\p Genesis 18.0: \c 18
\p
\p Genesis 18.1: \v 1 Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
\p Genesis 18.2: \v 2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
\p Genesis 18.3: \v 3 and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.
\p Genesis 18.4: \v 4 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
\p Genesis 18.5: \v 5 I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.”
\p They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”
\p
\p Genesis 18.6: \v 6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs\f + \fr 18:6 \ft 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks\f* of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”
\p Genesis 18.7: \v 7 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
\p Genesis 18.8: \v 8 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
\p
\p Genesis 18.9: \v 9 They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?”
\p He said, “There, in the tent.”
\p
\p Genesis 18.10: \v 10 He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.”
\p Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
\p Genesis 18.11: \v 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
\p Genesis 18.12: \v 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
\p
\p Genesis 18.13: \v 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’
\p Genesis 18.14: \v 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”
\p
\p Genesis 18.15: \v 15 Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid.
\p He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
\p
\p Genesis 18.16: \v 16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
\p Genesis 18.17: \v 17 Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
\p Genesis 18.18: \v 18 since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
\p Genesis 18.19: \v 19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
\p Genesis 18.20: \v 20 Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
\p Genesis 18.21: \v 21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”
\p
\p Genesis 18.22: \v 22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
\p Genesis 18.23: \v 23 Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
\p Genesis 18.24: \v 24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
\p Genesis 18.25: \v 25 May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
\p
\p Genesis 18.26: \v 26 Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
\p Genesis 18.27: \v 27 Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
\p Genesis 18.28: \v 28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?”
\p He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
\p
\p Genesis 18.29: \v 29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?”
\p He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.”
\p
\p Genesis 18.30: \v 30 He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?”
\p He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
\p
\p Genesis 18.31: \v 31 He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?”
\p He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”
\p
\p Genesis 18.32: \v 32 He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?”
\p He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”
\p
\p Genesis 18.33: \v 33 Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
\p Genesis 28.0: \c 28
\p
\p Genesis 28.1: \v 1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
\p Genesis 28.2: \v 2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
\p Genesis 28.3: \v 3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
\p Genesis 28.4: \v 4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”
\p
\p Genesis 28.5: \v 5 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
\p
\p Genesis 28.6: \v 6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;”
\p Genesis 28.7: \v 7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
\p Genesis 28.8: \v 8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.
\p Genesis 28.9: \v 9 Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
\p
\p Genesis 28.10: \v 10 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
\p Genesis 28.11: \v 11 He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
\p Genesis 28.12: \v 12 He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
\p Genesis 28.13: \v 13 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to you and to your offspring.
\p Genesis 28.14: \v 14 Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.
\p Genesis 28.15: \v 15 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
\p
\p Genesis 28.16: \v 16 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”
\p Genesis 28.17: \v 17 He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”
\p
\p Genesis 28.18: \v 18 Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.
\p Genesis 28.19: \v 19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
\p Genesis 28.20: \v 20 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,
\p Genesis 28.21: \v 21 so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,
\p Genesis 28.22: \v 22 then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”
\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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Ecclesiastes 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Ecclesiastes 1.1: \v 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:
\p
\p Ecclesiastes 1.2: \v 2 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
\p Ecclesiastes 1.3: \v 3 What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
\p Ecclesiastes 1.4: \v 4 One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
\p Ecclesiastes 1.5: \v 5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
\p Ecclesiastes 1.6: \v 6 The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.
\p Ecclesiastes 1.7: \v 7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.
\p Ecclesiastes 1.8: \v 8 All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
\p Ecclesiastes 1.9: \v 9 That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
\p Ecclesiastes 1.10: \v 10 Is there a thing of which it may be said, “Behold,\f + \fr 1:10 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* this is new?” It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.
\p Ecclesiastes 1.11: \v 11 There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.
\p
\p Ecclesiastes 1.12: \v 12 I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
\p Ecclesiastes 1.13: \v 13 I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God\f + \fr 1:13 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
\p Ecclesiastes 1.14: \v 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
\p Ecclesiastes 1.15: \v 15 That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.
\p Ecclesiastes 1.16: \v 16 I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”
\p Ecclesiastes 1.17: \v 17 I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
\p Ecclesiastes 1.18: \v 18 For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
\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 John 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p John 3.1: \v 1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
\p John 3.2: \v 2 The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
\p
\p John 3.3: \v 3 Jesus answered him, \wj “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, \wj*\f + \fr 3:3 \ft The word translated “anew” here and in John 3:7 (ἄνωθεν) also means “again” and “from above”.\f* \wj he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”\wj*
\p
\p John 3.4: \v 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”
\p
\p John 3.5: \v 5 Jesus answered, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.\wj*
\p John 3.6: \v 6 \wj That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. \wj*
\p John 3.7: \v 7 \wj Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ \wj*
\p John 3.8: \v 8 \wj The wind\wj*\f + \fr 3:8 \ft The same Greek word (πνεῦμα) means wind, breath, and spirit.\f* \wj blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”\wj*
\p
\p John 3.9: \v 9 Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”
\p
\p John 3.10: \v 10 Jesus answered him, \wj “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things? \wj*
\p John 3.11: \v 11 \wj Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness. \wj*
\p John 3.12: \v 12 \wj If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? \wj*
\p John 3.13: \v 13 \wj No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. \wj*
\p John 3.14: \v 14 \wj As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, \wj*
\p John 3.15: \v 15 \wj that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. \wj*
\p John 3.16: \v 16 \wj For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. \wj*
\p John 3.17: \v 17 \wj For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. \wj*
\p John 3.18: \v 18 \wj He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. \wj*
\p John 3.19: \v 19 \wj This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. \wj*
\p John 3.20: \v 20 \wj For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. \wj*
\p John 3.21: \v 21 \wj But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”\wj*
\p
\p John 3.22: \v 22 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them and baptized.
\p John 3.23: \v 23 John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized;
\p John 3.24: \v 24 for John was not yet thrown into prison.
\p John 3.25: \v 25 Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.
\p John 3.26: \v 26 They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”
\p
\p John 3.27: \v 27 John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.
\p John 3.28: \v 28 You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’
\p John 3.29: \v 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
\p John 3.30: \v 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
\p John 3.31: \v 31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
\p John 3.32: \v 32 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.
\p John 3.33: \v 33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
\p John 3.34: \v 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
\p John 3.35: \v 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
\p John 3.36: \v 36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys \f + \fr 3:36 \ft The same word can be translated “disobeys” or “disbelieves” in this context.\f* the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
\p 1 Corinthians 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p 1 Corinthians 9.1: \v 1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
\p 1 Corinthians 9.2: \v 2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
\p 1 Corinthians 9.3: \v 3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
\p 1 Corinthians 9.4: \v 4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
\p 1 Corinthians 9.5: \v 5 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
\p 1 Corinthians 9.6: \v 6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
\p 1 Corinthians 9.7: \v 7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
\p 1 Corinthians 9.8: \v 8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
\p 1 Corinthians 9.9: \v 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.”\x + \xo 9:9 \xt Deuteronomy 25:4\x* Is it for the oxen that God cares,
\p 1 Corinthians 9.10: \v 10 or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
\p 1 Corinthians 9.11: \v 11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
\p 1 Corinthians 9.12: \v 12 If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
\p 1 Corinthians 9.13: \v 13 Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
\p 1 Corinthians 9.14: \v 14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
\p 1 Corinthians 9.15: \v 15 But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
\p 1 Corinthians 9.16: \v 16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
\p 1 Corinthians 9.17: \v 17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
\p 1 Corinthians 9.18: \v 18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
\p 1 Corinthians 9.19: \v 19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
\p 1 Corinthians 9.20: \v 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
\p 1 Corinthians 9.21: \v 21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
\p 1 Corinthians 9.22: \v 22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
\p 1 Corinthians 9.23: \v 23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
\p 1 Corinthians 9.24: \v 24 Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
\p 1 Corinthians 9.25: \v 25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
\p 1 Corinthians 9.26: \v 26 I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
\p 1 Corinthians 9.27: \v 27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
\p Sirach 4.0: \c 4
\q1
\p Sirach 4.1: \v 1 My son, don’t deprive the poor of his living.
\q2 Don’t make the needy eyes wait long.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.2: \v 2 Don’t make a hungry soul sorrowful,
\q2 or provoke a man in his distress.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.3: \v 3 Don’t add more trouble to a heart that is provoked.
\q2 Don’t put off giving to him who is in need.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.4: \v 4 Don’t reject a suppliant in his affliction.
\q2 Don’t turn your face away from a poor man.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.5: \v 5 Don’t turn your eye away from one who asks.
\q2 Give no occasion to a man to curse you.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.6: \v 6 For if he curses you in the bitterness of his soul,
\q2 he who made him will hear his supplication.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 4.7: \v 7 Endear yourself to the assembly.
\q2 Bow your head to a great man.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.8: \v 8 Incline your ear to a poor man.
\q2 Answer him with peaceful words in humility.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.9: \v 9 Deliver him who is wronged from the hand of him that wrongs him;
\q2 Don’t be faint-hearted in giving judgement.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.10: \v 10 Be as a father to the fatherless,
\q2 and like a husband to their mother.
\q1 So you will be as a son of the Most High,
\q2 and he will love you more than your mother does.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 4.11: \v 11 Wisdom exalts her sons,
\q2 and takes hold of those who seek her.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.12: \v 12 He who loves her loves life.
\q2 Those who seek to her early will be filled with gladness.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.13: \v 13 He who holds her fast will inherit glory.
\q2 Where \f + \fr 4:13 \ft Or, \fqa she \f* he enters, the Lord will bless.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.14: \v 14 Those who serve her minister to the Holy One.
\q2 The Lord loves those who love her.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.15: \v 15 He who gives ear to her will judge the nations.
\q2 He who heeds her will dwell securely.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.16: \v 16 If he trusts her, he will inherit her,
\q2 and his generations will possess her.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.17: \v 17 For at the first she will walk with him in crooked ways,
\q2 and will bring fear and dread upon him,
\q2 and torment him with her discipline,
\q2 until she may trust his soul, and try him by her judgments.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.18: \v 18 Then she will return him again to the straight way,
\q2 and will gladden him, and reveal to him her secrets.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.19: \v 19 If he goes astray, she will forsake him,
\q2 and hand him over to his fall.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 4.20: \v 20 Observe the opportunity, and beware of evil.
\q2 Don’t be ashamed of your soul.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.21: \v 21 For there is a shame that brings sin,
\q2 and there is a shame that is glory and grace.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.22: \v 22 Don’t show partiality against your soul.
\q2 Don’t revere any man to your falling.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.23: \v 23 Don’t refrain from speaking when it is for safety.
\q2 \f + \fr 4:23 \ft Some manuscripts omit this line. \f*Don’t hide your wisdom for the sake of seeming fair.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.24: \v 24 For wisdom will be known by speech,
\q2 and instruction by the word of the tongue.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.25: \v 25 Don’t speak against the truth
\q1 and be shamed for your ignorance.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.26: \v 26 Don’t be ashamed to confess your sins.
\q2 Don’t fight the river’s current.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.27: \v 27 Don’t lay yourself down for a fool to tread upon.
\q2 Don’t be partial to one that is mighty.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.28: \v 28 Strive for the truth to death,
\q2 and the Lord God will fight for you.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 4.29: \v 29 Don’t be rough hasty with your tongue,
\q2 or slack and negligent in your deeds.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.30: \v 30 Don’t be like a lion in your house,
\q2 or suspicious of your servants.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.31: \v 31 Don’t let your hand be stretched out to receive,
\q2 and closed when you should repay.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 0.0: \id 2ES - 2 Esdras
\h 2 Esdras
\toc1 The Second Book of Esdras
\toc2 2 Esdras
\toc3 2Es
\mt1 THE SECOND BOOK OF ESDRAS
\ip \bk The Second Book of Esdras\bk* is included in the Slavonic Bible as \bk 3 Esdras\bk*, but is not found in the Greek Septuagint. It is included in the Appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible as \bk 4 Esdras\bk*. It is considered to be Apocrypha by most church traditions. It is preserved here for its supplementary historical value.