\q2 I wound and I heal.
\q2 There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.40: \v 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare,
\q2 as I live forever,
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.41: \v 41 if I sharpen my glittering sword,
\q2 my hand grasps it in judgment;
\q1 I will take vengeance on my adversaries,
\q2 and will repay those who hate me.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.42: \v 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood.
\q2 My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives,
\q2 from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”
\b
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 32.43: \v 43 Rejoice, you nations, with his people,
\q2 for he will avenge the blood of his servants.
\q2 He will take vengeance on his adversaries,
\q2 and will make atonement for his land and for his people.\f + \fr 32:43 \ft For this verse, LXX reads: Rejoice, you heavens, with him, and let all the angels of God worship him; rejoice you Gentiles, with his people, and let all the sons of God strengthen themselves in him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons, and he will render vengeance, and recompense justice to his enemies, and will reward them that hate him; and the Lord shall purge the land of his people.\f*
\p
\p Deuteronomy 32.44: \v 44 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
\p Deuteronomy 32.45: \v 45 Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel.
\p Deuteronomy 32.46: \v 46 He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
\p Deuteronomy 32.47: \v 47 For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 32.48: \v 48 Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
\p Deuteronomy 32.49: \v 49 “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across from Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession.
\p Deuteronomy 32.50: \v 50 Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;
\p Deuteronomy 32.51: \v 51 because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t uphold my holiness among the children of Israel.
\p Deuteronomy 32.52: \v 52 For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.”
\p Deuteronomy 33.0: \c 33
\p
\p Deuteronomy 33.1: \v 1 This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
\p Deuteronomy 33.2: \v 2 He said,
\q1 “Yahweh came from Sinai,
\q2 and rose from Seir to them.
\q1 He shone from Mount Paran.
\q2 He came from the ten thousands of holy ones.
\q2 At his right hand was a fiery law for them.\f + \fr 33:2 \ft another manuscript reads “He came with myriads of holy ones from the south, from his mountain slopes.”\f*
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.3: \v 3 Yes, he loves the people.
\q2 All his saints are in your hand.
\q2 They sat down at your feet.
\q2 Each receives your words.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.4: \v 4 Moses commanded us a law,
\q2 an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.5: \v 5 He was king in Jeshurun,
\q2 when the heads of the people were gathered,
\q2 all the tribes of Israel together.
\b
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.6: \v 6 “Let Reuben live, and not die;
\q2 Nor let his men be few.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 33.7: \v 7 This is for Judah. He said,
\q1 “Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah.
\q2 Bring him in to his people.
\q1 With his hands he contended for himself.
\q2 You shall be a help against his adversaries.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 33.8: \v 8 About Levi he said,
\q1 “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one,
\q2 whom you proved at Massah,
\q2 with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.9: \v 9 He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’
\q2 He didn’t acknowledge his brothers,
\q2 nor did he know his own children;
\q1 for they have observed your word,
\q2 and keep your covenant.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.10: \v 10 They shall teach Jacob your ordinances,
\q2 and Israel your law.
\q1 They shall put incense before you,
\q2 and whole burnt offering on your altar.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.11: \v 11 Yahweh, bless his skills.
\q2 Accept the work of his hands.
\q1 Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him,
\q2 of those who hate him, that they not rise again.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 33.12: \v 12 About Benjamin he said,
\q1 “The beloved of Yahweh will dwell in safety by him.
\q2 He covers him all day long.
\q2 He dwells between his shoulders.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 33.13: \v 13 About Joseph he said,
\q1 “His land is blessed by Yahweh,
\q2 for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew,
\q2 for the deep that couches beneath,
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.14: \v 14 for the precious things of the fruits of the sun,
\q2 for the precious things that the moon can yield,
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.15: \v 15 for the best things of the ancient mountains,
\q2 for the precious things of the everlasting hills,
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.16: \v 16 for the precious things of the earth and its fullness,
\q2 the good will of him who lived in the bush.\f + \fr 33:16 \ft i.e., the burning bush of Exodus 3:3-4.\f*
\q1 Let this come on the head of Joseph,
\q2 on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.17: \v 17 Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd.
\q2 His horns are the horns of the wild ox.
\q2 With them he will push all the peoples to the ends of the earth.
\q1 They are the ten thousands of Ephraim.
\q2 They are the thousands of Manasseh.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 33.18: \v 18 About Zebulun he said,
\q1 “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out;
\q2 and Issachar, in your tents.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.19: \v 19 They will call the peoples to the mountain.
\q2 There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness,
\q1 for they will draw out the abundance of the seas,
\q2 the hidden treasures of the sand.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 33.20: \v 20 About Gad he said,
\q1 “He who enlarges Gad is blessed.
\q2 He dwells as a lioness,
\q2 and tears the arm and the crown of the head.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.21: \v 21 He provided the first part for himself,
\q2 for the lawgiver’s portion reserved was reserved for him.
\q1 He came with the heads of the people.
\q2 He executed the righteousness of Yahweh,
\q2 His ordinances with Israel.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 33.22: \v 22 About Dan he said,
\q1 “Dan is a lion’s cub
\q2 that leaps out of Bashan.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 33.23: \v 23 About Naphtali he said,
\q1 “Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
\q2 full of Yahweh’s blessing,
\q2 Possess the west and the south.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 33.24: \v 24 About Asher he said,
\q1 “Asher is blessed with children.
\q2 Let him be acceptable to his brothers.
\q2 Let him dip his foot in oil.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.25: \v 25 Your bars will be iron and bronze.
\q2 As your days, so your strength will be.
\b
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.26: \v 26 “There is no one like God, Jeshurun,
\q2 who rides on the heavens for your help,
\q2 in his excellency on the skies.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.27: \v 27 The eternal God is your dwelling place.
\q2 Underneath are the everlasting arms.
\q1 He thrust out the enemy from before you,
\q2 and said, ‘Destroy!’
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.28: \v 28 Israel dwells in safety,
\q2 the fountain of Jacob alone,
\q1 In a land of grain and new wine.
\q2 Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
\q1
\p Deuteronomy 33.29: \v 29 You are happy, Israel!
\q2 Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh,
\q2 the shield of your help,
\q2 the sword of your excellency?
\q1 Your enemies will submit themselves to you.
\q2 You will tread on their high places.”
\p Deuteronomy 34.0: \c 34
\p
\p Deuteronomy 34.1: \v 1 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposite Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead to Dan,
\p Deuteronomy 34.2: \v 2 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the Western Sea,
\p Deuteronomy 34.3: \v 3 and the south,\f + \fr 34:3 \ft or, Negev\f* and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.
\p Deuteronomy 34.4: \v 4 Yahweh said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 34.5: \v 5 So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word.
\p Deuteronomy 34.6: \v 6 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day.
\p Deuteronomy 34.7: \v 7 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.
\p Deuteronomy 34.8: \v 8 The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
\p Deuteronomy 34.9: \v 9 Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Deuteronomy 34.10: \v 10 Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,
\p Deuteronomy 34.11: \v 11 in all the signs and the wonders which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
\p Deuteronomy 34.12: \v 12 and in all the mighty hand, and in all the awesome deeds, which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
\p Joshua 0.0: \id JOS World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Joshua
\toc1 The Book of Joshua
\toc2 Joshua
\toc3 Jos
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Joshua
\p Joshua 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Joshua 1.1: \v 1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh,\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying,
\p Joshua 1.2: \v 2 “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go across this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land which I am giving to them, even to the children of Israel.
\p Joshua 1.3: \v 3 I have given you every place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses.
\p Joshua 1.4: \v 4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.
\p Joshua 1.5: \v 5 No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
\p
\p Joshua 1.6: \v 6 “Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
\p Joshua 1.7: \v 7 Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
\p Joshua 1.8: \v 8 This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
\p Joshua 1.9: \v 9 Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God\f + \fr 1:9 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* is with you wherever you go.”
\p
\p Joshua 1.10: \v 10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
\p Joshua 1.11: \v 11 “Pass through the middle of the camp, and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess.’”
\p
\p Joshua 1.12: \v 12 Joshua spoke to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, saying,
\p Joshua 1.13: \v 13 “Remember the word which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, saying, ‘Yahweh your God gives you rest, and will give you this land.
\p Joshua 1.14: \v 14 Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall live in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them
\p Joshua 1.15: \v 15 until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.’”
\p
\p Joshua 1.16: \v 16 They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
\p Joshua 1.17: \v 17 Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. Only may Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses.
\p Joshua 1.18: \v 18 Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command him shall himself be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”
\p Joshua 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Joshua 2.1: \v 1 Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.
\p
\p Joshua 2.2: \v 2 The king of Jericho was told, “Behold,\f + \fr 2:2 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land.”
\p
\p Joshua 2.3: \v 3 Jericho’s king sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land.”
\p
\p Joshua 2.4: \v 4 The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came from.
\p Joshua 2.5: \v 5 About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them.”
\p Joshua 2.6: \v 6 But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.
\p Joshua 2.7: \v 7 The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.
\p Joshua 2.8: \v 8 Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof.
\p Joshua 2.9: \v 9 She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
\p Joshua 2.10: \v 10 For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
\p Joshua 2.11: \v 11 As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.
\p Joshua 2.12: \v 12 Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;
\p Joshua 2.13: \v 13 and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.”
\p
\p Joshua 2.14: \v 14 The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”
\p
\p Joshua 2.15: \v 15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.
\p Joshua 2.16: \v 16 She said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way.”
\p
\p Joshua 2.17: \v 17 The men said to her, “We will be guiltless of this your oath which you’ve made us to swear.
\p Joshua 2.18: \v 18 Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.
\p Joshua 2.19: \v 19 It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.
\p Joshua 2.20: \v 20 But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you’ve made us to swear.”
\p
\p Joshua 2.21: \v 21 She said, “Let it be as you have said.” She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the window.
\p
\p Joshua 2.22: \v 22 They went and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them all along the way, but didn’t find them.
\p Joshua 2.23: \v 23 Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, crossed the river, and came to Joshua the son of Nun. They told him all that had happened to them.
\p Joshua 2.24: \v 24 They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”
\p Joshua 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Joshua 3.1: \v 1 Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over.
\p Joshua 3.2: \v 2 After three days, the officers went through the middle of the camp;
\p Joshua 3.3: \v 3 and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, and the Levitical priests bearing it, then leave your place and follow it.
\p Joshua 3.4: \v 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits\f + \fr 3:4 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters, so 2,000 cubits is about 920 meters.\f* by measure—don’t come closer to it—that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before.”
\p
\p Joshua 3.5: \v 5 Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.”
\p
\p Joshua 3.6: \v 6 Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and cross over before the people.” They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
\p
\p Joshua 3.7: \v 7 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
\p Joshua 3.8: \v 8 You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”
\p
\p Joshua 3.9: \v 9 Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.”
\p Joshua 3.10: \v 10 Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.
\p Joshua 3.11: \v 11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord\f + \fr 3:11 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.
\p Joshua 3.12: \v 12 Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
\p Joshua 3.13: \v 13 It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap.”
\p
\p Joshua 3.14: \v 14 When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,
\p Joshua 3.15: \v 15 and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),
\p Joshua 3.16: \v 16 the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.
\p Joshua 3.17: \v 17 The priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.
\p Joshua 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Joshua 4.1: \v 1 When all the nation had completely crossed over the Jordan, Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
\p Joshua 4.2: \v 2 “Take twelve men out of the people, a man out of every tribe,
\p Joshua 4.3: \v 3 and command them, saying, ‘Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you’ll camp tonight.’”
\p
\p Joshua 4.4: \v 4 Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, a man out of every tribe.
\p Joshua 4.5: \v 5 Joshua said to them, “Cross before the ark of Yahweh your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;
\p Joshua 4.6: \v 6 that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’
\p Joshua 4.7: \v 7 then you shall tell them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant. When it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.’”
\p
\p Joshua 4.8: \v 8 The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel. They carried them over with them to the place where they camped, and laid them down there.
\p Joshua 4.9: \v 9 Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.
\p Joshua 4.10: \v 10 For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.
\p Joshua 4.11: \v 11 When all the people had completely crossed over, Yahweh’s ark crossed over with the priests in the presence of the people.
\p
\p Joshua 4.12: \v 12 The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.
\p Joshua 4.13: \v 13 About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war, passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.
\p Joshua 4.14: \v 14 On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
\p
\p Joshua 4.15: \v 15 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
\p Joshua 4.16: \v 16 “Command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, that they come up out of the Jordan.”
\p
\p Joshua 4.17: \v 17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, “Come up out of the Jordan!”
\p Joshua 4.18: \v 18 When the priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet had been lifted up to the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.
\p Joshua 4.19: \v 19 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
\p
\p Joshua 4.20: \v 20 Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal.
\p Joshua 4.21: \v 21 He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’
\p Joshua 4.22: \v 22 Then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
\p Joshua 4.23: \v 23 For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you until you had crossed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had crossed over,
\p Joshua 4.24: \v 24 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh’s hand is mighty, and that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.’”
\p Joshua 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Joshua 5.1: \v 1 When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.
\p Joshua 5.2: \v 2 At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, “Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time.”
\p Joshua 5.3: \v 3 Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
\p Joshua 5.4: \v 4 This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt.
\p Joshua 5.5: \v 5 For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
\p Joshua 5.6: \v 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
\p Joshua 5.7: \v 7 Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.
\p Joshua 5.8: \v 8 When they were done circumcising the whole nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.
\p
\p Joshua 5.9: \v 9 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal\f + \fr 5:9 \ft “Gilgal” sounds like the Hebrew for “roll.”\f* to this day.
\p Joshua 5.10: \v 10 The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
\p Joshua 5.11: \v 11 They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.
\p Joshua 5.12: \v 12 The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
\p
\p Joshua 5.13: \v 13 When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our enemies?”
\p
\p Joshua 5.14: \v 14 He said, “No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh’s army.”
\p Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and asked him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”
\p
\p Joshua 5.15: \v 15 The prince of Yahweh’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals, for the place on which you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.
\p Joshua 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Joshua 6.1: \v 1 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.
\p Joshua 6.2: \v 2 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.
\p Joshua 6.3: \v 3 All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.
\p Joshua 6.4: \v 4 Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
\p Joshua 6.5: \v 5 It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the city wall shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every man straight in front of him.”
\p
\p Joshua 6.6: \v 6 Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh’s ark.”
\p
\p Joshua 6.7: \v 7 They said to the people, “Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh’s ark.”
\p
\p Joshua 6.8: \v 8 It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of Yahweh’s covenant followed them.
\p Joshua 6.9: \v 9 The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.
\p
\p Joshua 6.10: \v 10 Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.”
\p Joshua 6.11: \v 11 So he caused Yahweh’s ark to go around the city, circling it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the camp.
\p Joshua 6.12: \v 12 Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up Yahweh’s ark.
\p Joshua 6.13: \v 13 The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of Yahweh’s ark went on continually, and blew the trumpets. The armed men went in front of them. The rear guard came after Yahweh’s ark. The trumpets sounded as they went.
\p Joshua 6.14: \v 14 The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.
\p
\p Joshua 6.15: \v 15 On the seventh day, they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. On this day only they marched around the city seven times.
\p Joshua 6.16: \v 16 At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!
\p Joshua 6.17: \v 17 The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
\p Joshua 6.18: \v 18 But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it.
\p Joshua 6.19: \v 19 But all the silver, gold, and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh’s treasury.”
\p
\p Joshua 6.20: \v 20 So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city.
\p Joshua 6.21: \v 21 They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
\p Joshua 6.22: \v 22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring the woman and all that she has out from there, as you swore to her.”
\p Joshua 6.23: \v 23 The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all of her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.
\p Joshua 6.24: \v 24 They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh’s house.
\p Joshua 6.25: \v 25 But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
\p
\p Joshua 6.26: \v 26 Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed is the man before Yahweh who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he will set up its gates.”
\p Joshua 6.27: \v 27 So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.
\p Joshua 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Joshua 7.1: \v 1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against the children of Israel.
\p Joshua 7.2: \v 2 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.”
\p The men went up and spied out Ai.
\p Joshua 7.3: \v 3 They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”
\p Joshua 7.4: \v 4 So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.
\p Joshua 7.5: \v 5 The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.
\p Joshua 7.6: \v 6 Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.
\p Joshua 7.7: \v 7 Joshua said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!
\p Joshua 7.8: \v 8 Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?
\p Joshua 7.9: \v 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”
\p
\p Joshua 7.10: \v 10 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that?
\p Joshua 7.11: \v 11 Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.
\p Joshua 7.12: \v 12 Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
\p Joshua 7.13: \v 13 Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, “There is a devoted thing among you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.”
\p Joshua 7.14: \v 14 In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by households. The household which Yahweh selects shall come near man by man.
\p Joshua 7.15: \v 15 It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed Yahweh’s covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”
\p
\p Joshua 7.16: \v 16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.
\p Joshua 7.17: \v 17 He brought near the family of Judah, and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected.
\p Joshua 7.18: \v 18 He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.
\p Joshua 7.19: \v 19 Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”
\p
\p Joshua 7.20: \v 20 Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.
\p Joshua 7.21: \v 21 When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels\f + \fr 7:21 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”
\p
\p Joshua 7.22: \v 22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.
\p Joshua 7.23: \v 23 They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh.
\p Joshua 7.24: \v 24 Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
\p Joshua 7.25: \v 25 Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
\p Joshua 7.26: \v 26 They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.
\p Joshua 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Joshua 8.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.
\p Joshua 8.2: \v 2 You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”
\p
\p Joshua 8.3: \v 3 So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.
\p Joshua 8.4: \v 4 He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
\p Joshua 8.5: \v 5 I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
\p Joshua 8.6: \v 6 They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them,
\p Joshua 8.7: \v 7 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
\p Joshua 8.8: \v 8 It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to Yahweh’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”
\p
\p Joshua 8.9: \v 9 Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.
\p Joshua 8.10: \v 10 Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
\p Joshua 8.11: \v 11 All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up and came near, and came before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.
\p Joshua 8.12: \v 12 He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
\p Joshua 8.13: \v 13 So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.
\p Joshua 8.14: \v 14 When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
\p Joshua 8.15: \v 15 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
\p Joshua 8.16: \v 16 All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
\p Joshua 8.17: \v 17 There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
\p
\p Joshua 8.18: \v 18 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.”
\p Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
\p Joshua 8.19: \v 19 The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and entered into the city and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.
\p Joshua 8.20: \v 20 When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
\p Joshua 8.21: \v 21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned back and killed the men of Ai.
\p Joshua 8.22: \v 22 The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
\p Joshua 8.23: \v 23 They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
\p
\p Joshua 8.24: \v 24 When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.
\p Joshua 8.25: \v 25 All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.
\p Joshua 8.26: \v 26 For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
\p Joshua 8.27: \v 27 Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to Yahweh’s word which he commanded Joshua.
\p Joshua 8.28: \v 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
\p Joshua 8.29: \v 29 He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
\p
\p Joshua 8.30: \v 30 Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
\p Joshua 8.31: \v 31 as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings.
\p Joshua 8.32: \v 32 He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
\p Joshua 8.33: \v 33 All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
\p Joshua 8.34: \v 34 Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
\p Joshua 8.35: \v 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.
\p Joshua 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Joshua 9.1: \v 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
\p Joshua 9.2: \v 2 they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
\p Joshua 9.3: \v 3 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
\p Joshua 9.4: \v 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,
\p Joshua 9.5: \v 5 and old and patched sandals on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.
\p Joshua 9.6: \v 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.”
\p
\p Joshua 9.7: \v 7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us? How could we make a covenant with you?”
\p
\p Joshua 9.8: \v 8 They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.”
\p Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”
\p
\p Joshua 9.9: \v 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,
\p Joshua 9.10: \v 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.
\p Joshua 9.11: \v 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.”’
\p Joshua 9.12: \v 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.
\p Joshua 9.13: \v 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.”
\p
\p Joshua 9.14: \v 14 The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from Yahweh’s mouth.
\p Joshua 9.15: \v 15 Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.
\p Joshua 9.16: \v 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.
\p Joshua 9.17: \v 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.
\p Joshua 9.18: \v 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.
\p Joshua 9.19: \v 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.
\p Joshua 9.20: \v 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.”
\p Joshua 9.21: \v 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.
\p
\p Joshua 9.22: \v 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?
\p Joshua 9.23: \v 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.”
\p
\p Joshua 9.24: \v 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.
\p Joshua 9.25: \v 25 Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.”
\p
\p Joshua 9.26: \v 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.
\p Joshua 9.27: \v 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.
\p Joshua 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Joshua 10.1: \v 1 Now when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them,
\p Joshua 10.2: \v 2 they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
\p Joshua 10.3: \v 3 Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,
\p Joshua 10.4: \v 4 “Come up to me and help me. Let’s strike Gibeon; for they have made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.”
\p Joshua 10.5: \v 5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.
\p Joshua 10.6: \v 6 The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Don’t abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us.”
\p
\p Joshua 10.7: \v 7 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and the whole army with him, including all the mighty men of valor.
\p Joshua 10.8: \v 8 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you.”
\p
\p Joshua 10.9: \v 9 Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He marched from Gilgal all night.
\p Joshua 10.10: \v 10 Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.
\p Joshua 10.11: \v 11 As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, Yahweh hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.
\p
\p Joshua 10.12: \v 12 Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”
\p
\p Joshua 10.13: \v 13 The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.
\p Joshua 10.14: \v 14 There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.
\p
\p Joshua 10.15: \v 15 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
\p Joshua 10.16: \v 16 These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
\p Joshua 10.17: \v 17 Joshua was told, saying, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”
\p
\p Joshua 10.18: \v 18 Joshua said, “Roll large stones to cover the cave’s entrance, and set men by it to guard them;
\p Joshua 10.19: \v 19 but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.”
\p
\p Joshua 10.20: \v 20 When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,
\p Joshua 10.21: \v 21 all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
\p Joshua 10.22: \v 22 Then Joshua said, “Open the cave entrance, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me.”
\p
\p Joshua 10.23: \v 23 They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
\p Joshua 10.24: \v 24 When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.”
\p They came near, and put their feet on their necks.
\p
\p Joshua 10.25: \v 25 Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.”
\p
\p Joshua 10.26: \v 26 Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.
\p Joshua 10.27: \v 27 At the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and threw them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.
\p
\p Joshua 10.28: \v 28 Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed it and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
\p
\p Joshua 10.29: \v 29 Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.
\p Joshua 10.30: \v 30 Yahweh delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
\p
\p Joshua 10.31: \v 31 Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.
\p Joshua 10.32: \v 32 Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
\p Joshua 10.33: \v 33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him no one remaining.
\p
\p Joshua 10.34: \v 34 Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it and fought against it.
\p Joshua 10.35: \v 35 They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
\p
\p Joshua 10.36: \v 36 Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it.
\p Joshua 10.37: \v 37 They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.
\p
\p Joshua 10.38: \v 38 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it.
\p Joshua 10.39: \v 39 He took it, with its king and all its cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.
\p Joshua 10.40: \v 40 So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.
\p Joshua 10.41: \v 41 Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon.
\p Joshua 10.42: \v 42 Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
\p Joshua 10.43: \v 43 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
\p Joshua 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p Joshua 11.1: \v 1 When Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,
\p Joshua 11.2: \v 2 and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,
\p Joshua 11.3: \v 3 to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
\p Joshua 11.4: \v 4 They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.
\p Joshua 11.5: \v 5 All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.
\p
\p Joshua 11.6: \v 6 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”
\p
\p Joshua 11.7: \v 7 So Joshua came suddenly, with all the warriors, against them by the waters of Merom, and attacked them.
\p Joshua 11.8: \v 8 Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.
\p Joshua 11.9: \v 9 Joshua did to them as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
\p Joshua 11.10: \v 10 Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword: for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms.
\p Joshua 11.11: \v 11 They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burned Hazor with fire.
\p Joshua 11.12: \v 12 Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.
\p Joshua 11.13: \v 13 But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.
\p Joshua 11.14: \v 14 The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn’t leave any who breathed.
\p
\p Joshua 11.15: \v 15 As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Joshua 11.16: \v 16 So Joshua captured all that land, the hill country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;
\p Joshua 11.17: \v 17 from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their kings, struck them, and put them to death.
\p Joshua 11.18: \v 18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
\p Joshua 11.19: \v 19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all in battle.
\p Joshua 11.20: \v 20 For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p Joshua 11.21: \v 21 Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
\p Joshua 11.22: \v 22 There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.
\p Joshua 11.23: \v 23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
\p Joshua 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p Joshua 12.1: \v 1 Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
\p Joshua 12.2: \v 2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
\p Joshua 12.3: \v 3 and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:
\p Joshua 12.4: \v 4 and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
\p Joshua 12.5: \v 5 and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
\p
\p Joshua 12.6: \v 6 Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of Israel struck them. Moses the servant of Yahweh gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
\p Joshua 12.7: \v 7 These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
\p Joshua 12.8: \v 8 in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
\m
\p Joshua 12.9: \v 9 the king of Jericho, one;
\m the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
\m
\p Joshua 12.10: \v 10 the king of Jerusalem, one;
\m the king of Hebron, one;
\m
\p Joshua 12.11: \v 11 the king of Jarmuth, one;
\m the king of Lachish, one;
\m
\p Joshua 12.12: \v 12 the king of Eglon, one;
\m the king of Gezer, one;
\m
\p Joshua 12.13: \v 13 the king of Debir, one;
\m the king of Geder, one;
\m
\p Joshua 12.14: \v 14 the king of Hormah, one;
\m the king of Arad, one;
\m
\p Joshua 12.15: \v 15 the king of Libnah, one;
\m the king of Adullam, one;
\m
\p Joshua 12.16: \v 16 the king of Makkedah, one;
\m the king of Bethel, one;
\m
\p Joshua 12.17: \v 17 the king of Tappuah, one;
\m the king of Hepher, one;
\m
\p Joshua 12.18: \v 18 the king of Aphek, one;
\m the king of Lassharon, one;
\m
\p Joshua 12.19: \v 19 the king of Madon, one;
\m the king of Hazor, one;
\m
\p Joshua 12.20: \v 20 the king of Shimron Meron, one;
\m the king of Achshaph, one;
\m
\p Joshua 12.21: \v 21 the king of Taanach, one;
\m the king of Megiddo, one;
\m
\p Joshua 12.22: \v 22 the king of Kedesh, one;
\m the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;
\m
\p Joshua 12.23: \v 23 the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one;
\m the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;
\m
\p Joshua 12.24: \v 24 the king of Tirzah, one:
\m all the kings thirty-one.
\p Joshua 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p Joshua 13.1: \v 1 Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.
\p
\p Joshua 13.2: \v 2 “This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
\p Joshua 13.3: \v 3 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
\p Joshua 13.4: \v 4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
\p Joshua 13.5: \v 5 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;
\p Joshua 13.6: \v 6 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians. I will drive them out from before the children of Israel. Just allocate it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
\p Joshua 13.7: \v 7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”
\p Joshua 13.8: \v 8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them:
\p Joshua 13.9: \v 9 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;
\p Joshua 13.10: \v 10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;
\p Joshua 13.11: \v 11 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
\p Joshua 13.12: \v 12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (who was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them out.
\p Joshua 13.13: \v 13 Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath live within Israel to this day.
\p Joshua 13.14: \v 14 Only he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The offerings of Yahweh, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.
\p Joshua 13.15: \v 15 Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
\p Joshua 13.16: \v 16 Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
\p Joshua 13.17: \v 17 Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,
\p Joshua 13.18: \v 18 Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
\p Joshua 13.19: \v 19 Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley,
\p Joshua 13.20: \v 20 Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,
\p Joshua 13.21: \v 21 all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
\p Joshua 13.22: \v 22 The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.
\p
\p Joshua 13.23: \v 23 The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and its villages.
\p
\p Joshua 13.24: \v 24 Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their families.
\p Joshua 13.25: \v 25 Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is near Rabbah;
\p Joshua 13.26: \v 26 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;
\p Joshua 13.27: \v 27 and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan’s bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
\p Joshua 13.28: \v 28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and its villages.
\p
\p Joshua 13.29: \v 29 Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.
\p Joshua 13.30: \v 30 Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities.
\p Joshua 13.31: \v 31 Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families.
\p
\p Joshua 13.32: \v 32 These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.
\p Joshua 13.33: \v 33 But Moses gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. Yahweh, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.
\p Joshua 14.0: \c 14
\p
\p Joshua 14.1: \v 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,
\p Joshua 14.2: \v 2 by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.
\p Joshua 14.3: \v 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.
\p Joshua 14.4: \v 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.
\p Joshua 14.5: \v 5 The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
\p
\p Joshua 14.6: \v 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.
\p Joshua 14.7: \v 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.
\p Joshua 14.8: \v 8 Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.
\p Joshua 14.9: \v 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.’
\p
\p Joshua 14.10: \v 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.
\p Joshua 14.11: \v 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.
\p Joshua 14.12: \v 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.”
\p
\p Joshua 14.13: \v 13 Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
\p Joshua 14.14: \v 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.
\p Joshua 14.15: \v 15 Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.
\p Joshua 15.0: \c 15
\p
\p Joshua 15.1: \v 1 The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.
\p Joshua 15.2: \v 2 Their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward;
\p Joshua 15.3: \v 3 and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh Barnea, and passed along by Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned toward Karka;
\p Joshua 15.4: \v 4 and it passed along to Azmon, went out at the brook of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south border.
\p Joshua 15.5: \v 5 The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan.
\p Joshua 15.6: \v 6 The border went up to Beth Hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
\p Joshua 15.7: \v 7 The border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that faces the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river. The border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, and ended at En Rogel.
\p Joshua 15.8: \v 8 The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem) southward; and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part of the valley of Rephaim northward.
\p Joshua 15.9: \v 9 The border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah (also called Kiriath Jearim);
\p Joshua 15.10: \v 10 and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim (also called Chesalon) on the north, and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;
\p Joshua 15.11: \v 11 and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward; and the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.
\p Joshua 15.12: \v 12 The west border was to the shore of the great sea. This is the border of the children of Judah according to their families.
\p
\p Joshua 15.13: \v 13 He gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron).
\p Joshua 15.14: \v 14 Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
\p Joshua 15.15: \v 15 He went up against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.
\p Joshua 15.16: \v 16 Caleb said, “He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him I will give Achsah my daughter as wife.”
\p Joshua 15.17: \v 17 Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
\p Joshua 15.18: \v 18 When she came, she had him ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey, and Caleb said, “What do you want?”
\p
\p Joshua 15.19: \v 19 She said, “Give me a blessing. Because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.”
\p So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
\p
\p Joshua 15.20: \v 20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
\p Joshua 15.21: \v 21 The farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,
\p Joshua 15.22: \v 22 Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,
\p Joshua 15.23: \v 23 Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,
\p Joshua 15.24: \v 24 Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
\p Joshua 15.25: \v 25 Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (also called Hazor),
\p Joshua 15.26: \v 26 Amam, Shema, Moladah,
\p Joshua 15.27: \v 27 Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet,
\p Joshua 15.28: \v 28 Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,
\p Joshua 15.29: \v 29 Baalah, Iim, Ezem,
\p Joshua 15.30: \v 30 Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,
\p Joshua 15.31: \v 31 Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,
\p Joshua 15.32: \v 32 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.
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\p Joshua 15.33: \v 33 In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
\p Joshua 15.34: \v 34 Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam,
\p Joshua 15.35: \v 35 Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
\p Joshua 15.36: \v 36 Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah (or Gederothaim); fourteen cities with their villages.
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\p Joshua 15.37: \v 37 Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad,
\p Joshua 15.38: \v 38 Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,
\p Joshua 15.39: \v 39 Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,
\p Joshua 15.40: \v 40 Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish,
\p Joshua 15.41: \v 41 Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
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\p Joshua 15.42: \v 42 Libnah, Ether, Ashan,
\p Joshua 15.43: \v 43 Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,
\p Joshua 15.44: \v 44 Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
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\p Joshua 15.45: \v 45 Ekron, with its towns and its villages;
\p Joshua 15.46: \v 46 from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
\p Joshua 15.47: \v 47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.
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\p Joshua 15.48: \v 48 In the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,
\p Joshua 15.49: \v 49 Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (which is Debir),
\p Joshua 15.50: \v 50 Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,
\p Joshua 15.51: \v 51 Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
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\p Joshua 15.52: \v 52 Arab, Dumah, Eshan,
\p Joshua 15.53: \v 53 Janim, Beth Tappuah, Aphekah,
\p Joshua 15.54: \v 54 Humtah, Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.
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\p Joshua 15.55: \v 55 Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,
\p Joshua 15.56: \v 56 Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,
\p Joshua 15.57: \v 57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
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\p Joshua 15.58: \v 58 Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor,
\p Joshua 15.59: \v 59 Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.
\p Joshua 15.60: \v 60 Kiriath Baal (also called Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.
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\p Joshua 15.61: \v 61 In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah,
\p Joshua 15.62: \v 62 Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their villages.
\p
\p Joshua 15.63: \v 63 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn’t drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
\p Joshua 16.0: \c 16
\p
\p Joshua 16.1: \v 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.
\p Joshua 16.2: \v 2 It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;
\p Joshua 16.3: \v 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.
\p
\p Joshua 16.4: \v 4 The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
\p Joshua 16.5: \v 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.
\p Joshua 16.6: \v 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.
\p Joshua 16.7: \v 7 It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.
\p Joshua 16.8: \v 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;
\p Joshua 16.9: \v 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.
\p Joshua 16.10: \v 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.
\p Joshua 17.0: \c 17
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\p Joshua 17.1: \v 1 This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
\p Joshua 17.2: \v 2 So this was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, for the children of Helek, for the children of Asriel, for the children of Shechem, for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida. These were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families.
\p Joshua 17.3: \v 3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
\p Joshua 17.4: \v 4 They came to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the princes, saying, “Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.” Therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.
\p Joshua 17.5: \v 5 Ten parts fell to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;
\p Joshua 17.6: \v 6 because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.
\p Joshua 17.7: \v 7 The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem. The border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.
\p Joshua 17.8: \v 8 The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.
\p Joshua 17.9: \v 9 The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and ended at the sea.
\p Joshua 17.10: \v 10 Southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.
\p Joshua 17.11: \v 11 Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns.
\p Joshua 17.12: \v 12 Yet the children of Manasseh couldn’t drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
\p
\p Joshua 17.13: \v 13 When the children of Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.
\p Joshua 17.14: \v 14 The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since we are a numerous people, because Yahweh has blessed us so far?”
\p
\p Joshua 17.15: \v 15 Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”
\p
\p Joshua 17.16: \v 16 The children of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”
\p
\p Joshua 17.17: \v 17 Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, that is, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, “You are a numerous people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only;
\p Joshua 17.18: \v 18 but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it’s farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”
\p Joshua 18.0: \c 18
\p
\p Joshua 18.1: \v 1 The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.
\p Joshua 18.2: \v 2 Seven tribes remained among the children of Israel, which had not yet divided their inheritance.
\p Joshua 18.3: \v 3 Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?
\p Joshua 18.4: \v 4 Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe. I will send them, and they shall arise, walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; then they shall come to me.
\p Joshua 18.5: \v 5 They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall live in his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph shall live in their borders on the north.
\p Joshua 18.6: \v 6 You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.
\p Joshua 18.7: \v 7 However, the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance east of the Jordan, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.”
\p
\p Joshua 18.8: \v 8 The men arose and went. Joshua commanded those who went to survey the land, saying, “Go walk through the land, survey it, and come again to me. I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh.”
\p
\p Joshua 18.9: \v 9 The men went and passed through the land, and surveyed it by cities into seven portions in a book. They came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.
\p Joshua 18.10: \v 10 Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh. There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.
\p
\p Joshua 18.11: \v 11 The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families. The border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
\p Joshua 18.12: \v 12 Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.
\p Joshua 18.13: \v 13 The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (also called Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.
\p Joshua 18.14: \v 14 The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and ended at Kiriath Baal (also called Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west quarter.
\p Joshua 18.15: \v 15 The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.
\p Joshua 18.16: \v 16 The border went down to the farthest part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward. It went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel.
\p Joshua 18.17: \v 17 It extended northward, went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim. It went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
\p Joshua 18.18: \v 18 It passed along to the side opposite the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah.
\p Joshua 18.19: \v 19 The border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south border.
\p Joshua 18.20: \v 20 The Jordan was its border on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders around it, according to their families.
\p Joshua 18.21: \v 21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,
\p Joshua 18.22: \v 22 Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
\p Joshua 18.23: \v 23 Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
\p Joshua 18.24: \v 24 Chephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.
\p Joshua 18.25: \v 25 Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
\p Joshua 18.26: \v 26 Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,
\p Joshua 18.27: \v 27 Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,
\p Joshua 18.28: \v 28 Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
\p Joshua 19.0: \c 19
\p
\p Joshua 19.1: \v 1 The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Judah.
\p Joshua 19.2: \v 2 They had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,
\p Joshua 19.3: \v 3 Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem,
\p Joshua 19.4: \v 4 Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,
\p Joshua 19.5: \v 5 Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,
\p Joshua 19.6: \v 6 Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;
\p Joshua 19.7: \v 7 Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
\p Joshua 19.8: \v 8 and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
\p Joshua 19.9: \v 9 Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children of Judah was too much for them. Therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in the middle of their inheritance.
\p
\p Joshua 19.10: \v 10 The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. The border of their inheritance was to Sarid.
\p Joshua 19.11: \v 11 Their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before Jokneam.
\p Joshua 19.12: \v 12 It turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth Tabor. It went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia.
\p Joshua 19.13: \v 13 From there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah.
\p Joshua 19.14: \v 14 The border turned around it on the north to Hannathon; and it ended at the valley of Iphtah El;
\p Joshua 19.15: \v 15 Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
\p Joshua 19.16: \v 16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.
\p
\p Joshua 19.17: \v 17 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.
\p Joshua 19.18: \v 18 Their border was to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,
\p Joshua 19.19: \v 19 Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,
\p Joshua 19.20: \v 20 Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez,
\p Joshua 19.21: \v 21 Remeth, Engannim, En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez.
\p Joshua 19.22: \v 22 The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
\p Joshua 19.23: \v 23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
\p
\p Joshua 19.24: \v 24 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.
\p Joshua 19.25: \v 25 Their border was Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,
\p Joshua 19.26: \v 26 Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath.
\p Joshua 19.27: \v 27 It turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and Neiel. It went out to Cabul on the left hand,
\p Joshua 19.28: \v 28 and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon.
\p Joshua 19.29: \v 29 The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the region of Achzib;
\p Joshua 19.30: \v 30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities with their villages.
\p Joshua 19.31: \v 31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
\p
\p Joshua 19.32: \v 32 The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
\p Joshua 19.33: \v 33 Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakkum. It ended at the Jordan.
\p Joshua 19.34: \v 34 The border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok. It reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.
\p Joshua 19.35: \v 35 The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,
\p Joshua 19.36: \v 36 Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,
\p Joshua 19.37: \v 37 Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor,
\p Joshua 19.38: \v 38 Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
\p Joshua 19.39: \v 39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.
\p
\p Joshua 19.40: \v 40 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
\p Joshua 19.41: \v 41 The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
\p Joshua 19.42: \v 42 Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
\p Joshua 19.43: \v 43 Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
\p Joshua 19.44: \v 44 Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,
\p Joshua 19.45: \v 45 Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon,
\p Joshua 19.46: \v 46 Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border opposite Joppa.
\p Joshua 19.47: \v 47 The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their forefather.
\p Joshua 19.48: \v 48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
\p
\p Joshua 19.49: \v 49 So they finished distributing the land for inheritance by its borders. The children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them.
\p Joshua 19.50: \v 50 According to Yahweh’s commandment, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived there.
\p Joshua 19.51: \v 51 These are the inheritances, 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 for inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing the land.
\p Joshua 20.0: \c 20
\p
\p Joshua 20.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
\p Joshua 20.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
\p Joshua 20.3: \v 3 that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
\p Joshua 20.4: \v 4 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.
\p Joshua 20.5: \v 5 If the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before.
\p Joshua 20.6: \v 6 He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the man slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’”
\p
\p Joshua 20.7: \v 7 They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
\p Joshua 20.8: \v 8 Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
\p Joshua 20.9: \v 9 These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands trial before the congregation.
\p Joshua 21.0: \c 21
\p
\p Joshua 21.1: \v 1 Then the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel.
\p Joshua 21.2: \v 2 They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “Yahweh commanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for our livestock.”
\p
\p Joshua 21.3: \v 3 The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their pasture lands.
\p Joshua 21.4: \v 4 The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. The children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin.
\p Joshua 21.5: \v 5 The rest of the children of Kohath had ten cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.
\p Joshua 21.6: \v 6 The children of Gershon had thirteen cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
\p Joshua 21.7: \v 7 The children of Merari according to their families had twelve cities out of the tribe of Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.
\p Joshua 21.8: \v 8 The children of Israel gave these cities with their pasture lands by lot to the Levites, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.
\p Joshua 21.9: \v 9 They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are mentioned by name:
\p Joshua 21.10: \v 10 and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.
\p Joshua 21.11: \v 11 They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it.
\p Joshua 21.12: \v 12 But they gave the fields of the city and its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
\p Joshua 21.13: \v 13 To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Libnah with its pasture lands,
\p Joshua 21.14: \v 14 Jattir with its pasture lands, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
\p Joshua 21.15: \v 15 Holon with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
\p Joshua 21.16: \v 16 Ain with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands: nine cities out of those two tribes.
\p Joshua 21.17: \v 17 Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands,
\p Joshua 21.18: \v 18 Anathoth with its pasture lands, and Almon with its pasture lands: four cities.
\p Joshua 21.19: \v 19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
\p
\p Joshua 21.20: \v 20 The families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
\p Joshua 21.21: \v 21 They gave them Shechem with its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Gezer with its pasture lands,
\p Joshua 21.22: \v 22 Kibzaim with its pasture lands, and Beth Horon with its pasture lands: four cities.
\p Joshua 21.23: \v 23 Out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands,
\p Joshua 21.24: \v 24 Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands: four cities.
\p Joshua 21.25: \v 25 Out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its pasture lands, and Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands: two cities.
\p Joshua 21.26: \v 26 All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their pasture lands.
\p
\p Joshua 21.27: \v 27 They gave to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Be Eshterah with its pasture lands: two cities.
\p Joshua 21.28: \v 28 Out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,
\p Joshua 21.29: \v 29 Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En Gannim with its pasture lands: four cities.
\p Joshua 21.30: \v 30 Out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands,
\p Joshua 21.31: \v 31 Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands: four cities.
\p Joshua 21.32: \v 32 Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Hammothdor with its pasture lands, and Kartan with its pasture lands: three cities.
\p Joshua 21.33: \v 33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
\p
\p Joshua 21.34: \v 34 To the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasture lands, Kartah with its pasture lands,
\p Joshua 21.35: \v 35 Dimnah with its pasture lands, and Nahalal with its pasture lands: four cities.
\p Joshua 21.36: \v 36 Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its pasture lands, Jahaz with its pasture lands,
\p Joshua 21.37: \v 37 Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands: four cities.
\p Joshua 21.38: \v 38 Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Mahanaim with its pasture lands,
\p Joshua 21.39: \v 39 Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands: four cities in all.
\p Joshua 21.40: \v 40 All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites. Their lot was twelve cities.
\p
\p Joshua 21.41: \v 41 All the cities of the Levites among the possessions of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.
\p Joshua 21.42: \v 42 Each of these cities included their pasture lands around them. It was this way with all these cities.
\p
\p Joshua 21.43: \v 43 So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it.
\p Joshua 21.44: \v 44 Yahweh gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand.
\p Joshua 21.45: \v 45 Nothing failed of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.
\p Joshua 22.0: \c 22
\p
\p Joshua 22.1: \v 1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
\p Joshua 22.2: \v 2 and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.
\p Joshua 22.3: \v 3 You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the duty of the commandment of Yahweh your God.
\p Joshua 22.4: \v 4 Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.
\p Joshua 22.5: \v 5 Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
\p
\p Joshua 22.6: \v 6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.
\p Joshua 22.7: \v 7 Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but Joshua gave to the other half among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,
\p Joshua 22.8: \v 8 and spoke to them, saying, “Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with bronze, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the plunder of your enemies with your brothers.”
\p
\p Joshua 22.9: \v 9 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
\p Joshua 22.10: \v 10 When they came to the region near the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.
\p Joshua 22.11: \v 11 The children of Israel heard this, “Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar along the border of the land of Canaan, in the region around the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the children of Israel.”
\p Joshua 22.12: \v 12 When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.
\p Joshua 22.13: \v 13 The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest.
\p Joshua 22.14: \v 14 With him were ten princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were each head of their fathers’ houses among the thousands of Israel.
\p Joshua 22.15: \v 15 They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,
\p Joshua 22.16: \v 16 “The whole congregation of Yahweh says, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following Yahweh, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel today against Yahweh?
\p Joshua 22.17: \v 17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,
\p Joshua 22.18: \v 18 that you must turn away today from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
\p Joshua 22.19: \v 19 However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don’t rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than Yahweh our God’s altar.
\p Joshua 22.20: \v 20 Didn’t Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn’t perish alone in his iniquity.’”
\p
\p Joshua 22.21: \v 21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,
\p Joshua 22.22: \v 22 “The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),
\p Joshua 22.23: \v 23 that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings, let Yahweh himself require it.
\p
\p Joshua 22.24: \v 24 “If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, “What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?
\p Joshua 22.25: \v 25 For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in Yahweh.”’ So your children might make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.
\p
\p Joshua 22.26: \v 26 “Therefore we said, ‘Let’s now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;
\p Joshua 22.27: \v 27 but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;’ that your children may not tell our children in time to come, ‘You have no portion in Yahweh.’
\p
\p Joshua 22.28: \v 28 “Therefore we said, ‘It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, “Behold the pattern of Yahweh’s altar, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.”’
\p
\p Joshua 22.29: \v 29 “Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away today from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides Yahweh our God’s altar that is before his tabernacle!”
\p
\p Joshua 22.30: \v 30 When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.
\p Joshua 22.31: \v 31 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, “Today we know that Yahweh is among us, because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of Yahweh’s hand.”
\p Joshua 22.32: \v 32 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
\p Joshua 22.33: \v 33 The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived.
\p Joshua 22.34: \v 34 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar “A Witness Between Us that Yahweh is God.”
\p Joshua 23.0: \c 23
\p
\p Joshua 23.1: \v 1 After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,
\p Joshua 23.2: \v 2 Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years.
\p Joshua 23.3: \v 3 You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.
\p Joshua 23.4: \v 4 Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea toward the going down of the sun.
\p Joshua 23.5: \v 5 Yahweh your God will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you.
\p
\p Joshua 23.6: \v 6 “Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;
\p Joshua 23.7: \v 7 that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;
\p Joshua 23.8: \v 8 but hold fast to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day.
\p
\p Joshua 23.9: \v 9 “For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.
\p Joshua 23.10: \v 10 One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
\p Joshua 23.11: \v 11 Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.
\p
\p Joshua 23.12: \v 12 “But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;
\p Joshua 23.13: \v 13 know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
\p
\p Joshua 23.14: \v 14 “Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.
\p Joshua 23.15: \v 15 It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,
\p Joshua 23.16: \v 16 when you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then Yahweh’s anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.”
\p Joshua 24.0: \c 24
\p
\p Joshua 24.1: \v 1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
\p Joshua 24.2: \v 2 Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.
\p Joshua 24.3: \v 3 I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring,\f + \fr 24:3 \ft or, seed\f* and gave him Isaac.
\p Joshua 24.4: \v 4 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
\p
\p Joshua 24.5: \v 5 “‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
\p Joshua 24.6: \v 6 I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.
\p Joshua 24.7: \v 7 When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days.
\p
\p Joshua 24.8: \v 8 “‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before you.
\p Joshua 24.9: \v 9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,
\p Joshua 24.10: \v 10 but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.
\p
\p Joshua 24.11: \v 11 “‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.
\p Joshua 24.12: \v 12 I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.
\p Joshua 24.13: \v 13 I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’
\p
\p Joshua 24.14: \v 14 “Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.
\p Joshua 24.15: \v 15 If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
\p
\p Joshua 24.16: \v 16 The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;
\p Joshua 24.17: \v 17 for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed.
\p Joshua 24.18: \v 18 Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.”
\p
\p Joshua 24.19: \v 19 Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.
\p Joshua 24.20: \v 20 If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”
\p
\p Joshua 24.21: \v 21 The people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve Yahweh.”
\p Joshua 24.22: \v 22 Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.”
\p They said, “We are witnesses.”
\p
\p Joshua 24.23: \v 23 “Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”
\p
\p Joshua 24.24: \v 24 The people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.”
\p
\p Joshua 24.25: \v 25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
\p Joshua 24.26: \v 26 Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.
\p Joshua 24.27: \v 27 Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”
\p Joshua 24.28: \v 28 So Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.
\p
\p Joshua 24.29: \v 29 After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
\p Joshua 24.30: \v 30 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
\p Joshua 24.31: \v 31 Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.
\p Joshua 24.32: \v 32 They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver.\f + \fr 24:32 \ft Hebrew: kesitahs. A kesitah was a kind of silver coin.\f* They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
\p Joshua 24.33: \v 33 Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
\p Judges 0.0: \id JDG World English Bible (WEB)
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\h Judges
\toc1 The Book of Judges
\toc2 Judges
\toc3 Jdg
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Judges
\p Judges 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Judges 1.1: \v 1 After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, \f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”
\p
\p Judges 1.2: \v 2 Yahweh said, “Judah shall go up. Behold,\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I have delivered the land into his hand.”
\p
\p Judges 1.3: \v 3 Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot.” So Simeon went with him.
\p Judges 1.4: \v 4 Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.
\p Judges 1.5: \v 5 They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him. They struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
\p Judges 1.6: \v 6 But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
\p Judges 1.7: \v 7 Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God\f + \fr 1:7 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
\p Judges 1.8: \v 8 The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
\p
\p Judges 1.9: \v 9 After that, the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland.
\p Judges 1.10: \v 10 Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
\p
\p Judges 1.11: \v 11 From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.)
\p Judges 1.12: \v 12 Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”
\p Judges 1.13: \v 13 Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.
\p
\p Judges 1.14: \v 14 When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”
\p
\p Judges 1.15: \v 15 She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
\p Judges 1.16: \v 16 The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
\p Judges 1.17: \v 17 Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.
\p Judges 1.18: \v 18 Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.
\p Judges 1.19: \v 19 Yahweh was with Judah, and drove out the inhabitants of the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
\p Judges 1.20: \v 20 They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove the three sons of Anak out of there.
\p Judges 1.21: \v 21 The children of Benjamin didn’t drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
\p
\p Judges 1.22: \v 22 The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and Yahweh was with them.
\p Judges 1.23: \v 23 The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)
\p Judges 1.24: \v 24 The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”
\p Judges 1.25: \v 25 He showed them the entrance into the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go.
\p Judges 1.26: \v 26 The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
\p
\p Judges 1.27: \v 27 Manasseh didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
\p Judges 1.28: \v 28 When Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.
\p Judges 1.29: \v 29 Ephraim didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
\p Judges 1.30: \v 30 Zebulun didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, and became subject to forced labor.
\p Judges 1.31: \v 31 Asher didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob;
\p Judges 1.32: \v 32 but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they didn’t drive them out.
\p Judges 1.33: \v 33 Naphtali didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to forced labor.
\p Judges 1.34: \v 34 The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;
\p Judges 1.35: \v 35 but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.
\p Judges 1.36: \v 36 The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
\p Judges 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Judges 2.1: \v 1 Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.
\p Judges 2.2: \v 2 You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this?
\p Judges 2.3: \v 3 Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’”
\p
\p Judges 2.4: \v 4 When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.
\p Judges 2.5: \v 5 They called the name of that place Bochim,\f + \fr 2:5 \ft “Bochim” means “weepers”.\f* and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.
\p Judges 2.6: \v 6 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land.
\p Judges 2.7: \v 7 The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.
\p Judges 2.8: \v 8 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
\p Judges 2.9: \v 9 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
\p Judges 2.10: \v 10 After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.
\p Judges 2.11: \v 11 The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals.
\p Judges 2.12: \v 12 They abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked Yahweh to anger.
\p Judges 2.13: \v 13 They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
\p Judges 2.14: \v 14 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
\p Judges 2.15: \v 15 Wherever they went out, Yahweh’s hand was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.
\p Judges 2.16: \v 16 Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
\p Judges 2.17: \v 17 Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so.
\p Judges 2.18: \v 18 When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
\p Judges 2.19: \v 19 But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.
\p Judges 2.20: \v 20 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice,
\p Judges 2.21: \v 21 I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them;
\p Judges 2.22: \v 22 that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”
\p Judges 2.23: \v 23 So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.
\p Judges 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Judges 3.1: \v 1 Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
\p Judges 3.2: \v 2 only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:
\p Judges 3.3: \v 3 the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
\p Judges 3.4: \v 4 They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to Yahweh’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.
\p Judges 3.5: \v 5 The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
\p Judges 3.6: \v 6 They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
\p Judges 3.7: \v 7 The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
\p Judges 3.8: \v 8 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.
\p Judges 3.9: \v 9 When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
\p Judges 3.10: \v 10 Yahweh’s Spirit came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. His hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim.
\p Judges 3.11: \v 11 The land had rest forty years, then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
\p
\p Judges 3.12: \v 12 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
\p Judges 3.13: \v 13 He gathered the children of Ammon and Amalek to himself; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.
\p Judges 3.14: \v 14 The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
\p Judges 3.15: \v 15 But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
\p Judges 3.16: \v 16 Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit\f + \fr 3:16 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.
\p Judges 3.17: \v 17 He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
\p Judges 3.18: \v 18 When Ehud had finished offering the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.
\p Judges 3.19: \v 19 But he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.”
\p The king said, “Keep silence!” All who stood by him left him.
\p
\p Judges 3.20: \v 20 Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.
\p Judges 3.21: \v 21 Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body.
\p Judges 3.22: \v 22 The handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.
\p Judges 3.23: \v 23 Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
\p
\p Judges 3.24: \v 24 After he had gone, his servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet\f + \fr 3:24 \ft or, “relieving himself”.\f* in the upper room.”
\p Judges 3.25: \v 25 They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their lord had fallen down dead on the floor.
\p
\p Judges 3.26: \v 26 Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah.
\p Judges 3.27: \v 27 When he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he led them.
\p
\p Judges 3.28: \v 28 He said to them, “Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn’t allow any man to pass over.
\p Judges 3.29: \v 29 They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man and every man of valor. No man escaped.
\p Judges 3.30: \v 30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the land had rest eighty years.
\p
\p Judges 3.31: \v 31 After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. He also saved Israel.
\p Judges 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Judges 4.1: \v 1 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, when Ehud was dead.
\p Judges 4.2: \v 2 Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
\p Judges 4.3: \v 3 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.
\p Judges 4.4: \v 4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.
\p Judges 4.5: \v 5 She lived under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
\p Judges 4.6: \v 6 She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
\p Judges 4.7: \v 7 I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.’”
\p
\p Judges 4.8: \v 8 Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”
\p
\p Judges 4.9: \v 9 She said, “I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the journey that you take won’t be for your honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into a woman’s hand.” Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
\p
\p Judges 4.10: \v 10 Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; and Deborah went up with him.
\p Judges 4.11: \v 11 Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
\p Judges 4.12: \v 12 They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.
\p Judges 4.13: \v 13 Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon.
\p
\p Judges 4.14: \v 14 Deborah said to Barak, “Go; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn’t Yahweh gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
\p Judges 4.15: \v 15 Yahweh confused Sisera, all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled away on his feet.
\p Judges 4.16: \v 16 But Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth of the Gentiles; and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword. There was not a man left.
\p
\p Judges 4.17: \v 17 However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
\p Judges 4.18: \v 18 Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don’t be afraid.” He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
\p
\p Judges 4.19: \v 19 He said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.”
\p She opened a container of milk, and gave him a drink, and covered him.
\p
\p Judges 4.20: \v 20 He said to her, “Stand in the door of the tent, and if any man comes and inquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man here?’ you shall say, ‘No.’”
\p
\p Judges 4.21: \v 21 Then Jael Heber’s wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground, for he was in a deep sleep; so he fainted and died.
\p Judges 4.22: \v 22 Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek.” He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.
\p Judges 4.23: \v 23 So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel on that day.
\p Judges 4.24: \v 24 The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
\p Judges 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Judges 5.1: \v 1 Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,
\q1
\p Judges 5.2: \v 2 “Because the leaders took the lead in Israel,
\q2 because the people offered themselves willingly,
\q1 be blessed, Yahweh!
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.3: \v 3 “Hear, you kings!
\q2 Give ear, you princes!
\q1 I, even I, will sing to Yahweh.
\q2 I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.4: \v 4 “Yahweh, when you went out of Seir,
\q2 when you marched out of the field of Edom,
\q1 the earth trembled, the sky also dropped.
\q2 Yes, the clouds dropped water.
\q1
\p Judges 5.5: \v 5 The mountains quaked Yahweh’s presence,
\q2 even Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.6: \v 6 “In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath,
\q2 in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied.
\q2 The travelers walked through byways.
\q1
\p Judges 5.7: \v 7 The rulers ceased in Israel.
\q2 They ceased until I, Deborah, arose;
\q2 Until I arose a mother in Israel.
\q1
\p Judges 5.8: \v 8 They chose new gods.
\q2 Then war was in the gates.
\q2 Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
\q1
\p Judges 5.9: \v 9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel,
\q2 who offered themselves willingly among the people.
\q2 Bless Yahweh!
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.10: \v 10 “Speak, you who ride on white donkeys,
\q2 you who sit on rich carpets,
\q2 and you who walk by the way.
\q1
\p Judges 5.11: \v 11 Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water,
\q2 there they will rehearse Yahweh’s righteous acts,
\q2 the righteous acts of his rule in Israel.
\b
\q1 “Then Yahweh’s people went down to the gates.
\q2
\p Judges 5.12: \v 12 ‘Awake, awake, Deborah!
\q2 Awake, awake, utter a song!
\q2 Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.13: \v 13 “Then a remnant of the nobles and the people came down.
\q2 Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.
\q1
\p Judges 5.14: \v 14 Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim,
\q2 after you, Benjamin, among your peoples.
\q1 Governors come down out of Machir.
\q2 Those who handle the marshal’s staff came out of Zebulun.
\q1
\p Judges 5.15: \v 15 The princes of Issachar were with Deborah.
\q2 As was Issachar, so was Barak.
\q2 They rushed into the valley at his feet.
\q1 By the watercourses of Reuben,
\q2 there were great resolves of heart.
\q1
\p Judges 5.16: \v 16 Why did you sit among the sheepfolds?
\q2 To hear the whistling for the flocks?
\q1 At the watercourses of Reuben,
\q2 there were great searchings of heart.
\q1
\p Judges 5.17: \v 17 Gilead lived beyond the Jordan.
\q2 Why did Dan remain in ships?
\q2 Asher sat still at the haven of the sea,
\q2 and lived by his creeks.
\q1
\p Judges 5.18: \v 18 Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death;
\q2 Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.19: \v 19 “The kings came and fought,
\q2 then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo.
\q2 They took no plunder of silver.
\q1
\p Judges 5.20: \v 20 From the sky the stars fought.
\q2 From their courses, they fought against Sisera.
\q1
\p Judges 5.21: \v 21 The river Kishon swept them away,
\q2 that ancient river, the river Kishon.
\q2 My soul, march on with strength.
\q1
\p Judges 5.22: \v 22 Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancing,
\q2 the prancing of their strong ones.
\q1
\p Judges 5.23: \v 23 ‘Curse Meroz,’ said Yahweh’s angel.
\q2 ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants,
\q2 because they didn’t come to help Yahweh,
\q2 to help Yahweh against the mighty.’
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.24: \v 24 “Jael shall be blessed above women,
\q2 the wife of Heber the Kenite;
\q2 blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
\q1
\p Judges 5.25: \v 25 He asked for water.
\q2 She gave him milk.
\q2 She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
\q1
\p Judges 5.26: \v 26 She put her hand to the tent peg,
\q2 and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer.
\q1 With the hammer she struck Sisera.
\q2 She struck through his head.
\q2 Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.
\q1
\p Judges 5.27: \v 27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay.
\q2 At her feet he bowed, he fell.
\q2 Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.28: \v 28 “Through the window she looked out, and cried:
\q2 Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice.
\q1 ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
\q2 Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’
\q1
\p Judges 5.29: \v 29 Her wise ladies answered her,
\q2 Yes, she returned answer to herself,
\q1
\p Judges 5.30: \v 30 ‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder?
\q2 A lady, two ladies to every man;
\q1 to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments,
\q2 a plunder of dyed garments embroidered,
\q2 of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’
\b
\q1
\p Judges 5.31: \v 31 “So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh,
\q2 but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.”
\b
\p Then the land had rest forty years.
\p Judges 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Judges 6.1: \v 1 The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, so Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
\p Judges 6.2: \v 2 The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made themselves the dens which are in the mountains, the caves, and the strongholds.
\p Judges 6.3: \v 3 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.
\p Judges 6.4: \v 4 They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey.
\p Judges 6.5: \v 5 For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.
\p Judges 6.6: \v 6 Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.
\p
\p Judges 6.7: \v 7 When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh because of Midian,
\p Judges 6.8: \v 8 Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel; and he said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage.
\p Judges 6.9: \v 9 I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land.
\p Judges 6.10: \v 10 I said to you, “I am Yahweh your God. You shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.” But you have not listened to my voice.’”
\p
\p Judges 6.11: \v 11 Yahweh’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.
\p Judges 6.12: \v 12 Yahweh’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!”
\p
\p Judges 6.13: \v 13 Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
\p
\p Judges 6.14: \v 14 Yahweh looked at him, and said, “Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”
\p
\p Judges 6.15: \v 15 He said to him, “O Lord,\f + \fr 6:15 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”
\p
\p Judges 6.16: \v 16 Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”
\p
\p Judges 6.17: \v 17 He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.
\p Judges 6.18: \v 18 Please don’t go away until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you.”
\p He said, “I will wait until you come back.”
\p
\p Judges 6.19: \v 19 Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah \f + \fr 6:19 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
\p
\p Judges 6.20: \v 20 The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.”
\p He did so.
\p Judges 6.21: \v 21 Then Yahweh’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then Yahweh’s angel departed out of his sight.
\p
\p Judges 6.22: \v 22 Gideon saw that he was Yahweh’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen Yahweh’s angel face to face!”
\p
\p Judges 6.23: \v 23 Yahweh said to him, “Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die.”
\p
\p Judges 6.24: \v 24 Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it “Yahweh is Peace.”\f + \fr 6:24 \ft or, Yahweh Shalom\f* To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
\p
\p Judges 6.25: \v 25 That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it.
\p Judges 6.26: \v 26 Then build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”
\p
\p Judges 6.27: \v 27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night.
\p
\p Judges 6.28: \v 28 When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.
\p Judges 6.29: \v 29 They said to one another, “Who has done this thing?”
\p When they inquired and asked, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”
\p
\p Judges 6.30: \v 30 Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.”
\p Judges 6.31: \v 31 Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar!”
\p Judges 6.32: \v 32 Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal,\f + \fr 6:32 \ft “Jerub-Baal” means “Let Baal contend”.\f* saying, “Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar.”
\p
\p Judges 6.33: \v 33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.
\p Judges 6.34: \v 34 But Yahweh’s Spirit came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together to follow him.
\p Judges 6.35: \v 35 He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they also were gathered together to follow him. He sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
\p
\p Judges 6.36: \v 36 Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,
\p Judges 6.37: \v 37 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”
\p
\p Judges 6.38: \v 38 It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
\p
\p Judges 6.39: \v 39 Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”
\p
\p Judges 6.40: \v 40 God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
\p Judges 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Judges 7.1: \v 1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
\p Judges 7.2: \v 2 Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
\p Judges 7.3: \v 3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
\p
\p Judges 7.4: \v 4 Yahweh said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”
\p Judges 7.5: \v 5 So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”
\p Judges 7.6: \v 6 The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
\p Judges 7.7: \v 7 Yahweh said to Gideon, “I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place.”
\p
\p Judges 7.8: \v 8 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of the men of Israel to their own tents, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
\p Judges 7.9: \v 9 That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
\p Judges 7.10: \v 10 But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp.
\p Judges 7.11: \v 11 You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
\p
\p Judges 7.12: \v 12 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
\p
\p Judges 7.13: \v 13 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
\p
\p Judges 7.14: \v 14 His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army.”
\p
\p Judges 7.15: \v 15 It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for Yahweh has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!”
\p
\p Judges 7.16: \v 16 He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
\p
\p Judges 7.17: \v 17 He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.
\p Judges 7.18: \v 18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’”
\p
\p Judges 7.19: \v 19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
\p Judges 7.20: \v 20 The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!”
\p Judges 7.21: \v 21 They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
\p Judges 7.22: \v 22 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
\p Judges 7.23: \v 23 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian.
\p Judges 7.24: \v 24 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.
\p Judges 7.25: \v 25 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
\p Judges 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Judges 8.1: \v 1 The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.
\p Judges 8.2: \v 2 He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
\p Judges 8.3: \v 3 God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.
\p
\p Judges 8.4: \v 4 Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
\p Judges 8.5: \v 5 He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
\p
\p Judges 8.6: \v 6 The princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”
\p
\p Judges 8.7: \v 7 Gideon said, “Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”
\p
\p Judges 8.8: \v 8 He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
\p Judges 8.9: \v 9 He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”
\p
\p Judges 8.10: \v 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.
\p Judges 8.11: \v 11 Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; for the army felt secure.
\p Judges 8.12: \v 12 Zebah and Zalmunna fled and he pursued them. He took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army.
\p Judges 8.13: \v 13 Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.
\p Judges 8.14: \v 14 He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him; and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.
\p Judges 8.15: \v 15 He came to the men of Succoth, and said, “See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?’”
\p Judges 8.16: \v 16 He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
\p Judges 8.17: \v 17 He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.
\p
\p Judges 8.18: \v 18 Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?”
\p They answered, “They were like you. They all resembled the children of a king.”
\p
\p Judges 8.19: \v 19 He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”
\p
\p Judges 8.20: \v 20 He said to Jether his firstborn, “Get up and kill them!” But the youth didn’t draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.
\p
\p Judges 8.21: \v 21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “You rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength.” Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels’ necks.
\p
\p Judges 8.22: \v 22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you, your son, and your son’s son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.”
\p
\p Judges 8.23: \v 23 Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.”
\p Judges 8.24: \v 24 Gideon said to them, “I do have a request: that you would each give me the earrings of his plunder.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
\p
\p Judges 8.25: \v 25 They answered, “We will willingly give them.” They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his plunder into it.
\p Judges 8.26: \v 26 The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels\f + \fr 8:26 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 1700 shekels is about 17 kilograms or 37.4 pounds.\f* of gold, in addition to the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and in addition to the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
\p Judges 8.27: \v 27 Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house.
\p Judges 8.28: \v 28 So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
\p
\p Judges 8.29: \v 29 Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.
\p Judges 8.30: \v 30 Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.
\p Judges 8.31: \v 31 His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
\p Judges 8.32: \v 32 Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
\p
\p Judges 8.33: \v 33 As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
\p Judges 8.34: \v 34 The children of Israel didn’t remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;
\p Judges 8.35: \v 35 neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.
\p Judges 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Judges 9.1: \v 1 Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,
\p Judges 9.2: \v 2 “Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”
\p
\p Judges 9.3: \v 3 His mother’s brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words. Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, “He is our brother.”
\p Judges 9.4: \v 4 They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.
\p Judges 9.5: \v 5 He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
\p Judges 9.6: \v 6 All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together with all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.
\p Judges 9.7: \v 7 When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
\p Judges 9.8: \v 8 The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’
\p
\p Judges 9.9: \v 9 “But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
\p
\p Judges 9.10: \v 10 “The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’
\p
\p Judges 9.11: \v 11 “But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
\p
\p Judges 9.12: \v 12 “The trees said to the vine, ‘Come and reign over us.’
\p
\p Judges 9.13: \v 13 “The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
\p
\p Judges 9.14: \v 14 “Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’
\p
\p Judges 9.15: \v 15 “The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’
\p
\p Judges 9.16: \v 16 “Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands
\p Judges 9.17: \v 17 (for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;
\p Judges 9.18: \v 18 and you have risen up against my father’s house today and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);
\p Judges 9.19: \v 19 if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you;
\p Judges 9.20: \v 20 but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo and devour Abimelech.”
\p
\p Judges 9.21: \v 21 Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer\f + \fr 9:21 \ft “Beer” is Hebrew for “well”, i.e., a village named for its well.\f* and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
\p
\p Judges 9.22: \v 22 Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.
\p Judges 9.23: \v 23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,
\p Judges 9.24: \v 24 that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother who killed them, and on the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
\p Judges 9.25: \v 25 The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them; and Abimelech was told about it.
\p
\p Judges 9.26: \v 26 Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.
\p Judges 9.27: \v 27 They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, celebrated, and went into the house of their god and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.
\p Judges 9.28: \v 28 Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him?
\p Judges 9.29: \v 29 I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech, “Increase your army and come out!”
\p
\p Judges 9.30: \v 30 When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burned.
\p Judges 9.31: \v 31 He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem; and behold, they incite the city against you.
\p Judges 9.32: \v 32 Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.
\p Judges 9.33: \v 33 It shall be that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early and rush on the city. Behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.”
\p
\p Judges 9.34: \v 34 Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
\p Judges 9.35: \v 35 Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush.
\p
\p Judges 9.36: \v 36 When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Behold, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.”
\p Zebul said to him, “You see the shadows of the mountains as if they were men.”
\p
\p Judges 9.37: \v 37 Gaal spoke again and said, “Behold, people are coming down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim.”
\p
\p Judges 9.38: \v 38 Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them.”
\p
\p Judges 9.39: \v 39 Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.
\p Judges 9.40: \v 40 Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.
\p Judges 9.41: \v 41 Abimelech lived at Arumah; and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
\p Judges 9.42: \v 42 On the next day, the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.
\p Judges 9.43: \v 43 He took the people and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came out of the city. So, he rose up against them and struck them.
\p Judges 9.44: \v 44 Abimelech and the companies that were with him rushed forward and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field and struck them.
\p Judges 9.45: \v 45 Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and killed the people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with salt.
\p
\p Judges 9.46: \v 46 When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.
\p Judges 9.47: \v 47 Abimelech was told that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
\p Judges 9.48: \v 48 Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done!”
\p Judges 9.49: \v 49 All the people likewise each cut down his bough, followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
\p Judges 9.50: \v 50 Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
\p Judges 9.51: \v 51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.
\p Judges 9.52: \v 52 Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
\p Judges 9.53: \v 53 A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.
\p
\p Judges 9.54: \v 54 Then he called hastily to the young man, his armor bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, that men not say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ His young man thrust him through, and he died.”
\p
\p Judges 9.55: \v 55 When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they each departed to his place.
\p Judges 9.56: \v 56 Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;
\p Judges 9.57: \v 57 and God repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them.
\p Judges 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Judges 10.1: \v 1 After Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
\p Judges 10.2: \v 2 He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
\p
\p Judges 10.3: \v 3 After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years.
\p Judges 10.4: \v 4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts. They had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
\p Judges 10.5: \v 5 Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
\p
\p Judges 10.6: \v 6 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh, and didn’t serve him.
\p Judges 10.7: \v 7 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the children of Ammon.
\p Judges 10.8: \v 8 They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
\p Judges 10.9: \v 9 The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed.
\p Judges 10.10: \v 10 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”
\p
\p Judges 10.11: \v 11 Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
\p Judges 10.12: \v 12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
\p Judges 10.13: \v 13 Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.
\p Judges 10.14: \v 14 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”
\p
\p Judges 10.15: \v 15 The children of Israel said to Yahweh, “We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, today.”
\p Judges 10.16: \v 16 They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
\p
\p Judges 10.17: \v 17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah.
\p Judges 10.18: \v 18 The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
\p Judges 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p Judges 11.1: \v 1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor. He was the son of a prostitute. Gilead became the father of Jephthah.
\p Judges 11.2: \v 2 Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”
\p Judges 11.3: \v 3 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him.
\p
\p Judges 11.4: \v 4 After a while, the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
\p Judges 11.5: \v 5 When the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob.
\p Judges 11.6: \v 6 They said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.”
\p
\p Judges 11.7: \v 7 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”
\p
\p Judges 11.8: \v 8 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the children of Ammon. You will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
\p
\p Judges 11.9: \v 9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivers them before me, will I be your head?”
\p
\p Judges 11.10: \v 10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Yahweh will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say.”
\p
\p Judges 11.11: \v 11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.
\p
\p Judges 11.12: \v 12 Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, “What do you have to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”
\p
\p Judges 11.13: \v 13 The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”
\p
\p Judges 11.14: \v 14 Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;
\p Judges 11.15: \v 15 and he said to him, “Jephthah says: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon;
\p Judges 11.16: \v 16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh,
\p Judges 11.17: \v 17 then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab, but he refused; so Israel stayed in Kadesh.
\p Judges 11.18: \v 18 Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.
\p Judges 11.19: \v 19 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to my place.’
\p Judges 11.20: \v 20 But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
\p Judges 11.21: \v 21 Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
\p Judges 11.22: \v 22 They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
\p Judges 11.23: \v 23 So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?
\p Judges 11.24: \v 24 Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
\p Judges 11.25: \v 25 Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
\p Judges 11.26: \v 26 Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for three hundred years! Why didn’t you recover them within that time?
\p Judges 11.27: \v 27 Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”
\p
\p Judges 11.28: \v 28 However, the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
\p Judges 11.29: \v 29 Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.
\p
\p Judges 11.30: \v 30 Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,
\p Judges 11.31: \v 31 then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.”
\p
\p Judges 11.32: \v 32 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.
\p Judges 11.33: \v 33 He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
\p
\p Judges 11.34: \v 34 Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
\p Judges 11.35: \v 35 When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can’t go back.”
\p
\p Judges 11.36: \v 36 She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.”
\p Judges 11.37: \v 37 Then she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.”
\p
\p Judges 11.38: \v 38 He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.
\p Judges 11.39: \v 39 At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It became a custom in Israel
\p Judges 11.40: \v 40 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
\p Judges 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p Judges 12.1: \v 1 The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”
\p
\p Judges 12.2: \v 2 Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.
\p Judges 12.3: \v 3 When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?”
\p
\p Judges 12.4: \v 4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.”
\p Judges 12.5: \v 5 The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No;”
\p Judges 12.6: \v 6 then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.
\p
\p Judges 12.7: \v 7 Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of Gilead.
\p
\p Judges 12.8: \v 8 After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
\p Judges 12.9: \v 9 He had thirty sons. He sent his thirty daughters outside his clan, and he brought in thirty daughters from outside his clan for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.
\p Judges 12.10: \v 10 Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
\p
\p Judges 12.11: \v 11 After him, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
\p Judges 12.12: \v 12 Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
\p
\p Judges 12.13: \v 13 After him, Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
\p Judges 12.14: \v 14 He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years.
\p Judges 12.15: \v 15 Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
\p Judges 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p Judges 13.1: \v 1 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
\p
\p Judges 13.2: \v 2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
\p Judges 13.3: \v 3 Yahweh’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive and bear a son.
\p Judges 13.4: \v 4 Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing;
\p Judges 13.5: \v 5 for, behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
\p
\p Judges 13.6: \v 6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name;
\p Judges 13.7: \v 7 but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”
\p
\p Judges 13.8: \v 8 Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, “Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us, and teach us what we should do to the child who shall be born.”
\p
\p Judges 13.9: \v 9 God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah, her husband, wasn’t with her.
\p Judges 13.10: \v 10 The woman hurried and ran, and told her husband, saying to him, “Behold, the man who came to me that day has appeared to me,”
\p
\p Judges 13.11: \v 11 Manoah arose and followed his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?”
\p He said, “I am.”
\p
\p Judges 13.12: \v 12 Manoah said, “Now let your words happen. What shall the child’s way of life and mission be?”
\p
\p Judges 13.13: \v 13 Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.
\p Judges 13.14: \v 14 She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her.”
\p
\p Judges 13.15: \v 15 Manoah said to Yahweh’s angel, “Please stay with us, that we may make a young goat ready for you.”
\p
\p Judges 13.16: \v 16 Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh.” For Manoah didn’t know that he was Yahweh’s angel.
\p
\p Judges 13.17: \v 17 Manoah said to Yahweh’s angel, “What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?”
\p
\p Judges 13.18: \v 18 Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why do you ask about my name, since it is incomprehensible\f + \fr 13:18 \ft or, wonderful\f*?”
\p
\p Judges 13.19: \v 19 So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh. Then the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.
\p Judges 13.20: \v 20 For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, Yahweh’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
\p Judges 13.21: \v 21 But Yahweh’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was Yahweh’s angel.
\p Judges 13.22: \v 22 Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”
\p
\p Judges 13.23: \v 23 But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”
\p Judges 13.24: \v 24 The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.
\p Judges 13.25: \v 25 Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
\p Judges 14.0: \c 14
\p
\p Judges 14.1: \v 1 Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
\p Judges 14.2: \v 2 He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”
\p
\p Judges 14.3: \v 3 Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?”
\p Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
\p
\p Judges 14.4: \v 4 But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.
\p
\p Judges 14.5: \v 5 Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him.
\p Judges 14.6: \v 6 Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat with his bare hands, but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done.
\p Judges 14.7: \v 7 He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
\p Judges 14.8: \v 8 After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
\p Judges 14.9: \v 9 He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother and gave to them, and they ate, but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s body.
\p Judges 14.10: \v 10 His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.
\p Judges 14.11: \v 11 When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
\p
\p Judges 14.12: \v 12 Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
\p Judges 14.13: \v 13 but if you can’t tell me the answer, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.”
\p They said to him, “Tell us your riddle, that we may hear it.”
\p
\p Judges 14.14: \v 14 He said to them,
\q1 “Out of the eater came out food.
\q2 Out of the strong came out sweetness.”
\p They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle.
\p Judges 14.15: \v 15 On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”
\p
\p Judges 14.16: \v 16 Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.”
\p He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”
\p
\p Judges 14.17: \v 17 She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
\p Judges 14.18: \v 18 The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?”
\p He said to them,
\q1 “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer,
\q2 you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”
\p
\p Judges 14.19: \v 19 Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them. He took their plunder, then gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger burned, and he went up to his father’s house.
\p Judges 14.20: \v 20 But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.
\p Judges 15.0: \c 15
\p
\p Judges 15.1: \v 1 But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.”
\p But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.
\p Judges 15.2: \v 2 Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”
\p
\p Judges 15.3: \v 3 Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”
\p Judges 15.4: \v 4 Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.
\p Judges 15.5: \v 5 When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
\p
\p Judges 15.6: \v 6 Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?”
\p They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.
\p
\p Judges 15.7: \v 7 Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
\p Judges 15.8: \v 8 He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
\p Judges 15.9: \v 9 Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
\p
\p Judges 15.10: \v 10 The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?”
\p They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”
\p
\p Judges 15.11: \v 11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?”
\p He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
\p
\p Judges 15.12: \v 12 They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.”
\p Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”
\p
\p Judges 15.13: \v 13 They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
\p
\p Judges 15.14: \v 14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burned with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands.
\p Judges 15.15: \v 15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
\p Judges 15.16: \v 16 Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”
\p Judges 15.17: \v 17 When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.\f + \fr 15:17 \ft “Ramath” means “hill” and “Lehi” means “jawbone”.\f*
\p
\p Judges 15.18: \v 18 He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
\p
\p Judges 15.19: \v 19 But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
\p Judges 15.20: \v 20 He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
\p Judges 16.0: \c 16
\p
\p Judges 16.1: \v 1 Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
\p Judges 16.2: \v 2 The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.”
\p Judges 16.3: \v 3 Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
\p
\p Judges 16.4: \v 4 It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
\p Judges 16.5: \v 5 The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”
\p
\p Judges 16.6: \v 6 Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”
\p
\p Judges 16.7: \v 7 Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
\p
\p Judges 16.8: \v 8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
\p Judges 16.9: \v 9 Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.
\p
\p Judges 16.10: \v 10 Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”
\p
\p Judges 16.11: \v 11 He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
\p
\p Judges 16.12: \v 12 So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
\p
\p Judges 16.13: \v 13 Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.”
\p He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom.”
\p
\p Judges 16.14: \v 14 She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam and the fabric.
\p
\p Judges 16.15: \v 15 She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”
\p
\p Judges 16.16: \v 16 When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.
\p Judges 16.17: \v 17 He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”
\p
\p Judges 16.18: \v 18 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.
\p Judges 16.19: \v 19 She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
\p Judges 16.20: \v 20 She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!”
\p He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.
\p Judges 16.21: \v 21 The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
\p Judges 16.22: \v 22 However, the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.
\p
\p Judges 16.23: \v 23 The lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”
\p Judges 16.24: \v 24 When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”
\p
\p Judges 16.25: \v 25 When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;
\p Judges 16.26: \v 26 and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean on them.”
\p Judges 16.27: \v 27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.
\p Judges 16.28: \v 28 Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”
\p Judges 16.29: \v 29 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned on them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left.
\p Judges 16.30: \v 30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
\p
\p Judges 16.31: \v 31 Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
\p Judges 17.0: \c 17
\p
\p Judges 17.1: \v 1 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
\p Judges 17.2: \v 2 He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.”
\p His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”
\p
\p Judges 17.3: \v 3 He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, “I most certainly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”
\p
\p Judges 17.4: \v 4 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made a carved image and a molten image out of it. It was in the house of Micah.
\p
\p Judges 17.5: \v 5 The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim,\f + \fr 17:5 \ft teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.\f* and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
\p Judges 17.6: \v 6 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.
\p Judges 17.7: \v 7 There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.
\p Judges 17.8: \v 8 The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he traveled.
\p Judges 17.9: \v 9 Micah said to him, “Where did you come from?”
\p He said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”
\p
\p Judges 17.10: \v 10 Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.
\p Judges 17.11: \v 11 The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.
\p Judges 17.12: \v 12 Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
\p Judges 17.13: \v 13 Then Micah said, “Now I know that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”
\p Judges 18.0: \c 18
\p
\p Judges 18.1: \v 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.
\p Judges 18.2: \v 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!”
\p They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
\p Judges 18.3: \v 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?”
\p
\p Judges 18.4: \v 4 He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”
\p
\p Judges 18.5: \v 5 They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.”
\p
\p Judges 18.6: \v 6 The priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh.”
\p
\p Judges 18.7: \v 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.
\p Judges 18.8: \v 8 They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”
\p
\p Judges 18.9: \v 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.
\p Judges 18.10: \v 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.”
\p
\p Judges 18.11: \v 11 The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
\p Judges 18.12: \v 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.
\p Judges 18.13: \v 13 They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
\p
\p Judges 18.14: \v 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,\f + \fr 18:14 \ft teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.\f* and a carved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”
\p Judges 18.15: \v 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.
\p Judges 18.16: \v 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.
\p Judges 18.17: \v 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.
\p
\p Judges 18.18: \v 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?”
\p
\p Judges 18.19: \v 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?”
\p
\p Judges 18.20: \v 20 The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.
\p Judges 18.21: \v 21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, the livestock, and the goods before them.
\p Judges 18.22: \v 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.
\p Judges 18.23: \v 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?”
\p
\p Judges 18.24: \v 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?’”
\p
\p Judges 18.25: \v 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.”
\p
\p Judges 18.26: \v 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.
\p Judges 18.27: \v 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.
\p Judges 18.28: \v 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.
\p Judges 18.29: \v 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.
\p Judges 18.30: \v 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.
\p Judges 18.31: \v 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.
\p Judges 19.0: \c 19
\p
\p Judges 19.1: \v 1 In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.
\p Judges 19.2: \v 2 His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there for four months.
\p Judges 19.3: \v 3 Her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him and a couple of donkeys. She brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
\p Judges 19.4: \v 4 His father-in-law, the young lady’s father, kept him there; and he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank, and stayed there.
\p
\p Judges 19.5: \v 5 On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning, and he rose up to depart. The young lady’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way.”
\p Judges 19.6: \v 6 So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”
\p Judges 19.7: \v 7 The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he stayed there again.
\p Judges 19.8: \v 8 He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady’s father said, “Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day declines;” and they both ate.
\p
\p Judges 19.9: \v 9 When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night. Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.”
\p Judges 19.10: \v 10 But the man wouldn’t stay that night, but he rose up and went near Jebus (also called Jerusalem). With him were a couple of saddled donkeys. His concubine also was with him.
\p
\p Judges 19.11: \v 11 When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, “Please come and let’s enter into this city of the Jebusites, and stay in it.”
\p
\p Judges 19.12: \v 12 His master said to him, “We won’t enter into the city of a foreigner that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.”
\p Judges 19.13: \v 13 He said to his servant, “Come and let’s draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.”
\p Judges 19.14: \v 14 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.
\p Judges 19.15: \v 15 They went over there, to go in to stay in Gibeah. He went in, and sat down in the street of the city; for there was no one who took them into his house to stay.
\p
\p Judges 19.16: \v 16 Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.
\p Judges 19.17: \v 17 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”
\p
\p Judges 19.18: \v 18 He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to Yahweh’s house; and there is no one who has taken me into his house.
\p Judges 19.19: \v 19 Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your servant, and for the young man who is with your servants. There is no lack of anything.”
\p
\p Judges 19.20: \v 20 The old man said, “Peace be to you! Just let me supply all your needs, but don’t sleep in the street.”
\p Judges 19.21: \v 21 So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. Then they washed their feet, and ate and drank.
\p Judges 19.22: \v 22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain wicked fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we can have sex with him!”
\p
\p Judges 19.23: \v 23 The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly.
\p Judges 19.24: \v 24 Behold, here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. I will bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them what seems good to you; but to this man don’t do any such folly.”
\p
\p Judges 19.25: \v 25 But the men wouldn’t listen to him; so the man grabbed his concubine, and brought her out to them; and they had sex with her, and abused her all night until the morning. When the day began to dawn, they let her go.
\p Judges 19.26: \v 26 Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was light.
\p Judges 19.27: \v 27 Her lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine had fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
\p
\p Judges 19.28: \v 28 He said to her, “Get up, and let’s get going!” but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.
\p
\p Judges 19.29: \v 29 When he had come into his house, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.
\p Judges 19.30: \v 30 It was so, that all who saw it said, “Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak.”
\p Judges 20.0: \c 20
\p
\p Judges 20.1: \v 1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
\p Judges 20.2: \v 2 The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.
\p Judges 20.3: \v 3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?”
\p
\p Judges 20.4: \v 4 The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, “I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.
\p Judges 20.5: \v 5 The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They intended to kill me and they raped my concubine, and she is dead.
\p Judges 20.6: \v 6 I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
\p Judges 20.7: \v 7 Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.”
\p
\p Judges 20.8: \v 8 All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.
\p Judges 20.9: \v 9 But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;
\p Judges 20.10: \v 10 and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that the men of Gibeah have done in Israel.”
\p Judges 20.11: \v 11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
\p
\p Judges 20.12: \v 12 The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wickedness is this that has happened among you?
\p Judges 20.13: \v 13 Now therefore deliver up the men, the wicked fellows who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel.”
\p But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.
\p Judges 20.14: \v 14 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
\p Judges 20.15: \v 15 The children of Benjamin were counted on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, in addition to the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted seven hundred chosen men.
\p Judges 20.16: \v 16 Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
\p Judges 20.17: \v 17 The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were counted four hundred thousand men who drew sword. All these were men of war.
\p
\p Judges 20.18: \v 18 The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, “Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?”
\p Yahweh said, “Judah first.”
\p
\p Judges 20.19: \v 19 The children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against Gibeah.
\p Judges 20.20: \v 20 The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.
\p Judges 20.21: \v 21 The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Israelite men down to the ground.
\p Judges 20.22: \v 22 The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
\p Judges 20.23: \v 23 The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?”
\p Yahweh said, “Go up against him.”
\p
\p Judges 20.24: \v 24 The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
\p Judges 20.25: \v 25 Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword.
\p
\p Judges 20.26: \v 26 Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
\p Judges 20.27: \v 27 The children of Israel asked Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
\p Judges 20.28: \v 28 and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?”
\p Yahweh said, “Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.”
\p
\p Judges 20.29: \v 29 Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.
\p Judges 20.30: \v 30 The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
\p Judges 20.31: \v 31 The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
\p
\p Judges 20.32: \v 32 The children of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before us, as at the first.” But the children of Israel said, “Let’s flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.”
\p
\p Judges 20.33: \v 33 All the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.
\p Judges 20.34: \v 34 Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.
\p Judges 20.35: \v 35 Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men. All these drew the sword.
\p Judges 20.36: \v 36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck, for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.
\p Judges 20.37: \v 37 The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; then the ambushers spread out, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.
\p Judges 20.38: \v 38 Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.
\p Judges 20.39: \v 39 The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, “Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.”
\p Judges 20.40: \v 40 But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole city went up in smoke to the sky.
\p Judges 20.41: \v 41 The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them.
\p Judges 20.42: \v 42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness, but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the middle of it.
\p Judges 20.43: \v 43 They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah toward the sunrise.
\p Judges 20.44: \v 44 Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.
\p Judges 20.45: \v 45 They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. They gleaned five thousand men of them in the highways, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck two thousand men of them.
\p Judges 20.46: \v 46 So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword. All these were men of valor.
\p Judges 20.47: \v 47 But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months.
\p Judges 20.48: \v 48 The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword—including the entire city, the livestock, and all that they found. Moreover they set all the cities which they found on fire.
\p Judges 21.0: \c 21
\p
\p Judges 21.1: \v 1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”
\p Judges 21.2: \v 2 The people came to Bethel and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.
\p Judges 21.3: \v 3 They said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be one tribe lacking in Israel today?”
\p
\p Judges 21.4: \v 4 On the next day, the people rose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
\p Judges 21.5: \v 5 The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”
\p Judges 21.6: \v 6 The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel today.
\p Judges 21.7: \v 7 How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”
\p Judges 21.8: \v 8 They said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?” Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly.
\p Judges 21.9: \v 9 For when the people were counted, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.
\p Judges 21.10: \v 10 The congregation sent twelve thousand of the most valiant men there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
\p Judges 21.11: \v 11 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”
\p Judges 21.12: \v 12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
\p
\p Judges 21.13: \v 13 The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.
\p Judges 21.14: \v 14 Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.
\p Judges 21.15: \v 15 The people grieved for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
\p Judges 21.16: \v 16 Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”
\p Judges 21.17: \v 17 They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
\p Judges 21.18: \v 18 However, we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’”
\p Judges 21.19: \v 19 They said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”
\p Judges 21.20: \v 20 They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
\p Judges 21.21: \v 21 and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
\p Judges 21.22: \v 22 It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’”
\p
\p Judges 21.23: \v 23 The children of Benjamin did so, and took wives for themselves according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.
\p Judges 21.24: \v 24 The children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they each went out from there to his own inheritance.
\p Judges 21.25: \v 25 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.
\p Ruth 0.0: \id RUT World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Ruth
\toc1 The Book of Ruth
\toc2 Ruth
\toc3 Rut
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Ruth
\p Ruth 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Ruth 1.1: \v 1 In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons.
\p Ruth 1.2: \v 2 The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab and lived there.
\p Ruth 1.3: \v 3 Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons.
\p Ruth 1.4: \v 4 They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years.
\p Ruth 1.5: \v 5 Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.
\p Ruth 1.6: \v 6 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how Yahweh \f + \fr 1:6 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* had visited his people in giving them bread.
\p Ruth 1.7: \v 7 She went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her. They went on the way to return to the land of Judah.
\p Ruth 1.8: \v 8 Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.
\p Ruth 1.9: \v 9 May Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.”
\p Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept.
\p Ruth 1.10: \v 10 They said to her, “No, but we will return with you to your people.”
\p
\p Ruth 1.11: \v 11 Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
\p Ruth 1.12: \v 12 Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, ‘I have hope,’ if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons,
\p Ruth 1.13: \v 13 would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for Yahweh’s hand has gone out against me.”
\p
\p Ruth 1.14: \v 14 They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.
\p Ruth 1.15: \v 15 She said, “Behold,\f + \fr 1:15 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”
\p
\p Ruth 1.16: \v 16 Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God\f + \fr 1:16 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* my God.
\p Ruth 1.17: \v 17 Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”
\p
\p Ruth 1.18: \v 18 When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
\p
\p Ruth 1.19: \v 19 So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”
\p
\p Ruth 1.20: \v 20 She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi.\f + \fr 1:20 \ft “Naomi” means “pleasant”.\f* Call me Mara,\f + \fr 1:20 \ft “Mara” means “bitter”.\f* for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
\p Ruth 1.21: \v 21 I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”
\p Ruth 1.22: \v 22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
\p Ruth 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Ruth 2.1: \v 1 Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
\p Ruth 2.2: \v 2 Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.”
\p She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”
\p Ruth 2.3: \v 3 She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
\p
\p Ruth 2.4: \v 4 Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May Yahweh be with you.”
\p They answered him, “May Yahweh bless you.”
\p
\p Ruth 2.5: \v 5 Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, “Whose young lady is this?”
\p
\p Ruth 2.6: \v 6 The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.
\p Ruth 2.7: \v 7 She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she rested a little in the house.”
\p
\p Ruth 2.8: \v 8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from here, but stay here close to my maidens.
\p Ruth 2.9: \v 9 Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn.”
\p
\p Ruth 2.10: \v 10 Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”
\p
\p Ruth 2.11: \v 11 Boaz answered her, “I have been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father, your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before.
\p Ruth 2.12: \v 12 May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”
\p
\p Ruth 2.13: \v 13 Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants.”
\p
\p Ruth 2.14: \v 14 At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.”
\p She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it.
\p Ruth 2.15: \v 15 When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don’t reproach her.
\p Ruth 2.16: \v 16 Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”
\p
\p Ruth 2.17: \v 17 So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah\f + \fr 2:17 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of barley.
\p Ruth 2.18: \v 18 She took it up, and went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned; and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left after she had enough.
\p
\p Ruth 2.19: \v 19 Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you.”
\p She told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”
\p Ruth 2.20: \v 20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Yahweh, who has not abandoned his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”
\p
\p Ruth 2.21: \v 21 Ruth the Moabitess said, “Yes, he said to me, ‘You shall stay close to my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’”
\p
\p Ruth 2.22: \v 22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field.”
\p Ruth 2.23: \v 23 So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.
\p Ruth 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Ruth 3.1: \v 1 Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
\p Ruth 3.2: \v 2 Now isn’t Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he will be winnowing barley tonight on the threshing floor.
\p Ruth 3.3: \v 3 Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor; but don’t make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.
\p Ruth 3.4: \v 4 It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall note the place where he is lying. Then you shall go in, uncover his feet, and lay down. Then he will tell you what to do.”
\p
\p Ruth 3.5: \v 5 She said to her, “All that you say, I will do.”
\p Ruth 3.6: \v 6 She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her.
\p Ruth 3.7: \v 7 When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid down.
\p Ruth 3.8: \v 8 At midnight, the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet.
\p Ruth 3.9: \v 9 He said, “Who are you?”
\p She answered, “I am Ruth your servant. Therefore spread the corner of your garment over your servant; for you are a near kinsman.”
\p
\p Ruth 3.10: \v 10 He said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich.
\p Ruth 3.11: \v 11 Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.
\p Ruth 3.12: \v 12 Now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than I.
\p Ruth 3.13: \v 13 Stay this night, and in the morning, if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, good. Let him do the kinsman’s duty. But if he will not do the duty of a kinsman for you, then I will do the duty of a kinsman for you, as Yahweh lives. Lie down until the morning.”
\p
\p Ruth 3.14: \v 14 She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”
\p Ruth 3.15: \v 15 He said, “Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it.” She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; then he went into the city.
\p
\p Ruth 3.16: \v 16 When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, “How did it go, my daughter?”
\p She told her all that the man had done for her.
\p Ruth 3.17: \v 17 She said, “He gave me these six measures of barley; for he said, ‘Don’t go empty to your mother-in-law.’”
\p
\p Ruth 3.18: \v 18 Then she said, “Wait, my daughter, until you know what will happen; for the man will not rest until he has settled this today.”
\p Ruth 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Ruth 4.1: \v 1 Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.
\p Ruth 4.2: \v 2 Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.
\p Ruth 4.3: \v 3 He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.
\p Ruth 4.4: \v 4 I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.”
\p He said, “I will redeem it.”
\p
\p Ruth 4.5: \v 5 Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”
\p
\p Ruth 4.6: \v 6 The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.”
\p
\p Ruth 4.7: \v 7 Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his sandal, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of formalizing transactions in Israel.
\p Ruth 4.8: \v 8 So the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” then he took off his sandal.
\p
\p Ruth 4.9: \v 9 Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.
\p Ruth 4.10: \v 10 Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”
\p
\p Ruth 4.11: \v 11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.
\p Ruth 4.12: \v 12 Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring\f + \fr 4:12 \ft or, seed\f* which Yahweh will give you by this young woman.”
\p
\p Ruth 4.13: \v 13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.
\p Ruth 4.14: \v 14 The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.
\p Ruth 4.15: \v 15 He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”
\p Ruth 4.16: \v 16 Naomi took the child, laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to him.
\p Ruth 4.17: \v 17 The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi”. They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
\p
\p Ruth 4.18: \v 18 Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,
\p Ruth 4.19: \v 19 and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab,
\p Ruth 4.20: \v 20 and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon,
\p Ruth 4.21: \v 21 and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed,
\p Ruth 4.22: \v 22 and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.
\p 1 Samuel 0.0: \id 1SA World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h 1 Samuel
\toc1 The First Book of Samuel
\toc2 1 Samuel
\toc3 1Sa
\mt1 The First Book of Samuel
\p 1 Samuel 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 1 Samuel 1.1: \v 1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
\p 1 Samuel 1.2: \v 2 He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
\p 1 Samuel 1.3: \v 3 This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh\f + \fr 1:3 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.
\p 1 Samuel 1.4: \v 4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions;
\p 1 Samuel 1.5: \v 5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.
\p 1 Samuel 1.6: \v 6 Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
\p 1 Samuel 1.7: \v 7 So year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.
\p 1 Samuel 1.8: \v 8 Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 1.9: \v 9 So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.
\p 1 Samuel 1.10: \v 10 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.
\p 1 Samuel 1.11: \v 11 She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 1.12: \v 12 As she continued praying before Yahweh, Eli saw her mouth.
\p 1 Samuel 1.13: \v 13 Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.
\p 1 Samuel 1.14: \v 14 Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 1.15: \v 15 Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
\p 1 Samuel 1.16: \v 16 Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 1.17: \v 17 Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God\f + \fr 1:17 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 1.18: \v 18 She said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 1.19: \v 19 They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 1.20: \v 20 When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel,\f + \fr 1:20 \ft Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for “heard by God.”\f* saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 1.21: \v 21 The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice and his vow.
\p 1 Samuel 1.22: \v 22 But Hannah didn’t go up, for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 1.23: \v 23 Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may Yahweh establish his word.”
\p So the woman waited and nursed her son until she weaned him.
\p 1 Samuel 1.24: \v 24 When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah\f + \fr 1:24 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of meal, and a container of wine, and brought him to Yahweh’s house in Shiloh. The child was young.
\p 1 Samuel 1.25: \v 25 They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.
\p 1 Samuel 1.26: \v 26 She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.
\p 1 Samuel 1.27: \v 27 I prayed for this child, and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.
\p 1 Samuel 1.28: \v 28 Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.
\p 1 Samuel 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 1 Samuel 2.1: \v 1 Hannah prayed, and said:
\q1 “My heart exults in Yahweh!
\q2 My horn is exalted in Yahweh.
\q1 My mouth is enlarged over my enemies,
\q2 because I rejoice in your salvation.
\q1
\p 1 Samuel 2.2: \v 2 There is no one as holy as Yahweh,
\q2 for there is no one besides you,
\q2 nor is there any rock like our God.
\b
\q1
\p 1 Samuel 2.3: \v 3 “Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly.
\q2 Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth,
\q2 for Yahweh is a God of knowledge.
\q2 By him actions are weighed.
\b
\q1
\p 1 Samuel 2.4: \v 4 “The bows of the mighty men are broken.
\q2 Those who stumbled are armed with strength.
\q1
\p 1 Samuel 2.5: \v 5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread.
\q2 Those who were hungry are satisfied.
\q1 Yes, the barren has borne seven.
\q2 She who has many children languishes.
\b
\q1
\p 1 Samuel 2.6: \v 6 “Yahweh kills and makes alive.
\q2 He brings down to Sheol\f + \fr 2:6 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* and brings up.
\q1
\p 1 Samuel 2.7: \v 7 Yahweh makes poor and makes rich.
\q2 He brings low, he also lifts up.
\q1
\p 1 Samuel 2.8: \v 8 He raises up the poor out of the dust.
\q2 He lifts up the needy from the dunghill
\q2 to make them sit with princes
\q2 and inherit the throne of glory.
\q1 For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s.
\q2 He has set the world on them.
\q1
\p 1 Samuel 2.9: \v 9 He will keep the feet of his holy ones,
\q2 but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness;
\q2 for no man will prevail by strength.
\q1
\p 1 Samuel 2.10: \v 10 Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces.
\q2 He will thunder against them in the sky.
\b
\q1 “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth.
\q2 He will give strength to his king,
\q2 and exalt the horn of his anointed.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 2.11: \v 11 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 2.12: \v 12 Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.
\p 1 Samuel 2.13: \v 13 The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;
\p 1 Samuel 2.14: \v 14 and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. They did this to all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.
\p 1 Samuel 2.15: \v 15 Yes, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 2.16: \v 16 If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”
\p 1 Samuel 2.17: \v 17 The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.
\p 1 Samuel 2.18: \v 18 But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.
\p 1 Samuel 2.19: \v 19 Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
\p 1 Samuel 2.20: \v 20 Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May Yahweh give you offspring\f + \fr 2:20 \ft or, seed\f* from this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh.” Then they went to their own home.
\p 1 Samuel 2.21: \v 21 Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 2.22: \v 22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p 1 Samuel 2.23: \v 23 He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.
\p 1 Samuel 2.24: \v 24 No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.
\p 1 Samuel 2.25: \v 25 If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 2.26: \v 26 The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 2.27: \v 27 A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?
\p 1 Samuel 2.28: \v 28 Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?
\p 1 Samuel 2.29: \v 29 Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’
\p 1 Samuel 2.30: \v 30 “Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.
\p 1 Samuel 2.31: \v 31 Behold,\f + \fr 2:31 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.
\p 1 Samuel 2.32: \v 32 You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever.
\p 1 Samuel 2.33: \v 33 The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes\f + \fr 2:33 \ft or, blind your eyes with tears\f* and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age.
\p 1 Samuel 2.34: \v 34 This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.
\p 1 Samuel 2.35: \v 35 I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever.
\p 1 Samuel 2.36: \v 36 It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”
\p 1 Samuel 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p 1 Samuel 3.1: \v 1 The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. Yahweh’s word was rare in those days. There were not many visions, then.
\p 1 Samuel 3.2: \v 2 At that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),
\p 1 Samuel 3.3: \v 3 and God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down in Yahweh’s temple where God’s ark was,
\p 1 Samuel 3.4: \v 4 Yahweh called Samuel. He said, “Here I am.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 3.5: \v 5 He ran to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.”
\p He said, “I didn’t call. Lie down again.”
\p He went and lay down.
\p 1 Samuel 3.6: \v 6 Yahweh called yet again, “Samuel!”
\p Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.”
\p He answered, “I didn’t call, my son. Lie down again.”
\p 1 Samuel 3.7: \v 7 Now Samuel didn’t yet know Yahweh, neither was Yahweh’s word yet revealed to him.
\p 1 Samuel 3.8: \v 8 Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.”
\p Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child.
\p 1 Samuel 3.9: \v 9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down. It shall be, if he calls you, that you shall say, ‘Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
\p 1 Samuel 3.10: \v 10 Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!”
\p Then Samuel said, “Speak; for your servant hears.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 3.11: \v 11 Yahweh said to Samuel, “Behold, I will do a thing in Israel at which both the ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.
\p 1 Samuel 3.12: \v 12 In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.
\p 1 Samuel 3.13: \v 13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.
\p 1 Samuel 3.14: \v 14 Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 3.15: \v 15 Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of Yahweh’s house. Samuel was afraid to show Eli the vision.
\p 1 Samuel 3.16: \v 16 Then Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son!”
\p He said, “Here I am.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 3.17: \v 17 He said, “What is the thing that he has spoken to you? Please don’t hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 3.18: \v 18 Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him.
\p He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 3.19: \v 19 Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.
\p 1 Samuel 3.20: \v 20 All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.
\p 1 Samuel 3.21: \v 21 Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by Yahweh’s word.
\p 1 Samuel 4.0: \c 4
\nb
\p 1 Samuel 4.1: \v 1 The word of Samuel came to all Israel.
\p Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.
\p 1 Samuel 4.2: \v 2 The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. When they joined battle, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men of the army in the field.
\p 1 Samuel 4.3: \v 3 When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has Yahweh defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s get the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come among us and save us out of the hand of our enemies.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 4.4: \v 4 So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
\p 1 Samuel 4.5: \v 5 When the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded.
\p 1 Samuel 4.6: \v 6 When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” They understood that Yahweh’s ark had come into the camp.
\p 1 Samuel 4.7: \v 7 The Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has come into the camp.” They said, “Woe to us! For there has not been such a thing before.
\p 1 Samuel 4.8: \v 8 Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.
\p 1 Samuel 4.9: \v 9 Be strong and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!”
\p 1 Samuel 4.10: \v 10 The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell.
\p 1 Samuel 4.11: \v 11 God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 4.12: \v 12 A man of Benjamin ran out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.
\p 1 Samuel 4.13: \v 13 When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out.
\p 1 Samuel 4.14: \v 14 When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, “What does the noise of this tumult mean?”
\p The man hurried, and came and told Eli.
\p 1 Samuel 4.15: \v 15 Now Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.
\p 1 Samuel 4.16: \v 16 The man said to Eli, “I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army.”
\p He said, “How did the matter go, my son?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 4.17: \v 17 He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 4.18: \v 18 When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 4.19: \v 19 His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to giving birth. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.
\p 1 Samuel 4.20: \v 20 About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have given birth to a son.” But she didn’t answer, neither did she regard it.
\p 1 Samuel 4.21: \v 21 She named the child Ichabod,\f + \fr 4:21 \ft “Ichabod” means “no glory”.\f* saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
\p 1 Samuel 4.22: \v 22 She said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken.”
\p 1 Samuel 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p 1 Samuel 5.1: \v 1 Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
\p 1 Samuel 5.2: \v 2 The Philistines took God’s ark, and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.
\p 1 Samuel 5.3: \v 3 When the people of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before Yahweh’s ark. They took Dagon and set him in his place again.
\p 1 Samuel 5.4: \v 4 When they arose early on the following morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before Yahweh’s ark; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso was intact.
\p 1 Samuel 5.5: \v 5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon’s house step on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.
\p 1 Samuel 5.6: \v 6 But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 5.7: \v 7 When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with us, for his hand is severe on us and on Dagon our god.”
\p 1 Samuel 5.8: \v 8 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?”
\p They answered, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried over to Gath.” They carried the ark of the God of Israel there.
\p 1 Samuel 5.9: \v 9 It was so, that after they had carried it there, Yahweh’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, so that tumors broke out on them.
\p 1 Samuel 5.10: \v 10 So they sent God’s ark to Ekron.
\p As God’s ark came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here to us, to kill us and our people.”
\p 1 Samuel 5.11: \v 11 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly panic throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.
\p 1 Samuel 5.12: \v 12 The men who didn’t die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
\p 1 Samuel 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p 1 Samuel 6.1: \v 1 Yahweh’s ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
\p 1 Samuel 6.2: \v 2 The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with Yahweh’s ark? Show us how we should send it to its place.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 6.3: \v 3 They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don’t send it empty; but by all means return a trespass offering to him. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 6.4: \v 4 Then they said, “What should the trespass offering be which we shall return to him?”
\p They said, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
\p 1 Samuel 6.5: \v 5 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.
\p 1 Samuel 6.6: \v 6 Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed?
\p
\p 1 Samuel 6.7: \v 7 “Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart and two milk cows on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;
\p 1 Samuel 6.8: \v 8 and take Yahweh’s ark and lay it on the cart. Put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a box by its side; and send it away, that it may go.
\p 1 Samuel 6.9: \v 9 Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us. It was a chance that happened to us.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 6.10: \v 10 The men did so, and took two milk cows and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
\p 1 Samuel 6.11: \v 11 They put Yahweh’s ark on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.
\p 1 Samuel 6.12: \v 12 The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.
\p 1 Samuel 6.13: \v 13 The people of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
\p 1 Samuel 6.14: \v 14 The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood there, where there was a great stone. Then they split the wood of the cart and offered up the cows for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
\p 1 Samuel 6.15: \v 15 The Levites took down Yahweh’s ark and the box that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone; and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh.
\p 1 Samuel 6.16: \v 16 When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
\p 1 Samuel 6.17: \v 17 These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
\p 1 Samuel 6.18: \v 18 and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone on which they set down Yahweh’s ark. That stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
\p 1 Samuel 6.19: \v 19 He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into Yahweh’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.
\p 1 Samuel 6.20: \v 20 The men of Beth Shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 6.21: \v 21 They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have brought back Yahweh’s ark. Come down and bring it up to yourselves.”
\p 1 Samuel 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p 1 Samuel 7.1: \v 1 The men of Kiriath Jearim came and took Yahweh’s ark, and brought it into Abinadab’s house on the hill, and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep Yahweh’s ark.
\p 1 Samuel 7.2: \v 2 From the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long; for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after Yahweh.
\p 1 Samuel 7.3: \v 3 Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
\p 1 Samuel 7.4: \v 4 Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
\p 1 Samuel 7.5: \v 5 Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you.”
\p 1 Samuel 7.6: \v 6 They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
\p 1 Samuel 7.7: \v 7 When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
\p 1 Samuel 7.8: \v 8 The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”
\p 1 Samuel 7.9: \v 9 Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.
\p 1 Samuel 7.10: \v 10 As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines came near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel.
\p 1 Samuel 7.11: \v 11 The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 7.12: \v 12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer,\f + \fr 7:12 \ft “Ebenezer” means “stone of help”.\f* saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”
\p 1 Samuel 7.13: \v 13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped coming within the border of Israel. Yahweh’s hand was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 7.14: \v 14 The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel recovered its border out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 7.15: \v 15 Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
\p 1 Samuel 7.16: \v 16 He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
\p 1 Samuel 7.17: \v 17 His return was to Ramah, for his house was there; and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to Yahweh there.
\p 1 Samuel 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p 1 Samuel 8.1: \v 1 When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
\p 1 Samuel 8.2: \v 2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.
\p 1 Samuel 8.3: \v 3 His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.
\p 1 Samuel 8.4: \v 4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah.
\p 1 Samuel 8.5: \v 5 They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
\p 1 Samuel 8.6: \v 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.”
\p Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
\p 1 Samuel 8.7: \v 7 Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.
\p 1 Samuel 8.8: \v 8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so they also do to you.
\p 1 Samuel 8.9: \v 9 Now therefore listen to their voice. However you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who will reign over them.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 8.10: \v 10 Samuel told all Yahweh’s words to the people who asked him for a king.
\p 1 Samuel 8.11: \v 11 He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots.
\p 1 Samuel 8.12: \v 12 He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
\p 1 Samuel 8.13: \v 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.
\p 1 Samuel 8.14: \v 14 He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.
\p 1 Samuel 8.15: \v 15 He will take one tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers, and to his servants.
\p 1 Samuel 8.16: \v 16 He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.
\p 1 Samuel 8.17: \v 17 He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.
\p 1 Samuel 8.18: \v 18 You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 8.19: \v 19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,
\p 1 Samuel 8.20: \v 20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 8.21: \v 21 Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.
\p 1 Samuel 8.22: \v 22 Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.”
\p Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Everyone go to your own city.”
\p 1 Samuel 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.1: \v 1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.
\p 1 Samuel 9.2: \v 2 He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Israel a better person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was taller than any of the people.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.3: \v 3 The donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, “Now take one of the servants with you, and arise, go look for the donkeys.”
\p 1 Samuel 9.4: \v 4 He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn’t find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and they weren’t there. Then he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn’t find them.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.5: \v 5 When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come! Let’s return, lest my father stop caring about the donkeys, and be anxious for us.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.6: \v 6 The servant said to him, “Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honor. All that he says surely happens. Now let’s go there. Perhaps he can tell us which way to go.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.7: \v 7 Then Saul said to his servant, “But, behold, if we go, what should we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our sacks, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.8: \v 8 The servant answered Saul again, and said, “Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel\f + \fr 9:8 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1/4 shekel would be a small coin of about 2.5 grams.\f* of silver. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us our way.”
\p 1 Samuel 9.9: \v 9 (In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come! Let’s go to the seer;” for he who is now called a prophet was before called a seer.)
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.10: \v 10 Then Saul said to his servant, “Well said. Come! Let’s go.” So they went to the city where the man of God was.
\p 1 Samuel 9.11: \v 11 As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, “Is the seer here?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.12: \v 12 They answered them, and said, “He is. Behold, he is before you. Hurry now, for he has come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place.
\p 1 Samuel 9.13: \v 13 As soon as you have come into the city, you will immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he comes, because he blesses the sacrifice. Afterwards those who are invited eat. Now therefore go up; for at this time you will find him.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.14: \v 14 They went up to the city. As they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.15: \v 15 Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,
\p 1 Samuel 9.16: \v 16 “Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.17: \v 17 When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, “Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! He will have authority over my people.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.18: \v 18 Then Saul approached Samuel in the gateway, and said, “Please tell me where the seer’s house is.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.19: \v 19 Samuel answered Saul, and said, “I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for you are to eat with me today. In the morning I will let you go, and will tell you all that is in your heart.
\p 1 Samuel 9.20: \v 20 As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don’t set your mind on them; for they have been found. For whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you, and for all your father’s house?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.21: \v 21 Saul answered, “Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak to me like this?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.22: \v 22 Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the guest room, and made them sit in the best place among those who were invited, who were about thirty persons.
\p 1 Samuel 9.23: \v 23 Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Set it aside.’”
\p 1 Samuel 9.24: \v 24 The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. Samuel said, “Behold, that which has been reserved! Set it before yourself and eat; because it has been kept for you for the appointed time, for I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 9.25: \v 25 When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.
\p 1 Samuel 9.26: \v 26 They arose early; and about daybreak, Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, “Get up, that I may send you away.” Saul arose, and they both went outside, he and Samuel, together.
\p 1 Samuel 9.27: \v 27 As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.” He went ahead, then Samuel said, “But stand still first, that I may cause you to hear God’s message.”
\p 1 Samuel 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p 1 Samuel 10.1: \v 1 Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?
\p 1 Samuel 10.2: \v 2 When you have departed from me today, then you will find two men by Rachel’s tomb, on the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. They will tell you, ‘The donkeys which you went to look for have been found; and behold, your father has stopped caring about the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, “What shall I do for my son?”’
\p
\p 1 Samuel 10.3: \v 3 “Then you will go on forward from there, and you will come to the oak of Tabor. Three men will meet you there going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three young goats, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a container of wine.
\p 1 Samuel 10.4: \v 4 They will greet you, and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall receive from their hand.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 10.5: \v 5 “After that you will come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is; and it will happen, when you have come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a lute, a tambourine, a pipe, and a harp before them; and they will be prophesying.
\p 1 Samuel 10.6: \v 6 Then Yahweh’s Spirit will come mightily on you, and you will prophesy with them, and will be turned into another man.
\p 1 Samuel 10.7: \v 7 Let it be, when these signs have come to you, that you do what is appropriate for the occasion; for God is with you.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 10.8: \v 8 “Go down ahead of me to Gilgal; and behold, I will come down to you, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings. Wait seven days, until I come to you, and show you what you are to do.”
\p 1 Samuel 10.9: \v 9 It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all those signs happened that day.
\p 1 Samuel 10.10: \v 10 When they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily on him, and he prophesied among them.
\p 1 Samuel 10.11: \v 11 When all who knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said to one another, “What is this that has come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 10.12: \v 12 One of the same place answered, “Who is their father?” Therefore it became a proverb, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
\p 1 Samuel 10.13: \v 13 When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 10.14: \v 14 Saul’s uncle said to him and to his servant, “Where did you go?”
\p He said, “To seek the donkeys. When we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 10.15: \v 15 Saul’s uncle said, “Please tell me what Samuel said to you.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 10.16: \v 16 Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys were found.” But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he didn’t tell him.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 10.17: \v 17 Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;
\p 1 Samuel 10.18: \v 18 and he said to the children of Israel, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’
\p 1 Samuel 10.19: \v 19 But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 10.20: \v 20 So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen.
\p 1 Samuel 10.21: \v 21 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families; and the family of the Matrites was chosen. Then Saul the son of Kish was chosen; but when they looked for him, he could not be found.
\p 1 Samuel 10.22: \v 22 Therefore they asked of Yahweh further, “Is there yet a man to come here?”
\p Yahweh answered, “Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 10.23: \v 23 They ran and got him there. When he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
\p 1 Samuel 10.24: \v 24 Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?”
\p All the people shouted, and said, “Long live the king!”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 10.25: \v 25 Then Samuel told the people the regulations of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before Yahweh. Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
\p 1 Samuel 10.26: \v 26 Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched.
\p 1 Samuel 10.27: \v 27 But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
\p 1 Samuel 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p 1 Samuel 11.1: \v 1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”
\p 1 Samuel 11.2: \v 2 Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make it with you, that all your right eyes be gouged out. I will make this dishonor all Israel.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 11.3: \v 3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you.”
\p 1 Samuel 11.4: \v 4 Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 11.5: \v 5 Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, “What ails the people that they weep?” They told him the words of the men of Jabesh.
\p 1 Samuel 11.6: \v 6 God’s Spirit came mightily on Saul when he heard those words, and his anger burned hot.
\p 1 Samuel 11.7: \v 7 He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever doesn’t come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.” The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.
\p 1 Samuel 11.8: \v 8 He counted them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
\p 1 Samuel 11.9: \v 9 They said to the messengers who came, “Tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be rescued.’” The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
\p 1 Samuel 11.10: \v 10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.”
\p 1 Samuel 11.11: \v 11 On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
\p 1 Samuel 11.12: \v 12 The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 11.13: \v 13 Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”
\p 1 Samuel 11.14: \v 14 Then Samuel said to the people, “Come! Let’s go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.”
\p 1 Samuel 11.15: \v 15 All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yahweh in Gilgal. There they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
\p 1 Samuel 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p 1 Samuel 12.1: \v 1 Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.
\p 1 Samuel 12.2: \v 2 Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and gray-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day.
\p 1 Samuel 12.3: \v 3 Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 12.4: \v 4 They said, “You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from anyone’s hand.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 12.5: \v 5 He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.”
\p They said, “He is witness.”
\p 1 Samuel 12.6: \v 6 Samuel said to the people, “It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
\p 1 Samuel 12.7: \v 7 Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 12.8: \v 8 “When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 12.9: \v 9 “But they forgot Yahweh their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.
\p 1 Samuel 12.10: \v 10 They cried to Yahweh, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh, and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’
\p 1 Samuel 12.11: \v 11 Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 12.12: \v 12 “When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us;’ when Yahweh your God was your king.
\p 1 Samuel 12.13: \v 13 Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for. Behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.
\p 1 Samuel 12.14: \v 14 If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your God.
\p 1 Samuel 12.15: \v 15 But if you will not listen to Yahweh’s voice, but rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then Yahweh’s hand will be against you, as it was against your fathers.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 12.16: \v 16 “Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Yahweh will do before your eyes.
\p 1 Samuel 12.17: \v 17 Isn’t it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and you will know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in Yahweh’s sight, in asking for a king.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 12.18: \v 18 So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain that day. Then all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 12.19: \v 19 All the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for a king.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 12.20: \v 20 Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn away from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.
\p 1 Samuel 12.21: \v 21 Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
\p 1 Samuel 12.22: \v 22 For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.
\p 1 Samuel 12.23: \v 23 Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
\p 1 Samuel 12.24: \v 24 Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.
\p 1 Samuel 12.25: \v 25 But if you keep doing evil, you will be consumed, both you and your king.”
\p 1 Samuel 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p 1 Samuel 13.1: \v 1 Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.\f + \fr 13:1 \ft The traditional Hebrew text omits “thirty” and “forty-”. The blanks are filled in here from a few manuscripts of the Septuagint.\f*
\p 1 Samuel 13.2: \v 2 Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the people to their own tents.
\p 1 Samuel 13.3: \v 3 Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”
\p 1 Samuel 13.4: \v 4 All Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was considered an abomination to the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.
\p 1 Samuel 13.5: \v 5 The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
\p 1 Samuel 13.6: \v 6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits.
\p 1 Samuel 13.7: \v 7 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
\p 1 Samuel 13.8: \v 8 He stayed seven days, according to the time set by Samuel; but Samuel didn’t come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.
\p 1 Samuel 13.9: \v 9 Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering to me here, and the peace offerings.” He offered the burnt offering.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 13.10: \v 10 It came to pass that as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him.
\p 1 Samuel 13.11: \v 11 Samuel said, “What have you done?”
\p Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;
\p 1 Samuel 13.12: \v 12 therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven’t entreated the favor of Yahweh.’ I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 13.13: \v 13 Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
\p 1 Samuel 13.14: \v 14 But now your kingdom will not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 13.15: \v 15 Samuel arose, and went from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul counted the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.
\p 1 Samuel 13.16: \v 16 Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
\p 1 Samuel 13.17: \v 17 The raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;
\p 1 Samuel 13.18: \v 18 another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
\p 1 Samuel 13.19: \v 19 Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”;
\p 1 Samuel 13.20: \v 20 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his own plowshare, mattock, ax, and sickle.
\p 1 Samuel 13.21: \v 21 The price was one payim\f + \fr 13:21 \ft A payim (or pim) was 2/3 shekel of silver, or 0.26 ounces, or 7.6 grams\f* each to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads.
\p 1 Samuel 13.22: \v 22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that neither sword nor spear was found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan; but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.
\p 1 Samuel 13.23: \v 23 The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
\p 1 Samuel 14.0: \c 14
\p
\p 1 Samuel 14.1: \v 1 Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side.” But he didn’t tell his father.
\p 1 Samuel 14.2: \v 2 Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him were about six hundred men;
\p 1 Samuel 14.3: \v 3 including Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn’t know that Jonathan was gone.
\p 1 Samuel 14.4: \v 4 Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
\p 1 Samuel 14.5: \v 5 The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
\p 1 Samuel 14.6: \v 6 Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few.”
\p 1 Samuel 14.7: \v 7 His armor bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Turn and, behold, I am with you according to your heart.”
\p 1 Samuel 14.8: \v 8 Then Jonathan said, “Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will reveal ourselves to them.
\p 1 Samuel 14.9: \v 9 If they say this to us, ‘Wait until we come to you!’ then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.
\p 1 Samuel 14.10: \v 10 But if they say this, ‘Come up to us!’ then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 14.11: \v 11 Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, “Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves!”
\p 1 Samuel 14.12: \v 12 The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, “Come up to us, and we will show you something!”
\p Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up after me; for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Israel.”
\p 1 Samuel 14.13: \v 13 Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor bearer killed them after him.
\p 1 Samuel 14.14: \v 14 That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land.
\p 1 Samuel 14.15: \v 15 There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the raiders, also trembled; and the earth quaked, so there was an exceedingly great trembling.
\p 1 Samuel 14.16: \v 16 The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude melted away and scattered.
\p 1 Samuel 14.17: \v 17 Then Saul said to the people who were with him, “Count now, and see who is missing from us.” When they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 14.18: \v 18 Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring God’s ark here.” For God’s ark was with the children of Israel at that time.
\p 1 Samuel 14.19: \v 19 While Saul talked to the priest, the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased; and Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand!”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 14.20: \v 20 Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle; and behold, they were all striking each other with their swords in very great confusion.
\p 1 Samuel 14.21: \v 21 Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines before, and who went up with them into the camp, from all around, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.
\p 1 Samuel 14.22: \v 22 Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
\p 1 Samuel 14.23: \v 23 So Yahweh saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over by Beth Aven.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 14.24: \v 24 The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies.” So none of the people tasted food.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 14.25: \v 25 All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.
\p 1 Samuel 14.26: \v 26 When the people had come to the forest, behold, honey was dripping, but no one put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.
\p 1 Samuel 14.27: \v 27 But Jonathan didn’t hear when his father commanded the people with the oath. Therefore he put out the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.
\p 1 Samuel 14.28: \v 28 Then one of the people answered, and said, “Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’” So the people were faint.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 14.29: \v 29 Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
\p 1 Samuel 14.30: \v 30 How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the plunder of their enemies which they found? For now there has been no great slaughter among the Philistines.”
\p 1 Samuel 14.31: \v 31 They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;
\p 1 Samuel 14.32: \v 32 and the people pounced on the plunder, and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.
\p 1 Samuel 14.33: \v 33 Then they told Saul, saying, “Behold, the people are sinning against Yahweh, in that they eat meat with the blood.”
\p He said, “You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me today!”
\p 1 Samuel 14.34: \v 34 Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, ‘Every man bring me here his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don’t sin against Yahweh in eating meat with the blood.’” All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 14.35: \v 35 Saul built an altar to Yahweh. This was the first altar that he built to Yahweh.
\p 1 Samuel 14.36: \v 36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder among them until the morning light, and let’s not leave a man of them.”
\p They said, “Do whatever seems good to you.”
\p Then the priest said, “Let’s draw near here to God.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 14.37: \v 37 Saul asked counsel of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he didn’t answer him that day.
\p 1 Samuel 14.38: \v 38 Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been today.
\p 1 Samuel 14.39: \v 39 For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.
\p 1 Samuel 14.40: \v 40 Then he said to all Israel, “You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.”
\p The people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 14.41: \v 41 Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Show the right.”
\p Jonathan and Saul were chosen, but the people escaped.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 14.42: \v 42 Saul said, “Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son.”
\p Jonathan was selected.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 14.43: \v 43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done!”
\p Jonathan told him, and said, “I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 14.44: \v 44 Saul said, “God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 14.45: \v 45 The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.
\p 1 Samuel 14.46: \v 46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 14.47: \v 47 Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned himself, he defeated them.
\p 1 Samuel 14.48: \v 48 He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.
\p 1 Samuel 14.49: \v 49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal.
\p 1 Samuel 14.50: \v 50 The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.
\p 1 Samuel 14.51: \v 51 Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
\p 1 Samuel 14.52: \v 52 There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him into his service.
\p 1 Samuel 15.0: \c 15
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.1: \v 1 Samuel said to Saul, “Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of Yahweh’s words.
\p 1 Samuel 15.2: \v 2 Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way, when he came up out of Egypt.
\p 1 Samuel 15.3: \v 3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.4: \v 4 Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
\p 1 Samuel 15.5: \v 5 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.
\p 1 Samuel 15.6: \v 6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.7: \v 7 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
\p 1 Samuel 15.8: \v 8 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
\p 1 Samuel 15.9: \v 9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, and of the fat calves, and the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
\p 1 Samuel 15.10: \v 10 Then Yahweh’s word came to Samuel, saying,
\p 1 Samuel 15.11: \v 11 “It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.12: \v 12 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.13: \v 13 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.14: \v 14 Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.15: \v 15 Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.16: \v 16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.”
\p He said to him, “Say on.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.17: \v 17 Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;
\p 1 Samuel 15.18: \v 18 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’
\p 1 Samuel 15.19: \v 19 Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.20: \v 20 Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed Yahweh’s voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
\p 1 Samuel 15.21: \v 21 But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.22: \v 22 Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
\p 1 Samuel 15.23: \v 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim.\f + \fr 15:23 \ft teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.\f* Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.24: \v 24 Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
\p 1 Samuel 15.25: \v 25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.26: \v 26 Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”
\p 1 Samuel 15.27: \v 27 As Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
\p 1 Samuel 15.28: \v 28 Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.
\p 1 Samuel 15.29: \v 29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.30: \v 30 Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.31: \v 31 So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.
\p 1 Samuel 15.32: \v 32 Then Samuel said, “Bring Agag the king of the Amalekites here to me!”
\p Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.33: \v 33 Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 15.34: \v 34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
\p 1 Samuel 15.35: \v 35 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.
\p 1 Samuel 16.0: \c 16
\p
\p 1 Samuel 16.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 16.2: \v 2 Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.”
\p Yahweh said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.
\p 1 Samuel 16.3: \v 3 Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. You shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 16.4: \v 4 Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 16.5: \v 5 He said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
\p 1 Samuel 16.6: \v 6 When they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely Yahweh’s anointed is before him.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 16.7: \v 7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
\p 1 Samuel 16.8: \v 8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”
\p 1 Samuel 16.9: \v 9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”
\p 1 Samuel 16.10: \v 10 Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, “Yahweh has not chosen these.”
\p 1 Samuel 16.11: \v 11 Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your children here?”
\p He said, “There remains yet the youngest. Behold, he is keeping the sheep.”
\p Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 16.12: \v 12 He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with a handsome face and good appearance. Yahweh said, “Arise! Anoint him, for this is he.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 16.13: \v 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
\p 1 Samuel 16.14: \v 14 Now Yahweh’s Spirit departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.
\p 1 Samuel 16.15: \v 15 Saul’s servants said to him, “See now, an evil spirit from God troubles you.
\p 1 Samuel 16.16: \v 16 Let our lord now command your servants who are in front of you to seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp. Then when the evil spirit from God is on you, he will play with his hand, and you will be well.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 16.17: \v 17 Saul said to his servants, “Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring him to me.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 16.18: \v 18 Then one of the young men answered, and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and Yahweh is with him.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 16.19: \v 19 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 16.20: \v 20 Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a container of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul.
\p 1 Samuel 16.21: \v 21 David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.
\p 1 Samuel 16.22: \v 22 Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.”
\p 1 Samuel 16.23: \v 23 When the spirit from God was on Saul, David took the harp, and played with his hand; so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
\p 1 Samuel 18.0: \c 18
\p
\p 1 Samuel 18.1: \v 1 When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
\p 1 Samuel 18.2: \v 2 Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s house any more.
\p 1 Samuel 18.3: \v 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
\p 1 Samuel 18.4: \v 4 Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even including his sword, his bow, and his sash.
\p 1 Samuel 18.5: \v 5 David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 18.6: \v 6 As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.
\p 1 Samuel 18.7: \v 7 The women sang to one another as they played, and said,
\q1 “Saul has slain his thousands,
\q2 and David his ten thousands.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 18.8: \v 8 Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have creditd David with ten thousands, and they have only credited me with thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”
\p 1 Samuel 18.9: \v 9 Saul watched David from that day and forward.
\p 1 Samuel 18.10: \v 10 On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand;
\p 1 Samuel 18.11: \v 11 and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice.
\p 1 Samuel 18.12: \v 12 Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.
\p 1 Samuel 18.13: \v 13 Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 18.14: \v 14 David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.
\p 1 Samuel 18.15: \v 15 When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.
\p 1 Samuel 18.16: \v 16 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.
\p 1 Samuel 18.17: \v 17 Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”
\p 1 Samuel 18.18: \v 18 David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 18.19: \v 19 But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.
\p 1 Samuel 18.20: \v 20 Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
\p 1 Samuel 18.21: \v 21 Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”
\p 1 Samuel 18.22: \v 22 Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 18.23: \v 23 Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man, and little known?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 18.24: \v 24 The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 18.25: \v 25 Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
\p 1 Samuel 18.26: \v 26 When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline,
\p 1 Samuel 18.27: \v 27 David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.
\p 1 Samuel 18.28: \v 28 Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.
\p 1 Samuel 18.29: \v 29 Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.
\p 1 Samuel 18.30: \v 30 Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.
\p 1 Samuel 19.0: \c 19
\p
\p 1 Samuel 19.1: \v 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.
\p 1 Samuel 19.2: \v 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.
\p 1 Samuel 19.3: \v 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.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 19.4: \v 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;
\p 1 Samuel 19.5: \v 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?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 19.6: \v 6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 19.7: \v 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.
\p 1 Samuel 19.8: \v 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.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 19.9: \v 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.
\p 1 Samuel 19.10: \v 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.
\p 1 Samuel 19.11: \v 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.”
\p 1 Samuel 19.12: \v 12 So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.
\p 1 Samuel 19.13: \v 13 Michal took the teraphim,\f + \fr 19:13 \ft teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.\f* and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes.
\p 1 Samuel 19.14: \v 14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 19.15: \v 15 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
\p 1 Samuel 19.16: \v 16 When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 19.17: \v 17 Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?”
\p Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 19.18: \v 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.
\p 1 Samuel 19.19: \v 19 Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 19.20: \v 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.
\p 1 Samuel 19.21: \v 21 When Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
\p 1 Samuel 19.22: \v 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?”
\p One said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 19.23: \v 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.
\p 1 Samuel 19.24: \v 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?”
\p 1 Samuel 20.0: \c 20
\p
\p 1 Samuel 20.1: \v 1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 20.2: \v 2 He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 20.3: \v 3 David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 20.4: \v 4 Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 20.5: \v 5 David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.
\p 1 Samuel 20.6: \v 6 If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’
\p 1 Samuel 20.7: \v 7 If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
\p 1 Samuel 20.8: \v 8 Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 20.9: \v 9 Jonathan said, “Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn’t I tell you that?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 20.10: \v 10 Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 20.11: \v 11 Jonathan said to David, “Come! Let’s go out into the field.” They both went out into the field.
\p 1 Samuel 20.12: \v 12 Jonathan said to David, “By Yahweh, the God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good toward David, won’t I then send to you, and disclose it to you?
\p 1 Samuel 20.13: \v 13 Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace. May Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.
\p 1 Samuel 20.14: \v 14 You shall not only show me the loving kindness of Yahweh while I still live, that I not die;
\p 1 Samuel 20.15: \v 15 but you shall also not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the surface of the earth.”
\p 1 Samuel 20.16: \v 16 So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, “Yahweh will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”
\p 1 Samuel 20.17: \v 17 Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
\p 1 Samuel 20.18: \v 18 Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
\p 1 Samuel 20.19: \v 19 When you have stayed three days, go down quickly, and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and remain by the stone Ezel.
\p 1 Samuel 20.20: \v 20 I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark.
\p 1 Samuel 20.21: \v 21 Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you. Take them;’ then come; for there is peace to you and no danger, as Yahweh lives.
\p 1 Samuel 20.22: \v 22 But if I say this to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you;’ then go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away.
\p 1 Samuel 20.23: \v 23 Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is between you and me forever.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 20.24: \v 24 So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food.
\p 1 Samuel 20.25: \v 25 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty.
\p 1 Samuel 20.26: \v 26 Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 20.27: \v 27 On the next day after the new moon, the second day, David’s place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why doesn’t the son of Jesse come to eat, either yesterday, or today?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 20.28: \v 28 Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem.
\p 1 Samuel 20.29: \v 29 He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 20.30: \v 30 Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?
\p 1 Samuel 20.31: \v 31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 20.32: \v 32 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 20.33: \v 33 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
\p 1 Samuel 20.34: \v 34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had treated him shamefully.
\p 1 Samuel 20.35: \v 35 In the morning, Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.
\p 1 Samuel 20.36: \v 36 He said to his boy, “Run, find now the arrows which I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
\p 1 Samuel 20.37: \v 37 When the boy had come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?”
\p 1 Samuel 20.38: \v 38 Jonathan cried after the boy, “Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
\p 1 Samuel 20.39: \v 39 But the boy didn’t know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
\p 1 Samuel 20.40: \v 40 Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, “Go, carry them to the city.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 20.41: \v 41 As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another, and wept one with another, and David wept the most.
\p 1 Samuel 20.42: \v 42 Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have both sworn in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘Yahweh is between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.
\p 1 Samuel 21.0: \c 21
\p
\p 1 Samuel 21.1: \v 1 Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”
\p 1 Samuel 21.2: \v 2 David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’
\p 1 Samuel 21.3: \v 3 Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 21.4: \v 4 The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 21.5: \v 5 David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”
\p 1 Samuel 21.6: \v 6 So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 21.7: \v 7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.
\p 1 Samuel 21.8: \v 8 David said to Ahimelech, “Isn’t there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 21.9: \v 9 The priest said, “Behold, the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you would like to take that, take it; for there is no other except that here.”
\p David said, “There is none like that. Give it to me.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 21.10: \v 10 David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
\p 1 Samuel 21.11: \v 11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying,
\q1 ‘Saul has slain his thousands,
\q2 and David his ten thousands?’”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 21.12: \v 12 David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
\p 1 Samuel 21.13: \v 13 He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.
\p 1 Samuel 21.14: \v 14 Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me?
\p 1 Samuel 21.15: \v 15 Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?”
\p 1 Samuel 22.0: \c 22
\p
\p 1 Samuel 22.1: \v 1 David therefore departed from there, and escaped to Adullam’s cave. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.
\p 1 Samuel 22.2: \v 2 Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men.
\p 1 Samuel 22.3: \v 3 David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me.”
\p 1 Samuel 22.4: \v 4 He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
\p 1 Samuel 22.5: \v 5 The prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah.”
\p Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
\p 1 Samuel 22.6: \v 6 Saul heard that David was discovered, with the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.
\p 1 Samuel 22.7: \v 7 Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,
\p 1 Samuel 22.8: \v 8 that all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 22.9: \v 9 Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
\p 1 Samuel 22.10: \v 10 He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 22.11: \v 11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king.
\p 1 Samuel 22.12: \v 12 Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.”
\p He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 22.13: \v 13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 22.14: \v 14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honored in your house?
\p 1 Samuel 22.15: \v 15 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 22.16: \v 16 The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.”
\p 1 Samuel 22.17: \v 17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 22.18: \v 18 The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!”
\p Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
\p 1 Samuel 22.19: \v 19 He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
\p 1 Samuel 22.20: \v 20 One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
\p 1 Samuel 22.21: \v 21 Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh’s priests.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 22.22: \v 22 David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father’s house.
\p 1 Samuel 22.23: \v 23 Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For you will be safe with me.”
\p 1 Samuel 23.0: \c 23
\p
\p 1 Samuel 23.1: \v 1 David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 23.2: \v 2 Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go and strike these Philistines?”
\p Yahweh said to David, “Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 23.3: \v 3 David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 23.4: \v 4 Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 23.5: \v 5 David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
\p 1 Samuel 23.6: \v 6 When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 23.7: \v 7 Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars.”
\p 1 Samuel 23.8: \v 8 Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
\p 1 Samuel 23.9: \v 9 David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”
\p 1 Samuel 23.10: \v 10 Then David said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
\p 1 Samuel 23.11: \v 11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant.”
\p Yahweh said, “He will come down.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 23.12: \v 12 Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?”
\p Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 23.13: \v 13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.
\p 1 Samuel 23.14: \v 14 David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.
\p 1 Samuel 23.15: \v 15 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 23.16: \v 16 Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.
\p 1 Samuel 23.17: \v 17 He said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also.”
\p 1 Samuel 23.18: \v 18 They both made a covenant before Yahweh. Then David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 23.19: \v 19 Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
\p 1 Samuel 23.20: \v 20 Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 23.21: \v 21 Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me.
\p 1 Samuel 23.22: \v 22 Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning.
\p 1 Samuel 23.23: \v 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 23.24: \v 24 They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.
\p 1 Samuel 23.25: \v 25 Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.
\p 1 Samuel 23.26: \v 26 Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.
\p 1 Samuel 23.27: \v 27 But a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come; for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!”
\p 1 Samuel 23.28: \v 28 So Saul returned from pursuing David, and went against the Philistines. Therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth.\f + \fr 23:28 \ft “Sela Hammahlekoth” means “rock of parting”.\f*
\p
\p 1 Samuel 23.29: \v 29 David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.
\p 1 Samuel 24.0: \c 24
\p
\p 1 Samuel 24.1: \v 1 When Saul had returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.”
\p 1 Samuel 24.2: \v 2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.
\p 1 Samuel 24.3: \v 3 He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were staying in the innermost parts of the cave.
\p 1 Samuel 24.4: \v 4 David’s men said to him, “Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’” Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe secretly.
\p 1 Samuel 24.5: \v 5 Afterward, David’s heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.
\p 1 Samuel 24.6: \v 6 He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.”
\p 1 Samuel 24.7: \v 7 So David checked his men with these words, and didn’t allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.
\p 1 Samuel 24.8: \v 8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!”
\p When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and showed respect.
\p 1 Samuel 24.9: \v 9 David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’
\p 1 Samuel 24.10: \v 10 Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.
\p 1 Samuel 24.11: \v 11 Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.
\p 1 Samuel 24.12: \v 12 May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.
\p 1 Samuel 24.13: \v 13 As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you.
\p 1 Samuel 24.14: \v 14 Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
\p 1 Samuel 24.15: \v 15 May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 24.16: \v 16 It came to pass, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, “Is that your voice, my son David?” Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
\p 1 Samuel 24.17: \v 17 He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.
\p 1 Samuel 24.18: \v 18 You have declared today how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill me.
\p 1 Samuel 24.19: \v 19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me today.
\p 1 Samuel 24.20: \v 20 Now, behold, I know that you will surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand.
\p 1 Samuel 24.21: \v 21 Swear now therefore to me by Yahweh, that you will not cut off my offspring after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father’s house.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 24.22: \v 22 David swore to Saul. Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.
\p 1 Samuel 25.0: \c 25
\p
\p 1 Samuel 25.1: \v 1 Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah.
\p Then David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
\p 1 Samuel 25.2: \v 2 There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
\p 1 Samuel 25.3: \v 3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.
\p 1 Samuel 25.4: \v 4 David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.
\p 1 Samuel 25.5: \v 5 David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.
\p 1 Samuel 25.6: \v 6 Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have!
\p 1 Samuel 25.7: \v 7 Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we didn’t harm them. Nothing was missing from them all the time they were in Carmel.
\p 1 Samuel 25.8: \v 8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come on a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.’”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 25.9: \v 9 When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal all those words in the name of David, and waited.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 25.10: \v 10 Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.
\p 1 Samuel 25.11: \v 11 Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 25.12: \v 12 So David’s young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him all these words.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 25.13: \v 13 David said to his men, “Every man put on his sword!”
\p Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David, and two hundred stayed by the baggage.
\p 1 Samuel 25.14: \v 14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he insulted them.
\p 1 Samuel 25.15: \v 15 But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, and we didn’t miss anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.
\p 1 Samuel 25.16: \v 16 They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
\p 1 Samuel 25.17: \v 17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 25.18: \v 18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs\f + \fr 25:18 \ft 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks\f* of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
\p 1 Samuel 25.19: \v 19 She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal.
\p 1 Samuel 25.20: \v 20 As she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 25.21: \v 21 Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.
\p 1 Samuel 25.22: \v 22 God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.” \f + \fr 25:22 \ft or, male.\f*
\p
\p 1 Samuel 25.23: \v 23 When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.
\p 1 Samuel 25.24: \v 24 She fell at his feet, and said, “On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant.
\p 1 Samuel 25.25: \v 25 Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal\f + \fr 25:25 \ft “Nabal” means “foolish”.\f* is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men, whom you sent.
\p 1 Samuel 25.26: \v 26 Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
\p 1 Samuel 25.27: \v 27 Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.
\p 1 Samuel 25.28: \v 28 Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.
\p 1 Samuel 25.29: \v 29 Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.
\p 1 Samuel 25.30: \v 30 It will come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel,
\p 1 Samuel 25.31: \v 31 that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 25.32: \v 32 David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!
\p 1 Samuel 25.33: \v 33 Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.
\p 1 Samuel 25.34: \v 34 For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”\f + \fr 25:34 \ft or, one male.\f*
\p
\p 1 Samuel 25.35: \v 35 So David received from her hand that which she had brought him. Then he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice, and have granted your request.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 25.36: \v 36 Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.
\p 1 Samuel 25.37: \v 37 In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
\p 1 Samuel 25.38: \v 38 About ten days later, Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.
\p 1 Samuel 25.39: \v 39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.
\p 1 Samuel 25.40: \v 40 When David’s servants had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 25.41: \v 41 She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
\p 1 Samuel 25.42: \v 42 Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
\p 1 Samuel 25.43: \v 43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.
\p 1 Samuel 25.44: \v 44 Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
\p 1 Samuel 26.0: \c 26
\p
\p 1 Samuel 26.1: \v 1 The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?”
\p 1 Samuel 26.2: \v 2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
\p 1 Samuel 26.3: \v 3 Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
\p 1 Samuel 26.4: \v 4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.
\p 1 Samuel 26.5: \v 5 Then David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 26.6: \v 6 Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?”
\p Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”
\p 1 Samuel 26.7: \v 7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.
\p 1 Samuel 26.8: \v 8 Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 26.9: \v 9 David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
\p 1 Samuel 26.10: \v 10 David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
\p 1 Samuel 26.11: \v 11 Yahweh forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let’s go.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 26.12: \v 12 So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head; and they went away: and no man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh had fallen on them.
\p 1 Samuel 26.13: \v 13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them;
\p 1 Samuel 26.14: \v 14 and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, “Don’t you answer, Abner?”
\p Then Abner answered, “Who are you who cries to the king?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 26.15: \v 15 David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.
\p 1 Samuel 26.16: \v 16 This thing isn’t good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh’s anointed. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 26.17: \v 17 Saul knew David’s voice, and said, “Is this your voice, my son David?”
\p David said, “It is my voice, my lord, O king.”
\p 1 Samuel 26.18: \v 18 He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?
\p 1 Samuel 26.19: \v 19 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’
\p 1 Samuel 26.20: \v 20 Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 26.21: \v 21 Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes today. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 26.22: \v 22 David answered, “Behold the spear, O king! Then let one of the young men come over and get it.
\p 1 Samuel 26.23: \v 23 Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.
\p 1 Samuel 26.24: \v 24 Behold, as your life was respected today in my eyes, so let my life be respected in Yahweh’s eyes, and let him deliver me out of all oppression.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 26.25: \v 25 Then Saul said to David, “You are blessed, my son David. You will both do mightily, and will surely prevail.” So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.
\p 1 Samuel 27.0: \c 27
\p
\p 1 Samuel 27.1: \v 1 David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”
\p 1 Samuel 27.2: \v 2 David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
\p 1 Samuel 27.3: \v 3 David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.
\p 1 Samuel 27.4: \v 4 Saul was told that David had fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.
\p 1 Samuel 27.5: \v 5 David said to Achish, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”
\p 1 Samuel 27.6: \v 6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.
\p 1 Samuel 27.7: \v 7 The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
\p 1 Samuel 27.8: \v 8 David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, on the way to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
\p 1 Samuel 27.9: \v 9 David struck the land, and saved no man or woman alive, and took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned, and came to Achish.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 27.10: \v 10 Achish said, “Against whom have you made a raid today?”
\p David said, “Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.”
\p 1 Samuel 27.11: \v 11 David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, “Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 27.12: \v 12 Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he will be my servant forever.”
\p 1 Samuel 28.0: \c 28
\p
\p 1 Samuel 28.1: \v 1 In those days, the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, “Know assuredly that you will go out with me in the army, you and your men.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 28.2: \v 2 David said to Achish, “Therefore you will know what your servant can do.”
\p Achish said to David, “Therefore I will make you my bodyguard forever.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 28.3: \v 3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had sent away those who had familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land.
\p 1 Samuel 28.4: \v 4 The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa.
\p 1 Samuel 28.5: \v 5 When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.
\p 1 Samuel 28.6: \v 6 When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn’t answer him by dreams, by Urim, or by prophets.
\p 1 Samuel 28.7: \v 7 Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek for me a woman who has a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her.”
\p His servants said to him, “Behold, there is a woman who has a familiar spirit at Endor.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 28.8: \v 8 Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night. Then he said, “Please consult for me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whomever I shall name to you.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 28.9: \v 9 The woman said to him, “Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 28.10: \v 10 Saul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, “As Yahweh lives, no punishment will happen to you for this thing.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 28.11: \v 11 Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up to you?”
\p He said, “Bring Samuel up for me.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 28.12: \v 12 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, “Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 28.13: \v 13 The king said to her, “Don’t be afraid! What do you see?”
\p The woman said to Saul, “I see a god coming up out of the earth.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 28.14: \v 14 He said to her, “What does he look like?”
\p She said, “An old man comes up. He is covered with a robe.” Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and showed respect.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 28.15: \v 15 Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?”
\p Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 28.16: \v 16 Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since Yahweh has departed from you and has become your adversary?
\p 1 Samuel 28.17: \v 17 Yahweh has done to you as he spoke by me. Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David.
\p 1 Samuel 28.18: \v 18 Because you didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice, and didn’t execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you today.
\p 1 Samuel 28.19: \v 19 Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Yahweh will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 28.20: \v 20 Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was terrified, because of Samuel’s words. There was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all day long or all night long.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 28.21: \v 21 The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, “Behold, your servant has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.
\p 1 Samuel 28.22: \v 22 Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your servant, and let me set a morsel of bread before you. Eat, that you may have strength, when you go on your way.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 28.23: \v 23 But he refused, and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.
\p 1 Samuel 28.24: \v 24 The woman had a fattened calf in the house. She hurried and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread of it.
\p 1 Samuel 28.25: \v 25 She brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they ate. Then they rose up, and went away that night.
\p 1 Samuel 29.0: \c 29
\p
\p 1 Samuel 29.1: \v 1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek; and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel.
\p 1 Samuel 29.2: \v 2 The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 29.3: \v 3 Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What about these Hebrews?”
\p Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years? I have found no fault in him since he fell away until today.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 29.4: \v 4 But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, “Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men?
\p 1 Samuel 29.5: \v 5 Isn’t this David, of whom people sang to one another in dances, saying,
\q1 ‘Saul has slain his thousands,
\q2 and David his ten thousands?’”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 29.6: \v 6 Then Achish called David, and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.
\p 1 Samuel 29.7: \v 7 Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 29.8: \v 8 David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 29.9: \v 9 Achish answered David, “I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’
\p 1 Samuel 29.10: \v 10 Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning, and have light, depart.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 29.11: \v 11 So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines, and the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
\p 1 Samuel 30.0: \c 30
\p
\p 1 Samuel 30.1: \v 1 When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
\p 1 Samuel 30.2: \v 2 and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.
\p 1 Samuel 30.3: \v 3 When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.
\p 1 Samuel 30.4: \v 4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.
\p 1 Samuel 30.5: \v 5 David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
\p 1 Samuel 30.6: \v 6 David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
\p 1 Samuel 30.7: \v 7 David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring the ephod here to me.”
\p Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
\p 1 Samuel 30.8: \v 8 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?”
\p He answered him, “Pursue; for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 30.9: \v 9 So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.
\p 1 Samuel 30.10: \v 10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor.
\p 1 Samuel 30.11: \v 11 They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.
\p 1 Samuel 30.12: \v 12 They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights.
\p 1 Samuel 30.13: \v 13 David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?”
\p He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick.
\p 1 Samuel 30.14: \v 14 We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 30.15: \v 15 David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?”
\p He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 30.16: \v 16 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
\p 1 Samuel 30.17: \v 17 David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
\p 1 Samuel 30.18: \v 18 David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.
\p 1 Samuel 30.19: \v 19 There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither plunder, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all.
\p 1 Samuel 30.20: \v 20 David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s plunder.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 30.21: \v 21 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.
\p 1 Samuel 30.22: \v 22 Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.”
\p
\p 1 Samuel 30.23: \v 23 Then David said, “Do not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.
\p 1 Samuel 30.24: \v 24 Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays with the baggage. They shall share alike.”
\p 1 Samuel 30.25: \v 25 It was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.
\p 1 Samuel 30.26: \v 26 When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, “Behold, a present for you from the plunder of Yahweh’s enemies.”
\p 1 Samuel 30.27: \v 27 He sent it to those who were in Bethel, to those who were in Ramoth of the South, to those who were in Jattir,
\p 1 Samuel 30.28: \v 28 to those who were in Aroer, to those who were in Siphmoth, to those who were in Eshtemoa,
\p 1 Samuel 30.29: \v 29 to those who were in Racal, to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,
\p 1 Samuel 30.30: \v 30 to those who were in Hormah, to those who were in Borashan, to those who were in Athach,
\p 1 Samuel 30.31: \v 31 to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.
\p 1 Samuel 31.0: \c 31
\p
\p 1 Samuel 31.1: \v 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
\p 1 Samuel 31.2: \v 2 The Philistines overtook Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
\p 1 Samuel 31.3: \v 3 The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
\p 1 Samuel 31.4: \v 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.
\p 1 Samuel 31.5: \v 5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.
\p 1 Samuel 31.6: \v 6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.
\p
\p 1 Samuel 31.7: \v 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.
\p 1 Samuel 31.8: \v 8 On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
\p 1 Samuel 31.9: \v 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.
\p 1 Samuel 31.10: \v 10 They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
\p 1 Samuel 31.11: \v 11 When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
\p 1 Samuel 31.12: \v 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.
\p 1 Samuel 31.13: \v 13 They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk\f + \fr 31:13 \ft or, salt cedar\f* tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
\p 2 Samuel 0.0: \id 2SA World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h 2 Samuel
\toc1 The Second Book of Samuel
\toc2 2 Samuel
\toc3 2Sa
\mt1 The Second Book of Samuel
\p 2 Samuel 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 2 Samuel 1.1: \v 1 After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;
\p 2 Samuel 1.2: \v 2 on the third day, behold,\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the earth, and showed respect.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 1.3: \v 3 David said to him, “Where do you come from?”
\p He said to him, “I have escaped out of the camp of Israel.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 1.4: \v 4 David said to him, “How did it go? Please tell me.”
\p He answered, “The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead. Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 1.5: \v 5 David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 1.6: \v 6 The young man who told him said, “As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed close behind him.
\p 2 Samuel 1.7: \v 7 When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. I answered, ‘Here I am.’
\p 2 Samuel 1.8: \v 8 He said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
\p 2 Samuel 1.9: \v 9 He said to me, ‘Please stand beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life lingers in me.’
\p 2 Samuel 1.10: \v 10 So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 1.11: \v 11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise.
\p 2 Samuel 1.12: \v 12 They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh,\f + \fr 1:12 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* and for the house of Israel; because they had fallen by the sword.
\p 2 Samuel 1.13: \v 13 David said to the young man who told him, “Where are you from?”
\p He answered, “I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 1.14: \v 14 David said to him, “Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh’s anointed?”
\p 2 Samuel 1.15: \v 15 David called one of the young men, and said, “Go near, and cut him down!” He struck him so that he died.
\p 2 Samuel 1.16: \v 16 David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 1.17: \v 17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
\p 2 Samuel 1.18: \v 18 (and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 1.19: \v 19 “Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places!
\q2 How the mighty have fallen!
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 1.20: \v 20 Don’t tell it in Gath.
\q2 Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon,
\q1 lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,
\q2 lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 1.21: \v 21 You mountains of Gilboa,
\q2 let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings;
\q2 For there the shield of the mighty was defiled and cast away,
\q2 The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 1.22: \v 22 From the blood of the slain,
\q2 from the fat of the mighty,
\q2 Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back.
\q2 Saul’s sword didn’t return empty.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 1.23: \v 23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives.
\q2 In their death, they were not divided.
\q1 They were swifter than eagles.
\q2 They were stronger than lions.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 1.24: \v 24 You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
\q2 who clothed you delicately in scarlet,
\q2 who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 1.25: \v 25 How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle!
\q2 Jonathan was slain on your high places.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 1.26: \v 26 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan.
\q2 You have been very pleasant to me.
\q2 Your love to me was wonderful,
\q2 passing the love of women.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 1.27: \v 27 How the mighty have fallen,
\q2 and the weapons of war have perished!”
\p 2 Samuel 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 2 Samuel 2.1: \v 1 After this, David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?”
\p Yahweh said to him, “Go up.”
\p David said, “Where shall I go up?”
\p He said, “To Hebron.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 2.2: \v 2 So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
\p 2 Samuel 2.3: \v 3 David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron.
\p 2 Samuel 2.4: \v 4 The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.”
\p 2 Samuel 2.5: \v 5 David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, “Blessed are you by Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.
\p 2 Samuel 2.6: \v 6 Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.
\p 2 Samuel 2.7: \v 7 Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 2.8: \v 8 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
\p 2 Samuel 2.9: \v 9 and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
\p 2 Samuel 2.10: \v 10 Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
\p 2 Samuel 2.11: \v 11 The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
\p 2 Samuel 2.12: \v 12 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
\p 2 Samuel 2.13: \v 13 Joab the son of Zeruiah and David’s servants went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
\p 2 Samuel 2.14: \v 14 Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!”
\p Joab said, “Let them arise!”
\p 2 Samuel 2.15: \v 15 Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of David’s servants.
\p 2 Samuel 2.16: \v 16 They each caught his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.\f + \fr 2:16 \ft “Helkath Hazzurim” means “field of daggers”.\f*
\p 2 Samuel 2.17: \v 17 The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants.
\p 2 Samuel 2.18: \v 18 The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
\p 2 Samuel 2.19: \v 19 Asahel pursued Abner; and in going he didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.
\p 2 Samuel 2.20: \v 20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, “Is that you, Asahel?”
\p He answered, “It is.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 2.21: \v 21 Abner said to him, “Turn away to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor.” But Asahel would not turn away from following him.
\p 2 Samuel 2.22: \v 22 Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”
\p 2 Samuel 2.23: \v 23 However he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
\p 2 Samuel 2.24: \v 24 But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
\p 2 Samuel 2.25: \v 25 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
\p 2 Samuel 2.26: \v 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 2.27: \v 27 Joab said, “As God\f + \fr 2:27 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”
\p 2 Samuel 2.28: \v 28 So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued Israel no more, and they fought no more.
\p 2 Samuel 2.29: \v 29 Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.
\p 2 Samuel 2.30: \v 30 Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, nineteen men of David’s and Asahel were missing.
\p 2 Samuel 2.31: \v 31 But David’s servants had struck Benjamin and of Abner’s men so that three hundred sixty men died.
\p 2 Samuel 2.32: \v 32 They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.
\p 2 Samuel 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p 2 Samuel 3.1: \v 1 Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.
\p 2 Samuel 3.2: \v 2 Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
\p 2 Samuel 3.3: \v 3 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
\p 2 Samuel 3.4: \v 4 and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
\p 2 Samuel 3.5: \v 5 and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 3.6: \v 6 While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s house.
\p 2 Samuel 3.7: \v 7 Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 3.8: \v 8 Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to Saul’s house your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!
\p 2 Samuel 3.9: \v 9 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him;
\p 2 Samuel 3.10: \v 10 to transfer the kingdom from Saul’s house, and to set up David’s throne over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 3.11: \v 11 He could not answer Abner another word, because he was afraid of him.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 3.12: \v 12 Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, “Whose is the land?” and saying, “Make your alliance with me, and behold, my hand will be with you, to bring all Israel around to you.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 3.13: \v 13 He said, “Good. I will make a treaty with you, but one thing I require of you. That is, you will not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see my face.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 3.14: \v 14 David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 3.15: \v 15 Ishbosheth sent and took her from her husband, even from Paltiel the son of Laish.
\p 2 Samuel 3.16: \v 16 Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go! Return!” and he returned.
\p 2 Samuel 3.17: \v 17 Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, “In times past, you sought for David to be king over you.
\p 2 Samuel 3.18: \v 18 Now then do it; for Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David, I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.’”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 3.19: \v 19 Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin.
\p 2 Samuel 3.20: \v 20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.
\p 2 Samuel 3.21: \v 21 Abner said to David, “I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires.” David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 3.22: \v 22 Behold, David’s servants and Joab came from a raid, and brought in a great plunder with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.
\p 2 Samuel 3.23: \v 23 When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 3.24: \v 24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is already gone?
\p 2 Samuel 3.25: \v 25 You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 3.26: \v 26 When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn’t know it.
\p 2 Samuel 3.27: \v 27 When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
\p 2 Samuel 3.28: \v 28 Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
\p 2 Samuel 3.29: \v 29 Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”
\p 2 Samuel 3.30: \v 30 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
\p 2 Samuel 3.31: \v 31 David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.
\p 2 Samuel 3.32: \v 32 They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.
\p 2 Samuel 3.33: \v 33 The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?
\p 2 Samuel 3.34: \v 34 Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.”
\p All the people wept again over him.
\p 2 Samuel 3.35: \v 35 All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 3.36: \v 36 All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.
\p 2 Samuel 3.37: \v 37 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.
\p 2 Samuel 3.38: \v 38 The king said to his servants, “Don’t you know that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel?
\p 2 Samuel 3.39: \v 39 I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”
\p 2 Samuel 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p 2 Samuel 4.1: \v 1 When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
\p 2 Samuel 4.2: \v 2 Saul’s son had two men who were captains of raiding bands. The name of one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is considered a part of Benjamin:
\p 2 Samuel 4.3: \v 3 and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until today).
\p 2 Samuel 4.4: \v 4 Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
\p 2 Samuel 4.5: \v 5 The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at noon.
\p 2 Samuel 4.6: \v 6 They came there into the middle of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
\p 2 Samuel 4.7: \v 7 Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.
\p 2 Samuel 4.8: \v 8 They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king today of Saul, and of his offspring.\f + \fr 4:8 \ft or, seed\f*”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 4.9: \v 9 David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
\p 2 Samuel 4.10: \v 10 when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
\p 2 Samuel 4.11: \v 11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?”
\p 2 Samuel 4.12: \v 12 David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.
\p 2 Samuel 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p 2 Samuel 5.1: \v 1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
\p 2 Samuel 5.2: \v 2 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. Yahweh said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’”
\p 2 Samuel 5.3: \v 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 5.4: \v 4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
\p 2 Samuel 5.5: \v 5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
\p 2 Samuel 5.6: \v 6 The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, “The blind and the lame will keep you out of here;” thinking, “David can’t come in here.”
\p 2 Samuel 5.7: \v 7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city.
\p 2 Samuel 5.8: \v 8 David said on that day, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him go up to the watercourse and strike those lame and blind, who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore they say, “The blind and the lame can’t come into the house.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 5.9: \v 9 David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.
\p 2 Samuel 5.10: \v 10 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of Armies, was with him.
\p 2 Samuel 5.11: \v 11 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.
\p 2 Samuel 5.12: \v 12 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake.
\p 2 Samuel 5.13: \v 13 David took more concubines and wives for himself out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.
\p 2 Samuel 5.14: \v 14 These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
\p 2 Samuel 5.15: \v 15 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,
\p 2 Samuel 5.16: \v 16 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 5.17: \v 17 When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard about it and went down to the stronghold.
\p 2 Samuel 5.18: \v 18 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
\p 2 Samuel 5.19: \v 19 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?”
\p Yahweh said to David, “Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 5.20: \v 20 David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.\f + \fr 5:20 \ft “Baal Perazim” means “Lord who breaks out”.\f*
\p 2 Samuel 5.21: \v 21 They left their images there; and David and his men took them away.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 5.22: \v 22 The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
\p 2 Samuel 5.23: \v 23 When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees.
\p 2 Samuel 5.24: \v 24 When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then stir yourself up; for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 5.25: \v 25 David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer.
\p 2 Samuel 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p 2 Samuel 6.1: \v 1 David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
\p 2 Samuel 6.2: \v 2 David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from there God’s ark, which is called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh of Armies who sits above the cherubim.
\p 2 Samuel 6.3: \v 3 They set God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house that was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
\p 2 Samuel 6.4: \v 4 They brought it out of Abinadab’s house, which was in the hill, with God’s ark; and Ahio went before the ark.
\p 2 Samuel 6.5: \v 5 David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all kinds of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with castanets, and with cymbals.
\p 2 Samuel 6.6: \v 6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached for God’s ark, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.
\p 2 Samuel 6.7: \v 7 Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by God’s ark.
\p 2 Samuel 6.8: \v 8 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah,\f + \fr 6:8 \ft “Perez Uzzah” means “outbreak against Uzzah”.\f* to this day.
\p 2 Samuel 6.9: \v 9 David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, “How could Yahweh’s ark come to me?”
\p 2 Samuel 6.10: \v 10 So David would not move Yahweh’s ark to be with him in David’s city; but David carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.
\p 2 Samuel 6.11: \v 11 Yahweh’s ark remained in Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house three months; and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom and all his house.
\p 2 Samuel 6.12: \v 12 King David was told, “Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.”
\p So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.
\p 2 Samuel 6.13: \v 13 When those who bore Yahweh’s ark had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
\p 2 Samuel 6.14: \v 14 David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.
\p 2 Samuel 6.15: \v 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up Yahweh’s ark with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 6.16: \v 16 As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.
\p 2 Samuel 6.17: \v 17 They brought in Yahweh’s ark, and set it in its place, in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
\p 2 Samuel 6.18: \v 18 When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of Armies.
\p 2 Samuel 6.19: \v 19 He gave to all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house.
\p 2 Samuel 6.20: \v 20 Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 6.21: \v 21 David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.
\p 2 Samuel 6.22: \v 22 I will be yet more vile than this, and will be worthless in my own sight. But the maids of whom you have spoken will honor me.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 6.23: \v 23 Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
\p 2 Samuel 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p 2 Samuel 7.1: \v 1 When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,
\p 2 Samuel 7.2: \v 2 the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 7.3: \v 3 Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 7.4: \v 4 That same night, Yahweh’s word came to Nathan, saying,
\p 2 Samuel 7.5: \v 5 “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?
\p 2 Samuel 7.6: \v 6 For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought the children of Israel up out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.
\p 2 Samuel 7.7: \v 7 In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’
\p 2 Samuel 7.8: \v 8 Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.
\p 2 Samuel 7.9: \v 9 I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
\p 2 Samuel 7.10: \v 10 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not afflict them any more, as at the first,
\p 2 Samuel 7.11: \v 11 and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.
\p 2 Samuel 7.12: \v 12 When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
\p 2 Samuel 7.13: \v 13 He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
\p 2 Samuel 7.14: \v 14 I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
\p 2 Samuel 7.15: \v 15 but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
\p 2 Samuel 7.16: \v 16 Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.”’”
\p 2 Samuel 7.17: \v 17 Nathan spoke to David all these words, and according to all this vision.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 7.18: \v 18 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord\f + \fr 7:18 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?
\p 2 Samuel 7.19: \v 19 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this among men, Lord Yahweh!
\p 2 Samuel 7.20: \v 20 What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.
\p 2 Samuel 7.21: \v 21 For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.
\p 2 Samuel 7.22: \v 22 Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
\p 2 Samuel 7.23: \v 23 What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
\p 2 Samuel 7.24: \v 24 You established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
\p 2 Samuel 7.25: \v 25 Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.
\p 2 Samuel 7.26: \v 26 Let your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David will be established before you.’
\p 2 Samuel 7.27: \v 27 For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 7.28: \v 28 “Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.
\p 2 Samuel 7.29: \v 29 Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing.”
\p 2 Samuel 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p 2 Samuel 8.1: \v 1 After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them; and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.
\p 2 Samuel 8.2: \v 2 He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
\p 2 Samuel 8.3: \v 3 David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.
\p 2 Samuel 8.4: \v 4 David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen. David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
\p 2 Samuel 8.5: \v 5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty two thousand men of the Syrians.
\p 2 Samuel 8.6: \v 6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
\p 2 Samuel 8.7: \v 7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
\p 2 Samuel 8.8: \v 8 From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took a great quantity of bronze.
\p 2 Samuel 8.9: \v 9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer,
\p 2 Samuel 8.10: \v 10 then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him; for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. Joram brought with him vessels of silver, vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze.
\p 2 Samuel 8.11: \v 11 King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued;
\p 2 Samuel 8.12: \v 12 of Syria, of Moab, of the children of Ammon, of the Philistines, of Amalek, and of the plunder of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 8.13: \v 13 David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt.
\p 2 Samuel 8.14: \v 14 He put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom, he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
\p 2 Samuel 8.15: \v 15 David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
\p 2 Samuel 8.16: \v 16 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,
\p 2 Samuel 8.17: \v 17 Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, Seraiah was scribe,
\p 2 Samuel 8.18: \v 18 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David’s sons were chief ministers.
\p 2 Samuel 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p 2 Samuel 9.1: \v 1 David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”
\p 2 Samuel 9.2: \v 2 There was of Saul’s house a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?”
\p He said, “I am your servant.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 9.3: \v 3 The king said, “Is there not yet any of Saul’s house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?”
\p Ziba said to the king, “Jonathan still has a son, who is lame in his feet.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 9.4: \v 4 The king said to him, “Where is he?”
\p Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 9.5: \v 5 Then king David sent, and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar.
\p 2 Samuel 9.6: \v 6 Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and showed respect. David said, “Mephibosheth.”
\p He answered, “Behold, your servant!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 9.7: \v 7 David said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 9.8: \v 8 He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”
\p 2 Samuel 9.9: \v 9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son.
\p 2 Samuel 9.10: \v 10 Till the land for him, you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.”
\p Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
\p 2 Samuel 9.11: \v 11 Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table, like one of the king’s sons.
\p 2 Samuel 9.12: \v 12 Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All that lived in Ziba’s house were servants to Mephibosheth.
\p 2 Samuel 9.13: \v 13 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king’s table. He was lame in both his feet.
\p 2 Samuel 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p 2 Samuel 10.1: \v 1 After this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.
\p 2 Samuel 10.2: \v 2 David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 10.3: \v 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 10.4: \v 4 So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
\p 2 Samuel 10.5: \v 5 When they told David this, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 10.6: \v 6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.
\p 2 Samuel 10.7: \v 7 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.
\p 2 Samuel 10.8: \v 8 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate. The Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
\p 2 Samuel 10.9: \v 9 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
\p 2 Samuel 10.10: \v 10 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.
\p 2 Samuel 10.11: \v 11 He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.
\p 2 Samuel 10.12: \v 12 Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”
\p 2 Samuel 10.13: \v 13 So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.
\p 2 Samuel 10.14: \v 14 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
\p 2 Samuel 10.15: \v 15 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.
\p 2 Samuel 10.16: \v 16 Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head.
\p 2 Samuel 10.17: \v 17 David was told that; and he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.
\p 2 Samuel 10.18: \v 18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred charioteers of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there.
\p 2 Samuel 10.19: \v 19 When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more.
\p 2 Samuel 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p 2 Samuel 11.1: \v 1 At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.
\p 2 Samuel 11.2: \v 2 At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
\p 2 Samuel 11.3: \v 3 David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 11.4: \v 4 David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.
\p 2 Samuel 11.5: \v 5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 11.6: \v 6 David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David.
\p 2 Samuel 11.7: \v 7 When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
\p 2 Samuel 11.8: \v 8 David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.
\p 2 Samuel 11.9: \v 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.
\p 2 Samuel 11.10: \v 10 When they had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 11.11: \v 11 Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 11.12: \v 12 David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next day.
\p 2 Samuel 11.13: \v 13 When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.
\p 2 Samuel 11.14: \v 14 In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
\p 2 Samuel 11.15: \v 15 He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 11.16: \v 16 When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
\p 2 Samuel 11.17: \v 17 The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
\p 2 Samuel 11.18: \v 18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
\p 2 Samuel 11.19: \v 19 and he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
\p 2 Samuel 11.20: \v 20 it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall?
\p 2 Samuel 11.21: \v 21 Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 11.22: \v 22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
\p 2 Samuel 11.23: \v 23 The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate.
\p 2 Samuel 11.24: \v 24 The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 11.25: \v 25 Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 11.26: \v 26 When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
\p 2 Samuel 11.27: \v 27 When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.
\p 2 Samuel 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p 2 Samuel 12.1: \v 1 Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
\p 2 Samuel 12.2: \v 2 The rich man had very many flocks and herds,
\p 2 Samuel 12.3: \v 3 but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him.
\p 2 Samuel 12.4: \v 4 A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to prepare for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb, and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 12.5: \v 5 David’s anger burned hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this deserves to die!
\p 2 Samuel 12.6: \v 6 He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 12.7: \v 7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
\p 2 Samuel 12.8: \v 8 I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
\p 2 Samuel 12.9: \v 9 Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
\p 2 Samuel 12.10: \v 10 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’
\p
\p 2 Samuel 12.11: \v 11 “This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
\p 2 Samuel 12.12: \v 12 For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 12.13: \v 13 David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.”
\p Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
\p 2 Samuel 12.14: \v 14 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”
\p 2 Samuel 12.15: \v 15 Nathan departed to his house.
\p Yahweh struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
\p 2 Samuel 12.16: \v 16 David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.
\p 2 Samuel 12.17: \v 17 The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.
\p 2 Samuel 12.18: \v 18 On the seventh day, the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn’t listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 12.19: \v 19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?”
\p They said, “He is dead.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 12.20: \v 20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into Yahweh’s house, and worshiped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him, and he ate.
\p 2 Samuel 12.21: \v 21 Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 12.22: \v 22 He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’
\p 2 Samuel 12.23: \v 23 But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 12.24: \v 24 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
\p 2 Samuel 12.25: \v 25 and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah,\f + \fr 12:25 \ft “Jedidiah” means “loved by Yahweh”.\f* for Yahweh’s sake.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 12.26: \v 26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
\p 2 Samuel 12.27: \v 27 Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah. Yes, I have taken the city of waters.
\p 2 Samuel 12.28: \v 28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 12.29: \v 29 David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.
\p 2 Samuel 12.30: \v 30 He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent\f + \fr 12:30 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on David’s head. He brought a great quantity of plunder out of the city.
\p 2 Samuel 12.31: \v 31 He brought out the people who were in it, and put them under saws, under iron picks, under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln; and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
\p 2 Samuel 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p 2 Samuel 13.1: \v 1 After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
\p 2 Samuel 13.2: \v 2 Amnon was so troubled that he became sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.
\p 2 Samuel 13.3: \v 3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.
\p 2 Samuel 13.4: \v 4 He said to him, “Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day to day? Won’t you tell me?”
\p Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 13.5: \v 5 Jonadab said to him, “Lay down on your bed, and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.’”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 13.6: \v 6 So Amnon lay down and faked being sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 13.7: \v 7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go now to your brother Amnon’s house, and prepare food for him.”
\p 2 Samuel 13.8: \v 8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was lying down. She took dough, and kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.
\p 2 Samuel 13.9: \v 9 She took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. Amnon said, “Have all men leave me.” Then every man went out from him.
\p 2 Samuel 13.10: \v 10 Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the room, that I may eat from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the room to Amnon her brother.
\p 2 Samuel 13.11: \v 11 When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 13.12: \v 12 She answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don’t you do this folly.
\p 2 Samuel 13.13: \v 13 As for me, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 13.14: \v 14 However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.
\p 2 Samuel 13.15: \v 15 Then Amnon hated her with exceedingly great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 13.16: \v 16 She said to him, “Not so, because this great wrong in sending me away is worse than the other that you did to me!”
\p But he would not listen to her.
\p 2 Samuel 13.17: \v 17 Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, “Now put this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 13.18: \v 18 She had a garment of various colors on her; for the king’s daughters who were virgins dressed in such robes. Then his servant brought her out and bolted the door after her.
\p 2 Samuel 13.19: \v 19 Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.
\p 2 Samuel 13.20: \v 20 Absalom her brother said to her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you? But now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart.”
\p So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s house.
\p 2 Samuel 13.21: \v 21 But when king David heard of all these things, he was very angry.
\p 2 Samuel 13.22: \v 22 Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
\p 2 Samuel 13.23: \v 23 After two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.
\p 2 Samuel 13.24: \v 24 Absalom came to the king, and said, “See now, your servant has sheep shearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 13.25: \v 25 The king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let’s not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.” He pressed him; however he would not go, but blessed him.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 13.26: \v 26 Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.”
\p The king said to him, “Why should he go with you?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 13.27: \v 27 But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.
\p 2 Samuel 13.28: \v 28 Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 13.29: \v 29 The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man got up on his mule, and fled.
\p 2 Samuel 13.30: \v 30 While they were on the way, the news came to David, saying, “Absalom has slain all the king’s sons, and there is not one of them left!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 13.31: \v 31 Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
\p 2 Samuel 13.32: \v 32 Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered, “Don’t let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
\p 2 Samuel 13.33: \v 33 Now therefore don’t let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead; for only Amnon is dead.”
\p 2 Samuel 13.34: \v 34 But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him.
\p 2 Samuel 13.35: \v 35 Jonadab said to the king, “Behold, the king’s sons are coming! It is as your servant said.”
\p 2 Samuel 13.36: \v 36 As soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly.
\p 2 Samuel 13.37: \v 37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day.
\p 2 Samuel 13.38: \v 38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
\p 2 Samuel 13.39: \v 39 King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.
\p 2 Samuel 14.0: \c 14
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.1: \v 1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.
\p 2 Samuel 14.2: \v 2 Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.
\p 2 Samuel 14.3: \v 3 Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.4: \v 4 When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.5: \v 5 The king said to her, “What ails you?”
\p She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
\p 2 Samuel 14.6: \v 6 Your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.
\p 2 Samuel 14.7: \v 7 Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.8: \v 8 The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.9: \v 9 The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.10: \v 10 The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.11: \v 11 Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.”
\p He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.12: \v 12 Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.”
\p He said, “Say on.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.13: \v 13 The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.
\p 2 Samuel 14.14: \v 14 For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
\p 2 Samuel 14.15: \v 15 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’
\p 2 Samuel 14.16: \v 16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
\p 2 Samuel 14.17: \v 17 Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.18: \v 18 Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.”
\p The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.19: \v 19 The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?”
\p The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant.
\p 2 Samuel 14.20: \v 20 Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.21: \v 21 The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.22: \v 22 Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.23: \v 23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
\p 2 Samuel 14.24: \v 24 The king said, “Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn’t see the king’s face.
\p 2 Samuel 14.25: \v 25 Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.
\p 2 Samuel 14.26: \v 26 When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels,\f + \fr 14:26 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 200 shekels is about 2 kilograms or about 4.4 pounds.\f* after the king’s weight.
\p 2 Samuel 14.27: \v 27 Three sons were born to Absalom, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a woman with a beautiful face.
\p 2 Samuel 14.28: \v 28 Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and he didn’t see the king’s face.
\p 2 Samuel 14.29: \v 29 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. Then he sent again a second time, but he would not come.
\p 2 Samuel 14.30: \v 30 Therefore he said to his servants, “Behold, Joab’s field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.31: \v 31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.32: \v 32 Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”’”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 14.33: \v 33 So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.
\p 2 Samuel 15.0: \c 15
\p
\p 2 Samuel 15.1: \v 1 After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.
\p 2 Samuel 15.2: \v 2 Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?”
\p He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 15.3: \v 3 Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”
\p 2 Samuel 15.4: \v 4 Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”
\p 2 Samuel 15.5: \v 5 It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.
\p 2 Samuel 15.6: \v 6 Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
\p 2 Samuel 15.7: \v 7 At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
\p 2 Samuel 15.8: \v 8 For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 15.9: \v 9 The king said to him, “Go in peace.”
\p So he arose, and went to Hebron.
\p 2 Samuel 15.10: \v 10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 15.11: \v 11 Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything.
\p 2 Samuel 15.12: \v 12 Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
\p 2 Samuel 15.13: \v 13 A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 15.14: \v 14 David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise! Let’s flee; or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 15.15: \v 15 The king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 15.16: \v 16 The king went out, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.
\p 2 Samuel 15.17: \v 17 The king went out, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.
\p 2 Samuel 15.18: \v 18 All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
\p 2 Samuel 15.19: \v 19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.
\p 2 Samuel 15.20: \v 20 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 15.21: \v 21 Ittai answered the king, and said, “As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 15.22: \v 22 David said to Ittai, “Go and pass over.” Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him.
\p 2 Samuel 15.23: \v 23 All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
\p 2 Samuel 15.24: \v 24 Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down God’s ark; and Abiathar went up, until all the people finished passing out of the city.
\p 2 Samuel 15.25: \v 25 The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in Yahweh’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;
\p 2 Samuel 15.26: \v 26 but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”
\p 2 Samuel 15.27: \v 27 The king said also to Zadok the priest, “Aren’t you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
\p 2 Samuel 15.28: \v 28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me.”
\p 2 Samuel 15.29: \v 29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried God’s ark to Jerusalem again; and they stayed there.
\p 2 Samuel 15.30: \v 30 David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 15.31: \v 31 Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.”
\p David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 15.32: \v 32 When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn, and earth on his head.
\p 2 Samuel 15.33: \v 33 David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me;
\p 2 Samuel 15.34: \v 34 but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’
\p 2 Samuel 15.35: \v 35 Don’t you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
\p 2 Samuel 15.36: \v 36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 15.37: \v 37 So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
\p 2 Samuel 16.0: \c 16
\p
\p 2 Samuel 16.1: \v 1 When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a container of wine.
\p 2 Samuel 16.2: \v 2 The king said to Ziba, “What do you mean by these?”
\p Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 16.3: \v 3 The king said, “Where is your master’s son?”
\p Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 16.4: \v 4 Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours.”
\p Ziba said, “I bow down. Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 16.5: \v 5 When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of Saul’s house came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out and cursed as he came.
\p 2 Samuel 16.6: \v 6 He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
\p 2 Samuel 16.7: \v 7 Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!
\p 2 Samuel 16.8: \v 8 Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 16.9: \v 9 Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.”
\p 2 Samuel 16.10: \v 10 The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 16.11: \v 11 David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.
\p 2 Samuel 16.12: \v 12 It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
\p 2 Samuel 16.13: \v 13 So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him, and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust.
\p 2 Samuel 16.14: \v 14 The king, and all the people who were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 16.15: \v 15 Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
\p 2 Samuel 16.16: \v 16 When Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had come to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 16.17: \v 17 Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 16.18: \v 18 Hushai said to Absalom, “No; but whomever Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, I will be his, and I will stay with him.
\p 2 Samuel 16.19: \v 19 Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn’t I serve in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father’s presence, so I will be in your presence.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 16.20: \v 20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel what we shall do.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 16.21: \v 21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 16.22: \v 22 So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
\p 2 Samuel 16.23: \v 23 The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel both was like this with David and with Absalom.
\p 2 Samuel 17.0: \c 17
\p
\p 2 Samuel 17.1: \v 1 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
\p 2 Samuel 17.2: \v 2 I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,
\p 2 Samuel 17.3: \v 3 and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 17.4: \v 4 The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
\p 2 Samuel 17.5: \v 5 Then Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear likewise what he says.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 17.6: \v 6 When Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, “Ahithophel has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 17.7: \v 7 Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.”
\p 2 Samuel 17.8: \v 8 Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
\p 2 Samuel 17.9: \v 9 Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom!’
\p 2 Samuel 17.10: \v 10 Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.
\p 2 Samuel 17.11: \v 11 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.
\p 2 Samuel 17.12: \v 12 So we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him.
\p 2 Samuel 17.13: \v 13 Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 17.14: \v 14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
\p 2 Samuel 17.15: \v 15 Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.
\p 2 Samuel 17.16: \v 16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 17.17: \v 17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.
\p 2 Samuel 17.18: \v 18 But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.
\p 2 Samuel 17.19: \v 19 The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known.
\p 2 Samuel 17.20: \v 20 Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”
\p The woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook of water.”
\p When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
\p 2 Samuel 17.21: \v 21 After they had departed, they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 17.22: \v 22 Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.
\p 2 Samuel 17.23: \v 23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
\p 2 Samuel 17.24: \v 24 Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
\p 2 Samuel 17.25: \v 25 Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.
\p 2 Samuel 17.26: \v 26 Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.
\p 2 Samuel 17.27: \v 27 When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
\p 2 Samuel 17.28: \v 28 brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,
\p 2 Samuel 17.29: \v 29 honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
\p 2 Samuel 18.0: \c 18
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.1: \v 1 David counted the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
\p 2 Samuel 18.2: \v 2 David sent the people out, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, “I will also surely go out with you myself.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.3: \v 3 But the people said, “You shall not go out; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.4: \v 4 The king said to them, “I will do what seems best to you.”
\p The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.
\p 2 Samuel 18.5: \v 5 The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.” All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.6: \v 6 So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
\p 2 Samuel 18.7: \v 7 The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
\p 2 Samuel 18.8: \v 8 For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
\p 2 Samuel 18.9: \v 9 Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
\p 2 Samuel 18.10: \v 10 A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.11: \v 11 Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.12: \v 12 The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’
\p 2 Samuel 18.13: \v 13 Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.14: \v 14 Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak.
\p 2 Samuel 18.15: \v 15 Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.
\p 2 Samuel 18.16: \v 16 Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.
\p 2 Samuel 18.17: \v 17 They took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, each to his own tent.
\p 2 Samuel 18.18: \v 18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.19: \v 19 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me now run and carry the king news, how Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.20: \v 20 Joab said to him, “You must not be the bearer of news today, but you must carry news another day. But today you must carry no news, because the king’s son is dead.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.21: \v 21 Then Joab said to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen!” The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.22: \v 22 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, “But come what may, please let me also run after the Cushite.”
\p Joab said, “Why do you want to run, my son, since you will have no reward for the news?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.23: \v 23 “But come what may,” he said, “I will run.”
\p He said to him, “Run!” Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.24: \v 24 Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.
\p 2 Samuel 18.25: \v 25 The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, “If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” He came closer and closer.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.26: \v 26 The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gatekeeper, and said, “Behold, a man running alone!”
\p The king said, “He also brings news.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.27: \v 27 The watchman said, “I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.”
\p The king said, “He is a good man, and comes with good news.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.28: \v 28 Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, “All is well.” He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.29: \v 29 The king said, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?”
\p Ahimaaz answered, “When Joab sent the king’s servant, even me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I don’t know what it was.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.30: \v 30 The king said, “Come and stand here.” He came, and stood still.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.31: \v 31 Behold, the Cushite came. The Cushite said, “News for my lord the king, for Yahweh has avenged you today of all those who rose up against you.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.32: \v 32 The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?”
\p The Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you to do you harm, be as that young man is.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 18.33: \v 33 The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”
\p 2 Samuel 19.0: \c 19
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.1: \v 1 Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”
\p 2 Samuel 19.2: \v 2 The victory that day was turned into mourning among all the people; for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.3: \v 3 The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
\p 2 Samuel 19.4: \v 4 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.5: \v 5 Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants, who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
\p 2 Samuel 19.6: \v 6 in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared today that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died today, then it would have pleased you well.
\p 2 Samuel 19.7: \v 7 Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.8: \v 8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.
\p 2 Samuel 19.9: \v 9 All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.
\p 2 Samuel 19.10: \v 10 Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don’t you speak a word of bringing the king back?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.11: \v 11 King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.
\p 2 Samuel 19.12: \v 12 You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’
\p 2 Samuel 19.13: \v 13 Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’”
\p 2 Samuel 19.14: \v 14 He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.15: \v 15 So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.
\p 2 Samuel 19.16: \v 16 Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
\p 2 Samuel 19.17: \v 17 There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of Saul’s house, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence of the king.
\p 2 Samuel 19.18: \v 18 A ferry boat went to bring over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he had come over the Jordan.
\p 2 Samuel 19.19: \v 19 He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
\p 2 Samuel 19.20: \v 20 For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.21: \v 21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh’s anointed?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.22: \v 22 David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?”
\p 2 Samuel 19.23: \v 23 The king said to Shimei, “You will not die.” The king swore to him.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.24: \v 24 Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.
\p 2 Samuel 19.25: \v 25 When he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.26: \v 26 He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king,’ because your servant is lame.
\p 2 Samuel 19.27: \v 27 He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.
\p 2 Samuel 19.28: \v 28 For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.29: \v 29 The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.30: \v 30 Mephibosheth said to the king, “Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.”
\p 2 Samuel 19.31: \v 31 Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.
\p 2 Samuel 19.32: \v 32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
\p 2 Samuel 19.33: \v 33 The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”
\p 2 Samuel 19.34: \v 34 Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
\p 2 Samuel 19.35: \v 35 I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?
\p 2 Samuel 19.36: \v 36 Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?
\p 2 Samuel 19.37: \v 37 Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.38: \v 38 The king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you request of me, that I will do for you.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.39: \v 39 All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.
\p 2 Samuel 19.40: \v 40 So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.
\p 2 Samuel 19.41: \v 41 Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.42: \v 42 All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 19.43: \v 43 The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
\p 2 Samuel 20.0: \c 20
\p
\p 2 Samuel 20.1: \v 1 There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 20.2: \v 2 So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.
\p 2 Samuel 20.3: \v 3 David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn’t go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 20.4: \v 4 Then the king said to Amasa, “Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 20.5: \v 5 So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
\p 2 Samuel 20.6: \v 6 David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 20.7: \v 7 Joab’s men went out after him, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
\p 2 Samuel 20.8: \v 8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went along it fell out.
\p 2 Samuel 20.9: \v 9 Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
\p 2 Samuel 20.10: \v 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
\p 2 Samuel 20.11: \v 11 One of Joab’s young men stood by him, and said, “He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 20.12: \v 12 Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.
\p 2 Samuel 20.13: \v 13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
\p 2 Samuel 20.14: \v 14 He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth Maacah, and all the Berites. They were gathered together, and went also after him.
\p 2 Samuel 20.15: \v 15 They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
\p 2 Samuel 20.16: \v 16 Then a wise woman cried out of the city, “Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, ‘Come near here, that I may speak with you.’”
\p 2 Samuel 20.17: \v 17 He came near to her; and the woman said, “Are you Joab?”
\p He answered, “I am.”
\p Then she said to him, “Hear the words of your servant.”
\p He answered, “I’m listening.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 20.18: \v 18 Then she spoke, saying, “They used to say in old times, ‘They shall surely ask counsel at Abel;’ and so they settled a matter.
\p 2 Samuel 20.19: \v 19 I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 20.20: \v 20 Joab answered, “Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
\p 2 Samuel 20.21: \v 21 The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Just deliver him, and I will depart from the city.”
\p The woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 20.22: \v 22 Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
\p 2 Samuel 20.23: \v 23 Now Joab was over all the army of Israel, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites,
\p 2 Samuel 20.24: \v 24 Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder,
\p 2 Samuel 20.25: \v 25 Sheva was scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests,
\p 2 Samuel 20.26: \v 26 and Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David.
\p 2 Samuel 21.0: \c 21
\p
\p 2 Samuel 21.1: \v 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.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 21.2: \v 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);
\p 2 Samuel 21.3: \v 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?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 21.4: \v 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.”
\p He said, “I will do for you whatever you say.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 21.5: \v 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,
\p 2 Samuel 21.6: \v 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.”
\p The king said, “I will give them.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 21.7: \v 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.
\p 2 Samuel 21.8: \v 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.
\p 2 Samuel 21.9: \v 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.
\p 2 Samuel 21.10: \v 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.
\p 2 Samuel 21.11: \v 11 David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
\p 2 Samuel 21.12: \v 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;
\p 2 Samuel 21.13: \v 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.
\p 2 Samuel 21.14: \v 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.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 21.15: \v 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;
\p 2 Samuel 21.16: \v 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.
\p 2 Samuel 21.17: \v 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.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 21.18: \v 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.
\p 2 Samuel 21.19: \v 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.
\p 2 Samuel 21.20: \v 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.
\p 2 Samuel 21.21: \v 21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.
\p 2 Samuel 21.22: \v 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.
\p 2 Samuel 22.0: \c 22
\p
\p 2 Samuel 22.1: \v 1 David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,
\p 2 Samuel 22.2: \v 2 and he said:
\q1 “Yahweh is my rock,
\q2 my fortress,
\q2 and my deliverer, even mine;
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.3: \v 3 God is my rock in whom I take refuge;
\q2 my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
\q2 my high tower, and my refuge.
\q2 My savior, you save me from violence.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.4: \v 4 I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised;
\q2 So shall I be saved from my enemies.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.5: \v 5 For the waves of death surrounded me.
\q2 The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.6: \v 6 The cords of Sheol\f + \fr 22:6 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* were around me.
\q2 The snares of death caught me.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.7: \v 7 In my distress, I called on Yahweh.
\q2 Yes, I called to my God.
\q1 He heard my voice out of his temple.
\q2 My cry came into his ears.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.8: \v 8 Then the earth shook and trembled.
\q2 The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken,
\q2 because he was angry.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.9: \v 9 Smoke went up out of his nostrils.
\q2 Consuming fire came out of his mouth.
\q2 Coals were kindled by it.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.10: \v 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down.
\q2 Thick darkness was under his feet.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.11: \v 11 He rode on a cherub, and flew.
\q2 Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.12: \v 12 He made darkness a shelter around himself:
\q2 gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.13: \v 13 At the brightness before him,
\q2 coals of fire were kindled.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.14: \v 14 Yahweh thundered from heaven.
\q2 The Most High uttered his voice.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.15: \v 15 He sent out arrows, and scattered them;
\q2 lightning, and confused them.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.16: \v 16 Then the channels of the sea appeared.
\q2 The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke,
\q2 at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.17: \v 17 He sent from on high and he took me.
\q2 He drew me out of many waters.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.18: \v 18 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
\q2 from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.19: \v 19 They came on me in the day of my calamity,
\q2 but Yahweh was my support.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.20: \v 20 He also brought me out into a large place.
\q2 He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.21: \v 21 Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness.
\q2 He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.22: \v 22 For I have kept Yahweh’s ways,
\q2 and have not wickedly departed from my God.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.23: \v 23 For all his ordinances were before me.
\q2 As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.24: \v 24 I was also perfect toward him.
\q2 I kept myself from my iniquity.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.25: \v 25 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
\q2 According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.26: \v 26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.
\q2 With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.
\q2
\p 2 Samuel 22.27: \v 27 With the pure you will show yourself pure.
\q2 With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.28: \v 28 You will save the afflicted people,
\q2 But your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.29: \v 29 For you are my lamp, Yahweh.
\q2 Yahweh will light up my darkness.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.30: \v 30 For by you, I run against a troop.
\q2 By my God, I leap over a wall.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.31: \v 31 As for God, his way is perfect.
\q2 Yahweh’s word is tested.
\q2 He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.32: \v 32 For who is God, besides Yahweh?
\q2 Who is a rock, besides our God?
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.33: \v 33 God is my strong fortress.
\q2 He makes my way perfect.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.34: \v 34 He makes his feet like hinds’ feet,
\q2 and sets me on my high places.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.35: \v 35 He teaches my hands to war,
\q2 so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.36: \v 36 You have also given me the shield of your salvation.
\q2 Your gentleness has made me great.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.37: \v 37 You have enlarged my steps under me.
\q2 My feet have not slipped.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.38: \v 38 I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them.
\q2 I didn’t turn again until they were consumed.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.39: \v 39 I have consumed them,
\q2 and struck them through,
\q2 so that they can’t arise.
\q2 Yes, they have fallen under my feet.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.40: \v 40 For you have armed me with strength for the battle.
\q2 You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.41: \v 41 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
\q2 that I might cut off those who hate me.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.42: \v 42 They looked, but there was no one to save;
\q2 even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.43: \v 43 Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth.
\q2 I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.44: \v 44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people.
\q2 You have kept me to be the head of the nations.
\q2 A people whom I have not known will serve me.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.45: \v 45 The foreigners will submit themselves to me.
\q2 As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.46: \v 46 The foreigners will fade away,
\q2 and will come trembling out of their close places.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.47: \v 47 Yahweh lives!
\q2 Blessed be my rock!
\q1 Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
\q2
\p 2 Samuel 22.48: \v 48 even the God who executes vengeance for me,
\q2 who brings down peoples under me,
\q2
\p 2 Samuel 22.49: \v 49 who brings me away from my enemies.
\q1 Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.
\q2 You deliver me from the violent man.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.50: \v 50 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations,
\q2 and will sing praises to your name.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 22.51: \v 51 He gives great deliverance to his king,
\q2 and shows loving kindness to his anointed,
\q2 to David and to his offspring, forever more.”
\p 2 Samuel 23.0: \c 23
\p
\p 2 Samuel 23.1: \v 1 Now these are the last words of David.
\q1 David the son of Jesse says,
\q2 the man who was raised on high says,
\q2 the anointed of the God of Jacob,
\q2 the sweet psalmist of Israel:
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 23.2: \v 2 “Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me.
\q2 His word was on my tongue.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 23.3: \v 3 The God of Israel said,
\q2 the Rock of Israel spoke to me,
\q2 ‘One who rules over men righteously,
\q2 who rules in the fear of God,
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 23.4: \v 4 shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises,
\q2 a morning without clouds,
\q2 when the tender grass springs out of the earth,
\q2 through clear shining after rain.’
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 23.5: \v 5 Isn’t my house so with God?
\q2 Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
\q2 ordered in all things, and sure,
\q2 for it is all my salvation, and all my desire,
\q2 although he doesn’t make it grow.
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 23.6: \v 6 But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away,
\q2 because they can’t be taken with the hand,
\q1
\p 2 Samuel 23.7: \v 7 But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear.
\q1 They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 23.8: \v 8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite, who killed eight hundred at one time.
\p 2 Samuel 23.9: \v 9 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel had gone away.
\p 2 Samuel 23.10: \v 10 He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder.
\p 2 Samuel 23.11: \v 11 After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. The Philistines had gathered together into a troop, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines.
\p 2 Samuel 23.12: \v 12 But he stood in the middle of the plot and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh worked a great victory.
\p 2 Samuel 23.13: \v 13 Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
\p 2 Samuel 23.14: \v 14 David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
\p 2 Samuel 23.15: \v 15 David longed, and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 23.16: \v 16 The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.
\p 2 Samuel 23.17: \v 17 He said, “Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 23.18: \v 18 Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
\p 2 Samuel 23.19: \v 19 Wasn’t he most honorable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three.
\p 2 Samuel 23.20: \v 20 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow.
\p 2 Samuel 23.21: \v 21 He killed a huge Egyptian, and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.
\p 2 Samuel 23.22: \v 22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men.
\p 2 Samuel 23.23: \v 23 He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three. David set him over his guard.
\p 2 Samuel 23.24: \v 24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
\p 2 Samuel 23.25: \v 25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
\p 2 Samuel 23.26: \v 26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
\p 2 Samuel 23.27: \v 27 Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
\p 2 Samuel 23.28: \v 28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
\p 2 Samuel 23.29: \v 29 Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
\p 2 Samuel 23.30: \v 30 Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash.
\p 2 Samuel 23.31: \v 31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
\p 2 Samuel 23.32: \v 32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
\p 2 Samuel 23.33: \v 33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite,
\p 2 Samuel 23.34: \v 34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
\p 2 Samuel 23.35: \v 35 Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
\p 2 Samuel 23.36: \v 36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
\p 2 Samuel 23.37: \v 37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
\p 2 Samuel 23.38: \v 38 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
\p 2 Samuel 23.39: \v 39 and Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.
\p 2 Samuel 24.0: \c 24
\p
\p 2 Samuel 24.1: \v 1 Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”
\p 2 Samuel 24.2: \v 2 The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 24.3: \v 3 Joab said to the king, “Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 24.4: \v 4 Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.
\p 2 Samuel 24.5: \v 5 They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer;
\p 2 Samuel 24.6: \v 6 then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon,
\p 2 Samuel 24.7: \v 7 and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.
\p 2 Samuel 24.8: \v 8 So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
\p 2 Samuel 24.9: \v 9 Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
\p 2 Samuel 24.10: \v 10 David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 24.11: \v 11 When David rose up in the morning, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
\p 2 Samuel 24.12: \v 12 “Go and speak to David, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 24.13: \v 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 24.14: \v 14 David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 24.15: \v 15 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.
\p 2 Samuel 24.16: \v 16 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
\p
\p 2 Samuel 24.17: \v 17 David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 24.18: \v 18 Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 24.19: \v 19 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.
\p 2 Samuel 24.20: \v 20 Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
\p 2 Samuel 24.21: \v 21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?”
\p David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 24.22: \v 22 Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.
\p 2 Samuel 24.23: \v 23 All this, O king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May Yahweh your God accept you.”
\p
\p 2 Samuel 24.24: \v 24 The king said to Araunah, “No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels\f + \fr 24:24 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 50 shekels is about 0.5 kilograms or 1.1 pounds.\f* of silver.
\p 2 Samuel 24.25: \v 25 David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 0.0: \id 1CH World English Bible (WEB)
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\toc1 The First Book of Chronicles
\toc2 1 Chronicles
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\mt1 The First Book of Chronicles
\p 1 Chronicles 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 1.1: \v 1 Adam, Seth, Enosh,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.2: \v 2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.3: \v 3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.4: \v 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.5: \v 5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.6: \v 6 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.7: \v 7 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.8: \v 8 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.9: \v 9 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.10: \v 10 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.11: \v 11 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.12: \v 12 Pathrusim, Casluhim (where the Philistines came from), and Caphtorim.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.13: \v 13 Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.14: \v 14 the Jebusite, and the Amorite, the Girgashite,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.15: \v 15 the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.16: \v 16 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.17: \v 17 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.18: \v 18 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.19: \v 19 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.20: \v 20 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.21: \v 21 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.22: \v 22 Ebal, Abimael, Sheba,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.23: \v 23 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.24: \v 24 Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.25: \v 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.26: \v 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.27: \v 27 Abram (also called Abraham).
\p 1 Chronicles 1.28: \v 28 The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.29: \v 29 These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.30: \v 30 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.31: \v 31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.32: \v 32 The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.33: \v 33 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.34: \v 34 Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.35: \v 35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.36: \v 36 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.37: \v 37 The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.38: \v 38 The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.39: \v 39 The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Timna was Lotan’s sister.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.40: \v 40 The sons of Shobal: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.41: \v 41 The son of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.42: \v 42 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 1.43: \v 43 Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.44: \v 44 Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.45: \v 45 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.46: \v 46 Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.47: \v 47 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.48: \v 48 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.49: \v 49 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.50: \v 50 Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
\p 1 Chronicles 1.51: \v 51 Then Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.52: \v 52 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.53: \v 53 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
\p 1 Chronicles 1.54: \v 54 chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 2.1: \v 1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
\p 1 Chronicles 2.2: \v 2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.3: \v 3 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s\f + \fr 2:3 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* sight; and he killed him.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.4: \v 4 Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.5: \v 5 The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.6: \v 6 The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.7: \v 7 The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.8: \v 8 The son of Ethan: Azariah.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.9: \v 9 The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.10: \v 10 Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
\p 1 Chronicles 2.11: \v 11 and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz,
\p 1 Chronicles 2.12: \v 12 and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse;
\p 1 Chronicles 2.13: \v 13 and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,
\p 1 Chronicles 2.14: \v 14 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
\p 1 Chronicles 2.15: \v 15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
\p 1 Chronicles 2.16: \v 16 and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.17: \v 17 Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 2.18: \v 18 Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.19: \v 19 Azubah died, and Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.20: \v 20 Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 2.21: \v 21 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.22: \v 22 Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.23: \v 23 Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.24: \v 24 After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah Hezron’s wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.25: \v 25 The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.26: \v 26 Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah. She was the mother of Onam.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.27: \v 27 The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.28: \v 28 The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.29: \v 29 The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban and Molid.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.30: \v 30 The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled died without children.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.31: \v 31 The son of Appaim: Ishi. The son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.32: \v 32 The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without children.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.33: \v 33 The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.34: \v 34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.35: \v 35 Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.36: \v 36 Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad,
\p 1 Chronicles 2.37: \v 37 and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,
\p 1 Chronicles 2.38: \v 38 and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
\p 1 Chronicles 2.39: \v 39 and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,
\p 1 Chronicles 2.40: \v 40 and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum,
\p 1 Chronicles 2.41: \v 41 and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.42: \v 42 The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.43: \v 43 The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.44: \v 44 Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.45: \v 45 The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.46: \v 46 Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.47: \v 47 The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jothan, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.48: \v 48 Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.49: \v 49 She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.50: \v 50 These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim,
\p 1 Chronicles 2.51: \v 51 Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth Gader.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.52: \v 52 Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.53: \v 53 The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.54: \v 54 The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
\p 1 Chronicles 2.55: \v 55 The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
\p 1 Chronicles 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 3.1: \v 1 Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;
\p 1 Chronicles 3.2: \v 2 the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;
\p 1 Chronicles 3.3: \v 3 the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife:
\p 1 Chronicles 3.4: \v 4 six were born to him in Hebron; and he reigned there seven years and six months. He reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem;
\p 1 Chronicles 3.5: \v 5 and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;
\p 1 Chronicles 3.6: \v 6 and Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,
\p 1 Chronicles 3.7: \v 7 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
\p 1 Chronicles 3.8: \v 8 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
\p 1 Chronicles 3.9: \v 9 All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 3.10: \v 10 Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 3.11: \v 11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 3.12: \v 12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 3.13: \v 13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 3.14: \v 14 Amon his son, and Josiah his son.
\p 1 Chronicles 3.15: \v 15 The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum.
\p 1 Chronicles 3.16: \v 16 The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah his son.
\p 1 Chronicles 3.17: \v 17 The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 3.18: \v 18 Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
\p 1 Chronicles 3.19: \v 19 The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister;
\p 1 Chronicles 3.20: \v 20 and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab Hesed, five.
\p 1 Chronicles 3.21: \v 21 The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.
\p 1 Chronicles 3.22: \v 22 The son of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
\p 1 Chronicles 3.23: \v 23 The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
\p 1 Chronicles 3.24: \v 24 The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 4.1: \v 1 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.2: \v 2 Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.3: \v 3 These were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. The name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.4: \v 4 Penuel was the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.5: \v 5 Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.6: \v 6 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.7: \v 7 The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.8: \v 8 Hakkoz became the father of Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 4.9: \v 9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez,\f + \fr 4:9 \ft “Jabez” sounds similar to the Hebrew word for “pain”.\f* saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 4.10: \v 10 Jabez called on the God\f + \fr 4:10 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!”
\p God granted him that which he requested.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.11: \v 11 Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.12: \v 12 Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.13: \v 13 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.14: \v 14 Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.15: \v 15 The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.16: \v 16 The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.17: \v 17 The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.18: \v 18 His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.19: \v 19 The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.20: \v 20 The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.21: \v 21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;
\p 1 Chronicles 4.22: \v 22 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. These records are ancient.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.23: \v 23 These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: they lived there with the king for his work.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.24: \v 24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
\p 1 Chronicles 4.25: \v 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, and Mishma his son.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.26: \v 26 The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.27: \v 27 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn’t have many children, and all their family didn’t multiply like the children of Judah.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.28: \v 28 They lived at Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual,
\p 1 Chronicles 4.29: \v 29 at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad,
\p 1 Chronicles 4.30: \v 30 at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag,
\p 1 Chronicles 4.31: \v 31 at Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until David’s reign.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.32: \v 32 Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
\p 1 Chronicles 4.33: \v 33 and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their settlements, and they have their genealogy.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.34: \v 34 Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah,
\p 1 Chronicles 4.35: \v 35 Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
\p 1 Chronicles 4.36: \v 36 Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,
\p 1 Chronicles 4.37: \v 37 and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah—
\p 1 Chronicles 4.38: \v 38 these mentioned by name were princes in their families. Their fathers’ houses increased greatly.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 4.39: \v 39 They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.40: \v 40 They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful; for those who lived there before were descended from Ham.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.41: \v 41 These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents. The Meunim who were found there, and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.42: \v 42 Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
\p 1 Chronicles 4.43: \v 43 They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 5.1: \v 1 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.2: \v 2 For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)—
\p 1 Chronicles 5.3: \v 3 the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.4: \v 4 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 5.5: \v 5 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 5.6: \v 6 and Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive. He was prince of the Reubenites.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.7: \v 7 His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was listed: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
\p 1 Chronicles 5.8: \v 8 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon;
\p 1 Chronicles 5.9: \v 9 and he lived eastward even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 5.10: \v 10 In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.11: \v 11 The sons of Gad lived beside them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah:
\p 1 Chronicles 5.12: \v 12 Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.13: \v 13 Their brothers of their fathers’ houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.14: \v 14 These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;
\p 1 Chronicles 5.15: \v 15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers’ houses.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.16: \v 16 They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon, as far as their borders.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.17: \v 17 All these were listed by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 5.18: \v 18 The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty, that were able to go out to war.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.19: \v 19 They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.20: \v 20 They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.21: \v 21 They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.22: \v 22 For many fell slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.23: \v 23 The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.24: \v 24 These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: even Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.25: \v 25 They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
\p 1 Chronicles 5.26: \v 26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 6.1: \v 1 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.2: \v 2 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.3: \v 3 The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.4: \v 4 Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.5: \v 5 Abishua became the father of Bukki. Bukki became the father of Uzzi.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.6: \v 6 Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah. Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.7: \v 7 Meraioth became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.8: \v 8 Ahitub became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.9: \v 9 Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah. Azariah became the father of Johanan.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.10: \v 10 Johanan became the father of Azariah, who executed the priest’s office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.11: \v 11 Azariah became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.12: \v 12 Ahitub became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Shallum.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.13: \v 13 Shallum became the father of Hilkiah. Hilkiah became the father of Azariah.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.14: \v 14 Azariah became the father of Seraiah. Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.15: \v 15 Jehozadak went into captivity, when Yahweh carried Judah and Jerusalem away by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 6.16: \v 16 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.17: \v 17 These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.18: \v 18 The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.19: \v 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.20: \v 20 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.21: \v 21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, and Jeatherai his son.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.22: \v 22 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.23: \v 23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.24: \v 24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.25: \v 25 The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.26: \v 26 As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, Nahath his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.27: \v 27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, and Elkanah his son.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.28: \v 28 The sons of Samuel: the firstborn, Joel, and the second, Abijah.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.29: \v 29 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.30: \v 30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.31: \v 31 These are they whom David set over the service of song in Yahweh’s house, after the ark came to rest there.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.32: \v 32 They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon had built Yahweh’s house in Jerusalem. They performed the duties of their office according to their order.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.33: \v 33 These are those who served, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.34: \v 34 the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.35: \v 35 the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.36: \v 36 the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.37: \v 37 the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.38: \v 38 the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.39: \v 39 His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.40: \v 40 the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.41: \v 41 the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.42: \v 42 the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.43: \v 43 the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.44: \v 44 On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.45: \v 45 the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.46: \v 46 the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.47: \v 47 the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.48: \v 48 Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of God’s house.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.49: \v 49 But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 6.50: \v 50 These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.51: \v 51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.52: \v 52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.53: \v 53 Zadok his son, and Ahimaaz his son.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.54: \v 54 Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),
\p 1 Chronicles 6.55: \v 55 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its pasture lands around it;
\p 1 Chronicles 6.56: \v 56 but the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.57: \v 57 To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.58: \v 58 Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.59: \v 59 Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands;
\p 1 Chronicles 6.60: \v 60 and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasture lands, Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 6.61: \v 61 To the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.62: \v 62 To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.63: \v 63 To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.64: \v 64 The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.65: \v 65 They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.66: \v 66 Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
\p 1 Chronicles 6.67: \v 67 They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its pasture lands, and Gezer with its pasture lands,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.68: \v 68 Jokmeam with its pasture lands, Beth Horon with its pasture lands,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.69: \v 69 Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands;
\p 1 Chronicles 6.70: \v 70 and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasture lands, and Bileam with its pasture lands, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 6.71: \v 71 To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands, and Ashtaroth with its pasture lands;
\p 1 Chronicles 6.72: \v 72 and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.73: \v 73 Ramoth with its pasture lands, and Anem with its pasture lands;
\p 1 Chronicles 6.74: \v 74 and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.75: \v 75 Hukok with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands;
\p 1 Chronicles 6.76: \v 76 and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, Hammon with its pasture lands, and Kiriathaim with its pasture lands.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 6.77: \v 77 To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its pasture lands, Tabor with its pasture lands;
\p 1 Chronicles 6.78: \v 78 and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its pasture lands, and Jahzah with its pasture lands,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.79: \v 79 Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands;
\p 1 Chronicles 6.80: \v 80 and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, Mahanaim with its pasture lands,
\p 1 Chronicles 6.81: \v 81 Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 7.1: \v 1 Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.2: \v 2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.3: \v 3 The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.4: \v 4 With them, by their generations, after their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.5: \v 5 Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, listed in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.6: \v 6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.7: \v 7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.8: \v 8 The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.9: \v 9 They were listed by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.10: \v 10 The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.11: \v 11 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.12: \v 12 So were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 7.13: \v 13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.14: \v 14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir the father of Gilead.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.15: \v 15 Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maacah. The name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.16: \v 16 Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh. The name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.17: \v 17 The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.18: \v 18 His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.19: \v 19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.20: \v 20 The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 7.21: \v 21 Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.22: \v 22 Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.23: \v 23 He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah,\f + \fr 7:23 \ft “Beriah” is similar to the Hebrew word for “misfortune”.\f* because there was trouble with his house.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.24: \v 24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.25: \v 25 Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 7.26: \v 26 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
\p 1 Chronicles 7.27: \v 27 Nun his son, and Joshua his son.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.28: \v 28 Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;
\p 1 Chronicles 7.29: \v 29 and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived in these.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.30: \v 30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Serah was their sister.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.31: \v 31 The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.32: \v 32 Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.33: \v 33 The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.34: \v 34 The sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.35: \v 35 The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.36: \v 36 The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
\p 1 Chronicles 7.37: \v 37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.38: \v 38 The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.39: \v 39 The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.
\p 1 Chronicles 7.40: \v 40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 8.1: \v 1 Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.2: \v 2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.3: \v 3 Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.4: \v 4 Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.5: \v 5 Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.6: \v 6 These are the sons of Ehud. These are the heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Geba, who were carried captive to Manahath:
\p 1 Chronicles 8.7: \v 7 Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, who carried them captive; and he became the father of Uzza and Ahihud.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 8.8: \v 8 Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away. Hushim and Baara were his wives.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.9: \v 9 By Hodesh his wife, he became the father of Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.10: \v 10 Jeuz, Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ households.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.11: \v 11 By Hushim, he became the father of Abitub and Elpaal.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.12: \v 12 The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns;
\p 1 Chronicles 8.13: \v 13 and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath;
\p 1 Chronicles 8.14: \v 14 and Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.15: \v 15 Zebadiah, Arad, Eder,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.16: \v 16 Michael, Ishpah, Joha, the sons of Beriah,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.17: \v 17 Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.18: \v 18 Ishmerai, Izliah, Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.19: \v 19 Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.20: \v 20 Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.21: \v 21 Adaiah, Beraiah, Shimrath, the sons of Shimei,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.22: \v 22 Ishpan, Eber, Eliel,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.23: \v 23 Abdon, Zichri, Hanan,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.24: \v 24 Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.25: \v 25 Iphdeiah, Penuel, the sons of Shashak,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.26: \v 26 Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.27: \v 27 Jaareshiah, Elijah, Zichri, and the sons of Jeroham.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.28: \v 28 These were heads of fathers’ households throughout their generations, chief men. These lived in Jerusalem.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.29: \v 29 The father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.30: \v 30 with his firstborn son Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,
\p 1 Chronicles 8.31: \v 31 Gedor, Ahio, and Zecher.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.32: \v 32 Mikloth became the father of Shimeah. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, near their brothers.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.33: \v 33 Ner became the father of Kish. Kish became the father of Saul. Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.34: \v 34 The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.35: \v 35 The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.36: \v 36 Ahaz became the father of Jehoaddah. Jehoaddah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri became the father of Moza.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.37: \v 37 Moza became the father of Binea. Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.38: \v 38 Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.39: \v 39 The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
\p 1 Chronicles 8.40: \v 40 The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons’ sons, one hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 9.1: \v 1 So all Israel were listed by genealogies; and behold,\f + \fr 9:1 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.2: \v 2 Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.3: \v 3 In Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:
\p 1 Chronicles 9.4: \v 4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.5: \v 5 Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.6: \v 6 Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brothers, six hundred ninety.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.7: \v 7 Of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah,
\p 1 Chronicles 9.8: \v 8 and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
\p 1 Chronicles 9.9: \v 9 and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers’ households by their fathers’ houses.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 9.10: \v 10 Of the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin,
\p 1 Chronicles 9.11: \v 11 and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house;
\p 1 Chronicles 9.12: \v 12 and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
\p 1 Chronicles 9.13: \v 13 and their brothers, heads of their fathers’ houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of God’s house.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 9.14: \v 14 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
\p 1 Chronicles 9.15: \v 15 and Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph,
\p 1 Chronicles 9.16: \v 16 and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 9.17: \v 17 The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
\p 1 Chronicles 9.18: \v 18 who previously served in the king’s gate eastward. They were the gatekeepers for the camp of the children of Levi.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.19: \v 19 Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent. Their fathers had been over Yahweh’s camp, keepers of the entry.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.20: \v 20 Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, and Yahweh was with him.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.21: \v 21 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper of the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.22: \v 22 All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers in the thresholds were two hundred twelve. These were listed by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained in their office of trust.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.23: \v 23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of Yahweh’s house, even the house of the tent, as guards.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.24: \v 24 On the four sides were the gatekeepers, toward the east, west, north, and south.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.25: \v 25 Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:
\p 1 Chronicles 9.26: \v 26 for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in God’s house.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.27: \v 27 They stayed around God’s house, because that duty was on them; and to their duty was its opening morning by morning.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.28: \v 28 Certain of them were in charge of the vessels of service; for these were brought in by count, and these were taken out by count.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.29: \v 29 Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 9.30: \v 30 Some of the sons of the priests prepared the mixing of the spices.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.31: \v 31 Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.32: \v 32 Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.33: \v 33 These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.34: \v 34 These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men. These lived at Jerusalem.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.35: \v 35 Jeiel the father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon with
\p 1 Chronicles 9.36: \v 36 his firstborn son Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
\p 1 Chronicles 9.37: \v 37 Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.38: \v 38 Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, near their brothers.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.39: \v 39 Ner became the father of Kish. Kish became the father of Saul. Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.40: \v 40 The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.41: \v 41 The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.42: \v 42 Ahaz became the father of Jarah. Jarah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri became the father of Moza.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.43: \v 43 Moza became the father of Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.44: \v 44 Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.
\p 1 Chronicles 10.0: \c 10
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\p 1 Chronicles 10.1: \v 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
\p 1 Chronicles 10.2: \v 2 The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
\p 1 Chronicles 10.3: \v 3 The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
\p 1 Chronicles 10.4: \v 4 Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.”
\p But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.
\p 1 Chronicles 10.5: \v 5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died.
\p 1 Chronicles 10.6: \v 6 So Saul died with his three sons; and all his house died together.
\p 1 Chronicles 10.7: \v 7 When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 10.8: \v 8 On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
\p 1 Chronicles 10.9: \v 9 They stripped him, and took his head and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people.
\p 1 Chronicles 10.10: \v 10 They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.
\p 1 Chronicles 10.11: \v 11 When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
\p 1 Chronicles 10.12: \v 12 all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
\p 1 Chronicles 10.13: \v 13 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
\p 1 Chronicles 10.14: \v 14 and didn’t inquire of Yahweh. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 11.1: \v 1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.2: \v 2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 11.3: \v 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to Yahweh’s word by Samuel.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.4: \v 4 David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (also called Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.5: \v 5 The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is David’s city.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.6: \v 6 David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.” Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.7: \v 7 David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it David’s city.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.8: \v 8 He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.9: \v 9 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh of Armies was with him.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.10: \v 10 Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to Yahweh’s word concerning Israel.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 11.11: \v 11 This is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one time.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.12: \v 12 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.13: \v 13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where there was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.14: \v 14 They stood in the middle of the plot, defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.15: \v 15 Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.16: \v 16 David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem at that time.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.17: \v 17 David longed, and said, “Oh that one would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 11.18: \v 18 The three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; but David would not drink any of it, but poured it out to Yahweh,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.19: \v 19 and said, “My God forbid me, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy?” For they risked their lives to bring it. Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 11.20: \v 20 Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.21: \v 21 Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain; however he wasn’t included in the three.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.22: \v 22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.23: \v 23 He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits\f + \fr 11:23 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. Therefore this Egyptian was bout 7 feet and 6 inches or 2.28 meters tall.\f* high. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.24: \v 24 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men.
\p 1 Chronicles 11.25: \v 25 Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three; and David set him over his guard.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 11.26: \v 26 The mighty men of the armies also include Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.27: \v 27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.28: \v 28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.29: \v 29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.30: \v 30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.31: \v 31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.32: \v 32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.33: \v 33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.34: \v 34 the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.35: \v 35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.36: \v 36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.37: \v 37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.38: \v 38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.39: \v 39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.40: \v 40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.41: \v 41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.42: \v 42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.43: \v 43 Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.44: \v 44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.45: \v 45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.46: \v 46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
\p 1 Chronicles 11.47: \v 47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 12.1: \v 1 Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he was a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish. They were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.2: \v 2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were of Saul’s relatives of the tribe of Benjamin.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.3: \v 3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite;
\p 1 Chronicles 12.4: \v 4 Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader of the thirty; Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan; Jozabad the Gederathite;
\p 1 Chronicles 12.5: \v 5 Eluzai; Jerimoth; Bealiah; Shemariah; Shephatiah the Haruphite;
\p 1 Chronicles 12.6: \v 6 Elkanah, Isshiah Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;
\p 1 Chronicles 12.7: \v 7 and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.8: \v 8 Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:
\p 1 Chronicles 12.9: \v 9 Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
\p 1 Chronicles 12.10: \v 10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
\p 1 Chronicles 12.11: \v 11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
\p 1 Chronicles 12.12: \v 12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
\p 1 Chronicles 12.13: \v 13 Jeremiah the tenth, and Machbannai the eleventh.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.14: \v 14 These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army: he who was least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.15: \v 15 These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all who lived in the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.16: \v 16 Some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.17: \v 17 David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”
\p 1 Chronicles 12.18: \v 18 Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse. Peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps you.” Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.19: \v 19 Some of Manasseh also joined David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle; but they didn’t help them; for the lords of the Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying, “He will desert to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 12.20: \v 20 As he went to Ziklag, some from Manasseh joined him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of Manasseh.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.21: \v 21 They helped David against the band of rovers; for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the army.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.22: \v 22 For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like God’s army.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 12.23: \v 23 These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to Yahweh’s word.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.24: \v 24 The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred, armed for war.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.25: \v 25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war: seven thousand one hundred.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.26: \v 26 Of the children of Levi: four thousand six hundred.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.27: \v 27 Jehoiada was the leader of the household of Aaron; and with him were three thousand seven hundred,
\p 1 Chronicles 12.28: \v 28 and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father’s house twenty-two captains.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.29: \v 29 Of the children of Benjamin, Saul’s relatives: three thousand, for until then, the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to Saul’s house.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.30: \v 30 Of the children of Ephraim: twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ houses.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.31: \v 31 Of the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.32: \v 32 Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their command.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.33: \v 33 Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.34: \v 34 Of Naphtali: one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.35: \v 35 Of the Danites who could set the battle in array: twenty-eight thousand six hundred.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.36: \v 36 Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array: forty thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.37: \v 37 On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle: one hundred twenty thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.38: \v 38 All these were men of war, who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.39: \v 39 They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had supplied provisions for them.
\p 1 Chronicles 12.40: \v 40 Moreover those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen: supplies of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 13.0: \c 13
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\p 1 Chronicles 13.1: \v 1 David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.
\p 1 Chronicles 13.2: \v 2 David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us.
\p 1 Chronicles 13.3: \v 3 Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again; for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 13.4: \v 4 All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
\p 1 Chronicles 13.5: \v 5 So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the brook of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 13.6: \v 6 David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there God Yahweh’s ark that sits above the cherubim, that is called by the Name.
\p 1 Chronicles 13.7: \v 7 They carried God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house; and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
\p 1 Chronicles 13.8: \v 8 David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.
\p 1 Chronicles 13.9: \v 9 When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
\p 1 Chronicles 13.10: \v 10 Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put his hand on the ark; and he died there before God.
\p 1 Chronicles 13.11: \v 11 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
\p 1 Chronicles 13.12: \v 12 David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark home to me?”
\p 1 Chronicles 13.13: \v 13 So David didn’t move the ark with him into David’s city, but carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.
\p 1 Chronicles 13.14: \v 14 God’s ark remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months; and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom’s house and all that he had.
\p 1 Chronicles 14.0: \c 14
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\p 1 Chronicles 14.1: \v 1 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
\p 1 Chronicles 14.2: \v 2 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel’s sake.
\p 1 Chronicles 14.3: \v 3 David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
\p 1 Chronicles 14.4: \v 4 These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
\p 1 Chronicles 14.5: \v 5 Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet,
\p 1 Chronicles 14.6: \v 6 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
\p 1 Chronicles 14.7: \v 7 Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 14.8: \v 8 When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went out against them.
\p 1 Chronicles 14.9: \v 9 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.
\p 1 Chronicles 14.10: \v 10 David inquired of God, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?”
\p Yahweh said to him, “Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 14.11: \v 11 So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like waters breaking out. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.\f + \fr 14:11 \ft “Baal Perazim” means “The Lord who breaks out”.\f*
\p 1 Chronicles 14.12: \v 12 They left their gods there; and David gave a command, and they were burned with fire.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 14.13: \v 13 The Philistines made a another raid in the valley.
\p 1 Chronicles 14.14: \v 14 David inquired again of God; and God said to him, “You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them opposite the mulberry trees.
\p 1 Chronicles 14.15: \v 15 When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 14.16: \v 16 David did as God commanded him; and they attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
\p 1 Chronicles 14.17: \v 17 The fame of David went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought the fear of him on all nations.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.0: \c 15
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 15.1: \v 1 David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.2: \v 2 Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 15.3: \v 3 David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up Yahweh’s ark to its place, which he had prepared for it.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.4: \v 4 David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites:
\p 1 Chronicles 15.5: \v 5 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty;
\p 1 Chronicles 15.6: \v 6 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;
\p 1 Chronicles 15.7: \v 7 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one hundred thirty;
\p 1 Chronicles 15.8: \v 8 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred;
\p 1 Chronicles 15.9: \v 9 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;
\p 1 Chronicles 15.10: \v 10 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers one hundred twelve.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.11: \v 11 David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab,
\p 1 Chronicles 15.12: \v 12 and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.13: \v 13 For because you didn’t carry it at first, Yahweh our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 15.14: \v 14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.15: \v 15 The children of the Levites bore God’s ark on their shoulders with its poles, as Moses commanded according to Yahweh’s word.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.16: \v 16 David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.17: \v 17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
\p 1 Chronicles 15.18: \v 18 and with them their brothers of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.19: \v 19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of bronze to sound aloud;
\p 1 Chronicles 15.20: \v 20 and Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments set to Alamoth;
\p 1 Chronicles 15.21: \v 21 and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.22: \v 22 Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the singing. He taught the singers, because he was skillful.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.23: \v 23 Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.24: \v 24 Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before God’s ark; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 15.25: \v 25 So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.26: \v 26 When God helped the Levites who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.27: \v 27 David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the choir master with the singers; and David had an ephod of linen on him.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.28: \v 28 Thus all Israel brought the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.
\p 1 Chronicles 15.29: \v 29 As the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.
\p 1 Chronicles 16.0: \c 16
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 16.1: \v 1 They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
\p 1 Chronicles 16.2: \v 2 When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in Yahweh’s name.
\p 1 Chronicles 16.3: \v 3 He gave to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.
\p 1 Chronicles 16.4: \v 4 He appointed some of the Levites to minister before Yahweh’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:
\p 1 Chronicles 16.5: \v 5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
\p 1 Chronicles 16.6: \v 6 with Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 16.7: \v 7 Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.8: \v 8 Oh give thanks to Yahweh.
\q2 Call on his name.
\q2 Make what he has done known among the peoples.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.9: \v 9 Sing to him.
\q2 Sing praises to him.
\q2 Tell of all his marvelous works.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.10: \v 10 Glory in his holy name.
\q2 Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.11: \v 11 Seek Yahweh and his strength.
\q2 Seek his face forever more.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.12: \v 12 Remember his marvelous works that he has done,
\q2 his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.13: \v 13 you offspring\f + \fr 16:13 \ft or, seed\f* of Israel his servant,
\q2 you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.14: \v 14 He is Yahweh our God.
\q2 His judgments are in all the earth.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.15: \v 15 Remember his covenant forever,
\q2 the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
\q2
\p 1 Chronicles 16.16: \v 16 the covenant which he made with Abraham,
\q2 his oath to Isaac.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.17: \v 17 He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
\q2 and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.18: \v 18 saying, “I will give you the land of Canaan,
\q2 The lot of your inheritance,”
\q2
\p 1 Chronicles 16.19: \v 19 when you were but a few men in number,
\q2 yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.20: \v 20 They went about from nation to nation,
\q2 from one kingdom to another people.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.21: \v 21 He allowed no man to do them wrong.
\q2 Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.22: \v 22 “Don’t touch my anointed ones!
\q2 Do my prophets no harm!”
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.23: \v 23 Sing to Yahweh, all the earth!
\q2 Display his salvation from day to day.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.24: \v 24 Declare his glory among the nations,
\q2 and his marvelous works among all the peoples.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.25: \v 25 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised.
\q2 He also is to be feared above all gods.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.26: \v 26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
\q2 but Yahweh made the heavens.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.27: \v 27 Honor and majesty are before him.
\q2 Strength and gladness are in his place.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.28: \v 28 Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples,
\q2 ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength!
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.29: \v 29 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
\q2 Bring an offering, and come before him.
\q2 Worship Yahweh in holy array.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.30: \v 30 Tremble before him, all the earth.
\q2 The world also is established that it can’t be moved.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.31: \v 31 Let the heavens be glad,
\q2 and let the earth rejoice!
\q2 Let them say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns!”
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.32: \v 32 Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
\q2 Let the field exult, and all that is in it!
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.33: \v 33 Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh,
\q2 for he comes to judge the earth.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.34: \v 34 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever.
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.35: \v 35 Say, “Save us, God of our salvation!
\q2 Gather us together and deliver us from the nations,
\q2 to give thanks to your holy name,
\q2 to triumph in your praise.”
\q1
\p 1 Chronicles 16.36: \v 36 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
\q2 from everlasting even to everlasting.
\p All the people said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 16.37: \v 37 So he left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s work required;
\p 1 Chronicles 16.38: \v 38 and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;
\p 1 Chronicles 16.39: \v 39 and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before Yahweh’s tabernacle in the high place that was at Gibeon,
\p 1 Chronicles 16.40: \v 40 to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in Yahweh’s law, which he commanded to Israel;
\p 1 Chronicles 16.41: \v 41 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever;
\p 1 Chronicles 16.42: \v 42 and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.
\p 1 Chronicles 16.43: \v 43 All the people departed, each man to his house; and David returned to bless his house.
\p 1 Chronicles 17.0: \c 17
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 17.1: \v 1 When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of Yahweh’s covenant is in a tent.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 17.2: \v 2 Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 17.3: \v 3 That same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
\p 1 Chronicles 17.4: \v 4 “Go and tell David my servant, ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not build me a house to dwell in;
\p 1 Chronicles 17.5: \v 5 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.
\p 1 Chronicles 17.6: \v 6 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 17.7: \v 7 “Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 17.8: \v 8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
\p 1 Chronicles 17.9: \v 9 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first,
\p 1 Chronicles 17.10: \v 10 and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.
\p 1 Chronicles 17.11: \v 11 It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
\p 1 Chronicles 17.12: \v 12 He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
\p 1 Chronicles 17.13: \v 13 I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;
\p 1 Chronicles 17.14: \v 14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever.”’”
\p 1 Chronicles 17.15: \v 15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 17.16: \v 16 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?
\p 1 Chronicles 17.17: \v 17 This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.
\p 1 Chronicles 17.18: \v 18 What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.
\p 1 Chronicles 17.19: \v 19 Yahweh, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
\p 1 Chronicles 17.20: \v 20 Yahweh, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
\p 1 Chronicles 17.21: \v 21 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
\p 1 Chronicles 17.22: \v 22 For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
\p 1 Chronicles 17.23: \v 23 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.
\p 1 Chronicles 17.24: \v 24 Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’
\p 1 Chronicles 17.25: \v 25 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.
\p 1 Chronicles 17.26: \v 26 Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant.
\p 1 Chronicles 17.27: \v 27 Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”
\p 1 Chronicles 18.0: \c 18
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 18.1: \v 1 After this, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.
\p 1 Chronicles 18.2: \v 2 He defeated Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
\p 1 Chronicles 18.3: \v 3 David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
\p 1 Chronicles 18.4: \v 4 David took from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them enough for one hundred chariots.
\p 1 Chronicles 18.5: \v 5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.
\p 1 Chronicles 18.6: \v 6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
\p 1 Chronicles 18.7: \v 7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
\p 1 Chronicles 18.8: \v 8 From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much bronze, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, the pillars, and the vessels of bronze.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 18.9: \v 9 When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,
\p 1 Chronicles 18.10: \v 10 he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him (for Hadadezer had wars with Tou); and he had with him all kinds of vessels of gold and silver and bronze.
\p 1 Chronicles 18.11: \v 11 King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, from Moab, from the children of Ammon, from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
\p 1 Chronicles 18.12: \v 12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
\p 1 Chronicles 18.13: \v 13 He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 18.14: \v 14 David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
\p 1 Chronicles 18.15: \v 15 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
\p 1 Chronicles 18.16: \v 16 Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; Shavsha was scribe;
\p 1 Chronicles 18.17: \v 17 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief officials serving the king.
\p 1 Chronicles 19.0: \c 19
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 19.1: \v 1 After this, Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.
\p 1 Chronicles 19.2: \v 2 David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.”
\p So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
\p 1 Chronicles 19.3: \v 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”
\p 1 Chronicles 19.4: \v 4 So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.
\p 1 Chronicles 19.5: \v 5 Then some people went and told David how the men were treated. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 19.6: \v 6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents\f + \fr 19:6 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds, so 1000 talents is about 30 metric tons\f* of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.
\p 1 Chronicles 19.7: \v 7 So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah with his people, who came and encamped near Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
\p 1 Chronicles 19.8: \v 8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab with all the army of the mighty men.
\p 1 Chronicles 19.9: \v 9 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city; and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.
\p 1 Chronicles 19.10: \v 10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose some of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
\p 1 Chronicles 19.11: \v 11 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
\p 1 Chronicles 19.12: \v 12 He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you are to help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.
\p 1 Chronicles 19.13: \v 13 Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May Yahweh do that which seems good to him.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 19.14: \v 14 So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the front of the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
\p 1 Chronicles 19.15: \v 15 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 19.16: \v 16 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they sent messengers, and called out the Syrians who were beyond the River,\f + \fr 19:16 \ft or, the Euphrates River\f* with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer leading them.
\p 1 Chronicles 19.17: \v 17 David was told that; so he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, came to them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
\p 1 Chronicles 19.18: \v 18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrian men seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and also killed Shophach the captain of the army.
\p 1 Chronicles 19.19: \v 19 When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and served him. The Syrians would not help the children of Ammon any more.
\p 1 Chronicles 20.0: \c 20
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 20.1: \v 1 At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
\p 1 Chronicles 20.2: \v 2 David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold,\f + \fr 20:2 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* and there were precious stones in it. It was set on David’s head, and he brought very much plunder out of the city.
\p 1 Chronicles 20.3: \v 3 He brought out the people who were in it, and had them cut with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 20.4: \v 4 After this, war arose at Gezer with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 20.5: \v 5 Again there was war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
\p 1 Chronicles 20.6: \v 6 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six on each hand, and six on each foot; and he also was born to the giant.
\p 1 Chronicles 20.7: \v 7 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother killed him.
\p 1 Chronicles 20.8: \v 8 These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.0: \c 21
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 21.1: \v 1 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.2: \v 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.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 21.3: \v 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?”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 21.4: \v 4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.5: \v 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.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.6: \v 6 But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 21.7: \v 7 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.8: \v 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.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 21.9: \v 9 Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
\p 1 Chronicles 21.10: \v 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.”’”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 21.11: \v 11 So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:
\p 1 Chronicles 21.12: \v 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.’”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 21.13: \v 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.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 21.14: \v 14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.15: \v 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.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.16: \v 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.
\p Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.17: \v 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.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 21.18: \v 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.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.19: \v 19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 21.20: \v 20 Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.21: \v 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.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 21.22: \v 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.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 21.23: \v 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.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 21.24: \v 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.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 21.25: \v 25 So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels\f + \fr 21:25 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels was about 6 kilograms or about 192 Troy ounces.\f* of gold by weight for the place.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.26: \v 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.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 21.27: \v 27 Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.28: \v 28 At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.29: \v 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.
\p 1 Chronicles 21.30: \v 30 But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.
\p 1 Chronicles 22.0: \c 22
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 22.1: \v 1 Then David said, “This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 22.2: \v 2 David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house.
\p 1 Chronicles 22.3: \v 3 David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and bronze in abundance without weight;
\p 1 Chronicles 22.4: \v 4 and cedar trees without number, for the Sidonians and the people of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.
\p 1 Chronicles 22.5: \v 5 David said, “Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David prepared abundantly before his death.
\p 1 Chronicles 22.6: \v 6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 22.7: \v 7 David said to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.
\p 1 Chronicles 22.8: \v 8 But Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ‘You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.
\p 1 Chronicles 22.9: \v 9 Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.
\p 1 Chronicles 22.10: \v 10 He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’
\p 1 Chronicles 22.11: \v 11 Now, my son, may Yahweh be with you and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
\p 1 Chronicles 22.12: \v 12 May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.
\p 1 Chronicles 22.13: \v 13 Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed.
\p 1 Chronicles 22.14: \v 14 Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for Yahweh’s house one hundred thousand talents\f + \fr 22:14 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 100,000 talents is about 3 metric tons\f* of gold, one million talents\f + \fr 22:14 \ft about 30,000 metric tons\f* of silver, and bronze and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them.
\p 1 Chronicles 22.15: \v 15 There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work;
\p 1 Chronicles 22.16: \v 16 of the gold, the silver, the bronze, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and may Yahweh be with you.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 22.17: \v 17 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
\p 1 Chronicles 22.18: \v 18 “Isn’t Yahweh your God with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.
\p 1 Chronicles 22.19: \v 19 Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”
\p 1 Chronicles 23.0: \c 23
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 23.1: \v 1 Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.2: \v 2 He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.3: \v 3 The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.4: \v 4 David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,
\p 1 Chronicles 23.5: \v 5 four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 23.6: \v 6 David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 23.7: \v 7 Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.8: \v 8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel, three.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.9: \v 9 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ households of Ladan.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.10: \v 10 The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.11: \v 11 Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah didn’t have many sons; therefore they became a fathers’ house in one reckoning.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 23.12: \v 12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.13: \v 13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.14: \v 14 But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.15: \v 15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.16: \v 16 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.17: \v 17 The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.18: \v 18 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.19: \v 19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.20: \v 20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.21: \v 21 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.22: \v 22 Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them as wives.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.23: \v 23 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 23.24: \v 24 These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of Yahweh’s house, from twenty years old and upward.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.25: \v 25 For David said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.26: \v 26 Also the Levites will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service.”
\p 1 Chronicles 23.27: \v 27 For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and upward.
\p 1 Chronicles 23.28: \v 28 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of Yahweh’s house, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of God’s house;
\p 1 Chronicles 23.29: \v 29 for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all measurements of quantity and size;
\p 1 Chronicles 23.30: \v 30 and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh, and likewise in the evening;
\p 1 Chronicles 23.31: \v 31 and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh;
\p 1 Chronicles 23.32: \v 32 and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of Yahweh’s house.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.0: \c 24
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 24.1: \v 1 These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.2: \v 2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.3: \v 3 David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.4: \v 4 There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and they were divided like this: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers’ houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers’ houses, eight.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.5: \v 5 Thus they were divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.6: \v 6 Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers’ house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.7: \v 7 Now the first lot came out to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
\p 1 Chronicles 24.8: \v 8 the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
\p 1 Chronicles 24.9: \v 9 the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
\p 1 Chronicles 24.10: \v 10 the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
\p 1 Chronicles 24.11: \v 11 the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
\p 1 Chronicles 24.12: \v 12 the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
\p 1 Chronicles 24.13: \v 13 the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
\p 1 Chronicles 24.14: \v 14 the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
\p 1 Chronicles 24.15: \v 15 the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,
\p 1 Chronicles 24.16: \v 16 the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,
\p 1 Chronicles 24.17: \v 17 the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,
\p 1 Chronicles 24.18: \v 18 the twenty-third to Delaiah, and the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.19: \v 19 This was their ordering in their service, to come into Yahweh’s house according to the ordinance given to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 24.20: \v 20 Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.21: \v 21 Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.22: \v 22 Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.23: \v 23 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.24: \v 24 The sons of Uzziel: Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.25: \v 25 The brother of Micah: Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.26: \v 26 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The son of Jaaziah: Beno.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.27: \v 27 The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.28: \v 28 Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.29: \v 29 Of Kish, the son of Kish: Jerahmeel.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.30: \v 30 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers’ houses.
\p 1 Chronicles 24.31: \v 31 These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers’ households of the chief even as those of his younger brother.
\p 1 Chronicles 25.0: \c 25
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 25.1: \v 1 Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was:
\p 1 Chronicles 25.2: \v 2 of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah. The sons of Asaph were under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied at the order of the king.
\p 1 Chronicles 25.3: \v 3 Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahweh with the harp.
\p 1 Chronicles 25.4: \v 4 Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth.
\p 1 Chronicles 25.5: \v 5 All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
\p 1 Chronicles 25.6: \v 6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in Yahweh’s house, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for the service of God’s house: Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king.
\p 1 Chronicles 25.7: \v 7 The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight.
\p 1 Chronicles 25.8: \v 8 They cast lots for their offices, all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the student.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 25.9: \v 9 Now the first lot came out for Asaph to Joseph; the second to Gedaliah, he and his brothers and sons were twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.10: \v 10 the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.11: \v 11 the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.12: \v 12 the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.13: \v 13 the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.14: \v 14 the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.15: \v 15 the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.16: \v 16 the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.17: \v 17 the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.18: \v 18 the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.19: \v 19 the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.20: \v 20 for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.21: \v 21 for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.22: \v 22 for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.23: \v 23 for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.24: \v 24 for the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.25: \v 25 for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.26: \v 26 for the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.27: \v 27 for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.28: \v 28 for the twenty-first to Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.29: \v 29 for the twenty-second to Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.30: \v 30 for the twenty-third to Mahazioth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\p 1 Chronicles 25.31: \v 31 for the twenty-fourth to Romamti-Ezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.0: \c 26
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 26.1: \v 1 For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.2: \v 2 Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
\p 1 Chronicles 26.3: \v 3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, and Eliehoenai the seventh.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.4: \v 4 Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,
\p 1 Chronicles 26.5: \v 5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.6: \v 6 Sons were also born to Shemaiah his son, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.7: \v 7 The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.8: \v 8 All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service: sixty-two of Obed-Edom.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.9: \v 9 Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.10: \v 10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),
\p 1 Chronicles 26.11: \v 11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, and Zechariah the fourth. All the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.12: \v 12 Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in Yahweh’s house.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.13: \v 13 They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.14: \v 14 The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.15: \v 15 To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.16: \v 16 To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watchman opposite watchman.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.17: \v 17 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the storehouse two and two.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.18: \v 18 For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.19: \v 19 These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 26.20: \v 20 Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of God’s house and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.21: \v 21 The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers’ households belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.22: \v 22 The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of Yahweh’s house.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.23: \v 23 Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites:
\p 1 Chronicles 26.24: \v 24 and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasures.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.25: \v 25 His brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.26: \v 26 This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers’ households, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.27: \v 27 They dedicated some of the plunder won in battles to repair Yahweh’s house.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.28: \v 28 All that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brothers.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.29: \v 29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.30: \v 30 Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, and for the service of the king.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.31: \v 31 Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers’ households. They were sought for in the fortieth year of the reign of David, and mighty men of valor were found among them at Jazer of Gilead.
\p 1 Chronicles 26.32: \v 32 His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers’ households, whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.0: \c 27
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 27.1: \v 1 Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers’ households and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year—of every division were twenty-four thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.2: \v 2 Over the first division for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.3: \v 3 He was of the children of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.4: \v 4 Over the division of the second month was Dodai the Ahohite, and his division; and Mikloth the ruler: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.5: \v 5 The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the chief priest. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.6: \v 6 This is that Benaiah who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and of his division was Ammizabad his son.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.7: \v 7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.8: \v 8 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.9: \v 9 The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.10: \v 10 The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.11: \v 11 The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.12: \v 12 The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.13: \v 13 The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.14: \v 14 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.15: \v 15 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.16: \v 16 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites, Eliezer the son of Zichri was the ruler; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;
\p 1 Chronicles 27.17: \v 17 of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;
\p 1 Chronicles 27.18: \v 18 of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;
\p 1 Chronicles 27.19: \v 19 of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel;
\p 1 Chronicles 27.20: \v 20 of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah;
\p 1 Chronicles 27.21: \v 21 of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;
\p 1 Chronicles 27.22: \v 22 of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.23: \v 23 But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.24: \v 24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of king David.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 27.25: \v 25 Over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah;
\p 1 Chronicles 27.26: \v 26 Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub;
\p 1 Chronicles 27.27: \v 27 and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite;
\p 1 Chronicles 27.28: \v 28 and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite; and over the cellars of oil was Joash;
\p 1 Chronicles 27.29: \v 29 and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai;
\p 1 Chronicles 27.30: \v 30 and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite; and over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.31: \v 31 All these were the rulers of the property which was king David’s.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 27.32: \v 32 Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe. Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.33: \v 33 Ahithophel was the king’s counselor. Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.
\p 1 Chronicles 27.34: \v 34 After Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. Joab was the captain of the king’s army.
\p 1 Chronicles 28.0: \c 28
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 28.1: \v 1 David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, the captains of the companies who served the king by division, the captains of thousands, the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.
\p 1 Chronicles 28.2: \v 2 Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, “Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.
\p 1 Chronicles 28.3: \v 3 But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.’
\p 1 Chronicles 28.4: \v 4 However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 28.5: \v 5 Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh’s kingdom over Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 28.6: \v 6 He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
\p 1 Chronicles 28.7: \v 7 I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues to do my commandments and my ordinances, as it is today.’
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 28.8: \v 8 Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, Yahweh’s assembly, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of Yahweh your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.
\p 1 Chronicles 28.9: \v 9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
\p 1 Chronicles 28.10: \v 10 Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 28.11: \v 11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat;
\p 1 Chronicles 28.12: \v 12 and the plans of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of Yahweh’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;
\p 1 Chronicles 28.13: \v 13 also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the service of Yahweh’s house, and for all the vessels of service in Yahweh’s house;
\p 1 Chronicles 28.14: \v 14 of gold by weight for the gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;
\p 1 Chronicles 28.15: \v 15 by weight also for the lamp stands of gold, and for its lamps, of gold, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps; and for the lamp stands of silver, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps, according to the use of every lamp stand;
\p 1 Chronicles 28.16: \v 16 and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver;
\p 1 Chronicles 28.17: \v 17 and the forks, the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl;
\p 1 Chronicles 28.18: \v 18 and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the plans for the chariot, and the cherubim that spread out and cover the ark of Yahweh’s covenant.
\p 1 Chronicles 28.19: \v 19 “All this”, David said, “I have been made to understand in writing from Yahweh’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 28.20: \v 20 David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.
\p 1 Chronicles 28.21: \v 21 Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of God’s house. Every willing man who has skill, for any kind of service, shall be with you in all kinds of work. Also the captains and all the people will be entirely at your command.”
\p 1 Chronicles 29.0: \c 29
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 29.1: \v 1 David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.2: \v 2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.3: \v 3 In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
\p 1 Chronicles 29.4: \v 4 even three thousand talents of gold,\f + \fr 29:4 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 3000 talents is about 90 metric tons\f* of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents\f + \fr 29:4 \ft about 21 metric tons\f* of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses;
\p 1 Chronicles 29.5: \v 5 of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself today to Yahweh?”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 29.6: \v 6 Then the princes of the fathers’ households, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king’s work, offered willingly;
\p 1 Chronicles 29.7: \v 7 and they gave for the service of God’s house of gold five thousand talents\f + \fr 29:7 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 5000 talents is about 150 metric tons\f* and ten thousand darics,\f + \fr 29:7 \ft a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.\f* of silver ten thousand talents, of bronze eighteen thousand talents, and of iron one hundred thousand talents.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.8: \v 8 People with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of Yahweh’s house, under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.9: \v 9 Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.10: \v 10 Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.11: \v 11 Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.12: \v 12 Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!
\p 1 Chronicles 29.13: \v 13 Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.14: \v 14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.15: \v 15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.16: \v 16 Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.17: \v 17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.18: \v 18 Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;
\p 1 Chronicles 29.19: \v 19 and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 29.20: \v 20 Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless Yahweh your God!”
\p All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.21: \v 21 They sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel,
\p 1 Chronicles 29.22: \v 22 and ate and drank before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him before Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 29.23: \v 23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.24: \v 24 All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.25: \v 25 Yahweh magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and gave to him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.26: \v 26 Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.27: \v 27 The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.28: \v 28 He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.
\p 1 Chronicles 29.29: \v 29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,
\p 1 Chronicles 29.30: \v 30 with all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.
\p Ezra 0.0: \id EZR World English Bible (WEB)
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\h Ezra
\toc1 The Book of Ezra
\toc2 Ezra
\toc3 Ezr
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Ezra
\p Ezra 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Ezra 1.1: \v 1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* 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,
\p Ezra 1.2: \v 2 “Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* 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.
\p Ezra 1.3: \v 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.
\p Ezra 1.4: \v 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.’”
\p
\p Ezra 1.5: \v 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.
\p Ezra 1.6: \v 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.
\p Ezra 1.7: \v 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;
\p Ezra 1.8: \v 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.
\p Ezra 1.9: \v 9 This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,
\p Ezra 1.10: \v 10 thirty bowls of gold, four hundred ten silver bowls of a second sort, and one thousand other vessels.
\p Ezra 1.11: \v 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.
\p Ezra 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Ezra 2.1: \v 1 Now these are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city;
\p Ezra 2.2: \v 2 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.
\p The number of the men of the people of Israel:
\p Ezra 2.3: \v 3 The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
\p Ezra 2.4: \v 4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
\p Ezra 2.5: \v 5 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
\p Ezra 2.6: \v 6 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.
\p Ezra 2.7: \v 7 The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
\p Ezra 2.8: \v 8 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five.
\p Ezra 2.9: \v 9 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.
\p Ezra 2.10: \v 10 The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.
\p Ezra 2.11: \v 11 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.
\p Ezra 2.12: \v 12 The children of Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two.
\p Ezra 2.13: \v 13 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six.
\p Ezra 2.14: \v 14 The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six.
\p Ezra 2.15: \v 15 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four.
\p Ezra 2.16: \v 16 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
\p Ezra 2.17: \v 17 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three.
\p Ezra 2.18: \v 18 The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve.
\p Ezra 2.19: \v 19 The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty-three.
\p Ezra 2.20: \v 20 The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.
\p Ezra 2.21: \v 21 The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.
\p Ezra 2.22: \v 22 The men of Netophah, fifty-six.
\p Ezra 2.23: \v 23 The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.
\p Ezra 2.24: \v 24 The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.
\p Ezra 2.25: \v 25 The children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.
\p Ezra 2.26: \v 26 The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
\p Ezra 2.27: \v 27 The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two.
\p Ezra 2.28: \v 28 The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.
\p Ezra 2.29: \v 29 The children of Nebo, fifty-two.
\p Ezra 2.30: \v 30 The children of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six.
\p Ezra 2.31: \v 31 The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
\p Ezra 2.32: \v 32 The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.
\p Ezra 2.33: \v 33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.
\p Ezra 2.34: \v 34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.
\p Ezra 2.35: \v 35 The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred thirty.
\p
\p Ezra 2.36: \v 36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
\p Ezra 2.37: \v 37 The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two.
\p Ezra 2.38: \v 38 The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.
\p Ezra 2.39: \v 39 The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen.
\p
\p Ezra 2.40: \v 40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
\p Ezra 2.41: \v 41 The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.
\p Ezra 2.42: \v 42 The children of the gatekeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty-nine.
\p
\p Ezra 2.43: \v 43 The temple servants: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
\p Ezra 2.44: \v 44 the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,
\p Ezra 2.45: \v 45 the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,
\p Ezra 2.46: \v 46 the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan,
\p Ezra 2.47: \v 47 the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,
\p Ezra 2.48: \v 48 the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,
\p Ezra 2.49: \v 49 the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
\p Ezra 2.50: \v 50 the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim,
\p Ezra 2.51: \v 51 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
\p Ezra 2.52: \v 52 the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
\p Ezra 2.53: \v 53 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,
\p Ezra 2.54: \v 54 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
\p
\p Ezra 2.55: \v 55 The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda,
\p Ezra 2.56: \v 56 the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
\p Ezra 2.57: \v 57 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
\p Ezra 2.58: \v 58 All the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety-two.
\p
\p Ezra 2.59: \v 59 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, and their offspring,\f + \fr 2:59 \ft or, seed\f* whether they were of Israel:
\p Ezra 2.60: \v 60 the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two.
\p Ezra 2.61: \v 61 Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, and the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
\p Ezra 2.62: \v 62 These sought their place among those who were registered by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.
\p Ezra 2.63: \v 63 The governor told them that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to serve with Urim and with Thummim.
\p
\p Ezra 2.64: \v 64 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
\p Ezra 2.65: \v 65 in addition to their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.
\p Ezra 2.66: \v 66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;
\p Ezra 2.67: \v 67 their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
\p
\p Ezra 2.68: \v 68 Some of the heads of fathers’ households, when they came to Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for God’s house to set it up in its place.
\p Ezra 2.69: \v 69 They gave according to their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold,\f + \fr 2:69 \ft a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.\f* and five thousand minas\f + \fr 2:69 \ft A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds, so 5,000 minas is about 3 metric tons.\f* of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
\p
\p Ezra 2.70: \v 70 So the priests and the Levites, with some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
\p Ezra 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Ezra 3.1: \v 1 When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
\p Ezra 3.2: \v 2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
\p Ezra 3.3: \v 3 In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
\p Ezra 3.4: \v 4 They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
\p Ezra 3.5: \v 5 and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a free will offering to Yahweh.
\p Ezra 3.6: \v 6 From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh; but the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was not yet laid.
\p Ezra 3.7: \v 7 They also gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.
\p
\p Ezra 3.8: \v 8 Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of Yahweh’s house.
\p Ezra 3.9: \v 9 Then Jeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in God’s house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.
\p Ezra 3.10: \v 10 When the builders laid the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, according to the directions of David king of Israel.
\p Ezra 3.11: \v 11 They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.
\p
\p Ezra 3.12: \v 12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy,
\p Ezra 3.13: \v 13 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard far away.
\p Ezra 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Ezra 4.1: \v 1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel;
\p Ezra 4.2: \v 2 they came near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as you do; and we have been sacrificing to him since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”
\p
\p Ezra 4.3: \v 3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”
\p
\p Ezra 4.4: \v 4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building.
\p Ezra 4.5: \v 5 They hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
\p Ezra 4.6: \v 6 In the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
\p
\p Ezra 4.7: \v 7 In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Syrian, and delivered in the Syrian language.
\p Ezra 4.8: \v 8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows,
\p Ezra 4.9: \v 9 then Rehum the chancellor, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,
\p Ezra 4.10: \v 10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth, wrote.
\p
\p Ezra 4.11: \v 11 This is the copy of the letter that they sent:
\b
\mi To King Artaxerxes,
\mi From your servants the men beyond the River.
\b
\pi1
\p Ezra 4.12: \v 12 Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.
\p Ezra 4.13: \v 13 Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.
\p Ezra 4.14: \v 14 Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to see the king’s dishonor, therefore we have sent and informed the king,
\p Ezra 4.15: \v 15 that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed.
\p Ezra 4.16: \v 16 We inform the king that, if this city is built and the walls finished, then you will have no possession beyond the River.
\b
\p
\p Ezra 4.17: \v 17 Then the king sent an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions who live in Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River:
\b
\mi Peace.
\b
\pi1
\p Ezra 4.18: \v 18 The letter which you sent to us has been plainly read before me.
\p Ezra 4.19: \v 19 I decreed, and search has been made, and it was found that this city has made insurrection against kings in the past, and that rebellion and revolts have been made in it.
\p Ezra 4.20: \v 20 There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them.
\p Ezra 4.21: \v 21 Make a decree now to cause these men to cease, and that this city not be built, until a decree is made by me.
\p Ezra 4.22: \v 22 Be careful that you not be slack doing so. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
\b
\p
\p Ezra 4.23: \v 23 Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force of arms.
\p Ezra 4.24: \v 24 Then work stopped on God’s house which is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
\p Ezra 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Ezra 5.1: \v 1 Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem. They prophesied to them in the name of the God of Israel.
\p Ezra 5.2: \v 2 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build God’s house which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.
\p Ezra 5.3: \v 3 At the same time Tattenai, the governor beyond the River came to them, with Shetharbozenai, and their companions, and asked them, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”
\p Ezra 5.4: \v 4 They also asked for the names of the men were who were making this building.
\p Ezra 5.5: \v 5 But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they didn’t make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and an answer should be returned by letter concerning it.
\p
\p Ezra 5.6: \v 6 The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king follows.
\p Ezra 5.7: \v 7 They sent a letter to him, in which was written:
\b
\mi To Darius the king, all peace.
\pi1
\p Ezra 5.8: \v 8 Be it known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.
\p Ezra 5.9: \v 9 Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”
\p Ezra 5.10: \v 10 We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at their head.
\p Ezra 5.11: \v 11 Thus they returned us answer, saying, “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.
\p Ezra 5.12: \v 12 But after our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
\p Ezra 5.13: \v 13 But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.
\p Ezra 5.14: \v 14 The gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, those Cyrus the king also took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor.
\p Ezra 5.15: \v 15 He said to him, ‘Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let God’s house be built in its place.’
\p Ezra 5.16: \v 16 Then the same Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of God’s house which is in Jerusalem. Since that time even until now it has been being built, and yet it is not completed.
\pi1
\p Ezra 5.17: \v 17 Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let a search be made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it is so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.”
\p Ezra 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Ezra 6.1: \v 1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.
\p Ezra 6.2: \v 2 A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record:
\b
\pi1
\p Ezra 6.3: \v 3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; with its height sixty cubits,\f + \fr 6:3 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and its width sixty cubits;
\p Ezra 6.4: \v 4 with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.
\p Ezra 6.5: \v 5 Also let the gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everything to its place. You shall put them in God’s house.
\pi1
\p Ezra 6.6: \v 6 Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, you must stay far from there.
\p Ezra 6.7: \v 7 Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.
\p Ezra 6.8: \v 8 Moreover I make a decree what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses must be given with all diligence to these men, that they not be hindered.
\p Ezra 6.9: \v 9 That which they have need of, including young bulls, rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;
\p Ezra 6.10: \v 10 that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
\p Ezra 6.11: \v 11 I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
\p Ezra 6.12: \v 12 May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence.
\b
\p
\p Ezra 6.13: \v 13 Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions did accordingly with all diligence, because Darius the king had sent a decree.
\p
\p Ezra 6.14: \v 14 The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
\p Ezra 6.15: \v 15 This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
\p
\p Ezra 6.16: \v 16 The children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.
\p Ezra 6.17: \v 17 They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
\p Ezra 6.18: \v 18 They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.
\p
\p Ezra 6.19: \v 19 The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
\p Ezra 6.20: \v 20 Because the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, all of them were pure. They killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.
\p Ezra 6.21: \v 21 The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,
\p Ezra 6.22: \v 22 and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.
\p Ezra 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Ezra 7.1: \v 1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
\p Ezra 7.2: \v 2 the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
\p Ezra 7.3: \v 3 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
\p Ezra 7.4: \v 4 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
\p Ezra 7.5: \v 5 the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest—
\p Ezra 7.6: \v 6 this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.
\p Ezra 7.7: \v 7 Some of the children of Israel, including some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
\p Ezra 7.8: \v 8 He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
\p Ezra 7.9: \v 9 For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.
\p Ezra 7.10: \v 10 For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.
\p
\p Ezra 7.11: \v 11 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of Yahweh’s commandments, and of his statutes to Israel:
\b
\mi
\p Ezra 7.12: \v 12 Artaxerxes, king of kings,
\mi To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the perfect God of heaven.
\pi1 Now
\p Ezra 7.13: \v 13 I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who intend of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.
\p Ezra 7.14: \v 14 Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,
\p Ezra 7.15: \v 15 and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,
\p Ezra 7.16: \v 16 and all the silver and gold that you will find in all the province of Babylon, with the free will offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;
\p Ezra 7.17: \v 17 therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
\p Ezra 7.18: \v 18 Whatever seems good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that according to the will of your God.
\p Ezra 7.19: \v 19 The vessels that are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver before the God of Jerusalem.
\p Ezra 7.20: \v 20 Whatever more will be needed for the house of your God, which you may have occasion to give, give it out of the king’s treasure house.
\pi1
\p Ezra 7.21: \v 21 I, even I Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, it shall be done with all diligence,
\p Ezra 7.22: \v 22 up to one hundred talents\f + \fr 7:22 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* of silver, and to one hundred cors\f + \fr 7:22 \ft 1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels.\f* of wheat, and to one hundred baths\f + \fr 7:22 \ft 1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 liters or 2.4 pecks. 100 baths would be about 2,100 liters.\f* of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
\p Ezra 7.23: \v 23 Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
\pi1
\p Ezra 7.24: \v 24 Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or laborers of this house of God.
\pi1
\p Ezra 7.25: \v 25 You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.
\p Ezra 7.26: \v 26 Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
\b
\p
\p Ezra 7.27: \v 27 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;
\p Ezra 7.28: \v 28 and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to Yahweh my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.
\p Ezra 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Ezra 8.1: \v 1 Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
\li1
\p Ezra 8.2: \v 2 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom.
\li1 Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel.
\li1 Of the sons of David, Hattush.
\li1
\p Ezra 8.3: \v 3 Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty.
\li1
\p Ezra 8.4: \v 4 Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.
\li1
\p Ezra 8.5: \v 5 Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.
\li1
\p Ezra 8.6: \v 6 Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.
\li1
\p Ezra 8.7: \v 7 Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
\li1
\p Ezra 8.8: \v 8 Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.
\li1
\p Ezra 8.9: \v 9 Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred eighteen males.
\li1
\p Ezra 8.10: \v 10 Of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him one hundred sixty males.
\li1
\p Ezra 8.11: \v 11 Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.
\li1
\p Ezra 8.12: \v 12 Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him one hundred ten males.
\li1
\p Ezra 8.13: \v 13 Of the sons of Adonikam, who were the last; and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.
\li1
\p Ezra 8.14: \v 14 Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.
\p
\p Ezra 8.15: \v 15 I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I looked around at the people and the priests, and found there were none of the sons of Levi.
\p Ezra 8.16: \v 16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, for Elnathan, for Jarib, for Elnathan, for Nathan, for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib and for Elnathan, who were teachers.
\p Ezra 8.17: \v 17 I sent them out to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo, and his brothers the temple servants, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.
\p Ezra 8.18: \v 18 According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;
\p Ezra 8.19: \v 19 and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
\p Ezra 8.20: \v 20 and of the temple servants, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred twenty temple servants. All of them were mentioned by name.
\p
\p Ezra 8.21: \v 21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.
\p Ezra 8.22: \v 22 For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”
\p Ezra 8.23: \v 23 So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.
\p
\p Ezra 8.24: \v 24 Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,
\p Ezra 8.25: \v 25 and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered.
\p Ezra 8.26: \v 26 I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver,\f + \fr 8:26 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* one hundred talents of silver vessels; one hundred talents of gold,
\p Ezra 8.27: \v 27 twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics;\f + \fr 8:27 \ft a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.\f* and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.
\p Ezra 8.28: \v 28 I said to them, “You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a free will offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers.
\p Ezra 8.29: \v 29 Watch and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of Yahweh’s house.”
\p
\p Ezra 8.30: \v 30 So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.
\p Ezra 8.31: \v 31 Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.
\p Ezra 8.32: \v 32 We came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.
\p Ezra 8.33: \v 33 On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite;
\p Ezra 8.34: \v 34 everything by number and by weight; and all the weight was written at that time.
\p
\p Ezra 8.35: \v 35 The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.
\p Ezra 8.36: \v 36 They delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s local governors, and to the governors beyond the River. So they supported the people and God’s house.
\p Ezra 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Ezra 9.1: \v 1 Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
\p Ezra 9.2: \v 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”
\p
\p Ezra 9.3: \v 3 When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
\p Ezra 9.4: \v 4 Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.
\p
\p Ezra 9.5: \v 5 At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;
\p Ezra 9.6: \v 6 and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
\p Ezra 9.7: \v 7 Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
\p Ezra 9.8: \v 8 Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revived us a little in our bondage.
\p Ezra 9.9: \v 9 For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
\p
\p Ezra 9.10: \v 10 “Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,
\p Ezra 9.11: \v 11 which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness.
\p Ezra 9.12: \v 12 Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
\p
\p Ezra 9.13: \v 13 “After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
\p Ezra 9.14: \v 14 shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?
\p Ezra 9.15: \v 15 Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold,\f + \fr 9:15 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”
\p Ezra 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Ezra 10.1: \v 1 Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.
\p Ezra 10.2: \v 2 Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
\p Ezra 10.3: \v 3 Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.
\p Ezra 10.4: \v 4 Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”
\p
\p Ezra 10.5: \v 5 Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.
\p Ezra 10.6: \v 6 Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of their trespass of the captivity.
\p Ezra 10.7: \v 7 They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem;
\p Ezra 10.8: \v 8 and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.
\p
\p Ezra 10.9: \v 9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.
\p
\p Ezra 10.10: \v 10 Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.
\p Ezra 10.11: \v 11 Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”
\p
\p Ezra 10.12: \v 12 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “We must do as you have said concerning us.
\p Ezra 10.13: \v 13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
\p Ezra 10.14: \v 14 Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”
\p
\p Ezra 10.15: \v 15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
\p
\p Ezra 10.16: \v 16 The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
\p Ezra 10.17: \v 17 They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
\p
\p Ezra 10.18: \v 18 Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women:
\li1 of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
\p Ezra 10.19: \v 19 They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.20: \v 20 Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.21: \v 21 Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.22: \v 22 Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
\b
\li1
\p Ezra 10.23: \v 23 Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
\b
\li1
\p Ezra 10.24: \v 24 Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
\b
\li1
\p Ezra 10.25: \v 25 Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.26: \v 26 Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.27: \v 27 Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.28: \v 28 Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.29: \v 29 Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, Jeremoth.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.30: \v 30 Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.31: \v 31 Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
\p Ezra 10.32: \v 32 Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.33: \v 33 Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.34: \v 34 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
\p Ezra 10.35: \v 35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
\p Ezra 10.36: \v 36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
\p Ezra 10.37: \v 37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,
\p Ezra 10.38: \v 38 and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
\p Ezra 10.39: \v 39 and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
\p Ezra 10.40: \v 40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
\p Ezra 10.41: \v 41 Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
\p Ezra 10.42: \v 42 Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.43: \v 43 Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.
\p
\p Ezra 10.44: \v 44 All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
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\p Nehemiah 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Nehemiah 1.1: \v 1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.
\p Now in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the palace,
\p Nehemiah 1.2: \v 2 Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
\p Nehemiah 1.3: \v 3 They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 1.4: \v 4 When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God\f + \fr 1:4 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* of heaven,
\p Nehemiah 1.5: \v 5 and said, “I beg you, Yahweh,\f + \fr 1:5 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:
\p Nehemiah 1.6: \v 6 Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.
\p Nehemiah 1.7: \v 7 We have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses.
\p
\p Nehemiah 1.8: \v 8 “Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples;
\p Nehemiah 1.9: \v 9 but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’
\p
\p Nehemiah 1.10: \v 10 “Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.
\p Nehemiah 1.11: \v 11 Lord,\f + \fr 1:11 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”
\p Now I was cup bearer to the king.
\p Nehemiah 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Nehemiah 2.1: \v 1 In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.
\p Nehemiah 2.2: \v 2 The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.”
\p Then I was very much afraid.
\p Nehemiah 2.3: \v 3 I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”
\p
\p Nehemiah 2.4: \v 4 Then the king said to me, “What is your request?”
\p So I prayed to the God of heaven.
\p Nehemiah 2.5: \v 5 I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 2.6: \v 6 The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), “How long will your journey be? When will you return?”
\p So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time for him.
\p Nehemiah 2.7: \v 7 Moreover I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;
\p Nehemiah 2.8: \v 8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.”
\p The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.
\p Nehemiah 2.9: \v 9 Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
\p Nehemiah 2.10: \v 10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
\p Nehemiah 2.11: \v 11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
\p Nehemiah 2.12: \v 12 I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.
\p Nehemiah 2.13: \v 13 I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate, and inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.
\p Nehemiah 2.14: \v 14 Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.
\p Nehemiah 2.15: \v 15 Then I went up in the night by the brook, and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
\p Nehemiah 2.16: \v 16 The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.
\p
\p Nehemiah 2.17: \v 17 Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”
\p Nehemiah 2.18: \v 18 I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me.
\p They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
\p
\p Nehemiah 2.19: \v 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”
\p
\p Nehemiah 2.20: \v 20 Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”
\p Nehemiah 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Nehemiah 3.1: \v 1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel.
\p Nehemiah 3.2: \v 2 Next to him the men of Jericho built. Next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.
\p
\p Nehemiah 3.3: \v 3 The sons of Hassenaah built the fish gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
\p Nehemiah 3.4: \v 4 Next to them, Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz made repairs. Next to them, Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel made repairs. Next to them, Zadok the son of Baana made repairs.
\p Nehemiah 3.5: \v 5 Next to them, the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles didn’t put their necks to the Lord’s work.
\p
\p Nehemiah 3.6: \v 6 Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the old gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars.
\p Nehemiah 3.7: \v 7 Next to them, Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, repaired the residence of the governor beyond the River.
\p Nehemiah 3.8: \v 8 Next to him, Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, made repairs. Next to him, Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they fortified Jerusalem even to the wide wall.
\p Nehemiah 3.9: \v 9 Next to them, Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs.
\p Nehemiah 3.10: \v 10 Next to them, Jedaiah the son of Harumaph made repairs across from his house. Next to him, Hattush the son of Hashabneiah made repairs.
\p Nehemiah 3.11: \v 11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.
\p Nehemiah 3.12: \v 12 Next to him, Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters, made repairs.
\p
\p Nehemiah 3.13: \v 13 Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the valley gate. They built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and one thousand cubits\f + \fr 3:13 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* of the wall to the dung gate.
\p
\p Nehemiah 3.14: \v 14 Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of Beth Haccherem repaired the dung gate. He built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
\p
\p Nehemiah 3.15: \v 15 Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah repaired the spring gate. He built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, even to the stairs that go down from David’s city.
\p Nehemiah 3.16: \v 16 After him, Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs to the place opposite the tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men.
\p Nehemiah 3.17: \v 17 After him, the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani made repairs. Next to him, Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.
\p Nehemiah 3.18: \v 18 After him, their brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah made repairs.
\p Nehemiah 3.19: \v 19 Next to him, Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, repaired another portion, across from the ascent to the armory at the turning of the wall.
\p Nehemiah 3.20: \v 20 After him, Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
\p Nehemiah 3.21: \v 21 After him, Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz repaired another portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.
\p Nehemiah 3.22: \v 22 After him, the priests, the men of the Plain made repairs.
\p Nehemiah 3.23: \v 23 After them, Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs across from their house. After them, Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah made repairs beside his own house.
\p Nehemiah 3.24: \v 24 After him, Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another portion, from the house of Azariah to the turning of the wall, and to the corner.
\p Nehemiah 3.25: \v 25 Palal the son of Uzai made repairs opposite the turning of the wall, and the tower that stands out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.
\p Nehemiah 3.26: \v 26 (Now the temple servants lived in Ophel, to the place opposite the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)
\p Nehemiah 3.27: \v 27 After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, opposite the great tower that stands out, and to the wall of Ophel.
\p
\p Nehemiah 3.28: \v 28 Above the horse gate, the priests made repairs, everyone across from his own house.
\p Nehemiah 3.29: \v 29 After them, Zadok the son of Immer made repairs across from his own house. After him, Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate made repairs.
\p Nehemiah 3.30: \v 30 After him, Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another portion. After him, Meshullam the son of Berechiah made repairs across from his room.
\p Nehemiah 3.31: \v 31 After him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths to the house of the temple servants, and of the merchants, made repairs opposite the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.
\p Nehemiah 3.32: \v 32 Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.
\p Nehemiah 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Nehemiah 4.1: \v 1 But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.
\p Nehemiah 4.2: \v 2 He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”
\p
\p Nehemiah 4.3: \v 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 4.4: \v 4 “Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.
\p Nehemiah 4.5: \v 5 Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 4.6: \v 6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.
\p
\p Nehemiah 4.7: \v 7 But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry;
\p Nehemiah 4.8: \v 8 and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.
\p Nehemiah 4.9: \v 9 But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.
\p Nehemiah 4.10: \v 10 Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubble; so that we are not able to build the wall.”
\p Nehemiah 4.11: \v 11 Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 4.12: \v 12 When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 4.13: \v 13 Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
\p Nehemiah 4.14: \v 14 I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 4.15: \v 15 When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.
\p Nehemiah 4.16: \v 16 From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
\p Nehemiah 4.17: \v 17 Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon.
\p Nehemiah 4.18: \v 18 Among the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.
\p Nehemiah 4.19: \v 19 I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another.
\p Nehemiah 4.20: \v 20 Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 4.21: \v 21 So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.
\p Nehemiah 4.22: \v 22 Likewise at the same time I said to the people, “Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.”
\p Nehemiah 4.23: \v 23 So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water.
\p Nehemiah 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Nehemiah 5.1: \v 1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
\p Nehemiah 5.2: \v 2 For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
\p Nehemiah 5.3: \v 3 There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”
\p Nehemiah 5.4: \v 4 There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
\p Nehemiah 5.5: \v 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold,\f + \fr 5:5 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 5.6: \v 6 I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
\p Nehemiah 5.7: \v 7 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.
\p Nehemiah 5.8: \v 8 I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.
\p Nehemiah 5.9: \v 9 Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
\p Nehemiah 5.10: \v 10 I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
\p Nehemiah 5.11: \v 11 Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 5.12: \v 12 Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.”
\p Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
\p Nehemiah 5.13: \v 13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.”
\p All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.
\p
\p Nehemiah 5.14: \v 14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.
\p Nehemiah 5.15: \v 15 But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels\f + \fr 5:15 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.
\p Nehemiah 5.16: \v 16 Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.
\p Nehemiah 5.17: \v 17 Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, in addition to those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.
\p Nehemiah 5.18: \v 18 Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
\p Nehemiah 5.19: \v 19 Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.
\p Nehemiah 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Nehemiah 6.1: \v 1 Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates)
\p Nehemiah 6.2: \v 2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.
\p
\p Nehemiah 6.3: \v 3 I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”
\p Nehemiah 6.4: \v 4 They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
\p Nehemiah 6.5: \v 5 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
\p Nehemiah 6.6: \v 6 in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.
\p Nehemiah 6.7: \v 7 You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let’s take counsel together.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 6.8: \v 8 Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”
\p Nehemiah 6.9: \v 9 For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.
\p
\p Nehemiah 6.10: \v 10 I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 6.11: \v 11 I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”
\p Nehemiah 6.12: \v 12 I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
\p Nehemiah 6.13: \v 13 He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
\p Nehemiah 6.14: \v 14 “Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 6.15: \v 15 So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.
\p Nehemiah 6.16: \v 16 When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they lost their confidence; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.
\p Nehemiah 6.17: \v 17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.
\p Nehemiah 6.18: \v 18 For there were many in Judah sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife.
\p Nehemiah 6.19: \v 19 Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
\p Nehemiah 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Nehemiah 7.1: \v 1 Now when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
\p Nehemiah 7.2: \v 2 I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
\p Nehemiah 7.3: \v 3 I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 7.4: \v 4 Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.
\p
\p Nehemiah 7.5: \v 5 My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be listed by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found this written in it:
\p
\p Nehemiah 7.6: \v 6 These are the children of the province who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city,
\p Nehemiah 7.7: \v 7 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah.
\p The number of the men of the people of Israel:
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\p Nehemiah 7.8: \v 8 The children of Parosh: two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
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\p Nehemiah 7.9: \v 9 The children of Shephatiah: three hundred seventy-two.
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\p Nehemiah 7.10: \v 10 The children of Arah: six hundred fifty-two.
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\p Nehemiah 7.11: \v 11 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab: two thousand eight hundred eighteen.
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\p Nehemiah 7.12: \v 12 The children of Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
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\p Nehemiah 7.13: \v 13 The children of Zattu: eight hundred forty-five.
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\p Nehemiah 7.14: \v 14 The children of Zaccai: seven hundred sixty.
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\p Nehemiah 7.15: \v 15 The children of Binnui: six hundred forty-eight.
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\p Nehemiah 7.16: \v 16 The children of Bebai: six hundred twenty-eight.
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\p Nehemiah 7.17: \v 17 The children of Azgad: two thousand three hundred twenty-two.
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\p Nehemiah 7.18: \v 18 The children of Adonikam: six hundred sixty-seven.
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\p Nehemiah 7.19: \v 19 The children of Bigvai: two thousand sixty-seven.
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\p Nehemiah 7.20: \v 20 The children of Adin: six hundred fifty-five.
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\p Nehemiah 7.21: \v 21 The children of Ater: of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
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\p Nehemiah 7.22: \v 22 The children of Hashum: three hundred twenty-eight.
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\p Nehemiah 7.23: \v 23 The children of Bezai: three hundred twenty-four.
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\p Nehemiah 7.24: \v 24 The children of Hariph: one hundred twelve.
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\p Nehemiah 7.25: \v 25 The children of Gibeon: ninety-five.
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\p Nehemiah 7.26: \v 26 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah: one hundred eighty-eight.
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\p Nehemiah 7.27: \v 27 The men of Anathoth: one hundred twenty-eight.
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\p Nehemiah 7.28: \v 28 The men of Beth Azmaveth: forty-two.
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\p Nehemiah 7.29: \v 29 The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth: seven hundred forty-three.
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\p Nehemiah 7.30: \v 30 The men of Ramah and Geba: six hundred twenty-one.
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\p Nehemiah 7.31: \v 31 The men of Michmas: one hundred twenty-two.
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\p Nehemiah 7.32: \v 32 The men of Bethel and Ai: one hundred twenty-three.
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\p Nehemiah 7.33: \v 33 The men of the other Nebo: fifty-two.
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\p Nehemiah 7.34: \v 34 The children of the other Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
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\p Nehemiah 7.35: \v 35 The children of Harim: three hundred twenty.
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\p Nehemiah 7.36: \v 36 The children of Jericho: three hundred forty-five.
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\p Nehemiah 7.37: \v 37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono: seven hundred twenty-one.
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\p Nehemiah 7.38: \v 38 The children of Senaah: three thousand nine hundred thirty.
\b
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\p Nehemiah 7.39: \v 39 The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua: nine hundred seventy-three.
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\p Nehemiah 7.40: \v 40 The children of Immer: one thousand fifty-two.
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\p Nehemiah 7.41: \v 41 The children of Pashhur: one thousand two hundred forty-seven.
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\p Nehemiah 7.42: \v 42 The children of Harim: one thousand seventeen.
\b
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\p Nehemiah 7.43: \v 43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah: seventy-four.
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\p Nehemiah 7.44: \v 44 The singers: the children of Asaph: one hundred forty-eight.
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\p Nehemiah 7.45: \v 45 The gatekeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai: one hundred thirty-eight.
\p
\p Nehemiah 7.46: \v 46 The temple servants: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
\p Nehemiah 7.47: \v 47 the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,
\p Nehemiah 7.48: \v 48 the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,
\p Nehemiah 7.49: \v 49 the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,
\p Nehemiah 7.50: \v 50 the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,
\p Nehemiah 7.51: \v 51 the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah.
\p Nehemiah 7.52: \v 52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim,
\p Nehemiah 7.53: \v 53 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
\p Nehemiah 7.54: \v 54 the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
\p Nehemiah 7.55: \v 55 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,
\p Nehemiah 7.56: \v 56 the children of Neziah, and the children of Hatipha.
\p
\p Nehemiah 7.57: \v 57 The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
\p Nehemiah 7.58: \v 58 the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
\p Nehemiah 7.59: \v 59 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, and the children of Amon.
\p Nehemiah 7.60: \v 60 All the temple servants and the children of Solomon’s servants were three hundred ninety-two.
\p
\p Nehemiah 7.61: \v 61 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, nor their offspring,\f + \fr 7:61 \ft or, seed\f* whether they were of Israel:
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\p Nehemiah 7.62: \v 62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda: six hundred forty-two.
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\p Nehemiah 7.63: \v 63 Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
\p
\p Nehemiah 7.64: \v 64 These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn’t find them. Therefore they were deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.
\p Nehemiah 7.65: \v 65 The governor told that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to minister with Urim and Thummim.
\p
\p Nehemiah 7.66: \v 66 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
\p Nehemiah 7.67: \v 67 in addition to their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven. They had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.
\p Nehemiah 7.68: \v 68 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;
\p Nehemiah 7.69: \v 69 their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
\p
\p Nehemiah 7.70: \v 70 Some from among the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold,\f + \fr 7:70 \ft a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.\f* fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests’ garments.
\p Nehemiah 7.71: \v 71 Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas\f + \fr 7:71 \ft A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds, so 2,200 minas is about 1.3 metric tons.\f* of silver.
\p Nehemiah 7.72: \v 72 That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, plus two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests’ garments.
\p
\p Nehemiah 7.73: \v 73 So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their cities.
\p When the seventh month had come, the children of Israel were in their cities.
\p Nehemiah 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Nehemiah 8.1: \v 1 All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.
\p Nehemiah 8.2: \v 2 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
\p Nehemiah 8.3: \v 3 He read from it before the wide place that was in front of the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.
\p Nehemiah 8.4: \v 4 Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
\p Nehemiah 8.5: \v 5 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people), and when he opened it, all the people stood up.
\p Nehemiah 8.6: \v 6 Then Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God.
\p All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.
\p Nehemiah 8.7: \v 7 Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stayed in their place.
\p Nehemiah 8.8: \v 8 They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.
\p
\p Nehemiah 8.9: \v 9 Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.
\p Nehemiah 8.10: \v 10 Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 8.11: \v 11 So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Hold your peace, for the day is holy. Don’t be grieved.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 8.12: \v 12 All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
\p
\p Nehemiah 8.13: \v 13 On the second day, the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Ezra the scribe, to study the words of the law.
\p Nehemiah 8.14: \v 14 They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
\p Nehemiah 8.15: \v 15 and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and get olive branches, branches of wild olive, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make temporary shelters,\f + \fr 8:15 \ft or, booths\f* as it is written.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 8.16: \v 16 So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters,\f + \fr 8:16 \ft or, booths\f* everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate.
\p Nehemiah 8.17: \v 17 All the assembly of those who had come back out of the captivity made temporary shelters,\f + \fr 8:17 \ft or, booths\f* and lived in the temporary shelters; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness.
\p Nehemiah 8.18: \v 18 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.
\p Nehemiah 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.1: \v 1 Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.
\p Nehemiah 9.2: \v 2 The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
\p Nehemiah 9.3: \v 3 They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.
\p Nehemiah 9.4: \v 4 Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.5: \v 5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
\p Nehemiah 9.6: \v 6 You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
\p Nehemiah 9.7: \v 7 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham,
\p Nehemiah 9.8: \v 8 found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.9: \v 9 “You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,
\p Nehemiah 9.10: \v 10 and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.
\p Nehemiah 9.11: \v 11 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
\p Nehemiah 9.12: \v 12 Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.13: \v 13 “You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
\p Nehemiah 9.14: \v 14 and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
\p Nehemiah 9.15: \v 15 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.16: \v 16 “But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
\p Nehemiah 9.17: \v 17 and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.
\p Nehemiah 9.18: \v 18 Yes, when they had made themselves a molded calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies;
\p Nehemiah 9.19: \v 19 yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
\p Nehemiah 9.20: \v 20 You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.21: \v 21 “Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.
\p Nehemiah 9.22: \v 22 Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
\p Nehemiah 9.23: \v 23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.24: \v 24 “So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased.
\p Nehemiah 9.25: \v 25 They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.26: \v 26 “Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
\p Nehemiah 9.27: \v 27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.
\p Nehemiah 9.28: \v 28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,
\p Nehemiah 9.29: \v 29 and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
\p Nehemiah 9.30: \v 30 Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.31: \v 31 “Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.32: \v 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
\p Nehemiah 9.33: \v 33 However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
\p Nehemiah 9.34: \v 34 Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.
\p Nehemiah 9.35: \v 35 For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them. They didn’t turn from their wicked works.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.36: \v 36 “Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.
\p Nehemiah 9.37: \v 37 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
\p Nehemiah 9.38: \v 38 Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”
\p Nehemiah 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Nehemiah 10.1: \v 1 Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,
\p Nehemiah 10.2: \v 2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
\p Nehemiah 10.3: \v 3 Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
\p Nehemiah 10.4: \v 4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
\p Nehemiah 10.5: \v 5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
\p Nehemiah 10.6: \v 6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
\p Nehemiah 10.7: \v 7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
\p Nehemiah 10.8: \v 8 Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.
\p Nehemiah 10.9: \v 9 The Levites: namely, Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
\p Nehemiah 10.10: \v 10 and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
\p Nehemiah 10.11: \v 11 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,
\p Nehemiah 10.12: \v 12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
\p Nehemiah 10.13: \v 13 Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu.
\p Nehemiah 10.14: \v 14 The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
\p Nehemiah 10.15: \v 15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
\p Nehemiah 10.16: \v 16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
\p Nehemiah 10.17: \v 17 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
\p Nehemiah 10.18: \v 18 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,
\p Nehemiah 10.19: \v 19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai,
\p Nehemiah 10.20: \v 20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
\p Nehemiah 10.21: \v 21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
\p Nehemiah 10.22: \v 22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
\p Nehemiah 10.23: \v 23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,
\p Nehemiah 10.24: \v 24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
\p Nehemiah 10.25: \v 25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
\p Nehemiah 10.26: \v 26 Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,
\p Nehemiah 10.27: \v 27 Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.
\p
\p Nehemiah 10.28: \v 28 The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters—everyone who had knowledge, and understanding—
\p Nehemiah 10.29: \v 29 joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
\p Nehemiah 10.30: \v 30 and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
\p Nehemiah 10.31: \v 31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
\p
\p Nehemiah 10.32: \v 32 Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel\f + \fr 10:32 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* for the service of the house of our God;
\p Nehemiah 10.33: \v 33 for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
\p Nehemiah 10.34: \v 34 We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on Yahweh our God’s altar, as it is written in the law;
\p Nehemiah 10.35: \v 35 and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to Yahweh’s house;
\p Nehemiah 10.36: \v 36 also the firstborn of our sons, and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;
\p Nehemiah 10.37: \v 37 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
\p Nehemiah 10.38: \v 38 The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes. The Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house.
\p Nehemiah 10.39: \v 39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.
\p Nehemiah 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p Nehemiah 11.1: \v 1 The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.
\p Nehemiah 11.2: \v 2 The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.
\p
\p Nehemiah 11.3: \v 3 Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the cities of Judah everyone lived in his possession in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants.
\p Nehemiah 11.4: \v 4 Some of the children of Judah and of the children of Benjamin lived in Jerusalem. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;
\p Nehemiah 11.5: \v 5 and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.
\p Nehemiah 11.6: \v 6 All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.
\p
\p Nehemiah 11.7: \v 7 These are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah.
\p Nehemiah 11.8: \v 8 After him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
\p Nehemiah 11.9: \v 9 Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.
\p
\p Nehemiah 11.10: \v 10 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin,
\p Nehemiah 11.11: \v 11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house,
\p Nehemiah 11.12: \v 12 and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,
\p Nehemiah 11.13: \v 13 and his brothers, chiefs of fathers’ households, two hundred forty-two; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
\p Nehemiah 11.14: \v 14 and their brothers, mighty men of valor, one hundred twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.
\p
\p Nehemiah 11.15: \v 15 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
\p Nehemiah 11.16: \v 16 and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of God’s house;
\p Nehemiah 11.17: \v 17 and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
\p Nehemiah 11.18: \v 18 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.
\p
\p Nehemiah 11.19: \v 19 Moreover the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.
\p Nehemiah 11.20: \v 20 The residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance.
\p Nehemiah 11.21: \v 21 But the temple servants lived in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.
\p
\p Nehemiah 11.22: \v 22 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the business of God’s house.
\p Nehemiah 11.23: \v 23 For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.
\p Nehemiah 11.24: \v 24 Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the people.
\p
\p Nehemiah 11.25: \v 25 As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, in Dibon and its towns, in Jekabzeel and its villages,
\p Nehemiah 11.26: \v 26 in Jeshua, in Moladah, Beth Pelet,
\p Nehemiah 11.27: \v 27 in Hazar Shual, in Beersheba and its towns,
\p Nehemiah 11.28: \v 28 in Ziklag, in Meconah and in its towns,
\p Nehemiah 11.29: \v 29 in En Rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,
\p Nehemiah 11.30: \v 30 Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its towns. So they encamped from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom.
\p Nehemiah 11.31: \v 31 The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,
\p Nehemiah 11.32: \v 32 at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
\p Nehemiah 11.33: \v 33 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
\p Nehemiah 11.34: \v 34 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
\p Nehemiah 11.35: \v 35 Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
\p Nehemiah 11.36: \v 36 Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah settled in Benjamin’s territory.
\p Nehemiah 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p Nehemiah 12.1: \v 1 Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
\p Nehemiah 12.2: \v 2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
\p Nehemiah 12.3: \v 3 Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
\p Nehemiah 12.4: \v 4 Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,
\p Nehemiah 12.5: \v 5 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
\p Nehemiah 12.6: \v 6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah.
\p Nehemiah 12.7: \v 7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.
\p
\p Nehemiah 12.8: \v 8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brothers.
\p Nehemiah 12.9: \v 9 Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were close to them according to their offices.
\p Nehemiah 12.10: \v 10 Jeshua became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the father of Joiada,
\p Nehemiah 12.11: \v 11 and Joiada became the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan became the father of Jaddua.
\p
\p Nehemiah 12.12: \v 12 In the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers’ households: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
\p Nehemiah 12.13: \v 13 of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
\p Nehemiah 12.14: \v 14 of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
\p Nehemiah 12.15: \v 15 of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
\p Nehemiah 12.16: \v 16 of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
\p Nehemiah 12.17: \v 17 of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;
\p Nehemiah 12.18: \v 18 of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
\p Nehemiah 12.19: \v 19 and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
\p Nehemiah 12.20: \v 20 of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
\p Nehemiah 12.21: \v 21 of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.
\p
\p Nehemiah 12.22: \v 22 As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers’ households; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.
\p Nehemiah 12.23: \v 23 The sons of Levi, heads of fathers’ households, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
\p Nehemiah 12.24: \v 24 The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers close to them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.
\p Nehemiah 12.25: \v 25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were gatekeepers keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.
\p Nehemiah 12.26: \v 26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest and scribe.
\p
\p Nehemiah 12.27: \v 27 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.
\p Nehemiah 12.28: \v 28 The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;
\p Nehemiah 12.29: \v 29 also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.
\p Nehemiah 12.30: \v 30 The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
\p
\p Nehemiah 12.31: \v 31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. One went on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate;
\p Nehemiah 12.32: \v 32 and after them went Hoshaiah, with half of the princes of Judah,
\p Nehemiah 12.33: \v 33 and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
\p Nehemiah 12.34: \v 34 Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah,
\p Nehemiah 12.35: \v 35 and some of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;
\p Nehemiah 12.36: \v 36 and his brothers, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.
\p Nehemiah 12.37: \v 37 By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of David’s city, at the ascent of the wall, above David’s house, even to the water gate eastward.
\p
\p Nehemiah 12.38: \v 38 The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the wide wall,
\p Nehemiah 12.39: \v 39 and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard.
\p Nehemiah 12.40: \v 40 So the two companies of those who gave thanks in God’s house stood, and I, and the half of the rulers with me;
\p Nehemiah 12.41: \v 41 and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
\p Nehemiah 12.42: \v 42 and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. The singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
\p Nehemiah 12.43: \v 43 They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away.
\p
\p Nehemiah 12.44: \v 44 On that day, men were appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited.
\p Nehemiah 12.45: \v 45 They performed the duty of their God, and the duty of the purification, and so did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
\p Nehemiah 12.46: \v 46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.
\p Nehemiah 12.47: \v 47 All Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the gatekeepers, as every day required; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.
\p Nehemiah 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p Nehemiah 13.1: \v 1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,
\p Nehemiah 13.2: \v 2 because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them; however our God turned the curse into a blessing.
\p Nehemiah 13.3: \v 3 It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.
\p
\p Nehemiah 13.4: \v 4 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,
\p Nehemiah 13.5: \v 5 had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers; and the wave offerings for the priests.
\p Nehemiah 13.6: \v 6 But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I asked leave of the king,
\p Nehemiah 13.7: \v 7 and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of God’s house.
\p Nehemiah 13.8: \v 8 It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.
\p Nehemiah 13.9: \v 9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms. I brought into them the vessels of God’s house, with the meal offerings and the frankincense again.
\p
\p Nehemiah 13.10: \v 10 I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field.
\p Nehemiah 13.11: \v 11 Then I contended with the rulers, and said, “Why is God’s house forsaken?” I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
\p Nehemiah 13.12: \v 12 Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the oil to the treasuries.
\p Nehemiah 13.13: \v 13 I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.
\p
\p Nehemiah 13.14: \v 14 Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.
\p
\p Nehemiah 13.15: \v 15 In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.
\p Nehemiah 13.16: \v 16 Some men of Tyre also lived there, who brought in fish and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
\p Nehemiah 13.17: \v 17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?
\p Nehemiah 13.18: \v 18 Didn’t your fathers do this, and didn’t our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”
\p
\p Nehemiah 13.19: \v 19 It came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, so that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.
\p Nehemiah 13.20: \v 20 So the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares camped outside of Jerusalem once or twice.
\p Nehemiah 13.21: \v 21 Then I testified against them, and said to them, “Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they didn’t come on the Sabbath.
\p Nehemiah 13.22: \v 22 I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.
\p
\p Nehemiah 13.23: \v 23 In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
\p Nehemiah 13.24: \v 24 and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.
\p Nehemiah 13.25: \v 25 I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
\p Nehemiah 13.26: \v 26 Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.
\p Nehemiah 13.27: \v 27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”
\p
\p Nehemiah 13.28: \v 28 One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.
\p Nehemiah 13.29: \v 29 Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
\p
\p Nehemiah 13.30: \v 30 Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;
\p Nehemiah 13.31: \v 31 and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.
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\toc1 The Book of Esther
\toc2 Esther
\toc3 Est
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Esther
\p Esther 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Esther 1.1: \v 1 Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),
\p Esther 1.2: \v 2 in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Susa the palace,
\p Esther 1.3: \v 3 in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him.
\p Esther 1.4: \v 4 He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.
\p Esther 1.5: \v 5 When these days were fulfilled, the king made a seven day feast for all the people who were present in Susa the palace, both great and small, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.
\p Esther 1.6: \v 6 There were hangings of white and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble.
\p Esther 1.7: \v 7 They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king.
\p Esther 1.8: \v 8 In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.
\p
\p Esther 1.9: \v 9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.
\p
\p Esther 1.10: \v 10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
\p Esther 1.11: \v 11 to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.
\p Esther 1.12: \v 12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.
\p
\p Esther 1.13: \v 13 Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;
\p Esther 1.14: \v 14 and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),
\p Esther 1.15: \v 15 “What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?”
\p
\p Esther 1.16: \v 16 Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.
\p Esther 1.17: \v 17 For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’
\p Esther 1.18: \v 18 Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.
\p
\p Esther 1.19: \v 19 “If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.
\p Esther 1.20: \v 20 When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”
\p
\p Esther 1.21: \v 21 This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
\p Esther 1.22: \v 22 for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people.
\p Esther 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Esther 2.1: \v 1 After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
\p Esther 2.2: \v 2 Then the king’s servants who served him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.
\p Esther 2.3: \v 3 Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;
\p Esther 2.4: \v 4 and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.
\p
\p Esther 2.5: \v 5 There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,
\p Esther 2.6: \v 6 who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
\p Esther 2.7: \v 7 He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
\p
\p Esther 2.8: \v 8 So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
\p Esther 2.9: \v 9 The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.
\p Esther 2.10: \v 10 Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.
\p Esther 2.11: \v 11 Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her.
\p
\p Esther 2.12: \v 12 Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women).
\p Esther 2.13: \v 13 The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women’s house to the king’s house.
\p Esther 2.14: \v 14 In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.
\p Esther 2.15: \v 15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.
\p
\p Esther 2.16: \v 16 So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
\p Esther 2.17: \v 17 The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
\p
\p Esther 2.18: \v 18 Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.
\p
\p Esther 2.19: \v 19 When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.
\p Esther 2.20: \v 20 Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him.
\p Esther 2.21: \v 21 In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.
\p Esther 2.22: \v 22 This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.
\p Esther 2.23: \v 23 When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.
\p Esther 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Esther 3.1: \v 1 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
\p Esther 3.2: \v 2 All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.
\p Esther 3.3: \v 3 Then the king’s servants, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”
\p Esther 3.4: \v 4 Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.
\p Esther 3.5: \v 5 When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.
\p Esther 3.6: \v 6 But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.
\p
\p Esther 3.7: \v 7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
\p Esther 3.8: \v 8 Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.
\p Esther 3.9: \v 9 If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents\f + \fr 3:9 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”
\p
\p Esther 3.10: \v 10 The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
\p Esther 3.11: \v 11 The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”
\p
\p Esther 3.12: \v 12 Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.
\p Esther 3.13: \v 13 Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
\p Esther 3.14: \v 14 A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.
\p Esther 3.15: \v 15 The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.
\p Esther 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Esther 4.1: \v 1 Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly.
\p Esther 4.2: \v 2 He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
\p Esther 4.3: \v 3 In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
\p
\p Esther 4.4: \v 4 Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.
\p Esther 4.5: \v 5 Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was.
\p Esther 4.6: \v 6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king’s gate.
\p Esther 4.7: \v 7 Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.
\p Esther 4.8: \v 8 He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.
\p
\p Esther 4.9: \v 9 Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
\p Esther 4.10: \v 10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:
\p Esther 4.11: \v 11 “All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”
\p
\p Esther 4.12: \v 12 They told Esther’s words to Mordecai.
\p Esther 4.13: \v 13 Then Mordecai asked them to return this answer to Esther: “Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews.
\p Esther 4.14: \v 14 For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
\p
\p Esther 4.15: \v 15 Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,
\p Esther 4.16: \v 16 “Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
\p Esther 4.17: \v 17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
\p Esther 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Esther 5.1: \v 1 Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house.
\p Esther 5.2: \v 2 When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter.
\p Esther 5.3: \v 3 Then the king asked her, “What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom.”
\p
\p Esther 5.4: \v 4 Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”
\p
\p Esther 5.5: \v 5 Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that it may be done as Esther has said.” So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
\p
\p Esther 5.6: \v 6 The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”
\p
\p Esther 5.7: \v 7 Then Esther answered and said, “My petition and my request is this.
\p Esther 5.8: \v 8 If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.”
\p
\p Esther 5.9: \v 9 Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.
\p Esther 5.10: \v 10 Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.
\p Esther 5.11: \v 11 Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
\p Esther 5.12: \v 12 Haman also said, “Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.
\p Esther 5.13: \v 13 Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
\p
\p Esther 5.14: \v 14 Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits\f + \fr 5:14 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.
\p Esther 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Esther 6.1: \v 1 On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.
\p Esther 6.2: \v 2 It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.
\p Esther 6.3: \v 3 The king said, “What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?”
\p Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”
\p
\p Esther 6.4: \v 4 The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
\p
\p Esther 6.5: \v 5 The king’s servants said to him, “Behold,\f + \fr 6:5 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* Haman stands in the court.”
\p The king said, “Let him come in.”
\p Esther 6.6: \v 6 So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?”
\p Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”
\p Esther 6.7: \v 7 Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,
\p Esther 6.8: \v 8 let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a royal crown is set.
\p Esther 6.9: \v 9 Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’”
\p
\p Esther 6.10: \v 10 Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken.”
\p
\p Esther 6.11: \v 11 Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”
\p
\p Esther 6.12: \v 12 Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
\p Esther 6.13: \v 13 Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”
\p Esther 6.14: \v 14 While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
\p Esther 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Esther 7.1: \v 1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
\p Esther 7.2: \v 2 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”
\p
\p Esther 7.3: \v 3 Then Esther the queen answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.
\p Esther 7.4: \v 4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
\p
\p Esther 7.5: \v 5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?”
\p
\p Esther 7.6: \v 6 Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!”
\p Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
\p Esther 7.7: \v 7 The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
\p Esther 7.8: \v 8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
\p
\p Esther 7.9: \v 9 Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits\f + \fr 7:9 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.”
\p The king said, “Hang him on it!”
\p
\p Esther 7.10: \v 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.
\p Esther 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Esther 8.1: \v 1 On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.
\p Esther 8.2: \v 2 The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
\p
\p Esther 8.3: \v 3 Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his plan that he had planned against the Jews.
\p Esther 8.4: \v 4 Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.
\p Esther 8.5: \v 5 She said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.
\p Esther 8.6: \v 6 For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”
\p
\p Esther 8.7: \v 7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews.
\p Esther 8.8: \v 8 Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may not be reversed by any man.”
\p
\p Esther 8.9: \v 9 Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the local governors, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.
\p Esther 8.10: \v 10 He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds.
\p Esther 8.11: \v 11 In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,
\p Esther 8.12: \v 12 on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
\p Esther 8.13: \v 13 A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
\p Esther 8.14: \v 14 So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa.
\p
\p Esther 8.15: \v 15 Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.
\p Esther 8.16: \v 16 The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.
\p Esther 8.17: \v 17 In every province, and in every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen on them.
\p Esther 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Esther 9.1: \v 1 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),
\p Esther 9.2: \v 2 the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people.
\p Esther 9.3: \v 3 All the princes of the provinces, the local governors, the governors, and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.
\p Esther 9.4: \v 4 For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.
\p Esther 9.5: \v 5 The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.
\p Esther 9.6: \v 6 In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
\p Esther 9.7: \v 7 They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
\p Esther 9.8: \v 8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
\p Esther 9.9: \v 9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,
\p Esther 9.10: \v 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
\p
\p Esther 9.11: \v 11 On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king.
\p Esther 9.12: \v 12 The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done.”
\p
\p Esther 9.13: \v 13 Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
\p
\p Esther 9.14: \v 14 The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Susa; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.
\p Esther 9.15: \v 15 The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
\p Esther 9.16: \v 16 The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
\p
\p Esther 9.17: \v 17 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
\p Esther 9.18: \v 18 But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
\p Esther 9.19: \v 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.
\p
\p Esther 9.20: \v 20 Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,
\p Esther 9.21: \v 21 to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,
\p Esther 9.22: \v 22 as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.
\p Esther 9.23: \v 23 The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;
\p Esther 9.24: \v 24 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast “Pur”, that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
\p Esther 9.25: \v 25 but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
\p
\p Esther 9.26: \v 26 Therefore they called these days “Purim”,\f + \fr 9:26 \ft Purim is the Hebrew plural for pur, which means lot.\f* from the word “Pur.” Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,
\p Esther 9.27: \v 27 the Jews established and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed time, every year;
\p Esther 9.28: \v 28 and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor their memory perish from their offspring,\f + \fr 9:28 \ft or, seed\f*
\p
\p Esther 9.29: \v 29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.
\p Esther 9.30: \v 30 He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,
\p Esther 9.31: \v 31 to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.
\p Esther 9.32: \v 32 The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
\p Esther 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Esther 10.1: \v 1 King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands of the sea.
\p Esther 10.2: \v 2 All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
\p Esther 10.3: \v 3 For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.
\p Song of Solomon 0.0: \id SNG World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Song of Solomon
\toc1 The Song of Solomon
\toc2 Song of Solomon
\toc3 Sng
\mt1 The Song of Solomon
\p Song of Solomon 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Song of Solomon 1.1: \v 1 The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.2: \v 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth;
\q2 for your love is better than wine.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.3: \v 3 Your oils have a pleasing fragrance.
\q2 Your name is oil poured out,
\q2 therefore the virgins love you.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.4: \v 4 Take me away with you.
\q2 Let’s hurry.
\q2 The king has brought me into his rooms.
\sp Friends
\q1 We will be glad and rejoice in you.
\q2 We will praise your love more than wine!
\sp Beloved
\q1 They are right to love you.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.5: \v 5 I am dark, but lovely,
\q2 you daughters of Jerusalem,
\q2 like Kedar’s tents,
\q2 like Solomon’s curtains.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.6: \v 6 Don’t stare at me because I am dark,
\q2 because the sun has scorched me.
\q1 My mother’s sons were angry with me.
\q2 They made me keeper of the vineyards.
\q2 I haven’t kept my own vineyard.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.7: \v 7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves,
\q2 where you graze your flock,
\q2 where you rest them at noon;
\q2 for why should I be as one who is veiled
\q2 beside the flocks of your companions?
\sp Lover
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.8: \v 8 If you don’t know, most beautiful among women,
\q2 follow the tracks of the sheep.
\q2 Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.9: \v 9 I have compared you, my love,
\q2 to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.10: \v 10 Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings,
\q2 your neck with strings of jewels.
\sp Friends
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.11: \v 11 We will make you earrings of gold,
\q2 with studs of silver.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.12: \v 12 While the king sat at his table,
\q2 my perfume spread its fragrance.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.13: \v 13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh,
\q2 that lies between my breasts.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.14: \v 14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms
\q2 from the vineyards of En Gedi.
\sp Lover
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.15: \v 15 Behold,\f + \fr 1:15 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* you are beautiful, my love.
\q2 Behold, you are beautiful.
\q2 Your eyes are like doves.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.16: \v 16 Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant;
\q2 and our couch is verdant.
\sp Lover
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 1.17: \v 17 The beams of our house are cedars.
\q2 Our rafters are firs.
\p Song of Solomon 2.0: \c 2
\sp Beloved
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.1: \v 1 I am a rose of Sharon,
\q2 a lily of the valleys.
\sp Lover
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.2: \v 2 As a lily among thorns,
\q2 so is my love among the daughters.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.3: \v 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood,
\q2 so is my beloved among the sons.
\q1 I sat down under his shadow with great delight,
\q2 his fruit was sweet to my taste.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.4: \v 4 He brought me to the banquet hall.
\q2 His banner over me is love.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.5: \v 5 Strengthen me with raisins,
\q2 refresh me with apples;
\q2 for I am faint with love.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.6: \v 6 His left hand is under my head.
\q2 His right hand embraces me.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.7: \v 7 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
\q2 by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
\q2 that you not stir up, nor awaken love,
\q2 until it so desires.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.8: \v 8 The voice of my beloved!
\q2 Behold, he comes,
\q2 leaping on the mountains,
\q2 skipping on the hills.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.9: \v 9 My beloved is like a roe or a young deer.
\q2 Behold, he stands behind our wall!
\q1 He looks in at the windows.
\q2 He glances through the lattice.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.10: \v 10 My beloved spoke, and said to me,
\q2 “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.11: \v 11 For behold, the winter is past.
\q2 The rain is over and gone.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.12: \v 12 The flowers appear on the earth.
\q2 The time of the singing has come,
\q2 and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.13: \v 13 The fig tree ripens her green figs.
\q2 The vines are in blossom.
\q2 They give out their fragrance.
\q1 Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
\q2 and come away.”
\sp Lover
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.14: \v 14 My dove in the clefts of the rock,
\q2 in the hiding places of the mountainside,
\q2 let me see your face.
\q2 let me hear your voice;
\q2 for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.15: \v 15 Catch for us the foxes,
\q2 the little foxes that plunder the vineyards;
\q2 for our vineyards are in blossom.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.16: \v 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his.
\q2 He browses among the lilies.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 2.17: \v 17 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,
\q2 turn, my beloved,
\q2 and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.
\p Song of Solomon 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Song of Solomon 3.1: \v 1 By night on my bed,
\q2 I sought him whom my soul loves.
\q2 I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 3.2: \v 2 I will get up now, and go about the city;
\q2 in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves.
\q2 I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 3.3: \v 3 The watchmen who go about the city found me;
\q2 “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 3.4: \v 4 I had scarcely passed from them,
\q2 when I found him whom my soul loves.
\q1 I held him, and would not let him go,
\q2 until I had brought him into my mother’s house,
\q2 into the room of her who conceived me.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 3.5: \v 5 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
\q2 by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
\q2 that you not stir up nor awaken love,
\q2 until it so desires.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 3.6: \v 6 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke,
\q2 perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
\q2 with all spices of the merchant?
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 3.7: \v 7 Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage!
\q2 Sixty mighty men are around it,
\q2 of the mighty men of Israel.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 3.8: \v 8 They all handle the sword, and are expert in war.
\q2 Every man has his sword on his thigh,
\q2 because of fear in the night.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 3.9: \v 9 King Solomon made himself a carriage
\q2 of the wood of Lebanon.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 3.10: \v 10 He made its pillars of silver,
\q2 its bottom of gold, its seat of purple,
\q2 the middle of it being paved with love,
\q2 from the daughters of Jerusalem.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 3.11: \v 11 Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon,
\q2 with the crown with which his mother has crowned him,
\q2 in the day of his weddings,
\q2 in the day of the gladness of his heart.
\p Song of Solomon 4.0: \c 4
\sp Lover
\p
\p Song of Solomon 4.1: \v 1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love.
\q2 Behold, you are beautiful.
\q1 Your eyes are like doves behind your veil.
\q2 Your hair is as a flock of goats,
\q2 that descend from Mount Gilead.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.2: \v 2 Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock,
\q2 which have come up from the washing,
\q2 where every one of them has twins.
\q2 None is bereaved among them.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.3: \v 3 Your lips are like scarlet thread.
\q2 Your mouth is lovely.
\q2 Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.4: \v 4 Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory,
\q2 on which a thousand shields hang,
\q2 all the shields of the mighty men.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.5: \v 5 Your two breasts are like two fawns
\q2 that are twins of a roe,
\q2 which feed among the lilies.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.6: \v 6 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,
\q2 I will go to the mountain of myrrh,
\q2 to the hill of frankincense.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.7: \v 7 You are all beautiful, my love.
\q2 There is no spot in you.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.8: \v 8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,
\q2 with me from Lebanon.
\q2 Look from the top of Amana,
\q2 from the top of Senir and Hermon,
\q2 from the lions’ dens,
\q2 from the mountains of the leopards.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.9: \v 9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride.
\q2 You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes,
\q2 with one chain of your neck.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.10: \v 10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!
\q2 How much better is your love than wine,
\q2 the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.11: \v 11 Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb.
\q2 Honey and milk are under your tongue.
\q2 The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.12: \v 12 My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden;
\q2 a locked up spring,
\q2 a sealed fountain.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.13: \v 13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits,
\q2 henna with spikenard plants,
\q2
\p Song of Solomon 4.14: \v 14 spikenard and saffron,
\q2 calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree;
\q2 myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
\q2
\p Song of Solomon 4.15: \v 15 a fountain of gardens,
\q2 a well of living waters,
\q2 flowing streams from Lebanon.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.16: \v 16 Awake, north wind, and come, you south!
\q2 Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out.
\q1 Let my beloved come into his garden,
\q2 and taste his precious fruits.
\p Song of Solomon 5.0: \c 5
\sp Lover
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.1: \v 1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride.
\q2 I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;
\q2 I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;
\q2 I have drunk my wine with my milk.
\sp Friends
\q1 Eat, friends!
\q2 Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.2: \v 2 I was asleep, but my heart was awake.
\q2 It is the voice of my beloved who knocks:
\q2 “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled;
\q2 for my head is filled with dew,
\q2 and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.3: \v 3 I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on?
\q2 I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.4: \v 4 My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening.
\q2 My heart pounded for him.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.5: \v 5 I rose up to open for my beloved.
\q2 My hands dripped with myrrh,
\q2 my fingers with liquid myrrh,
\q2 on the handles of the lock.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.6: \v 6 I opened to my beloved;
\q2 but my beloved left, and had gone away.
\q1 My heart went out when he spoke.
\q2 I looked for him, but I didn’t find him.
\q2 I called him, but he didn’t answer.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.7: \v 7 The watchmen who go about the city found me.
\q2 They beat me.
\q2 They bruised me.
\q2 The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.8: \v 8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
\q2 If you find my beloved,
\q2 that you tell him that I am faint with love.
\sp Friends
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.9: \v 9 How is your beloved better than another beloved,
\q2 you fairest among women?
\q1 How is your beloved better than another beloved,
\q1 that you do so adjure us?
\sp Beloved
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.10: \v 10 My beloved is white and ruddy.
\q2 The best among ten thousand.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.11: \v 11 His head is like the purest gold.
\q2 His hair is bushy, black as a raven.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.12: \v 12 His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks,
\q2 washed with milk, mounted like jewels.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.13: \v 13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes.
\q2 His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.14: \v 14 His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl.
\q2 His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.15: \v 15 His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold.
\q2 His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 5.16: \v 16 His mouth is sweetness;
\q2 yes, he is altogether lovely.
\q1 This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
\q2 daughters of Jerusalem.
\p Song of Solomon 6.0: \c 6
\sp Friends
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 6.1: \v 1 Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women?
\q2 Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
\sp Beloved
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 6.2: \v 2 My beloved has gone down to his garden,
\q2 to the beds of spices,
\q2 to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 6.3: \v 3 I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.
\q2 He browses among the lilies.
\b
\sp Lover
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 6.4: \v 4 You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah,
\q2 lovely as Jerusalem,
\q2 awesome as an army with banners.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 6.5: \v 5 Turn away your eyes from me,
\q2 for they have overcome me.
\q1 Your hair is like a flock of goats,
\q2 that lie along the side of Gilead.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 6.6: \v 6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes,
\q2 which have come up from the washing,
\q2 of which every one has twins;
\q2 not one is bereaved among them.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 6.7: \v 7 Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 6.8: \v 8 There are sixty queens, eighty concubines,
\q2 and virgins without number.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 6.9: \v 9 My dove, my perfect one, is unique.
\q2 She is her mother’s only daughter.
\q2 She is the favorite one of her who bore her.
\q1 The daughters saw her, and called her blessed.
\q2 The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 6.10: \v 10 Who is she who looks out as the morning,
\q2 beautiful as the moon,
\q2 clear as the sun,
\q2 and awesome as an army with banners?
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 6.11: \v 11 I went down into the nut tree grove,
\q2 to see the green plants of the valley,
\q2 to see whether the vine budded,
\q2 and the pomegranates were in flower.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 6.12: \v 12 Without realizing it,
\q2 my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots.
\sp Friends
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 6.13: \v 13 Return, return, Shulammite!
\q2 Return, return, that we may gaze at you.
\sp Lover
\q1 Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite,
\q2 as at the dance of Mahanaim?
\p Song of Solomon 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Song of Solomon 7.1: \v 1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter!
\q2 Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
\q2 the work of the hands of a skillful workman.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 7.2: \v 2 Your body is like a round goblet,
\q2 no mixed wine is wanting.
\q1 Your waist is like a heap of wheat,
\q2 set about with lilies.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 7.3: \v 3 Your two breasts are like two fawns,
\q2 that are twins of a roe.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 7.4: \v 4 Your neck is like an ivory tower.
\q2 Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim.
\q2 Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 7.5: \v 5 Your head on you is like Carmel.
\q2 The hair of your head like purple.
\q2 The king is held captive in its tresses.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 7.6: \v 6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are,
\q2 love, for delights!
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 7.7: \v 7 This, your stature, is like a palm tree,
\q2 your breasts like its fruit.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 7.8: \v 8 I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree.
\q2 I will take hold of its fruit.”
\q1 Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
\q2 the smell of your breath like apples.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 7.9: \v 9 Your mouth is like the best wine,
\q2 that goes down smoothly for my beloved,
\q2 gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 7.10: \v 10 I am my beloved’s.
\q2 His desire is toward me.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 7.11: \v 11 Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field.
\q2 Let’s lodge in the villages.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 7.12: \v 12 Let’s go early up to the vineyards.
\q2 Let’s see whether the vine has budded,
\q2 its blossom is open,
\q2 and the pomegranates are in flower.
\q2 There I will give you my love.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 7.13: \v 13 The mandrakes produce fragrance.
\q2 At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old,
\q2 which I have stored up for you, my beloved.
\p Song of Solomon 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Song of Solomon 8.1: \v 1 Oh that you were like my brother,
\q2 who nursed from the breasts of my mother!
\q1 If I found you outside, I would kiss you;
\q2 yes, and no one would despise me.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 8.2: \v 2 I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother,
\q2 who would instruct me.
\q1 I would have you drink spiced wine,
\q2 of the juice of my pomegranate.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 8.3: \v 3 His left hand would be under my head.
\q2 His right hand would embrace me.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 8.4: \v 4 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
\q2 that you not stir up, nor awaken love,
\q2 until it so desires.
\sp Friends
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 8.5: \v 5 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness,
\q2 leaning on her beloved?
\b
\sp Beloved
\q1 Under the apple tree I aroused you.
\q2 There your mother conceived you.
\q2 There she was in labor and bore you.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 8.6: \v 6 Set me as a seal on your heart,
\q2 as a seal on your arm;
\q2 for love is strong as death.
\q2 Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol.\f + \fr 8:6 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead. \f*
\q2 Its flashes are flashes of fire,
\q2 a very flame of Yahweh.\f + \fr 8:6 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f*
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 8.7: \v 7 Many waters can’t quench love,
\q2 neither can floods drown it.
\q1 If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love,
\q2 he would be utterly scorned.
\sp Brothers
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 8.8: \v 8 We have a little sister.
\q2 She has no breasts.
\q1 What shall we do for our sister
\q2 in the day when she is to be spoken for?
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 8.9: \v 9 If she is a wall,
\q2 we will build on her a turret of silver.
\q1 If she is a door,
\q2 we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 8.10: \v 10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers,
\q2 then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 8.11: \v 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon.
\q2 He leased out the vineyard to keepers.
\q2 Each was to bring a thousand shekels\f + \fr 8:11 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1000 shekels is about 10 kilograms or about 22 pounds.\f* of silver for its fruit.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 8.12: \v 12 My own vineyard is before me.
\q2 The thousand are for you, Solomon,
\q2 two hundred for those who tend its fruit.
\sp Lover
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 8.13: \v 13 You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance,
\q2 let me hear your voice!
\sp Beloved
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 8.14: \v 14 Come away, my beloved!
\q2 Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!
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\toc1 The Lamentations of Jeremiah
\toc2 Lamentations
\toc3 Lam
\mt2 The
\mt1 Lamentations
\mt2 of Jeremiah
\p Lamentations 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Lamentations 1.1: \v 1 How the city sits solitary,
\q2 that was full of people!
\q1 She has become as a widow,
\q2 who was great among the nations!
\q1 She who was a princess among the provinces
\q2 has become a slave!
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.2: \v 2 She weeps bitterly in the night.
\q2 Her tears are on her cheeks.
\q1 Among all her lovers
\q2 she has no one to comfort her.
\q1 All her friends have dealt treacherously with her.
\q2 They have become her enemies.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.3: \v 3 Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction,
\q2 and because of great servitude.
\q1 She dwells among the nations.
\q2 She finds no rest.
\q2 All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.4: \v 4 The roads to Zion mourn,
\q2 because no one comes to the solemn assembly.
\q1 All her gates are desolate.
\q2 Her priests sigh.
\q1 Her virgins are afflicted,
\q2 and she herself is in bitterness.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.5: \v 5 Her adversaries have become the head.
\q2 Her enemies prosper;
\q1 for Yahweh\f + \fr 1:5 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions.
\q2 Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.6: \v 6 All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion.
\q2 Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture.
\q2 They have gone without strength before the pursuer.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.7: \v 7 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries
\q2 all her pleasant things that were from the days of old;
\q1 when her people fell into the hand of the adversary,
\q2 and no one helped her.
\q1 The adversaries saw her.
\q2 They mocked at her desolations.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.8: \v 8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned.
\q2 Therefore she has become unclean.
\q1 All who honored her despise her,
\q2 because they have seen her nakedness.
\q2 Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.9: \v 9 Her filthiness was in her skirts.
\q2 She didn’t remember her latter end.
\q1 Therefore she has come down astoundingly.
\q2 She has no comforter.
\q1 “See, Yahweh, my affliction;
\q2 for the enemy has magnified himself.”
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.10: \v 10 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things;
\q2 for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary,
\q2 concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.11: \v 11 All her people sigh.
\q2 They seek bread.
\q2 They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul.
\q1 “Look, Yahweh, and see;
\q2 for I have become despised.”
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.12: \v 12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
\q2 Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
\q2 which is brought on me,
\q2 with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.13: \v 13 “From on high has he sent fire into my bones,
\q2 and it prevails against them.
\q1 He has spread a net for my feet.
\q2 He has turned me back.
\q2 He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.14: \v 14 “The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand.
\q2 They are knit together.
\q2 They have come up on my neck.
\q2 He made my strength fail.
\q1 The Lord\f + \fr 1:14 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* has delivered me into their hands,
\q2 against whom I am not able to stand.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.15: \v 15 “The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me.
\q2 He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men.
\q2 The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.16: \v 16 “For these things I weep.
\q2 My eye, my eye runs down with water,
\q2 because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me.
\q1 My children are desolate,
\q2 because the enemy has prevailed.”
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.17: \v 17 Zion spreads out her hands.
\q2 There is no one to comfort her.
\q1 Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob,
\q2 that those who are around him should be his adversaries.
\q2 Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.18: \v 18 “Yahweh is righteous;
\q2 for I have rebelled against his commandment.
\q1 Please hear all you peoples,
\q2 and see my sorrow.
\q2 My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.19: \v 19 “I called for my lovers,
\q2 but they deceived me.
\q1 My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city,
\q2 while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.20: \v 20 “Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress.
\q2 My heart is troubled.
\q1 My heart turns over within me,
\q2 for I have grievously rebelled.
\q1 Abroad, the sword bereaves.
\q2 At home, it is like death.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.21: \v 21 “They have heard that I sigh.
\q2 There is no one to comfort me.
\q1 All my enemies have heard of my trouble.
\q2 They are glad that you have done it.
\q1 You will bring the day that you have proclaimed,
\q2 and they will be like me.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 1.22: \v 22 “Let all their wickedness come before you.
\q2 Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions.
\q1 For my sighs are many,
\q2 and my heart is faint.
\p Lamentations 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Lamentations 2.1: \v 1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!
\q2 He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth,
\q2 and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.2: \v 2 The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob
\q2 without pity.
\q1 He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah.
\q2 He has brought them down to the ground.
\q2 He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.3: \v 3 He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger.
\q2 He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy.
\q1 He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire,
\q2 which devours all around.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.4: \v 4 He has bent his bow like an enemy.
\q2 He has stood with his right hand as an adversary.
\q1 Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye.
\q2 In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.5: \v 5 The Lord has become as an enemy.
\q2 He has swallowed up Israel.
\q1 He has swallowed up all her palaces.
\q2 He has destroyed his strongholds.
\q2 He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.6: \v 6 He has violently taken away his tabernacle,
\q2 as if it were of a garden.
\q1 He has destroyed his place of assembly.
\q2 Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion.
\q2 In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.7: \v 7 The Lord has cast off his altar.
\q2 He has abhorred his sanctuary.
\q1 He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy.
\q2 They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house,
\q2 as in the day of a solemn assembly.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.8: \v 8 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion.
\q2 He has stretched out the line.
\q2 He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying;
\q1 He has made the rampart and wall lament.
\q2 They languish together.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.9: \v 9 Her gates have sunk into the ground.
\q2 He has destroyed and broken her bars.
\q1 Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not.
\q2 Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.10: \v 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground.
\q2 They keep silence.
\q1 They have cast up dust on their heads.
\q2 They have clothed themselves with sackcloth.
\q2 The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.11: \v 11 My eyes fail with tears.
\q2 My heart is troubled.
\q1 My liver is poured on the earth,
\q2 because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
\q2 because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.12: \v 12 They ask their mothers,
\q2 “Where is grain and wine?”
\q2 when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city,
\q2 when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.13: \v 13 What shall I testify to you?
\q2 What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem?
\q1 What shall I compare to you,
\q2 that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion?
\q1 For your breach is as big as the sea.
\q2 Who can heal you?
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.14: \v 14 Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you.
\q2 They have not uncovered your iniquity,
\q2 to reverse your captivity,
\q2 but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.15: \v 15 All that pass by clap their hands at you.
\q2 They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,
\q1 “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty,
\q2 the joy of the whole earth’?”
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.16: \v 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you.
\q2 They hiss and gnash their teeth.
\q2 They say, “We have swallowed her up.
\q1 Certainly this is the day that we looked for.
\q2 We have found it.
\q2 We have seen it.”
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.17: \v 17 Yahweh has done that which he planned.
\q2 He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old.
\q1 He has thrown down,
\q2 and has not pitied.
\q1 He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you.
\q2 He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.18: \v 18 Their heart cried to the Lord.
\q2 O wall of the daughter of Zion,
\q2 let tears run down like a river day and night.
\q1 Give yourself no relief.
\q2 Don’t let the your eyes rest.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.19: \v 19 Arise, cry out in the night,
\q2 at the beginning of the watches!
\q1 Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
\q2 Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children,
\q2 who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.20: \v 20 “Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus!
\q2 Should the women eat their offspring,
\q2 the children that they held and bounced on their knees?
\q2 Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.21: \v 21 “The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets.
\q2 My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword.
\q1 You have killed them in the day of your anger.
\q2 You have slaughtered, and not pitied.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 2.22: \v 22 “You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side.
\q2 There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
\q2 My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.
\p Lamentations 3.0: \c 3
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.1: \v 1 I am the man who has seen affliction
\q2 by the rod of his wrath.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.2: \v 2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness,
\q2 and not in light.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.3: \v 3 Surely he turns his hand against me
\q2 again and again all day long.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.4: \v 4 He has made my flesh and my skin old.
\q2 He has broken my bones.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.5: \v 5 He has built against me,
\q2 and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.6: \v 6 He has made me dwell in dark places,
\q2 as those who have been long dead.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.7: \v 7 He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out.
\q2 He has made my chain heavy.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.8: \v 8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help,
\q2 he shuts out my prayer.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.9: \v 9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone.
\q2 He has made my paths crooked.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.10: \v 10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait,
\q2 as a lion in secret places.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.11: \v 11 He has turned away my ways,
\q2 and pulled me in pieces.
\q2 He has made me desolate.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.12: \v 12 He has bent his bow,
\q2 and set me as a mark for the arrow.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.13: \v 13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
\q2
\p Lamentations 3.14: \v 14 I have become a derision to all my people,
\q2 and their song all day long.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.15: \v 15 He has filled me with bitterness.
\q2 He has stuffed me with wormwood.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.16: \v 16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel.
\q2 He has covered me with ashes.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.17: \v 17 You have removed my soul far away from peace.
\q2 I forgot prosperity.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.18: \v 18 I said, “My strength has perished,
\q2 along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.19: \v 19 Remember my affliction and my misery,
\q2 the wormwood and the bitterness.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.20: \v 20 My soul still remembers them,
\q2 and is bowed down within me.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.21: \v 21 This I recall to my mind;
\q2 therefore I have hope.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.22: \v 22 It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,
\q2 because his compassion doesn’t fail.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.23: \v 23 They are new every morning.
\q2 Great is your faithfulness.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.24: \v 24 “Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul.
\q2 “Therefore I will hope in him.”
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.25: \v 25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him,
\q2 to the soul who seeks him.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.26: \v 26 It is good that a man should hope
\q2 and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
\q2
\p Lamentations 3.27: \v 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.28: \v 28 Let him sit alone and keep silence,
\q2 because he has laid it on him.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.29: \v 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust,
\q2 if it is so that there may be hope.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.30: \v 30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.
\q2 Let him be filled full of reproach.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.31: \v 31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.
\q2
\p Lamentations 3.32: \v 32 For though he causes grief,
\q2 yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.33: \v 33 For he does not afflict willingly,
\q2 nor grieve the children of men.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.34: \v 34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
\q2
\p Lamentations 3.35: \v 35 to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
\q2
\p Lamentations 3.36: \v 36 to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.37: \v 37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,
\q2 when the Lord doesn’t command it?
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.38: \v 38 Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
\q2
\p Lamentations 3.39: \v 39 Why does a living man complain,
\q2 a man for the punishment of his sins?
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.40: \v 40 Let us search and try our ways,
\q2 and turn again to Yahweh.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.41: \v 41 Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God\f + \fr 3:41 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* in the heavens.
\q2
\p Lamentations 3.42: \v 42 “We have transgressed and have rebelled.
\q2 You have not pardoned.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.43: \v 43 “You have covered us with anger and pursued us.
\q2 You have killed.
\q2 You have not pitied.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.44: \v 44 You have covered yourself with a cloud,
\q2 so that no prayer can pass through.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.45: \v 45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse
\q2 in the middle of the peoples.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.46: \v 46 “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
\q2
\p Lamentations 3.47: \v 47 Terror and the pit have come on us,
\q2 devastation and destruction.”
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.48: \v 48 My eye runs down with streams of water,
\q2 for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.49: \v 49 My eye pours down
\q2 and doesn’t cease,
\q2 without any intermission,
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.50: \v 50 until Yahweh looks down,
\q2 and sees from heaven.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.51: \v 51 My eye affects my soul,
\q2 because of all the daughters of my city.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.52: \v 52 They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,
\q2 those who are my enemies without cause.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.53: \v 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
\q2 and have cast a stone on me.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.54: \v 54 Waters flowed over my head.
\q2 I said, “I am cut off.”
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.55: \v 55 I called on your name, Yahweh,
\q2 out of the lowest dungeon.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.56: \v 56 You heard my voice:
\q2 “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing,
\q2 and my cry.”
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.57: \v 57 You came near in the day that I called on you.
\q2 You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.58: \v 58 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.
\q2 You have redeemed my life.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.59: \v 59 Yahweh, you have seen my wrong.
\q2 Judge my cause.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.60: \v 60 You have seen all their vengeance
\q2 and all their plans against me.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.61: \v 61 You have heard their reproach, Yahweh,
\q2 and all their plans against me,
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.62: \v 62 the lips of those that rose up against me,
\q2 and their plots against me all day long.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.63: \v 63 You see their sitting down and their rising up.
\q2 I am their song.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.64: \v 64 You will pay them back, Yahweh,
\q2 according to the work of their hands.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.65: \v 65 You will give them hardness of heart,
\q2 your curse to them.
\q1
\p Lamentations 3.66: \v 66 You will pursue them in anger,
\q2 and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
\p Lamentations 4.0: \c 4
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.1: \v 1 How the gold has become dim!
\q2 The most pure gold has changed!
\q1 The stones of the sanctuary are poured out
\q2 at the head of every street.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.2: \v 2 The precious sons of Zion,
\q2 comparable to fine gold,
\q1 how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers,
\q2 the work of the hands of the potter!
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.3: \v 3 Even the jackals offer their breast.
\q2 They nurse their young ones.
\q1 But the daughter of my people has become cruel,
\q2 like the ostriches in the wilderness.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.4: \v 4 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst.
\q2 The young children ask bread,
\q2 and no one breaks it for them.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.5: \v 5 Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets.
\q2 Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.6: \v 6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom,
\q2 which was overthrown as in a moment.
\q2 No hands were laid on her.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.7: \v 7 Her nobles were purer than snow.
\q2 They were whiter than milk.
\q1 They were more ruddy in body than rubies.
\q2 Their polishing was like sapphire.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.8: \v 8 Their appearance is blacker than a coal.
\q2 They are not known in the streets.
\q1 Their skin clings to their bones.
\q2 It is withered.
\q2 It has become like a stick.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.9: \v 9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger;
\q2 For these pine away, stricken through,
\q2 for lack of the fruits of the field.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.10: \v 10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children.
\q2 They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.11: \v 11 Yahweh has accomplished his wrath.
\q2 He has poured out his fierce anger.
\q1 He has kindled a fire in Zion,
\q2 which has devoured its foundations.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.12: \v 12 The kings of the earth didn’t believe,
\q2 neither did all the inhabitants of the world,
\q2 that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.13: \v 13 It is because of the sins of her prophets
\q2 and the iniquities of her priests,
\q2 That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.14: \v 14 They wander as blind men in the streets.
\q2 They are polluted with blood,
\q2 So that men can’t touch their garments.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.15: \v 15 “Go away!” they cried to them.
\q2 “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch!
\q1 When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations,
\q2 “They can’t live here any more.”
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.16: \v 16 Yahweh’s anger has scattered them.
\q2 He will not pay attention to them any more.
\q1 They didn’t respect the persons of the priests.
\q2 They didn’t favor the elders.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.17: \v 17 Our eyes still fail,
\q2 looking in vain for our help.
\q2 In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.18: \v 18 They hunt our steps,
\q2 so that we can’t go in our streets.
\q1 Our end is near.
\q2 Our days are fulfilled,
\q2 for our end has come.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.19: \v 19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky.
\q2 They chased us on the mountains.
\q2 They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.20: \v 20 The breath of our nostrils,
\q2 the anointed of Yahweh,
\q2 was taken in their pits;
\q1 of whom we said,
\q2 under his shadow we will live among the nations.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.21: \v 21 Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom,
\q2 that dwells in the land of Uz.
\q1 The cup will pass through to you also.
\q2 You will be drunken,
\q2 and will make yourself naked.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 4.22: \v 22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion.
\q2 He will no more carry you away into captivity.
\q1 He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom.
\q2 He will uncover your sins.
\p Lamentations 5.0: \c 5
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.1: \v 1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us.
\q2 Look, and see our reproach.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.2: \v 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
\q2 our houses to aliens.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.3: \v 3 We are orphans and fatherless.
\q2 Our mothers are as widows.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.4: \v 4 We have drunken our water for money.
\q2 Our wood is sold to us.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.5: \v 5 Our pursuers are on our necks.
\q2 We are weary, and have no rest.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.6: \v 6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians,
\q2 and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.7: \v 7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more.
\q2 We have borne their iniquities.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.8: \v 8 Servants rule over us.
\q2 There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.9: \v 9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
\q2 because of the sword of the wilderness.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.10: \v 10 Our skin is black like an oven,
\q2 because of the burning heat of famine.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.11: \v 11 They ravished the women in Zion,
\q2 the virgins in the cities of Judah.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.12: \v 12 Princes were hanged up by their hands.
\q2 The faces of elders were not honored.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.13: \v 13 The young men carry millstones.
\q2 The children stumbled under loads of wood.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.14: \v 14 The elders have ceased from the gate,
\q2 and the young men from their music.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.15: \v 15 The joy of our heart has ceased.
\q2 Our dance is turned into mourning.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.16: \v 16 The crown has fallen from our head.
\q2 Woe to us, for we have sinned!
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.17: \v 17 For this our heart is faint.
\q2 For these things our eyes are dim.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.18: \v 18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate.
\q2 The foxes walk on it.
\b
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.19: \v 19 You, Yahweh, remain forever.
\q2 Your throne is from generation to generation.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.20: \v 20 Why do you forget us forever,
\q2 and forsake us for so long a time?
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.21: \v 21 Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned.
\q2 Renew our days as of old.
\q1
\p Lamentations 5.22: \v 22 But you have utterly rejected us.
\q2 You are very angry against us.
\p Daniel 0.0: \id DAN 27-DAN-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Daniel
\toc1 The Book of Daniel
\toc2 Daniel
\toc3 Dan
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Daniel
\p Daniel 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Daniel 1.1: \v 1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
\p Daniel 1.2: \v 2 The Lord\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; \f + \fr 1:2 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* 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.
\p
\p Daniel 1.3: \v 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\f + \fr 1:3 \ft or, seed\f* and of the nobles;
\p Daniel 1.4: \v 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.
\p Daniel 1.5: \v 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.
\p
\p Daniel 1.6: \v 6 Now among these were of the children of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
\p Daniel 1.7: \v 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.
\p
\p Daniel 1.8: \v 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.
\p Daniel 1.9: \v 9 Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.
\p Daniel 1.10: \v 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.”
\p
\p Daniel 1.11: \v 11 Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
\p Daniel 1.12: \v 12 “Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
\p Daniel 1.13: \v 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.”
\p Daniel 1.14: \v 14 So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.
\p
\p Daniel 1.15: \v 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.
\p Daniel 1.16: \v 16 So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they would drink, and gave them vegetables.
\p
\p Daniel 1.17: \v 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.
\p
\p Daniel 1.18: \v 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.
\p Daniel 1.19: \v 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.
\p Daniel 1.20: \v 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.
\p
\p Daniel 1.21: \v 21 Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus.
\p Daniel 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Daniel 2.1: \v 1 In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.
\p Daniel 2.2: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.3: \v 3 The king said to them, “I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.4: \v 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.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.5: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.6: \v 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.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.7: \v 7 They answered the second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.8: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.9: \v 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.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.10: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.11: \v 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.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.12: \v 12 Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.
\p Daniel 2.13: \v 13 So the decree went out, and the wise men were to be slain. They sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.
\p
\p Daniel 2.14: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.15: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.16: \v 16 Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.
\p
\p Daniel 2.17: \v 17 Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
\p Daniel 2.18: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.19: \v 19 Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
\p Daniel 2.20: \v 20 Daniel answered,
\q1 “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever;
\q2 for wisdom and might are his.
\q1
\p Daniel 2.21: \v 21 He changes the times and the seasons.
\q2 He removes kings, and sets up kings.
\q1 He gives wisdom to the wise,
\q2 and knowledge to those who have understanding.
\q1
\p Daniel 2.22: \v 22 He reveals the deep and secret things.
\q2 He knows what is in the darkness,
\q2 and the light dwells with him.
\q1
\p Daniel 2.23: \v 23 I thank you, and praise you,
\q2 you God of my fathers,
\q1 who have given me wisdom and might,
\q2 and have now made known to me what we desired of you;
\q2 for you have made known to us the king’s matter.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.24: \v 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.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.25: \v 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.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.26: \v 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?”
\p
\p Daniel 2.27: \v 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;
\p Daniel 2.28: \v 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:
\p
\p Daniel 2.29: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.30: \v 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.
\p
\p Daniel 2.31: \v 31 “You, O king, saw, and behold,\f + \fr 2:31 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its appearance was terrifying.
\p Daniel 2.32: \v 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,
\p Daniel 2.33: \v 33 its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.
\p Daniel 2.34: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.35: \v 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.
\p
\p Daniel 2.36: \v 36 “This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king.
\p Daniel 2.37: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.38: \v 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.
\p
\p Daniel 2.39: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.40: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.41: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.42: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.43: \v 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.
\p
\p Daniel 2.44: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.45: \v 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.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.46: \v 46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odors to him.
\p Daniel 2.47: \v 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.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.48: \v 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.
\p Daniel 2.49: \v 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.
\p Daniel 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Daniel 3.1: \v 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits,\f + \fr 3:1 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
\p Daniel 3.2: \v 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.
\p Daniel 3.3: \v 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.
\p
\p Daniel 3.4: \v 4 Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,
\p Daniel 3.5: \v 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.
\p Daniel 3.6: \v 6 Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”
\p
\p Daniel 3.7: \v 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.
\p
\p Daniel 3.8: \v 8 Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.
\p Daniel 3.9: \v 9 They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever!
\p Daniel 3.10: \v 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;
\p Daniel 3.11: \v 11 and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.
\p Daniel 3.12: \v 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.”
\p
\p Daniel 3.13: \v 13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.
\p Daniel 3.14: \v 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?
\p Daniel 3.15: \v 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?”
\p
\p Daniel 3.16: \v 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
\p Daniel 3.17: \v 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.
\p Daniel 3.18: \v 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.”
\p
\p Daniel 3.19: \v 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.
\p Daniel 3.20: \v 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.
\p Daniel 3.21: \v 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.
\p Daniel 3.22: \v 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.
\p Daniel 3.23: \v 23 These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
\p
\p Daniel 3.24: \v 24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, “Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire?”
\p They answered the king, “True, O king.”
\p
\p Daniel 3.25: \v 25 He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”
\p
\p Daniel 3.26: \v 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!”
\p Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the middle of the fire.
\p Daniel 3.27: \v 27 The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the smell of fire wasn’t even on them.
\p
\p Daniel 3.28: \v 28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
\p Daniel 3.29: \v 29 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”
\p
\p Daniel 3.30: \v 30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.
\p Daniel 4.0: \c 4
\pi1
\p Daniel 4.1: \v 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king,
\pi1 to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth:
\pi1 Peace be multiplied to you.
\pi1
\p Daniel 4.2: \v 2 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.
\q1
\p Daniel 4.3: \v 3 How great are his signs!
\q2 How mighty are his wonders!
\q1 His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
\q2 His dominion is from generation to generation.
\pi1
\p Daniel 4.4: \v 4 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.
\p Daniel 4.5: \v 5 I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
\p Daniel 4.6: \v 6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.
\p Daniel 4.7: \v 7 Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in; and I told the dream before them; but they didn’t make known to me its interpretation.
\p Daniel 4.8: \v 8 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. I told the dream before him, saying,
\pi1
\p Daniel 4.9: \v 9 “Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.
\p Daniel 4.10: \v 10 Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the middle of the earth; and its height was great.
\p Daniel 4.11: \v 11 The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth.
\p Daniel 4.12: \v 12 The leaves of it were beautiful, and it had much fruit, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shade under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.
\pi1
\p Daniel 4.13: \v 13 “I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky.
\p Daniel 4.14: \v 14 He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.
\p Daniel 4.15: \v 15 Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth.
\p Daniel 4.16: \v 16 Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let an animal’s heart be given to him. Then let seven times pass over him.
\pi1
\p Daniel 4.17: \v 17 “‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’
\pi1
\p Daniel 4.18: \v 18 “This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”
\pi1
\p Daniel 4.19: \v 19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, “Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you.”
\pi1 Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries.
\p Daniel 4.20: \v 20 The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and its sight to all the earth;
\p Daniel 4.21: \v 21 whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit plentiful, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:
\p Daniel 4.22: \v 22 it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.
\pi1
\p Daniel 4.23: \v 23 “Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, ‘Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.
\pi1
\p Daniel 4.24: \v 24 “This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king:
\p Daniel 4.25: \v 25 that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.
\p Daniel 4.26: \v 26 Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you will have known that the heavens do rule.
\p Daniel 4.27: \v 27 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”
\pi1
\p Daniel 4.28: \v 28 All this came on the king Nebuchadnezzar.
\p Daniel 4.29: \v 29 At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
\p Daniel 4.30: \v 30 The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”
\pi1
\p Daniel 4.31: \v 31 While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.
\p Daniel 4.32: \v 32 You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.’”
\pi1
\p Daniel 4.33: \v 33 This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
\pi1
\p Daniel 4.34: \v 34 At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever;
\q1 for his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
\q2 and his kingdom from generation to generation.
\q1
\p Daniel 4.35: \v 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing;
\q2 and he does according to his will in the army of heaven,
\q2 and among the inhabitants of the earth;
\q1 and no one can stop his hand,
\q2 or ask him, “What are you doing?”
\pi1
\p Daniel 4.36: \v 36 At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.
\p Daniel 4.37: \v 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
\p Daniel 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Daniel 5.1: \v 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
\p Daniel 5.2: \v 2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought to him; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.
\p Daniel 5.3: \v 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.
\p Daniel 5.4: \v 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
\p
\p Daniel 5.5: \v 5 In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
\p Daniel 5.6: \v 6 Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.
\p
\p Daniel 5.7: \v 7 The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”
\p
\p Daniel 5.8: \v 8 Then all the king’s wise men came in; but they could not read the writing, and couldn’t make known to the king the interpretation.
\p Daniel 5.9: \v 9 Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.
\p
\p Daniel 5.10: \v 10 The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.
\p Daniel 5.11: \v 11 There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. The king Nebuchadnezzar your father, yes, the king, your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
\p Daniel 5.12: \v 12 because an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting of dreams, showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel 5.13: \v 13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?
\p Daniel 5.14: \v 14 I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light, understanding, and excellent wisdom are found in you.
\p Daniel 5.15: \v 15 Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.
\p Daniel 5.16: \v 16 But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts. Now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”
\p
\p Daniel 5.17: \v 17 Then Daniel answered before the king, “Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
\p
\p Daniel 5.18: \v 18 “You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.
\p Daniel 5.19: \v 19 Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to.
\p Daniel 5.20: \v 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
\p Daniel 5.21: \v 21 He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.
\p
\p Daniel 5.22: \v 22 “You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
\p Daniel 5.23: \v 23 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.
\p Daniel 5.24: \v 24 Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.
\p
\p Daniel 5.25: \v 25 “This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’
\p
\p Daniel 5.26: \v 26 “This is the interpretation of the thing:
\m MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end.
\m
\p Daniel 5.27: \v 27 TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
\m
\p Daniel 5.28: \v 28 PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
\p
\p Daniel 5.29: \v 29 Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
\p
\p Daniel 5.30: \v 30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
\p Daniel 5.31: \v 31 Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
\p Daniel 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Daniel 6.1: \v 1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;
\p Daniel 6.2: \v 2 and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these local governors might give account to them, and that the king should suffer no loss.
\p Daniel 6.3: \v 3 Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
\p
\p Daniel 6.4: \v 4 Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.
\p Daniel 6.5: \v 5 Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”
\p
\p Daniel 6.6: \v 6 Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Darius, live forever!
\p Daniel 6.7: \v 7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
\p Daniel 6.8: \v 8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”
\p Daniel 6.9: \v 9 Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
\p
\p Daniel 6.10: \v 10 When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
\p Daniel 6.11: \v 11 Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
\p Daniel 6.12: \v 12 Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: “Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?”
\p The king answered, “This thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”
\p
\p Daniel 6.13: \v 13 Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”
\p Daniel 6.14: \v 14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.
\p
\p Daniel 6.15: \v 15 Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.”
\p
\p Daniel 6.16: \v 16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”
\p
\p Daniel 6.17: \v 17 A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
\p Daniel 6.18: \v 18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No musical instruments were brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.
\p
\p Daniel 6.19: \v 19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.
\p Daniel 6.20: \v 20 When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”
\p
\p Daniel 6.21: \v 21 Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever!
\p Daniel 6.22: \v 22 My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”
\p
\p Daniel 6.23: \v 23 Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
\p
\p Daniel 6.24: \v 24 The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.
\p
\p Daniel 6.25: \v 25 Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth:
\pi1 “Peace be multiplied to you.
\pi1
\p Daniel 6.26: \v 26 “I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel;
\q1 “for he is the living God,
\q2 and steadfast forever.
\q1 His kingdom is that which will not be destroyed.
\q2 His dominion will be even to the end.
\q1
\p Daniel 6.27: \v 27 He delivers and rescues.
\q2 He works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth,
\q2 who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.”
\p
\p Daniel 6.28: \v 28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
\p Daniel 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Daniel 7.1: \v 1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
\p
\p Daniel 7.2: \v 2 Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke out on the great sea.
\p Daniel 7.3: \v 3 Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another.
\p
\p Daniel 7.4: \v 4 “The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it.
\p
\p Daniel 7.5: \v 5 “Behold, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’
\p
\p Daniel 7.6: \v 6 “After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The animal also had four heads; and dominion was given to it.
\p
\p Daniel 7.7: \v 7 “After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there was a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it. It had ten horns.
\p
\p Daniel 7.8: \v 8 “I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
\q1
\p Daniel 7.9: \v 9 “I watched until thrones were placed,
\q2 and one who was ancient of days sat.
\q1 His clothing was white as snow,
\q2 and the hair of his head like pure wool.
\q1 His throne was fiery flames,
\q2 and its wheels burning fire.
\q1
\p Daniel 7.10: \v 10 A fiery stream issued and came out from before him.
\q2 Thousands of thousands ministered to him.
\q2 Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.
\q1 The judgment was set.
\q2 The books were opened.
\p
\p Daniel 7.11: \v 11 “I watched at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. I watched even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.
\p Daniel 7.12: \v 12 As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
\p
\p Daniel 7.13: \v 13 “I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
\p Daniel 7.14: \v 14 Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.
\p
\p Daniel 7.15: \v 15 “As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
\p Daniel 7.16: \v 16 I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this.
\p “So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
\p Daniel 7.17: \v 17 ‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth.
\p Daniel 7.18: \v 18 But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’
\p
\p Daniel 7.19: \v 19 “Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of bronze; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
\p Daniel 7.20: \v 20 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows.
\p Daniel 7.21: \v 21 I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them,
\p Daniel 7.22: \v 22 until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
\p
\p Daniel 7.23: \v 23 “Thus he said, ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and will tread it down, and break it in pieces.
\p Daniel 7.24: \v 24 As for the ten horns, ten kings will arise out of this kingdom. Another will arise after them; and he will be different from the former, and he will put down three kings.
\p Daniel 7.25: \v 25 He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
\p
\p Daniel 7.26: \v 26 “‘But the judgment will be set, and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.
\p Daniel 7.27: \v 27 The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’
\p
\p Daniel 7.28: \v 28 “Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”
\p Daniel 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Daniel 8.1: \v 1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.
\p Daniel 8.2: \v 2 I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.
\p Daniel 8.3: \v 3 Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns. The two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
\p Daniel 8.4: \v 4 I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward. No animals could stand before him. There wasn’t any who could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself.
\p
\p Daniel 8.5: \v 5 As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west over the surface of the whole earth, and didn’t touch the ground. The goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
\p Daniel 8.6: \v 6 He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power.
\p Daniel 8.7: \v 7 I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him. There was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand.
\p Daniel 8.8: \v 8 The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky.
\p
\p Daniel 8.9: \v 9 Out of one of them came out a little horn, which grew exceedingly great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious land.
\p Daniel 8.10: \v 10 It grew great, even to the army of the sky; and it cast down some of the army and of the stars to the ground, and trampled on them.
\p Daniel 8.11: \v 11 Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
\p Daniel 8.12: \v 12 The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.
\p
\p Daniel 8.13: \v 13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, “How long will the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot be?”
\p
\p Daniel 8.14: \v 14 He said to me, “To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary will be cleansed.”
\p
\p Daniel 8.15: \v 15 When I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. Then behold, there stood before me something like the appearance of a man.
\p Daniel 8.16: \v 16 I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”
\p
\p Daniel 8.17: \v 17 So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face; but he said to me, “Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.”
\p
\p Daniel 8.18: \v 18 Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.
\p
\p Daniel 8.19: \v 19 He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.
\p Daniel 8.20: \v 20 The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.
\p Daniel 8.21: \v 21 The rough male goat is the king of Greece. The great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
\p Daniel 8.22: \v 22 As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.
\p
\p Daniel 8.23: \v 23 “In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.
\p Daniel 8.24: \v 24 His power will be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy awesomely, and will prosper in what he does. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.
\p Daniel 8.25: \v 25 Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many in their security. He will also stand up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken without hand.
\p
\p Daniel 8.26: \v 26 “The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it belongs to many days to come.”
\p
\p Daniel 8.27: \v 27 I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days. Then I rose up, and did the king’s business. I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it.
\p Daniel 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Daniel 9.1: \v 1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,
\p Daniel 9.2: \v 2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word\f + \fr 9:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. \f* came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
\p Daniel 9.3: \v 3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
\p
\p Daniel 9.4: \v 4 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said,
\pi1 “Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
\p Daniel 9.5: \v 5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.
\p Daniel 9.6: \v 6 We haven’t listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
\pi1
\p Daniel 9.7: \v 7 “Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
\p Daniel 9.8: \v 8 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
\p Daniel 9.9: \v 9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.
\p Daniel 9.10: \v 10 We haven’t obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
\p Daniel 9.11: \v 11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice.
\pi1 “Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.
\p Daniel 9.12: \v 12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.
\p Daniel 9.13: \v 13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.
\p Daniel 9.14: \v 14 Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
\pi1
\p Daniel 9.15: \v 15 “Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned. We have done wickedly.
\p Daniel 9.16: \v 16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.
\pi1
\p Daniel 9.17: \v 17 “Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
\p Daniel 9.18: \v 18 My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
\p Daniel 9.19: \v 19 Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”
\b
\p
\p Daniel 9.20: \v 20 While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;
\p Daniel 9.21: \v 21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.
\p Daniel 9.22: \v 22 He instructed me and talked with me, and said, Daniel, “I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding.
\p Daniel 9.23: \v 23 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
\p
\p Daniel 9.24: \v 24 “Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
\p
\p Daniel 9.25: \v 25 “Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One,\f + \fr 9:25 \ft “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”).\f* the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
\p Daniel 9.26: \v 26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One\f + \fr 9:26 \ft “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”).\f* will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.
\p Daniel 9.27: \v 27 He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”
\p Daniel 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Daniel 10.1: \v 1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare. He understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
\p
\p Daniel 10.2: \v 2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
\p Daniel 10.3: \v 3 I ate no pleasant bread. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.
\p
\p Daniel 10.4: \v 4 In the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,
\p Daniel 10.5: \v 5 I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, there was a man clothed in linen, whose thighs were adorned with pure gold of Uphaz.
\p Daniel 10.6: \v 6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches. His arms and his feet were like burnished bronze. The voice of his words was like the voice of a multitude.
\p
\p Daniel 10.7: \v 7 I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men who were with me didn’t see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves.
\p Daniel 10.8: \v 8 So I was left alone, and saw this great vision. No strength remained in me; for my face grew deathly pale, and I retained no strength.
\p Daniel 10.9: \v 9 Yet I heard the voice of his words. When I heard the voice of his words, then I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.
\p
\p Daniel 10.10: \v 10 Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on the palms of my hands.
\p Daniel 10.11: \v 11 He said to me, “Daniel, you greatly beloved man, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for I have been sent to you, now.” When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.
\p
\p Daniel 10.12: \v 12 Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come for your words’ sake.
\p Daniel 10.13: \v 13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me because I remained there with the kings of Persia.
\p Daniel 10.14: \v 14 Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days.”
\p
\p Daniel 10.15: \v 15 When he had spoken these words to me, I set my face toward the ground, and was mute.
\p Daniel 10.16: \v 16 Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, “My lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows have overtaken me, and I retain no strength.
\p Daniel 10.17: \v 17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me. There was no breath left in me.”
\p
\p Daniel 10.18: \v 18 Then one like the appearance of a man touched me again, and he strengthened me.
\p Daniel 10.19: \v 19 He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.”
\p When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”
\p
\p Daniel 10.20: \v 20 Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come.
\p Daniel 10.21: \v 21 But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the writing of truth. There is no one who holds with me against these, but Michael your prince.
\p Daniel 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p Daniel 11.1: \v 1 “As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.
\p
\p Daniel 11.2: \v 2 “Now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings will stand up in Persia; and the fourth will be far richer than all of them. When he has grown strong through his riches, he will stir up all against the realm of Greece.
\p Daniel 11.3: \v 3 A mighty king will stand up, who will rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
\p Daniel 11.4: \v 4 When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.
\p
\p Daniel 11.5: \v 5 “The king of the south will be strong. One of his princes will become stronger than him, and have dominion. His dominion will be a great dominion.
\p Daniel 11.6: \v 6 At the end of years they will join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement; but she will not retain the strength of her arm. He will also not stand, nor will his arm; but she will be given up, with those who brought her, and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times.
\p
\p Daniel 11.7: \v 7 “But out of a shoot from her roots one will stand up in his place, who will come to the army, and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and will deal against them, and will prevail.
\p Daniel 11.8: \v 8 He will also carry their gods, with their molten images, and with their goodly vessels of silver and of gold, captive into Egypt. He will refrain some years from the king of the north.
\p Daniel 11.9: \v 9 He will come into the realm of the king of the south, but he will return into his own land.
\p Daniel 11.10: \v 10 His sons will wage war, and will assemble a multitude of great forces, which will come on, and overflow, and pass through. They will return and wage war, even to his fortress.
\p
\p Daniel 11.11: \v 11 “The king of the south will be moved with anger, and will come out and fight with him, even with the king of the north. He will send out a great multitude, and the multitude will be given into his hand.
\p Daniel 11.12: \v 12 The multitude will be lifted up, and his heart will be exalted. He will cast down tens of thousands, but he won’t prevail.
\p Daniel 11.13: \v 13 The king of the north will return, and will send out a multitude greater than the former. He will come on at the end of the times, even of years, with a great army and with much substance.
\p
\p Daniel 11.14: \v 14 “In those times many will stand up against the king of the south. Also the children of the violent among your people will lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they will fall.
\p Daniel 11.15: \v 15 So the king of the north will come and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city. The forces of the south won’t stand, neither will his chosen people, neither will there be any strength to stand.
\p Daniel 11.16: \v 16 But he who comes against him will do according to his own will, and no one will stand before him. He will stand in the glorious land, and destruction will be in his hand.
\p Daniel 11.17: \v 17 He will set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions. He will perform them. He will give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she will not stand, and won’t be for him.
\p Daniel 11.18: \v 18 After this he will turn his face to the islands, and will take many; but a prince will cause the reproach offered by him to cease. Yes, moreover, he will cause his reproach to turn on him.
\p Daniel 11.19: \v 19 Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.
\p
\p Daniel 11.20: \v 20 “Then one who will cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory will stand up in his place; but within few days he shall be destroyed, not in anger, and not in battle.
\p
\p Daniel 11.21: \v 21 “In his place a contemptible person will stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom; but he will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
\p Daniel 11.22: \v 22 The overwhelming forces will be overwhelmed from before him, and will be broken. Yes, also the prince of the covenant.
\p Daniel 11.23: \v 23 After the treaty made with him he will work deceitfully; for he will come up, and will become strong, with a small people.
\p Daniel 11.24: \v 24 In time of security he will come even on the fattest places of the province. He will do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers. He will scatter among them prey, plunder, and substance. Yes, he will devise his plans against the strongholds, even for a time.
\p
\p Daniel 11.25: \v 25 “He will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will wage war in battle with an exceedingly great and mighty army; but he won’t stand; for they will devise plans against him.
\p Daniel 11.26: \v 26 Yes, those who eat of his dainties will destroy him, and his army will be swept away. Many will fall down slain.
\p Daniel 11.27: \v 27 As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.
\p Daniel 11.28: \v 28 Then he will return into his land with great wealth. His heart will be against the holy covenant. He will take action, and return to his own land.
\p
\p Daniel 11.29: \v 29 “He will return at the appointed time, and come into the south; but it won’t be in the latter time as it was in the former.
\p Daniel 11.30: \v 30 For ships of Kittim will come against him. Therefore he will be grieved, and will return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and will take action. He will even return, and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant.
\p
\p Daniel 11.31: \v 31 “Forces will stand on his part, and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and will take away the continual burnt offering. Then they will set up the abomination that makes desolate.
\p Daniel 11.32: \v 32 He will corrupt those who do wickedly against the covenant by flatteries; but the people who know their God will be strong, and take action.
\p
\p Daniel 11.33: \v 33 “Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.
\p Daniel 11.34: \v 34 Now when they fall, they will be helped with a little help; but many will join themselves to them with flatteries.
\p Daniel 11.35: \v 35 Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
\p
\p Daniel 11.36: \v 36 “The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.
\p Daniel 11.37: \v 37 He won’t regard the gods of his fathers, or the desire of women, or regard any god; for he will magnify himself above all.
\p Daniel 11.38: \v 38 But in his place he will honor the god of fortresses. He will honor a god whom his fathers didn’t know with gold, silver, and with precious stones and pleasant things.
\p Daniel 11.39: \v 39 He will deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god. He will increase with glory whoever acknowledges him. He will cause them to rule over many, and will divide the land for a price.
\p
\p Daniel 11.40: \v 40 “At the time of the end the king of the south will contend with him; and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships. He will enter into the countries, and will overflow and pass through.
\p Daniel 11.41: \v 41 He will enter also into the glorious land, and many countries will be overthrown; but these will be delivered out of his hand: Edom, Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
\p Daniel 11.42: \v 42 He will also stretch out his hand on the countries. The land of Egypt won’t escape.
\p Daniel 11.43: \v 43 But he will have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt. The Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps.
\p Daniel 11.44: \v 44 But news out of the east and out of the north will trouble him; and he will go out with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many.
\p Daniel 11.45: \v 45 He will plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.
\p Daniel 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p Daniel 12.1: \v 1 “At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.
\p Daniel 12.2: \v 2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
\p Daniel 12.3: \v 3 Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.
\p Daniel 12.4: \v 4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many will run back and forth, and knowledge will be increased.”
\p
\p Daniel 12.5: \v 5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on the river bank on this side, and the other on the river bank on that side.
\p Daniel 12.6: \v 6 One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be to the end of these wonders?”
\p
\p Daniel 12.7: \v 7 I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it will be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have finished breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished.
\p
\p Daniel 12.8: \v 8 I heard, but I didn’t understand. Then I said, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”
\p
\p Daniel 12.9: \v 9 He said, “Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
\p Daniel 12.10: \v 10 Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.
\p
\p Daniel 12.11: \v 11 “From the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there will be one thousand two hundred ninety days.
\p Daniel 12.12: \v 12 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
\p
\p Daniel 12.13: \v 13 “But go your way until the end; for you will rest, and will stand in your inheritance at the end of the days.”
\p Hosea 0.0: \id HOS 28-HOS-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Hosea
\toc1 The Book of Hosea
\toc2 Hosea
\toc3 Hos
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Hosea
\p Hosea 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Hosea 1.1: \v 1 Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
\p Hosea 1.2: \v 2 When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”
\p
\p Hosea 1.3: \v 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
\p
\p Hosea 1.4: \v 4 Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
\p Hosea 1.5: \v 5 It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”
\p
\p Hosea 1.6: \v 6 She conceived again, and bore a daughter.
\p Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah\f + \fr 1:6 \ft Lo-Ruhamah means “not loved”.\f*; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.
\p Hosea 1.7: \v 7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God,\f + \fr 1:7 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
\p
\p Hosea 1.8: \v 8 Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
\p
\p Hosea 1.9: \v 9 He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi\f + \fr 1:9 \ft Lo-Ammi means “not my people”.\f*; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
\p Hosea 1.10: \v 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
\p Hosea 1.11: \v 11 The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.
\p Hosea 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Hosea 2.1: \v 1 “Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’\f + \fr 2:1 \ft ‘Ammi’ in Hebrew\f*
\q2 and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’\f + \fr 2:1 \ft ‘Ruhamah’ in Hebrew\f*
\q1
\p Hosea 2.2: \v 2 Contend with your mother!
\q2 Contend, for she is not my wife,
\q2 neither am I her husband;
\q1 and let her put away her prostitution from her face,
\q2 and her adulteries from between her breasts;
\q1
\p Hosea 2.3: \v 3 Lest I strip her naked,
\q2 and make her bare as in the day that she was born,
\q1 and make her like a wilderness,
\q2 and set her like a dry land,
\q2 and kill her with thirst.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.4: \v 4 Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy;
\q2 for they are children of unfaithfulness;
\q1
\p Hosea 2.5: \v 5 For their mother has played the prostitute.
\q2 She who conceived them has done shamefully;
\q1 for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
\q2 who give me my bread and my water,
\q2 my wool and my flax,
\q2 my oil and my drink.’
\q1
\p Hosea 2.6: \v 6 Therefore behold,\f + \fr 2:6 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I will hedge up your way with thorns,
\q2 and I will build a wall against her,
\q2 that she can’t find her way.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.7: \v 7 She will follow after her lovers,
\q2 but she won’t overtake them;
\q1 and she will seek them,
\q2 but won’t find them.
\q1 Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband;
\q2 for then was it better with me than now.’
\q1
\p Hosea 2.8: \v 8 For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
\q2 and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.9: \v 9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time,
\q2 and my new wine in its season,
\q2 and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.10: \v 10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
\q2 and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.11: \v 11 I will also cause all her celebrations to cease:
\q2 her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.12: \v 12 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
\q2 about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me;
\q2 and I will make them a forest,’
\q2 and the animals of the field shall eat them.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.13: \v 13 I will visit on her the days of the Baals,
\q2 to which she burned incense,
\q1 when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels,
\q2 and went after her lovers,
\q2 and forgot me,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.14: \v 14 “Therefore behold, I will allure her,
\q2 and bring her into the wilderness,
\q2 and speak tenderly to her.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.15: \v 15 I will give her vineyards from there,
\q2 and the valley of Achor for a door of hope;
\q1 and she will respond there,
\q2 as in the days of her youth,
\q2 and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.16: \v 16 It will be in that day,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “that you will call me ‘my husband,’
\q2 and no longer call me ‘my master.’
\q1
\p Hosea 2.17: \v 17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth,
\q2 and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.18: \v 18 In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field,
\q2 and with the birds of the sky,
\q2 and with the creeping things of the ground.
\q1 I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land,
\q2 and will make them lie down safely.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.19: \v 19 I will betroth you to me forever.
\q2 Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.20: \v 20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness;
\q2 and you shall know Yahweh.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.21: \v 21 It will happen in that day, I will respond,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “I will respond to the heavens,
\q2 and they will respond to the earth;
\q2
\p Hosea 2.22: \v 22 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil;
\q2 and they will respond to Jezreel.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.23: \v 23 I will sow her to me in the earth;
\q2 and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy;
\q2 and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’
\q2 and they will say, ‘My God!’”
\p Hosea 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Hosea 3.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
\p
\p Hosea 3.2: \v 2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer \f + \fr 3:2 \ft 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels\f* and a half of barley.
\p Hosea 3.3: \v 3 I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.”
\p
\p Hosea 3.4: \v 4 For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
\p Hosea 3.5: \v 5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
\p Hosea 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Hosea 4.1: \v 1 Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel;
\q2 for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land:
\q1 “Indeed there is no truth,
\q2 nor goodness,
\q2 nor knowledge of God in the land.
\q1
\p Hosea 4.2: \v 2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
\q2 they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
\q1
\p Hosea 4.3: \v 3 Therefore the land will mourn,
\q2 and everyone who dwells in it will waste away,
\q1 with all living things in her,
\q2 even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky,
\q2 yes, the fish of the sea also die.
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 4.4: \v 4 “Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
\q1
\p Hosea 4.5: \v 5 You will stumble in the day,
\q2 and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night;
\q2 and I will destroy your mother.
\q1
\p Hosea 4.6: \v 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
\q2 Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you,
\q2 that you may be no priest to me.
\q1 Because you have forgotten your God’s law,
\q2 I will also forget your children.
\q1
\p Hosea 4.7: \v 7 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me.
\q2 I will change their glory into shame.
\q1
\p Hosea 4.8: \v 8 They feed on the sin of my people,
\q2 and set their heart on their iniquity.
\q1
\p Hosea 4.9: \v 9 It will be, like people, like priest;
\q2 and I will punish them for their ways,
\q2 and will repay them for their deeds.
\q1
\p Hosea 4.10: \v 10 They will eat, and not have enough.
\q2 They will play the prostitute, and will not increase;
\q2 because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.
\q1
\p Hosea 4.11: \v 11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
\q2
\p Hosea 4.12: \v 12 My people consult with their wooden idol,
\q2 and answer to a stick of wood.
\q1 Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray,
\q2 and they have been unfaithful to their God.
\q1
\p Hosea 4.13: \v 13 They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains,
\q2 and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths,
\q2 because its shade is good.
\q1 Therefore your daughters play the prostitute,
\q2 and your brides commit adultery.
\q1
\p Hosea 4.14: \v 14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute,
\q2 nor your brides when they commit adultery;
\q1 because the men consort with prostitutes,
\q2 and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes;
\q2 so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 4.15: \v 15 “Though you, Israel, play the prostitute,
\q2 yet don’t let Judah offend;
\q2 and don’t come to Gilgal,
\q2 neither go up to Beth Aven,
\q2 nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’
\q1
\p Hosea 4.16: \v 16 For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer.
\q2 Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.
\q1
\p Hosea 4.17: \v 17 Ephraim is joined to idols.
\q2 Leave him alone!
\q1
\p Hosea 4.18: \v 18 Their drink has become sour.
\q2 They play the prostitute continually.
\q2 Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
\q1
\p Hosea 4.19: \v 19 The wind has wrapped her up in its wings;
\q2 and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.
\b
\p Hosea 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Hosea 5.1: \v 1 “Listen to this, you priests!
\q2 Listen, house of Israel,
\q2 and give ear, house of the king!
\q1 For the judgment is against you;
\q2 for you have been a snare at Mizpah,
\q2 and a net spread on Tabor.
\q1
\p Hosea 5.2: \v 2 The rebels are deep in slaughter;
\q2 but I discipline all of them.
\q1
\p Hosea 5.3: \v 3 I know Ephraim,
\q2 and Israel is not hidden from me;
\q1 for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute.
\q2 Israel is defiled.
\q1
\p Hosea 5.4: \v 4 Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God;
\q2 for the spirit of prostitution is within them,
\q2 and they don’t know Yahweh.
\q1
\p Hosea 5.5: \v 5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face.
\q2 Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity.
\q2 Judah also will stumble with them.
\q1
\p Hosea 5.6: \v 6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh;
\q2 but they won’t find him.
\q2 He has withdrawn himself from them.
\q1
\p Hosea 5.7: \v 7 They are unfaithful to Yahweh;
\q2 for they have borne illegitimate children.
\q2 Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 5.8: \v 8 “Blow the cornet in Gibeah,
\q2 and the trumpet in Ramah!
\q2 Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!
\q1
\p Hosea 5.9: \v 9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke.
\q2 Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.
\q1
\p Hosea 5.10: \v 10 The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark.
\q2 I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
\q1
\p Hosea 5.11: \v 11 Ephraim is oppressed,
\q2 he is crushed in judgment;
\q2 Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
\q1
\p Hosea 5.12: \v 12 Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth,
\q2 and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 5.13: \v 13 “When Ephraim saw his sickness,
\q2 and Judah his wound,
\q2 Then Ephraim went to Assyria,
\q2 and sent to king Jareb:
\q1 but he is not able to heal you,
\q2 neither will he cure you of your wound.
\q1
\p Hosea 5.14: \v 14 For I will be to Ephraim like a lion,
\q2 and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
\q1 I myself will tear in pieces and go away.
\q2 I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.
\q1
\p Hosea 5.15: \v 15 I will go and return to my place,
\q2 until they acknowledge their offense,
\q2 and seek my face.
\q2 In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
\b
\p Hosea 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Hosea 6.1: \v 1 “Come! Let’s return to Yahweh;
\q2 for he has torn us to pieces,
\q2 and he will heal us;
\q1 he has injured us,
\q2 and he will bind up our wounds.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.2: \v 2 After two days he will revive us.
\q2 On the third day he will raise us up,
\q2 and we will live before him.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.3: \v 3 Let’s acknowledge Yahweh.
\q2 Let’s press on to know Yahweh.
\q1 As surely as the sun rises,
\q2 Yahweh will appear.
\q1 He will come to us like the rain,
\q2 like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 6.4: \v 4 “Ephraim, what shall I do to you?
\q2 Judah, what shall I do to you?
\q2 For your love is like a morning cloud,
\q2 and like the dew that disappears early.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.5: \v 5 Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets;
\q2 I killed them with the words of my mouth.
\q2 Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.6: \v 6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice;
\q2 and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.7: \v 7 But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant.
\q2 They were unfaithful to me, there.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.8: \v 8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity;
\q2 it is stained with blood.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.9: \v 9 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man,
\q2 so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem,
\q2 committing shameful crimes.
\q1
\p Hosea 6.10: \v 10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing.
\q2 There is prostitution in Ephraim.
\q2 Israel is defiled.
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 6.11: \v 11 “Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you,
\q2 when I restore the fortunes of my people.
\p Hosea 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Hosea 7.1: \v 1 When I would heal Israel,
\q2 then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,
\q2 also the wickedness of Samaria;
\q2 for they commit falsehood,
\q2 and the thief enters in,
\q2 and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
\q1
\p Hosea 7.2: \v 2 They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness.
\q2 Now their own deeds have engulfed them.
\q2 They are before my face.
\q1
\p Hosea 7.3: \v 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness,
\q2 and the princes with their lies.
\q1
\p Hosea 7.4: \v 4 They are all adulterers.
\q2 They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring,
\q2 from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
\q1
\p Hosea 7.5: \v 5 On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine.
\q2 He joined his hand with mockers.
\q1
\p Hosea 7.6: \v 6 For they have prepared their heart like an oven,
\q2 while they lie in wait.
\q2 Their baker sleeps all the night.
\q2 In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
\q1
\p Hosea 7.7: \v 7 They are all hot as an oven,
\q2 and devour their judges.
\q1 All their kings have fallen.
\q2 There is no one among them who calls to me.
\q1
\p Hosea 7.8: \v 8 Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations.
\q2 Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
\q1
\p Hosea 7.9: \v 9 Strangers have devoured his strength,
\q2 and he doesn’t realize it.
\q1 Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him,
\q2 and he doesn’t realize it.
\q1
\p Hosea 7.10: \v 10 The pride of Israel testifies to his face;
\q2 yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God,
\q2 nor sought him, for all this.
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 7.11: \v 11 “Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding.
\q2 They call to Egypt.
\q2 They go to Assyria.
\q1
\p Hosea 7.12: \v 12 When they go, I will spread my net on them.
\q2 I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.
\q2 I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
\q1
\p Hosea 7.13: \v 13 Woe to them!
\q2 For they have wandered from me.
\q1 Destruction to them!
\q2 For they have trespassed against me.
\q1 Though I would redeem them,
\q2 yet they have spoken lies against me.
\q1
\p Hosea 7.14: \v 14 They haven’t cried to me with their heart,
\q2 but they howl on their beds.
\q1 They assemble themselves for grain and new wine.
\q2 They turn away from me.
\q1
\p Hosea 7.15: \v 15 Though I have taught and strengthened their arms,
\q2 yet they plot evil against me.
\q1
\p Hosea 7.16: \v 16 They return, but not to the Most High.
\q2 They are like a faulty bow.
\q2 Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue.
\q2 This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
\b
\p Hosea 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Hosea 8.1: \v 1 “Put the trumpet to your lips!
\q2 Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house,
\q2 because they have broken my covenant,
\q2 and rebelled against my law.
\q1
\p Hosea 8.2: \v 2 They cry to me, ‘My God, we Israel acknowledge you!’
\q2
\p Hosea 8.3: \v 3 Israel has cast off that which is good.
\q2 The enemy will pursue him.
\q1
\p Hosea 8.4: \v 4 They have set up kings, but not by me.
\q2 They have made princes, and I didn’t approve.
\q2 Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols,
\q2 that they may be cut off.
\q1
\p Hosea 8.5: \v 5 Let Samaria throw out his calf idol!
\q2 My anger burns against them!
\q2 How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
\q1
\p Hosea 8.6: \v 6 For this is even from Israel!
\q2 The workman made it, and it is no God;
\q2 indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
\q1
\p Hosea 8.7: \v 7 For they sow the wind,
\q2 and they will reap the whirlwind.
\q1 He has no standing grain.
\q2 The stalk will yield no head.
\q2 If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
\q1
\p Hosea 8.8: \v 8 Israel is swallowed up.
\q2 Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
\q1
\p Hosea 8.9: \v 9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
\q2 like a wild donkey wandering alone.
\q2 Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
\q1
\p Hosea 8.10: \v 10 But although they sold themselves among the nations,
\q2 I will now gather them;
\q2 and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
\q1
\p Hosea 8.11: \v 11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning,
\q2 they became for him altars for sinning.
\q1
\p Hosea 8.12: \v 12 I wrote for him the many things of my law;
\q2 but they were regarded as a strange thing.
\q1
\p Hosea 8.13: \v 13 As for the sacrifices of my offerings,
\q2 they sacrifice meat and eat it;
\q2 But Yahweh doesn’t accept them.
\q1 Now he will remember their iniquity,
\q2 and punish their sins.
\q2 They will return to Egypt.
\q1
\p Hosea 8.14: \v 14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;
\q2 and Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
\q2 but I will send a fire on his cities,
\q2 and it will devour its fortresses.”
\b
\p Hosea 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Hosea 9.1: \v 1 Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations;
\q2 for you were unfaithful to your God.
\q2 You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
\q1
\p Hosea 9.2: \v 2 The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them,
\q2 and the new wine will fail her.
\q1
\p Hosea 9.3: \v 3 They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land;
\q2 but Ephraim will return to Egypt,
\q2 and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
\q1
\p Hosea 9.4: \v 4 They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh,
\q2 neither will they be pleasing to him.
\q2 Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;
\q2 all who eat of it will be polluted;
\q2 for their bread will be for their appetite.
\q2 It will not come into Yahweh’s house.
\q1
\p Hosea 9.5: \v 5 What will you do in the day of solemn assembly,
\q2 and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
\q1
\p Hosea 9.6: \v 6 For, behold, they have gone away from destruction.
\q2 Egypt will gather them up.
\q2 Memphis will bury them.
\q2 Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver.
\q2 Thorns will be in their tents.
\q1
\p Hosea 9.7: \v 7 The days of visitation have come.
\q2 The days of reckoning have come.
\q1 Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool,
\q2 and the man who is inspired to be insane,
\q2 because of the abundance of your sins,
\q2 and because your hostility is great.
\q1
\p Hosea 9.8: \v 8 A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God.
\q2 A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths,
\q2 and hostility in the house of his God.
\q1
\p Hosea 9.9: \v 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves,
\q2 as in the days of Gibeah.
\q2 He will remember their iniquity.
\q2 He will punish them for their sins.
\q1
\p Hosea 9.10: \v 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness.
\q2 I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season;
\q2 but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing,
\q2 and became abominable like that which they loved.
\q1
\p Hosea 9.11: \v 11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird.
\q2 There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
\q1
\p Hosea 9.12: \v 12 Though they bring up their children,
\q2 yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left.
\q2 Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
\q1
\p Hosea 9.13: \v 13 I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place;
\q2 but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
\q1
\p Hosea 9.14: \v 14 Give them—Yahweh what will you give?
\q2 Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 9.15: \v 15 “All their wickedness is in Gilgal;
\q2 for there I hated them.
\q2 Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house!
\q2 I will love them no more.
\q2 All their princes are rebels.
\q1
\p Hosea 9.16: \v 16 Ephraim is struck.
\q2 Their root has dried up.
\q2 They will bear no fruit.
\q2 Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 9.17: \v 17 My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him;
\q2 and they will be wanderers among the nations.
\p Hosea 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Hosea 10.1: \v 1 Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit.
\q2 According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars.
\q2 As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
\q1
\p Hosea 10.2: \v 2 Their heart is divided.
\q2 Now they will be found guilty.
\q2 He will demolish their altars.
\q2 He will destroy their sacred stones.
\q1
\p Hosea 10.3: \v 3 Surely now they will say, “We have no king; for we don’t fear Yahweh;
\q2 and the king, what can he do for us?”
\q1
\p Hosea 10.4: \v 4 They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants.
\q2 Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
\q1
\p Hosea 10.5: \v 5 The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven;
\q2 for its people will mourn over it,
\q2 Along with its priests who rejoiced over it,
\q2 for its glory, because it has departed from it.
\q1
\p Hosea 10.6: \v 6 It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king.
\q2 Ephraim will receive shame,
\q2 and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.
\q1
\p Hosea 10.7: \v 7 Samaria and her king float away,
\q2 like a twig on the water.
\q1
\p Hosea 10.8: \v 8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed.
\q2 The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars.
\q2 They will tell the mountains, “Cover us!” and the hills, “Fall on us!”
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 10.9: \v 9 “Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah.
\q2 There they remained.
\q2 The battle against the children of iniquity doesn’t overtake them in Gibeah.
\q1
\p Hosea 10.10: \v 10 When it is my desire, I will chastise them;
\q2 and the nations will be gathered against them,
\q2 when they are bound to their two transgressions.
\q1
\p Hosea 10.11: \v 11 Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh;
\q2 so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck.
\q2 I will set a rider on Ephraim.
\q2 Judah will plow.
\q2 Jacob will break his clods.
\q1
\p Hosea 10.12: \v 12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness,
\q2 reap according to kindness.
\q1 Break up your fallow ground;
\q2 for it is time to seek Yahweh,
\q2 until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
\q1
\p Hosea 10.13: \v 13 You have plowed wickedness.
\q2 You have reaped iniquity.
\q2 You have eaten the fruit of lies,
\q2 for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
\q1
\p Hosea 10.14: \v 14 Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people,
\q2 and all your fortresses will be destroyed,
\q2 as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle.
\q2 The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
\q1
\p Hosea 10.15: \v 15 So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness.
\q2 At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.
\b
\p Hosea 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p Hosea 11.1: \v 1 “When Israel was a child, then I loved him,
\q2 and called my son out of Egypt.
\q1
\p Hosea 11.2: \v 2 They called to them, so they went from them.
\q2 They sacrificed to the Baals,
\q2 and burned incense to engraved images.
\q1
\p Hosea 11.3: \v 3 Yet I taught Ephraim to walk.
\q2 I took them by his arms;
\q2 but they didn’t know that I healed them.
\q1
\p Hosea 11.4: \v 4 I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love;
\q2 and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks;
\q2 and I bent down to him and I fed him.
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 11.5: \v 5 “They won’t return into the land of Egypt;
\q2 but the Assyrian will be their king,
\q2 because they refused to repent.
\q1
\p Hosea 11.6: \v 6 The sword will fall on their cities,
\q2 and will destroy the bars of their gates,
\q2 and will put an end to their plans.
\q1
\p Hosea 11.7: \v 7 My people are determined to turn from me.
\q2 Though they call to the Most High,
\q2 he certainly won’t exalt them.
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 11.8: \v 8 “How can I give you up, Ephraim?
\q2 How can I hand you over, Israel?
\q2 How can I make you like Admah?
\q2 How can I make you like Zeboiim?
\q1 My heart is turned within me,
\q2 my compassion is aroused.
\q1
\p Hosea 11.9: \v 9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger.
\q2 I will not return to destroy Ephraim:
\q2 for I am God, and not man; the Holy One among you;
\q2 and I will not come in wrath.
\q1
\p Hosea 11.10: \v 10 They will walk after Yahweh,
\q2 who will roar like a lion;
\q2 for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
\q1
\p Hosea 11.11: \v 11 They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt,
\q2 and like a dove out of the land of Assyria;
\q1 and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 11.12: \v 12 Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood,
\q2 and the house of Israel with deceit.
\q2 Judah still strays from God,
\q2 and is unfaithful to the Holy One.
\p Hosea 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p Hosea 12.1: \v 1 Ephraim feeds on wind,
\q2 and chases the east wind.
\q2 He continually multiplies lies and desolation.
\q2 They make a covenant with Assyria,
\q2 and oil is carried into Egypt.
\q1
\p Hosea 12.2: \v 2 Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah,
\q2 and will punish Jacob according to his ways;
\q2 according to his deeds he will repay him.
\q1
\p Hosea 12.3: \v 3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel;
\q2 and in his manhood he contended with God.
\q1
\p Hosea 12.4: \v 4 Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed;
\q2 he wept, and made supplication to him.
\q2 He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
\q2
\p Hosea 12.5: \v 5 even Yahweh, the God of Armies;
\q2 Yahweh is his name of renown!
\q1
\p Hosea 12.6: \v 6 Therefore turn to your God.
\q2 Keep kindness and justice,
\q2 and wait continually for your God.
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 12.7: \v 7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand.
\q2 He loves to defraud.
\q1
\p Hosea 12.8: \v 8 Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich,
\q2 I have found myself wealth.
\q2 In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 12.9: \v 9 “But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt.
\q2 I will yet again make you dwell in tents,
\q2 as in the days of the solemn feast.
\q1
\p Hosea 12.10: \v 10 I have also spoken to the prophets,
\q2 and I have multiplied visions;
\q2 and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
\q1
\p Hosea 12.11: \v 11 If Gilead is wicked,
\q2 surely they are worthless.
\q1 In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls.
\q2 Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
\q1
\p Hosea 12.12: \v 12 Jacob fled into the country of Aram,
\q2 and Israel served to get a wife,
\q2 and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
\q1
\p Hosea 12.13: \v 13 By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt,
\q2 and by a prophet he was preserved.
\q1
\p Hosea 12.14: \v 14 Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger.
\q2 Therefore his blood will be left on him,
\q2 and his Lord\f + \fr 12:14 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* will repay his contempt.
\p Hosea 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p Hosea 13.1: \v 1 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.
\q2 He exalted himself in Israel,
\q2 but when he became guilty in Baal, he died.
\q1
\p Hosea 13.2: \v 2 Now they sin more and more,
\q2 and have made themselves molten images of their silver,
\q2 even idols according to their own understanding,
\q2 all of them the work of the craftsmen.
\q2 They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’
\q1
\p Hosea 13.3: \v 3 Therefore they will be like the morning mist,
\q2 and like the dew that passes away early,
\q2 like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor,
\q2 and like the smoke out of the chimney.
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 13.4: \v 4 “Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt;
\q2 and you shall acknowledge no god but me,
\q2 and besides me there is no savior.
\q1
\p Hosea 13.5: \v 5 I knew you in the wilderness,
\q2 in the land of great drought.
\q1
\p Hosea 13.6: \v 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled;
\q2 they were filled, and their heart was exalted.
\q2 Therefore they have forgotten me.
\q1
\p Hosea 13.7: \v 7 Therefore I am like a lion to them.
\q2 Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.
\q1
\p Hosea 13.8: \v 8 I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs,
\q2 and will tear the covering of their heart.
\q2 There I will devour them like a lioness.
\q2 The wild animal will tear them.
\q1
\p Hosea 13.9: \v 9 You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me,
\q2 against your help.
\q1
\p Hosea 13.10: \v 10 Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities?
\q2 And your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes?’
\q1
\p Hosea 13.11: \v 11 I have given you a king in my anger,
\q2 and have taken him away in my wrath.
\q1
\p Hosea 13.12: \v 12 The guilt of Ephraim is stored up.
\q2 His sin is stored up.
\q1
\p Hosea 13.13: \v 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him.
\q2 He is an unwise son;
\q2 for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb.
\q1
\p Hosea 13.14: \v 14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol.\f + \fr 13:14 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 I will redeem them from death!
\q2 Death, where are your plagues?
\q2 Sheol, where is your destruction?
\b
\q1 “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
\q2
\p Hosea 13.15: \v 15 Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come,
\q2 the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness;
\q2 and his spring will become dry,
\q2 and his fountain will be dried up.
\q2 He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
\q1
\p Hosea 13.16: \v 16 Samaria will bear her guilt;
\q2 for she has rebelled against her God.
\q2 They will fall by the sword.
\q2 Their infants will be dashed in pieces,
\q2 and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”
\b
\p Hosea 14.0: \c 14
\q1
\p Hosea 14.1: \v 1 Israel, return to Yahweh your God;
\q2 for you have fallen because of your sin.
\q1
\p Hosea 14.2: \v 2 Take words with you, and return to Yahweh.
\q2 Tell him, “Forgive all our sins,
\q2 and accept that which is good:
\q2 so we offer our lips like bulls.
\q1
\p Hosea 14.3: \v 3 Assyria can’t save us.
\q2 We won’t ride on horses;
\q2 neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’
\q2 for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 14.4: \v 4 “I will heal their waywardness.
\q2 I will love them freely;
\q2 for my anger is turned away from him.
\q1
\p Hosea 14.5: \v 5 I will be like the dew to Israel.
\q2 He will blossom like the lily,
\q2 and send down his roots like Lebanon.
\q1
\p Hosea 14.6: \v 6 His branches will spread,
\q2 and his beauty will be like the olive tree,
\q2 and his fragrance like Lebanon.
\q1
\p Hosea 14.7: \v 7 Men will dwell in his shade.
\q2 They will revive like the grain,
\q2 and blossom like the vine.
\q2 Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
\q1
\p Hosea 14.8: \v 8 Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols?
\q2 I answer, and will take care of him.
\q2 I am like a green cypress tree;
\q2 from me your fruit is found.”
\b
\q1
\p Hosea 14.9: \v 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things?
\q2 Who is prudent, that he may know them?
\q2 For the ways of Yahweh are right,
\q2 and the righteous walk in them;
\q2 But the rebellious stumble in them.
\p Joel 0.0: \id JOL 29-JOL-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Joel
\toc1 The Book of Joel
\toc2 Joel
\toc3 Jol
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Joel
\p Joel 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Joel 1.1: \v 1 Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
\q1
\p Joel 1.2: \v 2 Hear this, you elders,
\q2 And listen, all you inhabitants of the land.
\q1 Has this ever happened in your days,
\q2 or in the days of your fathers?
\q1
\p Joel 1.3: \v 3 Tell your children about it,
\q2 and have your children tell their children,
\q2 and their children, another generation.
\q1
\p Joel 1.4: \v 4 What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten.
\q2 What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten.
\q2 What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
\q1
\p Joel 1.5: \v 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
\q2 Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine;
\q2 for it is cut off from your mouth.
\q1
\p Joel 1.6: \v 6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number.
\q2 His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
\q2 and he has the fangs of a lioness.
\q1
\p Joel 1.7: \v 7 He has laid my vine waste,
\q2 and stripped my fig tree.
\q2 He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away.
\q2 Its branches are made white.
\q1
\p Joel 1.8: \v 8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
\p Joel 1.9: \v 9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house.
\q2 The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.
\q1
\p Joel 1.10: \v 10 The field is laid waste.
\q2 The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed,
\q2 The new wine has dried up,
\q2 and the oil languishes.
\q1
\p Joel 1.11: \v 11 Be confounded, you farmers!
\q2 Wail, you vineyard keepers;
\q2 for the wheat and for the barley;
\q2 for the harvest of the field has perished.
\q1
\p Joel 1.12: \v 12 The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered;
\q2 the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree,
\q2 even all of the trees of the field are withered;
\q2 for joy has withered away from the sons of men.
\q1
\p Joel 1.13: \v 13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests!
\q2 Wail, you ministers of the altar.
\q1 Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God,\f + \fr 1:13 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f*
\q2 for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.
\q1
\p Joel 1.14: \v 14 Sanctify a fast.
\q2 Call a solemn assembly.
\q2 Gather the elders,
\q2 and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God,
\q2 and cry to Yahweh.
\q1
\p Joel 1.15: \v 15 Alas for the day!
\q2 For the day of Yahweh is at hand,
\q2 and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
\q1
\p Joel 1.16: \v 16 Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes;
\q2 joy and gladness from the house of our God?
\q1
\p Joel 1.17: \v 17 The seeds rot under their clods.
\q2 The granaries are laid desolate.
\q2 The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
\q1
\p Joel 1.18: \v 18 How the animals groan!
\q2 The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture.
\q2 Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
\q1
\p Joel 1.19: \v 19 Yahweh, I cry to you,
\q2 For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,
\q2 and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
\q1
\p Joel 1.20: \v 20 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you,
\q2 for the water brooks have dried up,
\q2 And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
\b
\p Joel 2.0: \c 2
\q1
\p Joel 2.1: \v 1 Blow the trumpet in Zion,
\q2 and sound an alarm in my holy mountain!
\q1 Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
\q2 for the day of Yahweh comes,
\q2 for it is close at hand:
\q1
\p Joel 2.2: \v 2 A day of darkness and gloominess,
\q2 a day of clouds and thick darkness.
\q1 As the dawn spreading on the mountains,
\q2 a great and strong people;
\q2 there has never been the like,
\q2 neither will there be any more after them,
\q2 even to the years of many generations.
\q1
\p Joel 2.3: \v 3 A fire devours before them,
\q2 and behind them, a flame burns.
\q1 The land is as the garden of Eden before them,
\q2 and behind them, a desolate wilderness.
\q1 Yes, and no one has escaped them.
\q1
\p Joel 2.4: \v 4 Their appearance is as the appearance of horses,
\q2 and they run as horsemen.
\q1
\p Joel 2.5: \v 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap,
\q2 like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble,
\q2 like a strong people set in battle array.
\q1
\p Joel 2.6: \v 6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish.
\q2 All faces have grown pale.
\q1
\p Joel 2.7: \v 7 They run like mighty men.
\q2 They climb the wall like warriors.
\q2 They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course.
\q1
\p Joel 2.8: \v 8 Neither does one jostle another;
\q2 they march everyone in his path,
\q2 and they burst through the defenses,
\q2 and don’t break ranks.
\q1
\p Joel 2.9: \v 9 They rush on the city.
\q2 They run on the wall.
\q2 They climb up into the houses.
\q2 They enter in at the windows like thieves.
\q1
\p Joel 2.10: \v 10 The earth quakes before them.
\q2 The heavens tremble.
\q2 The sun and the moon are darkened,
\q2 and the stars withdraw their shining.
\q1
\p Joel 2.11: \v 11 Yahweh thunders his voice before his army;
\q2 for his forces are very great;
\q2 for he is strong who obeys his command;
\q2 for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome,
\q2 and who can endure it?
\q1
\p Joel 2.12: \v 12 “Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart,
\q2 and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
\q1
\p Joel 2.13: \v 13 Tear your heart, and not your garments,
\q2 and turn to Yahweh, your God;
\q2 for he is gracious and merciful,
\q2 slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,
\q2 and relents from sending calamity.
\q1
\p Joel 2.14: \v 14 Who knows? He may turn and relent,
\q2 and leave a blessing behind him,
\q2 even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.
\q1
\p Joel 2.15: \v 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion!
\q2 Sanctify a fast.
\q2 Call a solemn assembly.
\q1
\p Joel 2.16: \v 16 Gather the people.
\q2 Sanctify the assembly.
\q2 Assemble the elders.
\q2 Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts.
\q1 Let the bridegroom go out of his room,
\q2 and the bride out of her room.
\q1
\p Joel 2.17: \v 17 Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar,
\q2 and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh,
\q2 and don’t give your heritage to reproach,
\q2 that the nations should rule over them.
\q1 Why should they say among the peoples,
\q2 ‘Where is their God?’”
\q1
\p Joel 2.18: \v 18 Then Yahweh was jealous for his land,
\q2 And had pity on his people.
\q1
\p Joel 2.19: \v 19 Yahweh answered his people,
\q2 “Behold,\f + \fr 2:19 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I will send you grain, new wine, and oil,
\q2 and you will be satisfied with them;
\q2 and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
\q1
\p Joel 2.20: \v 20 But I will remove the northern army far away from you,
\q2 and will drive it into a barren and desolate land,
\q2 its front into the eastern sea,
\q2 and its back into the western sea;
\q2 and its stench will come up,
\q2 and its bad smell will rise.”
\q1 Surely he has done great things.
\q1
\p Joel 2.21: \v 21 Land, don’t be afraid.
\q2 Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has done great things.
\q1
\p Joel 2.22: \v 22 Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field;
\q2 for the pastures of the wilderness spring up,
\q2 for the tree bears its fruit.
\q2 The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
\b
\q1
\p Joel 2.23: \v 23 “Be glad then, you children of Zion,
\q2 and rejoice in Yahweh, your God;
\q2 for he gives you the early rain in just measure,
\q2 and he causes the rain to come down for you,
\q2 the early rain and the latter rain,
\q2 as before.
\q1
\p Joel 2.24: \v 24 The threshing floors will be full of wheat,
\q2 and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
\q1
\p Joel 2.25: \v 25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,
\q2 the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar,
\q2 my great army, which I sent among you.
\q1
\p Joel 2.26: \v 26 You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied,
\q2 and will praise the name of Yahweh, your God,
\q2 who has dealt wondrously with you;
\q2 and my people will never again be disappointed.
\q1
\p Joel 2.27: \v 27 You will know that I am among Israel,
\q2 and that I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no one else;
\q2 and my people will never again be disappointed.
\b
\q1
\p Joel 2.28: \v 28 “It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
\q2 and your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
\q2 Your old men will dream dreams.
\q2 Your young men will see visions.
\q1
\p Joel 2.29: \v 29 And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days,
\q2 I will pour out my Spirit.
\q1
\p Joel 2.30: \v 30 I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:
\q2 blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
\q1
\p Joel 2.31: \v 31 The sun will be turned into darkness,
\q2 and the moon into blood,
\q2 before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
\q1
\p Joel 2.32: \v 32 It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved;
\q2 for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape,
\q2 as Yahweh has said,
\q2 and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
\b
\p Joel 3.0: \c 3
\q1
\p Joel 3.1: \v 1 “For, behold, in those days,
\q2 and in that time,
\q2 when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
\q1
\p Joel 3.2: \v 2 I will gather all nations,
\q2 and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat;
\q2 and I will execute judgment on them there for my people,
\q2 and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations.
\q2 They have divided my land,
\q2
\p Joel 3.3: \v 3 and have cast lots for my people,
\q2 and have given a boy for a prostitute,
\q2 and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
\b
\q1
\p Joel 3.4: \v 4 “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon,
\q2 and all the regions of Philistia?
\q1 Will you repay me?
\q2 And if you repay me,
\q2 I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
\q1
\p Joel 3.5: \v 5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold,
\q2 and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
\q2
\p Joel 3.6: \v 6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks,
\q2 that you may remove them far from their border.
\q1
\p Joel 3.7: \v 7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them,
\q2 and will return your repayment on your own head;
\q1
\p Joel 3.8: \v 8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah,
\q2 and they will sell them to the men of Sheba,
\q2 to a faraway nation,
\q2 for Yahweh has spoken it.”
\b
\q1
\p Joel 3.9: \v 9 Proclaim this among the nations:
\q2 “Prepare for war!
\q2 Stir up the mighty men.
\q1 Let all the warriors draw near.
\q2 Let them come up.
\p Joel 3.10: \v 10 Beat your plowshares into swords,
\q2 and your pruning hooks into spears.
\q2 Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
\q1
\p Joel 3.11: \v 11 Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations,
\q2 and gather yourselves together.”
\q1 Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.
\q1
\p Joel 3.12: \v 12 “Let the nations arouse themselves,
\q2 and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;
\q2 for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
\q1
\p Joel 3.13: \v 13 Put in the sickle;
\q2 for the harvest is ripe.
\q2 Come, tread, for the wine press is full,
\q2 the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”
\q1
\p Joel 3.14: \v 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
\q2 For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.
\q1
\p Joel 3.15: \v 15 The sun and the moon are darkened,
\q2 and the stars withdraw their shining.
\q1
\p Joel 3.16: \v 16 Yahweh will roar from Zion,
\q2 and thunder from Jerusalem;
\q2 and the heavens and the earth will shake;
\q2 but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people,
\q2 and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
\q1
\p Joel 3.17: \v 17 “So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God,
\q2 dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain.
\q1 Then Jerusalem will be holy,
\q2 and no strangers will pass through her any more.
\q1
\p Joel 3.18: \v 18 It will happen in that day,
\q2 that the mountains will drop down sweet wine,
\q2 the hills will flow with milk,
\q2 all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters,
\q2 and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house,
\q2 and will water the valley of Shittim.
\q1
\p Joel 3.19: \v 19 Egypt will be a desolation,
\q2 and Edom will be a desolate wilderness,
\q2 for the violence done to the children of Judah,
\q2 because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
\q1
\p Joel 3.20: \v 20 But Judah will be inhabited forever,
\q2 and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
\q1
\p Joel 3.21: \v 21 I will cleanse their blood,
\q2 that I have not cleansed:
\q2 for Yahweh dwells in Zion.”
\p Obadiah 0.0: \id OBA 31-OBA-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Obadiah
\toc1 The Book of Obadiah
\toc2 Obadiah
\toc3 Oba
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Obadiah
\p Obadiah 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Obadiah 1.1: \v 1 The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord\f + \fr 1:1 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* Yahweh\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.
\p Obadiah 1.2: \v 2 Behold,\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.
\p Obadiah 1.3: \v 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
\p Obadiah 1.4: \v 4 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
\p Obadiah 1.5: \v 5 “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?
\p Obadiah 1.6: \v 6 How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!
\p Obadiah 1.7: \v 7 All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”
\p
\p Obadiah 1.8: \v 8 “Won’t I in that day”, says Yahweh, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?
\p Obadiah 1.9: \v 9 Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
\p Obadiah 1.10: \v 10 For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
\p Obadiah 1.11: \v 11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.
\p Obadiah 1.12: \v 12 But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.
\p Obadiah 1.13: \v 13 Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.
\p Obadiah 1.14: \v 14 Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.
\p Obadiah 1.15: \v 15 For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.
\p Obadiah 1.16: \v 16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.
\p Obadiah 1.17: \v 17 But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
\p Obadiah 1.18: \v 18 The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
\p
\p Obadiah 1.19: \v 19 Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.
\p Obadiah 1.20: \v 20 The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.
\p Obadiah 1.21: \v 21 Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.
\p Jonah 0.0: \id JON 32-JON-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Jonah
\toc1 The Book of Jonah
\toc2 Jonah
\toc3 Jon
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Jonah
\p Jonah 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Jonah 1.1: \v 1 Now Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
\p Jonah 1.2: \v 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
\p
\p Jonah 1.3: \v 3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.
\p Jonah 1.4: \v 4 But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
\p Jonah 1.5: \v 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
\p Jonah 1.6: \v 6 So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God!\f + \fr 1:6 \ft or, gods\f* Maybe your God\f + \fr 1:6 \ft or, gods \f* will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”
\p
\p Jonah 1.7: \v 7 They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
\p Jonah 1.8: \v 8 Then they asked him, “Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?”
\p
\p Jonah 1.9: \v 9 He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God\f + \fr 1:9 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”
\p
\p Jonah 1.10: \v 10 Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “What have you done?” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them.
\p Jonah 1.11: \v 11 Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?” For the sea grew more and more stormy.
\p Jonah 1.12: \v 12 He said to them, “Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you.”
\p
\p Jonah 1.13: \v 13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.
\p Jonah 1.14: \v 14 Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”
\p Jonah 1.15: \v 15 So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.
\p Jonah 1.16: \v 16 Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.
\p
\p Jonah 1.17: \v 17 Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
\p Jonah 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Jonah 2.1: \v 1 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.
\p Jonah 2.2: \v 2 He said,
\q1 “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh.
\q2 He answered me.
\q1 Out of the belly of Sheol\f + \fr 2:2 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* I cried.
\q2 You heard my voice.
\q1
\p Jonah 2.3: \v 3 For you threw me into the depths,
\q2 in the heart of the seas.
\q1 The flood was all around me.
\q2 All your waves and your billows passed over me.
\q1
\p Jonah 2.4: \v 4 I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight;
\q2 yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
\q1
\p Jonah 2.5: \v 5 The waters surrounded me,
\q2 even to the soul.
\q1 The deep was around me.
\q2 The weeds were wrapped around my head.
\q1
\p Jonah 2.6: \v 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains.
\q2 The earth barred me in forever:
\q2 yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
\b
\q1
\p Jonah 2.7: \v 7 “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh.
\q2 My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
\q1
\p Jonah 2.8: \v 8 Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
\q2
\p Jonah 2.9: \v 9 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving.
\q2 I will pay that which I have vowed.
\q1 Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”
\p
\p Jonah 2.10: \v 10 Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
\p Jonah 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Jonah 3.1: \v 1 Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying,
\p Jonah 3.2: \v 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
\p
\p Jonah 3.3: \v 3 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.
\p Jonah 3.4: \v 4 Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
\p
\p Jonah 3.5: \v 5 The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.
\p Jonah 3.6: \v 6 The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
\p Jonah 3.7: \v 7 He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
\p Jonah 3.8: \v 8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
\p Jonah 3.9: \v 9 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
\p
\p Jonah 3.10: \v 10 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.
\p Jonah 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Jonah 4.1: \v 1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
\p Jonah 4.2: \v 2 He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
\p Jonah 4.3: \v 3 Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”
\p
\p Jonah 4.4: \v 4 Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
\p
\p Jonah 4.5: \v 5 Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
\p Jonah 4.6: \v 6 Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.
\p Jonah 4.7: \v 7 But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.
\p Jonah 4.8: \v 8 When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
\p
\p Jonah 4.9: \v 9 God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?”
\p He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
\p
\p Jonah 4.10: \v 10 Yahweh said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.
\p Jonah 4.11: \v 11 Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”
\p Nahum 0.0: \id NAM 34-NAM-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Nahum
\toc1 The Book of Nahum
\toc2 Nahum
\toc3 Nam
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Nahum
\p Nahum 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Nahum 1.1: \v 1 A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
\p Nahum 1.2: \v 2 Yahweh\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* is a jealous God\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
\p Nahum 1.3: \v 3 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
\p Nahum 1.4: \v 4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
\p Nahum 1.5: \v 5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
\p Nahum 1.6: \v 6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
\p Nahum 1.7: \v 7 Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
\p Nahum 1.8: \v 8 But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
\p Nahum 1.9: \v 9 What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
\p Nahum 1.10: \v 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
\p Nahum 1.11: \v 11 There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.
\p Nahum 1.12: \v 12 Yahweh says: “Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
\p Nahum 1.13: \v 13 Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”
\p Nahum 1.14: \v 14 Yahweh has commanded concerning you: “No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, I will cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”
\p
\p Nahum 1.15: \v 15 Behold,\f + \fr 1:15 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.
\p Nahum 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Nahum 2.1: \v 1 He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!
\p Nahum 2.2: \v 2 For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.
\p Nahum 2.3: \v 3 The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.
\p Nahum 2.4: \v 4 The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.
\p Nahum 2.5: \v 5 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
\p Nahum 2.6: \v 6 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
\p Nahum 2.7: \v 7 It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
\p Nahum 2.8: \v 8 But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.
\p Nahum 2.9: \v 9 Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
\p Nahum 2.10: \v 10 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
\p Nahum 2.11: \v 11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?
\p Nahum 2.12: \v 12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
\p Nahum 2.13: \v 13 “Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
\p Nahum 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Nahum 3.1: \v 1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.
\p Nahum 3.2: \v 2 The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
\p Nahum 3.3: \v 3 the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,
\p Nahum 3.4: \v 4 because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
\p Nahum 3.5: \v 5 “Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
\p Nahum 3.6: \v 6 I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
\p Nahum 3.7: \v 7 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”
\p
\p Nahum 3.8: \v 8 Are you better than No-Amon,\f + \fr 3:8 \ft or, Thebes\f* who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
\p Nahum 3.9: \v 9 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
\p Nahum 3.10: \v 10 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
\p Nahum 3.11: \v 11 You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
\p Nahum 3.12: \v 12 All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
\p Nahum 3.13: \v 13 Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
\p Nahum 3.14: \v 14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
\p Nahum 3.15: \v 15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
\p Nahum 3.16: \v 16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
\p Nahum 3.17: \v 17 Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
\p Nahum 3.18: \v 18 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
\p Nahum 3.19: \v 19 There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?
\p Habakkuk 0.0: \id HAB 35-HAB-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Habakkuk
\toc1 The Book of Habakkuk
\toc2 Habakkuk
\toc3 Hab
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Habakkuk
\p Habakkuk 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Habakkuk 1.1: \v 1 The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
\p Habakkuk 1.2: \v 2 Yahweh,\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
\p Habakkuk 1.3: \v 3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
\p Habakkuk 1.4: \v 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
\p
\p Habakkuk 1.5: \v 5 “Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.
\p Habakkuk 1.6: \v 6 For, behold,\f + \fr 1:6 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
\p Habakkuk 1.7: \v 7 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
\p Habakkuk 1.8: \v 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
\p Habakkuk 1.9: \v 9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.
\p Habakkuk 1.10: \v 10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.
\p Habakkuk 1.11: \v 11 Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god.”
\p
\p Habakkuk 1.12: \v 12 Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God,\f + \fr 1:12 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
\p Habakkuk 1.13: \v 13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
\p Habakkuk 1.14: \v 14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
\p Habakkuk 1.15: \v 15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
\p Habakkuk 1.16: \v 16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.
\p Habakkuk 1.17: \v 17 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
\p Habakkuk 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Habakkuk 2.1: \v 1 I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
\p
\p Habakkuk 2.2: \v 2 Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
\p Habakkuk 2.3: \v 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
\p Habakkuk 2.4: \v 4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
\p Habakkuk 2.5: \v 5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol,\f + \fr 2:5 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead. \f* and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
\p Habakkuk 2.6: \v 6 Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
\p Habakkuk 2.7: \v 7 Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
\p Habakkuk 2.8: \v 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
\p Habakkuk 2.9: \v 9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
\p Habakkuk 2.10: \v 10 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
\p Habakkuk 2.11: \v 11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
\p Habakkuk 2.12: \v 12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
\p Habakkuk 2.13: \v 13 Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
\p Habakkuk 2.14: \v 14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
\p
\p Habakkuk 2.15: \v 15 “Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
\p Habakkuk 2.16: \v 16 You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
\p Habakkuk 2.17: \v 17 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.
\p
\p Habakkuk 2.18: \v 18 “What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
\p Habakkuk 2.19: \v 19 Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.
\p Habakkuk 2.20: \v 20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
\p Habakkuk 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Habakkuk 3.1: \v 1 A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.2: \v 2 Yahweh, I have heard of your fame.
\q2 I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh.
\q1 Renew your work in the middle of the years.
\q2 In the middle of the years make it known.
\q2 In wrath, you remember mercy.
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.3: \v 3 God came from Teman,
\q2 the Holy One from Mount Paran. \qs Selah.\qs*
\b
\q1 His glory covered the heavens,
\q2 and his praise filled the earth.
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.4: \v 4 His splendor is like the sunrise.
\q2 Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.5: \v 5 Plague went before him,
\q2 and pestilence followed his feet.
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.6: \v 6 He stood, and shook the earth.
\q2 He looked, and made the nations tremble.
\q2 The ancient mountains were crumbled.
\q2 The age-old hills collapsed.
\q2 His ways are eternal.
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.7: \v 7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction.
\q2 The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.8: \v 8 Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers?
\q2 Was your anger against the rivers,
\q2 or your wrath against the sea,
\q2 that you rode on your horses,
\q2 on your chariots of salvation?
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.9: \v 9 You uncovered your bow.
\q2 You called for your sworn arrows. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1 You split the earth with rivers.
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.10: \v 10 The mountains saw you, and were afraid.
\q2 The storm of waters passed by.
\q2 The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.11: \v 11 The sun and moon stood still in the sky,
\q2 at the light of your arrows as they went,
\q2 at the shining of your glittering spear.
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.12: \v 12 You marched through the land in wrath.
\q2 You threshed the nations in anger.
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.13: \v 13 You went out for the salvation of your people,
\q2 for the salvation of your anointed.
\q1 You crushed the head of the land of wickedness.
\q2 You stripped them head to foot. \qs Selah.\qs*
\b
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.14: \v 14 You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears.
\q2 They came as a whirlwind to scatter me,
\q2 gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.15: \v 15 You trampled the sea with your horses,
\q2 churning mighty waters.
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.16: \v 16 I heard, and my body trembled.
\q2 My lips quivered at the voice.
\q1 Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place,
\q2 because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble,
\q2 for the coming up of the people who invade us.
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.17: \v 17 For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish,
\q2 nor fruit be in the vines;
\q2 the labor of the olive fails,
\q2 the fields yield no food;
\q2 the flocks are cut off from the fold,
\q2 and there is no herd in the stalls:
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.18: \v 18 yet I will rejoice in Yahweh.
\q2 I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
\q1
\p Habakkuk 3.19: \v 19 Yahweh, the Lord,\f + \fr 3:19 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* is my strength.
\q2 He makes my feet like deer’s feet,
\q2 and enables me to go in high places.
\p For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
\p Zephaniah 0.0: \id ZEP 36-ZEP-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Zephaniah
\toc1 The Book of Zephaniah
\toc2 Zephaniah
\toc3 Zep
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Zephaniah
\p Zephaniah 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Zephaniah 1.1: \v 1 Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.
\p Zephaniah 1.2: \v 2 I will utterly sweep away everything from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.
\p Zephaniah 1.3: \v 3 I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.
\p Zephaniah 1.4: \v 4 I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,
\p Zephaniah 1.5: \v 5 those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
\p Zephaniah 1.6: \v 6 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
\p Zephaniah 1.7: \v 7 Be silent at the presence of the Lord\f + \fr 1:7 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.
\p Zephaniah 1.8: \v 8 It will happen in the day of Yahweh’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king’s sons, and all those who are clothed with foreign clothing.
\p Zephaniah 1.9: \v 9 In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.
\p Zephaniah 1.10: \v 10 In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.
\p Zephaniah 1.11: \v 11 Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.
\p Zephaniah 1.12: \v 12 It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”
\p Zephaniah 1.13: \v 13 Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.
\p Zephaniah 1.14: \v 14 The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.
\p Zephaniah 1.15: \v 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
\p Zephaniah 1.16: \v 16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
\p Zephaniah 1.17: \v 17 I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.
\p Zephaniah 1.18: \v 18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
\p Zephaniah 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Zephaniah 2.1: \v 1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,
\p Zephaniah 2.2: \v 2 before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.
\p Zephaniah 2.3: \v 3 Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
\p Zephaniah 2.4: \v 4 For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.
\p Zephaniah 2.5: \v 5 Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.
\p Zephaniah 2.6: \v 6 The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
\p Zephaniah 2.7: \v 7 The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God,\f + \fr 2:7 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* will visit them, and restore them.
\p Zephaniah 2.8: \v 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
\p Zephaniah 2.9: \v 9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
\p Zephaniah 2.10: \v 10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.
\p Zephaniah 2.11: \v 11 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.
\p Zephaniah 2.12: \v 12 You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.
\p Zephaniah 2.13: \v 13 He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.
\p Zephaniah 2.14: \v 14 Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
\p Zephaniah 2.15: \v 15 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
\p Zephaniah 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Zephaniah 3.1: \v 1 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
\p Zephaniah 3.2: \v 2 She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.
\p Zephaniah 3.3: \v 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
\p Zephaniah 3.4: \v 4 Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
\p Zephaniah 3.5: \v 5 Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
\p Zephaniah 3.6: \v 6 I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
\p Zephaniah 3.7: \v 7 I said, “Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won’t be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her.” But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.
\p Zephaniah 3.8: \v 8 “Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
\p Zephaniah 3.9: \v 9 For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
\p Zephaniah 3.10: \v 10 From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.
\p Zephaniah 3.11: \v 11 In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.
\p Zephaniah 3.12: \v 12 But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.
\p Zephaniah 3.13: \v 13 The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”
\p
\p Zephaniah 3.14: \v 14 Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.
\p Zephaniah 3.15: \v 15 Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.
\p Zephaniah 3.16: \v 16 In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”
\p Zephaniah 3.17: \v 17 Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
\p Zephaniah 3.18: \v 18 I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.
\p Zephaniah 3.19: \v 19 Behold,\f + \fr 3:19 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them praise and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.
\p Zephaniah 3.20: \v 20 At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says Yahweh.
\p Haggai 0.0: \id HAG 37-HAG-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Haggai
\toc1 The Book of Haggai
\toc2 Haggai
\toc3 Hag
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Haggai
\p Haggai 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Haggai 1.1: \v 1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* 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,
\p Haggai 1.2: \v 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.’”
\p
\p Haggai 1.3: \v 3 Then Yahweh’s word came by Haggai, the prophet, saying,
\p Haggai 1.4: \v 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
\p Haggai 1.5: \v 5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
\p Haggai 1.6: \v 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.”
\p
\p Haggai 1.7: \v 7 This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.
\p Haggai 1.8: \v 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.
\p Haggai 1.9: \v 9 “You looked for much, and, behold,\f + \fr 1:9 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* 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.
\p Haggai 1.10: \v 10 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
\p Haggai 1.11: \v 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.”
\p
\p Haggai 1.12: \v 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\f + \fr 1:12 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* voice, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.
\p
\p Haggai 1.13: \v 13 Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.
\p
\p Haggai 1.14: \v 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,
\p Haggai 1.15: \v 15 in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
\p Haggai 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Haggai 2.1: \v 1 In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
\p Haggai 2.2: \v 2 “Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
\p Haggai 2.3: \v 3 ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn’t it in your eyes as nothing?
\p Haggai 2.4: \v 4 Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
\p Haggai 2.5: \v 5 This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. ‘Don’t be afraid.’
\p Haggai 2.6: \v 6 For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;
\p Haggai 2.7: \v 7 and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Armies.
\p Haggai 2.8: \v 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
\p Haggai 2.9: \v 9 ‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says Yahweh of Armies; ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”
\p
\p Haggai 2.10: \v 10 In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
\p Haggai 2.11: \v 11 “Yahweh of Armies says: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
\p Haggai 2.12: \v 12 ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?’”
\p The priests answered, “No.”
\p
\p Haggai 2.13: \v 13 Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?”
\p The priests answered, “It will be unclean.”
\p
\p Haggai 2.14: \v 14 Then Haggai answered, “‘So is this people, and so is this nation before me,’ says Yahweh; ‘and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.
\p Haggai 2.15: \v 15 Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh’s temple.
\p Haggai 2.16: \v 16 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
\p Haggai 2.17: \v 17 I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says Yahweh.
\p Haggai 2.18: \v 18 ‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was laid, consider it.
\p Haggai 2.19: \v 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’”
\p
\p Haggai 2.20: \v 20 Yahweh’s word came the second time to Haggai in the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,
\p Haggai 2.21: \v 21 “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, ‘I will shake the heavens and the earth.
\p Haggai 2.22: \v 22 I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.
\p Haggai 2.23: \v 23 In that day, says Yahweh of Armies, I will take you, Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says Yahweh, ‘and will make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”
\p Zechariah 0.0: \id ZEC 38-ZEC-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Zechariah
\toc1 The Book of Zechariah
\toc2 Zechariah
\toc3 Zec
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Zechariah
\p Zechariah 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Zechariah 1.1: \v 1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
\p Zechariah 1.2: \v 2 “Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.
\p Zechariah 1.3: \v 3 Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
\p Zechariah 1.4: \v 4 Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
\p Zechariah 1.5: \v 5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
\p Zechariah 1.6: \v 6 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers?
\p “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”
\p Zechariah 1.7: \v 7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
\p Zechariah 1.8: \v 8 “I had a vision in the night, and behold,\f + \fr 1:8 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.
\p Zechariah 1.9: \v 9 Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’”
\p The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”
\p
\p Zechariah 1.10: \v 10 The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, “They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth.”
\p
\p Zechariah 1.11: \v 11 They reported to Yahweh’s angel who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace.”
\p
\p Zechariah 1.12: \v 12 Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”
\p
\p Zechariah 1.13: \v 13 Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
\p Zechariah 1.14: \v 14 So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
\p Zechariah 1.15: \v 15 I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
\p Zechariah 1.16: \v 16 Therefore Yahweh says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”’
\p
\p Zechariah 1.17: \v 17 “Proclaim further, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’”
\p
\p Zechariah 1.18: \v 18 I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns.
\p Zechariah 1.19: \v 19 I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?”
\p He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
\p
\p Zechariah 1.20: \v 20 Yahweh showed me four craftsmen.
\p Zechariah 1.21: \v 21 Then I asked, “What are these coming to do?”
\p He said, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
\p Zechariah 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Zechariah 2.1: \v 1 I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
\p Zechariah 2.2: \v 2 Then I asked, “Where are you going?”
\p He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”
\p
\p Zechariah 2.3: \v 3 Behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,
\p Zechariah 2.4: \v 4 and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.
\p Zechariah 2.5: \v 5 For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.
\p Zechariah 2.6: \v 6 Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.
\p Zechariah 2.7: \v 7 ‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’
\p Zechariah 2.8: \v 8 For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
\p Zechariah 2.9: \v 9 For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a plunder to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me.
\p Zechariah 2.10: \v 10 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.
\p Zechariah 2.11: \v 11 Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
\p Zechariah 2.12: \v 12 Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
\p Zechariah 2.13: \v 13 Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”
\p Zechariah 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Zechariah 3.1: \v 1 He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
\p Zechariah 3.2: \v 2 Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”
\p
\p Zechariah 3.3: \v 3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
\p Zechariah 3.4: \v 4 He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, “Take the filthy garments off him.” To him he said, “Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing.”
\p
\p Zechariah 3.5: \v 5 I said, “Let them set a clean turban on his head.”
\p So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and Yahweh’s angel was standing by.
\p Zechariah 3.6: \v 6 Yahweh’s angel protested to Joshua, saying,
\p Zechariah 3.7: \v 7 “Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.
\p Zechariah 3.8: \v 8 Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.
\p Zechariah 3.9: \v 9 For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
\p Zechariah 3.10: \v 10 In that day,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.’”
\p Zechariah 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Zechariah 4.1: \v 1 The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.
\p Zechariah 4.2: \v 2 He said to me, “What do you see?”
\p I said, “I have seen, and behold, a lamp stand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;
\p Zechariah 4.3: \v 3 and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it.”
\p
\p Zechariah 4.4: \v 4 I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, “What are these, my lord?”
\p
\p Zechariah 4.5: \v 5 Then the angel who talked with me answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?”
\p I said, “No, my lord.”
\p
\p Zechariah 4.6: \v 6 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
\p Zechariah 4.7: \v 7 Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’”
\p
\p Zechariah 4.8: \v 8 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\p Zechariah 4.9: \v 9 “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
\p Zechariah 4.10: \v 10 Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”
\p
\p Zechariah 4.11: \v 11 Then I asked him, “What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lamp stand and on the left side of it?”
\p
\p Zechariah 4.12: \v 12 I asked him the second time, “What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden oil out of themselves?”
\p
\p Zechariah 4.13: \v 13 He answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?”
\p I said, “No, my lord.”
\p
\p Zechariah 4.14: \v 14 Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord \f + \fr 4:14 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* of the whole earth.”
\p Zechariah 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Zechariah 5.1: \v 1 Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.
\p Zechariah 5.2: \v 2 He said to me, “What do you see?”
\p I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits,\f + \fr 5:2 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and its width ten cubits.”
\p
\p Zechariah 5.3: \v 3 Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.
\p Zechariah 5.4: \v 4 I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”
\p
\p Zechariah 5.5: \v 5 Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes, and see what this is that is appearing.”
\p
\p Zechariah 5.6: \v 6 I said, “What is it?”
\p He said, “This is the ephah\f + \fr 5:6 \ft An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or about 2/3 of a bushel. \f* basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land
\p Zechariah 5.7: \v 7 (and behold, a talent\f + \fr 5:7 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.\f* of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah\f + \fr 5:7 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* basket.”
\p Zechariah 5.8: \v 8 He said, “This is Wickedness;” and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.
\p
\p Zechariah 5.9: \v 9 Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.
\p Zechariah 5.10: \v 10 Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are these carrying the ephah basket?”
\p
\p Zechariah 5.11: \v 11 He said to me, “To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.”
\p Zechariah 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Zechariah 6.1: \v 1 Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze.
\p Zechariah 6.2: \v 2 In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses;
\p Zechariah 6.3: \v 3 in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful.
\p Zechariah 6.4: \v 4 Then I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”
\p
\p Zechariah 6.5: \v 5 The angel answered me, “These are the four winds of the sky, which go out from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
\p Zechariah 6.6: \v 6 The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country; and the white went out after them; and the dappled went out toward the south country.”
\p Zechariah 6.7: \v 7 The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the earth: and he said, “Go around and through the earth!” So they walked back and forth through the earth.
\p
\p Zechariah 6.8: \v 8 Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.”
\p
\p Zechariah 6.9: \v 9 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\p Zechariah 6.10: \v 10 “Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon.
\p Zechariah 6.11: \v 11 Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
\p Zechariah 6.12: \v 12 and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build Yahweh’s temple;
\p Zechariah 6.13: \v 13 even he shall build Yahweh’s temple; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
\p Zechariah 6.14: \v 14 The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in Yahweh’s temple.
\p Zechariah 6.15: \v 15 Those who are far off shall come and build in Yahweh’s temple; and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey Yahweh your God’s voice.”’”\f + \fr 6:15 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f*
\p Zechariah 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Zechariah 7.1: \v 1 In the fourth year of king Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
\p Zechariah 7.2: \v 2 The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh’s favor,
\p Zechariah 7.3: \v 3 and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”
\p
\p Zechariah 7.4: \v 4 Then the word of Yahweh of Armies came to me, saying,
\p Zechariah 7.5: \v 5 “Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
\p Zechariah 7.6: \v 6 When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
\p Zechariah 7.7: \v 7 Aren’t these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”
\p
\p Zechariah 7.8: \v 8 Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah, saying,
\p Zechariah 7.9: \v 9 “Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
\p Zechariah 7.10: \v 10 Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
\p Zechariah 7.11: \v 11 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
\p Zechariah 7.12: \v 12 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.
\p Zechariah 7.13: \v 13 It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;
\p Zechariah 7.14: \v 14 “but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
\p Zechariah 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Zechariah 8.1: \v 1 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.
\p Zechariah 8.2: \v 2 Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”
\p
\p Zechariah 8.3: \v 3 Yahweh says: “I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of Yahweh of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’”
\p
\p Zechariah 8.4: \v 4 Yahweh of Armies says: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
\p Zechariah 8.5: \v 5 The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”
\p
\p Zechariah 8.6: \v 6 Yahweh of Armies says: “If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\p Zechariah 8.7: \v 7 Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
\p Zechariah 8.8: \v 8 and I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.”
\p
\p Zechariah 8.9: \v 9 Yahweh of Armies says: “Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
\p Zechariah 8.10: \v 10 For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor.
\p Zechariah 8.11: \v 11 But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p Zechariah 8.12: \v 12 “For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
\p Zechariah 8.13: \v 13 It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”
\p
\p Zechariah 8.14: \v 14 For Yahweh of Armies says: “As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I didn’t repent;
\p Zechariah 8.15: \v 15 so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid.
\p Zechariah 8.16: \v 16 These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
\p Zechariah 8.17: \v 17 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.
\p
\p Zechariah 8.18: \v 18 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.
\p Zechariah 8.19: \v 19 Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”
\p
\p Zechariah 8.20: \v 20 Yahweh of Armies says: “Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come;
\p Zechariah 8.21: \v 21 and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, ‘Let’s go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.’
\p Zechariah 8.22: \v 22 Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh.”
\p Zechariah 8.23: \v 23 Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
\p Zechariah 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Zechariah 9.1: \v 1 A revelation.
\q1 Yahweh’s word is against the land of Hadrach,
\q2 and will rest upon Damascus;
\q1 for the eye of man
\q2 and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh;
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.2: \v 2 and Hamath, also, which borders on it;
\q2 Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.3: \v 3 Tyre built herself a stronghold,
\q2 and heaped up silver like the dust,
\q2 and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.4: \v 4 Behold, the Lord will dispossess her,
\q2 and he will strike her power in the sea;
\q2 and she will be devoured with fire.
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.5: \v 5 Ashkelon will see it, and fear;
\q2 Gaza also, and will writhe in agony;
\q2 as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed;
\q2 and the king will perish from Gaza,
\q2 and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.6: \v 6 Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod,
\q2 and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.7: \v 7 I will take away his blood out of his mouth,
\q2 and his abominations from between his teeth;
\q1 and he also will be a remnant for our God;
\q2 and he will be as a chieftain in Judah,
\q2 and Ekron as a Jebusite.
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.8: \v 8 I will encamp around my house against the army,
\q2 that no one pass through or return;
\q2 and no oppressor will pass through them any more:
\q2 for now I have seen with my eyes.
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.9: \v 9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion!
\q2 Shout, daughter of Jerusalem!
\q1 Behold, your King comes to you!
\q2 He is righteous, and having salvation;
\q2 lowly, and riding on a donkey,
\q2 even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.10: \v 10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim,
\q2 and the horse from Jerusalem;
\q1 and the battle bow will be cut off;
\q2 and he will speak peace to the nations:
\q2 and his dominion will be from sea to sea,
\q2 and from the River to the ends of the earth.
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.11: \v 11 As for you also,
\q2 because of the blood of your covenant,
\q2 I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.12: \v 12 Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope!
\q2 Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.13: \v 13 For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me.
\q2 I have filled the bow with Ephraim;
\q1 and I will stir up your sons, Zion,
\q2 against your sons, Greece,
\q2 and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.14: \v 14 Yahweh will be seen over them;
\q2 and his arrow will go flash like lightning;
\q2 and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet,
\q2 and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.15: \v 15 Yahweh of Armies will defend them;
\q2 and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones;
\q2 and they will drink, and roar as through wine;
\q2 and they will be filled like bowls,
\q2 like the corners of the altar.
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.16: \v 16 Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people;
\q2 for they are like the jewels of a crown,
\q2 lifted on high over his land.
\q1
\p Zechariah 9.17: \v 17 For how great is his goodness,
\q2 and how great is his beauty!
\q1 Grain will make the young men flourish,
\q2 and new wine the virgins.
\p Zechariah 10.0: \c 10
\q1
\p Zechariah 10.1: \v 1 Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time,
\q2 Yahweh who makes storm clouds,
\q2 and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
\q1
\p Zechariah 10.2: \v 2 For the teraphim\f + \fr 10:2 \ft teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.\f* have spoken vanity,
\q2 and the diviners have seen a lie;
\q2 and they have told false dreams.
\q1 They comfort in vain.
\q2 Therefore they go their way like sheep.
\q2 They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
\q1
\p Zechariah 10.3: \v 3 My anger is kindled against the shepherds,
\q2 and I will punish the male goats;
\q2 For Yahweh of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah,
\q2 and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.
\q1
\p Zechariah 10.4: \v 4 From him will come the cornerstone,
\q2 from him the nail,
\q2 from him the battle bow,
\q2 from him every ruler together.
\q2
\p Zechariah 10.5: \v 5 They shall be as mighty men,
\q2 treading down muddy streets in the battle;
\q2 and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them;
\q2 and the riders on horses will be confounded.
\q1
\p Zechariah 10.6: \v 6 “I will strengthen the house of Judah,
\q2 and I will save the house of Joseph,
\q2 and I will bring them back;
\q2 for I have mercy on them;
\q2 and they will be as though I had not cast them off:
\q2 for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.
\q1
\p Zechariah 10.7: \v 7 Ephraim will be like a mighty man,
\q2 and their heart will rejoice as through wine;
\q2 yes, their children will see it, and rejoice.
\q2 Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.
\q1
\p Zechariah 10.8: \v 8 I will signal for them, and gather them;
\q2 for I have redeemed them;
\q2 and they will increase as they have increased.
\q1
\p Zechariah 10.9: \v 9 I will sow them among the peoples;
\q2 and they will remember me in far countries;
\q2 and they will live with their children, and will return.
\q1
\p Zechariah 10.10: \v 10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt,
\q2 and gather them out of Assyria;
\q1 and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon;
\q2 and there won’t be room enough for them.
\q1
\p Zechariah 10.11: \v 11 He will pass through the sea of affliction,
\q2 and will strike the waves in the sea,
\q2 and all the depths of the Nile will dry up;
\q2 and the pride of Assyria will be brought down,
\q2 and the scepter of Egypt will depart.
\q1
\p Zechariah 10.12: \v 12 I will strengthen them in Yahweh;
\q2 and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.
\p Zechariah 11.0: \c 11
\q1
\p Zechariah 11.1: \v 1 Open your doors, Lebanon,
\q2 that the fire may devour your cedars.
\q1
\p Zechariah 11.2: \v 2 Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen,
\q2 because the stately ones are destroyed.
\q1 Wail, you oaks of Bashan,
\q2 for the strong forest has come down.
\q1
\p Zechariah 11.3: \v 3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds!
\q2 For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions!
\q2 For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
\p
\p Zechariah 11.4: \v 4 Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.
\p Zechariah 11.5: \v 5 Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.
\p Zechariah 11.6: \v 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”
\p
\p Zechariah 11.7: \v 7 So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.
\p Zechariah 11.8: \v 8 I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
\p Zechariah 11.9: \v 9 Then I said, “I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”
\p Zechariah 11.10: \v 10 I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
\p Zechariah 11.11: \v 11 It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word.
\p Zechariah 11.12: \v 12 I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.
\p Zechariah 11.13: \v 13 Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in Yahweh’s house.
\p Zechariah 11.14: \v 14 Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
\p
\p Zechariah 11.15: \v 15 Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
\p Zechariah 11.16: \v 16 For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the meat of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.
\p Zechariah 11.17: \v 17 Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”
\p Zechariah 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p Zechariah 12.1: \v 1 A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
\p Zechariah 12.2: \v 2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and it will also be on Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.
\p Zechariah 12.3: \v 3 It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
\p Zechariah 12.4: \v 4 In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
\p Zechariah 12.5: \v 5 The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their God.’
\p Zechariah 12.6: \v 6 In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.
\p Zechariah 12.7: \v 7 Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.
\p Zechariah 12.8: \v 8 In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them.
\p Zechariah 12.9: \v 9 It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
\p Zechariah 12.10: \v 10 I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me\f + \fr 12:10 \ft After “me”, the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph Tav” (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker.\f* whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
\p Zechariah 12.11: \v 11 In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
\p Zechariah 12.12: \v 12 The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of David’s house apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
\p Zechariah 12.13: \v 13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
\p Zechariah 12.14: \v 14 all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
\p Zechariah 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p Zechariah 13.1: \v 1 “In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
\p Zechariah 13.2: \v 2 It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.
\p Zechariah 13.3: \v 3 It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.
\p Zechariah 13.4: \v 4 It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:
\p Zechariah 13.5: \v 5 but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.’
\p Zechariah 13.6: \v 6 One will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’
\b
\q1
\p Zechariah 13.7: \v 7 “Awake, sword, against my shepherd,
\q2 and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\q1 “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
\q2 and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
\q1
\p Zechariah 13.8: \v 8 It shall happen that in all the land,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “two parts in it will be cut off and die;
\q2 but the third will be left in it.
\q1
\p Zechariah 13.9: \v 9 I will bring the third part into the fire,
\q2 and will refine them as silver is refined,
\q2 and will test them like gold is tested.
\q1 They will call on my name, and I will hear them.
\q2 I will say, ‘It is my people;’
\q2 and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
\p Zechariah 14.0: \c 14
\p
\p Zechariah 14.1: \v 1 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided within you.
\p Zechariah 14.2: \v 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
\p Zechariah 14.3: \v 3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
\p Zechariah 14.4: \v 4 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
\p Zechariah 14.5: \v 5 You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.\f + \fr 14:5 \ft Septuagint reads “him” instead of “you”.\f*
\p Zechariah 14.6: \v 6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.
\p Zechariah 14.7: \v 7 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.
\p
\p Zechariah 14.8: \v 8 It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem: half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. It will be so in summer and in winter.
\p
\p Zechariah 14.9: \v 9 Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
\p Zechariah 14.10: \v 10 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.
\p Zechariah 14.11: \v 11 Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.
\p Zechariah 14.12: \v 12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.
\p Zechariah 14.13: \v 13 It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will each hold onto the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
\p Zechariah 14.14: \v 14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.
\p
\p Zechariah 14.15: \v 15 A plague like this will fall on the horse, on the mule, on the camel, on the donkey, and on all the animals that will be in those camps.
\p Zechariah 14.16: \v 16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of booths.
\p Zechariah 14.17: \v 17 It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no rain.
\p Zechariah 14.18: \v 18 If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
\p Zechariah 14.19: \v 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
\p Zechariah 14.20: \v 20 In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO YAHWEH”; and the pots in Yahweh’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.
\p Zechariah 14.21: \v 21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.
\p Malachi 0.0: \id MAL 39-MAL-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Malachi
\toc1 The Book of Malachi
\toc2 Malachi
\toc3 Mal
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Malachi
\p Malachi 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Malachi 1.1: \v 1 A revelation, Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word to Israel by Malachi.
\p
\p Malachi 1.2: \v 2 “I have loved you,” says Yahweh.
\p Yet you say, “How have you loved us?”
\p “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;
\p Malachi 1.3: \v 3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
\p Malachi 1.4: \v 4 Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”
\p
\p Malachi 1.5: \v 5 Your eyes will see, and you will say, “Yahweh is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”
\p
\p Malachi 1.6: \v 6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
\p Malachi 1.7: \v 7 You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is contemptible.’
\p Malachi 1.8: \v 8 When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\p Malachi 1.9: \v 9 “Now, please entreat the favor of God,\f + \fr 1:9 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\p Malachi 1.10: \v 10 “Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
\p Malachi 1.11: \v 11 For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p Malachi 1.12: \v 12 “But you profane it, in that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’
\p Malachi 1.13: \v 13 You say also, ‘Behold,\f + \fr 1:13 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.
\p
\p Malachi 1.14: \v 14 “But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord\f + \fr 1:14 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”
\p Malachi 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Malachi 2.1: \v 1 “Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.
\p Malachi 2.2: \v 2 If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.
\p Malachi 2.3: \v 3 Behold, I will rebuke your offspring,\f + \fr 2:3 \ft or, seed\f* and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
\p Malachi 2.4: \v 4 You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p Malachi 2.5: \v 5 “My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.
\p Malachi 2.6: \v 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
\p Malachi 2.7: \v 7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
\p Malachi 2.8: \v 8 But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p Malachi 2.9: \v 9 “Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
\p Malachi 2.10: \v 10 Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
\p Malachi 2.11: \v 11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
\p Malachi 2.12: \v 12 Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies.
\p Malachi 2.13: \v 13 This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
\p Malachi 2.14: \v 14 Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
\p Malachi 2.15: \v 15 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
\p Malachi 2.16: \v 16 One who hates and divorces”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful.
\p Malachi 2.17: \v 17 You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’
\p Malachi 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Malachi 3.1: \v 1 “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p Malachi 3.2: \v 2 “But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;
\p Malachi 3.3: \v 3 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
\p Malachi 3.4: \v 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.
\p Malachi 3.5: \v 5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p Malachi 3.6: \v 6 “For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
\p Malachi 3.7: \v 7 From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’
\p Malachi 3.8: \v 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.
\p Malachi 3.9: \v 9 You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
\p Malachi 3.10: \v 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
\p Malachi 3.11: \v 11 I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p Malachi 3.12: \v 12 “All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\p Malachi 3.13: \v 13 “Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
\p Malachi 3.14: \v 14 You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
\p Malachi 3.15: \v 15 Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
\p Malachi 3.16: \v 16 Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.
\p Malachi 3.17: \v 17 They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
\p Malachi 3.18: \v 18 Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
\p Malachi 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Malachi 4.1: \v 1 “For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
\p Malachi 4.2: \v 2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
\p Malachi 4.3: \v 3 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\p Malachi 4.4: \v 4 “Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
\p Malachi 4.5: \v 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
\p Malachi 4.6: \v 6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
\p 2 Corinthians 0.0: \id 2CO 47-2CO-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h 2 Corinthians
\toc1 Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians
\toc2 2 Corinthians
\toc3 2Co
\mt1 Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians
\p 2 Corinthians 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 1.1: \v 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
\p 2 Corinthians 1.2: \v 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 1.3: \v 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
\p 2 Corinthians 1.4: \v 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.5: \v 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.6: \v 6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.7: \v 7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.8: \v 8 For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers,\f + \fr 1:8 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.9: \v 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
\p 2 Corinthians 1.10: \v 10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
\p 2 Corinthians 1.11: \v 11 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 1.12: \v 12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.13: \v 13 For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end,
\p 2 Corinthians 1.14: \v 14 as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 1.15: \v 15 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,
\p 2 Corinthians 1.16: \v 16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.17: \v 17 When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”
\p 2 Corinthians 1.18: \v 18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”
\p 2 Corinthians 1.19: \v 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”
\p 2 Corinthians 1.20: \v 20 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 1.21: \v 21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,
\p 2 Corinthians 1.22: \v 22 who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 1.23: \v 23 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.24: \v 24 We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 2.1: \v 1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.2: \v 2 For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?
\p 2 Corinthians 2.3: \v 3 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.4: \v 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.5: \v 5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.6: \v 6 This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;
\p 2 Corinthians 2.7: \v 7 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.8: \v 8 Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.9: \v 9 For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.10: \v 10 Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
\p 2 Corinthians 2.11: \v 11 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 2.12: \v 12 Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,
\p 2 Corinthians 2.13: \v 13 I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 2.14: \v 14 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.15: \v 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:
\p 2 Corinthians 2.16: \v 16 to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
\p 2 Corinthians 2.17: \v 17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 3.1: \v 1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
\p 2 Corinthians 3.2: \v 2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
\p 2 Corinthians 3.3: \v 3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.4: \v 4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God,
\p 2 Corinthians 3.5: \v 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
\p 2 Corinthians 3.6: \v 6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.7: \v 7 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,
\p 2 Corinthians 3.8: \v 8 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
\p 2 Corinthians 3.9: \v 9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.10: \v 10 For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.11: \v 11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 3.12: \v 12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
\p 2 Corinthians 3.13: \v 13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.14: \v 14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.15: \v 15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.16: \v 16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.17: \v 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.18: \v 18 But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 4.1: \v 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.2: \v 2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.3: \v 3 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,
\p 2 Corinthians 4.4: \v 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.5: \v 5 For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,
\p 2 Corinthians 4.6: \v 6 seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,”\x + \xo 4:6 \xt Genesis 1:3\x* who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 4.7: \v 7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.8: \v 8 We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
\p 2 Corinthians 4.9: \v 9 pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
\p 2 Corinthians 4.10: \v 10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.11: \v 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.12: \v 12 So then death works in us, but life in you.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.13: \v 13 But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.”\x + \xo 4:13 \xt Psalm 116:10\x* We also believe, and therefore we also speak;
\p 2 Corinthians 4.14: \v 14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.15: \v 15 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 4.16: \v 16 Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.17: \v 17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
\p 2 Corinthians 4.18: \v 18 while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 5.1: \v 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.2: \v 2 For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
\p 2 Corinthians 5.3: \v 3 if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.4: \v 4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.5: \v 5 Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 5.6: \v 6 Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
\p 2 Corinthians 5.7: \v 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.8: \v 8 We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.9: \v 9 Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.10: \v 10 For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 5.11: \v 11 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.12: \v 12 For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.13: \v 13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.14: \v 14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.15: \v 15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.16: \v 16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.17: \v 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold,\f + \fr 5:17 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* all things have become new.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.18: \v 18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
\p 2 Corinthians 5.19: \v 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 5.20: \v 20 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.21: \v 21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
\p 2 Corinthians 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 6.1: \v 1 Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,
\p 2 Corinthians 6.2: \v 2 for he says,
\q1 “At an acceptable time I listened to you.
\q1 In a day of salvation I helped you.”\x + \xo 6:2 \xt Isaiah 49:8\x*
\p Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
\p 2 Corinthians 6.3: \v 3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
\p 2 Corinthians 6.4: \v 4 but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
\p 2 Corinthians 6.5: \v 5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
\p 2 Corinthians 6.6: \v 6 in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
\p 2 Corinthians 6.7: \v 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
\p 2 Corinthians 6.8: \v 8 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;
\p 2 Corinthians 6.9: \v 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;
\p 2 Corinthians 6.10: \v 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 6.11: \v 11 Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
\p 2 Corinthians 6.12: \v 12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
\p 2 Corinthians 6.13: \v 13 Now in return, I speak as to my children: you also open your hearts.
\p 2 Corinthians 6.14: \v 14 Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
\p 2 Corinthians 6.15: \v 15 What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?
\p 2 Corinthians 6.16: \v 16 What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”\x + \xo 6:16 \xt Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27\x*
\p 2 Corinthians 6.17: \v 17 Therefore
\q1 “‘Come out from among them,
\q2 and be separate,’ says the Lord.
\q1 ‘Touch no unclean thing.
\q2 I will receive you.\x + \xo 6:17 \xt Isaiah 52:11; Ezekiel 20:34,41\x*
\q1
\p 2 Corinthians 6.18: \v 18 I will be to you a Father.
\q2 You will be to me sons and daughters,’
\p says the Lord Almighty.”\x + \xo 6:18 \xt 2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8\x*
\p 2 Corinthians 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 7.1: \v 1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 7.2: \v 2 Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.3: \v 3 I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.4: \v 4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 7.5: \v 5 For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.6: \v 6 Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
\p 2 Corinthians 7.7: \v 7 and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 7.8: \v 8 For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you grieve, though just for a while.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.9: \v 9 I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.10: \v 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.11: \v 11 For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.12: \v 12 So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.13: \v 13 Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.14: \v 14 For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.15: \v 15 His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.16: \v 16 I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 8.1: \v 1 Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,
\p 2 Corinthians 8.2: \v 2 how in much proof of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.3: \v 3 For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,
\p 2 Corinthians 8.4: \v 4 begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.5: \v 5 This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.6: \v 6 So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.7: \v 7 But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.8: \v 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.9: \v 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.10: \v 10 I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.11: \v 11 But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.12: \v 12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.13: \v 13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
\p 2 Corinthians 8.14: \v 14 but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.15: \v 15 As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”\x + \xo 8:15 \xt Exodus 16:18\x*
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 8.16: \v 16 But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.17: \v 17 For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.18: \v 18 We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known throughout all the assemblies.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.19: \v 19 Not only so, but he was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.20: \v 20 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.21: \v 21 Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.22: \v 22 We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.23: \v 23 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.24: \v 24 Therefore show the proof of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 9.1: \v 1 It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,
\p 2 Corinthians 9.2: \v 2 for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.3: \v 3 But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,
\p 2 Corinthians 9.4: \v 4 lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.5: \v 5 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 9.6: \v 6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.7: \v 7 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.8: \v 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.9: \v 9 As it is written,
\q1 “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor.
\q2 His righteousness remains forever.”\x + \xo 9:9 \xt Psalm 112:9\x*
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 9.10: \v 10 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
\p 2 Corinthians 9.11: \v 11 you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.12: \v 12 For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God,
\p 2 Corinthians 9.13: \v 13 seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,
\p 2 Corinthians 9.14: \v 14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.15: \v 15 Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
\p 2 Corinthians 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 10.1: \v 1 Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.2: \v 2 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.3: \v 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;
\p 2 Corinthians 10.4: \v 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
\p 2 Corinthians 10.5: \v 5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
\p 2 Corinthians 10.6: \v 6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.7: \v 7 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.8: \v 8 For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,
\p 2 Corinthians 10.9: \v 9 that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.10: \v 10 For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”
\p 2 Corinthians 10.11: \v 11 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.12: \v 12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.13: \v 13 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.14: \v 14 For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,
\p 2 Corinthians 10.15: \v 15 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
\p 2 Corinthians 10.16: \v 16 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.17: \v 17 But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”\x + \xo 10:17 \xt Jeremiah 9:24 \x*
\p 2 Corinthians 10.18: \v 18 For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 11.1: \v 1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.2: \v 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.3: \v 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.4: \v 4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news”, which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.5: \v 5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.6: \v 6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.7: \v 7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
\p 2 Corinthians 11.8: \v 8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.9: \v 9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.10: \v 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.11: \v 11 Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.12: \v 12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.13: \v 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.14: \v 14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.15: \v 15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 11.16: \v 16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.17: \v 17 That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.18: \v 18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.19: \v 19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.20: \v 20 For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.21: \v 21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.22: \v 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring\f + \fr 11:22 \ft or, seed\f* of Abraham? So am I.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.23: \v 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.24: \v 24 Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.25: \v 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.26: \v 26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
\p 2 Corinthians 11.27: \v 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 11.28: \v 28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.29: \v 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
\p 2 Corinthians 11.30: \v 30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.31: \v 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.32: \v 32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.33: \v 33 I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 12.1: \v 1 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.2: \v 2 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.3: \v 3 I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don’t know; God knows),
\p 2 Corinthians 12.4: \v 4 how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.5: \v 5 On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.6: \v 6 For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me or hears from me.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.7: \v 7 By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.8: \v 8 Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.9: \v 9 He has said to me, \wj “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”\wj* Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 12.10: \v 10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.11: \v 11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.12: \v 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.13: \v 13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 12.14: \v 14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.15: \v 15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
\p 2 Corinthians 12.16: \v 16 Even so, I myself didn’t burden you. “But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.”
\p 2 Corinthians 12.17: \v 17 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of those whom I have sent to you?
\p 2 Corinthians 12.18: \v 18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 12.19: \v 19 Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.20: \v 20 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,
\p 2 Corinthians 12.21: \v 21 that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 13.1: \v 1 This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”\x + \xo 13:1 \xt Deuteronomy 19:15\x*
\p 2 Corinthians 13.2: \v 2 I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;
\p 2 Corinthians 13.3: \v 3 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.4: \v 4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.5: \v 5 Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.6: \v 6 But I hope that you will know that we aren’t disqualified.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 13.7: \v 7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.8: \v 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.9: \v 9 For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.10: \v 10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 13.11: \v 11 Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.12: \v 12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 13.13: \v 13 All the saints greet you.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 13.14: \v 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
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\p Galatians 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Galatians 1.1: \v 1 Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—
\p Galatians 1.2: \v 2 and all the brothers\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” \f* who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:
\p Galatians 1.3: \v 3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,
\p Galatians 1.4: \v 4 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—
\p Galatians 1.5: \v 5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
\p
\p Galatians 1.6: \v 6 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,
\p Galatians 1.7: \v 7 but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.
\p Galatians 1.8: \v 8 But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.
\p Galatians 1.9: \v 9 As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.
\p Galatians 1.10: \v 10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
\p
\p Galatians 1.11: \v 11 But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.
\p Galatians 1.12: \v 12 For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.
\p Galatians 1.13: \v 13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.
\p Galatians 1.14: \v 14 I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
\p Galatians 1.15: \v 15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace
\p Galatians 1.16: \v 16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,
\p Galatians 1.17: \v 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.
\p
\p Galatians 1.18: \v 18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.
\p Galatians 1.19: \v 19 But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.
\p Galatians 1.20: \v 20 Now about the things which I write to you, behold,\f + \fr 1:20 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* before God, I’m not lying.
\p Galatians 1.21: \v 21 Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
\p Galatians 1.22: \v 22 I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,
\p Galatians 1.23: \v 23 but they only heard: “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”
\p Galatians 1.24: \v 24 So they glorified God in me.
\p Galatians 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Galatians 2.1: \v 1 Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
\p Galatians 2.2: \v 2 I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
\p Galatians 2.3: \v 3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
\p Galatians 2.4: \v 4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,
\p Galatians 2.5: \v 5 to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
\p Galatians 2.6: \v 6 But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
\p Galatians 2.7: \v 7 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—
\p Galatians 2.8: \v 8 for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—
\p Galatians 2.9: \v 9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
\p Galatians 2.10: \v 10 They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
\p
\p Galatians 2.11: \v 11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
\p Galatians 2.12: \v 12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
\p Galatians 2.13: \v 13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
\p Galatians 2.14: \v 14 But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
\p
\p Galatians 2.15: \v 15 “We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,
\p Galatians 2.16: \v 16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
\p Galatians 2.17: \v 17 But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
\p Galatians 2.18: \v 18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
\p Galatians 2.19: \v 19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
\p Galatians 2.20: \v 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
\p Galatians 2.21: \v 21 I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
\p Galatians 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Galatians 3.1: \v 1 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
\p Galatians 3.2: \v 2 I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
\p Galatians 3.3: \v 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
\p Galatians 3.4: \v 4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
\p Galatians 3.5: \v 5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
\p Galatians 3.6: \v 6 Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”\x + \xo 3:6 \xt Genesis 15:6\x*
\p Galatians 3.7: \v 7 Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.
\p Galatians 3.8: \v 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”\x + \xo 3:8 \xt Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22:18\x*
\p Galatians 3.9: \v 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
\p Galatians 3.10: \v 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”\x + \xo 3:10 \xt Deuteronomy 27:26\x*
\p Galatians 3.11: \v 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”\x + \xo 3:11 \xt Habakkuk 2:4\x*
\p Galatians 3.12: \v 12 The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”\x + \xo 3:12 \xt Leviticus 18:5\x*
\p
\p Galatians 3.13: \v 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”\x + \xo 3:13 \xt Deuteronomy 21:23\x*
\p Galatians 3.14: \v 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
\p
\p Galatians 3.15: \v 15 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it.
\p Galatians 3.16: \v 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring.\f + \fr 3:16 \ft or, seed\f* He doesn’t say, “To descendants\f + \fr 3:16 \ft or, seeds\f*”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”,\x + \xo 3:16 \xt Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 24:7\x* which is Christ.
\p Galatians 3.17: \v 17 Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
\p Galatians 3.18: \v 18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
\p
\p Galatians 3.19: \v 19 Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
\p Galatians 3.20: \v 20 Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.
\p Galatians 3.21: \v 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
\p Galatians 3.22: \v 22 But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
\p
\p Galatians 3.23: \v 23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
\p Galatians 3.24: \v 24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
\p Galatians 3.25: \v 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
\p Galatians 3.26: \v 26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
\p Galatians 3.27: \v 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
\p Galatians 3.28: \v 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
\p Galatians 3.29: \v 29 If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
\p Galatians 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Galatians 4.1: \v 1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all,
\p Galatians 4.2: \v 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.
\p Galatians 4.3: \v 3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
\p Galatians 4.4: \v 4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
\p Galatians 4.5: \v 5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.
\p Galatians 4.6: \v 6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba,\f + \fr 4:6 \ft Abba is a Greek spelling for the Aramaic word for “Father” or “Daddy” used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way. \f* Father!”
\p Galatians 4.7: \v 7 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
\p
\p Galatians 4.8: \v 8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
\p Galatians 4.9: \v 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
\p Galatians 4.10: \v 10 You observe days, months, seasons, and years.
\p Galatians 4.11: \v 11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
\p
\p Galatians 4.12: \v 12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
\p Galatians 4.13: \v 13 but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
\p Galatians 4.14: \v 14 That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
\p
\p Galatians 4.15: \v 15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
\p Galatians 4.16: \v 16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
\p Galatians 4.17: \v 17 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
\p Galatians 4.18: \v 18 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
\p
\p Galatians 4.19: \v 19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—
\p Galatians 4.20: \v 20 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
\p
\p Galatians 4.21: \v 21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
\p Galatians 4.22: \v 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.
\p Galatians 4.23: \v 23 However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
\p Galatians 4.24: \v 24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
\p Galatians 4.25: \v 25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
\p Galatians 4.26: \v 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
\p Galatians 4.27: \v 27 For it is written,
\q1 “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear.
\q2 Break out and shout, you who don’t travail.
\q2 For the desolate have more children than her who has a husband.” \x + \xo 4:27 \xt Isaiah 54:1\x*
\p
\p Galatians 4.28: \v 28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
\p Galatians 4.29: \v 29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
\p Galatians 4.30: \v 30 However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”\x + \xo 4:30 \xt Genesis 21:10\x*
\p Galatians 4.31: \v 31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.
\p Galatians 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Galatians 5.1: \v 1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
\p
\p Galatians 5.2: \v 2 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
\p Galatians 5.3: \v 3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
\p Galatians 5.4: \v 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
\p Galatians 5.5: \v 5 For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
\p Galatians 5.6: \v 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
\p Galatians 5.7: \v 7 You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
\p Galatians 5.8: \v 8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
\p Galatians 5.9: \v 9 A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
\p Galatians 5.10: \v 10 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
\p
\p Galatians 5.11: \v 11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
\p Galatians 5.12: \v 12 I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
\p
\p Galatians 5.13: \v 13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
\p Galatians 5.14: \v 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”\x + \xo 5:14 \xt Leviticus 19:18\x*
\p Galatians 5.15: \v 15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
\p
\p Galatians 5.16: \v 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
\p Galatians 5.17: \v 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
\p Galatians 5.18: \v 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
\p Galatians 5.19: \v 19 Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
\p Galatians 5.20: \v 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
\p Galatians 5.21: \v 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
\p
\p Galatians 5.22: \v 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,\f + \fr 5:22 \ft or, faithfulness\f*
\p Galatians 5.23: \v 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
\p Galatians 5.24: \v 24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
\p
\p Galatians 5.25: \v 25 If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.
\p Galatians 5.26: \v 26 Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
\p Galatians 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Galatians 6.1: \v 1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.
\p Galatians 6.2: \v 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
\p Galatians 6.3: \v 3 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
\p Galatians 6.4: \v 4 But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
\p Galatians 6.5: \v 5 For each man will bear his own burden.
\p
\p Galatians 6.6: \v 6 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.
\p Galatians 6.7: \v 7 Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
\p Galatians 6.8: \v 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
\p Galatians 6.9: \v 9 Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
\p Galatians 6.10: \v 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
\p
\p Galatians 6.11: \v 11 See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.
\p Galatians 6.12: \v 12 As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
\p Galatians 6.13: \v 13 For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
\p Galatians 6.14: \v 14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
\p Galatians 6.15: \v 15 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
\p Galatians 6.16: \v 16 As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.
\p
\p Galatians 6.17: \v 17 From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.
\p
\p Galatians 6.18: \v 18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
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\h Ephesians
\toc1 Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians
\toc2 Ephesians
\toc3 Eph
\mt1 Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians
\p Ephesians 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Ephesians 1.1: \v 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
\p Ephesians 1.2: \v 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\p
\p Ephesians 1.3: \v 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
\p Ephesians 1.4: \v 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,
\p Ephesians 1.5: \v 5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
\p Ephesians 1.6: \v 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
\p Ephesians 1.7: \v 7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
\p Ephesians 1.8: \v 8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
\p Ephesians 1.9: \v 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
\p Ephesians 1.10: \v 10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him.
\p Ephesians 1.11: \v 11 We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,
\p Ephesians 1.12: \v 12 to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.
\p Ephesians 1.13: \v 13 In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
\p Ephesians 1.14: \v 14 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
\p
\p Ephesians 1.15: \v 15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,
\p Ephesians 1.16: \v 16 don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
\p Ephesians 1.17: \v 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,
\p Ephesians 1.18: \v 18 having the eyes of your hearts\f + \fr 1:18 \ft TR reads “understanding” instead of “hearts”\f* enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
\p Ephesians 1.19: \v 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
\p Ephesians 1.20: \v 20 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
\p Ephesians 1.21: \v 21 far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.
\p Ephesians 1.22: \v 22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
\p Ephesians 1.23: \v 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
\p Ephesians 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Ephesians 2.1: \v 1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
\p Ephesians 2.2: \v 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.
\p Ephesians 2.3: \v 3 We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
\p Ephesians 2.4: \v 4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
\p Ephesians 2.5: \v 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
\p Ephesians 2.6: \v 6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
\p Ephesians 2.7: \v 7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
\p Ephesians 2.8: \v 8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
\p Ephesians 2.9: \v 9 not of works, that no one would boast.
\p Ephesians 2.10: \v 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
\p
\p Ephesians 2.11: \v 11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),
\p Ephesians 2.12: \v 12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
\p Ephesians 2.13: \v 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
\p Ephesians 2.14: \v 14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,
\p Ephesians 2.15: \v 15 having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,
\p Ephesians 2.16: \v 16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it.
\p Ephesians 2.17: \v 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.
\p Ephesians 2.18: \v 18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
\p Ephesians 2.19: \v 19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,
\p Ephesians 2.20: \v 20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
\p Ephesians 2.21: \v 21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
\p Ephesians 2.22: \v 22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
\p Ephesians 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Ephesians 3.1: \v 1 For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
\p Ephesians 3.2: \v 2 if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,
\p Ephesians 3.3: \v 3 how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,
\p Ephesians 3.4: \v 4 by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,
\p Ephesians 3.5: \v 5 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,
\p Ephesians 3.6: \v 6 that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,
\p Ephesians 3.7: \v 7 of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
\p Ephesians 3.8: \v 8 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
\p Ephesians 3.9: \v 9 and to make all men see what is the administration\f + \fr 3:9 \ft TR reads “fellowship” instead of “administration”\f* of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,
\p Ephesians 3.10: \v 10 to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
\p Ephesians 3.11: \v 11 according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
\p Ephesians 3.12: \v 12 In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.
\p Ephesians 3.13: \v 13 Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
\p
\p Ephesians 3.14: \v 14 For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
\p Ephesians 3.15: \v 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
\p Ephesians 3.16: \v 16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,
\p Ephesians 3.17: \v 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
\p Ephesians 3.18: \v 18 may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
\p Ephesians 3.19: \v 19 and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
\p
\p Ephesians 3.20: \v 20 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
\p Ephesians 3.21: \v 21 to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
\p Ephesians 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Ephesians 4.1: \v 1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
\p Ephesians 4.2: \v 2 with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
\p Ephesians 4.3: \v 3 being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
\p Ephesians 4.4: \v 4 There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,
\p Ephesians 4.5: \v 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
\p Ephesians 4.6: \v 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in us all.
\p Ephesians 4.7: \v 7 But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
\p Ephesians 4.8: \v 8 Therefore he says,
\q1 “When he ascended on high,
\q2 he led captivity captive,
\q2 and gave gifts to people.”\x + \xo 4:8 \xt Psalm 68:18\x*
\m
\p Ephesians 4.9: \v 9 Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
\p Ephesians 4.10: \v 10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.
\p
\p Ephesians 4.11: \v 11 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds\f + \fr 4:11 \ft or, pastors\f* and teachers;
\p Ephesians 4.12: \v 12 for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,
\p Ephesians 4.13: \v 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
\p Ephesians 4.14: \v 14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
\p Ephesians 4.15: \v 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,
\p Ephesians 4.16: \v 16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
\p
\p Ephesians 4.17: \v 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
\p Ephesians 4.18: \v 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.
\p Ephesians 4.19: \v 19 They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
\p Ephesians 4.20: \v 20 But you didn’t learn Christ that way,
\p Ephesians 4.21: \v 21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
\p Ephesians 4.22: \v 22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,
\p Ephesians 4.23: \v 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
\p Ephesians 4.24: \v 24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
\p
\p Ephesians 4.25: \v 25 Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
\p Ephesians 4.26: \v 26 “Be angry, and don’t sin.”\x + \xo 4:26 \xt Psalm 4:4\x* Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
\p Ephesians 4.27: \v 27 and don’t give place\f + \fr 4:27 \ft or, opportunity\f* to the devil.
\p Ephesians 4.28: \v 28 Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
\p Ephesians 4.29: \v 29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
\p Ephesians 4.30: \v 30 Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
\p Ephesians 4.31: \v 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.
\p Ephesians 4.32: \v 32 And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
\p Ephesians 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Ephesians 5.1: \v 1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
\p Ephesians 5.2: \v 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
\p
\p Ephesians 5.3: \v 3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
\p Ephesians 5.4: \v 4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
\p
\p Ephesians 5.5: \v 5 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
\p
\p Ephesians 5.6: \v 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
\p Ephesians 5.7: \v 7 Therefore don’t be partakers with them.
\p Ephesians 5.8: \v 8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
\p Ephesians 5.9: \v 9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
\p Ephesians 5.10: \v 10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
\p Ephesians 5.11: \v 11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
\p Ephesians 5.12: \v 12 For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
\p Ephesians 5.13: \v 13 But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
\p Ephesians 5.14: \v 14 Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
\p
\p Ephesians 5.15: \v 15 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
\p Ephesians 5.16: \v 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
\p Ephesians 5.17: \v 17 Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
\p Ephesians 5.18: \v 18 Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
\p Ephesians 5.19: \v 19 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
\p Ephesians 5.20: \v 20 giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
\p Ephesians 5.21: \v 21 subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
\p
\p Ephesians 5.22: \v 22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
\p Ephesians 5.23: \v 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
\p Ephesians 5.24: \v 24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
\p
\p Ephesians 5.25: \v 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
\p Ephesians 5.26: \v 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
\p Ephesians 5.27: \v 27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.
\p Ephesians 5.28: \v 28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
\p Ephesians 5.29: \v 29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;
\p Ephesians 5.30: \v 30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
\p Ephesians 5.31: \v 31 “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”\x + \xo 5:31 \xt Genesis 2:24\x*
\p Ephesians 5.32: \v 32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
\p Ephesians 5.33: \v 33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
\p Ephesians 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Ephesians 6.1: \v 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
\p Ephesians 6.2: \v 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
\p Ephesians 6.3: \v 3 “that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.” \x + \xo 6:3 \xt Deuteronomy 5:16\x*
\p
\p Ephesians 6.4: \v 4 You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
\p
\p Ephesians 6.5: \v 5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,
\p Ephesians 6.6: \v 6 not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
\p Ephesians 6.7: \v 7 with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not to men,
\p Ephesians 6.8: \v 8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
\p
\p Ephesians 6.9: \v 9 You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
\p
\p Ephesians 6.10: \v 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
\p Ephesians 6.11: \v 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
\p Ephesians 6.12: \v 12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
\p Ephesians 6.13: \v 13 Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
\p Ephesians 6.14: \v 14 Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
\p Ephesians 6.15: \v 15 and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace,
\p Ephesians 6.16: \v 16 above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.
\p Ephesians 6.17: \v 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word\f + \fr 6:17 \ft from the Greek “ῥῆμα” (rhema), which means “spoken word”\f* of God;
\p Ephesians 6.18: \v 18 with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
\p Ephesians 6.19: \v 19 on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,
\p Ephesians 6.20: \v 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
\p
\p Ephesians 6.21: \v 21 But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things.
\p Ephesians 6.22: \v 22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts.
\p
\p Ephesians 6.23: \v 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\p Ephesians 6.24: \v 24 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.
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\h Philippians
\toc1 Paul’s Letter to the Philippians
\toc2 Philippians
\toc3 Php
\mt1 Paul’s Letter to the Philippians
\p Philippians 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Philippians 1.1: \v 1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ;
\p To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers \f + \fr 1:1 \ft or, superintendents, or bishops\f* and servants:\f + \fr 1:1 \ft Or, deacons\f*
\p Philippians 1.2: \v 2 Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\p Philippians 1.3: \v 3 I thank my God whenever I remember you,
\p Philippians 1.4: \v 4 always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,
\p Philippians 1.5: \v 5 for your partnership\f + \fr 1:5 \ft The word translated “partnership” (κοινωνίᾳ) also means “fellowship” and “sharing”.\f* in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;
\p Philippians 1.6: \v 6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
\p Philippians 1.7: \v 7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
\p Philippians 1.8: \v 8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
\p
\p Philippians 1.9: \v 9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
\p Philippians 1.10: \v 10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,
\p Philippians 1.11: \v 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
\p
\p Philippians 1.12: \v 12 Now I desire to have you know, brothers,\f + \fr 1:12 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,
\p Philippians 1.13: \v 13 so that it became evident to the whole palace\f + \fr 1:13 \ft or, praetorian \f* guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,
\p Philippians 1.14: \v 14 and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.
\p Philippians 1.15: \v 15 Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
\p Philippians 1.16: \v 16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;
\p Philippians 1.17: \v 17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.
\p
\p Philippians 1.18: \v 18 What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.
\p Philippians 1.19: \v 19 For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
\p Philippians 1.20: \v 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
\p Philippians 1.21: \v 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
\p Philippians 1.22: \v 22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.
\p Philippians 1.23: \v 23 But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
\p Philippians 1.24: \v 24 Yet to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.
\p Philippians 1.25: \v 25 Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,
\p Philippians 1.26: \v 26 that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.
\p
\p Philippians 1.27: \v 27 Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
\p Philippians 1.28: \v 28 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.
\p Philippians 1.29: \v 29 Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
\p Philippians 1.30: \v 30 having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.
\p Philippians 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Philippians 2.1: \v 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,
\p Philippians 2.2: \v 2 make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
\p Philippians 2.3: \v 3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
\p Philippians 2.4: \v 4 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
\p
\p Philippians 2.5: \v 5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
\p Philippians 2.6: \v 6 who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
\p Philippians 2.7: \v 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
\p Philippians 2.8: \v 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.
\p Philippians 2.9: \v 9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,
\p Philippians 2.10: \v 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
\p Philippians 2.11: \v 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
\p
\p Philippians 2.12: \v 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.
\p Philippians 2.13: \v 13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
\p Philippians 2.14: \v 14 Do all things without complaining and arguing,
\p Philippians 2.15: \v 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,
\p Philippians 2.16: \v 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.
\p Philippians 2.17: \v 17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
\p Philippians 2.18: \v 18 In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.
\p
\p Philippians 2.19: \v 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.
\p Philippians 2.20: \v 20 For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.
\p Philippians 2.21: \v 21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
\p Philippians 2.22: \v 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.
\p Philippians 2.23: \v 23 Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.
\p Philippians 2.24: \v 24 But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.
\p Philippians 2.25: \v 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,
\p Philippians 2.26: \v 26 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.
\p Philippians 2.27: \v 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.
\p Philippians 2.28: \v 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.
\p Philippians 2.29: \v 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,
\p Philippians 2.30: \v 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.
\p Philippians 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Philippians 3.1: \v 1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.
\p Philippians 3.2: \v 2 Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.
\p Philippians 3.3: \v 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
\p Philippians 3.4: \v 4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
\p Philippians 3.5: \v 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
\p Philippians 3.6: \v 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
\p
\p Philippians 3.7: \v 7 However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
\p Philippians 3.8: \v 8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
\p Philippians 3.9: \v 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,
\p Philippians 3.10: \v 10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,
\p Philippians 3.11: \v 11 if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
\p Philippians 3.12: \v 12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
\p
\p Philippians 3.13: \v 13 Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
\p Philippians 3.14: \v 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
\p Philippians 3.15: \v 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
\p Philippians 3.16: \v 16 Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.
\p
\p Philippians 3.17: \v 17 Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
\p Philippians 3.18: \v 18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
\p Philippians 3.19: \v 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
\p Philippians 3.20: \v 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
\p Philippians 3.21: \v 21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
\p Philippians 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Philippians 4.1: \v 1 Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.
\p
\p Philippians 4.2: \v 2 I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.
\p Philippians 4.3: \v 3 Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
\p
\p Philippians 4.4: \v 4 Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”
\p Philippians 4.5: \v 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
\p Philippians 4.6: \v 6 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
\p Philippians 4.7: \v 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
\p
\p Philippians 4.8: \v 8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.
\p Philippians 4.9: \v 9 The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
\p
\p Philippians 4.10: \v 10 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.
\p Philippians 4.11: \v 11 Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
\p Philippians 4.12: \v 12 I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
\p Philippians 4.13: \v 13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
\p Philippians 4.14: \v 14 However you did well that you shared in my affliction.
\p Philippians 4.15: \v 15 You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.
\p Philippians 4.16: \v 16 For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.
\p Philippians 4.17: \v 17 Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
\p Philippians 4.18: \v 18 But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
\p Philippians 4.19: \v 19 My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
\p Philippians 4.20: \v 20 Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
\p
\p Philippians 4.21: \v 21 Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.
\p Philippians 4.22: \v 22 All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household.
\p
\p Philippians 4.23: \v 23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
\p Colossians 0.0: \id COL 51-COL-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
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\h Colossians
\toc1 Paul’s Letter to the Colossians
\toc2 Colossians
\toc3 Col
\mt1 Paul’s Letter to the Colossians
\p Colossians 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Colossians 1.1: \v 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
\p Colossians 1.2: \v 2 to the saints and faithful brothers\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\p
\p Colossians 1.3: \v 3 We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
\p Colossians 1.4: \v 4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
\p Colossians 1.5: \v 5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News
\p Colossians 1.6: \v 6 which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,
\p Colossians 1.7: \v 7 even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your\f + \fr 1:7 \ft NU reads \fqa our\f* behalf,
\p Colossians 1.8: \v 8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
\p
\p Colossians 1.9: \v 9 For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
\p Colossians 1.10: \v 10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,
\p Colossians 1.11: \v 11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,
\p Colossians 1.12: \v 12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,
\p Colossians 1.13: \v 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,
\p Colossians 1.14: \v 14 in whom we have our redemption,\f + \fr 1:14 \ft TR adds “through his blood,” \f* the forgiveness of our sins.
\p Colossians 1.15: \v 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
\p Colossians 1.16: \v 16 For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.
\p Colossians 1.17: \v 17 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
\p Colossians 1.18: \v 18 He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.
\p Colossians 1.19: \v 19 For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him,
\p Colossians 1.20: \v 20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
\p
\p Colossians 1.21: \v 21 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,
\p Colossians 1.22: \v 22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
\p Colossians 1.23: \v 23 if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
\p
\p Colossians 1.24: \v 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,
\p Colossians 1.25: \v 25 of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,
\p Colossians 1.26: \v 26 the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,
\p Colossians 1.27: \v 27 to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
\p Colossians 1.28: \v 28 We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
\p Colossians 1.29: \v 29 for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
\p Colossians 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Colossians 2.1: \v 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;
\p Colossians 2.2: \v 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,
\p Colossians 2.3: \v 3 in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
\p Colossians 2.4: \v 4 Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
\p Colossians 2.5: \v 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.
\p
\p Colossians 2.6: \v 6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
\p Colossians 2.7: \v 7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
\p
\p Colossians 2.8: \v 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.
\p Colossians 2.9: \v 9 For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,
\p Colossians 2.10: \v 10 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.
\p Colossians 2.11: \v 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,
\p Colossians 2.12: \v 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.
\p Colossians 2.13: \v 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,
\p Colossians 2.14: \v 14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
\p Colossians 2.15: \v 15 Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
\p
\p Colossians 2.16: \v 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,
\p Colossians 2.17: \v 17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
\p Colossians 2.18: \v 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,
\p Colossians 2.19: \v 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.
\p
\p Colossians 2.20: \v 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,
\p Colossians 2.21: \v 21 “Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”
\p Colossians 2.22: \v 22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
\p Colossians 2.23: \v 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.
\p Colossians 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Colossians 3.1: \v 1 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
\p Colossians 3.2: \v 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
\p Colossians 3.3: \v 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
\p Colossians 3.4: \v 4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
\p
\p Colossians 3.5: \v 5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
\p Colossians 3.6: \v 6 For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
\p Colossians 3.7: \v 7 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;
\p Colossians 3.8: \v 8 but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
\p Colossians 3.9: \v 9 Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
\p Colossians 3.10: \v 10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
\p Colossians 3.11: \v 11 where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.
\p
\p Colossians 3.12: \v 12 Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
\p Colossians 3.13: \v 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
\p
\p Colossians 3.14: \v 14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
\p Colossians 3.15: \v 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.
\p Colossians 3.16: \v 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
\p
\p Colossians 3.17: \v 17 Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
\p
\p Colossians 3.18: \v 18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
\p
\p Colossians 3.19: \v 19 Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
\p
\p Colossians 3.20: \v 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
\p
\p Colossians 3.21: \v 21 Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
\p
\p Colossians 3.22: \v 22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
\p Colossians 3.23: \v 23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
\p Colossians 3.24: \v 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
\p Colossians 3.25: \v 25 But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.
\p Colossians 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Colossians 4.1: \v 1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
\p
\p Colossians 4.2: \v 2 Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,
\p Colossians 4.3: \v 3 praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,
\p Colossians 4.4: \v 4 that I may reveal it as I ought to speak.
\p Colossians 4.5: \v 5 Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
\p Colossians 4.6: \v 6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
\p
\p Colossians 4.7: \v 7 All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.
\p Colossians 4.8: \v 8 I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,
\p Colossians 4.9: \v 9 together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here.
\p
\p Colossians 4.10: \v 10 Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, “if he comes to you, receive him”),
\p Colossians 4.11: \v 11 and Jesus who is called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for God’s Kingdom who are of the circumcision, men who have been a comfort to me.
\p
\p Colossians 4.12: \v 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
\p Colossians 4.13: \v 13 For I testify about him that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.
\p Colossians 4.14: \v 14 Luke the beloved physician and Demas greet you.
\p Colossians 4.15: \v 15 Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly that is in his house.
\p Colossians 4.16: \v 16 When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.
\p Colossians 4.17: \v 17 Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”
\p
\p Colossians 4.18: \v 18 The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
\p 1 Thessalonians 0.0: \id 1TH 52-1TH-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
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\h 1 Thessalonians
\toc1 Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians
\toc2 1 Thessalonians
\toc3 1Th
\mt1 Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians
\p 1 Thessalonians 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 1 Thessalonians 1.1: \v 1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\p
\p 1 Thessalonians 1.2: \v 2 We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,
\p 1 Thessalonians 1.3: \v 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
\p 1 Thessalonians 1.4: \v 4 We know, brothers\f + \fr 1:4 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” \f* loved by God, that you are chosen,
\p 1 Thessalonians 1.5: \v 5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
\p 1 Thessalonians 1.6: \v 6 You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
\p 1 Thessalonians 1.7: \v 7 so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
\p 1 Thessalonians 1.8: \v 8 For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.
\p 1 Thessalonians 1.9: \v 9 For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
\p 1 Thessalonians 1.10: \v 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.1: \v 1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.2: \v 2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.3: \v 3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.4: \v 4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.5: \v 5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.6: \v 6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.7: \v 7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
\p
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.8: \v 8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.9: \v 9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.10: \v 10 You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.11: \v 11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.12: \v 12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.13: \v 13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.14: \v 14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.15: \v 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.16: \v 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
\p
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.17: \v 17 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.18: \v 18 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.19: \v 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus\f + \fr 2:19 \ft TR adds “Christ”\f* at his coming?
\p 1 Thessalonians 2.20: \v 20 For you are our glory and our joy.
\p 1 Thessalonians 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p 1 Thessalonians 3.1: \v 1 Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,
\p 1 Thessalonians 3.2: \v 2 and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,
\p 1 Thessalonians 3.3: \v 3 that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
\p 1 Thessalonians 3.4: \v 4 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
\p 1 Thessalonians 3.5: \v 5 For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
\p 1 Thessalonians 3.6: \v 6 But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,
\p 1 Thessalonians 3.7: \v 7 for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
\p 1 Thessalonians 3.8: \v 8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
\p 1 Thessalonians 3.9: \v 9 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,
\p 1 Thessalonians 3.10: \v 10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
\p
\p 1 Thessalonians 3.11: \v 11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.
\p 1 Thessalonians 3.12: \v 12 May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
\p 1 Thessalonians 3.13: \v 13 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.1: \v 1 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.2: \v 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.3: \v 3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.4: \v 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body\f + \fr 4:4 \ft literally, possess his own vessel\f* in sanctification and honor,
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.5: \v 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.6: \v 6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.7: \v 7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.8: \v 8 Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
\p
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.9: \v 9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.10: \v 10 for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.11: \v 11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.12: \v 12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
\p
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.13: \v 13 But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.14: \v 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.15: \v 15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.16: \v 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.17: \v 17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
\p 1 Thessalonians 4.18: \v 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.1: \v 1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.2: \v 2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.3: \v 3 For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.4: \v 4 But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.5: \v 5 You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.6: \v 6 so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.7: \v 7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.8: \v 8 But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.9: \v 9 For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.10: \v 10 who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.11: \v 11 Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.12: \v 12 But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.13: \v 13 and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake.
\p Be at peace among yourselves.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.14: \v 14 We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.15: \v 15 See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.
\p
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.16: \v 16 Always rejoice.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.17: \v 17 Pray without ceasing.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.18: \v 18 In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.19: \v 19 Don’t quench the Spirit.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.20: \v 20 Don’t despise prophecies.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.21: \v 21 Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.22: \v 22 Abstain from every form of evil.
\p
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.23: \v 23 May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
\p
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.24: \v 24 He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.25: \v 25 Brothers, pray for us.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.26: \v 26 Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.27: \v 27 I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.
\p
\p 1 Thessalonians 5.28: \v 28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
\p 2 Thessalonians 0.0: \id 2TH 53-2TH-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h 2 Thessalonians
\toc1 Paul’s Second Letter to the Thessalonians
\toc2 2 Thessalonians
\toc3 2Th
\mt1 Paul’s Second Letter to the Thessalonians
\p 2 Thessalonians 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 2 Thessalonians 1.1: \v 1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:
\p 2 Thessalonians 1.2: \v 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\p
\p 2 Thessalonians 1.3: \v 3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers,\f + \fr 1:3 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,
\p 2 Thessalonians 1.4: \v 4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
\p 2 Thessalonians 1.5: \v 5 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.
\p 2 Thessalonians 1.6: \v 6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
\p 2 Thessalonians 1.7: \v 7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
\p 2 Thessalonians 1.8: \v 8 punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
\p 2 Thessalonians 1.9: \v 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
\p 2 Thessalonians 1.10: \v 10 when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
\p
\p 2 Thessalonians 1.11: \v 11 To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,
\p 2 Thessalonians 1.12: \v 12 that the name of our Lord Jesus\f + \fr 1:12 \ft TR adds “Christ”\f* may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.1: \v 1 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.2: \v 2 not to be quickly shaken in your mind, and not be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ has already come.
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.3: \v 3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion\f + \fr 2:3 \ft or, \fqa falling away\ft , or, \fqa defection\f* comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.4: \v 4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.5: \v 5 Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.6: \v 6 Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.7: \v 7 For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.8: \v 8 Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.9: \v 9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.10: \v 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.11: \v 11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.12: \v 12 that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
\p
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.13: \v 13 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.14: \v 14 to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.15: \v 15 So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.
\p
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.16: \v 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
\p 2 Thessalonians 2.17: \v 17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.1: \v 1 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.2: \v 2 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.3: \v 3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.4: \v 4 We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.5: \v 5 May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.
\p
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.6: \v 6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.7: \v 7 For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.8: \v 8 neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.9: \v 9 not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.10: \v 10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.11: \v 11 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.12: \v 12 Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.
\p
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.13: \v 13 But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.14: \v 14 If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.15: \v 15 Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
\p
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.16: \v 16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
\p
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.17: \v 17 The greeting of me, Paul, with my own hand, which is the sign in every letter: this is how I write.
\p 2 Thessalonians 3.18: \v 18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
\p 1 Timothy 0.0: \id 1TI 54-1TI-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h 1 Timothy
\toc1 Paul’s First Letter to Timothy
\toc2 1 Timothy
\toc3 1Ti
\mt1 Paul’s First Letter to Timothy
\p 1 Timothy 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 1 Timothy 1.1: \v 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ\f + \fr 1:1 \ft NU reads \fqa Christ Jesus and omits \fqa the Lord. \f* our hope;
\p 1 Timothy 1.2: \v 2 to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
\p
\p 1 Timothy 1.3: \v 3 As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
\p 1 Timothy 1.4: \v 4 and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—
\p 1 Timothy 1.5: \v 5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,
\p 1 Timothy 1.6: \v 6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,
\p 1 Timothy 1.7: \v 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
\p 1 Timothy 1.8: \v 8 But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,
\p 1 Timothy 1.9: \v 9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
\p 1 Timothy 1.10: \v 10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,
\p 1 Timothy 1.11: \v 11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
\p
\p 1 Timothy 1.12: \v 12 I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;
\p 1 Timothy 1.13: \v 13 although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
\p 1 Timothy 1.14: \v 14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
\p 1 Timothy 1.15: \v 15 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
\p 1 Timothy 1.16: \v 16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
\p 1 Timothy 1.17: \v 17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
\p
\p 1 Timothy 1.18: \v 18 I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,
\p 1 Timothy 1.19: \v 19 holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,
\p 1 Timothy 1.20: \v 20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
\p 1 Timothy 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 1 Timothy 2.1: \v 1 I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:
\p 1 Timothy 2.2: \v 2 for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
\p 1 Timothy 2.3: \v 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
\p 1 Timothy 2.4: \v 4 who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
\p 1 Timothy 2.5: \v 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
\p 1 Timothy 2.6: \v 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times,
\p 1 Timothy 2.7: \v 7 to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
\p
\p 1 Timothy 2.8: \v 8 I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
\p 1 Timothy 2.9: \v 9 In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just\f + \fr 2:9 \ft The word “just” is inserted here in English to preserve the meaning of the whole original Greek sentence in context. The word for “not” is the negative particle “μη” which denies an expected idea, as opposed to the usual word for “not” (ου) which denies a fact. Thus “μη” in this context is denying an expected idea (that women can be properly dressed without good works).\f* with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,
\p 1 Timothy 2.10: \v 10 but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.
\p 1 Timothy 2.11: \v 11 Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.
\p 1 Timothy 2.12: \v 12 But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.
\p 1 Timothy 2.13: \v 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
\p 1 Timothy 2.14: \v 14 Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;
\p 1 Timothy 2.15: \v 15 but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.
\p 1 Timothy 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p 1 Timothy 3.1: \v 1 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer\f + \fr 3:1 \ft or, superintendent, or bishop\f* desires a good work.
\p 1 Timothy 3.2: \v 2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
\p 1 Timothy 3.3: \v 3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
\p 1 Timothy 3.4: \v 4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
\p 1 Timothy 3.5: \v 5 (but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)
\p 1 Timothy 3.6: \v 6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
\p 1 Timothy 3.7: \v 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
\p
\p 1 Timothy 3.8: \v 8 Servants,\f + \fr 3:8 \ft or, Deacons.\f* in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,
\p 1 Timothy 3.9: \v 9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
\p 1 Timothy 3.10: \v 10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve\f + \fr 3:10 \ft or, serve as deacons\f* if they are blameless.
\p 1 Timothy 3.11: \v 11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
\p 1 Timothy 3.12: \v 12 Let servants\f + \fr 3:12 \ft or, deacons\f* be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
\p 1 Timothy 3.13: \v 13 For those who have served well\f + \fr 3:13 \ft or, served well as deacons\f* gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
\p
\p 1 Timothy 3.14: \v 14 These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;
\p 1 Timothy 3.15: \v 15 but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
\p 1 Timothy 3.16: \v 16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great:
\q1 God\f + \fr 3:16 \ft NU replaces “God” with “who”\f* was revealed in the flesh,
\q1 justified in the spirit,
\q1 seen by angels,
\q1 preached among the nations,
\q1 believed on in the world,
\q1 and received up in glory.
\p 1 Timothy 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p 1 Timothy 4.1: \v 1 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
\p 1 Timothy 4.2: \v 2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron,
\p 1 Timothy 4.3: \v 3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
\p 1 Timothy 4.4: \v 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
\p 1 Timothy 4.5: \v 5 For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
\p
\p 1 Timothy 4.6: \v 6 If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
\p 1 Timothy 4.7: \v 7 But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
\p 1 Timothy 4.8: \v 8 For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
\p 1 Timothy 4.9: \v 9 This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.
\p 1 Timothy 4.10: \v 10 For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
\p 1 Timothy 4.11: \v 11 Command and teach these things.
\p
\p 1 Timothy 4.12: \v 12 Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
\p 1 Timothy 4.13: \v 13 Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
\p 1 Timothy 4.14: \v 14 Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
\p 1 Timothy 4.15: \v 15 Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.
\p 1 Timothy 4.16: \v 16 Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
\p 1 Timothy 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p 1 Timothy 5.1: \v 1 Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
\p 1 Timothy 5.2: \v 2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
\p 1 Timothy 5.3: \v 3 Honor widows who are widows indeed.
\p 1 Timothy 5.4: \v 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 \f + \fr 5:4 \ft TR adds “good and”\f* acceptable in the sight of God.
\p 1 Timothy 5.5: \v 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.
\p 1 Timothy 5.6: \v 6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
\p 1 Timothy 5.7: \v 7 Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
\p 1 Timothy 5.8: \v 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.
\p 1 Timothy 5.9: \v 9 Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
\p 1 Timothy 5.10: \v 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.
\p
\p 1 Timothy 5.11: \v 11 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,
\p 1 Timothy 5.12: \v 12 having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.
\p 1 Timothy 5.13: \v 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.
\p 1 Timothy 5.14: \v 14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
\p 1 Timothy 5.15: \v 15 For already some have turned away after Satan.
\p 1 Timothy 5.16: \v 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.
\p
\p 1 Timothy 5.17: \v 17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
\p 1 Timothy 5.18: \v 18 For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.”\x + \xo 5:18 \xt Deuteronomy 25:4\x* And, \wj “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”\wj*\x + \xo 5:18 \xt Luke 10:7; Leviticus 19:13\x*
\p
\p 1 Timothy 5.19: \v 19 Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.
\p 1 Timothy 5.20: \v 20 Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
\p 1 Timothy 5.21: \v 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.
\p 1 Timothy 5.22: \v 22 Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.
\p 1 Timothy 5.23: \v 23 Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
\p
\p 1 Timothy 5.24: \v 24 Some men’s sins are evident, preceding them to judgment, and some also follow later.
\p 1 Timothy 5.25: \v 25 In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.
\p 1 Timothy 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p 1 Timothy 6.1: \v 1 Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.
\p 1 Timothy 6.2: \v 2 Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
\p
\p 1 Timothy 6.3: \v 3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
\p 1 Timothy 6.4: \v 4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
\p 1 Timothy 6.5: \v 5 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such. \f + \fr 6:5 \ft NU omits “Withdraw yourself from such.”\f*
\p
\p 1 Timothy 6.6: \v 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
\p 1 Timothy 6.7: \v 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.
\p 1 Timothy 6.8: \v 8 But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
\p 1 Timothy 6.9: \v 9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
\p 1 Timothy 6.10: \v 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
\p
\p 1 Timothy 6.11: \v 11 But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
\p 1 Timothy 6.12: \v 12 Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
\p 1 Timothy 6.13: \v 13 I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
\p 1 Timothy 6.14: \v 14 that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
\p 1 Timothy 6.15: \v 15 which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.
\p 1 Timothy 6.16: \v 16 He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
\p
\p 1 Timothy 6.17: \v 17 Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
\p 1 Timothy 6.18: \v 18 that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;
\p 1 Timothy 6.19: \v 19 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
\p
\p 1 Timothy 6.20: \v 20 Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
\p 1 Timothy 6.21: \v 21 which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith.
\p Grace be with you. Amen.
\p 2 Timothy 0.0: \id 2TI 55-2TI-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h 2 Timothy
\toc1 Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy
\toc2 2 Timothy
\toc3 2Ti
\mt1 Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy
\p 2 Timothy 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 2 Timothy 1.1: \v 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
\p 2 Timothy 1.2: \v 2 to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 1.3: \v 3 I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
\p 2 Timothy 1.4: \v 4 longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
\p 2 Timothy 1.5: \v 5 having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 1.6: \v 6 For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
\p 2 Timothy 1.7: \v 7 For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
\p 2 Timothy 1.8: \v 8 Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
\p 2 Timothy 1.9: \v 9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
\p 2 Timothy 1.10: \v 10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
\p 2 Timothy 1.11: \v 11 For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
\p 2 Timothy 1.12: \v 12 For this cause I also suffer these things.
\p Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 1.13: \v 13 Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
\p 2 Timothy 1.14: \v 14 That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 1.15: \v 15 This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
\p 2 Timothy 1.16: \v 16 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
\p 2 Timothy 1.17: \v 17 but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me
\p 2 Timothy 1.18: \v 18 (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
\p 2 Timothy 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 2 Timothy 2.1: \v 1 You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
\p 2 Timothy 2.2: \v 2 The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
\p 2 Timothy 2.3: \v 3 You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
\p 2 Timothy 2.4: \v 4 No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
\p 2 Timothy 2.5: \v 5 Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
\p 2 Timothy 2.6: \v 6 The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.
\p 2 Timothy 2.7: \v 7 Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 2.8: \v 8 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring\f + \fr 2:8 \ft or, seed\f* of David, according to my Good News,
\p 2 Timothy 2.9: \v 9 in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
\p 2 Timothy 2.10: \v 10 Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
\p 2 Timothy 2.11: \v 11 This saying is trustworthy:
\q1 “For if we died with him,
\q2 we will also live with him.
\q1
\p 2 Timothy 2.12: \v 12 If we endure,
\q2 we will also reign with him.
\q1 If we deny him,
\q2 he also will deny us.
\q1
\p 2 Timothy 2.13: \v 13 If we are faithless,
\q2 he remains faithful;
\q2 for he can’t deny himself.”
\p
\p 2 Timothy 2.14: \v 14 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 2.15: \v 15 Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
\p 2 Timothy 2.16: \v 16 But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,
\p 2 Timothy 2.17: \v 17 and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus:
\p 2 Timothy 2.18: \v 18 men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.
\p 2 Timothy 2.19: \v 19 However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,”\x + \xo 2:19 \xt Numbers 16:5\x* and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord\f + \fr 2:19 \ft TR reads “Christ” instead of “the Lord”\f* depart from unrighteousness.”
\p 2 Timothy 2.20: \v 20 Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.
\p 2 Timothy 2.21: \v 21 If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 2.22: \v 22 Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
\p 2 Timothy 2.23: \v 23 But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
\p 2 Timothy 2.24: \v 24 The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,
\p 2 Timothy 2.25: \v 25 in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
\p 2 Timothy 2.26: \v 26 and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.
\p 2 Timothy 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p 2 Timothy 3.1: \v 1 But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.
\p 2 Timothy 3.2: \v 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
\p 2 Timothy 3.3: \v 3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
\p 2 Timothy 3.4: \v 4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
\p 2 Timothy 3.5: \v 5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
\p 2 Timothy 3.6: \v 6 For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
\p 2 Timothy 3.7: \v 7 always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
\p 2 Timothy 3.8: \v 8 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.
\p 2 Timothy 3.9: \v 9 But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
\p 2 Timothy 3.10: \v 10 But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
\p 2 Timothy 3.11: \v 11 persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
\p 2 Timothy 3.12: \v 12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
\p 2 Timothy 3.13: \v 13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
\p 2 Timothy 3.14: \v 14 But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
\p 2 Timothy 3.15: \v 15 From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
\p 2 Timothy 3.16: \v 16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and\f + \fr 3:16 \ft or, Every writing inspired by God is\f* profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
\p 2 Timothy 3.17: \v 17 that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
\p 2 Timothy 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p 2 Timothy 4.1: \v 1 I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
\p 2 Timothy 4.2: \v 2 preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
\p 2 Timothy 4.3: \v 3 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,
\p 2 Timothy 4.4: \v 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.
\p 2 Timothy 4.5: \v 5 But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 4.6: \v 6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
\p 2 Timothy 4.7: \v 7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
\p 2 Timothy 4.8: \v 8 From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 4.9: \v 9 Be diligent to come to me soon,
\p 2 Timothy 4.10: \v 10 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.
\p 2 Timothy 4.11: \v 11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.
\p 2 Timothy 4.12: \v 12 But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.
\p 2 Timothy 4.13: \v 13 Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come, and the books, especially the parchments.
\p 2 Timothy 4.14: \v 14 Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,
\p 2 Timothy 4.15: \v 15 of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 4.16: \v 16 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
\p 2 Timothy 4.17: \v 17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
\p 2 Timothy 4.18: \v 18 And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 4.19: \v 19 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.
\p 2 Timothy 4.20: \v 20 Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick.
\p 2 Timothy 4.21: \v 21 Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 4.22: \v 22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
\p Titus 0.0: \id TIT 56-TIT-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Titus
\toc1 Paul’s Letter to Titus
\toc2 Titus
\toc3 Tit
\mt1 Paul’s Letter to Titus
\p Titus 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Titus 1.1: \v 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
\p Titus 1.2: \v 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
\p Titus 1.3: \v 3 but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
\p Titus 1.4: \v 4 to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
\p
\p Titus 1.5: \v 5 I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you,
\p Titus 1.6: \v 6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
\p Titus 1.7: \v 7 For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
\p Titus 1.8: \v 8 but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,
\p Titus 1.9: \v 9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
\p
\p Titus 1.10: \v 10 For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
\p Titus 1.11: \v 11 whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
\p Titus 1.12: \v 12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”
\p Titus 1.13: \v 13 This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
\p Titus 1.14: \v 14 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
\p Titus 1.15: \v 15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
\p Titus 1.16: \v 16 They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
\p Titus 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Titus 2.1: \v 1 But say the things which fit sound doctrine,
\p Titus 2.2: \v 2 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:
\p Titus 2.3: \v 3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,
\p Titus 2.4: \v 4 that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,
\p Titus 2.5: \v 5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.
\p Titus 2.6: \v 6 Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.
\p Titus 2.7: \v 7 In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
\p Titus 2.8: \v 8 and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
\p Titus 2.9: \v 9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,
\p Titus 2.10: \v 10 not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.
\p Titus 2.11: \v 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
\p Titus 2.12: \v 12 instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;
\p Titus 2.13: \v 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
\p Titus 2.14: \v 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
\p
\p Titus 2.15: \v 15 Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.
\p Titus 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Titus 3.1: \v 1 Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
\p Titus 3.2: \v 2 to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
\p Titus 3.3: \v 3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
\p Titus 3.4: \v 4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
\p Titus 3.5: \v 5 not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
\p Titus 3.6: \v 6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;
\p Titus 3.7: \v 7 that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
\p Titus 3.8: \v 8 This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
\p Titus 3.9: \v 9 but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
\p Titus 3.10: \v 10 Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,
\p Titus 3.11: \v 11 knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned.
\p
\p Titus 3.12: \v 12 When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there.
\p Titus 3.13: \v 13 Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.
\p Titus 3.14: \v 14 Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
\p
\p Titus 3.15: \v 15 All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
\p Philemon 0.0: \id PHM 57-PHM-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Philemon
\toc1 Paul’s Letter to Philemon
\toc2 Philemon
\toc3 Phm
\mt1 Paul’s Letter to Philemon
\p Philemon 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Philemon 1.1: \v 1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,
\p Philemon 1.2: \v 2 to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:
\p Philemon 1.3: \v 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\p
\p Philemon 1.4: \v 4 I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,
\p Philemon 1.5: \v 5 hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,
\p Philemon 1.6: \v 6 that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.
\p Philemon 1.7: \v 7 For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
\p
\p Philemon 1.8: \v 8 Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,
\p Philemon 1.9: \v 9 yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
\p Philemon 1.10: \v 10 I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus, \f + \fr 1:10 \ft Onesimus means “useful”.\f*
\p Philemon 1.11: \v 11 who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.
\p Philemon 1.12: \v 12 I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
\p Philemon 1.13: \v 13 whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.
\p Philemon 1.14: \v 14 But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.
\p Philemon 1.15: \v 15 For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,
\p Philemon 1.16: \v 16 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
\p
\p Philemon 1.17: \v 17 If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.
\p Philemon 1.18: \v 18 But if he has wronged you at all or owes you anything, put that to my account.
\p Philemon 1.19: \v 19 I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).
\p Philemon 1.20: \v 20 Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.
\p
\p Philemon 1.21: \v 21 Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
\p
\p Philemon 1.22: \v 22 Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
\p
\p Philemon 1.23: \v 23 Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,
\p Philemon 1.24: \v 24 as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
\p
\p Philemon 1.25: \v 25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
\p James 0.0: \id JAS 59-JAS-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h James
\toc1 The Letter from James
\toc2 James
\toc3 Jas
\mt1 The Letter from James
\p James 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p James 1.1: \v 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
\p
\p James 1.2: \v 2 Count it all joy, my brothers,\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* when you fall into various temptations,
\p James 1.3: \v 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
\p James 1.4: \v 4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
\p
\p James 1.5: \v 5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
\p James 1.6: \v 6 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
\p James 1.7: \v 7 For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
\p James 1.8: \v 8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
\p
\p James 1.9: \v 9 But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
\p James 1.10: \v 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
\p James 1.11: \v 11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.
\p
\p James 1.12: \v 12 Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
\p
\p James 1.13: \v 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
\p James 1.14: \v 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
\p James 1.15: \v 15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
\p James 1.16: \v 16 Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
\p James 1.17: \v 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
\p James 1.18: \v 18 Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
\p
\p James 1.19: \v 19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
\p James 1.20: \v 20 for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
\p James 1.21: \v 21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.\f + \fr 1:21 \ft or, preserve your life.\f*
\p James 1.22: \v 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
\p James 1.23: \v 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
\p James 1.24: \v 24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
\p James 1.25: \v 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
\p
\p James 1.26: \v 26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
\p James 1.27: \v 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
\p James 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p James 2.1: \v 1 My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.
\p James 2.2: \v 2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue,\f + \fr 2:2 \ft or, meeting\f* and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in,
\p James 2.3: \v 3 and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”
\p James 2.4: \v 4 haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
\p James 2.5: \v 5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
\p James 2.6: \v 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
\p James 2.7: \v 7 Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
\p James 2.8: \v 8 However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,”\x + \xo 2:8 \xt Leviticus 19:18\x* you do well.
\p James 2.9: \v 9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
\p James 2.10: \v 10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
\p James 2.11: \v 11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,”\x + \xo 2:11 \xt Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18\x* also said, “Do not commit murder.”\x + \xo 2:11 \xt Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17 \x* Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
\p James 2.12: \v 12 So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
\p James 2.13: \v 13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
\p
\p James 2.14: \v 14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
\p James 2.15: \v 15 And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
\p James 2.16: \v 16 and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
\p James 2.17: \v 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
\p James 2.18: \v 18 Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
\p
\p James 2.19: \v 19 You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.
\p James 2.20: \v 20 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
\p James 2.21: \v 21 Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
\p James 2.22: \v 22 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.
\p James 2.23: \v 23 So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,”\x + \xo 2:23 \xt Genesis 15:6\x* and he was called the friend of God.
\p James 2.24: \v 24 You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.
\p James 2.25: \v 25 In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
\p James 2.26: \v 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
\p James 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p James 3.1: \v 1 Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
\p James 3.2: \v 2 For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
\p James 3.3: \v 3 Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
\p James 3.4: \v 4 Behold,\f + \fr 3:4 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.
\p James 3.5: \v 5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
\p James 3.6: \v 6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.\f + \fr 3:6 \ft or, Hell\f*
\p James 3.7: \v 7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;
\p James 3.8: \v 8 but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
\p James 3.9: \v 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.
\p James 3.10: \v 10 Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
\p James 3.11: \v 11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
\p James 3.12: \v 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
\p
\p James 3.13: \v 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
\p James 3.14: \v 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
\p James 3.15: \v 15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
\p James 3.16: \v 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
\p James 3.17: \v 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
\p James 3.18: \v 18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
\p James 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p James 4.1: \v 1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
\p James 4.2: \v 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.
\p James 4.3: \v 3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
\p James 4.4: \v 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.
\p James 4.5: \v 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
\p James 4.6: \v 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”\x + \xo 4:6 \xt Proverbs 3:34\x*
\p James 4.7: \v 7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
\p James 4.8: \v 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
\p James 4.9: \v 9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
\p James 4.10: \v 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
\p
\p James 4.11: \v 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.
\p James 4.12: \v 12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
\p
\p James 4.13: \v 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.”
\p James 4.14: \v 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.
\p James 4.15: \v 15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
\p James 4.16: \v 16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
\p James 4.17: \v 17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
\p James 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p James 5.1: \v 1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
\p James 5.2: \v 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
\p James 5.3: \v 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
\p James 5.4: \v 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.\f + \fr 5:4 \ft Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze’va’ot)\f*
\p James 5.5: \v 5 You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
\p James 5.6: \v 6 You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
\p
\p James 5.7: \v 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
\p James 5.8: \v 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
\p
\p James 5.9: \v 9 Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
\p James 5.10: \v 10 Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
\p James 5.11: \v 11 Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
\p
\p James 5.12: \v 12 But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.\f + \fr 5:12 \ft TR reads “under judgment” instead of “into hypocrisy”\f*
\p
\p James 5.13: \v 13 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
\p James 5.14: \v 14 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
\p James 5.15: \v 15 and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
\p James 5.16: \v 16 Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
\p James 5.17: \v 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
\p James 5.18: \v 18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
\p
\p James 5.19: \v 19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
\p James 5.20: \v 20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
\p 1 Peter 0.0: \id 1PE 60-1PE-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h 1 Peter
\toc1 Peter’s First Letter
\toc2 1 Peter
\toc3 1Pe
\mt1 Peter’s First Letter
\p 1 Peter 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 1 Peter 1.1: \v 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
\p 1 Peter 1.2: \v 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
\p
\p 1 Peter 1.3: \v 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
\p 1 Peter 1.4: \v 4 to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
\p 1 Peter 1.5: \v 5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
\p 1 Peter 1.6: \v 6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,
\p 1 Peter 1.7: \v 7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
\p 1 Peter 1.8: \v 8 whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,
\p 1 Peter 1.9: \v 9 receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
\p 1 Peter 1.10: \v 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
\p 1 Peter 1.11: \v 11 searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.
\p 1 Peter 1.12: \v 12 To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
\p
\p 1 Peter 1.13: \v 13 Therefore prepare your minds for action.\f + \fr 1:13 \ft literally, “gird up the waist of your mind” or “put on the belt of the waist of your mind”\f* Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
\p 1 Peter 1.14: \v 14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
\p 1 Peter 1.15: \v 15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
\p 1 Peter 1.16: \v 16 because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”\x + \xo 1:16 \xt Leviticus 11:44-45\x*
\p 1 Peter 1.17: \v 17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,
\p 1 Peter 1.18: \v 18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
\p 1 Peter 1.19: \v 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,
\p 1 Peter 1.20: \v 20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
\p 1 Peter 1.21: \v 21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.
\p
\p 1 Peter 1.22: \v 22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
\p 1 Peter 1.23: \v 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
\p 1 Peter 1.24: \v 24 For,
\q1 “All flesh is like grass,
\q2 and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass.
\q1 The grass withers, and its flower falls;
\q2
\p 1 Peter 1.25: \v 25 but the Lord’s word endures forever.”\x + \xo 1:25 \xt Isaiah 40:6-8\x*
\p This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.
\p 1 Peter 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 1 Peter 2.1: \v 1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
\p 1 Peter 2.2: \v 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
\p 1 Peter 2.3: \v 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
\p 1 Peter 2.4: \v 4 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
\p 1 Peter 2.5: \v 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.
\p 1 Peter 2.6: \v 6 Because it is contained in Scripture,
\q1 “Behold,\f + \fr 2:6 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה” or “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious:
\q2 He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”\x + \xo 2:6 \xt Isaiah 28:16 \x*
\p
\p 1 Peter 2.7: \v 7 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient,
\q1 “The stone which the builders rejected
\q2 has become the chief cornerstone,”\x + \xo 2:7 \xt Psalm 118:22\x*
\p
\p 1 Peter 2.8: \v 8 and,
\q1 “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.”\x + \xo 2:8 \xt Isaiah 8:14\x*
\p For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
\p 1 Peter 2.9: \v 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.
\p 1 Peter 2.10: \v 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.
\p
\p 1 Peter 2.11: \v 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
\p 1 Peter 2.12: \v 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.
\p
\p 1 Peter 2.13: \v 13 Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
\p 1 Peter 2.14: \v 14 or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.
\p 1 Peter 2.15: \v 15 For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
\p 1 Peter 2.16: \v 16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
\p
\p 1 Peter 2.17: \v 17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
\p
\p 1 Peter 2.18: \v 18 Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect: not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
\p 1 Peter 2.19: \v 19 For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
\p 1 Peter 2.20: \v 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.
\p 1 Peter 2.21: \v 21 For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you\f + \fr 2:21 \ft TR reads “us” instead of “you”\f* an example, that you should follow his steps,
\p 1 Peter 2.22: \v 22 who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”\x + \xo 2:22 \xt Isaiah 53:9\x*
\p 1 Peter 2.23: \v 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.
\p 1 Peter 2.24: \v 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.\f + \fr 2:24 \ft or, stripes\f*
\p 1 Peter 2.25: \v 25 For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer\f + \fr 2:25 \ft “Overseer” is from the Greek ἐπίσκοπον, which can mean overseer, curator, guardian, or superintendent.\f* of your souls.
\p 1 Peter 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p 1 Peter 3.1: \v 1 In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,
\p 1 Peter 3.2: \v 2 seeing your pure behavior in fear.
\p 1 Peter 3.3: \v 3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
\p 1 Peter 3.4: \v 4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.
\p 1 Peter 3.5: \v 5 For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.
\p 1 Peter 3.6: \v 6 So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
\p
\p 1 Peter 3.7: \v 7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
\p
\p 1 Peter 3.8: \v 8 Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
\p 1 Peter 3.9: \v 9 not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.
\p 1 Peter 3.10: \v 10 For,
\q1 “He who would love life
\q2 and see good days,
\q1 let him keep his tongue from evil
\q2 and his lips from speaking deceit.
\q1
\p 1 Peter 3.11: \v 11 Let him turn away from evil and do good.
\q2 Let him seek peace and pursue it.
\q1
\p 1 Peter 3.12: \v 12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
\q2 and his ears open to their prayer;
\q2 but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”\x + \xo 3:12 \xt Psalm 34:12-16\x*
\p
\p 1 Peter 3.13: \v 13 Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?
\p 1 Peter 3.14: \v 14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”\x + \xo 3:14 \xt Isaiah 8:12\x*
\p 1 Peter 3.15: \v 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
\p 1 Peter 3.16: \v 16 having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
\p 1 Peter 3.17: \v 17 For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
\p 1 Peter 3.18: \v 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,
\p 1 Peter 3.19: \v 19 in whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,
\p 1 Peter 3.20: \v 20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
\p 1 Peter 3.21: \v 21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
\p 1 Peter 3.22: \v 22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
\p 1 Peter 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p 1 Peter 4.1: \v 1 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
\p 1 Peter 4.2: \v 2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
\p 1 Peter 4.3: \v 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
\p 1 Peter 4.4: \v 4 They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.
\p 1 Peter 4.5: \v 5 They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
\p 1 Peter 4.6: \v 6 For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
\p
\p 1 Peter 4.7: \v 7 But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
\p 1 Peter 4.8: \v 8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
\p 1 Peter 4.9: \v 9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
\p 1 Peter 4.10: \v 10 As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
\p 1 Peter 4.11: \v 11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
\p
\p 1 Peter 4.12: \v 12 Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
\p 1 Peter 4.13: \v 13 But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
\p 1 Peter 4.14: \v 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
\p 1 Peter 4.15: \v 15 For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.
\p 1 Peter 4.16: \v 16 But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
\p 1 Peter 4.17: \v 17 For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?
\p 1 Peter 4.18: \v 18 “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”\x + \xo 4:18 \xt Proverbs 11:31\x*
\p 1 Peter 4.19: \v 19 Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.
\p 1 Peter 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p 1 Peter 5.1: \v 1 Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
\p 1 Peter 5.2: \v 2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
\p 1 Peter 5.3: \v 3 not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
\p 1 Peter 5.4: \v 4 When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
\p
\p 1 Peter 5.5: \v 5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”\x + \xo 5:5 \xt Proverbs 3:34 \x*
\p 1 Peter 5.6: \v 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,
\p 1 Peter 5.7: \v 7 casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
\p
\p 1 Peter 5.8: \v 8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
\p 1 Peter 5.9: \v 9 Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.
\p 1 Peter 5.10: \v 10 But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
\p 1 Peter 5.11: \v 11 To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
\p
\p 1 Peter 5.12: \v 12 Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.
\p 1 Peter 5.13: \v 13 She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you. So does Mark, my son.
\p 1 Peter 5.14: \v 14 Greet one another with a kiss of love.
\p Peace be to all of you who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
\p 2 Peter 0.0: \id 2PE 61-2PE-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h 2 Peter
\toc1 Peter’s Second Letter
\toc2 2 Peter
\toc3 2Pe
\mt1 Peter’s Second Letter
\p 2 Peter 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 2 Peter 1.1: \v 1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
\p 2 Peter 1.2: \v 2 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
\p 2 Peter 1.3: \v 3 seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,
\p 2 Peter 1.4: \v 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
\p 2 Peter 1.5: \v 5 Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
\p 2 Peter 1.6: \v 6 and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;
\p 2 Peter 1.7: \v 7 and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
\p 2 Peter 1.8: \v 8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
\p 2 Peter 1.9: \v 9 For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
\p 2 Peter 1.10: \v 10 Therefore, brothers,\f + \fr 1:10 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” \f* be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
\p 2 Peter 1.11: \v 11 For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
\p
\p 2 Peter 1.12: \v 12 Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
\p 2 Peter 1.13: \v 13 I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,
\p 2 Peter 1.14: \v 14 knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
\p 2 Peter 1.15: \v 15 Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.
\p 2 Peter 1.16: \v 16 For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
\p 2 Peter 1.17: \v 17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”\x + \xo 1:17 \xt Matthew 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35\x*
\p 2 Peter 1.18: \v 18 We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.
\p
\p 2 Peter 1.19: \v 19 We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:
\p 2 Peter 1.20: \v 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.
\p 2 Peter 1.21: \v 21 For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
\p 2 Peter 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 2 Peter 2.1: \v 1 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
\p 2 Peter 2.2: \v 2 Many will follow their immoral\f + \fr 2:2 \ft TR reads “destructive” instead of “immoral”\f* ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
\p 2 Peter 2.3: \v 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
\p 2 Peter 2.4: \v 4 For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus,\f + \fr 2:4 \ft Tartarus is another name for Hell\f* and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;
\p 2 Peter 2.5: \v 5 and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
\p 2 Peter 2.6: \v 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way;
\p 2 Peter 2.7: \v 7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
\p 2 Peter 2.8: \v 8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):
\p 2 Peter 2.9: \v 9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
\p 2 Peter 2.10: \v 10 but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
\p 2 Peter 2.11: \v 11 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.
\p 2 Peter 2.12: \v 12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
\p 2 Peter 2.13: \v 13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
\p 2 Peter 2.14: \v 14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
\p 2 Peter 2.15: \v 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
\p 2 Peter 2.16: \v 16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
\p 2 Peter 2.17: \v 17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
\p 2 Peter 2.18: \v 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
\p 2 Peter 2.19: \v 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
\p
\p 2 Peter 2.20: \v 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
\p 2 Peter 2.21: \v 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
\p 2 Peter 2.22: \v 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,”\x + \xo 2:22 \xt Proverbs 26:11\x* and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”
\p 2 Peter 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p 2 Peter 3.1: \v 1 This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,
\p 2 Peter 3.2: \v 2 that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:
\p 2 Peter 3.3: \v 3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts
\p 2 Peter 3.4: \v 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
\p 2 Peter 3.5: \v 5 For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,
\p 2 Peter 3.6: \v 6 by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished.
\p 2 Peter 3.7: \v 7 But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
\p
\p 2 Peter 3.8: \v 8 But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
\p 2 Peter 3.9: \v 9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
\p 2 Peter 3.10: \v 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
\p 2 Peter 3.11: \v 11 Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
\p 2 Peter 3.12: \v 12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
\p 2 Peter 3.13: \v 13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
\p
\p 2 Peter 3.14: \v 14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.
\p 2 Peter 3.15: \v 15 Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,
\p 2 Peter 3.16: \v 16 as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
\p 2 Peter 3.17: \v 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
\p 2 Peter 3.18: \v 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
\p 1 John 0.0: \id 1JN 62-1JN-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h 1 John
\toc1 John’s First Letter
\toc2 1 John
\toc3 1Jn
\mt1 John’s First Letter
\p 1 John 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 1 John 1.1: \v 1 That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
\p 1 John 1.2: \v 2 (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
\p 1 John 1.3: \v 3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
\p 1 John 1.4: \v 4 And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.
\p
\p 1 John 1.5: \v 5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
\p 1 John 1.6: \v 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.
\p 1 John 1.7: \v 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
\p 1 John 1.8: \v 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
\p 1 John 1.9: \v 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
\p 1 John 1.10: \v 10 If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
\p 1 John 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 1 John 2.1: \v 1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor\f + \fr 2:1 \ft Greek παρακλητον: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comforter.\f* with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
\p 1 John 2.2: \v 2 And he is the atoning sacrifice\f + \fr 2:2 \ft “atoning sacrifice” is from the Greek “ιλασμος”, an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation—the sacrifice that turns away God’s wrath because of our sin. \f* for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
\p 1 John 2.3: \v 3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
\p 1 John 2.4: \v 4 One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.
\p 1 John 2.5: \v 5 But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:
\p 1 John 2.6: \v 6 he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
\p
\p 1 John 2.7: \v 7 Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.
\p 1 John 2.8: \v 8 Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.
\p 1 John 2.9: \v 9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.
\p 1 John 2.10: \v 10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
\p 1 John 2.11: \v 11 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
\p
\p 1 John 2.12: \v 12 I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
\p
\p 1 John 2.13: \v 13 I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning.
\p I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.
\p I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
\p
\p 1 John 2.14: \v 14 I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning.
\p I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
\p
\p 1 John 2.15: \v 15 Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
\p 1 John 2.16: \v 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
\p 1 John 2.17: \v 17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
\p
\p 1 John 2.18: \v 18 Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.
\p 1 John 2.19: \v 19 They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
\p 1 John 2.20: \v 20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. \f + \fr 2:20 \ft Or, “know what is true”, or, “know all things”\f*
\p 1 John 2.21: \v 21 I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
\p 1 John 2.22: \v 22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
\p 1 John 2.23: \v 23 Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
\p
\p 1 John 2.24: \v 24 Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.
\p 1 John 2.25: \v 25 This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
\p 1 John 2.26: \v 26 These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.
\p 1 John 2.27: \v 27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
\p 1 John 2.28: \v 28 Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
\p 1 John 2.29: \v 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
\p 1 John 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p 1 John 3.1: \v 1 See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
\p 1 John 3.2: \v 2 Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
\p 1 John 3.3: \v 3 Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
\p 1 John 3.4: \v 4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
\p 1 John 3.5: \v 5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.
\p 1 John 3.6: \v 6 Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.
\p
\p 1 John 3.7: \v 7 Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
\p 1 John 3.8: \v 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
\p 1 John 3.9: \v 9 Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.
\p 1 John 3.10: \v 10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.
\p 1 John 3.11: \v 11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
\p 1 John 3.12: \v 12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
\p
\p 1 John 3.13: \v 13 Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
\p 1 John 3.14: \v 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
\p 1 John 3.15: \v 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
\p
\p 1 John 3.16: \v 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
\p 1 John 3.17: \v 17 But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
\p 1 John 3.18: \v 18 My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
\p 1 John 3.19: \v 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
\p 1 John 3.20: \v 20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
\p 1 John 3.21: \v 21 Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
\p 1 John 3.22: \v 22 so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
\p 1 John 3.23: \v 23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
\p 1 John 3.24: \v 24 He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
\p 1 John 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p 1 John 4.1: \v 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.
\p 1 John 4.2: \v 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
\p 1 John 4.3: \v 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.
\p 1 John 4.4: \v 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.
\p 1 John 4.5: \v 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
\p 1 John 4.6: \v 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.
\p
\p 1 John 4.7: \v 7 Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
\p 1 John 4.8: \v 8 He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
\p 1 John 4.9: \v 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.
\p 1 John 4.10: \v 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice\f + \fr 4:10 \ft “atoning sacrifice” is from the Greek “ιλασμος”, an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation—the sacrifice that turns away God’s wrath because of our sin. \f* for our sins.
\p 1 John 4.11: \v 11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
\p 1 John 4.12: \v 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.
\p
\p 1 John 4.13: \v 13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
\p 1 John 4.14: \v 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
\p 1 John 4.15: \v 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
\p 1 John 4.16: \v 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.
\p 1 John 4.17: \v 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.
\p 1 John 4.18: \v 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.
\p 1 John 4.19: \v 19 We love him, because he first loved us.
\p 1 John 4.20: \v 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?
\p 1 John 4.21: \v 21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
\p 1 John 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p 1 John 5.1: \v 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
\p 1 John 5.2: \v 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
\p 1 John 5.3: \v 3 For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
\p 1 John 5.4: \v 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
\p 1 John 5.5: \v 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
\p 1 John 5.6: \v 6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
\p 1 John 5.7: \v 7 For there are three who testify:\f + \fr 5:7 \ft Only a few recent manuscripts add “in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth:”\f*
\p 1 John 5.8: \v 8 the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one.
\p 1 John 5.9: \v 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.
\p 1 John 5.10: \v 10 He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
\p 1 John 5.11: \v 11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
\p 1 John 5.12: \v 12 He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life.
\p
\p 1 John 5.13: \v 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
\p
\p 1 John 5.14: \v 14 This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
\p 1 John 5.15: \v 15 And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
\p
\p 1 John 5.16: \v 16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.
\p 1 John 5.17: \v 17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.
\p
\p 1 John 5.18: \v 18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.
\p 1 John 5.19: \v 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
\p 1 John 5.20: \v 20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
\p
\p 1 John 5.21: \v 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
\p 2 John 0.0: \id 2JN 63-2JN-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h 2 John
\toc1 John’s Second Letter
\toc2 2 John
\toc3 2Jn
\mt1 John’s Second Letter
\p 2 John 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 2 John 1.1: \v 1 The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,
\p 2 John 1.2: \v 2 for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
\p 2 John 1.3: \v 3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
\p
\p 2 John 1.4: \v 4 I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.
\p 2 John 1.5: \v 5 Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
\p 2 John 1.6: \v 6 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
\p 2 John 1.7: \v 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
\p 2 John 1.8: \v 8 Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
\p 2 John 1.9: \v 9 Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
\p 2 John 1.10: \v 10 If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,
\p 2 John 1.11: \v 11 for he who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds.
\p
\p 2 John 1.12: \v 12 Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.
\p 2 John 1.13: \v 13 The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen.
\p 3 John 0.0: \id 3JN 64-3JN-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h 3 John
\toc1 John’s Third Letter
\toc2 3 John
\toc3 3Jn
\mt1 John’s Third Letter
\p 3 John 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 3 John 1.1: \v 1 The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.
\p
\p 3 John 1.2: \v 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
\p 3 John 1.3: \v 3 For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.
\p 3 John 1.4: \v 4 I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.
\p
\p 3 John 1.5: \v 5 Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.
\p 3 John 1.6: \v 6 They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,
\p 3 John 1.7: \v 7 because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
\p 3 John 1.8: \v 8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
\p
\p 3 John 1.9: \v 9 I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.
\p 3 John 1.10: \v 10 Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
\p 3 John 1.11: \v 11 Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.
\p 3 John 1.12: \v 12 Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.
\p
\p 3 John 1.13: \v 13 I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen;
\p 3 John 1.14: \v 14 but I hope to see you soon. Then we will speak face to face. Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.
\p Jude 0.0: \id JUD 65-JUD-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Jude
\toc1 The Letter from Jude
\toc2 Jude
\toc3 Jud
\mt1 The Letter from Jude
\p Jude 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Jude 1.1: \v 1 Jude,\f + \fr 1:1 \ft or, Judah\f* a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
\p Jude 1.2: \v 2 Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.
\p
\p Jude 1.3: \v 3 Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
\p Jude 1.4: \v 4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
\p
\p Jude 1.5: \v 5 Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
\p Jude 1.6: \v 6 Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
\p Jude 1.7: \v 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
\p Jude 1.8: \v 8 Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
\p Jude 1.9: \v 9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”
\p Jude 1.10: \v 10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
\p Jude 1.11: \v 11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
\p Jude 1.12: \v 12 These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
\p Jude 1.13: \v 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
\p Jude 1.14: \v 14 About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold,\f + \fr 1:14 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
\p Jude 1.15: \v 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
\p Jude 1.16: \v 16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
\p
\p Jude 1.17: \v 17 But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
\p Jude 1.18: \v 18 They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”
\p Jude 1.19: \v 19 These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
\p Jude 1.20: \v 20 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
\p Jude 1.21: \v 21 Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
\p Jude 1.22: \v 22 On some have compassion, making a distinction,
\p Jude 1.23: \v 23 and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
\p
\p Jude 1.24: \v 24 Now to him who is able to keep them\f + \fr 1:24 \ft TR and NU read “you”\f* from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
\p Jude 1.25: \v 25 to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
\p Front Matter 0.0: \id FRT Preface to the World English Bible
\h Preface
\toc1 Preface
\toc2 Preface
\toc3 Preface
\mt1 Preface to the World English Bible
\is1 What is the Holy Bible?
\ip The Holy Bible is a collection of books and letters written by many people who were inspired by the Holy Spirit of God. These books tell us how we can be saved from the evil of this world and gain eternal life that is truly worth living. Although the Holy Bible contains rules of conduct, it is not just a rule book. It reveals God’s heart—a Father’s heart, full of love and compassion. The Holy Bible tells you what you need to know and believe to be saved from sin and evil and how to live a life that is truly worth living, no matter what your current circumstances may be.
\ip The Holy Bible consists of two main sections: the Old Testament (including Psalms and Proverbs) and the New Testament (Matthew through Revelation). The Old Testament records God’s interaction with mankind before He sent His son to redeem us, while recording prophesy predicting that coming. The New Testament tells us of God’s Son and Anointed One, Jesus, and the wonderful salvation that He purchased for us.
\ip The same Holy Spirit who inspired the Holy Bible is living among us today, and He is happy to help you understand what He intended as you study His Word. Just ask Him, and He is more than happy to help you apply His message to your life.
\ip The Old Testament was originally written mostly in Hebrew. The New Testament was originally written mostly in the common street Greek (not the formal Greek used for official legal matters). The Holy Bible is translated into many languages, and being translated into many more, so that everyone may have an opportunity to hear the Good News about Jesus Christ.
\is1 Why was the World English Bible translated?
\ip There are already many good translations of the Holy Bible into contemporary English. Unfortunately, almost all of them are restricted by copyright and copyright holder policy. This restricts publication and republication of God’s Word in many ways, such as in downloadable files on the Internet, use of extensive quotations in books, etc. The World English Bible was commissioned by God in response to prayer about this subject.
\ip Because the World English Bible is in the Public Domain (not copyrighted), it can be freely copied, distributed, and redistributed without any payment of royalties. You don’t even have to ask permission to do so. You may publish the whole World English Bible in book form, bind it in leather and sell it. You may incorporate it into your Bible study software. You may make and distribute audio recordings of it. You may broadcast it. All you have to do is maintain the integrity of God’s Word before God, and reserve the name “World English Bible” for faithful copies of this translation.
\is1 How was the World English Bible translated?
\ip The World English Bible is an update of the American Standard Version (ASV) of the Holy Bible, published in 1901. A custom computer program updated the archaic words and word forms to contemporary equivalents, and then a team of volunteers proofread and updated the grammar. The New Testament was updated to conform to the Majority Text reconstruction of the original Greek manuscripts, thus taking advantage of the superior access to manuscripts that we have now compared to when the original ASV was translated.
\is1 What is different about the World English Bible?
\ip The style of the World English Bible, while fairly literally translated, is in informal, spoken English. The World English Bible is designed to sound good and be accurate when read aloud. It is not formal in its language, just as the original Greek of the New Testament was not formal. The WEB uses contractions rather freely.
\ip The World English Bible doesn’t capitalize pronouns pertaining to God. The original manuscripts made no such distinction. Hebrew has no such thing as upper and lower case, and the original Greek manuscripts were written in all upper case letters. Attempting to add in such a distinction raises some difficulties in translating dual-meaning Scriptures such as the coronation psalms.
\ip The World English Bible main edition translates God’s Proper Name in the Old Testament as “Yahweh.” The Messianic Edition and the British Edition of the World English Bible translates the same name as “LORD” (all capital letters), or when used with “Lord” (mixed case, translated from “Adonai”,) GOD. There are solid translational arguments for both traditions.
\ip Because World English Bible uses the Majority Text as the basis for the New Testament, you may notice the following differences in comparing the WEB to other translations:
\ili The order of Matthew 23:13 and 14 is reversed in some translations.
\ili Luke 17:36 and Acts 15:34, which are not found in the majority of the Greek Manuscripts (and are relegated to footnotes in the WEB) may be included in some other translations.
\ili Romans 14:24-26 in the WEB may appear as Romans 16:25-27 in other translations.
\ili 1 John 5:7-8 contains an addition in some translations, including the KJV. Erasmus admitted adding this text to his published Greek New Testament, even though he could at first find no Greek manuscript support for it, because he was being pressured by men to do so, and because he didn’t see any doctrinal harm in it. Lots of things not written by John in this letter are true, but we decline to add them to what the Holy Spirit inspired through John.
\ip With all of the above and some other places where lack of clarity in the original manuscripts has led to multiple possible readings, significant variants are listed in footnotes. The reading that in our prayerful judgment is best is in the main text. Overall, the World English Bible doesn’t differ very much from several other good contemporary English translations of the Holy Bible. The message of Salvation through Jesus Christ is still the same. The point of this translation was not to be very different (except for legal status), but to update the ASV for readability while retaining or improving the accuracy of that well-respected translation and retaining the public domain status of the ASV.
\is1 Does the World English Bible include the Apocrypha?
\ip The World English Bible is an ecumenical project that includes books included in Bibles in many denominations. The main 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are recognized as Scripture by all true Christians. There are also books considered to be part of, depending on which book and who you ask, Deuterocanon, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha.
\ip The following books and parts of books are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Russian Orthodox Churches: \bk Tobit\bk*, \bk Judith\bk*, \bk Esther from the Greek Septuagint\bk*, \bk The Wisdom of Solomon\bk*, \bk Ecclesiasticus\bk* (also called \bk The Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach\bk*), \bk Baruch\bk*, \bk The Song of the Three Holy Children\bk*, \bk Susanna\bk*, and \bk Bel and the Dragon\bk*, \bk 1 Maccabees\bk*, \bk 2 Maccabees\bk*. In this edition, \bk The Letter of Jeremiah\bk* is included as chapter 6 of \bk Baruch\bk*. Three of those books come from parts of Daniel found in the Greek Septuagint, but not the Hebrew Old Testament: \bk The Song of the Three Holy Children\bk*, \bk Susanna\bk*, and \bk Bel and the Dragon\bk*. These 11 books, plus the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments comprise the 88 books in the Roman Catholic Bible.
\ip The following books are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches, but not the Roman Catholic Church: 1 Esdras, The Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151, and 3 Maccabees. Note that 1 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh are also in an appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible.
\ip The Slavonic Bible includes 2 Esdras, but calls it 3 Esdras. This same book is in the Appendix to the Latin Vulgate as 4 Esdras.
\ip An appendix to the Greek Septuagint contains 4 Maccabees. It is included for its historical value.
\ip Among Christian denominations and among individual Christians, opinions vary widely on the Deuterocanon/Apocrypha, as do the collective names they give them. Many regard them as useful in gaining additional understanding of the Old and New Testaments and the hand of God in history, even if they don’t give them the same status as the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. They are included here in support of the churches and individuals who read them and use them, as separate from, but frequently used with, the core canon of the 66 books of the Holy Bible.
\is1 What are MT, TR, and NU?
\ip In the footnotes, MT refers to the Greek Majority Text New Testament, which is the authoritative basis for this translation. TR stands for Textus Receptus, which is the Greek Text from which the King James Version New Testament was translated. NU stands for the Nestle-Aland/UBS critical text of the Greek New Testament, which is used as a basis for some other Bible translations.
\is1 More Information
\ip For answers to frequently asked questions about the World English Bible, please visit WorldEnglishBible.org.
\p Esther (Greek) 0.0: \id ESG
\h Esther (Greek)
\toc1 Esther translated from the Greek Septuagint
\toc2 Esther Greek
\toc3 ESG
\mt1 ESTHER
\mt2 translated from the Greek Septuagint
\is1 Introduction
\ip The book of Esther in the Greek Septuagint contains 5 additions that the traditional Hebrew text doesn’t have. These additions are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches. Those additions are enclosed in [square brackets]. Because the additions by themselves make little sense without the broader context of the book, we present here a translation of the whole book of Esther from the Greek.
\ip We have chosen not to distract the reader with confusing out-of-order chapter numbers that would result from using the KJV versification, but rather merge these 5 additions as extensions at the beginning of 1:1 and after 3:13, 4:17, 8:12, and 10:3. This makes some verses (1:1, 5:1, and 8:12) really long, but it also makes the verses line up with the same verse numbers in Esther as translated from the traditional Hebrew text. Some of the proper names in this book have been changed to the more familiar Hebrew form instead of the direct transliteration from the Greek.
\p Esther (Greek) 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 1.1: \v 1 [In the second year of the reign of Ahasuerus the great king, on the first day of Nisan, Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Jew dwelling in the city Susa, a great man, serving in the king’s palace, saw a vision. Now he was of the captivity which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried captive from Jerusalem, with Jeconiah the king of Judea. This was his dream: Behold, voices and a noise, thunders and earthquake, tumult upon the earth. And, behold, two great serpents came out, both ready for conflict. A great voice came from them. Every nation was prepared for battle by their voice, even to fight against the nation of the just. Behold, a day of darkness and blackness, suffering and anguish, affection and tumult upon the earth. And all the righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own afflictions. They prepared to die, and cried to God. Something like a great river from a little spring with much water, came from their cry. Light and the sun arose, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the honorable.
\p Mordecai, who had seen this vision and what God desired to do, having arisen, kept it in his heart, and desired by all means to interpret it, even until night.
\p Mordecai rested quietly in the palace with Gabatha and Tharrha the king’s two chamberlains, eunuchs who guarded the palace. He heard their conversation and searched out their plans. He learned that they were preparing to lay hands on king Ahasuerus; and he informed the king concerning them. The king examined the two chamberlains. They confessed, and were led away and executed. The king wrote these things for a record. Mordecai also wrote concerning these matters. The king commanded Mordecai to serve in the palace, and gave gifts for this service. But Haman the son of Hammedatha the Bougean was honored in the sight of the king, and he endeavored to harm Mordecai and his people, because of the king’s two chamberlains.]\f + \fr 1:1 \fl Note: \ft In the \fl Hebrew \ft and some copies of LXX, Esther begins here.\f* And it came to pass after these things\f + \fr 1:1 \fl Greek \ft words.\f* in the days of Ahasuerus, —(this Ahasuerus ruled over one hundred twenty-seven provinces from India)—
\p Esther (Greek) 1.2: \v 2 in those days, when king Ahasuerus was on the throne in the city of Susa.
\p Esther (Greek) 1.3: \v 3 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast for his friends, and the other nations, and for the nobles of the Persians and Medes, and the chief of the local governors.
\p Esther (Greek) 1.4: \v 4 After this, after he had shown them the wealth of his kingdom and the abundant glory of his wealth during one hundred eighty days,
\p Esther (Greek) 1.5: \v 5 when the days of the wedding feast were completed, the king made a banquet for the people of the nations who were present in the city for six days, in the court of the king’s house,
\p Esther (Greek) 1.6: \v 6 which was adorned with fine linen and flax on cords of fine linen and purple, fastened to golden and silver studs, on pillars of white marble and stone. There were golden and silver couches on a pavement of emerald stone, and of pearl, and of white marble, with transparent coverings variously flowered, having roses worked around it.
\p Esther (Greek) 1.7: \v 7 There were gold and silver cups, and a small cup of carbuncle set out of the value of thirty thousand talents, with abundant and sweet wine, which the king himself drank.
\p Esther (Greek) 1.8: \v 8 This banquet was not according to the appointed law; but as the king desired to have it. He charged the stewards to perform his will and that of the company.
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 1.9: \v 9 Also Vashti the queen made a banquet for the women in the palace where king Ahasuerus lived.
\p Esther (Greek) 1.10: \v 10 Now on the seventh day, the king, being merry, told Haman, Bazan, Tharrha, Baraze, Zatholtha, Abataza, and Tharaba, the seven chamberlains, servants of king Ahasuerus,
\p Esther (Greek) 1.11: \v 11 to bring in the queen to him, to \f + \fr 1:11 \fl Greek \ft to make her queen. \f* enthrone her, and crown her with the diadem, and to show her to the princes, and her beauty to the nations: for she was beautiful.
\p Esther (Greek) 1.12: \v 12 But queen Vashti didn’t listen to him to come with the chamberlains; so the king was grieved and angered.
\p Esther (Greek) 1.13: \v 13 And he said to his friends, “This is what Vashti said. Therefore pronounce your legal judgement on this case.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 1.14: \v 14 So Arkesaeus, Sarsathaeus, and Malisear, the princes of the Persians and Medes, who were near the king, who sat chief in rank by the king, drew near to him,
\p Esther (Greek) 1.15: \v 15 and reported to him according to the laws what it was proper to do to queen Vashti, because she had not done the things commanded by the king through the chamberlains.
\p Esther (Greek) 1.16: \v 16 And Memucan said to the king and to the princes, “Queen Vashti has not wronged the king only, but also all the king’s rulers and princes:
\p Esther (Greek) 1.17: \v 17 for he has told them the words of the queen, and how she \f + \fr 1:17 \fl Greek \ft contradicted. \f* disobeyed the king. As she then refused to obey king Ahasuerus,
\p Esther (Greek) 1.18: \v 18 so this day the other wives of the chiefs of the Persians and Medes, having heard what she said to the king, will dare in the same way to dishonor their husbands.
\p Esther (Greek) 1.19: \v 19 If then it seems good to the king, let him make a royal decree, and let it be written according to the laws of the Medes and Persians, and let him not alter it: ‘Don’t allow the queen to come in to him any more. Let the king give her royalty to a woman better than she.’
\p Esther (Greek) 1.20: \v 20 Let the law of the king which he will have made be widely proclaimed in his kingdom. Then all the women will give honor to their husbands, from the poor even to the rich.”
\p Esther (Greek) 1.21: \v 21 This advice pleased the king and the princes; and the king did as Memucan had said,
\p Esther (Greek) 1.22: \v 22 and sent into all his kingdom through the several provinces, according to their language, so that men might be feared in their own houses.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 2.1: \v 1 After this, the king’s anger was pacified, and he no more mentioned Vashti, bearing in mind what she had said, and how he had condemned her.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.2: \v 2 Then the servants of the king said, “Let chaste, beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.3: \v 3 Let the king appoint local governors in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them select fair, chaste young ladies and bring them to the city Susa, into the women’s apartment. Let them be consigned to the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women. Then let things for purification and other needs be given to them.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.4: \v 4 Let the woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.”
\p This thing pleased the king; and he did so.
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 2.5: \v 5 Now there was a Jew in the city Susa, and his name was Mordecai, the son of Jairus, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.6: \v 6 He had been brought as a prisoner from Jerusalem, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into captivity.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.7: \v 7 He had a foster child, daughter of Aminadab his father’s brother. Her name was Esther. When her parents died, he brought her up to womanhood as his own. This lady was beautiful.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.8: \v 8 And because the king’s ordinance was published, many ladies were gathered to the city of Susa under the hand of Hegai; and Esther was brought to Hegai, the keeper of the women.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.9: \v 9 The lady pleased him, and she found favor in his sight. He hurried to give her the things for purification, her portion, and the seven maidens appointed her out of the palace. He treated her and her maidens well in the women’s apartment.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.10: \v 10 But Esther didn’t reveal her family or her kindred; for Mordecai had charged her not to tell.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.11: \v 11 But Mordecai used to walk every day by the women’s court, to see what would become of Esther.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.12: \v 12 Now this was the time for a virgin to go into the king, when she should have fulfilled twelve months; for so are the days of purification fulfilled, six months while they are anointing themselves with oil of myrrh, and six months with spices and women’s purifications.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.13: \v 13 And then the lady goes in to the king. The officer that he commands to do so will bring her to come in with him from the women’s apartment to the king’s chamber.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.14: \v 14 She enters in the evening, and in the morning she departs to the second women’s apartment, where Hegai the king’s chamberlain is keeper of the women. She doesn’t go in to the king again, unless she is called by name.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.15: \v 15 And when the time was fulfilled for Esther the daughter of Aminadab the brother of Mordecai’s father to go in to the king, she neglected nothing which the chamberlain, the women’s keeper, commanded; for Esther found grace in the sight of all who looked at her.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.16: \v 16 So Esther went in to king Ahasuerus in the twelfth month, which is Adar, in the seventh year of his reign.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.17: \v 17 The king loved Esther, and she found favor beyond all the other virgins. He put the queen’s crown on her.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.18: \v 18 The king made a banquet for all his friends and great men for seven days, and he highly celebrated the marriage of Esther; and he granted a remission of taxes to those who were under his dominion.
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 2.19: \v 19 Meanwhile, Mordecai served in the palace.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.20: \v 20 Now Esther had not revealed her \f + \fr 2:20 \fl Greek \ft country. \f* kindred; for so Mordecai commanded her, to fear God, and perform his commandments, as when she was with him. Esther didn’t change her manner of life.
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 2.21: \v 21 Two chamberlains of the king, the chiefs of the body-guard, were grieved, because Mordecai was promoted; and they sought to kill king Ahasuerus.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.22: \v 22 And the matter was discovered by Mordecai, and he made it known to Esther, and she declared to the king the matter of the conspiracy.
\p Esther (Greek) 2.23: \v 23 And the king examined the two chamberlains, and hanged them. Then the king gave orders to make a note for a memorial in the royal \f + \fr 2:23 \fl Greek \ft library. \f* records of the good offices of Mordecai, as a commendation.
\p Esther (Greek) 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 3.1: \v 1 After this, king Ahasuerus highly honored Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Bugaean. He exalted him and set his seat above all his friends.
\p Esther (Greek) 3.2: \v 2 All in the palace bowed down to him, for so the king had given orders to do; but Mordecai didn’t bow down to him.
\p Esther (Greek) 3.3: \v 3 And they in the king’s palace said to Mordecai, “Mordecai, why do you transgress the commands of the king?”
\p Esther (Greek) 3.4: \v 4 They questioned him daily, but he didn’t listen to them; so they reported to Haman that Mordecai resisted the commands of the king; and Mordecai had shown to them that he was a Jew.
\p Esther (Greek) 3.5: \v 5 When Haman understood that Mordecai didn’t bow down to him, he was greatly enraged,
\p Esther (Greek) 3.6: \v 6 and took counsel to utterly destroy all the Jews who were under the rule of Ahasuerus.
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 3.7: \v 7 In the twelfth year of the reign of Ahasuerusin the twelfth year of the reign of Ahasuerus, he made a decision by casting lots by day and month, to kill the race of Mordecai in one day. The lot fell on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar.
\p Esther (Greek) 3.8: \v 8 So he spoke to king Ahasuerus, saying, “There is a nation scattered among the nations in all your kingdom, and their laws differ from all the other nations. They disobey the king’s laws. It is not expedient for the king to tolerate them.
\p Esther (Greek) 3.9: \v 9 If it seem good to the king, let him make a decree to destroy them, and I will remit into the king’s treasury ten thousand talents of silver.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 3.10: \v 10 So the king took off his ring, and gave it into the hands of Haman, to seal the decrees against the Jews.
\p Esther (Greek) 3.11: \v 11 The king said to Haman, “Keep the silver, and treat the nation as you will.”
\p Esther (Greek) 3.12: \v 12 So the king’s recorders were called in the first month, on the thirteenth day, and they wrote as Haman commanded to the captains and governors in every province, from India even to Ethiopia, to one hundred twenty-seven provinces; and to the rulers of the nations according to their languages, in the name of king Ahasuerus.
\p Esther (Greek) 3.13: \v 13 The message was sent by couriers throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus, to utterly destroy the race of the Jews on the first day of the twelfth month, which is Adar, and to plunder their goods. \f + \fr 3:13 \fl Note: \ft The part in brackets is not in \fl Hebrew\f*[The following is the copy of the letter. “From the great king Ahasuerus to the rulers and the governors under them of one hundred twenty-seven provinces, from India even to Ethiopia, who hold authority under him:
\p “Ruling over many nations and having obtained dominion over the whole world, I was determined (not elated by the confidence of power, but ever conducting myself with great moderation and gentleness) to make the lives of my subjects continually tranquil, desiring both to maintain the kingdom quiet and orderly to its utmost limits, and to restore the peace desired by all men. When I had asked my counselors how this should be brought to pass, Haman, who excels in soundness of judgment among us, and has been manifestly well inclined without wavering and with unshaken fidelity, and had obtained the second post in the kingdom, informed us that a certain ill-disposed people is mixed up with all the tribes throughout the world, opposed in their law to every other nation, and continually neglecting the commands of the king, so that the united government blamelessly administered by us is not quietly established. Having then conceived that this nation is continually set in opposition to every man, introducing as a change a foreign code of laws, and injuriously plotting to accomplish the worst of evils against our interests, and against the happy establishment of the monarchy; we instruct you in the letter written by Haman, who is set over the public affairs and is our second governor, to destroy them all utterly with their wives and children by the swords of the enemies, without pitying or sparing any, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar, of the present year; that the people aforetime and now ill-disposed to us having been violently consigned to death in one day, may hereafter secure to us continually a well constituted and quiet state of affairs.”]
\p Esther (Greek) 3.14: \v 14 Copies of the letters were published in every province; and an order was given to all the nations to be ready for that day.
\p Esther (Greek) 3.15: \v 15 This business was hastened also in Susa. The king and Haman began to drink, but the city was troubled.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 4.1: \v 1 But Mordecai, having perceived what was done, tore his garments, put on sackcloth, and sprinkled dust upon himself. Having rushed forth through the open street of the city, he cried with a loud voice, “A nation that has done no wrong is going to be destroyed!”
\p Esther (Greek) 4.2: \v 2 He came to the king’s gate, and stood; for it was not lawful for him to enter into the palace wearing sackcloth and ashes.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.3: \v 3 And in every province where the letters were published, there was crying, lamentation, and great mourning on the part of the Jews. They wore sackcloth and ashes.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.4: \v 4 The queen’s maids and chamberlains went in and told her; and when she had heard what was done, she was disturbed. She sent to clothe Mordecai, and take away his sackcloth; but he refused.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.5: \v 5 So Esther called for her chamberlain Hathach, who waited upon her; and she sent to learn the truth from Mordecai.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.7: \v 7 Mordecai showed him what was done, and the promise which Haman had made the king of ten thousand talents to be paid into the treasury, that he might destroy the Jews.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.8: \v 8 And he gave him the copy of what was published in Susa concerning their destruction to show to Esther; and told him to charge her to go in and entreat the king, and to beg him for the people. “Remember, he said, the days of your humble condition, how you were nursed by my hand; because Haman who holds the next place to the king has spoken against us for death. Call upon the Lord, and speak to the king concerning us, to deliver us from death.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 4.9: \v 9 So Hathach went in and told her all these words.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.10: \v 10 Esther said to Hathach, “Go to Mordecai, and say,
\p Esther (Greek) 4.11: \v 11 ‘All the nations of the empire know than any man or woman who goes in to the king into the inner court without being called, that person can’t live; except to whomever the king stretches out his golden sceptre, he shall live. I haven’t been called to go into the king for thirty days.’”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 4.12: \v 12 So Hathach reported to Mordecai all the words of Esther.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.13: \v 13 Then Mordecai said to Hathach, “Go, and say to her, ‘Esther, don’t say to yourself that you alone will escape in the kingdom, more than all the other Jews.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.14: \v 14 For if you refuse to listen on this occasion, help and protection will come to the Jews from another place; but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you have been made queen for this occasion?’”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 4.15: \v 15 And Esther sent the man that came to her to Mordecai, saying,
\p Esther (Greek) 4.16: \v 16 “Go and assemble the Jews that are in Susa, and all of you fast for me, and don’t eat or drink for three days, night and day. My maidens and I will also fast. Then I will go in to the king contrary to the law, even if I must die.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 4.17: \v 17 So Mordecai went and did all that Esther commanded him. \f + \fr 4:17 \fl Note: \ft The part between brackets, \fl i.e. \ft to the end of chap. \fl iv. is not in the \fl Hebrew \f*
\p Esther (Greek) 4.18: \v 18 [He prayed to the Lord, making mention of all the works of the Lord.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.19: \v 19 He said, “Lord \f + \fr 4:19 \ft See 3 Kings 8.53. \fl Note. \f* God, you are king ruling over all, for all things are in your power, and there is no one who can oppose you in your purpose to save Israel;
\p Esther (Greek) 4.20: \v 20 for you have made the heaven and the earth and every wonderful thing under heaven.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.21: \v 21 You are Lord of all, and there is no one who can resist you, Lord.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.22: \v 22 You know all things. You know, Lord, that it is not in insolence, nor arrogance, nor love of glory, that I have done this, to refuse to bow down to the arrogant Haman.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.23: \v 23 For I would gladly have kissed the soles of his feet for the safety of Israel.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.24: \v 24 But I have done this that I might not set the glory of man above the glory of God. I will not worship anyone except you, my Lord, and I will not do these things in arrogance.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.25: \v 25 And now, O Lord God, the King, the God of Abraham, spare your people, for our enemies are planning our destruction, and they have desired to destroy your ancient inheritance.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.26: \v 26 Do not overlook your people, whom you have redeemed for yourself out of the land of Egypt.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.27: \v 27 Listen to my prayer. Have mercy on your inheritance and turn our mourning into gladness, that we may live and sing praise to your name, O Lord. Don’t utterly destroy the mouth of those who praise you, O Lord.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 4.28: \v 28 All Israel cried with all their might, for death was before their eyes.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.29: \v 29 And queen Esther took refuge in the Lord, being taken as it were in the agony of death.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.30: \v 30 Having taken off her glorious apparel, she put on garments of distress and mourning. Instead of grand perfumes she filled her head with ashes and dung. She greatly brought down her body, and she filled every place of her glad adorning with the her tangled hair.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.31: \v 31 She implored the Lord God of Israel, and said, “O my Lord, you alone are our king. Help me. I am destitute, and have no helper but you,
\p Esther (Greek) 4.32: \v 32 for my danger is \f + \fr 4:32 \fl Greek \ft in my hand. \f*near at hand.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.33: \v 33 I have heard from my birth, in the tribe of my kindred that you, Lord, took Israel out of all the nations, and our fathers out of all their kindred for a perpetual inheritance, and have done for them all that you have said.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.34: \v 34 And now we have sinned before you, and you have delivered us into the hands of our enemies,
\p Esther (Greek) 4.35: \v 35 because we honored their gods. You are righteous, O Lord.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.36: \v 36 But now they have not been content with the bitterness of our slavery, but have laid their hands on the hands of their idols
\p Esther (Greek) 4.37: \v 37 to abolish the decree of your mouth, and utterly to destroy your inheritance, and to stop the mouth of those who praise you, and to extinguish the glory of your house and your alter,
\p Esther (Greek) 4.38: \v 38 and to open the mouth of the Gentiles to \add speak\add* the \f + \fr 4:38 \fl Greek \ft virtues. \f* praises of vanities, and that a mortal king should be admired forever.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.39: \v 39 O Lord, don’t resign your sceptre to them that are not, and don’t let them laugh at our fall, but turn their counsel against themselves, and make an example of him who has \f + \fr 4:39 \fl Greek \ft begun against us. \f* begun to injure us.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.40: \v 40 Remember us, O Lord, manifest yourself in the time of our affliction. Encourage me, O King of gods, and ruler of all dominion!
\p Esther (Greek) 4.41: \v 41 Put harmonious speech into my mouth before the lion, and turn his heart to hate him who fights against us, to the utter destruction of him who agrees with him.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.42: \v 42 But deliver us by your hand, and help me who am destitute, and have none but you, O Lord.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.43: \v 43 You know all things, and know that I hate the \f + \fr 4:43 \fl Or, \ft opinion. \f*glory of transgressors, and that I abhor the couch of the uncircumcised, and of every stranger.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.44: \v 44 You know my necessity, for I abhor the symbol of my proud station, which is upon my head in the days of my \f + \fr 4:44 \fl Greek \ft vision.\f* splendor. I abhor it as a menstruous cloth, and I don’t wear it in the days of my tranquility.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.45: \v 45 Your handmaid has not eaten at Haman’s table Haman, and I have not honored the banquet of the king, neither have I drunk wine of libations.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.46: \v 46 Neither has your handmaid rejoiced since the day of my promotion until now, except in you, O Lord God of Abraham.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.47: \v 47 O god, who has power over all, listen to the voice of the desperate, and deliver us from the hand of those who devise mischief. Deliver me from my fear.]
\p Esther (Greek) 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 5.1: \v 1 \f + \fr 5:1 \ft From the first verse to the third, the\fl Greek widely differs from the \fl Hebrew \f* It came to pass on the third day, when she had ceased praying, that she took off her servant’s dress, and put on her glorious apparel. Being splendidly dressed and having called upon God the Overseer and Preserver of all things, she took her two maids, and she leaned upon one, as a delicate female, and the other followed bearing her train. She was blooming in the perfection of her beauty. Her face was cheerful and looked lovely, but her heart was filled with fear. Having passed through all the doors, she stood before the king. He was sitting on his royal throne. He had put on all his glorious apparel, covered all over with gold and precious stones, and was very terrifying. And having raised his face resplendent with glory, he looked with intense anger. The queen fell, and changed her color as she fainted. She bowed herself upon the head of the maid who went before her. But God changed the spirit of the king to gentleness, and in intense feeling, he sprang from off his throne, and took her into his arms, until she recovered. He comforted her with peaceful words, and said to her, “What is the matter, Esther? I am your relative. Cheer up! You shall not die, for our command is openly declared to you: ‘Draw near.’”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 5.2: \v 2 And having raised the golden sceptre, he laid it upon her neck, and embraced her. He said, “Speak to me.”
\p So she said to him, “I saw you, my lord, as an angel of God, and my heart was troubled for fear of your glory; for you, my lord, are to be wondered at, and your face is full of grace.” While she was speaking, she fainted and fell.
\p Then the king was troubled, and all his servants comforted her.
\p Esther (Greek) 5.3: \v 3 The king said, “What do you desire, Esther? What is your request? Ask even to the half of my kingdom, and it shall be yours.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 5.4: \v 4 Esther said, “Today is a special day. So if it seems good to the king, let both him and Haman come to the feast which I will prepare this day.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 5.5: \v 5 The king said, “Hurry and bring Haman here, that we may do as Esther said.” So they both come to the feast about which Esther had spoken.
\p Esther (Greek) 5.6: \v 6 At the banquet, the king said to Esther, “What is your request, queen Esther? You shall have all that you require.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 5.7: \v 7 She said, “My request and my petition are:
\p Esther (Greek) 5.8: \v 8 if I have found favor in the king’s sight, let the king and Haman come again tomorrow to the feast which I shall prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do the same.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 5.9: \v 9 So Haman went out from the king very glad and merry; but when Haman saw Mordecai the Jew in the court, he was greatly enraged.
\p Esther (Greek) 5.10: \v 10 Having gone into his own house, he called his friends, and his wife Zeresh.
\p Esther (Greek) 5.11: \v 11 He showed them his wealth and the glory with which the king had invested him, and how he had promoted him to be chief ruler in the kingdom.
\p Esther (Greek) 5.12: \v 12 Haman said, “The queen has called no one to the feast with the king but me, and I am invited tomorrow.
\p Esther (Greek) 5.13: \v 13 But these things don’t please me while I see Mordecai the Jew in the court.
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 5.14: \v 14 Then Zeresh his wife and his friends said to him, “Let a fifty cubit tall \f + \fr 5:14 \fl Greek \ft a tree cut. \f* gallows be made for you. In the morning you speak to the king, and let Mordecai be hanged on the gallows; but you go in to the feast with the king, and be merry.”
\p The saying pleased Haman, and the gallows was prepared.
\p Esther (Greek) 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 6.1: \v 1 The Lord removed sleep from the king that night; so he told his servant to bring in the \f + \fr 6:1 \fl Greek \ft letters. \f* books, the registers of daily events, to read to him.
\p Esther (Greek) 6.2: \v 2 And he found the \f + \fr 6:2 \fl Greek \ft letters. \f* records written concerning Mordecai, how he had told the king about the king’s two chamberlains, when they were keeping guard, and sought to lay hands on Ahasuerus.
\p Esther (Greek) 6.3: \v 3 The king said, “What honor or favor have we done for Mordecai?”
\p The king’s servants said, “You haven’t done anything for him.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 6.4: \v 4 And while the king was enquiring about the kindness of Mordecai, behold, Haman was in the court. The king said, “Who is in the court? Now Haman had come in to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had prepared.
\p Esther (Greek) 6.5: \v 5 The king’s servants said, “Behold, Haman stands in the court.”
\p And the king said, “Call him!”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 6.6: \v 6 The king said to Haman, “What should I do for the man whom I wish to honor?”
\p Haman said within himself, “Whom would the king honor but myself?”
\p Esther (Greek) 6.7: \v 7 He said to the king, “As for the man whom the king wishes to honor,
\p Esther (Greek) 6.8: \v 8 let the king’s servants bring the robe of fine linen which the king puts on, and the horse on which the king rides,
\p Esther (Greek) 6.9: \v 9 and let him give it to one of the king’s noble friends, and let him dress the man whom the king loves. Let him mount him on the horse, and proclaim through the \f + \fr 6:9 \fl Or, \ft wide space. \f* streets of the city, saying, “This is what will be done for every man whom the king honors!”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 6.10: \v 10 Then the king said to Haman, “You have spoken well. Do so for Mordecai the Jew, who waits in the palace, and let not a word of what you have spoken be neglected!”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 6.11: \v 11 So Haman took the robe and the horse, dressed Mordecai, mounted him on the horse, and went through the streets of the city, and proclaimed, saying, “This is what will be done for every man whom the king wishes to honor.”
\p Esther (Greek) 6.12: \v 12 Then Mordecai returned to the palace; but Haman went home mourning, and having his head covered.
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 6.13: \v 13 Haman related the events that had happened him to Zeresh his wife, and to his friends. His friends and his wife said to him, \f + \fr 6:13 \fl Or, \ft if it be M. etc. before whom. \f*“If Mordecai is of the race of the Jews, and you have begun to be humbled before him, you will assuredly fall, and you will not be able to withstand him, for the living God is with him.”
\p Esther (Greek) 6.14: \v 14 While they were still speaking, the chamberlains arrived, to rush Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.
\p Esther (Greek) 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 7.1: \v 1 So the king and Haman went in to drink with the queen.
\p Esther (Greek) 7.2: \v 2 The king said to Esther at the banquet on the second day, “What is it, queen Esther? What is your request? What is your petition? It shall be done for you, up to half of my kingdom.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 7.3: \v 3 She answered and said, “If I have found favor in the sight of the king, let my life be granted as my petition, and my people as my request.
\p Esther (Greek) 7.4: \v 4 For both I and my people are sold for destruction, pillage, and genocide. If both we and our children were sold for male and female slaves, I would not have bothered you, for this \f + \fr 7:4 \ft see \fqa Heb. slanderer \f* isn’t worthy of the king’s palace.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 7.5: \v 5 The king said, “Who has dared to do this thing?”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 7.6: \v 6 Esther said, “The enemy is Haman, this wicked man!”
\p Then Haman was troubled before the king and the queen.
\p Esther (Greek) 7.7: \v 7 The king rose up from the banquet to go into the garden. Haman began to beg the queen for mercy; for he saw that he was in trouble.
\p Esther (Greek) 7.8: \v 8 The king returned from the garden; and Haman had fallen upon the bed, begging the queen for mercy. The king said, “Will you even assault my wife in my house?”
\p And when Haman heard it, he changed countenance.
\p Esther (Greek) 7.9: \v 9 And Bugathan, one of the chamberlains, said to the king, “Behold, Haman has also prepared a gallows for Mordecai, who spoke concerning the king, and a fifty cubit high gallows has been set up on Haman’s property.”
\p The king said, “Let him be \f + \fr 7:9 \fl Or, \ft impaled. \f* hanged on it!”
\p Esther (Greek) 7.10: \v 10 So Haman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was appeased.
\p Esther (Greek) 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 8.1: \v 1 On that day, king Ahasuerus gave to Esther all that belonged to Haman the slanderer. The king called Mordecai; for Esther had shown that he was related to her.
\p Esther (Greek) 8.2: \v 2 The king took the ring which he had taken away from Haman and gave it to Mordecai. Esther appointed Mordecai over all that had been Haman’s.
\p Esther (Greek) 8.3: \v 3 She spoke yet again to the king, and fell at his feet, and implored him to undo Haman’s mischief and all that he had done against the Jews.
\p Esther (Greek) 8.4: \v 4 Then the king extended the golden sceptre to Esther; and Esther arose to stand near the king.
\p Esther (Greek) 8.5: \v 5 Esther said, “If it seems good to you, and I have found favor in your sight, let an order be sent that the letters sent by Haman may be reversed, that were written for the destruction of the Jews who are in your kingdom.
\p Esther (Greek) 8.6: \v 6 For how could I see the affliction of my people, and how could I survive the destruction of my \f + \fr 8:6 \fl Greek \ft country. \f* kindred?”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 8.7: \v 7 Then the king said to Esther, “If I have given and freely granted you all that was Haman’s, and hanged him on a gallows, because he laid his hands upon the Jews, what more do you seek?
\p Esther (Greek) 8.8: \v 8 Write in my name whatever seems good to you, and seal it with my ring; for whatever is written at the command of the king, and sealed with my ring, cannot be countermanded.
\p Esther (Greek) 8.9: \v 9 So the scribes were called in the first month, which is Nisan, on the twenty-third day of the same year; and orders were written to the Jews, whatever the king had commanded to the \f + \fr 8:9 \fl Greek \ft stewards.\f* local governors and chiefs of the local governors, from India even to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven local governors, according to the several provinces, in their own languages.
\p Esther (Greek) 8.10: \v 10 They were written by order of the king, sealed with his ring, and the letters were sent by the couriers.
\p Esther (Greek) 8.11: \v 11 In them, he charged them to use their own laws in every city, to help each other, and to treat their adversaries and those who attacked them as they pleased,
\p Esther (Greek) 8.12: \v 12 on one day in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is Adar.
\p Esther (Greek) 8.13: \v 13 Let the copies be posted in conspicuous places throughout the kingdom. Let all the Jews be ready against this day, to fight against their enemies. The following is a copy of the letter containing orders.
\p \f + \fr 8:13 \ft the passages in brackets are not in the \fl Hebrew. \f* [The great king Ahasuerus sends greetings to the rulers of provinces in one hundred twenty-seven local governance regions, from India to Ethiopia, even to those who are faithful to our interests. Many who have been frequently honored by the most abundant kindness of their \f + \fr 8:13 \ft perhaps rulers, see Luke 22. 25. \f* benefactors have conceived ambitious designs, and not only endeavor to hurt our subjects, but moreover, not being able to bear prosperity, they also endeavor to plot against their own benefactors. They not only would utterly abolish gratitude from among men, but also, elated by the boastings of men who are strangers to all that is good, they supposed that they would escape the sin-hating vengeance of the ever-seeing God. And oftentimes evil exhortation has made partakers of the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and has involved in irremediable calamities, many of those who had been appointed to offices of authority, who had been entrusted with the management of their friends’ affairs; while men, by the false sophistry of an evil disposition, have deceived the simple candour of the ruling powers. And it is possible to see this, not so much from more ancient traditionary accounts, as it is immediately in your power to see it by examining what things have been wickedly \f + \fr 8:13 \fl Greek \ft contrived. \f* perpetrated by the baseness of men unworthily holding power. It is right to take heed with regard to the future, that we may maintain the government in undisturbed peace for all men, adopting needful changes, and ever judging those cases which come under our notice with truly equitable decisions. For whereas Haman, a Macedonian, the son of Hammedatha, in reality an alien from the blood of the Persians, and differing widely from our mild course of government, having been hospitable entertained by us, obtained so large a share of our universal kindness as to be called our father, and to continue the person next to the royal throne, reverenced of all; he however, \f + \fr 8:13 \fl Greek \ft not having borne.\f* overcome by pride, endeavored to deprive us of our dominion, and our \f + \fr 8:13 \fl Greek \ft spirit. \f*life; having by various and subtle artifices demanded for destruction both Mordecai our deliverer and perpetual benefactor, and Esther the blameless consort of our kingdom, along with their whole nation. For by these methods he thought, having surprised us in a defenseless state, to transfer the dominion of the Persians to the Macedonians. But we find that the Jews, who have been consigned to destruction by the \f + \fr 8:13 \fl Greek \ft thrice guilty. \f* most abominable of men, are not malefactors, but living according to the justest laws, and being the sons of the living God, the most high and \f + \fr 8:13 \fl Greek \ft greatest. \f* mighty, who maintains the kingdom, to us as well as to our forefathers, in the most excellent order. You will therefore do well in refusing to obey the letter sent by Haman the son of Hammedatha, because he who has done these things has been hanged with his whole family at the gates of Susa, Almighty God having swiftly returned to him a worthy punishment. We enjoin you then, having openly published a copy of this letter in every place, to give the Jews permission to use their own lawful customs, and to strengthen them, that on the thirteenth of the twelfth month Adar, on the self-same day, they may defend themselves against those who attack them in a time of affliction. For in the place of the destruction of the chosen race, Almighty God has granted them this time of gladness. Therefore you also, among your notable feasts, must keep a distinct day with all festivity, that both now and hereafter it may be a day of deliverance to us and who are well disposed toward the Persians, but to those that plotted against us a memorial of destruction. And every city and province collectively, which shall not do accordingly, shall be consumed with vengeance by spear and fire. It shall be made not only inaccessible to men, but most hateful to wild beasts and birds forever.] Let the copies be posted in conspicuous places throughout the kingdom and let all the Jews be ready against this day, to fight against their enemies.
\p Esther (Greek) 8.14: \v 14 So the horsemen went forth with haste to perform the king’s commands. The ordinance was also published in Susa.
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 8.15: \v 15 Mordecai went out robed in royal apparel, wearing a golden crown and a diadem of fine purple linen. The people in Susa saw it and rejoiced.
\p Esther (Greek) 8.16: \v 16 The Jews had light and gladness
\p Esther (Greek) 8.17: \v 17 in every city and province where the ordinance was published. Wherever the proclamation took place, the Jews had joy and gladness, feasting and mirth. Many of the Gentiles were circumcised and became Jews, for fear of the Jews.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 9.1: \v 1 Now in the twelfth month, on the thirteenth day of the month which is Adar, the letters written by the king arrived.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.2: \v 2 In that day, the adversaries of the Jews perished; for no one resisted, through fear of them.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.3: \v 3 For the chiefs of the local governors, and the princes and the royal scribes, honored the Jews; for the fear of Mordecai was upon them.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.4: \v 4 For the order of the king was in force, that he should be celebrated in all the kingdom.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.6: \v 6 In the city Susa the Jews killed five hundred men,
\p Esther (Greek) 9.7: \v 7 including Pharsannes, Delphon, Phasga,
\p Esther (Greek) 9.8: \v 8 Pharadatha, Barea, Sarbaca,
\p Esther (Greek) 9.9: \v 9 Marmasima, Ruphaeus, Arsaeus, and Zabuthaeus,
\p Esther (Greek) 9.10: \v 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha the Bugaean, the enemy of the Jews, and they plundered their property on the same day.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.11: \v 11 The number of those who perished in Susa was reported to the king.
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 9.12: \v 12 Then the king said to Esther, “The Jews have slain five hundred men in the city Susa. What do you think they have done in the rest of the country? What more do you ask, that it may be done for you?”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 9.13: \v 13 Esther said to the king, “Let it be granted to the Jews to do the same to them tomorrow. Also hang the bodies of the ten sons of Haman.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 9.14: \v 14 He permitted it to be done; and he gave up to the Jews of the city the bodies of the sons of Haman to hang.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.15: \v 15 The Jews assembled in Susa on the fourteenth day of Adar and killed three hundred men, but plundered no property.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.16: \v 16 The rest of the Jews who were in the kingdom assembled, and helped one another, and obtained rest from their enemies; for they destroyed fifteen thousand of them on the thirteenth day of Adar, but took no spoil.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.17: \v 17 They rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.18: \v 18 The Jews in the city Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day and rested; and they also observed the fifteenth with joy and gladness.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.19: \v 19 On this account then it is that the Jews dispersed in every foreign land keep the fourteenth of Adar as a \f + \fr 9:19 \fl Greek \ft good day. \f* holy day with joy, each sending gifts of food to his neighbor.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.20: \v 20 Mordecai wrote these things in a book, and sent them to the Jews, as many as were in the kingdom of Ahasuerus, both those who were near and those who were far away,
\p Esther (Greek) 9.21: \v 21 to establish these as joyful days, and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar;
\p Esther (Greek) 9.22: \v 22 for on these days the Jews obtained rest from their enemies; and in that month, which was Adar, in which a change was made for them, from mourning to joy, and from sorrow to a good day, to spend the whole of it in good days of \f + \fr 9:22 \fl Greek \ft weddings. \f* feasting and gladness, sending portions to their friends and to the poor.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.23: \v 23 And the Jews consented to this as Mordecai wrote to them,
\p Esther (Greek) 9.24: \v 24 showing how Haman the son of Hammedatha the Macedonian fought against them, how he made a decree and cast \f + \fr 9:24 \fl Greek \ft lot. \f* lots to destroy them utterly;
\p Esther (Greek) 9.25: \v 25 also how he went in to the king, telling him to hang Mordecai; but all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, along with his children.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.26: \v 26 Therefore these days were called Purim, because of the lots (for in their language they are called Purim) because of the words of this letter, and because of all they suffered on this account, and all that happened to them.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.27: \v 27 Mordecai established it, and the Jews took upon themselves, and upon their seed, and upon those that were joined to them to observe it, neither would they on any account behave differently; but these days were to be a memorial kept in every generation, city, family, and province.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.28: \v 28 These days of the Purim shall be kept forever, and their memorial shall not fail in any generation.
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 9.29: \v 29 Queen Esther the daughter of Aminadab, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote all that they had done, and the confirmation of the letter of Purim.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.31: \v 31 Mordecai and Esther the queen established this decision on their own, pledging their own health to their plan.
\p Esther (Greek) 9.32: \v 32 And Esther established it by a command forever, and it was written for a memorial.
\p Esther (Greek) 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 10.1: \v 1 The king levied a tax upon his kingdom both by land and sea.
\p Esther (Greek) 10.2: \v 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.
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 10.3: \v 3 Mordecai \f + \fr 10:3 \fl Greek \ft succeded to \fl Or, came into the place of. \f* 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. \f + \fr 10:3 \ft the passages in brackets are not in the \fl Hebrew. \f*
\p Esther (Greek) 10.4: \v 4 [Mordecai said, “These things have come from God.
\p Esther (Greek) 10.5: \v 5 For I remember the dream which I had concerning these matters; for not one detail of them has failed.
\p Esther (Greek) 10.6: \v 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.
\p Esther (Greek) 10.7: \v 7 The two serpents are Haman and me.
\p Esther (Greek) 10.8: \v 8 The nations are those \add nations\add* who combined to destroy the name of the Jews.
\p Esther (Greek) 10.9: \v 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.
\p Esther (Greek) 10.10: \v 10 Therefore he ordained two lots. One for the people of God, and one for all the other nations.
\p Esther (Greek) 10.11: \v 11 And these two lots came for an appointed season, and for a day of judgment, before God, and for all the nations.
\p Esther (Greek) 10.12: \v 12 God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance.
\p Esther (Greek) 10.13: \v 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.
\p Esther (Greek) 10.14: \v 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.]
\p Baruch 0.0: \id BAR - Baruch
\h Baruch
\toc1 Baruch
\toc2 Baruch
\toc3 Bar
\mt1 BARUCH
\ip The book of \bk Baruch\bk* is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches. In some Bibles, Baruch chapter 6 is listed as a separate book called \bk The Letter of Jeremiah\bk*, reflecting its separation from Baruch in some copies of the Greek Septuagint.
\p Baruch 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Baruch 1.1: \v 1 These are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maaseas, the son of Sedekias, the son of Asadias, the son of Helkias, wrote in Babylon,
\p Baruch 1.2: \v 2 in the fifth year, \add and \add* in the seventh day of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burned it with fire.
\p Baruch 1.3: \v 3 And Baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joakim king of Judah, and in the hearing of all the people that came to \add hear \add* the book,
\p Baruch 1.4: \v 4 and in the hearing of the mighty men, and of the kings’ sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and in the hearing of all the people, from the least to the greatest, even of all those who lived at Babylon by the river Sud.
\p Baruch 1.5: \v 5 And they wept, and fasted, \f + \fr 1:5 \ft Another reading is, \fqa and vowed vows. \f* and prayed before the Lord;
\p Baruch 1.6: \v 6 they made also a collection of money according to every man’s power:
\p Baruch 1.7: \v 7 and they sent \add it \add* to Jerusalem to Joakim the \add high \add* priest, the son of Helkias, the son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people which were found with him at Jerusalem,
\p Baruch 1.8: \v 8 at the same time when he took the vessels of the house of the Lord, that had been carried out of the temple, to return \add them \add* into the land of Judah, the tenth day of \add the month \add* Sivan, \add namely, \add* silver vessels, which Sedekias the son of Josias king of Judah had made,
\p Baruch 1.9: \v 9 after Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty men, and the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought them to Babylon.
\p Baruch 1.10: \v 10 And they said, Behold, we have sent you money; buy you therefore with the money burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare an oblation, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God;
\p Baruch 1.11: \v 11 and pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and for the life of Baltasar his son, that their days may be \f + \fr 1:11 \ft See Deuteronomy 11:21. \f* as the days of heaven above the earth:
\p Baruch 1.12: \v 12 and the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Baltasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favor in their sight.
\p Baruch 1.13: \v 13 Pray for us also to the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God; and to this day the wrath of the Lord and his indignation is not turned from us.
\p Baruch 1.14: \v 14 And you° shall read this book which we have sent to you, to make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the day of the feast and on the days of the solemn assembly.
\p
\p Baruch 1.15: \v 15 And you° shall say, To the Lord our God \add belongs \add* righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
\p Baruch 1.16: \v 16 and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers:
\p Baruch 1.17: \v 17 for that we have sinned before the Lord,
\p Baruch 1.18: \v 18 and disobeyed him, and have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us:
\p Baruch 1.19: \v 19 since the day that the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to this present day, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have dealt unadvisedly in not listening to his voice.
\p Baruch 1.20: \v 20 Wherefore the plagues clave to us, and the curse, which the Lord commanded Moses his servant \add to pronounce \add* in the day that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that flows with milk and honey, as at this day.
\p Baruch 1.21: \v 21 Nevertheless we didn’t listen to the voice of the Lord our God, according to all the words of the prophets, whom he sent to us:
\p Baruch 1.22: \v 22 but we walked every man in the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord our God.
\p Baruch 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Baruch 2.1: \v 1 Therefore the Lord has made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Judah,
\p Baruch 2.2: \v 2 to bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, \f + \fr 2:2 \ft Another reading is, \fqa even as he has done. \f* as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses;
\p Baruch 2.3: \v 3 That we should eat every man the flesh of his own son, and every man the flesh of his own daughter.
\p Baruch 2.4: \v 4 Moreover he has given them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be a reproach and a desolation among all the people round about, where the Lord has scattered them.
\p Baruch 2.5: \v 5 Thus were they cast down, and not exalted, because we sinned against the Lord our God, in not listening to his voice.
\p Baruch 2.6: \v 6 To the Lord our God \add belongs \add* righteousness: but to us and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day.
\p Baruch 2.7: \v 7 \add For \add* all these plagues are come upon us, which the Lord has pronounced against us.
\p Baruch 2.8: \v 8 Yet have we not entreated the favor of the Lord, in turning every one from the thoughts of his wicked heart.
\p Baruch 2.9: \v 9 Therefore has the Lord kept watch over the plagues, and the Lord has brought \add them \add* upon us; for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he has commanded us.
\p Baruch 2.10: \v 10 Yet we have not listened to his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us.
\p
\p Baruch 2.11: \v 11 And now, O Lord, you God of Israel, that have brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and with a high arm, and have gotten yourself a name, as at this day:
\p Baruch 2.12: \v 12 O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have dealt unrighteously in all your ordinances.
\p Baruch 2.13: \v 13 Let your wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among the heathen, where you have scattered us.
\p Baruch 2.14: \v 14 Hear our prayer, O Lord, and our petition, and deliver us for your own sake, and give us favor in the sight of them which have led us away captive:
\p Baruch 2.15: \v 15 that all the earth may know that you are the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by your name.
\p Baruch 2.16: \v 16 O Lord, look down from your holy house, and consider us: incline your ear, O Lord, and hear:
\p Baruch 2.17: \v 17 open your eyes, and behold: for the dead that are in \f + \fr 2:17 \ft Gr. \fqa Hades. \f* the grave, whose breath is taken from their bodies, will give to the Lord neither glory nor righteousness:
\p Baruch 2.18: \v 18 but the soul that is greatly vexed, which goes stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give you glory and righteousness, O Lord.
\p Baruch 2.19: \v 19 For we do not present our supplication before you, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.
\p Baruch 2.20: \v 20 For you have sent your wrath and your indignation upon us, as you have spoken by your servants the prophets, \add saying, \add*
\p Baruch 2.21: \v 21 The Lord says, Bow your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon, and remain in the land that I gave to your fathers.
\p Baruch 2.22: \v 22 But if you° will not hear the voice of the Lord, to serve the king of Babylon,
\p Baruch 2.23: \v 23 I will cause to cease out of the cities of Judah, and from without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate without inhabitant.
\p Baruch 2.24: \v 24 But we would not listen to your voice, to serve the king of Babylon: therefore have you made good your words that you spoke by your servants the prophets, \add namely, \add* that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their places.
\p Baruch 2.25: \v 25 And, behold, they are cast out to the heat by day, and to the frost by night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by \f + \fr 2:25 \ft See Jeremiah 32:36. \f* pestilence.
\p Baruch 2.26: \v 26 And the house which is called by your name have you laid \add waste, \add* as at this day, for the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
\p Baruch 2.27: \v 27 Yet, O Lord our God, you have dealt with us after all your kindness, and according to all that great mercy of your,
\p Baruch 2.28: \v 28 as you spoke by your servant Moses in the day when you did command him to write your law before the children of Israel, saying,
\p Baruch 2.29: \v 29 If you° will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small \add number \add* among the nations, where I will scatter them.
\p Baruch 2.30: \v 30 For I know that they will not hear me, because it is a stiff-necked people: but in the land of their captivity they shall take it to heart,
\p Baruch 2.31: \v 31 and shall know that I am the Lord their God: and I will give them a heart, and ears to hear:
\p Baruch 2.32: \v 32 and they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,
\p Baruch 2.33: \v 33 and shall return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.
\p Baruch 2.34: \v 34 And I will bring them again into the land which I sware to their fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.
\p Baruch 2.35: \v 35 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more remove my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.
\p Baruch 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Baruch 3.1: \v 1 O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, the soul in anguish, the troubled spirit, cries to you.
\p Baruch 3.2: \v 2 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for you are a merciful God: yes, have mercy upon us, because we have sinned before you.
\p Baruch 3.3: \v 3 For you sit \add as king \add* forever, and we perish evermore.
\p Baruch 3.4: \v 4 O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, hear now the prayer of \f + \fr 3:4 \ft Probably a mistake for \fqa the men of Israel. \f* the dead Israelites, and of the children of them which were sinners before you, that didn’t listen to the voice of you their God: for the which cause these plagues clave to us.
\p Baruch 3.5: \v 5 Remember not the iniquities of our fathers: but remember your power and your name \add now \add* at this time.
\p Baruch 3.6: \v 6 For you are the Lord our God, and you, O Lord, will we praise.
\p Baruch 3.7: \v 7 For for this cause you have put your fear in our hearts, \f + \fr 3:7 \ft Another reading is, \fqa and \ft made us \fqa to call. \f* to the intent that we should call upon your name: and we will praise you in our captivity, for we have \f + \fr 3:7 \ft Another reading is, \fqa put away from our heart all etc. \f* called to mind all the iniquity of our fathers, that sinned before you.
\p Baruch 3.8: \v 8 Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where you have scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God.
\p
\p Baruch 3.9: \v 9 Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.
\p Baruch 3.10: \v 10 How is it, O Israel, that you are in your enemies’ land, that you have become old in a strange country, that you are defiled with the dead,
\p Baruch 3.11: \v 11 that you are counted with those who \add go down \add* into \f + \fr 3:11 \ft Gr. \fqa Hades. \f* the grave?
\p Baruch 3.12: \v 12 You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom.
\p Baruch 3.13: \v 13 \add For \add* if you had walked in the way of God, you should have dwelled in peace forever.
\p Baruch 3.14: \v 14 Learn where is \f + \fr 3:14 \ft Or, \fqa prudence \f* wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that you may know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.
\p Baruch 3.15: \v 15 Who has found out her place? and who has come into her treasuries?
\p Baruch 3.16: \v 16 Where are the princes of the heathen, and such as ruled the beasts that are upon the earth;
\p Baruch 3.17: \v 17 those who had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and those who hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust; and of whose getting there is no end?
\p Baruch 3.18: \v 18 For those who \f + \fr 3:18 \ft Or, \fqa diligently sought after: \ft Proverbs 11:27 (Sept.). \f* made in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are past finding out,
\p Baruch 3.19: \v 19 they are vanished and gone down to \f + \fr 3:19 \ft Gr. \fqa Hades. \f* the grave, and others are come up in their steads.
\p Baruch 3.20: \v 20 Younger men have seen the light, and lived upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known,
\p Baruch 3.21: \v 21 neither understood they the paths thereof: neither have their children embraced it: they are far off from \f + \fr 3:21 \ft Another reading is, \fqa the way thereof. \f* their way.
\p Baruch 3.22: \v 22 It has not been heard of in Canaan, neither has it been seen in Teman.
\p Baruch 3.23: \v 23 The sons also of Agar that seek understanding, which are in the land, the merchants of Merran and Teman, and the authors of fables, and the searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remembered her paths.
\p Baruch 3.24: \v 24 O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the place of his possession!
\p Baruch 3.25: \v 25 great, and has none end; high, and unmeasurable.
\p Baruch 3.26: \v 26 There were the giants born that were famous of old, great of stature, \add and \add* expert in war.
\p Baruch 3.27: \v 27 God didn’t choose these, nor did he give the way of knowledge to them;
\p Baruch 3.28: \v 28 so they perished, because they had no \f + \fr 3:28 \ft Or, \fqa prudence \f* wisdom, they perished through their own foolishness.
\p Baruch 3.29: \v 29 Who has gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds?
\p Baruch 3.30: \v 30 Who has gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for choice gold?
\p Baruch 3.31: \v 31 There is none that knows her way, nor any that comprehends her path.
\p Baruch 3.32: \v 32 But he that knows all things knows her, he found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore has filled it with four-footed beasts:
\p Baruch 3.33: \v 33 he that sends forth the light, and it goes; he called it, and it obeyed him with fear:
\p Baruch 3.34: \v 34 and the stars shined in their watches, and were glad: when he called them, they said, Here we be; they shined with gladness to him that made them.
\p Baruch 3.35: \v 35 This is our God, \add and \add* there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him.
\p Baruch 3.36: \v 36 He has found out all the way of knowledge, and has given it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel that is beloved of him.
\p Baruch 3.37: \v 37 Afterward did she appear upon earth, and was conversant with men.
\p Baruch 4.0: \c 4
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\p Baruch 4.1: \v 1 This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endures forever: all those who hold it fast \add are appointed \add* to life; but such as leave it shall die.
\p Baruch 4.2: \v 2 Turn you, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk toward her shining in the presence of the light thereof.
\p Baruch 4.3: \v 3 Give not your glory to another, nor the things that are profitable to you to a strange nation.
\p Baruch 4.4: \v 4 O Israel, happy are we: for the things that are pleasing to God are made known to us.
\p Baruch 4.5: \v 5 Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
\p Baruch 4.6: \v 6 You° were sold to the nations, \add but \add* not for destruction: because you° moved God to wrath, you° were delivered to your adversaries.
\p Baruch 4.7: \v 7 For you° provoked him that made you by sacrificing to demons, and not to God.
\p Baruch 4.8: \v 8 You° forgot the everlasting God, that brought you up; you° grieved also Jerusalem, that nursed you.
\p Baruch 4.9: \v 9 For she saw the wrath that is come upon you from God, and said, Listen, you° \add women \add* that dwell about Sion: for God has brought upon me great mourning;
\p Baruch 4.10: \v 10 for I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.
\p Baruch 4.11: \v 11 For with joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.
\p Baruch 4.12: \v 12 Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many: for the sins of my children am I left desolate; because they turned away from the law of God,
\p Baruch 4.13: \v 13 and had no regard to his statutes, neither walked they in the ways of God’s commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.
\p Baruch 4.14: \v 14 Let those who dwell about Sion come, and remember you° the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.
\p Baruch 4.15: \v 15 For he has brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, \f + \fr 4:15 \ft Another reading is, \fqa for they. \f* who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.
\p Baruch 4.16: \v 16 And they have carried away the dear beloved sons of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate of her daughters.
\p Baruch 4.17: \v 17 But I, what can I help you?
\p Baruch 4.18: \v 18 For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hand of your enemies.
\p Baruch 4.19: \v 19 Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate.
\p Baruch 4.20: \v 20 I have put off the garment of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my petition: I will cry to the Everlasting as long as I live.
\p Baruch 4.21: \v 21 Be of good cheer, O my children, cry to God, and he shall deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies.
\p Baruch 4.22: \v 22 For I have trusted in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come to you \f + \fr 4:22 \ft Or, \fqa from your everlasting Savior \f* from the Everlasting your Savior.
\p Baruch 4.23: \v 23 For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness forever.
\p Baruch 4.24: \v 24 For like as now those who dwell about Sion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation from \f + \fr 4:24 \ft Another reading is, \fqa your. \f* our God, which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting.
\p Baruch 4.25: \v 25 My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God: for your enemy has persecuted you; but shortly you shall see his destruction, and shall tread upon their necks.
\p Baruch 4.26: \v 26 My delicate ones have gone rough ways; they were taken away as a flock carried off by the enemies.
\p Baruch 4.27: \v 27 Be of good cheer, O my children, and cry to God: for you° shall be remembered of him that has brought \add these things \add* upon you.
\p Baruch 4.28: \v 28 For as it was your mind to go astray from God: \add so, \add* return and seek him ten times more.
\p Baruch 4.29: \v 29 For he that brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.
\p Baruch 4.30: \v 30 Be of good cheer, O Jerusalem: for he that called you by name will comfort you.
\p Baruch 4.31: \v 31 Miserable are those who afflicted you, and rejoiced at your fall.
\p Baruch 4.32: \v 32 Miserable are the cities which your children served: miserable is she that received your sons.
\p Baruch 4.33: \v 33 For as she rejoiced at your fall, and was glad of your ruin: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.
\p Baruch 4.34: \v 34 And I will take away her exultation in her great multitude, and her boasting shall be turned into mourning.
\p Baruch 4.35: \v 35 For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of \f + \fr 4:35 \ft Gr. \fqa demons. \f* devils for a great time.
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\p Baruch 4.36: \v 36 O Jerusalem, look about you toward the east, and behold the joy that comes to you from God.
\p Baruch 4.37: \v 37 Behold, your sons come, whom you sent away, they come gathered together from the east to the west at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.
\p Baruch 5.0: \c 5
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\p Baruch 5.1: \v 1 Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of your mourning and affliction, and put on the beauty of the glory that \add comes \add* from God forever.
\p Baruch 5.2: \v 2 Cast about you the robe of the righteousness which \add comes \add* from God; set a diadem on your head of the glory of the Everlasting.
\p Baruch 5.3: \v 3 For God will show your brightness to every \add region \add* under heaven.
\p Baruch 5.4: \v 4 For your name shall be called of God forever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of godliness.
\p Baruch 5.5: \v 5 Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand upon the height, and look about you toward the east, and behold your children gathered from the going down of the sun to the rising thereof at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.
\p Baruch 5.6: \v 6 For they went from you on foot, being led away of their enemies: but God brings them in to you borne on high with glory, \f + \fr 5:6 \ft Another reading is, as \fqa children of the kingdom. \f* as \add on \add* a royal throne.
\p Baruch 5.7: \v 7 For God has appointed that every high mountain, and the everlasting hills, should be made low, and the valleys filled up, to make plain the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God.
\p Baruch 5.8: \v 8 Moreover the woods and every sweet smelling tree have overshadowed Israel by the commandment of God.
\p Baruch 5.9: \v 9 For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that comes from him.
\p Baruch 6.0: \c 6
\s1 The Letter of Jeremy (Jeremiah)
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\p Baruch 6.1: \v 1 A copy of an letter, which Jeremy sent to them which were to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to certify them, as it was commanded him of God.
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\p Baruch 6.2: \v 2 Because of the sins which you° have committed before God, you° shall be led away captives to Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians.
\p Baruch 6.3: \v 3 So when you° come to Babylon, you° shall remain there many years, and for a long season, even for seven generations: and after that I will bring you out peaceably from thence.
\p Baruch 6.4: \v 4 But now shall you° see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear.
\p Baruch 6.5: \v 5 Beware therefore that you° in no wise become like to the strangers, neither let fear take hold upon you because of them, when you° see the multitude before them and behind them, worshiping them.
\p Baruch 6.6: \v 6 But say you° in your hearts, O Lord, we must worship you.
\p Baruch 6.7: \v 7 For my angel is with you, \f + \fr 6:7 \ft Or, \fqa and he cares \f* and I myself do care for your \f + \fr 6:7 \ft Or, \fqa lives \f* souls.
\p Baruch 6.8: \v 8 For their tongue is polished by the workman, and they themselves are overlaid with gold and with silver; yet are they but false, and can’t speak.
\p Baruch 6.9: \v 9 And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loves to be happy, they make crowns for the heads of their gods:
\p Baruch 6.10: \v 10 and sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves;
\p Baruch 6.11: \v 11 and will even give thereof to the common prostitutes: and they deck them as men with garments, \add even \add* the gods of silver, and gods of gold, and of wood.
\p Baruch 6.12: \v 12 Yet can’t these gods save themselves from rust and moths, though they be covered with purple raiment.
\p Baruch 6.13: \v 13 They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, which is thick upon them.
\p Baruch 6.14: \v 14 And he that can’t put to death one that offends against him holds a sceptre, as though he were judge of a country.
\p Baruch 6.15: \v 15 He has also a dagger in his right hand, and an axe: but can’t deliver himself from war and robbers.
\p Baruch 6.16: \v 16 Whereby they are known not to be gods: therefore fear them not.
\p Baruch 6.17: \v 17 For like as a vessel that a man uses is nothing worth when it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the temples their eyes be full of dust through the feet of those who come in.
\p Baruch 6.18: \v 18 And as the courts are made sure on every side upon him that offends the king, as being committed to suffer death; \add even so \add* the priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest they be carried off by robbers.
\p Baruch 6.19: \v 19 They light them candles, yes, more than for themselves, whereof they can’t see one.
\p Baruch 6.20: \v 20 They are as one of the beams of the temple; and men say their hearts are eaten out, when things creeping out of the earth devour both them and their raiment: they feel it not
\p Baruch 6.21: \v 21 when their faces are blackened through the smoke that comes out of the temple:
\p Baruch 6.22: \v 22 bats, swallows, and birds land on their bodies and heads; and in like manner the cats also.
\p Baruch 6.23: \v 23 Whereby you° may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not.
\p Baruch 6.24: \v 24 Notwithstanding the gold wherewith they are beset to make them beautiful, except one wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for not even when they were molten did they feel it.
\p Baruch 6.25: \v 25 Things wherein there is no breath are bought at any cost.
\p Baruch 6.26: \v 26 Having no feet, they are borne upon shoulders, whereby they declare to men that they be nothing worth.
\p Baruch 6.27: \v 27 They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they can’t rise up again of themselves: neither, if they are bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but the offerings are set before them, as if they were dead men.
\p Baruch 6.28: \v 28 And the things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and spend; and in like manner their wives also lay up part thereof in salt; but to the poor and to the impotent they will give nothing thereof.
\p Baruch 6.29: \v 29 The menstruous woman and the woman in childbed touch their sacrifices: knowing therefore by these things that they are no gods, fear them not.
\p Baruch 6.30: \v 30 For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.
\p Baruch 6.31: \v 31 And in their temples the priests \f + \fr 6:31 \ft Or, \fqa bear the litter \f* sit on seats, having their clothes tore, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads.
\p Baruch 6.32: \v 32 They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead.
\p Baruch 6.33: \v 33 The priests also take off garments from them, and clothe their wives and children withal.
\p Baruch 6.34: \v 34 Whether it be evil that one does to them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put him down.
\p Baruch 6.35: \v 35 In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow to them, and keep it not, they will never exact it.
\p Baruch 6.36: \v 36 They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty.
\p Baruch 6.37: \v 37 They can’t restore a blind man to his sight, nor deliver any that is in distress.
\p Baruch 6.38: \v 38 They can show no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.
\p Baruch 6.39: \v 39 They are like the stones that be \add hewn \add* out of the mountain, \add these gods \add* of wood, and that are overlaid with gold and with silver: those who minister to them shall be confounded.
\p Baruch 6.40: \v 40 How should a man then think or say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them?
\p Baruch 6.41: \v 41 Who if they shall see one mute that can’t speak, they bring him, and entreat him to call upon Bel, as though he were able to understand.
\p Baruch 6.42: \v 42 Yet they can’t perceive this themselves, and forsake them: for they have no understanding.
\p Baruch 6.43: \v 43 The women also with cords about them sit in the ways, burning bran for incense: but if any of them, drawn by some that passes by, lie with him, she reproaches her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.
\p Baruch 6.44: \v 44 Whatsoever is done among them is false: how should a man then think or say that they are gods?
\p Baruch 6.45: \v 45 They are fashioned by carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be.
\p Baruch 6.46: \v 46 And they themselves that fashioned them can never continue long; how then should the things that are fashioned by them?
\p Baruch 6.47: \v 47 For they have left lies and reproaches to those who come after.
\p Baruch 6.48: \v 48 For when there comes any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them.
\p Baruch 6.49: \v 49 How then can’t men understand that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague?
\p Baruch 6.50: \v 50 For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver, it shall be known hereafter that they are false:
\p Baruch 6.51: \v 51 and it shall be manifest to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them.
\p Baruch 6.52: \v 52 Who then may not know that they are no gods?
\p Baruch 6.53: \v 53 For neither can they set up a king in a land, nor give rain to men.
\p Baruch 6.54: \v 54 Neither can they judge their own cause, nor \f + \fr 6:54 \ft Another reading is, \fqa deliver him that is wronged. \f* redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth.
\p Baruch 6.55: \v 55 For even when fire falls upon the house of gods of wood, or overlaid with gold or with silver, their priests will flee away, and escape, but they themselves shall be burned apart like beams.
\p Baruch 6.56: \v 56 Moreover they can’t withstand any king or enemies: how should a man then allow or think that they be gods?
\p Baruch 6.57: \v 57 Neither are those gods of wood, and overlaid with silver or with gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers.
\p Baruch 6.58: \v 58 Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong will take from them, and go away withal: neither shall they be able to help themselves.
\p Baruch 6.59: \v 59 Therefore it is better to be a king that shows his manhood, or else a vessel in a house profitable for that whereof the owner shall have need, than such false gods; or even a door in a house, to keep the things safe that be therein, than such false gods; or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods.
\p Baruch 6.60: \v 60 For sun, and moon, and stars, being bright and sent to do their offices, are obedient.
\p Baruch 6.61: \v 61 Likewise also the lightning when it glitters is fair to see; and after the same manner the wind also blows in every country.
\p Baruch 6.62: \v 62 And when God commands the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are told.
\p Baruch 6.63: \v 63 And the fire sent from above to consume mountains and woods does as it is commanded: but these are to be likened to them neither in show nor power.
\p Baruch 6.64: \v 64 Wherefore a man should neither think nor say that they are gods, seeing they are able neither to judge causes, nor to do good to men.
\p Baruch 6.65: \v 65 Knowing therefore that they are no gods, fear them not.
\p Baruch 6.66: \v 66 For they can neither curse nor bless kings:
\p Baruch 6.67: \v 67 neither can they show signs in the heavens among the nations, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.
\p Baruch 6.68: \v 68 The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a covert, and help themselves.
\p Baruch 6.69: \v 69 In no wise then is it manifest to us that they are gods: therefore fear them not.
\p Baruch 6.70: \v 70 For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers that keeps nothing, so are their gods of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver.
\p Baruch 6.71: \v 71 Likewise also their gods of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sits upon; as also to a dead body, that is cast forth into the dark.
\p Baruch 6.72: \v 72 And you° shall know them to be no gods by the \f + \fr 6:72 \ft Gr. \fqa purple and brightness. \f* bright purple that rots upon them: And they themselves afterward shall be consumed, and shall be a reproach in the country.
\p Baruch 6.73: \v 73 Better therefore is the just man that has none idols: for he shall be far from reproach.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.0: \c 5
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.1: \v 1 After this were the chiefs of fathers’ houses chosen to go up according to their tribes, with their wives and sons and daughters, with their menservants and maidservants, and their cattle.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.2: \v 2 And Darius sent with them a thousand horsemen, till they had brought them back to Jerusalem \f + \fr 5:2 \ft Gr. \fqa with peace.\f* safely, and with musical instruments, tabrets and flutes.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.3: \v 3 And all their kindred played, and he made them go up together with them.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.4: \v 4 And these are the names of the men which went up, according to their families among their tribes, after their several divisions.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.5: \v 5 The priests, the sons of Phinees, the sons of Aaron: Jesus the son of Josedek, the son of Saraias, and Joakim the son of Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, of the house of David, of the lineage of Phares, of the tribe of Judah;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.6: \v 6 who spoke wise sentences before Darius the king of Persia in the second year of his reign, in the month Nisan, which is the first month.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.7: \v 7 \x + \xo 5:7 \xt Ezra 2:1\x* And these are they of Jewry that came up from the captivity, where they lived as strangers, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.8: \v 8 And they returned to Jerusalem, and to the other parts of Jewry, every man to his own city, who came with Zorobabel, with Jesus, Nehemias, \add and\add* \f + \fr 5:8 \fqa Seralah.\f* Zaraias, Resaias, \f + \fr 5:8 \ft Or, \fqa Enenis.\f* Eneneus, Mardocheus, Beelsarus, \f + \fr 5:8 \fqa Mispar.\f* Aspharsus, \f + \fr 5:8 \fqa Reclaiah\f* Reelias, Roimus, \add and\add* Baana, their leaders.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.9: \v 9 The number of them of the nation, and their leaders: the sons of \f + \fr 5:9 \fqa Parosh.\f* Phoros, two thousand a hundred seventy and two: the sons of \f + \fr 5:9 \fqa Shephatiah.\f* Saphat, four hundred seventy and two:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.10: \v 10 the sons of \f + \fr 5:10 \fqa Arah.\f* Ares, seven hundred fifty and six:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.11: \v 11 the sons of \f + \fr 5:11 \fqa Pahath-moab.\f* Phaath Moab, of the sons of Jesus and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.12: \v 12 the sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four: the sons of \f + \fr 5:12 \fqa Zattu.\f* Zathui, nine hundred forty and five: the sons of \f + \fr 5:12 \fqa Zaccai.\f* Chorbe, seven hundred and five: the sons of Bani, six hundred forty and eight:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.13: \v 13 the sons of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three: the sons of \f + \fr 5:13 \fqa Asgad.\f* Astad, \f + \fr 5:13 \ft According to other readings, 3622, or 3222.\f* a thousand three hundred twenty and two:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.14: \v 14 the sons of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and seven: the sons of \f + \fr 5:14 \fqa Bigvai.\f* Bagoi, two thousand sixty and six: the sons of \f + \fr 5:14 \fqa Adin.\f* Adinu, four hundred fifty and four:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.15: \v 15 the sons of \f + \fr 5:15 \fqa Ater of Hezekiah.\f* Ater, of Ezekias, ninety and two: the sons of Kilan and Azetas, three score and seven: the sons of \f + \fr 5:15 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Azuru.\f* Azaru, four hundred thirty and two:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.16: \v 16 the sons of \f + \fr 5:16 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Annias.\f* Annis, a hundred and one: the sons of Arom: the sons of \f + \fr 5:16 \fqa Bezai.\f* Bassai, three hundred twenty and three: the sons of Arsiphurith, a hundred and twelve:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.17: \v 17 the sons of Baiterus, three thousand and five: the sons of \f + \fr 5:17 \fqa Bethlehem.\f* Bethlomon, a hundred twenty and three:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.18: \v 18 they of Netophas, fifty and five: they of Anathoth, a hundred fifty and eight: they of \f + \fr 5:18 \fqa Azmaveth.\f* Bethasmoth, forty and two:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.19: \v 19 they of \f + \fr 5:19 \fqa Kiriath-arim\f* or \f + \fr 5:19 \fqa Kiriath-jearim.\f* Kariathiarius, twenty and five: they of Caphira and Beroth, seven hundred forty and three:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.20: \v 20 the Chadiasai and Ammidioi, four hundred twenty and two: they of \f + \fr 5:20 \fqa Rumah.\f* Kirama and \f + \fr 5:20 \fqa Geba.\f* Gabbe, six hundred twenty and one:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.21: \v 21 they of \f + \fr 5:21 \fqa Michmas.\f* Macalon, a hundred twenty and two: they of \f + \fr 5:21 \fqa Bethel.\f* Betolion, fifty and two: the sons of \f + \fr 5:21 \fqa Magbish\f* Niphis, a hundred fifty and six:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.22: \v 22 the sons of \f + \fr 5:22 \fqa Lod, Hadid.\f* Calamolalus and \f + \fr 5:22 \fqa Ono.\f* Onus, seven hundred twenty and five: the sons of \f + \fr 5:22 \fqa Jericho.\f* Jerechu, \f + \fr 5:22 \ft Another reading is, \fqa two\f* three hundred forty and five:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.23: \v 23 the sons of \f + \fr 5:23 \fqa Senaah.\f* Sanaas, three thousand three hundred and \f + \fr 5:23 \ft Another reading is, \fqa one.\f* thirty.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.24: \v 24 The priests: the sons of \f + \fr 5:24 \fqa Jedaiah.\f* Jeddu, the son of Jesus, among the sons of Sanasib, \f + \fr 5:24 \ft Another reading is, \fqa eight\f* nine hundred seventy and two: the sons of \f + \fr 5:24 \fqa Immer.\f* Emmeruth, \f + \fr 5:24 \ft Another reading is, \fqa two hundred.\f* a thousand fifty and two:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.25: \v 25 the sons of \f + \fr 5:25 \fqa Pashhur.\f* Phassurus, a thousand two hundred forty and seven: the sons of \f + \fr 5:25 \fqa Harim.\f* Charme, \f + \fr 5:25 \ft Another reading is, \fqa two hundred\f* a thousand and seventeen.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.26: \v 26 The Levites: the sons of Jesus, and Kadmiel, and Bannas, and Sudias, seventy and four.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.27: \v 27 The holy singers: the sons of Asaph, a hundred \f + \fr 5:27 \ft Another reading is, \fqa forty\f* twenty and eight.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.28: \v 28 The gatekeepers: the sons of \f + \fr 5:28 \fqa Shallum.\f* Salum, the sons of \f + \fr 5:28 \fqa Ater.\f* Atar, the sons of Tolman, the sons of \f + \fr 5:28 \fqa Akkub.\f* Dacubi, the sons of \f + \fr 5:28 \fqa Hatita.\f* Ateta, the sons of \f + \fr 5:28 \fqa Shobai.\f* Sabi, in all a hundred thirty and nine.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.29: \v 29 The temple servants: the sons of \f + \fr 5:29 \fqa Ziha.\f* Esau, the sons of \f + \fr 5:29 \fqa Hasupha.\f* Asipha, the sons of Tabaoth, the sons of \f + \fr 5:29 \fqa Keros.\f* Keras, the sons of \f + \fr 5:29 \fqa Siaha.\f* Sua, the sons of \f + \fr 5:29 \fqa Padon.\f* Phaleas, the sons of Labana, the sons of \f + \fr 5:29 \fqa Hagaba.\f* Aggaba.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.30: \v 30 the sons of \f + \fr 5:30 \fqa Akkub.\f* Acud, the sons of Uta, the sons of Ketab, the sons of \f + \fr 5:30 \fqa Hagab.\f* Accaba, the sons of \f + \fr 5:30 \fqa Shamlai.\f* Subai, the sons of \f + \fr 5:30 \fqa Hanan.\f* Anan, the sons of \f + \fr 5:30 \fqa Giddel.\f* Cathua, the sons of \f + \fr 5:30 \fqa Gahar\f* Geddur,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.31: \v 31 the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Reaiah.\f* Jairus, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Rezin.\f* Daisan, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Nekoda.\f* Noeba, the sons of Chaseba, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Gazzam.\f* Gazera, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Uzza.\f* Ozias, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Paseah.\f* Phinoe, the sons of Asara, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Besai.\f* Basthai, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Asnah.\f* Asana, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Meunim.\f* Maani, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Nephisim.\f* Naphisi, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Bakbuk. \ft According to other readings, \fqa Acum, \ft or \fqa Acuph.\f* Acub, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Hakupha.\f* Achipha, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Harhur.\f* Asur, the sons of Pharakim, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Bazluth.\f* Basaloth,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.32: \v 32 the sons of \f + \fr 5:32 \fqa Mehida.\f* Meedda, the sons of Cutha, the sons of \f + \fr 5:32 \fqa Harsha\f* Charea, the sons of \f + \fr 5:32 \fqa Barkos.\f* Barchus, the sons of \f + \fr 5:32 \fqa Sisera.\f* Serar, the sons of \f + \fr 5:32 \fqa Temah\f* Thomei, the sons of \f + \fr 5:32 \fqa Neziah. \ft Another reading is, \fqa Nasith.\f* Nasi, the sons of Atipha.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.33: \v 33 The sons of the servants of Solomon: the sons of \f + \fr 5:33 \fqa Hussophereth.\f* Assaphioth, the sons of \f + \fr 5:33 \fqa Peruda.\f* Pharida, the sons of \f + \fr 5:33 \fqa Jaalah.\f* Jeeli, the sons of \f + \fr 5:33 \fqa Darkon.\f* Lozon, the sons of \f + \fr 5:33 \fqa Giddel.\f* Isdael, the sons of \f + \fr 5:33 \fqa Shephatia.\f* Saphuthi,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.34: \v 34 the sons of \f + \fr 5:34 \fqa Hattil.\f* Agia, the sons of \f + \fr 5:34 \fqa Pochereth-haz-zebaim, \ft Ezra 2:57.\f* Phacareth, the sons of Sabie, the sons of Sarothie, the sons of \f + \fr 5:34 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Misaias.\f* Masias, the sons of Gas, the sons of Addus, the sons of Subas, the sons of Apherra, the sons of Barodis, the sons of Saphat, the sons of Allon.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.35: \v 35 All the temple-servants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon, were three hundred seventy and two.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.36: \v 36 These came up from \f + \fr 5:36 \fqa Telmelah.\f* Thermeleth, and \f + \fr 5:36 \fqa Telharsha.\f* Thelersas, \f + \fr 5:36 \fqa Cherub. Addan.\f* Charaathalan leading them, and Allar;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.37: \v 37 and they could not show their families, nor their stock, how they were of Israel: the sons of \f + \fr 5:37 \fqa Delaiah. \ft Another reading is, \fqa Asan.\f* Dalan the son of \f + \fr 5:37 \fqa Tobiah \ft Another reading is, \fqa Baenan.\f* Ban, the sons of \f + \fr 5:37 \fqa Nekoda.\f* Nekodan, six hundred fifty and two.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.38: \v 38 And of the priests, those who usurped the office of the priesthood and were not found: the sons of \f + \fr 5:38 \fqa Habaiah, \ft or \fqa Hobaiah.\f* Obdia, the sons of \f + \fr 5:38 \fqa Hakkoz.\f* Akkos, the sons of Jaddus, who married Augia one of the daughters of \f + \fr 5:38 \fqa Barzillai. \ft Another reading is, \fqa Phaezeldaeus.\f* Zorzelleus, and was called after his name.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.39: \v 39 And when the description of the kindred of these men was sought in the register, and was not found, they were removed from executing the office of the priesthood:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.40: \v 40 for to them said Nehemias and Attharias, that they should not be partakers of the holy things, till there arose up a high priest wearing \f + \fr 5:40 \ft Gr. \fqa the manifestation and truth.\f* Urim and Thummim.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.41: \v 41 So all they of Israel, from twelve years old \add and upward,\add* beside menservants and women servants, were \add in number\add* forty and two thousand three hundred and sixty.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.42: \v 42 Their menservants and handmaids were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: the minstrels and singers, two hundred forty and five:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.43: \v 43 four hundred thirty and five camels, seven \f + \fr 5:43 \ft Another reading is, \fqa hundred.\f* thousand thirty and six horses, two hundred forty and five mules, five thousand five hundred twenty and five beasts of burden.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.44: \v 44 And certain of the chief men of their families, when they came to the temple of God that is in Jerusalem, vowed to set up the house again in its own place according to their ability,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.45: \v 45 and to give into the holy treasury of the works a thousand pounds of gold, five thousand of silver, and a hundred priestly vestments.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.46: \v 46 And the priests and the Levites and those who were of the people lived in Jerusalem and the country; the holy singers also and the gatekeepers and all Israel in their villages.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.47: \v 47 But when the seventh month was at hand, and when the children of Israel were every man in his own place, they came all together with one consent into the broad place before the first porch which is toward the east.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.48: \v 48 Then stood up Jesus the son of Josedek, and his kindred the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his kindred, and made ready the altar of the God of Israel,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.49: \v 49 to offer burned sacrifices upon it, according as it is expressly commanded in the book of Moses the man of God.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.50: \v 50 And certain were gathered to them out of the other nations of the land, and they erected the altar upon its own place, because all the nations of the land were at enmity with them, and oppressed them; and they offered sacrifices according to the time, and burnt offerings to the Lord both morning and evening.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.51: \v 51 Also they held the feast of tabernacles, as it is commanded in the law, and \add offered\add* sacrifices daily, as was meet:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.52: \v 52 and after that, the continual oblations, and the sacrifices of the Sabbaths, and of the new moons, and of all the consecrated feasts.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.53: \v 53 And all those who had made any vow to God began to offer sacrifices to God from the new moon of the \f + \fr 5:53 \ft Another reading is, \fqa first.\f* seventh month, although the temple of God was not yet built.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.54: \v 54 And they gave money to the masons and carpenters; and meat and drink,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.55: \v 55 and cars to them of Sidon and Tyre, that they should bring cedar trees from Libanus, \add and\add* convey them in floats to the haven of Joppa, according to the commandment which was written for them by Cyrus king of the Persians.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.56: \v 56 And in the second year after his coming to the temple of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedek, and their kindred, and the Levitical priests, and all those who were come to Jerusalem out of the captivity:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.57: \v 57 and they laid the foundation of the temple of God on the new moon of the second month, in the second year after they were come to Jewry and Jerusalem.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.58: \v 58 \x + \xo 5:58 \xt Ezra 3:8-9\x* And they appointed the Levites from twenty years old over the works of the Lord. Then stood up Jesus, and his sons and kindred, and Kadmiel his brother, and the sons of Jesus, Emadabun, and the sons of Joda the son of Iliadun, and their sons and kindred, all the Levites, with one accord started the business, laboring to advance the works in the house of God. So the builders built the temple of the Lord.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.59: \v 59 And the priests stood arrayed in their vestments with musical instruments and trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with their cymbals,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.60: \v 60 singing songs of thanksgiving, and praising the Lord, after the order of David king of Israel.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.61: \v 61 And they sang aloud, praising the Lord in songs of thanksgiving, because his goodness and his glory are forever in all Israel.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.62: \v 62 And all the people sounded trumpets, and shouted with a loud voice, singing songs of thanksgiving to the Lord for the rearing up of the house of the Lord.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.63: \v 63 \x + \xo 5:63 \xt Ezra 3:12-13\x* Also of the Levitical priests, and of the heads of their families, the ancients who had seen the former house came to the building of this with lamentation and great weeping.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.64: \v 64 But many with trumpets and joy \add shouted\add* with loud voice,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.65: \v 65 insomuch that the people heard not the trumpets for the weeping of the people: for the multitude sounded marvelously, so that it was heard afar off.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.66: \v 66 \x + \xo 5:66 \xt Ezra 4:1\x* Wherefore when the enemies of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin heard it, they came to know what that noise of trumpets should mean.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.67: \v 67 And they perceived that those who were of the captivity did build the temple to the Lord, the God of Israel.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.68: \v 68 So they went to zorobabel and Jesus, and to the chief men of the families, and said to them, we will build together with you.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.69: \v 69 For we likewise, as you°, do obey your Lord, and do sacrifice to him from the days of \f + \fr 5:69 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Asbacaphath.\f* Asbasareth the king of the Assyrians, who brought us here.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.70: \v 70 Then Zorobabel and Jesus and the chief men of the families of Israel said to them, It is not \f + \fr 5:70 \ft Another reading is, \fqa for us and you.\f* for you to build the house to the Lord our God.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.71: \v 71 We ourselves alone will build to the Lord of Israel, according as Cyrus the king of the Persians has commanded us.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.72: \v 72 But the heathen of the land lying heavy upon the inhabitants of Judea, and \f + \fr 5:72 \ft Or, \fqa besieging them\f* holding them strait, hindered their building;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 5.73: \v 73 and \f + \fr 5:73 \ft Another reading is, \fqa leading the people astray in counsel, and raising commotions.\f* by their secret plots, and popular persuasions and commotions, they hindered the finishing of the building all the time that King Cyrus lived: so they were hindered from building for the space of two years, until the reign of Darius.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.1: \v 1 Now \x + \xo 6:1 \xt Ezra 4:24; 5:1\x* in the second year of the reign of Darius, Aggaeus and Zacharius the son of \f + \fr 6:1 \fqa Iddo. \ft Another reading is, \fqa Eddin\f* Addo, the prophets, prophesied to the Jews in Jewry and Jerusalem; in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, \add prophesied they\add* to them.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.2: \v 2 Then stood up Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedek, and began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, the prophets of the Lord being with them, \add and\add* helping them.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.3: \v 3 \x + \xo 6:3 \xt Ezra 5:3\x* At the same time came to them \f + \fr 6:3 \fqa Tattenai.\f* Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia, with \f + \fr 6:3 \fqa Shetharbozenai\f* Sathrabuzanes and his companions, and said to them,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.4: \v 4 By whose appointment do you° build this house and this roof, and perform all the other things? and who are the builders that perform these things?
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.5: \v 5 Nevertheless the elders of the Jews obtained favor, because the Lord had visited the captivity;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.6: \v 6 and they were not hindered from building, until such time as communication was made to Darius concerning them, and his answer signified.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.7: \v 7 The copy of the letter which Sisinnes, governor of Syria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, the rulers in Syria and Phoenicia, wrote and sent to Darius;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.8: \v 8 To king Darius, greeting: Let all things be known to our lord the king, that being come into the country of Judea, and entered into the city of Jerusalem, we found in the city of Jerusalem the elders of the Jews that were of the captivity
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.9: \v 9 building a house to the Lord, great \add and\add* new, of hewn and costly stones, with timber laid in the walls.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.10: \v 10 And those works are done with great speed, and the work goes on prosperously in their hands, and with all glory and diligence it is accomplished.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.11: \v 11 Then asked we these elders, saying, By whose commandment build you° this house, and lay the foundations of these works?
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.12: \v 12 Therefore, to the intent that we might give knowledge to you by writing who were the chief doers, we questioned them, and we required of them the names in writing of their principal men.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.13: \v 13 So they gave us this answer, We are the servants of the Lord which made heaven and earth.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.14: \v 14 And as for this house, it was built many years ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.15: \v 15 But when our fathers sinned against the Lord of Israel which is in heaven, and provoked him to wrath, he gave them over into the hands of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, king of the Chaldeans;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.16: \v 16 and they pulled down the house, and burned it, and carried away the people captives to Babylon.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.17: \v 17 But in the first year that Cyrus reigned over the country of Babylon, king Cyrus wrote to build up this house.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.18: \v 18 And the holy vessels of gold and of silver, that Nabuchodonosor had carried away out of the house at Jerusalem, and had set up in his own temple, those Cyrus the king brought forth again out of the temple in Babylonia, and they were delivered to Zorobabel and to \f + \fr 6:18 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Sabunassarus.\f* Sanabassarus the governor,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.19: \v 19 with commandment that he should carry away \f + \fr 6:19 \ft Another reading is, \fqa the same.\f* all these vessels, and put them in the temple at Jerusalem; and that the temple of the Lord should be built in its place.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.20: \v 20 Then Sanabassarus, being come here, laid the foundations of the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem; and from that time to this being still a building, it is not yet fully ended.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.21: \v 21 Now therefore, if it seem good, O king, let search be made among the royal archives of our lord the king that are in Babylon:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.22: \v 22 and if it be found that the building of the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem has been done with the consent of king Cyrus, and it seem good to our lord the king, let him signify to us thereof.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.23: \v 23 \x + \xo 6:23 \xt Ezra 6:1\x* Then commanded King Darius to seek among the archives that were laid up at Babylon: and so at Ekbatana the palace, which is in the country of Media, there was found a \f + \fr 6:23 \ft Another reading is, \fqa place.\f* scroll where these things were recorded.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.24: \v 24 In the first year of the reign of Cyrus king Cyrus commanded to build up the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, where they do sacrifice with continual fire:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.25: \v 25 whose height shall be sixty cubits, and the breadth sixty cubits, with three rows of hewn stones, and one row of new wood of that country; and the expenses thereof to be given out of the house of king Cyrus:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.26: \v 26 and that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both gold and silver, that Nabuchodonosor took out of the house at Jerusalem, and carried away to Babylon, should be restored to the house at Jerusalem, and be set in the place where they were before.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.27: \v 27 And also he commanded that Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, and their companions, and those which were appointed rulers in Syria and Phoenicia, should be careful not to meddle with the place, but suffer Zorobabel, the servant of the Lord, and governor of Judea, and the elders of the Jews, to build that house of the Lord in its place.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.28: \v 28 And I also do command to have it built up whole again; and that they look diligently to help those that be of the captivity of Judea, till the house of the Lord be finished:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.29: \v 29 and that out of the tribute of Coelesyria and Phoenicia a portion be carefully given these men for the sacrifices of the Lord, \add that is,\add* to Zorobabel the governor, for bullocks, and rams, and lambs;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.30: \v 30 and also corn, salt, wine and oil, and that continually every year without further question, according as the priests that be in Jerusalem shall signify to be daily spent:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.31: \v 31 that drink offerings may be made to the Most High God for the king and for his children, and that they may pray for their lives.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.32: \v 32 And that commandment be given that whoever shall transgress, yes, or neglect anything \f + \fr 6:32 \ft ft Another reading is, \fqa before spoken or written.\f* written here, out of his own \add house\add* shall a tree be taken, and he be hanged on it, and all his goods seized for the king.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.33: \v 33 The Lord therefore, whose name is there called upon, utterly destroy every king and nation, that shall stretch out his hand to hinder or endamage that house of the Lord in Jerusalem.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 6.34: \v 34 I Darius the king have ordained that according to these things it be done with diligence.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 7.1: \v 1 Then \x + \xo 7:1 \xt Ezra 6:13\x* Sisinnes the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, following the commandments of king Darius,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 7.2: \v 2 did very carefully oversee the holy works, assisting the elders of the Jews and rulers of the temple.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 7.3: \v 3 And so the holy works prospered, while Aggaeus and Zacharias the prophets prophesied.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 7.4: \v 4 And they finished these things by the commandment of the Lord, the God of Israel, and with the consent of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of the Persians.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 7.5: \v 5 \add And thus\add* was \f + \fr 7:5 \ft Another reading is, \fqa the holy house.\f* the house finished by the three and twentieth day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of king Darius.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 7.6: \v 6 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the other that were of the captivity, that were added \add to them,\add* did according to the things \add written\add* in the book of Moses.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 7.7: \v 7 And to the dedication of the temple of the Lord they offered a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 7.8: \v 8 \add and\add* twelve he-goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the twelve \f + \fr 7:8 \ft Another reading is, \fqa tribes of Israel.\f* princes of the tribes of Israel.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 7.9: \v 9 The priests also and the Levites stood arrayed in their vestments, according to their kindred, for the services of the Lord, the God of Israel, according to the book of Moses: and the gatekeepers at every gate.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 7.10: \v 10 And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity held the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month, when the priests and the Levites were sanctified together,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 7.11: \v 11 \f + \fr 7:11 \ft Another reading is, \fqa And those who were of the captivity were not all sanctified together: but the Levites were all sanctified together. And etc.\f* and all those who were of the captivity; for they were sanctified. For the Levites were all sanctified together,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 7.12: \v 12 and they offered the Passover for all them of the captivity, and for their kindred the priests, and for themselves.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 7.13: \v 13 And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity did eat, even all those who had separated themselves from the abominations of the heathen of the land, and sought the Lord.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 7.14: \v 14 And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days, making merry before the Lord,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 7.15: \v 15 for that he had turned the counsel of the king of Assyria toward them, to strengthen their hands in the works of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.1: \v 1 \x + \xo 8:1 \xt Ezra 7:1\x* And after these things, when Artaxerxes the king of the Persians reigned, came Ezdras the son of Azaraias, the son of Zechrias, the son of Helkias, the son of Salem,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.2: \v 2 the son of Sadduk, the son of Ahitob, the son of Amarias, the son of Ozias, \f + \fr 8:2 \ft The Vatican MS. omits \fq the son of Memeroth, the son of Zaraias, the son of Savias.\f* the son of Memeroth, the son of Zaraias, the son of Savias, the son of Boccas, the son of Abisne, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the chief priest.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.3: \v 3 This Esdras went up from Babylon, as being a ready scribe in the law of Moses, that was given by the God of Israel.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.4: \v 4 And the king did him honor: for he found grace in hid sight in all his requests.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.5: \v 5 There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and Levites, and holy singers, and gatekeepers, and \f + \fr 8:5 \ft That is, \fqa the temple servants.\f* temple servants, to Jerusalem,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.6: \v 6 in the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes, in the fifth month, this was the king’s seventh year; for they went from Babylon on the new moon of the first month, and came to Jerusalem, according to the prosperous journey which the Lord gave them \f + \fr 8:6 \ft Some MSS. omit \fq for his sake.\f* for his sake.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.7: \v 7 For Esdras had very great skill, so that he omitted nothing of the law and commandments of the Lord, \add but\add* taught all Israel the ordinances and judgments.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.8: \v 8 Now the commission, which was written from Artaxerxes the king, came to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, whereof this that follows is a copy;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.9: \v 9 King Artaxerxes to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, greeting:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.10: \v 10 Having determined to deal graciously, I have given order, that such of the nation of the Jews, and of the priests and Levites, \f + \fr 8:10 \ft Another reading is, \fqa being within.\f* and of those within our realm, as are willing and desirous, should go with you to Jerusalem.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.11: \v 11 As many therefore as have a mind \add thereto,\add* let them depart with you, as it has seemed good both to me and my seven friends the counselors;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.12: \v 12 that they may look to the affairs of Judea and Jerusalem, agreeably to that which is in the law of the Lord,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.13: \v 13 and carry the gifts to the Lord of Israel to Jerusalem, which I and my friends have vowed; and that all the gold and silver that can be found in the country of Babylonia for the Lord in Jerusalem,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.14: \v 14 with that also which is given of the people for the temple of the Lord their God that is at Jerusalem, be collected: even the gold and silver for bullocks, rams, and lambs, and things thereto appertaining;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.15: \v 15 to the end that they may offer sacrifices to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord their God, which is in Jerusalem.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.16: \v 16 And whatever you and your kindred are minded to do with gold and silver, that perform, according to the will of your God.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.17: \v 17 And the holy vessels of the Lord, which are given you for the use of the temple of your God, which is in Jerusalem:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.18: \v 18 and whatever thing else you shall remember for the use of the temple of your God, you shall give it out of the king’s treasury.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.19: \v 19 And I king Artaxerxes have also commanded the keepers of the treasures in Syria and Phoenicia, that whatever Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Most High God shall send for, they should give it him with all diligence,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.20: \v 20 to the sum of a hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat even to a hundred \f + \fr 8:20 \ft Gr. \fqa cors.\f* measures, and a hundred firkins\f + \fr 8:20 \ft a firkin is about 41 liters or 11 gallons.\f* of wine, and \f + \fr 8:20 \ft So some authorities. See Ezra 7:22. The common reading is, \fqa other things.\f* salt in abundance.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.21: \v 21 Let all things be performed after the law of God diligently to the most high God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.22: \v 22 I command you also, that no tax, nor any other imposition, be laid upon any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or gatekeepers, or temple servants, or any that have employment in this temple, and that no man have authority to impose anything upon them.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.23: \v 23 And you, Esdras, according to the wisdom of God ordain judges and justices, that they may judge in all Syria and Phoenicia all those that know the law of your God; and those that know it not you shall teach.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.24: \v 24 And whoever shall transgress the law of your God, and of the king, shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death, or other punishment, by penalty of money, or by \f + \fr 8:24 \ft Or. \fqa captivity\f* imprisonment.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.25: \v 25 Then said Esdras the scribe, Blessed be the only Lord, the God of my fathers, who has put these things into the heart of the king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.26: \v 26 and has honored me in the sight of the king, and his counselors, and all his friends and nobles.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.27: \v 27 Therefore was I encouraged by the help of the Lord my God, and gathered together out of Israel men to go up with me.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.28: \v 28 And these are the chief according to their families and the several divisions thereof, that went up with me from Babylon in the reign of king Artaxerxes:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.29: \v 29 of the sons of Phinees, Gerson: of the sons of Ithamar, Gamael: of the sons of David, \f + \fr 8:29 \fqa Hattush.\f* Attus \f + \fr 8:29 \ft Ezra 8:3, \fqa of the sons of Shecaniah; of the sons of Parosh.\f* the son of Sechenias:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.30: \v 30 of the sons of Phoros, Zacharais; and with him were counted a hundred and fifty men:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.31: \v 31 of the sons of Phaath Moab, Eliaonias the son of \f + \fr 8:31 \fqa Zerehiah.\f* Zaraias, and with him two hundred men:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.32: \v 32 \f + \fr 8:32 \ft Ezra 8:5, \fqa of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel.\f* of the sons of Zathoes, Sechenias the son of Jezelus, and with him \f + \fr 8:32 \ft Another reading is, \fqa two\f* three hundred men: of the sons ofAdin, Obeth the son of Jonathan, and with him two hundred and fifty men:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.33: \v 33 of the sons of Elam, Jesias son of \add Athaliah.\add* Gotholias, and with him seventy men:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.34: \v 34 of the sons of Saphatias, \add Zebadiah.\add* Zaraias son of Michael, and with him threescore and ten men:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.35: \v 35 of the sons of Joab, \add Obadiah.\add* Abadias son of \add Jehiel.\add* Jezelus, and with him two hundred and twelve men:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.36: \v 36 \f + \fr 8:36 \ft Ezra 8:10, \fqa of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah.\f* of the sons of Banias, Salimoth son of Josaphias, and with him a hundred and threescore men:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.37: \v 37 of the sons of Babi, Zacharias son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight men:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.38: \v 38 of the sons of \add Azgad.\add* Astath, Joannes son of \add Hakkatan\add* Akatan, and with him a hundred and ten men:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.39: \v 39 of the sons of Adonikam, the last, and these are the names of them, Eliphalat, Jeuel, and \add Shemaiah.\add* Samaias, and with them seventy men:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.40: \v 40 of the sons of \add Bigvai.\add* Bago, Uthi the son of Istalcurus, and with him seventy men.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.41: \v 41 And I gathered them together to the river called Theras; and there we pitched our tents three days, and I surveyed them.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.42: \v 42 But when I had found there none of the priests and Levites,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.43: \v 43 then sent I to Eleazar, and \add Ariel\add* Iduel, and Maasmas,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.44: \v 44 and Elnathan, and Samaias, and \add Jarib\add* Joribus, Nathan, Ennatan, Zacharias, and Mosollamus, principal men and men of understanding.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.45: \v 45 And I bade those who they should go to \add Iddo\add* Loddeus the captain, who was in the place of \add Casiphia,\add* the treasury:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.46: \v 46 and commanded them that they should speak to Loddeus, and to his kindred, and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests’ office in the house of our Lord.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.47: \v 47 And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought to us \f + \fr 8:47 \ft Another reading is, \fqa a man.\f* men of understanding of the sons of \f + \fr 8:47 \fqa Mahli.\f* Mooli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, \f + \fr 8:47 \fqa Sherebiah.\f* Asebebias, and his sons, and his kindred, who were eighteen,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.48: \v 48 and \f + \fr 8:48 \fqa Hashabiah.\f* Asebias, and Annuus, and Osaias his brother, of the sons of Chanuneus, and their sons were twenty men;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.49: \v 49 and of the temple-servants whom David and the principal men had appointed for the servants of the Levites, two hundred and twenty temple-servants, the catalogue of all their names was showed.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.50: \v 50 And there I vowed a fast for the young men before our Lord, to desire of him a prosperous journey both for us and for our children and cattle that were with us:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.51: \v 51 for I was ashamed to ask of the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for protection against our adversaries.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.52: \v 52 For we had said to the king, that the power of our Lord would be with those who seek him, to support them in all ways.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.53: \v 53 And again we implored our lord as touching these things, and found him favorable \add to us. \add*
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.54: \v 54 Then I separated twelve men of the chiefs of the priests, \f + \fr 8:54 \fqa Sherebiah, Hashabiah.\f* Eserebias, and Assamias, and ten men of their kindred with them:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.55: \v 55 and I weighed them the silver, and the gold, and the holy vessels of the house of our Lord, which the king, and his counselors, and the nobles, and all Israel, had given.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.56: \v 56 And when I had weighed it, I delivered to them six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels of a hundred talents, and a hundred talents of gold,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.57: \v 57 and twenty golden vessels, and twelve vessels of brass, even of fine brass, glittering like gold.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.58: \v 58 And I said to them, Both you° are holy to the Lord, \f + \fr 8:58 \ft Another reading is, \fqa and the holy vessels and the silver and the gold etc.\f* and the vessels are holy, and the gold and the silver are a vow to the Lord, the Lord of our fathers.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.59: \v 59 Watch you°, and keep them till you° deliver them to the chiefs of the priests and Levites, and to the principal men of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of our Lord.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.60: \v 60 So the priests and the Levites, who received the silver and the gold and the vessels which were in Jerusalem, brought them into the temple of the Lord.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.61: \v 61 And from the river Theras we departed the twelfth day of the first month, until we came to Jerusalem, by the mighty hand of our Lord which was upon us: and the Lord delivered us from \add assault by\add* the way, from every enemy, and so we came to Jerusalem.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.62: \v 62 And when we had been there three days, the silver and gold was weighed and delivered in the house of our Lord on the fourth day to \f + \fr 8:62 \fqa Meremoth.\f* Marmoth the priest the son of \f + \fr 8:62 \fqa Uriah.\f* Urias.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.63: \v 63 And with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them were Josabdus the son of Jesus and \f + \fr 8:63 \fqa Noadiah the son of Binnui.\f* Moeth the son of Sabannus, the Levites: all \add was delivered them\add* by number and weight.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.64: \v 64 And all the weight of them was written up the same hour.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.65: \v 65 Moreover those who were come out of the captivity offered sacrifices to the Lord, the God of Israel, even twelve bullocks for all Israel, fourscore and sixteen rams,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.66: \v 66 threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.67: \v 67 And they delivered the king’s commandments to the king’s stewards, and to the governors of Coelesyria and Phoenicia; and they honored the people and the temple of the Lord.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.68: \v 68 Now when these things were done, the principal men came to me, and said,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.69: \v 69 The nation of Israel, and the princes, and the priests and the Levites, have not put away \add from them\add* the strange people of the land, \f + \fr 8:69 \ft Another reading is, \fqa nor their uncleannesses, \ft to wit, \fqa of the Gentiles, etc.\f* nor the uncleannesses of the Gentiles, \add to wit,\add* of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pherezites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.70: \v 70 For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the nobles have been partakers of this iniquity.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.71: \v 71 And as soon as I had heard these things, I tore my clothes, and my holy garment, and plucked the hair from off my head and beard, and sat me down sad and full of heaviness.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.72: \v 72 So all those who were moved at the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, assembled to me, while I mourned for the iniquity: but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.73: \v 73 Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and my holy garment tore, and bowing my knees, and stretching forth my hands to the Lord,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.74: \v 74 I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded before your face;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.75: \v 75 for our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our errors have reached up to heaven,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.76: \v 76 ever since the time of our fathers; and we are in great sin, even to this day.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.77: \v 77 And for our sins and our fathers’ we with our kindred and our kings and our priests were given up to the kings of the earth, to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, to this day.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.78: \v 78 And now in some measure has mercy been showed to us from you, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of your sanctuary;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.79: \v 79 and to discover to us a light in the house of the Lord our God, \add and\add* to give us food in the time of our servitude.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.80: \v 80 Yes, when we were in bondage, we were not forsaken of our Lord; but he made us gracious before the kings of Persia, so that they gave us food,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.81: \v 81 and glorified the temple of our Lord, and raised up the desolate Sion, to give us a sure dwelling in Jewry and Jerusalem.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.82: \v 82 And now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? For we have transgressed your commandments, which you gave by the hand of your servants the prophets, saying,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.83: \v 83 That the land, which you° enter into to possess as a heritage, is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.84: \v 84 Therefore now shall you° not join your daughters to their sons, neither shall you° take their daughters to your sons.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.85: \v 85 Neither shall you° seek to have peace with them forever, that you° may be strong, and eat the good things of the land, and that you° may leave it for an inheritance to your children for evermore.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.86: \v 86 And all that is befallen is done to us for our wicked works and great sins: for you, O Lord, did make our sins light,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.87: \v 87 and did give to us such a root: \add but\add* we have turned back again to transgress your law, in mingling ourselves with the uncleanness of the heathen of the land.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.88: \v 88 \f + \fr 8:88 \ft Or, \fqa Was you not etc.\f* You was not angry with us to destroy us, till you had left us neither root, seed, nor name.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.89: \v 89 O Lord of Israel, you are true: for we are left a root this day.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.90: \v 90 Behold, now are we before you in our iniquities, for we can’t stand any longer before you by reason of these things.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.91: \v 91 \x + \xo 8:91 \xt Ezra 10:1\x* And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered to him from Jerusalem a very great throng of men and women and children: for there was great weeping among the multitude.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.92: \v 92 Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord God, we have married strange women of the heathen of the land, and now is all Israel \f + \fr 8:92 \ft Or, \fqa exalted \ft Deuteronomy 28:13.\f* aloft.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.93: \v 93 Let’s make an oath to the Lord herein, that we will put away all our wives, which \add we have taken\add* of the strangers, with their children,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.94: \v 94 like as seems good to you, and to as many as do obey the Law of the Lord.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.95: \v 95 Arise, and put in execution: for to you does this matter appertain, and we will be with you to do valiantly.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 8.96: \v 96 So Esdras arose, and took an oath of the chief of the priests and Levites of all Israel to do after these things; and \add so\add* they sware.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.0: \c 9
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.1: \v 1 \x + \xo 9:1 \xt Ezra 10:6\x* Then Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the chamber of Jonas the son of Eliasib,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.2: \v 2 and lodged there, and did eat no bread nor drink water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.3: \v 3 And there was made proclamation in all Jewry and Jerusalem to all those who were of the captivity, that they should be gathered together at Jerusalem:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.4: \v 4 and that whoever met not there within two or three days, according as the elders that bare rule appointed, their cattle should be seized to the use of the temple, and himself cast out from the multitude of those who were of the captivity.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.5: \v 5 And in three days were all they of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem: this was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.6: \v 6 And all the multitude sat together trembling in the broad place before the temple because of the present foul weather.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.7: \v 7 So Esdras arose up and said to them, you° have transgressed the law and married strange wives to increase the sins of Israel.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.8: \v 8 And now make confession and give glory to the Lord, the God of our fathers,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.9: \v 9 and do his will, and separate yourselves from the heathen of the land, and from the strange women.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.10: \v 10 Then cried the whole multitude, and said with a loud voice, Just as you have spoken, so will we do.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.11: \v 11 But forasmuch as the multitude is great, and it is foul weather, so that we can’t stand without, and this is not a work of one day or two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.12: \v 12 therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.13: \v 13 and with them the rulers and judges of every place, till we turn away the wrath of the Lord from us for this matter.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.14: \v 14 \add Then\add* Jonathan the son of Azael and \f + \fr 9:14 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Ezias.\f* Ezekias the son of Thocanus accordingly took the matter upon them: and Mosollamus and Levis and Sabbateus were assessors to them.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.15: \v 15 And those who were of the captivity did according to all these things.
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.16: \v 16 And Esdras the priest chose to him principal men of their families, all by name: and on the new moon of the tenth month they were shut in together to examine the matter.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.17: \v 17 So their cause that held strange wives was brought to an end by the new moon of the first month.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.18: \v 18 And of the priests that were come together, and had strange wives, there were found;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.19: \v 19 of the sons of Jesus the son of Josedek, and his kindred; \f + \fr 9:19 \fqa Maaseiah.\f* Mathelas, and Eleazar, and \f + \fr 9:19 \fqa Jarib.\f* Joribus, and \f + \fr 9:19 \fqa Gedaliah\f* Joadanus.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.20: \v 20 And they gave their hands to put away their wives, and \add to offer\add* rams to make reconciliation for their error.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.21: \v 21 And of the sons of Emmer; Ananias, and Zabdeus, and \f + \fr 9:21 \fqa Harim\f* Manes, and \f + \fr 9:21 \fqa Maaseiah.\f* Sameus, and \f + \fr 9:21 \fqa Jehiel.\f* Hiereel, and \f + \fr 9:21 \fqa Uzziah.\f* Azarias.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.22: \v 22 And of the sons of \f + \fr 9:22 \fqa Pashhur.\f* Phaisur; Elionas, Massias, Ishmael, and Nathanael, and \f + \fr 9:22 \fqa Jozabad.\f* Ocidelus, and \f + \fr 9:22 \fqa Elasah.\f* Saloas.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.23: \v 23 And of the Levites; Jozabdus, and Semeis, and \f + \fr 9:23 \fqa Kelaiah.\f* Colius, who was called \f + \fr 9:23 \fqa Kelita.\f* Calitas, and \f + \fr 9:23 \fqa Pethahiah.\f* Patheus, and Judas, and Jonas.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.24: \v 24 Of the holy singers; \f + \fr 9:24 \fqa Eliashib.\f* Eliasibus, Bacchurus.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.25: \v 25 Of the gatekeepers: Sallumus, and \f + \fr 9:25 \fqa Telem.\f* Tolbanes.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.26: \v 26 Of Israel, of the sons of \f + \fr 9:26 \fqa Parosh.\f* Phoros; \f + \fr 9:26 \fqa Ramiah\f* Hiermas, and \f + \fr 9:26 \fqa Izziah. \ft Another reading is, \fqa Iezias\f* Ieddias, and Melchias, and \f + \fr 9:26 \fqa Mijamin.\f* Maelus, and Eleazar, and \f + \fr 9:26 \fqa Malchijah.\f* Asibas, and Banneas.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.27: \v 27 Of the sons of Ela; Matthanias, Zacharias, and \f + \fr 9:27 \fqa Jehiel.\f* Jezrielus, and Oabdius, and Hieremoth, and \f + \fr 9:27 \fqa Abdi.\f* Aedias.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.28: \v 28 And of the sons of \f + \fr 9:28 \fqa Zattu.\f* Zamoth; \f + \fr 9:28 \fqa Elioenai.\f* Eliadas, \f + \fr 9:28 \fqa Eliashib.\f* Eliasimus, \f + \fr 9:28 \fqa Mattaniah.\f* Othonias, Jarimoth, and \f + \fr 9:28 \fqa Zabad.\f* Sabathus, and \f + \fr 9:28 \fqa Aziza.\f* Zardeus.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.29: \v 29 Of the sons of Bebai; Joannes, and Ananias, and \f + \fr 9:29 \fqa Zabbai.\f* Jozabdus, and \f + \fr 9:29 \fqa Athlai.\f* Ematheis.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.30: \v 30 Of the sons of \f + \fr 9:30 \fqa Bani.\f* Mani; \f + \fr 9:30 \fqa Meshullam.\f* Olamus, \f + \fr 9:30 \fqa Malluch.\f* Mamuchus, \f + \fr 9:30 \fqa Adaiah.\f* Jedeus, Jasubas, and \f + \fr 9:30 \fqa Sheal.\f* Jasaelus, and Hieremoth.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.31: \v 31 And of the sons of Addi; Naathus, and Moossias, Laccunus, and Naidus, and Matthanias, and Sesthel, Balnuus, and Manasseas.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.32: \v 32 And of the sons of Annas; Elionas, and Aseas, and Melchias, and Sabbeus, and Simon Chosameus.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.33: \v 33 And of the sons of Asom; \f + \fr 9:33 \fqa Mattenai.\f* Maltanneus, and \f + \fr 9:33 \fqa Mattattah.\f* Mattathias, and \f + \fr 9:33 \fqa Zabad.\f* Sabanneus, Eliphalat, and Manasses, and Semei.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.34: \v 34 And of the sons of Baani; Jeremias, Momdis, Ismaerus, Juel, Mamdai, and Pedias, and Anos, Carabasion, and Enasibus, and Mamnitamenus, Eliasis, Bannus, Eliali, Someis, Selemias, Nathanias: and of the sons of Ezora; Sesis, Ezril, Azaelus, Samatus, Zambri, Josephus.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.35: \v 35 And of the sons of Nooma; Mazitias, Zabadeas, Edos, Juel, Banaias.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.36: \v 36 All these had taken strange wives, and they put them away with their children.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.37: \v 37 And the priests and Levites, and those who were of Israel, lived in Jerusalem, and in the country, on the new moon of the seventh month, and the children of Israel in their habitations.
\p
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.38: \v 38 \x + \xo 9:38 \xt Nehemiah 8:1\x* And the whole multitude were gathered together with one accord into the broad place before the porch of the temple toward the east:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.39: \v 39 and they said to Esdras the priest and reader, Bring the law of Moses, that was given of the Lord, the God of Israel.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.40: \v 40 So Esdras the chief priest brought the law to the whole multitude both of men and women, and to all the priests, to hear the law on the new moon of the seventh month.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.41: \v 41 And he read in the broad place before the porch of the temple from morning to mid-day, before both men and women; and \f + \fr 9:41 \ft Another reading is, \fqa they gave all heed.\f* all the multitude gave heed to the law.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.42: \v 42 And Esdras the priest and reader of the law stood up upon the pulpit of wood, which was made \add for that purpose. \add*
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.43: \v 43 And there stood up by him Mattathias, Sammus, Ananias, Azarias, Urias, \f + \fr 9:43 \fqa Hilkiah.\f* Ezekias, Baalsamus, upon the right hand:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.44: \v 44 and upon his left hand, \f + \fr 9:44 \fqa Pedaiah.\f* Phaldeus, Misael, Melchias, \f + \fr 9:44 \fqa Hashuin.\f* Lothasubus, Nabarias, Zacharias.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.45: \v 45 Then took Esdras the book of the law before the multitude, and sat honorably in the first place before all.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.46: \v 46 And when he opened the law, they stood all straight up. So Esdras blessed the Lord God Most High, the God of armies, Almighty.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.47: \v 47 And all the people answered, Amen; and lifting up their hands they fell to the ground, and worshiped the Lord.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.48: \v 48 Also Jesus, Annus, Sarabias, Iadinus, Jacubus, Sabateus, \f + \fr 9:48 \fqa Hodiah.\f* Auteas, Maiannas, and Calitas, Azarias, and Jozabdus, and Ananias, Phalias, the Levites, taught the law of the Lord, \f + \fr 9:48 \ft Some authorities omit \fq and read...Lord.\f* and read to the multitude the law of the Lord, making them withal to understand it.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.49: \v 49 Then said Attharates to Esdras the chief priest and reader, and to the Levites that taught the multitude, even to all,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.50: \v 50 This day is holy to the Lord; (now they all wept when they heard the law:)
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.51: \v 51 go then, and eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to those who have nothing;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.52: \v 52 for the day is holy to the Lord: and be not sorrowful; for the Lord will bring you to honor.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.53: \v 53 So the Levites published all things to the people, saying, This day is holy; be not sorrowful.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.54: \v 54 Then they went their way, every one to eat and drink, and make merry, and to give portions to those who had nothing, and to make great cheer;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 9.55: \v 55 because they \f + \fr 9:55 \ft Or, \fqa were inspired by\f* understood the words wherein they were instructed, and for the which they had been assembled.
\p Prayer of Manasses 0.0: \id MAN
\h Prayer of Manasses
\toc1 The Prayer of Manasses King of Judah when He was Held Captive in Babylon
\toc2 Prayer of Manasses
\toc3 Man
\mt3 THE
\mt1 PRAYER OF MANASSES
\mt2 KING OF JUDAH,
\mt3 WHEN HE WAS HELD CAPTIVE IN BABYLON
\ip \bk The Prayer of Manasses\bk* is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches. It is included in an appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible.
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.1: \v 1 O LORD Almighty, that are in heaven, you God of our fathers, of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and of their righteous seed;
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.2: \v 2 who have made heaven and earth, with all the \f + \fr 1:2 \ft Or, \fqa order \ft Or, \fqa array \ft Genesis 2:1 (Sept.).\f* ornament thereof;
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.3: \v 3 who have bound the sea by the word of your commandment; who have shut up the deep, and sealed it by your terrible and glorious name;
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.4: \v 4 whom all things fear, yes, tremble before your power;
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.5: \v 5 for the majesty of your glory can’t be borne, and the anger of your threatening toward sinners is importable:
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.6: \v 6 your merciful promise is unmeasurable and unsearchable;
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.7: \v 7 for you are the Lord Most High, of great compassion, patient and abundant in mercy, and repent \f + \fr 1:7 \ft Gr. \fqa of the evils of men.\f* of bringing evils upon men.
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.8: \v 8 \f + \fr 1:8 \ft The Alex. MS. omits \fqa You... saved.\f*You, O Lord, according to your great goodness have promised repentance and forgiveness to those who have sinned against you: and of your infinite mercies have appointed repentance to sinners, that they may be saved. You therefore, O Lord, that are the God of the just, have not appointed repentance to the just, to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, which have not sinned against you; but you have appointed repentance to me that am a sinner:
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.9: \v 9 for I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea. My transgressions are multiplied, \f + \fr 1:9 \ft The Alex. MS. omits \fqa O Lord... multiplied.\f* O Lord: my transgressions are multiplied, and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of heaven for the multitude of my iniquities.
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.10: \v 10 I am bowed down with many iron bands, that I can’t lift up my head \f + \fr 1:10 \ft Some authorities omit \fqa by reason of my sins.\f*by reason of my sins, neither have I any respite: for I have provoked your wrath, and done that which is evil before you: \f + \fr 1:10 \ft The Alex. MS. omits \fqa I did... commandments.\f*I didn’t do your will, neither did I keep your commandments: I have set up abominations, and have multiplied \f + \fr 1:10 \ft Or, \fqa stumbling blocks\f*detestable things.
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.11: \v 11 Now therefore I bow the knee of my heart, beseeching you of grace.
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.12: \v 12 I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge my iniquities:
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.13: \v 13 but, I humbly beseech you, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with my iniquities. Be not angry with me forever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me into the lower parts of the earth. For you, \f + \fr 1:13 \ft Another reading is, \fqa O God.\f* O Lord, are the God of those who repent;
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.14: \v 14 and in me you will show all your goodness: for you will save me, that am unworthy, according to your great mercy.
\p Prayer of Manasses 1.15: \v 15 And I will praise you forever all the days of my life: for all the army of heaven sings your praise, and yours is the glory forever and ever. Amen.
\p Psalm 151 0.0: \id PS2
\h Psalm 151
\toc1 Psalm 151
\toc2 Psalm 151
\toc3 Ps151
\mt1 PSALM 151
\ip \bk Psalm 151\bk* is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches.
\p Psalm 151 1.0: \c 1
\cp 151
\d This Psalm is a genuine one of David, though extra,\f + \fr 1:0 \ft or, supernumerary\f* composed when he fought in single combat with Goliath.
\q1
\p Psalm 151 1.1: \v 1 I was small among my brothers,
\q2 and youngest in my father’s house.
\q2 I tended my father’s sheep.
\q1
\p Psalm 151 1.2: \v 2 My hands formed a musical instrument,
\q2 and my fingers tuned a lute.
\q1
\p Psalm 151 1.3: \v 3 Who shall tell my Lord?
\q2 The Lord himself, he himself hears.
\q1
\p Psalm 151 1.4: \v 4 He sent forth his angel and took me from my father’s sheep,
\q2 and he anointed me with his anointing oil.
\q1
\p Psalm 151 1.5: \v 5 My brothers were handsome and tall;
\q2 but the Lord didn’t take pleasure in them.
\q1
\p Psalm 151 1.6: \v 6 I went out to meet the Philistine,
\q2 and he cursed me by his idols.
\q1
\p Psalm 151 1.7: \v 7 But I drew his own sword and beheaded him,
\q2 and removed reproach from the children of Israel.
\p 3 Maccabees 0.0: \id 3MA
\h 3 Maccabees
\toc1 The Third Book of the Maccabees
\toc2 3 Maccabees
\toc3 3Ma
\mt1 THE THIRD BOOK OF THE MACCABEES
\ip \bk The Third Book of the Maccabees\bk* is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches. It is considered to be apocrypha by most other church traditions.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 3 Maccabees 1.1: \v 1 Now Philopater, on learning from those who came back that Antiochus had made himself master of the places which belonged to himself, sent orders to all his footmen and horsemen, took with him his sister Arsinoe, and marched out as far as the parts of Raphia, where Antiochus and his forces encamped.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.2: \v 2 And one Theodotus, intending to carry out his design, took with him the bravest of the armed men who had been before committed to his trust by Ptolemy, and got through at night to the tent of Ptolemy, to kill him on his own responsibility, and so to end the war.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.3: \v 3 But Dositheus, called the son of Drimulus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.4: \v 4 A fierce battle then took place; and the men of Antiochus prevailing, Arsinoe continually went up and down the ranks, and with dishevelled hair, with tears and entreaties, begged the soldiers to fight manfully for themselves, their children, and wives; and promised that if they proved conquerors, she would give them each two minas of gold.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.5: \v 5 It thus fell out that their enemies were defeated in hand-to-hand encounter, and that many of them were taken prisoners.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.6: \v 6 Having vanquished this attempt, the king then decided to proceed to the neighboring cities, and encourage them.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.7: \v 7 By doing this, and by making donations to their temples, he inspired his subjects with confidence.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.8: \v 8 The Jews sent some of their council and of their elders to him. The greetings, guest-gifts, and congratulations of the past, bestowed by them, filled him with the greater eagerness to visit their city.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.9: \v 9 Having arrived at Jerusalem, sacrificed, and offered thank-offerings to the Greatest God, and done whatever else was suitable to the sanctity of the place, and entered the inner court,
\p 3 Maccabees 1.10: \v 10 he was so struck with the magnificence of the place, and so wondered at the orderly arrangements of the temple, that he considered entering the sanctuary itself.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.11: \v 11 And when they told him that this was not permissible, none of the nation, no, nor even the priests in general, but only the supreme high priest of all, and he only once in a year, being allowed to go in, he would by no means give way.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.12: \v 12 Then they read the law to him; but he persisted in obtruding himself, exclaiming, that he ought to be allowed: and saying Be it that they were deprived of this honor, I ought not to be.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.13: \v 13 And he put the question, Why, when he entered all the temples, none of the priests who were present forbade him?
\p 3 Maccabees 1.14: \v 14 He was thoroughly answered by some one, That he did wrong to boast of this.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.15: \v 15 Well; since I have done this, said he, be the cause what it may, shall I not enter with or without your consent?
\p 3 Maccabees 1.16: \v 16 And when the priests fell down in their sacred vestments imploring the Greatest God to come and help in time of need, and to avert the violence of the fierce aggressor, and when they filled the temple with lamentations and tears,
\p 3 Maccabees 1.17: \v 17 then those who had been left behind in the city were scared, and rushed forth, uncertain of the event.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.18: \v 18 Virgins, who had been shut up within their chambers, came out with their mothers, scattering dust and ashes on their heads, and filling the streets with outcries.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.19: \v 19 Women, but recently separated off, left their bridal chambers, left the reserve that befitted them, and ran about the city in a disorderly manner.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.20: \v 20 New-born babes were deserted by the mothers or nurses who waited upon them; some here, some there, in houses, or in fields; these now, with an ardor which could not be checked, swarmed into the Most High temple.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.21: \v 21 Various were the prayers offered up by those who assembled in this place, on account of the unholy attempt of the king.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.22: \v 22 Along with these there were some of the citizens who took courage, and would not submit to his obstinacy, and his intention of carrying out his purpose.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.23: \v 23 Calling out to arms, and to die bravely in defense of the law of their fathers, they created a great uproar in the place, and were with difficulty brought back by the aged and the elders to the station of prayer which they had occupied before.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.24: \v 24 During this time the multitude kept on praying.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.25: \v 25 The elders who surrounded the king tried in many ways to divert his arrogant mind from the design which he had formed.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.26: \v 26 He, in his hardened mood, insensible to all persuasion, was going onward with the view of carrying out this design.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.27: \v 27 Yet even his own officers, when they saw this, joined the Jews in an appeal to Him who has all power, to aid in the present crisis, and not wink at such overweening lawlessness.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.28: \v 28 Such was the frequency and the vehemence of the cry of the assembled crowd, that an indescribable noise ensued.
\p 3 Maccabees 1.29: \v 29 Not the men only, but the very walls and floor seemed to sound forth; all things preferring dissolution rather than to see the place defiled.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 3 Maccabees 2.1: \v 1 Now was it that the high priest Simon bowed his knees near the holy place, and spread out his hands in reverent form, and uttered the following supplication:
\p 3 Maccabees 2.2: \v 2 O Lord, Lord, King of the heavens, and Ruler of the whole creation, Holy among the holy, sole Governor, Almighty, give ear to us who are oppressed by a wicked and profane one, who celebrates in his confidence and strength.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.3: \v 3 It is you, the Creator of all, the Lord of the universe, who are a righteous Governor, and judge all who act with pride and insolence.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.4: \v 4 It was you who did destroy the former workers of unrighteousness, among whom were the giants, who trusted in their strength and daring, by covering them with a measureless flood.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.5: \v 5 It was you who did make the Sodomites, those workers of exceedingly iniquity, men notorious for their vices, an example to after generations, when you did cover them with fire and brimstone.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.6: \v 6 You did make known your power when you caused the bold Pharaoh, the enslaver of your people, to pass through the ordeal of many and diverse inflictions.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.7: \v 7 And you rolled the depths of the sea over him, when he made pursuit with chariots, and with a multitude of followers, and gave a safe passage to those who put their trust in you, the Lord of the whole creation.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.8: \v 8 These saw and felt the works of your hands, and praised you the Almighty.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.9: \v 9 You, O King, when you created the illimitable and measureless earth, did choose out this city: you did make this place sacred to your name, albeit you need nothing: you did glorify it with your illustrious presence, after constructing it to the glory of your great and honorable name.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.10: \v 10 And you did promise, out of love to the people of Israel, that should we fall away from you, and become afflicted, and then come to this house and pray, you would hear our prayer.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.11: \v 11 Truly you are faithful and true.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.12: \v 12 And when you did often aid our fathers when hard pressed, and in low estate, and delivered them out of gret dangers,
\p 3 Maccabees 2.13: \v 13 see now, holy King, how through our many and great sins we are borne down, and made subject to our enemies, and are become weak and powerless.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.14: \v 14 We being in this low condition, this bold and profane man seeks to dishonor this your holy place, consecrated out of the earth to the name of your Majesty.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.15: \v 15 Your dwelling place, the heaven of heavens, is indeed unapproachable to men.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.16: \v 16 But since it seemed good to you to exhibit your glory among your people Israel, you did sanctify this place.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.17: \v 17 Punish us not by means of the uncleanness of their men, nor chastise us by means of their profanity; lest the lawless ones should boast in their rage, and exult in exuberant pride of speech, and say,
\p 3 Maccabees 2.18: \v 18 We have trampled upon the holy house, as idolatrous houses are trampled upon.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.19: \v 19 Blot out our iniquities, and do away with our errors, and show forth your compassion in this hour.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.20: \v 20 Let your mercies quickly go before us. Grant us peace, that the cast down and broken hearted may praise you with their mouth.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.21: \v 21 At that time God, who sees all things, who is beyond all Holy among the holy, heard that prayer, so suitable; and scourged the man greatly uplifted with scorn and insolence.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.22: \v 22 Shaking him to and fro as a reed is shaken with the wind, he cast him upon the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralyzed; by a righteous judgment deprived of the faculty of speech.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.23: \v 23 His friends and bodyguards, beholding the swift recompense which had suddenly overtaken him, struck with exceeding terror, and fearing that he would die, speedily removed him.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.24: \v 24 When in course of time he had come to himself, this severe check caused no repentance within him, but he departed with bitter threatenings.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.25: \v 25 He proceeded to Egypt, grew worse in wickedness through his before mentioned companions in wine, who were lost to all goodness;
\p 3 Maccabees 2.26: \v 26 and not satisfied with countless acts of impiety, his audacity so increased that he raised evil reports there, and many of his friends, watching his purpose attentively, joined in furthering his will.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.27: \v 27 His purpose was to indict a public stigma upon our race; wherefore he erected a pillar at the tower-porch, and caused the following inscription to be engraved upon it:
\p 3 Maccabees 2.28: \v 28 That entrance to their own temple was to be refused to all those who would not sacrifice; that all the Jews were to be registered among the common people; that those who resisted were to be forcibly seized and put to death;
\p 3 Maccabees 2.29: \v 29 that those who were thus registered, were to be marked on their persons by the ivy-leaf symbol of Dionysus, and to be set apart with these limited rights.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.30: \v 30 To do away with the appearance of hating them all, he had it written underneath, that if any of them should elect to enter the community of those initiated in the rites, these should have equal rights with the Alexandrians.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.31: \v 31 Some of those who were over the city, therefore, abhorring any approach to the city of piety, unhesitatingly gave in to the king, and expected to derive some great honor from a future connection with him.
\p 3 Maccabees 2.32: \v 32 A nobler spirit, however, prompted the majority to cling to their religious observances, and by paying money that they might live unmolested, these sought to escape the registration:
\p 3 Maccabees 2.33: \v 33 cheerfully looking forward to future aid, they abhorred their own apostates, considering them to be national foes, and debarring them from the common usages of social intercourse.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p 3 Maccabees 3.1: \v 1 On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily upon those who lived in the country, he gave orders that they should be quickly collected into one place, and most cruelly deprived of their lives.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.2: \v 2 While this was going on, an invidious rumor was uttered abroad by men who had banded together to injure the Jewish race. The purport of their charge was, that the Jews kept them away from the ordinances of the law.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.3: \v 3 Now, while the Jews always maintained a feeling of unwavering loyalty toward the kings,
\p 3 Maccabees 3.4: \v 4 yet, as they worshiped God, and observed his law, they made certain distinctions, and avoided certain things. Hence some persons held them in odium;
\p 3 Maccabees 3.5: \v 5 although, as they adorned their conversation with works of righteousness, they had established themselves in the good opinion of the world.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.6: \v 6 What all the rest of mankind said, was, however, made of no account by the foreigners;
\p 3 Maccabees 3.7: \v 7 who said much of the exclusiveness of the Jews with regard to their worship and meats; they alleged that they were men unsociable, hostile to the king’s interests, refusing to associate with him or his troops. By this way of speaking, they brought much odium upon them.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.8: \v 8 Nor was this unexpected uproar and sudden conflux of people unobserved by the Greeks who lived in the city, concerning men who had never harmed them: yet to aid them was not in their power, since all was oppression around; but they encouraged them in their troubles, and expected a favorable turn of affairs:
\p 3 Maccabees 3.9: \v 9 He who knows all things, will not, \add said they,\add* disregard so great a people.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.10: \v 10 Some of the neighbors, friends, and fellow dealers of the Jews, even called them secretly to an interview, pledged them their assistance, and promised to do their very utmost for them.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.11: \v 11 Now the king, elated with his prosperous fortune, and not regarding the superior power of God, but thinking to persevere in his present purpose, wrote the following letter to the prejudice of the Jews.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.12: \v 12 King Ptolemy Philopater, to the commanders and soldiers in Egypt, and in all places, health and happiness!
\p 3 Maccabees 3.13: \v 13 I am right well; and so, too, are my affairs.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.14: \v 14 Since our Asiatic campaign, the particulars of which you° know, and which by the aid of the gods, not lightly given, and by our own vigor, has been brought to a successful issue according to our expectation,
\p 3 Maccabees 3.15: \v 15 we resolved, not with strength of spear, but with gentleness and much humanity, as it were to nurse the inhabitants of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, and to be their willing benefactors.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.16: \v 16 So, having bestowed considerable sums of money upon the temples of the several cities, we proceeded even as far as Jerusalem; and went up to honor the temple of these wretched beings who never cease from their folly.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.17: \v 17 To outward appearance they received us willingly; but belied that appearance by their deeds. When we were eager to enter their temple, and to honor it with the most beautiful and exquisite gifts,
\p 3 Maccabees 3.18: \v 18 they were so carried away by their old arrogance, as to forbid us the entrance; while we, out of our forbearance toward all men, refrained from exercising our power upon them.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.19: \v 19 And thus, exhibiting their enmity against us, they alone among the nations lift up their heads against kings and benefactors, as men unwilling to submit to any thing reasonable.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.20: \v 20 We then, having endeavored to make allowance for the madness of these persons, and on our victorious return treating all people in Egypt courteously, acted in a manner which was befitting.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.21: \v 21 Accordingly, bearing no ill-will against their kinsmen \add at Jerusalem,\add* but rather remembering our connection with them, and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them, we wished to venture a total alteration of their state, by giving them the rights of citizens of Alexandria, and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.22: \v 22 All this, however, they have taken in a very different spirit. With their innate malignity, they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly inclining to evil,
\p 3 Maccabees 3.23: \v 23 have rejected the inestimable rights. Not only so, but by using speech, and by refraining from speech, they abhor the few among them who are heartily disposed toward us; ever deeming that their ignoble course of procedure will force us to do away with our reform.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.24: \v 24 Having then, received certain proofs that these \add Jews\add* bear us every sort of ill-will, we must look forward to the possibility of some sudden tumult among ourselves, when these impious men may turn traitors and barbarous enemies.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.25: \v 25 As soon, therefore, as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those \add Jews\add* who dwell among you, with wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a death, cruel and ignominious, suitable to men disaffected.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.26: \v 26 For by the punishment of them in one body we perceive that we have found the only means of establishing our affairs for the future on a firm and satisfactory basis.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.27: \v 27 Whosoever shall shield a Jew, whether it be old man, child, or nursing baby, shall with his whole house be tortured to death.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.28: \v 28 Whoever shall inform against the \add Jews,\add* besides receiving the property of the person charged, shall be presented with two thousand drachmas from the royal treasury, shall be made free, and shall be crowned.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.29: \v 29 Whatever place shall shelter a Jew, shall, when he is hunted forth, be put under the ban of fire, and be forever rendered useless to every living being for all time to come.
\p 3 Maccabees 3.30: \v 30 Such was the purport of the king’s letter.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p 3 Maccabees 4.1: \v 1 Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting; as if their long-pent-up, hardened hatred, were now to show itself openly.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.2: \v 2 The Jews suffered great throes of sorrow, and wept much; while their hearts, all things around being lamentable, were set on fire as they bewailed the sudden destruction which was decreed against them.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.3: \v 3 What home, or city, or place at all inhabited, or what streets were there, which their condition didn’t fill with wailing and lamentation?
\p 3 Maccabees 4.4: \v 4 They were sent out unanimously by the generals in the several cities, with such stern and pitiless feeling, that the exceptional nature of the infliction moved even some of their enemies. These, influenced by sentiments of common humanity, and reflecting upon the uncertain issue of life, shed tears at this their miserable expulsion.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.5: \v 5 A multitude of aged hoary-haired old men, were driven along with halting bending feet, urged onward by the impulse of a violent, shameless force to quick speed.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.6: \v 6 Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately, to enjoy the partnership of marriage, exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered upon their myrrh-anointed heads, were hurried along unveiled; and, in the midst of outlandish insults, set up with one accord a lamentable cry instead of the marriage hymn.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.7: \v 7 Bound, and exposed to public gaze, they were hurried violently on board ship.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.8: \v 8 The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigor, instead of crowns wore halters round their necks; instead of feasting and youthful celebration, spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailing, and saw only the grave at hand.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.9: \v 9 They were dragged along by unyielding chains, like wild beasts: of these, some had their necks thrust into the benches of the rowers; while the feet of others were enclosed in hard fetters.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.10: \v 10 The planks of the deck above them blocked out the light, and shut out the day on every side, so that they might be treated like traitors during the whole voyage.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.11: \v 11 They were conveyed accordingly in this vessel, and at the end of it arrived at Schedia. The king had ordered them to be cast into the vast hippodrome, which was built in front of the city. This place was well adapted by its situation to expose them to the gaze of all comers into the city, and of those who went from the city into the country. Thus they could hold no communication with his forces; no, were deemed unworthy of any civilized accommodation.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.12: \v 12 When this was done, the king, hearing that their kindred in the city often went out and lamented the melancholy distress of these victims,
\p 3 Maccabees 4.13: \v 13 was full of rage, and commanded that they should be carefully subjected to the same (and not one bit milder) treatment.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.14: \v 14 The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name; not for that hard servitude of labor which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the before-mentioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might extirpate them by his cruelties.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.15: \v 15 The registering of these men was carried on cruelly, zealously, assiduously, from the rising of the sun to its going down, and was not brought to an end in forty days.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.16: \v 16 The king was filled with great and constant joy, and celebrated banquets before the temple idols. His erring heart, far from the truth, and his profane mouth, gave glory to idols, deaf and incapable of speaking or aiding, and uttered unworthy speech against the Greatest God.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.17: \v 17 At the end of the above-mentioned interval of time, the registrars brought word to the king that the multitude of the Jews was too great for registration,
\p 3 Maccabees 4.18: \v 18 inasmuch as there were many still left in the land, of whom some were in inhabited houses, and others were scattered about in various places; so that all the commanders in Egypt were insufficient for the work.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.19: \v 19 The king threatened them, and charged them with taking bribes, in order to contrive the escape of the Jews: but was clearly convinced of the truth of what had been said.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.20: \v 20 They said, and proved, that paper and pens had failed them for the carrying out of their purpose.
\p 3 Maccabees 4.21: \v 21 Now this was an active interference of the unconquerable Providence which assisted the Jews from heaven.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p 3 Maccabees 5.1: \v 1 Then he called Hermon, who had charge of the elephants. Full of rage, altogether fixed in his furious design,
\p 3 Maccabees 5.2: \v 2 he commanded him, with a quantity of unmixed wine and handfuls of incense \add infused\add* to drug the elephants early on the following day. These five hundred elephants were, when infuriated by the copious draughts of frankincense, to be led up to the execution of death upon the Jews.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.3: \v 3 The king, after issuing these orders, went to his feasting, and gathered together all those of his friends and of the army who hated the Jews the most.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.4: \v 4 The master of the elephants, Hermon, fulfilled his commission punctually.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.5: \v 5 The underlings appointed for the purpose went out about evening and bound the hands of the miserable victims, and took other precautions for their security at night, thinking that the whole race would perish together.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.6: \v 6 The heathen believed the Jews to be destitute of all protection; for chains fettered them about.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.7: \v 7 they invoked the Almighty Lord, and ceaselessly implored with tears their merciful God and Father, Ruler of all, Lord of every power,
\p 3 Maccabees 5.8: \v 8 to overthrow the evil purpose which was gone out against them, and to deliver them by extraordinary manifestation from that death which was in store for them.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.9: \v 9 Their litany so earnest went up to heaven.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.10: \v 10 Then Hermon, who had filled his merciless elephants with copious draughts of mixed wine and frankincense, came early to the palace to certify the kind thereof.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.11: \v 11 He, however, who has sent his good creature sleep from all time by night or by day thus gratifying whom he wills, diffused a portion thereof now upon the king.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.12: \v 12 By this sweet and profound influence of the Lord he was held fast, and thus his unjust purpose was quite frustrated, and his unflinching resolve greatly falsified.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.13: \v 13 But the Jews, having escaped the hour which had been fixed, praised their holy God, and again prayed him who is easily reconciled to display the power of his powerful hand to the overweening Gentiles.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.14: \v 14 The middle of the tenth hour had well near arrived, when the person who sent invitations, seeing the guests who were invited present, came and shook the king.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.15: \v 15 He gained his attention with difficulty, and hinting that the mealtime was getting past, talked the matter over with him.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.16: \v 16 The king listened to this, and then turning aside to his potations, commanded the guests to sit down before him.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.17: \v 17 This done, he asked them to enjoy themselves, and to indulge in mirth at this somewhat late hour of the banquet.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.18: \v 18 Conversation grew on, and the king sent for Hermon, and inquired of him, with fierce denunciations, why the Jews had been allowed to outlive that day.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.19: \v 19 Hermon explained that he had done his bidding over night; and in this he was confirmed by his friends.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.20: \v 20 The king, then, with a barbarity exceeding that of Phalaris, said, That they might thank his sleep of that day. Lose no time, and get ready the elephants against tomorrow, as you did before, for the destruction of these accursed Jews.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.21: \v 21 When the king said this, the company present were glad, and approved; and then each man went to his own home.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.22: \v 22 Nor did they employ the night in sleep, so much as in contriving cruel mockeries for those deemed miserable.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.23: \v 23 The morning cock had just crowed, and Hermon, having harnessed the brutes, was stimulating them in the great colonnade.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.24: \v 24 The city crowds were collected together to see the hideous spectacle, and waited impatiently for the dawn.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.25: \v 25 The Jews, breathless with momentary suspense, stretched forth their hands, and prayed the Greatest God, in mournful strains, again to help them speedily.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.26: \v 26 The sun’s rays were not yet shed abroad, and the king was waiting for his friends, when Hermon came to him, calling him out, and saying, That his desires could now be realized.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.27: \v 27 The king, receiving him, was astonished at his unwonted exit; and, overwhelmed with a spirit of oblivion about everything, inquired the object of this earnest preparation.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.28: \v 28 But this was the working of that Almighty God who had made him forget all his purpose.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.29: \v 29 Hermon, and all his friends, pointed out the preparation of the animals. They are ready, O king, according to your own strict injunction.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.30: \v 30 The king was filled with fierce anger at these words; for, by the Providence of God regarding these things, his mind had become entirely confused. He looked hard at Hermon, and threatened him as follows:
\p 3 Maccabees 5.31: \v 31 Your parents, or your children, were they here, to these wild beasts a large repast they should have furnished; not these innocent Jews, who me and my forefathers loyally have served.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.32: \v 32 Had it not been for familiar friendship, and the claims of your office, your life should have gone for theirs.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.33: \v 33 Hermon, being threatened in this unexpected and alarming manner, was troubled in visage, and depressed in countenance.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.34: \v 34 The friends, too, stole out one by one, and dismissed the assembled multitudes to their respective occupations.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.35: \v 35 The Jews, having heard of these events, praised the glorious God and King of kings, because they had obtained this help, too, from him.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.36: \v 36 Now the king arranged another banquet after the same manner, and proclaimed an invitation to mirth.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.37: \v 37 And he summoned Hermon to his presence, and said, with threats, How often, O wretch, must I repeat my orders to you about these same persons?
\p 3 Maccabees 5.38: \v 38 Once more, arm the elephants for the extermination of the Jews tomorrow.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.39: \v 39 His kinsmen, who were reclining with him, wondered at his instability, and thus expressed themselves:
\p 3 Maccabees 5.40: \v 40 O king, how long do you make trial of us, as of men bereft of reason? This is the third time that you have ordered their destruction. When the thing is to be done, you change your mind, and recall your instructions.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.41: \v 41 For this cause the feeling of expectation causes tumult in the city: it swarms with factions; and is continually on the point of being plundered.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.42: \v 42 The king, just like another Phalaris, a prey to thoughtlessness, made no account of the changes which his own mind had undergone, issuing in the deliverance of the Jews. He swore a fruitless oath, and determined forthwith to send them to hades, crushed by the knees and feet of the elephants.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.43: \v 43 He would also invade Judea, and level its towns with fire and the sword; and destroy that temple which the heathen might not enter, and prevent sacrifices ever after being offered up there.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.44: \v 44 Joyfully his friends broke up, together with his kinsmen; and, trusting in his determination, arranged their forces in guard at the most convenient places of the city.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.45: \v 45 And the master of the elephants urged the beasts into an almost maniacal state, drenched them with incense and wine, and decked them with frightful instruments.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.46: \v 46 About early morning, when the city was now filled with an immense number of people at the hippodrome, he entered the palace, and called the king to the business in hand.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.47: \v 47 The king’s heart teemed with impious rage; and he rushed forth with the mass, along with the elephants. With feelings unsoftened, and eyes pitiless, he longed to gaze at the hard and wretched doom of the above-mentioned \add Jews\add*.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.48: \v 48 But the \add Jews\add*, when the elephants went out at the gate, followed by the armed force; and when they saw the dust raised by the throng, and heard the loud cries of the crowd,
\p 3 Maccabees 5.49: \v 49 thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another’s necks: fathers about their sons, mother their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk.
\p 3 Maccabees 5.50: \v 50 Nevertheless, when they reflected upon the help previously granted them from heaven, they prostrated themselves with one accord; removed even the sucking children from the breasts, and
\p 3 Maccabees 5.51: \v 51 sent up an exceedingly great cry asking the Lord of all power to reveal himself, and have mercy upon those who now lay at the gates of hades.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p 3 Maccabees 6.1: \v 1 And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the elders who were around him to cease to cry out to the holy God, and prayed thus:
\p 3 Maccabees 6.2: \v 2 O king, mighty in power, most high, Almighty God, who regulates the whole creation with your tender mercy,
\p 3 Maccabees 6.3: \v 3 look upon the seed of Abraham, upon the children of the sanctified Jacob, your sanctified inheritance, O Father, now being wrongfully destroyed as strangers in a strange land.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.4: \v 4 You destroyed Pharaoh, with his army of chariots, when that lord of this same Egypt was uplifted with lawless daring and loud-sounding tongue. Shedding the beams of your mercy upon the race of Israel, you did overwhelm him with his proud army.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.5: \v 5 When Sennacherim, the grievous king of the Assyrians, exulting in his countless army, had subdued the whole land with his spear, and was lifting himself against your holy city, with boastings grievous to be endured, you, O Lord, did demolish him and did show forth your might to many nations.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.6: \v 6 When the three friends in the land of Babylon of their own will exposed their lives to the fire rather than serve vain things, you did send a moist coolness through the fiery furnace, and bring the fire upon all their adversaries.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.7: \v 7 It was you who, when Daniel was hurled, through slander and envy, as a prey to lions down below, did bring him back against unhurt to light.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.8: \v 8 When Jonah was pining away in the belly of the sea-bred monster, you did look upon him, O Father, and recover him to the sight of his own.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.9: \v 9 And now, you who hate insolence; you who do abound in mercy; you who are the protector of all things; appear quickly to those of the race of Israel, who are insulted by abhorred, lawless gentiles.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.10: \v 10 If our life has during our exile been stained with iniquity, deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and destroy us, O Lord, by the death which you prefer.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.11: \v 11 Let not the vain-minded congratulate vain idols at the destruction of your beloved, saying, Neither did their god deliver them.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.12: \v 12 You, who are All-powerful and Almighty, O Eternal One, behold! have mercy upon us who are being withdrawn from life, like traitors, by the unreasoning insolence of lawless men.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.13: \v 13 Let the heathen cower before your invincible might today, O glorious One, who have all power to save the race of Jacob.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.14: \v 14 The whole band of infants and their parents with tears beseech you.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.15: \v 15 Let it be shown to all the nations that you are with us, O Lord, and have not turned your face away from us; but as you said that you would not forget them even in the land of their enemies, so do you fulfill this saying, O Lord.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.16: \v 16 Now, at the time that Eleazar had ended his prayer, the king came along to the hippodrome, with the wild beasts, and with his tumultuous power.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.17: \v 17 When the Jews saw this, they uttered a loud cry to heaven, so that the adjacent valleys resounded, and caused an irrepressible lamentation throughout the army.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.18: \v 18 Then the all-glorious, all-powerful, and true God, displayed his holy countenance, and opened the gates of heaven, from which two angels, dreadful of form, came down and were visible to all but the Jews.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.19: \v 19 And they stood opposite, and filled the enemies’ army with confusion and cowardice; and bound them with immoveable fetters.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.20: \v 20 And a cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralyzed the vehemence of his spirit.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.21: \v 21 They turned back the animals upon the armed forces which followed them; and the animals trod them down, and destroyed them.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.22: \v 22 The king’s wrath was converted into compassion; and he wept at his own machinations.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.23: \v 23 For when he heard the cry, and saw them all on the verge of destruction, with tears he angrily threatened his friends, saying,
\p 3 Maccabees 6.24: \v 24 You° have governed badly; and have exceeded tyrants in cruelty; and me your benefactor you° have labored to deprive at once of my dominion and my life, by secretly devising measures injurious to the kingdom.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.25: \v 25 Who has gathered here, unreasonably removing each from his home, those who, in fidelity to us, had held the fortresses of the country?
\p 3 Maccabees 6.26: \v 26 Who has thus consigned to unmerited punishments those who in good will toward us from the beginning have in all things surpassed all nations, and who often have engaged in the most dangerous undertakings?
\p 3 Maccabees 6.27: \v 27 Loose, loose the unjust bonds; send them to their homes in peace, and deprecate what has been done.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.28: \v 28 Release the sons of the almighty living God of heaven, who from our ancestors’ times until now has granted a glorious and uninterrupted prosperity to our affairs.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.29: \v 29 These things he said; and they, released the same moment, having now escaped death, praised God their holy Savior.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.30: \v 30 The king then departed to the city, and called his financier to him, and asked him provide a seven days’ quantity of wine and other materials for feasting for the Jews. He decided that they should keep a gladsome festival of deliverance in the very place in which they expected to meet with their destruction.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.31: \v 31 Then they who were before despised and near to hades, yes, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.32: \v 32 Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Savior. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.33: \v 33 So, also, the king collected a number of guests for the occasion, and returned unceasing thanks with much magnificence for the unexpected deliverance afforded him.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.34: \v 34 Those who had marked them out as for death and for carrion, and had registered them with joy, howled aloud, and were clothed with shame, and had the fire of their rage ingloriously put out.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.35: \v 35 But the Jews, as we just said, instituted a dance, and then gave themselves up to feasting, glad thanksgiving, and psalms.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.36: \v 36 They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus established these days as days of mirth, not for the purpose of drinking or luxury, but because God had saved them.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.37: \v 37 They requested the king to send them back to their homes.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.38: \v 38 They were being enrolled from the twenty-fifth of Pachon to the fourth of Epiphi, a period of forty days: the measures taken for their destruction lasted from the fifth of Epiphi till the seventh, that is, three days.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.39: \v 39 The Ruler over all did during this time manifest forth his mercy gloriously, and did deliver them all together unharmed.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.40: \v 40 They feasted upon the king’s provision up to the fourteenth day, and then asked to be sent away.
\p 3 Maccabees 6.41: \v 41 The king commended them, and wrote the following letter, of magnanimous import for them, to the commanders of every city.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p 3 Maccabees 7.1: \v 1 King Ptolemy Philopator to the commanders throughout Egypt, and to all who are set over affairs, joy and strength.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.2: \v 2 We, too, and our children are well; and God has directed our affairs as we wish.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.3: \v 3 Certain of our friends did of malice vehemently urge us to punish the Jews of our realm in a body, with the infliction of a monstrous punishment.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.4: \v 4 They pretended that our affairs would never be in a good state till this took place. Such, they said, was the hatred borne by the Jews to all other people.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.5: \v 5 They brought them fettered in grievous chains as slaves, no, as traitors. Without enquiry or examination they endeavored to annihilate them. They buckled themselves with a savage cruelty, worse than Scythian custom.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.6: \v 6 For this cause we severely threatened them; yet, with the clemency which we are wont to extend to all men, we at length permitted them to live. Finding that the God of heaven cast a shield of protection over the Jews so as to preserve them, and that he fought for them as a father always fights for his sons;
\p 3 Maccabees 7.7: \v 7 and taking into consideration their constancy and fidelity toward us and toward our ancestors, we have, as we ought, acquitted them of every sort of charge.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.8: \v 8 And we have dismissed them to their several homes; bidding all men everywhere to do them no wrong, or unrighteously revile them about the past.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.9: \v 9 For know you°, that should we conceive any evil design, or in any way aggrieve them, we shall ever have as our opposite, not man, but the highest God, the ruler of all might. From Him there will be no escape, as the avenger of such deeds. Fare you° well.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.10: \v 10 When they had received this letter, they were not forward to depart immediately. They petitioned the king to be allowed to inflict fitting punishment upon those of their race who had willingly transgressed the holy god, and the law of God.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.11: \v 11 They alleged that men who had for their bellies’ sake transgressed the ordinances of God, would never be faithful to the interests of the king.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.12: \v 12 The king admitted the truth of this reasoning, and commended them. Full power was given them, without warrant or special commission, to destroy those who had transgressed the law of God boldly in every part of the king’s dominions.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.13: \v 13 Their priests, then, as it was meet, saluted him with good wishes, and all the people echoed with the Hallelujah. They then joyfully departed.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.14: \v 14 Then they punished and destroyed with ignominy every polluted Jew that fell in their way;
\p 3 Maccabees 7.15: \v 15 slaying thus, in that day, above three hundred men, and esteeming this destruction of the wicked a season of joy.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.16: \v 16 They themselves having held fast their God to death, and having enjoyed a full deliverance, departed from the city garlanded with sweet-flowered wreaths of every kind. Uttering exclamations of joy, with songs of praise, and melodious hymns they thanked the God of their fathers, the eternal Savior of Israel.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.17: \v 17 Having arrived at Ptolemais, called from the specialty of that district Rose-bearing, where the fleet, in accordance with the general wish, waited for them seven days,
\p 3 Maccabees 7.18: \v 18 they partook of a banquet of deliverance, for the king generously granted them severally the means of securing a return home.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.19: \v 19 They were accordingly brought back in peace, while they gave utterance to becoming thanks; and they determined to keep these days during their sojourn as days of joyfulness.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.20: \v 20 These they registered as sacred upon a pillar, when they had dedicated the place of their festivity to be one of prayer. They departed unharmed, free, abundant in joy, preserved by the king’s command, by land, by sea, and by river, each to his own home.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.21: \v 21 They had more weight than before among their enemies; and were honored and feared, and no one in any way robbed them of their goods.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.22: \v 22 Every man received back his own, according to inventory; those who had obtained their goods, giving them up with the greatest terror. For the greatest God made perfect wonders for their salvation.
\p 3 Maccabees 7.23: \v 23 Blessed be the Redeemer of Israel to everlasting. Amen.
\p Glossary / Wordlist 0.0: \id GLO
\h Glossary
\toc1 World English Bible Glossary
\toc2 Glossary
\toc3 Glo
\mt1 World English Bible Glossary
\ip The following words used in the World English Bible (WEB) are not very common, either because they refer to ancient weights, measures, or money, or because they are in some way unique to the Bible.
\ili \k Abaddon\k*
\ili2 Abaddon is Hebrew for destruction.
\ili \k Abba\k*
\ili2 Abba is a Chaldee word for father, used in a respectful, affectionate, and familiar way, like papa, dad, or daddy. Often used in prayer to refer to our Father in Heaven.
\ili \k adultery\k*
\ili2 Adultery is having sexual intercourse with someone besides your own husband or wife. In the Bible, the only legitimate sexual intercourse is between a man and a woman who are married to each other.
\ili \k alpha\k*
\ili2 Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. It is sometimes used to mean the beginning or the first.
\ili \k amen\k*
\ili2 Amen means “So be it” or “I believe it is certainly so.”
\ili \k angel\k*
\ili2 “Angel” literally means “messenger” or “envoy,” and is usually used to refer to spiritual beings who normally are invisible to us, but can also appear as exceedingly strong creatures or as humans.
\ili \k Apollyon\k*
\ili2 Apollyon is Greek for destroyer.
\ili \k apostle\k*
\ili2 “Apostle” means a delegate, messenger, or one sent forth with orders. This term is applied in the New Testament in both a general sense connected with a ministry of establishing and strengthening church fellowships, as well as in a specific sense to “The 12 Apostles of the Lamb” (Revelation 21:14). The former category applies to a specific ministry that continues in the Church (Ephesians 4:11-13) and which includes many more than 12 people, while the latter refers to the apostles named in Matthew 10:2-4, except with Judas Iscariot replaced by Matthias (Acts 1:26).
\ili \k Armageddon\k*
\ili2 See Har-magedon.
\ili \k assarion\k*
\ili2 An assarion is a small Roman copper coin worth one tenth of a drachma, or about an hour’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
\ili \k aureus\k*
\ili2 An aureus is a Roman gold coin, worth 25 silver denarii. An aureus weighed from 115 to 126.3 grains (7.45 to 8.18 grams).
\ili \k baptize\k*
\ili2 Baptize means to immerse in, or wash with something, usually water. Baptism in the Holy Spirit, fire, the Body of Christ, and suffering are also mentioned in the New Testament, along with baptism in water. Baptism is not just to cleanse the body, but as an outward sign of an inward spiritual cleansing and commitment. Baptism is a sign of repentance, as practiced by John the Baptizer, and of faith in Jesus Christ, as practiced by Jesus’ disciples.
\ili \k bath\k*
\ili2 A bath is a liquid measure of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial gallons.
\ili \k batos\k*
\ili2 A batos is a liquid measure of about 39.5 liters, 10.4 U. S. gallons, or 8.7 imperial gallons.
\ili \k Beelzebul\k*
\ili2 literally, lord of the flies. A name used for the devil.
\ili \k Beersheba\k*
\ili2 Beersheba is Hebrew for “well of the oath” or “well of the seven.” A city in Israel.
\ili \k behold\k*
\ili2 Look! See! Wow! Notice this! Lo!
\ili \k cherub\k*
\ili2 A cherub is a kind of angel with wings and hands that is associated with the throne room of God and guardian duty. See Ezekiel 10.
\ili \k cherubim\k*
\ili2 Cherubim means more than one cherub or a mighty cherub.
\ili \k choenix\k*
\ili2 A choenix is a dry volume measure that is a little more than a liter (which is a little more than a quart). A choenix was the daily ration of grain for a soldier in some armies.
\ili \k concubine\k*
\ili2 a woman who is united to a man for the purpose of providing him with sexual pleasure and children, but not being honored as a full partner in marriage; a second-class wife. In Old Testament times (and in some places now), it was the custom of middle-eastern kings, chiefs, and wealthy men to marry multiple wives and concubines, but God commanded the Kings of Israel not to do so (Deuteronomy 17:17) and Jesus encouraged people to either remain single or marry as God originally intended: one man married to one woman (Matthew 19:3-12; 1 Corinthians 7:1-13).
\ili \k cor\k*
\ili2 A cor is a dry measure of about 391 liters, 103 U. S. gallons, or 86 imperial gallons.
\ili \k corban\k*
\ili2 Corban is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to God.
\ili \k crucify\k*
\ili2 Crucify means to execute someone by nailing them to a cross with metal spikes. Their hands are stretched out on the crossbeam with spikes driven through their wrists or hands. Their feet or ankles are attached to a cross with a metal spike. The weight of the victim’s body tends to force the air out of his lungs. To rise up to breathe, the victim has to put weight on the wounds, and use a lot of strength. The victim is nailed to the cross while the cross is on the ground, then the cross is raised up and dropped into a hole, thus jarring the wounds. Before crucifixion, the victim was usually whipped with a Roman cat of nine tails, which had bits of glass and metal tied to its ends. This caused chunks of flesh to be removed and open wounds to be placed against the raw wood of the cross. The victim was made to carry the heavy crossbeam of his cross from the place of judgment to the place of crucifixion, but often was physically unable after the scourging, so another person would be pressed into involuntary service to carry the cross for him. Roman crucifixion was generally done totally naked to maximize both shame and discomfort. Eventually, the pain, weakness, dehydration, and exhaustion of the muscles needed to breathe make breathing impossible, and the victim suffocates.
\ili \k cubit\k*
\ili2 A cubit is a unit of linear measure, from the elbow to the tip of the longest finger of a man. This unit is commonly converted to 0.46 meters or 18 inches, although that varies with height of the man doing the measurement. There is also a “long” cubit that is longer than a regular cubit by a handbreadth. (Ezekiel 43:13)
\ili \k cummin\k*
\ili2 Cummin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance. It is used as a spice.
\ili \k darnel\k*
\ili2 Darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or Lolium temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the seeds reveal a great difference. Darnel seeds aren’t good for much except as chicken feed or to burn to prevent the spread of this weed.
\ili \k denarii\k*
\ili2 denarii: plural form of denarius, a silver Roman coin worth about a day’s wages for a laborer.
\ili \k denarius\k*
\ili2 A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer. A denarius was worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus.
\ili \k devil\k*
\ili2 The word “devil” comes from the Greek “diabolos,” which means “one prone to slander; a liar.” “Devil” is used to refer to a fallen angel, also called “Satan,” who works to steal, kill, destroy, and do evil. The devil’s doom is certain, and it is only a matter of time before he is thrown into the Lake of Fire, never to escape.
\ili \k didrachma\k*
\ili2 A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas, about as much as 2 Roman denarii, or about 2 days wages. It was commonly used to pay the half-shekel temple tax.
\ili \k disciple\k*
\ili2 a student who follows a teacher to learn both by precept and example.
\ili \k distaff\k*
\ili2 part of a spinning wheel used for twisting threads.
\ili \k drachma\k*
\ili2 A drachma is a Greek silver coin worth about one Roman denarius, or about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
\ili \k El-Elohe-Israel\k*
\ili2 El-Elohe-Israel means “God, the God of Israel” or “The God of Israel is mighty.”
\ili \k ephah\k*
\ili2 An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, 4.8 imperial gallons, or a bit more than half a bushel.
\ili \k Gehenna\k*
\ili2 Gehenna is one word used for Hell. It comes from the Hebrew Gey-Hinnom, literally “valley of Hinnom.” This word originated as the name for a place south of the old city of Jerusalem where the city’s rubbish was burned. At one time, live babies were thrown crying into the fire under the arms of the idol, Moloch, to die there. This place was so despised by the people after the righteous King Josiah abolished this hideous practice that it was made into a garbage heap. Bodies of diseased animals and executed criminals were thrown there and burned.
\ili \k gittith\k*
\ili2 Gittith is a musical term possibly meaning “an instrument of Gath.”
\ili \k goad\k*
\ili2 a sharp, pointed prodding device used to motivate reluctant animals (such as oxen and mules) to move in the right direction.
\ili \k gospel\k*
\ili2 Gospel means “good news” or “glad tidings,” specifically the Good News of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection for our salvation, healing, and provision; and the hope of eternal life that Jesus made available to us by God’s grace.
\ili \k Hades\k*
\ili2 Hades: The nether realm of the disembodied spirits. Also known as “hell.” See also “Sheol”.
\ili \k Har-magedon\k*
\ili2 Har-magedon, also called Armegeddon, is most likely a reference to hill (“har”) of Megiddo, near the Carmel Range in Israel. This area has a large valley plain with plenty of room for armies to maneuver.
\ili \k hin\k*
\ili2 A hin is a measure of volume of about about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.
\ili \k homer\k*
\ili2 One homer is about 220 liters, 6.2 U. S. bushels, 6.1 imperial bushels, 58 U. S. gallons, or 48.4 imperial gallons.
\ili \k hypocrite\k*
\ili2 a stage actor; someone who pretends to be someone other than who they really are; a pretender; a dissembler
\ili \k Ishmael\k*
\ili2 Ishmael is the son of Abraham and Hagar. Ishmael literally means, “God hears.”
\ili \k Jehovah\k*
\ili2 See “Yahweh.”
\ili \k Jesus\k*
\ili2 “Jesus” is Greek for the Hebrew name “Yeshua,” which is a short version of “Yehoshua,” which comes from “Yoshia,” which means “He will save.”
\ili \k kodrantes\k*
\ili2 A kodrantes is a small coin worth one half of an Attic chalcus or two lepta. It is worth less than 2% of a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
\ili \k lepta\k*
\ili2 Lepta are very small, brass, Jewish coins worth half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s daily wages.
\ili \k leviathan\k*
\ili2 Leviathan is a poetic name for a large aquatic creature, possibly a crocodile or a dinosaur.
\ili \k mahalath\k*
\ili2 Mahalath is the name of a tune or a musical term.
\ili \k manna\k*
\ili2 Name for the food that God miraculously provided to the Israelites while they were wandering in the wilderness between Egypt and the promised land. From Hebrew man-hu (What is that?) or manan (to allot). See Exodus 16:14-35.
\ili \k marriage\k*
\ili2 the union of a husband and a wife for the purpose of cohabitation, procreation, and to enjoy each other’s company. God’s plan for marriage is between one man and one woman (Mark 10:6-9; 1 Corinthians 7). Although there are many cases of a man marrying more than one woman in the Old Testament, being married to one wife is a requirement to serve in certain church leadership positions (1 Timothy 3:2,12; Titus 1:5-6).
\ili \k maschil\k*
\ili2 Maschil is a musical and literary term for “contemplation” or “meditative psalm.”
\ili \k michtam\k*
\ili2 A michtam is a poem.
\ili \k mina\k*
\ili2 A mina is a Greek coin worth 100 Greek drachmas (or 100 Roman denarii), or about 100 day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
\ili \k myrrh\k*
\ili2 Myrrh is the fragrant substance that oozes out of the stems and branches of the low, shrubby tree commiphora myrrha or comiphora kataf native to the Arabian deserts and parts of Africa. The fragrant gum drops to the ground and hardens into an oily yellowish-brown resin. Myrrh was highly valued as a perfume, and as an ingredient in medicinal and ceremonial ointments.
\ili \k Nicolaitans\k*
\ili2 Nicolaitans were most likely Gnostics who taught the detestable lie that the physical and spiritual realms were entirely separate and that immorality in the physical realm wouldn’t harm your spiritual health.
\ili \k omega\k*
\ili2 Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet. It is sometimes used to mean the last or the end.
\ili \k Peniel\k*
\ili2 Peniel is Hebrew for “face of God.”
\ili \k phylactery\k*
\ili2 a leather container for holding a small scroll containing important Scripture passages that is worn on the arm or forehead in prayer. These phylacteries (tefillin in Hebrew) are still used by orthodox Jewish men. See Deuteronomy 6:8.
\ili \k Praetorium\k*
\ili2 Praetorium: the Roman governor’s residence and office building, and those who work there.
\ili \k quadrans\k*
\ili2 A quadrans is a Roman coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is about one day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
\ili \k rabbi\k*
\ili2 Rabbi is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “my teacher,” used as a title of respect for Jewish teachers.
\ili \k Rahab\k*
\ili2 Rahab is either (1) The prostitute who hid Joshua’s 2 spies in Jericho (Joshua 2,6) and later became an ancestor of Jesus (Matthew 1:5) and an example of faith (Hebrews 11:31; James 2:25); or (2) Literally, “pride” or “arrogance” — possibly a reference to a large aquatic creature (Job 9:13; 26:12; Isaiah 51:9) or symbolically referring to Egypt (Psalm 87:4; 89:10; Isaiah 30:7).
\ili \k repent\k*
\ili2 to change one’s mind; turn away from sin and turn toward God; to abhor one’s past sins and determine to follow God.
\ili \k Rhabboni\k*
\ili2 Rhabboni: a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “great teacher.”
\ili \k Sabbath\k*
\ili2 The seventh day of the week, set aside by God for man to rest.
\ili \k saints\k*
\ili2 The Greek word for “saints” literally means “holy ones.” Saints are people set apart for service to God as holy and separate, living in righteousness. Used in the Bible to refer to all Christians and to all of those who worship Yahweh in Old Testament times.
\ili \k Samaritan\k*
\ili2 A Samaritan is a resident of Samaria. The Samaritans and the Jews generally detested each other during the time that Jesus walked among us.
\ili \k sanctify\k*
\ili2 To declare or set apart something as holy. To purify and separate a person from sin.
\ili \k sata\k*
\ili2 A sata is a dry measure of capacity approximately equal to 13 liters or 1.5 pecks.
\ili \k Satan\k*
\ili2 Satan means “accuser.” This is one name for the devil, an enemy of God and God’s people.
\ili \k scribe\k*
\ili2 A scribe is one who copies God’s law. They were often respected as teachers and authorities on God’s law.
\ili \k selah\k*
\ili2 Selah is a musical term indicating a pause or instrumental interlude for reflection.
\ili \k seraphim\k*
\ili2 Seraphim are 6-winged angels. See Isaiah 6:2-6.
\ili \k sexual immorality\k*
\ili2 The term “sexual immorality” in the New Testament comes from the Greek “porneia,” which refers to any sexual activity besides that between a husband and his wife. In other words, prostitution (male or female), bestiality, homosexual activity, any sexual intercourse outside of marriage, and the production and consumption of pornography all are included in this term.
\ili \k shekel\k*
\ili2 A measure of weight, and when referring to that weight in gold, silver, or brass, of money. A shekel is approximately 16 grams, about a half an ounce, or 20 gerahs (Ezekiel 45:12).
\ili \k Sheol\k*
\ili2 Sheol is the place of the dead. See also “Hades”.
\ili \k Shibah\k*
\ili2 Shibah is Hebrew for “oath” or “seven.” See Beersheba.
\ili \k shigionoth\k*
\ili2 Victorious music.
\ili \k soul\k*
\ili2 “Soul” refers to the emotions and intellect of a living person, as well as that person’s very life. It is distinguished in the Bible from a person’s spirit and body. (1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12)
\ili \k span\k*
\ili2 A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)
\ili \k spirit\k*
\ili2 Spirit, breath, and wind all derive from the same Hebrew and Greek words. A person’s spirit is the very essence of that person’s life, which comes from God, who is a Spirit being (John 4:24, Genesis 1:2; 2:7). The Bible distinguishes between a person’s spirit, soul, and body (1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12). Some beings may exist as spirits without necessarily having a visible body, such as angels and demons (Luke 9:39, 1 John 4:1-3).
\ili \k stadia\k*
\ili2 Stadia is plural for “stadion,” a linear measure of about 184.9 meters or 606.6 feet (the length of the race course at Olympia).
\ili \k stater\k*
\ili2 A stater is a Greek silver coin equivalent to four Attic or two Alexandrian drachmas, or a Jewish shekel: just exactly enough to cover the half-shekel Temple Tax for two people.
\ili \k tabernacle\k*
\ili2 a dwelling place or place of worship, usually a tent.
\ili \k talent\k*
\ili2 A measure of weight or mass of 3000 shekels.
\ili \k Tartarus\k*
\ili2 Tartarus is the Greek name for an underworld for the wicked dead; another name for Gehenna or Hell.
\ili \k teraphim\k*
\ili2 Teraphim are household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.
\ili \k Yah\k*
\ili2 “Yah” is a shortened form of “Yahweh,” which is God’s proper name. This form is used occasionally in the Old Testament, mostly in the Psalms. See “Yahweh.”
\ili \k Yahweh\k*
\ili2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper name. In Hebrew, the four consonants roughly equivalent to YHWH were considered too holy to pronounce, so the Hebrew word for “Lord” (Adonai) was substituted when reading it aloud. When vowel points were added to the Hebrew Old Testament, the vowel points for “Adonai” were mixed with the consonants for “Yahweh,” which if you pronounced it literally as written, would be pronounced “Yehovah” or “Jehovah.” When the Old Testament was translated to Greek, the tradition of substituting “Lord” for God’s proper name continued in the translation of God’s name to “Lord” (Kurios). Some English Bibles translate God’s proper name to “LORD” or “GOD” (usually with small capital letters), based on that same tradition. This can get really confusing, since two other words (“Adonai” and “Elohim”) translate to “Lord” and “God,” and they are sometimes used together. The ASV of 1901 (and some other translations) render YHWH as “Jehovah.” The most probable pronunciation of God’s proper name is “Yahweh.” In Hebrew, the name “Yahweh” is related to the active declaration “I AM.” See Exodus 3:13-14. Since Hebrew has no tenses, the declaration “I AM” can also be interpreted as “I WAS” and “I WILL BE.” Compare Revelation 1:8.
\ili \k Zion\k*
\ili2 Zion is a name which originally referred one of the mountains of Jerusalem. It became a term synonymous with Jerusalem itself. The term “Heavenly Zion” is also used to refer the future dwelling place of God’s people.
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