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Preface to PDF Version Micah ... 537
Preface to 1611 Translation Nahum ... 541
Old Testament Habakkuk ... 543
Genesis ... 1 Zephaniah ... 545
Exodus ... 31 Haggai ... 547
Leviticus ... 57 Zechariah ... 549
Numbers ... 77 Malachi ... 555
Deuteronomy ... 103 New Testament
Joshua ... 125 Matthew ... 559
Judges ... 141 Mark ... 579
Ruth ... 157 Luke ... 591
1 Samuel ... 159 John ... 611
2 Samuel ... 179 Acts ... 627
1 Kings ... 195 Romans ... 647
2 Kings ... 215 1 Corinthians ... 655
1 Chronicles ... 233 2 Corinthians ... 663
2 Chronicles ... 251 Galatians ... 669
Ezra ... 273 Ephesians ... 673
Nehemiah ... 279 Philippians ... 677
Esther ... 289 Colossians ... 679
Job ... 295 1 Thessalonians ... 681
Psalms ... 309 2 Thessalonians ... 683
Proverbs ... 395 1 Timothy ... 685
Ecclesiastes ... 407 2 Timothy ... 687
Song of Songs ... 413 Titus ... 689
Isaiah ... 417 Philemon ... 691
Jeremiah ... 447 Hebrews ... 693
Lamentations ... 479 James ... 699
Ezekiel ... 483 1 Peter ... 701
Daniel ... 513 2 Peter ... 703
Hosea ... 523 1 John ... 705
Joel ... 527 2 John ... 707
Amos ... 529 3 John ... 709
Obadiah ... 533 Jude ... 711
Jonah ... 535 Revelation ... 713
i Preface to PDF Version
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Minor formatting changes were made to the public domain text, which consisted of removal of the public domain notice in
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categories for for Old and New Testaments.
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Dan Cogliano
Zeal to promote the common good, whether it be by devising anything ourselves, or revising that which hath been laboured
by others, deserveth certainly much respect and esteem, but yet findeth but cold entertainment in the world. It is welcomed
with suspicion instead of love, and with emulation instead of thanks: and if there be any hole left for cavil to enter, (and
cavil, if it do not find a hole, will make one) it is sure to be misconstrued, and in danger to be condemned. This will easily
be granted by as many as know story, or have any experience. For, was there ever any-projected, that savoured any way of
newness or renewing, but the same endured many a storm of gainsaying, or opposition? A man would think that Civility,
wholesome Laws, learning and eloquence, Synods, and Church-maintenance, (that we speak of no more things of this kind)
should be as safe as a Sanctuary, and out of shot, as they say, that no man would lift up the heel, no, nor dog move his
tongue against the motioners of them. For by the first, we are distinguished from brute beasts lead with sensuality; By the
second, we are bridled and restrained from outrageous behaviour, and from doing of injuries, whether by fraud or by
violence; By the third, we are enabled to inform and reform others, by the light and feeling that we have attained unto
ourselves; Briefly, by the fourth being brought together to a parley face to face, we sooner compose our differences than by
writings which are endless; And lastly, that the Church be sufficiently provided for, is so agreeable to good reason and
conscience, that those mothers are holden to be less cruel, that kill their children as soon as they are born, than those nursing
fathers and mothers (wheresoever they be) that withdraw from them who hang upon their breasts (and upon whose breasts
again themselves do hang to receive the Spiritual and sincere milk of the word) livelihood and support fit for their estates.
Thus it is apparent, that these things which we speak of, are of most necessary use, and therefore, that none, either without
absurdity can speak against them, or without note of wickedness can spurn against them.
Yet for all that, the learned know that certain worthy men [Anacharsis with others] have been brought to untimely death for
none other fault, but for seeking to reduce their Countrymen to god order and discipline; and that in some Commonwealths
[e.g. Locri] it was made a capital crime, once to motion the making of a new Law for the abrogating of an old, though the
same were most pernicious; And that certain [Cato the elder], which would be counted pillars of the State, and patterns of
Virtue and Prudence, could not be brought for a long time to give way to good Letters and refined speech, but bare
themselves as averse from them, as from rocks or boxes of poison; And fourthly, that he was no babe, but a great clerk
[Gregory the Divine], that gave forth (and in writing to remain to posterity) in passion peradventure, but yet he gave forth,
that he had not seen any profit to come by any Synod, or meeting of the Clergy, but rather the contrary; And lastly, against
Church-maintenance and allowance, in such sort, as the Ambassadors and messengers of the great King of Kings should be
furnished, it is not unknown what a fiction or fable (so it is esteemed, and for no better by the reporter himself [Nauclerus],
though superstitious) was devised; Namely, that at such a time as the professors and teachers of Christianity in the Church of
Rome, then a true Church, were liberally endowed, a voice forsooth was heard from heaven, saying: Now is poison poured
down into the Church, etc. Thus not only as oft as we speak, as one saith, but also as oft as we do anything of note or
consequence, we subject ourselves to everyone’s censure, and happy is he that is least tossed upon tongues; for utterly to
escape the snatch of them it is impossible. If any man conceit, that this is the lot and portion of the meaner sort only, and
that Princes are privileged by their high estate, he is deceived. "As the sword devoureth as well one as the other," as it is in
Samuel [2 Sam 11:25], nay as the great Commander charged his soldiers in a certain battle, to strike at no part of the enemy,
but at the face; And as the King of Syria commanded his chief Captains to "fight neither with small nor great, save only
against the King of Israel:" [1 Kings 22:31] so it is too true, that Envy striketh most spitefully at the fairest, and at the
chiefest. David was a worthy Prince, and no man to be compared to him for his first deeds, and yet for as worthy as act as
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ever he did (even for bringing back the Ark of God in solemnity) he was scorned and scoffed at by his own wife [2 Sam
6:16]. Solomon was greater than David, though not in virtue, yet in power: and by his power and wisdom he built a Temple
to the Lord, such a one as was the glory of the land of Israel, and the wonder of the whole world. But was that his
magnificence liked of by all? We doubt it. Otherwise, why do they lay it in his son’s dish, and call unto him for easing the
burden, "Make", say they, "the grievous servitude of thy father, and his sore yoke, lighter?" [1 Kings 12:4] Belike he had
charged them with some levies, and troubled them with some carriages; Hereupon they raise up a tragedy, and wish in their
heart the Temple had never been built. So hard a thing it is to please all, even when we please God best, and do seek to
approve ourselves to every ones conscience.
If we will descend to later times, we shall find many the like examples of such kind, or rather unkind acceptance. The first
Roman Emperor [C. Caesar. Plutarch] did never do a more pleasing deed to the learned, nor more profitable to posterity, for
conserving the record of times in true supputation; than when he corrected the Calendar, and ordered the year according to
the course of the Sun; and yet this was imputed to him for novelty, and arrogance, and procured to him great obloguy. So
the first Christened Emperor [Constantine] (at the least-wise that openly professed the faith himself, and allowed others to do
the like) for strengthening the Empire at his great charges, and providing for the Church, as he did, got for his labour the
name Pupillus, as who would say, a wasteful Prince, that had need of a Guardian or overseer [Aurel. Victor]. So the best
Christened Emperor [Theodosius], for the love that he bare unto peace, thereby to enrich both himself and his subjects, and
because he did not see war but find it, was judged to be no man at arms [Zosimus], (though indeed he excelled in feats of
chivalry, and showed so much when he was provoked) and condemned for giving himself to his ease, and to his pleasure. To
be short, the most learned Emperor of former times [Justinian], (at the least, the greatest politician) what thanks had he for
cutting off the superfluities of the laws, and digesting them into some order and method? This, that he had been blotted by
some to be an Epitomist, that is, one that extinguishes worthy whole volumes, to bring his abridgments into request. This is
the measure that hath been rendered to excellent Princes in former times, even, Cum bene facerent, male audire, For their
good deeds to be evil spoken of. Neither is there any likelihood, that envy and malignity died, and were buried with the
ancient. No, no, the reproof of Moses taketh hold of most ages; "You are risen up in your fathers’ stead, and increase of
sinful men." [Num 32:14] "What is that that hath been done? that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the
Sun," saith the wiseman: [Ecc 1:9] and S. Stephen, "As your fathers did, so do you." [Acts 7:51]
HIS MAJESTY’S CONSTANCY, NOTWITHSTANDING CULMINATION, FOR THE SURVEY OF THE ENGLISH
TRANSLATIONS
This, and more to this purpose, His Majesty that now reigneth (and long, and long may he reign, and his offspring forever,
"Himself and children, and children’s always) knew full well, according to the singular wisdom given unto him by God, and
the rare learning and experience that he hath attained unto; namely that whosoever attempteth anything for the public
(especially if it pertain to Religion, and to the opening and clearing of the word of God) the same setteth himself upon a
stage to be gloated upon by every evil eye, yea, he casteth himself headlong upon pikes, to be gored by every sharp tongue.
For he that medleth with men’s Religion in any part, medleth with their custom, nay, with their freehold; and though they
find no content in that which they have, yet they cannot abide to hear of altering. Notwithstanding his Royal heart was not
daunted or discouraged for this that colour, but stood resolute, "as a statue immovable, and an anvil not easy to be beaten
into plates," as one [Suidas] saith; he knew who had chosen him to be a Soldier, or rather a Captain, and being assured that
the course which he intended made for the glory of God, and the building up of his Church, he would not suffer it to be
broken off for whatsoever speeches or practices.
It doth certainly belong unto Kings, yea, it doth specially belong unto them, to have care of Religion, yea, it doth specially
belong unto them, to have care of Religion, yea, to know it aright, yea, to profess it zealously, yea to promote it to the
uttermost of their power. This is their glory before all nations which mean well, and this will bring unto them a far most
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excellent weight of glory in the day of the Lord Jesus. For the Scripture saith not in vain, "Them that honor me, I will
honor," [1 Sam 2:30] neither was it a vain word that Eusebius delivered long ago, that piety towards God was the weapon
and the only weapon, that both preserved Constantine’s person, and avenged him of his enemies [Eusebius lib 10 cap 8].
But now what piety without truth? what truth (what saving truth) without the word of God? What word of God (whereof we
may be sure) without the Scripture? The Scriptures we are commanded to search. John 5:39. Isa 8:20. They are commended
that searched and studied them. Acts 17:11 and 8:28,29. They are reproved that were unskillful in them, or slow to believe
them. Matt 22:29. Luke 24:25. They can make us wise unto salvation. 2 Tim 3:15. If we be ignorant, they will instruct us;
if out of the way, they will bring us home; if out of order, they will reform us; if in heaviness, comfort us; if dull, quicken us;
if cold, inflame us.
Tolle, lege; Tolle, lege, Take up and read, take up and read the Scriptures [S. August. confess. lib 8 cap 12], (for unto them
was the direction) it was said unto S. Augustine by a supernatural voice. "Whatsoever is in the Scriptures, believe me," saith
the same S. Augustine, "is high and divine; there is verily truth, and a doctrine most fit for the refreshing of men’s minds,
and truly so tempered, that everyone may draw from thence that which is sufficient for him, if he come to draw with a
devout and pious mind, as true Religion requireth." [S. August. de utilitcredendi cap. 6] Thus S. Augustine. and S. Jerome:
"Ama scripturas, et amabit te sapientia etc." [S. Jerome. ad Demetriad] Love the Scriptures, and wisdom will love thee.
And S. Cyril against Julian; "Even boys that are bred up in the Scriptures, become most religious, etc. [S. Cyril. 7 contra
Iulianum] But what mention we three or four uses of the Scripture, whereas whatsoever is to be believed or practiced, or
hoped for, is contained in them? or three or four sentences of the Fathers, since whosoever is worthy the name of a Father,
from Christ’s time downward, hath likewise written not only of the riches, but also of the perfection of the Scripture? "I
adore the fulness of the Scripture," saith Tertullian against Hermogenes. [Tertul. advers. Hermo.] And again, to Apelles an
heretic of the like stamp, he saith; "I do not admit that which thou bringest in (or concludest) of thine own (head or store, de
tuo) without Scripture." [Tertul. de carne Christi.] So Saint Justin Martyr before him; "We must know by all means," saith
he, "that it is not lawful (or possible) to learn (anything) of God or of right piety, save only out of the Prophets, who teach us
by divine inspiration." So Saint Basil after Tertullian, "It is a manifest falling way from the Faith, and a fault of presumption,
either to reject any of those things that are written, or to bring in (upon the head of them) any of those things that are not
written. We omit to cite to the same effect, S. Cyril B. of Jerusalem in his 4::Cataches., Saint Jerome against Helvidius,
Saint Augustine in his 3::book against the letters of Petilian, and in very many other places of his works. Also we forebear to
descend to later Fathers, because we will not weary the reader. The Scriptures then being acknowledged to be so full and so
perfect, how can we excuse ourselves of negligence, if we do not study them, of curiosity, if we be not content with them?
Men talk much of [an olive bow wrapped about with wood, whereupon did hang figs, and bread, honey in a pot, and oil],
how many sweet and goodly things it had hanging on it; of the Philosopher’s stone, that it turned copper into gold; of
Cornucopia, that it had all things necessary for food in it, of Panaces the herb, that it was good for diseases, of Catholicon the
drug, that it is instead of all purges; of Vulcan’s armor, that it was an armor of proof against all thrusts, and all blows, etc.
Well, that which they falsely or vainly attributed to these things for bodily god, we may justly and with full measure ascribe
unto the Scripture, for spiritual. It is not only an armor, but also a whole armory of weapons, both offensive and defensive;
whereby we may save ourselves and put the enemy to flight. It is not an herb, but a tree, or rather a whole paradise of trees
of life, which bring forth fruit every month, and the fruit thereof is for meat, and the leaves for medicine. It is not a pot of
Manna, or a cruse of oil, which were for memory only, or for a meal’s meat or two, but as it were a shower of heavenly
bread sufficient for a whole host, be it never so great; and as it were a whole cellar full of oil vessels; whereby all our
necessities may be provided for, and our debts discharged. In a word, it is a Panary of wholesome food, against fenowed
traditions; a Physician’s shop (Saint Basil called it) [S. Basil in Psal. primum.] of preservatives against poisoned heresies; a
Pandect of profitable laws, against rebellious spirits; a treasury of most costly jewels, against beggarly rudiments; finally a
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fountain of most pure water springing up unto everlasting life. And what marvel? The original thereof being from heaven,
not from earth; the author being God, not man; the inditer, the holy spirit, not the wit of the Apostles or Prophets; the
Penmen such as were sanctified from the womb, and endued with a principal portion of God’s spirit; the matter, verity, piety,
purity, uprightness; the form, God’s word, God’s testimony, God’s oracles, the word of truth, the word of salvation, etc.; the
effects, light of understanding, stableness of persuasion, repentance from dead works, newness of life, holiness, peace, joy in
the holy Ghost; lastly, the end and reward of the study thereof, fellowship with the Saints, participation of the heavenly
nature, fruition of an inheritance immortal, undefiled, and that never shall fade away: Happy is the man that delighted in the
Scripture, and thrice happy that meditateth in it day and night.
TRANSLATION NECESSARY
But how shall men meditate in that, which they cannot understand? How shall they understand that which is kept close in an
unknown tongue? as it is written, "Except I know the power of the voice, I shall be to him that speaketh, a Barbarian, and he
that speaketh, shall be a Barbarian to me." [1 Cor 14] The Apostle excepteth no tongue; not Hebrew the ancientest, not
Greek the most copious, not Latin the finest. Nature taught a natural man to confess, that all of us in those tongues which we
do not understand, are plainly deaf; we may turn the deaf ear unto them.
The Scythian counted the Athenian, whom he did not understand, barbarous; [Clem. Alex. 1 Strom.] so the Roman did the
Syrian, and the Jew (even S. Jerome himself called the Hebrew tongue barbarous, belike because it was strange to so many)
[S. Jerome. Damaso.] so the Emperor of Constantinople [Michael, Theophili fil.] calleth the Latin tongue, barbarous, though
Pope Nicolas do storm at it: [2::Tom. Concil. ex edit. Petri Crab] so the Jews long before Christ called all other nations,
Lognazim, which is little better than barbarous. Therefore as one complaineth, that always in the Senate of Rome, there was
one or other that called for an interpreter: [Cicero 5::de finibus.] so lest the Church be driven to the like exigent, it is
necessary to have translations in a readiness. Translation it is that openeth the window, to let in the light; that breaketh the
shell, that we may eat the kernel; that putteth aside the curtain, that we may look into the most Holy place; that removeth the
cover of the well, that we may come by the water, even as Jacob rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, by which
means the flocks of Laban were watered [Gen 29:10]. Indeed without translation into the vulgar tongue, the unlearned are
but like children at Jacob’s well (which is deep) [John 4:11] without a bucket or something to draw with; or as that person
mentioned by Isaiah, to whom when a sealed book was delivered, with this motion, "Read this, I pray thee," he was fain to
make this answer, "I cannot, for it is sealed." [Isa 29:11]
THE TRANSLATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT OUT OF THE HEBREW INTO GREEK
While God would be known only in Jacob, and have his Name great in Israel, and in none other place, while the dew lay on
Gideon’s fleece only, and all the earth besides was dry; then for one and the same people, which spake all of them the
language of Canaan, that is, Hebrew, one and the same original in Hebrew was sufficient. [S. August. lib 12 contra Faust
c32] But, when the fulness of time drew near, that the Sun of righteousness, the Son of God should come into the world,
whom God ordained to be a reconciliation through faith in his blood, not of the Jew only, but also of the Greek, yea, of all
them that were scattered abroad; then lo, it pleased the Lord to stir up the spirit of a Greek Prince (Greek for descent and
language) even of Ptolemy Philadelph King of Egypt, to procure the translating of the Book of God out of Hebrew into
Greek. This is the translation of the Seventy Interpreters, commonly so called, which prepared the way for our Saviour
among the Gentiles by written preaching, as Saint John Baptist did among the Jews by vocal. For the Grecians being
desirous of learning, were not wont to suffer books of worth to lie moulding in Kings’ libraries, but had many of their
servants, ready scribes, to copy them out, and so they were dispersed and made common. Again, the Greek tongue was well
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known and made familiar to most inhabitants in Asia, by reason of the conquest that there the Grecians had made, as also by
the Colonies, which thither they had sent. For the same causes also it was well understood in many places of Europe, yea,
and of Africa too. Therefore the word of God being set forth in Greek, becometh hereby like a candle set upon a candlestick,
which giveth light to all that are in the house, or like a proclamation sounded forth in the market place, which most men
presently take knowledge of; and therefore that language was fittest to contain the Scriptures, both for the first Preachers of
the Gospel to appeal unto for witness, and for the learners also of those times to make search and trial by. It is certain, that
that Translation was not so sound and so perfect, but it needed in many places correction; and who had been so sufficient for
this work as the Apostles or Apostolic men? Yet it seemed good to the holy Ghost and to them, to take that which they
found, (the same being for the greatest part true and sufficient) rather than making a new, in that new world and green age of
the Church, to expose themselves to many exceptions and cavillations, as though they made a Translations to serve their own
turn, and therefore bearing a witness to themselves, their witness not to be regarded. This may be supposed to be some
cause, why the Translation of the Seventy was allowed to pass for current. Notwithstanding, though it was commended
generally, yet it did not fully content the learned, no not of the Jews. For not long after Christ, Aquila fell in hand with a
new Translation, and after him Theodotion, and after him Symmachus; yea, there was a fifth and a sixth edition, the Authors
whereof were not known. [Epiphan. de mensur. et ponderibus.] These with the Seventy made up the Hexapla and were
worthily and to great purpose compiled together by Origen. Howbeit the Edition of the Seventy went away with the credit,
and therefore not only was placed in the midst by Origen (for the worth and excellency thereof above the rest, as Epiphanius
gathered) but also was used by the Greek fathers for the ground and foundation of their Commentaries. Yea, Epiphanius
above named doeth attribute so much unto it, that he holdeth the Authors thereof not only for Interpreters, but also for
Prophets in some respect [S. August. 2::de dectrin. Christian c. 15]; and Justinian the Emperor enjoining the Jews his
subjects to use especially the Translation of the Seventy, rendreth this reason thereof, because they were as it were
enlightened with prophetical grace. Yet for all that, as the Egyptians are said of the Prophet to be men and not God, and
their horses flesh and not spirit [Isa 31:3]; so it is evident, (and Saint Jerome affirmeth as much) [S. Jerome. de optimo
genere interpret.] that the Seventy were Interpreters, they were not Prophets; they did many things well, as learned men; but
yet as men they stumbled and fell, one while through oversight, another while through ignorance, yea, sometimes they may
be noted to add to the Original, and sometimes to take from it; which made the Apostles to leave them many times, when
they left the Hebrew, and to deliver the sense thereof according to the truth of the word, as the spirit gave them utterance.
This may suffice touching the Greek Translations of the Old Testament.
There were also within a few hundred years after CHRIST, translations many into the Latin tongue: for this tongue also was
very fit to convey the Law and the Gospel by, because in those times very many Countries of the West, yea of the South,
East and North, spake or understood Latin, being made Provinces to the Romans. But now the Latin Translations were too
many to be all good, for they were infinite (Latini Interprets nullo modo numerari possunt, saith S. Augustine.) [S. Augustin.
de doctr. Christ. lib 2 cap II]. Again they were not out of the Hebrew fountain (we speak of the Latin Translations of the Old
Testament) but out of the Greek stream, therefore the Greek being not altogether clear, the Latin derived from it must needs
be muddy. This moved S. Jerome a most learned father, and the best linguist without controversy, of his age, or of any that
went before him, to undertake the translating of the Old Testament, out of the very fountain with that evidence of great
learning, judgment, industry, and faithfulness, that he had forever bound the Church unto him, in a debt of special
remembrance and thankfulness.
Now through the Church were thus furnished with Greek and Latin Translations, even before the faith of CHRIST was
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generally embraced in the Empire; (for the learned know that even in S. Jerome’s time, the Consul of Rome and his wife
were both Ethnics, and about the same time the greatest part of the Senate also) [S. Jerome. Marcell.Zosim] yet for all that
the godly-learned were not content to have the Scriptures in the Language which they themselves understood, Greek and
Latin, (as the good Lepers were not content to fare well themselves, but acquainted their neighbors with the store that God
had sent, that they also might provide for themselves) [2 Kings 7:9] but also for the behoof and edifying of the unlearned
which hungered and thirsted after righteousness, and had souls to be saved as well as they, they provided Translations into
the vulgar for their Countrymen, insomuch that most nations under heaven did shortly after their conversion, hear CHRIST
speaking unto them in their mother tongue, not by the voice of their Minister only, but also by the written word translated. If
any doubt hereof, he may be satisfied by examples enough, if enough will serve the turn. First S. Jerome saith, Multarum
gentium linguis Scriptura ante translata, docet falsa esse quae addita sunt, etc. i.e. "The Scripture being translated before in
the languages of many Nations, doth show that those things that were added (by Lucian and Hesychius) are false." [S.
Jerome. praef. in 4::Evangel.] So S. Jerome in that place. The same Jerome elsewhere affirmeth that he, the time was, had
set forth the translation of the Seventy suae linguae hominibus, i.e., for his countrymen of Dalmatia [S. Jerome. Sophronio.]
Which words not only Erasmus doth understand to purport, that S. Jerome translated the Scripture into the Dalmatian tongue,
but also Sixtus Senensis [Six. Sen. lib 4], and Alphonsus a‘ Castro [Alphon. lb 1 ca 23] (that we speak of no more) men not
to be excepted against by them of Rome, do ingenuously confess as much. So, S. Chrysostom that lived in S. Jerome’s time,
giveth evidence with him: "The doctrine of S. John [saith he] did not in such sort [as the Philosophers’ did] vanish away: but
the Syrians, Egyptians, Indians, Persians, Ethiopians, and infinite other nations being barbarous people translated it into their
[mother] tongue, and have learned to be [true] Philosophers," he meaneth Christians. [S. Chrysost. in Johan. cap.I. hom.I.]
To this may be added Theodoret, as next unto him, both for antiquity, and for learning.
His words be these, "Every Country that is under the Sun, is full of these words (of the Apostles and Prophets) and the
Hebrew tongue [he meaneth the Scriptures in the Hebrew tongue] is turned not only into the Language of the Grecians, but
also of the Romans, and Egyptians, and Persians, and Indians, and Armenians, and Scythians, and Sauromatians, and briefly
into all the Languages that any Nation useth. [Theodor. 5. Therapeut.] So he. In like manner, Ulfilas is reported by Paulus
Diaconus and Isidor (and before them by Sozomen) to have translated the Scriptures into the Gothic tongue: [P. Diacon. li.
12.] John Bishop of Sevil by Vasseus, to have turned them into Arabic, about the year of our Lord 717; [Vaseus in Chron.
Hispan.] Bede by Cistertiensis, to have turned a great part of them into Saxon: Efnard by Trithemius, to have abridged the
French Psalter, as Beded had done the Hebrew, about the year 800: King Alfred by the said Cistertiensis, to have turned the
Psalter into Saxon: [Polydor. Virg. 5 histor.] Methodius by Aventinus (printed at Ingolstadt) to have turned the Scriptures
into Slavonian: [Aventin. lib. 4.] Valdo, Bishop of Frising by Beatus Rhenanus, to have caused about that time, the Gospels
to be translated into Dutch rhythm, yet extant in the Library of Corbinian: [Circa annum 900. B. Rhenan. rerum German. lib
2.] Valdus, by divers to have turned them himself into French, about the year 1160: Charles the Fifth of that name,
surnamed the Wise, to have caused them to be turned into French, about 200 years after Valdus his time, of which translation
there be many copies yet extant, as witnesseth Beroaldus. Much about that time, even in our King Richard the second’s
days, John Trevisa translated them into English, and many English Bibles in written hand are yet to be seen with divers,
translated as it is very probable, in that age. So the Syrian translation of the New Testament is in most learned men’s
Libraries, of Widminstadius his setting forth, and the Psalter in Arabic is with many, of Augustinus Nebiensis’ setting forth.
So Postel affirmeth, that in his travel he saw the Gospels in the Ethiopian tongue; And Ambrose Thesius allegeth the Pslater
of the Indians, which he testifieth to have been set forth by Potken in Syrian characters. So that, to have the Scriptures in the
mother tongue is not a quaint conceit lately taken up, either by the Lord Cromwell in England, [Thuan.] or by the Lord
Radevile in Polony, or by the Lord Ungnadius in the Emperor’s dominion, but hath been thought upon, and put in practice of
old, even from the first times of the conversion of any Nation; no doubt, because it was esteemed most profitable, to cause
faith to grow in men’s hearts the sooner, and to make them to be able to say with the words of the Psalms, "As we have
heard, so we have seen." [Ps 48:8]
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THE UNWILLINGNESS OF OUR CHIEF ADVERSARIES, THAT THE SCRIPTURES SHOULD BE DIVULGED IN
THE MOTHER TONGUE, ETC.
Now the Church of Rome would seem at the length to bear a motherly affection towards her children, and to allow them the
Scriptures in their mother tongue: but indeed it is a gift, not deserving to be called a gift, an unprofitable gift: [Sophecles]
they must first get a licence in writing before they may use them, and to get that, they must approve themselves to their
Confessor, that is, to be such as are, if not frozen in the dregs, yet soured with the leaven of their superstition. Howbeit, it
seemed too much to Clement the Eighth that there should be any Licence granted to have them in the vulgar tongue, and
therefore he overruleth and frustrateth the grant of Pius the Fourth. [See the observation (set forth by Clemen. His authority)
upon the 4. rule of Pius the 4. his making in the index, lib. prohib. pag. 15. ver. 5.] So much are they afraid of the light of
the Scripture, (Lucifugae Scripturarum, as Tertulian speaketh) that they will not trust the people with it, no not as it is set
forth by their own sworn men, no not with the Licence of their own Bishops and Inquisitors. Yea, so unwilling they are to
communicate the Scriptures to the people’s understanding in any sort, that they are not ashamed to confess, that we forced
them to translate it into English against their wills. This seemeth to argue a bad cause, or a bad conscience, or both.
Sure we are, that it is not he that hath good gold, that is afraid to bring it to the touchstone, but he that hath the counterfeit;
[Tertul. de resur. carnis.] neither is it the true man that shunneth the light, but the malefactor, lest his deeds should be
reproved [John 3:20]: neither is it the plaindealing Merchant that is unwilling to have the weights, or the meteyard brought in
place, but he that useth deceit. But we will let them alone for this fault, and return to translation.
THE SPEECHES AND REASONS, BOTH OF OUR BRETHREN, AND OF OUR ADVERSARIES AGAINST THIS
WORK
Many men’s mouths have been open a good while (and yet are not stopped) with speeches about the Translation so long in
hand, or rather perusals of Translations made before: and ask what may be the reason, what the necessity of the
employment: Hath the Church been deceived, say they, all this while? Hath her sweet bread been mingled with leaven, here
silver with dross, her wine with water, her milk with lime? (Lacte gypsum male miscetur, saith S. Ireney,) [S. Iren. 3. lib.
cap. 19.] We hoped that we had been in the right way, that we had the Oracles of God delivered unto us, and that though all
the world had cause to be offended and to complain, yet that we had none. Hath the nurse holden out the breast, and nothing
but wind in it? Hath the bread been delivered by the fathers of the Church, and the same proved to be lapidosus, as Seneca
speaketh? What is it to handle the word of God deceitfully, if this be not? Thus certain brethren. Also the adversaries of
Judah and Jerusalem, like Sanballat in Nehemiah, mock, as we hear, both the work and the workmen, saying; "What do these
weak Jews, etc. will they make the stones whole again out of the heaps of dust which are burnt? although they build, yet if a
fox go up, he shall even break down their stony wall." [Neh 4:3] Was their Translation good before? Why do they now
mend it? Was it not good? Why then was it obtruded to the people? Yea, why did the Catholics (meaning Popish
Romanists) always go in jeopardy, for refusing to go to hear it? Nay, if it must be translated into English, Catholics are
fittest to do it. They have learning, and they know when a thing is well, they can manum de tabula. We will answer them
both briefly: and the former, being brethren, thus, with S. Jerome, "Damnamus veteres? Mineme, sed post priorum studia in
domo Domini quod possums laboramus." [S. Jerome. Apolog. advers. Ruffin.] That is, "Do we condemn the ancient? In no
case: but after the endeavors of them that were before us, we take the best pains we can in the house of God." As if he said,
Being provoked by the example of the learned men that lived before my time, I have thought it my duty, to assay whether
my talent in the knowledge of the tongues, may be profitable in any measure to God’s Church, lest I should seem to laboured
in them in vain, and lest I should be thought to glory in men, (although ancient,) above that which was in them. Thus S.
Jerome may be thought to speak.
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And to the same effect say we, that we are so far off from condemning any of their labors that travailed before us in this
kind, either in this land or beyond sea, either in King Henry’s time, or King Edward’s (if there were any translation, or
correction of a translation in his time) or Queen Elizabeth’s of ever renowned memory, that we acknowledge them to have
been raised up of God, for the building and furnishing of his Church, and that they deserve to be had of us and of posterity in
everlasting remembrance. The judgment of Aristotle is worthy and well known: "If Timotheus had not been, we had not had
much sweet music; but if Phrynis [Timotheus his master] had not been, we had not had Timotheus." Therefore blessed be
they, and most honoured be their name, that break the ice, and giveth onset upon that which helpeth forward to the saving of
souls. Now what can be more available thereto, than to deliver God’s book unto God’s people in a tongue which they
understand? Since of a hidden treasure, and of a fountain that is sealed, there is no profit, as Ptolemy Philadelph wrote to the
Rabbins or masters of the Jews, as witnesseth Epiphanius: [S. Epiphan. loco ante citato.] and as S. Augustine saith; "A man
had rather be with his dog than with a stranger (whose tongue is strange unto him)." [S. Augustin. lib. 19. de civil. Dei. c. 7.]
Yet for all that, as nothing is begun and perfected at the same time, and the later thoughts are thought to be the wiser: so, if
we building upon their foundation that went before us, and being holpen by their labours, do endeavor to make that better
which they left so good; no man, we are sure, hath cause to mislike us; they, we persuade ourselves, if they were alive,
would thank us. The vintage of Abienzer, that strake the stroke: yet the gleaning of grapes of Ephraim was not to be
despised. See Judges 8:2. Joash the king of Israel did not satisfy himself, till he had smitten the ground three times; and yet
he offended the Prophet, for giving over then. [2 Kings 13:18-19] Aquila, of whom we spake before, translated the Bible as
carefully, and as skilfully as he could; and yet he thought good to go over it again, and then it got the credit with the Jews, to
be called accurately done, as Saint Jerome witnesseth. [S. Jerome. in Ezech. cap. 3.] How many books of profane learning
have been gone over again and again, by the same translators, by others? Of one and the same book of Aristotle’s Ethics,
there are extant not so few as six or seven several translations. Now if this cost may be bestowed upon the gourd, which
affordeth us a little shade, and which today flourisheth, but tomorrow is cut down; what may we bestow, nay what ought we
not to bestow upon the Vine, the fruit whereof maketh glad the conscience of man, and the stem whereof abideth forever?
And this is the word of God, which we translate. "What is the chaff to the wheat, saith the Lord?" [Jer 23:28] Tanti vitreum,
quanti verum margaritum (saith Tertullian,) [Tertul. ad Martyr.] if a toy of glass be of that reckoning with us, how ought we
to value the true pearl? [Jerome. ad Salvin.] Therefore let no man’s eye be evil, because his Majesty’s is good; neither let
any be grieved, that we have a Prince that seeketh the increase of the spiritual wealth of Israel (let Sanballats and Tobiahs do
so, which therefore do bear their just reproof) but let us rather bless God from the ground of our heart, for working this
religious care in him, to have the translations of the Bible maturely considered of and examined. For by this means it
cometh to pass, that whatsoever is sound already (and all is sound for substance, in one or other of our editions, and the
worst of ours far better than their authentic vulgar) the same will shine as gold more brightly, being rubbed and polished;
also, if anything be halting, or superfluous, or not so agreeable to the original, the same may be corrected, and the truth set in
place. And what can the King command to be done, that will bring him more true honour than this? and wherein could they
that have been set a work, approve their duty to the King, yea their obedience to God, and love to his Saints more, than by
yielding their service, and all that is within them, for the furnishing of the work? But besides all this, they were the principal
motives of it, and therefore ought least to quarrel it: for the very Historical truth is, that upon the importunate petitions of the
Puritans, at his Majesty’s coming to this Crown, the Conference at Hampton Court having been appointed for hearing their
complaints: when by force of reason they were put from other grounds, they had recourse at the last, to this shift, that they
could not with good conscience subscribe to the Communion book, since it maintained the Bible as it was there translated,
which was as they said, a most corrupted translation. And although this was judged to be but a very poor and empty shift; yet
even hereupon did his Majesty begin to bethink himself of the good that might ensue by a new translation, and presently
after gave order for this Translation which is now presented unto thee. Thus much to satisfy our scrupulous Brethren.
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Now to the latter we answer; that we do not deny, nay we affirm and avow, that the very meanest translation of the Bible in
English, set forth by men of our profession, (for we have seen none of theirs of the whole Bible as yet) containeth the word
of God, nay, is the word of God. As the King’s speech, which he uttereth in Parliament, being translated into French, Dutch,
Italian, and Latin, is still the King’s speech, though it be not interpreted by every Translator with the like grace, nor
peradventure so fitly for phrase, nor so expressly for sense, everywhere. For it is confessed, that things are to take their
denomination of the greater part; and a natural man could say, Verum ubi multa nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendor
maculis, etc. [Horace.] A man may be counted a virtuous man, though he have made many slips in his life, (else, there were
none virtuous, for in many things we offend all) [James 3:2] also a comely man and lovely, though he have some warts upon
his hand, yea, not only freckles upon his face, but also scars. No cause therefore why the word translated should be denied
to be the word, or forbidden to be current, notwithstanding that some imperfections and blemishes may be noted in the
setting forth of it. For whatever was perfect under the Sun, where Apostles or Apostolic men, that is, men endued with an
extraordinary measure of God’s spirit, and privileged with the privilege of infallibility, had not their hand? The Romanists
therefore in refusing to hear, and daring to burn the Word translated, did no less than despite the spirit of grace, from whom
originally it proceeded, and whose sense and meaning, as well as man’s weakness would enable, it did express. Judge by an
example or two. Plutarch writeth, that after that Rome had been burnt by the Gauls, they fell soon to build it again: but
doing it in haste, they did not cast the streets, nor proportion the houses in such comely fashion, as had been most slightly
and convenient; [Plutarch in Camillo.] was Catiline therefore an honest man, or a good patriot, that sought to bring it to a
combustion? or Nero a good Prince, that did indeed set it on fire? So, by the story of Ezra, and the prophecy of Haggai it
may be gathered, that the Temple built by Zerubbabel after the return from Babylon, was by no means to be compared to the
former built by Solomon (for they that remembered the former, wept when they considered the latter) [Ezra 3:12]
notwithstanding, might this latter either have been abhorred and forsaken by the Jews, or profaned by the Greeks? The like
we are to think of Translations. The translation of the Seventy dissenteth from the Original in many places, neither doth it
come near it, for perspicuity, gravity, majesty; yet which of the Apostles did condemn it? Condemn it? Nay, they used it, (as
it is apparent, and as Saint Jerome and most learned men do confess) which they would not have done, nor by their example
of using it, so grace and commend it to the Church, if it had been unworthy of the appellation and name of the word of God.
And whereas they urge for their second defence of their vilifying and abusing of the English Bibles, or some pieces thereof,
which they meet with, for that heretics (forsooth) were the Authors of the translations, (heretics they call us by the same right
that they call themselves Catholics, both being wrong) we marvel what divinity taught them so. We are sure Tertullian was
of another mind: Ex personis probamus fidem, an ex fide personas? [Tertul. de praescript. contra haereses.] Do we try
men’s faith by their persons? we should try their persons by their faith. Also S. Augustine was of another mind: for he
lighting upon certain rules made by Tychonius a Donatist, for the better understanding of the word, was not ashamed to
make use of them, yea, to insert them into his own book, with giving commendation to them so far forth as they were worthy
to be commended, as is to be seen in S. Augustine’s third book De doctrina Christiana. [S. August. 3. de doct. Christ. cap.
30.] To be short, Origen, and the whole Church of God for certain hundred years, were of another mind: for they were so far
from treading under foot, (much more from burning) the Translation of Aquila a Proselyte, that is, one that had turned Jew;
of Symmachus, and Theodotion, both Ebionites, that is, most vile heretics, that they joined together with the Hebrew
Original, and the Translation of the Seventy (as hath been before signified out of Epiphanius) and set them forth openly to be
considered of and perused by all. But we weary the unlearned, who need not know so much, and trouble the learned, who
know it already.
Yet before we end, we must answer a third cavil and objection of theirs against us, for altering and amending our
Translations so oft; wherein truly they deal hardly, and strangely with us. For to whomever was it imputed for a fault (by
such as were wise) to go over that which he had done, and to amend it where he saw cause? Saint Augustine was not afraid
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to exhort S. Jerome to a Palinodia or recantation; [S. Aug. Epist. 9.] and doth even glory that he seeth his infirmities. [S. Aug.
Epist. 8.] If we be sons of the Truth, we must consider what it speaketh, and trample upon our own credit, yea, and upon
other men’s too, if either be any way an hindrance to it. This to the cause: then to the persons we say, that of all men they
ought to be most silent in this case. For what varieties have they, and what alterations have they made, not only of their
Service books, Portesses and Breviaries, but also of their Latin Translation? The Service book supposed to be made by S.
Ambrose (Officium Ambrosianum) was a great while in special use and request; but Pope Hadrian calling a Council with the
aid of Charles the Emperor, abolished it, yea, burnt it, and commanded the Service book of Saint Gregory universally to be
used. [Durand. lib. 5. cap. 2.] Well, Officium Gregorianum gets by this means to be in credit, but doth it continue without
change or altering? No, the very Roman Service was of two fashions, the New fashion, and the Old, (the one used in one
Church, the other in another) as is to be seen in Pamelius a Romanist, his Preface, before Micrologus. the same Pamelius
reporteth out Radulphus de Rivo, that about the year of our Lord, 1277, Pope Nicolas the Third removed out of the Churches
of Rome, the more ancient books (of Service) and brought into use the Missals of the Friers Minorites, and commanded them
to be observed there; insomuch that about an hundred years after, when the above name Radulphus happened to be at Rome,
he found all the books to be new, (of the new stamp). Neither were there this chopping and changing in the more ancient
times only, but also of late: Pius Quintus himself confesseth, that every Bishopric almost had a peculiar kind of service,
most unlike to that which others had: which moved him to abolish all other Breviaries, though never so ancient, and
privileged and published by Bishops in their Dioceses, and to establish and ratify that only which was of his own setting
forth, in the year 1568. Now when the father of their Church, who gladly would heal the sore of the daughter of his people
softly and slightly, and make the best of it, findeth so great fault with them for their odds and jarring; we hope the children
have no great cause to vaunt of their uniformity. But the difference that appeareth between our Translations, and our often
correcting of them, is the thing that we are specially charged with; let us see therefore whether they themselves be without
fault this way, (if it be to be counted a fault, to correct) and whether they be fit men to throw stones at us: O tandem maior
parcas insane minori: they that are less sound themselves, out not to object infirmities to others. [Horat.] If we should tell
them that Valla, Stapulensis, Erasmus, and Vives found fault with their vulgar Translation, and consequently wished the
same to be mended, or a new one to be made, they would answer peradventure, that we produced their enemies for witnesses
against them; albeit, they were in no other sort enemies, than as S. Paul was to the Galatians, for telling them the truth [Gal
4:16]: and it were to be wished, that they had dared to tell it them plainlier and oftener. But what will they say to this, that
Pope Leo the Tenth allowed Erasmus’ Translation of the New Testament, so much different from the vulgar, by his
Apostolic Letter and Bull; that the same Leo exhorted Pagnine to translate the whole Bible, and bare whatsoever charges was
necessary for the work? [Sixtus Senens.] Surely, as the Apostle reasoneth to the Hebrews, that if the former Law and
Testament had been sufficient, there had been no need of the latter: [Heb 7:11 and 8:7] so we may say, that if the old vulgar
had been at all points allowable, to small purpose had labour and charges been undergone, about framing of a new. If they
say, it was one Pope’s private opinion, and that he consulted only himself; then we are able to go further with them, and to
aver, that more of their chief men of all sorts, even their own Trent champions Paiva and Vega, and their own Inquisitors,
Hieronymus ab Oleastro, and their own Bishop Isidorus Clarius, and their own Cardinal Thomas a Vio Caietan, do either
make new Translations themselves, or follow new ones of other men’s making, or note the vulgar Interpreter for halting;
none of them fear to dissent from him, nor yet to except against him. And call they this an uniform tenor of text and
judgment about the text, so many of their Worthies disclaiming the now received conceit? Nay, we will yet come nearer the
quick: doth not their Paris edition differ from the Lovaine, and Hentenius his from them both, and yet all of them allowed by
authority? Nay, doth not Sixtus Quintus confess, that certain Catholics (he meaneth certain of his own side) were in such an
humor of translating the Scriptures into Latin, that Satan taking occasion by them, though they thought of no such matter, did
strive what he could, out of so uncertain and manifold a variety of Translations, so to mingle all things, that nothing might
seem to be left certain and firm in them, etc.? [Sixtus 5. praefat. fixa Bibliis.] Nay, further, did not the same Sixtus ordain by
an inviolable decree, and that with the counsel and consent of his Cardinals, that the Latin edition of the old and new
Testament, which the Council of Trent would have to be authentic, is the same without controversy which he then set forth,
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being diligently corrected and printed in the Printinghouse of Vatican? Thus Sixtus in his Preface before his Bible. And yet
Clement the Eighth his immediate successor, published another edition of the Bible, containing in it infinite differences from
that of Sixtus, (and many of them weighty and material) and yet this must be authentic by all means. What is to have the
faith of our glorious Lord JESUS CHRIST with Yea or Nay, if this be not? Again, what is sweet harmony and consent, if
this be? Therefore, as Demaratus of Corinth advised a great King, before he talked of the dissensions of the Grecians, to
compose his domestic broils (for at that time his Queen and his son and heir were at deadly feud with him) so all the while
that our adversaries do make so many and so various editions themselves, and do jar so much about the worth and authority
of them, they can with no show of equity challenge us for changing and correcting.
THE PURPOSE OF THE TRANSLATORS, WITH THEIR NUMBER, FURNITURE, CARE, ETC.
But it is high time to leave them, and to show in brief what we proposed to ourselves, and what course we held in this our
perusal and survey of the Bible. Truly (good Christian Reader) we never thought from the beginning, that we should need to
make a new Translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one, (for then the imputation of Sixtus had been true in some
sort, that our people had been fed with gall of Dragons instead of wine, with whey instead of milk:) but to make a good one
better, or out of many good ones, one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against; that hath been our endeavor, that
our mark. To that purpose there were many chosen, that were greater in other men’s eyes than in their own, and that sought
the truth rather than their own praise. Again, they came or were thought to come to the work, not exercendi causa (as one
saith) but exercitati, that is, learned, not to learn: For the chief overseer and [NOTE: Greek letters omitted] under his
Majesty, to whom not only we, but also our whole Church was much bound, knew by his wisdom, which thing also
Nazianzen taught so long ago, that it is a preposterous order to teach first and to learn after, yea that [NOTE: Greek letters
omitted] to learn and practice together, is neither commendable for the workman, nor safe for the work. [Idem in Apologet.]
Therefore such were thought upon, as could say modestly with Saint Jerome, Et Hebreaeum Sermonem ex parte didicimus,
et in Latino pene ab ipsis incunabulis etc. detriti sumus. "Both we have learned the Hebrew tongue in part, and in the Latin
we have been exercised almost from our very cradle." S. Jerome maketh no mention of the Greek tongue, wherein yet he did
excel, because he translated not the old Testament out of Greek, but out of Hebrew. And in what sort did these assemble? In
the trust of their own knowledge, or of their sharpness of wit, or deepness of judgment, as it were in an arm of flesh? At no
hand. They trusted in him that hath the key of David, opening and no man shutting; they prayed to the Lord the Father of our
Lord, to the effect that S. Augustine did; "O let thy Scriptures be my pure delight, let me not be deceived in them, neither let
me deceive by them." [S. Aug. lib. II. Confess. cap. 2.] In this confidence, and with this devotion did they assemble
together; not too many, lest one should trouble another; and yet many, lest many things haply might escape them. If you ask
what they had before them, truly it was the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, the Greek of the New. These are the two
golden pipes, or rather conduits, where-through the olive branches empty themselves into the gold. Saint Augustine calleth
them precedent, or original tongues; [S. August. 3. de doctr. c. 3. etc.] Saint Jerome, fountains. [S. Jerome. ad Suniam et
Fretel.] The same Saint Jerome affirmeth, [S. Jerome. ad Lucinium, Dist. 9 ut veterum.] and Gratian hath not spared to put it
into his Decree, That "as the credit of the old Books" (he meaneth of the Old Testament) "is to be tried by the Hebrew
Volumes, so of the New by the Greek tongue," he meaneth by the original Greek. If truth be tried by these tongues, then
whence should a Translation be made, but out of them? These tongues therefore, the Scriptures we say in those tongues, we
set before us to translate, being the tongues wherein God was pleased to speak to his Church by the Prophets and Apostles.
Neither did we run over the work with that posting haste that the Septuagint did, if that be true which is reported of them,
that they finished it in 72 days; [Joseph. Antiq. lib. 12.] neither were we barred or hindered from going over it again, having
once done it, like S. Jerome, if that be true which himself reporteth, that he could no sooner write anything, but presently it
was caught from him, and published, and he could not have leave to mend it: [S. Jerome. ad Pammac. pro libr. advers.
Iovinian.] neither, to be short, were we the first that fell in hand with translating the Scripture into English, and consequently
destitute of former helps, as it is written of Origen, that he was the first in a manner, that put his hand to write Commentaries
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upon the Scriptures, [Sophoc. in Elect.] and therefore no marvel, if he overshot himself many times. None of these things:
the work hath not been huddled up in 72 days, but hath cost the workmen, as light as it seemeth, the pains of twice seven
times seventy two days and more:
matters of such weight and consequence are to be speeded with maturity: for in a business of movement a man feareth not
the blame of convenient slackness. [S. Chrysost. in II. Thess. cap. 2.] Neither did we think much to consult the Translators or
Commentators, Chaldee, Hebrew, Syrian, Greek or Latin, no nor the Spanish, French, Italian, or Dutch; neither did we
disdain to revise that which we had done, and to bring back to the anvil that which we had hammered: but having and using
as great helps as were needful, and fearing no reproach for slowness, nor coveting praise for expedition, we have at length,
through the good hand of the Lord upon us, brought the work to that pass that you see.
REASONS MOVING US TO SET DIVERSITY OF SENSES IN THE MARGIN, WHERE THERE IS GREAT
PROBABILITY FOR EACH
Some peradventure would have no variety of senses to be set in the margin, lest the authority of the Scriptures for deciding
of controversies by that show of uncertainty, should somewhat be shaken. But we hold their judgment not to be sound in
this point. For though, "whatsoever things are necessary are manifest," as S. Chrysostom saith, [S. Chrysost. in II. Thess.
cap. 2.] and as S. Augustine, "In those things that are plainly set down in the Scriptures, all such matters are found that
concern Faith, Hope, and Charity. [S. Aug. 2. de doctr. Christ. cap. 9.] Yet for all that it cannot be dissembled, that partly to
exercise and whet our wits, partly to wean the curious from the loathing of them for their everywhere plainness, partly also
to stir up our devotion to crave the assistance of God’s spirit by prayer, and lastly, that we might be forward to seek aid of
our brethren by conference, and never scorn those that be not in all respects so complete as they should be, being to seek in
many things ourselves, it hath pleased God in his divine providence, here and there to scatter words and sentences of that
difficulty and doubtfulness, not in doctrinal points that concern salvation, (for in such it hath been vouched that the
Scriptures are plain) but in matters of less moment, that fearfulness would better beseem us than confidence, and if we will
resolve upon modesty with S. Augustine, (though not in this same case altogether, yet upon the same ground) Melius est
debitare de occultis, quam litigare de incertis, [S. Aug li. S. de Genes. ad liter. cap. 5.] "it is better to make doubt of those
things which are secret, than to strive about those things that are uncertain." There be many words in the Scriptures, which
be never found there but once, (having neither brother or neighbor, as the Hebrews speak) so that we cannot be holpen by
conference of places.
Again, there be many rare names of certain birds, beasts and precious stones, etc. concerning the Hebrews themselves are so
divided among themselves for judgment, that they may seem to have defined this or that, rather because they would say
something, than because they were sure of that which they said, as S. Jerome somewhere saith of the Septuagint. Now in
such a case, doth not a margin do well to admonish the Reader to seek further, and not to conclude or dogmatize upon this or
that peremptorily? For as it is a fault of incredulity, to doubt of those things that are evident: so to determine of such things
as the Spirit of God hath left (even in the judgment of the judicious) questionable, can be no less than presumption.
Therefore as S. Augustine saith, that variety of Translations is profitable for the finding out of the sense of the Scriptures: [S.
Aug. 2. De doctr. Christian. cap. 14.] so diversity of signification and sense in the margin, where the text is no so clear, must
needs do good, yea, is necessary, as we are persuaded. We know that Sixtus Quintus expressly forbiddeth, that any variety
of readings of their vulgar edition, should be put in the margin, [Sixtus 5. praef. Bibliae.] (which though it be not altogether
the same thing to that we have in hand, yet it looketh that way) but we think he hath not all of his own side his favorers, for
this conceit. They that are wise, had rather have their judgments at liberty in differences of readings, than to be captivated to
one, when it may be the other. If they were sure that their high Priest had all laws shut up in his breast, as Paul the Second
bragged, [Plat. in Paulo secundo.] and that he were as free from error by special privilege, as the Dictators of Rome were
made by law inviolable, it were another matter; then his word were an Oracle, his opinion a decision. But the eyes of the
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world are now open, God be thanked, and have been a great while, they find that he is subject to the same affections and
infirmities that others be, that his skin is penetrable, and therefore so much as he proveth, not as much as he claimeth, they
grant and embrace.
Another things we think good to admonish thee of (gentle Reader) that we have not tied ourselves to an uniformity of
phrasing, or to an identity of words, as some peradventure would wish that we had done, because they observe, that some
learned men somewhere, have been as exact as they could that way. Truly, that we might not vary from the sense of that
which we had translated before, if the word signified that same in both places (for there be some words that be not the same
sense everywhere) we were especially careful, and made a conscience, according to our duty. But, that we should express
the same notion in the same particular word; as for example, if we translate the Hebrew or Greek word once by PURPOSE,
never to call it INTENT; if one where JOURNEYING, never TRAVELING; if one where THINK, never SUPPOSE; if one
where PAIN, never ACHE; if one where JOY, never GLADNESS, etc. Thus to mince the matter, we thought to savour more
of curiosity than wisdom, and that rather it would breed scorn in the Atheist, than bring profit to the godly Reader. For is the
kingdom of God to become words or syllables? why should we be in bondage to them if we may be free, use one precisely
when we may use another no less fit, as commodiously? A godly Father in the Primitive time showed himself greatly
moved, that one of newfangledness called [NOTE: Greek omitted but was a dispute over the word for "a bed"] [Niceph.
Calist. lib.8. cap.42.] though the difference be little or none; and another reporteth that he was much abused for turning
"Cucurbita" (to which reading the people had been used) into "Hedera". [S. Jerome in 4. Ionae. See S. Aug: epist. 10.] Now
if this happens in better times, and upon so small occasions, we might justly fear hard censure, if generally we should make
verbal and unnecessary changings. We might also be charged (by scoffers) with some unequal dealing towards a great
number of good English words. For as it is written of a certain great Philosopher, that he should say , that those logs were
happy that were made images to be worshipped; for their fellows, as good as they, lay for blocks behind the fire: so if we
should say, as it were, unto certain words, Stand up higher, have a place in the Bible always, and to others of like quality,
Get ye hence, be banished forever, we might be taxed peradventure with S. James his words, namely, "To be partial in
ourselves and judges of evil thoughts." Add hereunto, that niceness in words was always counted the next step to trifling,
and so was to be curious about names too: also that we cannot follow a better pattern for elocution than God himself;
therefore he using divers words, in his holy writ, and indifferently for one thing in nature: [see Euseb. li. 12. ex Platon.] we,
if we will not be superstitious, may use the same liberty in our English versions out of Hebrew and Greek, for that copy or
store that he hath given us. Lastly, we have on the one side avoided the scrupulosity of the Puritans, who leave the old
Ecclesiastical words, and betake them to other, as when they put WASHING for BAPTISM, and CONGREGATION instead
of CHURCH: as also on the other side we have shunned the obscurity of the Papists, in their AZIMES, TUNIKE,
RATIONAL, HOLOCAUSTS, PRAEPUCE, PASCHE, and a number of such like, whereof their late Translation is full, and
that of purpose to darken the sense, that since they must needs translate the Bible, yet by the language thereof, it may be kept
from being understood. But we desire that the Scripture may speak like itself, as in the language of Canaan, that it may be
understood even of the very vulgar.
Many other things we might give thee warning of (gentle Reader) if we had not exceeded the measure of a Preface already. It
remaineth, that we commend thee to God, and to the Spirit of his grace, which is able to build further than we can ask or
think. He removeth the scales from our eyes, the vail from our hearts, opening our wits that we may understand his word,
enlarging our hearts, yea correcting our affections, that we may love it to the end. Ye are brought unto fountains of living
water which ye digged not; do not cast earth into them with the Philistines, neither prefer broken pits before them with the
wicked Jews. [Gen 26:15. Jer 2:13.] Others have laboured, and you may enter into their labours; O receive not so great
things in vain, O despise not so great salvation! Be not like swine to tread under foot so precious things, neither yet like dogs
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to tear and abuse holy things. Say not to our Saviour with the Gergesites, Depart out of our coast [Matt 8:34]; neither yet
with Esau sell your birthright for a mess of pottage [Heb 12:16]. If light be come into the world, love not darkness more
than light; if food, if clothing be offered, go not naked, starve not yourselves. Remember the advice of Nazianzene, "It is a
grievous thing" (or dangerous) "to neglect a great fair, and to seek to make markets afterwards: also the encouragement of S.
Chrysostom, "It is altogether impossible, that he that is sober" (and watchful) "should at any time be neglected:" [S.
Chrysost. in epist. ad Rom. cap. 14. oral. 26.] Lastly, the admonition and menacing of S. Augustine, "They that despise
God’s will inviting them, shall feel God’s will taking vengeance of them." [S. August. ad artic. sibi falso object. Artic. 16.]
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God; [Heb 10:31] but a blessed thing it is, and will bring us to
everlasting blessedness in the end, when God speaketh unto us, to hearken; when he setteth his word before us, to read it;
when he stretcheth out his hand and calleth, to answer, Here am I, here we are to do thy will, O God. The Lord work a care
and conscience in us to know him and serve him, that we may be acknowledged of him at the appearing of our Lord Jesus
Christ, to whom with the holy Ghost, be all praise and thanksgiving.
Amen.
Old Testament
Page 1 Genesis
The First Book of Moses, called Genesis and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth. {1:27} So God created man in his
[own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them. {1:28} And God blessed them, and
{1:1} In the beginning God created the heaven and the God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
earth. {1:2} And the earth was without form, and void; and the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of
darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living
God moved upon the face of the waters. thing that moveth upon the earth.
{1:3} And God said, Let there be light: and there was {1:29} And God said, Behold, I have given you every
light. {1:4} And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth,
God divided the light from the darkness. {1:5} And God and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding
called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And seed; to you it shall be for meat. {1:30} And to every beast
the evening and the morning were the first day. of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing
that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have
{1:6} And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst given] every green herb for meat: and it was so. {1:31} And
of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was]
{1:7} And God made the firmament, and divided the waters very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth
which [were] under the firmament from the waters which day.
[were] above the firmament: and it was so. {1:8} And God
called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the {2:1} Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and
morning were the second day. all the host of them. {2:2} And on the seventh day God
ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the
{1:9} And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be seventh day from all his work which he had made. {2:3}
gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because
appear: and it was so. {1:10} And God called the dry [land] that in it he had rested from all his work which God created
Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he and made.
Seas: and God saw that [it was] good. {1:11} And God said,
Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] {2:4} These [are] the generations of the heavens and of
the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD
itself, upon the earth: and it was so. {1:12} And the earth God made the earth and the heavens, {2:5} And every plant
brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the
and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to
his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. {1:13} And the rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the
evening and the morning were the third day. ground. {2:6} But there went up a mist from the earth, and
watered the whole face of the ground. {2:7} And the LORD
{1:14} And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed
of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: soul.
{1:15} And let them be for lights in the firmament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. {1:16} {2:8} And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. {2:9}
day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every
also. {1:17} And God set them in the firmament of the tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree
heaven to give light upon the earth, {1:18} And to rule over of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of
the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the knowledge of good and evil. {2:10} And a river went out of
darkness: and God saw that [it was] good. {1:19} And the Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted,
evening and the morning were the fourth day. {1:20} And and became into four heads. {2:11} The name of the first
God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving [is] Pison: that [is] it which compasseth the whole land of
creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the Havilah, where [there is] gold; {2:12} And the gold of that
earth in the open firmament of heaven. {1:21} And God land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx stone.
created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, {2:13} And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the
which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it {2:14} And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that
was] good. {1:22} And God blessed them, saying, Be [is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the
fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fourth river [is] Euphrates. {2:15} And the LORD God took
fowl multiply in the earth. {1:23} And the evening and the the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and
morning were the fifth day. to keep it. {2:16} And the LORD God commanded the man,
saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
{1:24} And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living {2:17} But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof
of the earth after his kind: and it was so. {1:25} And God thou shalt surely die.
made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after
their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after {2:18} And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the
his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
{2:19} And out of the ground the LORD God formed every
{1:26} And God said, Let us make man in our image, beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought
after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and
of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was]
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the name thereof. {2:20} And Adam gave names to all also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins,
cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the and clothed them. {3:22} And the LORD God said, Behold,
field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and
him. {2:21} And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of
upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and life, and eat, and live for ever: {3:23} Therefore the LORD
closed up the flesh instead thereof; {2:22} And the rib, God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the
which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a ground from whence he was taken. {3:24} So he drove out
woman, and brought her unto the man. {2:23} And Adam the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden
said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to
she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of keep the way of the tree of life.
Man. {2:24} Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one {4:1} And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived,
flesh. {2:25} And they were both naked, the man and his and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the
wife, and were not ashamed. LORD. {4:2} And she again bare his brother Abel. And
Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the
{3:1} Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of ground. {4:3} And in process of time it came to pass, that
the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the
the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every LORD. {4:4} And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of
tree of the garden? his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect
unto Abel and to his offering: {4:5} But unto Cain and to
{3:2} And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth,
of the fruit of the trees of the garden: {3:3} But of the fruit and his countenance fell. {4:6} And the LORD said unto
of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance
said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye fallen? {4:7} If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?
die. {3:4} And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto
not surely die: {3:5} For God doth know that in the day ye thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. {4:8}
eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass,
as gods, knowing good and evil. {3:6} And when the when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel
woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it his brother, and slew him.
[was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make
[one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and {4:9} And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy
gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. {3:7} brother? And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother’s
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that keeper? {4:10} And he said, What hast thou done? the voice
they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
made themselves aprons. {3:8} And they heard the voice of {4:11} And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which
the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from
and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of thy hand; {4:12} When thou tillest the ground, it shall not
the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. {3:9} And henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a
the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. {4:13} And Cain said
Where [art] thou? {3:10} And he said, I heard thy voice in unto the LORD, My punishment [is] greater than I can bear.
the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I {4:14} Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the
hid myself. {3:11} And he said, Who told thee that thou face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall
[wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come
commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? {3:12} And to pass, [that] every one that findeth me shall slay me.
the man said, The woman whom thou gavest [to be] with {4:15} And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever
me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. {3:13} And the slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.
LORD God said unto the woman, What [is] this [that] thou And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him
hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, should kill him.
and I did eat. {3:14} And the LORD God said unto the
serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed {4:16} And Cain went out from the presence of the
above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of {4:17} And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and
thy life: {3:15} And I will put enmity between thee and the bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of
woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. {4:18} And unto
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. {3:16} Unto the Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and
woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and
thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over {4:19} And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name
thee. {3:17} And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast of the one [was] Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the {4:20} And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as
tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat dwell in tents, and [of such as have] cattle. {4:21} And his
of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt brother’s name [was] Jubal: he was the father of all such as
thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life; {3:18} Thorns also handle the harp and organ. {4:22} And Zillah, she also bare
and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the Tubal- cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron:
herb of the field; {3:19} In the sweat of thy face shalt thou and the sister of Tubal-cain [was] Naamah. {4:23} And
eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my
thou taken: for dust thou [art,] and unto dust shalt thou voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I
return. {3:20} And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my
because she was the mother of all living. {3:21} Unto Adam hurt. {4:24} If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly
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Lamech seventy and sevenfold. hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. {5:32} And
Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem,
{4:25} And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a Ham, and Japheth.
son, and called his name Seth: For God, [said she,] hath
appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain {6:1} And it came to pass, when men began to multiply
slew. {4:26} And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon {6:2} That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that
the name of the LORD. they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they
chose. {6:3} And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always
{5:1} This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall
the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made be an hundred and twenty years. {6:4} There were giants in
he him; {5:2} Male and female created he them; and the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of
blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare
they were created. [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which
[were] of old, men of renown.
{5:3} And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and
begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called {6:5} And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was]
his name Seth: {5:4} And the days of Adam after he had great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the
begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually. {6:6} And
and daughters: {5:5} And all the days that Adam lived were it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth,
nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. {5:6} And Seth and it grieved him at his heart. {6:7} And the LORD said, I
lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: {5:7} And will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the
Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the
years, and begat sons and daughters: {5:8} And all the days fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. {6:8} But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
{5:9} And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan: {6:9} These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a
{5:10} And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah
and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: {5:11} And walked with God. {6:10} And Noah begat three sons,
all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and Shem, Ham, and Japheth. {6:11} The earth also was corrupt
he died. before God, and the earth was filled with violence. {6:12}
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt;
{5:12} And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. {6:13}
Mahalaleel: {5:13} And Cainan lived after he begat And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come
Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons before me; for the earth is filled with violence through
and daughters: {5:14} And all the days of Cainan were nine them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
hundred and ten years: and he died.
{6:14} Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt
{5:15} And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without
begat Jared: {5:16} And Mahalaleel lived after he begat with pitch. {6:15} And this [is the fashion] which thou shalt
Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and make it [of:] The length of the ark [shall be] three hundred
daughters: {5:17} And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it
hundred ninety and five years: and he died. thirty cubits. {6:16} A window shalt thou make to the ark,
and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the
{5:18} And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; [with] lower, second,
and he begat Enoch: {5:19} And Jared lived after he begat and third [stories] shalt thou make it. {6:17} And, behold, I,
Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy
{5:20} And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven;
and two years: and he died. [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die. {6:18} But
with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come
{5:21} And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’
Methuselah: {5:22} And Enoch walked with God after he wives with thee. {6:19} And of every living thing of all
begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou bring into the ark, to
daughters: {5:23} And all the days of Enoch were three keep [them] alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
hundred sixty and five years: {5:24} And Enoch walked {6:20} Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their
with God: and he [was] not; for God took him. {5:25} And kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two
Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and of every [sort] shall come unto thee, to keep [them] alive.
begat Lamech: {5:26} And Methuselah lived after he begat {6:21} And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and
Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons thou shalt gather [it] to thee; and it shall be for food for
and daughters: {5:27} And all the days of Methuselah were thee, and for them. {6:22} Thus did Noah; according to all
nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. that God commanded him, so did he.
{5:28} And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two {7:1} And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all
years, and begat a son: {5:29} And he called his name thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before
Noah, saying, This [same] shall comfort us concerning our me in this generation. {7:2} Of every clean beast thou shalt
work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of
LORD hath cursed. {5:30} And Lamech lived after he begat beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female.
Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and {7:3} Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the
daughters: {5:31} And all the days of Lamech were seven female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
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{7:4} For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were
earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance abated from off the face of the ground; {8:9} But the dove
that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto
earth. {7:5} And Noah did according unto all that the him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the
LORD commanded him. {7:6} And Noah [was] six hundred whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and
years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. pulled her in unto him into the ark. {8:10} And he stayed
yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of
{7:7} And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and the ark; {8:11} And the dove came in to him in the evening;
his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah
of the flood. {7:8} Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. {8:12}
not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove;
upon the earth, {7:9} There went in two and two unto Noah which returned not again unto him any more.
into the ark, the male and the female, as God had
commanded Noah. {7:10} And it came to pass after seven {8:13} And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first
days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. year, in the first [month,] the first [day] of the month, the
waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed
{7:11} In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of
second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same the ground was dry. {8:14} And in the second month, on the
day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
the windows of heaven were opened. {7:12} And the rain
was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. {7:13} In the {8:15} And God spake unto Noah, saying, {8:16} Go
selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy
Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three sons’ wives with thee. {8:17} Bring forth with thee every
wives of his sons with them, into the ark; {7:14} They, and living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, [both] of fowl,
every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon
and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and
his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. {8:18} And Noah
sort. {7:15} And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives
and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life. {7:16} with him: {8:19} Every beast, every creeping thing, and
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, every fowl, [and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after
as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
{7:17} And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the
waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up {8:20} And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and
above the earth. {7:18} And the waters prevailed, and were took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and
increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the offered burnt offerings on the altar. {8:21} And the LORD
face of the waters. {7:19} And the waters prevailed smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I
exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake;
[were] under the whole heaven, were covered. {7:20} for the imagination of man’s heart [is] evil from his youth;
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I
mountains were covered. {7:21} And all flesh died that have done. {8:22} While the earth remaineth, seedtime and
moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day
beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the and night shall not cease.
earth, and every man: {7:22} All in whose nostrils [was] the
breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land,] died. {7:23} {9:1} And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the {9:2} And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be
creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the
destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained [alive,] air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the
and they that [were] with him in the ark. {7:24} And the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. {9:3}
waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even
as the green herb have I given you all things. {9:4} But
{8:1} And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall
and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God ye not eat. {9:5} And surely your blood of your lives will I
made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at
asswaged; {8:2} The fountains also of the deep and the the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I
windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven require the life of man. {9:6} Whoso sheddeth man’s blood,
was restrained; {8:3} And the waters returned from off the by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God
earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty made he man. {9:7} And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply;
days the waters were abated. {8:4} And the ark rested in the bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon
the mountains of Ararat. {8:5} And the waters decreased {9:8} And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with
continually until the tenth month: in the tenth [month,] on him, saying, {9:9} And I, behold, I establish my covenant
the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains with you, and with your seed after you; {9:10} And with
seen. every living creature that [is] with you, of the fowl, of the
cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that
{8:6} And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. {9:11} And I
Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh
{8:7} And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall
fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. {8:8} there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. {9:12} And
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God said, This [is] the token of the covenant which I make Girgasite, {10:17} And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the
between me and you and every living creature that [is] with Sinite, {10:18} And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the
you, for perpetual generations: {9:13} I do set my bow in Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the
the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Canaanites spread abroad. {10:19} And the border of the
me and the earth. {9:14} And it shall come to pass, when I Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto
bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and
the cloud: {9:15} And I will remember my covenant, which Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. {10:20} These [are]
[is] between me and you and every living creature of all the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in
flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to their countries, [and] in their nations.
destroy all flesh. {9:16} And the bow shall be in the cloud;
and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting {10:21} Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of
covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were
that [is] upon the earth. {9:17} And God said unto Noah, [children] born. {10:22} The children of Shem; Elam, and
This [is] the token of the covenant, which I have established Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. {10:23} And
between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth. the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
{10:24} And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
{9:18} And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, {10:25} And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of
were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of one [was] Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and
Canaan. {9:19} These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of his brother’s name [was] Joktan. {10:26} And Joktan begat
them was the whole earth overspread. {9:20} And Noah Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazar-maveth, and Jerah,
began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: {10:27} And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, {10:28} And
{9:21} And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, {10:29} And Ophir, and
was uncovered within his tent. {9:22} And Ham, the father Havilah, and Jobab: all these [were] the sons of Joktan.
of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two {10:30} And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest
brethren without. {9:23} And Shem and Japheth took a unto Sephar a mount of the east. {10:31} These [are] the
garment, and laid [it] upon both their shoulders, and went sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in
backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their lands, after their nations. {10:32} These [are] the
their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father’s families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their
nakedness. {9:24} And Noah awoke from his wine, and nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth
knew what his younger son had done unto him. {9:25} And after the flood.
he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants shall he
be unto his brethren. {9:26} And he said, Blessed [be] the {11:1} And the whole earth was of one language, and of
LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. one speech. {11:2} And it came to pass, as they journeyed
{9:27} God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar;
tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. and they dwelt there. {11:3} And they said one to another,
Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they
{9:28} And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. {11:4}
fifty years. {9:29} And all the days of Noah were nine And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
hundred and fifty years: and he died. whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a
name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the
{10:1} Now these [are] the generations of the sons of whole earth. {11:5} And the LORD came down to see the
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
born after the flood. {10:2} The sons of Japheth; Gomer, {11:6} And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one,
and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and and they have all one language; and this they begin to do:
Meshech, and Tiras. {10:3} And the sons of Gomer; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they
Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. {10:4} And the have imagined to do. {11:7} Go to, let us go down, and
sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. there confound their language, that they may not understand
{10:5} By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in one another’s speech. {11:8} So the LORD scattered them
their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they
in their nations. left off to build the city. {11:9} Therefore is the name of it
called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the
{10:6} And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD
Phut, and Canaan. {10:7} And the sons of Cush; Seba, and scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the
sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. {10:8} And Cush begat {11:10} These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was]
Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. {10:9} an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is the flood: {11:11} And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad
said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:12}
{10:10} And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. {11:13} And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four
{10:11} Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, {10:12} And {11:14} And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great {11:15} And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred
city. {10:13} And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and and three years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:16} And
Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, {10:14} And Pathrusim, and Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: {11:17}
Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty
years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:18} And Peleg
{10:15} And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, lived thirty years, and begat Reu: {11:19} And Peleg lived
{10:16} And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat
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sons and daughters. {11:20} And Reu lived two and thirty commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken
years, and begat Serug: {11:21} And Reu lived after he into Pharaoh’s house. {12:16} And he entreated Abram well
begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and
and daughters. {11:22} And Serug lived thirty years, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
begat Nahor: {11:23} And Serug lived after he begat Nahor {12:17} And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house
two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:24} with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife. {12:18}
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What [is] this [that]
{11:25} And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she
and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:26} [was] thy wife? {12:19} Why saidst thou, She [is] my
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now
and Haran. therefore behold thy wife, take [her,] and go thy way.
{12:20} And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning
{11:27} Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he
begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. had.
{11:28} And Haran died before his father Terah in the land
of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. {11:29} And Abram {13:1} And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his
and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
[was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the {13:2} And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in
daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of gold. {13:3} And he went on his journeys from the south
Iscah. {11:30} But Sarai was barren; she [had] no child. even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the
{11:31} And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of beginning, between Bethel and Hai; {13:4} Unto the place
Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there
Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto
Haran, and dwelt there. {11:32} And the days of Terah {13:5} And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks,
were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. and herds, and tents. {13:6} And the land was not able to
bear them, that they might dwell together: for their
{12:1} Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s {13:7} And there was a strife between the herdmen of
house, unto a land that I will shew thee: {12:2} And I will Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the
make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. {13:8}
thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: {12:3} And I And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,
will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy
thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. herdmen; for we [be] brethren. {13:9} [Is] not the whole
{12:4} So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if
him; and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and [thou wilt take] the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if
five years old when he departed out of Haran. {12:5} And [thou depart] to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and {13:10} And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain
all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the
they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the
land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest
unto Zoar. {13:11} Then Lot chose him all the plain of
{12:6} And Abram passed through the land unto the place Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated
of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite themselves the one from the other. {13:12} Abram dwelled
[was] then in the land. {12:7} And the LORD appeared unto in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the
Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and plain, and pitched [his] tent toward Sodom. {13:13} But the
there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before the LORD
unto him. {12:8} And he removed from thence unto a exceedingly.
mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent,
[having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there {13:14} And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot
he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look
name of the LORD. {12:9} And Abram journeyed, going on from the place where thou art northward, and southward,
still toward the south. and eastward, and westward: {13:15} For all the land which
thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
{12:10} And there was a famine in the land: and Abram {13:16} And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth:
went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was] so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then]
grievous in the land. {12:11} And it came to pass, when he shall thy seed also be numbered. {13:17} Arise, walk
was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it;
his wife, Behold now, I know that thou [art] a fair woman to for I will give it unto thee. {13:18} Then Abram removed
look upon: {12:12} Therefore it shall come to pass, when [his] tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which
the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This [is] his [is] in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.
wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
{12:13} Say, I pray thee, thou [art] my sister: that it may be {14:1} And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king
well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of
thee. Elam, and Tidal king of nations; {14:2} [That these] made
war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of
{12:14} And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of
into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was] Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. {14:3} All
very fair. {12:15} The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is
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the salt sea. {14:4} Twelve years they served now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to
Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
{14:5} And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and {15:6} And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to
the kings that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims in him for righteousness. {15:7} And he said unto him, I [am]
Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to
in Shaveh Kiriathaim, {14:6} And the Horites in their give thee this land to inherit it. {15:8} And he said, Lord
mount Seir, unto El-paran, which [is] by the wilderness. GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? {15:9}
{14:7} And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old,
[is] Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years
and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon- tamar. {14:8} old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. {15:10} And he
And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and
Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same [is] Zoar;) and they not. {15:11} And when the fowls came down upon the
joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; {14:9} With carcases, Abram drove them away. {15:12} And when the
Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo,
nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of an horror of great darkness fell upon him. {15:13} And he
Ellasar; four kings with five. {14:10} And the vale of said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a
Siddim [was full of] slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them;
Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to and they shall afflict them four hundred years; {15:14} And
the mountain. {14:11} And they took all the goods of also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and
Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their afterward shall they come out with great substance. {15:15}
way. {14:12} And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be
who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. buried in a good old age. {15:16} But in the fourth
generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of
{14:13} And there came one that had escaped, and told the Amorites [is] not yet full. {15:17} And it came to pass,
Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a
Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between
[were] confederate with Abram. {14:14} And when Abram those pieces. {15:18} In the same day the LORD made a
heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given
trained [servants,] born in his own house, three hundred and this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the
eighteen, and pursued [them] unto Dan. {14:15} And he river Euphrates: {15:19} The Kenites, and the Kenizzites,
divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and the Kadmonites, {15:20} And the Hittites, and the
and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which [is] Perizzites, and the Rephaims, {15:21} And the Amorites,
on the left hand of Damascus. {14:16} And he brought back and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and
his goods, and the women also, and the people. {16:1} Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children:
and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was]
{14:17} And the king of Sodom went out to meet him Hagar. {16:2} And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the
after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in
the kings that [were] with him, at the valley of Shaveh, unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her.
which [is] the king’s dale. {14:18} And Melchizedek king And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. {16:3} And
of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he [was] the Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after
priest of the most high God. {14:19} And he blessed him, Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave
and said, Blessed [be] Abram of the most high God, her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
possessor of heaven and earth: {14:20} And blessed be the
most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy {16:4} And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived:
hand. And he gave him tithes of all. {14:21} And the king and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was
of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take despised in her eyes. {16:5} And Sarai said unto Abram,
the goods to thyself. {14:22} And Abram said to the king of My wrong [be] upon thee: I have given my maid into thy
Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was
high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, {14:23} That I despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
will not [take] from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I {16:6} But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid [is] in
will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldest thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt
say, I have made Abram rich: {14:24} Save only that which hardly with her, she fled from her face.
the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which
went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their {16:7} And the angel of the LORD found her by a
portion. fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the
way to Shur. {16:8} And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid,
{15:1} After these things the word of the LORD came whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she
unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. {16:9} And
shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward. {15:2} And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress,
Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go and submit thyself under her hands. {16:10} And the angel
childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed
Damascus? {15:3} And Abram said, Behold, to me thou exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine {16:11} And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold,
heir. {15:4} And, behold, the word of the LORD [came] thou [art] with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his
unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. {16:12} And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be]
{15:5} And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and
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he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. {16:13} {17:23} And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that
And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, were born in his house, and all that were bought with his
Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house;
after him that seeth me? {16:14} Wherefore the well was and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame
called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, [it is] between Kadesh and day, as God had said unto him. {17:24} And Abraham
Bered. [was] ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised
in the flesh of his foreskin. {17:25} And Ishmael his son
{16:15} And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called [was] thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the
his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. {16:16} And flesh of his foreskin. {17:26} In the selfsame day was
Abram [was] fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. {17:27} And all
Ishmael to Abram. the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with
money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
{17:1} And when Abram was ninety years old and nine,
the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the {18:1} And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of
Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. {17:2} Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and {18:2} And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three
will multiply thee exceedingly. {17:3} And Abram fell on men stood by him: and when he saw [them,] he ran to meet
his face: and God talked with him, saying, {17:4} As for them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the
me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a ground, {18:3} And said, My Lord, if now I have found
father of many nations. {17:5} Neither shall thy name any favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy
more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for servant: {18:4} Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and
a father of many nations have I made thee. {17:6} And I wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: {18:5}
will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your
of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. {17:7} And I will hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come
establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to {18:6} And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and
be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. {17:8} And I said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal,
will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land knead [it,] and make cakes upon the hearth. {18:7} And
wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and
everlasting possession; and I will be their God. good, and gave [it] unto a young man; and he hasted to
dress it. {18:8} And he took butter, and milk, and the calf
{17:9} And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my which he had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood
covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their by them under the tree, and they did eat.
generations. {17:10} This [is] my covenant, which ye shall
keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every {18:9} And they said unto him, Where [is] Sarah thy
man child among you shall be circumcised. {17:11} And ye wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. {18:10} And he said,
shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life;
token of the covenant betwixt me and you. {17:12} And he and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard
that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every [it] in the tent door, which [was] behind him. {18:11} Now
man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, Abraham and Sarah [were] old [and] well stricken in age;
or bought with money of any stranger, which [is] not of thy [and] it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
seed. {17:13} He that is born in thy house, and he that is {18:12} Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying,
bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being
covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. old also? {18:13} And the LORD said unto Abraham,
{17:14} And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a
his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off child, which am old? {18:14} Is any thing too hard for the
from his people; he hath broken my covenant. LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee,
according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
{17:15} And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy {18:15} Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she
wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall] was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
her name [be. ]{17:16} And I will bless her, and give thee a
son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be [a {18:16} And the men rose up from thence, and looked
mother] of nations; kings of people shall be of her. {17:17} toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in on the way. {18:17} And the LORD said, Shall I hide from
his heart, Shall [a child] be born unto him that is an hundred Abraham that thing which I do; {18:18} Seeing that
years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation,
{17:18} And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
live before thee! {17:19} And God said, Sarah thy wife {18:19} For I know him, that he will command his children
shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of
Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may
everlasting covenant, [and] with his seed after him. {17:20} bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have {18:20} And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and
blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will {18:21} I will go down now, and see whether they have
make him a great nation. {17:21} But my covenant will I done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come
establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this unto me; and if not, I will know. {18:22} And the men
set time in the next year. {17:22} And he left off talking turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but
with him, and God went up from Abraham. Abraham stood yet before the LORD. {18:23} And
Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the
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righteous with the wicked? {18:24} Peradventure there be went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his
fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the
spare the place for the fifty righteous that [are] therein? LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that
{18:25} That be far from thee to do after this manner, to mocked unto his sons in law.
slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous
should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the {19:15} And when the morning arose, then the angels
Judge of all the earth do right? {18:26} And the LORD hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two
said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the
will spare all the place for their sakes. {18:27} And iniquity of the city. {19:16} And while he lingered, the men
Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and
upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being
ashes: {18:28} Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him
righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? without the city.
And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy
[it. ]{18:29} And he spake unto him yet again, and said, {19:17} And it came to pass, when they had brought them
Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not
will not do [it] for forty’s sake. {18:30} And he said [unto behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the
him,] Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: mountain, lest thou be consumed. {19:18} And Lot said
Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: {19:19} Behold now, thy
will not do [it,] if I find thirty there. {18:31} And he said, servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast
Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in
Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest
I will not destroy [it] for twenty’s sake. {18:32} And he some evil take me, and I die: {19:20} Behold now, this city
said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape
this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he thither, ([is] it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
said, I will not destroy [it] for ten’s sake. {18:33} And the {19:21} And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee
LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this
with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. city, for the which thou hast spoken. {19:22} Haste thee,
escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come
{19:1} And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up
to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward {19:23} The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot
the ground; {19:2} And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn entered into Zoar. {19:24} Then the LORD rained upon
in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the
and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on LORD out of heaven; {19:25} And he overthrew those
your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities,
street all night. {19:3} And he pressed upon them greatly; and that which grew upon the ground.
and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and
he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and {19:26} But his wife looked back from behind him, and
they did eat. she became a pillar of salt.
{19:4} But before they lay down, the men of the city, {19:27} And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the
[even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both place where he stood before the LORD: {19:28} And he
old and young, all the people from every quarter: {19:5} looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where [are] land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the
the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
unto us, that we may know them. {19:6} And Lot went out
at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, {19:7} {19:29} And it came to pass, when God destroyed the
And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. {19:8} cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew
man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
to them as [is] good in your eyes: only unto these men do
nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my {19:30} And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the
roof. {19:9} And they said, Stand back. And they said mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to
[again,] This one [fellow] came in to sojourn, and he will dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two
needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than daughters. {19:31} And the firstborn said unto the younger,
with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, [even] Lot, Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man in the earth to
and came near to break the door. {19:10} But the men put come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: {19:32}
forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie
shut to the door. {19:11} And they smote the men that with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. {19:33}
[were] at the door of the house with blindness, both small And they made their father drink wine that night: and the
and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived
not when she lay down, nor when she arose. {19:34} And it
{19:12} And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the
besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us
whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring [them] out of this make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, [and]
place: {19:13} For we will destroy this place, because the lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; {19:35} And they made their father drink wine that night
and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. {19:14} And Lot also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he
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perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. {21:6} And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, [so
{19:36} Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by that] all that hear will laugh with me. {21:7} And she said,
their father. {19:37} And the firstborn bare a son, and called Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should
his name Moab: the same [is] the father of the Moabites have given children suck? for I have born [him] a son in his
unto this day. {19:38} And the younger, she also bare a son, old age. {21:8} And the child grew, and was weaned: and
and called his name Benammi: the same [is] the father of Abraham made a great feast the [same] day that Isaac was
the children of Ammon unto this day. weaned.
{20:1} And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the {21:9} And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian,
south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. {21:10}
sojourned in Gerar. {20:2} And Abraham said of Sarah his Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this
wife, She [is] my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman
and took Sarah. {20:3} But God came to Abimelech in a shall not be heir with my son, [even] with Isaac. {21:11}
dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou [art but] a And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight
dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she [is] because of his son.
a man’s wife. {20:4} But Abimelech had not come near her:
and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? {21:12} And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be
{20:5} Said he not unto me, She [is] my sister? and she, grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy
even she herself said, He [is] my brother: in the integrity of bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken
my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. {21:13}
{20:6} And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation,
thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also because he [is] thy seed. {21:14} And Abraham rose up
withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water,
thee not to touch her. {20:7} Now therefore restore the man and gave [it] unto Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder, and
[his] wife; for he [is] a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and
and thou shalt live: and if thou restore [her] not, know thou wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. {21:15} And the
that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that [are] thine. water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under
{20:8} Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and one of the shrubs. {21:16} And she went, and sat her down
called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: over against [him] a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for
and the men were sore afraid. {20:9} Then Abimelech she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat
called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done over against [him,] and lift up her voice, and wept. {21:17}
unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God
brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast called Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth
done deeds unto me that ought not to be done. {20:10} And thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the
Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou lad where he [is. ]{21:18} Arise, lift up the lad, and hold
hast done this thing? {20:11} And Abraham said, Because I him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
thought, Surely the fear of God [is] not in this place; and {21:19} And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of
they will slay me for my wife’s sake. {20:12} And yet water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and
indeed [she is] my sister; she [is] the daughter of my father, gave the lad drink. {21:20} And God was with the lad; and
but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
wife. {20:13} And it came to pass, when God caused me to {21:21} And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his
wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
[is] thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every
place whither we shall come, say of me, He [is] my brother. {21:22} And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech
{20:14} And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto
menservants, and womenservants, and gave [them] unto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:
Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. {20:15} And {21:23} Now therefore swear unto me here by God that
Abimelech said, Behold, my land [is] before thee: dwell thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor
where it pleaseth thee. {20:16} And unto Sarah he said, with my son’s son: [but] according to the kindness that I
Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand [pieces] of have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land
silver: behold, he [is] to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all wherein thou hast sojourned. {21:24} And Abraham said, I
that [are] with thee, and with all [other:] thus she was will swear. {21:25} And Abraham reproved Abimelech
reproved. because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had
violently taken away. {21:26} And Abimelech said, I wot
{20:17} So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me,
Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they neither yet heard I [of it,] but to day. {21:27} And Abraham
bare [children. ]{20:18} For the LORD had fast closed up took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and
all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah both of them made a covenant. {21:28} And Abraham set
Abraham’s wife. seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. {21:29} And
Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these seven
{21:1} And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? {21:30} And
the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. {21:2} For he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my
Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged
the set time of which God had spoken to him. {21:3} And this well. {21:31} Wherefore he called that place Beer-
Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, sheba; because there they sware both of them. {21:32} Thus
whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. {21:4} And Abraham they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose
circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they
commanded him. {21:5} And Abraham was an hundred returned into the land of the Philistines.
years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
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{21:33} And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beer-sheba, {23:1} And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty
and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting years old: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah. {23:2}
God. {21:34} And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same [is] Hebron in the
land many days. land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and
to weep for her.
{22:1} And it came to pass after these things, that God did
tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, {23:3} And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and
Behold, [here] I [am. ]{22:2} And he said, Take now thy spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, {23:4} I [am] a
son, thine only [son] Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a
into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my
offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. sight. {23:5} And the children of Heth answered Abraham,
saying unto him, {23:6} Hear us, my lord: thou [art] a
{22:3} And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres
saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his
and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. {23:7} And
and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the
him. {22:4} Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his land, [even] to the children of Heth. {23:8} And he
eyes, and saw the place afar off. {22:5} And Abraham said communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I
unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat
the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you, for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, {23:9} That he may give
{22:6} And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which [is] in the
and laid [it] upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall
hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.
{22:7} And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, {23:10} And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and
My father: and he said, Here [am] I, my son. And he said, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the
Behold the fire and the wood: but where [is] the lamb for a children of Heth, [even] of all that went in at the gate of his
burnt offering? {22:8} And Abraham said, My son, God city, saying, {23:11} Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I
will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they thee, and the cave that [is] therein, I give it thee; in the
went both of them together. {22:9} And they came to the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy
place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an dead. {23:12} And Abraham bowed down himself before
altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his the people of the land. {23:13} And he spake unto Ephron
son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. {22:10} And in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou
Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay [wilt give it,] I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money
his son. {22:11} And the angel of the LORD called unto for the field; take [it] of me, and I will bury my dead there.
him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he {23:14} And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
said, Here [am] I. {22:12} And he said, Lay not thine hand {23:15} My lord, hearken unto me: the land [is worth] four
upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I hundred shekels of silver; what [is] that betwixt me and
know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thee? bury therefore thy dead. {23:16} And Abraham
thy son, thine only [son] from me. {22:13} And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron
lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind [him] a the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons
ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money]
took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the with the merchant.
stead of his son. {22:14} And Abraham called the name of
that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said [to] this day, In the {23:17} And the field of Ephron, which [was] in
mount of the LORD it shall be seen. Machpelah, which [was] before Mamre, the field, and the
cave which [was] therein, and all the trees that [were] in the
{22:15} And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham field, that [were] in all the borders round about, were made
out of heaven the second time, {22:16} And said, By myself sure {23:18} Unto Abraham for a possession in the
have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at
this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son: the gate of his city. {23:19} And after this, Abraham buried
]{22:17} That in blessing I will bless thee, and in Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before
multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the Mamre: the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan.
heaven, and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and {23:20} And the field, and the cave that [is] therein, were
thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; {22:18} And made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace
in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; by the sons of Heth.
because thou hast obeyed my voice. {22:19} So Abraham
returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went {24:1} And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age:
together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba. and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. {24:2}
And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that
{22:20} And it came to pass after these things, that it was ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under
told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born my thigh: {24:3} And I will make thee swear by the LORD,
children unto thy brother Nahor; {22:21} Huz his firstborn, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt
and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the
{22:22} And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, Canaanites, among whom I dwell: {24:4} But thou shalt go
and Bethuel. {22:23} And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto
eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. {22:24} my son Isaac. {24:5} And the servant said unto him,
And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she bare Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me
also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah. unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the
land from whence thou camest? {24:6} And Abraham said
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unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the
again. words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man
unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood
{24:7} The LORD God of heaven, which took me from by the camels at the well. {24:31} And he said, Come in,
my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou
which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the
thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before camels.
thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
{24:8} And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, {24:32} And the man came into the house: and he
then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the
my son thither again. {24:9} And the servant put his hand camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men’s feet that
under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him [were] with him. {24:33} And there was set [meat] before
concerning that matter. him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine
errand. And he said, Speak on. {24:34} And he said, I [am]
{24:10} And the servant took ten camels of the camels of Abraham’s servant. {24:35} And the LORD hath blessed
his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath
[were] in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and
unto the city of Nahor. {24:11} And he made his camels to menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of {24:36} And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my
the evening, [even] the time that women go out to draw master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all
[water. ]{24:12} And he said, O LORD God of my master that he hath. {24:37} And my master made me swear,
Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the
shew kindness unto my master Abraham. {24:13} Behold, I daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell: {24:38}
stand [here] by the well of water; and the daughters of the But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my
men of the city come out to draw water: {24:14} And let it kindred, and take a wife unto my son. {24:39} And I said
come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow
thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, me. {24:40} And he said unto me, The LORD, before
Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: [let the same whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy
be] she [that] thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred,
thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto and of my father’s house: {24:41} Then shalt thou be clear
my master. from [this] my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and
if they give not thee [one,] thou shalt be clear from my oath.
{24:15} And it came to pass, before he had done {24:42} And I came this day unto the well, and said, O
speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper
Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s my way which I go; {24:43} Behold, I stand by the well of
brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. {24:16} And water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin
the damsel [was] very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither cometh forth to draw [water,] and I say to her, Give me, I
had any man known her: and she went down to the well, pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink; {24:44} And
and filled her pitcher, and came up. {24:17} And the she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy
servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink camels: [let] the same [be] the woman whom the LORD
a little water of thy pitcher. {24:18} And she said, Drink, hath appointed out for my master’s son. {24:45} And before
my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came
hand, and gave him drink. {24:19} And when she had done forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down
giving him drink, she said, I will draw [water] for thy unto the well, and drew [water:] and I said unto her, Let me
camels also, until they have done drinking. {24:20} And she drink, I pray thee. {24:46} And she made haste, and let
hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran down her pitcher from her [shoulder,] and said, Drink, and I
again unto the well to draw [water,] and drew for all his will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made
camels. {24:21} And the man wondering at her held his the camels drink also. {24:47} And I asked her, and said,
peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey Whose daughter [art] thou? And she said, The daughter of
prosperous or not. {24:22} And it came to pass, as the Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I
camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her
earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands. {24:48} And I bowed down my head, and
hands of ten [shekels] weight of gold; {24:23} And said, worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my
Whose daughter [art] thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take
room [in] thy father’s house for us to lodge in? {24:24} And my master’s brother’s daughter unto his son. {24:49} And
she said unto him, I [am] the daughter of Bethuel the son of now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me:
Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor. {24:25} She said and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the
moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender left. {24:50} Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said,
enough, and room to lodge in. {24:26} And the man bowed The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak
down his head, and worshipped the LORD. {24:27} And he unto thee bad or good. {24:51} Behold, Rebekah [is] before
said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of my master Abraham, thee, take [her,] and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s
who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his wife, as the LORD hath spoken. {24:52} And it came to
truth: I [being] in the way, the LORD led me to the house of pass, that, when Abraham’s servant heard their words, he
my master’s brethren. {24:28} And the damsel ran, and told worshipped the LORD, [bowing himself] to the earth.
[them of] her mother’s house these things. {24:53} And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and
jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave [them] to Rebekah: he
{24:29} And Rebekah had a brother, and his name [was] gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well. {24:54} And they did eat and drink, he and the men that
{24:30} And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and [were] with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in
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the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master. {25:17} And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael, an
{24:55} And her brother and her mother said, Let the hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the
damsel abide with us [a few] days, at the least ten; after that ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people. {25:18}
she shall go. {24:56} And he said unto them, Hinder me And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that [is] before
not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: [and] he died in the
away that I may go to my master. {24:57} And they said, presence of all his brethren.
We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth. {24:58}
And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go {25:19} And these [are] the generations of Isaac,
with this man? And she said, I will go. {24:59} And they Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac: {25:20} And Isaac
sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the
Abraham’s servant, and his men. {24:60} And they blessed daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to
Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou [art] our sister, be thou Laban the Syrian. {25:21} And Isaac intreated the LORD
[the mother] of thousands of millions, and let thy seed for his wife, because she [was] barren: and the LORD was
possess the gate of those which hate them. intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. {25:22}
And the children struggled together within her; and she said,
{24:61} And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they If [it be] so, why [am] I thus? And she went to enquire of
rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the the LORD. {25:23} And the LORD said unto her, Two
servant took Rebekah, and went his way. {24:62} And Isaac nations [are] in thy womb, and two manner of people shall
came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the be separated from thy bowels; and [the one] people shall be
south country. {24:63} And Isaac went out to meditate in stronger than [the other] people; and the elder shall serve
the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, the younger.
and, behold, the camels [were] coming. {24:64} And
Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she {25:24} And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled,
lighted off the camel. {24:65} For she [had] said unto the behold, [there were] twins in her womb. {25:25} And the
servant, What man [is] this that walketh in the field to meet first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they
us? And the servant [had] said, It [is] my master: therefore called his name Esau. {25:26} And after that came his
she took a vail, and covered herself. {24:66} And the brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his
servant told Isaac all things that he had done. {24:67} And name was called Jacob: and Isaac [was] threescore years old
Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took when she bare them. {25:27} And the boys grew: and Esau
Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob [was] a
Isaac was comforted after his mother’s [death. plain man, dwelling in tents. {25:28} And Isaac loved Esau,
because he did eat of [his] venison: but Rebekah loved
]{25:1} Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name Jacob.
[was] Keturah. {25:2} And she bare him Zimran, and
Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. {25:29} And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the
{25:3} And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons field, and he [was] faint: {25:30} And Esau said to Jacob,
of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red [pottage;] for I
{25:4} And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and [am] faint: therefore was his name called Edom. {25:31}
Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these [were] the And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. {25:32}
children of Keturah. And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the point to die: and what
profit shall this birthright do to me? {25:33} And Jacob
{25:5} And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he
{25:6} But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham sold his birthright unto Jacob. {25:34} Then Jacob gave
had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink,
son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country. and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised [his]
{25:7} And these [are] the days of the years of Abraham’s birthright.
life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
{25:8} Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good {26:1} And there was a famine in the land, beside the first
old age, an old man, and full [of years;] and was gathered to famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went
his people. {25:9} And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. {26:2}
him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down
of Zohar the Hittite, which [is] before Mamre; {25:10} The into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there {26:3} Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will
was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all
these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware
{25:11} And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, unto Abraham thy father; {26:4} And I will make thy seed
that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy
Lahai-roi. seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations
of the earth be blessed; {26:5} Because that Abraham
{25:12} Now these [are] the generations of Ishmael, obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments,
Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s my statutes, and my laws.
handmaid, bare unto Abraham: {25:13} And these [are] the
names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to {26:6} And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: {26:7} And the men of
their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and the place asked [him] of his wife; and he said, She [is] my
Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, {25:14} And Mishma, and sister: for he feared to say, [She is] my wife; lest, [said he,]
Dumah, and Massa, {25:15} Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because
Naphish, and Kedemah: {25:16} These [are] the sons of she [was] fair to look upon. {26:8} And it came to pass,
Ishmael, and these [are] their names, by their towns, and by when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of
their castles; twelve princes according to their nations. the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and,
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behold, Isaac [was] sporting with Rebekah his wife. {26:9} of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety
she [is] thy wife: and how saidst thou, She [is] my sister? {27:1} And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and
And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her. his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau
{26:10} And Abimelech said, What [is] this thou hast done his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto
unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy him, Behold, [here am] I. {27:2} And he said, Behold now,
wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. I am old, I know not the day of my death: {27:3} Now
{26:11} And Abimelech charged all [his] people, saying, therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy
He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to bow, and go out to the field, and take me [some] venison;
death. {26:12} Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received {27:4} And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and
in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed bring [it] to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee
him. {26:13} And the man waxed great, and went forward, before I die. {27:5} And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake
and grew until he became very great: {26:14} For he had to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt [for]
possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great venison, [and] to bring [it.
store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. {26:15}
For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in ]{27:6} And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying,
the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother,
them, and filled them with earth. {26:16} And Abimelech saying, {27:7} Bring me venison, and make me savoury
said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before
we. my death. {27:8} Now therefore, my son, obey my voice
according to that which I command thee. {27:9} Go now to
{26:17} And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the
the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. {26:18} And Isaac goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father,
digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in such as he loveth: {27:10} And thou shalt bring [it] to thy
the days of Abraham his father; for the philistines had father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his
stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called death. {27:11} And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother,
their names after the names by which his father had called Behold, Esau my brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a
them. {26:19} And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, smooth man: {27:12} My father peradventure will feel me,
and found there a well of springing water. {26:20} And the and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a
herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, curse upon me, and not a blessing. {27:13} And his mother
The water [is] ours: and he called the name of the well said unto him, Upon me [be] thy curse, my son: only obey
Esek; because they strove with him. {26:21} And they my voice, and go fetch me [them. ]{27:14} And he went,
digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called and fetched, and brought [them] to his mother: and his
the name of it Sitnah. {26:22} And he removed from mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove {27:15} And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son
not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For Esau, which [were] with her in the house, and put them
now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be upon Jacob her younger son: {27:16} And she put the skins
fruitful in the land. {26:23} And he went up from thence to of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the
Beer-sheba. {26:24} And the LORD appeared unto him the smooth of his neck: {27:17} And she gave the savoury meat
same night, and said, I [am] the God of Abraham thy father: and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her
fear not, for I [am] with thee, and will bless thee, and son Jacob.
multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake. {26:25}
And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of {27:18} And he came unto his father, and said, My father:
the LORD and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s and he said, Here [am] I; who [art] thou, my son? {27:19}
servants digged a well. And Jacob said unto his father, I [am] Esau thy firstborn; I
have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee,
{26:26} Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain {27:20} And Isaac said unto his son, How [is it] that thou
of his army. {26:27} And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore hast found [it] so quickly, my son? And he said, Because
come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away the LORD thy God brought [it] to me. {27:21} And Isaac
from you? {26:28} And they said, We saw certainly that the said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel
LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath thee, my son, whether thou [be] my very son Esau or not.
betwixt us, [even] betwixt us and thee, and let us make a {27:22} And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he
covenant with thee; {26:29} That thou wilt do us no hurt, as felt him, and said, The voice [is] Jacob’s voice, but the
we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee hands [are] the hands of Esau. {27:23} And he discerned
nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s
[art] now the blessed of the LORD. {26:30} And he made hands: so he blessed him. {27:24} And he said, [Art] thou
them a feast, and they did eat and drink. {26:31} And they my very son Esau? And he said, I [am. ]{27:25} And he
rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of my son’s
and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it]
peace. {26:32} And it came to pass the same day, that near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and
Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well he drank. {27:26} And his father Isaac said unto him, Come
which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found near now, and kiss me, my son. {27:27} And he came near,
water. {26:33} And he called it Shebah: therefore the name and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and
of the city [is] Beer-sheba unto this day. blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son [is] as the
smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed: {27:28}
{26:34} And Esau was forty years old when he took to Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the
wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: {27:29}
the daughter of Elon the Hittite: {26:35} Which were a grief Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be
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lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and
to thee: cursed [be] every one that curseth thee, and blessed Esau’s mother.
[be] he that blesseth thee.
{28:6} When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and
{27:30} And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from
an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge,
from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of
came in from his hunting. {27:31} And he also had made Canaan; {28:7} And that Jacob obeyed his father and his
savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto mother, and was gone to Padan-aram; {28:8} And Esau
his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his
that thy soul may bless me. {27:32} And Isaac his father father; {28:9} Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto
said unto him, Who [art] thou? And he said, I [am] thy son, the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael
thy firstborn Esau. {27:33} And Isaac trembled very Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
exceedingly, and said, Who? where [is] he that hath taken
venison, and brought [it] me, and I have eaten of all before {28:10} And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went
thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, [and] he shall be toward Haran. {28:11} And he lighted upon a certain place,
blessed. {27:34} And when Esau heard the words of his and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he
father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and took of the stones of that place, and [put] them for his
said unto his father, Bless me, [even] me also, O my father. pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. {28:12} And he
{27:35} And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the
hath taken away thy blessing. {27:36} And he said, Is not top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God
he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these ascending and descending on it. {28:13} And, behold, the
two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he LORD stood above it, and said, I [am] the LORD God of
hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon
reserved a blessing for me? {27:37} And Isaac answered thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; {28:14}
and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt
all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north,
corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the
now unto thee, my son? {27:38} And Esau said unto his families of the earth be blessed. {28:15} And, behold, I
father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, [am] with thee, and will keep thee in all [places] whither
[even] me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will
and wept. {27:39} And Isaac his father answered and said not leave thee, until I have done [that] which I have spoken
unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the to thee of.
earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; {27:40} And
by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and {28:16} And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said,
it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not.
that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck. {28:17} And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful [is] this
place! this is none other but the house of God, and this [is]
{27:41} And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing the gate of heaven. {28:18} And Jacob rose up early in the
wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, morning, and took the stone that he had put [for] his
The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I pillows, and set it up [for] a pillar, and poured oil upon the
slay my brother Jacob. {27:42} And these words of Esau top of it. {28:19} And he called the name of that place
her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Bethel: but the name of that city [was called] Luz at the
Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy first. {28:20} And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will
brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will
[purposing] to kill thee. {27:43} Now therefore, my son, give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, {28:21} So that
obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the
Haran; {27:44} And tarry with him a few days, until thy LORD be my God: {28:22} And this stone, which I have
brother’s fury turn away; {27:45} Until thy brother’s anger set [for] a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou
turn away from thee, and he forget [that] which thou hast shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence:
why should I be deprived also of you both in one day? {29:1} Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the
{27:46} And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life land of the people of the east. {29:2} And he looked, and
because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the behold a well in the field, and, lo, there [were] three flocks
daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the
daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me? flocks: and a great stone [was] upon the well’s mouth.
{29:3} And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they
{28:1} And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the
charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his
of the daughters of Canaan. {28:2} Arise, go to Padan- place. {29:4} And Jacob said unto them, My brethren,
aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take whence [be] ye? And they said, Of Haran [are] we. {29:5}
thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor?
mother’s brother. {28:3} And God Almighty bless thee, and And they said, We know [him. ]{29:6} And he said unto
make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a them, [Is] he well? And they said, [He is] well: and, behold,
multitude of people; {28:4} And give thee the blessing of Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep. {29:7} And he
Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou said, Lo, [it is] yet high day, neither [is it] time that the
mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and
God gave unto Abraham. {28:5} And Isaac sent away go [and] feed [them. ]{29:8} And they said, We cannot,
Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of until all the flocks be gathered together, and [till] they roll
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the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep. children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give
me children, or else I die. {30:2} And Jacob’s anger was
{29:9} And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came kindled against Rachel: and he said, [Am] I in God’s stead,
with her father’s sheep: for she kept them. {29:10} And it who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? {30:3}
came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and
his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s she shall bear upon my knees that I may also have children
brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the by her. {30:4} And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to
well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s wife: and Jacob went in unto her. {30:5} And Bilhah
brother. {29:11} And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his conceived, and bare Jacob a son. {30:6} And Rachel said,
voice, and wept. {29:12} And Jacob told Rachel that he God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and
[was] her father’s brother, and that he [was] Rebekah’s son: hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
and she ran and told her father. {29:13} And it came to {30:7} And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and
pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister’s son, bare Jacob a second son. {30:8} And Rachel said, With
that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have
and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. {30:9} When
things. {29:14} And Laban said to him, Surely thou [art] Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her
my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. {30:10} And Zilpah
a month. Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son. {30:11} And Leah said, A
troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. {30:12} And
{29:15} And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou [art] Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son. {30:13} And
my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me
tell me, what [shall] thy wages [be? ]{29:16} And Laban blessed: and she called his name Asher.
had two daughters: the name of the elder [was] Leah, and
the name of the younger [was] Rachel. {29:17} Leah [was] {30:14} And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest,
tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his
{29:18} And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray
seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. {29:19} And thee, of thy son’s mandrakes. {30:15} And she said unto
Laban said, [It is] better that I give her to thee, than that I her, [Is it] a small matter that thou hast taken my husband?
should give her to another man: abide with me. {29:20} and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also?
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night
unto him [but] a few days, for the love he had to her. for thy son’s mandrakes. {30:16} And Jacob came out of
the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and
{29:21} And Jacob said unto Laban, Give [me] my wife, said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired
for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. {29:22} thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that
And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and night. {30:17} And God hearkened unto Leah, and she
made a feast. {29:23} And it came to pass in the evening, conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. {30:18} And Leah
that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my
he went in unto her. {29:24} And Laban gave unto his maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
daughter Leah Zilpah his maid [for] an handmaid. {29:25} {30:19} And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the
And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it [was] sixth son. {30:20} And Leah said, God hath endued me
Leah: and he said to Laban, What [is] this thou hast done [with] a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me,
unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore because I have born him six sons: and she called his name
then hast thou beguiled me? {29:26} And Laban said, It Zebulun. {30:21} And afterwards she bare a daughter, and
must not be so done in our country, to give the younger called her name Dinah.
before the firstborn. {29:27} Fulfil her week, and we will
give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve {30:22} And God remembered Rachel, and God
with me yet seven other years. {29:28} And Jacob did so, hearkened to her, and opened her womb. {30:23} And she
and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away
to wife also. {29:29} And Laban gave to Rachel his my reproach: {30:24} And she called his name Joseph; and
daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. {29:30} And said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more
than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. {30:25} And it came to pass, when Rachel had born
Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I
{29:31} And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, may go unto mine own place, and to my country. {30:26}
he opened her womb: but Rachel [was] barren. {29:32} And Give [me] my wives and my children, for whom I have
Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service
Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon which I have done thee. {30:27} And Laban said unto him,
my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me. I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, [tarry: for] I
{29:33} And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me
Because the LORD hath heard that I [was] hated, he hath for thy sake. {30:28} And he said, Appoint me thy wages,
therefore given me this [son] also: and she called his name and I will give [it. ]{30:29} And he said unto him, Thou
Simeon. {29:34} And she conceived again, and bare a son; knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was
and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, with me. {30:30} For [it was] little which thou hadst before
because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name I [came,] and it is [now] increased unto a multitude; and the
called Levi. {29:35} And she conceived again, and bare a LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when
son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore shall I provide for mine own house also? {30:31} And he
she called his name Judah; and left bearing. said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not
give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will
{30:1} And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no again feed [and] keep thy flock: {30:32} I will pass through
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all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money. {31:16}
and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that
and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and [of such] [is] ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God
shall be my hire. {30:33} So shall my righteousness answer hath said unto thee, do.
for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire
before thy face: every one that [is] not speckled and spotted {31:17} Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his
among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be wives upon camels; {31:18} And he carried away all his
counted stolen with me. {30:34} And Laban said, Behold, I cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of
would it might be according to thy word. {30:35} And he his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to
removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. {31:19} And Laban
spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images
spotted, [and] every one that had [some] white in it, and all that [were] her father’s. {31:20} And Jacob stole away
the brown among the sheep, and gave [them] into the hand unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he
of his sons. {30:36} And he set three days journey betwixt fled. {31:21} So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up,
himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks. and passed over the river, and set his face [toward] the
mount Gilead. {31:22} And it was told Laban on the third
{30:37} And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of day that Jacob was fled. {31:23} And he took his brethren
the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and
and made the white appear which [was] in the rods. {30:38} they overtook him in the mount Gilead. {31:24} And God
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto
the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or
drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. bad.
{30:39} And the flocks conceived before the rods, and
brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. {31:25} Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had
{30:40} And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren
of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the pitched in the mount of Gilead. {31:26} And Laban said to
flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away
and put them not unto Laban’s cattle. {30:41} And it came unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives
to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that [taken] with the sword? {31:27} Wherefore didst thou flee
Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell
gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. {30:42} me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with
But when the cattle were feeble, he put [them] not in: so the songs, with tabret, and with harp? {31:28} And hast not
feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. {30:43} suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast
And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, now done foolishly in so doing. {31:29} It is in the power
and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses. of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake
unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak
{31:1} And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, not to Jacob either good or bad. {31:30} And now, [though]
Jacob hath taken away all that [was] our father’s; and of thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst
[that] which [was] our father’s hath he gotten all this glory. after thy father’s house, [yet] wherefore hast thou stolen my
{31:2} And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, gods? {31:31} And Jacob answered and said to Laban,
behold, it [was] not toward him as before. {31:3} And the Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest
LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, take by force thy daughters from me. {31:32} With
and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. {31:4} And whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before
Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his our brethren discern thou what [is] thine with me, and take
flock, {31:5} And said unto them, I see your father’s [it] to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
countenance, that it [is] not toward me as before; but the {31:33} And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s
God of my father hath been with me. {31:6} And ye know tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found
that with all my power I have served your father. {31:7} [them] not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages into Rachel’s tent. {31:34} Now Rachel had taken the
ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. {31:8} If he images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon
said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found [them]
cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked not. {31:35} And she said to her father, Let it not displease
shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked. {31:9} my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the
given [them] to me. {31:10} And it came to pass at the time images.
that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw
in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the {31:36} And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and
cattle [were] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled. {31:11} Jacob answered and said to Laban, What [is] my trespass?
And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, [saying,] what [is] my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
Jacob: And I said, Here [am] I. {31:12} And he said, Lift up {31:37} Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast
now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the thou found of all thy household stuff? set [it] here before
cattle [are] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt
seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. {31:13} I [am] the God us both. {31:38} This twenty years [have] I [been] with
of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, [and] where thou thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young,
vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. {31:39} That
land, and return unto the land of thy kindred. {31:14} And which was torn [of beasts] I brought not unto thee; I bare
Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, [Is there] yet the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, [whether]
any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house? stolen by day, or stolen by night. {31:40} [Thus] I was; in
{31:15} Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night;
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and my sleep departed from mine eyes. {31:41} Thus have I and now I am become two bands. {32:11} Deliver me, I
been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of
for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, [and]
hast changed my wages ten times. {31:42} Except the God the mother with the children. {32:12} And thou saidst, I
of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of
had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. {32:13}
empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which
hands, and rebuked [thee] yesternight. came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; {32:14}
Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred
{31:43} And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, ewes, and twenty rams, {32:15} Thirty milch camels with
[These] daughters [are] my daughters, and [these] children their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and
[are] my children, and [these] cattle [are] my cattle, and all ten foals. {32:16} And he delivered [them] into the hand of
that thou seest [is] mine: and what can I do this day unto his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his
these my daughters, or unto their children which they have servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt
born? {31:44} Now therefore come thou, let us make a drove and drove. {32:17} And he commanded the foremost,
covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh
and thee. {31:45} And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? and whither goest thou? and
a pillar. {31:46} And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather whose [are] these before thee? {32:18} Then thou shalt say,
stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they [They be] thy servant Jacob’s; it [is] a present sent unto my
did eat there upon the heap. {31:47} And Laban called it lord Esau: and, behold, also he [is] behind us. {32:19} And
Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. {31:48} And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that
Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between me and thee followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak
this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; unto Esau, when ye find him. {32:20} And say ye
{31:49} And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he
between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before
{31:50} If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will
take [other] wives beside my daughters, no man [is] with us; accept of me. {32:21} So went the present over before him:
see, God [is] witness betwixt me and thee. {31:51} And and himself lodged that night in the company. {32:22} And
Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold [this] he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two
pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee; {31:52} This womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the
heap [be] witness, and [this] pillar [be] witness, that I will ford Jabbok. {32:23} And he took them, and sent them over
not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass the brook, and sent over that he had.
over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. {31:53}
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of {32:24} And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a
their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear man with him until the breaking of the day. {32:25} And
of his father Isaac. {31:54} Then Jacob offered sacrifice when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched
upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was
they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount. out of joint, as he wrestled with him. {32:26} And he said,
{31:55} And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let
his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban thee go, except thou bless me. {32:27} And he said unto
departed, and returned unto his place. him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob. {32:28} And
he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel:
{32:1} And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and
met him. {32:2} And when Jacob saw them, he said, This hast prevailed. {32:29} And Jacob asked [him,] and said,
[is] God’s host: and he called the name of that place Tell [me,] I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore
Mahanaim. {32:3} And Jacob sent messengers before him [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed
to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of him there. {32:30} And Jacob called the name of the place
Edom. {32:4} And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is
ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I preserved. {32:31} And as he passed over Penuel the sun
have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now: rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. {32:32}
{32:5} And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and Therefore the children of Israel eat not [of] the sinew which
menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my shrank, which [is] upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this
lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the
sinew that shrank.
{32:6} And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We
came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, {33:1} And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and,
and four hundred men with him. {32:7} Then Jacob was behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he
greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto
[was] with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, the two handmaids. {33:2} And he put the handmaids and
into two bands; {32:8} And said, If Esau come to the one their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and
company, and smite it, then the other company which is left Rachel and Joseph hindermost. {33:3} And he passed over
shall escape. before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times,
until he came near to his brother. {33:4} And Esau ran to
{32:9} And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and
God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, kissed him: and they wept. {33:5} And he lifted up his eyes,
Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal and saw the women and the children; and said, Who [are]
well with thee: {32:10} I am not worthy of the least of all those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath
the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed graciously given thy servant. {33:6} Then the handmaidens
unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; came near, they and their children, and they bowed
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themselves. {33:7} And Leah also with her children came because he had defiled Dinah their sister: {34:14} And they
near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to
and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. {33:8} And he one that is uncircumcised; for that [were] a reproach unto
said, What [meanest] thou by all this drove which I met? us: {34:15} But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will
And he said, [These are] to find grace in the sight of my be as we [be,] that every male of you be circumcised;
lord. {33:9} And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; {34:16} Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we
keep that thou hast unto thyself. {33:10} And Jacob said, will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you,
Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then and we will become one people. {34:17} But if ye will not
receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our
face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast daughter, and we will be gone. {34:18} And their words
pleased with me. {33:11} Take, I pray thee, my blessing pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son. {34:19} And
that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had
with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he [was] more honourable
he took [it. ]{33:12} And he said, Let us take our journey, than all the house of his father.
and let us go, and I will go before thee. {33:13} And he said
unto him, My lord knoweth that the children [are] tender, {34:20} And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the
and the flocks and herds with young [are] with me: and if gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city,
men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die. saying, {34:21} These men [are] peaceable with us;
{33:14} Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for
servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that the land, behold, [it is] large enough for them; let us take
goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our
come unto my lord unto Seir. {33:15} And Esau said, Let daughters. {34:22} Only herein will the men consent unto
me now leave with thee [some] of the folk that [are] with us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male
me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the among us be circumcised, as they [are] circumcised.
sight of my lord. {34:23} [Shall] not their cattle and their substance and
every beast of theirs [be] ours? only let us consent unto
{33:16} So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. them, and they will dwell with us. {34:24} And unto Hamor
{33:17} And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the
house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that
the place is called Succoth. went out of the gate of his city.
{33:18} And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, {34:25} And it came to pass on the third day, when they
which [is] in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan- were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi,
aram; and pitched his tent before the city. {33:19} And he Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon
bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the city boldly, and slew all the males. {34:26} And they
the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the
hundred pieces of money. {33:20} And he erected there an sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went
altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel. out. {34:27} The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and
spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
{34:1} And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare {34:28} They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their
unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. {34:2} asses, and that which [was] in the city, and that which [was]
And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of in the field, {34:29} And all their wealth, and all their little
the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all
defiled her. {34:3} And his soul clave unto Dinah the that [was] in the house. {34:30} And Jacob said to Simeon
daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among
kindly unto the damsel. {34:4} And Shechem spake unto the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the
his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. Perizzites: and I [being] few in number, they shall gather
{34:5} And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be
daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and destroyed, I and my house. {34:31} And they said, Should
Jacob held his peace until they were come. he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
{34:6} And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto {35:1} And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel,
Jacob to commune with him. {34:7} And the sons of Jacob and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that
came out of the field when they heard [it:] and the men were appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of
grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought Esau thy brother. {35:2} Then Jacob said unto his
folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing household, and to all that [were] with him, Put away the
ought not to be done. {34:8} And Hamor communed with strange gods that [are] among you, and be clean, and change
them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your your garments: {35:3} And let us arise, and go up to Bethel;
daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. {34:9} And make and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me
ye marriages with us, [and] give your daughters unto us, and in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which
take our daughters unto you. {34:10} And ye shall dwell I went. {35:4} And they gave unto Jacob all the strange
with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye gods which [were] in their hand, and [all their] earrings
therein, and get you possessions therein. {34:11} And which [were] in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the
Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me oak which [was] by Shechem. {35:5} And they journeyed:
find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will and the terror of God was upon the cities that [were] round
give. {34:12} Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the
damsel to wife. {34:13} And the sons of Jacob answered {35:6} So Jacob came to Luz, which [is] in the land of
Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, Canaan, that [is,] Bethel, he and all the people that [were]
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with him. {35:7} And he built there an altar, and called the brother Jacob. {36:7} For their riches were more than that
place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were
when he fled from the face of his brother. {35:8} But strangers could not bear them because of their cattle. {36:8}
Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau [is] Edom.
Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-
bachuth. {36:9} And these [are] the generations of Esau the father
of the Edomites in mount Seir: {36:10} These [are] the
{35:9} And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he names of Esau’s sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of
came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him. {35:10} And Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau. {36:11}
God said unto him, Thy name [is] Jacob: thy name shall not And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and
be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and Gatam, and Kenaz. {36:12} And Timna was concubine to
he called his name Israel. {35:11} And God said unto him, I Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these
[am] God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a [were] the sons of Adah Esau’s wife. {36:13} And these
company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come [are] the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and
out of thy loins; {35:12} And the land which I gave Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife.
Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed
after thee will I give the land. {35:13} And God went up {36:14} And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the
from him in the place where he talked with him. {35:14} daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: and
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
him, [even] a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering
thereon, and he poured oil thereon. {35:15} And Jacob {36:15} These [were] dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons
called the name of the place where God spake with him, of Eliphaz the firstborn [son] of Esau; duke Teman, duke
Bethel. Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, {36:16} Duke Korah, duke
Gatam, [and] duke Amalek: these [are] the dukes [that
{35:16} And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was came] of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these [were] the sons
but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, of Adah.
and she had hard labour. {35:17} And it came to pass, when
she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear {36:17} And these [are] the sons of Reuel Esau’s son;
not; thou shalt have this son also. {35:18} And it came to duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah:
pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she these [are] the dukes [that came] of Reuel in the land of
called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Edom; these [are] the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife.
Benjamin. {35:19} And Rachel died, and was buried in the
way to Ephrath, which [is] Bethlehem. {35:20} And Jacob {36:18} And these [are] the sons of Aholibamah Esau’s
set a pillar upon her grave: that [is] the pillar of Rachel’s wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these [were]
grave unto this day. the dukes [that came] of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah,
Esau’s wife. {36:19} These [are] the sons of Esau, who [is]
{35:21} And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Edom, and these [are] their dukes.
the tower of Edar. {35:22} And it came to pass, when Israel
dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his {36:20} These [are] the sons of Seir the Horite, who
father’s concubine: and Israel heard [it.] Now the sons of inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and
Jacob were twelve: {35:23} The sons of Leah; Reuben, Anah, {36:21} And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these
Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and [are] the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the
Issachar, and Zebulun: {35:24} The sons of Rachel; Joseph, land of Edom. {36:22} And the children of Lotan were Hori
and Benjamin: {35:25} And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s and Hemam; and Lotan’s sister [was] Timna. {36:23} And
handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: {35:26} And the sons of the children of Shobal [were] these; Alvan, and Manahath,
Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these [are] the and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. {36:24} And these [are] the
sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram. children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this [was that]
Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the
{35:27} And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto asses of Zibeon his father. {36:25} And the children of
Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which [is] Hebron, where Anah [were] these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of
Abraham and Isaac sojourned. {35:28} And the days of Anah. {36:26} And these [are] the children of Dishon;
Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. {35:29} And Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. {36:27} The
Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his children of Ezer [are] these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.
people, [being] old and full of days: and his sons Esau and {36:28} The children of Dishan [are] these: Uz, and Aran.
Jacob buried him. {36:29} These [are] the dukes [that came] of the Horites;
duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah, {36:30}
{36:1} Now these [are] the generations of Esau, who [is] Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these [are] the dukes
Edom. {36:2} Esau took his wives of the daughters of [that came] of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir.
Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and
Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon {36:31} And these [are] the kings that reigned in the land
the Hivite; {36:3} And Bashemath Ishmael’s daughter, of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of
sister of Nebajoth. {36:4} And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; Israel. {36:32} And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom:
and Bashemath bare Reuel; {36:5} And Aholibamah bare and the name of his city [was] Dinhabah. {36:33} And Bela
Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these [are] the sons of Esau, died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his
which were born unto him in the land of Canaan. {36:6} stead. {36:34} And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of
And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, Temani reigned in his stead. {36:35} And Husham died,
and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field
beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city
Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his [was] Avith. {36:36} And Hadad died, and Samlah of
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Masrekah reigned in his stead. {36:37} And Samlah died, Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into
and Saul of Rehoboth [by] the river reigned in his stead. some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured
{36:38} And Saul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
reigned in his stead. {36:39} And Baal-hanan the son of {37:21} And Reuben heard [it,] and he delivered him out of
Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name their hands; and said, Let us not kill him. {37:22} And
of his city [was] Pau; and his wife’s name [was] Mehetabel, Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, [but] cast him into
the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. {36:40} this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him;
And these [are] the names of the dukes [that came] of Esau, that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to
according to their families, after their places, by their his father again.
names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth, {36:41}
Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon, {36:42} Duke {37:23} And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto
Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, {36:43} Duke Magdiel, his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, [his] coat
duke Iram: these [be] the dukes of Edom, according to their of [many] colours that [was] on him; {37:24} And they took
habitations in the land of their possession: he [is] Esau the him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit [was] empty, [there
father of the Edomites. was] no water in it. {37:25} And they sat down to eat bread:
and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a
{37:1} And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels
a stranger, in the land of Canaan. {37:2} These [are] the bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry [it]
generations of Jacob. Joseph, [being] seventeen years old, down to Egypt. {37:26} And Judah said unto his brethren,
was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad [was] What profit [is it] if we slay our brother, and conceal his
with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his blood? {37:27} Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites,
father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil and let not our hand be upon him; for he [is] our brother
report. {37:3} Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his [and] our flesh. And his brethren were content. {37:28}
children, because he [was] the son of his old age: and he Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they
made him a coat of [many] colours. {37:4} And when his drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to
brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his the Ishmeelites for twenty [pieces] of silver: and they
brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably brought Joseph into Egypt.
unto him.
{37:29} And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold,
{37:5} And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] his Joseph [was] not in the pit; and he rent his clothes. {37:30}
brethren: and they hated him yet the more. {37:6} And he And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child [is]
said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have not; and I, whither shall I go? {37:31} And they took
dreamed: {37:7} For, behold, we [were] binding sheaves in Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the
the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; coat in the blood; {37:32} And they sent the coat of [many]
and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made colours, and they brought [it] to their father; and said, This
obeisance to my sheaf. {37:8} And his brethren said to him, have we found: know now whether it [be] thy son’s coat or
Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have no. {37:33} And he knew it, and said, [It is] my son’s coat;
dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt
dreams, and for his words. rent in pieces. {37:34} And Jacob rent his clothes, and put
sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many
{37:9} And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his days. {37:35} And all his sons and all his daughters rose up
brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said,
and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning.
made obeisance to me. {37:10} And he told [it] to his Thus his father wept for him. {37:36} And the Midianites
father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s,
said unto him, What [is] this dream that thou hast dreamed? [and] captain of the guard.
Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow
down ourselves to thee to the earth? {37:11} And his {38:1} And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went
brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying. down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain
Adullamite, whose name [was] Hirah. {38:2} And Judah
{37:12} And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name
in Shechem. {37:13} And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not [was] Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her. {38:3}
thy brethren feed [the flock] in Shechem? come, and I will And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name
send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here [am] I. Er. {38:4} And she conceived again, and bare a son; and
{37:14} And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it she called his name Onan. {38:5} And she yet again
be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and
bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of he was at Chezib, when she bare him. {38:6} And Judah
Hebron, and he came to Shechem. took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name [was] Tamar.
{38:7} And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of
{37:15} And a certain man found him, and, behold, [he the LORD; and the LORD slew him. {38:8} And Judah said
was] wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her,
What seekest thou? {37:16} And he said, I seek my and raise up seed to thy brother. {38:9} And Onan knew
brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed [their flocks. that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he
]{37:17} And the man said, They are departed hence; for I went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled [it] on the
heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. {38:10}
his brethren, and found them in Dothan. {37:18} And when And the thing which he did displeased the LORD:
they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, wherefore he slew him also. {38:11} Then said Judah to
they conspired against him to slay him. {37:19} And they Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s
said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. {37:20} house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest
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peradventure he die also, as his brethren [did.] And Tamar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put
went and dwelt in her father’s house. into his hand. {39:5} And it came to pass from the time
[that] he had made him overseer in his house, and over all
{38:12} And in process of time the daughter of Shuah that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s house for
Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all
unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah that he had in the house, and in the field. {39:6} And he left
the Adullamite. {38:13} And it was told Tamar, saying, all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he
Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was [a]
sheep. {38:14} And she put her widow’s garments off from goodly [person,] and well favoured.
her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and
sat in an open place, which [is] by the way to Timnath; for {39:7} And it came to pass after these things, that his
she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie
him to wife. {38:15} When Judah saw her, he thought her with me. {39:8} But he refused, and said unto his master’s
[to be] an harlot; because she had covered her face. {38:16} wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what [is] with me in
And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my
thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she hand; {39:9} [There is] none greater in this house than I;
[was] his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee,
give me, that thou mayest come in unto me? {38:17} And because thou [art] his wife: how then can I do this great
he said, I will send [thee] a kid from the flock. And she said, wickedness, and sin against God? {39:10} And it came to
Wilt thou give [me] a pledge, till thou send [it? ]{38:18} pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened
And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, not unto her, to lie by her, [or] to be with her. {39:11} And
Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that [is] in thine it came to pass about this time, that [Joseph] went into the
hand. And he gave [it] her, and came in unto her, and she house to do his business; and [there was] none of the men of
conceived by him. {38:19} And she arose, and went away, the house there within. {39:12} And she caught him by his
and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her
widowhood. {38:20} And Judah sent the kid by the hand of hand, and fled, and got him out. {39:13} And it came to
his friend the Adullamite, to receive [his] pledge from the pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand,
woman’s hand: but he found her not. {38:21} Then he and was fled forth, {39:14} That she called unto the men of
asked the men of that place, saying, Where [is] the harlot, her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath
that [was] openly by the way side? And they said, There brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto
was no harlot in this [place. ]{38:22} And he returned to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice: {39:15}
Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice
place said, [that] there was no harlot in this [place. ]{38:23} and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got
And Judah said, Let her take [it] to her, lest we be shamed: him out. {39:16} And she laid up his garment by her, until
behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her. his lord came home. {39:17} And she spake unto him
according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant,
{38:24} And it came to pass about three months after, that which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock
it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath me: {39:18} And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice
played the harlot; and also, behold, she [is] with child by and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be {39:19} And it came to pass, when his master heard the
burnt. {38:25} When she [was] brought forth, she sent to words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After
her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these [are, am] this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was
I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose [are] kindled. {39:20} And Joseph’s master took him, and put
these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff. {38:26} And him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners
Judah acknowledged [them,] and said, She hath been more [were] bound: and he was there in the prison.
righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my
son. And he knew her again no more. {39:21} But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him
mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the
{38:27} And it came to pass in the time of her travail, prison. {39:22} And the keeper of the prison committed to
that, behold, twins [were] in her womb. {38:28} And it Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that [were] in the prison; and
came to pass, when she travailed, that [the one] put out [his] whatsoever they did there, he was the doer [of it. ]{39:23}
hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing [that was]
scarlet thread, saying, This came out first, {38:29} And it under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and [that]
came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his which he did, the LORD made [it] to prosper.
brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth?
[this] breach [be] upon thee: therefore his name was called {40:1} And it came to pass after these things, [that] the
Pharez. {38:30} And afterward came out his brother, that butler of the king of Egypt and [his] baker had offended
had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was their lord the king of Egypt. {40:2} And Pharaoh was wroth
called Zarah. against two [of] his officers, against the chief of the butlers,
and against the chief of the bakers. {40:3} And he put them
{39:1} And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the
Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an prison, the place where Joseph [was] bound. {40:4} And the
Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he
had brought him down thither. {39:2} And the LORD was served them: and they continued a season in ward.
with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in
the house of his master the Egyptian. {39:3} And his master {40:5} And they dreamed a dream both of them, each
saw that the LORD [was] with him, and that the LORD man his dream in one night, each man according to the
made all [that] he did to prosper in his hand. {39:4} And interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the
Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he king of Egypt, which [were] bound in the prison. {40:6}
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And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain
upon them, and, behold, they [were] sad. {40:7} And he of the guard’s house, both [me] and the chief baker: {41:11}
asked Pharaoh’s officers that [were] with him in the ward of And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we
his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye [so] sadly to dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his
day? {40:8} And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream. {41:12} And [there was] there with us a young man,
dream, and [there is] no interpreter of it. And Joseph said an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told
unto them, [Do] not interpretations [belong] to God? tell me him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man
[them,] I pray you. {40:9} And the chief butler told his according to his dream he did interpret. {41:13} And it
dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he
vine [was] before me; {40:10} And in the vine [were] three restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
branches: and it [was] as though it budded, [and] her
blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth {41:14} Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they
ripe grapes: {40:11} And Pharaoh’s cup [was] in my hand: brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved
and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, [himself,] and changed his raiment, and came in unto
and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand. {40:12} And Pharaoh. {41:15} And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have
Joseph said unto him, This [is] the interpretation of it: The dreamed a dream, and [there is] none that can interpret it:
three branches [are] three days: {40:13} Yet within three and I have heard say of thee, [that] thou canst understand a
days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto dream to interpret it. {41:16} And Joseph answered
thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his Pharaoh, saying, [It is] not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an
hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler. answer of peace. {41:17} And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In
{40:14} But think on me when it shall be well with thee, my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention {41:18} And, behold, there came up out of the river seven
of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a
{40:15} For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the meadow: {41:19} And, behold, seven other kine came up
Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such
put me into the dungeon. {40:16} When the chief baker saw as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: {41:20}
that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first
[was] in my dream, and, behold, [I had] three white baskets seven fat kine: {41:21} And when they had eaten them up,
on my head: {40:17} And in the uppermost basket [there it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they
was] of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds [were] still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
did eat them out of the basket upon my head. {40:18} And {41:22} And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears
Joseph answered and said, This [is] the interpretation came up in one stalk, full and good: {41:23} And, behold,
thereof: The three baskets [are] three days: {40:19} Yet seven ears, withered, thin, [and] blasted with the east wind,
within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off sprung up after them: {41:24} And the thin ears devoured
thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat the seven good ears: and I told [this] unto the magicians; but
thy flesh from off thee. [there was] none that could declare [it] to me.
{40:20} And it came to pass the third day, [which was] {41:25} And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of
Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his Pharaoh [is] one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he [is]
servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of about to do. {41:26} The seven good kine [are] seven years;
the chief baker among his servants. {40:21} And he and the seven good ears [are] seven years: the dream [is]
restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he one. {41:27} And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that
gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand: {40:22} But he hanged came up after them [are] seven years; and the seven empty
the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them. {40:23} ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of
Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat famine. {41:28} This [is] the thing which I have spoken
him. unto Pharaoh: What God [is] about to do he sheweth unto
Pharaoh. {41:29} Behold, there come seven years of great
{41:1} And it came to pass at the end of two full years, plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: {41:30} And there
that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the
{41:2} And, behold, there came up out of the river seven plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the
well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a famine shall consume the land; {41:31} And the plenty
meadow. {41:3} And, behold, seven other kine came up shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine
after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and following; for it [shall be] very grievous. {41:32} And for
stood by the [other] kine upon the brink of the river. {41:4} that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; [it is]
And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the because the thing [is] established by God, and God will
seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. {41:5} shortly bring it to pass. {41:33} Now therefore let Pharaoh
And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land
seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. of Egypt. {41:34} Let Pharaoh do [this,] and let him appoint
{41:6} And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land
east wind sprung up after them. {41:7} And the seven thin of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. {41:35} And let them
ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up
awoke, and, behold, [it was] a dream. {41:8} And it came to corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in
pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent the cities. {41:36} And that food shall be for store to the
and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the
men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but [there land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
was] none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
{41:37} And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh,
{41:9} Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I and in the eyes of all his servants. {41:38} And Pharaoh
do remember my faults this day: {41:10} Pharaoh was said unto his servants, Can we find [such a one] as this [is,]
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a man in whom the Spirit of God is? {41:39} And Pharaoh and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said,
said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all From the land of Canaan to buy food. {42:8} And Joseph
this, [there is] none so discreet and wise as thou [art: knew his brethren, but they knew not him. {42:9} And
]{41:40} Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them,
thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne and said unto them, Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of
will I be greater than thou. {41:41} And Pharaoh said unto the land ye are come. {42:10} And they said unto him, Nay,
Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. {42:11} We
{41:42} And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and [are] all one man’s sons; we [are] true [men,] thy servants
put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of are no spies. {42:12} And he said unto them, Nay, but to
fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; {41:43} And see the nakedness of the land ye are come. {42:13} And
he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they said, Thy servants [are] twelve brethren, the sons of
they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest
[ruler] over all the land of Egypt. {41:44} And Pharaoh said [is] this day with our father, and one [is] not. {42:14} And
unto Joseph, I [am] Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man Joseph said unto them, That [is it] that I spake unto you,
lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. {41:45} And saying, Ye [are] spies: {42:15} Hereby ye shall be proved:
Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except
gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti- pherah priest your youngest brother come hither. {42:16} Send one of
of On. And Joseph went out over [all] the land of Egypt. you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in
prison, that your words may be proved, whether [there be
{41:46} And Joseph [was] thirty years old when he stood any] truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye
before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from [are] spies. {42:17} And he put them all together into ward
the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of three days. {42:18} And Joseph said unto them the third
Egypt. {41:47} And in the seven plenteous years the earth day, This do, and live; [for] I fear God: {42:19} If ye [be]
brought forth by handfuls. {41:48} And he gathered up all true [men,] let one of your brethren be bound in the house
the food of the seven years, which were in the land of of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your
Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the houses: {42:20} But bring your youngest brother unto me;
field, which [was] round about every city, laid he up in the so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And
same. {41:49} And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the they did so.
sea, very much, until he left numbering; for [it was] without
number. {41:50} And unto Joseph were born two sons {42:21} And they said one to another, We [are] verily
before the years of famine came, which Asenath the guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of
daughter of Poti- pherah priest of On bare unto him. his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear;
{41:51} And Joseph called the name of the firstborn therefore is this distress come upon us. {42:22} And
Manasseh: For God, [said he,] hath made me forget all my Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you,
toil, and all my father’s house. {41:52} And the name of the saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear?
second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be therefore, behold, also his blood is required. {42:23} And
fruitful in the land of my affliction. they knew not that Joseph understood [them;] for he spake
unto them by an interpreter. {42:24} And he turned himself
{41:53} And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and
the land of Egypt, were ended. {41:54} And the seven years communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and
of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and bound him before their eyes.
the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there
was bread. {41:55} And when all the land of Egypt was {42:25} Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with
famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to
Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
he saith to you, do. {41:56} And the famine was over all the {42:26} And they laded their asses with the corn, and
face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and departed thence. {42:27} And as one of them opened his
sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his
land of Egypt. {41:57} And all countries came into Egypt to money; for, behold, it [was] in his sack’s mouth. {42:28}
Joseph for to buy [corn;] because that the famine was so And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and,
sore in all lands. lo, [it is] even in my sack: and their heart failed [them,] and
they were afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this [that]
{42:1} Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, God hath done unto us?
Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
{42:2} And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn {42:29} And they came unto Jacob their father unto the
in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them;
that we may live, and not die. saying, {42:30} The man, [who is] the lord of the land,
spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
{42:3} And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn {42:31} And we said unto him, We [are] true [men;] we are
in Egypt. {42:4} But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent no spies: {42:32} We [be] twelve brethren, sons of our
not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure father; one [is] not, and the youngest [is] this day with our
mischief befall him. {42:5} And the sons of Israel came to father in the land of Canaan. {42:33} And the man, the lord
buy [corn] among those that came: for the famine was in the of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye
land of Canaan. {42:6} And Joseph [was] the governor over [are] true [men;] leave one of your brethren [here] with me,
the land, [and] he [it was] that sold to all the people of the and take [food for] the famine of your households, and be
land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down gone: {42:34} And bring your youngest brother unto me:
themselves before him [with] their faces to the earth. {42:7} then shall I know that ye [are] no spies, but [that] ye [are]
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made true [men: so] will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall
himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; traffick in the land.
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{42:35} And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it
that, behold, every man’s bundle of money [was] in his again in our hand. {43:22} And other money have we
sack: and when [both] they and their father saw the bundles brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who
of money, they were afraid. {42:36} And Jacob their father put our money in our sacks. {43:23} And he said, Peace
said unto them, Me have ye bereaved [of my children:] [be] to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father,
Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will take hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money.
Benjamin [away:] all these things are against me. {42:37} And he brought Simeon out unto them. {43:24} And the
And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave [them]
sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses
and I will bring him to thee again. {42:38} And he said, My provender. {43:25} And they made ready the present
son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should
he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the eat bread there.
which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with
sorrow to the grave. {43:26} And when Joseph came home, they brought him
the present which [was] in their hand into the house, and
{43:1} And the famine [was] sore in the land. {43:2} And bowed themselves to him to the earth. {43:27} And he
it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they asked them of [their] welfare, and said, [Is] your father well,
had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go the old man of whom ye spake? [Is] he yet alive? {43:28}
again, buy us a little food. {43:3} And Judah spake unto And they answered, Thy servant our father [is] in good
him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, health, he [is] yet alive. And they bowed down their heads,
Ye shall not see my face, except your brother [be] with you. and made obeisance. {43:29} And he lifted up his eyes, and
{43:4} If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, [Is]
down and buy thee food: {43:5} But if thou wilt not send this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And
[him,] we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son. {43:30} And
shall not see my face, except your brother [be] with you. Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his
{43:6} And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, brother: and he sought [where] to weep; and he entered into
as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother? {43:7} And [his] chamber, and wept there. {43:31} And he washed his
they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on
kindred, saying, [Is] your father yet alive? have ye [another] bread. {43:32} And they set on for him by himself, and for
brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat
words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not
your brother down? {43:8} And Judah said unto Israel his eat bread with the Hebrews; for that [is] an abomination
father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that unto the Egyptians. {43:33} And they sat before him, the
we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, [and] also our firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest
little ones. {43:9} I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at
thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him another. {43:34} And he took [and sent] messes unto them
before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever: {43:10} from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was five times so
For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with
second time. {43:11} And their father Israel said unto them, him.
If [it must be] so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the
land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a {44:1} And he commanded the steward of his house,
little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and saying, Fill the men’s sacks [with] food, as much as they
almonds: {43:12} And take double money in your hand; can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s mouth.
and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your {44:2} And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth
sacks, carry [it] again in your hand; peradventure it [was] an of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according
oversight: {43:13} Take also your brother, and arise, go to the word that Joseph had spoken. {44:3} As soon as the
again unto the man: {43:14} And God Almighty give you morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their
mercy before the man, that he may send away your other asses. {44:4} [And] when they were gone out of the city,
brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved [of my children,] I [and] not [yet] far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up,
am bereaved. follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them,
say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
{43:15} And the men took that present, and they took {44:5} [Is] not this [it] in which my lord drinketh, and
double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. {43:16} And
when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler {44:6} And he overtook them, and he spake unto them
of his house, Bring [these] men home, and slay, and make these same words. {44:7} And they said unto him,
ready; for [these] men shall dine with me at noon. {43:17} Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy
And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the servants should do according to this thing: {44:8} Behold,
men into Joseph’s house. {43:18} And the men were afraid, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we
because they were brought into Joseph’s house; and they brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then
said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?
the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion {44:9} With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both
against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and let him die, and we also will be my lord’s bondmen.
our asses. {43:19} And they came near to the steward of {44:10} And he said, Now also [let] it [be] according unto
Joseph’s house, and they communed with him at the door of your words; he with whom it is found shall be my servant;
the house, {43:20} And said, O sir, we came indeed down and ye shall be blameless. {44:11} Then they speedily took
at the first time to buy food: {43:21} And it came to pass, down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every
when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, man his sack. {44:12} And he searched, [and] began at the
behold, [every] man’s money [was] in the mouth of his eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in
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Benjamin’s sack. {44:13} Then they rent their clothes, and {45:6} For these two years [hath] the famine [been] in the
laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. land: and yet [there are] five years, in the which [there shall]
neither [be] earing nor harvest. {45:7} And God sent me
{44:14} And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph’s before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to
house; for he [was] yet there: and they fell before him on save your lives by a great deliverance. {45:8} So now [it
the ground. {44:15} And Joseph said unto them, What deed was] not you [that] sent me hither, but God: and he hath
[is] this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and
can certainly divine? {44:16} And Judah said, What shall a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. {45:9} Haste ye,
we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy
clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come
servants: behold, we [are] my lord’s servants, both we, and down unto me, tarry not: {45:10} And thou shalt dwell in
[he] also with whom the cup is found. {44:17} And he said, the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou,
God forbid that I should do so: [but] the man in whose hand and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks,
the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get and thy herds, and all that thou hast: {45:11} And there will
you up in peace unto your father. I nourish thee; for yet [there are] five years of famine; lest
thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to
{44:18} Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my poverty. {45:12} And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes
lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s of my brother Benjamin, that [it is] my mouth that speaketh
ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for unto you. {45:13} And ye shall tell my father of all my
thou [art] even as Pharaoh. {44:19} My lord asked his glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall
servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? {44:20} haste and bring down my father hither. {45:14} And he fell
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin
and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is wept upon his neck. {45:15} Moreover he kissed all his
dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren
him. {44:21} And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him talked with him.
down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. {44:22}
And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: {45:16} And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s
for [if] he should leave his father, [his father] would die. house, saying, Joseph’s brethren are come: and it pleased
{44:23} And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your Pharaoh well, and his servants. {45:17} And Pharaoh said
youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your
no more. {44:24} And it came to pass when we came up beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; {45:18}
unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my And take your father and your households, and come unto
lord. {44:25} And our father said, Go again, [and] buy us a me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and
little food. {44:26} And we said, We cannot go down: if our ye shall eat the fat of the land. {45:19} Now thou art
youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of
may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring
[be] with us. {44:27} And thy servant my father said unto your father, and come. {45:20} Also regard not your stuff;
us, Ye know that my wife bare me two [sons: ]{44:28} And for the good of all the land of Egypt [is] yours. {45:21} And
the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons,
pieces; and I saw him not since: {44:29} And if ye take this according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them
also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down provision for the way. {45:22} To all of them he gave each
my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. {44:30} Now man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three
therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad hundred [pieces] of silver, and five changes of raiment.
[be] not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s {45:23} And to his father he sent after this [manner;] ten
life; {44:31} It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses
lad [is] not [with us,] that he will die: and thy servants shall laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the
bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with way. {45:24} So he sent his brethren away, and they
sorrow to the grave. {44:32} For thy servant became surety departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by
for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto the way.
thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.
{44:33} Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide {45:25} And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the
instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, {45:26} And told
up with his brethren. {44:34} For how shall I go up to my him, saying, Joseph [is] yet alive, and he [is] governor over
father, and the lad [be] not with me? lest peradventure I see all the land of Egypt. And Jacob’s heart fainted, for he
the evil that shall come on my father. believed them not. {45:27} And they told him all the words
of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw
{45:1} Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of
them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to Jacob their father revived: {45:28} And Israel said, [It is]
go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while enough; Joseph my son [is] yet alive: I will go and see him
Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. {45:2} And before I die.
he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh
heard. {45:3} And Joseph said unto his brethren, I [am] {46:1} And Israel took his journey with all that he had,
Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God
answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. {45:4} of his father Isaac. {46:2} And God spake unto Israel in the
And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said,
you. And they came near. And he said, I [am] Joseph your Here [am] I. {46:3} And he said, I [am] God, the God of thy
brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. {45:5} Now therefore be father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make
not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me of thee a great nation: {46:4} I will go down with thee into
hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up [again:] and
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Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. {46:5} And direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of
Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel Goshen. {46:29} And Joseph made ready his chariot, and
carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented
wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his
{46:6} And they took their cattle, and their goods, which neck a good while. {46:30} And Israel said unto Joseph,
they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou
Jacob, and all his seed with him: {46:7} His sons, and his [art] yet alive. {46:31} And Joseph said unto his brethren,
sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and unto his father’s house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh,
and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. and say unto him, My brethren, and my father’s house,
which [were] in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;
{46:8} And these [are] the names of the children of Israel, {46:32} And the men [are] shepherds, for their trade hath
which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and
Jacob’s firstborn. {46:9} And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, their herds, and all that they have. {46:33} And it shall
and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say,
What [is] your occupation? {46:34} That ye shall say, Thy
{46:10} And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and servants’ trade hath been about cattle from our youth even
Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a until now, both we, [and] also our fathers: that ye may dwell
Canaanitish woman. in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd [is] an
abomination unto the Egyptians.
{46:11} And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and
Merari. {47:1} Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My
father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds,
{46:12} And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan;
and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of and, behold, they [are] in the land of Goshen. {47:2} And
Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul. he took some of his brethren, [even] five men, and
presented them unto Pharaoh. {47:3} And Pharaoh said
{46:13} And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and unto his brethren, What [is] your occupation? And they said
Job, and Shimron. unto Pharaoh, Thy servants [are] shepherds, both we, [and]
also our fathers. {47:4} They said moreover unto Pharaoh,
{46:14} And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants
Jahleel. {46:15} These [be] the sons of Leah, which she have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine [is] sore in
bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy
the souls of his sons and his daughters [were] thirty and servants dwell in the land of Goshen. {47:5} And Pharaoh
three. spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are
come unto thee: {47:6} The land of Egypt [is] before thee;
{46:16} And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell;
and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest
[any] men of activity among them, then make them rulers
{46:17} And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and over my cattle. {47:7} And Joseph brought in Jacob his
Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed
Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel. {46:18} These [are] the sons Pharaoh. {47:8} And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old
of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and [art] thou? {47:9} And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days
these she bare unto Jacob, [even] sixteen souls. {46:19} The of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty
sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life
been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the
{46:20} And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. {47:10}
Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti- And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before
pherah priest of On bare unto him. Pharaoh.
{46:21} And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and {47:11} And Joseph placed his father and his brethren,
Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best
Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. {46:22} These [are] the of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had
sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls commanded. {47:12} And Joseph nourished his father, and
[were] fourteen. his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread,
according to [their] families.
{46:23} And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
{47:13} And [there was] no bread in all the land; for the
{46:24} And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and famine [was] very sore, so that the land of Egypt and [all]
Jezer, and Shillem. {46:25} These [are] the sons of Bilhah, the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. {47:14}
which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the
these unto Jacob: all the souls [were] seven. {46:26} All the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which
souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s
his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls [were] house. {47:15} And when money failed in the land of
threescore and six; {46:27} And the sons of Joseph, which Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came
were born him in Egypt, [were] two souls: all the souls of unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die
the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, [were] in thy presence? for the money faileth. {47:16} And Joseph
threescore and ten. said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if
money fail. {47:17} And they brought their cattle unto
{46:28} And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread [in exchange] for
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horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is
and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their Bethlehem. {48:8} And Israel beheld Joseph’s sons, and
cattle for that year. {47:18} When that year was ended, they said, Who [are] these? {48:9} And Joseph said unto his
came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will father, They [are] my sons, whom God hath given me in this
not hide [it] from my lord, how that our money is spent; my [place.] And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I
lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in will bless them. {48:10} Now the eyes of Israel were dim
the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: {47:19} for age, [so that] he could not see. And he brought them
Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land {48:11} And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to
will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give [us] seed, that we see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate. {47:20} {48:12} And Joseph brought them out from between his
And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine {48:13} And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right
prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s. {47:21} hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from [one] hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought [them] near
end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end thereof. unto him. {48:14} And Israel stretched out his right hand,
{47:22} Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who [was] the younger,
priests had a portion [assigned them] of Pharaoh, and did and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands
eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they wittingly; for Manasseh [was] the firstborn.
sold not their lands. {47:23} Then Joseph said unto the
people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land {48:15} And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before
for Pharaoh: lo, [here is] seed for you, and ye shall sow the whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God
land. {47:24} And it shall come to pass in the increase, that which fed me all my life long unto this day, {48:16} The
ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and
shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers
and for them of your households, and for food for your little Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in
ones. {47:25} And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let the midst of the earth. {48:17} And when Joseph saw that
us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it
Pharaoh’s servants. {47:26} And Joseph made it a law over displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove
the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head. {48:18} And
the fifth [part;] except the land of the priests only, [which] Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this [is]
became not Pharaoh’s. the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. {48:19} And
his father refused, and said, I know [it,] my son, I know [it:]
{47:27} And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great:
country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and
grew, and multiplied exceedingly. {47:28} And Jacob lived his seed shall become a multitude of nations. {48:20} And
in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless,
Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. {47:29} And saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he
the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his set Ephraim before Manasseh. {48:21} And Israel said unto
son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring
thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal you again unto the land of your fathers. {48:22} Moreover I
kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I
{47:30} But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with
me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he my bow.
said, I will do as thou hast said. {47:31} And he said, Swear
unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself {49:1} And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather
upon the bed’s head. yourselves together, that I may tell you [that] which shall
befall you in the last days. {49:2} Gather yourselves
{48:1} And it came to pass after these things, that [one] together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel
told Joseph, Behold, thy father [is] sick: and he took with your father.
him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. {48:2} And [one]
told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto {49:3} Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my might, and the
thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the
{48:3} And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty excellency of power: {49:4} Unstable as water, thou shalt
appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then
me, {48:4} And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee defiledst thou [it:] he went up to my couch.
fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a
multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after {49:5} Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of
thee [for] an everlasting possession. cruelty [are in] their habitations. {49:6} O my soul, come
not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour,
{48:5} And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in
which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I their selfwill they digged down a wall. {49:7} Cursed [be]
came unto thee into Egypt, [are] mine; as Reuben and their anger, for [it was] fierce; and their wrath, for it was
Simeon, they shall be mine. {48:6} And thy issue, which cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
thou begettest after them, shall be thine, [and] shall be
called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. {49:8} Judah, thou [art he] whom thy brethren shall
{48:7} And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel praise: thy hand [shall be] in the neck of thine enemies; thy
died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet father’s children shall bow down before thee. {49:9} Judah
[there was] but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I [is] a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up:
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he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; {50:1} And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept
who shall rouse him up? {49:10} The sceptre shall not upon him, and kissed him. {50:2} And Joseph commanded
depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the
until Shiloh come; and unto him [shall] the gathering of the physicians embalmed Israel. {50:3} And forty days were
people [be. ]{49:11} Binding his foal unto the vine, and his fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which
ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him
wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: {49:12} His threescore and ten days. {50:4} And when the days of his
eyes [shall be] red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of
Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes,
{49:13} Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, {50:5} My
he [shall be] for an haven of ships; and his border [shall be] father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which
unto Zidon. I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou
bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury
{49:14} Issachar [is] a strong ass couching down between my father, and I will come again. {50:6} And Pharaoh said,
two burdens: {49:15} And he saw that rest [was] good, and Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee
the land that [it was] pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to swear.
bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
{50:7} And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with
{49:16} Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his
Israel. {49:17} Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, {50:8} And
in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s
fall backward. {49:18} I have waited for thy salvation, O house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their
LORD. herds, they left in the land of Goshen. {50:9} And there
went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a
{49:19} Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall very great company. {50:10} And they came to the
overcome at the last. threshingfloor of Atad, which [is] beyond Jordan, and there
they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and
{49:20} Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall he made a mourning for his father seven days. {50:11} And
yield royal dainties. when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the
mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This [is] a grievous
{49:21} Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth goodly mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was
words. called Abel-mizraim, which [is] beyond Jordan. {50:12}
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded
{49:22} Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful them: {50:13} For his sons carried him into the land of
bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall: Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of
{49:23} The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a
him,] and hated him: {49:24} But his bow abode in possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before
strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the Mamre.
hands of the mighty [God] of Jacob; (from thence [is] the
shepherd, the stone of Israel:) {49:25} [Even] by the God of {50:14} And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his
thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father,
shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of after he had buried his father.
the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the
womb: {49:26} The blessings of thy father have prevailed {50:15} And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father
above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and
bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was {50:16} And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying,
separate from his brethren. Thy father did command before he died, saying, {50:17} So
shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the
{49:27} Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the morning trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee
he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the
spoil. servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when
they spake unto him. {50:18} And his brethren also went
{49:28} All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel: and this and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we
[is it] that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; [be] thy servants. {50:19} And Joseph said unto them, Fear
every one according to his blessing he blessed them. not: for [am] I in the place of God? {50:20} But as for you,
{49:29} And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to ye thought evil against me; [but] God meant it unto good, to
be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the bring to pass, as [it is] this day, to save much people alive.
cave that [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite, {49:30} In {50:21} Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and
the cave that [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly
before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham unto them.
bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession
of a buryingplace. {49:31} There they buried Abraham and {50:22} And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s
Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. {50:23}
wife; and there I buried Leah. {49:32} The purchase of the And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third
field and of the cave that [is] therein [was] from the children [generation:] the children also of Machir the son Manasseh
of Heth. {49:33} And when Jacob had made an end of were brought up upon Joseph’s knees. {50:24} And Joseph
commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you,
and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware
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to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. {50:25} And Joseph
took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will
surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
{50:26} So Joseph died, [being] an hundred and ten years
old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in
Egypt.
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The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus had compassion on him, and said, This [is one] of the
Hebrews’ children. {2:7} Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s
daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew
women, that she may nurse the child for thee? {2:8} And
{1:1} Now these [are] the names of the children of Israel, Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and
which came into Egypt; every man and his household came called the child’s mother. {2:9} And Pharaoh’s daughter
with Jacob. {1:2} Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, {1:3} said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, {1:4} Dan, and Naphtali, I will give [thee] thy wages. And the woman took the child,
Gad, and Asher. {1:5} And all the souls that came out of the and nursed it. {2:10} And the child grew, and she brought
loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And
[already. ]{1:6} And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew
all that generation. him out of the water.
{1:7} And the children of Israel were fruitful, and {2:11} And it came to pass in those days, when Moses
increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked
mighty; and the land was filled with them. {1:8} Now there on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an
arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. Hebrew, one of his brethren. {2:12} And he looked this way
{1:9} And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the and that way, and when he saw that [there was] no man, he
children of Israel [are] more and mightier than we: {1:10} slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. {2:13} And
Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the
and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the
they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? {2:14} And he
[so] get them up out of the land. {1:11} Therefore they did said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest
set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses
And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. {2:15} Now
Raamses. {1:12} But the more they afflicted them, the more when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But
they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land
the children of Israel. {1:13} And the Egyptians made the of Midian: and he sat down by a well. {2:16} Now the
children of Israel to serve with rigour: {1:14} And they priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and
made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in drew [water,] and filled the troughs to water their father’s
brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their flock. {2:17} And the shepherds came and drove them
service, wherein they made them serve, [was] with rigour. away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered
their flock. {2:18} And when they came to Reuel their
{1:15} And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew father, he said, How [is it that] ye are come so soon to day?
midwives, of which the name of the one [was] Shiphrah, {2:19} And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the
and the name of the other Puah: {1:16} And he said, When hand of the shepherds, and also drew [water] enough for us,
ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see and watered the flock. {2:20} And he said unto his
[them] upon the stools; if it [be] a son, then ye shall kill daughters, And where [is] he? why [is] it [that] ye have left
him: but if it [be] a daughter, then she shall live. {1:17} But the man? call him, that he may eat bread. {2:21} And
the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave
commanded them, but saved the men children alive. {1:18} Moses Zipporah his daughter. {2:22} And she bare [him] a
And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have
unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the been a stranger in a strange land.
men children alive? {1:19} And the midwives said unto
Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women [are] not as the {2:23} And it came to pass in process of time, that the
Egyptian women; for they [are] lively, and are delivered ere king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by
the midwives come in unto them. {1:20} Therefore God reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up
dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and unto God by reason of the bondage. {2:24} And God heard
waxed very mighty. {1:21} And it came to pass, because their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with
the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. {1:22} Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. {2:25} And God
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect
is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye unto [them.
shall save alive.
]{3:1} Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in
{2:1} And there went a man of the house of Levi, and law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the
took [to wife] a daughter of Levi. {2:2} And the woman backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God,
conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he [even] to Horeb. {3:2} And the angel of the LORD
[was a] goodly [child,] she hid him three months. {2:3} And appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a
when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire,
of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and and the bush [was] not consumed. {3:3} And Moses said, I
put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is
river’s brink. {2:4} And his sister stood afar off, to wit what not burnt. {3:4} And when the LORD saw that he turned
would be done to him. aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the
bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here [am] I.
{2:5} And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash {3:5} And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes
[herself] at the river; and her maidens walked along by the from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is
river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she holy ground. {3:6} Moreover he said, I [am] the God of thy
sent her maid to fetch it. {2:6} And when she had opened father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
[it,] she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look
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upon God. Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he
put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his
{3:7} And the LORD said, I have surely seen the hand: {4:5} That they may believe that the LORD God of
affliction of my people which [are] in Egypt, and have their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
their sorrows; {3:8} And I am come down to deliver them
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out {4:6} And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now
of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his
flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand [was]
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the leprous as snow. {4:7} And he said, Put thine hand into thy
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. {3:9} Now bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and
therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again
unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the as his [other] flesh. {4:8} And it shall come to pass, if they
Egyptians oppress them. {3:10} Come now therefore, and I will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first
will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. {4:9}
my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these
two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt
{3:11} And Moses said unto God, Who [am] I, that I take of the water of the river, and pour [it] upon the dry
should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the [land:] and the water which thou takest out of the river shall
children of Israel out of Egypt? {3:12} And he said, become blood upon the dry [land.
Certainly I will be with thee; and this [shall be] a token unto
thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the ]{4:10} And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I
people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. [am] not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast
{3:13} And Moses said unto God, Behold, [when] I come spoken unto thy servant: but I [am] slow of speech, and of a
unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The slow tongue. {4:11} And the LORD said unto him, Who
God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf,
say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD? {4:12}
{3:14} And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach
he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I thee what thou shalt say. {4:13} And he said, O my Lord,
AM hath sent me unto you. {3:15} And God said moreover send, I pray thee, by the hand [of him whom] thou wilt
unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, send. {4:14} And the anger of the LORD was kindled
The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the against Moses, and he said, [Is] not Aaron the Levite thy
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he
this [is] my name for ever, and this [is] my memorial unto cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will
all generations. {3:16} Go, and gather the elders of Israel be glad in his heart. {4:15} And thou shalt speak unto him,
together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth,
fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and {4:16} And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and
[seen] that which is done to you in Egypt: {3:17} And I he shall be, [even] he shall be to thee instead of a mouth,
have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt and thou shalt be to him instead of God. {4:17} And thou
unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the signs.
Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. {3:18}
And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, {4:18} And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father
thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return
shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath unto my brethren which [are] in Egypt, and see whether
met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days’ they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the {4:19} And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go,
LORD our God. return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy
life. {4:20} And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set
{3:19} And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and
you go, no, not by a mighty hand. {3:20} And I will stretch Moses took the rod of God in his hand. {4:21} And the
out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into
will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go. Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh,
{3:21} And I will give this people favour in the sight of the which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart,
Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye that he shall not let the people go. {4:22} And thou shalt say
shall not go empty: {3:22} But every woman shall borrow unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel [is] my son,
of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, [even] my firstborn: {4:23} And I say unto thee, Let my son
jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go,
shall put [them] upon your sons, and upon your daughters; behold, I will slay thy son, [even] thy firstborn.
and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
{4:24} And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the
{4:1} And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they LORD met him, and sought to kill him. {4:25} Then
will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her
will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee. {4:2} And son, and cast [it] at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody
the LORD said unto him, What [is] that in thine hand? And husband [art] thou to me. {4:26} So he let him go: then she
he said, A rod. {4:3} And he said, Cast it on the ground. said, A bloody husband [thou art,] because of the
And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and circumcision.
Moses fled from before it. {4:4} And the LORD said unto
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{4:27} And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge;
wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes
mount of God, and kissed him. {4:28} And Moses told of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in
Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all their hand to slay us. {5:22} And Moses returned unto the
the signs which he had commanded him. LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou [so] evil
entreated this people? why [is] it [that] thou hast sent me?
{4:29} And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together {5:23} For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he
all the elders of the children of Israel: {4:30} And Aaron hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy
spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto people at all.
Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. {4:31}
And the people believed: and when they heard that the {6:1} Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou
LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall
looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them
and worshipped. out of his land. {6:2} And God spake unto Moses, and said
unto him, I [am] the LORD: {6:3} And I appeared unto
{5:1} And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God
Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to
go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. them. {6:4} And I have also established my covenant with
{5:2} And Pharaoh said, Who [is] the LORD, that I should them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their
obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. {6:5} And I have
neither will I let Israel go. {5:3} And they said, The God of also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the
the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my
days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD covenant. {6:6} Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I
our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the [am] the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the
sword. {5:4} And the king of Egypt said unto them, burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their
Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm,
their works? get you unto your burdens. {5:5} And Pharaoh and with great judgments: {6:7} And I will take you to me
said, Behold, the people of the land now [are] many, and ye for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know
make them rest from their burdens. {5:6} And Pharaoh that I [am] the LORD your God, which bringeth you out
commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and from under the burdens of the Egyptians. {6:8} And I will
their officers, saying, {5:7} Ye shall no more give the bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear
people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give
gather straw for themselves. {5:8} And the tale of the it you for an heritage: I [am] the LORD.
bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon
them; ye shall not diminish [ought] thereof: for they [be] {6:9} And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but
idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go [and] sacrifice to they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for
our God. {5:9} Let there more work be laid upon the men, cruel bondage. {6:10} And the LORD spake unto Moses,
that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain saying, {6:11} Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt,
words. that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. {6:12}
And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the
{5:10} And the taskmasters of the people went out, and children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then
their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus shall Pharaoh hear me, who [am] of uncircumcised lips?
saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. {5:11} Go ye, get {6:13} And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto
shall be diminished. {5:12} So the people were scattered Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of
abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble the land of Egypt.
instead of straw. {5:13} And the taskmasters hasted [them,]
saying, Fulfil your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there {6:14} These [be] the heads of their fathers’ houses: The
was straw. {5:14} And the officers of the children of Israel, sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu,
which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were Hezron, and Carmi: these [be] the families of Reuben.
beaten, [and] demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled {6:15} And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and
your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a
heretofore? Canaanitish woman: these [are] the families of Simeon.
{5:15} Then the officers of the children of Israel came {6:16} And these [are] the names of the sons of Levi
and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and
with thy servants? {5:16} There is no straw given unto thy Merari: and the years of the life of Levi [were] an hundred
servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy thirty and seven years. {6:17} The sons of Gershon; Libni,
servants [are] beaten; but the fault [is] in thine own people. and Shimi, according to their families. {6:18} And the sons
{5:17} But he said, Ye [are] idle, [ye are] idle: therefore ye of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and
say, Let us go [and] do sacrifice to the LORD. {5:18} Go the years of the life of Kohath [were] an hundred thirty and
therefore now, [and] work; for there shall no straw be given three years. {6:19} And the sons of Merari; Mahali and
you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. {5:19} And the Mushi: these [are] the families of Levi according to their
officers of the children of Israel did see [that] they [were] in generations. {6:20} And Amram took him Jochebed his
evil [case,] after it was said, Ye shall not minish [ought] father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses:
from your bricks of your daily task. and the years of the life of Amram [were] an hundred and
thirty and seven years.
{5:20} And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the
way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: {5:21} And they {6:21} And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and
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Zichri. {6:22} And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and be turned to blood. {7:18} And the fish that [is] in the river
Elzaphan, and Zithri. {6:23} And Aaron took him Elisheba, shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall
daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she lothe to drink of the water of the river.
bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. {6:24}
And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: {7:19} And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto
these [are] the families of the Korhites. {6:25} And Eleazar Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the
Aaron’s son took him [one] of the daughters of Putiel to waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and
wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these [are] the heads of upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they
the fathers of the Levites according to their families. {6:26} may become blood; and [that] there may be blood
These [are] that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, throughout all the land of Egypt, both in [vessels of] wood,
Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt and in [vessels of] stone. {7:20} And Moses and Aaron did
according to their armies. {6:27} These [are] they which so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and
spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of smote the waters that [were] in the river, in the sight of
Israel from Egypt: these [are] that Moses and Aaron. Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters
that [were] in the river were turned to blood. {7:21} And
{6:28} And it came to pass on the day [when] the LORD the fish that [was] in the river died; and the river stank, and
spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt, {6:29} That the the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and
LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I [am] the LORD: speak there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. {7:22}
thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee. And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments:
{6:30} And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I [am] of and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, neither did he hearken
uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me? unto them; as the LORD had said. {7:23} And Pharaoh
turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart
{7:1} And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made to this also. {7:24} And all the Egyptians digged round
thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of
prophet. {7:2} Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: the water of the river. {7:25} And seven days were fulfilled,
and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he after that the LORD had smitten the river.
send the children of Israel out of his land. {7:3} And I will
harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my {8:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto
wonders in the land of Egypt. {7:4} But Pharaoh shall not Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my
hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and people go, that they may serve me. {8:2} And if thou refuse
bring forth mine armies, [and] my people the children of to let [them] go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with
Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. {7:5} frogs: {8:3} And the river shall bring forth frogs
And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house,
stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the
children of Israel from among them. {7:6} And Moses and house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine
Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they. ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs: {8:4} And the frogs
{7:7} And Moses [was] fourscore years old, and Aaron shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon
fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto all thy servants.
Pharaoh.
{8:5} And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron,
{7:8} And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over
saying, {7:9} When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up
Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, upon the land of Egypt. {8:6} And Aaron stretched out his
Take thy rod, and cast [it] before Pharaoh, [and] it shall hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and
become a serpent. covered the land of Egypt. {8:7} And the magicians did so
with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land
{7:10} And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and of Egypt.
they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast
down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it {8:8} Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and
became a serpent. {7:11} Then Pharaoh also called the wise said, Intreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs
men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go,
also did in like manner with their enchantments. {7:12} For that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD. {8:9} And
they cast down every man his rod, and they became Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I
serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. {7:13} intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to
And he hardened Pharaoh’s heart, that he hearkened not destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, [that] they may
unto them; as the LORD had said. remain in the river only? {8:10} And he said, To morrow.
And he said, [Be it] according to thy word: that thou mayest
{7:14} And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh’s heart know that [there is] none like unto the LORD our God.
[is] hardened, he refuseth to let the people go. {7:15} Get {8:11} And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy
thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they
water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink against he shall remain in the river only. {8:12} And Moses and Aaron
come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD
take in thine hand. {7:16} And thou shalt say unto him, The because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.
LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, {8:13} And the LORD did according to the word of Moses;
Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and
and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear. {7:17} Thus out of the fields. {8:14} And they gathered them together
saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I [am] the upon heaps: and the land stank. {8:15} But when Pharaoh
LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that [is] in mine saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and
hand upon the waters which [are] in the river, and they shall hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
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{8:16} And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Israel died not one. {9:7} And Pharaoh sent, and, behold,
Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And
may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. {8:17} the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the
And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his people go.
rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in
man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice {9:8} And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron,
throughout all the land of Egypt. {8:18} And the magicians Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses
did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. {9:9}
could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast. And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and
{8:19} Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This [is] the shall be a boil breaking forth [with] blains upon man, and
finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt. {9:10} And
hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said. they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh;
and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a
{8:20} And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in boil breaking forth [with] blains upon man, and upon beast.
the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth {9:11} And the magicians could not stand before Moses
to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians,
my people go, that they may serve me. {8:21} Else, if thou and upon all the Egyptians. {9:12} And the LORD
wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms [of hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto
flies] upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.
people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians
shall be full of swarms [of flies,] and also the ground {9:13} And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in
whereon they [are. ]{8:22} And I will sever in that day the the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him,
land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people
[of flies] shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I go, that they may serve me. {9:14} For I will at this time
[am] the LORD in the midst of the earth. {8:23} And I will send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants,
put a division between my people and thy people: to and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that [there is]
morrow shall this sign be. {8:24} And the LORD did so; none like me in all the earth. {9:15} For now I will stretch
and there came a grievous swarm [of flies] into the house of out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with
Pharaoh, and [into] his servants’ houses, and into all the pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. {9:16}
land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the And in very deed for this [cause] have I raised thee up, for
swarm [of flies. to shew [in] thee my power; and that my name may be
declared throughout all the earth. {9:17} As yet exaltest
]{8:25} And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them
said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. {8:26} And go? {9:18} Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it
Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt
abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, since the foundation thereof even until now. {9:19} Send
shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before therefore now, [and] gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast
their eyes, and will they not stone us? {8:27} We will go in the field; [for upon] every man and beast which shall be
three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail
LORD our God, as he shall command us. {8:28} And shall come down upon them, and they shall die. {9:20} He
Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of
LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the
very far away: intreat for me. {8:29} And Moses said, houses: {9:21} And he that regarded not the word of the
Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.
the swarms [of flies] may depart from Pharaoh, from his
servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not {9:22} And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth
Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the
go to sacrifice to the LORD. {8:30} And Moses went out land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every
from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD. {8:31} And the herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. {9:23} And
LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD
the swarms [of flies] from Pharaoh, from his servants, and sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the
from his people; there remained not one. {8:32} And ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would {9:24} So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail,
he let the people go. very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land
of Egypt since it became a nation. {9:25} And the hail
{9:1} Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that [was] in the
Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD God of the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of
Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. {9:2} the field, and brake every tree of the field. {9:26} Only in
For if thou refuse to let [them] go, and wilt hold them still, the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel [were,] was
{9:3} Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle there no hail.
which [is] in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon
the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: [there shall {9:27} And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and
be] a very grievous murrain. {9:4} And the LORD shall Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the
sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: LORD [is] righteous, and I and my people [are] wicked.
and there shall nothing die of all [that is] the children’s of {9:28} Intreat the LORD (for [it is] enough) that there be no
Israel. {9:5} And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, [more] mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go,
To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land. {9:6} and ye shall stay no longer. {9:29} And Moses said unto
And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread
cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of abroad my hands unto the LORD; [and] the thunder shall
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cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest {10:16} Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in
know how that the earth [is] the LORD’S. {9:30} But as for haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your
thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the God, and against you. {10:17} Now therefore forgive, I
LORD God. {9:31} And the flax and the barley was pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your
smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax [was] God, that he may take away from me this death only.
bolled. {9:32} But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: {10:18} And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the
for they [were] not grown up. {9:33} And Moses went out LORD. {10:19} And the LORD turned a mighty strong
of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into
the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts
was not poured upon the earth. {9:34} And when Pharaoh of Egypt. {10:20} But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart,
saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his
servants. {9:35} And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, {10:21} And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out
neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over
had spoken by Moses. the land of Egypt, even darkness [which] may be felt.
{10:22} And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven;
{10:1} And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three
Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his days: {10:23} They saw not one another, neither rose any
servants, that I might shew these my signs before him: from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel
{10:2} And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and had light in their dwellings.
of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and
my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know {10:24} And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye,
how that I [am] the LORD. {10:3} And Moses and Aaron serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be
came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the stayed: let your little ones also go with you. {10:25} And
LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt
humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.
serve me. {10:4} Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, {10:26} Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an
behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the
{10:5} And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve
cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue the LORD, until we come thither.
of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from
the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out {10:27} But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he
of the field: {10:6} And they shall fill thy houses, and the would not let them go. {10:28} And Pharaoh said unto him,
houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no
Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers more; for in [that] day thou seest my face thou shalt die.
have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto {10:29} And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see
this day. And he turned himself, and went out from thy face again no more.
Pharaoh. {10:7} And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him,
How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, {11:1} And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring
that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not one plague [more] upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt;
yet that Egypt is destroyed? {10:8} And Moses and Aaron afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let [you]
were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether. {11:2}
Go, serve the LORD your God: [but] who [are] they that Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man
shall go? {10:9} And Moses said, We will go with our borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her
young and with our old, with our sons and with our neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold. {11:3} And
daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the
for we [must hold] a feast unto the LORD. {10:10} And he Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses [was] very great in the
said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the
you go, and your little ones: look [to it;] for evil [is] before sight of the people. {11:4} And Moses said, Thus saith the
you. {10:11} Not so: go now ye [that are] men, and serve LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of
the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out Egypt: {11:5} And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt
from Pharaoh’s presence. shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his
throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that [is]
{10:12} And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts. {11:6} And
thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt,
may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
the land, [even] all that the hail hath left. {10:13} And {11:7} But against any of the children of Israel shall not a
Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may
the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the
and all [that] night; [and] when it was morning, the east Egyptians and Israel. {11:8} And all these thy servants shall
wind brought the locusts. {10:14} And the locusts went up come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me,
over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and
Egypt: very grievous [were they;] before them there were after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a
no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. great anger. {11:9} And the LORD said unto Moses,
{10:15} For they covered the face of the whole earth, so Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may
that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of be multiplied in the land of Egypt. {11:10} And Moses and
the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD
and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the
herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt. children of Israel go out of his land.
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{12:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with
the land of Egypt, saying, {12:2} This month [shall be] unto the blood that [is] in the bason; and none of you shall go out
you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of at the door of his house until the morning. {12:23} For the
the year to you. LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when
he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts,
{12:3} Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the
saying, In the tenth [day] of this month they shall take to destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite [you.
them every man a lamb, according to the house of [their] ]{12:24} And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to
fathers, a lamb for an house: {12:4} And if the household thee and to thy sons for ever. {12:25} And it shall come to
be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will
unto his house take [it] according to the number of the give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep
souls; every man according to his eating shall make your this service. {12:26} And it shall come to pass, when your
count for the lamb. {12:5} Your lamb shall be without children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take [it] out from {12:27} That ye shall say, It [is] the sacrifice of the
the sheep, or from the goats: {12:6} And ye shall keep it up LORD’S passover, who passed over the houses of the
until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians,
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head
evening. {12:7} And they shall take of the blood, and strike and worshipped. {12:28} And the children of Israel went
[it] on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and
houses, wherein they shall eat it. {12:8} And they shall eat Aaron, so did they.
the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread;
[and] with bitter [herbs] they shall eat it. {12:9} Eat not of it {12:29} And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD
raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast [with] fire; his smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the
head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. {12:10} firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and of the captive that [was] in the dungeon; and all the
that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn firstborn of cattle. {12:30} And Pharaoh rose up in the
with fire. night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and
there was a great cry in Egypt; for [there was] not a house
{12:11} And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, where [there was] not one dead.
your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye
shall eat it in haste: it [is] the LORD’S passover. {12:12} {12:31} And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will said, Rise up, [and] get you forth from among my people,
smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD,
beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute as ye have said. {12:32} Also take your flocks and your
judgment: I [am] the LORD. {12:13} And the blood shall herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
be to you for a token upon the houses where ye [are:] and {12:33} And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people,
when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they
shall not be upon you to destroy [you,] when I smite the said, We [be] all dead [men. ]{12:34} And the people took
land of Egypt. {12:14} And this day shall be unto you for a their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs
memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an {12:35} And the children of Israel did according to the
ordinance for ever. {12:15} Seven days shall ye eat word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels
unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: {12:36} And the
leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians,
bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall so that they lent unto them [such things as they required.]
be cut off from Israel. {12:16} And in the first day [there And they spoiled the Egyptians.
shall be] an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there
shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work {12:37} And the children of Israel journeyed from
shall be done in them, save [that] which every man must Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot
eat, that only may be done of you. {12:17} And ye shall [that were] men, beside children. {12:38} And a mixed
observe [the feast of] unleavened bread; for in this selfsame multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds,
day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: [even] very much cattle. {12:39} And they baked
therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out
ordinance for ever. of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust
out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared
{12:18} In the first [month,] on the fourteenth day of the for themselves any victual.
month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one
and twentieth day of the month at even. {12:19} Seven days {12:40} Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who
shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for dwelt in Egypt, [was] four hundred and thirty years.
whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul {12:41} And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred
shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that
be a stranger, or born in the land. {12:20} Ye shall eat all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat {12:42} It [is] a night to be much observed unto the LORD
unleavened bread. for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this [is] that
night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of
{12:21} Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and Israel in their generations.
said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to
your families, and kill the passover. {12:22} And ye shall {12:43} And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This
take a bunch of hyssop, and dip [it] in the blood that [is] in [is] the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger
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eat thereof: {12:44} But every man’s servant that is bought for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine
for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out
eat thereof. {12:45} A foreigner and an hired servant shall of Egypt.
not eat thereof. {12:46} In one house shall it be eaten; thou
shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the {13:17} And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the
house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. {12:47} All the people go, that God led them not [through] the way of the
congregation of Israel shall keep it. {12:48} And when a land of the Philistines, although that [was] near; for God
stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see
to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let war, and they return to Egypt: {13:18} But God led the
him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is people about, [through] the way of the wilderness of the
born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of
thereof. {12:49} One law shall be to him that is homeborn, the land of Egypt. {13:19} And Moses took the bones of
and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. {12:50} Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of
Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry
commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. {12:51} And it up my bones away hence with you.
came to pass the selfsame day, [that] the LORD did bring
the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their {13:20} And they took their journey from Succoth, and
armies. encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. {13:21}
And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a
{13:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {13:2} cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire,
Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the to give them light; to go by day and night: {13:22} He took
womb among the children of Israel, [both] of man and of not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire
beast: it [is] mine. by night, [from] before the people.
{13:3} And Moses said unto the people, Remember this {14:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {14:2}
day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp
bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over
from this [place:] there shall no leavened bread be eaten. against Baal-zephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
{13:4} This day came ye out in the month Abib. {14:3} For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They
[are] entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
{13:5} And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee {14:4} And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall
into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh,
Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I
sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk [am] the LORD. And they did so.
and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
{13:6} Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in {14:5} And it was told the king of Egypt that the people
the seventh day [shall be] a feast to the LORD. {13:7} fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall against the people, and they said, Why have we done this,
no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be that we have let Israel go from serving us? {14:6} And he
leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters. made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
{14:7} And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the
{13:8} And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
[This is done] because of that [which] the LORD did unto {14:8} And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king
me when I came forth out of Egypt. {13:9} And it shall be of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the
for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial children of Israel went out with an high hand. {14:9} But
between thine eyes, that the LORD’S law may be in thy the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses [and]
mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and
out of Egypt. {13:10} Thou shalt therefore keep this overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth,
ordinance in his season from year to year. before Baal-zephon.
{13:11} And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee {14:10} And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of
into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians
thy fathers, and shall give it thee, {13:12} That thou shalt marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the
set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and children of Israel cried out unto the LORD. {14:11} And
every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the they said unto Moses, Because [there were] no graves in
males [shall be] the LORD’S. {13:13} And every firstling Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?
of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out
redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the of Egypt? {14:12} [Is] not this the word that we did tell thee
firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem. in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the
Egyptians? For [it had been] better for us to serve the
{13:14} And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
to come, saying, What [is] this? that thou shalt say unto
him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from {14:13} And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not,
Egypt, from the house of bondage: {13:15} And it came to stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will
pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to
slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. {14:14} The
of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the
firstborn of my children I redeem. {13:16} And it shall be {14:15} And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore
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criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest
they go forward: {14:16} But lift thou up thy rod, and forth thy wrath, [which] consumed them as stubble. {15:8}
stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered
children of Israel shall go on dry [ground] through the midst together, the floods stood upright as an heap, [and] the
of the sea. {14:17} And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of depths were congealed in the heart of the sea. {15:9} The
the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the
honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my
chariots, and upon his horsemen. {14:18} And the sword, my hand shall destroy them. {15:10} Thou didst
Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead
gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and in the mighty waters. {15:11} Who [is] like unto thee, O
upon his horsemen. LORD, among the gods? who [is] like thee, glorious in
holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing wonders? {15:12} Thou
{14:19} And the angel of God, which went before the stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the {15:13} Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people [which]
pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided [them] in thy strength
behind them: {14:20} And it came between the camp of the unto thy holy habitation. {15:14} The people shall hear,
Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and [and] be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of
darkness [to them,] but it gave light by night [to these:] so Palestina. {15:15} Then the dukes of Edom shall be
that the one came not near the other all the night. {14:21} amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
LORD caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all {15:16} Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the
that night, and made the sea dry [land,] and the waters were greatness of thine arm they shall be [as] still as a stone; till
divided. {14:22} And the children of Israel went into the thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over,
midst of the sea upon the dry [ground:] and the waters [which] thou hast purchased. {15:17} Thou shalt bring them
[were] a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, [in]
the place, O LORD, [which] thou hast made for thee to
{14:23} And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, [which] thy hands have
them to the midst of the sea, [even] all Pharaoh’s horses, his established. {15:18} The LORD shall reign for ever and
chariots, and his horsemen. {14:24} And it came to pass, ever. {15:19} For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his
that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD
the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the
troubled the host of the Egyptians, {14:25} And took off children of Israel went on dry [land] in the midst of the sea.
their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that
the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for {15:20} And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron,
the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians. took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after
her with timbrels and with dances. {15:21} And Miriam
{14:26} And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed
thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the
upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their sea. {15:22} So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and
horsemen. {14:27} And Moses stretched forth his hand over they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went
the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the
LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. {15:23} And when they came to Marah, they could not
{14:28} And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, drink of the waters of Marah, for they [were] bitter:
and the horsemen, [and] all the host of Pharaoh that came therefore the name of it was called Marah. {15:24} And the
into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we
of them. {14:29} But the children of Israel walked upon dry drink? {15:25} And he cried unto the LORD; and the
[land] in the midst of the sea; and the waters [were] a wall LORD shewed him a tree, [which] when he had cast into the
unto them on their right hand, and on their left. {14:30} waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them
Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea {15:26} And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the
shore. {14:31} And Israel saw that great work which the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right
LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and
LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses. keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon
thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I [am]
{15:1} Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this the LORD that healeth thee.
song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the
LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his {15:27} And they came to Elim, where [were] twelve
rider hath he thrown into the sea. {15:2} The LORD [is] my wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they
strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he [is] encamped there by the waters.
my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s
God, and I will exalt him. {15:3} The LORD [is] a man of {16:1} And they took their journey from Elim, and all the
war: the LORD [is] his name. {15:4} Pharaoh’s chariots congregation of the children of Israel came unto the
and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains wilderness of Sin, which [is] between Elim and Sinai, on the
also are drowned in the Red sea. {15:5} The depths have fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out
covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. {15:6} of the land of Egypt. {16:2} And the whole congregation of
Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in
right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. the wilderness: {16:3} And the children of Israel said unto
{15:7} And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD
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in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay
when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us up for you to be kept until the morning. {16:24} And they
forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not
hunger. stink, neither was there any worm therein. {16:25} And
Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day [is] a sabbath unto
{16:4} Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field. {16:26}
rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, [which
and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, is] the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
whether they will walk in my law, or no. {16:5} And it shall
come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare [that] {16:27} And it came to pass, [that] there went out [some]
which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they
gather daily. {16:6} And Moses and Aaron said unto all the found none. {16:28} And the LORD said unto Moses, How
children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt: {16:7} {16:29} See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath,
And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two
LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of
LORD: and what [are] we, that ye murmur against us? his place on the seventh day. {16:30} So the people rested
{16:8} And Moses said, [This shall be,] when the LORD on the seventh day. {16:31} And the house of Israel called
shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the the name thereof Manna: and it [was] like coriander seed,
morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your white; and the taste of it [was] like wafers [made] with
murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what [are] honey.
we? your murmurings [are] not against us, but against the
LORD. {16:32} And Moses said, This [is] the thing which the
LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your
{16:9} And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have
congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from
LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings. {16:10} And it the land of Egypt. {16:33} And Moses said unto Aaron,
came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it
of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in {16:34} As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it
the cloud. up before the Testimony, to be kept. {16:35} And the
children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came
{16:11} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto
{16:12} I have heard the murmurings of the children of the borders of the land of Canaan. {16:36} Now an omer
Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, [is] the tenth [part] of an ephah.
and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye
shall know that I [am] the LORD your God. {16:13} And it {17:1} And all the congregation of the children of Israel
came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys,
the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched
host. {16:14} And when the dew that lay was gone up, in Rephidim: and [there was] no water for the people to
behold, upon the face of the wilderness [there lay] a small drink. {17:2} Wherefore the people did chide with Moses,
round thing, [as] small as the hoar frost on the ground. and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said
{16:15} And when the children of Israel saw [it,] they said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt
one to another, It [is] manna: for they wist not what it [was.] the LORD? {17:3} And the people thirsted there for water;
And Moses said unto them, This [is] the bread which the and the people murmured against Moses, and said,
LORD hath given you to eat. Wherefore [is] this [that] thou hast brought us up out of
Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
{16:16} This [is] the thing which the LORD hath {17:4} And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall
commanded, Gather of it every man [according to] his I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of {17:5} And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the
your persons; take ye every man for [them] which [are] in people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy
his tents. {16:17} And the children of Israel did so, and rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand,
gathered, some more, some less. {16:18} And when they and go. {17:6} Behold, I will stand before thee there upon
did mete [it] with an omer, he that gathered much had the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there
nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And
gathered every man according to his eating. {16:19} And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. {17:7} And
Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning. {16:20} he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah,
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because
of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or
stank: and Moses was wroth with them. {16:21} And they not?
gathered it every morning, every man according to his
eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. {17:8} Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in
Rephidim. {17:9} And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us
{16:22} And it came to pass, [that] on the sixth day they out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will
gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one [man:] stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine
and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. hand. {17:10} So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and
{16:23} And he said unto them, This [is that] which the fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to
LORD hath said, To morrow [is] the rest of the holy sabbath the top of the hill. {17:11} And it came to pass, when
unto the LORD: bake [that] which ye will bake [to day,] and Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he
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let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. {17:12} But Moses’ {18:20} And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws,
hands [were] heavy; and they took a stone, and put [it] and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and
under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up the work that they must do. {18:21} Moreover thou shalt
his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God,
side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [such] over
sun. {17:13} And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his them, [to be] rulers of thousands, [and] rulers of hundreds,
people with the edge of the sword. {17:14} And the LORD rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: {18:22} And let them
said unto Moses, Write this [for] a memorial in a book, and judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, [that] every
rehearse [it] in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small
the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. {17:15} matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and
And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah- they shall bear [the burden] with thee. {18:23} If thou shalt
nissi: {17:16} For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn do this thing, and God command thee [so,] then thou shalt
[that] the LORD [will have] war with Amalek from be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their
generation to generation. place in peace. {18:24} So Moses hearkened to the voice of
his father in law, and did all that he had said. {18:25} And
{18:1} When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them
in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of
Israel his people, [and] that the LORD had brought Israel hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. {18:26} And
out of Egypt; {18:2} Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they
took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back, brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged
{18:3} And her two sons; of which the name of the one themselves.
[was] Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a
strange land: {18:4} And the name of the other [was] {18:27} And Moses let his father in law depart; and he
Eliezer; for the God of my father, [said he, was] mine help, went his way into his own land.
and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh: {18:5} And
Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his {19:1} In the third month, when the children of Israel
wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came
the mount of God: {18:6} And he said unto Moses, I thy they [into] the wilderness of Sinai. {19:2} For they were
father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and departed from Rephidim, and were come [to] the desert of
her two sons with her. Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel
camped before the mount. {19:3} And Moses went up unto
{18:7} And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain,
did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell
[their] welfare; and they came into the tent. {18:8} And the children of Israel; {19:4} Ye have seen what I did unto
Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done the Egyptians, and [how] I bare you on eagles’ wings, and
unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, [and] brought you unto myself. {19:5} Now therefore, if ye will
all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall
[how] the LORD delivered them. {18:9} And Jethro be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the
rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to earth [is] mine: {19:6} And ye shall be unto me a kingdom
Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the of priests, and an holy nation. These [are] the words which
Egyptians. {18:10} And Jethro said, Blessed [be] the thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath {19:7} And Moses came and called for the elders of the
delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. people, and laid before their faces all these words which the
{18:11} Now I know that the LORD [is] greater than all LORD commanded him. {19:8} And all the people
gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly [he was] answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken
above them. {18:12} And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people
a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, unto the LORD. {19:9} And the LORD said unto Moses,
and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may
in law before God. hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And
Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
{18:13} And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses
sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from {19:10} And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the
the morning unto the evening. {18:14} And when Moses’ people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let
father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What them wash their clothes, {19:11} And be ready against the
[is] this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the
thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. {19:12} And thou
unto even? {18:15} And Moses said unto his father in law, shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take
Because the people come unto me to enquire of God: heed to yourselves, [that ye] go [not] up into the mount, or
{18:16} When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall
judge between one and another, and I do make [them] know be surely put to death: {19:13} There shall not an hand
the statutes of God, and his laws. {18:17} And Moses’ touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through;
father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest [is] whether [it be] beast or man, it shall not live: when the
not good. {18:18} Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
and this people that [is] with thee: for this thing [is] too
heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. {19:14} And Moses went down from the mount unto the
{18:19} Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their
counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people clothes. {19:15} And he said unto the people, Be ready
to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: against the third day: come not at [your] wives.
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{19:16} And it came to pass on the third day in the thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with
morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a us, lest we die. {20:20} And Moses said unto the people,
thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear
exceeding loud; so that all the people that [was] in the camp may be before your faces, that ye sin not. {20:21} And the
trembled. {19:17} And Moses brought forth the people out people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick
of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether darkness where God [was.
part of the mount. {19:18} And mount Sinai was altogether
on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: ]{20:22} And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt
and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have
and the whole mount quaked greatly. {19:19} And when the talked with you from heaven. {20:23} Ye shall not make
voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods
louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. of gold.
{19:20} And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on
the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses [up] to {20:24} An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and
the top of the mount; and Moses went up. {19:21} And the shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace
LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I
they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
them perish. {19:22} And let the priests also, which come {20:25} And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou
near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool
break forth upon them. {19:23} And Moses said unto the upon it, thou hast polluted it. {20:26} Neither shalt thou go
LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not
chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and discovered thereon.
sanctify it. {19:24} And the LORD said unto him, Away,
get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron {21:1} Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt
with thee: but let not the priests and the people break set before them. {21:2} If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six
through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free
upon them. {19:25} So Moses went down unto the people, for nothing. {21:3} If he came in by himself, he shall go out
and spake unto them. by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out
with him. {21:4} If his master have given him a wife, and
{20:1} And God spake all these words, saying, {20:2} I she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her
[am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. {20:3} Thou himself. {21:5} And if the servant shall plainly say, I love
shalt have no other gods before me. {20:4} Thou shalt not my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any {21:6} Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he
thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and
beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth: {20:5} his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: shall serve him for ever.
for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and {21:7} And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant,
fourth [generation] of them that hate me; {20:6} And she shall not go out as the menservants do. {21:8} If she
shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself,
keep my commandments. {20:7} Thou shalt not take the then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange
name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt
hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. {20:8} deceitfully with her. {21:9} And if he have betrothed her
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. {20:9} Six days unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of
shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: {20:10} But the daughters. {21:10} If he take him another [wife;] her food,
seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy {21:11} And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she
daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy go out free without money.
cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates: {20:11}
For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, {21:12} He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be
and all that in them [is,] and rested the seventh day: surely put to death. {21:13} And if a man lie not in wait, but
wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a
it. place whither he shall flee. {21:14} But if a man come
presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile;
{20:12} Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee. {20:13} Thou shalt not kill. {20:14} Thou shalt not {21:15} And he that smiteth his father, or his mother,
commit adultery. {20:15} Thou shalt not steal. {20:16} shall be surely put to death.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
{20:17} Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou {21:16} And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if
shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing
that [is] thy neighbour’s. {21:17} And he that curseth his father, or his mother,
shall surely be put to death.
{20:18} And all the people saw the thunderings, and the
lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain {21:18} And if men strive together, and one smite another
smoking: and when the people saw [it,] they removed, and with a stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth
stood afar off. {20:19} And they said unto Moses, Speak [his] bed: {21:19} If he rise again, and walk abroad upon
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his staff, then shall he that smote [him] be quit: only he {22:6} If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the
shall pay [for] the loss of his time, and shall cause [him] to stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be
be thoroughly healed. consumed [therewith;] he that kindled the fire shall surely
make restitution.
{21:20} And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with
a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely {22:7} If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or
punished. {21:21} Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the
two, he shall not be punished: for he [is] his money. thief be found, let him pay double. {22:8} If the thief be not
found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto
{21:22} If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so the judges, [to see] whether he have put his hand unto his
that her fruit depart [from her,] and yet no mischief follow: neighbour’s goods. {22:9} For all manner of trespass,
he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s [whether it be] for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, [or]
husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges for any manner of lost thing, which [another] challengeth to
[determine. ]{21:23} And if [any] mischief follow, then be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the
thou shalt give life for life, {21:24} Eye for eye, tooth for judges; [and] whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay
tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, {21:25} Burning for double unto his neighbour. {22:10} If a man deliver unto
burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to
keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing
{21:26} And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the [it: ]{22:11} [Then] shall an oath of the LORD be between
eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his
eye’s sake. {21:27} And if he smite out his manservant’s neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept
tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for [thereof,] and he shall not make [it] good. {22:12} And if it
his tooth’s sake. be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner
thereof. {22:13} If it be torn in pieces, [then] let him bring
{21:28} If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: it [for] witness, [and] he shall not make good that which
then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be was torn.
eaten; but the owner of the ox [shall be] quit. {21:29} But if
the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it {22:14} And if a man borrow [ought] of his neighbour,
hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof [being] not with it,
but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be he shall surely make [it] good. {22:15} [But] if the owner
stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. {21:30} If thereof [be] with it, he shall not make [it] good: if it [be] an
there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for hired [thing,] it came for his hire.
the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. {21:31}
Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, {22:16} And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed,
according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
{21:32} If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; {22:17} If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he
he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
the ox shall be stoned.
{22:18} Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
{21:33} And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall
dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein; {22:19} Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put
{21:34} The owner of the pit shall make [it] good, [and] to death.
give money unto the owner of them; and the dead [beast]
shall be his. {22:20} He that sacrificeth unto [any] god, save unto the
LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
{21:35} And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, that he die;
then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; {22:21} Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress
and the dead [ox] also they shall divide. {21:36} Or if it be him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his
owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; {22:22} Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless
and the dead shall be his own. child. {22:23} If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry
at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; {22:24} And my
{22:1} If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and
sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
for a sheep.
{22:25} If thou lend money to [any of] my people [that is]
{22:2} If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither
he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him. {22:3} If shalt thou lay upon him usury. {22:26} If thou at all take
the sun be risen upon him, [there shall be] blood [shed] for thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto
him; [for] he should make full restitution; if he have him by that the sun goeth down: {22:27} For that [is] his
nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. {22:4} If the covering only, it [is] his raiment for his skin: wherein shall
theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me,
or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double. that I will hear; for I [am] gracious.
{22:5} If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, {22:28} Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler
and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s of thy people.
field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own
vineyard, shall he make restitution. {22:29} Thou shalt not delay [to offer] the first of thy ripe
fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou
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give unto me. {22:30} Likewise shalt thou do with thine adversaries. {23:23} For mine Angel shall go before thee,
oxen, [and] with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and
dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites: and I will cut them off. {23:24} Thou shalt not
{22:31} And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their
ye eat [any] flesh [that is] torn of beasts in the field; ye shall works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite
cast it to the dogs. break down their images. {23:25} And ye shall serve the
LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy
{23:1} Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
{23:26} There shall nothing cast their young, nor be
{23:2} Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to {23:27} I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all
wrest [judgment: the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all
thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. {23:28} And I will
]{23:3} Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite,
cause. the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. {23:29} I
will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the
{23:4} If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply
astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. {23:5} If against thee. {23:30} By little and little I will drive them
thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the
burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely land. {23:31} And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea
help with him. {23:6} Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto
thy poor in his cause. {23:7} Keep thee far from a false the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into
matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
will not justify the wicked. {23:32} Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with
their gods. {23:33} They shall not dwell in thy land, lest
{23:8} And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods,
the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. it will surely be a snare unto thee.
{23:9} Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know {24:1} And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the
the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of
of Egypt. {23:10} And six years thou shalt sow thy land, the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. {24:2} And
and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: {23:11} But the Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not
seventh [year] thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the
field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy {24:3} And Moses came and told the people all the words
vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard. {23:12} Six days thou of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people
shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the
that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy LORD hath said will we do. {24:4} And Moses wrote all
handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. {23:13} And the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning,
in all [things] that I have said unto you be circumspect: and and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars,
make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be according to the twelve tribes of Israel. {24:5} And he sent
heard out of thy mouth. young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt
offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the
{23:14} Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the LORD. {24:6} And Moses took half of the blood, and put
year. {23:15} Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened [it] in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the
bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I altar. {24:7} And he took the book of the covenant, and
commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that
for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. {24:8}
before me empty:) {23:16} And the feast of harvest, the And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the people,
firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the
and the feast of ingathering, [which is] in the end of the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
{23:17} Three times in the year all thy males shall appear {24:9} Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and
before the Lord GOD. {23:18} Thou shalt not offer the Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: {24:10} And they
blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the saw the God of Israel: and [there was] under his feet as it
fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. {23:19} The were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the
first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the body of heaven in [his] clearness. {24:11} And upon the
house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also
his mother’s milk. they saw God, and did eat and drink.
{23:20} Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee {24:12} And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me
in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of
prepared. {23:21} Beware of him, and obey his voice, stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written;
provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: that thou mayest teach them. {24:13} And Moses rose up,
for my name [is] in him. {23:22} But if thou shalt indeed and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount
obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an of God. {24:14} And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here
enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron
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and Hur [are] with you: if any man have any matters to do, of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that [are] on
let him come unto them. {24:15} And Moses went up into the four feet thereof. {25:27} Over against the border shall
the mount, and a cloud covered the mount. {24:16} And the the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud {25:28} And thou shalt make the staves [of] shittim wood,
covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne
Moses out of the midst of the cloud. {24:17} And the sight with them. {25:29} And thou shalt make the dishes thereof,
of the glory of the LORD [was] like devouring fire on the and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof,
top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. to cover withal: [of] pure gold shalt thou make them.
{24:18} And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and {25:30} And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before
gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount me alway.
forty days and forty nights.
{25:31} And thou shalt make a candlestick [of] pure gold:
{25:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {25:2} [of] beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft,
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers,
offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart shall be of the same. {25:32} And six branches shall come
ye shall take my offering. {25:3} And this [is] the offering out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of
which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass, the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the
{25:4} And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and other side: {25:33} Three bowls made like unto almonds,
goats [hair, ]{25:5} And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ [with] a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls
skins, and shittim wood, {25:6} Oil for the light, spices for made like almonds in the other branch, [with] a knop and a
anointing oil, and for sweet incense, {25:7} Onyx stones, flower: so in the six branches that come out of the
and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate. candlestick. {25:34} And in the candlestick [shall be] four
{25:8} And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell bowls made like unto almonds, [with] their knops and their
among them. {25:9} According to all that I shew thee, flowers. {25:35} And [there shall be] a knop under two
[after] the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the
instruments thereof, even so shall ye make [it. same, and a knop under two branches of the same,
according to the six branches that proceed out of the
]{25:10} And they shall make an ark [of] shittim wood: candlestick. {25:36} Their knops and their branches shall be
two cubits and a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a of the same: all it [shall be] one beaten work [of] pure gold.
cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half {25:37} And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and
the height thereof. {25:11} And thou shalt overlay it with they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light
pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt over against it. {25:38} And the tongs thereof, and the
make upon it a crown of gold round about. {25:12} And snuffdishes thereof, [shall be of] pure gold. {25:39} [Of] a
thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put [them] in the talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
four corners thereof; and two rings [shall be] in the one side {25:40} And look that thou make [them] after their pattern,
of it, and two rings in the other side of it. {25:13} And thou which was shewed thee in the mount.
shalt make staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with
gold. {25:14} And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by {26:1} Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle [with]
the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. ten curtains [of] fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and
{25:15} The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they scarlet: [with] cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make
shall not be taken from it. {25:16} And thou shalt put into them. {26:2} The length of one curtain [shall be] eight and
the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. {25:17} And twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits:
thou shalt make a mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.
a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the {26:3} The five curtains shall be coupled together one to
breadth thereof. {25:18} And thou shalt make two another; and [other] five curtains [shall be] coupled one to
cherubims [of] gold, [of] beaten work shalt thou make them, another. {26:4} And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the
in the two ends of the mercy seat. {25:19} And make one edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling;
cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of
end: [even] of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims [another] curtain, in the coupling of the second. {26:5} Fifty
on the two ends thereof. {25:20} And the cherubim shall loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops
stretch forth [their] wings on high, covering the mercy seat shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the
with their wings, and their faces [shall look] one to another; coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of
toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. another. {26:6} And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold,
{25:21} And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall
ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall be one tabernacle.
give thee. {25:22} And there I will meet with thee, and I
will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from {26:7} And thou shalt make curtains [of] goats’ [hair] to
between the two cherubims which [are] upon the ark of the be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou
testimony, of all [things] which I will give thee in make. {26:8} The length of one curtain [shall be] thirty
commandment unto the children of Israel. cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the
eleven curtains [shall be all] of one measure. {26:9} And
{25:23} Thou shalt also make a table [of] shittim wood: thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six
two cubits [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit the curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in
breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. the forefront of the tabernacle. {26:10} And thou shalt
{25:24} And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain [that is]
thereto a crown of gold round about. {25:25} And thou outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the
shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, curtain which coupleth the second. {26:11} And thou shalt
and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops,
round about. {25:26} And thou shalt make for it four rings and couple the tent together, that it may be one. {26:12}
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And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, {27:1} And thou shalt make an altar [of] shittim wood,
the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be
of the tabernacle. {26:13} And a cubit on the one side, and foursquare: and the height thereof [shall be] three cubits.
a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the {27:2} And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four
length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou
of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it. shalt overlay it with brass. {27:3} And thou shalt make his
{26:14} And thou shalt make a covering for the tent [of] pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons,
rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above [of] badgers and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof
skins. thou shalt make [of] brass. {27:4} And thou shalt make for
it a grate of network [of] brass; and upon the net shalt thou
{26:15} And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof. {27:5}
[of] shittim wood standing up. {26:16} Ten cubits [shall be] And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath,
the length of a board, and a cubit and a half [shall be] the that the net may be even to the midst of the altar. {27:6}
breadth of one board. {26:17} Two tenons [shall there be] And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves [of] shittim
in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt wood, and overlay them with brass. {27:7} And the staves
thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle. {26:18} And shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the
thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards two sides of the altar, to bear it. {27:8} Hollow with boards
on the south side southward. {26:19} And thou shalt make shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so
forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets shall they make [it.
under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under
another board for his two tenons. {26:20} And for the ]{27:9} And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle:
second side of the tabernacle on the north side [there shall for the south side southward [there shall be] hangings for
be] twenty boards: {26:21} And their forty sockets [of] the court [of] fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for
silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under one side: {27:10} And the twenty pillars thereof and their
another board. {26:22} And for the sides of the tabernacle twenty sockets [shall be of] brass; the hooks of the pillars
westward thou shalt make six boards. {26:23} And two and their fillets [shall be of] silver. {27:11} And likewise
boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in for the north side in length [there shall be] hangings of an
the two sides. {26:24} And they shall be coupled together hundred [cubits] long, and his twenty pillars and their
beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head twenty sockets [of] brass; the hooks of the pillars and their
of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall fillets [of] silver.
be for the two corners. {26:25} And they shall be eight
boards, and their sockets [of] silver, sixteen sockets; two {27:12} And [for] the breadth of the court on the west
sockets under one board, and two sockets under another side [shall be] hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and
board. their sockets ten. {27:13} And the breadth of the court on
the east side eastward [shall be] fifty cubits. {27:14} The
{26:26} And thou shalt make bars [of] shittim wood; five hangings of one side [of the gate shall be] fifteen cubits:
for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, {26:27} their pillars three, and their sockets three. {27:15} And on
And five bars for the boards of the other side of the the other side [shall be] hangings fifteen [cubits:] their
tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the pillars three, and their sockets three.
tabernacle, for the two sides westward. {26:28} And the
middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to {27:16} And for the gate of the court [shall be] an
end. {26:29} And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, hanging of twenty cubits, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and make their rings [of] gold [for] places for the bars: and and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: [and] their
thou shalt overlay the bars with gold. {26:30} And thou pillars [shall be] four, and their sockets four. {27:17} All
shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof the pillars round about the court [shall be] filleted with
which was shewed thee in the mount. silver; their hooks [shall be of] silver, and their sockets of
brass.
{26:31} And thou shalt make a vail [of] blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with {27:18} The length of the court [shall be] an hundred
cherubims shall it be made: {26:32} And thou shalt hang it cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five
upon four pillars of shittim [wood] overlaid with gold: their cubits [of] fine twined linen, and their sockets [of] brass.
hooks [shall be of] gold, upon the four sockets of silver. {27:19} All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service
thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court,
{26:33} And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, [shall be of] brass.
that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of
the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between {27:20} And thou shalt command the children of Israel,
the holy [place] and the most holy. {26:34} And thou shalt that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to
put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most cause the lamp to burn always. {27:21} In the tabernacle of
holy [place. ]{26:35} And thou shalt set the table without the congregation without the vail, which [is] before the
the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to
side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put morning before the LORD: [it shall be] a statute for ever
the table on the north side. {26:36} And thou shalt make an unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
hanging for the door of the tent, [of] blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework. {28:1} And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his
{26:37} And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he
[of] shittim [wood,] and overlay them with gold, [and] their may minister unto me in the priest’s office, [even] Aaron,
hooks [shall be of] gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
brass for them. {28:2} And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy
brother for glory and for beauty. {28:3} And thou shalt
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speak unto all [that are] wise hearted, whom I have filled toward the forepart thereof, over against the [other]
with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in {28:28} And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings
the priest’s office. {28:4} And these [are] the garments thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that
which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a [it] may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that
robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod. {28:29} And
shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the
sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office. breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in
{28:5} And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and unto the holy [place,] for a memorial before the LORD
scarlet, and fine linen. continually.
{28:6} And they shall make the ephod [of] gold, [of] blue, {28:30} And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment
and [of] purple, [of] scarlet, and fine twined linen, with the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron’s
cunning work. {28:7} It shall have the two shoulderpieces heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall
thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and [so] it shall be bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart
joined together. {28:8} And the curious girdle of the ephod, before the LORD continually.
which [is] upon it, shall be of the same, according to the
work thereof; [even of] gold, [of] blue, and purple, and {28:31} And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all
scarlet, and fine twined linen. {28:9} And thou shalt take [of] blue. {28:32} And there shall be an hole in the top of it,
two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work
children of Israel: {28:10} Six of their names on one stone, round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an
and [the other] six names of the rest on the other stone, habergeon, that it be not rent.
according to their birth. {28:11} With the work of an
engraver in stone, [like] the engravings of a signet, shalt {28:33} And [beneath] upon the hem of it thou shalt make
thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children pomegranates [of] blue, and [of] purple, and [of] scarlet,
of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold. round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between
{28:12} And thou shalt put the two stones upon the them round about: {28:34} A golden bell and a
shoulders of the ephod [for] stones of memorial unto the pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the
children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before hem of the robe round about. {28:35} And it shall be upon
the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial. Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he
goeth in unto the holy [place] before the LORD, and when
{28:13} And thou shalt make ouches [of] gold; {28:14} he cometh out, that he die not.
And two chains [of] pure gold at the ends; [of] wreathen
work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains {28:36} And thou shalt make a plate [of] pure gold, and
to the ouches. grave upon it, [like] the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS
TO THE LORD. {28:37} And thou shalt put it on a blue
{28:15} And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the
with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt mitre it shall be. {28:38} And it shall be upon Aaron’s
make it; [of] gold, [of] blue, and [of] purple, and [of] forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy
scarlet, and [of] fine twined linen, shalt thou make it. things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their
{28:16} Foursquare it shall be [being] doubled; a span holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that
[shall be] the length thereof, and a span [shall be] the they may be accepted before the LORD.
breadth thereof. {28:17} And thou shalt set in it settings of
stones, [even] four rows of stones: [the first] row [shall be] {28:39} And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen,
a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: [this shall be] the first and thou shalt make the mitre [of] fine linen, and thou shalt
row. {28:18} And the second row [shall be] an emerald, a make the girdle [of] needlework.
sapphire, and a diamond. {28:19} And the third row a
ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. {28:20} And the fourth {28:40} And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats, and
row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou
gold in their inclosings. {28:21} And the stones shall be make for them, for glory and for beauty. {28:41} And thou
with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with
to their names, [like] the engravings of a signet; every one him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and
with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes. sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s
office. {28:42} And thou shalt make them linen breeches to
{28:22} And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs
at the ends [of] wreathen work [of] pure gold. {28:23} And they shall reach: {28:43} And they shall be upon Aaron,
thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of
shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to
{28:24} And thou shalt put the two wreathen [chains] of minister in the holy [place;] that they bear not iniquity, and
gold in the two rings [which are] on the ends of the die: [it shall be] a statute for ever unto him and his seed
breastplate. {28:25} And [the other] two ends of the two after him.
wreathen [chains] thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and
put [them] on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it. {29:1} And this [is] the thing that thou shalt do unto them
to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office:
{28:26} And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,
shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the {29:2} And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened
border thereof, which [is] in the side of the ephod inward. tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil:
{28:27} And two [other] rings of gold thou shalt make, and [of] wheaten flour shalt thou make them. {29:3} And thou
shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket,
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with the bullock and the two rams. {29:4} And Aaron and [that] which is for his sons: {29:28} And it shall be Aaron’s
his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of and his sons’ by a statute for ever from the children of
the congregation, and shalt wash them with water. {29:5} Israel: for it [is] an heave offering: and it shall be an heave
And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their
coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the peace offerings, [even] their heave offering unto the LORD.
breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the
ephod: {29:6} And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, {29:29} And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his
and put the holy crown upon the mitre. {29:7} Then shalt sons’ after him, to be anointed therein, and to be
thou take the anointing oil, and pour [it] upon his head, and consecrated in them. {29:30} [And] that son that is priest in
anoint him. {29:8} And thou shalt bring his sons, and put his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into
coats upon them. {29:9} And thou shalt gird them with the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy
girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: [place.
and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute:
and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. {29:10} And ]{29:31} And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration,
thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the and seethe his flesh in the holy place. {29:32} And Aaron
tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that
put their hands upon the head of the bullock. {29:11} And [is] in the basket, [by] the door of the tabernacle of the
thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, [by] the door congregation. {29:33} And they shall eat those things
of the tabernacle of the congregation. {29:12} And thou wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate [and] to
shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put [it] upon the sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat [thereof,] because
horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood they [are] holy. {29:34} And if ought of the flesh of the
beside the bottom of the altar. {29:13} And thou shalt take consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning,
all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul [that is] then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be
above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon eaten, because it [is] holy. {29:35} And thus shalt thou do
them, and burn [them] upon the altar. {29:14} But the flesh unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all [things] which
of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate
with fire without the camp: it [is] a sin offering. them. {29:36} And thou shalt offer every day a bullock
[for] a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the
{29:15} Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou
sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. {29:16} shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. {29:37} Seven days thou shalt
And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall
and sprinkle [it] round about upon the altar. {29:17} And be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be
thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of holy.
him, and his legs, and put [them] unto his pieces, and unto
his head. {29:18} And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon {29:38} Now this [is that] which thou shalt offer upon the
the altar: it [is] a burnt offering unto the LORD: it [is] a altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. {29:39} The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and
the other lamb thou shalt offer at even: {29:40} And with
{29:19} And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth
his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of
{29:20} Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, wine [for] a drink offering. {29:41} And the other lamb
and put [it] upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to
the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink
their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by
and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. {29:21} fire unto the LORD. {29:42} [This shall be] a continual
And thou shalt take of the blood that [is] upon the altar, and burnt offering throughout your generations [at] the door of
of the anointing oil, and sprinkle [it] upon Aaron, and upon the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where
his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of I will meet you, to speak there unto thee. {29:43} And there
his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his I will meet with the children of Israel, and [the tabernacle]
garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him. shall be sanctified by my glory. {29:44} And I will sanctify
{29:22} Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will
rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the [caul] sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in
above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] the priest’s office.
upon them, and the right shoulder; for it [is] a ram of
consecration: {29:23} And one loaf of bread, and one cake {29:45} And I will dwell among the children of Israel,
of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the and will be their God. {29:46} And they shall know that I
unleavened bread that [is] before the LORD: {29:24} And [am] the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of
thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I [am] the
his sons; and shalt wave them [for] a wave offering before LORD their God.
the LORD. {29:25} And thou shalt receive them of their
hands, and burn [them] upon the altar for a burnt offering, {30:1} And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon:
for a sweet savour before the LORD: it [is] an offering [of] shittim wood shalt thou make it. {30:2} A cubit [shall
made by fire unto the LORD. {29:26} And thou shalt take be] the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof;
the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it foursquare shall it be: and two cubits [shall be] the height
[for] a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy thereof: the horns thereof [shall be] of the same. {30:3} And
part. {29:27} And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the
offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou
waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about. {30:4} And
consecration, [even] of [that] which [is] for Aaron, and of two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it,
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by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall
thou make [it;] and they shall be for places for the staves to be holy. {30:30} And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons,
bear it withal. {30:5} And thou shalt make the staves [of] and consecrate them, that [they] may minister unto me in
shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. {30:6} And thou the priest’s office. {30:31} And thou shalt speak unto the
shalt put it before the vail that [is] by the ark of the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil
testimony, before the mercy seat that [is] over the unto me throughout your generations. {30:32} Upon man’s
testimony, where I will meet with thee. {30:7} And Aaron flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make [any
shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he other] like it, after the composition of it: it [is] holy, [and] it
dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. {30:8} shall be holy unto you. {30:33} Whosoever compoundeth
And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn [any] like it, or whosoever putteth [any] of it upon a
incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
throughout your generations. {30:9} Ye shall offer no
strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat {30:34} And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee
offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon. sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; [these]
{30:10} And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a
horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering like [weight: ]{30:35} And thou shalt make it a perfume, a
of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered
upon it throughout your generations: it [is] most holy unto together, pure [and] holy: {30:36} And thou shalt beat
the LORD. [some] of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in
the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with
{30:11} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, thee: it shall be unto you most holy. {30:37} And [as for]
{30:12} When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to
after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be
for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; unto thee holy for the LORD. {30:38} Whosoever shall
that there be no plague among them, when [thou] numberest make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off
them. {30:13} This they shall give, every one that passeth from his people.
among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the
shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel [is] twenty gerahs:) an {31:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {31:2}
half shekel [shall be] the offering of the LORD. {30:14} See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son
Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: {31:3} And I have filled him
twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and
LORD. {30:15} The rich shall not give more, and the poor in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, {31:4}
shall not give less than half a shekel, when [they] give an To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and
offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your in brass, {31:5} And in cutting of stones, to set [them,] and
souls. {30:16} And thou shalt take the atonement money of in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of {31:6} And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the
the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of
memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may
make an atonement for your souls. make all that I have commanded thee; {31:7} The
tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony,
{30:17} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, and the mercy seat that [is] thereupon, and all the furniture
{30:18} Thou shalt also make a laver [of] brass, and his of the tabernacle, {31:8} And the table and his furniture,
foot [also of] brass, to wash [withal:] and thou shalt put it and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar
between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, of incense, {31:9} And the altar of burnt offering with all
and thou shalt put water therein. {30:19} For Aaron and his his furniture, and the laver and his foot, {31:10} And the
sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: {30:20} cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the
When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the
shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come priest’s office, {31:11} And the anointing oil, and sweet
near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire incense for the holy [place:] according to all that I have
unto the LORD: {30:21} So they shall wash their hands and commanded thee shall they do.
their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever
to them, [even] to him and to his seed throughout their {31:12} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
generations. {31:13} Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying,
Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between
{30:22} Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know
{30:23} Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure that I [am] the LORD that doth sanctify you. {31:14} Ye
myrrh five hundred [shekels,] and of sweet cinnamon half shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it [is] holy unto you:
so much, [even] two hundred and fifty [shekels,] and of every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for
sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels, ]{30:24} whosoever doeth [any] work therein, that soul shall be cut
And of cassia five hundred [shekels,] after the shekel of the off from among his people. {31:15} Six days may work be
sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: {30:25} And thou shalt done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the
make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after LORD: whosoever doeth [any] work in the sabbath day, he
the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil. shall surely be put to death. {31:16} Wherefore the children
{30:26} And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath
congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, throughout their generations, [for] a perpetual covenant.
{30:27} And the table and all his vessels, and the {31:17} It [is] a sign between me and the children of Israel
candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense, {30:28} for ever: for [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth,
And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
laver and his foot. {30:29} And thou shalt sanctify them,
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{31:18} And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an took the calf which they had made, and burnt [it] in the fire,
end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables and ground [it] to powder, and strawed [it] upon the water,
of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. and made the children of Israel drink [of it. ]{32:21} And
Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that
{32:1} And when the people saw that Moses delayed to thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? {32:22} And
come down out of the mount, the people gathered Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou
themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, knowest the people, that they are [set] on mischief. {32:23}
make us gods, which shall go before us; for [as for] this For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before
Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, us: for [as for] this Moses, the man that brought us up out of
we wot not what is become of him. {32:2} And Aaron said the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which [are] in the {32:24} And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let
ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and them break [it] off. So they gave [it] me: then I cast it into
bring [them] unto me. {32:3} And all the people brake off the fire, and there came out this calf.
the golden earrings which [were] in their ears, and brought
[them] unto Aaron. {32:4} And he received [them] at their {32:25} And when Moses saw that the people [were]
hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto [their] shame
made it a molten calf: and they said, These [be] thy gods, O among their enemies:) {32:26} Then Moses stood in the
Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. gate of the camp, and said, Who [is] on the LORD’S side?
{32:5} And when Aaron saw [it,] he built an altar before it; [let him come] unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered
and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow [is] a themselves together unto him. {32:27} And he said unto
feast to the LORD. {32:6} And they rose up early on the them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man
morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace his sword by his side, [and] go in and out from gate to gate
offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and
rose up to play. every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
{32:28} And the children of Levi did according to the word
{32:7} And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three
down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land thousand men. {32:29} For Moses had said, Consecrate
of Egypt, have corrupted [themselves: ]{32:8} They have yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his
turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a
them: they have made them a molten calf, and have blessing this day.
worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said,
These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up {32:30} And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses
out of the land of Egypt. {32:9} And the LORD said unto said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I
Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it [is] a will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an
stiffnecked people: {32:10} Now therefore let me alone, atonement for your sin. {32:31} And Moses returned unto
that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin,
consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. and have made them gods of gold. {32:32} Yet now, if thou
{32:11} And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out
LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, of thy book which thou hast written. {32:33} And the
which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me,
great power, and with a mighty hand? {32:12} Wherefore him will I blot out of my book. {32:34} Therefore now go,
should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he lead the people unto [the place] of which I have spoken unto
bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless
consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. {32:35} And the LORD plagued the people, because they
{32:13} Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy made the calf, which Aaron made.
servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst
unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, {33:1} And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, [and] go
and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up
seed, and they shall inherit [it] for ever. {32:14} And the out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto
LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will
people. I give it: {33:2} And I will send an angel before thee; and I
will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite,
{32:15} And Moses turned, and went down from the and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: {33:3} Unto
mount, and the two tables of the testimony [were] in his a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in
hand: the tables [were] written on both their sides; on the the midst of thee; for thou [art] a stiffnecked people: lest I
one side and on the other [were] they written. {32:16} And consume thee in the way.
the tables [were] the work of God, and the writing [was] the
writing of God, graven upon the tables. {32:17} And when {33:4} And when the people heard these evil tidings, they
Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments. {33:5}
unto Moses, [There is] a noise of war in the camp. {32:18} For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children
And he said, [It is] not the voice of [them that] shout for of Israel, Ye [are] a stiffnecked people: I will come up into
mastery, neither [is it] the voice of [them that] cry for being the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore
overcome: [but] the noise of [them that] sing do I hear. now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what
to do unto thee. {33:6} And the children of Israel stripped
{32:19} And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb. {33:7}
unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the
Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle
hands, and brake them beneath the mount. {32:20} And he of the congregation. And it came to pass, [that] every one
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which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the children, unto the third and to the fourth [generation.
congregation, which [was] without the camp. {33:8} And it ]{34:8} And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward
came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, the earth, and worshipped. {34:9} And he said, If now I
[that] all the people rose up, and stood every man [at] his have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray
tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into thee, go among us; for it [is] a stiffnecked people; and
the tabernacle. {33:9} And it came to pass, as Moses pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine
entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and inheritance.
stood [at] the door of the tabernacle, and [the] LORD talked
with Moses. {33:10} And all the people saw the cloudy {34:10} And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before
pillar stand [at] the tabernacle door: and all the people rose all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done
up and worshipped, every man [in] his tent door. {33:11} in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among
And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man which thou [art] shall see the work of the LORD: for it [is] a
speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: terrible thing that I will do with thee. {34:11} Observe thou
but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out
departed not out of the tabernacle. before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite,
and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. {34:12}
{33:12} And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the
unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a
know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I snare in the midst of thee: {34:13} But ye shall destroy their
know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
sight. {33:13} Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found {34:14} For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD,
grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God: {34:15} Lest
thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and
this nation [is] thy people. {33:14} And he said, My they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto
presence shall go [with thee,] and I will give thee rest. their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
{33:15} And he said unto him, If thy presence go not [with {34:16} And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and
me,] carry us not up hence. {33:16} For wherein shall it be their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy
known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sons go a whoring after their gods. {34:17} Thou shalt
sight? [is it] not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be make thee no molten gods.
separated, I and thy people, from all the people that [are]
upon the face of the earth. {33:17} And the LORD said {34:18} The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep.
unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I
for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the
name. {33:18} And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. {34:19} All that
glory. {33:19} And he said, I will make all my goodness openeth the matrix [is] mine; and every firstling among thy
pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD cattle, [whether] ox or sheep, [that is male. ]{34:20} But the
before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou
gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. redeem [him] not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the
{33:20} And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall
shall no man see me, and live. {33:21} And the LORD said, appear before me empty.
Behold, [there is] a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a
rock: {33:22} And it shall come to pass, while my glory {34:21} Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day
passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
cover thee with my hand while I pass by: {33:23} And I
will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: {34:22} And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the
but my face shall not be seen. firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at
the year’s end.
{34:1} And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two
tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon {34:23} Thrice in the year shall all your men children
[these] tables the words that were in the first tables, which appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. {34:24} For
thou brakest. {34:2} And be ready in the morning, and I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy
come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou
thyself there to me in the top of the mount. {34:3} And no shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the
man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen year. {34:25} Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice
throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the
feed before that mount. passover be left unto the morning. {34:26} The first of the
firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the
{34:4} And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s
first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up milk. {34:27} And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou
unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a
took in his hand the two tables of stone. {34:5} And the covenant with thee and with Israel. {34:28} And he was
LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did
and proclaimed the name of the LORD. {34:6} And the neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the
LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and
abundant in goodness and truth, {34:7} Keeping mercy for {34:29} And it came to pass, when Moses came down
thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in
that will by no means clear [the guilty;] visiting the iniquity Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that
of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he
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talked with him. {34:30} And when Aaron and all the [hair,] and red skins of rams, and badgers’ skins, brought
children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face [them. ]{35:24} Every one that did offer an offering of
shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. {34:31} And silver and brass brought the LORD’S offering: and every
Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of
congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with the service, brought [it. ]{35:25} And all the women that
them. {34:32} And afterward all the children of Israel came were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought
nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD that which they had spun, [both] of blue, and of purple,
had spoken with him in mount Sinai. {34:33} And [till] [and] of scarlet, and of fine linen. {35:26} And all the
Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’
face. {34:34} But when Moses went in before the LORD to [hair. ]{35:27} And the rulers brought onyx stones, and
speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel [that] {35:28} And spice, and oil for the light, and for the
which he was commanded. {34:35} And the children of anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. {35:29} The
Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD,
shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to
went in to speak with him. bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had
commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
{35:1} And Moses gathered all the congregation of the
children of Israel together, and said unto them, These [are] {35:30} And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See,
the words which the LORD hath commanded, that [ye] the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the
should do them. {35:2} Six days shall work be done, but on son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; {35:31} And he hath filled
the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding,
of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
put to death. {35:3} Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your {35:32} And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and
habitations upon the sabbath day. in silver, and in brass, {35:33} And in the cutting of stones,
to set [them,] and in carving of wood, to make any manner
{35:4} And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the of cunning work. {35:34} And he hath put in his heart that
children of Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the he may teach, [both] he, and Aholiab, the son of
LORD commanded, saying, {35:5} Take ye from among Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. {35:35} Them hath he
you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever [is] of a willing filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of
heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the
silver, and brass, {35:6} And blue, and purple, and scarlet, embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine
and fine linen, and goats’ [hair, ]{35:7} And rams’ skins linen, and of the weaver, [even] of them that do any work,
dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood, {35:8} And and of those that devise cunning work.
oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the
sweet incense, {35:9} And onyx stones, and stones to be set {36:1} Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every
for the ephod, and for the breastplate. {35:10} And every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and
wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the understanding to know how to work all manner of work for
LORD hath commanded; {35:11} The tabernacle, his tent, the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD
and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his had commanded. {36:2} And Moses called Bezaleel and
pillars, and his sockets, {35:12} The ark, and the staves Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the
thereof, [with] the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering, LORD had put wisdom, [even] every one whose heart
{35:13} The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and stirred him up to come unto the work to do it: {36:3} And
the shewbread, {35:14} The candlestick also for the light, they received of Moses all the offering, which the children
and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light, of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the
{35:15} And the incense altar, and his staves, and the sanctuary, to make it [withal.] And they brought yet unto
anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the him free offerings every morning. {36:4} And all the wise
door at the entering in of the tabernacle, {35:16} The altar men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every
of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all man from his work which they made;
his vessels, the laver and his foot, {35:17} The hangings of
the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for {36:5} And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people
the door of the court, {35:18} The pins of the tabernacle, bring much more than enough for the service of the work,
and the pins of the court, and their cords, {35:19} The which the LORD commanded to make. {36:6} And Moses
cloths of service, to do service in the holy [place,] the holy gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed
garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman
to minister in the priest’s office. make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So
the people were restrained from bringing. {36:7} For the
{35:20} And all the congregation of the children of Israel stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and
departed from the presence of Moses. {35:21} And they too much.
came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one
whom his spirit made willing, [and] they brought the {36:8} And every wise hearted man among them that
LORD’S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains [of]
congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: [with]
garments. {35:22} And they came, both men and women, as cherubims of cunning work made he them. {36:9} The
many as were willing hearted, [and] brought bracelets, and length of one curtain [was] twenty and eight cubits, and the
earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains [were] all of
man that offered [offered] an offering of gold unto the one size. {36:10} And he coupled the five curtains one unto
LORD. {35:23} And every man, with whom was found another: and [the other] five curtains he coupled one unto
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ another. {36:11} And he made loops of blue on the edge of
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one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he cubits and a half [was] the length of it, and a cubit and a
made in the uttermost side of [another] curtain, in the half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
coupling of the second. {36:12} Fifty loops made he in one {37:2} And he overlaid it with pure gold within and
curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain without, and made a crown of gold to it round about. {37:3}
which [was] in the coupling of the second: the loops held And he cast for it four rings of gold, [to be set] by the four
one [curtain] to another. {36:13} And he made fifty taches corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two
of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the rings upon the other side of it. {37:4} And he made staves
taches: so it became one tabernacle. [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold. {37:5} And
he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to
{36:14} And he made curtains [of] goats’ [hair] for the bear the ark.
tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
{36:15} The length of one curtain [was] thirty cubits, and {37:6} And he made the mercy seat [of] pure gold: two
four cubits [was] the breadth of one curtain: the eleven cubits and a half [was] the length thereof, and one cubit and
curtains [were] of one size. {36:16} And he coupled five a half the breadth thereof. {37:7} And he made two
curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. cherubims [of] gold, beaten out of one piece made he them,
{36:17} And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of on the two ends of the mercy seat; {37:8} One cherub on
the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the the end on this side, and another cherub on the [other] end
edge of the curtain which coupleth the second. {36:18} And on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims
he made fifty taches [of] brass to couple the tent together, on the two ends thereof. {37:9} And the cherubims spread
that it might be one. {36:19} And he made a covering for out [their] wings on high, [and] covered with their wings
the tent [of] rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering [of] over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; [even
badgers’ skins above [that. ]to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.
]{36:20} And he made boards for the tabernacle [of] {37:10} And he made the table of shittim wood: two
shittim wood, standing up. {36:21} The length of a board cubits [was] the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth
[was] ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof: {37:11}
half. {36:22} One board had two tenons, equally distant one And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a
from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the crown of gold round about. {37:12} Also he made thereunto
tabernacle. {36:23} And he made boards for the tabernacle; a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown
twenty boards for the south side southward: {36:24} And of gold for the border thereof round about. {37:13} And he
forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four
sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets corners that [were] in the four feet thereof. {37:14} Over
under another board for his two tenons. {36:25} And for the against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to
other side of the tabernacle, [which is] toward the north bear the table. {37:15} And he made the staves [of] shittim
corner, he made twenty boards, {36:26} And their forty wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two {37:16} And he made the vessels which [were] upon the
sockets under another board. {36:27} And for the sides of table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his
the tabernacle westward he made six boards. {36:28} And covers to cover withal, [of] pure gold.
two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the
two sides. {36:29} And they were coupled beneath, and {37:17} And he made the candlestick [of] pure gold: [of]
coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his
to both of them in both the corners. {36:30} And there were branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the
eight boards; and their sockets [were] sixteen sockets of same: {37:18} And six branches going out of the sides
silver, under every board two sockets. thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side
thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the
{36:31} And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the other side thereof: {37:19} Three bowls made after the
boards of the one side of the tabernacle, {36:32} And five fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and
bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop
five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of
westward. {36:33} And he made the middle bar to shoot the candlestick. {37:20} And in the candlestick [were] four
through the boards from the one end to the other. {36:34} bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers:
And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings {37:21} And a knop under two branches of the same, and a
[of] gold [to be] places for the bars, and overlaid the bars knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two
with gold. branches of the same, according to the six branches going
out of it. {37:22} Their knops and their branches were of
{36:35} And he made a vail [of] blue, and purple, and the same: all of it [was] one beaten work [of] pure gold.
scarlet, and fine twined linen: [with] cherubims made he it {37:23} And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and
of cunning work. {36:36} And he made thereunto four his snuffdishes, [of] pure gold. {37:24} [Of] a talent of pure
pillars [of] shittim [wood,] and overlaid them with gold: gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.
their hooks [were of] gold; and he cast for them four sockets
of silver. {37:25} And he made the incense altar [of] shittim wood:
the length of it [was] a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it
{36:37} And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door [was] foursquare; and two cubits [was] the height of it; the
[of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of horns thereof were of the same. {37:26} And he overlaid it
needlework; {36:38} And the five pillars of it with their with pure gold, [both] the top of it, and the sides thereof
hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a
gold: but their five sockets [were of] brass. crown of gold round about. {37:27} And he made two rings
of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of
{37:1} And Bezaleel made the ark [of] shittim wood: two it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to
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bear it withal. {37:28} And he made the staves [of] shittim linen. {38:24} All the gold that was occupied for the work
wood, and overlaid them with gold. in all the work of the holy [place,] even the gold of the
offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred
{37:29} And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary. {38:25}
incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the And the silver of them that were numbered of the
apothecary. congregation [was] an hundred talents, and a thousand
seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the
{38:1} And he made the altar of burnt offering [of] shekel of the sanctuary: {38:26} A bekah for every man,
shittim wood: five cubits [was] the length thereof, and five [that is,] half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for
cubits the breadth thereof; [it was] foursquare; and three every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old
cubits the height thereof. {38:2} And he made the horns and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand
thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of and five hundred and fifty [men. ]{38:27} And of the
the same: and he overlaid it with brass. {38:3} And he made hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the
all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of
basons, [and] the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the the hundred talents, a talent for a socket. {38:28} And of the
vessels thereof made he [of] brass. {38:4} And he made for thousand seven hundred seventy and five [shekels] he made
the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and
thereof beneath unto the midst of it. {38:5} And he cast four filleted them. {38:29} And the brass of the offering [was]
rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, [to be] places seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
for the staves. {38:6} And he made the staves [of] shittim {38:30} And therewith he made the sockets to the door of
wood, and overlaid them with brass. {38:7} And he put the the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and
staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
withal; he made the altar hollow with boards. {38:31} And the sockets of the court round about, and the
sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle,
{38:8} And he made the laver [of] brass, and the foot of it and all the pins of the court round about.
[of] brass, of the lookingglasses of [the women] assembling,
which assembled [at] the door of the tabernacle of the {39:1} And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made
congregation. cloths of service, to do service in the holy [place,] and made
the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded
{38:9} And he made the court: on the south side Moses. {39:2} And he made the ephod [of] gold, blue, and
southward the hangings of the court [were of] fine twined purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. {39:3} And they
linen, an hundred cubits: {38:10} Their pillars [were] did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut [it into] wires, to
twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the work [it] in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet,
pillars and their fillets [were of] silver. {38:11} And for the and in the fine linen, [with] cunning work. {39:4} They
north side [the hangings were] an hundred cubits, their made shoulderpieces for it, to couple [it] together: by the
pillars [were] twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the two edges was it coupled together. {39:5} And the curious
hooks of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver. {38:12} And girdle of his ephod, that [was] upon it, [was] of the same,
for the west side [were] hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars according to the work thereof; [of] gold, blue, and purple,
ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded
fillets [of] silver. {38:13} And for the east side eastward Moses.
fifty cubits. {38:14} The hangings of the one side [of the
gate were] fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their {39:6} And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches
sockets three. {38:15} And for the other side of the court of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the
gate, on this hand and that hand, [were] hangings of fifteen children of Israel. {39:7} And he put them on the shoulders
cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. {38:16} of the ephod, [that they should be] stones for a memorial to
All the hangings of the court round about [were] of fine the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
twined linen. {38:17} And the sockets for the pillars [were
of] brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver; {39:8} And he made the breastplate [of] cunning work,
and the overlaying of their chapiters [of] silver; and all the like the work of the ephod; [of] gold, blue, and purple, and
pillars of the court [were] filleted with silver. {38:18} And scarlet, and fine twined linen. {39:9} It was foursquare;
the hanging for the gate of the court [was] needlework, [of] they made the breastplate double: a span [was] the length
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, [being] doubled.
twenty cubits [was] the length, and the height in the breadth {39:10} And they set in it four rows of stones: [the first]
[was] five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court. row [was] a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this [was] the
{38:19} And their pillars [were] four, and their sockets [of] first row. {39:11} And the second row, an emerald, a
brass four; their hooks [of] silver, and the overlaying of sapphire, and a diamond. {39:12} And the third row, a
their chapiters and their fillets [of] silver. {38:20} And all ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. {39:13} And the fourth
the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: [they were] inclosed in
[were of] brass. ouches of gold in their inclosings. {39:14} And the stones
[were] according to the names of the children of Israel,
{38:21} This is the sum of the tabernacle, [even] of the twelve, according to their names, [like] the engravings of a
tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve
commandment of Moses, [for] the service of the Levites, by tribes. {39:15} And they made upon the breastplate chains
the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest. {38:22} And at the ends, [of] wreathen work [of] pure gold. {39:16} And
Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of they made two ouches [of] gold, and two gold rings; and put
Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses. {38:23} the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate. {39:17}
And with him [was] Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two
of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an rings on the ends of the breastplate. {39:18} And the two
embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two
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ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, {40:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {40:2}
before it. {39:19} And they made two rings of gold, and put On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the
[them] on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. {40:3} And thou
of it, which [was] on the side of the ephod inward. {39:20} shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark
And they made two [other] golden rings, and put them on with the vail. {40:4} And thou shalt bring in the table, and
the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and
of it, over against the [other] coupling thereof, above the thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps
curious girdle of the ephod. {39:21} And they did bind the thereof. {40:5} And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the
breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging
lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the of the door to the tabernacle. {40:6} And thou shalt set the
ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle
ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses. of the tent of the congregation. {40:7} And thou shalt set
the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar,
{39:22} And he made the robe of the ephod [of] woven and shalt put water therein. {40:8} And thou shalt set up the
work, all [of] blue. {39:23} And [there was] an hole in the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court
midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, [with] a band gate. {40:9} And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and
round about the hole, that it should not rend. {39:24} And anoint the tabernacle, and all that [is] therein, and shalt
they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates [of] hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.
blue, and purple, and scarlet, [and] twined [linen. ]{39:25} {40:10} And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt
And they made bells [of] pure gold, and put the bells offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it
between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round shall be an altar most holy. {40:11} And thou shalt anoint
about between the pomegranates; {39:26} A bell and a the laver and his foot, and sanctify it. {40:12} And thou
pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the
hem of the robe to minister [in;] as the LORD commanded tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.
Moses. {40:13} And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments,
and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto
{39:27} And they made coats [of] fine linen [of] woven me in the priest’s office. {40:14} And thou shalt bring his
work for Aaron, and for his sons, {39:28} And a mitre [of] sons, and clothe them with coats: {40:15} And thou shalt
fine linen, and goodly bonnets [of] fine linen, and linen anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may
breeches [of] fine twined linen, {39:29} And a girdle [of] minister unto me in the priest’s office: for their anointing
fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, [of] shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their
needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses. generations. {40:16} Thus did Moses: according to all that
the LORD commanded him, so did he.
{39:30} And they made the plate of the holy crown [of]
pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, [like to] the {40:17} And it came to pass in the first month in the
engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. second year, on the first [day] of the month, [that] the
{39:31} And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten [it] on tabernacle was reared up. {40:18} And Moses reared up the
high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses. tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards
thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.
{39:32} Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the {40:19} And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle,
tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD
did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so commanded Moses.
did they.
{40:20} And he took and put the testimony into the ark,
{39:33} And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above
tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, upon the ark: {40:21} And he brought the ark into the
and his pillars, and his sockets, {39:34} And the covering of tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered
rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses.
and the vail of the covering, {39:35} The ark of the
testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat, {40:22} And he put the table in the tent of the
{39:36} The table, [and] all the vessels thereof, and the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward,
shewbread, {39:37} The pure candlestick, [with] the lamps without the vail. {40:23} And he set the bread in order upon
thereof, [even with] the lamps to be set in order, and all the it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
vessels thereof, and the oil for light, {39:38} And the
golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, {40:24} And he put the candlestick in the tent of the
and the hanging for the tabernacle door, {39:39} The brasen congregation, over against the table, on the side of the
altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, tabernacle southward. {40:25} And he lighted the lamps
the laver and his foot, {39:40} The hangings of the court, before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court
gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the {40:26} And he put the golden altar in the tent of the
service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation, congregation before the vail: {40:27} And he burnt sweet
{39:41} The cloths of service to do service in the holy incense thereon; as the LORD commanded Moses.
[place,] and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his
sons’ garments, to minister in the priest’s office. {39:42} {40:28} And he set up the hanging [at] the door of the
According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the tabernacle. {40:29} And he put the altar of burnt offering
children of Israel made all the work. {39:43} And Moses [by] the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the
did look upon all the work, and, behold, they have done it as congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the
the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Moses blessed them.
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{40:30} And he set the laver between the tent of the
congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash
[withal. ]{40:31} And Moses and Aaron and his sons
washed their hands and their feet thereat: {40:32} When
they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they
came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD
commanded Moses. {40:33} And he reared up the court
round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the
hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
{34:9} And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of
wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the
children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD
commanded Moses.
{4:1} Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down
there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came
by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down
here. And he turned aside, and sat down. {4:2} And he took
ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here.
And they sat down. {4:3} And he said unto the kinsman,
Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab,
selleth a parcel of land, which [was] our brother
Elimelech’s: {4:4} And I thought to advertise thee, saying,
Buy [it] before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my
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The First Book of Samuel Otherwise Called the First Book her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have
of the Kings weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So the
woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.
{1:24} And when she had weaned him, she took him up
{1:1} Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim- with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a
zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the
son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of LORD in Shiloh: and the child [was] young. {1:25} And
Zuph, an Ephrathite: {1:2} And he had two wives; the name they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli. {1:26}
of the one [was] Hannah, and the name of the other And she said, Oh my lord, [as] thy soul liveth, my lord, I
Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no [am] the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the
children. {1:3} And this man went up out of his city yearly LORD. {1:27} For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath
to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in given me my petition which I asked of him: {1:28}
Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he
priests of the LORD, [were] there. liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the
LORD there.
{1:4} And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he
gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her {2:1} And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in
daughters, portions: {1:5} But unto Hannah he gave a the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is
worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy
shut up her womb. {1:6} And her adversary also provoked salvation. {2:2} [There is] none holy as the LORD: for
her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut [there is] none beside thee: neither [is there] any rock like
up her womb. {1:7} And [as] he did so year by year, when our God. {2:3} Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let [not]
she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God
therefore she wept, and did not eat. {1:8} Then said of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. {2:4} The
Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? bows of the mighty men [are] broken, and they that
and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? [am] stumbled are girded with strength. {2:5} [They that were]
not I better to thee than ten sons? full have hired out themselves for bread; and [they that
were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven;
{1:9} So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and she that hath many children is waxed feeble. {2:6} The
and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the
by a post of the temple of the LORD. {1:10} And she [was] grave, and bringeth up. {2:7} The LORD maketh poor, and
in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. {2:8} He
sore. {1:11} And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth up the
hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine beggar from the dunghill, to set [them] among princes, and
handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of
handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, the earth [are] the LORD’S, and he hath set the world upon
then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, them. {2:9} He will keep the feet of his saints, and the
and there shall no razor come upon his head. {1:12} And it wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no
came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, man prevail. {2:10} The adversaries of the LORD shall be
that Eli marked her mouth. {1:13} Now Hannah, she spake broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them:
in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall
heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken. {1:14} give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his
And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put anointed. {2:11} And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house.
away thy wine from thee. {1:15} And Hannah answered And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the
and said, No, my lord, I [am] a woman of a sorrowful spirit: priest.
I have drunken neither wine nor strong drink, but have
poured out my soul before the LORD. {1:16} Count not {2:12} Now the sons of Eli [were] sons of Belial; they
thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the knew not the LORD. {2:13} And the priest’s custom with
abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken the people [was, that,] when any man offered sacrifice, the
hitherto. {1:17} Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a
and the God of Israel grant [thee] thy petition that thou hast fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; {2:14} And he struck
asked of him. {1:18} And she said, Let thine handmaid find [it] into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the
grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they
and her countenance was no more [sad.] did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither. {2:15}
Also before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant came, and
{1:19} And they rose up in the morning early, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the
worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; {2:16} And [if] any man said unto him, Let them not fail to
and the LORD remembered her. {1:20} Wherefore it came burn the fat presently, and [then] take [as much] as thy soul
to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had desireth; then he would answer him, [Nay;] but thou shalt
conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, give [it me] now: and if not, I will take [it] by force. {2:17}
[saying,] Because I have asked him of the LORD. {1:21} Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before
And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow. {1:22}
But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, [I {2:18} But Samuel ministered before the LORD, [being]
will not go up] until the child be weaned, and [then] I will a child, girded with a linen ephod. {2:19} Moreover his
bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there mother made him a little coat, and brought [it] to him from
abide for ever. {1:23} And Elkanah her husband said unto year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer
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the yearly sacrifice. said, Here [am] I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called
not; lie down again. And he went and lay down. {3:6} And
{2:20} And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and
The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which went to Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou didst call me.
is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.
{2:21} And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she {3:7} Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was
conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him. {3:8} And the
child Samuel grew before the LORD. LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and
went to Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou didst call me.
{2:22} Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child.
did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that {3:9} Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it
assembled [at] the door of the tabernacle of the shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD;
congregation. {2:23} And he said unto them, Why do ye for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his
such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this place. {3:10} And the LORD came, and stood, and called as
people. {2:24} Nay, my sons; for [it is] no good report that I at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered,
hear: ye make the LORD’S people to transgress. {2:25} If Speak; for thy servant heareth.
one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but
if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? {3:11} And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that
father, because the LORD would slay them. {2:26} And the heareth it shall tingle. {3:12} In that day I will perform
child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the against Eli all [things] which I have spoken concerning his
LORD, and also with men. house: when I begin, I will also make an end. {3:13} For I
have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the
{2:27} And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made
unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto themselves vile, and he restrained them not. {3:14} And
the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the
Pharaoh’s house? {2:28} And did I choose him out of all iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor
the tribes of Israel [to be] my priest, to offer upon mine offering for ever.
altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did
I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by {3:15} And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the
fire of the children of Israel? {2:29} Wherefore kick ye at doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to
my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded shew Eli the vision. {3:16} Then Eli called Samuel, and
[in my] habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here [am] I.
make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of {3:17} And he said, What [is] the thing that [the LORD]
Israel my people? {2:30} Wherefore the LORD God of hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide [it] not from me: God
Israel saith, I said indeed [that] thy house, and the house of do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide [any] thing from
thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the me of all the things that he said unto thee. {3:18} And
LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And
will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly he said, It [is] the LORD: let him do what seemeth him
esteemed. {2:31} Behold, the days come, that I will cut off good.
thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall
not be an old man in thine house. {2:32} And thou shalt see {3:19} And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him,
an enemy [in my] habitation, in all [the wealth] which and did let none of his words fall to the ground. {3:20} And
[God] shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel
thine house for ever. {2:33} And the man of thine, [whom] I [was] established [to be] a prophet of the LORD. {3:21}
shall not cut off from mine altar, [shall be] to consume thine And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD
eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the
house shall die in the flower of their age. {2:34} And this LORD.
[shall be] a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two
sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die {4:1} And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now
both of them. {2:35} And I will raise me up a faithful priest, Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched
[that] shall do according to [that] which [is] in mine heart beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he {4:2} And the Philistines put themselves in array against
shall walk before mine anointed for ever. {2:36} And it Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten
shall come to pass, [that] every one that is left in thine before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field
house shall come [and] crouch to him for a piece of silver about four thousand men.
and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee,
into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a piece of {4:3} And when the people were come into the camp, the
bread. elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us
to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the
{3:1} And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it
before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our
those days; [there was] no open vision. {3:2} And it came enemies. {4:4} So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might
to pass at that time, when Eli [was] laid down in his place, bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of
and his eyes began to wax dim, [that] he could not see; hosts, which dwelleth [between] the cherubims: and the two
{3:3} And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, [were] there with the ark
LORD, where the ark of God [was,] and Samuel was laid of the covenant of God. {4:5} And when the ark of the
down [to sleep; ]{3:4} That the LORD called Samuel: and covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel
he answered, Here [am] I. {3:5} And he ran unto Eli, and shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
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{4:6} And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the
they said, What [meaneth] the noise of this great shout in threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day. {5:6} But the
the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he
of the LORD was come into the camp. {4:7} And the destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, [even]
Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the Ashdod and the coasts thereof. {5:7} And when the men of
camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been Ashdod saw that [it was] so, they said, The ark of the God
such a thing heretofore. {4:8} Woe unto us! who shall of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon
deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these [are] us, and upon Dagon our god. {5:8} They sent therefore and
the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said,
the wilderness. {4:9} Be strong, and quit yourselves like What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And
men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried
Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of
men, and fight. Israel about [thither. ]{5:9} And it was [so,] that, after they
had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the
{4:10} And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of
and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their
great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand secret parts.
footmen. {4:11} And the ark of God was taken; and the two
sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain. {5:10} Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And
it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the
{4:12} And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the
and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
with earth upon his head. {4:13} And when he came, lo, Eli {5:11} So they sent and gathered together all the lords of
sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of
trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us
the city, and told [it,] all the city cried out. {4:14} And not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction
when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy
[meaneth] the noise of this tumult? And the man came in there. {5:12} And the men that died not were smitten with
hastily, and told Eli. {4:15} Now Eli was ninety and eight the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
{4:16} And the man said unto Eli, I [am] he that came out {6:1} And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the
of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, Philistines seven months. {6:2} And the Philistines called
What is there done, my son? {4:17} And the messenger for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to
answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to
there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and his place. {6:3} And they said, If ye send away the ark of
thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return
ark of God is taken. {4:18} And it came to pass, when he him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall
made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, {6:4} Then said they, What [shall be] the trespass offering
and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden
judged Israel forty years. emerods, and five golden mice, [according to] the number
of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all,
{4:19} And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with and on your lords. {6:5} Wherefore ye shall make images of
child, [near] to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land;
that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure
her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your
her pains came upon her. {4:20} And about the time of her gods, and from off your land. {6:6} Wherefore then do ye
death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened
for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among
she regard [it. ]{4:21} And she named the child I-chabod, them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of {6:7} Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch
God was taken, and because of her father in law and her kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to
husband. {4:22} And she said, The glory is departed from the cart, and bring their calves home from them: {6:8} And
Israel: for the ark of God is taken. take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put
the jewels of gold, which ye return him [for] a trespass
{5:1} And the Philistines took the ark of God, and offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away,
brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod. {5:2} When the that it may go. {6:9} And see, if it goeth up by the way of
Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the his own coast to Beth-shemesh, [then] he hath done us this
house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. great evil: but if not, then we shall know that [it is] not his
hand [that] smote us; it [was] a chance [that] happened to us.
{5:3} And when they of Ashdod arose early on the
morrow, behold, Dagon [was] fallen upon his face to the {6:10} And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and
earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
and set him in his place again. {5:4} And when they arose {6:11} And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart,
early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon [was] fallen and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their
upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and emerods. {6:12} And the kine took the straight way to the
the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [were] way of Beth-shemesh, [and] went along the highway,
cut off upon the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was lowing as they went, and turned not aside [to] the right hand
left to him. {5:5} Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, or [to] the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after
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them unto the border of Beth-shemesh. {6:13} And [they the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the
of] Beth-shemesh [were] reaping their wheat harvest in the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the
valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten
rejoiced to see [it. ]{6:14} And the cart came into the field before Israel. {7:11} And the men of Israel went out of
of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where [there Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until
was] a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and [they came] under Beth-car. {7:12} Then Samuel took a
offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD. {6:15} stone, and set [it] between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the
And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD
coffer that [was] with it, wherein the jewels of gold [were,] helped us.
and put [them] on the great stone: and the men of Beth-
shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the {7:13} So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no
same day unto the LORD. {6:16} And when the five lords more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was
of the Philistines had seen [it,] they returned to Ekron the against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. {7:14} And
same day. {6:17} And these [are] the golden emerods which the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were
the Philistines returned [for] a trespass offering unto the restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the
LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the
Gath one, for Ekron one; {6:18} And the golden mice, Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the
[according to] the number of all the cities of the Philistines Amorites. {7:15} And Samuel judged Israel all the days of
[belonging] to the five lords, [both] of fenced cities, and of his life. {7:16} And he went from year to year in circuit to
country villages, even unto the great [stone] of Abel, Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all
whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: [which stone those places. {7:17} And his return [was] to Ramah; for
remaineth] unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth- there [was] his house; and there he judged Israel; and there
shemite. he built an altar unto the LORD.
{6:19} And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because {8:1} And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he
they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of made his sons judges over Israel. {8:2} Now the name of
the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah:
the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten [many] [they were] judges in Beer-sheba. {8:3} And his sons
of the people with a great slaughter. {6:20} And the men of walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and
Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy took bribes, and perverted judgment. {8:4} Then all the
LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us? elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to
Samuel unto Ramah, {8:5} And said unto him, Behold, thou
{6:21} And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a
Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again king to judge us like all the nations.
the ark of the LORD; come ye down, [and] fetch it up to
you. {8:6} But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said,
Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the
{7:1} And the men of Kirjath-jearim came, and brought LORD. {8:7} And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken
up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee:
Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me,
the ark of the LORD. {7:2} And it came to pass, while the that I should not reign over them. {8:8} According to all the
ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it works which they have done since the day that I brought
was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they
the LORD. have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also
unto thee. {8:9} Now therefore hearken unto their voice:
{7:3} And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the
saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, manner of the king that shall reign over them.
[then] put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among
you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him {8:10} And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto
only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the the people that asked of him a king. {8:11} And he said,
Philistines. {7:4} Then the children of Israel did put away This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over
Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only. {7:5} you: He will take your sons, and appoint [them] for himself,
And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and [some] shall
pray for you unto the LORD. {7:6} And they gathered run before his chariots. {8:12} And he will appoint him
together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured [it] out captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and [will
before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We set them] to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to
have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the make his instruments of war, and instruments of his
children of Israel in Mizpeh. {7:7} And when the Philistines chariots. {8:13} And he will take your daughters [to be]
heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to confectionaries, and [to be] cooks, and [to be] bakers.
Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. {8:14} And he will take your fields, and your vineyards,
And when the children of Israel heard [it,] they were afraid and your oliveyards, [even] the best [of them,] and give
of the Philistines. {7:8} And the children of Israel said to [them] to his servants. {8:15} And he will take the tenth of
Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers,
that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines. and to his servants. {8:16} And he will take your
menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest
{7:9} And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered [it young men, and your asses, and put [them] to his work.
for] a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel {8:17} He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be
cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him. his servants. {8:18} And ye shall cry out in that day because
{7:10} And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the
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LORD will not hear you in that day. thee of! this same shall reign over my people. {9:18} Then
Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I
{8:19} Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice pray thee, where the seer’s house [is. ]{9:19} And Samuel
of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over answered Saul, and said, I [am] the seer: go up before me
us; {8:20} That we also may be like all the nations; and that unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to
our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that [is] in
battles. {8:21} And Samuel heard all the words of the thine heart. {9:20} And as for thine asses that were lost
people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD. three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found.
{8:22} And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their And on whom [is] all the desire of Israel? [Is it] not on thee,
voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the and on all thy father’s house? {9:21} And Saul answered
men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city. and said, [Am] not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the
tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of
{9:1} Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to
[was] Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of me? {9:22} And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and
Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the
power. {9:2} And he had a son, whose name [was] Saul, a chiefest place among them that were bidden, which [were]
choice young man, and a goodly: and [there was] not among about thirty persons. {9:23} And Samuel said unto the cook,
the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto
shoulders and upward [he was] higher than any of the thee, Set it by thee. {9:24} And the cook took up the
people. {9:3} And the asses of Kish Saul’s father were lost. shoulder, and [that] which [was] upon it, and set [it] before
And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants Saul. And [Samuel] said, Behold that which is left! set [it]
with thee, and arise, go seek the asses. {9:4} And he passed before thee, [and] eat: for unto this time hath it been kept
through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did
Shalisha, but they found [them] not: then they passed eat with Samuel that day.
through the land of Shalim, and [there they were] not: and
he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they {9:25} And when they were come down from the high
found [them] not. {9:5} [And] when they were come to the place into the city, [Samuel] communed with Saul upon the
land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that [was] with him, top of the house. {9:26} And they arose early: and it came
Come, and let us return; lest my father leave [caring] for the to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul
asses, and take thought for us. {9:6} And he said unto him, to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee
Behold now, [there is] in this city a man of God, and [he is] away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he
an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: and Samuel, abroad. {9:27} [And] as they were going down
now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant
that we should go. {9:7} Then said Saul to his servant, But, pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a
behold, [if] we go, what shall we bring the man? for the while, that I may shew thee the word of God.
bread is spent in our vessels, and [there is] not a present to
bring to the man of God: what have we? {9:8} And the {10:1} Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured [it]
servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here upon his head, and kissed him, and said, [Is it] not because
at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: [that] will I give the LORD hath anointed thee [to be] captain over his
to the man of God, to tell us our way. {9:9} (Beforetime in inheritance? {10:2} When thou art departed from me to day,
Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre in the
Come, and let us go to the seer: for [he that is] now [called] border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee,
a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.) {9:10} Then said The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy
Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you,
unto the city where the man of God [was. saying, What shall I do for my son? {10:3} Then shalt thou
go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain
]{9:11} [And] as they went up the hill to the city, they of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to
found young maidens going out to draw water, and said God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying
unto them, Is the seer here? {9:12} And they answered three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: make haste {10:4} And they will salute thee, and give thee two [loaves]
now, for he came to day to the city; for [there is] a sacrifice of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands. {10:5}
of the people to day in the high place: {9:13} As soon as ye After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where [is] the
be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when
he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a
until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; [and] company of prophets coming down from the high place
afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before
up; for about this time ye shall find him. {9:14} And they them; and they shall prophesy: {10:6} And the Spirit of the
went up into the city: [and] when they were come into the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with
city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to them, and shalt be turned into another man. {10:7} And let
the high place. it be, when these signs are come unto thee, [that] thou do as
occasion serve thee; for God [is] with thee. {10:8} And thou
{9:15} Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come
before Saul came, saying, {9:16} To morrow about this down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, [and] to sacrifice
time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till
thou shalt anoint him [to be] captain over my people Israel, I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.
that he may save my people out of the hand of the
Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their {10:9} And it was [so,] that when he had turned his back
cry is come unto me. {9:17} And when Samuel saw Saul, to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all
the LORD said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to those signs came to pass that day. {10:10} And when they
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came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What
him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he [aileth] the people that they weep? And they told him the
prophesied among them. {10:11} And it came to pass, when tidings of the men of Jabesh. {11:6} And the Spirit of God
all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger
prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to was kindled greatly. {11:7} And he took a yoke of oxen,
another, What [is] this [that] is come unto the son of Kish? and hewed them in pieces, and sent [them] throughout all
[Is] Saul also among the prophets? {10:12} And one of the the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying,
same place answered and said, But who [is] their father? Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so
Therefore it became a proverb, [Is] Saul also among the shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD
prophets? {10:13} And when he had made an end of fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
prophesying, he came to the high place. {11:8} And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children
of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah
{10:14} And Saul’s uncle said unto him and to his thirty thousand. {11:9} And they said unto the messengers
servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabesh-gilead,
and when we saw that [they were] no where, we came to To morrow, by [that time] the sun be hot, ye shall have
Samuel. {10:15} And Saul’s uncle said, Tell me, I pray help. And the messengers came and shewed [it] to the men
thee, what Samuel said unto you. {10:16} And Saul said of Jabesh; and they were glad. {11:10} Therefore the men
unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out unto you, and
But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you. {11:11}
told him not. And it was [so] on the morrow, that Saul put the people in
three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in
{10:17} And Samuel called the people together unto the the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat
LORD to Mizpeh; {10:18} And said unto the children of of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained
Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, [and] of {11:12} And the people said unto Samuel, Who [is] he
them that oppressed you: {10:19} And ye have this day that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we
rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your may put them to death. {11:13} And Saul said, There shall
adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, not a man be put to death this day: for to day the LORD
[Nay,] but set a king over us. Now therefore present hath wrought salvation in Israel. {11:14} Then said Samuel
yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the
thousands. {10:20} And when Samuel had caused all the kingdom there. {11:15} And all the people went to Gilgal;
tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal;
taken. {10:21} When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before
come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced
and Saul the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought greatly.
him, he could not be found. {10:22} Therefore they
enquired of the LORD further, if the man should yet come {12:1} And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have
thither. And the LORD answered, Behold, he hath hid hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and
himself among the stuff. {10:23} And they ran and fetched have made a king over you. {12:2} And now, behold, the
him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and,
higher than any of the people from his shoulders and behold, my sons [are] with you: and I have walked before
upward. {10:24} And Samuel said to all the people, See ye you from my childhood unto this day. {12:3} Behold, here I
him whom the LORD hath chosen, that [there is] none like [am:] witness against me before the LORD, and before his
him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I
said, God save the king. {10:25} Then Samuel told the taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed?
people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote [it] in a book, or of whose hand have I received [any] bribe to blind mine
and laid [it ]up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. {12:4} And they
people away, every man to his house. said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither
hast thou taken ought of any man’s hand. {12:5} And he
{10:26} And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there said unto them, The LORD [is] witness against you, and his
went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had anointed [is] witness this day, that ye have not found ought
touched. {10:27} But the children of Belial said, How shall in my hand. And they answered, [He is] witness.
this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him
no presents. But he held his peace. {11:1} Then Nahash the {12:6} And Samuel said unto the people, [It is] the LORD
Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your
and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a fathers up out of the land of Egypt. {12:7} Now therefore
covenant with us, and we will serve thee. {11:2} And stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of
Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this [condition] all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and
will I make [a covenant] with you, that I may thrust out all to your fathers. {12:8} When Jacob was come into Egypt,
your right eyes, and lay it [for] a reproach upon all Israel. and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent
{11:3} And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of
seven days respite, that we may send messengers unto all Egypt, and made them dwell in this place. {12:9} And when
the coasts of Israel: and then, if [there be] no man to save they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand
us, we will come out to thee. of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of
the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and
{11:4} Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and they fought against them. {12:10} And they cried unto the
told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have
lifted up their voices, and wept. {11:5} And, behold, Saul forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth:
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but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he [was] yet in
will serve thee. {12:11} And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of
the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled {13:8} And he tarried seven days, according to the set
safe. {12:12} And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the time that Samuel [had appointed:] but Samuel came not to
children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him. {13:9} And
Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace
God [was] your king. {12:13} Now therefore behold the offerings. And he offered the burnt offering. {13:10} And it
king whom ye have chosen, [and] whom ye have desired! came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering
and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you. {12:14} If the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out
ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, to meet him, that he might salute him.
and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then
shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you {13:11} And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And
continue following the LORD your God: {12:15} But if ye Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from
will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the me, and [that] thou camest not within the days appointed,
commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the and [that] the Philistines gathered themselves together at
LORD be against you, as [it was] against your fathers. Michmash; {13:12} Therefore said I, The Philistines will
come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made
{12:16} Now therefore stand and see this great thing, supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and
which the LORD will do before your eyes. {12:17} [Is it] offered a burnt offering. {13:13} And Samuel said to Saul,
not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the
shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see commandment of the LORD thy God, which he
that your wickedness [is] great, which ye have done in the commanded thee: for now would the LORD have
sight of the LORD, in asking you a king. {12:18} So established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever. {13:14} But
Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought
and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath
LORD and Samuel. {12:19} And all the people said unto commanded him [to be] captain over his people, because
Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that thou hast not kept [that] which the LORD commanded thee.
we die not: for we have added unto all our sins [this] evil, to {13:15} And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal
ask us a king. unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people
[that were] present with him, about six hundred men.
{12:20} And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye {13:16} And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people
have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from [that were] present with them, abode in Gibeah of
following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
heart; {12:21} And turn ye not aside: for [then should ye
go] after vain [things,] which cannot profit nor deliver; for {13:17} And the spoilers came out of the camp of the
they [are] vain. {12:22} For the LORD will not forsake his Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the
people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the way [that leadeth to] Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:
LORD to make you his people. {12:23} Moreover as for {13:18} And another company turned the way [to] Beth-
me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in horon: and another company turned [to] the way of the
ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the
the right way: {12:24} Only fear the LORD, and serve him wilderness.
in truth with all your heart: for consider how great [things]
he hath done for you. {12:25} But if ye shall still do {13:19} Now there was no smith found throughout all the
wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king. land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews
make [them] swords or spears: {13:20} But all the Israelites
{13:1} Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his
two years over Israel, {13:2} Saul chose him three thousand share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. {13:21}
[men] of Israel; [whereof] two thousand were with Saul in Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters,
Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people {13:22} So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there
he sent every man to his tent. {13:3} And Jonathan smote was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the
the garrison of the Philistines that [was] in Geba, and the people that [were] with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul
Philistines heard [of it.] And Saul blew the trumpet and with Jonathan his son was there found. {13:23} And the
throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear. garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of
{13:4} And all Israel heard say [that] Saul had smitten a Michmash.
garrison of the Philistines, and [that] Israel also was had in
abomination with the Philistines. And the people were {14:1} Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the
called together after Saul to Gilgal. son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour,
Come, and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison, that
{13:5} And the Philistines gathered themselves together [is] on the other side. But he told not his father. {14:2} And
to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a
thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which [is] on pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that
the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in [were] with him [were] about six hundred men; {14:3} And
Michmash, eastward from Beth- aven. {13:6} When the Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I-chabod’s brother, the son of
men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD’S priest in Shiloh,
were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan
caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and was gone.
in pits. {13:7} And [some of] the Hebrews went over Jordan
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{14:4} And between the passages, by which Jonathan when the people were come into the wood, behold, the
sought to go over unto the Philistines’ garrison, [there was] honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for
a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other the people feared the oath. {14:27} But Jonathan heard not
side: and the name of the one [was] Bozez, and the name of when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore
the other Seneh. {14:5} The forefront of the one [was] he put forth the end of the rod that [was] in his hand, and
situate northward over against Michmash, and the other dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth;
southward over against Gibeah. {14:6} And Jonathan said and his eyes were enlightened. {14:28} Then answered one
to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the
over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be people with an oath, saying, Cursed [be] the man that eateth
that the LORD will work for us: for [there is] no restraint to [any] food this day. And the people were faint. {14:29}
the LORD to save by many or by few. {14:7} And his Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I
armourbearer said unto him, Do all that [is] in thine heart: pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I
turn thee; behold, I [am] with thee according to thy heart. tasted a little of this honey. {14:30} How much more, if
{14:8} Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their
[these] men, and we will discover ourselves unto them. enemies which they found? for had there not been now a
{14:9} If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; much greater slaughter among the Philistines? {14:31} And
then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to
them. {14:10} But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then Aijalon: and the people were very faint. {14:32} And the
we will go up: for the LORD hath delivered them into our people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and
hand: and this [shall be] a sign unto us. {14:11} And both of calves, and slew [them] on the ground: and the people did
them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the eat [them] with the blood.
Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews
come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves. {14:33} Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people
{14:12} And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And
and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this
shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, day. {14:34} And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the
Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his
the hand of Israel. {14:13} And Jonathan climbed up upon ox, and every man his sheep, and slay [them] here, and eat;
his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And
and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew all the people brought every man his ox with him that night,
after him. {14:14} And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and slew [them] there. {14:35} And Saul built an altar unto
and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the
as it were an half acre of land, [which] a yoke [of oxen LORD.
might plow. ]{14:15} And there was trembling in the host,
in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the {14:36} And Saul said, Let us go down after the
spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light,
a very great trembling. {14:16} And the watchmen of Saul and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do
in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest,
melted away, and they went on beating down [one another. Let us draw near hither unto God. {14:37} And Saul asked
]{14:17} Then said Saul unto the people that [were] with counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt
him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered
they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer him not that day. {14:38} And Saul said, Draw ye near
[were] not [there. ]{14:18} And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein
hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time this sin hath been this day. {14:39} For, [as] the LORD
with the children of Israel. liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son,
he shall surely die. But [there was] not a man among all the
{14:19} And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the people [that] answered him. {14:40} Then said he unto all
priest, that the noise that [was] in the host of the Philistines Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be
went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what
Withdraw thine hand. {14:20} And Saul and all the people seemeth good unto thee. {14:41} Therefore Saul said unto
that [were] with him assembled themselves, and they came the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect [lot.] And Saul and
to the battle: and, behold, every man’s sword was against Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped. {14:42} And
his fellow, [and there was] a very great discomfiture. Saul said, Cast [lots] between me and Jonathan my son. And
{14:21} Moreover the Hebrews [that] were with the Jonathan was taken. {14:43} Then Saul said to Jonathan,
Philistines before that time, which went up with them into Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and
the camp [from the country] round about, even they also said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that
[turned] to be with the Israelites that [were] with Saul and [was] in mine hand, [and,] lo, I must die. {14:44} And Saul
Jonathan. {14:22} Likewise all the men of Israel which had answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely
hid themselves in mount Ephraim, [when] they heard that die, Jonathan. {14:45} And the people said unto Saul, Shall
the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in
in the battle. {14:23} So the LORD saved Israel that day: Israel? God forbid: [as] the LORD liveth, there shall not one
and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven. hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with
God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died
{14:24} And the men of Israel were distressed that day: not. {14:46} Then Saul went up from following the
for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed [be] the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.
man that eateth [any] food until evening, that I may be
avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted {14:47} So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought
[any] food. {14:25} And all [they of] the land came to a against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and
wood; and there was honey upon the ground. {14:26} And against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and
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against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the
whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed [them. ]{14:48} spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD? {15:20} And
And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the
delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them. LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me,
{14:49} Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have
Melchi-shua: and the names of his two daughters [were utterly destroyed the Amalekites. {15:21} But the people
these;] the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things
younger Michal: {14:50} And the name of Saul’s wife which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto
[was] Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the LORD thy God in Gilgal. {15:22} And Samuel said,
the captain of his host [was] Abner, the son of Ner, Saul’s Hath the LORD [as great] delight in burnt offerings and
uncle. {14:51} And Kish [was] the father of Saul; and Ner sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to
the father of Abner [was] the son of Abiel. {14:52} And obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the fat
there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of of rams. {15:23} For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft,
Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou
man, he took him unto him. hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected
thee from [being] king.
{15:1} Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to
anoint thee [to be] king over his people, over Israel: now {15:24} And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I
therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy
LORD. {15:2} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
[that] which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid [wait] for {15:25} Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn
him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. {15:3} Now again with me, that I may worship the LORD. {15:26} And
go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou
and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath
and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. {15:4} And Saul rejected thee from being king over Israel. {15:27} And as
gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt
two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of of his mantle, and it rent. {15:28} And Samuel said unto
Judah. {15:5} And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee
wait in the valley. this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, [that is]
better than thou. {15:29} And also the Strength of Israel
{15:6} And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get will not lie nor repent: for he [is] not a man, that he should
you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you repent. {15:30} Then he said, I have sinned: [yet] honour
with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and
Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship
departed from among the Amalekites. {15:7} And Saul the LORD thy God. {15:31} So Samuel turned again after
smote the Amalekites from Havilah [until] thou comest to Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.
Shur, that [is] over against Egypt. {15:8} And he took Agag
the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all {15:32} Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag
the people with the edge of the sword. {15:9} But Saul and the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him
the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is
the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all [that past. {15:33} And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made
was] good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among
thing [that was] vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the
LORD in Gilgal.
{15:10} Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel,
saying, {15:11} It repenteth me that I have set up Saul [to {15:34} Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up
be] king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath to his house to Gibeah of Saul. {15:35} And Samuel came
not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless
and he cried unto the LORD all night. {15:12} And when Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he
Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told had made Saul king over Israel.
Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set
him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone {16:1} And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt
down to Gilgal. {15:13} And Samuel came to Saul: and thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from
Saul said unto him, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD: I have reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will
performed the commandment of the LORD. {15:14} And send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me
Samuel said, What [meaneth] then this bleating of the sheep a king among his sons. {16:2} And Samuel said, How can I
in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? go? if Saul hear [it,] he will kill me. And the LORD said,
{15:15} And Saul said, They have brought them from the Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to
Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and the LORD. {16:3} And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will
of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me
rest we have utterly destroyed. {15:16} Then Samuel said [him] whom I name unto thee. {16:4} And Samuel did that
unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the
said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on. {15:17} elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest
And Samuel said, When thou [wast] little in thine own thou peaceably? {16:5} And he said, Peaceably: I am come
sight, [wast] thou not [made] the head of the tribes of Israel, to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come
and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel? {15:18} And with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his
the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them
until they be consumed. {15:19} Wherefore then didst thou {16:6} And it came to pass, when they were come, that he
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looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD’S anointed [is] legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders. {17:7}
before him. {16:7} But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look And the staff of his spear [was] like a weaver’s beam; and
not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; his spear’s head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and
because I have refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not as one bearing a shield went before him. {17:8} And he stood
man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why
the LORD looketh on the heart. {16:8} Then Jesse called are ye come out to set [your] battle in array? [am] not I a
Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for
Neither hath the LORD chosen this. {16:9} Then Jesse you, and let him come down to me. {17:9} If he be able to
made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants:
LORD chosen this. {16:10} Again, Jesse made seven of his but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be
sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, our servants, and serve us. {17:10} And the Philistine said, I
The LORD hath not chosen these. {16:11} And Samuel said defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we
unto Jesse, Are here all [thy] children? And he said, There may fight together. {17:11} When Saul and all Israel heard
remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and
sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for greatly afraid.
we will not sit down till he come hither. {16:12} And he
sent, and brought him in. Now he [was] ruddy, [and] withal {17:12} Now David [was] the son of that Ephrathite of
of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Bethlehemjudah, whose name [was] Jesse; and he had eight
LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this [is] he. {16:13} sons: and the man went among men [for] an old man in the
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the days of Saul. {17:13} And the three eldest sons of Jesse
midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came went [and] followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his
upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and three sons that went to the battle [were] Eliab the first born,
went to Ramah. and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
{17:14} And David [was] the youngest: and the three eldest
{16:14} But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, followed Saul. {17:15} But David went and returned from
and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him. {16:15} Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem. {17:16} And
And Saul’s servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and
spirit from God troubleth thee. {16:16} Let our lord now presented himself forty days. {17:17} And Jesse said unto
command thy servants, [which are] before thee, to seek out David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this
a man, [who is] a cunning player on an harp: and it shall parched [corn,] and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to
come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, thy brethren; {17:18} And carry these ten cheeses unto the
that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well. captain of [their] thousand, and look how thy brethren fare,
{16:17} And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a and take their pledge. {17:19} Now Saul, and they, and all
man that can play well, and bring [him] to me. {16:18} the men of Israel, [were] in the valley of Elah, fighting with
Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have the Philistines.
seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, [that is] cunning in
playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and {17:20} And David rose up early in the morning, and left
prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD [is] the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had
with him. commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was
going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle. {17:21}
{16:19} Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array,
said, Send me David thy son, which [is] with the sheep. army against army. {17:22} And David left his carriage in
{16:20} And Jesse took an ass [laden] with bread, and a the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army,
bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent [them] by David his son and came and saluted his brethren. {17:23} And as he
unto Saul. {16:21} And David came to Saul, and stood talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the
before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the
armourbearer. {16:22} And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and
David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found David heard [them. ]{17:24} And all the men of Israel,
favour in my sight. {16:23} And it came to pass, when the when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore
[evil] spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an afraid. {17:25} And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen
harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come
was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. up: and it shall be, [that] the man who killeth him, the king
will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his
{17:1} Now the Philistines gathered together their armies daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel. {17:26}
to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying,
[belongeth] to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine,
Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. {17:2} And Saul and the men and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who [is] this
of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of
of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. the living God? {17:27} And the people answered him after
{17:3} And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that
side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and killeth him.
[there was] a valley between them.
{17:28} And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake
{17:4} And there went out a champion out of the camp of unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David,
the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height [was] and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom
six cubits and a span. {17:5} And [he had] an helmet of hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy
brass upon his head, and he [was] armed with a coat of pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come
mail; and the weight of the coat [was] five thousand shekels down that thou mightest see the battle. {17:29} And David
of brass. {17:6} And [he had] greaves of brass upon his said, What have I now done? [Is there] not a cause?
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{17:30} And he turned from him toward another, and And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and
spake after the same manner: and the people answered him pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to
again after the former manner. {17:31} And when the the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell
words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto
[them] before Saul: and he sent for him. Ekron. {17:53} And the children of Israel returned from
chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
{17:32} And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail {17:54} And David took the head of the Philistine, and
because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.
Philistine. {17:33} And Saul said to David, Thou art not
able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou {17:55} And when Saul saw David go forth against the
[art but] a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host,
{17:34} And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his Abner, whose son [is] this youth? And Abner said, [As] thy
father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell. {17:56} And the king said,
lamb out of the flock: {17:35} And I went out after him, Enquire thou whose son the stripling [is. ]{17:57} And as
and smote him, and delivered [it] out of his mouth: and David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner
when he arose against me, I caught [him] by his beard, and took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the
smote him, and slew him. {17:36} Thy servant slew both Philistine in his hand. {17:58} And Saul said to him, Whose
the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall son [art] thou, [thou] young man? And David answered, [I
be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the am] the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
living God. {17:37} David said moreover, The LORD that
delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw {18:1} And it came to pass, when he had made an end of
of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with
Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
with thee. {18:2} And Saul took him that day, and would let him go
no more home to his father’s house. {18:3} Then Jonathan
{17:38} And Saul armed David with his armour, and he and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his
put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him own soul. {18:4} And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe
with a coat of mail. {17:39} And David girded his sword that [was] upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments,
upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
proved [it.] And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with
these; for I have not proved [them.] And David put them off {18:5} And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him,
him. {17:40} And he took his staff in his hand, and chose [and] behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the
him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the
shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants. {18:6} And
[was] in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine. it came to pass as they came, when David was returned
{17:41} And the Philistine came on and drew near unto from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came
David; and the man that bare the shield [went] before him. out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king
{17:42} And when the Philistine looked about, and saw Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
David, he disdained him: for he was [but] a youth, and {18:7} And the women answered [one another] as they
ruddy, and of a fair countenance. {17:43} And the Philistine played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David
said unto David, [Am] I a dog, that thou comest to me with his ten thousands. {18:8} And Saul was very wroth, and the
staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto
{17:44} And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed [but]
will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts thousands: and [what] can he have more but the kingdom?
of the field. {17:45} Then said David to the Philistine, Thou {18:9} And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a {18:10} And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil
shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the
the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at
{17:46} This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine other times: and [there was] a javelin in Saul’s hand.
hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; {18:11} And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite
and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this David even to the wall [with it.] And David avoided out of
day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the his presence twice.
earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in
Israel. {17:47} And all this assembly shall know that the {18:12} And Saul was afraid of David, because the
LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle [is] LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul. {18:13}
the LORD’S, and he will give you into our hands. {17:48} Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his
And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in
and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran before the people. {18:14} And David behaved himself
toward the army to meet the Philistine. {17:49} And David wisely in all his ways; and the LORD [was] with him.
put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang {18:15} Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself
[it,] and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone very wisely, he was afraid of him. {18:16} But all Israel and
sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before
{17:50} So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling them.
and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him;
but [there was] no sword in the hand of David. {17:51} {18:17} And Saul said to David, Behold my elder
Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou
took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and valiant for me, and fight the LORD’S battles. For Saul said,
slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the
Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled. {17:52} Philistines be upon him. {18:18} And David said unto Saul,
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Who [am] I? and what [is] my life, [or] my father’s family slaughter; and they fled from him. {19:9} And the evil spirit
in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king? {18:19} from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with
But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul’s daughter his javelin in his hand: and David played with [his] hand.
should have been given to David, that she was given unto {19:10} And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall
Adriel the Meholathite to wife. {18:20} And Michal Saul’s with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence,
daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and
pleased him. {18:21} And Saul said, I will give him her, escaped that night. {19:11} Saul also sent messengers unto
that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the
Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou
David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in [the one of] save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
the twain.
{19:12} So Michal let David down through a window:
{18:22} And Saul commanded his servants, [saying,] and he went, and fled, and escaped. {19:13} And Michal
Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king took an image, and laid [it] in the bed, and put a pillow of
hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now goats [hair] for his bolster, and covered [it] with a cloth.
therefore be the king’s son in law. {18:23} And Saul’s {19:14} And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she
servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, He [is] sick. {19:15} And Saul sent the messengers
said, Seemeth it to you [a] light [thing] to be a king’s son in [again] to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed,
law, seeing that I [am] a poor man, and lightly esteemed? that I may slay him. {19:16} And when the messengers
{18:24} And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this were come in, behold, [there was] an image in the bed, with
manner spake David. {18:25} And Saul said, Thus shall ye a pillow of goats’ [hair] for his bolster. {19:17} And Saul
say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent
hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal
king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I
hand of the Philistines. {18:26} And when his servants told kill thee?
David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s
son in law: and the days were not expired. {18:27} {19:18} So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And
of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. {19:19} And it
foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he was told Saul, saying, Behold, David [is] at Naioth in
might be the king’s son in law. And Saul gave him Michal Ramah. {19:20} And Saul sent messengers to take David:
his daughter to wife. and when they saw the company of the prophets
prophesying, and Samuel standing [as] appointed over
{18:28} And Saul saw and knew that the LORD [was] them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul,
with David, and [that] Michal Saul’s daughter loved him. and they also prophesied. {19:21} And when it was told
{18:29} And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied
Saul became David’s enemy continually. {18:30} Then the likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time,
princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, and they prophesied also. {19:22} Then went he also to
after they went forth, [that] David behaved himself more Ramah, and came to a great well that [is] in Sechu: and he
wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was asked and said, Where [are] Samuel and David? And [one]
much set by. said, Behold, [they be] at Naioth in Ramah. {19:23} And he
went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was
{19:1} And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he
servants, that they should kill David. {19:2} But Jonathan came to Naioth in Ramah. {19:24} And he stript off his
Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner,
David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now and lay down naked all that day and all that night.
therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, Wherefore they say, [Is] Saul also among the prophets?
and abide in a secret [place,] and hide thyself: {19:3} And I
will go out and stand beside my father in the field where {20:1} And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came
thou [art,] and I will commune with my father of thee; and and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what [is] mine
what I see, that I will tell thee. iniquity? and what [is] my sin before thy father, that he
seeketh my life? {20:2} And he said unto him, God forbid;
{19:4} And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either
father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should
servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against my father hide this thing from me? it [is] not [so. ]{20:3}
thee, and because his works [have been] to thee-ward very And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly
good: {19:5} For he did put his life in his hand, and slew knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith,
the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly [as]
all Israel: thou sawest [it,] and didst rejoice: wherefore then the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, [there is] but a
wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a step between me and death. {20:4} Then said Jonathan unto
cause? {19:6} And Saul hearkened unto the voice of David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do [it] for
Jonathan: and Saul sware, [As] the LORD liveth, he shall thee. {20:5} And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to
not be slain. {19:7} And Jonathan called David, and morrow [is] the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with
Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the
brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in field unto the third [day] at even. {20:6} If thy father at all
times past. miss me, then say, David earnestly asked [leave] of me that
he might run to Bethlehem his city: for [there is] a yearly
{19:8} And there was war again: and David went out, and sacrifice there for all the family. {20:7} If he say thus, [It is]
fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth,
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[then] be sure that evil is determined by him. {20:8} Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy
Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou mother’s nakedness? {20:31} For as long as the son of Jesse
hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor
thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me,
thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father? for he shall surely die. {20:32} And Jonathan answered
{20:9} And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be
certainly that evil were determined by my father to come slain? what hath he done? {20:33} And Saul cast a javelin
upon thee, then would not I tell it thee? {20:10} Then said at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was
David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what [if] thy father determined of his father to slay David. {20:34} So Jonathan
answer thee roughly? arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the
second day of the month: for he was grieved for David,
{20:11} And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us because his father had done him shame.
go out into the field. And they went out both of them into
the field. {20:12} And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD {20:35} And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan
God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and
morrow any time, [or] the third [day,] and, behold, [if there a little lad with him. {20:36} And he said unto his lad, Run,
be] good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and find out now the arrows which I shoot. [And] as the lad ran,
shew it thee; {20:13} The LORD do so and much more to he shot an arrow beyond him. {20:37} And when the lad
Jonathan: but if it please my father [to do] thee evil, then I was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had
will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, [Is] not the
in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with arrow beyond thee? {20:38} And Jonathan cried after the
my father. {20:14} And thou shalt not only while yet I live lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan’s lad
shew me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not: {20:15} gathered up the arrows, and came to his master. {20:39}
But [also] thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David
for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies knew the matter. {20:40} And Jonathan gave his artillery
of David every one from the face of the earth. {20:16} So unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry [them] to the city.
Jonathan made [a covenant] with the house of David,
[saying,] Let the LORD even require [it] at the hand of {20:41} [And] as soon as the lad was gone, David arose
David’s enemies. {20:17} And Jonathan caused David to out of [a place] toward the south, and fell on his face to the
swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one
loved his own soul. {20:18} Then Jonathan said to David, another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.
To morrow [is] the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, {20:42} And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace,
because thy seat will be empty. {20:19} And [when] thou forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the
hast stayed three days, [then] thou shalt go down quickly, LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and
and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and
the business was [in hand,] and shalt remain by the stone departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
Ezel. {20:20} And I will shoot three arrows on the side
[thereof,] as though I shot at a mark. {20:21} And, behold, I {21:1} Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest:
will send a lad, [saying,] Go, find out the arrows. If I and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said
expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this unto him, Why [art] thou alone, and no man with thee?
side of thee, take them; then come thou: for [there is] peace {21:2} And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king
to thee, and no hurt; [as] the LORD liveth. {20:22} But if I hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let
say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows [are] no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send
beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have
away. {20:23} And [as touching] the matter which thou and appointed [my] servants to such and such a place. {21:3}
I have spoken of, behold, the LORD [be] between thee and Now therefore what is under thine hand? give [me] five
me for ever. [loaves of] bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
{21:4} And the priest answered David, and said, [There is]
{20:24} So David hid himself in the field: and when the no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed
new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat. bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from
{20:25} And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, women. {21:5} And David answered the priest, and said
[even] upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and unto him, Of a truth women [have been] kept from us about
Abner sat by Saul’s side, and David’s place was empty. these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the
{20:26} Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for young men are holy, and [the bread is] in a manner
he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the
surely he [is] not clean. {20:27} And it came to pass on the vessel. {21:6} So the priest gave him hallowed [bread:] for
morrow, [which was] the second [day] of the month, that there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken
David’s place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it
son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither was taken away. {21:7} Now a certain man of the servants
yesterday, nor to day? {20:28} And Jonathan answered of Saul [was] there that day, detained before the LORD; and
Saul, David earnestly asked [leave] of me [to go] to his name [was] Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the
Bethlehem: {20:29} And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for herdmen that [belonged] to Saul.
our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he
hath commanded me [to be there:] and now, if I have found {21:8} And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not
favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither
my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king’s table. brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the
{20:30} Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, king’s business required haste. {21:9} And the priest said,
and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in
[woman,] do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of the valley of Elah, behold, it [is here] wrapped in a cloth
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behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take [it:] for [there goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
is] no other save that here. And David said, [There is] none {22:15} Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it
like that; give it me. far from me: let not the king impute [any] thing unto his
servant, [nor] to all the house of my father: for thy servant
{21:10} And David arose, and fled that day for fear of knew nothing of all this, less or more. {22:16} And the king
Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. {21:11} And the said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy
servants of Achish said unto him, [Is] not this David the father’s house.
king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in
dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his {22:17} And the king said unto the footmen that stood
ten thousands? {21:12} And David laid up these words in about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because
his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath. their hand also [is] with David, and because they knew
{21:13} And he changed his behaviour before them, and when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of
feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the
doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his priests of the LORD. {22:18} And the king said to Doeg,
beard. {21:14} Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite
see the man is mad: wherefore [then] have ye brought him turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day
to me? {21:15} Have I need of mad men, that ye have fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
brought this [fellow] to play the mad man in my presence? {22:19} And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the
shall this [fellow] come into my house? edge of the sword, both men and women, children and
sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of
{22:1} David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the sword.
the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s
house heard it, they went down thither to him. {22:2} And {22:20} And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of
every one [that was] in distress, and every one that [was] in Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
debt, and every one [that was] discontented, gathered {22:21} And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the
themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: LORD’S priests. {22:22} And David said unto Abiathar, I
and there were with him about four hundred men. knew [it] that day, when Doeg the Edomite [was] there, that
he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned [the death] of
{22:3} And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and all the persons of thy father’s house. {22:23} Abide thou
he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy
mother, I pray thee, come forth, [and be] with you, till I life: but with me thou [shalt be] in safeguard.
know what God will do for me. {22:4} And he brought
them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all {23:1} Then they told David, saying, Behold, the
the while that David was in the hold. Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the
threshingfloors. {23:2} Therefore David enquired of the
{22:5} And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And
in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines,
David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth. and save Keilah. {23:3} And David’s men said unto him,
Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how much more then if
{22:6} When Saul heard that David was discovered, and we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?
the men that [were] with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah {23:4} Then David enquired of the LORD yet again. And
under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to
his servants [were] standing about him;) {22:7} Then Saul Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye {23:5} So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought
Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and
fields and vineyards, [and] make you all captains of smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the
thousands, and captains of hundreds; {22:8} That all of you inhabitants of Keilah. {23:6} And it came to pass, when
have conspired against me, and [there is] none that sheweth Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah,
me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, [that] he came down [with] an ephod in his hand.
and [there is] none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth
unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, {23:7} And it was told Saul that David was come to
to lie in wait, as at this day? Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine
hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath
{22:9} Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set gates and bars. {23:8} And Saul called all the people
over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and
coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. {22:10} his men.
And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him
victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. {23:9} And David knew that Saul secretly practised
{22:11} Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest,
son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests that Bring hither the ephod. {23:10} Then said David, O LORD
[were] in Nob: and they came all of them to the king. God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul
{22:12} And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
he answered, Here I [am,] my lord. {22:13} And Saul said {23:11} Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his
unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O
son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And
and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against the LORD said, He will come down. {23:12} Then said
me, to lie in wait, as at this day? {22:14} Then Ahimelech David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into
answered the king, and said, And who [is so] faithful among the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver
all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and [thee] up.
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{23:13} Then David and his men, [which were] about six afterward, that David’s heart smote him, because he had cut
hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went off Saul’s skirt. {24:6} And he said unto his men, The
whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the
David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth. LORD’S anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him,
{23:14} And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD. {24:7} So David
and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not
Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and
his hand. {23:15} And David saw that Saul was come out to went on [his] way. {24:8} David also arose afterward, and
seek his life: and David [was] in the wilderness of Ziph in a went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord
wood. the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped
with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
{23:16} And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to
David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God. {24:9} And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou
{23:17} And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of men’s words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king {24:10} Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the
over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave:
my father knoweth. {23:18} And they two made a covenant and [some] bade [me] kill thee: but [mine eye] spared thee;
before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord;
Jonathan went to his house. for he [is] the LORD’S anointed. {24:11} Moreover, my
father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in
{23:19} Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, that I cut off the skirt of thy robe and killed thee not, know
saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds thou and see that [there is] neither evil nor transgression in
in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which [is] on the south mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou
of Jeshimon? {23:20} Now therefore, O king, come down huntest my soul to take it. {24:12} The LORD judge
according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but
our part [shall be] to deliver him into the king’s hand. mine hand shall not be upon thee. {24:13} As saith the
{23:21} And Saul said, Blessed [be] ye of the LORD; for ye proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the
have compassion on me. {23:22} Go, I pray you, prepare wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. {24:14}
yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost
who hath seen him there: for it is told me [that] he dealeth thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. {24:15} The
very subtilly. {23:23} See therefore, and take knowledge of LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee,
all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine
again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it hand.
shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search
him out throughout all the thousands of Judah. {23:24} And {24:16} And it came to pass, when David had made an
they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, [Is]
men [were] in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice,
south of Jeshimon. {23:25} Saul also and his men went to and wept. {24:17} And he said to David, Thou [art] more
seek [him.] And they told David: wherefore he came down righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I
into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when have rewarded thee evil. {24:18} And thou hast shewed this
Saul heard [that,] he pursued after David in the wilderness day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as
of Maon. {23:26} And Saul went on this side of the when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou
mountain, and David and his men on that side of the killedst me not. {24:19} For if a man find his enemy, will
mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee
Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men good for that thou hast done unto me this day. {24:20} And
round about to take them. now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and
that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.
{23:27} But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, {24:21} Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that
Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not
land. {23:28} Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after destroy my name out of my father’s house. {24:22} And
David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and
called that place Sela- hammahlekoth. his men gat them up unto the hold.
{23:29} And David went up from thence, and dwelt in {25:1} And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were
strong holds at En-gedi. gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his
house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the
{24:1} And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from wilderness of Paran. {25:2} And [there was] a man in
following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Maon, whose possessions [were] in Carmel; and the man
Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi. {24:2} Then [was] very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a
Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild {25:3} Now the name of the man [was] Nabal; and the
goats. {24:3} And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, name of his wife Abigail: and [she was] a woman of good
where [was] a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man
David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. {24:4} [was] churlish and evil in his doings; and he [was] of the
And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of house of Caleb.
which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine
enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall {25:4} And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did
seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt shear his sheep. {25:5} And David sent out ten young men,
of Saul’s robe privily. {24:5} And it came to pass and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel,
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and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name: {25:6} And blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now
thus shall ye say to him that liveth [in prosperity,] Peace let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as
[be] both to thee, and peace [be] to thine house, and peace Nabal. {25:27} And now this blessing which thine
[be] unto all that thou hast. {25:7} And now I have heard handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given
that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with unto the young men that follow my lord. {25:28} I pray
us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD
them, all the while they were in Carmel. {25:8} Ask thy will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord
young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been
young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good found in thee [all] thy days. {25:29} Yet a man is risen to
day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord
thy servants, and to thy son David. {25:9} And when shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God;
David’s young men came, they spake to Nabal according to and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, [as
all those words in the name of David, and ceased. out] of the middle of a sling. {25:30} And it shall come to
pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according
{25:10} And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and
Who [is] David? and who [is] the son of Jesse? there be shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel; {25:31} That
many servants now a days that break away every man from this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my
his master. {25:11} Shall I then take my bread, and my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my
water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have
give [it] unto men, whom I know not whence they [be? dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
]{25:12} So David’s young men turned their way, and went
again, and came and told him all those sayings. {25:13} {25:32} And David said to Abigail, Blessed [be] the
And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David {25:33} And blessed [be] thy advice, and blessed [be] thou,
also girded on his sword: and there went up after David which hast kept me this day from coming to [shed] blood,
about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the and from avenging myself with mine own hand. {25:34}
stuff. For in very deed, [as] the LORD God of Israel liveth, which
hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst
{25:14} But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left
wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the
wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them. wall. {25:35} So David received of her hand [that] which
{25:15} But the men [were] very good unto us, and we she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to
were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have
were conversant with them, when we were in the fields: accepted thy person.
{25:16} They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all
the while we were with them keeping the sheep. {25:17} {25:36} And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held
Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s
evil is determined against our master, and against all his heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunken:
household: for he [is such] a son of Belial, that [a man] wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the
cannot speak to him. morning light. {25:37} But it came to pass in the morning,
when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told
{25:18} Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred him these things, that his heart died within him, and he
loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready became [as] a stone. {25:38} And it came to pass about ten
dressed, and five measures of parched [corn,] and an days [after,] that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs,
and laid [them] on asses. {25:19} And she said unto her {25:39} And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he
servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But said, Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of
she told not her husband Nabal. {25:20} And it was [so, as] my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his
she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the
hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent
her; and she met them. {25:21} Now David had said, Surely and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
in vain have I kept all that this [fellow] hath in the {25:40} And when the servants of David were come to
wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent
[pertained] unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good. us unto thee to take thee to him to wife. {25:41} And she
{25:22} So and more also do God unto the enemies of arose, and bowed herself on [her] face to the earth, and said,
David, if I leave of all that [pertain] to him by the morning Behold, [let] thine handmaid [be] a servant to wash the feet
light any that pisseth against the wall. {25:23} And when of the servants of my lord. {25:42} And Abigail hasted, and
Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that
fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the went after her; and she went after the messengers of David,
ground, {25:24} And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my and became his wife. {25:43} David also took Ahinoam of
lord, [upon] me [let this] iniquity [be:] and let thine Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the
words of thine handmaid. {25:25} Let not my lord, I pray {25:44} But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s
thee, regard this man of Belial, [even] Nabal: for as his wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which [was] of Gallim.
name [is,] so [is] he; Nabal [is] his name, and folly [is] with
him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my {26:1} And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah,
lord, whom thou didst send. {25:26} Now therefore, my saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah,
lord, [as] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, seeing [which is] before Jeshimon? {26:2} Then Saul arose, and
the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to [shed] went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand
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chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the the young men come over and fetch it. {26:23} The LORD
wilderness of Ziph. {26:3} And Saul pitched in the hill of render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness:
Hachilah, which [is] before Jeshimon, by the way. But for the LORD delivered thee into [my] hand to day, but I
David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD’S
after him into the wilderness. {26:4} David therefore sent anointed. {26:24} And, behold, as thy life was much set by
out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed. this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the
eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all
{26:5} And David arose, and came to the place where tribulation. {26:25} Then Saul said to David, Blessed [be]
Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and
lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul
Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about returned to his place.
him. {26:6} Then answered David and said to Ahimelech
the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to {27:1} And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one
Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me
camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee. {26:7} than that I should speedily escape into the land of the
So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any
behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people {27:2} And David arose, and he passed over with the six
lay round about him. {26:8} Then said Abishai to David, hundred men that [were] with him unto Achish, the son of
God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: Maoch, king of Gath. {27:3} And David dwelt with Achish
now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household,
even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him the [even] David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess,
second time. {26:9} And David said to Abishai, Destroy and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife. {27:4} And it
him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no
LORD’S anointed, and be guiltless? {26:10} David said more again for him.
furthermore, [As] the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite
him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into {27:5} And David said unto Achish, If I have now found
battle, and perish. {26:11} The LORD forbid that I should grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town
stretch forth mine hand against the LORD’S anointed: but, I in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy
pray thee, take thou now the spear that [is] at his bolster, servant dwell in the royal city with thee? {27:6} Then
and the cruse of water, and let us go. {26:12} So David took Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag
the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day. {27:7} And
they gat them away, and no man saw [it,] nor knew [it,] the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines
neither awaked: for they [were] all asleep; because a deep was a full year and four months.
sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.
{27:8} And David and his men went up, and invaded the
{26:13} Then David went over to the other side, and Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those
stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space [being] [nations were] of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou
between them: {26:14} And David cried to the people, and goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt. {27:9} And
to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman
Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who [art] thou alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses,
[that] criest to the king? {26:15} And David said to Abner, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to
[Art] not thou a [valiant] man? and who [is] like to thee in Achish. {27:10} And Achish said, Whither have ye made a
Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah,
for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the
lord. {26:16} This thing [is] not good that thou hast done. south of the Kenites. {27:11} And David saved neither man
[As] the LORD liveth, ye [are] worthy to die, because ye nor woman alive, to bring [tidings] to Gath, saying, Lest
have not kept your master, the LORD’S anointed. And now they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so [will be]
see where the king’s spear is, and the cruse of water that his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the
[was] at his bolster. {26:17} And Saul knew David’s voice, Philistines. {27:12} And Achish believed David, saying, He
and said, [Is] this thy voice, my son David? And David said, hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore
[It is] my voice, my lord, O king. {26:18} And he said, he shall be my servant for ever.
Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for
what have I done? or what evil [is] in mine hand? {26:19} {28:1} And it came to pass in those days, that the
Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to
words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou
against me, let him accept an offering: but if [they be] the assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and
children of men, cursed [be] they before the LORD; for they thy men. {28:2} And David said to Achish, Surely thou
have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to
of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods. {26:20} Now David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for
therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face ever.
of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a
flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains. {28:3} Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented
him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And
{26:21} Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the
David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul wizards, out of the land. {28:4} And the Philistines gathered
was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and
the fool, and have erred exceedingly. {26:22} And David Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
answered and said, Behold the king’s spear! and let one of {28:5} And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he
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was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled. {28:6} And when they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.
Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not,
neither by dreams nor by Urim, nor by prophets. {29:1} Now the Philistines gathered together all their
armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain
{28:7} Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a which [is] in Jezreel. {29:2} And the lords of the Philistines
woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his
enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, [there men passed on in the rereward with Achish. {29:3} Then
is] a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor. {28:8} And said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] these Hebrews
Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he [here?] And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines,
went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman [Is] not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel,
by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I
familiar spirit, and bring me [him] up, whom I shall name have found no fault in him since he fell [unto me] unto this
unto thee. {28:9} And the woman said unto him, Behold, day? {29:4} And the princes of the Philistines were wroth
thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him,
those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place
land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down
me to die? {28:10} And Saul sware to her by the LORD, with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us:
saying, [As] the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master?
happen to thee for this thing. {28:11} Then said the woman, [should it] not [be] with the heads of these men? {29:5} [Is]
Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances,
Samuel. {28:12} And when the woman saw Samuel, she saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten
cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, thousands?
saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou [art] Saul.
{28:13} And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what {29:6} Then Achish called David, and said unto him,
sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods Surely, [as] the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and
ascending out of the earth. {28:14} And he said unto her, thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host [is]
What form [is] he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the
and he [is] covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the
it [was] Samuel, and he stooped with [his] face to the lords favour thee not. {29:7} Wherefore now return, and go
ground, and bowed himself. in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
{28:15} And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou {29:8} And David said unto Achish, But what have I
disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I
sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight
God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, against the enemies of my lord the king? {29:9} And
neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou [art]
thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do. good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the
{28:16} Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with
me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become us to the battle. {29:10} Wherefore now rise up early in the
thine enemy? {28:17} And the LORD hath done to him, as morning with thy master’s servants that are come with thee:
he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light,
thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, [even] to David: depart. {29:11} So David and his men rose up early to
{28:18} Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, depart in the morning, to return into the land of the
nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
the LORD done this thing unto thee this day. {28:19}
Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into {30:1} And it came to pass, when David and his men
the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow [shalt] thou and were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites
thy sons [be] with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and
of Israel into the hand of the Philistines. {28:20} Then Saul burned it with fire; {30:2} And had taken the women
fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, captives, that [were] therein: they slew not any, either great
because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength or small, but carried [them] away, and went on their way.
in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the
night. {30:3} So David and his men came to the city, and,
behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their
{28:21} And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he sons, and their daughters, were taken captives. {30:4} Then
was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine David and the people that [were] with him lifted up their
handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou {30:5} And David’s two wives were taken captives,
spakest unto me. {28:22} Now therefore, I pray thee, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the
hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let Carmelite. {30:6} And David was greatly distressed; for the
me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the
mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way. {28:23} people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his
But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his
together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened God. {30:7} And David said to Abiathar the priest,
unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon Ahimelech’s son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod.
the bed. {28:24} And the woman had a fat calf in the house; And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David. {30:8}
and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue
[it,] and did bake unleavened bread thereof: {28:25} And after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered
she brought [it] before Saul, and before his servants; and him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake [them,] and
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without fail recover [all. ]{30:9} So David went, he and the which [were] in Rachal, and to [them] which [were] in the
six hundred men that [were] with him, and came to the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to [them] which [were] in
brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed. the cities of the Kenites, {30:30} And to [them] which
{30:10} But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for [were] in Hormah, and to [them] which [were] in Chor-
two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they ashan, and to [them] which [were] in Athach, {30:31} And
could not go over the brook Besor. to [them] which [were] in Hebron, and to all the places
where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
{30:11} And they found an Egyptian in the field, and
brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; {31:1} Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the
and they made him drink water; {30:12} And they gave him men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down
a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and slain in mount Gilboa. {31:2} And the Philistines followed
when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew
eaten no bread, nor drunk [any] water, three days and three Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchi-shua, Saul’s sons.
nights. {30:13} And David said unto him, To whom {31:3} And the battle went sore against Saul, and the
[belongest] thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I [am] archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my {31:4} Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy
master left me, because three days agone I fell sick. {30:14} sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these
We made an invasion [upon] the south of the Cherethites, uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me.
and upon [the coast] which [belongeth] to Judah, and upon But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid.
the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire. {30:15} Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. {31:5} And
And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell
company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou likewise upon his sword, and died with him. {31:6} So Saul
wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his
master, and I will bring thee down to this company. men, that same day together.
{30:16} And when he had brought him down, behold, {31:7} And when the men of Israel that [were] on the
[they were] spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and other side of the valley, and [they] that [were] on the other
drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul
they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled;
the land of Judah. {30:17} And David smote them from the and the Philistines came and dwelt in them. {31:8} And it
twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to
escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen
which rode upon camels, and fled. {30:18} And David in mount Gilboa. {31:9} And they cut off his head, and
recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the
David rescued his two wives. {30:19} And there was Philistines round about, to publish [it in] the house of their
nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither idols, and among the people. {31:10} And they put his
sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any [thing] that they armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his
had taken to them: David recovered all. {30:20} And David body to the wall of Beth-shan.
took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drave before
those [other] cattle, and said, This [is] David’s spoil. {31:11} And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard
of that which the Philistines had done to Saul; {31:12} All
{30:21} And David came to the two hundred men, which the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body
were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-
had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there. {31:13}
forth to meet David, and to meet the people that [were] with And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a tree at
him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
them. {30:22} Then answered all the wicked men and
[men] of Belial, of those that went with David, and said,
Because they went not with us, we will not give them
[ought] of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every
man his wife and his children, that they may lead [them]
away, and depart. {30:23} Then said David, Ye shall not do
so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us,
who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that
came against us into our hand. {30:24} For who will
hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part [is] that
goeth down to the battle, so [shall] his part [be] that tarrieth
by the stuff: they shall part alike. {30:25} And it was [so]
from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an
ordinance for Israel unto this day.
{24:18} And Gad came that day to David, and said unto
him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the
threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite. {24:19} And David,
according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD
commanded. {24:20} And Araunah looked, and saw the
king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah
went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face
upon the ground. {24:21} And Araunah said, Wherefore is
my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To
buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the
LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
{24:22} And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king
take and offer up what [seemeth] good unto him: behold,
[here be] oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments
and [other] instruments of the oxen for wood. {24:23} All
[these] things did Araunah, [as] a king, give unto the king.
And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept
thee. {24:24} And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I
will surely buy [it] of thee at a price: neither will I offer
burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth
cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the
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The First Book of the Kings Commonly Called the Third saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come
Book of the Kings in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with
his face to the ground. {1:24} And Nathan said, My lord, O
king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he
shall sit upon my throne? {1:25} For he is gone down this
{1:1} Now king David was old [and] stricken in years; day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in
and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. {1:2} abundance, and hath called all the king’s sons, and the
Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold,
for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king
the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy Adonijah. {1:26} But me, [even] me thy servant, and Zadok
bosom, that my lord the king may get heat. {1:3} So they the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant
sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, Solomon, hath he not called. {1:27} Is this thing done by
and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed [it] unto thy
king. {1:4} And the damsel [was] very fair, and cherished servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king
the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not. after him?
{1:5} Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, {1:28} Then king David answered and said, Call me Bath-
saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and sheba. And she came into the king’s presence, and stood
horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. {1:6} And his before the king. {1:29} And the king sware, and said, [As]
father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all
hast thou done so? and he also [was a] very goodly [man;] distress, {1:30} Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD
and [his mother] bare him after Absalom. {1:7} And he God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall
conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead;
the priest: and they following Adonijah helped [him. ]{1:8} even so will I certainly do this day. {1:31} Then Bath-sheba
But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and bowed with [her] face to the earth, and did reverence to the
Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
men which [belonged] to David, were not with Adonijah.
{1:9} And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by {1:32} And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest,
the stone of Zoheleth, which [is] by En-rogel, and called all and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.
his brethren the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah the And they came before the king. {1:33} The king also said
king’s servants: {1:10} But Nathan the prophet, and unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and
Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and
called not. bring him down to Gihon: {1:34} And let Zadok the priest
and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel:
{1:11} Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bath-sheba the and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king
mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Solomon. {1:35} Then ye shall come up after him, that he
Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord may come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in
knoweth [it] not? {1:12} Now therefore come, let me, I pray my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel
thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own and over Judah. {1:36} And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
life, and the life of thy son Solomon. {1:13} Go and get answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God of my
thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, lord the king say so [too. ]{1:37} As the LORD hath been
my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and
Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king
shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign? David. {1:38} So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet,
{1:14} Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and
also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words. the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon
king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon. {1:39} And
{1:15} And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle,
chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all
Shunammite ministered unto the king. {1:16} And Bath- the people said, God save king Solomon. {1:40} And all the
sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes,
said, What wouldest thou? {1:17} And she said unto him, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the
My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine sound of them.
handmaid, [saying,] Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign
after me, and he shall sit upon my throne. {1:18} And now, {1:41} And Adonijah and all the guests that [were] with
behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou him heard [it] as they had made an end of eating. And when
knowest [it] not: {1:19} And he hath slain oxen and fat Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore [is
cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons this] noise of the city being in an uproar? {1:42} And while
of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest
the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called. {1:20} came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou [art] a
And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel [are] upon valiant man, and bringest good tidings. {1:43} And
thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord
throne of my lord the king after him. {1:21} Otherwise it king David hath made Solomon king. {1:44} And the king
shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the
offenders. Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to
ride upon the king’s mule: {1:45} And Zadok the priest and
{1:22} And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and
the prophet also came in. {1:23} And they told the king, they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang
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again. This [is] the noise that ye have heard. {1:46} And Say on. {2:15} And he said, Thou knowest that the
also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom. {1:47} kingdom was mine, and [that] all Israel set their faces on
And moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned
king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better about, and is become my brother’s: for it was his from the
than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. LORD. {2:16} And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me
And the king bowed himself upon the bed. {1:48} And also not. And she said unto him, Say on. {2:17} And he said,
thus said the king, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not
which hath given [one] to sit on my throne this day, mine say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to
eyes even seeing [it. ]{1:49} And all the guests that [were] wife. {2:18} And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for
with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man thee unto the king.
his way.
{2:19} Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to
{1:50} And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet
arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his
{1:51} And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king’s mother;
feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the and she sat on his right hand. {2:20} Then she said, I desire
horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me one small petition of thee; [I pray thee,] say me not nay.
to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will
{1:52} And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy not say thee nay. {2:21} And she said, Let Abishag the
man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die. {1:53} So {2:22} And king Solomon answered and said unto his
king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite
altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he [is]
and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house. mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the
priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah. {2:23} Then king
{2:1} Now the days of David drew nigh that he should Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and
die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, {2:2} I go the more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against
way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew his own life. {2:24} Now therefore, [as] the LORD liveth,
thyself a man; {2:3} And keep the charge of the LORD thy which hath established me, and set me on the throne of
God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he
commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day. {2:25}
it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of
all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself: Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.
{2:4} That the LORD may continue his word which he
spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to {2:26} And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get
their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou [art]
with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death,
on the throne of Israel. {2:5} Moreover thou knowest also because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David
what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, [and] what he did to my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all
the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of wherein my father was afflicted. {2:27} So Solomon thrust
Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he
shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake
upon his girdle that [was] about his loins, and in his shoes concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
that [were] on his feet. {2:6} Do therefore according to thy
wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in {2:28} Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned
peace. {2:7} But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And
the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold
for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy on the horns of the altar. {2:29} And it was told king
brother. {2:8} And, behold, [thou hast] with thee Shimei the Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the
son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with LORD; and, behold, [he is] by the altar. Then Solomon sent
a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by {2:30} And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD,
the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he
sword. {2:9} Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king
[art] a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered
him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with me. {2:31} And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said,
blood. {2:10} So David slept with his fathers, and was and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take
buried in the city of David. {2:11} And the days that David away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and
reigned over Israel [were] forty years: seven years reigned from the house of my father. {2:32} And the LORD shall
he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men
Jerusalem. more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the
sword, my father David not knowing [thereof, to wit,]
{2:12} Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and
father; and his kingdom was established greatly. Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
{2:33} Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of
{2:13} And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bath- Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon
sheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his
peaceably? And he said, Peaceably. {2:14} He said throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD. {2:34}
moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said, So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him,
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and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the able to judge this thy so great a people? {3:10} And the
wilderness. speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
{3:11} And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked
{2:35} And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither
his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine
in the room of Abiathar. enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern
judgment; {3:12} Behold, I have done according to thy
{2:36} And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding
unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither
and go not forth thence any whither. {2:37} For it shall be, after thee shall any arise like unto thee. {3:13} And I have
[that] on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches,
Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings
die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head. {2:38} And like unto thee all thy days. {3:14} And if thou wilt walk in
Shimei said unto the king, The saying [is] good: as my lord my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as
the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
in Jerusalem many days. {2:39} And it came to pass at the {3:15} And Solomon awoke; and, behold, [it was] a dream.
end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the
away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and
told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants [be] in Gath. offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
{2:40} And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to
Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and {3:16} Then came there two women, [that were] harlots,
brought his servants from Gath. {2:41} And it was told unto the king, and stood before him. {3:17} And the one
Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one
was come again. {2:42} And the king sent and called for house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by {3:18} And it came to pass the third day after that I was
the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we
certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any [were] together; [there was] no stranger with us in the
whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, house, save we two in the house. {3:19} And this woman’s
The word [that] I have heard [is] good. {2:43} Why then child died in the night; because she overlaid it. {3:20} And
hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me,
commandment that I have charged thee with? {2:44} The while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and
king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the laid her dead child in my bosom. {3:21} And when I rose in
wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but
David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not
wickedness upon thine own head; {2:45} And king my son, which I did bear. {3:22} And the other woman
Solomon [shall be] blessed, and the throne of David shall be said, Nay; but the living [is] my son, and the dead [is] thy
established before the LORD for ever. {2:46} So the king son. And this said, No; but the dead [is] thy son, and the
commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, living [is] my son. Thus they spake before the king. {3:23}
and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was Then said the king, The one saith, This [is] my son that
established in the hand of Solomon. liveth, and thy son [is] the dead: and the other saith, Nay;
but thy son [is] the dead, and my son [is] the living. {3:24}
{3:1} And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a
Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into sword before the king. {3:25} And the king said, Divide the
the city of David, until he had made an end of building his living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the
own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of other. {3:26} Then spake the woman whose the living child
Jerusalem round about. {3:2} Only the people sacrificed in [was] unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son,
high places, because there was no house built unto the name and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no
of the LORD, until those days. {3:3} And Solomon loved wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor
the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only thine, [but] divide [it. ]{3:27} Then the king answered and
he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places. {3:4} And said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she
the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that [was] the [is] the mother thereof. {3:28} And all Israel heard of the
great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the
offer upon that altar. king: for they saw that the wisdom of God [was] in him, to
do judgment.
{3:5} In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a
dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. {4:1} So king Solomon was king over all Israel. {4:2}
{3:6} And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy And these [were] the princes which he had; Azariah the son
servant David my father great mercy, according as he of Zadok the priest, {4:3} Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of
walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.
uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him {4:4} And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the host:
this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on and Zadok and Abiathar [were] the priests: {4:5} And
his throne, as [it is] this day. {3:7} And now, O LORD my Azariah the son of Nathan [was] over the officers: and
God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my Zabud the son of Nathan [was] principal officer, [and] the
father: and I [am but] a little child: I know not [how] to go king’s friend: {4:6} And Ahishar [was] over the household:
out or come in. {3:8} And thy servant [is] in the midst of and Adoniram the son of Abda [was] over the tribute. {4:7}
thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which
cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. {3:9} Give provided victuals for the king and his household: each man
therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy his month in a year made provision. {4:8} And these [are]
people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: {4:9} The
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son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth- in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of
shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan: {4:10} The son of Hesed, in David. {5:2} And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, {5:3}
Aruboth; to him [pertained] Sochoh, and all the land of Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an
Hepher: {4:11} The son of Abinadab, in all the region of house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars
Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife: which were about him on every side, until the LORD put
{4:12} Baana the son of Ahilud; [to him pertained] Taanach them under the soles of his feet. {5:4} But now the LORD
and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah my God hath given me rest on every side, [so that there is]
beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, [even] neither adversary nor evil occurrent. {5:5} And, behold, I
unto [the place that is] beyond Jokneam: {4:13} The son of purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my
Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him [pertained] the towns of God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy
Jair the son of Manasseh, which [are] in Gilead; to him [also son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall
pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, build an house unto my name. {5:6} Now therefore
threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars: {4:14} command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of
Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim: {4:15} Ahimaaz Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and
[was] in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all
Solomon to wife: {4:16} Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that [there is] not
Asher and in Aloth: {4:17} Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the
in Issachar: {4:18} Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin: Sidonians.
{4:19} Geber the son of Uri [was] in the country of Gilead,
[in] the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og {5:7} And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words
king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer which [was] of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed [be]
in the land. the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son
over this great people. {5:8} And Hiram sent to Solomon,
{4:20} Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand which saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to
[is] by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making me for: [and] I will do all thy desire concerning timber of
merry. {4:21} And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms cedar, and concerning timber of fir. {5:9} My servants shall
from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the bring [them] down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will
border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt
all the days of his life. appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and
thou shalt receive [them:] and thou shalt accomplish my
{4:22} And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty desire, in giving food for my household. {5:10} So Hiram
measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees [according to] all his
{4:23} Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, desire. {5:11} And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand
and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and measures of wheat [for] food to his household, and twenty
fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. {4:24} For he had dominion measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by
over all [the region] on this side the river, from Tiphsah year. {5:12} And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he
even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and
he had peace on all sides round about him. {4:25} And Solomon; and they two made a league together.
Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and
under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days {5:13} And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel;
of Solomon. and the levy was thirty thousand men. {5:14} And he sent
them to Lebanon ten thousand a month by courses: a month
{4:26} And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses they were in Lebanon, [and] two months at home: and
for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. {4:27} And Adoniram [was] over the levy. {5:15} And Solomon had
those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and
that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains; {5:16} Beside
month: they lacked nothing. {4:28} Barley also and straw the chief of Solomon’s officers which [were] over the work,
for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the
where [the officers] were, every man according to his people that wrought in the work. {5:17} And the king
charge. commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones,
[and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
{4:29} And God gave Solomon wisdom and {5:18} And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did
understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even hew [them,] and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber
as the sand that [is] on the sea shore. {4:30} And Solomon’s and stones to build the house.
wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east
country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. {4:31} For he was {6:1} And it came to pass in the four hundred and
wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of
and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign
was in all nations round about. {4:32} And he spake three over Israel, in the month Zif, which [is] the second month,
thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. that he began to build the house of the LORD. {6:2} And
{4:33} And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the
Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: length thereof [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth
he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, thereof twenty [cubits,] and the height thereof thirty cubits.
and of fishes. {4:34} And there came of all people to hear {6:3} And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty
the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which cubits [was] the length thereof, according to the breadth of
had heard of his wisdom. the house; [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth thereof before
the house. {6:4} And for the house he made windows of
{5:1} And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto narrow lights.
Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king
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{6:5} And against the wall of the house he built chambers {6:31} And for the entering of the oracle he made doors
round about, [against] the walls of the house round about, [of] olive tree: the lintel [and] side posts [were] a fifth part
[both] of the temple and of the oracle: and he made [of the wall. ]{6:32} The two doors also [were of] olive
chambers round about: {6:6} The nethermost chamber tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and
[was] five cubits broad, and the middle [was] six cubits palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid [them] with gold,
broad, and the third [was] seven cubits broad: for without and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm
[in the wall] of the house he made narrowed rests round trees. {6:33} So also made he for the door of the temple
about, that [the beams] should not be fastened in the walls posts of olive tree, a fourth part [of the wall. ]{6:34} And
of the house. {6:7} And the house, when it was in building, the two doors [were of] fir tree: the two leaves of the one
was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: door [were] folding, and the two leaves of the other door
so that there was neither hammer nor axe [nor] any tool of [were] folding. {6:35} And he carved [thereon] cherubims
iron heard in the house, while it was in building. {6:8} The and palm trees and open flowers: and covered [them] with
door for the middle chamber [was] in the right side of the gold fitted upon the carved work.
house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle
[chamber,] and out of the middle into the third. {6:9} So he {6:36} And he built the inner court with three rows of
built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
beams and boards of cedar. {6:10} And [then] he built
chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they {6:37} In the fourth year was the foundation of the house
rested on the house [with] timber of cedar. of the LORD laid, in the month Zif: {6:38} And in the
eleventh year, in the month Bul, which [is] the eighth
{6:11} And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, month, was the house finished throughout all the parts
saying, {6:12} [Concerning] this house which thou art in thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he
building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my seven years in building it.
judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in
them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake {7:1} But Solomon was building his own house thirteen
unto David thy father: {6:13} And I will dwell among the years, and he finished all his house.
children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
{6:14} So Solomon built the house, and finished it. {6:15} {7:2} He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of length thereof [was] an hundred cubits, and the breadth
cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits,
cieling: [and] he covered [them] on the inside with wood, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the
and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. {6:16} pillars. {7:3} And [it was] covered with cedar above upon
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the beams, that [lay] on forty five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.
the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built {7:4} And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light
[them] for it within, [even] for the oracle, [even] for the [was] against light [in] three ranks. {7:5} And all the doors
most holy [place. ]{6:17} And the house, that [is,] the and posts [were] square, with the windows: and light [was]
temple before it, was forty cubits [long. ]{6:18} And the against light [in] three ranks.
cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open
flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen. {6:19} {7:6} And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there [was] fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and
the ark of the covenant of the LORD. {6:20} And the oracle the porch was before them: and the [other] pillars and the
in the forepart [was] twenty cubits in length, and twenty thick beam [were] before them.
cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof:
and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar {7:7} Then he made a porch for the throne where he
[which was of] cedar. {6:21} So Solomon overlaid the might judge, [even] the porch of judgment: and [it was]
house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with
gold. {6:22} And the whole house he overlaid with gold, {7:8} And his house where he dwelt [had] another court
until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that within the porch, [which] was of the like work. Solomon
[was] by the oracle he overlaid with gold. made also an house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had
taken [to wife,] like unto this porch. {7:9} All these [were
{6:23} And within the oracle he made two cherubims [of] of] costly stones, according to the measures of hewed
olive tree, [each] ten cubits high. {6:24} And five cubits stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the
[was] the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward
wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing the great court. {7:10} And the foundation [was of] costly
unto the uttermost part of the other [were] ten cubits. {6:25} stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of
And the other cherub [was] ten cubits: both the cherubims eight cubits. {7:11} And above [were] costly stones, after
[were] of one measure and one size. {6:26} The height of the measures of hewed stones, and cedars. {7:12} And the
the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so [was it] of the other great court round about [was] with three rows of hewed
cherub. {6:27} And he set the cherubims within the inner stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of
house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
so that the wing of the one touched the [one] wall, and the
wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their {7:13} And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of
wings touched one another in the midst of the house. {6:28} Tyre. {7:14} He [was] a widow’s son of the tribe of
And he overlaid the cherubims with gold. {6:29} And he Naphtali, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, a worker in
carved all the walls of the house round about with carved brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding,
figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to
within and without. {6:30} And the floor of the house he king Solomon, and wrought all his work. {7:15} For he cast
overlaid with gold, within and without. two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a
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line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about. {7:38} Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver
{7:16} And he made two chapiters [of] molten brass, to set contained forty baths: [and] every laver was four cubits:
upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter [and] upon every one of the ten bases one laver. {7:39} And
[was] five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter [was] he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on
five cubits: {7:17} [And] nets of checker work, and wreaths the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side
of chain work, for the chapiters which [were] upon the top of the house eastward over against the south.
of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the
other chapiter. {7:18} And he made the pillars, and two {7:40} And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and
rows round about upon the one network, to cover the the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work
chapiters that [were] upon the top, with pomegranates: and that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
so did he for the other chapiter. {7:19} And the chapiters {7:41} The two pillars, and the [two] bowls of the chapiters
that [were] upon the top of the pillars [were] of lily work in that [were] on the top of the two pillars; and the two
the porch, four cubits. {7:20} And the chapiters upon the networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which
two pillars [had pomegranates] also above, over against the [were] upon the top of the pillars; {7:42} And four hundred
belly which [was] by the network: and the pomegranates pomegranates for the two networks, [even] two rows of
[were] two hundred in rows round about upon the other pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of
chapiter. {7:21} And he set up the pillars in the porch of the the chapiters that [were] upon the pillars; {7:43} And the
temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases; {7:44} And one sea,
thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and he called the and twelve oxen under the sea; {7:45} And the pots, and the
name thereof Boaz. {7:22} And upon the top of the pillars shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram
[was] lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished. made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, [were
of] bright brass. {7:46} In the plain of Jordan did the king
{7:23} And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
brim to the other: [it was] round all about, and his height {7:47} And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed,]
[was] five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight
round about. {7:24} And under the brim of it round about of the brass found out. {7:48} And Solomon made all the
[there were] knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing vessels that [pertained] unto the house of the LORD: the
the sea round about: the knops [were] cast in two rows, altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the
when it was cast. {7:25} It stood upon twelve oxen, three shewbread [was, ]{7:49} And the candlesticks of pure gold,
looking toward the north, and three looking toward the five on the right [side,] and five on the left, before the
west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs [of]
toward the east: and the sea [was set] above upon them, and gold, {7:50} And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the
all their hinder parts [were] inward. {7:26} And it [was] an basons, and the spoons, and the censers [of] pure gold; and
hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the hinges [of] gold, [both] for the doors of the inner house,
the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two the most holy [place, and] for the doors of the house, [to
thousand baths. wit,] of the temple. {7:51} So was ended all the work that
king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And
{7:27} And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits [was] Solomon brought in the things which David his father had
the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, dedicated; [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels,
and three cubits the height of it. {7:28} And the work of the did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.
bases [was] on this [manner:] they had borders, and the
borders [were] between the ledges: {7:29} And on the {8:1} Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and
borders that [were] between the ledges [were] lions, oxen, all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the
and cherubims: and upon the ledges [there was] a base children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that
above: and beneath the lions and oxen [were] certain they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD
additions made of thin work. {7:30} And every base had out of the city of David, which [is] Zion. {8:2} And all the
four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at
thereof had undersetters: under the laver [were] undersetters the feast in the month Ethanim, which [is] the seventh
molten, at the side of every addition. {7:31} And the mouth month. {8:3} And all the elders of Israel came, and the
of it within the chapiter and above [was] a cubit: but the priests took up the ark. {8:4} And they brought up the ark
mouth thereof [was] round [after] the work of the base, a of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and
cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it [were] all the holy vessels that [were] in the tabernacle, even those
gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round. {7:32} did the priests and the Levites bring up. {8:5} And king
And under the borders [were] four wheels; and the axletrees Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that [were]
of the wheels [were joined] to the base: and the height of a assembled unto him, were with him before the ark,
wheel [was] a cubit and a half a cubit. {7:33} And the work sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor
of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their numbered for multitude. {8:6} And the priests brought in
axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the
spokes, [were] all molten. {7:34} And [there were] four oracle of the house, to the most holy [place, even] under the
undersetters to the four corners of one base: [and] the wings of the cherubims. {8:7} For the cherubims spread
undersetters [were] of the very base itself. {7:35} And in forth [their] two wings over the place of the ark, and the
the top of the base [was there] a round compass of half a cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and {8:8} And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the
the borders thereof [were] of the same. {7:36} For on the staves were seen out in the holy [place] before the oracle,
plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this
graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the day. {8:9} [There was] nothing in the ark save the two
proportion of every one, and additions round about. {7:37} tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the
After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of them had LORD made [a covenant] with the children of Israel, when
one casting, one measure, [and] one size. they came out of the land of Egypt. {8:10} And it came to
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pass, when the priests were come out of the holy [place,] {8:33} When thy people Israel be smitten down before the
that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, {8:11} So that enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall
the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and
for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD. make supplication unto thee in this house: {8:34} Then hear
thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and
{8:12} Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their
would dwell in thick darkness. {8:13} I have surely built fathers.
thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in
for ever. {8:14} And the king turned his face about, and {8:35} When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain,
blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward
congregation of Israel stood;) {8:15} And he said, Blessed this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin,
[be] the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth when thou afflictest them: {8:36} Then hear thou in heaven,
unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled [it,] and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel,
saying, {8:16} Since the day that I brought forth my people that thou teach them the good way wherein they should
Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to
Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but thy people for an inheritance.
I chose David to be over my people Israel. {8:17} And it
was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the {8:37} If there be in the land famine, if there be
name of the LORD God of Israel. {8:18} And the LORD pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, [or] if there be
said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their
build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness [there be;
thine heart. {8:19} Nevertheless thou shalt not build the ]{8:38} What prayer and supplication soever be [made] by
house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he any man, [or] by all thy people Israel, which shall know
shall build the house unto my name. {8:20} And the LORD every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his
hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in hands toward this house: {8:39} Then hear thou in heaven
the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every
as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for
name of the LORD God of Israel. {8:21} And I have set thou, [even] thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children
there a place for the ark, wherein [is] the covenant of the of men;) {8:40} That they may fear thee all the days that
LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
them out of the land of Egypt. {8:41} Moreover concerning a stranger, that [is] not of thy
people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s
{8:22} And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD sake; {8:42} (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of
in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he
forth his hands toward heaven: {8:23} And he said, LORD shall come and pray toward this house; {8:43} Hear thou in
God of Israel, [there is] no God like thee, in heaven above, heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the
or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may
thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart: know thy name, to fear thee, as [do] thy people Israel; and
{8:24} Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is
thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and called by thy name.
hast fulfilled [it] with thine hand, as [it is] this day. {8:25}
Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant {8:44} If thy people go out to battle against their enemy,
David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the
shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and [toward]
Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they the house that I have built for thy name: {8:45} Then hear
walk before me as thou hast walked before me. {8:26} And thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and
now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, maintain their cause. {8:46} If they sin against thee, (for
which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father. [there is] no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with
{8:27} But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry
heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
much less this house that I have builded? {8:28} Yet have {8:47} [Yet] if they shall bethink themselves in the land
thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make
supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them
to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day: captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely,
{8:29} That thine eyes may be open toward this house night we have committed wickedness; {8:48} And [so] return
and day, [even] toward the place of which thou hast said, unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the
My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and
prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place. pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto
{8:30} And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house
and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this which I have built for thy name: {8:49} Then hear thou
place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling
thou hearest, forgive. place, and maintain their cause, {8:50} And forgive thy
people that have sinned against thee and all their
{8:31} If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee,
oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath and give them compassion before them who carried them
come before thine altar in this house: {8:32} Then hear thou captive, that they may have compassion on them: {8:51}
in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the For they [be] thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou
wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace
righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. of iron: {8:52} That thine eyes may be open unto the
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supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other
people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for gods, and worship them: {9:7} Then will I cut off Israel out
unto thee. {8:53} For thou didst separate them from among of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I
all the people of the earth, [to be] thine inheritance, as thou have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and
spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD. {8:54} {9:8} And at this house, [which] is high, every one that
And it was [so,] that when Solomon had made an end of passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they
praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and
arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on to this house? {9:9} And they shall answer, Because they
his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. {8:55} And forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their
he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon
loud voice, saying, {8:56} Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them:
given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good
promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his {9:10} And it came to pass at the end of twenty years,
servant. {8:57} The LORD our God be with us, as he was when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the
with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us: {8:58} LORD, and the king’s house, {9:11} ([Now] Hiram the king
That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir
ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then
his judgments, which he commanded our fathers. {8:59} king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of
And let these my words, wherewith I have made Galilee. {9:12} And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the
supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him
God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, not. {9:13} And he said, What cities [are] these which thou
and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of
shall require: {8:60} That all the people of the earth may Cabul unto this day. {9:14} And Hiram sent to the king
know that the LORD [is] God, [and that there is] none else. sixscore talents of gold.
{8:61} Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD
our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his {9:15} And this [is] the reason of the levy which king
commandments, as at this day. Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his
own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and
{8:62} And the king, and all Israel with him, offered Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. {9:16} [For] Pharaoh king
sacrifice before the LORD. {8:63} And Solomon offered a of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with
sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and
LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and given it [for] a present unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of {9:17} And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the
Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. {8:64} The same nether, {9:18} and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness,
day did the king hallow the middle of the court that [was] in the land, {9:19} And all the cities of store that Solomon
before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen,
offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and
offerings: because the brasen altar that [was] before the in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. {9:20}
LORD [was] too little to receive the burnt offerings, and [And] all the people [that were] left of the Amorites,
meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings. {8:65} Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which [were] not
And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with of the children of Israel, {9:21} Their children that were left
him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were
unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a
days and seven days, [even] fourteen days. {8:66} On the tribute of bondservice unto this day. {9:22} But of the
eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they
king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for [were] men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his
all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
servant, and for Israel his people. {9:23} These [were] the chief of the officers that [were]
over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, which bare
{9:1} And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished rule over the people that wrought in the work.
the building of the house of the LORD, and the king’s
house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do, {9:24} But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of
{9:2} That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second David unto her house which [Solomon] had built for her:
time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon. {9:3} And the then did he build Millo.
LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy
supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have {9:25} And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt
hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built
there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that
perpetually. {9:4} And if thou wilt walk before me, as [was] before the LORD. So he finished the house.
David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in
uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded {9:26} And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-
thee, [and] wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: {9:5} geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in
Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel the land of Edom. {9:27} And Hiram sent in the navy his
for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the
shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel. {9:6} servants of Solomon. {9:28} And they came to Ophir, and
[But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents,
children, and will not keep my commandments [and] my and brought [it] to king Solomon.
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{10:1} And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of {10:24} And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his
Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to wisdom, which God had put in his heart. {10:25} And they
prove him with hard questions. {10:2} And she came to brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels
Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and
spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when mules, a rate year by year.
she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all
that was in her heart. {10:3} And Solomon told her all her {10:26} And Solomon gathered together chariots and
questions: there was not [any] thing hid from the king, horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots,
which he told her not. {10:4} And when the queen of Sheba and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the
had seen all Solomon’s wisdom, and the house that he had cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem. {10:27}
built, {10:5} And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his And the king made silver [to be] in Jerusalem as stones, and
servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their cedars made he [to be] as the sycomore trees that [are] in
apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he the vale, for abundance.
went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more
spirit in her. {10:6} And she said to the king, It was a true {10:28} And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt,
report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn
wisdom. {10:7} Howbeit I believed not the words, until I at a price. {10:29} And a chariot came up and went out of
came, and mine eyes had seen [it:] and, behold, the half was Egypt for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and an horse for
not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites,
which I heard. {10:8} Happy [are] thy men, happy [are] and for the kings of Syria, did they bring [them] out by their
these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, means.
[and] that hear thy wisdom. {10:9} Blessed be the LORD
thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne {11:1} But king Solomon loved many strange women,
of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the
made he thee king, to do judgment and justice. {10:10} And Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, [and] Hittites;
she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, {11:2} Of the nations [concerning] which the LORD said
and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them,
came no more such abundance of spices as these which the neither shall they come in unto you: [for] surely they will
queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. {10:11} And the turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto
navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought these in love. {11:3} And he had seven hundred wives,
in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives
stones. {10:12} And the king made of the almug trees turned away his heart. {11:4} For it came to pass, when
pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king’s house, Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart
harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the
almug trees, nor were seen unto this day. {10:13} And king LORD his God, as [was] the heart of David his father.
Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, {11:5} For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the
whatsoever she asked, beside [that] which Solomon gave Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the
her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own Ammonites. {11:6} And Solomon did evil in the sight of
country, she and her servants. the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as [did]
David his father. {11:7} Then did Solomon build an high
{10:14} Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill
one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold. that [is] before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination
{10:15} Beside [that he had] of the merchantmen, and of of the children of Ammon. {11:8} And likewise did he for
the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed
Arabia, and of the governors of the country. unto their gods. {11:9} And the LORD was angry with
Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God
{10:16} And king Solomon made two hundred targets of of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice, {11:10} And
beaten gold: six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should
target. {10:17} And he made three hundred shields of not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the
beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the LORD commanded. {11:11} Wherefore the LORD said
king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou
hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have
{10:18} Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee,
and overlaid it with the best gold. {10:19} The throne had and will give it to thy servant. {11:12} Notwithstanding in
six steps, and the top of the throne [was] round behind: and thy days I will not do it for David thy father’s sake: [but] I
[there were] stays on either side on the place of the seat, and will rend it out of the hand of thy son. {11:13} Howbeit I
two lions stood beside the stays. {10:20} And twelve lions will not rend away all the kingdom; [but] will give one tribe
stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s
steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom. sake which I have chosen.
{10:21} And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels [were {11:14} And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto
of] gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he [was] of the king’s seed in
Lebanon [were of] pure gold; none [were of] silver: it was Edom. {11:15} For it came to pass, when David was in
nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. {10:22} For Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury
the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom; {11:16}
Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until
bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. he had cut off every male in Edom:) {11:17} That Hadad
{10:23} So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with
earth for riches and for wisdom. him, to go into Egypt; Hadad [being] yet a little child.
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{11:18} And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and
and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to will give Israel unto thee. {11:39} And I will for this afflict
Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an the seed of David, but not for ever. {11:40} Solomon
house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land. sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and
{11:19} And Hadad found great favour in the sight of fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in
Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own Egypt until the death of Solomon.
wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. {11:20} And the
sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom {11:41} And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that
Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house: and Genubath was in he did, and his wisdom, [are] they not written in the book of
Pharaoh’s household among the sons of Pharaoh. {11:21} the acts of Solomon? {11:42} And the time that Solomon
And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel [was] forty years.
fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, {11:43} And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried
Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son
own country. {11:22} Then Pharaoh said unto him, But reigned in his stead.
what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to
go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: {12:1} And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel
howbeit let me go in any wise. were come to Shechem to make him king. {12:2} And it
came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was
{11:23} And God stirred him up [another] adversary, yet in Egypt, heard [of it,] (for he was fled from the
Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)
Hadadezer king of Zobah: {11:24} And he gathered men {12:3} That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all
unto him, and became captain over a band, when David the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam,
slew them [of Zobah:] and they went to Damascus, and saying, {12:4} Thy father made our yoke grievous: now
dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus. {11:25} And he therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and
was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will
the mischief that Hadad [did:] and he abhorred Israel, and serve thee. {12:5} And he said unto them, Depart yet [for]
reigned over Syria. three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
{11:26} And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of {12:6} And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men,
Zereda, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name [was] that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and
Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up [his] hand said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?
against the king. {11:27} And this [was] the cause that he {12:7} And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a
lifted up [his] hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and
[and] repaired the breaches of the city of David his father. answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will
{11:28} And the man Jeroboam [was] a mighty man of be thy servants for ever. {12:8} But he forsook the counsel
valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted
industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the with the young men that were grown up with him, [and]
house of Joseph. {11:29} And it came to pass at that time which stood before him: {12:9} And he said unto them,
when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who
Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father
himself with a new garment; and they two [were] alone in did put upon us lighter? {12:10} And the young men that
the field: {11:30} And Ahijah caught the new garment that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt
[was] on him, and rent it [in] twelve pieces: {11:31} And he thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying,
said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it] lighter
LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little [finger]
out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee: shall be thicker than my father’s loins. {12:11} And now
{11:32} (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will
sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips,
out of all the tribes of Israel:) {11:33} Because that they but I will chastise you with scorpions.
have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the
goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the {12:12} So Jeroboam and all the people came to
Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying,
and have not walked in my ways, to do [that which is] right Come to me again the third day. {12:13} And the king
in mine eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my judgments, answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men’s
as [did] David his father. {11:34} Howbeit I will not take counsel that they gave him; {12:14} And spake to them
the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made
prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake, your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father
whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my [also] chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with
statutes: {11:35} But I will take the kingdom out of his scorpions. {12:15} Wherefore the king hearkened not unto
son’s hand, and will give it unto thee, [even] ten tribes. the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might
{11:36} And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the
my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
{11:37} And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according {12:16} So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened
to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel. not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What
{11:38} And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I portion have we in David? neither [have we] inheritance in
command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do [that is] the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine
right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with {12:17} But [as for] the children of Israel which dwelt in
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the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. {12:18} against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to
Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who [was] over the him. {13:5} The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured
tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of
Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his God had given by the word of the LORD. {13:6} And the
chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. {12:19} So Israel rebelled king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now
against the house of David unto this day. {12:20} And it the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my
came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come hand may be restored me again. And the man of God
again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, besought the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored him
and made him king over all Israel: there was none that again, and became as [it was] before. {13:7} And the king
followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only. said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh
thyself, and I will give thee a reward. {13:8} And the man
{12:21} And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine
assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor
Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, drink water in this place: {13:9} For so was it charged me
which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink
bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.
{12:22} But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man {13:10} So he went another way, and returned not by the
of God, saying, {12:23} Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of way that he came to Bethel.
Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and
Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying, {12:24} {13:11} Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his
Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against sons came and told him all the works that the man of God
your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken
house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore unto the king, them they told also to their father. {13:12}
to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his
to the word of the LORD. sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came
from Judah. {13:13} And he said unto his sons, Saddle me
{12:25} Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built {13:14} And went after the man of God, and found him
Penuel. {12:26} And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, [Art] thou the
the kingdom return to the house of David: {12:27} If this man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I [am.
people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at ]{13:15} Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and
Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto eat bread. {13:16} And he said, I may not return with thee,
their lord, [even] unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water
shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. with thee in this place: {13:17} For it was said to me by the
{12:28} Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water
calves [of] gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.
to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which {13:18} He said unto him, I [am] a prophet also as thou
brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. {12:29} And he [art;] and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD,
set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. {12:30} saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he
And this thing became a sin: for the people went [to may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied unto him.
worship] before the one, [even] unto Dan. {12:31} And he {13:19} So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his
made an house of high places, and made priests of the house, and drank water.
lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
{12:32} And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth {13:20} And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that
month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought
that [is] in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in him back: {13:21} And he cried unto the man of God that
Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch
placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not
made. {12:33} So he offered upon the altar which he had kept the commandment which the LORD thy God
made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, [even] commanded thee, {13:22} But camest back, and hast eaten
in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and bread and drunk water in the place, of the which [the
ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered LORD] did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water;
upon the altar, and burnt incense. thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
{13:1} And, behold, there came a man of God out of {13:23} And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and
Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, [to wit,]
stood by the altar to burn incense. {13:2} And he cried for the prophet whom he had brought back. {13:24} And
against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew
altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood
unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee by it, the lion also stood by the carcase. {13:25} And,
shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way,
upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee. and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told
{13:3} And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] it in the city where the old prophet dwelt. {13:26} And
the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard
shall be rent, and the ashes that [are] upon it shall be poured [thereof,] he said, It [is] the man of God, who was
out. {13:4} And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the
the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn
altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD,
saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth which he spake unto him. {13:27} And he spake to his sons,
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saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled [him. ]{13:28} LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut
And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not {14:15} For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is
eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass. {13:29} And the prophet shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this
took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter
ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the them beyond the river, because they have made their
city, to mourn and to bury him. {13:30} And he laid his groves, provoking the LORD to anger. {14:16} And he
carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who
[saying,] Alas, my brother! {13:31} And it came to pass, did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying,
When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the {14:17} And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and
man of God [is] buried; lay my bones beside his bones: came to Tirzah: [and] when she came to the threshold of the
{13:32} For the saying which he cried by the word of the door, the child died; {14:18} And they buried him; and all
LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the
of the high places which [are] in the cities of Samaria, shall LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah
surely come to pass. the prophet. {14:19} And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam,
how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they [are]
{13:33} After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests {14:20} And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two
of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab
and he became [one] of the priests of the high places. his son reigned in his stead.
{13:34} And this thing became sin unto the house of
Jeroboam, even to cut [it] off, and to destroy [it] from off {14:21} And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in
the face of the earth. Judah. Rehoboam [was] forty and one years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem,
{14:1} At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of
{14:2} And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name [was]
and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife Naamah an Ammonitess. {14:22} And Judah did evil in the
of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there [is] sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with
Ahijah the prophet, which told me that [I should be] king their sins which they had committed, above all that their
over this people. {14:3} And take with thee ten loaves, and fathers had done. {14:23} For they also built them high
cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and
thee what shall become of the child. {14:4} And under every green tree. {14:24} And there were also
Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and sodomites in the land: [and] they did according to all the
came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out
his eyes were set by reason of his age. before the children of Israel.
{14:5} And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife {14:25} And it came to pass in the fifth year of king
of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for Rehoboam, [that] Shishak king of Egypt came up against
he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall Jerusalem: {14:26} And he took away the treasures of the
be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself [to be] house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house;
another [woman. ]{14:6} And it was [so,] when Ahijah he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of
heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, that gold which Solomon had made. {14:27} And king
he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and
thyself [to be] another? for I [am] sent to thee [with] heavy committed [them] unto the hands of the chief of the guard,
[tidings. ]{14:7} Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD which kept the door of the king’s house. {14:28} And it was
God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the [so,] when the king went into the house of the LORD, that
people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, {14:8} the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard
And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and chamber.
gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant
David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me {14:29} Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all
with all his heart, to do [that] only [which was] right in that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the
mine eyes; {14:9} But hast done evil above all that were chronicles of the kings of Judah? {14:30} And there was
before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all [their] days.
and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast {14:31} And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was
me behind thy back: {14:10} Therefore, behold, I will bring buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his
evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from mother’s name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam
Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, [and] him that is his son reigned in his stead.
shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of
the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be {15:1} Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the
all gone. {14:11} Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah. {15:2} Three
shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was]
fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it. {14:12} Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. {15:3} And he
Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: [and] walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done
when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. {14:13} before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD
And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he his God, as the heart of David his father. {15:4}
only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him Nevertheless for David’s sake did the LORD his God give
there is found [some] good thing toward the LORD God of him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to
Israel in the house of Jeroboam. {14:14} Moreover the establish Jerusalem: {15:5} Because David did [that which
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was] right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon. {15:28} Even in the
from any [thing] that he commanded him all the days of his third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and
life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. {15:6} And reigned in his stead. {15:29} And it came to pass, when he
there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the reigned, [that] he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left
days of his life. {15:7} Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed
and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he
chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite: {15:30} Because
between Abijam and Jeroboam. {15:8} And Abijam slept of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he
with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked
and Asa his son reigned in his stead. the LORD God of Israel to anger.
{15:9} And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of {15:31} Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he
Israel reigned Asa over Judah. {15:10} And forty and one did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of
years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] the kings of Israel? {15:32} And there was war between
Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. {15:11} And Asa did Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. {15:33} In the
[that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD, as [did] third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of
David his father. {15:12} And he took away the sodomites Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four
out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers years. {15:34} And he did evil in the sight of the LORD,
had made. {15:13} And also Maachah his mother, even her and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin
he removed from [being] queen, because she had made an wherewith he made Israel to sin.
idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt [it] by
the brook Kidron. {15:14} But the high places were not {16:1} Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son
removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the of Hanani against Baasha, saying, {16:2} Forasmuch as I
LORD all his days. {15:15} And he brought in the things exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my
which his father had dedicated, and the things which people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam,
himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to
and gold, and vessels. anger with their sins; {16:3} Behold, I will take away the
posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will
{15:16} And there was war between Asa and Baasha king make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of
of Israel all their days. {15:17} And Baasha king of Israel Nebat. {16:4} Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the
went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the
suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. fowls of the air eat. {16:5} Now the rest of the acts of
{15:18} Then Asa took all the silver and the gold [that Baasha, and what he did, and his might, [are] they not
were] left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into {16:6} So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in
the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben- Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead. {16:7} And
hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came
Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, {15:19} [There is] a the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his
league between me and thee, [and] between my father and house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the
thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his
and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he
Israel, that he may depart from me. {15:20} So Ben- hadad killed him.
hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts
which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and {16:8} In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah
Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah,
land of Naphtali. {15:21} And it came to pass, when Baasha two years. {16:9} And his servant Zimri, captain of half
heard [thereof,] that he left off building of Ramah, and [his] chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah,
dwelt in Tirzah. {15:22} Then king Asa made a drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of [his]
proclamation throughout all Judah; none [was] exempted: house in Tirzah. {16:10} And Zimri went in and smote him,
and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king
thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. {15:23} The rest
of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, {16:11} And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as
and the cities which he built, [are] they not written in the soon as he sat on his throne, [that] he slew all the house of
book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall,
in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet. neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends. {16:12} Thus did
{15:24} And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the
his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu
his son reigned in his stead. the prophet, {16:13} For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins
of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they
{15:25} And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to
over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and anger with their vanities. {16:14} Now the rest of the acts
reigned over Israel two years. {15:26} And he did evil in of Elah, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the
the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
{16:15} In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of
{15:27} And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people
Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at [were] encamped against Gibbethon, which [belonged] to
Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines; for Nadab the Philistines. {16:16} And the people [that were]
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encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he
slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan.
of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp. {16:17} {17:6} And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the
And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank
and they besieged Tirzah. {16:18} And it came to pass, of the brook. {17:7} And it came to pass after a while, that
when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the
the palace of the king’s house, and burnt the king’s house land.
over him with fire, and died, {16:19} For his sins which he
sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in {17:8} And the word of the LORD came unto him,
the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make saying, {17:9} Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which
Israel to sin. {16:20} Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and [belongeth] to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have
his treason that he wrought, [are] they not written in the commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. {17:10}
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to
the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman [was] there
{16:21} Then were the people of Israel divided into two gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me,
parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
make him king; and half followed Omri. {16:22} But the {17:11} And as she was going to fetch [it,] he called to her,
people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine
followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri hand. {17:12} And she said, [As] the LORD thy God liveth,
reigned. I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a
little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I [am] gathering two sticks,
{16:23} In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we
began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years may eat it, and die. {17:13} And Elijah said unto her, Fear
reigned he in Tirzah. {16:24} And he bought the hill not; go [and] do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a
Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the little cake first, and bring [it] unto me, and after make for
hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the thee and for thy son. {17:14} For thus saith the LORD God
name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria. of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall
the cruse of oil fail, until the day [that] the LORD sendeth
{16:25} But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, rain upon the earth. {17:15} And she went and did
and did worse than all that [were] before him. {16:26} For according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her
he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and house, did eat [many] days. {17:16} [And] the barrel of
in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according
LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities. {16:27} to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his
might that he shewed, [are] they not written in the book of {17:17} And it came to pass after these things, [that] the
the chronicles of the kings of Israel? {16:28} So Omri slept son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and
with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in
son reigned in his stead. him. {17:18} And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do
with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to
{16:29} And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son? {17:19}
Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out
Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he
and two years. {16:30} And Ahab the son of Omri did evil abode, and laid him upon his own bed. {17:20} And he
in the sight of the LORD above all that [were] before him. cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou
{16:31} And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by
for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, slaying her son? {17:21} And he stretched himself upon the
that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O
the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come into
him. {16:32} And he reared up an altar for Baal in the him again. {17:22} And the LORD heard the voice of
house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. {16:33} And Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he
Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the revived. {17:23} And Elijah took the child, and brought him
LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him
were before him. unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
{16:34} In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: {17:24} And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I
he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and know that thou [art] a man of God, [and] that the word of
set up the gates thereof in his youngest [son] Segub, the LORD in thy mouth [is] truth.
according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by
Joshua the son of Nun. {18:1} And it came to pass [after] many days, that the
word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying,
{17:1} And Elijah the Tishbite, [who was] of the Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the
inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, [As] the LORD God earth. {18:2} And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab.
of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew And [there was] a sore famine in Samaria. {18:3} And
nor rain these years, but according to my word. {17:2} And Ahab called Obadiah, which [was] the governor of [his]
the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, {17:3} Get house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly: {18:4} For
thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the it was [so,] when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD,
brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan. {17:4} And it shall that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by
be, [that] thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) {18:5}
commanded the ravens to feed thee there. {17:5} So he And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all
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fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon
may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we them. {18:29} And it came to pass, when midday was past,
lose not all the beasts. {18:6} So they divided the land and they prophesied until the [time] of the offering of the
between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by [evening] sacrifice, that [there was] neither voice, nor any to
himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. answer, nor any that regarded. {18:30} And Elijah said unto
all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came
{18:7} And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD [that
met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, was] broken down. {18:31} And Elijah took twelve stones,
[Art] thou that my lord Elijah? {18:8} And he answered according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob,
him, I [am:] go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here. unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall
]{18:9} And he said, What have I sinned, that thou be thy name: {18:32} And with the stones he built an altar
wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the
me? {18:10} [As] the LORD thy God liveth, there is no altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek {18:33} And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock
thee: and when they said, [He is] not [there;] he took an in pieces, and laid [him] on the wood, and said, Fill four
oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not. barrels with water, and pour [it] on the burnt sacrifice, and
{18:11} And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, on the wood. {18:34} And he said, Do [it] the second time.
Elijah [is here. ]{18:12} And it shall come to pass, [as soon And they did [it] the second time. And he said, Do [it] the
as] I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall third time. And they did [it] the third time. {18:35} And the
carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also
Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy with water. {18:36} And it came to pass at [the time of] the
servant fear the LORD from my youth. {18:13} Was it not offering of the [evening] sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet
told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of
the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD’S Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel,
prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and and [that] I [am] thy servant, and [that] I have done all these
water? {18:14} And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, things at thy word. {18:37} Hear me, O LORD, hear me,
Behold, Elijah [is here:] and he shall slay me. {18:15} And that this people may know that thou [art] the LORD God,
Elijah said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I and [that] thou hast turned their heart back again. {18:38}
stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day. {18:16} Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt
So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and
went to meet Elijah. licked up the water that [was] in the trench. {18:39} And
when all the people saw [it,] they fell on their faces: and
{18:17} And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that they said, The LORD, he [is] the God; the LORD, he [is]
Ahab said unto him, [Art] thou he that troubleth Israel? the God. {18:40} And Elijah said unto them, Take the
{18:18} And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took
thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon,
commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed and slew them there.
Baalim. {18:19} Now therefore send, [and] gather to me all
Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four {18:41} And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and
hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four drink; for [there is] a sound of abundance of rain. {18:42}
hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table. {18:20} So Ahab sent So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to
unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth,
together unto mount Carmel. {18:21} And Elijah came unto and put his face between his knees, {18:43} And said to his
all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up,
opinions? if the LORD [be] God, follow him: but if Baal, and looked, and said, [There is] nothing. And he said, Go
[then] follow him. And the people answered him not a again seven times. {18:44} And it came to pass at the
word. {18:22} Then said Elijah unto the people, I, [even] I seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud
only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal’s prophets out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said, Go up, say
[are] four hundred and fifty men. {18:23} Let them unto Ahab, Prepare [thy chariot,] and get thee down, that
therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one the rain stop thee not. {18:45} And it came to pass in the
bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay [it] on mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and
wood, and put no fire [under:] and I will dress the other wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went
bullock, and lay [it] on wood, and put no fire [under: to Jezreel. {18:46} And the hand of the LORD was on
]{18:24} And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to
call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth the entrance of Jezreel.
by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and
said, It is well spoken. {18:25} And Elijah said unto the {19:1} And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done,
prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
and dress [it] first; for ye [are] many; and call on the name {19:2} Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying,
of your gods, but put no fire [under. ]{18:26} And they took So let the gods do [to me,] and more also, if I make not thy
the bullock which was given them, and they dressed [it,] life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
and called on the name of Baal from morning even until {19:3} And when he saw [that,] he arose, and went for his
noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But [there was] no voice, nor life, and came to Beer-sheba, which [belongeth] to Judah,
any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which and left his servant there.
was made. {18:27} And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah
mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he [is] a god; either {19:4} But he himself went a day’s journey into the
he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, [or] wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and
peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. {18:28} he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I [am] not
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better than my fathers. {19:5} And as he lay and slept under answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy
a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said saying, I [am] thine, and all that I have. {20:5} And the
unto him, Arise [and] eat. {19:6} And he looked, and, messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-
behold, [there was] a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou
water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and
down again. {19:7} And the angel of the LORD came again thy children; {20:6} Yet I will send my servants unto thee
the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise [and] eat; to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine
because the journey [is] too great for thee. {19:8} And he house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, [that]
arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put [it] in
meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of their hand, and take [it] away. {20:7} Then the king of
God. Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray
you, and see how this [man] seeketh mischief: for he sent
{19:9} And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my
and, behold, the word of the LORD [came] to him, and he silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not. {20:8} And
said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? {19:10} And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not
he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of [unto him,] nor consent. {20:9} Wherefore he said unto the
hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that
thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but
sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and
to take it away. {19:11} And he said, Go forth, and stand brought him word again. {20:10} And Ben-hadad sent unto
upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the
passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people
and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; [but] the that follow me. {20:11} And the king of Israel answered
LORD [was] not in the wind: and after the wind an and said, Tell [him,] Let not him that girdeth on [his
earthquake; [but] the LORD [was] not in the earthquake: harness] boast himself as he that putteth it off. {20:12} And
{19:12} And after the earthquake a fire; [but] the LORD it came to pass, when [Ben-hadad] heard this message, as he
[was] not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. [was] drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions,that he said
{19:13} And it was [so,] when Elijah heard [it,] that he unto his servants, Set [yourselves in array.] And they set
wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in [themselves in array] against the city.
the entering in of the cave. And, behold, [there came] a
voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? {20:13} And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab
{19:14} And he said, I have been very jealous for the king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen
LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine
forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain hand this day; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.
thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; {20:14} And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith
and they seek my life, to take it away. {19:15} And the the LORD, [Even] by the young men of the princes of the
LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he
wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint answered, Thou. {20:15} Then he numbered the young men
Hazael [to be] king over Syria: {19:16} And Jehu the son of of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred
Nimshi shalt thou anoint [to be] king over Israel: and Elisha and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people,
the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint [to [even] all the children of Israel, [being] seven thousand.
be] prophet in thy room. {19:17} And it shall come to pass, {20:16} And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad [was]
[that] him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings,
and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha the thirty and two kings that helped him. {20:17} And the
slay. {19:18} Yet I have left [me] seven thousand in Israel, young men of the princes of the provinces went out first;
all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There
mouth which hath not kissed him. are men come out of Samaria. {20:18} And he said,
Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or
{19:19} So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son whether they be come out for war, take them alive. {20:19}
of Shaphat, who [was] plowing [with] twelve yoke [of So these young men of the princes of the provinces came
oxen] before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed out of the city, and the army which followed them. {20:20}
by him, and cast his mantle upon him. {19:20} And he left And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and
the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria
kiss my father and my mother, and [then] I will follow thee. escaped on an horse with the horsemen. {20:21} And the
And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots,
to thee? {19:21} And he returned back from him, and took a and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the
instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they {20:22} And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and
did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see
unto him. what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of
Syria will come up against thee. {20:23} And the servants
{20:1} And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods [are] gods of
host together: and [there were] thirty and two kings with the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us
him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be
Samaria, and warred against it. {20:2} And he sent stronger than they. {20:24} And do this thing, Take the
messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in
unto him, Thus saith Ben-hadad, {20:3} Thy silver and thy their rooms: {20:25} And number thee an army, like the
gold [is] mine; thy wives also and thy children, [even] the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for
goodliest, [are] mine. {20:4} And the king of Israel chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, [and]
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surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened {21:1} And it came to pass after these things, [that]
unto their voice, and did so. {20:26} And it came to pass at Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which [was] in
the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. {21:2}
and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. {20:27} And And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy
the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it
and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched [is] near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better
before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians vineyard than it; [or,] if it seem good to thee, I will give
filled the country. {20:28} And there came a man of God, thee the worth of it in money. {21:3} And Naboth said to
and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the
LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD [is] God inheritance of my fathers unto thee. {21:4} And Ahab came
of the hills, but he [is] not God of the valleys, therefore will into his house heavy and displeased because of the word
I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had
know that I [am] the LORD. {20:29} And they pitched one said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And
over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face,
seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel and would eat no bread.
slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one
day. {20:30} But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and {21:5} But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto
[there] a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
men [that were] left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the {21:6} And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth
city, into an inner chamber. the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for
money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee [another]
{20:31} And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my
have heard that the kings of the house of Israel [are] vineyard. {21:7} And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost
merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, [and] eat
loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the
Israel: peradventure he will save thy life. {20:32} So they vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. {21:8} So she wrote
girded sackcloth on their loins, and [put] ropes on their letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed [them] with his seal, and
heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that [were]
Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, [Is] in his city, dwelling with Naboth. {21:9} And she wrote in
he yet alive? he is my brother. {20:33} Now the men did the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high
diligently observe whether [any thing would come] from among the people: {21:10} And set two men, sons of Belial,
him, and did hastily catch [it:] and they said, Thy brother before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst
Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben- blaspheme God and the king. And [then] carry him out, and
hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into stone him, that he may die. {21:11} And the men of his city,
the chariot. {20:34} And [Ben-hadad] said unto him, The [even] the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in
cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, [and] as it [was]
and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my written in the letters which she had sent unto them. {21:12}
father made in Samaria. Then [said Ahab,] I will send thee They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the
away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, people. {21:13} And there came in two men, children of
and sent him away. Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed
against him, [even] against Naboth, in the presence of the
{20:35} And a certain man of the sons of the prophets people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king.
said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him
me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him. {20:36} with stones, that he died. {21:14} Then they sent to Jezebel,
Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed
from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was {21:15} And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that
departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him. {20:37} Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to
Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the
And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for
[him. ]{20:38} So the prophet departed, and waited for the Naboth is not alive, but dead. {21:16} And it came to pass,
king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up
face. {20:39} And as the king passed by, he cried unto the to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take
king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the possession of it.
battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man
unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be {21:17} And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the
missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt Tishbite, saying, {21:18} Arise, go down to meet Ahab king
pay a talent of silver. {20:40} And as thy servant was busy of Israel, which [is] in Samaria: behold, [he is] in the
here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.
unto him, So [shall] thy judgment [be;] thyself hast decided {21:19} And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith
[it. ]{20:41} And he hasted, and took the ashes away from the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?
his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he [was] And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the
of the prophets. {20:42} And he said unto him, Thus saith LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth
the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of [thy] hand a man shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. {21:20} And Ahab
whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he
shall go for his life, and thy people for his people. {20:43} answered, I have found [thee:] because thou hast sold
And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD. {21:21}
displeased, and came to Samaria. Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy
posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth
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against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, {22:16} And the king said unto him, How many times shall
{21:22} And will make thine house like the house of I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but [that which is]
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the true in the name of the LORD? {22:17} And he said, I saw
son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a
provoked [me] to anger, and made Israel to sin. {21:23} shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let
And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs them return every man to his house in peace. {22:18} And
shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. {21:24} Him that the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee
dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat. {22:19} And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the
LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the
{21:25} But there was none like unto Ahab, which did host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his
sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, left. {22:20} And the LORD said, Who shall persuade
whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. {21:26} And he did very Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And
abominably in following idols, according to all [things] as one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.
did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the {22:21} And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the
children of Israel. {21:27} And it came to pass, when Ahab LORD, and said, I will persuade him. {22:22} And the
heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go
sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his
and went softly. {21:28} And the word of the LORD came prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade [him,] and
to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, {21:29} Seest thou how Ahab prevail also: go forth, and do so. {22:23} Now therefore,
humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all
before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: [but] in his these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil
son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house. concerning thee. {22:24} But Zedekiah the son of
Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and
{22:1} And they continued three years without war said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to
between Syria and Israel. {22:2} And it came to pass in the speak unto thee? {22:25} And Micaiah said, Behold, thou
third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner
the king of Israel. {22:3} And the king of Israel said unto chamber to hide thyself. {22:26} And the king of Israel
his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead [is] ours, and said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the
we [be] still, [and] take it not out of the hand of the king of governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son; {22:27}
Syria? {22:4} And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in the prison,
with me to battle to Ramoth- gilead? And Jehoshaphat said and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of
to the king of Israel, I [am] as thou [art,] my people as thy affliction, until I come in peace. {22:28} And Micaiah said,
people, my horses as thy horses. {22:5} And Jehoshaphat If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by
said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.
of the LORD to day. {22:6} Then the king of Israel {22:29} So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of
gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. {22:30} And the king of
said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and
or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king
deliver [it] into the hand of the king. {22:7} And of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle. {22:31}
Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two
besides, that we might enquire of him? {22:8} And the king captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither
of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the {22:32} And it came to pass, when the captains of the
LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it [is] the
concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him:
king say so. {22:9} Then the king of Israel called an officer, and Jehoshaphat cried out. {22:33} And it came to pass,
and said, Hasten [hither] Micaiah the son of Imlah. {22:10} when the captains of the chariots perceived that it [was] not
And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place {22:34} And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and
in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness:
prophesied before them. {22:11} And Zedekiah the son of wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine
Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until {22:35} And the battle increased that day: and the king was
thou have consumed them. {22:12} And all the prophets stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at
prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth- gilead, and even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of
prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the king’s the chariot. {22:36} And there went a proclamation
hand. {22:13} And the messenger that was gone to call throughout the host about the going down of the sun,
Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own
the prophets [declare] good unto the king with one mouth: country.
let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them,
and speak [that which is] good. {22:14} And Micaiah said, {22:37} So the king died, and was brought to Samaria;
[As] the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that and they buried the king in Samaria. {22:38} And [one]
will I speak. washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs
licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according
{22:15} So he came to the king. And the king said unto unto the word of the LORD which he spake. {22:39} Now
him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory
or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: house which he made, and all the cities that he built, [are]
for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king. they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
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Israel? {22:40} So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah
his son reigned in his stead.
{25:22} And [as for] the people that remained in the land
of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left,
even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the
son of Shaphan, ruler. {25:23} And when all the captains of
the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of
Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to
Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of
Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a
Maachathite, they and their men. {25:24} And Gedaliah
sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear
not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and
serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
{25:25} But it came to pass in the seventh month, that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the
seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote
Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that
were with him at Mizpah. {25:26} And all the people, both
small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and
came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
{1:43} Now these [are] the kings that reigned in the land
of Edom before [any] king reigned over the children of
{1:1} Adam, Sheth, Enosh, {1:2} Kenan, Mahalaleel, Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city [was]
Jered, {1:3} Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech, {1:4} Noah, Dinhabah. {1:44} And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son
Shem, Ham, and Japheth. of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. {1:45} And when
Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites
{1:5} The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and reigned in his stead. {1:46} And when Husham was dead,
Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of
{1:6} And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city [was]
Togarmah. {1:7} And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Avith. {1:47} And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of
Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. Masrekah reigned in his stead. {1:48} And when Samlah
was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his
{1:8} The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and stead. {1:49} And when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the
Canaan. {1:9} And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, son of Achbor reigned in his stead. {1:50} And when Baal-
and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of hanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name
Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. {1:10} And Cush begat of his city [was] Pai; and his wife’s name [was] Mehetabel,
Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth. {1:11} And the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and
Napthtuhim, {1:12} And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of {1:51} Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were;
whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim. {1:13} And duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth, {1:52} Duke
Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth, {1:14} The Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon, {1:53} Duke Kenaz,
Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, {1:15} duke Teman, duke Mibzar, {1:54} Duke Magdiel, duke
And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, {1:16} And Iram. These [are] the dukes of Edom.
the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
{2:1} These [are] the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon,
{1:17} The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, {2:2} Dan, Joseph,
Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Gether, and Meshech. {1:18} And Arphaxad begat Shelah,
and Shelah begat Eber. {1:19} And unto Eber were born {2:3} The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah:
two sons: the name of the one [was] Peleg; because in his [which] three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua
days the earth was divided: and his brother’s name [was] the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in
Joktan. {1:20} And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, the sight of the LORD; and he slew him. {2:4} And Tamar
and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, {1:21} Hadoram also, and his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons
Uzal, and Diklah, {1:22} And Ebal, and Abimael, and of Judah [were] five. {2:5} The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and
Sheba, {1:23} And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these Hamul. {2:6} And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and
[were] the sons of Joktan. Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all. {2:7}
And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who
{1:24} Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah, {1:25} Eber, Peleg, Reu, transgressed in the thing accursed. {2:8} And the sons of
{1:26} Serug, Nahor, Terah, {1:27} Abram; the same [is] Ethan; Azariah. {2:9} The sons also of Hezron, that were
Abraham. {1:28} The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael. born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai. {2:10}
And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat
{1:29} These [are] their generations: The firstborn of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah; {2:11} And
Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz, {2:12} And
{1:30} Mishma and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema, Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,
{1:31} Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of
Ishmael. {2:13} And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab
the second, and Shimma the third, {2:14} Nethaneel the
{1:32} Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: fourth, Raddai the fifth, {2:15} Ozem the sixth, David the
she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and seventh: {2:16} Whose sisters [were] Zeruiah, and Abigail.
Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel,
Dedan. {1:33} And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, three. {2:17} And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of
and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these [are] the sons Amasa [was] Jether the Ishmeelite.
of Keturah. {1:34} And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of
Isaac; Esau and Israel. {2:18} And Caleb the son of Hezron begat [children] of
Azubah [his] wife, and of Jerioth: her sons [are] these;
{1:35} The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon. {2:19} And when Azubah
Jaalam, and Korah. {1:36} The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him
Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek. Hur. {2:20} And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.
{1:37} The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and
Mizzah. {1:38} And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, {2:21} And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of
and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezar, and Dishan. Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he
{1:39} And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and [was] threescore years old; and she bare him Segub. {2:22}
Timna [was] Lotan’s sister. {1:40} The sons of Shobal; And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in
Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the the land of Gilead. {2:23} And he took Geshur, and Aram,
sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah. {1:41} The sons of Anah; with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the
Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and towns thereof, [even] threescore cities. All these [belonged
Ithran, and Cheran. {1:42} The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and to] the sons of Machir the father of Gilead. {2:24} And after
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that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, then Abiah him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six
Hezron’s wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa. months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years.
{3:5} And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea,
{2:25} And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bath-shua
were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, the daughter of Ammiel: {3:6} Ibhar also, and Elishama,
[and] Ahijah. {2:26} Jerahmeel had also another wife, and Eliphelet, {3:7} And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
whose name [was] Atarah; she [was] the mother of Onam. {3:8} And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. {3:9}
{2:27} And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel [These were] all the sons of David, beside the sons of the
were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker. {2:28} And the sons of concubines, and Tamar their sister.
Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai;
Nadab, and Abishur. {2:29} And the name of the wife of {3:10} And Solomon’s son [was] Rehoboam, Abia his
Abishur [was] Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid. son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, {3:11} Joram his son,
{2:30} And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, {3:12} Amaziah his son,
Seled died without children. {2:31} And the sons of Azariah his son, Jotham his son, {3:13} Ahaz his son,
Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, {3:14} Amon his son,
children of Sheshan; Ahlai. {2:32} And the sons of Jada the Josiah his son. {3:15} And the sons of Josiah [were,] the
brother of Shammai; Jether and Jonathan: and Jether died firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah,
without children. {2:33} And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth, the fourth Shallum. {3:16} And the sons of Jehoiakim:
and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
{2:34} Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And {3:17} And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son,
Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name [was] {3:18} Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar,
Jarha. {2:35} And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. {3:19} And the sons of
servant to wife; and she bare him Attai. {2:36} And Attai Pedaiah [were,] Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of
begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad, {2:37} And Zabad Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their
begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed, {2:38} And Obed sister: {3:20} And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and
begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah, {2:39} And Azariah Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five. {3:21} And the sons of
begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah, {2:40} And Eleasah Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the
begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum, {2:41} And sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.
Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama. {3:22} And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah; and the sons
of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah,
{2:42} Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel and Shaphat, six. {3:23} And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai,
[were,] Mesha his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three. {3:24} And the sons of
and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron. {2:43} And Elioenai [were,] Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and
the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.
Shema. {2:44} And Shema begat Raham, the father of
Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai. {2:45} And the son {4:1} The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and
of Shammai [was] Maon: and Maon [was] the father of Hur, and Shobal. {4:2} And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat
Beth-zur. {2:46} And Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bare Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai and Lahad. These [are] the
Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez. families of the Zorathites. {4:3} And these [were of] the
{2:47} And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the
Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph. {2:48} name of their sister [was] Hazelelponi: {4:4} And Penuel
Maachah, Caleb’s concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah. the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah. These
{2:49} She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, [are] the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of
Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and Bethlehem.
the daughter of Caleb [was] Achsa.
{4:5} And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives,
{2:50} These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the Helah and Naarah. {4:6} And Naarah bare him Ahuzam,
firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These [were] the
{2:51} Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of sons of Naarah. {4:7} And the sons of Helah [were,] Zereth,
Beth- gader. {2:52} And Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim and Jezoar, and Ethnan. {4:8} And Coz begat Anub, and
had sons; Haroeh, [and] half of the Manahethites. {2:53} Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
And the families of Kirjath-jearim; the Ithrites, and the
Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them {4:9} And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren:
came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites. {2:54} The sons and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I
of Salma; Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the bare him with sorrow. {4:10} And Jabez called on the God
house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites. of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed,
{2:55} And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me,
the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, [and] Suchathites. These and that thou wouldest keep [me] from evil, that it may not
[are] the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
house of Rechab.
{4:11} And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir,
{3:1} Now these were the sons of David, which were born which [was] the father of Eshton. {4:12} And Eshton begat
unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-
Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess: nahash. These [are] the men of Rechah. {4:13} And the
{3:2} The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of
of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Othniel; Hathath. {4:14} And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and
Haggith: {3:3} The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim;
Ithream by Eglah his wife. {3:4} [These] six were born unto for they were craftsmen. {4:15} And the sons of Caleb the
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son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be
Elah, even Kenaz. {4:16} And the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph, reckoned after the birthright. {5:2} For Judah prevailed
and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel. {4:17} And the sons of Ezra above his brethren, and of him [came] the chief ruler; but
[were,] Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she the birthright [was] Joseph’s:) {5:3} The sons, [I say,] of
bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Reuben the firstborn of Israel [were,] Hanoch, and Pallu,
Eshtemoa. {4:18} And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the Hezron, and Carmi. {5:4} The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his
father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, {5:5} Micah his son,
Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these [are] the sons of Reaia his son, Baal his son, {5:6} Beerah his son, whom
Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took. {4:19} Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away [captive:] he
And the sons of [his] wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the [was] prince of the Reubenites. {5:7} And his brethren by
father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the their families, when the genealogy of their generations was
Maachathite. {4:20} And the sons of Shimon [were,] reckoned, [were] the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, {5:8} And
Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel,
Ishi [were,] Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth. who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-meon: {5:9}
And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the
{4:21} The sons of Shelah the son of Judah [were,] Er the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle
father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the were multiplied in the [land] of Gilead. {5:10} And in the
families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by
house of Ashbea, {4:22} And Jokim, and the men of their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the
Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in east land of Gilead.
Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And [these are] ancient things.
{4:23} These [were] the potters, and those that dwelt among {5:11} And the children of Gad dwelt over against them,
plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his in the land of Bashan unto Salchah: {5:12} Joel the chief,
work. and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
{5:13} And their brethren of the house of their fathers
{4:24} The sons of Simeon [were,] Nemuel, and Jamin, [were,] Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and
Jarib, Zerah, [and] Shaul: {4:25} Shallum his son, Mibsam Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven. {5:14} These [are] the
his son, Mishma his son. {4:26} And the sons of Mishma; children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the
Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son. {4:27} son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the
And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his son of Jahdo, the son of Buz; {5:15} Ahi the son of Abdiel,
brethren had not many children, neither did all their family the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers. {5:16}
multiply, like to the children of Judah. {4:28} And they And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and
dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual, {4:29} in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders. {5:17} All
And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, {4:30} And at these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham
Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, {4:31} And at Beth- king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at Beth- birei, and at
Shaaraim. These [were] their cities unto the reign of David. {5:18} The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the
{4:32} And their villages [were,] Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler
and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities: {4:33} And all their and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, [were]
villages that [were] round about the same cities, unto Baal. four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that
These [were] their habitations, and their genealogy. {4:34} went out to the war. {5:19} And they made war with the
And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab. {5:20} And
Amaziah, {4:35} And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were
son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, {4:36} And Elioenai, and delivered into their hand, and all that [were] with them: for
Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of
Jesimiel, and Benaiah, {4:37} And Ziza the son of Shiphi, them; because they put their trust in him. {5:21} And they
the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of
son of Shemaiah; {4:38} These mentioned by [their] names sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two
[were] princes in their families: and the house of their thousand, and of men an hundred thousand. {5:22} For
fathers increased greatly. there fell down many slain, because the war [was] of God.
And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.
{4:39} And they went to the entrance of Gedor, [even]
unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their {5:23} And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh
flocks. {4:40} And they found fat pasture and good, and the dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal-
land [was] wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for [they] of hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon. {5:24} And
Ham had dwelt there of old. {4:41} And these written by these [were] the heads of the house of their fathers, even
name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and
smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men,
and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their [and] heads of the house of their fathers.
rooms: because [there was] pasture there for their flocks.
{4:42} And [some] of them, [even] of the sons of Simeon, {5:25} And they transgressed against the God of their
five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of
captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the land, whom God destroyed before them. {5:26} And the
the sons of Ishi. {4:43} And they smote the rest of the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and
Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day. the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried
them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the
{5:1} Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and
he [was] the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of
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{6:1} The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. the son of Merari, the son of Levi. {6:48} Their brethren
{6:2} And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, also the Levites [were] appointed unto all manner of service
and Uzziel. {6:3} And the children of Amram; Aaron, and of the tabernacle of the house of God.
Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and
Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. {6:49} But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of
the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, [and were
{6:4} Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua, appointed] for all the work of the [place] most holy, and to
{6:5} And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi, make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses
{6:6} And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat the servant of God had commanded. {6:50} And these [are]
Meraioth, {6:7} Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son,
begat Ahitub, {6:8} And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok Abishua his son, {6:51} Bukki his son, Uzzi his son,
begat Ahimaaz, {6:9} And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Zerahiah his son, {6:52} Meraioth his son, Amariah his son,
Azariah begat Johanan, {6:10} And Johanan begat Azariah, Ahitub his son, {6:53} Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.
(he [it is] that executed the priest’s office in the temple that
Solomon built in Jerusalem:) {6:11} And Azariah begat {6:54} Now these [are] their dwelling places throughout
Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, {6:12} And Ahitub their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the
begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum, {6:13} And families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot. {6:55}
Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah, {6:14} And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the
And Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak, suburbs thereof round about it. {6:56} But the fields of the
{6:15} And Jehozadak went [into captivity,] when the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of
LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Jephunneh. {6:57} And to the sons of Aaron they gave the
Nebuchadnezzar. cities of Judah, [namely,] Hebron, [the city] of refuge, and
Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with
{6:16} The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. their suburbs, {6:58} And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir
{6:17} And these [be] the names of the sons of Gershom; with her suburbs, {6:59} And Ashan with her suburbs, and
Libni, and Shimei. {6:18} And the sons of Kohath [were,] Beth-shemesh with her suburbs: {6:60} And out of the tribe
Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. {6:19} The of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her
sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these [are] the suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities
families of the Levites according to their fathers. {6:20} Of throughout their families [were] thirteen cities. {6:61} And
Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, unto the sons of Kohath, [which were] left of the family of
{6:21} Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his that tribe, [were cities given] out of the half tribe, [namely,
son. {6:22} The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, out of] the half [tribe] of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities. {6:62}
Korah his son, Assir his son, {6:23} Elkanah his son, and And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of
Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son, {6:24} Tahath his son, the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out
Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. {6:25} of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in
And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth. {6:26} [As Bashan, thirteen cities. {6:63} Unto the sons of Merari
for] Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and [were given] by lot, throughout their families, out of the
Nahath his son, {6:27} Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the
Elkanah his son. {6:28} And the sons of Samuel; the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. {6:64} And the children of
firstborn Vashni, and Abiah. {6:29} The sons of Merari; Israel gave to the Levites [these] cities with their suburbs.
Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son, {6:30} {6:65} And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children
Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son. {6:31} of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and
And these [are they] whom David set over the service of out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities,
song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest. which are called by [their] names. {6:66} And [the residue]
{6:32} And they ministered before the dwelling place of the of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their
tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim. {6:67} And they gave
had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and [then] unto them, [of] the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount
they waited on their office according to their order. {6:33} Ephraim with her suburbs; [they gave] also Gezer with her
And these [are] they that waited with their children. Of the suburbs, {6:68} And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Beth-
sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the horon with her suburbs, {6:69} And Aijalon with her
son of Shemuel, {6:34} The son of Elkanah, the son of suburbs, and Gath- rimmon with her suburbs: {6:70} And
Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, {6:35} The son out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner with her suburbs,
of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant
Amasai, {6:36} The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of the sons of Kohath. {6:71} Unto the sons of Gershom
of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah, {6:37} The son of Tahath, [were given] out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh,
the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her
{6:38} The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, suburbs: {6:72} And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh
the son of Israel. {6:39} And his brother Asaph, who stood with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs, {6:73} And
on his right hand, [even] Asaph the son of Berachiah, the Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs:
son of Shimea, {6:40} The son of Michael, the son of {6:74} And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her
Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah, {6:41} The son of Ethni, the suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs, {6:75} And Hukok
son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, {6:42} The son of Ethan, with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs: {6:76} And
the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, {6:43} The son of out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her
Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. {6:44} And suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim
their brethren the sons of Merari [stood] on the left hand: with her suburbs. {6:77} Unto the rest of the children of
Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, Merari [were given] out of the tribe of Zebulun. Rimmon
{6:45} The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs: {6:78} And on
of Hilkiah, {6:46} The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan,
son of Shamer, {6:47} The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, [were given them] out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the
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wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs, days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
{6:79} Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with
her suburbs: {6:80} And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in {7:23} And when he went in to his wife, she conceived,
Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it
{6:81} And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her went evil with his house. {7:24} (And his daughter [was]
suburbs. Sherah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and
Uzzen-sherah.) {7:25} And Rephah [was] his son, also
{7:1} Now the sons of Issachar [were,] Tola, and Puah, Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son, {7:26}
Jashub, and Shimrom, four. {7:2} And the sons of Tola; Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, {7:27}
Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Non his son, Jehoshuah his son.
Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, [to wit,] of Tola:
[they were] valiant men of might in their generations; {7:28} And their possessions and habitations [were,]
whose number [was] in the days of David two and twenty Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and
thousand and six hundred. {7:3} And the sons of Uzzi; westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and
Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof: {7:29}
and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men. {7:4} And with And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean
them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her
[were] bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand towns, Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the children of
[men:] for they had many wives and sons. {7:5} And their Joseph the son of Israel.
brethren among all the families of Issachar [were] valiant
men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore {7:30} The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai,
and seven thousand. and Beriah, and Serah their sister. {7:31} And the sons of
Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who [is] the father of
{7:6} [The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Birzavith. {7:32} And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer,
Jediael, three. {7:7} And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Hotham, and Shua their sister. {7:33} And the sons of
and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These [are] the
[their] fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by children of Japhlet. {7:34} And the sons of Shamer; Ahi,
their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. {7:35} And the sons of
four. {7:8} And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and
Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, Amal. {7:36} The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher,
and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these [are] the sons of and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah, {7:37} Bezer, and Hod, and
Becher. {7:9} And the number of them, after their Shamma and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera. {7:38} And
genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of the the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara. {7:39}
fathers, mighty men of valour, [was] twenty thousand and And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia. {7:40}
two hundred. {7:10} The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and All these [were] the children of Asher, heads of [their]
the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and father’s house, choice [and] mighty men of valour, chief of
Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar. the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of
{7:11} All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their them that were apt to the war [and] to battle [was] twenty
fathers, mighty men of valour, [were] seventeen thousand and six thousand men.
and two hundred [soldiers,] fit to go out for war [and] battle.
{7:12} Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, [and] {8:1} Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the
Hushim, the sons of Aher. second, and Aharah the third, {8:2} Nohah the fourth, and
Rapha the fifth. {8:3} And the sons of Bela were, Addar,
{7:13} The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Gera, and Abihud, {8:4} And Abishua, and Naaman,
and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah. and Ahoah, {8:5} And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
{8:6} And these [are] the sons of Ehud: these are the heads
{7:14} The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed
[(but] his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of them to Manahath: {8:7} And Naaman, and Ahiah, and
Gilead: {7:15} And Machir took to wife [the sister] of Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, and Ahihud. {8:8}
Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name [was] And Shaharaim begat [children] in the country of Moab,
Maachah;) and the name of the second [was] Zelophehad: after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara [were] his
and Zelophehad had daughters. {7:16} And Maachah the wives. {8:9} And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and
wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham, {8:10} And Jeuz, and
and the name of his brother [was] Sheresh; and his sons Shachia, and Mirma. These [were] his sons, heads of the
[were] Ulam and Rakem. {7:17} And the sons of Ulam; fathers. {8:11} And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal.
Bedan. These [were] the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, {8:12} The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed,
the son of Manasseh. {7:18} And his sister Hammoleketh who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof: {8:13}
bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah. {7:19} And the sons Beriah also, and Shema, who [were] heads of the fathers of
of Shemidah were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants
Aniam. of Gath: {8:14} And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth, {8:15}
And Zebadiah, and Arad, and Ader, {8:16} And Michael,
{7:20} And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered and Ispah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah; {8:17} And
his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, and Heber, {8:18}
his son, Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;
{8:19} And Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi, {8:20} And
{7:21} And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel, {8:21} And Adaiah, and
Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath [that were] born in Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi; {8:22} And
[that] land slew, because they came down to take away their Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel, {8:23} And Abdon, and
cattle. {7:22} And Ephraim their father mourned many Zichri, and Hanan, {8:24} And Hananiah, and Elam, and
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Antothijah, {8:25} And Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sons of the villages of the Netophathites. {9:17} And the porters
Shashak; {8:26} And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and [were,] Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and
Athaliah, {8:27} And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the their brethren: Shallum [was] the chief; {9:18} Who
sons of Jeroham. {8:28} These [were] heads of the fathers, hitherto [waited] in the king’s gate eastward: they were
by their generations, chief [men.] These dwelt in Jerusalem. porters in the companies of the children of Levi. {9:19}
{8:29} And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son
wife’s name [was] Maachah: {8:30} And his firstborn son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the
Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab, {8:31} Korahites, [were] over the work of the service, keepers of
And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher. {8:32} And Mikloth the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, [being] over
begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their brethren in the host of the LORD, [were] keepers of the entry. {9:20}
Jerusalem, over against them. And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in
time past, [and] the Lord [was] with him. {9:21} [And]
{8:33} And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah [was] porter of the door
Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi- shua, and Abinadab, and of the tabernacle of the congregation. {9:22} All these
Esh-baal. {8:34} And the son of Jonathan [was] Merib-baal; [which were] chosen to be porters in the gates were two
and Merib-baal begat Micah. {8:35} And the sons of Micah hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their
[were,] Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz. {8:36} genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the
And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, seer did ordain in their set office. {9:23} So they and their
and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza, {8:37} children [had] the oversight of the gates of the house of the
And Moza begat Binea: Rapha [was] his son, Eleasah his Lord, [namely,] the house of the tabernacle, by wards.
son, Azel his son: {8:38} And Azel had six sons, whose {9:24} In four quarters were the porters, toward the east,
names [are] these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and west, north, and south. {9:25} And their brethren, [which
Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these [were] the were] in their villages, [were] to come after seven days from
sons of Azel. {8:39} And the sons of Eshek his brother time to time with them. {9:26} For these Levites, the four
[were,] Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet chief porters, were in [their] set office, and were over the
the third. {8:40} And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
valour, archers, and had many sons, and sons’ sons, an
hundred and fifty. All these [are] of the sons of Benjamin. {9:27} And they lodged round about the house of God,
because the charge [was] upon them, and the opening
{9:1} So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, thereof every morning [pertained] to them. {9:28} And
behold, they [were] written in the book of the kings of Israel [certain] of them had the charge of the ministering vessels,
and Judah, [who] were carried away to Babylon for their that they should bring them in and out by tale. {9:29}
transgression. [Some] of them also [were] appointed to oversee the
vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the
{9:2} Now the first inhabitants that [dwelt] in their fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense,
possessions in their cities [were,] the Israelites, the priests, and the spices. {9:30} And [some] of the sons of the priests
Levites, and the Nethinims. {9:3} And in Jerusalem dwelt made the ointment of the spices. {9:31} And Mattithiah,
of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, [one] of the Levites, who [was] the firstborn of Shallum the
and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh; {9:4} Uthai Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made
the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the in the pans. {9:32} And [other] of their brethren, of the sons
son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah. of the Kohathites, [were] over the shewbread, to prepare [it]
{9:5} And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his every sabbath. {9:33} And these [are] the singers, chief of
sons. {9:6} And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their the fathers of the Levites, [who remaining] in the chambers
brethren, six hundred and ninety. {9:7} And of the sons of [were] free: for they were employed in that work day and
Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of night. {9:34} These chief fathers of the Levites [were] chief
Hodaviah, the son of Hasenuah, {9:8} And Ibneiah the son throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and
Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son {9:35} And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel,
of Ibnijah; {9:9} And their brethren, according to their whose wife’s name [was] Maachah: {9:36} And his
generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner,
[were] chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers. and Nadab, {9:37} And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah,
and Mikloth. {9:38} And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And
{9:10} And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and they also dwelt with their brethren at Jerusalem, over
Jachin, {9:11} And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of against their brethren. {9:39} And Ner begat Kish; and Kish
Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son begat Saul; and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and
of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God; {9:12} And Abinadab, and Esh-baal. {9:40} And the son of Jonathan
Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of [was] Merib- baal: and Merib-baal begat Micah. {9:41}
Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of And the sons of Micah [were,] Pithon, and Melech, and
Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, Tahrea, [and Ahaz. ]{9:42} And Ahaz begat Jarah; and
the son of Immer; {9:13} And their brethren, heads of the Jarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri
house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and begat Moza; {9:43} And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah
threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. {9:44} And Azel had
house of God. {9:14} And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son six sons, whose names [are] these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and
of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these
the sons of Merari; {9:15} And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and [were] the sons of Azel.
Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri,
the son of Asaph; {9:16} And Obadiah the son of {10:1} Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the
Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down
Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in slain in mount Gilboa. {10:2} And the Philistines followed
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hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain
Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. [by him] at one time. {11:12} And after him [was] Eleazar
{10:3} And the battle went sore against Saul, and the the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who [was one] of the three
archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers. {10:4} mighties. {11:13} He was with David at Pas-dammim, and
Then said Saul to his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where
thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled
and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was from before the Philistines. {11:14} And they set
sore afraid. So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. {10:5} themselves in the midst of [that] parcel, and delivered it,
And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved [them] by a
likewise on the sword, and died. {10:6} So Saul died, and great deliverance.
his three sons, and all his house died together. {10:7} And
when all the men of Israel that [were] in the valley saw that {11:15} Now three of the thirty captains went down to the
they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the
forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. {11:16}
dwelt in them. And David [was] then in the hold, and the Philistines’
garrison [was] then at Bethlehem. {11:17} And David
{10:8} And it came to pass on the morrow, when the longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the
Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and water of the well of Bethlehem, that [is] at the gate! {11:18}
his sons fallen in mount Gilboa. {10:9} And when they had And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and
stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that [was] by the
into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings gate, and took [it,] and brought [it] to David: but David
unto their idols, and to the people. {10:10} And they put his would not drink [of] it, but poured it out to the LORD,
armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in {11:19} And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do
the temple of Dagon. this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put
their lives in jeopardy? for with [the jeopardy of] their lives
{10:11} And when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These
Philistines had done to Saul, {10:12} They arose, all the things did these three mightiest.
valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies
of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their {11:20} And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of
bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he
slew [them,] and had a name among the three. {11:21} Of
{10:13} So Saul died for his transgression which he the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was
committed against the LORD, [even] against the word of their captain: howbeit he attained not to the [first] three.
the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking [counsel] {11:22} Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant
of [one that had] a familiar spirit, to enquire [of it; ]{10:14} man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two
And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in
turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse. a pit in a snowy day. {11:23} And he slew an Egyptian, a
man of [great] stature, five cubits high; and in the
{11:1} Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Egyptian’s hand [was] a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he
Hebron, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh. went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of
{11:2} And moreover in time past, even when Saul was the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.
king, thou [wast] he that leddest out and broughtest in {11:24} These [things] did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and
Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt had the name among the three mighties. {11:25} Behold, he
feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the
people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel. [first] three: and David set him over his guard.
{11:3} Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to
Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron {11:26} Also the valiant men of the armies [were,] Asahel
before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
according to the word of the LORD by Samuel. {11:27} Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
{11:28} Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abi-ezer the
{11:4} And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which Antothite, {11:29} Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the
[is] Jebus; where the Jebusites [were,] the inhabitants of the Ahohite, {11:30} Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son
land. {11:5} And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, of Baanah the Netophathite, {11:31} Ithai the son of Ribai
Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the of Gibeah, [that pertained] to the children of Benjamin,
castle of Zion, which [is] the city of David. {11:6} And Benaiah the Pirathonite, {11:32} Hurai of the brooks of
David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, {11:33} Azmaveth the
chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, {11:34} The sons of
and was chief. {11:7} And David dwelt in the castle; Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the
therefore they called it the city of David. {11:8} And he Hararite, {11:35} Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite,
built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Eliphal the son of Ur, {11:36} Hepher the Mecherathite,
Joab repaired the rest of the city. {11:9} So David waxed Ahijah the Pelonite, {11:37} Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai
greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts [was] with him. the son of Ezbai, {11:38} Joel the brother of Nathan,
Mibhar the son of Haggeri, {11:39} Zelek the Ammonite,
{11:10} These also [are] the chief of the mighty men Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of
whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in Zeruiah, {11:40} Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, {11:41}
his kingdom, [and] with all Israel, to make him king, Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, {11:42} Adina the
according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel. son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and
{11:11} And this [is] the number of the mighty men whom thirty with him, {11:43} Hanan the son of Maachah, and
David had; Jashobeam, and Hachmonite, the chief of the Joshaphat the Mithnite, {11:44} Uzzia the Ashterathite,
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Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite, {11:45} Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand
Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite, and one hundred. {12:26} Of the children of Levi four
{11:46} Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the thousand and six hundred. {12:27} And Jehoiada [was] the
sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, {11:47} Eliel, and leader of the Aaronites, and with him [were] three thousand
Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite. and seven hundred; {12:28} And Zadok, a young man
mighty of valour, and of his father’s house twenty and two
{12:1} Now these [are] they that came to David to Ziklag, captains. {12:29} And of the children of Benjamin, the
while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part
Kish: and they [were] among the mighty men, helpers of the of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul. {12:30}
war. {12:2} [They were] armed with bows, and could use And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight
both the right hand and the left in [hurling] stones and hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the
[shooting] arrows out of a bow, [even] of Saul’s brethren of house of their fathers. {12:31} And of the half tribe of
Benjamin. {12:3} The chief [was] Ahiezer, then Joash, the Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by
sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the name, to come and make David king. {12:32} And of the
sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite, children of Issachar, [which were men] that had
{12:4} And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do;
the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, the heads of them [were] two hundred; and all their brethren
and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite, {12:5} Eluzai, [were] at their commandment. {12:33} Of Zebulun, such as
and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of
the Haruphite, {12:6} Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: [they were] not
Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites, {12:7} And Joelah, of double heart. {12:34} And of Naphtali a thousand
and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor. {12:8} And of captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and
the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the seven thousand. {12:35} And of the Danites expert in war
hold to the wilderness men of might, [and] men of war [fit] twenty and eight thousand and six hundred. {12:36} And of
for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty
faces [were like] the faces of lions, and [were] as swift as thousand. {12:37} And on the other side of Jordan, of the
the roes upon the mountains; {12:9} Ezer the first, Obadiah Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of
the second, Eliab the third, {12:10} Mishmannah the fourth, Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the
Jeremiah the fifth, {12:11} Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, battle, an hundred and twenty thousand. {12:38} All these
{12:12} Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, {12:13} men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart
Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh. {12:14} These to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the
[were] of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the rest also of Israel [were] of one heart to make David king.
least [was] over an hundred, and the greatest over a {12:39} And there they were with David three days, eating
thousand. {12:15} These [are] they that went over Jordan in and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and {12:40} Moreover they that were nigh them, [even] unto
they put to flight all [them] of the valleys, [both] toward the Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses,
east, and toward the west. {12:16} And there came of the and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, [and] meat,
children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David. meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and
{12:17} And David went out to meet them, and answered oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for [there was] joy in
and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to Israel.
help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if [ye be
come] to betray me to mine enemies, seeing [there is] no {13:1} And David consulted with the captains of
wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look [thereon,] thousands and hundreds, [and] with every leader. {13:2}
and rebuke [it. ]{12:18} Then the spirit came upon Amasai, And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If [it
[who was] chief of the captains, [and he said,] Thine [are seem] good unto you, and [that it be] of the LORD our God,
we,] David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, [that are]
[be] unto thee, and peace [be] to thine helpers; for thy God left in all the land of Israel, and with them [also] to the
helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them priests and Levites [which are] in their cities [and] suburbs,
captains of the band. {12:19} And there fell [some] of that they may gather themselves unto us: {13:3} And let us
Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at
against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the it in the days of Saul. {13:4} And all the congregation said
lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of
saying, He will fall to his master Saul to [the jeopardy of] all the people. {13:5} So David gathered all Israel together,
our heads. {12:20} As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to
of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and bring the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim. {13:6} And
Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, [that is,] to Kirjath-
the thousands that [were] of Manasseh. {12:21} And they jearim, which [belonged] to Judah, to bring up thence the
helped David against the band [of the rovers:] for they ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth [between] the
[were] all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the cherubims, whose name is called [on it. ]{13:7} And they
host. {12:22} For at [that] time day by day there came to carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of
David to help him, until [it was] a great host, like the host of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart. {13:8} And
God. David and all Israel played before God with all [their]
might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries,
{12:23} And these [are] the numbers of the bands [that and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
were] ready armed to the war, [and] came to David to
Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to {13:9} And when they came unto the threshingfloor of
the word of the LORD. {12:24} The children of Judah that Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the
bare shield and spear [were] six thousand and eight oxen stumbled. {13:10} And the anger of the LORD was
hundred, ready armed to the war. {12:25} Of the children of kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his
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hand to the ark: and there he died before God. {13:11} And Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his
David was displeased, because the LORD had made a brethren an hundred and twelve. {15:11} And David called
breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez-uzza for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for
to this day. {13:12} And David was afraid of God that day, Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and
saying, How shall I bring the ark of God [home] to me? Amminadab, {15:12} And said unto them, Ye [are] the
{13:13} So David brought not the ark [home] to himself to chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves,
the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed- [both] ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of
edom the Gittite. {13:14} And the ark of God remained the LORD God of Israel unto [the place that] I have
with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months. prepared for it. {15:13} For because ye [did it] not at the
And the LORD blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we
that he had. sought him not after the due order. {15:14} So the priests
and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of
{14:1} Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to the LORD God of Israel. {15:15} And the children of the
David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the
build him an house. {14:2} And David perceived that the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word
LORD had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom of the LORD. {15:16} And David spake to the chief of the
was lifted up on high, because of his people Israel. Levites to appoint their brethren [to be] the singers with
instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals,
{14:3} And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy. {15:17} So the
David begat more sons and daughters. {14:4} Now these Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his
[are] the names of [his] children which he had in Jerusalem; brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of
Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, {14:5} And Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; {15:18}
Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet, {14:6} And Nogah, and And with them their brethren of the second [degree,]
Nepheg, and Japhia, {14:7} And Elishama, and Beeliada, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel,
and Eliphalet. and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and
Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom,
{14:8} And when the Philistines heard that David was and Jeiel, the porters. {15:19} So the singers, Heman,
anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to Asaph, and Ethan, [were appointed] to sound with cymbals
seek David. And David heard [of it,] and went out against of brass; {15:20} And Zechariah, and Aziel, and
them. {14:9} And the Philistines came and spread Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and
themselves in the valley of Rephaim. {14:10} And David Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;
enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the {15:21} And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and
Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the
the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into Sheminith to excel. {15:22} And Chenaniah, chief of the
thine hand. {14:11} So they came up to Baal-perazim; and Levites, [was] for song: he instructed about the song,
David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken because he [was] skilful. {15:23} And Berechiah and
in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth Elkanah [were] doorkeepers for the ark. {15:24} And
of waters: therefore they called the name of that place Baal- Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai,
perazim. {14:12} And when they had left their gods there, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did
David gave a commandment, and they were burned with blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-
fire. {14:13} And the Philistines yet again spread edom and Jehiah [were] doorkeepers for the ark.
themselves abroad in the valley. {14:14} Therefore David
enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up {15:25} So David, and the elders of Israel, and the
after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the
against the mulberry trees. {14:15} And it shall be, when covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obed-edom with
thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry joy. {15:26} And it came to pass, when God helped the
trees, [that] then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that
forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines. {14:16} they offered seven bullocks and seven rams. {15:27} And
David therefore did as God commanded him: and they David [was] clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the
smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer. Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the
{14:17} And the fame of David went out into all lands; and master of the song with the singers: David also [had] upon
the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations. him an ephod of linen. {15:28} Thus all Israel brought up
the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and
{15:1} And [David] made him houses in the city of with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with
David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
for it a tent. {15:2} Then David said, None ought to carry
the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD {15:29} And it came to pass, [as] the ark of the covenant
chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the
ever. {15:3} And David gathered all Israel together to daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David
Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
which he had prepared for it. {15:4} And David assembled
the children of Aaron, and the Levites: {15:5} Of the sons {16:1} So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the
of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they
twenty: {15:6} Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.
his brethren two hundred and twenty: {15:7} Of the sons of {16:2} And when David had made an end of offering the
Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the
thirty: {15:8} Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, people in the name of the LORD. {16:3} And he dealt to
and his brethren two hundred: {15:9} Of the sons of every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a
Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore: {15:10} loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon [of
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wine. {16:39} And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests,
before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that
]{16:4} And he appointed [certain] of the Levites to [was] at Gibeon, {16:40} To offer burnt offerings unto the
minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to LORD upon the altar of the burnt offering continually
thank and praise the LORD God of Israel: {16:5} Asaph the morning and evening, and [to do] according to all that is
chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded
and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Israel; {16:41} And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and
Obed-edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to
Asaph made a sound with cymbals; {16:6} Benaiah also give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy [endureth] for
and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ever; {16:42} And with them Heman and Jeduthun with
ark of the covenant of God. trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound,
and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of
{16:7} Then on that day David delivered first [this psalm] Jeduthun [were] porters. {16:43} And all the people
to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren. departed every man to his house: and David returned to
{16:8} Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, bless his house.
make known his deeds among the people. {16:9} Sing unto
him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous {17:1} Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house,
works. {16:10} Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an
them rejoice that seek the LORD. {16:11} Seek the LORD house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD
and his strength, seek his face continually. {16:12} [remaineth] under curtains. {17:2} Then Nathan said unto
Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God [is] with thee.
wonders, and the judgments of his mouth; {16:13} O ye
seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen {17:3} And it came to pass the same night, that the word
ones. {16:14} He [is] the LORD our God; his judgments of God came to Nathan, saying, {17:4} Go and tell David
[are] in all the earth. {16:15} Be ye mindful always of his my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me
covenant; the word [which] he commanded to a thousand an house to dwell in: {17:5} For I have not dwelt in an
generations; {16:16} [Even of the covenant] which he made house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day;
with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac; {16:17} And hath but have gone from tent to tent, and from [one] tabernacle
confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, [and] to Israel [for] [to another. ]{17:6} Wheresoever I have walked with all
an everlasting covenant, {16:18} Saying, Unto thee will I Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I
give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance; {16:19} commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not
When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it. built me an house of cedars? {17:7} Now therefore thus
{16:20} And [when] they went from nation to nation, and shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD
from [one] kingdom to another people; {16:21} He suffered of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, [even] from
no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my
sakes, {16:22} [Saying,] Touch not mine anointed, and do people Israel: {17:8} And I have been with thee
my prophets no harm. {16:23} Sing unto the LORD, all the whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine
earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation. {16:24} enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like
Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works the name of the great men that [are] in the earth. {17:9}
among all nations. {16:25} For great [is] the LORD, and Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will
greatly to be praised: he also [is] to be feared above all plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be
gods. {16:26} For all the gods of the people [are] idols: but moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness
the LORD made the heavens. {16:27} Glory and honour waste them any more, as at the beginning, {17:10} And
[are] in his presence; strength and gladness [are] in his since the time that I commanded judges [to be] over my
place. {16:28} Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies.
people, give unto the LORD glory and strength. {16:29} Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an
Give unto the LORD the glory [due] unto his name: bring house.
an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the
beauty of holiness. {16:30} Fear before him, all the earth: {17:11} And it shall come to pass, when thy days be
the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved. {16:31} expired that thou must go [to be] with thy fathers, that I will
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I
[men] say among the nations, The LORD reigneth. {16:32} will establish his kingdom. {17:12} He shall build me an
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields house, and I will stablish his throne for ever. {17:13} I will
rejoice, and all that [is] therein. {16:33} Then shall the trees be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my
of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because mercy away from him, as I took [it] from [him] that was
he cometh to judge the earth. {16:34} O give thanks unto before thee: {17:14} But I will settle him in mine house and
the LORD; for [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established
ever. {16:35} And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, for evermore. {17:15} According to all these words, and
and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
we may give thanks to thy holy name, [and] glory in thy
praise. {16:36} Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel for {17:16} And David the king came and sat before the
ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised LORD, and said, Who [am] I, O LORD God, and what [is]
the LORD. mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? {17:17}
And [yet] this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for
{16:37} So he left there before the ark of the covenant of thou hast [also] spoken of thy servant’s house for a great
the LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate
ark continually, as every day’s work required: {16:38} And of a man of high degree, O LORD God. {17:18} What can
Obed- edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed- David [speak] more to thee for the honour of thy servant?
edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah [to be] porters: for thou knowest thy servant. {17:19} O LORD, for thy
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servant’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou {18:14} So David reigned over all Israel, and executed
done all this greatness, in making known all these great judgment and justice among all his people. {18:15} And
things. {17:20} O LORD, [there is] none like thee, neither Joab the son Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the
[is there any] God beside thee, according to all that we have son of Ahilud, recorder. {18:16} And Zadok the son of
heard with our ears. {17:21} And what one nation in the Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, [were] the
earth [is] like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem priests; and Shavsha was scribe; {18:17} And Benaiah the
[to be] his own people, to make thee a name of greatness son of Jehoiada [was] over the Cherethites and the
and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy Pelethites; and the sons of David [were] chief about the king.
people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt? {17:22}
For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for {19:1} Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the
ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God. {17:23} king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in
Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken his stead. {19:2} And David said, I will shew kindness unto
concerning thy servant and concerning his house be Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed
established for ever, and do as thou hast said. {17:24} Let it kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him
even be established, that thy name may be magnified for concerning his father. So the servants of David came into
ever, saying, The LORD of hosts [is] the God of Israel, the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort
[even] a God to Israel: and [let] the house of David thy him. {19:3} But the princes of the children of Ammon said
servant [be] established before thee. {17:25} For thou, O to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father,
my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants
house: therefore thy servant hath found [in his heart] to pray come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy
before thee. {17:26} And now, LORD, thou art God, and out the land? {19:4} Wherefore Hanun took David’s
hast promised this goodness unto thy servant: {17:27} Now servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the
therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away. {19:5}
that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O Then there went [certain,] and told David how the men were
LORD, and [it shall be] blessed for ever. served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly
ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your
{18:1} Now after this it came to pass, that David smote beards be grown, and [then] return.
the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her
towns out of the hand of the Philistines. {18:2} And he {19:6} And when the children of Ammon saw that they
smote Moab; and the Moabites became David’s servants, had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the
[and] brought gifts. children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire
them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of
{18:3} And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah. {19:7} So they hired
Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah
Euphrates. {18:4} And David took from him a thousand and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And
chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from
thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot their cities, and came to battle. {19:8} And when David
[horses,] but reserved of them an hundred chariots. {18:5} heard [of it,] he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer men. {19:9} And the children of Ammon came out, and put
king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings
thousand men. {18:6} Then David put [garrisons] in Syria- that were come [were] by themselves in the field. {19:10}
damascus; and the Syrians became David’s servants, [and] Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him
brought gifts. Thus the LORD preserved David before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel,
whithersoever he went. {18:7} And David took the shields and put [them] in array against the Syrians. {19:11} And the
of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his
them to Jerusalem. {18:8} Likewise from Tibhath, and from brother, and they set [themselves] in array against the
Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, children of Ammon. {19:12} And he said, If the Syrians be
wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pillars, too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the
and the vessels of brass. children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will help
thee. {19:13} Be of good courage, and let us behave
{18:9} Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our
had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah; God: and let the LORD do [that which is] good in his sight.
{18:10} He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to enquire {19:14} So Joab and the people that [were] with him drew
of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before
fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer him. {19:15} And when the children of Ammon saw that
had war with Tou;) and [with him] all manner of vessels of the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his
gold and silver and brass. brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to
Jerusalem.
{18:11} Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD,
with the silver and the gold that he brought from all [these] {19:16} And when the Syrians saw that they were put to
nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew
of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek. forth the Syrians that [were] beyond the river: and
{18:12} Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer [went] before
Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand. them. {19:17} And it was told David; and he gathered all
Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set
{18:13} And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the [the battle] in array against them. So when David had put
Edomites became David’s servants. Thus the LORD the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
preserved David whithersoever he went. {19:18} But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew
of the Syrians seven thousand [men which fought in]
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chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach enemies overtaketh [thee;] or else three days the sword of
the captain of the host. {19:19} And when the servants of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of
Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel.
they made peace with David, and became his servants: Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again
neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any to him that sent me. {21:13} And David said unto Gad, I am
more. in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD;
for very great [are] his mercies: but let me not fall into the
{20:1} And it came to pass, that after the year was hand of man.
expired, at the time that kings go out [to battle,] Joab led
forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the {21:14} So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and
children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. {21:15} And God
David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was
destroyed it. {20:2} And David took the crown of their king destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the
from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay
[there were] precious stones in it; and it was set upon now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the
David’s head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil out threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. {21:16} And David
of the city. {20:3} And he brought out the people that lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand
[were] in it, and cut [them] with saws, and with harrows of between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in
iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the
of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people elders [of Israel, who were] clothed in sackcloth, fell upon
returned to Jerusalem. their faces. {21:17} And David said unto God, [Is it] not I
[that] commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is
{20:4} And it came to pass after this, that there arose war that have sinned and done evil indeed; but [as for] these
at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O
Hushathite slew Sippai, [that was] of the children of the LORD my God, be on me, and on my father’s house; but
giant: and they were subdued. {20:5} And there was war not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew
Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff {21:18} Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to
[was] like a weaver’s beam. {20:6} And yet again there was say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar
war at Gath, where was a man of [great] stature, whose unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
fingers and toes [were] four and twenty, six [on each hand,] {21:19} And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he
and six [on each foot:] and he also was the son of the giant. spake in the name of the LORD. {21:20} And Ornan turned
{20:7} But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid
Shimea David’s brother slew him. {20:8} These were born themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. {21:21} And
unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and
and by the hand of his servants. went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David
with [his] face to the ground. {21:22} Then David said to
{21:1} And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked Ornan, Grant me the place of [this] threshingfloor, that I
David to number Israel. {21:2} And David said to Joab and may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant
to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer- it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from
sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, the people. {21:23} And Ornan said unto David, Take [it] to
that I may know [it. ]{21:3} And Joab answered, The thee, and let my lord the king do [that which is] good in his
LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as eyes: lo,I give [thee] the oxen [also] for burnt offerings, and
they [be:] but, my lord the king, [are] they not all my lord’s the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the
servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why meat offering; I give it all. {21:24} And king David said to
will he be a cause of trespass to Israel? {21:4} Nevertheless Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I
the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab will not take [that] which [is] thine for the LORD, nor offer
departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to burnt offerings without cost. {21:25} So David gave to
Jerusalem. Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
{21:26} And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and
{21:5} And Joab gave the sum of the number of the offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon
people unto David. And all [they of] Israel were a thousand the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon
thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: the altar of burnt offering. {21:27} And the LORD
and Judah [was] four hundred threescore and ten thousand commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into
men that drew sword. {21:6} But Levi and Benjamin the sheath thereof.
counted he not among them: for the king’s word was
abominable to Joab. {21:7} And God was displeased with {21:28} At that time when David saw that the LORD had
this thing; therefore he smote Israel. {21:8} And David said answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite,
unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this then he sacrificed there. {21:29} For the tabernacle of the
thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar
servant; for I have done very foolishly. of the burnt offering, [were] at that season in the high place
at Gibeon. {21:30} But David could not go before it to
{21:9} And the LORD spake unto Gad, David’s seer, enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of
saying, {21:10} Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the the angel of the LORD.
LORD, I offer thee three [things:] choose thee one of them,
that I may do [it] unto thee. {21:11} So Gad came to David, {22:1} Then David said, This [is] the house of the LORD
and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee God, and this [is] the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
{21:12} Either three years’ famine; or three months to be {22:2} And David commanded to gather together the
destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine strangers that [were] in the land of Israel; and he set masons
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to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. {22:3} praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, [said
And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the David,] to praise [therewith. ]{23:6} And David divided
doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in them into courses among the sons of Levi, [namely,]
abundance without weight; {22:4} Also cedar trees in Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought
much cedar wood to David. {22:5} And David said, {23:7} Of the Gershonites [were,] Laadan, and Shimei.
Solomon my son [is] young and tender, and the house [that {23:8} The sons of Laadan; the chief [was] Jehiel, and
is] to be builded for the LORD [must be] exceeding Zetham, and Joel, three. {23:9} The sons of Shimei;
magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These [were] the
will [therefore] now make preparation for it. So David chief of the fathers of Laadan. {23:10} And the sons of
prepared abundantly before his death. Shimei [were,] Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These
four [were] the sons of Shimei. {23:11} And Jahath was the
{22:6} Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not
him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel. {22:7} many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according
And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in to [their] father’s house.
my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my
God: {22:8} But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {23:12} The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and
Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: Uzziel, four. {23:13} The sons of Amram; Aaron and
thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the
hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight. {22:9} most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense
Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of before the LORD, to minister unto him, and to bless in his
rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round name for ever. {23:14} Now [concerning] Moses the man
about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace of God, his sons were named of the tribe of Levi. {23:15}
and quietness unto Israel in his days. {22:10} He shall build The sons of Moses [were,] Gershom, and Eliezer. {23:16}
an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I [will Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel [was] the chief. {23:17}
be] his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom And the sons of Eliezer [were,] Rehabiah the chief. And
over Israel for ever. {22:11} Now, my son, the LORD be Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were
with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the very many. {23:18} Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the
LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee. {22:12} Only the chief. {23:19} Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first,
LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the
charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of fourth. {23:20} Of the sons of Uzziel; Micah the first, and
the LORD thy God. {22:13} Then shalt thou prosper, if Jesiah the second.
thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which
the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, {23:21} The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons
and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed. {22:14} of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish. {23:22} And Eleazar died, and
Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of
the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a Kish took them. {23:23} The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and
thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone
have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto. {22:15} {23:24} These [were] the sons of Levi after the house of
Moreover [there are] workmen with thee in abundance, their fathers; [even] the chief of the fathers, as they were
hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of counted by number of names by their polls, that did the
cunning men for every manner of work. {22:16} Of the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the
gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, [there is] no age of twenty years and upward. {23:25} For David said,
number. Arise [therefore,] and be doing, and the LORD be The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people,
with thee. that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever: {23:26} And also
unto the Levites; they shall no [more] carry the tabernacle,
{22:17} David also commanded all the princes of Israel to nor any vessels of it for the service thereof. {23:27} For by
help Solomon his son, [saying, ]{22:18} [Is] not the LORD the last words of David the Levites [were] numbered from
your God with you? and hath he [not] given you rest on twenty years old and above: {23:28} Because their office
every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into [was] to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the
mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and
before his people. {22:19} Now set your heart and your soul in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the
to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye service of the house of God; {23:29} Both for the
the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for
covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the unleavened cakes, and for [that which is baked in] the
the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD. pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of
measure and size; {23:30} And to stand every morning to
{23:1} So when David was old and full of days, he made thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even; {23:31}
Solomon his son king over Israel. And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the
sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by
{23:2} And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, number, according to the order commanded unto them,
with the priests and the Levites. {23:3} Now the Levites continually before the LORD: {23:32} And that they should
were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and
and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and the charge of the holy [place,] and the charge of the sons of
eight thousand. {23:4} Of which, twenty and four thousand Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the
[were] to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; LORD.
and six thousand [were] officers and judges: {23:5}
Moreover four thousand [were] porters; and four thousand {24:1} Now [these are] the divisions of the sons of Aaron.
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The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and
Ithamar. {24:2} But Nadab and Abihu died before their Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of
father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give
executed the priest’s office. {24:3} And David distributed thanks and to praise the LORD. {25:4} Of Heman: the sons
them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and
the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and
service. {24:4} And there were more chief men found of the Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, [and]
sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and [thus] were Mahazioth: {25:5} All these [were] the sons of Heman the
they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar [there were] king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And
sixteen chief men of the house of [their] fathers, and eight God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their {25:6} All these [were] under the hands of their father for
fathers. {24:5} Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with song [in] the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries,
another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to
[of the house] of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman. {25:7} So
the sons of Ithamar. {24:6} And Shemaiah the son of the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed
Nethaneel the scribe, [one] of the Levites, wrote them in the songs of the LORD, [even] all that were cunning, was
before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and two hundred fourscore and eight.
Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and [before] the chief of the
fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household {25:8} And they cast lots, ward against [ward,] as well the
being taken for Eleazar, and [one] taken for Ithamar. {24:7} small as the great, the teacher as the scholar. {25:9} Now
Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to
Jedaiah, {24:8} The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons [were] twelve:
{24:9} The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, {24:10} {25:10} The third to Zaccur, [he,] his sons, and his
The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, {24:11} The brethren, [were] twelve: {25:11} The fourth to Izri, [he,] his
ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, {24:12} The sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:12} The fifth to
eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, {24:13} The Nethaniah, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, {24:14} {25:13} The sixth to Bukkiah, [he,] his sons, and his
The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, {24:15} The brethren, [were] twelve: {25:14} The seventh to Jesharelah,
seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses, {24:16} The [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:15} The
nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel, {24:17} eighth to Jeshaiah, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were]
The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to twelve: {25:16} The ninth to Mattaniah, [he,] his sons, and
Gamul, {24:18} The three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:17} The tenth to Shimei,
and twentieth to Maaziah. {24:19} These [were] the [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:18} The
orderings of them in their service to come into the house of eleventh to Azareel, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were]
the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their twelve: {25:19} The twelfth to Hashabiah, [he,] his sons,
father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him. and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:20} The thirteenth to
Shubael, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
{24:20} And the rest of the sons of Levi [were these:] Of {25:21} The fourteenth to Mattithiah, [he,] his sons, and his
the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; brethren, [were] twelve: {25:22} The fifteenth to Jeremoth,
Jehdeiah. {24:21} Concerning Rehabiah: of the sons of [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:23} The
Rehabiah, the first [was] Isshiah. {24:22} Of the Izharites; sixteenth to Hananiah, [he,] his sons, and his brethren,
Shelomoth: of the sons of Shelomoth; Jahath. {24:23} And [were] twelve: {25:24} The seventeenth to Joshbekashah,
the sons [of Hebron;] Jeriah [the first,] Amariah the second, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:25} The
Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth. {24:24} [Of] the eighteenth to Hanani, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were]
sons of Uzziel; Michah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir. twelve: {25:26} The nineteenth to Mallothi, [he,] his sons,
{24:25} The brother of Michah [was] Isshiah: of the sons of and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:27} The twentieth to
Isshiah; Zechariah. {24:26} The sons of Merari [were] Eliathah, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
Mahli and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno. {25:28} The one and twentieth to Hothir, [he,] his sons, and
his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:29} The two and twentieth
{24:27} The sons of Merari by Jaaziah; Beno, and to Giddalti, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri. {24:28} Of Mahli [came] {25:30} The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, [he,] his
Eleazar, who had no sons. {24:29} Concerning Kish: the sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:31} The four and
son of Kish [was] Jerahmeel. {24:30} The sons also of twentieth to Romamti-ezer, [he,] his sons, and his brethren,
Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These [were] the [were] twelve.
sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers. {24:31}
These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons {26:1} Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the
of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Korhites [was] Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of
Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Asaph. {26:2} And the sons of Meshelemiah [were,]
Levites, even the principal fathers over against their Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the
younger brethren. third, Jathniel the fourth, {26:3} Elam the fifth, Jehohanan
the sixth, Elioenai the seventh. {26:4} Moreover the sons of
{25:1} Moreover David and the captains of the host Obed-edom [were,] Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the
separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel
Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, the fifth, {26:5} Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh,
with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him. {26:6} Also unto
workmen according to their service was: {25:2} Of the sons Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the
of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, house of their father: for they [were] mighty men of valour.
the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which {26:7} The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and
prophesied according to the order of the king. {25:3} Of Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren [were] strong men, Elihu,
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and Semachiah. {26:8} All these of the sons of Obed-edom: wit,] the chief fathers and captains of thousands and
they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any
for the service, [were] threescore and two of Obed-edom. matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by
{26:9} And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong month throughout all the months of the year, of every
men, eighteen. {26:10} Also Hosah, of the children of course [were] twenty and four thousand. {27:2} Over the
Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for [though] he was not first course for the first month [was] Jashobeam the son of
the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;) {26:11} Zabdiel: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand.
Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: {27:3} Of the children of Perez [was] the chief of all the
all the sons and brethren of Hosah [were] thirteen. {26:12} captains of the host for the first month. {27:4} And over the
Among these [were] the divisions of the porters, [even] course of the second month [was] Dodai an Ahohite, and of
among the chief men, [having] wards one against another, his course [was] Mikloth also the ruler: in his course
to minister in the house of the LORD. likewise [were] twenty and four thousand. {27:5} The third
captain of the host for the third month [was] Benaiah the
{26:13} And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course [were]
according to the house of their fathers, for every gate. twenty and four thousand. {27:6} This [is that] Benaiah,
{26:14} And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for [who was] mighty [among] the thirty, and above the thirty:
Zechariah his son, a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his and in his course [was] Ammizabad his son. {27:7} The
lot came out northward. {26:15} To Obed- edom fourth [captain] for the fourth month [was] Asahel the
southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim. {26:16} brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his
To Shuppim and Hosah [the lot came forth] westward, with course [were] twenty and four thousand. {27:8} The fifth
the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward captain for the fifth month [was] Shamhuth the Izrahite: and
against ward. {26:17} Eastward [were] six Levites, in his course [were] twenty and four thousand. {27:9} The
northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward sixth [captain] for the sixth month [was] Ira the son of
Asuppim two [and] two. {26:18} At Parbar westward, four Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course [were] twenty and four
at the causeway, [and] two at Parbar. {26:19} These [are] thousand. {27:10} The seventh [captain] for the seventh
the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and month [was] Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim:
among the sons of Merari. and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand. {27:11}
The eighth [captain] for the eighth month [was] Sibbecai the
{26:20} And of the Levites, Ahijah [was] over the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course [were] twenty
treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the and four thousand. {27:12} The ninth [captain] for the ninth
dedicated things. {26:21} [As concerning] the sons of month [was] Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and
Laadan; the sons of the Gershonite Laadan, chief fathers, in his course [were] twenty and four thousand. {27:13} The
[even] of Laadan the Gershonite, [were] Jehieli. {26:22} tenth [captain] for the tenth month [was] Maharai the
The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, [which Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course [were]
were] over the treasures of the house of the LORD. {26:23} twenty and four thousand. {27:14} The eleventh [captain]
Of the Amramites, [and] the Izharites, the Hebronites, [and] for the eleventh month [was] Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the
the Uzzielites: {26:24} And Shebuel the son of Gershom, children of Ephraim: and in his course [were] twenty and
the son of Moses, [was] ruler of the treasures. {26:25} And four thousand. {27:15} The twelfth [captain] for the twelfth
his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his month [was] Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his
son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith course [were] twenty and four thousand.
his son. {26:26} Which Shelomith and his brethren [were]
over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David {27:16} Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of
the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands the Reubenites [was] Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the
and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated. Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah: {27:17} Of the
{26:27} Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites,
maintain the house of the LORD. {26:28} And all that Zadok: {27:18} Of Judah, Elihu, [one] of the brethren of
Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael: {27:19} Of
son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali,
[and] whosoever had dedicated [any thing, it was] under the Jerimoth the son of Azriel: {27:20} Of the children of
hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren. Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of
Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah: {27:21} Of the half
{26:29} Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons [were] [tribe] of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of
for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges. Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner: {27:22} Of Dan,
{26:30} [And] of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his Azareel the son of Jeroham. These [were] the princes of the
brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, tribes of Israel.
[were] officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan
westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the {27:23} But David took not the number of them from
service of the king. {26:31} Among the Hebronites [was] twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he
Jerijah the chief, [even] among the Hebronites, according to would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the {27:24} Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he
reign of David they were sought for, and there were found finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel;
among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead. neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles
{26:32} And his brethren, men of valour, [were] two of king David.
thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king
David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the {27:25} And over the king’s treasures [was] Azmaveth
half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in
and affairs of the king. the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, [was]
Jehonathan the son of Uzziah: {27:26} And over them that
{27:1} Now the children of Israel after their number, [to did the work of the field for tillage of the ground [was] Ezri
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the son of Chelub: {27:27} And over the vineyards was courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work
Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the
the wine cellars [was] Zabdi the Shiphmite: {27:28} And vessels of service in the house of the LORD. {28:14} [He
over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that [were] in the gave] of gold by weight for [things] of gold, for all
low plains [was] Baal-hanan the Gederite: and over the instruments of all manner of service; [silver also] for all
cellars of oil [was] Joash: {27:29} And over the herds that instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every
fed in Sharon [was] Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds kind of service: {28:15} Even the weight for the
[that were] in the valleys [was] Shaphat the son of Adlai: candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight
{27:30} Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for the
over the asses [was] Jehdeiah the Meronothite: {27:31} And candlesticks of silver by weight, [both] for the candlestick,
over the flocks [was] Jaziz the Hagerite. All these [were] and [also] for the lamps thereof, according to the use of
the rulers of the substance which [was] king David’s. every candlestick. {28:16} And by weight [he gave] gold
{27:32} Also Jonathan David’s uncle was a counsellor, a for the tables of shewbread, for every table; and [likewise]
wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni silver for the tables of silver: {28:17} Also pure gold for the
[was] with the king’s sons: {27:33} And Ahithophel [was] fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden
the king’s counsellor: and Hushai the Archite [was] the basons [he gave gold] by weight for every bason; and
king’s companion: {27:34} And after Ahithophel [was] [likewise silver] by weight for every bason of silver:
Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general {28:18} And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight;
of the king’s army [was] Joab. and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that
spread out [their wings,] and covered the ark of the
{28:1} And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the covenant of the LORD. {28:19} All [this, said David,] the
princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that LORD made me understand in writing by [his] hand upon
ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the me, [even] all the works of this pattern. {28:20} And David
thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage,
over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his and do [it:] fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God,
sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with [even] my God, [will be] with thee; he will not fail thee, nor
all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem. {28:2} Then David the forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the
king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, service of the house of the LORD. {28:21} And, behold, the
and my people: [As for me,] I [had] in mine heart to build courses of the priests and the Levites, [even they shall be
an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, with thee] for all the service of the house of God: and [there
and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the shall be] with thee for all manner of workmanship every
building: {28:3} But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the
an house for my name, because thou [hast been] a man of princes and all the people [will be] wholly at thy
war, and hast shed blood. {28:4} Howbeit the LORD God commandment.
of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be
king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah [to be] {29:1} Furthermore David the king said unto all the
the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath
and among the sons of my father he liked me to make [me] chosen, [is yet] young and tender, and the work [is] great:
king over all Israel: {28:5} And of all my sons, (for the for the palace [is] not for man, but for the LORD God.
LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon {29:2} Now I have prepared with all my might for the
my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD house of my God the gold for [things to be made] of gold,
over Israel. {28:6} And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, and the silver for [things] of silver, and the brass for [things]
he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen of brass, the iron for [things] of iron, and wood for [things]
him [to be] my son, and I will be his father. {28:7} of wood; onyx stones, and [stones] to be set, glistering
Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious
constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at stones, and marble stones in abundance. {29:3} Moreover,
this day. {28:8} Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I
congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, [which] I
keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I
God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave [it] for have prepared for the holy house, {29:4} [Even] three
an inheritance for your children after you for ever. thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven
thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the
{28:9} And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of houses [withal: ]{29:5} The gold for [things] of gold, and
thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a the silver for [things] of silver, and for all manner of work
willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and [to be made] by the hands of artificers. And who [then] is
understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?
seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him,
he will cast thee off for ever. {28:10} Take heed now; for {29:6} Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the
the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of
sanctuary: be strong, and do [it. hundreds, with the rulers of the king’s work, offered
willingly, {29:7} And gave for the service of the house of
]{28:11} Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams,
of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen
thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.
parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat, {28:12} {29:8} And they with whom [precious] stones were found
And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts gave [them] to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by
of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. {29:9} Then the people
about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with
treasuries of the dedicated things: {28:13} Also for the perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David
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the king also rejoiced with great joy.
{42:7} And it was [so,] that after the LORD had spoken
these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the
Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy
two friends: for ye have not spoken of me [the thing that is]
right, as my servant Job [hath. ]{42:8} Therefore take unto
you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my
servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering;
and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept:
lest I deal with you [after your] folly, in that ye have not
spoken of me [the thing which is] right, like my servant Job.
{42:9} So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite
[and] Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the
LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
{42:10} And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when
he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as
much as he had before. {42:11} Then came there unto him
all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been
of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his
house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all
the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man
also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of
gold. {42:12} So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job
more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand
sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of
oxen, and a thousand she asses. {42:13} He had also seven
sons and three daughters. {42:14} And he called the name
of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and
the name of the third, Keren-happuch. {42:15} And in all
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The Book of Psalms
Psalm 1
Book I
{1:1} Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the
seat of the scornful.
{1:2} But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth
he meditate day and night.
{1:3} And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that
bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not
wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
{1:4} The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind
driveth away.
{1:5} Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor
sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
{1:6} For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the
ungodly shall perish.
Psalm 2
{2:1} Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
{2:2} The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take
counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed,
[saying,
]{2:3} Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from
us.
{2:4} He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have
them in derision.
{2:5} Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his
sore displeasure.
{2:6} Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
{2:7} I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou [art]
my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
{2:8} Ask of me, and I shall give [thee] the heathen [for] thine
inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth [for] thy
possession.
{2:9} Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in
pieces like a potter’s vessel.
{2:10} Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of
the earth.
{2:11} Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
{2:12} Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish [from] the way,
when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed [are] all they
that put their trust in him.
Psalm 3
{3:1} LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many [are] they
that rise up against me.
{3:2} Many [there be] which say of my soul, [There is] no help for him
in God. Selah.
{3:3} But thou, O LORD, [art] a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter
up of mine head.
{3:4} I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his
holy hill. Selah.
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{3:5} I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
{3:6} I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set
[themselves] against me round about.
{3:7} Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine
enemies [upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the
ungodly.
{3:8} Salvation [belongeth] unto the LORD: thy blessing [is] upon thy
people. Selah.
Psalm 4
Psalm 5
Psalm 6
Psalm 7
Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words
of Cush the Benjamite.
{7:1} O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them
that persecute me, and deliver me:
{7:2} Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending [it] in pieces, while
[there is] none to deliver.
{7:3} O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my
hands;
{7:4} If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea,
I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
{7:5} Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it;] yea, let him
tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the
dust. Selah.
{7:6} Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the
rage of mine enemies: and awake for me [to] the judgment [that]
thou hast commanded.
{7:7} So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for
their sakes therefore return thou on high.
{7:8} The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to
my righteousness, and according to mine integrity [that is] in me.
{7:9} Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish
the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
{7:10} My defence [is] of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
{7:11} God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry [with the wicked]
every day.
{7:12} If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow,
and made it ready.
{7:13} He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he
ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
{7:14} Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived
mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
{7:15} He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch
[which] he made.
{7:16} His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent
dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
{7:17} I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will
sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
Psalm 8
Psalm 9
{9:1} I will praise [thee,] O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew
forth all thy marvellous works.
{9:2} I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy
name, O thou most High.
{9:3} When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at
thy presence.
{9:4} For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in
the throne judging right.
{9:5} Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked,
thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
{9:6} O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou
hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
{9:7} But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne
for judgment.
{9:8} And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister
judgment to the people in uprightness.
{9:9} The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in
times of trouble.
{9:10} And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for
thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
{9:11} Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among
the people his doings.
{9:12} When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he
forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
{9:13} Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble [which I suffer]
of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of
death:
{9:14} That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the
daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
{9:15} The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the
net which they hid is their own foot taken.
{9:16} The LORD is known [by] the judgment [which] he executeth: the
wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
{9:17} The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that
forget God.
{9:18} For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of
the poor shall [not] perish for ever.
{9:19} Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in
thy sight.
{9:20} Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know themselves
[to be but] men. Selah.
Psalm 10
{10:1} Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself]
in times of trouble?
{10:2} The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be
taken in the devices that they have imagined.
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{10:3} For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the
covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.
{10:4} The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek
[after God:] God [is] not in all his thoughts.
{10:5} His ways are always grievous; thy judgments [are] far above out
of his sight: [as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
{10:6} He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I shall]
never [be] in adversity.
{10:7} His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his
tongue [is] mischief and vanity.
{10:8} He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret
places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set
against the poor.
{10:9} He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait
to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him
into his net.
{10:10} He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by
his strong ones.
{10:11} He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his
face; he will never see [it.
]{10:12} Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the
humble.
{10:13} Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his
heart, Thou wilt not require [it.
]{10:14} Thou hast seen [it;] for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to
requite [it] with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto
thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
{10:15} Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man:] seek out
his wickedness [till] thou find none.
{10:16} The LORD [is] King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished
out of his land.
{10:17} LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt
prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
{10:18} To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the
earth may no more oppress.
Psalm 11
{11:1} In the LORD put I my trust: How say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a
bird to your mountain?
{11:2} For, lo, the wicked bend [their] bow, they make ready their
arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright
in heart.
{11:3} If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
{11:4} The LORD [is] in his holy temple, the LORD’S throne [is] in
heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
{11:5} The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that
loveth violence his soul hateth.
{11:6} Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an
horrible tempest: [this shall be] the portion of their cup.
{11:7} For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance
doth behold the upright.
Psalm 12
{12:1} Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail
from among the children of men.
{12:2} They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with]
flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.
{12:3} The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, [and] the tongue
that speaketh proud things:
{12:4} Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips [are]
our own: who [is] lord over us?
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{12:5} For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set [him] in safety
[from him that] puffeth at him.
{12:6} The words of the LORD [are] pure words: [as] silver tried in a
furnace of earth, purified seven times.
{12:7} Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this
generation for ever.
{12:8} The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Psalm 13
{13:1} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt
thou hide thy face from me?
{13:2} How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my
heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
{13:3} Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I
sleep the [sleep of] death;
{13:4} Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [and] those
that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
{13:5} But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy
salvation.
{13:6} I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully
with me.
Psalm 14
{14:1} The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are
corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that
doeth good.
{14:2} The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to
see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God.
{14:3} They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy:
[there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
{14:4} Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my
people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
{14:5} There were they in great fear: for God [is] in the generation of
the righteous.
{14:6} Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is]
his refuge.
{14:7} Oh that the salvation of Israel [were come] out of Zion! when
the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall
rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.
Psalm 15
A Psalm of David.
{15:1} LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy
holy hill?
{15:2} He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and
speaketh the truth in his heart.
{15:3} [He that] backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his
neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
{15:4} In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them
that fear the LORD. [He that] sweareth to [his own] hurt, and
changeth not.
{15:5} [He that] putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward
against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] shall never be
moved.
Psalm 16
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Michtam of David.
{16:1} Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
{16:2} [O my soul,] thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou [art] my Lord:
my goodness [extendeth] not to thee;
{16:3} [But] to the saints that [are] in the earth, and [to] the
excellent, in whom [is] all my delight.
{16:4} Their sorrows shall be multiplied [that] hasten [after] another
[god:] their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take
up their names into my lips.
{16:5} The LORD [is] the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup:
thou maintainest my lot.
{16:6} The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant [places;] yea, I have a
goodly heritage.
{16:7} I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also
instruct me in the night seasons.
{16:8} I have set the LORD always before me: because [he is] at my
right hand, I shall not be moved.
{16:9} Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh
also shall rest in hope.
{16:10} For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou
suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
{16:11} Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence [is]
fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for
evermore.
Psalm 17
A Prayer of David.
{17:1} Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my
prayer, [that goeth] not out of feigned lips.
{17:2} Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes
behold the things that are equal.
{17:3} Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the
night; thou hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing; I am
purposed [that] my mouth shall not transgress.
{17:4} Concerning the words of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept
[me from] the paths of the destroyer.
{17:5} Hold up my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip not.
{17:6} I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline
thine ear unto me, [and hear] my speech.
{17:7} Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy
right hand them which put their trust [in thee] from those that
rise up [against them.
]{17:8} Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of
thy wings,
{17:9} From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who]
compass me about.
{17:10} They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak
proudly.
{17:11} They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their
eyes bowing down to the earth;
{17:12} Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a
young lion lurking in secret places.
{17:13} Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul
from the wicked, [which is] thy sword:
{17:14} From men [which are] thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world,
[which have] their portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou
fillest with thy hid [treasure:] they are full of children, and
leave the rest of their [substance] to their babes.
{17:15} As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be
satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Psalm 18
To the chief Musician, A [Psalm] of David, the servant of the LORD, who
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spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the
LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the
hand of Saul: And he said,
{18:1} I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
{18:2} The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my
God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn
of my salvation, [and] my high tower.
{18:3} I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be praised: so
shall I be saved from mine enemies.
{18:4} The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men
made me afraid.
{18:5} The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death
prevented me.
{18:6} In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he
heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him,
[even] into his ears.
{18:7} Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the
hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
{18:8} There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his
mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
{18:9} He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness [was]
under his feet.
{18:10} And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon
the wings of the wind.
{18:11} He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him
[were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.
{18:12} At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds
passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire.
{18:13} The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave
his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.
{18:14} Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot
out lightnings, and discomfited them.
{18:15} Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of
the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of
the breath of thy nostrils.
{18:16} He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
{18:17} He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated
me: for they were too strong for me.
{18:18} They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was
my stay.
{18:19} He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me,
because he delighted in me.
{18:20} The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according
to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
{18:21} For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly
departed from my God.
{18:22} For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put away
his statutes from me.
{18:23} I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine
iniquity.
{18:24} Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my
righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his
eyesight.
{18:25} With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an
upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
{18:26} With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward
thou wilt shew thyself froward.
{18:27} For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down
high looks.
{18:28} For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten
my darkness.
{18:29} For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I
leaped over a wall.
{18:30} [As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the word of the LORD is
tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him.
{18:31} For who [is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save our God?
{18:32} [It is] God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way
perfect.
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{18:33} He maketh my feet like hinds’ [feet,] and setteth me upon my
high places.
{18:34} He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken
by mine arms.
{18:35} Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy
right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me
great.
{18:36} Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
{18:37} I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I
turn again till they were consumed.
{18:38} I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are
fallen under my feet.
{18:39} For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou
hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
{18:40} Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might
destroy them that hate me.
{18:41} They cried, but [there was] none to save [them: even] unto the
LORD, but he answered them not.
{18:42} Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did
cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
{18:43} Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; [and]
thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people [whom] I have
not known shall serve me.
{18:44} As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers
shall submit themselves unto me.
{18:45} The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close
places.
{18:46} The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and let the God of
my salvation be exalted.
{18:47} [It is] God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
{18:48} He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up
above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from
the violent man.
{18:49} Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
{18:50} Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to
his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
Psalm 19
{19:1} The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth
his handywork.
{19:2} Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
knowledge.
{19:3} [There is] no speech nor language, [where] their voice is not
heard.
{19:4} Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to
the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the
sun,
{19:5} Which [is] as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, [and]
rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
{19:6} His going forth [is] from the end of the heaven, and his circuit
unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat
thereof.
{19:7} The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the
testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple.
{19:8} The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the
commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.
{19:9} The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the
judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether.
{19:10} More to be desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much fine
gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
{19:11} Moreover by them is thy servant warned: [and] in keeping of
them [there is] great reward.
{19:12} Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret
[faults.
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]{19:13} Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins;] let them
not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall
be innocent from the great transgression.
{19:14} Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be
acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Psalm 20
Psalm 21
{21:1} The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation
how greatly shall he rejoice!
{21:2} Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden
the request of his lips. Selah.
{21:3} For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou
settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
{21:4} He asked life of thee, [and] thou gavest [it] him, [even] length
of days for ever and ever.
{21:5} His glory [is] great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast
thou laid upon him.
{21:6} For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him
exceeding glad with thy countenance.
{21:7} For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the
most High he shall not be moved.
{21:8} Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand
shall find out those that hate thee.
{21:9} Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger:
the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall
devour them.
{21:10} Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed
from among the children of men.
{21:11} For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a
mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform.
]{21:12} Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, [when] thou
shalt make ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings against the face
of them.
{21:13} Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: [so] will we sing
and praise thy power.
Psalm 22
{22:1} My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far
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from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring?
{22:2} O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the
night season, and am not silent.
{22:3} But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of
Israel.
{22:4} Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst
deliver them.
{22:5} They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee,
and were not confounded.
{22:6} But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised
of the people.
{22:7} All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip,
they shake the head [saying,
]{22:8} He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him
deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
{22:9} But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make
me hope [when I was] upon my mother’s breasts.
{22:10} I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my
mother’s belly.
{22:11} Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none
to help.
{22:12} Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have
beset me round.
{22:13} They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a
roaring lion.
{22:14} I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint:
my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
{22:15} My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth
to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
{22:16} For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have
inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
{22:17} I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.
{22:18} They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
{22:19} But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee
to help me.
{22:20} Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of
the dog.
{22:21} Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the
horns of the unicorns.
{22:22} I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the
congregation will I praise thee.
{22:23} Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob,
glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
{22:24} For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the
afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he
cried unto him, he heard.
{22:25} My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation: I will
pay my vows before them that fear him.
{22:26} The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD
that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
{22:27} All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the
LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before
thee.
{22:28} For the kingdom [is] the LORD’S: and he [is] the governor among
the nations.
{22:29} All [they that be] fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all
they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can
keep alive his own soul.
{22:30} A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a
generation.
{22:31} They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a
people that shall be born, that he hath done [this.
]
Psalm 23
A Psalm of David.
Psalm 24
A Psalm of David.
{24:1} The earth [is] the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world,
and they that dwell therein.
{24:2} For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon
the floods.
{24:3} Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand
in his holy place?
{24:4} He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted
up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
{24:5} He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness
from the God of his salvation.
{24:6} This [is] the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy
face, O Jacob. Selah.
{24:7} Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye
everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
{24:8} Who [is] this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the
LORD mighty in battle.
{24:9} Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift [them] up, ye
everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
{24:10} Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he [is] the King
of glory. Selah.
Psalm 25
A [Psalm] of David.
{25:1} Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
{25:2} O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine
enemies triumph over me.
{25:3} Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed
which transgress without cause.
{25:4} Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
{25:5} Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou [art] the God of my
salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
{25:6} Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses;
for they [have been] ever of old.
{25:7} Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions:
according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O
LORD.
{25:8} Good and upright [is] the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners
in the way.
{25:9} The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach
his way.
{25:10} All the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth unto such as
keep his covenant and his testimonies.
{25:11} For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it [is]
great.
{25:12} What man [is] he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in
the way [that] he shall choose.
{25:13} His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the
earth.
{25:14} The secret of the LORD [is] with them that fear him; and he
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will shew them his covenant.
{25:15} Mine eyes [are] ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my
feet out of the net.
{25:16} Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I [am] desolate
and afflicted.
{25:17} The troubles of my heart are enlarged: [O[ bring thou me out of
my distresses.
{25:18} Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
{25:19} Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with
cruel hatred.
{25:20} O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I
put my trust in thee.
{25:21} Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
{25:22} Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
Psalm 26
A [Psalm] of David.
{26:1} Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have
trusted also in the LORD; [therefore] I shall not slide.
{26:2} Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
{26:3} For thy lovingkindness [is] before mine eyes: and I have walked
in thy truth.
{26:4} I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with
dissemblers.
{26:5} I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and will not sit
with the wicked.
{26:6} I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine
altar, O LORD:
{26:7} That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of
all thy wondrous works.
{26:8} LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place
where thine honour dwelleth.
{26:9} Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
{26:10} In whose hands [is] mischief, and their right hand is full of
bribes.
{26:11} But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be
merciful unto me.
{26:12} My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I
bless the LORD.
Psalm 27
A [Psalm] of David.
{27:1} The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the
LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
{27:2} When the wicked, [even] mine enemies and my foes, came upon me
to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
{27:3} Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not
fear: though war should rise against me, in this [will] I [be]
confident.
{27:4} One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after;
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my
life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his
temple.
{27:5} For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in
the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up
upon a rock.
{27:6} And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round
about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of
joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
{27:7} Hear, O LORD, [when] I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon
me, and answer me.
{27:8} [When thou saidst,] Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee,
Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
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{27:9} Hide not thy face [far] from me; put not thy servant away in
anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
{27:10} When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will
take me up.
{27:11} Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because
of mine enemies.
{27:12} Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false
witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out
cruelty.
{27:13} [I had fainted,] unless I had believed to see the goodness of
the LORD in the land of the living.
{27:14} Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen
thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Psalm 28
A [Psalm] of David.
{28:1} Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest,
[if] thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into
the pit.
{28:2} Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I
lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
{28:3} Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of
iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief
[is] in their hearts.
{28:4} Give them according to their deeds, and according to the
wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their
hands; render to them their desert.
{28:5} Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation
of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
{28:6} Blessed [be] the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my
supplications.
{28:7} The LORD [is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in
him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and
with my song will I praise him.
{28:8} The LORD [is] their strength, and he [is] the saving strength of
his anointed.
{28:9} Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also,
and lift them up for ever.
Psalm 29
A Psalm of David.
{29:1} Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and
strength.
{29:2} Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD
in the beauty of holiness.
{29:3} The voice of the LORD [is] upon the waters: the God of glory
thundereth: the LORD [is] upon many waters.
{29:4} The voice of the LORD [is] powerful; the voice of the LORD [is]
full of majesty.
{29:5} The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD
breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
{29:6} He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like
a young unicorn.
{29:7} The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
{29:8} The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh
the wilderness of Kadesh.
{29:9} The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth
the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of [his]
glory.
{29:10} The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for
ever.
{29:11} The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will
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bless his people with peace.
Psalm 30
{30:1} I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast
not made my foes to rejoice over me.
{30:2} O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
{30:3} O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast
kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
{30:4} Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the
remembrance of his holiness.
{30:5} For his anger [endureth but] a moment; in his favour is life:
weeping may endure for a night, but joy [cometh] in the morning.
{30:6} And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
{30:7} LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong:
thou didst hide thy face, [and] I was troubled.
{30:8} I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
{30:9} What profit [is there] in my blood, when I go down to the pit?
Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
{30:10} Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
{30:11} Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put
off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
{30:12} To the end that [my] glory may sing praise to thee, and not be
silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
Psalm 31
Psalm 32
Psalm 33
Psalm 34
A [Psalm] of David.
{35:1} Plead [my cause,] O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight
against them that fight against me.
{35:2} Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
{35:3} Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them that
persecute me: say unto my soul, I [am] thy salvation.
{35:4} Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul:
let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my
hurt.
{35:5} Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the
LORD chase [them.
]{35:6} Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the
LORD persecute them.
{35:7} For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit,
[which] without cause they have digged for my soul.
{35:8} Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that
he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him
fall.
{35:9} And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his
salvation.
{35:10} All my bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like unto thee, which
deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the
poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
{35:11} False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge [things]
that I knew not.
{35:12} They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul.
{35:13} But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was]
sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned
into mine own bosom.
{35:14} I behaved myself as though [he had been] my friend [or]
brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth [for his]
mother.
{35:15} But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves
together: [yea,] the abjects gathered themselves together against
me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me,] and ceased not:
{35:16} With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with
their teeth.
{35:17} Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their
destructions, my darling from the lions.
{35:18} I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will
praise thee among much people.
{35:19} Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me:
[neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
{35:20} For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters
against [them that are] quiet in the land.
{35:21} Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said, Aha,
aha, our eye hath seen [it.
]{35:22} [This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be
not far from me.
{35:23} Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, [even] unto my
cause, my God and my Lord.
{35:24} Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and
let them not rejoice over me.
{35:25} Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let
them not say, We have swallowed him up.
{35:26} Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that
rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and
dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.
{35:27} Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous
cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified,
which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
{35:28} And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness [and] of thy
praise all the day long.
Psalm 36
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To the chief Musician, A [Psalm] of David, the servant of the LORD.
Psalm 37
A [Psalm] of David.
Psalm 38
Psalm 39
{39:1} I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my
tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is
before me.
{39:2} I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and
my sorrow was stirred.
{39:3} My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned:
[then] spake I with my tongue,
{39:4} LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what
it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am.
]{39:5} Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine
age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best
state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.
{39:6} Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are
disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches,] and knoweth not who
shall gather them.
{39:7} And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.
{39:8} Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach
of the foolish.
{39:9} I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it.
]{39:10} Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of
thine hand.
{39:11} When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou
makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man
[is] vanity. Selah.
{39:12} Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy
peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a
sojourner, as all my fathers [were.
]{39:13} O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence,
and be no more.
Psalm 40
{40:1} I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and
heard my cry.
{40:2} He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry
clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings.
{40:3} And he hath put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise unto our
God: many shall see [it,] and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
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{40:4} Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and
respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
{40:5} Many, O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast
done, and thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward: they cannot be
reckoned up in order unto thee: [if] I would declare and speak
[of them,] they are more than can be numbered.
{40:6} Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast
thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not
required.
{40:7} Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is]
written of me,
{40:8} I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my
heart.
{40:9} I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I
have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
{40:10} I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have
declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed
thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
{40:11} Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy
lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
{40:12} For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities
have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they
are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth
me.
{40:13} Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help
me.
{40:14} Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my
soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame
that wish me evil.
{40:15} Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto
me, Aha, aha.
{40:16} Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let
such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
{40:17} But I [am] poor and needy; [yet] the Lord thinketh upon me:
thou [art] my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalm 41
{41:1} Blessed [is] he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver
him in time of trouble.
{41:2} The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; [and] he shall
be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the
will of his enemies.
{41:3} The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou
wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
{41:4} I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have
sinned against thee.
{41:5} Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name
perish?
{41:6} And if he come to see [me,] he speaketh vanity: his heart
gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth
[it.
]{41:7} All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do
they devise my hurt.
{41:8} An evil disease, [say they,] cleaveth fast unto him: and [now]
that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
{41:9} Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat
of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.
{41:10} But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I
may requite them.
{41:11} By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth
not triumph over me.
{41:12} And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest
me before thy face for ever.
{41:13} Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to
everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
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Psalm 42
Book II
{42:1} As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul
after thee, O God.
{42:2} My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come
and appear before God?
{42:3} My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually
say unto me, Where [is] thy God?
{42:4} When I remember these [things,] I pour out my soul in me: for I
had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of
God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept
holyday.
{42:5} Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why [art] thou disquieted
in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the
help of his countenance.
{42:6} O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I
remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites,
from the hill Mizar.
{42:7} Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy
waves and thy billows are gone over me.
{42:8} [Yet] the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime,
and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer
unto the God of my life.
{42:9} I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go
I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
{42:10} [As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while
they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?
{42:11} Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is]
the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalm 43
{43:1} Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O
deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
{43:2} For thou [art] the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me
off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
{43:3} O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them
bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
{43:4} Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy:
yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
{43:5} Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the
health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalm 44
{44:1} We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us,
[what] work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
{44:2} [How] thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and
plantedst them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast
them out.
{44:3} For they got not the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and
thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a
favour unto them.
{44:4} Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
{44:5} Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name
will we tread them under that rise up against us.
{44:6} For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
{44:7} But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to
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shame that hated us.
{44:8} In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever.
Selah.
{44:9} But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth
with our armies.
{44:10} Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate
us spoil for themselves.
{44:11} Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast
scattered us among the heathen.
{44:12} Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase [thy
wealth] by their price.
{44:13} Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a
derision to them that are round about us.
{44:14} Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the
head among the people.
{44:15} My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my
face hath covered me,
{44:16} For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by
reason of the enemy and avenger.
{44:17} All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,
neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
{44:18} Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined
from thy way;
{44:19} Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and
covered us with the shadow of death.
{44:20} If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our
hands to a strange god;
{44:21} Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of
the heart.
{44:22} Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are
counted as sheep for the slaughter.
{44:23} Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for
ever.
{44:24} Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction
and our oppression?
{44:25} For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto
the earth.
{44:26} Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.
Psalm 45
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil,
A Song of loves.
Psalm 46
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.
{46:1} God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
{46:2} Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and
though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
{46:3} [Though] the waters thereof roar [and] be troubled, [though] the
mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
{46:4} [There is] a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city
of God, the holy [place] of the tabernacles of the most High.
{46:5} God [is] in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall
help her, [and that] right early.
{46:6} The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his
voice, the earth melted.
{46:7} The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our
refuge. Selah.
{46:8} Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath
made in the earth.
{46:9} He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh
the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot
in the fire.
{46:10} Be still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the
heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
{46:11} The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our
refuge. Selah.
Psalm 47
{47:1} O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice
of triumph.
{47:2} For the LORD most high [is] terrible; [he is] a great King over
all the earth.
{47:3} He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our
feet.
{47:4} He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob
whom he loved. Selah.
{47:5} God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a
trumpet.
{47:6} Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King,
sing praises.
{47:7} For God [is] the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with
understanding.
{47:8} God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of
his holiness.
{47:9} The princes of the people are gathered together, [even] the
people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth
[belong] unto God: he is greatly exalted.
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Psalm 48
{48:1} Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of
our God, [in] the mountain of his holiness.
{48:2} Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, [is] mount
Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
{48:3} God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
{48:4} For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
{48:5} They saw [it, and] so they marvelled; they were troubled, [and]
hasted away.
{48:6} Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman in
travail.
{48:7} Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
{48:8} As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of
hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever.
Selah.
{48:9} We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of
thy temple.
{48:10} According to thy name, O God, so [is] thy praise unto the ends
of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
{48:11} Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad,
because of thy judgments.
{48:12} Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers
thereof.
{48:13} Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may
tell [it] to the generation following.
{48:14} For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be our
guide [even] unto death.
Psalm 49
{49:1} Hear this, all [ye] people; give ear, all [ye] inhabitants of
the world:
{49:2} Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
{49:3} My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart
[shall be] of understanding.
{49:4} I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying
upon the harp.
{49:5} Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, [when] the iniquity
of my heels shall compass me about?
{49:6} They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the
multitude of their riches;
{49:7} None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to
God a ransom for him:
{49:8} (For the redemption of their soul [is] precious, and it ceaseth
for ever:)
{49:9} That he should still live for ever, [and] not see corruption.
{49:10} For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the
brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
{49:11} Their inward thought [is, that] their houses [shall continue]
for ever, [and] their dwelling places to all generations; they
call [their] lands after their own names.
{49:12} Nevertheless man [being] in honour abideth not: he is like the
beasts [that] perish.
{49:13} This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity approve
their sayings. Selah.
{49:14} Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on
them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the
morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their
dwelling.
{49:15} But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he
shall receive me. Selah.
{49:16} Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his
house is increased;
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{49:17} For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall
not descend after him.
{49:18} Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and [men] will
praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
{49:19} He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never
see light.
{49:20} Man [that is] in honour, and understandeth not, is like the
beasts [that] perish.
Psalm 50
A Psalm of Asaph.
{50:1} The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath spoken, and called the
earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
{50:2} Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
{50:3} Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall
devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about
him.
{50:4} He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that
he may judge his people.
{50:5} Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a
covenant with me by sacrifice.
{50:6} And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God [is]
judge himself. Selah.
{50:7} Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will
testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.
{50:8} I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt
offerings, [to have been] continually before me.
{50:9} I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he goats out of
thy folds.
{50:10} For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon
a thousand hills.
{50:11} I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of
the field [are] mine.
{50:12} If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is]
mine, and the fulness thereof.
{50:13} Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
{50:14} Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most
High:
{50:15} And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee,
and thou shalt glorify me.
{50:16} But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare
my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy
mouth?
{50:17} Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind
thee.
{50:18} When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and
hast been partaker with adulterers.
{50:19} Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
{50:20} Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou
slanderest thine own mother’s son.
{50:21} These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou
thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but]
I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
{50:22} Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in
pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.
{50:23} Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth
[his] conversation [aright] will I shew the salvation of God.
Psalm 51
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came
unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
{51:1} Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:
according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my
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transgressions.
{51:2} Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
{51:3} For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before
me.
{51:4} Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in
thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest,
[and] be clear when thou judgest.
{51:5} Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me.
{51:6} Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the
hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
{51:7} Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall
be whiter than snow.
{51:8} Make me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones [which] thou
hast broken may rejoice.
{51:9} Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
{51:10} Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit
within me.
{51:11} Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy
spirit from me.
{51:12} Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with
thy] free spirit.
{51:13} [Then] will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall
be converted unto thee.
{51:14} Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my
salvation: [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
{51:15} O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy
praise.
{51:16} For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give [it:] thou
delightest not in burnt offering.
{51:17} The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and a
contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
{51:18} Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of
Jerusalem.
{51:19} Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of
righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then
shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
Psalm 52
Psalm 53
Psalm 54
Psalm 55
{55:1} Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my
supplication.
{55:2} Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a
noise;
{55:3} Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of
the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they
hate me.
{55:4} My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are
fallen upon me.
{55:5} Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath
overwhelmed me.
{55:6} And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would I
fly away, and be at rest.
{55:7} Lo, [then] would I wander far off, [and] remain in the
wilderness. Selah.
{55:8} I would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and] tempest.
{55:9} Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongues: for I have seen
violence and strife in the city.
{55:10} Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief
also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it.
{55:11} Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart
not from her streets.
{55:12} For [it was] not an enemy [that] reproached me; then I could
have borne [it:] neither [was it] he that hated me [that] did
magnify [himself] against me; then I would have hid myself from
him:
{55:13} But [it was] thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine
acquaintance.
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{55:14} We took sweet counsel together, [and] walked unto the house of
God in company.
{55:15} Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into
hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, [and] among them.
{55:16} As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
{55:17} Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud:
and he shall hear my voice.
{55:18} He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle [that was]
against me: for there were many with me.
{55:19} God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old.
Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
{55:20} He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with
him: he hath broken his covenant.
{55:21} [The words] of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war
[was] in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet [were]
they drawn swords.
{55:22} Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he
shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
{55:23} But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of
destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half
their days; but I will trust in thee.
Psalm 56
{56:1} Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he
fighting daily oppresseth me.
{56:2} Mine enemies would daily swallow [me] up: for [they be] many
that fight against me, O thou most High.
{56:3} What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
{56:4} In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I
will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
{56:5} Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against
me for evil.
{56:6} They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark
my steps, when they wait for my soul.
{56:7} Shall they escape by iniquity? in [thine] anger cast down the
people, O God.
{56:8} Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle:
[are they] not in thy book?
{56:9} When I cry [unto thee,] then shall mine enemies turn back: this
I know; for God [is] for me.
{56:10} In God will I praise [his] word: in the LORD will I praise
[his] word.
{56:11} In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can
do unto me.
{56:12} Thy vows [are] upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
{56:13} For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [wilt] not [thou
deliver] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the
light of the living?
Psalm 57
To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from
Saul in the cave.
{57:1} Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul
trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my
refuge, until [these] calamities be overpast.
{57:2} I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth [all
things] for me.
{57:3} He shall send from heaven, and save [from] the reproach of him
that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy
and his truth.
{57:4} My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are
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set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] spears and
arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
{57:5} Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; [let] thy glory [be]
above all the earth.
{57:6} They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down:
they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are
fallen [themselves.] Selah.
{57:7} My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and
give praise.
{57:8} Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself] will
awake early.
{57:9} I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto
thee among the nations.
{57:10} For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the
clouds.
{57:11} Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: [let] thy glory [be]
above all the earth.
Psalm 58
Psalm 59
{59:1} Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that
rise up against me.
{59:2} Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody
men.
{59:3} For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered
against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.
{59:4} They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to
help me, and behold.
{59:5} Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to
visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked
transgressors. Selah.
{59:6} They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go
round about the city.
{59:7} Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their
lips: for who, [say they,] doth hear?
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{59:8} But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the
heathen in derision.
{59:9} [Because of] his strength will I wait upon thee: for God [is] my
defence.
{59:10} The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see [my
desire] upon mine enemies.
{59:11} Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy
power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
{59:12} [For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let
them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying
[which] they speak.
{59:13} Consume [them] in wrath, consume [them,] that they [may] not
[be:] and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of
the earth. Selah.
{59:14} And at evening let them return; [and] let them make a noise
like a dog, and go round about the city.
{59:15} Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not
satisfied.
{59:16} But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy
mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in
the day of my trouble.
{59:17} Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God [is] my defence,
[and] the God of my mercy.
Psalm 60
{60:1} O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast
been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
{60:2} Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal
the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
{60:3} Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to
drink the wine of astonishment.
{60:4} Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be
displayed because of the truth. Selah.
{60:5} That thy beloved may be delivered; save [with] thy right hand,
and hear me.
{60:6} God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide
Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
{60:7} Gilead [is] mine, and Manasseh [is] mine; Ephraim also [is] the
strength of mine head; Judah [is] my lawgiver;
{60:8} Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe:
Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
{60:9} Who will bring me [into] the strong city? who will lead me into
Edom?
{60:10} [Wilt] not thou, O God, [which] hadst cast us off? and [thou,]
O God, [which] didst not go out with our armies?
{60:11} Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man.
{60:12} Through God we shall do valiantly: for he [it is that] shall
tread down our enemies.
Psalm 61
Psalm 62
Psalm 63
{63:1} O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul
thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
thirsty land, where no water is;
{63:2} To see thy power and thy glory, so [as] I have seen thee in the
sanctuary.
{63:3} Because thy lovingkindness [is] better than life, my lips shall
praise thee.
{63:4} Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in
thy name.
{63:5} My soul shall be satisfied as [with] marrow and fatness; and my
mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips:
{63:6} When I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the
[night] watches.
{63:7} Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy
wings will I rejoice.
{63:8} My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
{63:9} But those [that] seek my soul, to destroy [it,] shall go into
the lower parts of the earth.
{63:10} They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
{63:11} But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by
him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be
stopped.
Psalm 64
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To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
Psalm 65
{65:1} Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the
vow be performed.
{65:2} O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
{65:3} Iniquities prevail against me: [as for] our transgressions, thou
shalt purge them away.
{65:4} Blessed [is the man whom] thou choosest, and causest to approach
[unto thee, that] he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be
satisfied with the goodness of thy house, [even] of thy holy
temple.
{65:5} By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God
of our salvation; [who art] the confidence of all the ends of the
earth, and of them that are afar off [upon] the sea:
{65:6} Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; [being] girded
with power:
{65:7} Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves,
and the tumult of the people.
{65:8} They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy
tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to
rejoice.
{65:9} Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest
it with the river of God, [which] is full of water: thou
preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
{65:10} Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the
furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest
the springing thereof.
{65:11} Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop
fatness.
{65:12} They drop [upon] the pastures of the wilderness: and the little
hills rejoice on every side.
{65:13} The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are
covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Psalm 66
Psalm 67
{67:1} God be merciful unto us, and bless us; [and] cause his face to
shine upon us; Selah.
{67:2} That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among
all nations.
{67:3} Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise
thee.
{67:4} O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge
the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
{67:5} Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise
thee.
{67:6} [Then] shall the earth yield her increase; [and] God, [even] our
own God, shall bless us.
{67:7} God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
Psalm 68
{68:1} Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that
hate him flee before him.
{68:2} As smoke is driven away, [so] drive [them] away: as wax melteth
before the fire, [so] let the wicked perish at the presence of
God.
{68:3} But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea,
let them exceedingly rejoice.
{68:4} Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth
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upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
{68:5} A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God
in his holy habitation.
{68:6} God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those
which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry
[land.
]{68:7} O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou
didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
{68:8} The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of
God: [even] Sinai itself [was moved] at the presence of God, the
God of Israel.
{68:9} Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst
confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
{68:10} Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared
of thy goodness for the poor.
{68:11} The Lord gave the word: great [was] the company of those that
published [it.
]{68:12} Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home
divided the spoil.
{68:13} Though ye have lien among the pots, [yet shall ye be as] the
wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow
gold.
{68:14} When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was [white] as snow
in Salmon.
{68:15} The hill of God [is as] the hill of Bashan; an high hill [as]
the hill of Bashan.
{68:16} Why leap ye, ye high hills? [this is] the hill [which] God
desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell [in it] for ever.
{68:17} The chariots of God [are] twenty thousand, [even] thousands of
angels: the Lord [is] among them, [as in] Sinai, in the holy
[place.
]{68:18} Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive:
thou hast received gifts for men; yea, [for] the rebellious also,
that the LORD God might dwell [among them.
]{68:19} Blessed [be] the Lord, [who] daily loadeth us [with benefits,
even] the God of our salvation. Selah.
{68:20} [He that is] our God [is] the God of salvation; and unto God
the Lord [belong] the issues from death.
{68:21} But God shall wound the head of his enemies, [and] the hairy
scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
{68:22} The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring [my
people] again from the depths of the sea:
{68:23} That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of [thine] enemies,
[and] the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
{68:24} They have seen thy goings, O God; [even] the goings of my God,
my King, in the sanctuary.
{68:25} The singers went before, the players on instruments [followed]
after; among [them were] the damsels playing with timbrels.
{68:26} Bless ye God in the congregations, [even] the Lord, from the
fountain of Israel.
{68:27} There [is] little Benjamin [with] their ruler, the princes of
Judah [and] their council, the princes of Zebulun, [and] the
princes of Naphtali.
{68:28} Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that
which thou hast wrought for us.
{68:29} Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents
unto thee.
{68:30} Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls,
with the calves of the people, [till every one] submit himself
with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people [that] delight in
war.
{68:31} Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch
out her hands unto God.
{68:32} Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto
the Lord; Selah:
{68:33} To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, [which were] of
old; lo, he doth send out his voice, [and that] a mighty voice.
{68:34} Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency [is] over Israel,
and his strength [is] in the clouds.
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{68:35} O God, [thou art] terrible out of thy holy places: the God of
Israel [is] he that giveth strength and power unto [his] people.
Blessed [be] God.
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Psalm 70
{70:1} [Make haste,] O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O
LORD.
{70:2} Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let
them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my
hurt.
{70:3} Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say,
Aha, aha.
{70:4} Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and
let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be
magnified.
{70:5} But I [am] poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou [art]
my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
Psalm 71
Psalm 72
{72:1} Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto
the king’s son.
{72:2} He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with
judgment.
{72:3} The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little
hills, by righteousness.
{72:4} He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the
children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
{72:5} They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure,
throughout all generations.
{72:6} He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers
[that] water the earth.
{72:7} In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace
so long as the moon endureth.
{72:8} He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river
unto the ends of the earth.
{72:9} They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his
enemies shall lick the dust.
{72:10} The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents:
the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
{72:11} Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall
serve him.
{72:12} For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also,
and [him] that hath no helper.
{72:13} He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of
the needy.
{72:14} He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and
precious shall their blood be in his sight.
{72:15} And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of
Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; [and] daily
shall he be praised.
{72:16} There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of
the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and
[they] of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
{72:17} His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as
long as the sun: and [men] shall be blessed in him: all nations
shall call him blessed.
{72:18} Blessed [be] the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth
wondrous things.
{72:19} And blessed [be] his glorious name for ever: and let the whole
earth be filled [with] his glory; Amen, and Amen.
{72:20} The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
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Psalm 73
Book III
A Psalm of Asaph.
{73:1} Truly God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean
heart.
{73:2} But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh
slipped.
{73:3} For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of
the wicked.
{73:4} For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is]
firm.
{73:5} They [are] not in trouble [as other] men; neither are they
plagued like [other] men.
{73:6} Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence
covereth them [as] a garment.
{73:7} Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart
could wish.
{73:8} They are corrupt, and speak wickedly [concerning] oppression:
they speak loftily.
{73:9} They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue
walketh through the earth.
{73:10} Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full [cup]
are wrung out to them.
{73:11} And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the
most High?
{73:12} Behold, these [are] the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they
increase [in] riches.
{73:13} Verily I have cleansed my heart [in] vain, and washed my hands
in innocency.
{73:14} For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every
morning.
{73:15} If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend [against]
the generation of thy children.
{73:16} When I thought to know this, it [was] too painful for me;
{73:17} Until I went into the sanctuary of God; [then] understood I
their end.
{73:18} Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst
them down into destruction.
{73:19} How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they
are utterly consumed with terrors.
{73:20} As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so,] O Lord, when thou awakest,
thou shalt despise their image.
{73:21} Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
{73:22} So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before
thee.
{73:23} Nevertheless I [am] continually with thee: thou hast holden
[me] by my right hand.
{73:24} Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me
[to] glory.
{73:25} Whom have I in heaven [but thee?] and [there is] none upon
earth [that] I desire beside thee.
{73:26} My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of
my heart, and my portion for ever.
{73:27} For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast
destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
{73:28} But [it is] good for me to draw near to God: I have put my
trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
Psalm 74
Maschil of Asaph.
{74:1} O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? [why] doth thine
anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
{74:2} Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old;
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the rod of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this
mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
{74:3} Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; [even] all
[that] the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
{74:4} Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set
up their ensigns [for] signs.
{74:5} [A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the
thick trees.
{74:6} But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with
axes and hammers.
{74:7} They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled [by
casting down] the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
{74:8} They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they
have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
{74:9} We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither
[is there] among us any that knoweth how long.
{74:10} O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy
blaspheme thy name for ever?
{74:11} Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck [it]
out of thy bosom.
{74:12} For God [is] my King of old, working salvation in the midst of
the earth.
{74:13} Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the
heads of the dragons in the waters.
{74:14} Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him
[to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
{74:15} Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up
mighty rivers.
{74:16} The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast
prepared the light and the sun.
{74:17} Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made
summer and winter.
{74:18} Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and
[that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
{74:19} O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude [of
the wicked:] forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
{74:20} Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the
earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
{74:21} O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy
praise thy name.
{74:22} Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish
man reproacheth thee daily.
{74:23} Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that
rise up against thee increaseth continually.
Psalm 75
Psalm 76
Psalm 77
Psalm 78
Maschil of Asaph.
{78:1} Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the
words of my mouth.
{78:2} I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of
old:
{78:3} Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
{78:4} We will not hide [them] from their children, shewing to the
generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and
his wonderful works that he hath done.
{78:5} For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in
Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make
them known to their children:
{78:6} That the generation to come might know [them, even] the children
[which] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to
their children:
{78:7} That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works
of God, but keep his commandments:
{78:8} And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious
generation; a generation [that] set not their heart aright, and
whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
{78:9} The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows,
turned back in the day of battle.
{78:10} They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his
law;
{78:11} And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
{78:12} Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the
land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan.
{78:13} He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he
made the waters to stand as an heap.
{78:14} In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night
with a light of fire.
{78:15} He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as
[out of] the great depths.
{78:16} He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to
run down like rivers.
{78:17} And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High
in the wilderness.
{78:18} And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their
lust.
{78:19} Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table
in the wilderness?
{78:20} Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the
streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh
for his people?
{78:21} Therefore the LORD heard [this,] and was wroth: so a fire was
kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
{78:22} Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his
salvation:
{78:23} Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the
doors of heaven,
{78:24} And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them
of the corn of heaven.
{78:25} Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.
{78:26} He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power
he brought in the south wind.
{78:27} He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls
like as the sand of the sea:
{78:28} And he let [it] fall in the midst of their camp, round about
their habitations.
{78:29} So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their
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own desire;
{78:30} They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat
[was] yet in their mouths,
{78:31} The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them,
and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel.
{78:32} For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his
wondrous works.
{78:33} Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years
in trouble.
{78:34} When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and
enquired early after God.
{78:35} And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and the high God
their redeemer.
{78:36} Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they
lied unto him with their tongues.
{78:37} For their heart was not right with him, neither were they
stedfast in his covenant.
{78:38} But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity,
and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger
away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
{78:39} For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that
passeth away, and cometh not again.
{78:40} How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve
him in the desert!
{78:41} Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One
of Israel.
{78:42} They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered
them from the enemy.
{78:43} How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the
field of Zoan:
{78:44} And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that
they could not drink.
{78:45} He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them;
and frogs, which destroyed them.
{78:46} He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their
labour unto the locust.
{78:47} He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees
with frost.
{78:48} He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to
hot thunderbolts.
{78:49} He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and
indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels [among them.
]{78:50} He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from
death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
{78:51} And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of [their]
strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
{78:52} But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them
in the wilderness like a flock.
{78:53} And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea
overwhelmed their enemies.
{78:54} And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, [even to]
this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased.
{78:55} He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an
inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in
their tents.
{78:56} Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not
his testimonies:
{78:57} But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers:
they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
{78:58} For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and
moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
{78:59} When God heard [this,] he was wroth, and greatly abhorred
Israel:
{78:60} So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which]
he placed among men;
{78:61} And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into
the enemy’s hand.
{78:62} He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with
his inheritance.
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{78:63} The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not
given to marriage.
{78:64} Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no
lamentation.
{78:65} Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty
man that shouteth by reason of wine.
{78:66} And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a
perpetual reproach.
{78:67} Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the
tribe of Ephraim:
{78:68} But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
{78:69} And he built his sanctuary like high [palaces,] like the earth
which he hath established for ever.
{78:70} He chose David also his servant, and took him from the
sheepfolds:
{78:71} From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed
Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
{78:72} So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and
guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Psalm 79
A Psalm of Asaph.
{79:1} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy
temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
{79:2} The dead bodies of thy servants have they given [to be] meat
unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the
beasts of the earth.
{79:3} Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and
[there was] none to bury [them.
]{79:4} We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and
derision to them that are round about us.
{79:5} How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy
burn like fire?
{79:6} Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee,
and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
{79:7} For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
{79:8} O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender
mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
{79:9} Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and
deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.
{79:10} Wherefore should the heathen say, Where [is] their God? let him
be known among the heathen in our sight [by] the revenging of the
blood of thy servants [which is] shed.
{79:11} Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to
the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed
to die;
{79:12} And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their
reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
{79:13} So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks
for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
Psalm 80
{80:1} Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a
flock; thou that dwellest [between] the cherubims, shine forth.
{80:2} Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength,
and come [and] save us.
{80:3} Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall
be saved.
{80:4} O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the
prayer of thy people?
{80:5} Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears
to drink in great measure.
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{80:6} Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies
laugh among themselves.
{80:7} Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and
we shall be saved.
{80:8} Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the
heathen, and planted it.
{80:9} Thou preparedst [room] before it, and didst cause it to take
deep root, and it filled the land.
{80:10} The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs
thereof [were like] the goodly cedars.
{80:11} She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the
river.
{80:12} Why hast thou [then] broken down her hedges, so that all they
which pass by the way do pluck her?
{80:13} The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of
the field doth devour it.
{80:14} Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven,
and behold, and visit this vine;
{80:15} And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the
branch [that] thou madest strong for thyself.
{80:16} [It is] burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the
rebuke of thy countenance.
{80:17} Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of
man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself.
{80:18} So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call
upon thy name.
{80:19} Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine;
and we shall be saved.
Psalm 81
A Psalm of Asaph.
Psalm 83
{83:1} Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not
still, O God.
{83:2} For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee
have lifted up the head.
{83:3} They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted
against thy hidden ones.
{83:4} They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from [being] a
nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
{83:5} For they have consulted together with one consent: they are
confederate against thee:
{83:6} The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the
Hagarenes;
{83:7} Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the
inhabitants of Tyre;
{83:8} Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of
Lot. Selah.
{83:9} Do unto them as [unto] the Midianites; as [to] Sisera, as [to]
Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
{83:10} [Which] perished at Endor: they became [as] dung for the earth.
{83:11} Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their
princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
{83:12} Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in
possession.
{83:13} O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the
wind.
{83:14} As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the
mountains on fire;
{83:15} So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with
thy storm.
{83:16} Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O
LORD.
{83:17} Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be
put to shame, and perish:
{83:18} That [men] may know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH,
[art] the most high over all the earth.
Psalm 84
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
{84:1} How amiable [are] thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
{84:2} My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD:
my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
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{84:3} Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for
herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine altars, O LORD
of hosts, my King, and my God.
{84:4} Blessed [are] they that dwell in thy house: they will be still
praising thee. Selah.
{84:5} Blessed [is] the man whose strength [is] in thee; in whose heart
[are] the ways [of them.
]{84:6} [Who] passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the
rain also filleth the pools.
{84:7} They go from strength to strength, [every one of them] in Zion
appeareth before God.
{84:8} O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.
Selah.
{84:9} Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine
anointed.
{84:10} For a day in thy courts [is] better than a thousand. I had
rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in
the tents of wickedness.
{84:11} For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give
grace and glory: no good [thing] will he withhold from them that
walk uprightly.
{84:12} O LORD of hosts, blessed [is] the man that trusteth in thee.
Psalm 85
{85:1} LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought
back the captivity of Jacob.
{85:2} Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered
all their sin. Selah.
{85:3} Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned [thyself]
from the fierceness of thine anger.
{85:4} Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us
to cease.
{85:5} Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine
anger to all generations?
{85:6} Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in
thee?
{85:7} Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
{85:8} I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak
peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn
again to folly.
{85:9} Surely his salvation [is] nigh them that fear him; that glory
may dwell in our land.
{85:10} Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have
kissed [each other.
]{85:11} Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall
look down from heaven.
{85:12} Yea, the LORD shall give [that which is] good; and our land
shall yield her increase.
{85:13} Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set [us] in the
way of his steps.
Psalm 86
A Prayer of David.
{86:1} Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I [am] poor and needy.
{86:2} Preserve my soul; for I [am] holy: O thou my God, save thy
servant that trusteth in thee.
{86:3} Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
{86:4} Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I
lift up my soul.
{86:5} For thou, Lord, [art] good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous
in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
{86:6} Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my
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supplications.
{86:7} In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt
answer me.
{86:8} Among the gods [there is] none like unto thee, O Lord; neither
[are there any works] like unto thy works.
{86:9} All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before
thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
{86:10} For thou [art] great, and doest wondrous things: thou [art] God
alone.
{86:11} Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my
heart to fear thy name.
{86:12} I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I
will glorify thy name for evermore.
{86:13} For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my
soul from the lowest hell.
{86:14} O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of
violent [men] have sought after my soul; and have not set thee
before them.
{86:15} But thou, O Lord, [art] a God full of compassion, and gracious,
longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
{86:16} O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto
thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
{86:17} Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see [it,]
and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted
me.
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Psalm 88
A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon
Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.
{88:1} O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day [and] night before
thee:
{88:2} Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
{88:3} For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto
the grave.
{88:4} I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man
[that hath] no strength:
{88:5} Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom
thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
{88:6} Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
{88:7} Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with
all thy waves. Selah.
{88:8} Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made
me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come
forth.
{88:9} Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called
daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
{88:10} Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and]
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praise thee? Selah.
{88:11} Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy
faithfulness in destruction?
{88:12} Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness
in the land of forgetfulness?
{88:13} But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my
prayer prevent thee.
{88:14} LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face
from me?
{88:15} I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I
suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
{88:16} Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
{88:17} They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me
about together.
{88:18} Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] mine
acquaintance into darkness.
Psalm 89
{89:1} I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth
will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
{89:2} For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy
faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
{89:3} I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David
my servant,
{89:4} Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to
all generations. Selah.
{89:5} And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy
faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
{89:6} For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? [who] among
the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
{89:7} God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and
to be had in reverence of all [them that are] about him.
{89:8} O LORD God of hosts, who [is] a strong LORD like unto thee? or
to thy faithfulness round about thee?
{89:9} Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise,
thou stillest them.
{89:10} Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou
hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
{89:11} The heavens [are] thine, the earth also [is] thine: [as for]
the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
{89:12} The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and
Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
{89:13} Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, [and] high is thy
right hand.
{89:14} Justice and judgment [are] the habitation of thy throne: mercy
and truth shall go before thy face.
{89:15} Blessed [is] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall
walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
{89:16} In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy
righteousness shall they be exalted.
{89:17} For thou [art] the glory of their strength: and in thy favour
our horn shall be exalted.
{89:18} For the LORD [is] our defence; and the Holy One of Israel [is]
our king.
{89:19} Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have
laid help upon [one that is] mighty; I have exalted [one] chosen
out of the people.
{89:20} I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed
him:
{89:21} With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall
strengthen him.
{89:22} The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness
afflict him.
{89:23} And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them
that hate him.
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{89:24} But my faithfulness and my mercy [shall be] with him: and in my
name shall his horn be exalted.
{89:25} I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the
rivers.
{89:26} He shall cry unto me, Thou [art] my father, my God, and the
rock of my salvation.
{89:27} Also I will make him [my] firstborn, higher than the kings of
the earth.
{89:28} My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant
shall stand fast with him.
{89:29} His seed also will I make [to endure] for ever, and his throne
as the days of heaven.
{89:30} If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
{89:31} If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
{89:32} Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their
iniquity with stripes.
{89:33} Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from
him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
{89:34} My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone
out of my lips.
{89:35} Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
{89:36} His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun
before me.
{89:37} It shall be established for ever as the moon, and [as] a
faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
{89:38} But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with
thine anointed.
{89:39} Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast
profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.
{89:40} Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his
strong holds to ruin.
{89:41} All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his
neighbours.
{89:42} Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast
made all his enemies to rejoice.
{89:43} Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made
him to stand in the battle.
{89:44} Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to
the ground.
{89:45} The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered
him with shame. Selah.
{89:46} How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy
wrath burn like fire?
{89:47} Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men
in vain?
{89:48} What man [is he that] liveth, and shall not see death? shall he
deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
{89:49} Lord, where [are] thy former lovingkindnesses, [which] thou
swarest unto David in thy truth?
{89:50} Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; [how] I do bear
in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty people;
{89:51} Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they
have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
{89:52} Blessed [be] the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
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Book IV
Psalm 91
{91:1} He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall
abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
{91:2} I will say of the LORD, [He is] my refuge and my fortress: my
God; in him will I trust.
{91:3} Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, [and]
from the noisome pestilence.
{91:4} He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt
thou trust: his truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler.
{91:5} Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; [nor] for the
arrow [that] flieth by day;
{91:6} [Nor] for the pestilence [that] walketh in darkness; [nor] for
the destruction [that] wasteth at noonday.
{91:7} A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right
hand; [but] it shall not come nigh thee.
{91:8} Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the
wicked.
{91:9} Because thou hast made the LORD, [which is] my refuge, [even]
the most High, thy habitation;
{91:10} There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come
nigh thy dwelling.
{91:11} For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in
all thy ways.
{91:12} They shall bear thee up in [their] hands, lest thou dash thy
foot against a stone.
{91:13} Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and
the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
{91:14} Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver
him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
{91:15} He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with
him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
{91:16} With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Psalm 92
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A Psalm [or] Song for the sabbath day.
{92:1} [It is a] good [thing] to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing
praises unto thy name, O most High:
{92:2} To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy
faithfulness every night,
{92:3} Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon
the harp with a solemn sound.
{92:4} For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will
triumph in the works of thy hands.
{92:5} O LORD, how great are thy works! [and] thy thoughts are very
deep.
{92:6} A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
{92:7} When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of
iniquity do flourish; [it is] that they shall be destroyed for
ever:
{92:8} But thou, LORD, [art most] high for evermore.
{92:9} For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall
perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
{92:10} But my horn shalt thou exalt like [the horn of] an unicorn: I
shall be anointed with fresh oil.
{92:11} Mine eye also shall see [my desire] on mine enemies, [and] mine
ears shall hear [my desire] of the wicked that rise up against me.
{92:12} The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow
like a cedar in Lebanon.
{92:13} Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish
in the courts of our God.
{92:14} They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be
fat and flourishing;
{92:15} To shew that the LORD [is] upright: [he is] my rock, and [there
is] no unrighteousness in him.
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Psalm 94
Psalm 95
{95:1} O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to
the rock of our salvation.
{95:2} Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a
joyful noise unto him with psalms.
{95:3} For the LORD [is] a great God, and a great King above all gods.
{95:4} In his hand [are] the deep places of the earth: the strength of
the hills [is] his also.
{95:5} The sea [is] his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry
[land.
]{95:6} O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the
LORD our maker.
{95:7} For he [is] our God; and we [are] the people of his pasture, and
the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
{95:8} Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and as in] the
day of temptation in the wilderness:
{95:9} When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
{95:10} Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and
said, It [is] a people that do err in their heart, and they have
not known my ways:
{95:11} Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into
my rest.
Psalm 96
{96:1} O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the
earth.
{96:2} Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation
from day to day.
{96:3} Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all
people.
{96:4} For the LORD [is] great, and greatly to be praised: he [is] to
be feared above all gods.
{96:5} For all the gods of the nations [are] idols: but the LORD made
the heavens.
{96:6} Honour and majesty [are] before him: strength and beauty [are]
in his sanctuary.
{96:7} Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the
LORD glory and strength.
{96:8} Give unto the LORD the glory [due unto] his name: bring an
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offering, and come into his courts.
{96:9} O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him,
all the earth.
{96:10} Say among the heathen [that] the LORD reigneth: the world also
shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge
the people righteously.
{96:11} Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea
roar, and the fulness thereof.
{96:12} Let the field be joyful, and all that [is] therein: then shall
all the trees of the wood rejoice
{96:13} Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the
earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the
people with his truth.
Psalm 97
{97:1} The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of
isles be glad [thereof.
]{97:2} Clouds and darkness [are] round about him: righteousness and
judgment [are] the habitation of his throne.
{97:3} A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
{97:4} His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and
trembled.
{97:5} The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the
presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
{97:6} The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see
his glory.
{97:7} Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast
themselves of idols: worship him, all [ye] gods.
{97:8} Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced
because of thy judgments, O LORD.
{97:9} For thou, LORD, [art] high above all the earth: thou art exalted
far above all gods.
{97:10} Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of
his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
{97:11} Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright
in heart.
{97:12} Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the
remembrance of his holiness.
Psalm 98
A Psalm.
{98:1} O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous
things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the
victory.
{98:2} The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath
he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
{98:3} He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of
Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our
God.
{98:4} Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud
noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
{98:5} Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice
of a psalm.
{98:6} With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the
LORD, the King.
{98:7} Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they
that dwell therein.
{98:8} Let the floods clap [their] hands: let the hills be joyful
together
{98:9} Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with
righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with
equity.
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Psalm 99
{99:1} The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth [between]
the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
{99:2} The LORD [is] great in Zion; and he [is] high above all the
people.
{99:3} Let them praise thy great and terrible name; [for] it [is] holy.
{99:4} The king’s strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish
equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
{99:5} Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; [for]
he [is] holy.
{99:6} Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that
call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered
them.
{99:7} He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his
testimonies, and the ordinance [that] he gave them.
{99:8} Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that
forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
{99:9} Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the
LORD our God [is] holy.
Psalm 100
A Psalm of praise.
{100:1} Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
{100:2} Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with
singing.
{100:3} Know ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath made
us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of
his pasture.
{100:4} Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, [and] into his courts
with praise: be thankful unto him, [and] bless his name.
{100:5} For the LORD [is] good; his mercy [is] everlasting; and his
truth [endureth] to all generations.
Psalm 101
A Psalm of David.
{101:1} I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I
sing.
{101:2} I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou
come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
{101:3} I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of
them that turn aside; [it] shall not cleave to me.
{101:4} A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked
[person.
]{101:5} Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off:
him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
{101:6} Mine eyes [shall be] upon the faithful of the land, that they
may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall
serve me.
{101:7} He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that
telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
{101:8} I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut
off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
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Psalm 103
A [Psalm] of David.
{103:1} Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, [bless]
his holy name.
{103:2} Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
{103:3} Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy
diseases;
{103:4} Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with
lovingkindness and tender mercies;
{103:5} Who satisfieth thy mouth with good [things; so that] thy youth
is renewed like the eagle’s.
{103:6} The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are
oppressed.
{103:7} He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children
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of Israel.
{103:8} The LORD [is] merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and
plenteous in mercy.
{103:9} He will not always chide: neither will he keep [his anger] for
ever.
{103:10} He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us
according to our iniquities.
{103:11} For as the heaven is high above the earth, [so] great is his
mercy toward them that fear him.
{103:12} As far as the east is from the west, [so] far hath he removed
our transgressions from us.
{103:13} Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth
them that fear him.
{103:14} For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.
{103:15} [As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the
field, so he flourisheth.
{103:16} For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place
thereof shall know it no more.
{103:17} But the mercy of the LORD [is] from everlasting to everlasting
upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s
children;
{103:18} To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his
commandments to do them.
{103:19} The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his
kingdom ruleth over all.
{103:20} Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do
his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
{103:21} Bless ye the LORD, all [ye] his hosts; [ye] ministers of his,
that do his pleasure.
{103:22} Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion:
bless the LORD, O my soul.
Psalm 104
{104:1} Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great;
thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
{104:2} Who coverest [thyself] with light as [with] a garment: who
stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
{104:3} Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh
the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
{104:4} Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
{104:5} [Who] laid the foundations of the earth, [that] it should not
be removed for ever.
{104:6} Thou coveredst it with the deep as [with] a garment: the waters
stood above the mountains.
{104:7} At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they
hasted away.
{104:8} They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto
the place which thou hast founded for them.
{104:9} Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they
turn not again to cover the earth.
{104:10} He sendeth the springs into the valleys, [which] run among the
hills.
{104:11} They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses
quench their thirst.
{104:12} By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation,
[which] sing among the branches.
{104:13} He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is
satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
{104:14} He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the
service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
{104:15} And wine [that] maketh glad the heart of man, [and] oil to
make [his] face to shine, and bread [which] strengtheneth man’s
heart.
{104:16} The trees of the LORD are full [of sap;] the cedars of
Lebanon, which he hath planted;
{104:17} Where the birds make their nests: [as for] the stork, the fir
trees [are] her house.
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{104:18} The high hills [are] a refuge for the wild goats; [and] the
rocks for the conies.
{104:19} He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going
down.
{104:20} Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts
of the forest do creep [forth.
]{104:21} The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat
from God.
{104:22} The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them
down in their dens.
{104:23} Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the
evening.
{104:24} O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made
them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
{104:25} [So is] this great and wide sea, wherein [are] things creeping
innumerable, both small and great beasts.
{104:26} There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [whom] thou
hast made to play therein.
{104:27} These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their
meat in due season.
{104:28} [That] thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand,
they are filled with good.
{104:29} Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away
their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
{104:30} Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou
renewest the face of the earth.
{104:31} The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall
rejoice in his works.
{104:32} He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the
hills, and they smoke.
{104:33} I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing
praise to my God while I have my being.
{104:34} My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the
LORD.
{104:35} Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the
wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the
LORD.
Psalm 105
{105:1} O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his
deeds among the people.
{105:2} Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his
wondrous works.
{105:3} Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that
seek the LORD.
{105:4} Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
{105:5} Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders,
and the judgments of his mouth;
{105:6} O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his
chosen.
{105:7} He [is] the LORD our God: his judgments [are] in all the earth.
{105:8} He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word [which] he
commanded to a thousand generations.
{105:9} Which [covenant] he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
{105:10} And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, [and] to Israel
[for] an everlasting covenant:
{105:11} Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of
your inheritance:
{105:12} When they were [but] a few men in number; yea, very few, and
strangers in it.
{105:13} When they went from one nation to another, from [one] kingdom
to another people;
{105:14} He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings
for their sakes;
{105:15} [Saying,] Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
{105:16} Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the
whole staff of bread.
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{105:17} He sent a man before them, [even] Joseph, [who] was sold for a
servant:
{105:18} Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
{105:19} Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried
him.
{105:20} The king sent and loosed him; [even] the ruler of the people,
and let him go free.
{105:21} He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
{105:22} To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators
wisdom.
{105:23} Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land
of Ham.
{105:24} And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger
than their enemies.
{105:25} He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly
with his servants.
{105:26} He sent Moses his servant; [and] Aaron whom he had chosen.
{105:27} They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of
Ham.
{105:28} He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not
against his word.
{105:29} He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
{105:30} Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers
of their kings.
{105:31} He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, [and] lice in
all their coasts.
{105:32} He gave them hail for rain, [and] flaming fire in their land.
{105:33} He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the
trees of their coasts.
{105:34} He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that
without number,
{105:35} And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the
fruit of their ground.
{105:36} He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of
all their strength.
{105:37} He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and [there
was] not one feeble [person] among their tribes.
{105:38} Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell
upon them.
{105:39} He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in
the night.
{105:40} [The people] asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them
with the bread of heaven.
{105:41} He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the
dry places [like] a river.
{105:42} For he remembered his holy promise, [and] Abraham his servant.
{105:43} And he brought forth his people with joy, [and] his chosen
with gladness:
{105:44} And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the
labour of the people;
{105:45} That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws.
Praise ye the LORD.
Psalm 106
{106:1} Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is]
good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
{106:2} Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? [who] can shew forth
all his praise?
{106:3} Blessed [are] they that keep judgment, [and] he that doeth
righteousness at all times.
{106:4} Remember me, O LORD, with the favour [that thou bearest unto]
thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
{106:5} That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in
the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine
inheritance.
{106:6} We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we
have done wickedly.
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{106:7} Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they
remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked [him]
at the sea, [even] at the Red sea.
{106:8} Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might
make his mighty power to be known.
{106:9} He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led
them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
{106:10} And he saved them from the hand of him that hated [them,] and
redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
{106:11} And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of
them left.
{106:12} Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
{106:13} They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
{106:14} But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in
the desert.
{106:15} And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their
soul.
{106:16} They envied Moses also in the camp, [and] Aaron the saint of
the LORD.
{106:17} The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the
company of Abiram.
{106:18} And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up
the wicked.
{106:19} They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
{106:20} Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox
that eateth grass.
{106:21} They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in
Egypt;
{106:22} Wondrous works in the land of Ham, [and] terrible things by
the Red sea.
{106:23} Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses
his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his
wrath, lest he should destroy [them.
]{106:24} Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his
word:
{106:25} But murmured in their tents, [and] hearkened not unto the
voice of the LORD.
{106:26} Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow
them in the wilderness:
{106:27} To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter
them in the lands.
{106:28} They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the
sacrifices of the dead.
{106:29} Thus they provoked [him] to anger with their inventions: and
the plague brake in upon them.
{106:30} Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and [so] the
plague was stayed.
{106:31} And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all
generations for evermore.
{106:32} They angered [him] also at the waters of strife, so that it
went ill with Moses for their sakes:
{106:33} Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly
with his lips.
{106:34} They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD
commanded them:
{106:35} But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
{106:36} And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
{106:37} Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto
devils,
{106:38} And shed innocent blood, [even] the blood of their sons and of
their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan:
and the land was polluted with blood.
{106:39} Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a
whoring with their own inventions.
{106:40} Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his
people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
{106:41} And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that
hated them ruled over them.
{106:42} Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into
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subjection under their hand.
{106:43} Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked [him] with
their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
{106:44} Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their
cry:
{106:45} And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented
according to the multitude of his mercies.
{106:46} He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them
captives.
{106:47} Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen,
to give thanks unto thy holy name, [and] to triumph in thy praise.
{106:48} Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to
everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalm 107
Book V
{107:1} O give thanks unto the LORD, for [he is] good: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever.
{107:2} Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from
the hand of the enemy;
{107:3} And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the
west, from the north, and from the south.
{107:4} They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found
no city to dwell in.
{107:5} Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
{107:6} Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he
delivered them out of their distresses.
{107:7} And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a
city of habitation.
{107:8} Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and
[for] his wonderful works to the children of men!
{107:9} For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul
with goodness.
{107:10} Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being]
bound in affliction and iron;
{107:11} Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned
the counsel of the most High:
{107:12} Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell
down, and [there was] none to help.
{107:13} Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he saved
them out of their distresses.
{107:14} He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and
brake their bands in sunder.
{107:15} Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and
[for] his wonderful works to the children of men!
{107:16} For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of
iron in sunder.
{107:17} Fools because of their transgression, and because of their
iniquities, are afflicted.
{107:18} Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near
unto the gates of death.
{107:19} Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he saveth
them out of their distresses.
{107:20} He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered [them] from
their destructions.
{107:21} Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and
[for] his wonderful works to the children of men!
{107:22} And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and
declare his works with rejoicing.
{107:23} They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in
great waters;
{107:24} These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
{107:25} For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth
up the waves thereof.
{107:26} They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths:
their soul is melted because of trouble.
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{107:27} They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are
at their wit’s end.
{107:28} Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth
them out of their distresses.
{107:29} He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are
still.
{107:30} Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them
unto their desired haven.
{107:31} Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and
[for] his wonderful works to the children of men!
{107:32} Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and
praise him in the assembly of the elders.
{107:33} He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into
dry ground;
{107:34} A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them
that dwell therein.
{107:35} He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry
ground into watersprings.
{107:36} And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare
a city for habitation;
{107:37} And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield
fruits of increase.
{107:38} He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly;
and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
{107:39} Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression,
affliction, and sorrow.
{107:40} He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander
in the wilderness, [where there is] no way.
{107:41} Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh
[him] families like a flock.
{107:42} The righteous shall see [it,] and rejoice: and all iniquity
shall stop her mouth.
{107:43} Whoso [is] wise, and will observe these [things,] even they
shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
Psalm 108
{108:1} O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even
with my glory.
{108:2} Awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself] will awake early.
{108:3} I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing
praises unto thee among the nations.
{108:4} For thy mercy [is] great above the heavens: and thy truth
[reacheth] unto the clouds.
{108:5} Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above
all the earth;
{108:6} That thy beloved may be delivered: save [with] thy right hand,
and answer me.
{108:7} God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide
Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
{108:8} Gilead [is] mine; Manasseh [is] mine; Ephraim also [is] the
strength of mine head; Judah [is] my lawgiver;
{108:9} Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over
Philistia will I triumph.
{108:10} Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into
Edom?
{108:11} [Wilt] not [thou,] O God, [who] hast cast us off? and wilt not
thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
{108:12} Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man.
{108:13} Through God we shall do valiantly: for he [it is that] shall
tread down our enemies.
Psalm 109
Psalm 110
A Psalm of David.
{110:1} The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I
make thine enemies thy footstool.
{110:2} The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule
thou in the midst of thine enemies.
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{110:3} Thy people [shall be] willing in the day of thy power, in the
beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the
dew of thy youth.
{110:4} The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest
for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
{110:5} The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the
day of his wrath.
{110:6} He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill [the places]
with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many
countries.
{110:7} He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift
up the head.
Psalm 111
{111:1} Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with [my] whole
heart, in the assembly of the upright, and [in] the congregation.
{111:2} The works of the LORD [are] great, sought out of all them that
have pleasure therein.
{111:3} His work [is] honourable and glorious: and his righteousness
endureth for ever.
{111:4} He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD
[is] gracious and full of compassion.
{111:5} He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be
mindful of his covenant.
{111:6} He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may
give them the heritage of the heathen.
{111:7} The works of his hands [are] verity and judgment; all his
commandments [are] sure.
{111:8} They stand fast for ever and ever, [and are] done in truth and
uprightness.
{111:9} He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his
covenant for ever: holy and reverend [is] his name.
{111:10} The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: a good
understanding have all they that do [his commandments:] his
praise endureth for ever.
Psalm 112
{112:1} Praise ye the LORD. Blessed [is] the man [that] feareth the
LORD, [that] delighteth greatly in his commandments.
{112:2} His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the
upright shall be blessed.
{112:3} Wealth and riches [shall be] in his house: and his
righteousness endureth for ever.
{112:4} Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: [he is]
gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
{112:5} A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his
affairs with discretion.
{112:6} Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be
in everlasting remembrance.
{112:7} He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed,
trusting in the LORD.
{112:8} His heart [is] established, he shall not be afraid, until he
see [his desire] upon his enemies.
{112:9} He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness
endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
{112:10} The wicked shall see [it,] and be grieved; he shall gnash with
his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Psalm 113
Psalm 114
{114:1} When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people
of strange language;
{114:2} Judah was his sanctuary, [and] Israel his dominion.
{114:3} The sea saw [it,] and fled: Jordan was driven back.
{114:4} The mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like
lambs.
{114:5} What [ailed] thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan,
[that] thou wast driven back?
{114:6} Ye mountains, [that] ye skipped like rams; [and] ye little
hills, like lambs?
{114:7} Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the
presence of the God of Jacob;
{114:8} Which turned the rock [into] a standing water, the flint into a
fountain of waters.
Psalm 115
{115:1} Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory,
for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth’s sake.
{115:2} Wherefore should the heathen say, Where [is] now their God?
{115:3} But our God [is] in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he
hath pleased.
{115:4} Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
{115:5} They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they
see not:
{115:6} They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they
smell not:
{115:7} They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they
walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
{115:8} They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that
trusteth in them.
{115:9} O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he [is] their help and their
shield.
{115:10} O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he [is] their help and
their shield.
{115:11} Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he [is] their help
and their shield.
{115:12} The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless [us;] he will
bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
{115:13} He will bless them that fear the LORD, [both] small and great.
{115:14} The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your
children.
{115:15} Ye [are] blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
{115:16} The heaven, [even] the heavens, [are] the LORD’S: but the
earth hath he given to the children of men.
{115:17} The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into
silence.
{115:18} But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for
evermore. Praise the LORD.
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Psalm 116
Psalm 117
{117:1} O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
{117:2} For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of
the LORD [endureth] for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalm 118
{118:1} O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: because his
mercy [endureth] for ever.
{118:2} Let Israel now say, that his mercy [endureth] for ever.
{118:3} Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy [endureth] for
ever.
{118:4} Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy [endureth]
for ever.
{118:5} I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, [and
set me] in a large place.
{118:6} The LORD [is] on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto
me?
{118:7} The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall
I see [my desire] upon them that hate me.
{118:8} [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in
man.
{118:9} [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in
princes.
{118:10} All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD
will I destroy them.
{118:11} They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in
the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
{118:12} They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the
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fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
{118:13} Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD
helped me.
{118:14} The LORD [is] my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
{118:15} The voice of rejoicing and salvation [is] in the tabernacles
of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
{118:16} The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the
LORD doeth valiantly.
{118:17} I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
{118:18} The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over
unto death.
{118:19} Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them,
[and] I will praise the LORD:
{118:20} This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
{118:21} I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my
salvation.
{118:22} The stone [which] the builders refused is become the head
[stone] of the corner.
{118:23} This is the LORD’S doing; it [is] marvellous in our eyes.
{118:24} This [is] the day [which] the LORD hath made; we will rejoice
and be glad in it.
{118:25} Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send
now prosperity.
{118:26} Blessed [be] he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have
blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
{118:27} God [is] the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the
sacrifice with cords, [even] unto the horns of the altar.
{118:28} Thou [art] my God, and I will praise thee: [thou art] my God,
I will exalt thee.
{118:29} O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever.
Psalm 119
ALEPH.
{119:1} Blessed [are] the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of
the LORD.
{119:2} Blessed [are] they that keep his testimonies, [and that] seek
him with the whole heart.
{119:3} They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
{119:4} Thou hast commanded [us] to keep thy precepts diligently.
{119:5} O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
{119:6} Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy
commandments.
{119:7} I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have
learned thy righteous judgments.
{119:8} I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
BETH.
{119:9} Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed
[thereto] according to thy word.
{119:10} With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander
from thy commandments.
{119:11} Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin
against thee.
{119:12} Blessed [art] thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
{119:13} With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
{119:14} I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as [much as] in
all riches.
{119:15} I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy
ways.
{119:16} I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy
word.
GIMEL.
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{119:17} Deal bountifully with thy servant, [that] I may live, and keep
thy word.
{119:18} Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of
thy law.
{119:19} I [am] a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from
me.
{119:20} My soul breaketh for the longing [that it hath] unto thy
judgments at all times.
{119:21} Thou hast rebuked the proud [that are] cursed, which do err
from thy commandments.
{119:22} Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy
testimonies.
{119:23} Princes also did sit [and] speak against me: [but] thy servant
did meditate in thy statutes.
{119:24} Thy testimonies also [are] my delight [and] my counsellors.
DALETH.
{119:41} Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, [even] thy
salvation, according to thy word.
{119:42} So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me:
for I trust in thy word.
{119:43} And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I
have hoped in thy judgments.
{119:44} So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
{119:45} And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
{119:46} I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will
not be ashamed.
{119:47} And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have
loved.
{119:48} My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I
have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
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ZAIN
{119:49} Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast
caused me to hope.
{119:50} This [is] my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath
quickened me.
{119:51} The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] have I not
declined from thy law.
{119:52} I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted
myself.
{119:53} Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that
forsake thy law.
{119:54} Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
{119:55} I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have
kept thy law.
{119:56} This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
CHETH.
{119:57} [Thou art] my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep
thy words.
{119:58} I intreated thy favour with [my] whole heart: be merciful unto
me according to thy word.
{119:59} I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
{119:60} I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
{119:61} The bands of the wicked have robbed me: [but] I have not
forgotten thy law.
{119:62} At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of
thy righteous judgments.
{119:63} I [am] a companion of all [them] that fear thee, and of them
that keep thy precepts.
{119:64} The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
TETH.
{119:65} Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto
thy word.
{119:66} Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy
commandments.
{119:67} Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy
word.
{119:68} Thou [art] good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
{119:69} The proud have forged a lie against me: [but] I will keep thy
precepts with [my] whole heart.
{119:70} Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law.
{119:71} [It is] good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might
learn thy statutes.
{119:72} The law of thy mouth [is] better unto me than thousands of
gold and silver.
JOD.
PE.
TZADDE.
{119:137} Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, and upright [are] thy judgments.
{119:138} Thy testimonies [that] thou hast commanded [are] righteous
and very faithful.
{119:139} My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten
thy words.
{119:140} Thy word [is] very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
{119:141} I [am] small and despised: [yet] do not I forget thy precepts.
{119:142} Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy
law [is] the truth.
{119:143} Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: [yet] thy
commandments [are] my delights.
{119:144} The righteousness of thy testimonies [is] everlasting: give
me understanding, and I shall live.
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KOPH.
{119:145} I cried with [my] whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep
thy statutes.
{119:146} I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
{119:147} I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in
thy word.
{119:148} Mine eyes prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate
in thy word.
{119:149} Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD,
quicken me according to thy judgment.
{119:150} They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from
thy law.
{119:151} Thou [art] near, O LORD; and all thy commandments [are] truth.
{119:152} Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou
hast founded them for ever.
RESH.
{119:153} Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget
thy law.
{119:154} Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy
word.
{119:155} Salvation [is] far from the wicked: for they seek not thy
statutes.
{119:156} Great [are] thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according
to thy judgments.
{119:157} Many [are] my persecutors and mine enemies; [yet] do I not
decline from thy testimonies.
{119:158} I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they
kept not thy word.
{119:159} Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD,
according to thy lovingkindness.
{119:160} Thy word [is] true [from] the beginning: and every one of thy
righteous judgments [endureth] for ever.
SCHIN.
Psalm 120
A Song of degrees.
{120:1} In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
{120:2} Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, [and] from a
deceitful tongue.
{120:3} What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee,
thou false tongue?
{120:4} Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
{120:5} Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, [that] I dwell in the
tents of Kedar!
{120:6} My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
{120:7} I [am for] peace: but when I speak, they [are] for war.
Psalm 121
A Song of degrees.
{121:1} I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my
help.
{121:2} My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
{121:3} He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee
will not slumber.
{121:4} Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
{121:5} The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD [is] thy shade upon thy
right hand.
{121:6} The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
{121:7} The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve
thy soul.
{121:8} The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from
this time forth, and even for evermore.
Psalm 122
{122:1} I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of
the LORD.
{122:2} Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
{122:3} Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
{122:4} Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the
testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
{122:5} For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house
of David.
{122:6} Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love
thee.
{122:7} Peace be within thy walls, [and] prosperity within thy palaces.
{122:8} For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace
[be] within thee.
{122:9} Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
Psalm 123
A Song of degrees.
{123:1} Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the
heavens.
{123:2} Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of their
masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her
mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until that he
have mercy upon us.
{123:3} Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are
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exceedingly filled with contempt.
{123:4} Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that
are at ease, [and] with the contempt of the proud.
Psalm 124
Psalm 125
A Song of degrees.
{125:1} They that trust in the LORD [shall be] as mount Zion, [which]
cannot be removed, [but] abideth for ever.
{125:2} As the mountains [are] round about Jerusalem, so the LORD [is]
round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
{125:3} For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the
righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
{125:4} Do good, O LORD, unto [those that be] good, and [to them that
are] upright in their hearts.
{125:5} As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD
shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: [but] peace
[shall be] upon Israel.
Psalm 126
A Song of degrees.
{126:1} When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like
them that dream.
{126:2} Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with
singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done
great things for them.
{126:3} The LORD hath done great things for us; [whereof] we are glad.
{126:4} Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
{126:5} They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
{126:6} He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall
doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [with
him.
]
Psalm 127
{127:1} Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build
it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh [but] in
vain.
{127:2} [It is] vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat
the bread of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his beloved sleep.
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{127:3} Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of
the womb [is his] reward.
{127:4} As arrows [are] in the hand of a mighty man; so [are] children
of the youth.
{127:5} Happy [is] the man that hath his quiver full of them: they
shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in
the gate.
Psalm 128
A Song of degrees.
{128:1} Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in
his ways.
{128:2} For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy [shalt]
thou [be,] and [it shall be] well with thee.
{128:3} Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine
house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
{128:4} Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the
LORD.
{128:5} The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the
good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
{128:6} Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, [and] peace upon
Israel.
Psalm 129
A Song of degrees.
{129:1} Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel
now say:
{129:2} Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have
not prevailed against me.
{129:3} The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
{129:4} The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the
wicked.
{129:5} Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
{129:6} Let them be as the grass [upon] the housetops, which withereth
afore it groweth up:
{129:7} Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth
sheaves his bosom.
{129:8} Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD [be]
upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
Psalm 130
A Song of degrees.
{130:1} Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
{130:2} Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice
of my supplications.
{130:3} If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall
stand?
{130:4} But [there is] forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be
feared.
{130:5} I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I
hope.
{130:6} My soul [waiteth] for the Lord more than they that watch for
the morning: [I say, more than] they that watch for the morning.
{130:7} Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD [there is]
mercy, and with him [is] plenteous redemption.
{130:8} And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Psalm 131
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A Song of degrees of David.
{131:1} LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do
I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
{131:2} Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is
weaned of his mother: my soul [is] even as a weaned child.
{131:3} Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.
Psalm 132
A Song of degrees.
{132:1} LORD, remember David, [and] all his afflictions:
{132:2} How he sware unto the LORD, [and] vowed unto the mighty [God]
of Jacob;
{132:3} Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go
up into my bed;
{132:4} I will not give sleep to mine eyes, [or] slumber to mine
eyelids,
{132:5} Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the
mighty [God] of Jacob.
{132:6} Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of
the wood.
{132:7} We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his
footstool.
{132:8} Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
{132:9} Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy
saints shout for joy.
{132:10} For thy servant David’s sake turn not away the face of thine
anointed.
{132:11} The LORD hath sworn [in] truth unto David; he will not turn
from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
{132:12} If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I
shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne
for evermore.
{132:13} For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired [it] for his
habitation.
{132:14} This [is] my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have
desired it.
{132:15} I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor
with bread.
{132:16} I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints
shall shout aloud for joy.
{132:17} There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a
lamp for mine anointed.
{132:18} His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall
his crown flourish.
Psalm 133
{133:1} Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to dwell
together in unity!
{133:2} [It is] like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down
upon the beard, [even] Aaron’s beard: that went down to the
skirts of his garments;
{133:3} As the dew of Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the
mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing,
[even] life for evermore.
Psalm 134
A Song of degrees.
{134:1} Behold, bless ye the LORD, all [ye] servants of the LORD, which
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by night stand in the house of the LORD.
{134:2} Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
{134:3} The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.
Psalm 135
{135:1} Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise
[him,] O ye servants of the LORD.
{135:2} Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the
house of our God,
{135:3} Praise the LORD; for the LORD [is] good: sing praises unto his
name; for [it is] pleasant.
{135:4} For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, [and] Israel for
his peculiar treasure.
{135:5} For I know that the LORD [is] great, and [that] our Lord [is]
above all gods.
{135:6} Whatsoever the LORD pleased, [that] did he in heaven, and in
earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
{135:7} He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he
maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his
treasuries.
{135:8} Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
{135:9} [Who] sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt,
upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.
{135:10} Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
{135:11} Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the
kingdoms of Canaan:
{135:12} And gave their land [for] an heritage, an heritage unto Israel
his people.
{135:13} Thy name, O LORD, [endureth] for ever; [and] thy memorial, O
LORD, throughout all generations.
{135:14} For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself
concerning his servants.
{135:15} The idols of the heathen [are] silver and gold, the work of
men’s hands.
{135:16} They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they
see not;
{135:17} They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there [any]
breath in their mouths.
{135:18} They that make them are like unto them: [so is] every one that
trusteth in them.
{135:19} Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of
Aaron:
{135:20} Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless
the LORD.
{135:21} Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem.
Praise ye the LORD.
Psalm 136
{136:1} O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever.
{136:2} O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy [endureth]
for ever.
{136:3} O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy [endureth]
for ever.
{136:4} To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy [endureth]
for ever.
{136:5} To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever.
{136:6} To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his
mercy [endureth] for ever.
{136:7} To him that made great lights: for his mercy [endureth] for
ever:
{136:8} The sun to rule by day: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
{136:9} The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy [endureth]
for ever.
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{136:10} To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever:
{136:11} And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever:
{136:12} With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his
mercy [endureth] for ever.
{136:13} To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever:
{136:14} And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever:
{136:15} But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his
mercy [endureth] for ever.
{136:16} To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his
mercy [endureth] for ever.
{136:17} To him which smote great kings: for his mercy [endureth] for
ever:
{136:18} And slew famous kings: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
{136:19} Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
{136:20} And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
{136:21} And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy [endureth]
for ever:
{136:22} [Even] an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever.
{136:23} Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy [endureth]
for ever:
{136:24} And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy
[endureth] for ever.
{136:25} Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy [endureth] for
ever.
{136:26} O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy [endureth]
for ever.
Psalm 137
{137:1} By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when
we remembered Zion.
{137:2} We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
{137:3} For there they that carried us away captive required of us a
song; and they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying,]
Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.
{137:4} How shall we sing the LORD’S song in a strange land?
{137:5} If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [her
cunning.
]{137:6} If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of
my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
{137:7} Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem;
who said, Rase [it,] rase [it, even] to the foundation thereof.
{137:8} O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy [shall he
be,] that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
{137:9} Happy [shall he be,] that taketh and dasheth thy little ones
against the stones.
Psalm 138
A [Psalm] of David.
{138:1} I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I
sing praise unto thee.
{138:2} I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for
thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy
word above all thy name.
{138:3} In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, [and]
strengthenedst me [with] strength in my soul.
{138:4} All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they
hear the words of thy mouth.
{138:5} Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great [is]
the glory of the LORD.
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{138:6} Though the LORD [be] high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly:
but the proud he knoweth afar off.
{138:7} Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me:
thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine
enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
{138:8} The LORD will perfect [that which] concerneth me: thy mercy, O
LORD, [endureth] for ever: forsake not the works of thine own
hands.
Psalm 139
Psalm 140
{140:1} Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the
violent man;
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{140:2} Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they
gathered together [for] war.
{140:3} They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’
poison [is] under their lips. Selah.
{140:4} Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from
the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
{140:5} The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread
a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
{140:6} I said unto the LORD, Thou [art] my God: hear the voice of my
supplications, O LORD.
{140:7} O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered
my head in the day of battle.
{140:8} Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his
wicked device; [lest] they exalt themselves. Selah.
{140:9} [As for] the head of those that compass me about, let the
mischief of their own lips cover them.
{140:10} Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the
fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
{140:11} Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil
shall hunt the violent man to overthrow [him.
]{140:12} I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the
afflicted, [and] the right of the poor.
{140:13} Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the
upright shall dwell in thy presence.
Psalm 141
A Psalm of David.
{141:1} LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my
voice, when I cry unto thee.
{141:2} Let my prayer be set forth before thee [as] incense; [and] the
lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice.
{141:3} Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
{141:4} Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practise wicked
works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their
dainties.
{141:5} Let the righteous smite me; [it shall be] a kindness: and let
him reprove me; [it shall be] an excellent oil, [which] shall not
break my head: for yet my prayer also [shall be] in their
calamities.
{141:6} When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall
hear my words; for they are sweet.
{141:7} Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one
cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.
{141:8} But mine eyes [are] unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my
trust; leave not my soul destitute.
{141:9} Keep me from the snares [which] they have laid for me, and the
gins of the workers of iniquity.
{141:10} Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal
escape.
Psalm 142
Psalm 143
A Psalm of David.
Psalm 144
A [Psalm] of David.
Psalm 145
{145:1} I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name
for ever and ever.
{145:2} Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for
ever and ever.
{145:3} Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his
greatness [is] unsearchable.
{145:4} One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall
declare thy mighty acts.
{145:5} I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy
wondrous works.
{145:6} And [men] shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I
will declare thy greatness.
{145:7} They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness,
and shall sing of thy righteousness.
{145:8} The LORD [is] gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger,
and of great mercy.
{145:9} The LORD [is] good to all: and his tender mercies [are] over
all his works.
{145:10} All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall
bless thee.
{145:11} They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy
power;
{145:12} To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the
glorious majesty of his kingdom.
{145:13} Thy kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion
[endureth] throughout all generations.
{145:14} The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all [those
that be] bowed down.
{145:15} The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their
meat in due season.
{145:16} Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every
living thing.
{145:17} The LORD [is] righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his
works.
{145:18} The LORD [is] nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all
that call upon him in truth.
{145:19} He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will
hear their cry, and will save them.
{145:20} The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked
will he destroy.
{145:21} My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh
bless his holy name for ever and ever.
Psalm 146
{146:1} Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
{146:2} While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto
my God while I have any being.
{146:3} Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom
[there is] no help.
{146:4} His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very
day his thoughts perish.
{146:5} Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose
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hope [is] in the LORD his God:
{146:6} Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein
[is:] which keepeth truth for ever:
{146:7} Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food
to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
{146:8} The LORD openeth [the eyes of] the blind: the LORD raiseth them
that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
{146:9} The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless
and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
{146:10} The LORD shall reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, unto
all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalm 147
{147:1} Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good to sing praises unto our
God; for [it is] pleasant; [and] praise is comely.
{147:2} The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the
outcasts of Israel.
{147:3} He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
{147:4} He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by
[their] names.
{147:5} Great [is] our Lord, and of great power: his understanding [is]
infinite.
{147:6} The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the
ground.
{147:7} Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp
unto our God:
{147:8} Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the
earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
{147:9} He giveth to the beast his food, [and] to the young ravens
which cry.
{147:10} He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not
pleasure in the legs of a man.
{147:11} The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that
hope in his mercy.
{147:12} Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
{147:13} For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath
blessed thy children within thee.
{147:14} He maketh peace [in] thy borders, [and] filleth thee with the
finest of the wheat.
{147:15} He sendeth forth his commandment [upon] earth: his word
runneth very swiftly.
{147:16} He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoar frost like
ashes.
{147:17} He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before
his cold?
{147:18} He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind
to blow, [and] the waters flow.
{147:19} He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments
unto Israel.
{147:20} He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his]
judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalm 148
{148:1} Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise
him in the heights.
{148:2} Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
{148:3} Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
{148:4} Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that [be]
above the heavens.
{148:5} Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and
they were created.
{148:6} He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a
decree which shall not pass.
{148:7} Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
{148:8} Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his
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word:
{148:9} Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
{148:10} Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
{148:11} Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of
the earth:
{148:12} Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
{148:13} Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is
excellent; his glory [is] above the earth and heaven.
{148:14} He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his
saints; [even] of the children of Israel, a people near unto him.
Praise ye the LORD.
Psalm 149
{149:1} Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, [and] his
praise in the congregation of saints.
{149:2} Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of
Zion be joyful in their King.
{149:3} Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises
unto him with the timbrel and harp.
{149:4} For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify
the meek with salvation.
{149:5} Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon
their beds.
{149:6} [Let] the high [praises] of God [be] in their mouth, and a
twoedged sword in their hand;
{149:7} To execute vengeance upon the heathen, [and] punishments upon
the people;
{149:8} To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters
of iron;
{149:9} To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all
his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalm 150
{150:1} Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in
the firmament of his power.
{150:2} Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his
excellent greatness.
{150:3} Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the
psaltery and harp.
{150:4} Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed
instruments and organs.
{150:5} Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high
sounding cymbals.
{150:6} Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the
LORD.
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The Proverbs the knowledge of God. {2:6} For the LORD giveth wisdom:
out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.
{2:7} He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is]
a buckler to them that walk uprightly. {2:8} He keepeth the
{1:1} The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
Israel; {1:2} To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive {2:9} Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and
the words of understanding; {1:3} To receive the instruction judgment, and equity; [yea,] every good path.
of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; {1:4} To give
subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and {2:10} When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and
discretion. {1:5} A wise [man] will hear, and will increase knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; {2:11} Discretion shall
learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: {2:12} To
counsels: {1:6} To understand a proverb, and the deliver thee from the way of the evil [man,] from the man
interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. that speaketh froward things; {2:13} Who leave the paths of
uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; {2:14} Who
{1:7} The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the
knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction. wicked; {2:15} Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they]
{1:8} My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake froward in their paths: {2:16} To deliver thee from the
not the law of thy mother: {1:9} For they [shall be] an strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth
ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. with her words; {2:17} Which forsaketh the guide of her
youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. {2:18} For
{1:10} My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
{1:11} If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, {2:19} None that go unto her return again, neither take they
let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: {1:12} Let hold of the paths of life. {2:20} That thou mayest walk in
us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those the way of good [men,] and keep the paths of the righteous.
that go down into the pit: {1:13} We shall find all precious {2:21} For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the
substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: {1:14} Cast in perfect shall remain in it. {2:22} But the wicked shall be cut
thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: {1:15} My son, off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out
walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from of it.
their path: {1:16} For their feet run to evil, and make haste
to shed blood. {1:17} Surely in vain the net is spread in the {3:1} My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep
sight of any bird. {1:18} And they lay wait for their [own] my commandments: {3:2} For length of days, and long life,
blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives. {1:19} So and peace, shall they add to thee. {3:3} Let not mercy and
[are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them
taketh away the life of the owners thereof. upon the table of thine heart: {3:4} So shalt thou find favour
and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
{1:20} Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in
the streets: {1:21} She crieth in the chief place of {3:5} Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not
concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she unto thine own understanding. {3:6} In all thy ways
uttereth her words, [saying, ]{1:22} How long, ye simple acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in
their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? {1:23} Turn you {3:7} Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and
at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I depart from evil. {3:8} It shall be health to thy navel, and
will make known my words unto you. marrow to thy bones. {3:9} Honour the LORD with thy
substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
{1:24} Because I have called, and ye refused; I have {3:10} So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy
stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; {1:25} But ye presses shall burst out with new wine.
have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my
reproof: {1:26} I also will laugh at your calamity; I will {3:11} My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD;
mock when your fear cometh; {1:27} When your fear neither be weary of his correction: {3:12} For whom the
cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in
whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. whom] he delighteth.
{1:28} Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer;
they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: {1:29} {3:13} Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear man [that] getteth understanding. {3:14} For the
of the LORD: {1:30} They would none of my counsel: they merchandise of it [is] better than the merchandise of silver,
despised all my reproof. {1:31} Therefore shall they eat of and the gain thereof than fine gold. {3:15} She [is] more
the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are
devices. {1:32} For the turning away of the simple shall not to be compared unto her. {3:16} Length of days [is] in
slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. her right hand; [and] in her left hand riches and honour.
{1:33} But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, {3:17} Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her
and shall be quiet from fear of evil. paths [are] peace. {3:18} She [is] a tree of life to them that
lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth
{2:1} My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my her. {3:19} The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth;
commandments with thee; {2:2} So that thou incline thine by understanding hath he established the heavens. {3:20}
ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding; By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds
{2:3} Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up drop down the dew.
thy voice for understanding; {2:4} If thou seekest her as
silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures; {2:5} {3:21} My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find sound wisdom and discretion: {3:22} So shall they be life
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unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck. {3:23} Then shalt thou be established. {4:27} Turn not to the right hand nor to the
walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble. left: remove thy foot from evil.
{3:24} When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea,
thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. {3:25} Be {5:1} My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine
not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the ear to my understanding: {5:2} That thou mayest regard
wicked, when it cometh. {3:26} For the LORD shall be thy discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.
confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
{5:3} For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an
{3:27} Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil: {5:4}
when it is in the power of thine hand to do [it. ]{3:28} Say But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged
not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow sword. {5:5} Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold
I will give; when thou hast it by thee. {3:29} Devise not evil on hell. {5:6} Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life,
against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee. her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them.
]{5:7} Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart
{3:30} Strive not with a man without cause, if he have not from the words of my mouth. {5:8} Remove thy way far
done thee no harm. from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: {5:9}
Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto
{3:31} Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of the cruel: {5:10} Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth;
his ways. {3:32} For the froward [is] abomination to the and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger; {5:11} And
LORD: but his secret [is] with the righteous. thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are
consumed, {5:12} And say, How have I hated instruction,
{3:33} The curse of the LORD [is] in the house of the and my heart despised reproof; {5:13} And have not obeyed
wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just. {3:34} the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that
Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the instructed me! {5:14} I was almost in all evil in the midst of
lowly. {3:35} The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall the congregation and assembly.
be the promotion of fools.
{5:15} Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running
{4:1} Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and waters out of thine own well. {5:16} Let thy fountains be
attend to know understanding. {4:2} For I give you good dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets.
doctrine, forsake ye not my law. {4:3} For I was my {5:17} Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with
father’s son, tender and only [beloved] in the sight of my thee. {5:18} Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with
mother. {4:4} He taught me also, and said unto me, Let the wife of thy youth. {5:19} [Let her be as] the loving hind
thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and
live. {4:5} Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; be thou ravished always with her love. {5:20} And why wilt
neither decline from the words of my mouth. {4:6} Forsake thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and
her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall embrace the bosom of a stranger? {5:21} For the ways of
keep thee. {4:7} Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth
get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. all his goings.
{4:8} Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring
thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. {4:9} She shall {5:22} His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself,
give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. {5:23} He
shall she deliver to thee. {4:10} Hear, O my son, and shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his
receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. folly he shall go astray.
{4:11} I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led
thee in right paths. {4:12} When thou goest, thy steps shall {6:1} My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou
not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, {6:2} Thou art snared
stumble. {4:13} Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words
go: keep her; for she [is] thy life. of thy mouth. {6:3} Do this now, my son, deliver thyself,
when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble
{4:14} Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in thyself, and make sure thy friend. {6:4} Give not sleep to
the way of evil [men. ]{4:15} Avoid it, pass not by it, turn thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. {6:5} Deliver
from it, and pass away. {4:16} For they sleep not, except thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter,] and as a bird
they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, from the hand of the fowler.
unless they cause [some] to fall. {4:17} For they eat the
bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. {4:18} {6:6} Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and
But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth be wise: {6:7} Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
more and more unto the perfect day. {4:19} The way of the {6:8} Provideth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her
wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. food in the harvest. {6:9} How long wilt thou sleep, O
sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? {6:10}
{4:20} My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
my sayings. {4:21} Let them not depart from thine eyes; hands to sleep: {6:11} So shall thy poverty come as one that
keep them in the midst of thine heart. {4:22} For they [are] travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
{6:12} A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a
{4:23} Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] froward mouth. {6:13} He winketh with his eyes, he
the issues of life. {4:24} Put away from thee a froward speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; {6:14}
mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. {4:25} Let thine Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief
eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before continually; he soweth discord. {6:15} Therefore shall his
thee. {4:26} Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken
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without remedy. of her lips she forced him. {7:22} He goeth after her
straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to
{6:16} These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven the correction of the stocks; {7:23} Till a dart strike through
[are] an abomination unto him: {6:17} A proud look, a his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that
lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, {6:18} it [is] for his life.
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be
swift in running to mischief, {6:19} A false witness [that] {7:24} Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children,
speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. and attend to the words of my mouth. {7:25} Let not thine
heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. {7:26}
{6:20} My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong
forsake not the law of thy mother: {6:21} Bind them [men] have been slain by her. {7:27} Her house [is] the way
continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck. to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
{6:22} When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou
sleepest, it shall keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it shall {8:1} Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth
talk with thee. {6:23} For the commandment [is] a lamp; her voice? {8:2} She standeth in the top of high places, by
and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the the way in the places of the paths. {8:3} She crieth at the
way of life: {6:24} To keep thee from the evil woman, from gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. {6:25} Lust {8:4} Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice [is] to the sons
not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee of man. {8:5} O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye
with her eyelids. {6:26} For by means of a whorish woman fools, be ye of an understanding heart. {8:6} Hear; for I will
[a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips [shall
will hunt for the precious life. {6:27} Can a man take fire in be] right things. {8:7} For my mouth shall speak truth; and
his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? {6:28} Can one wickedness [is] an abomination to my lips. {8:8} All the
go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? {6:29} So he words of my mouth [are] in righteousness; [there is] nothing
that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth froward or perverse in them. {8:9} They [are] all plain to
her shall not be innocent. {6:30} [Men] do not despise a him that understandeth, and right to them that find
thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; knowledge. {8:10} Receive my instruction, and not silver;
{6:31} But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he and knowledge rather than choice gold. {8:11} For wisdom
shall give all the substance of his house. {6:32} [But] [is] better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired
whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh are not to be compared to it. {8:12} I wisdom dwell with
understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul. prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
{6:33} A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his {8:13} The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and
reproach shall not be wiped away. {6:34} For jealousy [is] arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I
the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of hate. {8:14} Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom: I [am]
vengeance. {6:35} He will not regard any ransom; neither understanding; I have strength. {8:15} By me kings reign,
will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts. and princes decree justice. {8:16} By me princes rule, and
nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth. {8:17} I love them
{7:1} My son, keep my words, and lay up my that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
commandments with thee. {7:2} Keep my commandments, {8:18} Riches and honour [are] with me; [yea,] durable
and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. {7:3} Bind riches and righteousness. {8:19} My fruit [is] better than
them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
heart. {7:4} Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call {8:20} I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the
understanding [thy] kinswoman: {7:5} That they may keep paths of judgment: {8:21} That I may cause those that love
thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures. {8:22}
flattereth with her words. The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way,
before his works of old. {8:23} I was set up from
{7:6} For at the window of my house I looked through my everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
casement, {7:7} And beheld among the simple ones, I {8:24} When [there were] no depths, I was brought forth;
discerned among the youths, a young man void of when [there were] no fountains abounding with water.
understanding, {7:8} Passing through the street near her {8:25} Before the mountains were settled, before the hills
corner; and he went the way to her house, {7:9} In the was I brought forth: {8:26} While as yet he had not made
twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: {7:10} the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of
And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an the world. {8:27} When he prepared the heavens, I [was]
harlot, and subtil of heart. {7:11} (She [is] loud and there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: {7:12} Now [is {8:28} When he established the clouds above: when he
she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every strengthened the fountains of the deep: {8:29} When he
corner.) {7:13} So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass
with an impudent face said unto him, {7:14} [I have] peace his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of
offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. {7:15} the earth: {8:30} Then I was by him, [as] one brought up
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy [with him:] and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always
face, and I have found thee. {7:16} I have decked my bed before him; {8:31} Rejoicing in the habitable part of his
with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works,] with fine earth; and my delights [were] with the sons of men. {8:32}
linen of Egypt. {7:17} I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed
aloes, and cinnamon. {7:18} Come, let us take our fill of [are they that] keep my ways. {8:33} Hear instruction, and
love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. be wise, and refuse it not. {8:34} Blessed [is] the man that
{7:19} For the goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts
journey: {7:20} He hath taken a bag of money with him, of my doors. {8:35} For whoso findeth me findeth life, and
[and] will come home at the day appointed. {7:21} With her shall obtain favour of the LORD. {8:36} But he that sinneth
much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me
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love death. fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath
wisdom. {10:24} The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon
{9:1} Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
her seven pillars: {9:2} She hath killed her beasts; she hath {10:25} As the whirlwind passeth, so [is] the wicked no
mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. {9:3} [more:] but the righteous [is] an everlasting foundation.
She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest {10:26} As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes,
places of the city, {9:4} Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in so [is] the sluggard to them that send him. {10:27} The fear
hither: [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked
him, {9:5} Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine shall be shortened. {10:28} The hope of the righteous [shall
[which] I have mingled. {9:6} Forsake the foolish, and live; be] gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
and go in the way of understanding. {9:7} He that reproveth {10:29} The way of the LORD [is] strength to the upright:
a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity. {10:30}
wicked [man getteth] himself a blot. {9:8} Reprove not a The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall
scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will not inhabit the earth. {10:31} The mouth of the just bringeth
love thee. {9:9} Give [instruction] to a wise [man,] and he forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
will be yet wiser: teach a just [man,] and he will increase in {10:32} The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable:
learning. {9:10} The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of but the mouth of the wicked [speaketh] frowardness.
wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy [is] understanding.
{9:11} For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years {11:1} A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but
of thy life shall be increased. {9:12} If thou be wise, thou a just weight [is] his delight. {11:2} [When] pride cometh,
shalt be wise for thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone then cometh shame: but with the lowly [is] wisdom. {11:3}
shalt bear [it. The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the
perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. {11:4}
]{9:13} A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness
and knoweth nothing. {9:14} For she sitteth at the door of delivereth from death. {11:5} The righteousness of the
her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, {9:15} To perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his
call passengers who go right on their ways: {9:16} Whoso own wickedness. {11:6} The righteousness of the upright
[is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in [their
wanteth understanding, she saith to him, {9:17} Stolen own] naughtiness. {11:7} When a wicked man dieth, [his]
waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant. expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust [men]
{9:18} But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and perisheth. {11:8} The righteous is delivered out of trouble,
that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell. and the wicked cometh in his stead. {11:9} An hypocrite
with [his] mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through
{10:1} The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a knowledge shall the just be delivered. {11:10} When it
glad father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when
mother. {10:2} Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but the wicked perish, [there is] shouting. {11:11} By the
righteousness delivereth from death. {10:3} The LORD will blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is
not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. {11:12} He that is
away the substance of the wicked. {10:4} He becometh void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of
poor that dealeth [with] a slack hand: but the hand of the understanding holdeth his peace. {11:13} A talebearer
diligent maketh rich. {10:5} He that gathereth in summer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth
[is] a wise son: [but] he that sleepeth in harvest [is] a son the matter. {11:14} Where no counsel [is,] the people fall:
that causeth shame. {10:6} Blessings [are] upon the head of but in the multitude of counsellors [there is] safety. {11:15}
the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart [for it:] and he
{10:7} The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of that hateth suretiship is sure. {11:16} A gracious woman
the wicked shall rot. {10:8} The wise in heart will receive retaineth honour: and strong [men] retain riches. {11:17}
commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. {10:9} He that The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but [he that
walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his is] cruel troubleth his own flesh. {11:18} The wicked
ways shall be known. {10:10} He that winketh with the eye worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth
causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall. {10:11} The righteousness [shall be] a sure reward. {11:19} As
mouth of a righteous [man is] a well of life: but violence righteousness [tendeth] to life: so he that pursueth evil
covereth the mouth of the wicked. {10:12} Hatred stirreth [pursueth it] to his own death. {11:20} They that are of a
up strifes: but love covereth all sins. {10:13} In the lips of froward heart [are] abomination to the LORD: but [such as
him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod [is] are] upright in [their] way [are] his delight. {11:21}
for the back of him that is void of understanding. {10:14} [Though] hand [join] in hand, the wicked shall not be
Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
[is] near destruction. {10:15} The rich man’s wealth [is] his {11:22} [As] a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, [so is] a
strong city: the destruction of the poor [is] their poverty. fair woman which is without discretion. {11:23} The desire
{10:16} The labour of the righteous [tendeth] to life: the of the righteous [is] only good: [but] the expectation of the
fruit of the wicked to sin. {10:17} He [is in] the way of life wicked [is] wrath. {11:24} There is that scattereth, and yet
that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth. increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more than is
{10:18} He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips, and he that meet, but [it tendeth] to poverty. {11:25} The liberal soul
uttereth a slander, [is] a fool. {10:19} In the multitude of shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also
words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips himself. {11:26} He that withholdeth corn, the people shall
[is] wise. {10:20} The tongue of the just [is as] choice curse him: but blessing [shall be] upon the head of him that
silver: the heart of the wicked [is] little worth. {10:21} The selleth [it. ]{11:27} He that diligently seeketh good
lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come
wisdom. {10:22} The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, unto him. {11:28} He that trusteth in his riches shall fall:
and he addeth no sorrow with it. {10:23} [It is] as sport to a but the righteous shall flourish as a branch. {11:29} He that
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troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool ransom of a man’s life [are] his riches: but the poor heareth
[shall be] servant to the wise of heart. {11:30} The fruit of not rebuke. {13:9} The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but
the righteous [is] a tree of life; and he that winneth souls [is] the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. {13:10} Only by
wise. {11:31} Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed pride cometh contention: but with the well advised [is]
in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner. wisdom. {13:11} Wealth [gotten] by vanity shall be
diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
{12:1} Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but {13:12} Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but [when]
he that hateth reproof [is] brutish. {12:2} A good [man] the desire cometh, [it is] a tree of life. {13:13} Whoso
obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the
will he condemn. {12:3} A man shall not be established by commandment shall be rewarded. {13:14} The law of the
wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be wise [is] a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of
moved. {12:4} A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her death. {13:15} Good understanding giveth favour: but the
husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in way of transgressors [is] hard. {13:16} Every prudent [man]
his bones. {12:5} The thoughts of the righteous [are] right: dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open [his] folly.
[but] the counsels of the wicked [are] deceit. {12:6} The {13:17} A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a
words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the faithful ambassador [is] health. {13:18} Poverty and shame
mouth of the upright shall deliver them. {12:7} The wicked [shall be to] him that refuseth instruction: but he that
are overthrown, and [are] not: but the house of the righteous regardeth reproof shall be honoured. {13:19} The desire
shall stand. {12:8} A man shall be commended according to accomplished is sweet to the soul: but [it is] abomination to
his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be fools to depart from evil. {13:20} He that walketh with wise
despised. {12:9} [He that is] despised, and hath a servant, [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be
[is] better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread. destroyed. {13:21} Evil pursueth sinners: but to the
{12:10} A righteous [man] regardeth the life of his beast: righteous good shall be repaid. {13:22} A good [man]
but the tender mercies of the wicked [are] cruel. {12:11} He leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the
that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. {13:23} Much
followeth vain [persons is] void of understanding. {12:12} food [is in] the tillage of the poor: but there is [that is]
The wicked desireth the net of evil [men:] but the root of the destroyed for want of judgment. {13:24} He that spareth his
righteous yieldeth [fruit. ]{12:13} The wicked is snared by rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him
the transgression of [his] lips: but the just shall come out of betimes. {13:25} The righteous eateth to the satisfying of
trouble. {12:14} A man shall be satisfied with good by the his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
fruit of [his] mouth: and the recompense of a man’s hands
shall be rendered unto him. {12:15} The way of a fool [is] {14:1} Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the
right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel foolish plucketh it down with her hands. {14:2} He that
[is] wise. {12:16} A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but [he that
prudent [man] covereth shame. {12:17} [He that] speaketh is] perverse in his ways despiseth him. {14:3} In the mouth
truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit. of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall
{12:18} There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: preserve them. {14:4} Where no oxen [are,] the crib [is]
but the tongue of the wise [is] health. {12:19} The lip of clean: but much increase [is] by the strength of the ox.
truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue [is] but {14:5} A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness
for a moment. {12:20} Deceit [is] in the heart of them that will utter lies. {14:6} A scorner seeketh wisdom, and
imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace [is] joy. [findeth it] not: but knowledge [is] easy unto him that
{12:21} There shall no evil happen to the just: but the understandeth. {14:7} Go from the presence of a foolish
wicked shall be filled with mischief. {12:22} Lying lips man, when thou perceivest not [in him] the lips of
[are] abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly knowledge. {14:8} The wisdom of the prudent [is] to
[are] his delight. {12:23} A prudent man concealeth understand his way: but the folly of fools [is] deceit. {14:9}
knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness. Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous [there
{12:24} The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the is] favour. {14:10} The heart knoweth his own bitterness;
slothful shall be under tribute. {12:25} Heaviness in the and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. {14:11}
heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the
glad. {12:26} The righteous [is] more excellent than his tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. {14:12} There is a
neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them. way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof
{12:27} The slothful [man] roasteth not that which he took [are] the ways of death. {14:13} Even in laughter the heart
in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man [is] precious. is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness.
{12:28} In the way of righteousness [is] life; and [in] the {14:14} The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own
pathway [thereof there is] no death. ways: and a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself.
{14:15} The simple believeth every word: but the prudent
{13:1} A wise son [heareth] his father’s instruction: but a [man] looketh well to his going. {14:16} A wise [man]
scorner heareth not rebuke. {13:2} A man shall eat good by feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is
the fruit of [his] mouth: but the soul of the transgressors confident. {14:17} [He that is] soon angry dealeth foolishly:
[shall eat] violence. {13:3} He that keepeth his mouth and a man of wicked devices is hated. {14:18} The simple
keepeth his life: [but] he that openeth wide his lips shall inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
have destruction. {13:4} The soul of the sluggard desireth, {14:19} The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at
and [hath] nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made the gates of the righteous. {14:20} The poor is hated even
fat. {13:5} A righteous [man] hateth lying: but a wicked of his own neighbour: but the rich [hath] many friends.
[man] is loathsome, and cometh to shame. {13:6} {14:21} He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that
Righteousness keepeth [him that is] upright in the way: but hath mercy on the poor, happy [is] he. {14:22} Do they not
wickedness overthroweth the sinner. {13:7} There is that err that devise evil? but mercy and truth [shall be] to them
maketh himself rich, yet [hath] nothing: [there is] that that devise good. {14:23} In all labour there is profit: but
maketh himself poor, yet [hath] great riches. {13:8} The the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury. {14:24} The
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crown of the wise is their riches: [but] the foolishness of of the wicked poureth out evil things. {15:29} The LORD
fools [is] folly. {14:25} A true witness delivereth souls: but [is] far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the
a deceitful [witness] speaketh lies. {14:26} In the fear of the righteous. {15:30} The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart:
LORD [is] strong confidence: and his children shall have a [and] a good report maketh the bones fat. {15:31} The ear
place of refuge. {14:27} The fear of the LORD [is] a that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. {14:28} {15:32} He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul:
In the multitude of people [is] the king’s honour: but in the but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding. {15:33}
want of people [is] the destruction of the prince. {14:29} The fear of the LORD [is] the instruction of wisdom; and
[He that is] slow to wrath [is] of great understanding: but before honour [is] humility.
[he that is] hasty of spirit exalteth folly. {14:30} A sound
heart [is] the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the {16:1} The preparations of the heart in man, and the
bones. {14:31} He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his answer of the tongue, [is] from the LORD. {16:2} All the
Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. ways of a man [are] clean in his own eyes; but the LORD
{14:32} The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but weigheth the spirits. {16:3} Commit thy works unto the
the righteous hath hope in his death. {14:33} Wisdom LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. {16:4} The
resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but [that LORD hath made all [things] for himself: yea, even the
which is] in the midst of fools is made known. {14:34} wicked for the day of evil. {16:5} Every one [that is] proud
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin [is] a reproach to in heart [is] an abomination to the LORD: [though] hand
any people. {14:35} The king’s favour [is] toward a wise [join] in hand, he shall not be unpunished. {16:6} By mercy
servant: but his wrath is [against] him that causeth shame. and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD
[men] depart from evil. {16:7} When a man’s ways please
{15:1} A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with
words stir up anger. {15:2} The tongue of the wise useth him. {16:8} Better [is] a little with righteousness than great
knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out revenues without right. {16:9} A man’s heart deviseth his
foolishness. {15:3} The eyes of the LORD [are] in every way: but the LORD directeth his steps. {16:10} A divine
place, beholding the evil and the good. {15:4} A sentence [is] in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth
wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life: but perverseness not in judgment. {16:11} A just weight and balance [are]
therein [is] a breach in the spirit. {15:5} A fool despiseth the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is {16:12} [It is] an abomination to kings to commit
prudent. {15:6} In the house of the righteous [is] much wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble. {15:7} {16:13} Righteous lips [are] the delight of kings; and they
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the love him that speaketh right. {16:14} The wrath of a king
foolish [doeth] not so. {15:8} The sacrifice of the wicked [is as] messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
[is] an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the {16:15} In the light of the king’s countenance [is] life; and
upright [is] his delight. {15:9} The way of the wicked [is] his favour [is] as a cloud of the latter rain. {16:16} How
an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that much better [is it] to get wisdom than gold! and to get
followeth after righteousness. {15:10} Correction [is] understanding rather to be chosen than silver! {16:17} The
grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: [and] he that highway of the upright [is] to depart from evil: he that
hateth reproof shall die. {15:11} Hell and destruction [are] keepeth his way preserveth his soul. {16:18} Pride [goeth]
before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
children of men? {15:12} A scorner loveth not one that {16:19} Better [it is to be] of an humble spirit with the
reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise. {15:13} A lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. {16:20} He
merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso
of the heart the spirit is broken. {15:14} The heart of him trusteth in the LORD, happy [is] he. {16:21} The wise in
that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips
of fools feedeth on foolishness. {15:15} All the days of the increaseth learning. {16:22} Understanding [is] a wellspring
afflicted [are] evil: but he that is of a merry heart [hath] a of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools [is]
continual feast. {15:16} Better [is] little with the fear of the folly. {16:23} The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and
LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith. {15:17} addeth learning to his lips. {16:24} Pleasant words [are as]
Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
and hatred therewith. {15:18} A wrathful man stirreth up {16:25} There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but
strife: but [he that is] slow to anger appeaseth strife. the end thereof [are] the ways of death. {16:26} He that
{15:19} The way of the slothful [man is] as an hedge of laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of
thorns: but the way of the righteous [is] made plain. {15:20} him. {16:27} An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man lips [there is] as a burning fire. {16:28} A froward man
despiseth his mother. {15:21} Folly [is] joy to [him that is] soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh {16:29} A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth
uprightly. {15:22} Without counsel purposes are him into the way [that is] not good. {16:30} He shutteth his
disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth
established. {15:23} A man hath joy by the answer of his evil to pass. {16:31} The hoary head [is] a crown of glory,
mouth: and a word [spoken] in due season, how good [is it! [if] it be found in the way of righteousness. {16:32} [He
]{15:24} The way of life [is] above to the wise, that he may that is] slow to anger [is] better than the mighty; and he that
depart from hell beneath. {15:25} The LORD will destroy ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. {16:33} The lot is
the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof [is] of the
the widow. {15:26} The thoughts of the wicked [are] an LORD.
abomination to the LORD: but [the words] of the pure [are]
pleasant words. {15:27} He that is greedy of gain troubleth {17:1} Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith,
his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live. {15:28} than an house full of sacrifices [with] strife. {17:2} A wise
The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and
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shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren. spirit who can bear? {18:15} The heart of the prudent
{17:3} The fining pot [is] for silver, and the furnace for getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh
gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts. {17:4} A wicked doer knowledge. {18:16} A man’s gift maketh room for him, and
giveth heed to false lips; [and] a liar giveth ear to a naughty bringeth him before great men. {18:17} [He that is] first in
tongue. {17:5} Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his his own cause [seemeth] just; but his neighbour cometh and
Maker: [and] he that is glad at calamities shall not be searcheth him. {18:18} The lot causeth contentions to
unpunished. {17:6} Children’s children [are] the crown of cease, and parteth between the mighty. {18:19} A brother
old men; and the glory of children [are] their fathers. {17:7} offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city: and [their]
Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying contentions [are] like the bars of a castle. {18:20} A man’s
lips a prince. {17:8} A gift [is as] a precious stone in the belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; [and]
eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. {18:21}
prospereth. {17:9} He that covereth a transgression seeketh Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they
love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth [very] friends. that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. {18:22} [Whoso]
{17:10} A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an findeth a wife findeth a good [thing,] and obtaineth favour
hundred stripes into a fool. {17:11} An evil [man] seeketh of the LORD. {18:23} The poor useth intreaties; but the
only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent rich answereth roughly. {18:24} A man [that hath] friends
against him. {17:12} Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend [that]
a man, rather than a fool in his folly. {17:13} Whoso sticketh closer than a brother.
rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his
house. {17:14} The beginning of strife [is as] when one {19:1} Better [is] the poor that walketh in his integrity,
letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be than [he that is] perverse in his lips, and is a fool. {19:2}
meddled with. {17:15} He that justifieth the wicked, and he Also, [that] the soul [be] without knowledge, [it is] not
that condemneth the just, even they both [are] abomination good; and he that hasteth with [his] feet sinneth. {19:3} The
to the LORD. {17:16} Wherefore [is there] a price in the foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth
hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he hath] no heart [to against the LORD. {19:4} Wealth maketh many friends; but
it? ]{17:17} A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is the poor is separated from his neighbour. {19:5} A false
born for adversity. {17:18} A man void of understanding witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies
striketh hands, [and] becometh surety in the presence of his shall not escape. {19:6} Many will intreat the favour of the
friend. {17:19} He loveth transgression that loveth strife: prince: and every man [is] a friend to him that giveth gifts.
[and] he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction. {17:20} {19:7} All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth [them
hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief. {17:21} He with] words, [yet] they [are] wanting [to him. ]{19:8} He
that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow: and the father that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: [he that] keepeth
of a fool hath no joy. {17:22} A merry heart doeth good understanding shall find good. {19:9} A false witness shall
[like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
{17:23} A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom to {19:10} Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a
pervert the ways of judgment. {17:24} Wisdom [is] before servant to have rule over princes. {19:11} The discretion of
him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool [are] in a man deferreth his anger; and [it is] his glory to pass over a
the ends of the earth. {17:25} A foolish son [is] a grief to transgression. {19:12} The king’s wrath [is] as the roaring
his father, and bitterness to her that bare him. {17:26} Also of a lion; but his favour [is] as dew upon the grass. {19:13}
to punish the just [is] not good, [nor] to strike princes for A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the
equity. {17:27} He that hath knowledge spareth his words: contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping. {19:14}
[and] a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers and a
{17:28} Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted prudent wife [is] from the LORD. {19:15} Slothfulness
wise: [and] he that shutteth his lips [is esteemed] a man of casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer
understanding. hunger. {19:16} He that keepeth the commandment keepeth
his own soul; [but] he that despiseth his ways shall die.
{18:1} Through desire a man, having separated himself, {19:17} He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the
seeketh [and] intermeddleth with all wisdom. {18:2} A fool LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may {19:18} Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy
discover itself. {18:3} When the wicked cometh, [then] soul spare for his crying. {19:19} A man of great wrath
cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. {18:4} shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver [him,] yet thou
The words of a man’s mouth [are as] deep waters, [and] the must do it again. {19:20} Hear counsel, and receive
wellspring of wisdom [as] a flowing brook. {18:5} [It is] instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow {19:21} [There are] many devices in a man’s heart;
the righteous in judgment. {18:6} A fool’s lips enter into nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. {18:7} A {19:22} The desire of a man [is] his kindness: and a poor
fool’s mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare man [is] better than a liar. {19:23} The fear of the LORD
of his soul. {18:8} The words of a talebearer [are] as [tendeth] to life: and [he that hath it] shall abide satisfied; he
wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the shall not be visited with evil. {19:24} A slothful [man]
belly. {18:9} He also that is slothful in his work is brother hideth his hand in [his] bosom, and will not so much as
to him that is a great waster. {18:10} The name of the bring it to his mouth again. {19:25} Smite a scorner, and the
LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and simple will beware: and reprove one that hath
is safe. {18:11} The rich man’s wealth [is] his strong city, understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge.
and as an high wall in his own conceit. {18:12} Before {19:26} He that wasteth [his] father, [and] chaseth away
destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour [his] mother, [is] a son that causeth shame, and bringeth
[is] humility. {18:13} He that answereth a matter before he reproach. {19:27} Cease, my son, to hear the instruction
heareth [it,] it [is] folly and shame unto him. {18:14} The [that causeth] to err from the words of knowledge. {19:28}
spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of
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the wicked devoureth iniquity. {19:29} Judgments are {21:10} The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour
prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. findeth no favour in his eyes. {21:11} When the scorner is
punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is
{20:1} Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and instructed, he receiveth knowledge. {21:12} The righteous
whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. {20:2} The fear [man] wisely considereth the house of the wicked: [but
of a king [is] as the roaring of a lion: [whoso] provoketh God] overthroweth the wicked for [their] wickedness.
him to anger sinneth [against] his own soul. {20:3} [It is] an {21:13} Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he
honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. {21:14} A gift
meddling. {20:4} The sluggard will not plow by reason of in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong
the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] wrath. {21:15} [It is] joy to the just to do judgment: but
nothing. {20:5} Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity. {21:16}
water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. {20:6} The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a shall remain in the congregation of the dead. {21:17} He
faithful man who can find? {20:7} The just [man] walketh that loveth pleasure [shall be] a poor man: he that loveth
in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him. {20:8} wine and oil shall not be rich. {21:18} The wicked [shall
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away be] a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the
all evil with his eyes. {20:9} Who can say, I have made my upright. {21:19} [It is] better to dwell in the wilderness,
heart clean, I am pure from my sin? {20:10} Divers than with a contentious and an angry woman. {21:20}
weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike [There is] treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of
abomination to the LORD. {20:11} Even a child is known the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up. {21:21} He that
by his doings, whether his work [be] pure, and whether [it followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life,
be] right. {20:12} The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the righteousness, and honour. {21:22} A wise [man] scaleth
LORD hath made even both of them. {20:13} Love not the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the
sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou confidence thereof. {21:23} Whoso keepeth his mouth and
shalt be satisfied with bread. {20:14} [It is] naught, [it is] his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles. {21:24} Proud
naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then [and] haughty scorner [is] his name, who dealeth in proud
he boasteth. {20:15} There is gold, and a multitude of wrath. {21:25} The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his
rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel. hands refuse to labour. {21:26} He coveteth greedily all the
{20:16} Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not. {21:27}
take a pledge of him for a strange woman. {20:17} Bread of The sacrifice of the wicked [is] abomination: how much
deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be more, [when] he bringeth it with a wicked mind? {21:28} A
filled with gravel. {20:18} [Every] purpose is established by false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh
counsel: and with good advice make war. {20:19} He that constantly. {21:29} A wicked man hardeneth his face: but
goeth about [as] a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore [as for] the upright, he directeth his way. {21:30} [There is]
meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. {20:20} no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be LORD. {21:31} The horse [is] prepared against the day of
put out in obscure darkness. {20:21} An inheritance [may battle: but safety [is] of the LORD.
be] gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall
not be blessed. {20:22} Say not thou, I will recompense {22:1} A [good] name [is] rather to be chosen than great
evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee. riches, [and] loving favour rather than silver and gold.
{20:23} Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the {22:2} The rich and poor meet together: the LORD [is] the
LORD; and a false balance [is] not good. {20:24} Man’s maker of them all. {22:3} A prudent [man] foreseeth the
goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then understand evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are
his own way? {20:25} [It is] a snare to the man [who] punished. {22:4} By humility [and] the fear of the LORD
devoureth [that which is] holy, and after vows to make [are] riches, and honour, and life. {22:5} Thorns [and]
enquiry. {20:26} A wise king scattereth the wicked, and snares [are] in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his
bringeth the wheel over them. {20:27} The spirit of man [is] soul shall be far from them. {22:6} Train up a child in the
the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart
the belly. {20:28} Mercy and truth preserve the king: and from it. {22:7} The rich ruleth over the poor, and the
his throne is upholden by mercy. {20:29} The glory of borrower [is] servant to the lender. {22:8} He that soweth
young men [is] their strength: and the beauty of old men [is] iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
the grey head. {20:30} The blueness of a wound cleanseth {22:9} He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he
away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly. giveth of his bread to the poor. {22:10} Cast out the
scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach
{21:1} The king’s heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] shall cease. {22:11} He that loveth pureness of heart, [for]
the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. the grace of his lips the king [shall be] his friend. {22:12}
{21:2} Every way of a man [is] right in his own eyes: but The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he
the LORD pondereth the hearts. {21:3} To do justice and overthroweth the words of the transgressor. {22:13} The
judgment [is] more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion without, I shall be
{21:4} An high look, and a proud heart, [and] the plowing slain in the streets. {22:14} The mouth of strange women
of the wicked, [is] sin. {21:5} The thoughts of the diligent [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall
[tend] only to plenteousness; but of every one [that is] hasty therein. {22:15} Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a
only to want. {21:6} The getting of treasures by a lying child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek {22:16} He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches,
death. {21:7} The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; and] he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want.
because they refuse to do judgment. {21:8} The way of man {22:17} Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the
[is] froward and strange: but [as for] the pure, his work [is] wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. {22:18}
right. {21:9} [It is] better to dwell in a corner of the For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee;
housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. they shall withal be fitted in thy lips. {22:19} That thy trust
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may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, heart shall utter perverse things. {23:34} Yea, thou shalt be
even to thee. {22:20} Have not I written to thee excellent as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that
things in counsels and knowledge, {22:21} That I might lieth upon the top of a mast. {23:35} They have stricken
make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten
thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it
unto thee? {22:22} Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: yet again.
neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: {22:23} For the
LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that {24:1} Be not thou envious against evil men, neither
spoiled them. {22:24} Make no friendship with an angry desire to be with them. {24:2} For their heart studieth
man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: {22:25} Lest destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. {24:3} Through
thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. {22:26} Be wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is
not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that established: {24:4} And by knowledge shall the chambers
are sureties for debts. {22:27} If thou hast nothing to pay, be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. {24:5} A
why should he take away thy bed from under thee? {22:28} wise man [is] strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have strength. {24:6} For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy
set. {22:29} Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he war: and in multitude of counsellors [there is] safety. {24:7}
shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in
[men. the gate. {24:8} He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a
mischievous person. {24:9} The thought of foolishness [is]
]{23:1} When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider sin: and the scorner [is] an abomination to men. {24:10} [If]
diligently what [is] before thee: {23:2} And put a knife to thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small.
thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite. {23:3} Be {24:11} If thou forbear to deliver [them that are] drawn
not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful meat. unto death, and [those that are] ready to be slain; {24:12} If
{23:4} Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that
{23:5} Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for pondereth the heart consider [it?] and he that keepeth thy
[riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as soul, doth [not] he know [it?] and shall [not] he render to
an eagle toward heaven. {23:6} Eat thou not the bread of [every] man according to his works? {24:13} My son, eat
[him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty thou honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb,
meats: {23:7} For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat [which is] sweet to thy taste: {24:14} So [shall] the
and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee. knowledge of wisdom [be] unto thy soul: when thou hast
{23:8} The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit found [it,] then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation
up, and lose thy sweet words. {23:9} Speak not in the ears shall not be cut off. {24:15} Lay not wait, O wicked [man,]
of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting
{23:10} Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into place: {24:16} For a just [man] falleth seven times, and
the fields of the fatherless: {23:11} For their redeemer [is] riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. {23:12} Apply {24:17} Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not
thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: {24:18} Lest the
knowledge. {23:13} Withhold not correction from the child: LORD see [it,] and it displease him, and he turn away his
for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. wrath from him. {24:19} Fret not thyself because of evil
{23:14} Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver [men,] neither be thou envious at the wicked; {24:20} For
his soul from hell. {23:15} My son, if thine heart be wise, there shall be no reward to the evil [man;] the candle of the
my heart shall rejoice, even mine. {23:16} Yea, my reins wicked shall be put out. {24:21} My son, fear thou the
shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. {23:17} Let LORD and the king: [and] meddle not with them that are
not thine heart envy sinners: but [be thou] in the fear of the given to change: {24:22} For their calamity shall rise
LORD all the day long. {23:18} For surely there is an end; suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both? {24:23}
and thine expectation shall not be cut off. {23:19} Hear These [things] also [belong] to the wise. [It is] not good to
thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. have respect of persons in judgment. {24:24} He that saith
{23:20} Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of unto the wicked, Thou [art] righteous; him shall the people
flesh: {23:21} For the drunkard and the glutton shall come curse, nations shall abhor him: {24:25} But to them that
to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags. rebuke [him] shall be delight, and a good blessing shall
{23:22} Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and come upon them. {24:26} [Every man] shall kiss [his] lips
despise not thy mother when she is old. {23:23} Buy the that giveth a right answer. {24:27} Prepare thy work
truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and
understanding. {23:24} The father of the righteous shall afterwards build thine house. {24:28} Be not a witness
greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive [not] with
have joy of him. {23:25} Thy father and thy mother shall be thy lips. {24:29} Say not, I will do so to him as he hath
glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice. {23:26} My son, done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. {24:30} I went by the field of the slothful, and by the
{23:27} For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman vineyard of the man void of understanding; {24:31} And,
[is] a narrow pit. {23:28} She also lieth in wait as [for] a lo, it was all grown over with thorns, [and] nettles had
prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. {23:29} covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? broken down. {24:32} Then I saw, [and] considered [it]
who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who well: I looked upon [it, and] received instruction. {24:33}
hath redness of eyes? {23:30} They that tarry long at the [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. {23:31} Look not hands to sleep: {24:34} So shall thy poverty come as one
thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright. {23:32} At the
last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. {25:1} These [are] also proverbs of Solomon, which the
{23:33} Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. {25:2} [It is] the
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glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] the way; a lion [is] in the streets. {26:14} [As] the door
to search out a matter. {25:3} The heaven for height, and turneth upon his hinges, so [doth] the slothful upon his bed.
the earth for depth, and the heart of kings [is] unsearchable. {26:15} The slothful hideth his hand in [his] bosom; it
{25:4} Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth. {26:16} The
come forth a vessel for the finer. {25:5} Take away the sluggard [is] wiser in his own conceit than seven men that
wicked [from] before the king, and his throne shall be can render a reason. {26:17} He that passeth by, [and]
established in righteousness. {25:6} Put not forth thyself in meddleth with strife [belonging] not to him, [is like] one
the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great that taketh a dog by the ears. {26:18} As a mad [man] who
[men: ]{25:7} For better [it is] that it be said unto thee, casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, {26:19} So [is] the
Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the man [that] deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in
presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen. {25:8} sport? {26:20} Where no wood is, [there] the fire goeth out:
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest [thou know not] what to so where [there is] no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. {26:21}
do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to [As] coals [are] to burning coals, and wood to fire; so [is] a
shame. {25:9} Debate thy cause with thy neighbour contentious man to kindle strife. {26:22} The words of a
[himself;] and discover not a secret to another: {25:10} Lest talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the
he that heareth [it] put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn innermost parts of the belly. {26:23} Burning lips and a
not away. {25:11} A word fitly spoken [is like] apples of wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross.
gold in pictures of silver. {25:12} [As] an earring of gold, {26:24} He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth
and an ornament of fine gold, [so is] a wise reprover upon up deceit within him; {26:25} When he speaketh fair,
an obedient ear. {25:13} As the cold of snow in the time of believe him not: for [there are] seven abominations in his
harvest, [so is] a faithful messenger to them that send him: heart. {26:26} [Whose] hatred is covered by deceit, his
for he refresheth the soul of his masters. {25:14} Whoso wickedness shall be shewed before the [whole]
boasteth himself of a false gift [is like] clouds and wind congregation. {26:27} Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall
without rain. {25:15} By long forbearing is a prince therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. {25:16} {26:28} A lying tongue hateth [those that are] afflicted by
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. {25:17}
Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house; lest he be {27:1} Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest
weary of thee, and [so] hate thee. {25:18} A man that not what a day may bring forth. {27:2} Let another man
beareth false witness against his neighbour [is] a maul, and praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not
a sword, and a sharp arrow. {25:19} Confidence in an thine own lips. {27:3} A stone [is] heavy, and the sand
unfaithful man in time of trouble [is like] a broken tooth, weighty; but a fool’s wrath [is] heavier than them both.
and a foot out of joint. {25:20} [As] he that taketh away a {27:4} Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who
garment in cold weather, [and as] vinegar upon nitre, so [is] [is] able to stand before envy? {27:5} Open rebuke [is]
he that singeth songs to an heavy heart. {25:21} If thine better than secret love. {27:6} Faithful [are] the wounds of a
enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful. {27:7}
give him water to drink: {25:22} For thou shalt heap coals The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul
of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee. every bitter thing is sweet. {27:8} As a bird that wandereth
{25:23} The north wind driveth away rain: so [doth] an from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place.
angry countenance a backbiting tongue. {25:24} [It is] {27:9} Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth]
better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel. {27:10}
brawling woman and in a wide house. {25:25} [As] cold Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not;
waters to a thirsty soul, so [is] good news from a far neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy
country. {25:26} A righteous man falling down before the calamity: [for] better [is] a neighbour [that is] near than a
wicked [is as] a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. brother far off. {27:11} My son, be wise, and make my
{25:27} [It is ]not good to eat much honey: so [for men ]to heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
search their own glory [is not ]glory. {25:28} He that [hath] {27:12} A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth
no rule over his own spirit [is like] a city [that is] broken himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished.
down, [and] without walls. {27:13} Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and
take a pledge of him for a strange woman. {27:14} He that
{26:1} As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the
honour is not seemly for a fool. {26:2} As the bird by morning, it shall be counted a curse to him. {27:15} A
wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious
shall not come. {26:3} A whip for the horse, a bridle for the woman are alike. {27:16} Whosoever hideth her hideth the
ass, and a rod for the fool’s back. {26:4} Answer not a fool wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth
according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. [itself. ]{27:17} Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth
{26:5} Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise the countenance of his friend. {27:18} Whoso keepeth the
in his own conceit. {26:6} He that sendeth a message by the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his
hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, [and] drinketh damage. master shall be honoured. {27:19} As in water face
{26:7} The legs of the lame are not equal: so [is] a parable [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man. {27:20}
in the mouth of fools. {26:8} As he that bindeth a stone in a Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are
sling, so [is] he that giveth honour to a fool. {26:9} [As] a never satisfied. {27:21} [As] the fining pot for silver, and
thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so [is] a parable the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise. {27:22}
in the mouth of fools. {26:10} The great [God] that formed Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat
all [things] both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.
transgressors. {26:11} As a dog returneth to his vomit, [so] {27:23} Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks,
a fool returneth to his folly. {26:12} Seest thou a man wise [and] look well to thy herds. {27:24} For riches [are] not for
in his own conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool than of ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?
him. {26:13} The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion in {27:25} The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth
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itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. {27:26} The man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of {29:6} In the transgression of an evil man [there is] a snare:
the field. {27:27} And [thou shalt have] goats’ milk enough but the righteous doth sing and rejoice. {29:7} The
for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the righteous considereth the cause of the poor: [but] the
maintenance for thy maidens. wicked regardeth not to know [it. ]{29:8} Scornful men
bring a city into a snare: but wise [men] turn away wrath.
{28:1} The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the {29:9} [If] a wise man contendeth with a foolish man,
righteous are bold as a lion. {28:2} For the transgression of whether he rage or laugh, [there is] no rest. {29:10} The
a land many [are] the princes thereof: but by a man of bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
understanding [and] knowledge the state [thereof] shall be {29:11} A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise [man]
prolonged. {28:3} A poor man that oppresseth the poor [is keepeth it in till afterwards. {29:12} If a ruler hearken to
like] a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. {28:4} They lies, all his servants [are] wicked. {29:13} The poor and the
that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both
law contend with them. {28:5} Evil men understand not their eyes. {29:14} The king that faithfully judgeth the poor,
judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all his throne shall be established for ever. {29:15} The rod and
[things. ]{28:6} Better [is] the poor that walketh in his reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself] bringeth
uprightness, than [he that is] perverse [in his] ways, though his mother to shame. {29:16} When the wicked are
he [be] rich. {28:7} Whoso keepeth the law [is] a wise son: multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall
but he that is a companion of riotous [men] shameth his see their fall. {29:17} Correct thy son, and he shall give
father. {28:8} He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. {29:18}
his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the Where [there is] no vision, the people perish: but he that
poor. {28:9} He that turneth away his ear from hearing the keepeth the law, happy [is] he. {29:19} A servant will not
law, even his prayer [shall be] abomination. {28:10} Whoso be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not
causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall answer. {29:20} Seest thou a man [that is] hasty in his
fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good words? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him. {29:21}
[things] in possession. {28:11} The rich man [is] wise in his He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall
own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth have him become [his] son at the length. {29:22} An angry
him out. {28:12} When righteous [men] do rejoice, [there man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in
is] great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden. transgression. {29:23} A man’s pride shall bring him low:
{28:13} He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. {29:24}
whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall have mercy. Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he
{28:14} Happy [is] the man that feareth alway: but he that heareth cursing, and bewrayeth [it] not. {29:25} The fear of
hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief. {28:15} [As] a man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the
roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over LORD shall be safe. {29:26} Many seek the ruler’s favour;
the poor people. {28:16} The prince that wanteth but [every] man’s judgment [cometh] from the LORD.
understanding [is] also a great oppressor: [but] he that {29:27} An unjust man [is] an abomination to the just: and
hateth covetousness shall prolong [his] days. {28:17} A [he that is] upright in the way [is] abomination to the
man that doeth violence to the blood of [any] person shall wicked.
flee to the pit; let no man stay him. {28:18} Whoso walketh
uprightly shall be saved: but [he that is] perverse [in his] {30:1} The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, [even] the
ways shall fall at once. {28:19} He that tilleth his land shall prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and
have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain Ucal, {30:2} Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man,
[persons] shall have poverty enough. {28:20} A faithful and have not the understanding of a man. {30:3} I neither
man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
to be rich shall not be innocent. {28:21} To have respect of {30:4} Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended?
persons [is] not good: for for a piece of bread [that] man who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the
will transgress. {28:22} He that hasteth to be rich [hath] an waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of
evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon the earth? what [is] his name, and what [is] his son’s name,
him. {28:23} He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find if thou canst tell? {30:5} Every word of God [is] pure: he
more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue. {28:24} [is] a shield unto them that put their trust in him. {30:6}
Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, [It is] no Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou
transgression; the same [is] the companion of a destroyer. be found a liar. {30:7} Two [things] have I required of thee;
{28:25} He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he deny me [them] not before I die: {30:8} Remove far from
that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat. me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed
{28:26} He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but me with food convenient for me: {30:9} Lest I be full, and
whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered. {28:27} He deny [thee,] and say, Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor,
that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain. ]{30:10}
his eyes shall have many a curse. {28:28} When the wicked Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and
rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the thou be found guilty. {30:11} [There is] a generation [that]
righteous increase. curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. {30:12}
[There is] a generation [that are] pure in their own eyes, and
{29:1} He, that being often reproved hardeneth [his] neck, [yet] is not washed from their filthiness. {30:13} [There is]
shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids
{29:2} When the righteous are in authority, the people are lifted up. {30:14} [There is] a generation, whose teeth
rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people [are as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, to devour
mourn. {29:3} Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: the poor from off the earth, and the needy from [among]
but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth [his] men. {30:15} The horseleach hath two daughters, [crying,]
substance. {29:4} The king by judgment establisheth the Give, give. There are three [things that are] never satisfied,
land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it. {29:5} A [yea,] four [things] say not, [It is] enough: {30:16} The
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grave; and the barren womb; the earth [that] is not filled maketh fine linen, and selleth [it;] and delivereth girdles
with water; and the fire [that] saith not, [It is] enough. unto the merchant. {31:25} Strength and honour [are] her
{30:17} The eye [that] mocketh at [his] father, and clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. {31:26} She
despiseth to obey [his] mother, the ravens of the valley shall openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue [is] the
pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. {30:18} There law of kindness. {31:27} She looketh well to the ways of
be three [things which] are too wonderful for me, yea, four her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. {31:28}
which I know not: {30:19} The way of an eagle in the air; Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband
the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the [also,] and he praiseth her. {31:29} Many daughters have
midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. {30:20} done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. {31:30} Favour
Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that]
wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness. feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. {31:31} Give her of
{30:21} For three [things] the earth is disquieted, and for the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in
four [which] it cannot bear: {30:22} For a servant when he the gates.
reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat; {30:23}
For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an
handmaid that is heir to her mistress. {30:24} There be four
[things which are] little upon the earth, but they [are]
exceeding wise: {30:25} The ants [are] a people not strong,
yet they prepare their meat in the summer; {30:26} The
conies [are but] a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in
the rocks; {30:27} The locusts have no king, yet go they
forth all of them by bands; {30:28} The spider taketh hold
with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces. {30:29} There be
three [things] which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
{30:30} A lion [which is] strongest among beasts, and
turneth not away for any; {30:31} A greyhound; an he goat
also; and a king, against whom [there is] no rising up.
{30:32} If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if
thou hast thought evil, [lay] thine hand upon thy mouth.
{30:33} Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter,
and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the
forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
{48:15} And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth
over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a
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The Book of Daniel Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams,
wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from
him. {2:2} Then the king commanded to call the magicians,
and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans,
{1:1} In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood
Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto before the king. {2:3} And the king said unto them, I have
Jerusalem, and besieged it. {1:2} And the Lord gave dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the
Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the dream. {2:4} Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in
vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream,
of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels and we will shew the interpretation. {2:5} The king
into the treasure house of his god. answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from
me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the
{1:3} And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your
eunuchs, that he should bring [certain] of the children of houses shall be made a dunghill. {2:6} But if ye shew the
Israel, and of the king’s seed, and of the princes; {1:4} dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me
Children in whom [was] no blemish, but well favoured, and gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the
skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and dream, and the interpretation thereof. {2:7} They answered
understanding science, and such as [had] ability in them to again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and
stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the we will shew the interpretation of it. {2:8} The king
learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans. {1:5} And the answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain
king appointed them a daily provision of the king’s meat, the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me. {2:9}
and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, [there is
years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the but] one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and
king. {1:6} Now among these were of the children of Judah, corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed:
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: {1:7} Unto whom therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can
the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto shew me the interpretation thereof.
Daniel [the name] of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of
Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of {2:10} The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said,
Abed-nego. There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s
matter: therefore [there is] no king, lord, nor ruler, [that]
{1:8} But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or
defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with Chaldean. {2:11} And [it is] a rare thing that the king
the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the
prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. {1:9} king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love {2:12} For this cause the king was angry and very furious,
with the prince of the eunuchs. {1:10} And the prince of the and commanded to destroy all the wise [men] of Babylon.
eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath {2:13} And the decree went forth that the wise [men]
appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to
your faces worse liking than the children which [are] of be slain.
your sort? then shall ye make [me] endanger my head to the
king. {1:11} Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince {2:14} Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to
of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, which was gone
Azariah, {1:12} Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten forth to slay the wise [men] of Babylon: {2:15} He
days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, Why [is]
{1:13} Then let our countenances be looked upon before the decree [so] hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the
thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the thing known to Daniel. {2:16} Then Daniel went in, and
portion of the king’s meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he
servants. {1:14} So he consented to them in this matter, and would shew the king the interpretation. {2:17} Then Daniel
proved them ten days. {1:15} And at the end of ten days went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah,
their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: {2:18} That they
all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat. would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this
{1:16} Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the
and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse. rest of the wise [men] of Babylon.
{1:17} As for these four children, God gave them {2:19} Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a
knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
had understanding in all visions and dreams. {1:18} Now at {2:20} Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of
the end of the days that the king had said he should bring God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in {2:21} And he changeth the times and the seasons: he
before Nebuchadnezzar. {1:19} And the king communed removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom
with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know
Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they understanding: {2:22} He revealeth the deep and secret
before the king. {1:20} And in all matters of wisdom [and] things: he knoweth what [is] in the darkness, and the light
understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found dwelleth with him. {2:23} I thank thee, and praise thee, O
them ten times better than all the magicians [and] thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and
astrologers that [were] in all his realm. {1:21} And Daniel might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired
continued [even] unto the first year of king Cyrus. of thee: for thou hast [now] made known unto us the king’s
matter.
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{2:24} Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass,
king had ordained to destroy the wise [men] of Babylon: he the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made
went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise [men] of known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and
Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
the king the interpretation. {2:25} Then Arioch brought in
Daniel before the king in haste and said thus unto him, I {2:46} Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face,
have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should
known unto the king the interpretation. {2:26} The king offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him. {2:47} The
answered and said to Daniel, whose name [was] king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth [it is,] that
Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a
dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof? revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldst reveal this secret.
{2:27} Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and {2:48} Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave
said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole
wise [men,] the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the
shew unto the king; {2:28} But there is a God in heaven wise [men] of Babylon. {2:49} Then Daniel requested of
that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego,
Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel [sat]
and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these; {2:29} in the gate of the king.
As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came [into thy mind] upon
thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that {3:1} Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold,
revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to whose height [was] threescore cubits, [and] the breadth
pass. {2:30} But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the
for [any] wisdom that I have more than any living, but for province of Babylon. {3:2} Then Nebuchadnezzar the king
[their] sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the
king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart. captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the
sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the
{2:31} Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had
This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood set up. {3:3} Then the princes, the governors, and captains,
before thee; and the form thereof [was] terrible. {2:32} This the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and
image’s head [was] of fine gold, his breast and his arms of all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto
silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, {2:33} His legs of the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king
iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. {2:34} Thou had set up; and they stood before the image that
sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which Nebuchadnezzar had set up. {3:4} Then an herald cried
smote the image upon his feet [that were] of iron and clay, aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and
and brake them to pieces. {2:35} Then was the iron, the languages, {3:5} [That] at what time ye hear the sound of
clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all
together, and became like the chaff of the summer kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image
threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: {3:6} And whoso
place was found for them: and the stone that smote the falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be
image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. {3:7}
Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound
{2:36} This [is] the dream; and we will tell the of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of
interpretation thereof before the king. {2:37} Thou, O king, musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell
[art] a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee down [and] worshipped the golden image that
a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. {2:38} And Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the
field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine {3:8} Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came
hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou [art] this near, and accused the Jews. {3:9} They spake and said to
head of gold. {2:39} And after thee shall arise another the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever. {3:10}
kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall
brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. {2:40} And hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery,
the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and
iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all [things:] and as iron worship the golden image: {3:11} And whoso falleth not
that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. down and worshippeth, [that] he should be cast into the
{2:41} And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of midst of a burning fiery furnace. {3:12} There are certain
potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of
but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men, O
as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. {2:42} And king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor
[as] the toes of the feet [were] part of iron, and part of clay, worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
{2:43} And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, {3:13} Then Nebuchadnezzar in [his] rage and fury
they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.
shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed Then they brought these men before the king. {3:14}
with clay. {2:44} And in the days of these kings shall the Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, [Is it] true, O
God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my
destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
[but] it shall break in pieces and consume all these {3:15} Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the
kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. {2:45} Forasmuch as sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and
thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship
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the image which I have made; [well:] but if ye worship not, me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of
ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning my head troubled me. {4:6} Therefore made I a decree to
fiery furnace; and who [is] that God that shall deliver you bring in all the wise [men] of Babylon before me, that they
out of my hands? {3:16} Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed- might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream.
nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we {4:7} Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the
[are] not careful to answer thee in this matter. {3:17} If it be Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before
[so,] our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the them; but they did not make known unto me the
burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us] out of thine interpretation thereof.
hand, O king. {3:18} But if not, be it known unto thee, O
king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the {4:8} But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose
golden image which thou hast set up. name [was] Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god,
and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I
{3:19} Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the told the dream, [saying, ]{4:9} O Belteshazzar, master of
form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy
and Abed-nego: [therefore] he spake, and commanded that gods [is] in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the
they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation
was wont to be heated. {3:20} And he commanded the most thereof. {4:10} Thus [were] the visions of mine head in my
mighty men that [were] in his army to bind Shadrach, bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and
Meshach, and Abed-nego, [and] to cast [them] into the the height thereof [was] great. {4:11} The tree grew, and
burning fiery furnace. {3:21} Then these men were bound was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and
in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their [other] the sight thereof to the end of all the earth: {4:12} The
garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery leaves thereof [were] fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in
furnace. {3:22} Therefore because the king’s it [was] meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow
commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs
the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, thereof, and all flesh was fed of it. {4:13} I saw in the
Meshach, and Abed- nego. {3:23} And these three men, visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into and an holy one came down from heaven; {4:14} He cried
the midst of the burning fiery furnace. {3:24} Then aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his
Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the
haste, [and] spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his
cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They branches: {4:15} Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots
answered and said unto the king, True, O king. {3:25} He in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the
answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of
midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the heaven, and [let] his portion [be] with the beasts in the grass
fourth is like the Son of God. of the earth: {4:16} Let his heart be changed from man’s,
and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven
{3:26} Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of times pass over him. {4:17} This matter [is] by the decree
the burning fiery furnace, [and] spake, and said, Shadrach, of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy
Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the most high God, ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most
come forth, and come [hither.] Then Shadrach, Meshach, High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to
and Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of the fire. {3:27} whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of
And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s men. {4:18} This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen.
counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation
whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their thereof, forasmuch as all the wise [men] of my kingdom are
head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell not able to make known unto me the interpretation: but thou
of fire had passed on them. {3:28} [Then] Nebuchadnezzar [art] able; for the spirit of the holy gods [is] in thee.
spake, and said, Blessed [be] the God of Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and {4:19} Then Daniel, whose name [was] Belteshazzar, was
delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The
the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the
not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered
{3:29} Therefore I make a decree, That every people, and said, My lord, the dream [be] to them that hate thee, and
nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the interpretation thereof to thine enemies. {4:20} The tree
the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height
in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the
because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort. earth; {4:21} Whose leaves [were] fair, and the fruit thereof
{3:30} Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and much, and in it [was] meat for all; under which the beasts of
Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon. the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the
heaven had their habitation: {4:22} It [is] thou, O king, that
{4:1} Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown,
and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of
multiplied unto you. {4:2} I thought it good to shew the the earth. {4:23} And whereas the king saw a watcher and
signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew
me. {4:3} How great [are] his signs! and how mighty [are] the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the
his wonders! his kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and
his dominion [is] from generation to generation. brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with
the dew of heaven, and [let] his portion [be] with the beasts
{4:4} I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and of the field, till seven times pass over him; {4:24} This [is]
flourishing in my palace: {4:5} I saw a dream which made the interpretation, O king, and this [is] the decree of the
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most High, which is come upon my lord the king: {4:25} that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote
That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall one against another. {5:7} The king cried aloud to bring in
be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. [And]
eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of the king spake, and said to the wise [men] of Babylon,
heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the
that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and
it to whomsoever he will. {4:26} And whereas they [have] a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third
commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy ruler in the kingdom. {5:8} Then came in all the king’s wise
kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have [men:] but they could not read the writing, nor make known
known that the heavens do rule. {4:27} Wherefore, O king, to the king the interpretation thereof. {5:9} Then was king
let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was
sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy
tranquility. {5:10} [Now] the queen, by reason of the words of the
king and his lords, came into the banquet house: [and] the
{4:28} All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy
{4:29} At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:
of the kingdom of Babylon. {4:30} The king spake, and {5:11} There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom [is] the
said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light
of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the
honour of my majesty? {4:31} While the word [was] in the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar
king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, [saying,] O thy father, the king, [I say,] thy father, made master of the
king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, [and] soothsayers;
departed from thee. {4:32} And they shall drive thee from {5:12} Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge,
men, and thy dwelling [shall be] with the beasts of the field: and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of
they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the
shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let
ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation. {5:13}
he will. {4:33} The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Then was Daniel brought in before the king. [And] the king
Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat spake and said unto Daniel, [Art] thou that Daniel, which
grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of [art] of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the
heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles [feathers,] and king my father brought out of Jewry? {5:14} I have even
his nails like birds’ [claws. ]{4:34} And at the end of the heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods [is] in thee, and
days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, [that] light and understanding and excellent wisdom is
and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the found in thee. {5:15} And now the wise [men,] the
most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they
ever, whose dominion [is] an everlasting dominion, and his should read this writing, and make known unto me the
kingdom [is] from generation to generation: {4:35} And all interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the
the inhabitants of the earth [are] reputed as nothing: and he interpretation of the thing: {5:16} And I have heard of thee,
doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts:
[among] the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me
hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? {4:36} At the same the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet,
time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my and [have] a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the
kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; third ruler in the kingdom.
and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was
established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was {5:17} Then Daniel answered and said before the king,
added unto me. {4:37} Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another;
extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works [are] yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to
truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride him the interpretation. {5:18} O thou king, the most high
he is able to abase. God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and
majesty, and glory, and honour: {5:19} And for the majesty
{5:1} Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages,
of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. {5:2} trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew;
Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he
the golden and silver vessels which his father set up; and whom he would he put down. {5:20} But when
Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which [was] in his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he
Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory
concubines, might drink therein. {5:3} Then they brought from him: {5:21} And he was driven from the sons of men;
the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling
house of God which [was] at Jerusalem; and the king, and [was] with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen,
his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew
{5:4} They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and
silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. [that] he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. {5:22}
And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine
{5:5} In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s heart, though thou knewest all this; {5:23} But hast lifted up
hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought
plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords,
the part of the hand that wrote. {5:6} Then the king’s thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them;
countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass,
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iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and
and the God in whose hand thy breath [is,] and whose [are] Persians [is,] That no decree nor statute which the king
all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: {5:24} Then was the establisheth may be changed. {6:16} Then the king
part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast [him] into
the den of lions. [Now] the king spake and said unto Daniel,
{5:25} And this [is] the writing that was written, MENE, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver
MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. {5:26} This [is] the thee. {6:17} And a stone was brought and laid upon the
interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet,
kingdom, and finished it. {5:27} TEKEL; Thou art weighed and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not
in the balances, and art found wanting. {5:28} PERES; Thy be changed concerning Daniel.
kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
{5:29} Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed {6:18} Then the king went to his palace, and passed the
Daniel with scarlet, and [put] a chain of gold about his neck, night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought
and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be before him: and his sleep went from him. {6:19} Then the
the third ruler in the kingdom. king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto
the den of lions. {6:20} And when he came to the den, he
{5:30} In that night was Belshazzar the king of the cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: [and] the king
Chaldeans slain. {5:31} And Darius the Median took the spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living
kingdom, [being] about threescore and two years old. God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to
deliver thee from the lions? {6:21} Then said Daniel unto
{6:1} It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an the king, O king, live for ever. {6:22} My God hath sent his
hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the angel, and hath shut the lions mouths, that they have not
whole kingdom; {6:2} And over these three presidents; of hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in
whom Daniel [was] first: that the princes might give me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage. {6:23} Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and
{6:3} Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den.
and princes, because an excellent spirit [was] in him; and So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of
the king thought to set him over the whole realm. hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.
{6:4} Then the presidents and princes sought to find {6:24} And the king commanded, and they brought those
occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they men which had accused Daniel, and they cast [them] into
could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he [was] the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and
faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones
{6:5} Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
against this Daniel, except we find [it] against him
concerning the law of his God. {6:6} Then these presidents {6:25} Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations,
and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be
unto him, King Darius, live for ever. {6:7} All the multiplied unto you. {6:26} I make a decree, That in every
presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the
the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for
establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that ever, and his kingdom [that] which shall not be destroyed,
whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty and his dominion [shall be even] unto the end. {6:27} He
days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders
lions. {6:8} Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the
writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the power of the lions. {6:28} So this Daniel prospered in the
Medes and Persians, which altereth not. {6:9} Wherefore reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
{7:1} In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon
{6:10} Now when Daniel knew that the writing was Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed:
signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open then he wrote the dream, [and] told the sum of the matters.
in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees {7:2} Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night,
three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the
God, as he did aforetime. {6:11} Then these men great sea. {7:3} And four great beasts came up from the sea,
assembled, and found Daniel praying and making diverse one from another. {7:4} The first [was] like a lion,
supplication before his God. {6:12} Then they came near, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were
and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand
Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.
[a petition] of any God or man within thirty days, save of {7:5} And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear,
thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king and it raised up itself on one side, and [it had] three ribs in
answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus
the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. {6:13} Then unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. {7:6} After this I beheld,
answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it
[is] of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and
thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but dominion was given to it. {7:7} After this I saw in the night
maketh his petition three times a day. {6:14} Then the king, visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and
when he heard [these] words, was sore displeased with strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured
himself, and set [his] heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of
laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him. it: and it [was] diverse from all the beasts that [were] before
{6:15} Then these men assembled unto the king, and said it; and it had ten horns. {7:8} I considered the horns, and,
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behold, there came up among them another little horn, {8:1} In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a
before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up vision appeared unto me, [even unto] me Daniel, after that
by the roots: and, behold, in this horn [were] eyes like the which appeared unto me at the first. {8:2} And I saw in a
eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I [was] at
Shushan [in] the palace, which [is] in the province of Elam;
{7:9} I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai. {8:3}
Ancient of days did sit, whose garment [was] white as Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there
snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne stood before the river a ram which had [two] horns: and the
[was like] the fiery flame, [and] his wheels [as] burning fire. [two] horns [were] high; but one [was] higher than the
{7:10} A fiery stream issued and came forth from before other, and the higher came up last. {8:4} I saw the ram
him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that
thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment no beasts might stand before him, neither [was there any]
was set, and the books were opened. {7:11} I beheld then that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to
because of the voice of the great words which the horn his will, and became great. {8:5} And as I was considering,
spake: I beheld [even] till the beast was slain, and his body behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the
destroyed, and given to the burning flame. {7:12} As whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat [had]
concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion a notable horn between his eyes. {8:6} And he came to the
taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and ram that had [two] horns, which I had seen standing before
time. {7:13} I saw in the night visions, and, behold, [one] the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. {8:7}
like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved
came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his
before him. {7:14} And there was given him dominion, and two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand
glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and
languages, should serve him: his dominion [is] an stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver
everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his the ram out of his hand. {8:8} Therefore the he goat waxed
kingdom [that] which shall not be destroyed. very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was
broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four
{7:15} I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of winds of heaven. {8:9} And out of one of them came forth a
[my] body, and the visions of my head troubled me. {7:16} little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south,
I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him and toward the east, and toward the pleasant [land. ]{8:10}
the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the And it waxed great, [even] to the host of heaven; and it cast
interpretation of the things. {7:17} These great beasts, down [some] of the host and of the stars to the ground, and
which are four, [are] four kings, [which] shall arise out of stamped upon them. {8:11} Yea, he magnified [himself]
the earth. {7:18} But the saints of the most High shall take even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily
the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for [sacrifice] was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary
ever and ever. {7:19} Then I would know the truth of the was cast down. {8:12} And an host was given [him] against
fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, the daily [sacrifice] by reason of transgression, and it cast
exceeding dreadful, whose teeth [were of] iron, and his nails down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
[of] brass; [which] devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped
the residue with his feet; {7:20} And of the ten horns that {8:13} Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint
[were] in his head, and [of] the other which came up, and said unto that certain [saint] which spake, How long [shall
before whom three fell; even [of] that horn that had eyes, be] the vision [concerning] the daily [sacrifice,] and the
and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look [was] transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and
more stout than his fellows. {7:21} I beheld, and the same the host to be trodden under foot? {8:14} And he said unto
horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall
{7:22} Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was the sanctuary be cleansed.
given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that
the saints possessed the kingdom. {7:23} Thus he said, The {8:15} And it came to pass, when I, [even] I Daniel, had
fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold,
shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the there stood before me as the appearance of a man. {8:16}
whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And I heard a man’s voice between [the banks of] Ulai,
{7:24} And the ten horns out of this kingdom [are] ten which called, and said, Gabriel, make this [man] to
kings [that] shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and understand the vision. {8:17} So he came near where I
he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my
kings. {7:25} And he shall speak [great] words against the face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at
most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, the time of the end [shall be] the vision. {8:18} Now as he
and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face
into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.
{7:26} But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away {8:19} And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what
his dominion, to consume and to destroy [it] unto the end. shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time
{7:27} And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness appointed the end [shall be. ]{8:20} The ram which thou
of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to sawest having [two] horns [are] the kings of Media and
the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom Persia. {8:21} And the rough goat [is] the king of Grecia:
[is] an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and the great horn that [is] between his eyes [is] the first
and obey him. {7:28} Hitherto [is] the end of the matter. As king. {8:22} Now that being broken, whereas four stood up
for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not
countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my in his power. {8:23} And in the latter time of their kingdom,
heart. when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce
countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand
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up. {8:24} And his power shall be mighty, but not by his sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy
own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall people [are become] a reproach to all [that are] about us.
prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the {9:17} Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy
holy people. {8:25} And through his policy also he shall servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine
cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
[himself] in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he {9:18} O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine
shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is
be broken without hand. {8:26} And the vision of the called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications
evening and the morning which was told [is] true: before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great
wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it [shall be] for many mercies. {9:19} O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord,
days. {8:27} And I Daniel fainted, and was sick [certain] hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God:
days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s business; and I for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
was astonished at the vision, but none understood [it.
{9:20} And whiles I [was] speaking, and praying, and
]{9:1} In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and
the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for
of the Chaldeans; {9:2} In the first year of his reign I Daniel the holy mountain of my God; {9:21} Yea, whiles I [was]
understood by books the number of the years, whereof the speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen
word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly,
would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of touched me about the time of the evening oblation. {9:22}
Jerusalem. And he informed [me,] and talked with me, and said, O
Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and
{9:3} And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by understanding. {9:23} At the beginning of thy supplications
prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew
ashes: {9:4} And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and [thee;] for thou [art] greatly beloved: therefore understand
made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and the matter, and consider the vision. {9:24} Seventy weeks
dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to
love him, and to them that keep his commandments; {9:5} finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting
done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and
thy precepts and from thy judgments: {9:6} Neither have to anoint the most Holy. {9:25} Know therefore and
we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake understand, [that] from the going forth of the commandment
in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the
all the people of the land. {9:7} O Lord, righteousness Prince [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two
[belongeth] unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in
this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of troublous times. {9:26} And after threescore and two weeks
Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, [that are] near, and [that are] shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people
far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the
them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and
against thee. {9:8} O Lord, to us [belongeth] confusion of unto the end of the war desolations are determined. {9:27}
face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:
we have sinned against thee. {9:9} To the Lord our God and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and
[belong] mercies and forgivenesses, though we have the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of
rebelled against him; {9:10} Neither have we obeyed the abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the
voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon
set before us by his servants the prophets. {9:11} Yea, all the desolate.
Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that
they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured {10:1} In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing
upon us, and the oath that [is] written in the law of Moses was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called
the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. Belteshazzar; and the thing [was] true, but the time
{9:12} And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake appointed [was] long: and he understood the thing, and had
against us, and against our judges that judged us, by understanding of the vision. {10:2} In those days I Daniel
bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven was mourning three full weeks. {10:3} I ate no pleasant
hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did
{9:13} As [it is] written in the law of Moses, all this evil is I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the {10:4} And in the four and twentieth day of the first month,
LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and as I was by the side of the great river, which [is] Hiddekel;
understand thy truth. {9:14} Therefore hath the LORD {10:5} Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a
watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the certain man clothed in linen, whose loins [were] girded with
LORD our God [is] righteous in all his works which he fine gold of Uphaz: {10:6} His body also [was] like the
doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. {9:15} And now, O beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his
Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour
land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice
renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done of a multitude. {10:7} And I Daniel alone saw the vision:
wickedly. for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a
great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide
{9:16} O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I themselves. {10:8} Therefore I was left alone, and saw this
beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my
from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained
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no strength. {10:9} Yet heard I the voice of his words: and he shall continue [more] years than the king of the north.
when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep {11:9} So the king of the south shall come into [his]
sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground. kingdom, and shall return into his own land. {11:10} But
his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude
{10:10} And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me of great forces: and [one] shall certainly come, and
upon my knees and [upon] the palms of my hands. {10:11} overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be
And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, stirred up, [even] to his fortress. {11:11} And the king of
understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth
upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had and fight with him, [even] with the king of the north: and he
spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling. {10:12} Then shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be
said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that given into his hand. {11:12} [And] when he hath taken
thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall
thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am cast down [many] ten thousands: but he shall not be
come for thy words. {10:13} But the prince of the kingdom strengthened [by it. ]{11:13} For the king of the north shall
of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the
Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a
remained there with the kings of Persia. {10:14} Now I am great army and with much riches. {11:14} And in those
come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people times there shall many stand up against the king of the
in the latter days: for yet the vision [is] for [many] days. south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves
{10:15} And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set to establish the vision; but they shall fall. {11:15} So the
my face toward the ground, and I became dumb. {10:16} king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take
And, behold, [one] like the similitude of the sons of men the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not
touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and withstand, neither his chosen people, neither [shall there be
said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision any] strength to withstand. {11:16} But he that cometh
my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no against him shall do according to his own will, and none
strength. {10:17} For how can the servant of this my lord shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious
talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there land, which by his hand shall be consumed. {11:17} He
remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole
me. {10:18} Then there came again and touched me [one] kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and
like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me, he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her:
{10:19} And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace but she shall not stand [on his side,] neither be for him.
[be] unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had {11:18} After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and
spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause
speak; for thou hast strengthened me. {10:20} Then said he, the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own
Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I reproach he shall cause [it] to turn upon him. {11:19} Then
return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he
forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. {10:21} But I will shall stumble and fall, and not be found. {11:20} Then shall
shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes [in] the glory of the
[there is] none that holdeth with me in these things, but kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither
Michael your prince. in anger, nor in battle. {11:21} And in his estate shall stand
up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of
{11:1} Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, [even] the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the
I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. {11:2} And now kingdom by flatteries. {11:22} And with the arms of a flood
will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be
three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant. {11:23} And
[they] all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir after the league [made] with him he shall work deceitfully:
up all against the realm of Grecia. {11:3} And a mighty for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small
king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and people. {11:24} He shall enter peaceably even upon the
do according to his will. {11:4} And when he shall stand fattest places of the province; and he shall do [that] which
up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall
toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: [yea,]
nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds,
kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those. even for a time. {11:25} And he shall stir up his power and
his courage against the king of the south with a great army;
{11:5} And the king of the south shall be strong, and and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a
[one] of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they
have dominion; his dominion [shall be] a great dominion. shall forecast devices against him. {11:26} Yea, they that
{11:6} And in the end of years they shall join themselves feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his
together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.
the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall {11:27} And both these kings’ hearts [shall be] to do
not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall
his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, not prosper: for yet the end [shall be] at the time appointed.
and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in [these] {11:28} Then shall he return into his land with great riches;
times. {11:7} But out of a branch of her roots shall [one] and his heart [shall be] against the holy covenant; and he
stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall do [exploits,] and return to his own land. {11:29} At
shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the
shall deal against them, and shall prevail: {11:8} And shall south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.
also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes,
[and] with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and {11:30} For the ships of Chittim shall come against him:
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therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have wonders? {12:7} And I heard the man clothed in linen,
indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he which [was] upon the waters of the river, when he held up
shall even return, and have intelligence with them that his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by
forsake the holy covenant. {11:31} And arms shall stand on him that liveth for ever that [it shall be] for a time, times,
his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter
shall take away the daily [sacrifice,] and they shall place the the power of the holy people, all these [things] shall be
abomination that maketh desolate. {11:32} And such as do finished. {12:8} And I heard, but I understood not: then said
wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: I, O my Lord, what [shall be] the end of these [things?
but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and ]{12:9} And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words
do [exploits. ]{11:33} And they that understand among the [are] closed up and sealed till the time of the end. {12:10}
people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the
and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, [many] days. wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall
{11:34} Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with understand; but the wise shall understand. {12:11} And
a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. from the time [that] the daily [sacrifice] shall be taken
{11:35} And [some] of them of understanding shall fall, to away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up,
try them, and to purge, and to make [them] white, [even] to [there shall be] a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
the time of the end: because [it is] yet for a time appointed. {12:12} Blessed [is] he that waiteth, and cometh to the
{11:36} And the king shall do according to his will; and he thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. {12:13}
shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, But go thou thy way till the end [be:] for thou shalt rest, and
and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for
that that is determined shall be done. {11:37} Neither shall
he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women,
nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
{11:38} But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:
and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with
gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant
things. {11:39} Thus shall he do in the most strong holds
with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge [and]
increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over
many, and shall divide the land for gain. {11:40} And at the
time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and
the king of the north shall come against him like a
whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with
many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall
overflow and pass over. {11:41} He shall enter also into the
glorious land, and many [countries] shall be overthrown:
but these shall escape out of his hand, [even] Edom, and
Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. {11:42} He
shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the
land of Egypt shall not escape. {11:43} But he shall have
power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all
the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the
Ethiopians [shall be] at his steps. {11:44} But tidings out of
the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he
shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make
away many. {11:45} And he shall plant the tabernacles of
his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain;
yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
{12:1} And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great
prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and
there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since
there was a nation [even] to that same time: and at that time
thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found
written in the book. {12:2} And many of them that sleep in
the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life,
and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt. {12:3} And
they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the
firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the
stars for ever and ever. {12:4} But thou, O Daniel, shut up
the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the end:
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
{7:14} Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine
heritage, which dwell solitarily [in] the wood, in the midst
of Carmel: let them feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the
days of old. {7:15} According to the days of thy coming out
of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous
[things.
{14:4} And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount
of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem on the east, and the
mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the
east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great
valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the
north, and half of it toward the south. {14:5} And ye shall
flee [to] the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the
mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as
ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah
king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, [and] all
the saints with thee. {14:6} And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] the light shall not be clear, [nor] dark: {14:7} But
it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not
day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, [that] at evening
time it shall be light. {14:8} And it shall be in that day,
[that] living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of
them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the
hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. {14:9} And
the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall
there be one LORD, and his name one. {14:10} All the land
shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of
Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her
place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate,
unto the corner gate, and [from] the tower of Hananeel unto
the king’s winepresses. {14:11} And [men] shall dwell in it,
and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem
shall be safely inhabited.
{3:13} Your words have been stout against me, saith the
LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken [so much] against
thee? {3:14} Ye have said, It [is] vain to serve God: and
what profit [is it] that we have kept his ordinance, and that
we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
{3:15} And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that
work wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are
even delivered.
{3:16} Then they that feared the LORD spake often one
to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard [it,] and a
book of remembrance was written before him for them that
feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. {3:17}
And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day
when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man
spareth his own son that serveth him. {3:18} Then shall ye
return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked,
between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
{4:2} But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of
righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall
go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. {4:3} And ye
shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under
the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do [this,] saith
the LORD of hosts.
{16:9} Now when [Jesus] was risen early the first [day] of
the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of
whom he had cast seven devils. {16:10} [And] she went and
told them that had been with him, as they mourned and
wept. {16:11} And they, when they had heard that he was
alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.
{1:35} Again the next day after John stood, and two of his
disciples; {1:36} And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he
{1:1} In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was saith, Behold the Lamb of God! {1:37} And the two
with God, and the Word was God. {1:2} The same was in disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. {1:38}
the beginning with God. {1:3} All things were made by Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto
him; and without him was not any thing made that was them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is
made. {1:4} In him was life; and the life was the light of to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
men. {1:5} And the light shineth in darkness; and the {1:39} He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and
darkness comprehended it not. saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was
about the tenth hour. {1:40} One of the two which heard
{1:6} There was a man sent from God, whose name [was] John [speak,] and followed him, was Andrew, Simon
John. {1:7} The same came for a witness, to bear witness of Peter’s brother. {1:41} He first findeth his own brother
the Light, that all [men] through him might believe. {1:8} Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias,
He was not that Light, but [was sent] to bear witness of that which is, being interpreted, the Christ. {1:42} And he
Light. {1:9} [That] was the true Light, which lighteth every brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said,
man that cometh into the world. {1:10} He was in the Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called
world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.
him not. {1:11} He came unto his own, and his own
received him not. {1:12} But as many as received him, to {1:43} The day following Jesus would go forth into
them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.
them that believe on his name: {1:13} Which were born, not {1:44} Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew
of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, and Peter. {1:45} Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto
but of God. {1:14} And the Word was made flesh, and him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and
dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. {1:46} And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good
thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come
{1:15} John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This and see. {1:47} Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and
was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no
preferred before me: for he was before me. {1:16} And of guile! {1:48} Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest
his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. {1:17} thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that
For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw
by Jesus Christ. {1:18} No man hath seen God at any time; thee. {1:49} Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi,
the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel. {1:50}
he hath declared [him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee,
I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see
]{1:19} And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent greater things than these. {1:51} And he saith unto him,
priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven
thou? {1:20} And he confessed, and denied not; but open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon
confessed, I am not the Christ. {1:21} And they asked him, the Son of man.
What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou
that prophet? And he answered, No. {1:22} Then said they {2:1} And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of
unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: {2:2} And both
them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? {1:23} He Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. {2:3}
said, I [am] the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto
straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. him, They have no wine. {2:4} Jesus saith unto her,
{1:24} And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet
{1:25} And they asked him, and said unto him, Why come. {2:5} His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever
baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, he saith unto you, do [it. ]{2:6} And there were set there six
neither that prophet? {1:26} John answered them, saying, I waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the
baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece. {2:7} Jesus
whom ye know not; {1:27} He it is, who coming after me is saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they
preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy filled them up to the brim. {2:8} And he saith unto them,
to unloose. {1:28} These things were done in Bethabara Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And
beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing. they bare [it. ]{2:9} When the ruler of the feast had tasted
the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was:
{1:29} The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor
and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the of the feast called the bridegroom, {2:10} And saith unto
sin of the world. {1:30} This is he of whom I said, After me him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine;
cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse:
before me. {1:31} And I knew him not: but that he should [but] thou hast kept the good wine until now. {2:11} This
be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and
with water. {1:32} And John bare record, saying, I saw the manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode
upon him. {1:33} And I knew him not: but he that sent me {2:12} After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his
to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they
thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, continued there not many days.
the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. {1:34}
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{2:13} And the Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus {3:18} He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he
went up to Jerusalem, {2:14} And found in the temple those that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath
that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
money sitting: {2:15} And when he had made a scourge of {3:19} And this is the condemnation, that light is come into
small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the the world, and men loved darkness rather than light,
sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, because their deeds were evil. {3:20} For every one that
and overthrew the tables; {2:16} And said unto them that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest
sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s his deeds should be reproved. {3:21} But he that doeth truth
house an house of merchandise. {2:17} And his disciples cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest,
remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house that they are wrought in God.
hath eaten me up.
{3:22} After these things came Jesus and his disciples
{2:18} Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and
sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these baptized.
things? {2:19} Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy
this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. {2:20} Then {3:23} And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to
said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in Salim, because there was much water there: and they came,
building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? {2:21} But and were baptized. {3:24} For John was not yet cast into
he spake of the temple of his body. {2:22} When therefore prison.
he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that
he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, {3:25} Then there arose a question between [some] of
and the word which Jesus had said. John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying. {3:26} And
they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was
{2:23} Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness,
the feast [day,] many believed in his name, when they saw behold, the same baptizeth, and all [men] come to him.
the miracles which he did. {2:24} But Jesus did not commit {3:27} John answered and said, A man can receive nothing,
himself unto them, because he knew all [men, ]{2:25} And except it be given him from heaven. {3:28} Ye yourselves
needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I
was in man. am sent before him. {3:29} He that hath the bride is the
bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which
{3:1} There was a man of the Pharisees, named standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the
Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: {3:2} The same came to bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou {3:30} He must increase, but I [must] decrease. {3:31} He
art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is
miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. {3:3} earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto heaven is above all. {3:32} And what he hath seen and
thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
kingdom of God. {3:4} Nicodemus saith unto him, How can {3:33} He that hath received his testimony hath set to his
a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time seal that God is true. {3:34} For he whom God hath sent
into his mother’s womb, and be born? {3:5} Jesus speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by
answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be measure [unto him. ]{3:35} The Father loveth the Son, and
born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot enter into the hath given all things into his hand. {3:36} He that believeth
kingdom of God. {3:6} That which is born of the flesh is on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not
flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. {3:7} the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. him.
{3:8} The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest
the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and {4:1} When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees
whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than
{3:9} Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can John, {4:2} (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his
these things be? {3:10} Jesus answered and said unto him, disciples,) {4:3} He left Judaea, and departed again into
Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Galilee. {4:4} And he must needs go through Samaria.
{3:11} Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do {4:5} Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called
know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his
witness. {3:12} If I have told you earthly things, and ye son Joseph. {4:6} Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus
believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you [of] heavenly therefore, being wearied with [his] journey, sat thus on the
things? {3:13} And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but well: [and] it was about the sixth hour. {4:7} There cometh
he that came down from heaven, [even] the Son of man a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her,
which is in heaven. Give me to drink. {4:8} (For his disciples were gone away
unto the city to buy meat.) {4:9} Then saith the woman of
{3:14} And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest
wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews
{3:15} That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, have no dealings with the Samaritans. {4:10} Jesus
but have eternal life. answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God,
and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou
{3:16} For God so loved the world, that he gave his only wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not living water. {4:11} The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou
perish, but have everlasting life. {3:17} For God sent not hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from
his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the whence then hast thou that living water? {4:12} Art thou
world through him might be saved. greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and
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drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water
{4:13} Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was
drinketh of this water shall thirst again: {4:14} But sick at Capernaum. {4:47} When he heard that Jesus was
whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and
never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in besought him that he would come down, and heal his son:
him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. for he was at the point of death. {4:48} Then said Jesus unto
{4:15} The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. {4:16} Jesus {4:49} The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere
saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. my child die. {4:50} Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy
{4:17} The woman answered and said, I have no husband. son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had
Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: spoken unto him, and he went his way. {4:51} And as he
{4:18} For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou was now going down, his servants met him, and told [him,]
now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. {4:19} saying, Thy son liveth. {4:52} Then enquired he of them the
The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him,
prophet. {4:20} Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. {4:53} So
and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought the father knew that [it was] at the same hour, in the which
to worship. {4:21} Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed,
me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this and his whole house. {4:54} This [is] again the second
mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. {4:22} miracle [that] Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: into Galilee.
for salvation is of the Jews. {4:23} But the hour cometh,
and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the {5:1} After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus
Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to went up to Jerusalem. {5:2} Now there is at Jerusalem by
worship him. {4:24} God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship the sheep [market] a pool, which is called in the Hebrew
him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth. {4:25} The tongue Bethesda, having five porches. {5:3} In these lay a
woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered,
is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. waiting for the moving of the water. {5:4} For an angel
{4:26} Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am [he. went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled
the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the
]{4:27} And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he
that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What had. {5:5} And a certain man was there, which had an
seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? {4:28} The infirmity thirty and eight years. {5:6} When Jesus saw him
woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the lie, and knew that he had been now a long time [in that
city, and saith to the men, {4:29} Come, see a man, which case,] he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? {5:7}
told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when
{4:30} Then they went out of the city, and came unto him. the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am
coming, another steppeth down before me. {5:8} Jesus saith
{4:31} In the mean while his disciples prayed him, unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. {5:9} And
saying, Master, eat. {4:32} But he said unto them, I have immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed,
meat to eat that ye know not of. {4:33} Therefore said the and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him [ought]
to eat? {4:34} Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the {5:10} The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It
will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. {4:35} Say is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry [thy]
not ye, There are yet four months, and [then] cometh bed. {5:11} He answered them, He that made me whole, the
harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk. {5:12} Then
on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. {4:36} asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee,
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit Take up thy bed, and walk? {5:13} And he that was healed
unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a
reapeth may rejoice together. {4:37} And herein is that multitude being in [that] place. {5:14} Afterward Jesus
saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. {4:38} I sent findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou
you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto
laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. thee. {5:15} The man departed, and told the Jews that it was
Jesus, which had made him whole. {5:16} And therefore
{4:39} And many of the Samaritans of that city believed did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him,
on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
me all that ever I did. {4:40} So when the Samaritans were
come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with {5:17} But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh
them: and he abode there two days. {4:41} And many more hitherto, and I work. {5:18} Therefore the Jews sought the
believed because of his own word; {4:42} And said unto the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the
woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making
have heard [him] ourselves, and know that this is indeed the himself equal with God. {5:19} Then answered Jesus and
Christ, the Saviour of the world. said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can
do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for
{4:43} Now after two days he departed thence, and went what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son
into Galilee. {4:44} For Jesus himself testified, that a likewise. {5:20} For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth
prophet hath no honour in his own country. {4:45} Then him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him
when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received greater works than these, that ye may marvel. {5:21} For as
him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth [them;] even
the feast: for they also went unto the feast. {4:46} So Jesus so the Son quickeneth whom he will. {5:22} For the Father
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judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Peter’s brother, saith unto him, {6:9} There is a lad here,
Son: {5:23} That all [men] should honour the Son, even as which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but
they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son what are they among so many? {6:10} And Jesus said,
honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. {5:24} Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and {6:11} And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given
shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to
unto life. {5:25} Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much
coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of as they would. {6:12} When they were filled, he said unto
the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. {5:26} For as his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that
the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son nothing be lost. {6:13} Therefore they gathered [them]
to have life in himself; {5:27} And hath given him authority together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the
to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto
{5:28} Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the them that had eaten. {6:14} Then those men, when they had
which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, {5:29} seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that
And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the prophet that should come into the world.
resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the
resurrection of damnation. {5:30} I can of mine own self do {6:15} When Jesus therefore perceived that they would
nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because come and take him by force, to make him a king, he
I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which departed again into a mountain himself alone. {6:16} And
hath sent me. {5:31} If I bear witness of myself, my witness when even was [now] come, his disciples went down unto
is not true. the sea, {6:17} And entered into a ship, and went over the
sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was
{5:32} There is another that beareth witness of me; and I not come to them. {6:18} And the sea arose by reason of a
know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. great wind that blew. {6:19} So when they had rowed about
{5:33} Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on
truth. {5:34} But I receive not testimony from man: but the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were
these things I say, that ye might be saved. {5:35} He was a afraid. {6:20} But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a {6:21} Then they willingly received him into the ship: and
season to rejoice in his light. immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.
{5:36} But I have greater witness than [that] of John: for {6:22} The day following, when the people which stood
the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other
same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were
hath sent me. {5:37} And the Father himself, which hath entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the
sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard boat, but [that] his disciples were gone away alone; {6:23}
his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. {5:38} And ye (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto
have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had
him ye believe not. given thanks:) {6:24} When the people therefore saw that
Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took
{5:39} Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus. {6:25}
eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. {5:40} And when they had found him on the other side of the sea,
And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. {5:41} they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither? {6:26}
I receive not honour from men. {5:42} But I know you, that Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto
ye have not the love of God in you. {5:43} I am come in my you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but
Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. {6:27}
in his own name, him ye will receive. {5:44} How can ye Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat
believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man
the honour that [cometh] from God only? {5:45} Do not shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is [one] that {6:28} Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we
accuseth you, [even] Moses, in whom ye trust. {5:46} For might work the works of God? {6:29} Jesus answered and
had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on
wrote of me. {5:47} But if ye believe not his writings, how him whom he hath sent. {6:30} They said therefore unto
shall ye believe my words? him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and
believe thee? what dost thou work? {6:31} Our fathers did
{6:1} After these things Jesus went over the sea of eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread
Galilee, which is [the sea] of Tiberias. {6:2} And a great from heaven to eat. {6:32} Then Jesus said unto them,
multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that
which he did on them that were diseased. {6:3} And Jesus bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread
went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. from heaven. {6:33} For the bread of God is he which
{6:4} And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh. cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
{6:34} Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us
{6:5} When Jesus then lifted up [his] eyes, and saw a this bread. {6:35} And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread
great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that
shall we buy bread, that these may eat? {6:6} And this he believeth on me shall never thirst. {6:36} But I said unto
said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do. you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not. {6:37} All
{6:7} Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that
bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. {6:38} For I came
take a little. {6:8} One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of
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him that sent me. {6:39} And this is the Father’s will which {7:3} His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence,
hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the
lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. works that thou doest. {7:4} For [there is] no man [that]
{6:40} And this is the will of him that sent me, that every doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be
one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the
everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. world. {7:5} For neither did his brethren believe in him.
{6:41} The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I {7:6} Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come:
am the bread which came down from heaven. {6:42} And but your time is alway ready. {7:7} The world cannot hate
they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works
and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came thereof are evil. {7:8} Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up
down from heaven? {6:43} Jesus therefore answered and yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come. {7:9}
said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. {6:44} No When he had said these words unto them, he abode [still] in
man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me Galilee.
draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. {6:45} It is
written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. {7:10} But when his brethren were gone up, then went he
Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
Father, cometh unto me. {6:46} Not that any man hath seen {7:11} Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said,
the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. Where is he? {7:12} And there was much murmuring
{6:47} Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a
me hath everlasting life. {6:48} I am that bread of life. good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
{6:49} Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and {7:13} Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the
are dead. {6:50} This is the bread which cometh down from Jews.
heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. {6:51} I am
the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man {7:14} Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up
eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I into the temple, and taught. {7:15} And the Jews marvelled,
will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never
world. {6:52} The Jews therefore strove among themselves, learned? {7:16} Jesus answered them, and said, My
saying, How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat? {6:53} doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. {7:17} If any man
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be
Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his of God, or [whether] I speak of myself. {7:18} He that
blood, ye have no life in you. {6:54} Whoso eateth my speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that
flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no
raise him up at the last day. {6:55} For my flesh is meat unrighteousness is in him. {7:19} Did not Moses give you
indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. {6:56} He that eateth the law, and [yet] none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye
my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in about to kill me? {7:20} The people answered and said,
him. {6:57} As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee? {7:21}
the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work,
{6:58} This is that bread which came down from heaven: and ye all marvel. {7:22} Moses therefore gave unto you
not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the
eateth of this bread shall live for ever. {6:59} These things fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. {7:23} If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision,
{6:60} Many therefore of his disciples, when they had that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at
heard [this,] said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the
{6:61} When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples sabbath day? {7:24} Judge not according to the appearance,
murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? but judge righteous judgment. {7:25} Then said some of
{6:62} [What] and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
where he was before? {6:63} It is the spirit that quickeneth; {7:26} But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing
the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very
[they] are spirit, and [they] are life. {6:64} But there are Christ? {7:27} Howbeit we know this man whence he is:
some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.
beginning who they were that believed not, and who should {7:28} Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying,
betray him. {6:65} And he said, Therefore said I unto you, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not
that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know
him of my Father. not. {7:29} But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath
sent me. {7:30} Then they sought to take him: but no man
{6:66} From that [time] many of his disciples went back, laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
and walked no more with him. {6:67} Then said Jesus unto {7:31} And many of the people believed on him, and said,
the twelve, Will ye also go away? {6:68} Then Simon Peter When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these
answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the which this [man] hath done?
words of eternal life. {6:69} And we believe and are sure
that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. {6:70} {7:32} The Pharisees heard that the people murmured
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief
one of you is a devil? {6:71} He spake of Judas Iscariot [the priests sent officers to take him. {7:33} Then said Jesus
son] of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and [then] I go
one of the twelve. unto him that sent me. {7:34} Ye shall seek me, and shall
not find [me:] and where I am, [thither] ye cannot come.
{7:1} After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he {7:35} Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will
would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the
him. {7:2} Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand. dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
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{7:36} What [manner of] saying is this that he said, Ye Father that sent me. {8:17} It is also written in your law,
shall seek me, and shall not find [me:] and where I am, that the testimony of two men is true. {8:18} I am one that
[thither] ye cannot come? {7:37} In the last day, that great bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth
[day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man witness of me. {8:19} Then said they unto him, Where is
thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. {7:38} He that thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my
believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my
shall flow rivers of living water. {7:39} (But this spake he Father also. {8:20} These words spake Jesus in the treasury,
of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him;
for the Holy Ghost was not yet [given;] because that Jesus for his hour was not yet come. {8:21} Then said Jesus again
was not yet glorified.) unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die
in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come. {8:22} Then
{7:40} Many of the people therefore, when they heard this said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith,
saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. {7:41} Others Whither I go, ye cannot come. {8:23} And he said unto
said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this
out of Galilee? {7:42} Hath not the scripture said, That world; I am not of this world. {8:24} I said therefore unto
Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I
Bethlehem, where David was? {7:43} So there was a am [he,] ye shall die in your sins. {8:25} Then said they
division among the people because of him. {7:44} And unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even
some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands [the same] that I said unto you from the beginning. {8:26} I
on him. have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that
sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which
{7:45} Then came the officers to the chief priests and I have heard of him. {8:27} They understood not that he
Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not spake to them of the Father. {8:28} Then said Jesus unto
brought him? {7:46} The officers answered, Never man them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye
spake like this man. {7:47} Then answered them the know that I am [he,] and [that] I do nothing of myself; but
Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? {7:48} Have any of the as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. {8:29}
rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? {7:49} But this And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me
people who knoweth not the law are cursed. {7:50} alone; for I do always those things that please him. {8:30}
Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, As he spake these words, many believed on him. {8:31}
being one of them,) {7:51} Doth our law judge [any] man, Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye
before it hear him, and know what he doeth? {7:52} They continue in my word, [then] are ye my disciples indeed;
answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? {8:32} And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall
Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet. make you free.
{7:53} And every man went unto his own house.
{8:33} They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and
{8:1} Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. {8:2} And were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye
early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all shall be made free? {8:34} Jesus answered them, Verily,
the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the
them. {8:3} And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him servant of sin. {8:35} And the servant abideth not in the
a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the house for ever: [but] the Son abideth ever. {8:36} If the Son
midst, {8:4} They say unto him, Master, this woman was therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
taken in adultery, in the very act. {8:5} Now Moses in the {8:37} I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to
law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what kill me, because my word hath no place in you. {8:38} I
sayest thou? {8:6} This they said, tempting him, that they speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that
might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and which ye have seen with your father. {8:39} They answered
with [his] finger wrote on the ground, [as though he heard and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto
them not. ]{8:7} So when they continued asking him, he them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the
lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin works of Abraham. {8:40} But now ye seek to kill me, a
among you, let him first cast a stone at her. {8:8} And again man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God:
he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. {8:9} And they this did not Abraham. {8:41} Ye do the deeds of your
which heard [it,] being convicted by [their own] conscience, father. Then said they to him, We be not born of
went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, [even] unto the fornication; we have one Father, [even] God. {8:42} Jesus
last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me:
the midst. {8:10} When Jesus had lifted up himself, and for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of
saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where myself, but he sent me. {8:43} Why do ye not understand
are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word. {8:44}
{8:11} She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of [your] father
Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and
abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
{8:12} Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a
the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in liar, and the father of it. {8:45} And because I tell [you] the
darkness, but shall have the light of life. {8:13} The truth, ye believe me not. {8:46} Which of you convinceth
Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
thyself; thy record is not true. {8:14} Jesus answered and {8:47} He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore
said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, [yet] my hear [them] not, because ye are not of God. {8:48} Then
record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that
but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go. {8:15} thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? {8:49} Jesus
Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. {8:16} And yet if I answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye
judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the do dishonour me. {8:50} And I seek not mine own glory:
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there is one that seeketh and judgeth. {8:51} Verily, verily, any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put
I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see out of the synagogue. {9:23} Therefore said his parents, He
death. {8:52} Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know is of age; ask him. {9:24} Then again called they the man
that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we
and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never know that this man is a sinner. {9:25} He answered and
taste of death. {8:53} Art thou greater than our father said, Whether he be a sinner [or no,] I know not: one thing I
Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. {9:26} Then
makest thou thyself? {8:54} Jesus answered, If I honour said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he
myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth thine eyes? {9:27} He answered them, I have told you
me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: {8:55} Yet ye already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear [it]
have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I again? will ye also be his disciples? {9:28} Then they
know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are
him, and keep his saying. {8:56} Your father Abraham Moses’ disciples. {9:29} We know that God spake unto
rejoiced to see my day: and he saw [it,] and was glad. Moses: [as for] this [fellow,] we know not from whence he
{8:57} Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty is. {9:30} The man answered and said unto them, Why
years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? {8:58} Jesus said herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence
unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham he is, and [yet] he hath opened mine eyes. {9:31} Now we
was, I am. {8:59} Then took they up stones to cast at him: know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a
but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
through the midst of them, and so passed by. {9:32} Since the world began was it not heard that any man
opened the eyes of one that was born blind. {9:33} If this
{9:1} And as [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man which was man were not of God, he could do nothing. {9:34} They
blind from [his] birth. {9:2} And his disciples asked him, answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in
saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. {9:35}
was born blind? {9:3} Jesus answered, Neither hath this Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had
man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son
should be made manifest in him. {9:4} I must work the of God? {9:36} He answered and said, Who is he, Lord,
works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, that I might believe on him? {9:37} And Jesus said unto
when no man can work. {9:5} As long as I am in the world, him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with
I am the light of the world. {9:6} When he had thus spoken, thee. {9:38} And he said, Lord, I believe. And he
he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he worshipped him.
anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, {9:7} And
said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by {9:39} And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this
interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and world, that they which see not might see; and that they
washed, and came seeing. which see might be made blind. {9:40} And [some] of the
Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said
{9:8} The neighbours therefore, and they which before unto him, Are we blind also? {9:41} Jesus said unto them,
had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We
and begged? {9:9} Some said, This is he: others [said,] He see; therefore your sin remaineth.
is like him: [but] he said, I am [he. ]{9:10} Therefore said
they unto him, How were thine eyes opened? {9:11} He {10:1} Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not
answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other
and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of way, the same is a thief and a robber. {10:2} But he that
Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. {10:3}
sight. {9:12} Then said they unto him, Where is he? He To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and
said, I know not. he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
{10:4} And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth
{9:13} They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his
was blind. {9:14} And it was the sabbath day when Jesus voice. {10:5} And a stranger will they not follow, but will
made the clay, and opened his eyes. {9:15} Then again the flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He {10:6} This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they
said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, understood not what things they were which he spake unto
and do see. {9:16} Therefore said some of the Pharisees, them. {10:7} Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily,
This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. {10:8}
day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but
miracles? And there was a division among them. {9:17} the sheep did not hear them. {10:9} I am the door: by me if
They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out,
him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a and find pasture. {10:10} The thief cometh not, but for to
prophet. {9:18} But the Jews did not believe concerning steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might
him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until have life, and that they might have [it] more abundantly.
they called the parents of him that had received his sight. {10:11} I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth
{9:19} And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who his life for the sheep. {10:12} But he that is an hireling, and
ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? {9:20} not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the
His parents answered them and said, We know that this is wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf
our son, and that he was born blind: {9:21} But by what catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. {10:13} The
means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for
eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for the sheep. {10:14} I am the good shepherd, and know my
himself. {9:22} These [words] spake his parents, because [sheep,] and am known of mine. {10:15} As the Father
they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my
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life for the sheep. {10:16} And other sheep I have, which day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this
are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall world. {11:10} But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth,
hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, [and] one because there is no light in him. {11:11} These things said
shepherd. {10:17} Therefore doth my Father love me, he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus
because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
{10:18} No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of {11:12} Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall
myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to do well. {11:13} Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they
take it again. This commandment have I received of my thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
Father. {11:14} Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
{11:15} And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there,
{10:19} There was a division therefore again among the to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto
Jews for these sayings. {10:20} And many of them said, He him. {11:16} Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus,
hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? {10:21} Others unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die
said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a with him. {11:17} Then when Jesus came, he found that he
devil open the eyes of the blind? had [lain] in the grave four days already. {11:18} Now
Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs
{10:22} And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the off: {11:19} And many of the Jews came to Martha and
dedication, and it was winter. {10:23} And Jesus walked in Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. {11:20}
the temple in Solomon’s porch. {10:24} Then came the Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming,
Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost went and met him: but Mary sat [still] in the house. {11:21}
thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here,
{10:25} Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed my brother had not died. {11:22} But I know, that even
not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give [it]
witness of me. {10:26} But ye believe not, because ye are thee. {11:23} Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise
not of my sheep, as I said unto you. {10:27} My sheep hear again. {11:24} Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall
my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: {10:28} rise again in the resurrection at the last day. {11:25} Jesus
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that
perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand. believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
{10:29} My Father, which gave [them] me, is greater than {11:26} And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall
all; and no [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father’s never die. Believest thou this? {11:27} She saith unto him,
hand. {10:30} I and [my] Father are one. {10:31} Then the Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God,
Jews took up stones again to stone him. {10:32} Jesus which should come into the world. {11:28} And when she
answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister
my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
{10:33} The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work {11:29} As soon as she heard [that,] she arose quickly, and
we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, came unto him. {11:30} Now Jesus was not yet come into
being a man, makest thyself God. {10:34} Jesus answered the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.
them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? {11:31} The Jews then which were with her in the house,
{10:35} If he called them gods, unto whom the word of and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up
God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; {10:36} Say hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto
ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the grave to weep there. {11:32} Then when Mary was
the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his
of God? {10:37} If I do not the works of my Father, believe feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my
me not. {10:38} But if I do, though ye believe not me, brother had not died. {11:33} When Jesus therefore saw her
believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her,
Father is in me, and I in him. {10:39} Therefore they sought he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, {11:34} And
again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, {10:40} said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord,
And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where come and see. {11:35} Jesus wept. {11:36} Then said the
John at first baptized; and there he abode. {10:41} And Jews, Behold how he loved him! {11:37} And some of
many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the
all things that John spake of this man were true. {10:42} blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
And many believed on him there. {11:38} Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to
the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. {11:39}
{11:1} Now a certain [man] was sick, [named] Lazarus, Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him
of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. {11:2} that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh:
(It was [that] Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, for he hath been [dead] four days. {11:40} Jesus saith unto
and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou
sick.) {11:3} Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, shouldest see the glory of God? {11:41} Then they took
Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. {11:4} When away the stone [from the place] where the dead was laid.
Jesus heard [that,] he said, This sickness is not unto death, And Jesus lifted up [his] eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee
but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be that thou hast heard me. {11:42} And I knew that thou
glorified thereby. {11:5} Now Jesus loved Martha, and her hearest me always: but because of the people which stand
sister, and Lazarus. {11:6} When he had heard therefore by I said [it,] that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place {11:43} And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud
where he was. {11:7} Then after that saith he to [his] voice, Lazarus, come forth. {11:44} And he that was dead
disciples, Let us go into Judaea again. {11:8} [His] disciples came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his
say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them,
and goest thou thither again? {11:9} Jesus answered, Are Loose him, and let him go. {11:45} Then many of the Jews
there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus
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did, believed on him. {11:46} But some of them went their he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the
ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had dead, bare record. {12:18} For this cause the people also
done. met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle.
{12:19} The Pharisees therefore said among themselves,
{11:47} Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is
a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many gone after him.
miracles. {11:48} If we let him thus alone, all [men] will
believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away {12:20} And there were certain Greeks among them that
both our place and nation. {11:49} And one of them, came up to worship at the feast: {12:21} The same came
[named] Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and
unto them, Ye know nothing at all, {11:50} Nor consider desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. {12:22} Philip
that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip
people, and that the whole nation perish not. {11:51} And tell Jesus.
this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year,
he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; {11:52} {12:23} And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is
And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather come, that the Son of man should be glorified. {12:24}
together in one the children of God that were scattered Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall
abroad. {11:53} Then from that day forth they took counsel into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it
together for to put him to death. {11:54} Jesus therefore bringeth forth much fruit. {12:25} He that loveth his life
walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall
unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called keep it unto life eternal. {12:26} If any man serve me, let
Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples. him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant
be: if any man serve me, him will [my] Father honour.
{11:55} And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and {12:27} Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say?
many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I
passover, to purify themselves. {11:56} Then sought they unto this hour. {12:28} Father, glorify thy name. Then came
for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the there a voice from heaven, [saying,] I have both glorified
temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast? [it,] and will glorify [it] again. {12:29} The people
{11:57} Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had therefore, that stood by, and heard [it,] said that it
given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. {12:30}
were, he should shew [it,] that they might take him. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of
me, but for your sakes. {12:31} Now is the judgment of this
{12:1} Then Jesus six days before the passover came to world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom {12:32} And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all
he raised from the dead. {12:2} There they made him a [men] unto me. {12:33} This he said, signifying what death
supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them he should die. {12:34} The people answered him, We have
that sat at the table with him. {12:3} Then took Mary a heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how
pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this
the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the Son of man? {12:35} Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little
house was filled with the odour of the ointment. {12:4} while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light,
Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in
[son,] which should betray him, {12:5} Why was not this darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. {12:36} While ye
ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children
poor? {12:6} This he said, not that he cared for the poor; of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did
but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what hide himself from them.
was put therein. {12:7} Then said Jesus, Let her alone:
against the day of my burying hath she kept this. {12:8} For {12:37} But though he had done so many miracles before
the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not them, yet they believed not on him: {12:38} That the saying
always. {12:9} Much people of the Jews therefore knew of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake,
that he was there: and they came not for Jesus’ sake only, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the
but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised arm of the Lord been revealed? {12:39} Therefore they
from the dead. could not believe, because that Esaias said again, {12:40}
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that
{12:10} But the chief priests consulted that they might put they should not see with [their] eyes, nor understand with
Lazarus also to death; {12:11} Because that by reason of [their] heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus. {12:41} These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory,
and spake of him.
{12:12} On the next day much people that were come to
the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to {12:42} Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many
Jerusalem, {12:13} Took branches of palm trees, and went believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not
forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed [is] the King confess [him,] lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. {12:14} And {12:43} For they loved the praise of men more than the
Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is praise of God.
written, {12:15} Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy
King cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt. {12:16} These things {12:44} Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me,
understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. {12:45} And
glorified, then remembered they that these things were he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. {12:46} I am come
written of him, and [that] they had done these things unto a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me
him. {12:17} The people therefore that was with him when should not abide in darkness. {12:47} And if any man hear
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my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not Jesus had said unto him, Buy [those things] that we have
to judge the world, but to save the world. {12:48} He that need of against the feast; or, that he should give something
rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that to the poor. {13:30} He then having received the sop went
judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall immediately out: and it was night.
judge him in the last day. {12:49} For I have not spoken of
myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a {13:31} Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said,
commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in
{12:50} And I know that his commandment is life him. {13:32} If God be glorified in him, God shall also
everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
said unto me, so I speak. {13:33} Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye
shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye
{13:1} Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus cannot come; so now I say to you. {13:34} A new
knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as
this world unto the Father, having loved his own which I have loved you, that ye also love one another. {13:35} By
were in the world, he loved them unto the end. {13:2} And this shall all [men] know that ye are my disciples, if ye have
supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart love one to another.
of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s [son,] to betray him; {13:3} Jesus
knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, {13:36} Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest
and that he was come from God, and went to God; {13:4} thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not
He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
a towel, and girded himself. {13:5} After that he poureth {13:37} Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee
water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, now? I will lay down my life for thy sake. {13:38} Jesus
and to wipe [them] with the towel wherewith he was girded. answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake?
{13:6} Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till
him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? {13:7} Jesus answered thou hast denied me thrice.
and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but
thou shalt know hereafter. {13:8} Peter saith unto him, {14:1} Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God,
Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I believe also in me. {14:2} In my Father’s house are many
wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. {13:9} Simon mansions: if [it were] not so, I would have told you. I go to
Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also [my] prepare a place for you. {14:3} And if I go and prepare a
hands and [my] head. {13:10} Jesus saith to him, He that is place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto
washed needeth not save to wash [his] feet, but is clean myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also. {14:4} And
every whit: and ye are clean, but not all. {13:11} For he whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. {14:5}
knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou
all clean. {13:12} So after he had washed their feet, and had goest; and how can we know the way? {14:6} Jesus saith
taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man
them, Know ye what I have done to you? {13:13} Ye call cometh unto the Father, but by me. {14:7} If ye had known
me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. {13:14} me, ye should have known my Father also: and from
If I then, [your] Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. {14:8} Philip
also ought to wash one another’s feet. {13:15} For I have saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to {14:9} Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with
you. {13:16} Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath
not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou [then,]
he that sent him. {13:17} If ye know these things, happy are Shew us the Father? {14:10} Believest thou not that I am in
ye if ye do them. the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak
unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth
{13:18} I speak not of you all: I know whom I have in me, he doeth the works. {14:11} Believe me that I [am]
chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for
eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. the very works’ sake. {14:12} Verily, verily, I say unto you,
{13:19} Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do
to pass, ye may believe that I am [he. ]{13:20} Verily, also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I
verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send go unto my Father. {14:13} And whatsoever ye shall ask in
receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in
sent me. {13:21} When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled the Son. {14:14} If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will
in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto do [it.
you, that one of you shall betray me. {13:22} Then the
disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he ]{14:15} If ye love me, keep my commandments. {14:16}
spake. {13:23} Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. {13:24} Simon Peter Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; {14:17}
therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should [Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive,
be of whom he spake. {13:25} He then lying on Jesus’ because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know
breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it? {13:26} Jesus him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. {14:18}
answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
dipped [it.] And when he had dipped the sop, he gave [it] to {14:19} Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more;
Judas Iscariot, [the son] of Simon. {13:27} And after the but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. {14:20} At
sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That that day ye shall know that I [am] in my Father, and ye in
thou doest, do quickly. {13:28} Now no man at the table me, and I in you. {14:21} He that hath my commandments,
knew for what intent he spake this unto him. {13:29} For and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth
some [of them] thought, because Judas had the bag, that me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and
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will manifest myself to him. {14:22} Judas saith unto him, name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself {15:22} If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had
unto us, and not unto the world? {14:23} Jesus answered not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my {15:23} He that hateth me hateth my Father also. {15:24} If
words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto I had not done among them the works which none other
him, and make our abode with him. {14:24} He that loveth man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen
me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear and hated both me and my Father. {15:25} But [this cometh
is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me. {14:25} These to pass,] that the word might be fulfilled that is written in
things have I spoken unto you, being [yet] present with you. their law, They hated me without a cause. {15:26} But
{14:26} But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you
whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth
all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, from the Father, he shall testify of me: {15:27} And ye also
whatsoever I have said unto you. {14:27} Peace I leave with shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the
you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give beginning.
I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
afraid. {14:28} Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go {16:1} These things have I spoken unto you, that ye
away, and come [again] unto you. If ye loved me, ye would should not be offended. {16:2} They shall put you out of
rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever
greater than I. {14:29} And now I have told you before it killeth you will think that he doeth God service. {16:3} And
come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might these things will they do unto you, because they have not
believe. {14:30} Hereafter I will not talk much with you: known the Father, nor me. {16:4} But these things have I
for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember
{14:31} But that the world may know that I love the Father; that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you
and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. at the beginning, because I was with you. {16:5} But now I
Arise, let us go hence. go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me,
Whither goest thou? {16:6} But because I have said these
{15:1} I am the true vine, and my Father is the things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. {16:7}
husbandman. {15:2} Every branch in me that beareth not Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that
fruit he taketh away: and every [branch] that beareth fruit, I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come
he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. {15:3} Now unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. {16:8}
ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and
you. {15:4} Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot of righteousness, and of judgment: {16:9} Of sin, because
bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can they believe not on me; {16:10} Of righteousness, because I
ye, except ye abide in me. {15:5} I am the vine, ye [are] the go to my Father, and ye see me no more; {16:11} Of
branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. {16:12} I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye
{15:6} If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, cannot bear them now. {16:13} Howbeit when he, the Spirit
and is withered; and men gather them, and cast [them] into of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he
the fire, and they are burned. {15:7} If ye abide in me, and shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear,
my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it [that] shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
shall be done unto you. {15:8} Herein is my Father {16:14} He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine,
glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my and shall shew [it] unto you. {16:15} All things that the
disciples. {15:9} As the Father hath loved me, so have I Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of
loved you: continue ye in my love. {15:10} If ye keep my mine, and shall shew [it] unto you. {16:16} A little while,
commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye
kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. shall see me, because I go to the Father. {16:17} Then said
{15:11} These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy [some] of his disciples among themselves, What is this that
might remain in you, and [that] your joy might be full. he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and
{15:12} This is my commandment, That ye love one again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go
another, as I have loved you. {15:13} Greater love hath no to the Father? {16:18} They said therefore, What is this that
man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
{15:14} Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command {16:19} Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask
you. {15:15} Henceforth I call you not servants; for the him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves
servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and
you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I again, a little while, and ye shall see me? {16:20} Verily,
have made known unto you. {15:16} Ye have not chosen verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but
me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your
go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain: sorrow shall be turned into joy. {16:21} A woman when she
that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as
may give it you. {15:17} These things I command you, that soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no
ye love one another. {15:18} If the world hate you, ye know more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
that [it hated] me before it hated you. {15:19} If ye were of {16:22} And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see
the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man
not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, taketh from you. {16:23} And in that day ye shall ask me
therefore the world hateth you. {15:20} Remember the nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall
word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his ask the Father in my name, he will give [it] you. {16:24}
lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye
you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. shall receive, that your joy may be full. {16:25} These
{15:21} But all these things will they do unto you for my things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time
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cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, {17:24} Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given
but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. {16:26} At that me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory,
day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the
will pray the Father for you: {16:27} For the Father himself foundation of the world. {17:25} O righteous Father, the
loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and
that I came out from God. {16:28} I came forth from the these have known that thou hast sent me. {17:26} And I
Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the have declared unto them thy name, and will declare [it:] that
world, and go to the Father. {16:29} His disciples said unto the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and
him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no I in them.
proverb. {16:30} Now are we sure that thou knowest all
things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this {18:1} When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth
we believe that thou camest forth from God. {16:31} Jesus with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a
answered them, Do ye now believe? {16:32} Behold, the garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples. {18:2}
hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for
every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples. {18:3}
am not alone, because the Father is with me. {16:33} These Judas then, having received a band [of men] and officers
things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with
peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good lanterns and torches and weapons. {18:4} Jesus therefore,
cheer; I have overcome the world. knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth,
and said unto them, Whom seek ye? {18:5} They answered
{17:1} These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am [he.]
heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.
that thy Son also may glorify thee: {17:2} As thou hast {18:6} As soon then as he had said unto them, I am [he,]
given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal they went backward, and fell to the ground. {18:7} Then
life to as many as thou hast given him. {17:3} And this is asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus
life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, of Nazareth. {18:8} Jesus answered, I have told you that I
and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. {17:4} I have am [he:] if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:
glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which {18:9} That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake,
thou gavest me to do. {17:5} And now, O Father, glorify Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none. {18:10}
thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the
thee before the world was. {17:6} I have manifested thy high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s
name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: name was Malchus. {18:11} Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put
thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath
kept thy word. {17:7} Now they have known that all things given me, shall I not drink it? {18:12} Then the band and
whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. {17:8} For I the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound
have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and him, {18:13} And led him away to Annas first; for he was
they have received [them,] and have known surely that I father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that
came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst same year. {18:14} Now Caiaphas was he, which gave
send me. {17:9} I pray for them: I pray not for the world, counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man
but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. should die for the people.
{17:10} And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I
am glorified in them. {17:11} And now I am no more in the {18:15} And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and [so did]
world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy another disciple: that disciple was known unto the high
Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high
given me, that they may be one, as we [are. ]{17:12} While priest. {18:16} But Peter stood at the door without. Then
I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those went out that other disciple, which was known unto the high
that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, priest, and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in
but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. Peter. {18:17} Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto
{17:13} And now come I to thee; and these things I speak Peter, Art not thou also [one] of this man’s disciples? He
in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in saith, I am not. {18:18} And the servants and officers stood
themselves. {17:14} I have given them thy word; and the there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and
world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and
even as I am not of the world. {17:15} I pray not that thou warmed himself.
shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest
keep them from the evil. {17:16} They are not of the world, {18:19} The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples,
even as I am not of the world. {17:17} Sanctify them and of his doctrine. {18:20} Jesus answered him, I spake
through thy truth: thy word is truth. {17:18} As thou hast openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in
sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret
the world. {17:19} And for their sakes I sanctify myself, have I said nothing. {18:21} Why askest thou me? ask them
that they also might be sanctified through the truth. {17:20} which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall know what I said. {18:22} And when he had thus spoken,
believe on me through their word; {17:21} That they all one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the
may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?
they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that {18:23} Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear
thou hast sent me. {17:22} And the glory which thou gavest witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?
me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are {18:24} Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the
one: {17:23} I in them, and thou in me, that they may be high priest. {18:25} And Simon Peter stood and warmed
made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou himself. They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also
hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. [one] of his disciples? He denied [it,] and said, I am not.
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{18:26} One of the servants of the high priest, being [his] {19:13} When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he
kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a
the garden with him? {18:27} Peter then denied again: and place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew,
immediately the cock crew. Gabbatha. {19:14} And it was the preparation of the
passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the
{18:28} Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall Jews, Behold your King! {19:15} But they cried out, Away
of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not with [him,] away with [him,] crucify him. Pilate saith unto
into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered,
they might eat the passover. {18:29} Pilate then went out We have no king but Caesar. {19:16} Then delivered he
unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took
man? {18:30} They answered and said unto him, If he were Jesus, and led [him] away. {19:17} And he bearing his
not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto cross went forth into a place called [the place] of a skull,
thee. {18:31} Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: {19:18} Where
judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said they crucified him, and two others with him, on either side
unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death: one, and Jesus in the midst.
{18:32} That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which
he spake, signifying what death he should die. {18:33} {19:19} And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross.
Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING
Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews? OF THE JEWS. {19:20} This title then read many of the
{18:34} Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to
thyself, or did others tell it thee of me? {18:35} Pilate the city: and it was written in Hebrew, [and] Greek, [and]
answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief Latin. {19:21} Then said the chief priests of the Jews to
priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done? Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I
{18:36} Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: am King of the Jews. {19:22} Pilate answered, What I have
if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants written I have written.
fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is
my kingdom not from hence. {18:37} Pilate therefore said {19:23} Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus,
unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a
sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this part; and also [his] coat: now the coat was without seam,
cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto woven from the top throughout. {19:24} They said
the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots
{18:38} Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled,
had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for
unto them, I find in him no fault [at all. ]{18:39} But ye my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the
have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the soldiers did.
passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King
of the Jews? {18:40} Then cried they all again, saying, Not {19:25} Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother,
this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber. and his mother’s sister, Mary the [wife] of Cleophas, and
Mary Magdalene. {19:26} When Jesus therefore saw his
{19:1} Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he
[him. ]{19:2} And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! {19:27}
and put [it] on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from
{19:3} And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote that hour that disciple took her unto his own [home.
him with their hands. {19:4} Pilate therefore went forth
again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, ]{19:28} After this, Jesus knowing that all things were
that ye may know that I find no fault in him. {19:5} Then now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled,
came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the saith, I thirst. {19:29} Now there was set a vessel full of
purple robe. And [Pilate] saith unto them, Behold the man! vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put [it]
{19:6} When the chief priests therefore and officers saw upon hyssop, and put [it] to his mouth. {19:30} When Jesus
him, they cried out, saying, Crucify [him,] crucify [him.] therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished:
Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify [him:] for I and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. {19:31} The
find no fault in him. {19:7} The Jews answered him, We Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the
have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day,
made himself the Son of God. (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that
their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken
{19:8} When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was away. {19:32} Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of
the more afraid; {19:9} And went again into the judgment the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave {19:33} But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was
him no answer. {19:10} Then saith Pilate unto him, dead already, they brake not his legs: {19:34} But one of
Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith
power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee? came there out blood and water. {19:35} And he that saw
{19:11} Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power [at [it] bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that
all] against me, except it were given thee from above: he saith true, that ye might believe. {19:36} For these things
therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin. were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of
{19:12} And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: him shall not be broken. {19:37} And again another
but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
art not Caesar’s friend: whosoever maketh himself a king
speaketh against Caesar. {19:38} And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a
disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought
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Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate {20:24} But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus,
gave [him] leave. He came therefore, and took the body of was not with them when Jesus came. {20:25} The other
Jesus. {19:39} And there came also Nicodemus, which at disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord.
the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the
myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound [weight. ]{19:40} print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the
Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
{19:41} Now in the place where he was crucified there was {20:26} And after eight days again his disciples were
a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was within, and Thomas with them: [then] came Jesus, the doors
never man yet laid. {19:42} There laid they Jesus therefore being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace [be] unto
because of the Jews’ preparation [day;] for the sepulchre you. {20:27} Then saith he to Thomas, reach hither thy
was nigh at hand. finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and
thrust [it] into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
{20:1} The first [day] of the week cometh Mary {20:28} And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord
Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and my God. {20:29} Jesus saith unto him, Thomas,
and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. {20:2} because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed [are]
Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the they that have not seen, and [yet] have believed.
other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They
have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we {20:30} And many other signs truly did Jesus in the
know not where they have laid him. {20:3} Peter therefore presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the {20:31} But these are written, that ye might believe that
sepulchre. {20:4} So they ran both together: and the other Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye
disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. might have life through his name.
{20:5} And he stooping down, [and looking in,] saw the
linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. {20:6} Then cometh {21:1} After these things Jesus shewed himself again to
Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed
and seeth the linen clothes lie, {20:7} And the napkin, that he [himself. ]{21:2} There were together Simon Peter, and
was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee,
wrapped together in a place by itself. {20:8} Then went in and the [sons] of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.
also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, {21:3} Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They
and he saw, and believed. {20:9} For as yet they knew not say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and
the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. {20:10} entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught
Then the disciples went away again unto their own home. nothing. {21:4} But when the morning was now come,
Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it
{20:11} But Mary stood without at the sepulchre was Jesus. {21:5} Then Jesus saith unto them, Children,
weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, [and looked] have ye any meat? They answered him, No. {21:6} And he
into the sepulchre, {20:12} And seeth two angels in white said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship,
sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were
the body of Jesus had lain. {20:13} And they say unto her, not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes. {21:7}
Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It
they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the
have laid him. {20:14} And when she had thus said, she Lord, he girt [his] fisher’s coat [unto him,] (for he was
turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not naked,) and did cast himself into the sea. {21:8} And the
that it was Jesus. {20:15} Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far
weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the
be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him net with fishes. {21:9} As soon then as they were come to
hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon,
away. {20:16} Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned and bread. {21:10} Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish
herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, which ye have now caught. {21:11} Simon Peter went up,
Master. {20:17} Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I and drew the net to land full of great fishes, and hundred
am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was
and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your not the net broken. {21:12} Jesus saith unto them, Come
Father; and [to] my God, and your God. {20:18} Mary [and] dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art
Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the thou? knowing that it was the Lord. {21:13} Jesus then
Lord, and [that] he had spoken these things unto her. cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish
likewise. {21:14} This is now the third time that Jesus
{20:19} Then the same day at evening, being the first shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from
[day] of the week, when the doors were shut where the the dead.
disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus
and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace [be] unto {21:15} So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon
you. {20:20} And when he had so said, he shewed unto Peter, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me more than
them [his] hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I
when they saw the Lord. {20:21} Then said Jesus to them love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. {21:16} He
again, Peace [be] unto you: as [my] Father hath sent me, saith to him again the second time, Simon, [son] of Jonas,
even so send I you. {20:22} And when he had said this, he lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest
breathed on [them,] and saith unto them, Receive ye the that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. {21:17}
Holy Ghost: {20:23} Whose soever sins ye remit, they are He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas,
remitted unto them; [and] whose soever [sins] ye retain, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him
they are retained. the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord,
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thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus
saith unto him, Feed my sheep. {21:18} Verily, verily, I say
unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and
walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old,
thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird
thee, and carry [thee] whither thou wouldest not. {21:19}
This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify
God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him,
Follow me. {21:20} Then Peter, turning about, seeth the
disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on
his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that
betrayeth thee? {21:21} Peter seeing him saith to Jesus,
Lord, and what [shall] this man [do? ]{21:22} Jesus saith
unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what [is that] to
thee? follow thou me. {21:23} Then went this saying
abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die:
yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will
that he tarry till I come, what [is that] to thee? {21:24} This
is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote
these things: and we know that his testimony is true.
{21:25} And there are also many other things which Jesus
did, the which, if they should be written every one, I
suppose that even the world itself could not contain the
books that should be written. Amen.
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The Acts of the Apostles {1:26} And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon
Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
{2:1} And when the day of Pentecost was fully come,
{1:1} The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of they were all with one accord in one place. {2:2} And
all that Jesus began both to do and teach, {1:2} Until the suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing
day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were
Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he sitting. {2:3} And there appeared unto them cloven tongues
had chosen: {1:3} To whom also he shewed himself alive like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. {2:4} And they
after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with
them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. {2:5} And
kingdom of God: {1:4} And, being assembled together with there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of
[them,] commanded them that they should not depart from every nation under heaven. {2:6} Now when this was
Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were
[saith he,] ye have heard of me. {1:5} For John truly confounded, because that every man heard them speak in
baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy his own language. {2:7} And they were all amazed and
Ghost not many days hence. {1:6} When they therefore marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these
were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt which speak Galilaeans? {2:8} And how hear we every man
thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? {1:7} in our own tongue, wherein we were born? {2:9} Parthians,
And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia,
or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, {2:10}
{1:8} But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya
is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the {2:11} Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our
uttermost part of the earth. {1:9} And when he had spoken tongues the wonderful works of God. {2:12} And they were
these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What
cloud received him out of their sight. {1:10} And while they meaneth this? {2:13} Others mocking said, These men are
looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two full of new wine.
men stood by them in white apparel; {1:11} Which also
said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into {2:14} But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up
heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all
heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him [ye] that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and
go into heaven. {1:12} Then returned they unto Jerusalem hearken to my words: {2:15} For these are not drunken, as
from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a ye suppose, seeing it is [but] the third hour of the day.
sabbath day’s journey. {1:13} And when they were come {2:16} But this is that which was spoken by the prophet
in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Joel; {2:17} And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith
Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and God,I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your
Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James [the son] of sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young
Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas [the brother] of men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream
James. {1:14} These all continued with one accord in dreams: {2:18} And on my servants and on my
prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and
mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. they shall prophesy: {2:19} And I will shew wonders in
heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and
{1:15} And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of fire, and vapour of smoke: {2:20} The sun shall be turned
the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great
about an hundred and twenty,) {1:16} Men [and] brethren, and notable day of the Lord come: {2:21} And it shall come
this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the to pass, [that] whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord
Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning shall be saved. {2:22} Ye men of Israel, hear these words;
Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus. {1:17} For Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by
he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in
ministry. {1:18} Now this man purchased a field with the the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: {2:23} Him,
reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in being delivered by the determinate counsel and
the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. {1:19} And it was foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands
known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that have crucified and slain: {2:24} Whom God hath raised up,
field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to having loosed the pains of death: because it was not
say, The field of blood. {1:20} For it is written in the book possible that he should be holden of it. {2:25} For David
of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before
dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take. {1:21} my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be
Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all moved: {2:26} Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my
the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
{1:22} Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same {2:27} Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither
day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. {2:28}
be a witness with us of his resurrection. {1:23} And they Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt
appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed make me full of joy with thy countenance. {2:29} Men
Justus, and Matthias. {1:24} And they prayed, and said, [and] brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch
Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all [men,] shew David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is
whether of these two thou hast chosen, {1:25} That he may with us unto this day. {2:30} Therefore being a prophet, and
take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the
by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up
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Christ to sit on his throne; {2:31} He seeing this before holiness we had made this man to walk? {3:13} The God of
spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers,
in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. {2:32} This hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and
Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was
{2:33} Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, determined to let [him] go. {3:14} But ye denied the Holy
and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto
Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. you; {3:15} And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath
{2:34} For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. {3:16} And
saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my his name through faith in his name hath made this man
right hand, {2:35} Until I make thy foes thy footstool. strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by
{2:36} Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of
that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have you all. {3:17} And now, brethren, I wot that through
crucified, both Lord and Christ. ignorance ye did [it,] as [did] also your rulers. {3:18} But
those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of
{2:37} Now when they heard [this,] they were pricked in all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so
their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the fulfilled.
apostles, Men [and] brethren, what shall we do? {2:38}
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every {3:19} Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your
one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall
sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. {2:39} come from the presence of the Lord; {3:20} And he shall
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall {3:21} Whom the heaven must receive until the times of
call. {2:40} And with many other words did he testify and restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the
exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
generation. {3:22} For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet
shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren,
{2:41} Then they that gladly received his word were like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he
baptized: and the same day there were added [unto them] shall say unto you. {3:23} And it shall come to pass, [that]
about three thousand souls. {2:42} And they continued every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be
stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in destroyed from among the people. {3:24} Yea, and all the
breaking of bread, and in prayers. {2:43} And fear came prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many
upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. {3:25}
the apostles. {2:44} And all that believed were together, and Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant
had all things common; {2:45} And sold their possessions which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham,
and goods, and parted them to all [men,] as every man had And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be
need. {2:46} And they, continuing daily with one accord in blessed. {3:26} Unto you first God, having raised up his
the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one
their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, {2:47} of you from his iniquities.
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And
the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. {4:1} And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and
the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon
{3:1} Now Peter and John went up together into the them, {4:2} Being grieved that they taught the people, and
temple at the hour of prayer, [being] the ninth [hour. ]{3:2} preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was {4:3} And they laid hands on them, and put [them] in hold
carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple unto the next day: for it was now eventide. {4:4} Howbeit
which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered many of them which heard the word believed; and the
into the temple; {3:3} Who seeing Peter and John about to number of the men was about five thousand.
go into the temple asked an alms. {3:4} And Peter,
fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. {4:5} And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers,
{3:5} And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive and elders, and scribes, {4:6} And Annas the high priest,
something of them. {3:6} Then Peter said, Silver and gold and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as
have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered
Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. {3:7} And he together at Jerusalem. {4:7} And when they had set them in
took him by the right hand, and lifted [him] up: and the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name,
immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength. have ye done this? {4:8} Then Peter, filled with the Holy
{3:8} And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of
with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and Israel, {4:9} If we this day be examined of the good deed
praising God. {3:9} And all the people saw him walking done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
and praising God: {3:10} And they knew that it was he {4:10} Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of
which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom
they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, [even] by
had happened unto him. {3:11} And as the lame man which him doth this man stand here before you whole. {4:11} This
was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which
unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly is become the head of the corner. {4:12} Neither is there
wondering. salvation in any other: for there is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
{3:12} And when Peter saw [it,] he answered unto the
people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why {4:13} Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and
look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant
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men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied
they had been with Jesus. {4:14} And beholding the man unto men, but unto God. {5:5} And Ananias hearing these
which was healed standing with them, they could say words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came
nothing against it. {4:15} But when they had commanded on all them that heard these things. {5:6} And the young
them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among men arose, wound him up, and carried [him] out, and buried
themselves, {4:16} Saying, What shall we do to these men? [him. ]{5:7} And it was about the space of three hours after,
for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in. {5:8}
[is] manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the
cannot deny [it. ]{4:17} But that it spread no further among land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much. {5:9}
the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed
henceforth to no man in this name. {4:18} And they called together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of
them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in them which have buried thy husband [are] at the door, and
the name of Jesus. {4:19} But Peter and John answered and shall carry thee out. {5:10} Then fell she down straightway
said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men
hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. {4:20} For came in, and found her dead, and, carrying [her] forth,
we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and buried [her] by her husband. {5:11} And great fear came
heard. {4:21} So when they had further threatened them, upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish
them, because of the people: for all [men] glorified God for {5:12} And by the hands of the apostles were many signs
that which was done. {4:22} For the man was above forty and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all
years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed. with one accord in Solomon’s porch. {5:13} And of the rest
durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified
{4:23} And being let go, they went to their own company, them. {5:14} And believers were the more added to the
and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said Lord, multitudes both of men and women.) {5:15}
unto them. {4:24} And when they heard that, they lifted up Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets,
their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou and laid [them] on beds and couches, that at the least the
[art] God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of
and all that in them is: {4:25} Who by the mouth of thy them. {5:16} There came also a multitude [out] of the cities
servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them
people imagine vain things? {4:26} The kings of the earth which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were
stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the healed every one.
Lord, and against his Christ. {4:27} For of a truth against
thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, {5:17} Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were
and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were
Israel, were gathered together, {4:28} For to do whatsoever filled with indignation, {5:18} And laid their hands on the
thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. apostles, and put them in the common prison. {5:19} But
{4:29} And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and
unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy brought them forth, and said, {5:20} Go, stand and speak in
word, {4:30} By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that the temple to the people all the words of this life. {5:21}
signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy And when they heard [that,] they entered into the temple
child Jesus. early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came,
and they that were with him, and called the council together,
{4:31} And when they had prayed, the place was shaken and all the senate of the children of Israel and sent to the
where they were assembled together; and they were all prison to have them brought. {5:22} But when the officers
filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and
with boldness. {4:32} And the multitude of them that told, {5:23} Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all
believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors:
[of them] that ought of the things which he possessed was but when we had opened, we found no man within. {5:24}
his own; but they had all things common. {4:33} And with Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and
great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them
the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. {4:34} whereunto this would grow. {5:25} Then came one and told
Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are
as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and standing in the temple, and teaching the people. {5:26}
brought the prices of the things that were sold, {4:35} And Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them
laid [them] down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was without violence: for they feared the people, lest they
made unto every man according as he had need. {4:36} And should have been stoned. {5:27} And when they had
Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which brought them, they set [them] before the council: and the
is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, high priest asked them, {5:28} Saying, Did not we straitly
[and] of the country of Cyprus, {4:37} Having land, sold command you that ye should not teach in this name? and,
[it,] and brought the money, and laid [it] at the apostles’ feet. behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and
intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.
{5:1} But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira
his wife, sold a possession, {5:2} And kept back [part] of {5:29} Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and
the price, his wife also being privy [to it,] and brought a said, We ought to obey God rather than men. {5:30} The
certain part, and laid [it] at the apostles’ feet. {5:3} But God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and
Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie hanged on a tree. {5:31} Him hath God exalted with his
to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back [part] of the price of the right hand [to be] a Prince and a Saviour, for to give
land? {5:4} Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. {5:32} And we
after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast are his witnesses of these things; and [so is] also the Holy
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Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him. customs which Moses delivered us. {6:15} And all that sat
in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it
{5:33} When they heard [that,] they were cut [to the had been the face of an angel.
heart,] and took counsel to slay them. {5:34} Then stood
there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a {7:1} Then said the high priest, Are these things so? {7:2}
doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God
and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space; of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in
{5:35} And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, {7:3} And said
yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men. unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred,
{5:36} For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting and come into the land which I shall shew thee. {7:4} Then
himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in
four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he
many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought. removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. {7:5}
{5:37} After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not [so much as]
of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to
perished; and all, [even] as many as obeyed him, were him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when [as
dispersed. {5:38} And now I say unto you, Refrain from yet] he had no child. {7:6} And God spake on this wise,
these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they
work be of men, it will come to nought: {5:39} But if it be should bring them into bondage, and entreat [them] evil four
of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even hundred years. {7:7} And the nation to whom they shall be
to fight against God. {5:40} And to him they agreed: and in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they
when they had called the apostles, and beaten [them,] they come forth, and serve me in this place. {7:8} And he gave
commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, him the covenant of circumcision: and so [Abraham] begat
and let them go. Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac [begat]
Jacob; and Jacob [begat] the twelve patriarchs. {7:9} And
{5:41} And they departed from the presence of the the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt:
council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer but God was with him, {7:10} And delivered him out of all
shame for his name. {5:42} And daily in the temple, and in his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight
every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over
Christ. Egypt and all his house. {7:11} Now there came a dearth
over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction:
{6:1} And in those days, when the number of the disciples and our fathers found no sustenance. {7:12} But when
was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our
against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected fathers first. {7:13} And at the second [time] Joseph was
in the daily ministration. {6:2} Then the twelve called the made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s kindred was
multitude of the disciples [unto them,] and said, It is not made known unto Pharaoh. {7:14} Then sent Joseph, and
reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve called his father Jacob to [him,] and all his kindred,
tables. {6:3} Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you threescore and fifteen souls. {7:15} So Jacob went down
seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, {7:16} And were
wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. {6:4} carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that
But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor
ministry of the word. [the father] of Sychem. {7:17} But when the time of the
promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the
{6:5} And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and people grew and multiplied in Egypt, {7:18} Till another
they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy king arose, which knew not Joseph. {7:19} The same dealt
Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so
and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: {6:6} that they cast out their young children, to the end they might
Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had not live. {7:20} In which time Moses was born, and was
prayed, they laid [their] hands on them. {6:7} And the word exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three
of God increased; and the number of the disciples months: {7:21} And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s
multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
priests were obedient to the faith. {6:8} And Stephen, full {7:22} And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the
of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. {7:23}
the people. And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart
to visit his brethren the children of Israel. {7:24} And
{6:9} Then there arose certain of [the synagogue,] which seeing one [of them] suffer wrong, he defended [him,] and
is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, {7:25} For he supposed his brethren would have understood
disputing with Stephen. {6:10} And they were not able to how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they
resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake. {6:11} understood not. {7:26} And the next day he shewed himself
Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one
speak blasphemous words against Moses, and [against] again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to
God. {6:12} And they stirred up the people, and the elders, another? {7:27} But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust
and the scribes, and came upon [him,] and caught him, and him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over
brought [him] to the council, {6:13} And set up false us? {7:28} Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian
witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak yesterday? {7:29} Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a
blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
{6:14} For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of {7:30} And when forty years were expired, there appeared
Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord
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in a flame of fire in a bush. {7:31} When Moses saw [it,] he and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold [it,] {7:58} And cast [him] out of the city, and stoned [him:] and
the voice of the Lord came unto him, {7:32} [Saying,] I the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet,
[am] the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the whose name was Saul. {7:59} And they stoned Stephen,
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, calling upon [God,] and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my
and durst not behold. {7:33} Then said the Lord to him, Put spirit. {7:60} And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud
off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he
standest is holy ground. {7:34} I have seen, I have seen the had said this, he fell asleep.
affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard
their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And {8:1} And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that
now come, I will send thee into Egypt. {7:35} This Moses time there was a great persecution against the church which
whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad
judge? the same did God send [to be] a ruler and a deliverer throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the
by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. apostles. {8:2} And devout men carried Stephen [to his
{7:36} He brought them out, after that he had shewed burial,] and made great lamentation over him. {8:3} As for
wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every
and in the wilderness forty years. house, and haling men and women committed [them] to
prison. {8:4} Therefore they that were scattered abroad
{7:37} This is that Moses, which said unto the children of went every where preaching the word. {8:5} Then Philip
Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto
of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. {7:38} them. {8:6} And the people with one accord gave heed unto
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the
angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and [with] our miracles which he did. {8:7} For unclean spirits, crying
fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed
{7:39} To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust [with them:] and many taken with palsies, and that were
[him] from them, and in their hearts turned back again into lame, were healed. {8:8} And there was great joy in that
Egypt, {7:40} Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go city. {8:9} But there was a certain man, called Simon,
before us: for [as for] this Moses, which brought us out of which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and
the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself
{7:41} And they made a calf in those days, and offered was some great one: {8:10} To whom they all gave heed,
sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great
own hands. {7:42} Then God turned, and gave them up to power of God. {8:11} And to him they had regard, because
worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me {8:12} But when they believed Philip preaching the things
slain beasts and sacrifices [by the space of] forty years in concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus
the wilderness? {7:43} Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. {8:13}
Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was
ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered,
Babylon. {7:44} Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness beholding the miracles and signs which were done. {8:14}
in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that
Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them
he had seen. {7:45} Which also our fathers that came after Peter and John: {8:15} Who, when they were come down,
brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the {8:16} (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only
days of David; {7:46} Who found favour before God, and they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) {8:17}
desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. {7:47} Then laid they [their] hands on them, and they received the
But Solomon built him an house. {7:48} Howbeit the most Holy Ghost. {8:18} And when Simon saw that through
High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given,
prophet, {7:49} Heaven [is] my throne, and earth [is] my he offered them money, {8:19} Saying, Give me also this
footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the
what [is] the place of my rest? {7:50} Hath not my hand Holy Ghost. {8:20} But Peter said unto him, Thy money
made all these things? perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of
God may be purchased with money. {8:21} Thou hast
{7:51} Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in
ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers the sight of God. {8:22} Repent therefore of this thy
[did,] so [do] ye. {7:52} Which of the prophets have not wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine
your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which heart may be forgiven thee. {8:23} For I perceive that thou
shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye art in the gall of bitterness, and [in] the bond of iniquity.
have been now the betrayers and murderers: {7:53} Who {8:24} Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord
have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken
not kept [it. come upon me. {8:25} And they, when they had testified
and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem,
]{7:54} When they heard these things, they were cut to and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
the heart, and they gnashed on him with [their] teeth. {7:55} {8:26} And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying,
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth
into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. {8:27}
on the right hand of God, {7:56} And said, Behold, I see the And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an
heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the
hand of God. {7:57} Then they cried out with a loud voice, Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had
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come to Jerusalem for to worship, {8:28} Was returning, name’s sake. {9:17} And Ananias went his way, and
and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. {8:29} entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said,
Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to Brother Saul, the Lord, [even] Jesus, that appeared unto thee
this chariot. {8:30} And Philip ran thither to [him,] and in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest
heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. {9:18}
thou what thou readest? {8:31} And he said, How can I, And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been
except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was
that he would come up and sit with him. {8:32} The place baptized. {9:19} And when he had received meat, he was
of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples
sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his which were at Damascus. {9:20} And straightway he
shearer, so opened he not his mouth: {8:33} In his preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of
humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall God. {9:21} But all that heard [him] were amazed, and said;
declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth. Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name
{8:34} And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might
thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of bring them bound unto the chief priests? {9:22} But Saul
some other man? {8:35} Then Philip opened his mouth, and increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews
began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
{8:36} And as they went on [their] way, they came unto a
certain water: and the eunuch said, See, [here is] water; {9:23} And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews
what doth hinder me to be baptized? {8:37} And Philip took counsel to kill him: {9:24} But their laying await was
said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to
he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son kill him. {9:25} Then the disciples took him by night, and
of God. {8:38} And he commanded the chariot to stand let [him] down by the wall in a basket. {9:26} And when
still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to
and the eunuch; and he baptized him. {8:39} And when the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed
they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord not that he was a disciple. {9:27} But Barnabas took him,
caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and and brought [him] to the apostles, and declared unto them
he went on his way rejoicing. {8:40} But Philip was found how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had
at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at
till he came to Caesarea. Damascus in the name of Jesus. {9:28} And he was with
them coming in and going out at Jerusalem. {9:29} And he
{9:1} And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed
slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.
high priest, {9:2} And desired of him letters to Damascus to {9:30} [Which] when the brethren knew, they brought him
the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus. {9:31}
they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and
Jerusalem. {9:3} And as he journeyed, he came near Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the
Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were
light from heaven: {9:4} And he fell to the earth, and heard multiplied.
a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou
me? {9:5} And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord {9:32} And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all
said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: [it is] hard for thee [quarters,] he came down also to the saints which dwelt at
to kick against the pricks. {9:6} And he trembling and Lydda. {9:33} And there he found a certain man named
astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of
the Lord [said] unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it the palsy. {9:34} And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus
shall be told thee what thou must do. {9:7} And the men Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he
which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a arose immediately. {9:35} And all that dwelt at Lydda and
voice, but seeing no man. {9:8} And Saul arose from the Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord. {9:36} Now there
earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by
they led him by the hand, and brought [him] into Damascus. interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good
{9:9} And he was three days without sight, and neither did works and almsdeeds which she did. {9:37} And it came to
eat nor drink. pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when
they had washed, they laid [her] in an upper chamber.
{9:10} And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, {9:38} And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the
named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him
Ananias. And he said, Behold, I [am here,] Lord. {9:11} two men, desiring [him] that he would not delay to come to
And the Lord [said] unto him, Arise, and go into the street them. {9:39} Then Peter arose and went with them. When
which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and
for [one] called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth, all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the
{9:12} And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with
coming in, and putting [his] hand on him, that he might them. {9:40} But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled
receive his sight. {9:13} Then Ananias answered, Lord, I down, and prayed; and turning [him] to the body said,
have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw
done to thy saints at Jerusalem: {9:14} And here he hath Peter, she sat up. {9:41} And he gave her [his] hand, and
authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows,
name. {9:15} But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for presented her alive. {9:42} And it was known throughout
he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the all Joppa; and many believed in the Lord. {9:43} And it
Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: {9:16} For I came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one
will shew him how great things he must suffer for my Simon a tanner.
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{10:1} There was a certain man in Caesarea called ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood
Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian [band, before me in bright clothing, {10:31} And said, Cornelius,
]{10:2} A devout [man,] and one that feared God with all thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance
his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed in the sight of God. {10:32} Send therefore to Joppa, and
to God alway. {10:3} He saw in a vision evidently about the call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in
ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and the house of [one] Simon a tanner by the sea side: who,
saying unto him, Cornelius. {10:4} And when he looked on when he cometh, shall speak unto thee. {10:33}
him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well
unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here
memorial before God. {10:5} And now send men to Joppa, present before God, to hear all things that are commanded
and call for [one] Simon, whose surname is Peter: {10:6} thee of God.
He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the
sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do. {10:7} {10:34} Then Peter opened [his] mouth, and said, Of a
And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: {10:35}
departed, he called two of his household servants, and a But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh
devout soldier of them that waited on him continually; righteousness, is accepted with him. {10:36} The word
{10:8} And when he had declared all [these] things unto which [God] sent unto the children of Israel, preaching
them, he sent them to Joppa. peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:) {10:37} That
word, [I say,] ye know, which was published throughout all
{10:9} On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which
drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to John preached; {10:38} How God anointed Jesus of
pray about the sixth hour: {10:10} And he became very Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went
hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the
he fell into a trance, {10:11} And saw heaven opened, and a devil; for God was with him. {10:39} And we are witnesses
certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and
sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
{10:12} Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of {10:40} Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him
the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of openly; {10:41} Not to all the people, but unto witnesses
the air. {10:13} And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; chosen before of God, [even] to us, who did eat and drink
kill, and eat. {10:14} But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I with him after he rose from the dead. {10:42} And he
have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that
{10:15} And the voice [spake] unto him again the second it is he which was ordained of God [to be] the Judge of
time, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common. quick and dead. {10:43} To him give all the prophets
{10:16} This was done thrice: and the vessel was received witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him
up again into heaven. {10:17} Now while Peter doubted in shall receive remission of sins.
himself what this vision which he had seen should mean,
behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made {10:44} While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy
enquiry for Simon’s house, and stood before the gate, Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. {10:45} And
{10:18} And called, and asked whether Simon, which was they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as
surnamed Peter, were lodged there. many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also
was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. {10:46} For they
{10:19} While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then
unto him, Behold, three men seek thee. {10:20} Arise answered Peter, {10:47} Can any man forbid water, that
therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy
nothing: for I have sent them. {10:21} Then Peter went Ghost as well as we? {10:48} And he commanded them to
down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius; be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him
and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what [is] the cause to tarry certain days.
wherefore ye are come? {10:22} And they said, Cornelius
the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of {11:1} And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea
good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, {11:2} And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that
and to hear words of thee. {10:23} Then called he them in, were of the circumcision contended with him, {11:3}
and lodged [them.] And on the morrow Peter went away Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst
with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied eat with them. {11:4} But Peter rehearsed [the matter] from
him. {10:24} And the morrow after they entered into the beginning, and expounded [it] by order unto them,
Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called saying, {11:5} I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a
together his kinsmen and near friends. {10:25} And as Peter trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had
was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners;
and worshipped [him. ]{10:26} But Peter took him up, and it came even to me: {11:6} Upon the which when I had
saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man. {10:27} And as fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts
he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls
come together. {10:28} And he said unto them, Ye know of the air. {11:7} And I heard a voice saying unto me,
how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to Arise, Peter; slay and eat. {11:8} But I said, Not so, Lord:
keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered
hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or into my mouth. {11:9} But the voice answered me again
unclean. {10:29} Therefore came I [unto you] without from heaven, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou
gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for common. {11:10} And this was done three times: and all
what intent ye have sent for me? {10:30} And Cornelius were drawn up again into heaven. {11:11} And, behold,
said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the immediately there were three men already come unto the
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house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me. {11:12} raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell
And the spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. off from [his] hands. {12:8} And the angel said unto him,
Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And
entered into the man’s house: {11:13} And he shewed us he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow
how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said me. {12:9} And he went out, and followed him; and wist
unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose not that it was true which was done by the angel; but
surname is Peter; {11:14} Who shall tell thee words, thought he saw a vision. {12:10} When they were past the
whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved. {11:15} And first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that
as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own
the beginning. {11:16} Then remembered I the word of the accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street;
Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but and forthwith the angel departed from him. {12:11} And
ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. {11:17} when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a
Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as [he did] surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered
unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, me out of the hand of Herod, and [from] all the expectation
that I could withstand God? {11:18} When they heard these of the people of the Jews. {12:12} And when he had
things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, considered [the thing,] he came to the house of Mary the
Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many
life. were gathered together praying. {12:13} And as Peter
knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken,
{11:19} Now they which were scattered abroad upon the named Rhoda. {12:14} And when she knew Peter’s voice,
persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told
Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to how Peter stood before the gate. {12:15} And they said unto
none but unto the Jews only. {11:20} And some of them her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was
were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were even so. Then said they, It is his angel. {12:16} But Peter
come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the continued knocking: and when they had opened [the door,]
Lord Jesus. {11:21} And the hand of the Lord was with and saw him, they were astonished. {12:17} But he,
them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace,
Lord. declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of
the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James,
{11:22} Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another
the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth place. {12:18} Now as soon as it was day, there was no
Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch. {11:23} small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.
Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was {12:19} And when Herod had sought for him, and found
glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that
would cleave unto the Lord. {11:24} For he was a good [they] should be put to death. And he went down from
man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much Judaea to Caesarea, and [there] abode.
people was added unto the Lord. {11:25} Then departed
Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: {11:26} And when he {12:20} And Herod was highly displeased with them of
had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and,
to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend,
the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were desired peace; because their country was nourished by the
called Christians first in Antioch. king’s [country. ]{12:21} And upon a set day Herod,
arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an
{11:27} And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem oration unto them. {12:22} And the people gave a shout,
unto Antioch. {11:28} And there stood up one of them [saying, It is] the voice of a god, and not of a man. {12:23}
named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because
be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and
in the days of Claudius Caesar. {11:29} Then the disciples, gave up the ghost.
every man according to his ability, determined to send relief
unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: {11:30} Which {12:24} But the word of God grew and multiplied.
also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of {12:25} And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem,
Barnabas and Saul. when they had fulfilled [their] ministry, and took with them
John, whose surname was Mark.
{12:1} Now about that time Herod the king stretched
forth [his] hands to vex certain of the church. {12:2} And {13:1} Now there were in the church that was at Antioch
he killed James the brother of John with the sword. {12:3} certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that
And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which
further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
unleavened bread.) {12:4} And when he had apprehended {13:2} As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy
him, he put [him] in prison, and delivered [him] to four Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work
quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter whereunto I have called them. {13:3} And when they had
to bring him forth to the people. {12:5} Peter therefore was fasted and prayed, and laid [their] hands on them, they sent
kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the [them] away.
church unto God for him. {12:6} And when Herod would
have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping {13:4} So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost,
between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to
keepers before the door kept the prison. {12:7} And, Cyprus. {13:5} And when they were at Salamis, they
behold, the angel of the Lord came upon [him,] and a light preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews:
shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and and they had also John to [their] minister. {13:6} And when
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they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this
certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name [was] day have I begotten thee. {13:34} And as concerning that he
Bar-jesus: {13:7} Which was with the deputy of the raised him up from the dead, [now] no more to return to
country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure
Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God. mercies of David. {13:35} Wherefore he saith also in
{13:8} But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by another [psalm,] Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see
interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the corruption. {13:36} For David, after he had served his own
deputy from the faith. {13:9} Then Saul, (who also [is generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid
called] Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on unto his fathers, and saw corruption: {13:37} But he, whom
him, {13:10} And said, O full of all subtilty and all God raised again, saw no corruption.
mischief, [thou] child of the devil, [thou] enemy of all
righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways {13:38} Be it known unto you therefore, men [and]
of the Lord? {13:11} And now, behold, the hand of the brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the
Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the forgiveness of sins: {13:39} And by him all that believe are
sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist justified from all things, from which ye could not be
and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him justified by the law of Moses. {13:40} Beware therefore,
by the hand. {13:12} Then the deputy, when he saw what lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the {13:41} Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I
Lord. {13:13} Now when Paul and his company loosed work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise
from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John believe, though a man declare it unto you. {13:42} And
departing from them returned to Jerusalem. when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles
besought that these words might be preached to them the
{13:14} But when they departed from Perga, they came to next sabbath. {13:43} Now when the congregation was
Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes
sabbath day, and sat down. {13:15} And after the reading of followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them,
the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
unto them, saying, [Ye] men [and] brethren, if ye have any
word of exhortation for the people, say on. {13:16} Then {13:44} And the next sabbath day came almost the whole
Paul stood up, and beckoning with [his] hand said, Men of city together to hear the word of God. {13:45} But when the
Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. {13:17} The Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and
God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted spake against those things which were spoken by Paul,
the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of contradicting and blaspheming. {13:46} Then Paul and
Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it. Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the
{13:18} And about the time of forty years suffered he their word of God should first have been spoken to you: but
manners in the wilderness. {13:19} And when he had seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of
destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. {13:47} For so
their land to them by lot. {13:20} And after that he gave hath the Lord commanded us, [saying,] I have set thee to be
[unto them] judges about the space of four hundred and fifty a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation
years, until Samuel the prophet. {13:21} And afterward unto the ends of the earth. {13:48} And when the Gentiles
they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the
Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
years. {13:22} And when he had removed him, he raised up {13:49} And the word of the Lord was published
unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave throughout all the region. {13:50} But the Jews stirred up
testimony, and said, I have found David the [son] of Jesse, a the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the
man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will. city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and
{13:23} Of this man’s seed hath God according to [his] expelled them out of their coasts. {13:51} But they shook
promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus: {13:24} When off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto
John had first preached before his coming the baptism of Iconium. {13:52} And the disciples were filled with joy,
repentance to all the people of Israel. {13:25} And as John and with the Holy Ghost.
fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am
not [he.] But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose {14:1} And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went
shoes of [his] feet I am not worthy to loose. {13:26} Men both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake,
[and] brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the
whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of Greeks believed. {14:2} But the unbelieving Jews stirred up
this salvation sent. {13:27} For they that dwell at Jerusalem, the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the
and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the brethren. {14:3} Long time therefore abode they speaking
voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of
they have fulfilled [them] in condemning [him. ]{13:28} his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their
And though they found no cause of death [in him,] yet hands. {14:4} But the multitude of the city was divided: and
desired they Pilate that he should be slain. {13:29} And part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles. {14:5}
when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles,
took [him] down from the tree, and laid [him] in a and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use [them]
sepulchre. {13:30} But God raised him from the dead: despitefully, and to stone them, {14:6} They were ware of
{13:31} And he was seen many days of them which came [it,] and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and
up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his unto the region that lieth round about: {14:7} And there
witnesses unto the people. {13:32} And we declare unto they preached the gospel.
you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made
unto the fathers, {13:33} God hath fulfilled the same unto {14:8} And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in
us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never
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had walked: {14:9} The same heard Paul speak: who consider of this matter. {15:7} And when there had been
stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men
be healed, {14:10} Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on [and] brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God
thy feet. And he leaped and walked. {14:11} And when the made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth
people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. {15:8} And
saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving
to us in the likeness of men. {14:12} And they called them the Holy Ghost, even as [he did] unto us; {15:9} And
Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the put no difference between us and them, purifying their
chief speaker. {14:13} Then the priest of Jupiter, which was hearts by faith. {15:10} Now therefore why tempt ye God,
before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither
and would have done sacrifice with the people. {14:14} our fathers nor we were able to bear? {15:11} But we
[Which] when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard [of,] believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we
they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying shall be saved, even as they.
out, {14:15} And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We
also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you {15:12} Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave
that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and
which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
that are therein: {14:16} Who in times past suffered all
nations to walk in their own ways. {14:17} Nevertheless he {15:13} And after they had held their peace, James
left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and answered, saying, Men [and] brethren, hearken unto me:
gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our {15:14} Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit
hearts with food and gladness. {14:18} And with these the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not {15:15} And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is
done sacrifice unto them. written, {15:16} After this I will return, and will build again
the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will
{14:19} And there came thither [certain] Jews from build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: {15:17}
Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all
having stoned Paul, drew [him] out of the city, supposing he the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord,
had been dead. {14:20} Howbeit, as the disciples stood who doeth all these things. {15:18} Known unto God are all
round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the his works from the beginning of the world. {15:19}
next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. {14:21} And Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which
when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had from among the Gentiles are turned to God: {15:20} But
taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and [to] that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of
Iconium, and Antioch, {14:22} Confirming the souls of the idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled,
disciples, [and] exhorting them to continue in the faith, and and [from] blood. {15:21} For Moses of old time hath in
that we must through much tribulation enter into the every city them that preach him, being read in the
kingdom of God. {14:23} And when they had ordained synagogues every sabbath day. {15:22} Then pleased it the
them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen
they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed. men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and
{14:24} And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they Barnabas; [namely,] Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas,
came to Pamphylia. {14:25} And when they had preached chief men among the brethren: {15:23} And they wrote
the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia: {14:26} [letters] by them after this manner; The apostles and elders
And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been and brethren [send] greeting unto the brethren which are of
recommended to the grace of God for the work which they the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: {15:24}
fulfilled. {14:27} And when they were come, and had Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out
gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God from us have troubled you with words, subverting your
had done with them, and how he had opened the door of souls, saying, [Ye must] be circumcised, and keep the law:
faith unto the Gentiles. {14:28} And there they abode long to whom we gave no [such] commandment: {15:25} It
time with the disciples. seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to
send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and
{15:1} And certain men which came down from Judaea Paul, {15:26} Men that have hazarded their lives for the
taught the brethren, [and said,] Except ye be circumcised name of our Lord Jesus Christ. {15:27} We have sent
after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. {15:2} therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell [you] the same
When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension things by mouth. {15:28} For it seemed good to the Holy
and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than
Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to these necessary things; {15:29} That ye abstain from meats
Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question. offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled,
{15:3} And being brought on their way by the church, they and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye
passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the shall do well. Fare ye well. {15:30} So when they were
conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had
all the brethren. {15:4} And when they were come to gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:
Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and [of] the {15:31} [Which] when they had read, they rejoiced for the
apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God consolation. {15:32} And Judas and Silas, being prophets
had done with them. {15:5} But there rose up certain of the also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words,
sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was and confirmed [them. ]{15:33} And after they had tarried
needful to circumcise them, and to command [them] to keep [there] a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren
the law of Moses. unto the apostles. {15:34} Notwithstanding it pleased Silas
to abide there still. {15:35} Paul also and Barnabas
{15:6} And the apostles and elders came together for to continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of
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the Lord, with many others also. [them] into the marketplace unto the rulers, {16:20} And
brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being
{15:36} And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, {16:21} And teach
us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to
have preached the word of the Lord, [and see] how they do. observe, being Romans. {16:22} And the multitude rose up
{15:37} And Barnabas determined to take with them John, together against them: and the magistrates rent off their
whose surname was Mark. {15:38} But Paul thought not clothes, and commanded to beat [them. ]{16:23} And when
good to take him with them, who departed from them from they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast [them] into
Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work. {15:39} prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely: {16:24}
And the contention was so sharp between them, that they Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the
departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus; {15:40} And Paul chose
Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren {16:25} And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang
unto the grace of God. {15:41} And he went through Syria praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. {16:26}
and Cilicia, confirming the churches. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the
foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all
{16:1} Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.
certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a {16:27} And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his
certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his
father [was] a Greek: {16:2} Which was well reported of by sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the
the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. {16:3} Him prisoners had been fled. {16:28} But Paul cried with a loud
would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those {16:29} Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came
quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek. trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, {16:30}
{16:4} And as they went through the cities, they delivered And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be
them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the saved? {16:31} And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus
apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem. {16:5} And so Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. {16:32} And
were the churches established in the faith, and increased in they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that
number daily. {16:6} Now when they had gone throughout were in his house. {16:33} And he took them the same hour
Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the of the night, and washed [their] stripes; and was baptized,
Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, {16:7} After they he and all his, straightway. {16:34} And when he had
were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and
the Spirit suffered them not. {16:8} And they passing by rejoiced, believing in God with all his house. {16:35} And
Mysia came down to Troas. {16:9} And a vision appeared when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying,
to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and Let those men go. {16:36} And the keeper of the prison told
prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go:
us. {16:10} And after he had seen the vision, immediately now therefore depart, and go in peace. {16:37} But Paul
we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned,
that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto being Romans, and have cast [us] into prison; and now do
them. {16:11} Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come
a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to themselves and fetch us out. {16:38} And the serjeants told
Neapolis; {16:12} And from thence to Philippi, which is the these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when
chief city of that part of Macedonia, [and] a colony: and we they heard that they were Romans. {16:39} And they came
were in that city abiding certain days. {16:13} And on the and besought them, and brought [them] out, and desired
sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer [them] to depart out of the city. {16:40} And they went out
was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the of the prison, and entered into [the house of] Lydia and
women which resorted [thither. when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and
departed.
]{16:14} And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of
purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, {17:1} Now when they had passed through Amphipolis
heard [us:] whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a
unto the things which were spoken of Paul. {16:15} And synagogue of the Jews: {17:2} And Paul, as his manner
when she was baptized, and her household, she besought was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned
[us,] saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, with them out of the scriptures, {17:3} Opening and
come into my house, and abide [there.] And she constrained alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen
us. again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach
unto you, is Christ. {17:4} And some of them believed, and
{16:16} And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a
certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
{16:17} The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, {17:5} But the Jews which believed not, moved with
These men are the servants of the most high God, which envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort,
shew unto us the way of salvation. {16:18} And this did she and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar,
many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them
spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out to the people. {17:6} And when they found them not,
out of her. And he came out the same hour. they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the
city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down
{16:19} And when her masters saw that the hope of their are come hither also; {17:7} Whom Jason hath received:
gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying
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that there is another king, [one] Jesus. {17:8} And they again of this [matter. ]{17:33} So Paul departed from
troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they among them. {17:34} Howbeit certain men clave unto him,
heard these things. {17:9} And when they had taken and believed: among the which [was] Dionysius the
security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go. Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with
them.
{17:10} And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and
Silas by night unto Berea: who coming [thither] went into {18:1} After these things Paul departed from Athens, and
the synagogue of the Jews. {17:11} These were more noble came to Corinth; {18:2} And found a certain Jew named
than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife
with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to
whether those things were so. {17:12} Therefore many of depart from Rome:) and came unto them. {18:3} And
them believed; also of honourable women which were because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and
Greeks, and of men, not a few. {17:13} But when the Jews wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was {18:4} And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath,
preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. {18:5} And when
stirred up the people. {17:14} And then immediately the Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was
brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews [that] Jesus
and Timotheus abode there still. {17:15} And they that [was] Christ. {18:6} And when they opposed themselves,
conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a and blasphemed, he shook [his] raiment, and said unto
commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him them, Your blood [be] upon your own heads; I [am] clean:
with all speed, they departed. from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
{17:16} Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his {18:7} And he departed thence, and entered into a certain
spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given [man’s] house, named Justus, [one] that worshipped God,
to idolatry. {17:17} Therefore disputed he in the synagogue whose house joined hard to the synagogue. {18:8} And
with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the
market daily with them that met with him. {17:18} Then Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians
certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, hearing believed, and were baptized. {18:9} Then spake the
encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but
say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange speak, and hold not thy peace: {18:10} For I am with thee,
gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much
resurrection. {17:19} And they took him, and brought him people in this city. {18:11} And he continued [there] a year
unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
doctrine, whereof thou speakest, [is? ]{17:20} For thou
bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know {18:12} And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the
therefore what these things mean. {17:21} (For all the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and
Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time brought him to the judgment seat, {18:13} Saying, This
in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) [fellow] persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the
law. {18:14} And when Paul was now about to open [his]
{17:22} Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of
said, [Ye] men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are wrong or wicked lewdness, O [ye] Jews, reason would that I
too superstitious. {17:23} For as I passed by, and beheld should bear with you: {18:15} But if it be a question of
your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO words and names, and [of] your law, look ye [to it;] for I
THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly will be no judge of such [matters. ]{18:16} And he drave
worship, him declare I unto you. {17:24} God that made the them from the judgment seat. {18:17} Then all the Greeks
world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat
heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; [him] before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none
{17:25} Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though of those things.
he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath,
and all things; {17:26} And hath made of one blood all {18:18} And Paul [after this] tarried [there] yet a good
nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed
hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having
of their habitation; {17:27} That they should seek the Lord, shorn [his] head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow. {18:19}
if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself
be not far from every one of us: {17:28} For in him we live, entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own {18:20} When they desired [him] to tarry longer time with
poets have said, For we are also his offspring. {17:29} them, he consented not; {18:21} But bade them farewell,
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in
not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And
stone, graven by art and man’s device. {17:30} And the he sailed from Ephesus. {18:22} And when he had landed at
times of this ignorance God winked at; but now Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went
commandeth all men every where to repent: {17:31} down to Antioch. {18:23} And after he had spent some time
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge [there,] he departed, and went over [all] the country of
the world in righteousness by [that] man whom he hath Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.
ordained; [whereof] he hath given assurance unto all [men,]
in that he hath raised him from the dead. {18:24} And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at
Alexandria, an eloquent man, [and] mighty in the scriptures,
{17:32} And when they heard of the resurrection of the came to Ephesus. {18:25} This man was instructed in the
dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake
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and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only no small gain unto the craftsmen; {19:25} Whom he called
the baptism of John. {18:26} And he began to speak boldly together with the workmen of like occupation, and said,
in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. {19:26}
heard, they took him unto [them,] and expounded unto him Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but
the way of God more perfectly. {18:27} And when he was almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and
disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting turned away much people, saying that they be no gods,
the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, which are made with hands: {19:27} So that not only this
helped them much which had believed through grace: our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the
{18:28} For he mightily convinced the Jews, [and that] temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and
publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ. her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and
the world worshippeth. {19:28} And when they heard [these
{19:1} And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at sayings,] they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying,
Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came Great [is] Diana of the Ephesians. {19:29} And the whole
to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, {19:2} He said city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and
unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in
believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre. {19:30}
heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. {19:3} And he said And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the
unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, disciples suffered him not. {19:31} And certain of the chief
Unto John’s baptism. {19:4} Then said Paul, John verily of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring
baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the [him] that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.
people, that they should believe on him which should come {19:32} Some therefore cried one thing, and some another:
after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. {19:5} When they heard for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not
[this,] they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. wherefore they were come together. {19:33} And they drew
{19:6} And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him
Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and
and prophesied. {19:7} And all the men were about twelve. would have made his defence unto the people. {19:34} But
{19:8} And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about
for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the the space of two hours cried out, Great [is] Diana of the
things concerning the kingdom of God. {19:9} But when Ephesians. {19:35} And when the townclerk had appeased
divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of the people, he said, [Ye] men of Ephesus, what man is there
that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a
separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the [image]
Tyrannus. {19:10} And this continued by the space of two which fell down from Jupiter? {19:36} Seeing then that
years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet,
the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. {19:11} And God and to do nothing rashly. {19:37} For ye have brought
wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: {19:12} So hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor
that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs yet blasphemers of your goddess. {19:38} Wherefore if
or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a
spirits went out of them. matter against any man, the law is open, and there are
deputies: let them implead one another. {19:39} But if ye
{19:13} Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be
took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the determined in a lawful assembly. {19:40} For we are in
name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus danger to be called in question for this day’s uproar, there
whom Paul preacheth. {19:14} And there were seven sons being no cause whereby we may give an account of this
of [one] Sceva, a Jew, [and] chief of the priests, which did concourse. {19:41} And when he had thus spoken, he
so. {19:15} And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I dismissed the assembly.
know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? {19:16} And the
man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and {20:1} And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto
overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they [him] the disciples, and embraced [them,] and departed for
fled out of that house naked and wounded. {19:17} And this to go into Macedonia. {20:2} And when he had gone over
was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came
Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord into Greece, {20:3} And [there] abode three months. And
Jesus was magnified. {19:18} And many that believed when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into
came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. {19:19} Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia. {20:4}
Many of them also which used curious arts brought their And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and
books together, and burned them before all [men:] and they of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius
counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and
[pieces] of silver. {19:20} So mightily grew the word of Trophimus. {20:5} These going before tarried for us at
God and prevailed. Troas. {20:6} And we sailed away from Philippi after the
days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in
{19:21} After these things were ended, Paul purposed in five days; where we abode seven days. {20:7} And upon the
the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and first [day] of the week, when the disciples came together to
Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on
I must also see Rome. {19:22} So he sent into Macedonia the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and {20:8} And there were many lights in the upper chamber,
Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season. {19:23} where they were gathered together. {20:9} And there sat in
And the same time there arose no small stir about that way. a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being
{19:24} For a certain [man] named Demetrius, a fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he
silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and
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was taken up dead. {20:10} And Paul went down, and fell and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him, {20:38} Sorrowing
on him, and embracing [him] said, Trouble not yourselves; most of all for the words which he spake, that they should
for his life is in him. {20:11} When he therefore was come see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the
up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long ship.
while, even till break of day, so he departed. {20:12} And
they brought the young man alive, and were not a little {21:1} And it came to pass, that after we were gotten
comforted. from them, and had launched, we came with a straight
course unto Coos, and the [day] following unto Rhodes, and
{20:13} And we went before to ship, and sailed unto from thence unto Patara: {21:2} And finding a ship sailing
Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth. {21:3}
appointed, minding himself to go afoot. {20:14} And when Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left
he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the
Mitylene. {20:15} And we sailed thence, and came the next ship was to unlade her burden. {21:4} And finding
[day] over against Chios; and the next [day] we arrived at disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul
Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next [day] we through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
came to Miletus. {20:16} For Paul had determined to sail by {21:5} And when we had accomplished those days, we
Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our
he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the way, with wives and children, till [we were] out of the city:
day of Pentecost. and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed. {21:6} And
when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship;
{20:17} And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called and they returned home again. {21:7} And when we had
the elders of the church. {20:18} And when they were come finished [our] course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and
to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day. {21:8}
came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at And the next [day] we that were of Paul’s company
all seasons, {20:19} Serving the Lord with all humility of departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the
mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell house of Philip the evangelist, which was [one] of the
me by the lying in wait of the Jews: {20:20} [And] how I seven; and abode with him. {21:9} And the same man had
kept back nothing that was profitable [unto you,] but have four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy. {21:10} And
shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house as we tarried [there] many days, there came down from
to house, {20:21} Testifying both to the Jews, and also to Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus. {21:11} And
the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our when he was come unto us, he took Paul’s girdle, and
Lord Jesus Christ. {20:22} And now, behold, I go bound in bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy
the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that
befall me there: {20:23} Save that the Holy Ghost owneth this girdle, and shall deliver [him] into the hands of
witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions the Gentiles. {21:12} And when we heard these things, both
abide me. {20:24} But none of these things move me, we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to
neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might Jerusalem. {21:13} Then Paul answered, What mean ye to
finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be
received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the
of God. {20:25} And now, behold, I know that ye all, Lord Jesus. {21:14} And when he would not be persuaded,
among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.
shall see my face no more. {20:26} Wherefore I take you to
record this day, that I [am] pure from the blood of all [men. {21:15} And after those days we took up our carriages,
]{20:27} For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the and went up to Jerusalem. {21:16} There went with us also
counsel of God. [certain] of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them
one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we
{20:28} Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all should lodge. {21:17} And when we were come to
the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly. {21:18} And the
overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath [day] following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the
purchased with his own blood. {20:29} For I know this, that elders were present. {21:19} And when he had saluted
after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought
you, not sparing the flock. {20:30} Also of your own selves among the Gentiles by his ministry. {21:20} And when they
shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away heard [it,] they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou
disciples after them. {20:31} Therefore watch, and seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which
remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to believe; and they are all zealous of the law: {21:21} And
warn every one night and day with tears. {20:32} And now, they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews
brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that
grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an they ought not to circumcise [their] children, neither to walk
inheritance among all them which are sanctified. {20:33} I after the customs. {21:22} What is it therefore? the
have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel. {20:34} multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that
Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered thou art come. {21:23} Do therefore this that we say to
unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
{20:35} I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring {21:24} Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at
ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of charges with them, that they may shave [their] heads: and
the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than all may know that those things, whereof they were informed
to receive. concerning thee, are nothing; but [that] thou thyself also
walkest orderly, and keepest the law. {21:25} As touching
{20:36} And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, the Gentiles which believe, we have written [and]
and prayed with them all. {20:37} And they all wept sore, concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that
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they keep themselves from [things] offered to idols, and shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go
from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication. into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things
{21:26} Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying which are appointed for thee to do. {22:11} And when I
himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the
accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.
offering should be offered for every one of them. {22:12} And one Ananias, a devout man according to the
law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt
{21:27} And when the seven days were almost ended, the [there, ]{22:13} Came unto me, and stood, and said unto
Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I
stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, {21:28} looked up upon him. {22:14} And he said, The God of our
Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will,
teacheth all [men] every where against the people, and the and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his
law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the mouth. {22:15} For thou shalt be his witness unto all men
temple, and hath polluted this holy place. {21:29} (For they of what thou hast seen and heard. {22:16} And now why
had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy
Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into sins, calling on the name of the Lord. {22:17} And it came
the temple.) {21:30} And all the city was moved, and the to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even
people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance; {22:18} And
of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut. {21:31} saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly
And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony
chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an concerning me. {22:19} And I said, Lord, they know that I
uproar. {21:32} Who immediately took soldiers and imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed
centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the on thee: {22:20} And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen
chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul. was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his
{21:33} Then the chief captain came near, and took him, death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him. {22:21}
and commanded [him] to be bound with two chains; and And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence
demanded who he was, and what he had done. {21:34} And unto the Gentiles. {22:22} And they gave him audience
some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: unto this word, and [then] lifted up their voices, and said,
and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he Away with such a [fellow] from the earth: for it is not fit
commanded him to be carried into the castle. {21:35} And that he should live. {22:23} And as they cried out, and cast
when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne off [their] clothes, and threw dust into the air, {22:24} The
of the soldiers for the violence of the people. {21:36} For chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle,
the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he
with him. {21:37} And as Paul was to be led into the castle, might know wherefore they cried so against him. {22:25}
he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the
said, Canst thou speak Greek? {21:38} Art not thou that centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a
Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and man that is a Roman, and uncondemned? {22:26} When the
leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were centurion heard [that,] he went and told the chief captain,
murderers? {21:39} But Paul said, I am a man [which am] a saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.
Jew of Tarsus, [a city] in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: {22:27} Then the chief captain came, and said unto him,
and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people. Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea. {22:28} And the
{21:40} And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this
the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And freedom. And Paul said, But I was [free] born. {22:29}
when there was made a great silence, he spake unto [them] Then straightway they departed from him which should
in the Hebrew tongue, saying, have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid,
after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had
{22:1} Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence bound him. {22:30} On the morrow, because he would have
[which I make] now unto you. {22:2} (And when they known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews,
heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept he loosed him from [his] bands, and commanded the chief
the more silence: and he saith,) {22:3} I am verily a man priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul
[which am] a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet down, and set him before them.
brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, [and] taught
according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, {23:1} And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said,
and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. {22:4} Men [and] brethren, I have lived in all good conscience
And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and before God until this day. {23:2} And the high priest
delivering into prisons both men and women. {22:5} As Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him
also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate on the mouth. {23:3} Then said Paul unto him, God shall
of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the smite thee, [thou] whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me
brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to
there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished. {22:6} And the law? {23:4} And they that stood by said, Revilest thou
it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come God’s high priest? {23:5} Then said Paul, I wist not,
nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou
heaven a great light round about me. {22:7} And I fell unto shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people. {23:6} But
the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and
why persecutest thou me? {22:8} And I answered, Who art the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men [and]
thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope
whom thou persecutest. {22:9} And they that were with me and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. {23:7}
saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between
voice of him that spake to me. {22:10} And I said, What the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was
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divided. {23:8} For the Sadducees say that there is no presented Paul also before him. {23:34} And when the
resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees governor had read [the letter,] he asked of what province he
confess both. {23:9} And there arose a great cry: and the was. And when he understood that [he was] of Cilicia;
scribes [that were] of the Pharisees’ part arose, and strove, {23:35} I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are
saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s
angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God. judgment hall.
{23:10} And when there arose a great dissension, the chief
captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces {24:1} And after five days Ananias the high priest
of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take descended with the elders, and [with] a certain orator
him by force from among them, and to bring [him] into the [named] Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
castle. {23:11} And the night following the Lord stood by {24:2} And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to
him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast accuse [him,] saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great
testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done unto this
at Rome. {23:12} And when it was day, certain of the Jews nation by thy providence, {24:3} We accept [it] always, and
banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness. {24:4}
saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I
killed Paul. {23:13} And they were more than forty which pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few
had made this conspiracy. {23:14} And they came to the words. {24:5} For we have found this man [a] pestilent
chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves [fellow,] and a mover of sedition among all the Jews
under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the
slain Paul. {23:15} Now therefore ye with the council Nazarenes: {24:6} Who also hath gone about to profane the
signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to
to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more our law. {24:7} But the chief captain Lysias came [upon
perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are us,] and with great violence took [him] away out of our
ready to kill him. {23:16} And when Paul’s sister’s son hands, {24:8} Commanding his accusers to come unto thee:
heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of
castle, and told Paul. {23:17} Then Paul called one of the all these things, whereof we accuse him. {24:9} And the
centurions unto [him,] and said, Bring this young man unto Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
the chief captain: for he hath a certain thing to tell him. {24:10} Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned
{23:18} So he took him, and brought [him] to the chief unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that
captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me unto [him,] thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do
and prayed me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath the more cheerfully answer for myself: {24:11} Because
something to say unto thee. {23:19} Then the chief captain that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve
took him by the hand, and went [with him] aside privately, days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship. {24:12}
and asked [him,] What is that thou hast to tell me? {23:20} And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any
And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou man, neither raising up the people, neither in the
wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as synagogues, nor in the city: {24:13} Neither can they prove
though they would enquire somewhat of him more the things whereof they now accuse me. {24:14} But this I
perfectly. {23:21} But do not thou yield unto them: for confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy,
there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things
have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither which are written in the law and in the prophets: {24:15}
eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they And have hope toward God, which they themselves also
ready, looking for a promise from thee. {23:22} So the allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of
chief captain [then] let the young man depart, and charged the just and unjust. {24:16} And herein do I exercise
[him, See thou] tell no man that thou hast shewed these myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward
things to me. {23:23} And he called unto [him] two God, and [toward] men. {24:17} Now after many years I
centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings. {24:18}
to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the
spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night; temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult. {24:19}
{23:24} And provide [them] beasts, that they may set Paul Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they
on, and bring [him] safe unto Felix the governor. {23:25} had ought against me. {24:20} Or else let these same [here]
And he wrote a letter after this manner: {23:26} Claudius say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood
Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix [sendeth] before the council, {24:21} Except it be for this one voice,
greeting. {23:27} This man was taken of the Jews, and that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection
should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
{23:28} And when I would have known the cause {24:22} And when Felix heard these things, having more
wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their perfect knowledge of [that] way, he deferred them, and said,
council: {23:29} Whom I perceived to be accused of When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will
questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge know the uttermost of your matter. {24:23} And he
worthy of death or of bonds. {23:30} And when it was told commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let [him] have
me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance
straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers to minister or come unto him.
also to say before thee what [they had] against him.
Farewell. {23:31} Then the soldiers, as it was commanded {24:24} And after certain days, when Felix came with his
them, took Paul, and brought [him] by night to Antipatris. wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and
{23:32} On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with heard him concerning the faith in Christ. {24:25} And as he
him, and returned to the castle: {23:33} Who, when they reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to
came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, come Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this
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time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee. of the city, at Festus’ commandment Paul was brought
{24:26} He hoped also that money should have been given forth. {25:24} And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men
him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for which are here present with us, ye see this man, about
him the oftener, and communed with him. {24:27} But after whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both
two years Porcius Festus came into Felix’ room: and Felix, at Jerusalem, and [also] here, crying that he ought not to
willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. live any longer. {25:25} But when I found that he had
committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself
{25:1} Now when Festus was come into the province, hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem. {25:26} Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my
{25:2} Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and
informed him against Paul, and besought him, {25:3} And specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after
desired favour against him, that he would send for him to examination had, I might have somewhat to write. {25:27}
Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him. {25:4} But For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and
Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and not withal to signify the crimes [laid] against him.
that he himself would depart shortly [thither. ]{25:5} Let
them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down {26:1} Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted
with [me,] and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and
in him. {25:6} And when he had tarried among them more answered for himself: {26:2} I think myself happy, king
than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and the next Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before
day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the
brought. {25:7} And when he was come, the Jews which Jews: {26:3} Especially [because I know] thee to be expert
came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid in all customs and questions which are among the Jews:
many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. {26:4} My
could not prove. {25:8} While he answered for himself, manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among
Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; {26:5}
temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify,
all. {25:9} But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a
answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and Pharisee. {26:6} And now I stand and am judged for the
there be judged of these things before me? {25:10} Then hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: {26:7}
said Paul, I stand at Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought Unto which [promise] our twelve tribes, instantly serving
to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou [God] day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s sake,
very well knowest. {25:11} For if I be an offender, or have king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. {26:8} Why should
committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should
if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no raise the dead? {26:9} I verily thought with myself, that I
man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar. ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of
{25:12} Then Festus, when he had conferred with the Nazareth. {26:10} Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and
council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received
Caesar shalt thou go. authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to
death, I gave my voice against [them. ]{26:11} And I
{25:13} And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled
came unto Caesarea to salute Festus. {25:14} And when [them] to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against
they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul’s them, I persecuted [them] even unto strange cities. {26:12}
cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and
bonds by Felix: {25:15} About whom, when I was at commission from the chief priests, {26:13} At midday, O
Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the
informed [me,] desiring [to have] judgment against him. brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them
{25:16} To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the which journeyed with me. {26:14} And when we were all
Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and
accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest
answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him. thou me? [it is] hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
{25:17} Therefore, when they were come hither, without {26:15} And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am
any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and Jesus whom thou persecutest. {26:16} But rise, and stand
commanded the man to be brought forth. {25:18} Against upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this
whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these
accusation of such things as I supposed: {25:19} But had things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the
certain questions against him of their own superstition, and which I will appear unto thee; {26:17} Delivering thee from
of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be the people, and [from] the Gentiles, unto whom now I send
alive. {25:20} And because I doubted of such manner of thee, {26:18} To open their eyes, [and] to turn [them] from
questions, I asked [him] whether he would go to Jerusalem, darkness to light, and [from] the power of Satan unto God,
and there be judged of these matters. {25:21} But when that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance
Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him {26:19} Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient
to Caesar. {25:22} Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would unto the heavenly vision: {26:20} But shewed first unto
also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the
hear him. coasts of Judaea, and [then] to the Gentiles, that they should
repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
{25:23} And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, {26:21} For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple,
and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the and went about to kill [me. ]{26:22} Having therefore
place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing
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both to small and great, saying none other things than those should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were
which the prophets and Moses did say should come: driven. {27:18} And we being exceedingly tossed with a
{26:23} That Christ should suffer, [and] that he should be tempest, the next [day] they lightened the ship; {27:19}
the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew And the third [day] we cast out with our own hands the
light unto the people, and to the Gentiles. tackling of the ship. {27:20} And when neither sun nor stars
in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on [us,] all
{26:24} And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said hope that we should be saved was then taken away. {27:21}
with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of
learning doth make thee mad. {26:25} But he said, I am not them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and
mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm
and soberness. {26:26} For the king knoweth of these and loss. {27:22} And now I exhort you to be of good
things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded cheer: for there shall be no loss of [any man’s] life among
that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing you, but of the ship. {27:23} For there stood by me this
was not done in a corner. {26:27} King Agrippa, believest night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
thou the prophets? I know that thou believest. {26:28} Then {27:24} Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before
Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with
Christian. {26:29} And Paul said, I would to God, that not thee. {27:25} Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I
only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me. {27:26}
almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds. Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island. {27:27} But
{26:30} And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up
and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them: and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed
{26:31} And when they were gone aside, they talked that they drew near to some country; {27:28} And sounded,
between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing and found [it] twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a
worthy of death or of bonds. {26:32} Then said Agrippa little further, they sounded again, and found [it] fifteen
unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he fathoms. {27:29} Then fearing lest we should have fallen
had not appealed unto Caesar. upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and
wished for the day. {27:30} And as the shipmen were about
{27:1} And when it was determined that we should sail to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into
into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners the sea, under colour as though they would have cast
unto [one] named Julius, a centurion of Augustus’ band. anchors out of the foreship, {27:31} Paul said to the
{27:2} And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship,
launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; [one] ye cannot be saved. {27:32} Then the soldiers cut off the
Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. ropes of the boat, and let her fall off. {27:33} And while the
{27:3} And the next [day] we touched at Sidon. And Julius day was coming on, Paul besought [them] all to take meat,
courteously entreated Paul, and gave [him] liberty to go saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried
unto his friends to refresh himself. {27:4} And when we and continued fasting, having taken nothing. {27:34}
had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because Wherefore I pray you to take [some] meat: for this is for
the winds were contrary. {27:5} And when we had sailed your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of
over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, [a any of you. {27:35} And when he had thus spoken, he took
city] of Lycia. {27:6} And there the centurion found a ship bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and
of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein. when he had broken [it,] he began to eat. {27:36} Then
{27:7} And when we had sailed slowly many days, and were they all of good cheer, and they also took [some] meat.
scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not {27:37} And we were in all in the ship two hundred
suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone; threescore and sixteen souls. {27:38} And when they had
{27:8} And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the
called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city [of] wheat into the sea. {27:39} And when it was day, they
Lasea. knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with
a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were
{27:9} Now when much time was spent, and when sailing possible, to thrust in the ship. {27:40} And when they had
was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, taken up the anchors, they committed [themselves] unto the
Paul admonished [them, ]{27:10} And said unto them, Sirs, sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail
I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much to the wind, and made toward shore. {27:41} And falling
damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground;
lives. {27:11} Nevertheless the centurion believed the and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but
master and the owner of the ship, more than those things the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
which were spoken by Paul. {27:12} And because the {27:42} And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners,
haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part lest any of them should swim out, and escape. {27:43} But
advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from [their]
attain to Phenice, [and there] to winter; [which is] an haven purpose; and commanded that they which could swim
of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west. should cast [themselves] first [into the sea,] and get to land:
{27:13} And when the south wind blew softly, supposing {27:44} And the rest, some on boards, and some on [broken
that they had obtained [their] purpose, loosing [thence,] they pieces] of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped
sailed close by Crete. {27:14} But not long after there arose all safe to land.
against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. {27:15}
And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into {28:1} And when they were escaped, then they knew that
the wind, we let [her] drive. {27:16} And running under a the island was called Melita. {28:2} And the barbarous
certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire,
come by the boat: {27:17} Which when they had taken up, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and
they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they because of the cold. {28:3} And when Paul had gathered a
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bundle of sticks, and laid [them] on the fire, there came a waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their
viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. {28:4} And eyes have they closed; lest they should see with [their] eyes,
when the barbarians saw the [venomous] beast hang on his and hear with [their] ears, and understand with [their] heart,
hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a and should be converted, and I should heal them. {28:28}
murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is
vengeance suffereth not to live. {28:5} And he shook off sent unto the Gentiles, and [that] they will hear it. {28:29}
the beast into the fire, and felt no harm. {28:6} Howbeit And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and
they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down had great reasoning among themselves.
dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and
saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and {28:30} And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired
said that he was a god. house, and received all that came in unto him, {28:31}
Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things
{28:7} In the same quarters were possessions of the chief which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence,
man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received no man forbidding him.
us, and lodged us three days courteously. {28:8} And it
came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever
and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed,
and laid his hands on him, and healed him. {28:9} So when
this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island,
came, and were healed: {28:10} Who also honoured us with
many honours; and when we departed, they laded [us] with
such things as were necessary.
{2:17} But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short
{1:1} Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more
of the Thessalonians [which is] in God the Father and [in] abundantly to see your face with great desire. {2:18}
the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once
God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. {1:2} We give and again; but Satan hindered us. {2:19} For what [is] our
thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? [Are] not even ye in the
our prayers; {1:3} Remembering without ceasing your work presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? {2:20} For
of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our ye are our glory and joy.
Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; {1:4}
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. {1:5} For {3:1} Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we
our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in thought it good to be left at Athens alone; {3:2} And sent
power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our
know what manner of men we were among you for your fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and
sake. {1:6} And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, to comfort you concerning your faith: {3:3} That no man
having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know
Holy Ghost: {1:7} So that ye were ensamples to all that that we are appointed thereunto. {3:4} For verily, when we
believe in Macedonia and Achaia. {1:8} For from you were with you, we told you before that we should suffer
sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know. {3:5} For
and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know
is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted
{1:9} For they themselves shew of us what manner of you, and our labour be in vain. {3:6} But now when
entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good
from idols to serve the living and true God; {1:10} And to tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good
wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we
dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to also [to see] you: {3:7} Therefore, brethren, we were
come. comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your
faith: {3:8} For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
{2:1} For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto {3:9} For what thanks can we render to God again for you,
you, that it was not in vain: {2:2} But even after that we had for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our
suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, God; {3:10} Night and day praying exceedingly that we
at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking
gospel of God with much contention. {2:3} For our in your faith? {3:11} Now God himself and our Father, and
exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. {3:12} And
guile: {2:4} But as we were allowed of God to be put in the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one
trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing toward another, and toward all [men,] even as we [do]
men, but God, which trieth our hearts. {2:5} For neither at toward you: {3:13} To the end he may stablish your hearts
any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the
of covetousness; God [is] witness: {2:6} Nor of men sought coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
we glory, neither of you, nor [yet] of others, when we might
have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. {2:7} But {4:1} Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and
we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her exhort [you] by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of
children: {2:8} So being affectionately desirous of you, we us how ye ought to walk and to please God, [so] ye would
were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of abound more and more. {4:2} For ye know what
God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. {4:3} For
unto us. {2:9} For ye remember, brethren, our labour and this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye
travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not should abstain from fornication: {4:4} That every one of
be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification
gospel of God. {2:10} Ye [are] witnesses, and God [also,] and honour; {4:5} Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as
how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved the Gentiles which know not God: {4:6} That no [man] go
ourselves among you that believe: {2:11} As ye know how beyond and defraud his brother in [any] matter: because that
we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, the Lord [is] the avenger of all such, as we also have
as a father [doth] his children, {2:12} That ye would walk forewarned you and testified. {4:7} For God hath not called
worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. {4:8} He therefore
glory. that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also
given unto us his holy Spirit. {4:9} But as touching
{2:13} For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye
because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard yourselves are taught of God to love one another. {4:10}
of us, ye received [it] not [as] the word of men, but as it is And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all
in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase
you that believe. {2:14} For ye, brethren, became followers more and more; {4:11} And that ye study to be quiet, and to
of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as
for ye also have suffered like things of your own we commanded you; {4:12} That ye may walk honestly
countrymen, even as they [have] of the Jews: {2:15} Who toward them that are without, and [that] ye may have lack of
both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have nothing.
persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to
all men: {2:16} Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that {4:13} But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren,
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concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even
as others which have no hope. {4:14} For if we believe that
Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in
Jesus will God bring with him. {4:15} For this we say unto
you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive [and]
remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them
which are asleep. {4:16} For the Lord himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise
first: {4:17} Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord
in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. {4:18}
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
{1:25} The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your
spirit. Amen.
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The Epistle to the Hebrews put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children
which God hath given me. {2:14} Forasmuch then as the
children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself
likewise took part of the same; that through death he might
{1:1} God, who at sundry times and in divers manners destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, {1:2} {2:15} And deliver them who through fear of death were all
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom their lifetime subject to bondage. {2:16} For verily he took
he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made not on [him the nature of] angels; but he took on [him] the
the worlds; {1:3} Who being the brightness of [his] glory, seed of Abraham. {2:17} Wherefore in all things it behoved
and the express image of his person, and upholding all him to be made like unto [his] brethren, that he might be a
things by the word of his power, when he had by himself merciful and faithful high priest in things [pertaining] to
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
on high; {1:4} Being made so much better than the angels, {2:18} For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted,
as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name he is able to succour them that are tempted.
than they. {1:5} For unto which of the angels said he at any
time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And {3:1} Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly
again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our
Son? {1:6} And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten profession, Christ Jesus; {3:2} Who was faithful to him that
into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God appointed him, as also Moses [was faithful] in all his house.
worship him. {1:7} And of the angels he saith, Who maketh {3:3} For this [man] was counted worthy of more glory
his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. {1:8} than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house
But unto the Son [he saith,] Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever hath more honour than the house. {3:4} For every house is
and ever: a sceptre of righteousness [is] the sceptre of thy builded by some [man;] but he that built all things [is] God.
kingdom. {1:9} Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated {3:5} And Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a
iniquity; therefore God, [even] thy God, hath anointed thee servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be
with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. {1:10} And, spoken after; {3:6} But Christ as a son over his own house;
Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the
earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: {1:11} rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. {3:7} Wherefore (as
They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, {3:8}
old as doth a garment; {1:12} And as a vesture shalt thou Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of
fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the temptation in the wilderness: {3:9} When your fathers
same, and thy years shall not fail. {1:13} But to which of tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
the angels said he at any times, Sit on my right hand, until I {3:10} Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and
make thine enemies thy footstool? {1:14} Are they not all said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not
ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall known my ways. {3:11} So I sware in my wrath, They shall
be heirs of salvation? not enter into my rest.) {3:12} Take heed, brethren, lest
there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing
{2:1} Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to from the living God. {3:13} But exhort one another daily,
the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened
let [them] slip. {2:2} For if the word spoken by angels was through the deceitfulness of sin. {3:14} For we are made
stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our
a just recompence of reward; {2:3} How shall we escape, if confidence stedfast unto the end; {3:15} While it is said, To
we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in
spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them the provocation. {3:16} For some, when they had heard, did
that heard [him; ]{2:4} God also bearing [them] witness, provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and {3:17} But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it]
gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the
wilderness? {3:18} And to whom sware he that they should
{2:5} For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? {3:19}
world to come, whereof we speak. {2:6} But one in a So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art
mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? {4:1} Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us]
{2:7} Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come
crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him short of it. {4:2} For unto us was the gospel preached, as
over the works of thy hands: {2:8} Thou hast put all things well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit
in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard [it.
subjection under him, he left nothing [that is] not put under ]{4:3} For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he
him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. {2:9} said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the my rest: although the works were finished from the
angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and foundation of the world. {4:4} For he spake in a certain
honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for place of the seventh [day] on this wise, And God did rest
every man. {2:10} For it became him, for whom [are] all the seventh day from all his works. {4:5} And in this
things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons [place] again, If they shall enter into my rest. {4:6} Seeing
unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they
through sufferings. {2:11} For both he that sanctifieth and to whom it was first preached entered not in because of
they who are sanctified [are] all of one: for which cause he unbelief: {4:7} Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in
is not ashamed to call them brethren, {2:12} Saying, I will David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if
declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. {4:8} For if
church will I sing praise unto thee. {2:13} And again, I will Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have
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spoken of another day. {4:9} There remaineth therefore a receiveth blessing from God: {6:8} But that which beareth
rest to the people of God. {4:10} For he that is entered into thorns and briers [is] rejected, and [is] nigh unto cursing;
his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God whose end [is] to be burned. {6:9} But, beloved, we are
[did] from his. {4:11} Let us labour therefore to enter into persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany
that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of salvation, though we thus speak. {6:10} For God [is] not
unbelief. {4:12} For the word of God [is] quick, and unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which
powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered
even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the to the saints, and do minister. {6:11} And we desire that
joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full
intents of the heart. {4:13} Neither is there any creature that assurance of hope unto the end: {6:12} That ye be not
is not manifest in his sight: but all things [are] naked and slothful, but followers of them who through faith and
opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. patience inherit the promises. {6:13} For when God made
{4:14} Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater,
passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold he sware by himself, {6:14} Saying, Surely blessing I will
fast [our] profession. {4:15} For we have not an high priest bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. {6:15} And
which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without {6:16} For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for
sin. {4:16} Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of confirmation [is] to them an end of all strife. {6:17}
grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the
time of need. heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed
[it] by an oath: {6:18} That by two immutable things, in
{5:1} For every high priest taken from among men is which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a
ordained for men in things [pertaining] to God, that he may strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold
offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: {5:2} Who can have upon the hope set before us: {6:19} Which [hope] we have
compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which
way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. entereth into that within the veil; {6:20} Whither the
{5:3} And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high
also for himself, to offer for sins. {5:4} And no man taketh priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as
[was] Aaron. {5:5} So also Christ glorified not himself to {7:1} For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the
be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art most high God, who met Abraham returning from the
my Son, to day have I begotten thee. {5:6} As he saith also slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; {7:2} To whom
in another [place,] Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by
of Melchisedec. {5:7} Who in the days of his flesh, when he interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also
had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying King of Salem, which is, King of peace; {7:3} Without
and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, father, without mother, without descent, having neither
and was heard in that he feared; {5:8} Though he were a beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the
Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he Son of God; abideth a priest continually. {7:4} Now
suffered; {5:9} And being made perfect, he became the consider how great this man [was,] unto whom even the
author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. {7:5} And
{5:10} Called of God an high priest after the order of verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the
Melchisedec. office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes
of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren,
{5:11} Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to though they come out of the loins of Abraham: {7:6} But he
be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. {5:12} For when whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of
for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. {7:7} And
teach you again which [be] the first principles of the oracles without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not {7:8} And here men that die receive tithes; but there he
of strong meat. {5:13} For every one that useth milk [is] [receiveth them,] of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. {7:9} And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes,
{5:14} But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full payed tithes in Abraham. {7:10} For he was yet in the loins
age, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses of his father, when Melchisedec met him. {7:11} If
exercised to discern both good and evil. therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for
under it the people received the law,) what further need
{6:1} Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of [was there] that another priest should rise after the order of
Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith {7:12} For the priesthood being changed, there is made of
toward God, {6:2} Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of necessity a change also of the law. {7:13} For he of whom
laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which
eternal judgment. {6:3} And this will we do, if God permit. no man gave attendance at the altar. {7:14} For [it is]
{6:4} For [it is] impossible for those who were once evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe
enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. {7:15} And it
made partakers of the Holy Ghost, {6:5} And have tasted is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of
the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, {7:16} Who is
{6:6} If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after
repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of the power of an endless life. {7:17} For he testifieth, Thou
God afresh, and put [him] to an open shame. {6:7} For the [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. {7:18}
earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment
bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
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{7:19} For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of
of a better hope [did;] by the which we draw nigh unto God. the covenant; {9:5} And over it the cherubims of glory
{7:20} And inasmuch as not without an oath [he was made shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak
priest: ]{7:21} (For those priests were made without an particularly. {9:6} Now when these things were thus
oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle,
Lord sware and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever accomplishing the service [of God. ]{9:7} But into the
after the order of Melchisedec:) {7:22} By so much was second [went] the high priest alone once every year, not
Jesus made a surety of a better testament. {7:23} And they without blood, which he offered for himself, and [for] the
truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to errors of the people: {9:8} The Holy Ghost this signifying,
continue by reason of death: {7:24} But this [man,] because that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made
he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
{7:25} Wherefore he is able also to save them to the {9:9} Which [was] a figure for the time then present, in
uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not
to make intercession for them. {7:26} For such an high make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the
priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, conscience; {9:10} [Which stood] only in meats and drinks,
separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed [on
{7:27} Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer them] until the time of reformation. {9:11} But Christ being
up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater
for this he did once, when he offered up himself. {7:28} For and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to
the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but say, not of this building; {9:12} Neither by the blood of
the word of the oath, which was since the law, [maketh] the goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once
Son, who is consecrated for evermore. into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption [for
us. ]{9:13} For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the
{8:1} Now of the things which we have spoken [this is] ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the
the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the purifying of the flesh: {9:14} How much more shall the
right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; {8:2} blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from
which the Lord pitched, and not man. {8:3} For every high dead works to serve the living God? {9:15} And for this
priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore [it cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means
is] of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that
{8:4} For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, were] under the first testament, they which are called might
seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the receive the promise of eternal inheritance. {9:16} For where
law: {8:5} Who serve unto the example and shadow of a testament [is,] there must also of necessity be the death of
heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he the testator. {9:17} For a testament [is] of force after men
was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, [that] are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the
thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee testator liveth. {9:18} Whereupon neither the first
in the mount. {8:6} But now hath he obtained a more [testament] was dedicated without blood. {9:19} For when
excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according
better covenant, which was established upon better to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with
promises. {8:7} For if that first [covenant] had been water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the
faultless, then should no place have been sought for the book, and all the people, {9:20} Saying, This [is] the blood
second. {8:8} For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. {9:21}
the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and
covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of all the vessels of the ministry. {9:22} And almost all things
Judah: {8:9} Not according to the covenant that I made with are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of
their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead blood is no remission. {9:23} [It was] therefore necessary
them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified
my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better
{8:10} For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the sacrifices than these. {9:24} For Christ is not entered into
house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my the holy places made with hands, [which are] the figures of
laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the
will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: presence of God for us: {9:25} Nor yet that he should offer
{8:11} And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place
and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all every year with blood of others; {9:26} For then must he
shall know me, from the least to the greatest. {8:12} For I often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but
will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put
their iniquities will I remember no more. {8:13} In that he away sin by the sacrifice of himself. {9:27} And as it is
saith, A new [covenant,] he hath made the first old. Now appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish {9:28} So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many;
away. and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second
time without sin unto salvation.
{9:1} Then verily the first [covenant] had also ordinances
of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. {9:2} For there {10:1} For the law having a shadow of good things to
was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein [was] the come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with
candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually
called the sanctuary. {9:3} And after the second veil, the make the comers thereunto perfect. {10:2} For then would
tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; {9:4} Which they not have ceased to be offered? because that the
had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid worshippers once purged should have had no more
round about with gold, wherein [was] the golden pot that conscience of sins. {10:3} But in those [sacrifices there is] a
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remembrance again [made] of sins every year. {10:4} For done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. {10:37}
[it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and
should take away sins. {10:5} Wherefore when he cometh will not tarry. {10:38} Now the just shall live by faith: but if
into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in
wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: {10:6} In him. {10:39} But we are not of them who draw back unto
burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
pleasure. {10:7} Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of
the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. {10:8} {11:1} Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt evidence of things not seen. {11:2} For by it the elders
offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not, neither obtained a good report. {11:3} Through faith we understand
hadst pleasure [therein;] which are offered by the law; that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that
{10:9} Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He things which are seen were not made of things which do
taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. appear. {11:4} By faith Abel offered unto God a more
{10:10} By the which will we are sanctified through the excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all. ]{10:11} that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering he being dead yet speaketh. {11:5} By faith Enoch was
oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away translated that he should not see death; and was not found,
sins: {10:12} But this man, after he had offered one because God had translated him: for before his translation
sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of he had this testimony, that he pleased God. {11:6} But
God; {10:13} From henceforth expecting till his enemies be without faith [it is] impossible to please [him:] for he that
made his footstool. {10:14} For by one offering he hath cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a
perfected for ever them that are sanctified. {10:15} rewarder of them that diligently seek him. {11:7} By faith
[Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet,
that he had said before, {10:16} This [is] the covenant that I moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house;
will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of
put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write the righteousness which is by faith. {11:8} By faith
them; {10:17} And their sins and iniquities will I remember Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which
no more. {10:18} Now where remission of these [is, there he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he
is] no more offering for sin. went out, not knowing whither he went. {11:9} By faith he
sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a strange country,
{10:19} Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with
the holiest by the blood of Jesus, {10:20} By a new and him of the same promise: {11:10} For he looked for a city
living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the which hath foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God.
veil, that is to say, his flesh; {10:21} And [having] an high {11:11} Through faith also Sara herself received strength to
priest over the house of God; {10:22} Let us draw near with conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was
a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts past age, because she judged him faithful who had
sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed promised. {11:12} Therefore sprang there even of one, and
with pure water. {10:23} Let us hold fast the profession of him as good as dead, [so many] as the stars of the sky in
[our] faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore
promised;) {10:24} And let us consider one another to innumerable. {11:13} These all died in faith, not having
provoke unto love and to good works: {10:25} Not received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and
forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the were persuaded of [them,] and embraced [them,] and
manner of some [is;] but exhorting [one another:] and so confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
much the more, as ye see the day approaching. {10:26} For {11:14} For they that say such things declare plainly that
if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge they seek a country. {11:15} And truly, if they had been
of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, mindful of that [country] from whence they came out, they
{10:27} But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and might have had opportunity to have returned. {11:16} But
fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. now they desire a better [country,] that is, an heavenly:
{10:28} He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he
under two or three witnesses: {10:29} Of how much sorer hath prepared for them a city. {11:17} By faith Abraham,
punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had
hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted received the promises offered up his only begotten [son,
the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an ]{11:18} Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed
unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? be called: {11:19} Accounting that God [was] able to raise
{10:30} For we know him that hath said, Vengeance [him] up, even from the dead; from whence also he received
[belongeth] unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And him in a figure. {11:20} By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and
again, The Lord shall judge his people. {10:31} [It is] a Esau concerning things to come. {11:21} By faith Jacob,
fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and
{10:32} But call to remembrance the former days, in which, worshipped, [leaning] upon the top of his staff. {11:22} By
after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing
afflictions; {10:33} Partly, whilst ye were made a of the children of Israel; and gave commandment
gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, concerning his bones. {11:23} By faith Moses, when he was
whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw
{10:34} For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and [he was] a proper child; and they were not afraid of the
took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in king’s commandment. {11:24} By faith Moses, when he
yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s
substance. {10:35} Cast not away therefore your daughter; {11:25} Choosing rather to suffer affliction with
confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a
{10:36} For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have season; {11:26} Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater
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riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness
the recompence of the reward. {11:27} By faith he forsook springing up trouble [you,] and thereby many be defiled;
Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as {12:16} Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as
seeing him who is invisible. {11:28} Through faith he kept Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that {12:17} For ye know how that afterward, when he would
destroyed the firstborn should touch them. {11:29} By faith have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no
they passed through the Red sea as by dry [land:] which the place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Egyptians assaying to do were drowned. {11:30} By faith {12:18} For ye are not come unto the mount that might be
the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and
about seven days. {11:31} By faith the harlot Rahab darkness, and tempest, {12:19} And the sound of a trumpet,
perished not with them that believed not, when she had and the voice of words; [which] voice they that heard
received the spies with peace. {11:32} And what shall I intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any
more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and more: {12:20} (For they could not endure that which was
[of] Barak, and [of] Samson, and [of] Jephthae; [of] David commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain,
also, and Samuel, and [of] the prophets: {11:33} Who it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: {12:21}
through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, And so terrible was the sight, [that] Moses said, I
obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, {11:34} exceedingly fear and quake:) {12:22} But ye are come unto
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the
sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of
fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. {11:35} angels, {12:23} To the general assembly and church of the
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge
were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, {12:24}
obtain a better resurrection: {11:36} And others had trial of And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the
[cruel] mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of]
and imprisonment: {11:37} They were stoned, they were Abel. {12:25} See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For
sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth,
they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being much more [shall not] we [escape,] if we turn away from
destitute, afflicted, tormented; {11:38} (Of whom the world him that [speaketh] from heaven: {12:26} Whose voice then
was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once
mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth. {11:39} more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. {12:27}
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, And this [word,] Yet once more, signifieth the removing of
received not the promise: {11:40} God having provided those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that
some better thing for us, that they without us should not be those things which cannot be shaken may remain. {12:28}
made perfect. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved,
let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably
{12:1} Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with reverence and godly fear: {12:29} For our God [is] a
with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every consuming fire.
weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us
run with patience the race that is set before us, {12:2} {13:1} Let brotherly love continue. {13:2} Be not
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have
who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, entertained angels unawares. {13:3} Remember them that
despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the are in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them which suffer
throne of God. {12:3} For consider him that endured such adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. {13:4}
contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but
and faint in your minds. {12:4} Ye have not yet resisted whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. {13:5} [Let
unto blood, striving against sin. {12:5} And ye have your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be]
forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will
children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the never leave thee, nor forsake thee. {13:6} So that we may
Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: {12:6} For boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what
whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every man shall do unto me.
son whom he receiveth. {12:7} If ye endure chastening,
God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom {13:7} Remember them which have the rule over you,
the father chasteneth not? {12:8} But if ye be without who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith
chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye follow, considering the end of [their] conversation. {13:8}
bastards, and not sons. {12:9} Furthermore we have had Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
fathers of our flesh which corrected [us,] and we gave {13:9} Be not carried about with divers and strange
[them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be
unto the Father of spirits, and live? {12:10} For they verily established with grace; not with meats, which have not
for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but profited them that have been occupied therein. {13:10} We
he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve
holiness. {12:11} Now no chastening for the present the tabernacle. {13:11} For the bodies of those beasts,
seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest
it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them for sin, are burned without the camp. {13:12} Wherefore
which are exercised thereby. {12:12} Wherefore lift up the Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own
hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; {12:13} And blood, suffered without the gate. {13:13} Let us go forth
make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. {12:14} {13:14} For here have we no continuing city, but we seek
Follow peace with all [men,] and holiness, without which one to come. {13:15} By him therefore let us offer the
no man shall see the Lord: {12:15} Looking diligently lest sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of
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[our] lips giving thanks to his name. {13:16} But to do good
and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God
is well pleased. {13:17} Obey them that have the rule over
you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls,
as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy,
and not with grief: for that [is] unprofitable for you.
{13:24} Salute all them that have the rule over you, and
all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
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The General Epistle of James here under my footstool: {2:4} Are ye not then partial in
yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? {2:5}
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the
poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom
{1:1} James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus which he hath promised to them that love him? {2:6} But ye
Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and
greeting. draw you before the judgment seats? {2:7} Do not they
blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
{1:2} My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers {2:8} If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture,
temptations; {1:3} Knowing [this,] that the trying of your Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: {2:9}
faith worketh patience. {1:4} But let patience have [her] But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are
perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting convinced of the law as transgressors. {2:10} For
nothing. {1:5} If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one
God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; [point,] he is guilty of all. {2:11} For he that said, Do not
and it shall be given him. {1:6} But let him ask in faith, commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit
nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor
sea driven with the wind and tossed. {1:7} For let not that of the law. {2:12} So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall
man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. {1:8} be judged by the law of liberty. {2:13} For he shall have
A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways. {1:9} judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and
Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: mercy rejoiceth against judgment. {2:14} What [doth it]
{1:10} But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and
flower of the grass he shall pass away. {1:11} For the sun is have not works? can faith save him? {2:15} If a brother or
no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, {2:16} And one
grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and
fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which
in his ways. {1:12} Blessed [is] the man that endureth are needful to the body; what [doth it] profit? {2:17} Even
temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. {2:18}
of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works:
{1:13} Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee
God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth my faith by my works. {2:19} Thou believest that there is
he any man: {1:14} But every man is tempted, when he is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and
drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. {1:15} Then when tremble. {2:20} But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith
lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is without works is dead? {2:21} Was not Abraham our father
finished, bringeth forth death. {1:16} Do not err, my justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon
beloved brethren. {1:17} Every good gift and every perfect the altar? {2:22} Seest thou how faith wrought with his
gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of works, and by works was faith made perfect? {2:23} And
lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed
turning. {1:18} Of his own will begat he us with the word God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he
of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his was called the Friend of God. {2:24} Ye see then how that
creatures. by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. {2:25}
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works,
{1:19} Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be when she had received the messengers, and had sent [them]
swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: {1:20} For the out another way? {2:26} For as the body without the spirit
wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. {1:21} is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of
naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, {3:1} My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we
which is able to save your souls. {1:22} But be ye doers of shall receive the greater condemnation. {3:2} For in many
the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the
{1:23} For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole
is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: body. {3:3} Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that
{1:24} For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. {1:25} {3:4} Behold also the ships, which though [they be] so
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and great, and [are] driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned
continueth [therein,] he being not a forgetful hearer, but a about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor
doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. listeth. {3:5} Even so the tongue is a little member, and
{1:26} If any man among you seem to be religious, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire
bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this kindleth! {3:6} And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of
man’s religion [is] vain. {1:27} Pure religion and undefiled iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it
before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of
widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted nature; and it is set on fire of hell. {3:7} For every kind of
from the world. beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the
sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: {3:8} But
{2:1} My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of
Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons. {2:2} deadly poison. {3:9} Therewith bless we God, even the
For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after
ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man the similitude of God. {3:10} Out of the same mouth
in vile raiment; {2:3} And ye have respect to him that proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things
weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in ought not so to be. {3:11} Doth a fountain send forth at the
a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit same place sweet [water] and bitter? {3:12} Can the fig
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tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he
[can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. {3:13} receive the early and latter rain. {5:8} Be ye also patient;
Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth
you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works nigh. {5:9} Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest
with meekness of wisdom. {3:14} But if ye have bitter ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the
envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not door. {5:10} Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have
against the truth. {3:15} This wisdom descendeth not from spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering
above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish. {3:16} For where affliction, and of patience. {5:11} Behold, we count them
envying and strife [is,] there [is] confusion and every evil happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job,
work. {3:17} But the wisdom that is from above is first and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very
pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full pitiful, and of tender mercy. {5:12} But above all things,
of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the
hypocrisy. {3:18} And the fruit of righteousness is sown in earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and
peace of them that make peace. [your] nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. {5:13} Is
any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let
{4:1} From whence [come] wars and fightings among him sing psalms. {5:14} Is any sick among you? let him call
you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him,
your members? {4:2} Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: {5:15} And
desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall
have not, because ye ask not. {4:3} Ye ask, and receive not, raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be
because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your forgiven him. {5:16} Confess [your] faults one to another,
lusts. {4:4} Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The
the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. {5:17} Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are,
{4:5} Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained
that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? {4:6} But he giveth not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but {5:18} And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and
giveth grace unto the humble. {4:7} Submit yourselves the earth brought forth her fruit. {5:19} Brethren, if any of
therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. you do err from the truth, and one convert him; {5:20} Let
{4:8} Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the
Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide
[ye] double minded. {4:9} Be afflicted, and mourn, and a multitude of sins.
weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your]
joy to heaviness. {4:10} Humble yourselves in the sight of
the Lord, and he shall lift you up. {4:11} Speak not evil one
of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother,
and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and
judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a
doer of the law, but a judge. {4:12} There is one lawgiver,
who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest
another?
{5:1} Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your
miseries that shall come upon [you. ]{5:2} Your riches are
corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. {5:3} Your
gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a
witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. {5:4}
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down
your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and
the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the
ears of the Lord of sabaoth. {5:5} Ye have lived in pleasure
on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your
hearts, as in a day of slaughter. {5:6} Ye have condemned
[and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.
{1:1} The elder unto the elect lady and her children,
whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they
that have known the truth; {1:2} For the truth’s sake, which
dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever. {1:3} Grace be
with you, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father, and
from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth
and love.
{1:13} I had many things to write, but I will not with ink
and pen write unto thee: {1:14} But I trust I shall shortly
see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace [be] to thee.
[Our] friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name.
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The General Epistle of Jude falling, and to present [you] faultless before the presence of
his glory with exceeding joy, {1:25} To the only wise God
our Saviour, [be] glory and majesty, dominion and power,
both now and ever. Amen.
{1:1} Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of
James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and
preserved in Jesus Christ, [and] called: {1:2} Mercy unto
you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
{22:17} And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let
him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst
come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life
freely.