HOLY BIBLE

THE

HOLY BIBLE
CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS

R E F R E S H E D A M E R I C A N S TA N D A R D V E R S I O N

TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES

BEING THE VERSION SET FORTH A.D. 1611

COMPARED WITH THE MOST ANCIENT AUTHORITIES AND REVISED

A.D. 1881-1885

Edited by the American Revision Committee

A.D. 1901

Compared with the most ancient authorities and Refreshed

A.D. 2014-2020

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 CONTENTS
PREFACE.........................................................................................................vii
THE OLD TESTAMENT
GENESIS........................................15
EXODUS.........................................79
LEVITICUS...................................133
NUMBERS....................................172
DEUTERONOMY........................228
THE NEW TESTAMENT
MATTHEW..................................496
MARK..........................................536
LUKE............................................562
JOHN............................................606
ACTS............................................638
ROMANS.....................................681
I CORINTHIANS.........................698
II CORINTHIANS........................714
GALATIANS...............................725
EPHESIANS................................731
PHILIPPIANS.............................737
COLOSSIANS.............................741
I THESSALONIANS....................745
II THESSALONIANS..................749
PSALMS...................................276
PROVERBS...................................384
ECCLESIASTES..........................421
ISAIAH........................................431
I TIMOTHY...................................751
II TIMOTHY..................................756
TITUS...........................................759
PHILEMON.................................761
HEBREWS...................................762
JAMES..........................................775
I PETER..........................................780
II PETER........................................785
I JOHN...........................................788
II JOHN.........................................793
III JOHN........................................794
JUDE.............................................795
REVELATION.............................797
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 PREFACE

The American Standard Version (ASV) is an Americanized version of

the English Revised Version (ERV) published in 1885. The American
editors promised their British counterparts not to publish until 15 years
had elapsed to allow the English revision to find its niche in public
notice. Thomas Nelson & Sons was granted proprietary publishing
rights with the proviso it be printed in a reasonably priced edition. This
proved to be a problem. The binding and print quality suffered.
Alongside the fine smith-sewn Oxford King James Version (KJV), it
looked shabby. And so, from the beginning, the ASV was deemed
second-rate. Moreover, being the first really ‘new’ translation, the
American Standard Version found it difficult to break through the KJV’s
hegemony. For years the ASV lounged in the backwaters of interest,
except in academic circles (which is itself telling).

The Twentieth Century noticed a plethora of ‘new’ translations, none of

which gained (or deserved) much popular traction, while the ASV lan-
guished in obscurity and struggled to remain in print until nowadays it
can hardly be found. The ASV suffered under another cloud: it retained
the archaic Old English renderings of verbal and pronounal suffixes.
This, together with occasional atavistic renderings, displeased the mod-
erns’ taste, and at this point, correctly so. An updated version of the KJV
(the New King James Version, NKJV) was nicely produced to remedy this
and in so doing the translators stated their purpose was not to “make a
new translation…but to make a good one better.”1 But what about the
ASV? The New American Standard Bible (NASB) has gathered some at-
tention, but went too far, losing the crispness and clarity of its original.

Enter the Refreshed American Standard Version (RASV).

The Editorial Board of the NASB described it best in the Preface to the
original publication of the entire New Testament, where the justifications
for the translation were cataloged as follows:

“The procedures of this translation were imbued with the conviction that
interest in the American Standard Version should be renewed and
increased…The chief inducement, of course, was the recognized value of the
version of 1901 which deserves and demands perpetuation. The following
observations are advanced as justifiable encouragement:

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1. The American Standard Version of 1901 has been in a very real
sense the standard for many translations.
2. It is a monumental product of applied scholarship, assiduous labor
and thorough procedure.
3. It has enjoyed universal endorsement as a trustworthy translation
of the original text
4. The British and American organizations were governed by rules of
procedure which assured accuracy in the completed work.
5. The American Standard Version, itself a revision of the 1881-1885
edition, is the product of international collaboration, invaluable for
perspective, accuracy, and finesse.
6. Unlike many modern translations of the Scriptures, the American
Standard Version retains its acceptability for pulpit reading and for
personal memorization.

Perhaps the most weighty impetus for this undertaking can be attributed to
a disturbing awareness that the American Standard Version of 1901 was fast
disappearing from the scene. As a generation which knew not Joseph was
born, even so a generation unacquainted with this great and important work
has come into being.”2

The NASB Editorial Board also declared:

“This translation follows the principles used in the American Standard

Version 1901 known as the Rock of Biblical Honesty.”3

F.F. Bruce wrote in the Editor's Foreword of the New International Com-
mentary on Mark:

“We are sometimes asked why, at this time of day, we persist in using the
American Standard Version of 1901 as the basic text for the New
International Commentary. The principal reason for our persistence is that
its excessively literal style of translation, however unsuitable it may be for
other purposes, is admirably suited to serve as the basis of a commentary
which endeavors to pay careful attention to the details of the text.”4

TRANSLATION PHILOSOPHY

The American Revision Company wrote in the Old Testament Preface to

the ASV:

“We are not insensible to the justly lauded beauty and vigor of the style of
the Authorized Version, nor do we forget that it has been no part of our task

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New Standard Bible. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1963
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New American Standard Bible. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1971
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to modernize the diction of the Bible. But we are also aware that the
rhetorical force and the antique flavor which we desire to retain do not
consist in sporadic instances of uncouth, unidiomatic, or obscure
phraseology. While we may freely admit that the English of the Scriptures
can, as a whole, hardly be improved, yet it would be extravagant to hold that
it cannot be bettered in any of its details. What was once good usage is often
such no longer ; and we can see no sound reason for retaining such
expressions as ‘smell thereto’ (Ex. xxx. 38), ‘forth of’ (instead of ‘forth from’),
‘inquire at’ (1 K. xxii. 5), ‘a fool's vexation is heavier than them both’ (Prov.
xxvii. 3), or ‘when... he be jealous over his wife’ (Num. v.30). These are only
a few of the many instances of phraseology which there is the best reason for
amending.”

The committee expounded further in the Preface to the New Testament:

“In dealing with the Language, the American revisers have endeavored to act
with becoming deference and reserve. A few archaisms, such as ‘how that,’
‘for to,’ ‘the which,’ ‘howbeit,’ etc., which are becoming uncouth to a modern
ear, have been generally although not invariably discarded. Not a few of the
instances of the superfluous use of ‘do’ and ‘did’ as auxiliaries, of ‘that’ as
equivalent to ‘that which,’ and the like, have also been removed ; and current
usage has been recognized in the case of forms which King James’s revision
employed indiscriminately, as ‘beside’ and ‘besides’ (see Mk. iii. 21 ; 2 Cor. v.
13). But in making these and other slight changes, the American editors
have not forgotten that they were dealing with a venerable monument of
English usage, and have been careful not to obliterate the traces of its historic
origin and descent.”5

Looking back over one hundred from the penning of these words, and
now both having, and taking, an opportunity to stand on the shoulders
of better men, we can do no better than to follow the examples so aptly
demonstrated by our predecessors to resolutely retain commitment to a
Formal Equivalence translation philosophy, while at the same time han-
dling the English text of the ASV with both deference and reserve by re-
taining the textual decisions of the American Revision Committee,
avoiding a rehashing of the text, and merely refreshing the English text.

Observing the growth of revisions and translations since the publishing

of the ASV, it is important to note the role of translations summarized as:6

• Translate God’s book for the benefit of God’s people; they have
no right placing any other concern ahead of the church’s need for
accurate translations
• Communicate the content of biblical texts in the native language
of the readers for whom the translation is being prepared; be

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concerned with equivalence, that the finished translation
communicates accurately what the original author wrote
• Consciously aim to parallel closely the linguistic form (structure,
grammar, and exact wording) of the original
• Attempt to say ‘what’ the original text says by retaining ‘how’ it
says it (as far as English grammar allows)
• Deal with truth exactly expressed
• Follow the text; it is not their business to interpret it or explain it
• Be careful lest simplicity of expression erode precision of
meaning
• Permit the reader to identify himself as fully as possible with the
original readers and understand as much as can be of biblical
customs, ways of thinking, and modes of expression
• Intrude interpretive opinions only where the necessity of making
grammatical decisions forces it
• Avoid the task of the expositor, attempting to settle questions that
have divided interpreters
• Be faithful and precise, cautious and conservative

The Formal Equivalence philosophy employed by this work can then be

summarized by the rejection of the following trending errors:7

1. Elimination of complex grammatical structures

2. Addition of words in translation
3. Omission of words in translation
4. Erosion of the Bible’s technical terminology
5. Leveling of cultural distinctives
6. Presentation of the interpretation of Scripture as Scripture
7. Paraphrasing of Biblical text

It is therefore the intent of this volume to share the conviction of the ear-
lier American Revision Company:

“The present volume, it is believed, will on the one hand bring a plain reader
more closely into contact with the exact thought of the sacred writers than
any version now in current Christendom, and on the other hand prove itself
especially serviceable to students of the Word.”8

Noting the published convictions of the value of the American Standard

Version, one may rightly inquire whether the proliferation of new trans-
lations is needed at all. And now that the copyright restrictions governing
the text of the original ASV have long since expired, we may instead
highly esteem that existing singular standard, valued by both ourselves
and others, ought merely to be refreshed, rather than revised or replaced.

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Accuracy of Translation. Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1989
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Accuracy of Translation. Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1989
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This is indeed the rationale of, and the conviction for, the Refreshed
American Standard Version.

EMENDATIONS

This volume is intended to follow the aforementioned efforts in the ASV

Prefaces insofar as to intentionally limit the emending of its Elizabethan
English text in a ‘refreshing,’ rather than a full-scale revision, of the ASV
toward conformity with current usage in the following ways:

1. Archaic personal pronouns

2. Archaic verbal terminations
3. Archaic spelling
4. Archaic punctuation spacing
5. Archaic, obsolete, or antiquated vocabulary, resulting from
semantic shift
6. Archaic word order in limited affirmation and negation cases in
which the original Greek word order is maintained
7. Identification of direct and indirect discourse and quoted text
with quotation marks

FEATURES

With the goal of increased simplicity and focus on the text, the following
features are used in variation from the ASV as originally published by
Thomas Nelson & Sons © 1901:

1. Use of independent Old Testament and New Testament Prefaces,

Table of Contents, numbering, and copyright notices has been
merged into a single instance of each to provide a single Preface
to the Refreshed American Standard Version
2. Page reference ranges at the top of each page have not been
retained.
3. Passage headings have not been retained
4. Marginal cross references contained in the center column have
not been retained
5. Marginal footnotes have been reduced to mark only those
variants significant enough to warrant attention, where text is
omitted, disputed, or deemed theologically sensitive
6. Maps have not been retained

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THE OLD TESTAMENT
 THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES,
COMMONLY CALLED

G EN ESIS

1 In the beginning God created forth grass, herbs yielding seed af-
the heavens and the earth. 2 ter their kind, and trees bearing
And the earth was waste and void; fruit, in which is the seed of it, after
and darkness was on the face of the their kind: and God saw that it was
deep: and the Spirit of God moved good. 13 And there was evening
on the face of the waters. 3 And and there was morning, a third day.
God said, “Let there be light”: and 14 And God said, “Let there be
there was light. 4 And God saw the lights in the firmament of heaven to
light, that it was good: and God di- divide the day from the night; and
vided the light from the darkness. 5 let them be for signs, and for sea-
And God called the light Day, and sons, and for days and years: 15
the darkness he called Night. And and let them be for lights in the fir-
there was evening and there was mament of heaven to give light on
morning, one day. the earth”: and it was so. 16 And
6 And God said, “Let there be a God made the two great lights; the
firmament in the midst of the wa- greater light to rule the day, and the
ters, and let it divide the waters lesser light to rule the night: he made
from the waters.” 7 And God made the stars also. 17 And God set them
the firmament, and divided the wa- in the firmament of heaven to give
ters which were under the firma- light on the earth, 18 and to rule
ment from the waters which were over the day and over the night,
above the firmament: and it was so. and to divide the light from the
8 And God called the firmament darkness: and God saw that it was
Heaven. And there was evening good. 19 And there was evening
and there was morning, a second and there was morning, a fourth
day. day.
9 And God said, “Let the waters 20 And God said, “Let the waters
under the heavens be gathered to- swarm with swarms of living crea-
gether into one place, and let the tures, and let birds fly above the
dry land appear”: and it was so. 10 earth in the open firmament of
And God called the dry land Earth; heaven.” 21 And God created the
and the gathering together of the great sea monsters, and every liv-
waters he called Seas: and God saw ing creature that moves, with
that it was good. 11 And God said, which the waters swarmed, after
“Let the earth put forth grass, herbs their kind, and every winged bird
yielding seed, and fruit trees bear- after its kind: and God saw that it
ing fruit after their kind, in which is was good. 22 And God blessed
the seed of it, on the earth”: and it them, saying, “Be fruitful, and mul-
was so. 12 And the earth brought tiply, and fill the waters in the seas,
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and let birds multiply on the earth.” host of them. 2 And on the seventh
23 And there was evening and there day God finished his work which
was morning, a fifth day. he had made; and he rested on the
24 And God said, “Let the earth seventh day from all his work
bring forth living creatures after which he had made. 3 And God
their kind, cattle, and creeping blessed the seventh day, and hal-
things, and beasts of the earth after lowed it; because that in it he rested
their kind”: and it was so. 25 And from all his work which God had
God made the beasts of the earth af- created and made.
ter their kind, and the cattle after 4 These are the generations of the
their kind, and everything that heavens and of the earth when they
creeps on the ground after its kind: were created, in the day that Jeho-
and God saw that it was good. 26 vah God made earth and heaven. 5
And God said, “Let us make man in And no plant of the field was yet in
our image, after our likeness: and the earth, and no herb of the field
let them have dominion over the had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God
fish of the sea, and over the birds of had not caused it to rain on the
the heavens, and over the cattle, earth: and there was not a man to
and over all the earth, and over ev- till the ground; 6 but there went up
ery creeping thing that creeps on a mist from the earth, and watered
the earth.” 27 And God created the whole face of the ground. 7 And
man in his own image, in the image Jehovah God formed man of the
of God he created him; male and fe- dust of the ground, and breathed
male he created them. 28 And God into his nostrils the breath of life;
blessed them: and God said to and man became a living soul. 8
them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, And Jehovah God planted a garden
and replenish the earth, and sub- eastward, in Eden; and there he put
due it; and have dominion over the the man whom he had formed. 9
fish of the sea, and over the birds of And out of the ground made Jeho-
the heavens, and over every living vah God to grow every tree that is
thing that moves on the earth.” 29 pleasant to the sight, and good for
And God said, “Behold, I have food; the tree of life also in the
given you every herb yielding seed, midst of the garden, and the tree of
which is on the face of all the earth, the knowledge of good and evil. 10
and every tree, in which is the fruit And a river went out of Eden to wa-
of a tree yielding seed; to you it ter the garden; and from there it
shall be for food: 30 and to every was parted, and became four
beast of the earth, and to every bird heads. 11 The name of the first is
of the heavens, and to everything Pishon: that is it which goes around
that creeps on the earth, in which the whole land of Havilah, where
there is life, I have given every green there is gold; 12 and the gold of that
herb for food”: and it was so. 31 land is good: there is bdellium and
And God saw everything that he the onyx stone. 13 And the name of
had made, and, behold, it was very the second river is Gihon: the same
good. And there was evening and is it that goes around the whole
there was morning, the sixth day. land of Cush. 14 And the name of

2 And the heavens and the the third river is Hiddekel: that is it
earth were finished, and all the which goes in front of Assyria. And
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the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 eat of any tree of the garden?’ ” 2
And Jehovah God took the man, And the woman said to the serpent,
and put him into the garden of “Of the fruit of the trees of the gar-
Eden to dress it and to keep it. 16 den we may eat: 3 but of the fruit of
And Jehovah God commanded the the tree which is in the midst of the
man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not
garden you may freely eat: 17 but of eat of it, neither shall you touch it,
the tree of the knowledge of good lest you die.’ ” 4 And the serpent
and evil, you shall not eat of it: for said to the woman, “You shall not
in the day that you eat of it you surely die: 5 for God knows that in
shall surely die.” the day you eat of it, then your eyes
18 And Jehovah God said, “It is shall be opened, and you shall be as
not good that the man should be God, knowing good and evil.” 6
alone; I will make him a help suit- And when the woman saw that the
able for him.” 19 And out of the tree was good for food, and that it
ground Jehovah God formed every was a delight to the eyes, and that
beast of the field, and every bird of the tree was to be desired to make
the heavens; and brought them to one wise, she took of the fruit of it,
the man to see what he would call and ate; and she gave also to her
them: and whatsoever the man husband with her, and he ate. 7
called every living creature, that And the eyes of them both were
was the name of it. 20 And the man opened, and they knew that they
gave names to all cattle, and to the were naked; and they sewed fig
birds of the heavens, and to every leaves together, and made them-
beast of the field; but for man there selves loincloths. 8 And they heard
was not found a help suitable for the voice of Jehovah God walking
him. 21 And Jehovah God caused a in the garden in the cool of the day:
deep sleep to fall on the man, and and the man and his wife hid them-
he slept; and he took one of his ribs, selves from the presence of Jehovah
and closed up the flesh instead of it: God amongst the trees of the gar-
22 and the rib, which Jehovah God den.
had taken from the man, he made a 9 And Jehovah God called to the
woman, and brought her to the man, and said to him, “Where are
man. 23 And the man said, “This is you?” 10 And he said, “I heard your
now bone of my bones, and flesh of voice in the garden, and I was
my flesh: she shall be called afraid, because I was naked; and I
Woman, because she was taken out hid myself.” 11 And he said, “Who
of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man told you that you were naked?
leave his father and his mother, and Have you eaten of the tree, of which
shall cleave to his wife: and they I commanded you that you should
shall be one flesh.” 25 And they not eat?” 12 And the man said,
were both naked, the man and his “The woman whom you gave to be
wife, and were not ashamed. with me, she gave me of the tree,

3 Now the serpent was more and I ate.” 13 And Jehovah God
subtle than any beast of the said to the woman, “What is this
field which Jehovah God had made. you have done?” And the woman
And he said to the woman, “In- said, “The serpent deceived me,
deed, has God said, ‘You shall not and I ate.” 14 And Jehovah God
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said to the serpent, “Because you sword which turned every way, to
have done this, cursed are you keep the way of the tree of life.
above all cattle, and above every
beast of the field; upon your belly 4 And the man knew Eve his
wife; and she conceived, and
shall you go, and dust shall you eat bore Cain, and said, “I have gotten
all the days of your life: 15 and I a man with the help of Jehovah.” 2
will put enmity between you and And again she bore his brother
the woman, and between your seed Abel. And Abel was a keeper of
and her seed: he shall bruise your sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the
head, and you shall bruise his ground. 3 And in process of time it
heel.” 16 To the woman he said, “I came to pass, that Cain brought of
will greatly multiply your pain and the fruit of the ground an offering
your conception; in pain you shall to Jehovah. 4 And Abel, he also
bring forth children; and your de- brought of the firstborn of his flock
sire shall be to your husband, and and of the fat of it. And Jehovah
he shall rule over you.” 17 And to had respect to Abel and to his offer-
Adam he said, “Because you have ing: 5 but to Cain and to his offering
listened to the voice of your wife, he did not have respect. And Cain
and have eaten of the tree, of which was very angry, and his counte-
I commanded you, saying, ‘You nance fell. 6 And Jehovah said to
shall not eat of it’: cursed is the Cain, “Why are you angry?” and
ground for your sake; in toil shall why has your countenance fallen? 7
you eat of it all the days of your life; If you do well, will it not be lifted
18 thorns also and thistles shall it up? and if you do not do well, sin
bring forth to you; and you shall eat crouches at the door; and unto you
the herb of the field; 19 in the sweat shall be its desire; but rule over it. 8
of your face shall you eat bread, un- And Cain told Abel his brother.
til you return to the ground; for out And it came to pass, when they
of it were you taken: for dust you were in the field, that Cain rose up
are, and to dust shall you return.” against Abel his brother, and slew
20 And the man called his wife’s him.
name Eve; because she was the 9 And Jehovah said to Cain,
mother of all living. 21 And Jeho- “Where is Abel your brother?” And
vah God made for Adam and for he said, I do not know: am I my
his wife coats of skins, and clothed brother’s keeper?” 10 And he said,
them. “What have you done? the voice of
22 And Jehovah God said, “Be- your brother’s blood cries to me
hold, the man has become as one of from the ground. 11 And now
us, to know good and evil; and cursed are you from the ground,
now, lest he put forth his hand, and which has opened its mouth to re-
take also of the tree of life, and eat, ceive your brother’s blood from
and live for ever”— 23 therefore Je- your hand; 12 when you till the
hovah God sent him forth from the ground, it shall not henceforth
garden of Eden, to till the ground yield to you its strength; a fugitive
from where he was taken. 24 So he and a wanderer shall you be on the
drove out the man; and he placed at earth.” 13 And Cain said to Jeho-
the east of the garden of Eden the vah, “My punishment is greater
Cherubim, and the flame of a than I can bear. 14 Behold, you have
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driven me out this day from the sevenfold.”
face of the ground; and from your 25 And Adam knew his wife
face shall I be hidden; and I shall be again; and she bore a son, and
a fugitive and a wanderer in the called his name Seth: For, she said,
earth; and it will come to pass, that “God has appointed me another
whosoever finds me will slay me.” seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew
15 And Jehovah said to him, him.” 26 And to Seth, to him also
“Therefore whosoever slays Cain, there was born a son; and he called
vengeance shall be taken on him his name Enosh. Then began men
sevenfold.” And Jehovah ap- to call on the name of Jehovah.
pointed a sign for Cain, lest any
finding him should strike him. 5 This is the book of the genera-
tions of Adam. In the day that
16 And Cain went out from the God created man, in the likeness of
presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in God he made him; 2 male and fe-
the land of Nod, on the east of male he created them, and blessed
Eden. 17 And Cain knew his wife; them, and called their name Adam,
and she conceived, and bore Enoch: in the day when they were created.
and he built a city, and called the 3 And Adam lived a hundred and
name of the city, after the name of thirty years, and begot a son in his
his son, Enoch. 18 And to Enoch own likeness, after his image; and
was born Irad: and Irad begot called his name Seth: 4 and the days
Mehujael; and Mehujael begot of Adam after he begot Seth were
Methushael; and Methushael begot eight hundred years: and he begot
Lamech. 19 And Lamech took to sons and daughters. 5 And all the
him two wives: the name of the one days that Adam lived were nine
was Adah, and the name of the hundred and thirty years: and he
other Zillah. 20 And Adah bore Ja- died.
bal: he was the father of such as 6 And Seth lived a hundred and
dwell in tents and have cattle. 21 five years, and begot Enosh: 7 and
And his brother’s name was Jubal: Seth lived after he begot Enosh
he was the father of all such as han- eight hundred and seven years, and
dle the harp and pipe. 22 And Zil- begot sons and daughters: 8 and all
lah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the the days of Seth were nine hundred
forger of every cutting instrument and twelve years: and he died.
of brass and iron: and the sister of 9 And Enosh lived ninety years,
Tubal-cain was Naamah. 23 And and begot Kenan: 10 and Enosh
Lamech said to his wives: lived after he begot Kenan eight
“Adah and Zillah, hear my hundred and fifteen years, and be-
voice; gat sons and daughters: 11 and all
You wives of Lamech, listen to the days of Enosh were nine hun-
my speech: dred and five years: and he died.
For I have slain a man for 12 And Kenan lived seventy
wounding me, years, and begot Mahalalel: 13 and
And a young man for bruising Kenan lived after he begot Maha-
me: lalel eight hundred and forty years,
24 If Cain shall be avenged seven- and begot sons and daughters: 14
fold, and all the days of Kenan were nine
Truly Lamech seventy- hundred and ten years: and he
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died. years old: and Noah begot Shem,
15 And Mahalalel lived sixty and Ham, and Japheth.
five years, and begot Jared: 16 and
Mahalalel lived after he begot Jared 6 And it came to pass, when
men began to multiply on the
eight hundred and thirty years, and face of the ground, and daughters
begot sons and daughters: 17 and were born to them, 2 that the sons
all the days of Mahalalel were eight of God saw the daughters of men
hundred ninety-five years: and he that they were beautiful; and they
died. took for themselves wives of all
18 And Jared lived a hundred whom they chose. 3 And Jehovah
sixty-two years, and begot Enoch: said, “My Spirit shall not strive
19 and Jared lived after he begot with man for ever, because he also
Enoch eight hundred years, and be- is flesh: yet shall his days be a hun-
got sons and daughters: 20 and all dred and twenty years.” 4 The
the days of Jared were nine hun- Nephilim were in the earth in those
dred sixty-two years: and he died. days, and also after that, when the
21 And Enoch lived sixty-five sons of God came in to the daugh-
years, and begot Methuselah: 22 ters of men, and they bore children
and Enoch walked with God after to them: the same were the mighty
he begot Methuselah three hundred men who were of old, the men of
years, and begot sons and daugh- renown.
ters: 23 and all the days of Enoch 5 And Jehovah saw that the
were three hundred sixty-five wickedness of man was great in the
years: 24 and Enoch walked with earth, and that every imagination
God: and he was not; for God took of the thoughts of his heart was
him. only evil continually. 6 And it re-
25 And Methuselah lived a hun- pented Jehovah that he had made
dred eighty-seven years, and begot man on the earth, and it grieved
Lamech: 26 and Methuselah lived him at his heart. 7 And Jehovah
after he begot Lamech seven hun- said, “I will destroy man whom I
dred eighty-two years, and begot have created from the face of the
sons and daughters: 27 and all the ground; both man, and beast, and
days of Methuselah were nine hun- creeping things, and birds of the
dred sixty-nine years: and he died. heavens; for it repents me that I
28 And Lamech lived a hundred have made them.” 8 But Noah
eighty-two years, and begot a son: found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.
29 and he called his name Noah, 9 These are the generations of
saying, “This same shall comfort us Noah. Noah was a righteous man,
in our work and in the toil of our and perfect in his generations: Noah
hands, which comes because of the walked with God. 10 And Noah be-
ground which Jehovah has cursed. gat three sons, Shem, Ham, and
30 And Lamech lived after he begot Japheth. 11 And the earth was cor-
Noah five hundred ninety-five rupt before God, and the earth was
years, and begot sons and daugh- filled with violence. 12 And God
ters: 31 And all the days of Lamech saw the earth, and, behold, it was
were seven hundred seventy-seven corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted
years: and he died. their way on the earth.
32 And Noah was five hundred 13 And God said to Noah, “The
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end of all flesh has come before me; beasts that are not clean two, the
for the earth is filled with violence male and his female: 3 of the birds
through them; and, behold, I will also of the heavens, seven and
destroy them with the earth. 14 seven, male and female, to keep
Make an ark of gopher wood; seed alive on the face of all the
rooms shall you make in the ark, earth. 4 For yet seven days, and I
and shall pitch it inside and outside will cause it to rain on the earth
with pitch. 15 And this is how you forty days and forty nights; and ev-
shall make it: the length of the ark ery living thing that I have made
three hundred cubits, the breadth will I destroy from off the face of
of it fifty cubits, and the height of it the ground.” 5 And Noah did ac-
thirty cubits. 16 A light shall you cording to all that Jehovah com-
make to the ark, and to a cubit shall manded him.
you finish it upward; and the door 6 And Noah was six hundred
of the ark shall you set in the side of years old when the flood of waters
it; with lower, second, and third was on the earth. 7 And Noah went
stories shall you make it. 17 And I, in, and his sons, and his wife, and
behold, I bring the flood of waters his sons’ wives with him, into the
upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, ark, because of the waters of the
in which is the breath of life, from flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of
under heaven; everything that is in beasts that are not clean, and of
the earth shall die. 18 But I will es- birds, and of everything that creeps
tablish my covenant with you; and on the ground, 9 there went in two
you shall come into the ark, you, and two to Noah into the ark, male
and your sons, and your wife, and and female, as God commanded
your sons’ wives with you. 19 And Noah. 10 And it came to pass after
of every living thing of all flesh, the seven days, that the waters of
two of every sort shall you bring the flood were on the earth. 11 In
into the ark, to keep them alive the six hundredth year of Noah’s
with you; they shall be male and fe- life, in the second month, on the
male. 20 Of the birds after their seventeenth day of the month, on
kind, and of the cattle after their the same day were all the fountains
kind, of every creeping thing of the of the great deep broken up, and
ground after its kind, two of every the windows of heaven were
sort shall come to you, to keep them opened. 12 And the rain was on the
alive. 21 And take to yourself of all earth forty days and forty nights.
food that is eaten, and gather it to 13 In the very same day entered
you; and it shall be for food for you, Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and
and for them.” 22 Thus did Noah; Japheth, the sons of Noah, and
according to all that God com- Noah’s wife, and the three wives of
manded him, so did he. his sons with them, into the ark; 14

7 And Jehovah said to Noah, they, and every beast after its kind,
“Come you and all your house and all the cattle after their kind,
into the ark; for you have I seen and every creeping thing that
righteous before me in this genera- creeps on the earth after its kind,
tion. 2 Of every clean beast you and every bird after its kind, every
shall take to you seven and seven, bird of every sort. 15 And they went
the male and his female; and of the in to Noah into the ark, two and
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two of all flesh in which is the month, on the seventeenth day of
breath of life. 16 And those that the month, on the mountains of
went in, went in male and female of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased
all flesh, as God commanded him: continually until the tenth month:
and Jehovah shut him in. 17 And in the tenth month, on the first day
the flood was forty days on the of the month, were the tops of the
earth; and the waters increased, mountains seen.
and bore up the ark, and it was 6 And it came to pass at the end of
lifted up above the earth. 18 And forty days, that Noah opened the
the waters prevailed, and increased window of the ark which he had
greatly on the earth; and the ark made: 7 and he sent forth a raven,
went on the face of the waters. 19 and it went forth to and fro, until
And the waters prevailed exceed- the waters were dried up from off
ingly on the earth; and all the high the earth. 8 And he sent forth a
mountains that were under the dove from him, to see if the waters
whole heaven were covered. 20 Fif- were abated from off the face of the
teen cubits upward did the waters ground; 9 but the dove found no
prevail; and the mountains were rest for the sole of her foot, and she
covered. 21 And all flesh died that returned to him to the ark; for the
moved on the earth, both birds, and waters were on the face of the
cattle, and beasts, and every creep- whole earth: and he put forth his
ing thing that creeps on the earth, hand, and took her, and brought
and every man: 22 all in whose nos- her in to him into the ark. 10 And he
trils was the breath of the spirit of stayed yet other seven days; and
life, of all that was on the dry land, again he sent forth the dove out of
died. 23 And every living thing was the ark; 11 and the dove came in to
destroyed that was on the face of him at evening; and, behold, in her
the ground, both man, and cattle, mouth an olive leaf plucked off: so
and creeping things, and birds of Noah knew that the waters were
the heavens; and they were de- abated from off the earth. 12 And he
stroyed from the earth: and Noah stayed yet other seven days, and
only was left, and those who were sent forth the dove; and she did not
with him in the ark. 24 And the wa- return again to him any more.
ters prevailed on the earth a hun- 13 And it came to pass in the six
dred and fifty days. hundred and first year, in the first

8 And God remembered Noah, month, the first day of the month,
and all the beasts, and all the the waters were dried up from off
cattle that were with him in the ark: the earth: and Noah removed the
and God made a wind to pass over covering of the ark, and looked,
the earth, and the waters assuaged; and, behold, the face of the ground
2 the fountains also of the deep and was dried. 14 And in the second
the windows of heaven were month, on the twenty-seventh day
stopped, and the rain from heaven of the month, was the earth dry. 15
was restrained; 3 and the waters re- And God spoke to Noah, saying, 16
turned from off the earth continual- “Go forth from the ark, you, and
ly: and after the end of a hundred your wife, and your sons, and your
and fifty days the waters decreased. sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring
4 And the ark rested in the seventh forth with you every living thing
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that is with you of all flesh, both of man. 6 Whoever sheds man’s
birds, and cattle, and every creep- blood, by man shall his blood be
ing thing that creeps on the earth; shed: for in the image of God he
that they may breed abundantly in made man. 7 And you, be fruitful,
the earth, and be fruitful, and mul- and multiply; bring forth abun-
tiply on the earth.” 18 And Noah dantly in the earth, and multiply
went forth, and his sons, and his in.”
wife, and his sons’ wives with him: 8 And God spoke to Noah, and to
19 every beast, every creeping his sons with him, saying, 9 “And I,
thing, and every bird, whatsoever behold, I establish my covenant
moves on the earth, after their fam- with you, and with your seed after
ilies, went forth out of the ark. you; 10 and with every living crea-
20 And Noah built an altar to Je- ture that is with you, the birds, the
hovah, and took of every clean cattle, and every beast of the earth
beast, and of every clean bird, and with you; of all that go out of the
offered burnt offerings on the altar. ark, even every beast of the earth.
21 And Jehovah smelled the sweet 11 And I will establish my covenant
savor; and Jehovah said in his with you; neither shall all flesh be
heart, “I will not again curse the cut off any more by the waters of
ground any more for man’s sake, the flood; neither shall there any
because the imagination of man’s more be a flood to destroy the
heart is evil from his youth; neither earth.” 12 And God said, “This is
will I again strike any more every- the token of the covenant which I
thing living, as I have done. 22 make between me and you and ev-
While the earth remains, seedtime ery living creature that is with you,
and harvest, and cold and heat, and for perpetual generations: 13 I do
summer and winter, and day and set my bow in the cloud, and it shall
night shall not cease. be for a token of a covenant be-

9 And God blessed Noah and tween me and the earth. 14 And it
his sons, and said to them, “Be shall come to pass, when I bring a
fruitful, and multiply, and replen- cloud over the earth, that the bow
ish the earth. 2 And the fear of you shall be seen in the cloud, 15 and I
and the dread of you shall be upon will remember my covenant, which
every beast of the earth, and upon is between me and you and every
every bird of the heavens; with all living creature of all flesh; and the
with which the ground teems, and waters shall no more become a
all the fish of the sea, into your flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And
hand are they delivered. 3 Every the bow shall be in the cloud; and I
moving thing that lives shall be will look upon it, that I may re-
food for you; as the green herb have member the everlasting covenant
I given you all. 4 But flesh with the between God and every living crea-
life of it, which is the blood of it, ture of all flesh that is on the earth.”
shall you not eat. 5 And surely your 17 And God said to Noah, “This is
blood, the blood of your lives, will I the token of the covenant which I
require; at the hand of every beast have established between me and
will I require it: and at the hand of all flesh that is on the earth.”
man, even at the hand of every 18 And the sons of Noah, who
man’s brother, will I require the life went forth from the ark, were
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Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and the sons of Javan: Elishah, and
Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5
These three were the sons of Noah: Of these were the isles of the na-
and of these was the whole earth tions divided in their lands, every
overspread. one after his tongue, after their fam-
20 And Noah began to be a ilies, in their nations.
farmer, and planted a vineyard: 21 6 And the sons of Ham: Cush, and
and he drank of the wine, and was Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan. 7
drunk; and he was uncovered And the sons of Cush: Seba, and
within his tent. 22 And Ham, the fa- Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah,
ther of Canaan, saw the nakedness and Sabteca; and the sons of
of his father, and told his two broth- Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. 8 And
ers outside. 23 And Shem and Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be
Japheth took a garment, and laid it a mighty one in the earth. 9 He was
on both their shoulders, and went a mighty hunter before Jehovah:
backward, and covered the naked- therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a
ness of their father; and their faces mighty hunter before Jehovah.” 10
were backward, and they did not And the beginning of his kingdom
see their father’s nakedness. 24 was Babel, and Erech, and Accad,
And Noah awoke from his wine, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11
and knew what his youngest son Out of that land he went forth into
had done to him. 25 And he said, Assyria, and built Nineveh, and Re-
“Cursed be Canaan; hoboth-Ir, and Calah, 12 and Resen
A servant of servants shall he between Nineveh and Calah (the
be to his brothers.” same is the great city). 13 And
26 And he said, Mizraim begat Ludim, and
Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naph-
Shem; tuhim, 14 and Pathrusim, and
And let Canaan be his servant. Casluhim (from whom went forth
27 God enlarge Japheth, the Philistines), and Caphtorim.
And let him dwell in the tents 15 And Canaan begot Sidon his
of Shem; firstborn, and Heth, 16 and the Je-
And let Canaan be his servant.” busite, and the Amorite, and the
28 And Noah lived after the flood Girgashite, 17 and the Hivite, and
three hundred and fifty years. 29 the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18 and
And all the days of Noah were nine the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and
hundred and fifty years: and he the Hamathite: and afterward were
died. the families of the Canaanite spread

10 Now these are the genera- abroad. 19 And the border of the
tions of the sons of Noah, Canaanite was from Sidon, as you
namely, of Shem, Ham, and Japheth: go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go
and to them were sons born after toward Sodom and Gomorrah and
the flood. Admah and Zeboiim, to Lasha. 20
2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and These are the sons of Ham, after
Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and their families, after their tongues, in
Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 3 their lands, in their nations.
And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, 21 And to Shem, the father of all
and Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 And the children of Eber, the elder
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brother of Japheth, to him also were are one people, and they have all
children born. 22 The sons of Shem: one language; and this is what they
Elam, and Asshur, and begin to do: and now nothing will
Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram. be withheld from them, which they
23 And the sons of Aram: Uz, and purpose to do. 7 Come, let us go
Hul, and Gether, and Mash. 24 And down, and there confound their
Arpachshad begot Shelah; and She- language, that they may not under-
lah begot Eber. 25 And to Eber were stand one another’s speech.” 8 So
born two sons: the name of the one Jehovah scattered them abroad
was Peleg; for in his days was the from there upon the face of all the
earth divided; and his brother’s earth: and they left off building the
name was Joktan. 26 And Joktan city. 9 Therefore was the name of it
begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and called Babel; because Jehovah there
Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, 27 and confounded the language of all the
Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 28 earth: and from there did Jehovah
and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, scatter them abroad upon the face
29 and Ophir, and Havilah, and of all the earth.
Jobab: all these were the sons of 10 These are the generations of
Joktan. 30 And their dwelling was Shem. Shem was a hundred years
from Mesha, as you go toward old, and begot Arpachshad two
Sephar, the mountain of the east. 31 years after the flood: 11 and Shem
These are the sons of Shem, after lived after he begot Arpachshad
their families, after their tongues, in five hundred years, and begot sons
their lands, after their nations. and daughters.
32 These are the families of the 12 And Arpachshad lived thirty-
sons of Noah, after their genera- five years, and begot Shelah: 13 and
tions, in their nations: and of these Arpachshad lived after he begot
were the nations divided in the Shelah four hundred and three
earth after the flood. years, and begot sons and daugh-

11 And the whole earth was of ters.

one language and of one 14 And Shelah lived thirty years,
speech. 2 And it came to pass, as and begot Eber: 15 and Shelah lived
they journeyed east, that they after he begot Eber four hundred
found a plain in the land of Shinar; and three years, and begot sons and
and they dwelt there. 3 And they daughters.
said one to another, “Come, let us 16 And Eber lived thirty-four
make brick, and burn them thor- years, and begot Peleg: 17 and Eber
oughly.” And they had brick for lived after he begot Peleg four hun-
stone, and slime had they for mor- dred and thirty years, and begot
tar. 4 And they said, “Come, let us sons and daughters.
build us a city, and a tower, whose 18 And Peleg lived thirty years,
top may reach to heaven, and let us and begot Reu: 19 and Peleg lived
make us a name; lest we be scat- after he begot Reu two hundred
tered abroad upon the face of the and nine years, and begot sons and
whole earth.” 5 And Jehovah came daughters.
down to see the city and the tower, 20 And Reu lived thirty-two
which the children of men built. 6 years, and begot Serug: 21 and Reu
And Jehovah said, “Behold, they lived after he begot Serug two hun-
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dred and seven years, and begot curse: and in you shall all the fami-
sons and daughters. lies of the earth be blessed.” 4 So
22 And Serug lived thirty years, Abram went, as Jehovah had spo-
and begot Nahor: 23 and Serug ken to him; and Lot went with him:
lived after he begot Nahor two and Abram was seventy-five years
hundred years, and begot sons and old when he departed out of Haran.
daughters. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife,
24 And Nahor lived twenty-nine and Lot his brother’s son, and all
years, and begot Terah: 25 and Na- their substance that they had gath-
hor lived after he begot Terah a ered, and the souls whom they had
hundred and nineteen years, and gotten in Haran; and they went
begot sons and daughters. forth to go into the land of Canaan;
26 And Terah lived seventy years, and into the land of Canaan they
and begot Abram, Nahor, and Ha- came. 6 And Abram passed
ran. through the land to the place of
27 Now these are the generations Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And
of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Na- the Canaanite was then in the land.
hor, and Haran; and Haran begot 7 And Jehovah appeared to Abram,
Lot. 28 And Haran died before his and said, “To your seed I will give
father Terah in the land of his nativ- this land”: and there he built an al-
ity, in Ur of the Chaldees. 29 And tar to Jehovah, who appeared to
Abram and Nahor took wives: the him. 8 And he removed from there
name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; to the mountain on the east of Beth-
and the name of Nahor’s wife, el, and pitched his tent, having
Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the
father of Milcah, and the father of east: and there he built an altar to
Iscah. 30 And Sarai was barren; she Jehovah, and called on the name of
had no child. 31 And Terah took Jehovah. 9 And Abram journeyed,
Abram his son, and Lot the son of going on still toward the South.
Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his 10 And there was a famine in the
daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s land: and Abram went down into
wife; and they went forth with Egypt to sojourn there; for the
them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go famine was severe in the land. 11
into the land of Canaan; and they And it came to pass, when he was
came to Haran, and dwelt there. 32 about to enter into Egypt, that he
And the days of Terah were two said to Sarai his wife, “Behold now,
hundred and five years: and Terah I know that you are a beautiful
died in Haran. woman to look upon: 12 and it will

12 Now Jehovah said to come to pass, when the Egyptians

Abram, “Get out of your shall see you, that they will say,
country, and from your kindred, ‘This is his wife’: and they will kill
and from your father’s house, to me, but they will save you alive. 13
the land that I will show you: 2 and Say, please, you are my sister; that it
I will make of you a great nation, may be well with me for your sake,
and I will bless you, and make your and that my soul may live because
name great; and be a blessing: 3 and of you.” 14 And it came to pass,
I will bless those who bless you, that, when Abram had come into
and him who curses you I will Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the
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woman that she was very beautiful. be no strife, please, between me
15 And the princes of Pharaoh saw and you, and between my herds-
her, and praised her to Pharaoh: men and your herdsmen; for we are
and the woman was taken into brethren. 9 Is not the whole land be-
Pharaoh’s house. 16 And he dealt fore you? separate yourself, please,
well with Abram for her sake: and from me: if you will take the left
he had sheep, and oxen, and male hand, then I will go to the right; or
donkeys, and male servants and fe- if you take the right hand, then I will
male servants, and female donkeys, go to the left.” 10 And Lot lifted up
and camels. 17 And Jehovah his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of
plagued Pharaoh and his house the Jordan, that it was well watered
with great plagues because of Sarai, everywhere, before Jehovah de-
Abram’s wife. 18 And Pharaoh stroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like
called Abram, and said, “What is the garden of Jehovah, like the land
this that you have done to me? why of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. 11 So
did you not tell me that she was Lot chose all the Plain of the Jordan;
your wife? 19 why did you say, ‘She and Lot journeyed east: and they
is my sister’, so that I took her to be separated themselves the one from
my wife? now therefore behold the other. 12 Abram dwelt in the
your wife, take her, and go your land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in
way.” 20 And Pharaoh gave men the cities of the Plain, and moved
charge concerning him: and they his tent as far as Sodom. 13 Now
brought him on the way, and his the men of Sodom were wicked and
wife, and all that he had. sinners against Jehovah exceed-

13 And Abram went up out of ingly.

Egypt, he, and his wife, and 14 And Jehovah said to Abram, af-
all that he had, and Lot with him, ter Lot was separated from him,
into the South. 2 And Abram was “Lift up now your eyes, and look
very rich in cattle, in silver, and in from the place where you are,
gold. 3 And he went on his journeys northward and southward and
from the South even to Beth-el, to eastward and westward: 15 for all
the place where his tent had been at the land which you see, to you will
the beginning, between Beth-el and I give it, and to your seed for ever.
Ai, 4 to the place of the altar, which 16 And I will make your seed as the
he had made there at the first: and dust of the earth: so that if a man
there Abram called on the name of can number the dust of the earth,
Jehovah. 5 And Lot also, who went then may your seed also be num-
with Abram, had flocks, and herds, bered. 17 Arise, walk through the
and tents. 6 And the land was not land in the length of it and in the
able to bear them, that they might breadth of it; for to you will I give
dwell together: for their substance it.” 18 And Abram moved his tent,
was great, so that they could not and came and dwelt by the oaks of
dwell together. 7 And there was a Mamre, which are in Hebron, and
strife between the herdsmen of built there an altar to Jehovah.
Abram’s cattle and the herdsmen of
Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and 14 And it came to pass in the
days of Amraphel king of
the Perizzite dwelt then in the land. Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Che-
8 And Abram said to Lot, “Let there dorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal
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king of Goiim, 2 that they made Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Es-
war with Bera king of Sodom, and hcol, and brother of Aner; and these
with Birsha king of Gomorrah, were confederate with Abram. 14
Shinab king of Admah, and Sheme- And when Abram heard that his
ber king of Zeboiim, and the king of brother was taken captive, he led
Bela (the same is Zoar). 3 All these forth his trained men, born in his
joined together in the vale of Sid- house, three hundred and eighteen,
dim (the same is the Salt Sea). 4 and pursued as far as Dan. 15 And
Twelve years they served Chedor- he divided himself against them by
laomer, and in the thirteenth year night, he and his servants, and
they rebelled. 5 And in the four- struck them, and pursued them to
teenth year came Chedorlaomer, Hobah, which is on the left hand of
and the kings that were with him, Damascus. 16 And he brought back
and struck the Rephaim in all the goods, and also brought
Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim back his brother Lot, and his goods,
in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh- and the women also, and the peo-
kiriathaim, 6 and the Horites in ple.
their Mount Seir, to El-paran, which 17 And the king of Sodom went
is by the wilderness. 7 And they re- out to meet him, after his return
turned, and came to En-mishpat from the slaughter of Chedor-
(the same is Kadesh), and struck all laomer and the kings who were
the country of the Amalekites, and with him, at the vale of Shaveh (the
also the Amorites, who dwelt in same is the King’s Vale). 18 And
Hazazon-tamar. 8 And there went Melchizedek king of Salem brought
out the king of Sodom, and the king forth bread and wine: and he was
of Gomorrah, and the king of priest of God Most High. 19 And he
Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, blessed him, and said, “Blessed be
and the king of Bela (the same is Abram of God Most High, posses-
Zoar); and they set the battle in ar- sor of heaven and earth: 20 and
ray against them in the vale of Sid- blessed be God Most High, who has
dim; 9 against Chedorlaomer king delivered your enemies into your
of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, hand.” And he gave him a tenth of
and Amraphel king of Shinar, and all. 21 And the king of Sodom said
Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings to Abram, “Give me the people,
against the five. 10 Now the vale of and take the goods to yourself.” 22
Siddim was full of slime pits; and And Abram said to the king of
the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand
fled, and they fell there, and those to Jehovah, God Most High, posses-
who remained fled to the moun- sor of heaven and earth, 23 that I
tain. 11 And they took all the goods will not take a thread nor a sandal
of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all strap nor anything that is yours,
their provisions, and went their lest you should say, ‘I have made
way. 12 And they took Lot, Abram’s Abram rich’: 24 except only that
brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, which the young men have eaten,
and his goods, and departed. and the portion of the men who
13 And there came one who had went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and
escaped, and told Abram the He- Mamre; let them take their por-
brew: now he dwelt by the oaks of tion.”
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15 After these things the word ers in a land that is not theirs, and
of Jehovah came to Abram in shall serve them; and they shall
a vision, saying, “Do not fear, afflict them four hundred years; 14
Abram: I am your shield, and your and also that nation, whom they
exceeding great reward.” 2 And shall serve, will I judge: and after-
Abram said, “O Lord Jehovah, ward shall they come out with
what will you give me, seeing I go great substance. 15 But you shall go
childless, and he who shall be pos- to your fathers in peace; you shall
sessor of my house is Eliezer of be buried in a good old age. 16 And
Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, in the fourth generation they shall
“Behold, to me you have given no come here again: for the iniquity of
seed: and, behold, one born in my the Amorite is not yet full.” 17 And
house is my heir.” 4 And, behold, it came to pass, that, when the sun
the word of Jehovah came to him, went down, and it was dark, be-
saying, “This man shall not be your hold, a smoking furnace, and a
heir; but he who shall come forth flaming torch passed between these
out of your own bowels shall be pieces. 18 In that day Jehovah made
your heir.” 5 And he brought him a covenant with Abram, saying, “To
forth abroad, and said, "Look now your seed have I given this land,
toward heaven, and number the from the river of Egypt to the great
stars, if you are able to number river, the river Euphrates: 19 the
them”: and he said to him, “So shall Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the
your seed be.” 6 And he believed in Kadmonite, 20 and the Hittite, and
Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 21
for righteousness. 7 And he said to and the Amorite, and the Canaan-
him, “I am Jehovah who brought ite, and the Girgashite, and the Je-
you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to busite.”
give you this land to inherit it.” 8
And he said, “O Lord Jehovah, by 16 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife,
bore him no children: and
what shall I know that I shall in- she had a maidservant, an Egyp-
herit it?” 9 And he said to him, tian, whose name was Hagar. 2 And
“Take me a heifer three years old, Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now,
and a female goat three years old, Jehovah has restrained me from
and a ram three years old, and a bearing; go in, please, to my female
turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.” servant; it may be that I shall obtain
10 And he took him all these, and children by her.” And Abram lis-
divided them in the midst, and laid tened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And
each half opposite the other: but the Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the
birds he did not divide. 11 And the Egyptian, her maidservant, after
birds of prey came down on the car- Abram had dwelt ten years in the
casses, and Abram drove them land of Canaan, and gave her to
away. Abram her husband to be his wife.
12 And when the sun was going 4 And he went in to Hagar, and she
down, a deep sleep fell upon conceived: and when she saw that
Abram; and, behold, a horror of she had conceived, her mistress
great darkness fell on him. 13 And was despised in her eyes. 5 And
he said to Abram, “Know for cer- Sarai said to Abram, “My wrong be
tain that your seed shall be sojourn- upon you: I gave my maidservant
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into your bosom; and when she
saw that she had conceived, I was
despised in her eyes: Jehovah judge
between me and you.” 6 But Abram
said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is
in your hand; do to her that which
is good in your eyes.” And Sarai
dealt hardly with her, and she fled
from her face.
7 And the angel of Jehovah found
her by a fountain of water in the
wilderness, by the fountain in the
way to Shur. 8 And he said, “Hagar,
Sarai’s maidservant, where have
you come from? and where are you
going?” And she said, “I am fleeing
from the face of my mistress Sarai.”
9 And the angel of Jehovah said to
her, “Return to your mistress, and
submit yourself under her hands.”
10 And the angel of Jehovah said to
her, “I will greatly multiply your
seed, that it shall not be numbered
for multitude.” 11 And the angel of
Jehovah said to her, “Behold, you
are with child, and shall bear a son; And I will give to you, and to your
and you shall call his name Ish-
mael, because Jehovah has heard
your affliction. 12 And he shall be as for an everlasting possession; and I
a wild donkey among men; his
hand shall be against every man,
and every man’s hand against him;
and he shall dwell in contrast with
all his brethren.” 13 And she called
the name of Jehovah who spake to
her, “You are a God who sees”: for
she said, “Have I even here looked
after him who sees me?” 14 Where-
fore the well was called Beer-lahai-
roi; behold, it is between Kadesh
and Bered.
15 And Hagar bare Abram a son:
and Abram called the name of his
son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. 16
And Abram was eighty-six years
old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to
Abram.
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17 And when Abram was
ninety-nine years old, Jeho-
vah appeared to Abram, and said to
him, “I am God Almighty; walk be-
fore me, and be perfect. 2 And I will
make my covenant between me
and you, and will multiply you ex-
ceedingly.” 3 And Abram fell on his
face: and God talked with him, say-
ing, 4 “As for me, behold, my
covenant is with you, and you shall
be the father of a multitude of na-
tions. 5 Neither shall your name
any more be called Abram, but
your name shall be Abraham; for
the father of a multitude of nations
have I made you. 6 And I will make
you exceeding fruitful, and I will
make nations of you, and kings
shall come out of you. 7 And I will
establish my covenant between me
and you and your seed after you
throughout their generations for an
everlasting covenant, to be a God to
you and to your seed after you. 8
seed after you, the land of your so-
journings, all the land of Canaan,
will be their God.”
9 And God said to Abraham,
“And as for you, you shall keep my
covenant, you, and your seed after
you throughout their generations.
10 This is my covenant, which you
shall keep, between me and you
and your seed after you: every male
among you shall be circumcised. 11
And you shall be circumcised in the
flesh of your foreskin; and it shall
be a token of a covenant between
me and you. 12 And he who is eight
days old shall be circumcised
among you, every male throughout
your generations, he who is born in
the house, or bought with money of
any foreigner who is not of your
seed. 13 He who is born in your
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house, and he who is bought with as God had said to him. 24 And
your money, must be circumcised: Abraham was ninety-nine years
and my covenant shall be in your old, when he was circumcised in
flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And Ish-
And the uncircumcised male who mael his son was thirteen years old,
is not circumcised in the flesh of his when he was circumcised in the
foreskin, that soul shall be cut off flesh of his foreskin. 26 In the very
from his people; he has broken my same day was Abraham circum-
covenant.” cised, and Ishmael his son. 27 And
15 And God said to Abraham, “As all the men of his house, those born
for Sarai your wife, you shall not in the house, and those bought with
call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall money of a foreigner, were circum-
her name be. 16 And I will bless her, cised with him.
and moreover I will give you a son
of her: yes, I will bless her, and she 18 And Jehovah appeared to
him by the oaks of Mamre, as
shall be a mother of nations; kings of he sat in the tent door in the heat of
peoples shall be from her.” 17 Then the day; 2 and he lifted up his eyes
Abraham fell on his face, and and looked, and, behold, three men
laughed, and said in his heart, stood opposite him: and when he
“Shall a child be born to him who is saw them, he ran to meet them
a hundred years old? and shall from the tent door, and bowed him-
Sarah, who is ninety years old, self to the earth, 3 and said, “My
bear?” 18 And Abraham said to lord, if now I have found favor in
God, “Oh that Ishmael might live your sight, do not pass away,
before you!” 19 And God said, “No, please, from your servant: 4 let now
but Sarah your wife shall bear you a little water be fetched, and wash
a son; and you shall call his name your feet, and rest yourselves un-
Isaac: and I will establish my der the tree: 5 and I will fetch a
covenant with him for an everlast- morsel of bread, and strengthen
ing covenant for his seed after him. your heart; after that you will pass
20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard on: because you have come to your
you: behold, I have blessed him, servant.” And they said, “So do, as
and will make him fruitful, and will you have said.” 6 And Abraham
multiply him exceedingly; twelve hastened into the tent to Sarah, and
princes shall he beget, and I will said, “Make ready quickly three
make him a great nation. 21 But my measures of fine meal, knead it, and
covenant will I establish with Isaac, make cakes.” 7 And Abraham ran
whom Sarah shall bear to you at unto the herd, and fetched a calf
this set time in the next year.” tender and good, and gave it to the
22 And he left off talking with servant; and he hastened to dress it.
him, and God went up from Abra- 8 And he took butter, and milk, and
ham. 23 And Abraham took Ish- the calf which he had dressed, and
mael his son, and all who were born set it before them; and he stood by
in his house, and all who were them under the tree, and they ate.
bought with his money, every male 9 And they said to him, “Where is
among the men of Abraham’s Sarah your wife?” And he said, "Be-
house, and circumcised the flesh of hold, in the tent." 10 And he said, "I
their foreskin in the very same day, will certainly return to you when
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the season comes around; and, be- there, and went toward Sodom: but
hold, Sarah your wife shall have a Abraham stood yet before Jehovah.
son.” And Sarah heard in the tent 23 And Abraham drew near, and
door, which was behind him. 11 said, “Will you consume the right-
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, eous with the wicked? 24 Perhaps
and well-stricken in age; it had there are fifty righteous within the
ceased to be with Sarah after the city: will you consume and not
manner of women. 12 And Sarah spare the place for the fifty right-
laughed within herself, saying, eous who are in it? 25 That is far
“After I am grown old shall I have from you to do after this manner, to
pleasure, my lord being old also?” slay the righteous with the wicked,
13 And Jehovah said to Abraham, that so the righteous should be as
“Why did Sarah laugh, saying, the wicked; that is far from you:
‘Shall I surely bear a child, who am shall not the Judge of all the earth
old?’ 14 Is anything too hard for Je- do right?” 26 And Jehovah said, “If
hovah? At the set time I will return I find in Sodom fifty righteous
to you, when the season comes within the city, then I will spare all
around, and Sarah shall have a the place for their sake.” 27 And
son.” 15 Then Sarah denied, saying, Abraham answered and said, “Be-
“I did not laugh”; for she was hold now, I have taken upon me to
afraid. And he said, “No; but you speak to the Lord, who am but dust
did laugh.” and ashes: 28 perhaps there shall
16 And the men rose up from lack five of the fifty righteous: will
there, and looked toward Sodom: you destroy all the city for lack of
and Abraham went with them to five?” And he said, “I will not de-
bring them on the way. 17 And Je- stroy it, if I find there forty-five.” 29
hovah said, “Shall I hide from And he spoke to him yet again, and
Abraham that which I do; 18 seeing said, “Perhaps there shall be forty
that Abraham shall surely become a found there.” And he said, “I will
great and mighty nation, and all the not do it for the forty’s sake.” 30
nations of the earth shall be blessed And he said, “Oh let not the Lord
in him? 19 For I have known him, to be angry, and I will speak: perhaps
the end that he may command his there shall thirty be found there.”
children and his household after And he said, “I will not do it, if I
him, that they may keep the way of find thirty there.” 31 And he said,
Jehovah, to do righteousness and “Behold now, I have taken upon me
justice; to the end that Jehovah may to speak unto the Lord: perhaps
bring upon Abraham that which he there shall be twenty found there.”
has spoken of him.” 20 And Jeho- And he said, “I will not destroy it
vah said, “Because the cry of for the twenty’s sake.” 32 And he
Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry,
because their sin is very grievous; and I will speak yet but this once:
21 I will go down now, and see perhaps ten shall be found there.”
whether they have done altogether And he said, “I will not destroy it
according to the cry of it, which has for the ten’s sake.” 33 And Jehovah
come to me; and if not, I will went his way, as soon as he had left
know.” off communing with Abraham: and
22 And the men turned from Abraham returned to his place.
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19 And the two angels came to both small and great, so that they
Sodom at evening; and Lot wearied themselves to find the
sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot door.
saw them, and rose up to meet 12 And the men said to Lot,
them; and he bowed himself with “Have you here any besides? son-
his face to the earth; 2 and he said, in-law, and your sons, and your
“Behold now, my lords, turn aside, daughters, and whomsoever you
please, into your servant’s house, have in the city, bring them out of
and stay all night, and wash your the place: 13 for we will destroy this
feet, and you shall rise up early, and place, because the cry of them has
go on your way.” And they said, grown great before Jehovah; and Je-
“No; but we will stay in the street hovah has sent us to destroy it.” 14
all night.” 3 And he urged them And Lot went out, and spoke to his
greatly; and they turned in to him, sons-in-law, who married his
and entered into his house; and he daughters, and said, “Up, get out of
made them a feast, and baked un- this place; for Jehovah will destroy
leavened bread, and they ate. 4 But the city.” But he seemed to his sons-
before they lay down, the men of in-law as one who mocked. 15 And
the city, even the men of Sodom, when the morning arose, then the
surrounded the house, both young angels hastened Lot, saying, “Arise,
and old, all the people from every take your wife, and your two
quarter; 5 and they called to Lot, daughters who are here, lest you be
and said to him, “Where are the consumed in the iniquity of the city.
men who came in to you this night? 16 But he lingered; and the men laid
bring them out to us, that we may hold on his hand, and on the hand
know them. 6 And Lot went out to of his wife, and on the hand of his
them to the door, and shut the door two daughters, Jehovah being mer-
after him. 7 And he said, “please, ciful to him: and they brought him
my brethren, do not do so wickedly. forth, and set him outside the city.
8 Behold now, I have two daughters 17 And it came to pass, when they
that have not known man; let me, had brought them forth abroad,
please, bring them out to you, and that he said, “Escape for your life;
do to them as is good in your eyes: do not look behind you, neither
only to these men do nothing, be- stay in all the Plain; escape to the
cause they have come under the mountain, lest you be consumed.”
shadow of my roof.” 9 And they 18 And Lot said to them, “Oh, not
said, “Stand back.” And they said, so, my lord: 19 behold now, your
“This one fellow came in to sojourn, servant has found favor in your
and he will be a judge: now will we sight, and you have magnified your
deal worse with you, than with lovingkindness, which you have
them.” And they pressed severely shown to me in saving my life; and
on the man, even Lot, and drew I cannot escape to the mountain,
near to break the door. 10 But the lest evil overtake me, and I die: 20
men put forth their hand, and behold now, this city is near to flee
brought Lot into the house to them, to, and it is a little one. Oh let me
and shut the door. 11 And they escape there (is it not a little one?),
struck the men who were at the and my soul shall live.” 21 And he
door of the house with blindness, said to him, “See, I have accepted
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you concerning this thing also, that did not know when she lay down,
I will not overthrow the city of nor when she arose. 34 And it came
which you have spoken. 22 Hasten, to pass on the morrow, that the
escape there; for I cannot do any- firstborn said to the younger, “Be-
thing until you have come there.” hold, I lay last night with my father:
Therefore the name of the city was let us make him drink wine this
called Zoar. night also; and you go in, and lie
23 The sun was risen upon the with him, that we may preserve
earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24 seed of our father.” 35 And they
Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom made their father drink wine that
and upon Gomorrah brimstone and night also: and the younger arose,
fire from Jehovah out of heaven; 25 and lay with him; and he did not
and he overthrew those cities, and know when she lay down, nor
all the Plain, and all the inhabitants when she arose. 36 Thus were both
of the cities, and that which grew the daughters of Lot with child by
on the ground. 26 But his wife their father. 37 And the firstborn
looked back from behind him, and bore a son, and called his name
she became a pillar of salt. 27 And Moab: the same is the father of the
Abraham got up early in the morn- Moabites to this day. 38 And the
ing to the place where he had stood younger, she also bare a son, and
before Jehovah: 28 and he looked called his name Ben-ammi: the
toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and same is the father of the children of
toward all the land of the Plain, and Ammon unto this day.
beheld, and, behold, the smoke of
the land went up as the smoke of a
furnace.
20 And Abraham journeyed
from there toward the land
of the South, and dwelt between
29 And it came to pass, when God Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned
destroyed the cities of the Plain, in Gerar. 2 And Abraham said of
that God remembered Abraham, Sarah his wife, “She is my sister”:
and sent Lot out of the midst of the and Abimelech king of Gerar sent,
overthrow, when he overthrew the and took Sarah. 3 But God came to
cities in which Lot dwelt. Abimelech in a dream of the night,
30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and said to him, “Behold, you are
and dwelt in the mountain, and his but a dead man, because of the
two daughters with him; for he woman whom you have taken; for
feared to dwell in Zoar: and he she is a man’s wife.” 4 Now Abim-
dwelt in a cave, he and his two elech had not come near her: and he
daughters. 31 And the firstborn said, “Lord, will you slay even a
said to the younger, “Our father is righteous nation? 5 Did he not say
old, and there is not a man in the himself to me, ‘She is my sister’?
earth to come in to us after the man- and she, even she herself said, ‘He
ner of all the earth: 32 come, let us is my brother’: in the integrity of
make our father drink wine, and my heart and the innocence of my
we will lie with him, that we may hands have I done this.” 6 And God
preserve seed of our father. 33 And said to him in the dream, “Yes, I
they made their father drink wine know that in the integrity of your
that night: and the firstborn went heart you have done this, and I also
in, and lay with her father; and he withheld you from sinning against
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me: therefore I did not allow you are righted. 17 And Abraham
not to touch her. 7 Now therefore prayed unto God: and God healed
restore the man’s wife; for he is a Abimelech, and his wife, and his
prophet, and he will pray for you, maid-servants; and they bare chil-
and you shall live: and if you do not dren. 18 For Jehovah had fast
restore her, know that you shall closed up all the wombs of the
surely die, you, and all who are house of Abimelech, because of
yours. Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
8 And Abimelech rose early in the
morning, and called all his ser- 21 And Jehovah visited Sarah
as he had said, and Jehovah
vants, and told all these things in did to Sarah as he had spoken. 2
their ears: and the men were se- And Sarah conceived, and bore
verely afraid. 9 Then Abimelech Abraham a son in his old age, at the
called Abraham, and said to him, set time of which God had spoken
“What have you done to us? and in to him. 3 And Abraham called the
what have I sinned against you, name of his son who was born to
that you have brought on me and him, whom Sarah bore to him,
on my kingdom a great sin? you Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised
have done deeds to me that ought his son Isaac when he was eight
not to be done.” 10 And Abimelech days old, as God had commanded
said to Abraham, “What did you him. 5 And Abraham was a hun-
see, that you have done this thing?” dred years old, when his son Isaac
11 And Abraham said, “Because I was born to him. 6 And Sarah said,
thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is “God has made me to laugh; every
not in this place; and they will slay one who hears will laugh with me.”
me for my wife’s sake.’ 12 And 7 And she said, “Who would have
moreover she is indeed my sister, said to Abraham, that Sarah should
the daughter of my father, but not give children suck? for I have borne
the daughter of my mother; and she him a son in his old age.”
became my wife: 13 and it came to 8 And the child grew, and was
pass, when God caused me to wan- weaned: and Abraham made a
der from my father’s house, that I great feast on the day that Isaac was
said to her, ‘This is your kindness weaned. 9 And Sarah saw the son
which you shall show to me: at ev- of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she
ery place where we shall come, say had borne to Abraham, mocking. 10
of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ” 14 Therefore she said to Abraham,
And Abimelech took sheep and “Cast out this maidservant and her
oxen, and male servants and female son: for the son of this handmaid
servants, and gave them to Abra- shall not be heir with my son, even
ham, and restored him Sarah his with Isaac.” 11 And the thing was
wife. 15 And Abimelech said, “Be- very grievous in Abraham’s sight
hold, my land is before you: dwell on account of his son. 12 And God
where it pleases you.” 16 And to said to Abraham, “Let it not be
Sarah he said, “Behold, I have grievous in your sight because of
given your brother a thousand the lad, and because of your maid-
pieces of silver: behold, it is for you servant; in all that Sarah says to
a covering of the eyes to all who are you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac
with you; and in respect of all you shall your seed be called. 13 And
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also of the son of the maidservant journed.” 24 And Abraham said, “I
will I make a nation, because he is will swear.” 25 And Abraham re-
your seed.” 14 And Abraham rose proved Abimelech because of the
up early in the morning, and took well of water, which Abimelech’s
bread and a bottle of water, and servants had violently taken away.
gave it to Hagar, putting it on her 26 And Abimelech said, “I did not
shoulder, and gave her the child, know who has done this thing: nei-
and sent her away: and she de- ther did you tell me, neither yet did
parted, and wandered in the I heard of it, but today.” 27 And
wilderness of Beer-sheba. 15 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and
the water in the bottle was spent, gave them to Abimelech; and the
and she cast the child under one of two made a covenant. 28 And Abra-
the shrubs. 16 And she went, and ham set seven ewe lambs of the
sat down opposite him a good way flock by themselves. 29 And Abim-
off, as it were a bowshot: for she elech said to Abraham, “What do
said, “Let me not look upon the these seven ewe lambs mean which
death of the child.” And she sat op- you have set by themselves?” 30
posite him, and lifted up her voice, And he said, “These seven ewe
and wept. 17 And God heard the lambs will you take from my hand,
voice of the lad; and the angel of that it may be a witness to me, that
God called to Hagar out of heaven, I have dug this well.” 31 Therefore
and said to her, “What ails you, Ha- he called that place Beer-sheba; be-
gar? do not fear; for God has heard cause there they swore both of
the voice of the lad where he is. 18 them. 32 So they made a covenant
Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him at Beer-sheba: and Abimelech rose
in your hand; for I will make him a up, and Phicol the captain of his
great nation.” 19 And God opened army, and they returned into the
her eyes, and she saw a well of wa- land of the Philistines. 33 And Abra-
ter; and she went, and filled the bot- ham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-
tle with water, and gave the lad sheba, and called there on the name
drink. 20 And God was with the of Jehovah, the Everlasting God. 34
lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in And Abraham sojourned in the
the wilderness, and became, as he land of the Philistines many days.
grew up, an archer. 21 And he
dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: 22 And it came to pass after
these things, that God tested
and his mother took him a wife out Abraham, and said to him, “Abra-
of the land of Egypt. ham”; and he said, “Here am I.” 2
22 And it came to pass at that And he said, “Take now your son,
time, that Abimelech and Phicol the your only son, whom you love,
captain of his army spoke to Abra- even Isaac, and get into the land of
ham, saying, God is with you in all Moriah; and offer him there for a
that you do: 23 now therefore swear burnt offering on one of the moun-
to me here by God that you will not tains which I will tell you of.” 3
deal falsely with me, nor with my And Abraham rose early in the
son, nor with my son’s son: but ac- morning, and saddled his donkey,
cording to the kindness that I have and took two of his young men
done to you, you will do to me, and with him, and Isaac his son; and he
to the land in which you have so- split the wood for the burnt offer-
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ing, and rose up, and went to the shall be provided.” 15 And the an-
place of which God had told him. 4 gel of Jehovah called to Abraham a
On the third day Abraham lifted up second time out of heaven, 16 and
his eyes, and saw the place afar off. said, “By myself have I sworn, says
5 And Abraham said to his young Jehovah, because you have done
men, “Stay here with the donkey, this thing, and have not withheld
and I and the lad will go there; and your son, your only son, 17 that in
we will worship, and come again to blessing I will bless you, and in
you.” 6 And Abraham took the multiplying I will multiply your
wood of the burnt offering, and laid seed as the stars of the heavens, and
it on Isaac his son; and he took in as the sand which is on the
his hand the fire and the knife; and seashore; and your seed shall pos-
they went both of them together. 7 sess the gate of his enemies; 18 and
And Isaac spoke to Abraham his fa- in your seed shall all the nations of
ther, and said, “My father”: and he the earth be blessed; because you
said, “Here am I, my son.” And he have obeyed my voice.” 19 So
said, “Behold, the fire and the Abraham returned to his young
wood: but where is the lamb for a men, and they rose up and went to-
burnt offering?” 8 And Abraham gether to Beer-sheba; and Abraham
said, “God will provide himself the dwelt at Beer-sheba.
lamb for a burnt offering, my son”: 20 And it came to pass after these
so they went both of them together. things, that it was told Abraham,
9 And they came to the place saying, “Behold, Milcah, she also
which God had told him of; and has borne children to your brother
Abraham built the altar there, and Nahor: 21 Uz his first-born, and
laid the wood in order, and bound Buz his brother, and Kemuel the fa-
Isaac his son, and laid him on the ther of Aram, 22 and Chesed, and
altar, on the wood. 10 And Abra- Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph,
ham stretched forth his hand, and and Bethuel. 23 And Bethuel begat
took the knife to slay his son. 11 Rebekah: these eight Milcah bore to
And the angel of Jehovah called to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. 24 And
him out of heaven, and said, “Abra- his concubine, whose name was
ham, Abraham”: and he said, “Here Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and
am I”. 12 And he said, “Do not lay Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.
your hand on the lad, neither do
anything to him; for now I know 23 And the life of Sarah was a
hundred and twenty-seven
that you fear God, seeing you have years: these were the years of the
not withheld your son, your only life of Sarah. 2 And Sarah died in
son, from me.” 13 And Abraham Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron),
lifted up his eyes, and looked, and in the land of Canaan: and Abra-
behold, behind him a ram caught in ham came to mourn for Sarah, and
the thicket by his horns: and Abra- to weep for her. 3 And Abraham
ham went and took the ram, and rose up from before his dead, and
offered him up for a burnt offering spoke to the children of Heth, say-
in the place of his son. 14 And Abra- ing, 4 “I am a stranger and a so-
ham called the name of that place journer with you: give me a
Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this possession of a burying place with
day, “In the mount of Jehovah it you, that I may bury my dead out
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of my sight.” 5 And the children of audience of the children of Heth,
Heth answered Abraham, saying to four hundred shekels of silver, cur-
him, 6 “Hear us, my lord; you are a rent money with the merchant.
prince of God among us: in the 17 So the field of Ephron, which
choicest of our sepulchers bury was in Machpelah, which was be-
your dead; none of us shall with- fore Mamre, the field, and the cave
hold from you his sepulcher, but which was in it, and all the trees
that you may bury your dead.” 7 that were in the field, that were in
And Abraham rose up, and bowed all the border of it all around, were
himself to the people of the land, made sure 18 to Abraham for a pos-
even to the children of Heth. 8 And session in the presence of the chil-
he communed with them, saying, dren of Heth, before all who went
“If it be your mind that I should in at the gate of his city. 19 And af-
bury my dead out of my sight, hear ter this, Abraham buried Sarah his
me, and entreat for me to Ephron wife in the cave of the field of
the son of Zohar, 9 that he may give Machpelah before Mamre (the
me the cave of Machpelah, which same is Hebron), in the land of
he has, which is in the end of his Canaan. 20 And the field, and the
field; for the full price let him give cave that is in it, were made sure to
it to me in the midst of you for a Abraham for a possession of a
possession of a burying place.” 10 burying place by the children of
Now Ephron was sitting in the Heth.
midst of the children of Heth: and
Ephron the Hittite answered Abra- 24 And Abraham was old, and
well-stricken in age: and Je-
ham in the audience of the children hovah had blessed Abraham in all
of Heth, even of all who went in at things. 2 And Abraham said to his
the gate of his city, saying, 11 “No, servant, the elder of his house, who
my lord, hear me: the field I give ruled over all that he had, “Put,
you, and the cave that is in it, I give please, your hand under my thigh:
it to you; in the presence of the chil- 3 and I will make you swear by Je-
dren of my people I give it to you: hovah, the God of heaven and the
bury your dead.” 12 And Abraham God of the earth, that you will not
bowed himself down before the take a wife for my son of the daugh-
people of the land. 13 And he spoke ters of the Canaanites, among
to Ephron in the audience of the whom I dwell: 4 but you shall go to
people of the land, saying, “But if my country, and to my kindred,
you will, please, hear me: I will give and take a wife for my son Isaac. 5
the price of the field; take it from And the servant said to him, “Per-
me, and I will bury my dead there.” haps the woman will not be willing
14 And Ephron answered Abra- to follow me to this land: must I
ham, saying to him, 15 “My lord, bring your son again to the land
listen to me: a piece of land worth from where you came?” 6 And
four hundred shekels of silver, Abraham said to him, “Beware that
what is that between me and you? you do not bring my son there
bury therefore your dead. 16 And again. 7 Jehovah, the God of
Abraham listened to Ephron; and heaven, who took me from my fa-
Abraham weighed to Ephron the ther’s house, and from the land of
silver which he had named in the my nativity, and who spoke to me,
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and who swore to me, saying, ‘To known her: and she went down to
your seed will I give this land; he the fountain, and filled her pitcher,
will send his angel before you, and and came up. 17 And the servant
you shall take a wife for my son ran to meet her, and said, “Give me
from there. 8 And if the woman is to drink, please, a little water from
not willing to follow you, then you your pitcher.” 18 And she said,
shall be clear from this my oath; “Drink, my lord”: and she has-
only you shall not bring my son tened, and let down her pitcher on
there again.” 9 And the servant put her hand, and gave him drink. 19
his hand under the thigh of Abra- And when she had done giving him
ham his master, and swore to him drink, she said, “I will draw for
concerning this matter. your camels also, until they have
10 And the servant took ten done drinking.” 20 And she has-
camels, of the camels of his master, tened, and emptied her pitcher into
and departed, having all good the trough, and ran again to the
things of his master’s in his hand: well to draw, and drew for all his
and he arose, and went to camels. 21 And the man looked
Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. steadfastly on her, holding his
11 And he made the camels to kneel peace, to know whether Jehovah
down outside the city by the well of had made his journey prosperous
water at the time of evening, the or not. 22 And it came to pass, as
time that women go out to draw the camels had done drinking, that
water. 12 And he said, “O Jehovah, the man took a golden ring of half a
the God of my master Abraham, shekel weight, and two bracelets
send me, please, good speed this for her hands of ten shekels weight
day, and show kindness to my mas- of gold, 23 and said, “Whose
ter Abraham. 13 Behold, I am daughter are you? tell me, please. Is
standing by the fountain of water; there room in your father’s house
and the daughters of the men of the for us to lodge in?” 24 And she said
city are coming out to draw water: to him, “I am the daughter of
14 and let it come to pass, that the Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom
young woman to whom I will say, she bore to Nahor.” 25 She said
‘Let down your pitcher, please, that moreover to him, “We have both
I may drink’; and she will say, straw and fodder enough, and
‘Drink, and I will give your camels room to lodge in.” 26 And the man
drink also’: let the same be she who bowed his head, and worshipped
you have appointed for your ser- Jehovah. 27 And he said, “Blessed
vant Isaac; and by it I will know be Jehovah, the God of my master
that you have shown kindness to Abraham, who has not forsaken his
my master.” 15 And it came to pass, lovingkindness and his truth to-
before he had done speaking, that, ward my master: as for me, Jehovah
behold, Rebekah came out, who has led me in the way to the house
was born to Bethuel the son of of my master’s brethren.”
Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abra- 28 And the young woman ran,
ham’s brother, with her pitcher on and told her mother’s house ac-
her shoulder. 16 And the young cording to these words. 29 And Re-
woman was very beautiful to look bekah had a brother, and his name
on, a virgin, neither had any man was Laban: and Laban ran out to
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the man, to the fountain. 30 And it my kindred; and if they do not give
came to pass, when he saw the ring, her to you, you will be clear from
and the bracelets upon his sister’s my oath.’ 42 And I came this day to
hands, and when he heard the the fountain, and said, ‘O Jehovah,
words of Rebekah his sister, saying, the God of my master Abraham, if
“Thus spoke the man to me”; that now you prosper my way which I
he came to the man; and, behold, he go: 43 behold, I am standing by the
was standing by the camels at the fountain of water; and let it come to
fountain. 31 And he said, “Come in, pass, that the girl who comes forth
you blessed of Jehovah; why do to draw, to whom I will say, ‘Give
you stand outside? for I have pre- me, please, a little water from your
pared the house, and room for the pitcher to drink’; 44 and she will
camels.” 32 And the man came into say to me, ‘Both you drink, and I
the house, and he ungirded the will also draw for your camels’: let
camels; and he gave straw and fod- the same be the woman whom Je-
der for the camels, and water to hovah has appointed for my mas-
wash his feet and the feet of the ter’s son. 45 And before I had done
men who were with him. 33 And speaking in my heart, behold, Re-
there was set food before him to eat: bekah came forth with her pitcher
but he said, “I will not eat, until I on her shoulder; and she went
have told my errand.” And he said, down to the fountain, and drew:
“Speak on.” 34 And he said, “I am and I said to her, ‘Let me drink,
Abraham’s servant. 35 And Jeho- please.’ 46 And she made haste,
vah has blessed my master greatly; and let down her pitcher from her
and he is become great: and he has shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I
given him flocks and herds, and sil- will give your camels drink also: so
ver and gold, and male servants I drank, and she made the camels
and female servants, and camels drink also. 47 And I asked her, and
and donkeys. 36 And Sarah my said, ‘Whose daughter you are?
master’s wife bore a son to my mas- And she said, ‘The daughter of
ter when she was old: and to him Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom
has he given all that he has. 37 And Milcah bore to him: and I put the
my master made me swear, saying, ring on her nose, and the bracelets
‘You shall not take a wife for my on her hands. 48 And I bowed my
son from the daughters of the head, and worshipped Jehovah,
Canaanites, in whose land I dwell: and blessed Jehovah, the God of my
38 but you shall go to my father’s master Abraham, who had led me
house, and to my kindred, and take in the right way to take my mas-
a wife for my son.’ 39 And I said to ter’s brother’s daughter for his son.
my master, ‘Perhaps the woman 49 And now if you will deal kindly
will not follow me.’ 40 And he said and truly with my master, tell me:
to me, ‘Jehovah, before whom I and if not, tell me; that I may turn to
walk, will send his angel with you, the right hand, or to the left.”
and prosper your way; and you 50 Then Laban and Bethuel an-
shall take a wife for my son from swered and said, “The thing pro-
my kindred, and from my father’s ceeds from Jehovah: we cannot
house: 41 then will you be clear speak to you bad or good. 51 Be-
from my oath, when you come to hold, Rebekah is before you, take
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her, and go, and let her be your and when she saw Isaac, she dis-
master’s son’s wife, as Jehovah has mounted from the camel. 65 And
spoken.” 52 And it came to pass, she said to the servant, “What man
that, when Abraham’s servant is this who walks in the field to
heard their words, he bowed him- meet us?” And the servant said, “It
self down to the earth to Jehovah. is my master”: and she took her
53 And the servant brought forth veil, and covered herself. 66 And
jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, the servant told Isaac all the things
and clothing, and gave them to Re- that he had done. 67 And Isaac
bekah: he gave also to her brother brought her into his mother Sarah’s
and to her mother precious things. tent, and took Rebekah, and she be-
54 And they ate and drank, he and came his wife; and he loved her:
the men who were with him, and and Isaac was comforted after his
stayed all night; and they rose up in mother’s death.
the morning, and he said, “Send me
away to my master.” 55 And her 25 And Abraham took an-
other wife, and her name
brother and her mother said, “Let was Keturah. 2 And she bore him
the young woman stay with us a Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan,
few days, at the least ten; after that and Midian, and Ishbak, and
she will go.” 56 And he said to Shuah. 3 And Jokshan begotten
them, “Do not hinder me, seeing Je- Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of
hovah has prospered my way; send Dedan were Asshurim, and Le-
me away that I may go to my mas- tushim, and Leummim. 4 And the
ter.” 57 And they said, “We will call sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher,
the young woman, and inquire at and Hanoch, and Abida, and El-
her mouth.” 58 And they called Re- daah. All these were the children of
bekah, and said to her, “Will you go Keturah. 5 And Abraham gave all
with this man?” And she said, “I that he had to Isaac. 6 But to the
will go.” 59 And they sent away Re- sons of the concubines, that Abra-
bekah their sister, and her nurse, ham had, Abraham gave gifts; and
and Abraham’s servant, and his he sent them away from Isaac his
men. 60 And they blessed Rebekah, son, while he still lived, eastward,
and said to her, “Our sister, be the to the east country. 7 And these are
mother of thousands of ten thou- the days of the years of Abraham’s
sands, and let your seed possess the life which he lived, a hundred and
gate of those who hate them.” seventy-five years. 8 And Abraham
61 And Rebekah arose, and her breathed his last, and died in a
young women, and they rode on good old age, an old man, and full
the camels, and followed the man: of years, and was gathered to his
and the servant took Rebekah, and people. 9 And Isaac and Ishmael his
went his way. 62 And Isaac came sons buried him in the cave of
from the way of Beer-lahai-roi; for Machpelah, in the field of Ephron
he dwelt in the land of the South. 63 the son of Zohar the Hittite, which
And Isaac went out to meditate in is before Mamre; 10 the field which
the field in the evening: and he Abraham purchased from the chil-
lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, be- dren of Heth: there was Abraham
hold, there were camels coming. 64 buried, and Sarah his wife. 11 And
And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, it came to pass after the death of
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Abraham, that God blessed Isaac stronger than the other
his son: and Isaac dwelt by Beer-la- people;
hai-roi. And the elder shall serve the
12 Now these are the generations younger.
of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom 24 And when her days to be deliv-
Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid- ered were fulfilled, behold, there
servant, bore to Abraham: 13 and were twins in her womb. 25 And
these are the names of the sons of the first came forth red, all over
Ishmael, by their names, according like a hairy garment; and they
to their generations: the firstborn of called his name Esau. 26 And after
Ishmael, Nebaioth; and Kedar, and that came forth his brother, and
Adbeel, and Mibsam, 14 and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel;
Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, and his name was called Jacob:
15 Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, and Isaac was sixty years old
Naphish, and Kedemah: 16 these when she bore them.
are the sons of Ishmael, and these 27 And the boys grew: and Esau
are their names, by their villages, was a skillful hunter, a man of the
and by their encampments; twelve field; and Jacob was a quiet man,
princes according to their nations. dwelling in tents. 28 Now Isaac
17 And these are the years of the life loved Esau, because he ate of his
of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty- game: and Rebekah loved Jacob. 29
seven years: and he breathed his And Jacob boiled stew: and Esau
last and died, and was gathered to came in from the field, and he was
his people. 18 And they dwelt from faint: 30 and Esau said to Jacob,
Havilah to Shur that is before “Feed me, please, with that same
Egypt, as you go toward Assyria: red stew; for I am faint”: therefore
he settled opposite all his brethren. was his name called Edom. 31 And
19 And these are the generations Jacob said, Sell me first your
of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham birthright. 32 And Esau said, “Be-
begot Isaac: 20 and Isaac was forty hold, I am about to die: and what
years old when he took Rebekah, profit shall the birthright do to
the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian me?” 33 And Jacob said, “Swear to
of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban me first”; and he swore to him: and
the Syrian, to be his wife. 21 And he sold his birthright to Jacob. 34
Isaac entreated Jehovah for his And Jacob gave Esau bread and
wife, because she was barren: and stew of lentils; and he ate and
Jehovah was entreated by him, and drank, and rose up, and went his
Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 way: so Esau despised his
And the children struggled to- birthright.
gether within her; and she said, “If
it be so, why do I live?” And she 26 And there was a famine in
the land, besides the first
went to inquire of Jehovah. 23 And famine that was in the days of
Jehovah said to her, Abraham. And Isaac went to Abim-
“Two nations are in your elech king of the Philistines, to
womb, Gerar. 2 And Jehovah appeared to
And two peoples shall be him, and said, “Do not go down
separated from your bowels: into Egypt; dwell in the land which
And the one people shall be I shall tell you of: 3 sojourn in this
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land, and I will be with you, and Now all the wells which his father’s
will bless you; for to you, and to servants had dug in the days of
your seed, I will give all these Abraham his father, the Philistines
lands, and I will establish the oath had stopped, and filled with earth.
which I swore to Abraham your fa- 16 And Abimelech said to Isaac,
ther; 4 and I will multiply your seed “Go from us; for you are much
as the stars of heaven, and will give mightier than we.” 17 And Isaac de-
to your seed all these lands; and in parted from there, and encamped
your seed shall all the nations of the in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt
earth be blessed; 5 because Abra- there.
ham obeyed my voice, and kept my 18 And Isaac dug again the wells
charge, my commandments, my of water, which they had dug in the
statutes, and my laws.” 6 And Isaac days of Abraham his father; for the
dwelt in Gerar: 7 and the men of the Philistines had stopped them after
place asked him of his wife; and he the death of Abraham: and he
said, “She is my sister”: for he called their names after the names
feared to say, “My wife”; lest, he by which his father had called
said, “the men of the place should them. 19 And Isaac’s servants dug
kill me for Rebekah; because she in the valley, and found there a well
was beautiful to look upon.” 8 And of springing water. 20 And the
it came to pass, when he had been herdsmen of Gerar strove with
there a long time, that Abimelech Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, The wa-
king of the Philistines looked out at ter is ours: and he called the name
a window, and saw, and, behold, of the well Esek, because they con-
Isaac was sporting with Rebekah tended with him. 21 And they dug
his wife. 9 And Abimelech called another well, and they strove for
Isaac, and said, “Behold, for certain that also: and he called the name of
she is your wife: and how did you it Sitnah. 22 And he removed from
say, “She is my sister?” And Isaac there, and dug another well; and
said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I for that they did not strive: and he
die because of her.’ ” 10 And Abim- called the name of it Rehoboth; and
elech said, “What is this you have he said, “For now Jehovah has
done to us? one of the people might made room for us, and we shall be
easily have lain with your wife, and fruitful in the land.
you would have brought guiltiness 23 And he went up from there to
on us.” 11 And Abimelech charged Beer-sheba. 24 And Jehovah ap-
all the people, saying, “He who peared to him the same night, and
touches this man or his wife shall said, “I am the God of Abraham
surely be put to death.” your father: do not fear, for I am
12 And Isaac sowed in that land, with you, and will bless you, and
and found in the same year a hun- multiply your seed for my servant
dredfold: and Jehovah blessed him. Abraham’s sake. 25 And he built an
13 And the man became great, and altar there, and called on the name
grew more and more until he be- of Jehovah, and pitched his tent
came very great: 14 and he had pos- there: and there Isaac’s servants
sessions of flocks, and possessions dug a well.
of herds, and a great household: 26 Then Abimelech went to him
and the Philistines envied him. 15 from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his
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friend, and Phicol the captain of his may bless you before I die.”
army. 27 And Isaac said to them, 5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac
“Why have you come to me, seeing spoke to Esau his son. And Esau
you hate me, and have sent me went to the field to hunt for game,
away from you?” 28 And they said, and to bring it. 6 And Rebekah
“We saw plainly that Jehovah was spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Be-
with you: and we said, ‘Let there hold, I heard your father speak to
now be an oath between us, even Esau your brother, saying, 7 ‘Bring
between us and you, and let us me game, and make me savory
make a covenant with you, 29 that food, that I may eat, and bless you
you will do us no hurt, as we have before Jehovah before my death.’ 8
not touched you, and as we have Now therefore, my son, obey my
done to you nothing but good, and voice according to that which I
have sent you away in peace: you command you. 9 Go now to the
are now the blessed of Jehovah.” 30 flock, and fetch me from there two
And he made them a feast, and they good kids of the goats; and I will
ate and drank. 31 And they rose up make them savory food for your fa-
early in the morning, and swore to ther, such as he loves: 10 and you
one another: and Isaac sent them shall bring it to your father, that he
away, and they departed from him may eat, so that he may bless you
in peace. 32 And it came to pass the before his death.” 11 And Jacob said
same day, that Isaac’s servants to Rebekah his mother, “Behold,
came, and told him concerning the Esau my brother is a hairy man,
well which they had dug, and said and I am a smooth man. 12 My fa-
to him, “We have found water.” 33 ther perhaps will feel me, and I
And he called it Shibah: therefore shall seem to him as a deceiver; and
the name of the city is Beer-sheba to I shall bring a curse upon me, and
this day. not a blessing.” 13 And his mother
34 And when Esau was forty said to him, “Upon me be your
years old he took to wife Judith the curse, my son; only obey my voice,
daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and and go fetch me them.” 14 And he
Basemath the daughter of Elon the went, and fetched, and brought
Hittite: 35 and they were a grief of them to his mother: and his mother
mind to Isaac and to Rebekah. made savory food, such as his fa-

27 And it came to pass, that ther loved. 15 And Rebekah took

when Isaac was old, and his the best garments of Esau her elder
eyes were dim, so that he could not son, which were with her in the
see, he called Esau his elder son, house, and put them upon Jacob
and said to him, “My son”: and he her younger son; 16 and she put the
said to him, “Here am I.” 2 And he skins of the kids of the goats upon
said, “Behold now, I am old, I do his hands, and upon the smooth of
not know the day of my death. 3 his neck: 17 and she gave the sa-
Now therefore take, please, your vory food and the bread, which she
weapons, your quiver and your had prepared, into the hand of her
bow, and go out to the field, and son Jacob.
take me game; 4 and make me sa- 18 And he came to his father, and
vory food, such as I love, and bring said, “My father”: and he said,
it to me, that I may eat; that my soul “Here am I; who are you, my son?”
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19 And Jacob said to his father, “I And blessed be every one who
am Esau your firstborn; I have done blesses you.”
according as you commanded me: 30 And it came to pass, as soon as
arise, please, sit and eat of my Isaac had made an end of blessing
game, that your soul may bless me. Jacob, and Jacob had yet scarcely
20 And Isaac said to his son, “How gone out from the presence of Isaac
is it that you have found it so his father, that Esau his brother
quickly, my son?” And he said, “Be- came in from his hunting. 31 And
cause Jehovah your God sent me he also made savory food, and
good speed.” 21 And Isaac said to brought it to his father; and he said
Jacob, “Come near, please, that I to his father, “Let my father arise,
may feel you, my son, whether you and eat of his son’s game, that your
are my very son Esau or not.” 22 soul may bless me.” 32 And Isaac
And Jacob went near to Isaac his fa- his father said to him, “Who are
ther; and he felt him, and said, “The you?” And he said, “I am your son,
voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands your firstborn, Esau.” 33 And Isaac
are the hands of Esau.” 23 And he trembled very exceedingly, and
did not discern him, because his said, “Who then is he who has
hands were hairy, as his brother taken game, and brought it me, and
Esau’s hands: so he blessed him. 24 I have eaten of all before you came,
And he said, “Are you my very son and have blessed him? yes, and he
Esau?” And he said, “I am.” 25 And shall be blessed.” 34 When Esau
he said, “Bring it near to me, and I heard the words of his father, he
will eat of my son’s game, that my cried with an exceedingly great and
soul may bless you. And he bitter cry, and said to his father,
brought it near to him, and he ate: “Bless me, even me also, O my fa-
and he brought him wine, and he ther.” 35 And he said, “Your brother
drank. 26 And his father Isaac said came with deceit, and has taken
to him, “Come near now, and kiss away your blessing.” 36 And he
me, my son.” 27 And he came near, said, “Is he not rightly named Ja-
and kissed him: and he smelled the cob? for he has supplanted me
smell of his raiment, and blessed these two times: he took away my
him, and said, birthright; and, behold, now he has
“See, the smell of my son taken away my blessing.” And he
Is as the smell of a field which said, “Have you not reserved a
Jehovah has blessed: blessing for me?” 37 And Isaac an-
28 And God give you of the dew of swered and said to Esau, “Behold, I
heaven, have made him your lord, and all
And of the fatness of the earth, his brethren I have given to him for
And plenty of grain and new servants; and with grain and new
wine: wine I have sustained him: and
29 Let peoples serve you, what then shall I do for you, my
And nations bow down to you: son?” 38 And Esau said to his fa-
Be lord over your brethren, ther, “Have you but one blessing,
And let your mother’s sons my father? bless me, even me also,
bow down to you: O my father.” And Esau lifted up
Cursed be every one who his voice, and wept. 39 And Isaac
curses you, his father answered and said to
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him, mother’s father; and take a wife
“Behold, of the fatness of the from there of the daughters of La-
earth shall be your dwelling, ban your mother’s brother. 3 And
And of the dew of heaven from God Almighty bless you, and make
above. you fruitful, and multiply you, that
40 And by your sword shall you you may be a company of peoples;
live, and you shall serve your 4 and give you the blessing of Abra-
brother; ham, to you, and to your seed with
And it shall come to pass, when you; that you may inherit the land
you shall break loose, of your sojournings, which God
That you shall shake his yoke gave to Abraham.” 5 And Isaac sent
from off your neck.” away Jacob: and he went to Pad-
41 And Esau hated Jacob because dan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel
of the blessing with which his fa- the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah,
ther blessed him: and Esau said in Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
his heart, “The days of mourning 6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had
for my father are at hand; then I blessed Jacob and sent him away to
will slay my brother Jacob.” 42 And Paddan-aram, to take him a wife
the words of Esau her elder son from there; and that as he blessed
were told to Rebekah; and she sent him he gave him a charge, saying,
and called Jacob her younger son, “You shall not take a wife of the
and said to him, “Behold, your daughters of Canaan”; 7 and that
brother Esau, concerning you, com- Jacob obeyed his father and his
forts himself, purposing to kill you. mother, and had gone to Paddan-
43 Now therefore, my son, obey my aram: 8 and Esau saw that the
voice; and arise, flee to Laban my daughters of Canaan did not please
brother to Haran; 44 and stay with Isaac his father; 9 and Esau went to
him a few days, until your Ishmael, and took, besides the
brother’s fury turns away; 45 until wives whom he had, Mahalath the
your brother’s anger turns away daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s
from you, and he forgets that which son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his
you have done to him: then I will wife.
send, and fetch you from there: 10 And Jacob went out from Beer-
why should I be bereaved of you sheba, and went toward Haran. 11
both in one day?” And he came upon a certain place,
46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, “I and stayed there all night, because
am weary of my life because of the the sun had set; and he took one of
daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a the stones of the place, and put it
wife of the daughters of Heth, such under his head, and lay down in
as these, of the daughters of the that place to sleep. 12 And he
land, what good shall my life do dreamed; and behold, a ladder set
me?” up on the earth, and the top of it

28 And Isaac called Jacob, and reached to heaven; and behold, the
blessed him, and charged angels of God ascending and de-
him, and said to him, “You shall not scending on it. 13 And, behold, Je-
take a wife of the daughters of hovah stood above it, and said, “I
Canaan. 2 Arise, go to Paddan- am Jehovah, the God of Abraham
aram, to the house of Bethuel your your father, and the God of Isaac:
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the land on which you lie, to you I all the flocks gathered: and they
will give it, and to your seed; 14 rolled the stone from the well’s
and your seed shall be as the dust mouth, and watered the sheep, and
of the earth, and you shall spread put the stone again on the well’s
abroad to the west, and to the east, mouth in its place. 4 And Jacob said
and to the north, and to the south: to them, “My brethren, where are
and in you and in your seed shall you from? And they said, “Of Ha-
all the families of the earth be ran are we.” 5 And he said to them,
blessed. 15 And, behold, I am with “Do you know Laban the son of
you, and will keep you, whereso- Nahor?” And they said, “We know
ever you go, and will bring you him.” 6 And he said to them, “Is it
again into this land; for I will not well with him?” And they said, “It
leave you, until I have done that is well: and, behold, Rachel his
which I have spoken to you.” 16 daughter comes with the sheep.” 7
And Jacob awoke out of his sleep, And he said, “Behold, it is still high
and he said, “Surely Jehovah is in day, neither is it time that the cattle
this place; and I did not know it.” should be gathered together: water
17 And he was afraid, and said, the sheep, and go and feed them.” 8
“How dreadful is this place! this is And they said, “We cannot, until all
none other than the house of God, the flocks are gathered together,
and this is the gate of heaven.” and they roll the stone from the
18 And Jacob rose up early in the well’s mouth; then we water the
morning, and took the stone that he sheep. 9 While he was still speaking
had put under his head, and set it with them, Rachel came with her
up for a pillar, and poured oil on father’s sheep; for she kept them.
the top of it. 19 And he called the 10 And it came to pass, when Jacob
name of that place Beth-el: but the saw Rachel the daughter of Laban
name of the city was Luz at the first. his mother’s brother, and the sheep
20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, of Laban his mother’s brother, that
“If God will be with me, and will Jacob went near, and rolled the
keep me in this way that I go, and stone from the well’s mouth, and
will give me bread to eat, and cloth- watered the flock of Laban his
ing to put on, 21 so that I come mother’s brother. 11 And Jacob
again to my father’s house in peace, kissed Rachel, and lifted up his
and Jehovah will be my God, 22 voice, and wept. 12 And Jacob told
then this stone, which I have set up Rachel that he was her father’s
for a pillar, shall be God’s house: brother, and that he was Rebekah’s
and of all that you shall give me I son: and she ran and told her father.
will surely give the tenth to you.” 13 And it came to pass, when La-

29 Then Jacob went on his ban heard the tidings of Jacob his
journey, and came to the sister’s son, that he ran to meet him,
land of the children of the east. 2 and embraced him, and kissed him,
And he looked, and behold, a well and brought him to his house. And
in the field, and, Behold, three he told Laban all these things. 14
flocks of sheep lying there by it; for And Laban said to him, “Surely
out of that well they watered the you are my bone and my flesh.”
flocks: and the stone on the well’s And he stayed with him the space
mouth was great. 3 And there were of a month. 15 And Laban said to
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Jacob, “Because you are my brother, also to Rachel, and he loved also
should you therefore serve me for Rachel more than Leah, and served
nothing? tell me, what shall your with him still seven other years.
wages be?” 16 And Laban had two 31 And Jehovah saw that Leah
daughters: the name of the elder was hated, and he opened her
was Leah, and the name of the womb: but Rachel was barren. 32
younger was Rachel. 17 And Leah’s And Leah conceived, and bore a
eyes were tender; but Rachel was son, and she called his name Reu-
beautiful and well favored. 18 And ben: for she said, “Because Jehovah
Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, “I has looked on my affliction: for
will serve you seven years for now my husband will love me.” 33
Rachel your younger daughter.” 19 And she conceived again, and bore
And Laban said, “It is better that I a son: and said, “Because Jehovah
give her to you, than that I should has heard that I am hated, he has
give her to another man: stay with therefore given me this son also”:
me.” 20 And Jacob served seven and she called his name Simeon. 34
years for Rachel; and they seemed And she conceived again, and bore
to him but a few days, for the love a son; and said, “Now this time will
he had to her. my husband be joined to me, be-
21 And Jacob said to Laban, “Give cause I have borne him three sons”:
me my wife, for my days are ful- therefore was his name called Levi.
filled, that I may go in to her.” 22 35 And she conceived again, and
And Laban gathered together all bore a son: and she said, “This time
the men of the place, and made a will I praise Jehovah”: therefore she
feast. 23 And it came to pass in the called his name Judah; and she left
evening, that he took Leah his off bearing.
daughter, and brought her to him;
and he went in to her. 24 And Laban 30 And when Rachel saw that
she bore Jacob no children,
gave Zilpah his maidservant to his Rachel envied her sister; and she
daughter Leah for a maidservant. said to Jacob, “Give me children, or
25 And it came to pass in the morn- else I die.” 2 And Jacob’s anger was
ing that, behold, it was Leah: and kindled against Rachel: and he said,
he said to Laban, “What is this you “Am I in God’s place, who has
have done to me? did I not serve withheld from you the fruit of the
with you for Rachel? why then womb?” 3 And she said, “Behold,
have you deceived me?” 26 And my maid Bilhah, go in to her; that
Laban said, “It is not so done in our she may bear upon my knees, and I
place, to give the younger before also may obtain children by her.” 4
the firstborn. 27 Fulfill the week of And she gave him Bilhah her maid-
this one, and we will give you the servant to wife: and Jacob went in
other also for the service which you to her. 5 And Bilhah conceived, and
shall serve with me still seven other bore Jacob a son. 6 And Rachel said,
years.” 28 And Jacob did so, and “God has judged me, and has also
fulfilled her week: and he gave him heard my voice, and has given me a
Rachel his daughter to wife. 29 And son: therefore she called his name
Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Dan. 7 And Bilhah Rachel’s maid-
Bilhah his maidservant to be her servant conceived again, and bore
maidservant. 30 And he went in Jacob a second son. 8 And Rachel
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said, “With mighty wrestlings have afterwards she bore a daughter, and
I wrestled with my sister, and have called her name Dinah. 22 And God
prevailed”: and she called his name remembered Rachel, and God lis-
Naphtali. tened to her, and opened her
9 When Leah saw that she had left womb. 23 And she conceived, and
off bearing, she took Zilpah her bore a son: and said, “God has
maidservant, and gave her to Jacob taken away my reproach”: 24 and
to wife. 10 And Zilpah Leah’s maid- she called his name Joseph, saying,
servant bore Jacob a son. 11 And “Jehovah add to me another son.”
Leah said, “Fortunate!” and she 25 And it came to pass, when
called his name Gad. 12 And Zilpah Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob
Leah’s maidservant bore Jacob a said to Laban, “Send me away, that
second son. 13 And Leah said, I may go to my own place, and to
“Happy am I! for the daughters will my country. 26 Give me my wives
call me happy”: and she called his and my children for whom I have
name Asher. served you, and let me go: for you
14 And Reuben went in the days know my service with which I have
of wheat harvest, and found man- served you.” 27 And Laban said to
drakes in the field, and brought him, “If now I have found favor in
them to his mother Leah. Then your eyes, stay: for I have divined
Rachel said to Leah, “Give me, that Jehovah has blessed me for
please, of your son’s mandrakes.” your sake.” 28 And he said, “Ap-
15 And she said to her, “Is it a small point me your wages, and I will
matter that you have taken away give it.” 29 And he said to him,
my husband? and wouldest you “You know how I have served you,
take away my son’s mandrakes and how your cattle have fared
also?” And Rachel said, “Therefore with me. 30 For it was little which
he shall lie with you tonight for you had before I came, and it has
your son’s mandrakes.” 16 And Ja- increased to a multitude; and Jeho-
cob came from the field in the vah has blessed you wheresoever I
evening, and Leah went out to meet turned: and now when shall I pro-
him, and said, “You must come in vide for my own house also?” 31
to me; for I have surely hired you And he said, “What shall I give
with my son’s mandrakes.” And he you?” And Jacob said, “You shall
lay with her that night. 17 And God not give me anything: if you will do
listened to Leah, and she con- this thing for me, I will again feed
ceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son. your flock and keep it. 32 I will pass
18 And Leah said, “God has given through all your flock today, re-
me my wages, because I gave my moving from there every speckled
maidservant to my husband”: and and spotted one, and every black
she called his name Issachar. 19 one among the sheep, and the spot-
And Leah conceived again, and ted and speckled among the goats:
bore a sixth son to Jacob. 20 And and of such shall be my wages. 33 So
Leah said, “God has endowed me will my righteousness answer for
with a good dowry; now will my me after this, when you will come
husband dwell with me, because I concerning my wages that is before
have borne him six sons: and she you: every one that is not speckled
called his name Zebulun. 21 And and spotted among the goats, and
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black among the sheep, that if found
with me, shall be counted stolen.”
34 And Laban said, “Behold, I wish
31 And he heard the words of
Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob
has taken away all that was our fa-
it might be according to your ther’s; and of that which was our
word.” 35 And he removed that father’s has he gotten all this
day the male goats that were ring- glory.” 2 And Jacob beheld the
streaked and spotted, and all the fe- countenance of Laban, and, behold,
male goats that were speckled and it was not toward him as previ-
spotted, every one that had white ously. 3 And Jehovah said to Jacob,
in it, and all the black ones among “Return to the land of your fathers,
the sheep, and gave them into the and to your kindred; and I will be
hand of his sons; 36 and he set three with you.” 4 And Jacob sent and
days’ journey between himself and called Rachel and Leah to the field
Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of La- to his flock, 5 and said to them, “I
ban’s flocks. see your father’s countenance, that
37 And Jacob took rods of fresh it is not toward me as previously;
poplar, and of the almond and of but the God of my father has been
the plane tree; and peeled white with me. 6 And you know that with
streaks in them, and made the all my power I have served your fa-
white appear which was in the ther. 7 And your father has de-
rods. 38 And he set the rods which ceived me, and changed my wages
he had peeled opposite the flocks in ten times; but God did not allow
the gutters in the watering troughs him to hurt me. 8 If he said thus,
where the flocks came to drink; and ‘The speckled shall be your wages’;
they conceived when they came to then all the flock bore speckled: and
drink. 39 And the flocks conceived if he said thus, ‘The ring-streaked
before the rods, and the flocks shall be your wages’; then bore all
brought forth ring-streaked, speck- the flock ring-streaked. 9 Thus God
led, and spotted. 40 And Jacob sep- has taken away the cattle of your fa-
arated the lambs, and set the faces ther, and given them to me.” 10
of the flocks toward the ring- And it came to pass at the time that
streaked and all the black in the the flock conceived, that I lifted up
flock of Laban: and he put his own my eyes, and saw in a dream, and,
droves apart, and did not put them behold, the male goats which
to Laban’s flock. 41 And it came to leaped on the flock were ring-
pass, whensoever the stronger of streaked, speckled, and grizzled. 11
the flock conceived, that Jacob laid And the angel of God said to me in
the rods before the eyes of the flock the dream, ‘Jacob’: and I said, ‘Here
in the gutters, that they might con- am I.’ 12 And he said, ‘Lift up now
ceive among the rods; 42 but when your eyes, and see, all the male
the flock were feeble, he did not put goats which leap on the flock are
them in: so the feebler were La- ring-streaked, speckled, and griz-
ban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. 43 zled: for I have seen all that Laban
And the man increased exceed- does to you. 13 I am the God of
ingly, and had large flocks, and fe- Beth-el, where you anointed a pil-
male servants and male servants, lar, where you vowed a vow to me:
and camels and donkeys. now arise, get out from this land,
and return to the land of your na-
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tivity.’ ” 14 And Rachel and Leah sword? 27 Why did you flee se-
answered and said to him, “Is there cretly, and steal away from me, and
still any portion or inheritance for did not tell me, that I might have
us in our father’s house? 15 Are we sent you away with mirth and with
not accounted by him as foreign- songs, with tambourine and with
ers? for he has sold us, and has also harp; 28 and did not allow me to
quite devoured our money. 16 For kiss my sons and my daughters?
all the riches which God has taken now you have done foolishly. 29 It
away from our father, that is ours is in the power of my hand to do
and our children’s: now then, what- you hurt: but the God of your fa-
soever God has said to you, do.” ther spoke to me last night, saying,
17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his ‘Take heed to yourself that you do
sons and his wives on the camels; not speak to Jacob either good or
18 and he carried away all his cat- bad.’ 30 And now, though you
tle, and all his substance which he would be gone, because you se-
had gathered, the cattle of his get- verely longed after your father’s
ting, which he had gathered in Pad- house, yet why have you stolen my
dan-aram, to go to Isaac his father gods?” 31 And Jacob answered and
to the land of Canaan. 19 Now La- said to Laban, “Because I was
ban was gone to shear his sheep: afraid: for I said, ‘Lest you should
and Rachel stole the teraphim that take your daughters from me by
were her father’s. 20 And Jacob force.’ 32 With whomsoever you
stole away unawares to Laban the find your gods, he shall not live: be-
Syrian, in that he did not tell him fore our brethren discern what is
that he fled. 21 So he fled with all yours with me, and take it to you.”
that he had; and he rose up, and For Jacob did not know that Rachel
passed over the River, and set his had stolen them.
face toward the mountain of 33 And Laban went into Jacob’s
Gilead. tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into
22 And it was told Laban on the the tent of the two maidservants;
third day that Jacob had fled. 23 but he did not find them. And he
And he took his brethren with him, went out of Leah’s tent, and entered
and pursued after him seven days’ into Rachel’s tent. 34 Now Rachel
journey; and he overtook him in the had taken the teraphim, and put
mountain of Gilead. 24 And God them in the camel’s saddle, and sat
came to Laban the Syrian in a on them. And Laban felt about all
dream of the night, and said to him, the tent, but did not find them. 35
“Take heed to yourself that you do And she said to her father, “Do not
not speak to Jacob either good or let my lord be angry that I cannot
bad.” 25 And Laban came up with rise up before you; for the manner
Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his of women is upon me.” And he
tent in the mountain: and Laban searched, but did not find the
with his brethren encamped in the teraphim.
mountain of Gilead. 26 And Laban 36 And Jacob was angry, and
said to Jacob, “What have you chided with Laban: and Jacob an-
done, that you have stolen away swered and said to Laban, “What is
unawares to me, and carried away my trespass? what is my sin, that
my daughters as captives of the you have hotly pursued after me?
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37 Although you have felt about all between me and you this day.”
my stuff, what have you found of Therefore was the name of it called
all my household stuff? Set it here Galeed: 49 and Mizpah, for he said,
before my brethren and your “Jehovah watch between me and
brethren, that they may judge be- you, when we are absent one from
tween us two. 38 These twenty another. 50 If you shall afflict my
years have I been with you; your daughters, and if thou shall take
ewes and your female goats have wives besides my daughters, no
not cast their young, and the rams man is with us; see, God is witness
of your flocks I have not eaten. 39 between me and you.” 51 And La-
That which was torn of beasts I did ban said to Jacob, “Behold this
not bring to you; I bore the loss of it; heap, and behold the pillar, which I
of my hand did you require it, have set between me and you. 52
whether stolen by day or stolen by This heap be witness, and the pillar
night. 40 Thus I was; in the day the be witness, that I will not pass over
drought consumed me, and the this heap to you, and that you will
frost by night; and my sleep fled not pass over this heap and this pil-
from my eyes. 41 These twenty lar to me, for harm. 53 The God of
years have I been in your house; I Abraham, and the God of Nahor,
served you fourteen years for your the God of their father, judge be-
two daughters, and six years for tween us.” And Jacob wore by the
your flock: and you have changed Fear of his father Isaac. 54 And Ja-
my wages ten times. 42 Except the cob offered a sacrifice in the moun-
God of my father, the God of Abra- tain, and called his brethren to eat
ham, and the Fear of Isaac, had bread: and they ate bread, and
been with me, surely now had you stayed all night in the mountain. 55
sent me away empty. God has seen And early in the morning Laban
my affliction and the labor of my rose up, and kissed his sons and his
hands, and rebuked you last night.” daughters, and blessed them: and
43 And Laban answered and said Laban departed and returned to his
to Jacob, “The daughters are my place.
daughters, and the children are my
children, and the flocks are my 32 And Jacob went on his
way, and the angels of God
flocks, and all that you see is mine: met him. 2 And Jacob said when he
and what can I do this day to these saw them, “This is God’s host”: and
my daughters, or to their children he called the name of that place Ma-
whom they have borne? 44 And hanaim.
now come, let us make a covenant, 3 And Jacob sent messengers be-
I and you; and let it be for a witness fore him to Esau his brother to the
between me and you.” 45 And Ja- land of Seir, the field of Edom. 4
cob took a stone, and set it up for a And he commanded them, saying,
pillar. 46 And Jacob said to his “Thus shall you say to my lord
brethren, “Gather stones”; and they Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Ja-
took stones, and made a heap: and cob, “I have sojourned with Laban,
they are there by the heap. 47 And and stayed until now: 5 and I have
Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha: oxen, and donkeys, and flocks, and
but Jacob called it Galeed. 48 And male servants, and maidservants:
Laban said, “This heap is witness and I have sent to tell my lord, that
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I may find favor in your sight.” ’ ” 6 manded the foremost, saying,
And the messengers returned to Ja- “When Esau my brother meets you,
cob, saying, “We came to your and asks your, saying, ‘Whose are
brother Esau, and moreover he you? and where are you going? and
comes to meet you, and four hun- whose are these before your?’ 18
dred men with him.” 7 Then Jacob then you shall say ‘They are your
was greatly afraid and was dis- servant Jacob’s; it is a present sent
tressed: and he divided the people to my lord Esau: and, behold, he
who were with him, and the flocks, also is behind us.’ ” 19 And he com-
and the herds, and the camels, into manded also the second, and the
two companies; 8 and he said, “If third, and all who followed the
Esau comes to the one company, droves, saying, “On this manner
and strikes it, then the company shall you speak to Esau, when you
which is left will escape.” 9 And Ja- find him; 20 and you shall say,
cob said, “O God of my father ‘Moreover, behold, your servant Ja-
Abraham, and God of my father cob is behind us.’ ” For he said, “I
Isaac, O Jehovah, who said to me, will appease him with the present
‘Return to your country, and to that goes before me, and afterward
your kindred, and I will do you I will see his face; perhaps he will
good’: 10 I am not worthy of the accept me.” 21 So the present
least of all the lovingkindnesses, passed over before him: and he
and of all the truth, which you have himself lodged that night in the
shown to your servant; for with my company.
staff I passed over this Jordan; and 22 And he rose up that night, and
now I am become two companies. took his two wives, and his two
11 Deliver me, please, from the maidservants, and his eleven chil-
hand of my brother, from the hand dren, and passed over the ford of
of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come the Jabbok. 23 And he took them,
and strike me, the mother with the and sent them over the stream, and
children. 12 And you said, ‘I will sent over that which he had. 24 And
surely do you good, and make your Jacob was left alone; and there
seed as the sand of the sea, which wrestled a man with him until the
cannot be numbered for multi- breaking of the day. 25 And when
tude.’ ” he saw that he did not prevail
13 And he lodged there that night, against him, he touched the hollow
and took of that which he had with of his thigh; and the hollow of Ja-
him a present for Esau his brother: cob’s thigh was strained, as he
14 two hundred female goats and wrestled with him. 26 And he said,
twenty male goats, two hundred “Let me go, for the day breaks.”
ewes and twenty rams, 15 thirty And he said, “I will not let your go,
milch camels and their colts, forty except you bless me.” 27 And he
cows and ten bulls, twenty female said to him, “What is your name?”
donkeys and ten foals. 16 And he And he said, “Jacob.” 28 And he
delivered them into the hand of his said, “Your name shall be called no
servants, every drove by itself, and more Jacob, but Israel: for you have
said to his servants, "Pass over be- striven with God and with men,
fore me, and put a space between and have prevailed.” 29 And Jacob
drove and drove.” 17 And he com- asked him, and said, “Tell me,
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please, your name.” And he said, brother; let that which you have be
“Why is it that you ask after my yours.” 10 And Jacob said, “No,
name?” And he blessed him there. please, if now I have found favor in
30 And Jacob called the name of the your sight, then receive my present
place Peniel: for, he said, “I have at my hand; forasmuch as I have
seen God face to face, and my life is seen your face, as one sees the face
preserved.” 31 And the sun rose of God, and you were pleased with
upon him as he passed over Penuel, me. 11 Take, please, my gift that is
and he limped on his thigh. 32 brought to you; because God has
Therefore the children of Israel do dealt graciously with me, and be-
not eat the sinew of the hip which is cause I have enough.” And he
on the hollow of the thigh, to this urged him, and he took it. 12 And
day: because he touched the hollow he said, “Let us take our journey,
of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the and let us go, and I will go before
hip. you.” 13 And he said to him, “My

33 And Jacob lifted up his lord knows that the children are
eyes, and looked, and, be- tender, and that the flocks and
hold, Esau was coming, and with herds with me have their young:
him four hundred men. And he di- and if they overdrive them one day,
vided the children to Leah, and to all the flocks will die. 14 Let my
Rachel, and to the two maidser- lord, please, pass over before his
vants. 2 And he put the maidser- servant: and I will lead on gently,
vants and their children first, and according to the pace of the cattle
Leah and her children after, and that are before me and according to
Rachel and Joseph last. 3 And he the pace of the children, until I
himself passed over before them, come to my lord to Seir.” 15 And
and bowed himself to the ground Esau said, “Let me now leave with
seven times, until he came near to you some of the folk who are with
his brother. 4 And Esau ran to meet me.” And he said, “What needs it?
him, and embraced him, and fell on let me find favor in the sight of my
his neck, and kissed him: and they lord.” 16 So Esau returned that day
wept. 5 And he lifted up his eyes, on his way to Seir. 17 And Jacob
and saw the women and the chil- journeyed to Succoth, and built
dren; and said, “Who are these with himself a house, and made booths
you?” And he said, “The children for his cattle: therefore the name of
whom God has graciously given the place is called Succoth.
your servant.” 6 Then the maidser- 18 And Jacob came in peace to the
vants came near, they and their city of Shechem, which is in the
children, and they bowed them- land of Canaan, when he came
selves. 7 And Leah also and her from Paddan-aram; and encamped
children came near, and bowed before the city. 19 And he bought
themselves: and after came Joseph the parcel of ground, where he had
near and Rachel, and they bowed spread his tent, at the hand of the
themselves. 8 And he said, “What children of Hamor, Shechem’s fa-
do you mean by all this company ther, for a hundred pieces of money.
which I met?” And he said, “To find 20 And he erected there an altar,
favor in the sight of my lord.” 9 and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
And Esau said, “I have enough, my
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34 And Dinah the daughter of not do this thing, to give our sister
Leah, whom she bore to Ja- to one who is uncircumcised; for
cob, went out to see the daughters that would be a reproach to us. 15
of the land. 2 And Shechem the son Only on this condition will we con-
of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of sent to you: if you will be as we are,
the land, saw her; and he took her, that every male of you be circum-
and lay with her, and humbled her. cised; 16 then will we give our
3 And his soul cleaved to Dinah the daughters to you, and we will take
daughter of Jacob, and he loved the your daughters to us, and we will
young woman, and spoke kindly to dwell with you, and we will be-
the young woman. 4 And Shechem come one people. 17 But if you will
spoke to his father Hamor, saying, not listen to us, to be circumcised;
“Get me this young woman to then will we take our daughter, and
wife.” 5 Now Jacob heard that he we will be gone.”
had defiled Dinah his daughter; 18 And their words pleased
and his sons were with his cattle in Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.
the field: and Jacob held his peace 19 And the young man did not de-
until they came. 6 And Hamor the fer to do the thing, because he had
father of Shechem went out to Jacob delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he
to commune with him. 7 And the was honored above all the house of
sons of Jacob came in from the field his father. 20 And Hamor and
when they heard it: and the men Shechem his son came to the gate of
were grieved, and they were very their city, and communed with the
angry, because he had worked folly men of their city, saying, 21 “These
in Israel in lying with Jacob’s men are peaceable with us; there-
daughter; which ought not to be fore let them dwell in the land, and
done. 8 And Hamor communed trade in it; for, behold, the land is
with them, saying, “The soul of my large enough for them; let us take
son Shechem longs for your daugh- their daughters to us for wives, and
ter: please, give her to him to wife. let us give them our daughters. 22
9 And make marriages with us; Only on this condition will the men
give your daughters to us, and take consent to us to dwell with us, to
our daughters to you. 10 And you become one people, if every male
shall dwell with us: and the land among us be circumcised, as they
shall be before you; dwell and trade are circumcised. 23 Will not their
in it, and get possessions in it.” 11 cattle and their substance and all
And Shechem said to her father and their beasts be ours? only let us con-
to her brothers, “Let me find favor sent to them, and they will dwell
in your eyes, and what you will say with us.” 24 And to Hamor and to
to me I will give. 12 Ask me never Shechem his son listened all who
so much dowry and gift, and I will went out of the gate of his city; and
give according as you will say to every male was circumcised, all
me: but give me the young woman who went out of the gate of his city.
to wife.” 13 And the sons of Jacob 25 And it came to pass on the third
answered Shechem and Hamor his day, when they were sore, that two
father with deceit, and spoke, be- of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and
cause he had defiled Dinah their Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took each
sister, 14 and said to them, “We can- man his sword, and came upon the
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city unawares, and slew all the around them, and they did not pur-
males. 26 And they slew Hamor sue after the sons of Jacob. 6 So Ja-
and Shechem his son with the edge cob came to Luz, which is in the
of the sword, and took Dinah out of land of Canaan (the same is Beth-
Shechem’s house, and went forth. el), he and all the people who were
27 The sons of Jacob came upon the with him. 7 And he built there an
slain, and plundered the city, be- altar, and called the place El-beth-
cause they had defiled their sister. el; because there God was revealed
28 They took their flocks and their to him, when he fled from the face
herds and their donkeys, and that of his brother. 8 And Deborah Re-
which was in the city, and that bekah’s nurse died, and she was
which was in the field; 29 and all buried below Beth-el under the
their wealth, and all their little ones oak: and the name of it was called
and their wives, they took captive Allon-bacuth.
and made a prey, even all who were 9 And God appeared to Jacob
in the house. 30 And Jacob said to again, when he came from Paddan-
Simeon and Levi, “You have trou- aram, and blessed him. 10 And God
bled me, to make me odious to the said to him, “Your name is Jacob:
inhabitants of the land, among the your name shall not be called any-
Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, more Jacob, but Israel shall be your
I being few in number, they will name”: and he called his name Is-
gather themselves together against rael. 11 And God said to him, “I am
me and strike me; and I shall be de- God Almighty: be fruitful and mul-
stroyed, I and my house.” 31 And tiply; a nation and a company of na-
they said, “Should he deal with our tions shall be of you, and kings
sister as with a harlot?” shall come out of your loins; 12 and
And God said to Jacob, the land which I gave to Abraham
35 “Arise, go up to Beth-el, and and Isaac, to you I will give it, and
dwell there: and make there an al- to your seed after you will I give the
tar to God, who appeared to you land.” 13 And God went up from
when you fled from the face of Esau him in the place where he spoke
your brother.” 2 Then Jacob said to with him. 14 And Jacob set up a pil-
his household, and to all who were lar in the place where he spoke with
with him, “Put away the foreign him, a pillar of stone: and he
gods that are among you, and pu- poured out a drink offering on it,
rify yourselves, and change your and poured oil on it. 15 And Jacob
garments: 3 and let us arise, and go called the name of the place where
up to Beth-el; and I will make there God spoke with him, Beth-el.
an altar to God, who answered me 16 And they journeyed from Beth-
in the day of my distress, and was el; and there was still some distance
with me in the way which I went.” to come to Ephrath: and Rachel tra-
4 And they gave to Jacob all the for- vailed, and she had hard labor. 17
eign gods which were in their hand, And it came to pass, when she was
and the rings which were in their in hard labor, that the midwife said
ears; and Jacob hid them under the to her, “Do not fear; for now you
oak which was by Shechem. 5 And will have another son.” 18 And it
they journeyed: and a terror of God came to pass, as her soul was de-
was upon the cities that were all parting (for she died), that she
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called his name Ben-oni: but his fa- are the sons of Esau, who were born
ther called him Benjamin. 19 And to him in the land of Canaan. 6 And
Rachel died, and was buried in the Esau took his wives, and his sons,
way to Ephrath (the same is Beth- and his daughters, and all the souls
lehem). 20 And Jacob set up a pillar of his house, and his cattle, and all
on her grave: the same is the Pillar his beasts, and all his possessions,
of Rachel’s grave to this day. 21 which he had gathered in the land
And Israel journeyed, and spread of Canaan; and went into a land
his tent beyond the tower of Eder. away from his brother Jacob. 7 For
22 And it came to pass, while Israel their substance was too great for
dwelt in that land, that Reuben them to dwell together; and the
went and lay with Bilhah his fa- land of their sojournings could not
ther’s concubine: and Israel heard bear them because of their cattle. 8
of it. And Esau dwelt in Mount Seir:
Now the sons of Jacob were Esau is Edom.
twelve: 23 the sons of Leah: 9 And these are the generations of
Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Esau the father of the Edomites in
Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Mount Seir: 10 these are the names
Issachar, and Zebulun; 24 the sons of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz the son of
of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; 25 Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the
and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s son of Basemath the wife of Esau.
handmaid: Dan and Naphtali; 26 11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Te-
and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s man, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam,
handmaid: Gad and Asher: these and Kenaz. 12 And Timna was con-
are the sons of Jacob, who were cubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son; and
born to him in Paddan-aram. 27 she bore to Eliphaz Amalek: these
And Jacob came to Isaac his father are the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife.
to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (the same 13 And these are the sons of Reuel:
is Hebron), where Abraham and Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and
Isaac sojourned. Mizzah: these were the sons of
28 And the days of Isaac were a Basemath, Esau’s wife. 14 And
hundred and eighty years. 29 And these were the sons of Oholibamah
Isaac breathed his last, and died, the daughter of Anah, the daughter
and was gathered to his people, old of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: and she bore
and full of days: and Esau and Ja- to Esau Jeush, and Jalam, and Ko-
cob his sons buried him. rah.

36 Now these are the genera- 15 These are the chiefs of the sons
tions of Esau (the same is of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the
Edom). 2 Esau took his wives of the firstborn of Esau: Chief Teman,
daughters of Canaan: Adah the Chief Omar, Chief Zepho, Chief Ke-
daughter of Elon the Hittite, and naz, 16 Chief Korah, Chief Gatam,
Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Chief Amalek: these are the chiefs
the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, 3 who came of Eliphaz in the land of
and Basemath Ishmael’s daughter, Edom; these are the sons of Adah.
sister of Nebaioth. 4 And Adah bore 17 And these are the sons of Reuel,
to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Esau’s son: Chief Nahath, Chief
Reuel; 5 and Oholibamah bore Zerah, Chief Shammah, Chief Miz-
Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah: these zah: these are the chiefs who came
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of Reuel in the land of Edom; these the name of his city was Dinhabah.
are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s 33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son
wife. 18 And these are the sons of of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his
Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: Chief place. 34 And Jobab died, and
Jeush, Chief Jalam, Chief Korah: Husham of the land of the Teman-
these are the chiefs who came of ites reigned in his place. 35 And
Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Husham died, and Hadad the son
Esau’s wife. 19 These are the sons of of Bedad, who struck Midian in the
Esau, and these are their chiefs: the field of Moab, reigned in his place:
same is Edom. and the name of his city was Avith.
20 These are the sons of Seir the 36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of
Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Masrekah reigned in his place. 37
Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and And Samlah died, and Shaul of Re-
Anah, 21 and Dishon and Ezer and hoboth by the River reigned in his
Dishan: these are the chiefs who place. 38 And Shaul died, and Baal-
came of the Horites, the children of hanan the son of Achbor reigned in
Seir in the land of Edom. 22 And the his place. 39 And Baal-hanan the
children of Lotan were Hori and son of Achbor died, and Hadar
Heman; and Lotan’s sister was reigned in his place: and the name
Timna. 23 And these are the chil- of his city was Pau; and his wife’s
dren of Shobal: Alvan and Mana- name was Mehetabel, the daughter
hath and Ebal, Shepho and Onam. of Matred, the daughter of Me-za-
24 And these are the children of hab.
Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; this is 40 And these are the names of the
Anah who found the hot springs in chiefs who came of Esau, according
the wilderness, as he fed the don- to their families, after their places,
keys of Zibeon his father. 25 And by their names: Chief Timna, Chief
these are the children of Anah: Dis- Alvah, Chief Jetheth, 41 Cheif
hon and Oholibamah the daughter Oholibamah, Chief Elah, Chief
of Anah. 26 And these are the chil- Pinon, 42 Chief Kenaz, Chief Te-
dren of Dishon: Hemdan and Esh- man, Chief Mibzar, 43 Chief
ban and Ithran and Cheran. 27 Magdiel, Chief Iram: these are the
These are the children of Ezer: Bil- chiefs of Edom, according to their
han and Zaavan and Akan. 28 habitations in the land of their pos-
These are the children of Dishan: session. This is Esau, the father of
Uz and Aran. 29 These are the the Edomites.
chiefs who came of the Horites:
Chief Lotan, Chief Shobal, Chief 37 And Jacob dwelt in the
land of his father’s sojourn-
Zibeon, Chief Anah, 30 Chief Dis- ings, in the land of Canaan. 2 These
hon, Chief Ezer, Chief Dishan: these are the generations of Jacob. Joseph,
are the chiefs who came of the being seventeen years old, was
Horites, according to their chiefs in feeding the flock with his brothers;
the land of Seir. and he was a lad with the sons of
31 And these are the kings who Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah,
reigned in the land of Edom, before his father’s wives: and Joseph
there reigned any king over the brought the evil report of them to
children of Israel. 32 And Bela the their father. 3 Now Israel loved
son of Beor reigned in Edom; and Joseph more than all his children,
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because he was the son of his old again.” So he sent him out of the
age: and he made him a coat of vale of Hebron, and he came to
many colors. 4 And his brothers Shechem. 15 And a certain man
saw that their father loved him found him, and, behold, he was
more than all his brothers; and they wandering in the field: and the man
hated him, and could not speak asked him, saying, “What do you
peaceably to him. seek?” 16 And he said, “I am seek-
5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, ing my brothers: tell me, please,
and he told it to his brethren: and where they are feeding the flock.” 17
they hated him yet the more. 6 And And the man said, “They have de-
he said to them, “Hear, please, this parted from here; for I heard them
dream which I have dreamed: 7 for, say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’ ” And
behold, we were binding sheaves in Joseph went after his brothers, and
the field, and, behold, my sheaf found them in Dothan.
arose, and also stood upright; and, 18 And they saw him afar off, and
behold, your sheaves came all before he came near to them, they
around, and made obeisance to my conspired against him to slay him.
sheaf. 8 And his brothers said to 19 And they said to one another,
him, “Shall you indeed reign over “Behold, this dreamer comes. 20
us? or shall you indeed have do- Come now therefore, and let us slay
minion over us?” And they hated him, and cast him into one of the
him yet the more for his dreams, pits, and we will say, ‘An evil beast
and for his words. 9 And he has devoured him’: and we shall
dreamed yet another dream, and see what will become of his
told it to his brethren, and said, dreams.” 21 And Reuben heard it,
“Behold, I have dreamed again a and delivered him out of their
dream: and, behold, the sun and the hand, and said, “Let us not take his
moon and eleven stars made obei- life.” 22 And Reuben said to them,
sance to me.” 10 And he told it to “Shed no blood; cast him into this
his father, and to his brothers; and pit that is in the wilderness, but lay
his father rebuked him, and said to no hand on him”: that he might de-
him, “What is this dream that you liver him out of their hand, to re-
have dreamed? Shall I and your store him to his father. 23 And it
mother and your brothers indeed came to pass, when Joseph had
come to bow down ourselves to come to his brothers, that they
you to the earth?” 11 And his broth- stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat
ers envied him; but his father kept of many colors that was on him; 24
the saying in mind. and they took him, and cast him
12 And his brothers went to feed into the pit: and the pit was empty,
their father’s flock in Shechem. 13 there was no water in it.
And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not 25 And they sat down to eat
your brothers feeding the flock in bread: and they lifted up their eyes
Shechem? come, and I will send and looked, and, behold, a caravan
you to them.” And he said to him, of Ishmaelites was coming from
“Here am I.” 14 And he said to him, Gilead, with their camels bearing
“Go now, see whether it is well spices and balm and myrrh, going
with your brothers, and well with to carry it down to Egypt. 26 And
the flock; and bring me word Judah said to his brothers, “What
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profit is it if we slay our brother and her, and went in to her. 3 And she
conceal his blood? 27 Come, and let conceived, and bore a son; and he
us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and called his name Er. 4 And she con-
let not our hand be upon him; for ceived again, and bore a son; and
he is our brother, our flesh.” And she called his name Onan. 5 And
his brothers listened to him. 28 And she yet again bore a son, and called
there passed by Midianites, mer- his name Shelah: and he was in
chantmen; and they drew and lifted Chezib, when she bore him. 6 And
up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Judah took a wife for Er his first-
Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty born, and her name was Tamar. 7
pieces of silver. And they brought And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was
Joseph into Egypt. wicked in the sight of Jehovah; and
29 And Reuben returned to the Jehovah slew him. 8 And Judah
pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in said to Onan, “Go in to your
the pit; and he tore his clothes. 30 brother’s wife, and perform the
And he returned to his brethren, duty of a husband’s brother to her,
and said, “The child is not; and I, and raise up seed to your brother.”
where shall I go?” 31 And they took 9 And Onan knew that the seed
Joseph’s coat, and killed a male would not be his; and it came to
goat, and dipped the coat in the pass, when he went in to his
blood; 32 and they sent the coat of brother’s wife, that he spilled it on
many colors, and they brought it to the ground, lest he should give seed
their father, and said, “This have to his brother. 10 And the thing
we found: know now whether it is which he did was evil in the sight of
your son’s coat or not.” 33 And he Jehovah: and he slew him also. 11
knew it, and said, “It is my son’s Then said Judah to Tamar his
coat: an evil beast has devoured daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow
him; Joseph is without doubt torn in your father’s house, until Shelah
in pieces.” 34 And Jacob tore his my son is grown up; for he said,
garments, and put sackcloth upon “Lest he also die, like his brothers.”
his loins, and mourned for his son And Tamar went and dwelt in her
many days. 35 And all his sons and father’s house.
all his daughters rose up to comfort 12 And in process of time Shua’s
him; but he refused to be com- daughter, the wife of Judah, died;
forted; and he said, “For I will go and Judah was comforted, and
down to Sheol to my son mourn- went up to his sheepshearers to
ing.” And his father wept for him. Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the
36 And the Midianites sold him into Adullamite. 13 And it was told
Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Tamar, saying, “Behold, your fa-
Pharaoh’s, the captain of the ther-in-law goes up to Timnah to
guard. shear his sheep. 14 And she put off

38 And it came to pass at that from her the garments of her wid-
time, that Judah went down owhood, and covered herself with
from his brothers, and turned in to her veil, and wrapped herself, and
a certain Adullamite, whose name sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by
was Hirah. 2 And Judah saw there the way to Timnah; for she saw that
a daughter of a certain Canaanite Shelah was grown up, and she was
whose name was Shua; and he took not given to him to wife. 15 When
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Judah saw her, he thought her to be are, am I with child”: and she said,
a harlot; for she had covered her “Discern, please, whose are these,
face. 16 And he turned to her by the the signet, and the cords, and the
way, and said, “Come, please, let staff.” 26 And Judah acknowledged
me come in to you”: for he did not them, and said, “She is more right-
know that she was his daughter-in- eous than I; because I did not give
law. And she said, “What will you her to Shelah my son.” And he
give me, that you may come in to knew her again no more. 27 And it
me?” 17 And he said, “I will send came to pass in the time of her tra-
you a kid of the goats from the vail, that, behold, twins were in her
flock.” And she said, “Will you give womb. 28 And it came to pass,
me a pledge, until you send it?” 18 when she travailed, that one put
And he said, “What pledge shall I out a hand: and the midwife took
give you?” And she said, “Your and bound upon his hand a scarlet
signet and your cord, and your staff thread, saying, “This came out
that is in your hand.” And he gave first.” 29 And it came to pass, as he
them to her, and came in to her, and drew back his hand, that, behold,
she conceived by him. 19 And she his brother came out: and she said,
arose, and went away, and put off “Why have you made a breach for
her veil from her, and put on the yourself?” therefore his name was
garments of her widowhood. 20 called Perez. 30 And afterward
And Judah sent the kid of the goats came out his brother, who had the
by the hand of his friend the Adul- scarlet thread on his hand: and his
lamite, to receive the pledge from name was called Zerah.
the woman’s hand: but he did not
find her. 21 Then he asked the men 39 And Joseph was brought
down to Egypt; and
of her place, saying, “Where is the Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s,
prostitute, who was at Enaim by the captain of the guard, an Egyp-
the wayside?” And they said, tian, bought him from the hand of
“There has been no prostitute the Ishmaelites, who had brought
here.” 22 And he returned to Judah, him down there. 2 And Jehovah
and said, “I have not found her; was with Joseph, and he was a
and also the men of the place said, prosperous man; and he was in the
‘There has been no prostitute here.’ house of his master the Egyptian. 3
” 23 And Judah said, “Let her take And his master saw that Jehovah
it for herself, lest we be put to was with him, and that Jehovah
shame: behold, I sent this kid, and made all that he did to prosper in
you have not found her.” his hand. 4 And Joseph found favor
24 And it came to pass about three in his sight, and he ministered to
months after, that it was told Judah, him: and he made him overseer
saying, “Tamar your daughter-in- over his house, and all that he had
law has played the harlot; and he put into his hand. 5 And it came
moreover, behold, she is with child to pass from the time that he made
by whoredom.” And Judah said, him overseer in his house, and over
“Bring her forth, and let her be all that he had, that Jehovah blessed
burnt.” 25 When she was brought the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s
forth, she sent to her father-in-law, sake; and the blessing of Jehovah
saying, “By the man, whose these was on all that he had, in the house
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and in the field. 6 And he left all me to mock me: 18 and it came to
that he had in Joseph’s hand; and pass, as I lifted up my voice and
he did not know anything that was cried, that he left his garment by
with him, except the bread which me, and fled out.”
he ate. And Joseph was handsome, 19 And it came to pass, when his
and well-favored. master heard the words of his wife,
7 And it came to pass after these which she spoke to him, saying,
things, that his master’s wife cast “After this manner did your ser-
her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, vant to me”; that his wrath was kin-
“Lie with me.” 8 But he refused, dled. 20 And Joseph’s master took
and said to his master’s wife, “Be- him, and put him into the prison,
hold, my master does not know the place where the king’s prison-
what is with me in the house, and ers were bound: and he was there in
he has put all that he has into my the prison. 21 But Jehovah was with
hand: 9 he is not greater in this Joseph, and showed kindness to
house than I; neither has he kept him, and gave him favor in the
back anything from me but you, be- sight of the keeper of the prison. 22
cause you are his wife: how then And the keeper of the prison com-
can I do this great wickedness, and mitted to Joseph’s hand all the pris-
sin against God?” 10 And it came to oners who were in the prison; and
pass, as she spoke to Joseph day by whatsoever they did there, he was
day, that he did not listen to her, to the doer of it. 23 The keeper of the
lie by her, or to be with her. 11 And prison did not look to anything that
it came to pass about this time, that was under his hand, because Jeho-
he went into the house to do his vah was with him; and that which
work; and there were none of the he did, Jehovah made it to prosper.
men of the house there within. 12
And she caught him by his gar-
ment, saying, “Lie with me”: and 40 And it came to pass after
these things, that the butler
he left his garment in her hand, and of the king of Egypt and his baker
fled, and got out. 13 And it came to offended their lord the king of
pass, when she saw that he had left Egypt. 2 And Pharaoh was angry
his garment in her hand, and had against his two officers, against the
fled forth, 14 that she called to the chief of the butlers, and against the
men of her house, and spoke to chief of the bakers. 3 And he put
them, saying, “See, he has brought them in custody in the house of the
in a Hebrew to us to mock us: he captain of the guard, into the
came in to me to lie with me, and I prison, the place where Joseph was
cried with a loud voice: 15 and it bound. 4 And the captain of the
came to pass, when he heard that I guard charged Joseph with them,
lifted up my voice and cried, that and he ministered to them: and
he left his garment by me, and fled, they continued a season in custody.
and got out.” 16 And she laid up his 5 And they dreamed a dream both
garment by her, until his master of them, each man his dream, in
came home. 17 And she spoke to one night, each man according to
him according to these words, say- the interpretation of his dream, the
ing, “The Hebrew servant, whom butler and the baker of the king of
you have brought to us, came in to Egypt, who were bound in the
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prison. 6 And Joseph came in to all manner of baked food for
them in the morning, and saw Pharaoh; and the birds ate them out
them, and, behold, they were sad. 7 of the basket on my head.” 18 And
And he asked Pharaoh’s officers Joseph answered and said, “This is
who were with him in custody in the interpretation of it: the three
his master’s house, saying, “Why baskets are three days; 19 within
do you look so sad to-day?” 8 And yet three days will Pharaoh lift up
they said to him, “We have your head from off you, and will
dreamed a dream, and there is none hang you on a tree; and the birds
who can interpret it.” And Joseph will eat your flesh from off you.” 20
said to them, “Do not interpreta- And it came to pass the third day,
tions belong to God? tell them to which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that
me, please.” he made a feast to all his servants:
9 And the chief butler told his and he lifted up the head of the
dream to Joseph, and said to him, chief butler and the head of the
“In my dream, behold, a vine was chief baker among his servants. 21
before me; 10 and in the vine were And he restored the chief butler to
three branches: and it was as his butlership again; and he gave
though it budded, and its blossoms the cup into Pharaoh’s hand: 22 but
shot forth; and the clusters of it he hanged the chief baker: as
brought forth ripe grapes: 11 and Joseph had interpreted to them. 23
Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and Yet did not the chief butler remem-
I took the grapes, and pressed them ber Joseph, but forgot him.
into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the
cup into Pharaoh’s hand.” 12 And 41 And it came to pass at the
end of two full years, that
Joseph said to him, “This is the in- Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he
terpretation of it: the three branches stood by the river. 2 And, behold,
are three days; 13 within yet three there came up out of the river seven
days will Pharaoh lift up your cows, well-favored and fat-fleshed;
head, and restore you to your office: and they fed in the reed grass. 3
and you will give Pharaoh’s cup And, behold, seven other cows
into his hand, after the former man- came up after them out of the river,
ner when you were his butler. 14 ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and
But have me in your remembrance stood by the other cows on the
when it shall be well with you, and brink of the river. 4 And the ill-fa-
show kindness, please, to me, and vored and lean-fleshed kine ate up
make mention of me to Pharaoh, the seven well-favored and fat
and bring me out of this house: 15 cows. So Pharaoh awoke. 5 And he
for indeed I was stolen away out of slept and dreamed a second time:
the land of the Hebrews: and here and, behold, seven ears of grain
also have I done nothing that they came up on one stalk, fat and good.
should put me into the dungeon.” 6 And, behold, seven ears, thin and
16 When the chief baker saw that blasted with the east wind, sprung
the interpretation was good, he said up after them. 7 And the thin ears
to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, swallowed up the seven fat and full
and, behold, three baskets of white ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, be-
bread were on my head: 17 and in hold, it was a dream. 8 And it came
the uppermost basket there was of to pass in the morning that his
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spirit was troubled; and he sent and all the land of Egypt for ugliness: 20
called for all the magicians of and the lean and ill-favored cows
Egypt, and all the wise men of it: ate up the first seven fat cows: 21
and Pharaoh told them his dream; and when they had eaten them up,
but there was none who could in- it could not be known that they had
terpret them to Pharaoh. eaten them; but they were still ill-
9 Then spoke the chief butler to favored, as at the beginning. So I
Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my awoke. 22 And I saw in my dream,
faults this day: 10 Pharaoh was an- and, behold, seven ears came up
gry with his servants, and put me in upon one stalk, full and good: 23
custody in the house of the captain and, behold, seven ears, withered,
of the guard, me and the chief bak- thin, and blasted with the east wind,
er: 11 and we dreamed a dream in sprung up after them: 24 and the
one night, I and he; we dreamed thin ears swallowed up the seven
each man according to the interpre- good ears: and I told it to the magi-
tation of his dream. 12 And there cians; but there was none who
was with us there a young man, a could declare it to me.”
Hebrew, servant to the captain of 25 And Joseph said to Pharaoh,
the guard; and we told him, and he “The dream of Pharaoh is one: what
interpreted to us our dreams; to God is about to do he has declared
each man according to his dream he to Pharaoh. 26 The seven good
interpreted. 13 And it came to pass, cows are seven years; and the seven
as he interpreted to us, so it was; me good ears are seven years: the
he restored to my office, and him he dream is one. 27 And the seven lean
hanged.” and ill-favored cows that came up
14 Then Pharaoh sent and called after them are seven years, and also
Joseph, and they brought him the seven empty ears blasted with
hastily out of the dungeon: and he the east wind; they shall be seven
shaved himself, and changed his years of famine. 28 That is the thing
clothing, and came in to Pharaoh. which I spoke to Pharaoh: what
15 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I God is about to do he has shown to
have dreamed a dream, and there is Pharaoh. 29 Behold, there come
none who can interpret it: and I seven years of great plenty
have heard say of you, that when throughout all the land of Egypt: 30
you hear a dream you can interpret and there shall arise after them
it.” 16 And Joseph answered seven years of famine; and all the
Pharaoh, saying, “It is not in me: plenty shall be forgotten in the land
God will give Pharaoh an answer of of Egypt; and the famine shall con-
peace.” 17 And Pharaoh spoke to sume the land; 31 and the plenty
Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I shall not be known in the land by
stood on the brink of the river: 18 reason of that famine which fol-
and, behold, there came up out of lows; for it shall be very grievous.
the river seven cows, fat-fleshed 32 And for that the dream was dou-
and well-favored: and they fed in bled to Pharaoh, it is because the
the reed grass: 19 and, behold, thing is established by God, and
seven other cows came up after God will shortly bring it to pass. 33
them, poor and very ill-favored and Now therefore let Pharaoh select
lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in out a man discreet and wise, and
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set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Egypt.
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him ap- 46 And Joseph was thirty years
point overseers over the land, and old when he stood before Pharaoh
take up the fifth part of the land of king of Egypt. And Joseph went out
Egypt in the seven plentiful years. from the presence of Pharaoh, and
35 And let them gather all the food went throughout all the land of
of these good years that come, and Egypt. 47 And in the seven plentiful
lay up grain under the hand of years the earth brought forth by
Pharaoh for food in the cities, and handfuls. 48 And he gathered up all
let them keep it. 36 And the food the food of the seven years which
shall be for a store to the land were in the land of Egypt, and laid
against the seven years of famine, up the food in the cities: the food of
which shall be in the land of Egypt; the field, which was all around ev-
that the land not perish through the ery city, he laid up in the same. 49
famine.” And Joseph laid up grain as the
37 And the thing was good in the sand of the sea, very much, until he
eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of left off numbering; for it was with-
all his servants. 38 And Pharaoh out number. 50 And to Joseph were
said to his servants, “Can we find born two sons before the year of
such a one as this, a man in whom famine came, whom Asenath, the
the spirit of God is?” 39 And daughter of Poti-phera priest of On,
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because bore to him. 51 And Joseph called
God has shown you all of this, there the name of the firstborn Manasseh:
is none so discreet and wise as you: For, he said, “God has made me for-
40 you shall be over my house, and get all my toil, and all my father’s
according to your word shall all my house.” 52 And the name of the sec-
people be ruled: only in the throne ond called he Ephraim: “For God
will I be greater than you.” 41 And has made me fruitful in the land of
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have my affliction.” 53 And the seven
set you over all the land of Egypt.” years of plenty, that was in the land
42 And Pharaoh took off his signet of Egypt, came to an end. 54 And
ring from his hand, and put it on the seven years of famine began to
Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in come, according as Joseph had said:
clothing of fine linen, and put a and there was famine in all lands;
gold chain around his neck; 43 and but in all the land of Egypt there
he made him to ride in the second was bread. 55 And when all the
chariot which he had; and they land of Egypt was famished, the
cried before him, “Bow the knee”: people cried to Pharaoh for bread:
and he set him over all the land of and Pharaoh said to all the Egyp-
Egypt. 44 And Pharaoh said to tians, “Go to Joseph; what he says
Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without to you, do.” 56 And the famine was
you shall no man lift up his hand or over all the face of the earth: and
his foot in all the land of Egypt.” 45 Joseph opened all the store houses,
And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name and sold to the Egyptians; and the
Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave famine was severe in the land of
him to wife Asenath, the daughter Egypt. 57 And all countries came
of Poti-phera priest of On. And into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain,
Joseph went out over the land of because the famine was severe in
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all the earth. said to them, “That is it that I spoke

42 Now Jacob saw that there to you, saying, ‘You are spies’: 15 by
was grain in Egypt, and Ja- this you shall be tested: by the life
cob said to his sons, “Why do you of Pharaoh you shall not go forth
look one upon another?” 2 And he from here, except your youngest
said, “Behold, I have heard that brother come here. 16 Send one of
there is grain in Egypt: get down to you, and let him fetch your brother,
that place, and buy for us from and you shall be bound, that your
there; that we may live, and not die. words may be tested, whether there
3 And Joseph’s ten brothers went is truth in you: or else by the life of
down to buy grain from Egypt. 4 Pharaoh surely you are spies.” 17
But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Ja- And he put them all together into
cob did not send with his brothers; custody three days.
for he said, “Lest perhaps harm be- 18 And Joseph said to them the
fall him.” 5 And the sons of Israel third day, “This do, and live: for I
came to buy among those who fear God: 19 if you be true men, let
came: for the famine was in the one of your brothers be bound in
land of Canaan. 6 And Joseph was your prison house; but go, carry
the governor over the land; he it grain for the famine of your houses:
was who sold to all the people of 20 and bring your youngest brother
the land. And Joseph’s brothers to me; so will your words be veri-
came, and bowed down themselves fied, and you shall not die.” And
to him with their faces to the earth. they did so. 21 And they said one to
7 And Joseph saw his brothers, and another, “We are truly guilty con-
he knew them, but made himself cerning our brother, in that we saw
strange to them, and spoke roughly the distress of his soul, when he be-
with them; and he said to them. seeched us, and we would not hear;
“From where do you come?” And therefore has this distress come
they said, “From the land of upon us.” 22 And Reuben an-
Canaan to buy food.” 8 And Joseph swered them, saying, “Did I not
knew his brothers, but they did not speak to you, saying, ‘Do not sin
know him. 9 And Joseph remem- against the child’; and you would
bered the dreams which he not hear? therefore also, behold, his
dreamed of them, and said to them, blood is required.” 23 And they did
“You are spies; to see the nakedness not know that Joseph understood
of the land you have come.” 10 And them; for there was an interpreter
they said to him, “No, my lord, but between them. 24 And he turned
to buy food have you servants himself away from them, and wept;
come. 11 We are all one man’s sons; and he returned to them, and spoke
we are true men, your servants are to them, and took Simeon from
no spies.” 12 And he said to them, among them, and bound him be-
“No, but to see the nakedness of the fore their eyes. 25 Then Joseph com-
land you have come.” 13 And they manded to fill their vessels with
said, “We your servants are twelve grain, and to restore every man’s
brothers, the sons of one man in the money into his sack, and to give
land of Canaan; and, behold, the them provisions for the way: and
youngest is this day with our fa- thus was it done to them.
ther, and one is not.” 14 And Joseph 26 And they loaded their donkeys
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with their grain, and departed from hand, and I will bring him to you
there. 27 And as one of them again.” 38 And he said, “My son
opened his sack to give his donkey shall not go down with you; for his
fodder in the lodging place, he brother is dead, and he only is left:
caught sight of his money; and, be- if harm befall him by the way in
hold, it was in the mouth of his which you go, then will you bring
sack. 28 And he said to his brethren, down my gray hairs with sorrow to
“My money is restored; and, be- Sheol.”
hold, it is even in my sack”: and
their heart failed them, and they 43 And the famine was severe
in the land. 2 And it came to
turned trembling one to another, pass, when they had eaten up the
saying, “What is this that God has grain which they had brought out
done to us?” 29 And they came to of Egypt, their father said to them,
Jacob their father to the land of “Go again, buy us a little food.” 3
Canaan, and told him all that had And Judah spoke to him, saying,
befallen them, saying, 30 “The man, “The man did solemnly protest to
the lord of the land, spoke roughly us, saying, ‘You shall not see my
with us, and took us for spies of the face, unless your brother is with
country. 31 And we said to him, ‘We you.’ 4 If you will send our brother
are true men; we are no spies: 32 we with us, we will go down and buy
are twelve brethren, sons of our fa- you food: 5 but if you will not send
ther; one is not, and the youngest is him, we will not go down; for the
this day with our father in the land man said to us, ‘You shall not see
of Canaan.’ 33 And the man, the my face, unless your brother is with
lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this you.’ ” 6 And Israel said, “Why
shall I know that you are true men: have you dealt so ill with me, as to
leave one of your brothers with me, tell the man whether you had still a
and take grain for the famine of brother?” 7 And they said, “The
your houses, and go your way; 34 man asked narrowly concerning
and bring your youngest brother to ourselves, and concerning our kin-
me: then shall I know that you are dred, saying, ‘Is your father still
no spies, but that you are true men: alive? do you have another brother?’
so will I deliver you your brother, and we told him according to the
and you shall trade in the land.’ ” tenor of these words: could we in
35 And it came to pass as they any way know that he would say,
emptied their sacks, that, behold, ‘Bring your brother down?’ ” 8 And
every man’s bundle of money was Judah said to Israel his father,
in his sack: and when they and their “Send the lad with me, and we will
father saw their bundles of money, arise and go; that we may live, and
they were afraid. 36 And Jacob their not die, both we, and you, and also
father said to them, “You have be- our little ones. 9 I will be surety for
reaved me of my children: Joseph is him; of my hand shall you require
not, and Simeon is not, and you will him: if I do not bring him to you,
take Benjamin away: all these and set him before you, then let me
things are against me.” 37 And bear the blame for ever: 10 for ex-
Reuben spoke to his father, saying, cept we had lingered, surely we
“Slay my two sons, if I do not bring would have now returned a second
him to you: deliver him into my time.” 11 And their father Israel
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said to them, “If it be so now, do sack, our money in full weight: and
this: take of the choice fruits of the we have brought it again in our
land in your vessels, and carry hand. 22 And other money have we
down the man a present, a little brought down in our hand to buy
balm, and a little honey, spices and food: we do not know who put our
myrrh, nuts, and almonds; 12 and money in our sacks.” 23 And he
take double money in your hand; said, “Peace be to you, do not fear:
and the money that was returned in your God, and the God of your fa-
the mouth of your sacks carry again ther, has given you treasure in your
in your hand; perhaps it was an sacks: I had your money.” And he
oversight: 13 take also your brother, brought Simeon out to them. 24
and arise, go again to the man: 14 And the man brought the men into
and God Almighty give you mercy Joseph’s house, and gave them wa-
before the man, that he may release ter, and they washed their feet. And
to you your other brother and Ben- he gave their donkeys fodder. 25
jamin. And if I am bereaved of my And they made ready the present
children, I am bereaved. 15 And the against Joseph’s coming at noon:
men took that present, and they for they heard that they should eat
took double money in their hand, bread there.
and Benjamin; and rose up, and 26 And when Joseph came home,
went down to Egypt, and stood be- they brought him the present which
fore Joseph. was in their hand into the house,
16 And when Joseph saw Ben- and bowed down themselves to
jamin with them, he said to the him to the earth. 27 And he asked
steward of his house, “Bring the them of their welfare, and said, “Is
men into the house, and slay, and your father well, the old man of
make ready; for the men will dine whom you spoke? Is he still alive?”
with me at noon.” 17 And the man 28 And they said, “Your servant our
did as Joseph commanded; and the father is well, he is still alive.” And
man brought the men to Joseph’s they bowed the head, and made
house. 18 And the men were afraid, obeisance. 29 And he lifted up his
because they were brought to eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother,
Joseph’s house; and they said, “Be- his mother’s son, and said, “Is this
cause of the money that was re- your youngest brother, of whom
turned in our sacks the first time we you spoke to me?” And he said,
are brought in; that he may seek oc- “God be gracious to you, my son.”
casion against us, and fall upon us, 30 And Joseph made haste; for his
and take us for bondmen, and our heart yearned over his brother: and
donkeys.” 19 And they came near he sought where to weep; and he
to the steward of Joseph’s house, entered into his chamber, and wept
and they spoke to him at the door there. 31 And he washed his face,
of the house, 20 and said, “Oh, my and came out; and he refrained
lord, we came indeed down at the himself, and said, “Set on bread.”
first time to buy food: 21 and it 32 And they set on for him by him-
came to pass, when we came to the self, and for them by themselves,
lodging place, that we opened our and for the Egyptians, that ate with
sacks, and, behold, every man’s him, by themselves: because the
money was in the mouth of his Egyptians might not eat bread with
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the Hebrews; for that is an abomi-
nation to the Egyptians. 33 And
they sat before him, the first-born
according to his birthright, and the
youngest according to his youth:
and the men marveled one with an-
other. 34 And he took and sent por-
tions to them from before him: but
Benjamin’s portion was five times
so much as any of theirs. And they
drank, and were merry with him.
let it be according to your words: he
with whom it is found shall be my
bondman; and you shall be blame-
less.” 11 Then they hastened, and
took down every man his sack to
the ground, and opened every man
his sack. 12 And he searched, and
began at the eldest, and left off at
the youngest: and the cup was
found in Benjamin’s sack. 13 Then
they tore their clothes, and loaded
every man his donkey, and re-

44 And he commanded the turned to the city.

steward of his house, saying, 14 And Judah and his brothers
“Fill the men’s sacks with food, as came to Joseph’s house; and he was
much as they can carry, and put ev- still there: and they fell before him
ery man’s money in his sack’s on the ground. 15 And Joseph said
mouth. 2 And put my cup, the sil- to them, “What deed is this that
ver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the you have done? do you not know
youngest, and his grain money.” that such a man as I can indeed di-
And he did according to the word vine?” 16 And Judah said, “What
that Joseph had spoken. 3 As soon shall we say to my lord? what shall
as the morning was light, the men we speak? or how shall we clear
were sent away, they and their don- ourselves? God has found out the
keys. 4 And when they had gone iniquity of your servants: behold,
out of the city, and were not yet far we are my lord’s bondmen, both
off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, we, and he also in whose hand the
follow after the men; and when you cup is found.” 17 And he said, “Far
overtake them, say to them, ‘Why be it from me that I should do so:
have you rewarded evil for good? 5 the man in whose hand the cup is
Is not this that in which my lord found, he shall be my bondman;
drinks, and by which he indeed di- but as for you, get you up in peace
vines? you have done evil in so do- to your father.”
ing.’ ” 6 And he overtook them, and 18 Then Judah came near to him,
he spoke to them these words. 7 and said, “Oh, my lord, let you ser-
And they said to him, “Why does vant, please, speak a word in my
my lord speak such words as these? lord’s ears, and do not let your
Far be it from your servants that anger burn against your servant;
they should do such a thing. 8 Be- for you are even as Pharaoh. 19 My
hold, the money, which we found lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Do
in our sacks’ mouths, we brought you have a father, or a brother?’ 20
again to you out of the land of And we said to my lord, ‘We have a
Canaan: how then should we steal father, an old man, and a child of
out of your lord’s house silver or his old age, a little one; and his
gold? 9 With whomsoever of your brother is dead, and he alone is left
servants it be found, let him die, of his mother; and his father loves
and we also will be my lord’s bond- him.’ 21 And you said to your ser-
men.” 10 And he said, “Now also vants, ‘Bring him down to me, that
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I may set my eyes on him.’ 22 And
we said to my lord, ‘The lad cannot
leave his father: for if he should
45 Then Joseph could not re-
frain himself before all those
who stood before him; and he cried,
leave his father, his father would “Cause every man to go out from
die.’ 23 And you said to your ser- me.” And there stood no man with
vants, ‘Unless your youngest him, while Joseph made himself
brother come down with you, you known to his brothers. 2 And he
shall see my face no more.’ 24 And wept aloud: and the Egyptians
it came to pass when we came up to heard, and the house of Pharaoh
your servant my father, we told heard. 3 And Joseph said to his
him the words of my lord. 25 And brothers, “I am Joseph; does my fa-
our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a ther still live?” And his brethren
little food.’ 26 And we said, ‘We could not answer him; for they
cannot go down: if our youngest were troubled at his presence. 4
brother is with us, then will we go And Joseph said to his brothers,
down: for we may not see the man’s “Come near to me, please.” And
face, unless our youngest brother is they came near. And he said, “I am
with us.’ 27 And your servant my Joseph your brother, whom you
father said to us, ‘You know that sold into Egypt. 5 And now do not
my wife bore me two sons: 28 and be grieved, nor angry with your-
the one went out from me, and I selves, that you sold me here: for
said, “Surely he is torn in pieces”; God sent me before you to preserve
and I have not seen him since: 29 life. 6 For these two years has the
and if you take this one also from famine been in the land: and there
me, and harm befall him, you will are still five years, in which there
bring down my gray hairs with sor- shall be neither plowing nor har-
row to Sheol.’ 30 Now therefore vest. 7 And God sent me before you
when I come to your servant my fa- to preserve you a remnant in the
ther, and the lad is not with us; see- earth, and to save you alive by a
ing that his life is bound up in the great deliverance. 8 So now it was
lad’s life; 31 it will come to pass, not you who sent me here, but God:
when he sees that the lad is not with and he has made me a father to
us, that he will die: and your ser- Pharaoh, and lord of all his house,
vants will bring down the gray and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
hairs of your servant our father 9 Hasten, and go up to my father,
with sorrow to Sheol. 32 For your and say to him, ‘Thus says your son
servant became surety for the lad to Joseph, “God has made me lord of
my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring all Egypt: come down to me, do not
him to you, then shall I bear the delay”; 10 and you shall dwell in
blame to my father for ever. 33 Now the land of Goshen, and you shall
therefore, let your servant, please, be near to me, you, and your chil-
remain instead of the lad a bond- dren, and your children’s children,
man to my lord; and let the lad go and your flocks, and your herds,
up with his brothers. 34 For how and all that you have: 11 and there I
shall I go up to my father, if the lad will nourish you; for there are still
is not with me? lest I see the evil five years of famine; lest you come
that shall come on my father.” to poverty, you, and your house-
hold, and all that you have. 12 And,
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behold, your eyes see, and the eyes he said to them, “See that you do
of my brother Benjamin, that it is not fall out by the way.” 25 And
my mouth that speaks to you. 13 they went up out of Egypt, and
And you shall tell my father of all came into the land of Canaan to Ja-
my glory in Egypt, and of all that cob their father. 26 And they told
you have seen: and you shall hasten him, saying, “Joseph is still alive,
and bring down my father here.” 14 and he is ruler over all the land of
And he fell on his brother Ben- Egypt.” And his heart fainted, for
jamin’s neck, and wept; and Ben- he did not believe them. 27 And
jamin wept on his neck. 15 And he they told him all the words of
kissed all his brothers, and wept on Joseph, which he had said to them:
them: and after that his brothers and when he saw the wagons
talked with him. which Joseph had sent to carry him,
16 And the report of it was heard the spirit of Jacob their father re-
in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Jo- vived: 28 and Israel said, “It is
seph’s brothers have come”: and it enough; Joseph my son is still alive:
pleased Pharaoh well, and his ser- I will go and see him before I die.”
vants. 17 And Pharaoh said to
Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do 46 And Israel took his journey
with all that he had, and
this: load your beasts, and go, get to came to Beer-sheba, and offered
the land of Canaan; 18 and take sacrifices to the God of his father
your father and your households, Isaac. 2 And God spoke to Israel in
and come to me: and I will give you the visions of the night, and said,
the good of the land of Egypt, and “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here
you shall eat the fat of the land. 19 I am.” 3 And he said, “I am God, the
Now you are commanded, do this: God of your father: do not fear to
take wagons out of the land of go down into Egypt; for I will there
Egypt for your little ones, and for make of you a great nation: 4 I will
your wives, and bring your father, go down with you into Egypt; and
and come. 20 Also do not regard I will also surely bring you up
your stuff; for the good of all the again: and Joseph shall put his
land of Egypt is yours.’ ” hand on your eyes.” 5 And Jacob
21 And the sons of Israel did so: rose up from Beer-sheba: and the
and Joseph gave them wagons, ac- sons of Israel carried Jacob their fa-
cording to the commandment of ther, and their little ones, and their
Pharaoh, and gave them provision wives, in the wagons which
for the way. 22 To all of them he Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6
gave each man changes of clothing; And they took their cattle, and their
but to Benjamin he gave three hun- goods, which they had gotten in the
dred pieces of silver, and five land of Canaan, and came into
changes of clothing. 23 And to his Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with
father he sent after this manner: ten him: 7 his sons, and his sons’ sons
donkeys loaded with the good with him, his daughters, and his
things of Egypt, and ten female sons’ daughters, and all his seed he
donkeys loaded with grain and brought with him into Egypt.
bread and provision for his father 8 And these are the names of the
by the way. 24 So he sent his broth- children of Israel, who came into
ers away, and they departed: and Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben,
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Jacob’s firstborn. 9 And the sons of gave to Rachel his daughter, and
Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls
Hezron, and Carmi. 10 And the were seven. 26 All the souls who
sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, came with Jacob into Egypt, that
and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, came out of his loins, besides Ja-
and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish cob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were
woman. 11 And the sons of Levi: sixty-six; 27 and the sons of Joseph,
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12 who were born to him in Egypt,
And the sons of Judah: Er, and were two souls: all the souls of the
Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and house of Jacob, who came into
Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the Egypt, were seventy.
land of Canaan. And the sons of 28 And he sent Judah before him
Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13 to Joseph, to show the way before
And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and him to Goshen; and they came into
Puvah, and Iob, and Shimron. 14 the land of Goshen. 29 And Joseph
And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, made ready his chariot, and went
and Elon, and Jahleel. 15 These are up to meet Israel his father, to
the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Goshen; and he presented himself
Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his to him, and fell on his neck, and
daughter Dinah: all the souls of his wept on his neck a good while. 30
sons and his daughters were thirty- And Israel said to Joseph, “Now let
three. 16 And the sons of Gad: me die, since I have seen your face,
Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and that you are still alive.” 31 And
Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. 17 Joseph said to his brothers, and to
And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and his father’s house, “I will go up,
Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and and tell Pharaoh, and will say to
Serah their sister; and the sons of him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s
Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel. 18 house, who were in the land of
These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Canaan, have come to me; 32 and
Laban gave to Leah his daughter; the men are shepherds, for they
and these she bore to Jacob, even have been keepers of cattle; and
sixteen souls. 19 The sons of Rachel they have brought their flocks, and
Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin. their herds, and all that they have.’
20 And to Joseph in the land of 33 And it shall come to pass, when
Egypt were born Manasseh and Pharaoh shall call you, and shall
Ephraim, whom Asenath, the say, ‘What is your occupation?’ 34
daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, that you shall say, ‘Your servants
bore to him. 21 And the sons of Ben- have been keepers of cattle from
jamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ash- our youth even until now, both we,
bel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and and our fathers’: that ye may dwell
Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and in the land of Goshen; for every
Ard. 22 These are the sons of shepherd is an abomination to the
Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all Egyptians.”
the souls were fourteen. 23 And the
sons of Dan: Hushim. 24 And the 47 Then Joseph went in and
told Pharaoh, and said, “My
sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, father and my brethren, and their
and Jezer, and Shillem. 25 These are flocks, and their herds, and all that
the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban they have, have come out of the
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land of Canaan; and, behold, they bread, according to their families.
are in the land of Goshen.” 2 And 13 And there was no bread in all
from among his brothers he took the land; for the famine was very
five men, and presented them to severe, so that the land of Egypt
Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said to his and the land of Canaan fainted by
brothers, “What is your occupa- reason of the famine. 14 And Joseph
tion?” And they said to Pharaoh, gathered up all the money that was
“Your servants are shepherds, both found in the land of Egypt, and in
we, and our fathers.” 4 And they the land of Canaan, for the grain
said to Pharaoh, “To sojourn in the which they bought: and Joseph
land have we come; for there is no brought the money into Pharaoh’s
pasture for your servants’ flocks; house. 15 And when the money
for the famine is severe in the land was all spent in the land of Egypt,
of Canaan: now therefore, please, and in the land of Canaan, all the
let your servants dwell in the land Egyptians came to Joseph, and said,
of Goshen.” 5 And Pharaoh spoke “Give us bread: for why should we
to Joseph, saying, “Your father and die in your presence? for our money
your brothers have come to you: 6 fails.” 16 And Joseph said, “Give
the land of Egypt is before you; in your cattle; and I will give you for
the best of the land make your fa- your cattle, if money fails.” 17 And
ther and your brothers to dwell; in they brought their cattle to Joseph;
the land of Goshen let them dwell: and Joseph gave them bread in ex-
and if you know any able men change for the horses, and for the
among them, then make them flocks, and for the herds, and for
rulers over my cattle.” 7 And the donkeys: and he fed them with
Joseph brought in Jacob his father, bread in exchange for all their cattle
and set him before Pharaoh: and Ja- for that year. 18 And when that year
cob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And had ended, they came to him the
Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many second year, and said to him, “We
are the days of the years of your will not hide from my lord, how
life?” 9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, that our money is all spent; and the
“The days of the years of my pil- herds of cattle are my lord’s; there
grimage are a hundred and thirty is nothing left in the sight of my
years: few and evil have been the lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
days of the years of my life, and 19 why should we die before your
they have not attained to the days eyes, both we and our land? buy us
of the years of the life of my fathers and our land for bread, and we and
in the days of their pilgrimage.” 10 our land will be servants to
And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we
went out from the presence of may live, and not die, and that the
Pharaoh. 11 And Joseph placed his land not be desolate.”
father and his brothers, and gave 20 So Joseph bought all the land
them a possession in the land of of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyp-
Egypt, in the best of the land, in the tians sold every man his field, be-
land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had cause the famine was severe on
commanded. 12 And Joseph nour- them: and the land became
ished his father, and his brothers, Pharaoh’s. 21 And as for the people,
and all his father’s household, with he removed them to the cities from
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one end of the border of Egypt even him. And Israel bowed himself
to the other end of it. 22 Only the upon the bed’s head.
land of the priests he did not buy:
for the priests had a portion from 48 And it came to pass after
these things, that one said to
Pharaoh, and ate their portion Joseph, “Behold, your father is
which Pharaoh gave them; there- sick”: and he took with him his two
fore they did not sell their land. 23 sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2
Then Joseph said to the people, And one told Jacob, and said, “Be-
“Behold, I have bought you this hold, your son Joseph comes to
day and your land for Pharaoh: be- you”: and Israel strengthened him-
hold, here is seed for you, and you self, and sat on the bed. 3 And Jacob
shall sow the land. 24 And it shall said to Joseph, “God Almighty ap-
come to pass at the ingatherings, peared to me at Luz in the land of
that you shall give a fifth to Canaan, and blessed me, 4 and said
Pharaoh, and four parts shall be to me, ‘Behold, I will make you
your own, for seed of the field, and fruitful, and multiply you, and I
for your food, and for those of your will make of you a company of peo-
households, and for food for your ples, and will give this land to your
little ones.” 25 And they said, “You seed after you for an everlasting
have saved our lives: let us find fa- possession. 5 And now your two
vor in the sight of my lord, and we sons, who were born to you in the
will be Pharaoh’s servants.” 26 And land of Egypt before I came to you
Joseph made it a statute concerning into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and
the land of Egypt to this day, that Manasseh, even as Reuben and
Pharaoh should have the fifth; only Simeon, shall be mine. 6 And your
the land of the priests alone did not issue, that you beget after them,
become Pharaoh’s. shall be yours; they shall be called
27 And Israel dwelt in the land of after the name of their brothers in
Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and their inheritance. 7 And as for me,
they got possessions in it, and were when I came from Paddan, Rachel
fruitful, and multiplied exceed- died by me in the land of Canaan in
ingly. 28 And Jacob lived in the land the way, when there was still some
of Egypt seventeen years: so the distance to come to Ephrath: and I
days of Jacob, the years of his life, buried her there in the way to
were a hundred forty-seven years. Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).”
29 And the time drew near that Is- 8 And Israel beheld Joseph’s sons,
rael must die: and he called his son and said, “Who are these?” 9 And
Joseph, and said to him, “If now I Joseph said to his father, “They are
have found favor in your sight, put, my sons, whom God has given me
please, your hand under my thigh, here.” And he said, “Bring them,
and deal kindly and truly with me: please, to me, and I will bless
do not bury me, please, in Egypt; 30 them.” 10 Now the eyes of Israel
but when I sleep with my fathers, were dim for age, so that he could
you shall carry me out of Egypt, not see. And he brought them near
and bury me in their burying to him; and he kissed them, and
place.” And he said, “I will do as embraced them. 11 And Israel said
you have said.” 31 And he said, to Joseph, “I had not thought to see
“Swear to me”: and he swore to your face: and, behold, God has let
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me see your seed also.” 12 And bring you again to the land of your
Joseph brought them out from be- fathers. 22 Moreover I have given to
tween his knees; and he bowed you one portion above your
himself with his face to the earth. 13 brethren, which I took out of the
And Joseph took them both, hand of the Amorite with my
Ephraim in his right hand toward sword and with my bow.”
Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in
his left hand toward Israel’s right 49 And Jacob called to his
sons, and said: “Gather
hand, and brought them near to yourselves together, that I may tell
him. 14 And Israel stretched out his you that which shall befall you in
right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s the latter days.
head, who was the younger, and his 2 Assemble yourselves, and hear,
left hand on Manasseh’s head, you sons of Jacob;
guiding his hands wittingly; for And listen to Israel your father.
Manasseh was the firstborn. 15 And 3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my
he blessed Joseph, and said, “The might, and the beginning of my
God before whom my fathers Abra- strength;
ham and Isaac walked, the God The preeminence of dignity, and
who has fed me all my life long to the preeminence of power.
this day, 16 the angel who has re- 4 Boiling over as water, you shall
deemed me from all evil, bless the not have the preeminence;
lads; and let my name be named on Because you went up to your fa-
them, and the name of my fathers ther’s bed;
Abraham and Isaac; and let them Then you defiled it: he went up
grow into a multitude in the midst to my couch.
of the earth.” 17 And when Joseph 5 Simeon and Levi are brothers;
saw that his father laid his right Weapons of violence are their
hand on the head of Ephraim, it dis- swords.
pleased him: and he held up his fa- 6 O my soul, do not come into their
ther’s hand, to remove it from council;
Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s To their assembly, my glory, do
head. 18 And Joseph said to his fa- not be united;
ther, “Not so, my father; for this is For in their anger they slew a
the firstborn; put your right hand man,
on his head.” 19 And his father re- And in their self-will they ham-
fused, and said, “I know it, my son, strung an ox.
I know it.” He also shall become a 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was
people, and he also shall be great: fierce;
however his younger brother shall And their wrath, for it was cruel:
be greater than he, and his seed I will divide them in Jacob,
shall become a multitude of na- And scatter them in Israel.
tions.” 20 And he blessed them that 8 Judah, you shall your brethren
day, saying, “In you will Israel praise:
bless, saying, ‘God make you as Your hand shall be on the neck of
Ephraim and as Manasseh’ ”: and your enemies;
he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 21 Your father’s sons shall bow
And Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, down before you.
I die: but God will be with you, and 9 Judah is a lion’s whelp;
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From the prey, my son, you have 19 Gad, a troop shall press on him;
gone up: But he shall press on their heel.
He stooped down, he couched as 20 Out of Asher his bread shall be
a lion, fat,
And as a lioness; who shall rouse And he shall yield royal
him up? delicacies.
10 The scepter shall not depart 21 Naphtali is a hind let loose:
from Judah, He gives beautiful words.
Nor the ruler’s staff from 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough,
between his feet, A fruitful bough by a fountain;
Until Shiloh comes: His branches run over the wall.
And to him shall the obedience 23 The archers have severely
of the peoples be. grieved him,
11 Binding his foal to the vine, And shot at him, and
And his donkey’s colt to the persecuted him:
choice vine; 24 But his bow remained in
He has washed his garments in strength,
wine, And the arms of his hands were
And his clothing in the blood of made strong,
grapes: By the hands of the Mighty One
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, of Jacob
And his teeth white with milk. (From there is the shepherd, the
13 Zebulun shall dwell at the stone of Israel),
haven of the sea; 25 Even by the God of your father,
And he shall be for a haven of who shall help you,
ships; And by the Almighty, who shall
And his border shall be on bless you,
Sidon. With blessings of heaven above,
14 Issachar is a strong donkey, Blessings of the deep that
Couching down between the couches beneath,
sheepfolds: Blessings of the breasts, and of
15 And he saw a resting place that the womb.
it was good, 26 The blessings of your father
And the land that it was Have prevailed above the
pleasant; blessings of my progenitors
And he bowed his shoulder to To the utmost bound of the
bear, everlasting hills:
And became a servant under They shall be on the head of
forced labor. Joseph,
16 Dan shall judge his people, And on the crown of the head
As one of the tribes of Israel. of him who was separate
17 Dan shall be a serpent in the from his brothers.
way, 27 Benjamin is a wolf that ravages:
An adder in the path, In the morning he shall devour
That bites the horse’s heels, the prey,
So that his rider falls backward. And at evening he shall divide
18 I have waited for your salvation, the spoil.
O Jehovah. 28 All these are the twelve tribes
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of Israel: and this is it that their fa- your father, according as he made
ther spoke to them and blessed you swear.” 7 And Joseph went up
them; every one according to his to bury his father; and with him
blessing he blessed them. 29 And went up all the servants of Pharaoh,
he charged them, and said to them, the elders of his house, and all the
“I am to be gathered to my people: elders of the land of Egypt, 8 and all
bury me with my fathers in the cave the house of Joseph, and his broth-
that is in the field of Ephron the Hit- ers, and his father’s house: only
tite, 30 in the cave that is in the field their little ones, and their flocks,
of Machpelah, which is before and their
Mamre, in the land of Canaan, herds, they left in the land of
which Abraham bought with the Goshen. 9 And there went up with
field from Ephron the Hittite for a him both chariots and horsemen:
possession of a burying place. 31 and it was a very great company. 10
There they buried Abraham and And they came to the threshing
Sarah his wife; there they buried floor of Atad, which is beyond the
Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and Jordan, and there they lamented
there I buried Leah— 32 the field with a very great and severe lamen-
and the cave that is in it, which was tation: and he made a mourning for
purchased from the children of his father seven days. 11 And when
Heth.” 33 And when Jacob made an the inhabitants of the land, the
end of charging his sons, he gath- Canaanites, saw the mourning in
ered up his feet into the bed, and the floor of Atad, they said, “This is
breathed his last, and was gathered a grievous mourning to the Egyp-
to his people. tians”: therefore the name of it was

50 And Joseph fell on his fa- called Abel-mizraim, which is be-

ther’s face, and wept on him, yond the Jordan. 12 And his sons
and kissed him. 2 And Joseph com- did to him according as he com-
manded his servants the physicians manded them: 13 for his sons car-
to embalm his father: and the ried him into the land of Canaan,
physicians embalmed Israel. 3 And and buried him in the cave of the
forty days were fulfilled for him; field of Machpelah, which Abra-
for so are fulfilled the days of em- ham bought with the field, for a
balming: and the Egyptians wept possession of a burying place, of
for him seventy days. Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
4 And when the days of weeping 14 And Joseph returned into Egypt,
for him were past, Joseph spoke to he, and his brothers, and all who
the house of Pharaoh, saying, “If went up with him to bury his fa-
now I have found favor in your ther, after he had buried his father.
eyes, speak, please, in the ears of 15 And when Joseph’s brothers
Pharaoh, saying, 5 ‘My father made saw that their father was dead, they
me swear, saying, “Behold, I die: in said, “It may be that Joseph will
my grave which I have dug for me hate us, and will fully repay us all
in the land of Canaan, there shall the evil which we did to him.” 16
you bury me.” ’ Now therefore let And they sent a message to Joseph,
me go up, please, and bury my fa- saying, “Your father commanded
ther, and I will come again.” 6 And before he died, saying, 17 ‘So shall
Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury you say to Joseph, “Forgive, please
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now, the transgression of your
brothers, and their sin, for they did
to you evil. And now, please, for-
give the transgression of the ser-
vants of the God of your father.”
And Joseph wept when they spoke
to him. 18 And his brothers also
went and fell down before his face;
and they said, “Behold, we are your
servants.” 19 And Joseph said to
them, “Do not fear: for am I in the
place of God? 20 And as for you,
you meant evil against me; but God
meant it for good, to bring to pass,
as it is this day, to save many people
alive. 21 Now therefore do not fear:
I will nourish you, and your little
ones.” And he comforted them, and
spoke kindly to them.
22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he,
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and his father’s house: and Joseph
lived a hundred and ten years. 23
And Joseph saw Ephraim’s chil-
dren of the third generation: the
children also of Machir the son of
Manasseh were born on Joseph’s
knees. 24 And Joseph said to his
brethren, “I die; but God will surely
visit you, and bring you up out of
this land to the land which he
swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob.” 25 And Joseph took an oath
of the children of Israel, saying,
“God will surely visit you, and you
shall carry up my bon from here.”
26 So Joseph died, being a hundred
and ten years old: and they em-
balmed him, and he was put in a
coffin in Egypt.
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THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES,

COMMONLY CALLED

EX O DUS

1 Now these are the names of with hard service, in mortar and in
the sons of Israel, who came into brick, and in all manner of service
Egypt (every man and his house- in the field, all their service, in
hold came with Jacob): 2 Reuben, which they made them serve with
Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, rigor.
Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan and 15 And the king of Egypt spoke to
Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5 And all the Hebrew midwives, of whom
the souls who came out of the loins the name of the one was Shiphrah,
of Jacob were seventy souls: and and the name of the other Puah: 16
Joseph was in Egypt already. 6 And and he said, “When you do the
Joseph died, and all his brothers, office of a midwife to the Hebrew
and all that generation. 7 And the women, and see them on the birth-
children of Israel were fruitful, and stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill
increased abundantly, and multi- him; but if it is a daughter, then she
plied, and grew exceeding mighty; shall live.” 17 But the midwives
and the land was filled with them. feared God, and did not as the king
8 Now there arose a new king of Egypt commanded them, but
over Egypt, who did not know saved the male children alive. 18
Joseph. 9 And he said to his people, And the king of Egypt called for the
“Behold, the people of the children midwives, and said to them, “Why
of Israel are more and mightier than have you done this thing, and have
we: 10 come, let us deal wisely with saved the male children alive?” 19
them, lest they multiply, and it And the midwives said to Pharaoh,
come to pass, that, when there falls “Because the Hebrew women are
out any war, they also join them- not as the Egyptian women; for
selves to our enemies, and fight they are lively, and are delivered
against us, and get up out of the before the midwife comes to them.
land. 11 Therefore they set over 20 And God dealt well with the
them taskmasters to afflict them midwives: and the people multi-
with their burdens. And they built plied, and grew very mighty. 21
for Pharaoh storecities, Pithom and And it came to pass, because the
Raamses. 12 But the more they midwives feared God, that he made
afflicted them, the more they multi- them households. 22 And Pharaoh
plied and the more they spread charged all his people, saying, “Ev-
abroad. And they were grieved be- ery son who is born you shall cast
cause of the children of Israel. 13 into the river, and every daughter
And the Egyptians made the chil- you shall save alive.”
dren of Israel to serve with rigor: 14
and they made their lives bitter 2 And there went a man of the
house of Levi, and took to wife
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a daughter of Levi. 2 And the hid him in the sand. 13 And he
woman conceived, and bore a son: went out the second day, and, be-
and when she saw him that he was hold, two men of the Hebrews were
a beautiful child, she hid him three striving together: and he said to
months. 3 And when she could no him who did the wrong, “Why are
longer hide him, she took for him you striking your companion?” 14
an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it And he said, “Who made you a
with slime and with pitch; and she prince and a judge over us? do you
put the child in it, and laid it in the think to kill me, as you killed the
reeds by the river’s brink. 4 And his Egyptian?” And Moses feared, and
sister stood afar off, to know what said, “Surely the thing is known.”
would be done to him. 5 And the 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this
daughter of Pharaoh came down to thing, he sought to slay Moses. But
bathe at the river; and her maidens Moses fled from the face of
walked along by the riverside; and Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of
she saw the ark among the reeds, Midian: and he sat down by a well.
and sent her maidservant to fetch it. 16 Now the priest of Midian had
6 And she opened it, and saw the seven daughters: and they came
child: and, behold, the babe wept. and drew water, and filled the
And she had compassion on him, troughs to water their father’s
and said, “This is one of the He- flock. 17 And the shepherds came
brews’ children.” 7 Then said his and drove them away; but Moses
sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall stood up and helped them, and wa-
I go and call you a nurse of the He- tered their flock. 18 And when they
brew women, that she may nurse came to Reuel their father, he said,
the child for you?” 8 And Pharaoh’s “How is it that you are come so
daughter said to her, “Go.” And the soon today?” 19 And they said, “An
maiden went and called the child’s Egyptian delivered us out of the
mother. 9 And Pharaoh’s daughter hand of the shepherds, and more-
said to her, “Take this child away, over he drew water for us, and wa-
and nurse it for me, and I will give tered the flock.” 20 And he said to
you your wages.” And the woman his daughters, “And where is he?
took the child, and nursed it. 10 why is it that you have left the
And the child grew, and she man? call him, that he may eat
brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, bread.” 21 And Moses was content
and he became her son. And she to dwell with the man: and he gave
called his name Moses, and said, Moses Zipporah his daughter. 22
“Because I drew him out of the wa- And she bore a son, and he called
ter.” his name Gershom; for he said, “I
11 And it came to pass in those have been a sojourner in a foreign
days, when Moses was grown up, land.”
that he went out to his brethren, 23 And it came to pass in the
and looked on their burdens: and course of those many days, that the
he saw an Egyptian striking a He- king of Egypt died: and the chil-
brew, one of his brethren. 12 And he dren of Israel sighed by reason of
looked this way and that way, and the bondage, and they cried, and
when he saw that there was no their cry came up to God by reason
man, he struck the Egyptian, and of the bondage. 24 And God heard
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their groaning, and God remem- which the Egyptians oppress them.
bered his covenant with Abraham, 10 Come now therefore, and I will
with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And send you to Pharaoh, that you may
God saw the children of Israel, and bring forth my people the children
God took knowledge of them. of Israel out of Egypt.” 11 And

3 Now Moses was keeping the Moses said to God, “Who am I, that
flock of Jethro his father-in-law, I should go to Pharaoh, and that I
the priest of Midian: and he led the should bring forth the children of
flock to the back of the wilderness, Israel out of Egypt?” 12 And he
and came to the mountain of God, said, “Certainly I will be with you;
to Horeb. 2 And the angel of Jeho- and this shall be the sign to you,
vah appeared to him in a flame of that I have sent you: when you
fire out of the midst of a bush: and have brought forth the people out
he looked, and, behold, the bush of Egypt, you shall serve God on
burned with fire, and the bush was this mountain.”
not consumed. 3 And Moses said, 13 And Moses said to God, “Be-
“I will turn aside now, and see this hold, when I come to the children of
great sight, why the bush is not Israel, and shall say to them, “The
burnt.” 4 And when Jehovah saw God of your fathers has sent me to
that he turned aside to see, God you; and they shall say to me,
called to him out of the midst of the ‘What is his name?’ What shall I say
bush, and said, “Moses, Moses.” to them?” 14 And God said to
And he said, “Here am I.” 5 And he Moses, “I AM THAT I AM”: and he
said, “Do not draw near here: take said, “Thus shall you say to the
off your sandals from off your feet, children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me
for the place on which you stand is to you.’ ” 15 And God said more-
holy ground.” 6 Moreover he said, over to Moses, “Thus shall you say
“I am the God of your father, the to the children of Israel, ‘Jehovah,
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of your fathers, the God of
and the God of Jacob.” And Moses Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
hid his face; for he was afraid to God of Jacob, has sent me to you:
look upon God. 7 And Jehovah this is my name for ever, and this is
said, “I have surely seen the afflic- my memorial to all generations.’ 16
tion of my people who are in Egypt, Go, and gather the elders of Israel
and have heard their cry by reason together, and say to them, ‘Jehovah,
of their taskmasters; for I know the God of your fathers, the God of
their sorrows; 8 and I have come Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob,
down to deliver them out of the has appeared to me, saying, “I have
hand of the Egyptians, and to bring surely visited you, and seen that
them up out of that land to a good which is done to you in Egypt”: 17
land and a large, to a land flowing and I have said, “I will bring you
with milk and honey; to the place of up out of the affliction of Egypt to
the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the land of the Canaanite, and the
the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and Hittite, and the Amorite, and the
the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 9 And Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the
now, behold, the cry of the children Jebusite, to a land flowing with
of Israel has come to me: moreover milk and honey.” 18 And they shall
I have seen the oppression with listen to your voice: and you shall
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come, you and the elders of Israel, bosom: and when he took it out, be-
to the king of Egypt, and you shall hold, his hand was leprous, as white
say to him, ‘Jehovah, the God of the as snow. 7 And he said, “Put your
Hebrews, has met with us: and now hand into your bosom again.” (And
let us go, please, three days’ jour- he put his hand into his bosom
ney into the wilderness, that we again; and when he took it out of
may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.’ his bosom, behold, it was turned
19 And I know that the king of again as his other flesh.) 8 “And it
Egypt will not give you permission shall come to pass, if they will not
to go, no, not by a mighty hand. 20 believe you, neither listen to the
And I will put forth my hand, and voice of the first sign, that they will
strike Egypt with all my wonders believe the voice of the latter sign. 9
which I will do in the midst of it: And it shall come to pass, if they
and after that he will let you go. 21 will not believe even these two
And I will give this people favor in signs, neither listen to your voice,
the sight of the Egyptians: and it that you shall take of the water of
shall come to pass, that, when you the river, and pour it on the dry
go, you shall not go empty. 22 But land: and the water which you take
every woman shall ask of her out of the river shall become blood
neighbor, and of her who sojourns on the dry land.”
in her house, jewels of silver, and 10 And Moses said to Jehovah,
jewels of gold, and clothing: and “Oh, Lord, I am not eloquent, nei-
you shall put them on your sons, ther before, nor since you have spo-
and on your daughters; and you ken to your servant; for I am slow
shall despoil the Egyptians.” of speech, and of a slow tongue.” 11

4 And Moses answered and And Jehovah said to him, “Who has
said, “But, behold, they will not made man’s mouth? or who makes
believe me, nor listen to my voice; a man mute, or deaf, or seeing, or
for they will say, ‘Jehovah has not blind? is it not I, Jehovah? 12 Now
appeared to you.’ ” 2 And Jehovah therefore go, and I will be with your
said to him, “What is that in your mouth, and teach you what you
hand?” And he said, “A rod.” 3 shall speak.” 13 And he said, “Oh,
And he said, “Cast it on the Lord, send, please, by the hand of
ground.” And he cast it on the him whom you will send.” 14 And
ground, and it became a serpent; the anger of Jehovah was kindled
and Moses fled from before it. 4 against Moses, and he said, “Is
And Jehovah said to Moses, “Put there not Aaron your brother the
forth your hand, and take it by the Levite? I know that he can speak
tail”: (and he put forth his hand, well. And also, behold, he comes
and laid hold of it, and it became a forth to meet you: and when he sees
rod in his hand); 5 “that they may you, he will be glad in his heart. 15
believe that Jehovah, the God of And you shall speak to him, and
their fathers, the God of Abraham, put the words in his mouth: and I
the God of Isaac, and the God of Ja- will be with your mouth, and with
cob, has appeared to you.” 6 And his mouth, and will teach you what
Jehovah said furthermore to him, you shall do. 16 And he shall be
“Put now your hand into your bo- your spokesman to the people; and
som.” And he put his hand into his it shall come to pass, that he shall be
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to you a mouth, and you shall be to he had sent him, and all the signs
him as God. 17 And you shall take with which he had charged him. 29
in your hand this rod, with which And Moses and Aaron went and
you shall do the signs.” gathered together all the elders of
18 And Moses went and returned the children of Israel: 30 and Aaron
to Jethro his father-in-law, and said spoke all the words which Jehovah
to him, “Let me go, please, and re- had spoken to Moses, and did the
turn to my brethren who are in signs in the sight of the people. 31
Egypt, and see whether they are And the people believed: and when
still alive.” And Jethro said to they heard that Jehovah had visited
Moses, “Go in peace.” 19 And Jeho- the children of Israel, and that he
vah said to Moses in Midian, “Go, had seen their affliction, then they
return into Egypt; for all the men bowed their heads and wor-
are dead who sought your life.” 20 shipped.
And Moses took his wife and his
sons, and set them upon a donkey, 5 And afterward Moses and
Aaron came, and said to
and he returned to the land of Pharaoh, “Thus says Jehovah, the
Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God of Israel, ‘Let my people go,
God in his hand. 21 And Jehovah that they may hold a feast to me in
said to Moses, “When you go back the wilderness.’ ” 2 And Pharaoh
into Egypt, see that you do before said, “Who is Jehovah, that I should
Pharaoh all the wonders which I listen to his voice to let Israel go? I
have put in your hand: but I will do not know Jehovah, and more-
harden his heart and he will not let over I will not let Israel go.” 3 And
the people go. 22 And you shall say they said, “The God of the Hebrews
to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says Jehovah, has met with us: let us go, please,
“Israel is my son, my firstborn: 23 three days’ journey into the wilder-
and I have said to you, ‘Let my son ness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our
go, that he may serve me’; and you God, lest he fall upon us with pesti-
have refused to let him go: behold, lence, or with the sword.” 4 And
I will slay your son, your firstborn.” the king of Egypt said to them,
’ ” 24 And it came to pass on the “Why do you, Moses and Aaron,
way at the lodging place, that Jeho- loose the people from their works?
vah met him, and sought to kill get to your burdens.” 5 And
him. 25 Then Zipporah took a flint, Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people
and cut off the foreskin of her son, of the land are now many, and you
and cast it at his feet; and she said, make them rest from their bur-
“Surely a bridegroom of blood are dens.” 6 And the same day Pharaoh
you to me.” 26 So he let him alone. commanded the taskmasters of the
Then she said, “A bridegroom of people, and their officers, saying, 7
blood are you, because of the cir- “You shall no longer give the peo-
cumcision.” ple straw to make brick, as before:
27 And Jehovah said to Aaron, let them go and gather straw for
“Go into the wilderness to meet themselves. 8 And the number of
Moses.” And he went, and met him the bricks, which they made before,
on the mountain of God, and kissed you shall lay upon them; you shall
him. 28 And Moses told Aaron all not diminish anything of it: for they
the words of Jehovah with which are idle; therefore they cry, saying,
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‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’ made our savor to be abhorred in
9 Let heavier work be laid on the the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes
men, that they may labor in it; and of his servants, to put a sword in
let them not regard lying words.” their hand to slay us.”
10 And the taskmasters of the 22 And Moses returned to Jeho-
people went out, and their officers, vah, and said, “Lord, why have you
and they spoke to the people, say- dealt ill with this people? why is it
ing, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not that you have sent me? 23 For since
give you straw. 11 Go yourselves, I came to Pharaoh to speak in your
get straw where you can find it: for name, he has dealt ill with this peo-
nothing of your work shall be di- ple; neither have you delivered
minished.’ ” 12 So the people were your people at all.”
scattered abroad throughout all the
land of Egypt to gather stubble for 6 And Jehovah said to Moses,
“Now shall you see what I will
straw. 13 And the taskmasters were do to Pharaoh: for by a strong hand
urgent saying, “Fulfill your works, shall he let them go, and by a strong
your daily tasks, as when there was hand shall he drive them out of his
straw.” 14 And the officers of the land.”
children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s 2 And God spoke to Moses, and
taskmasters had set over them, said to him, “I am Jehovah: 3 and I
were beaten, and demanded, “Why appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and
have you not fulfilled your task to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by
both yesterday and today, in mak- my name Jehovah I was not known
ing brick as before?” to them. 4 And I have also estab-
15 Then the officers of the chil- lished my covenant with them, to
dren of Israel came and cried to give them the land of Canaan, the
Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal land of their sojournings, in which
thus with your servants? 16 There they sojourned. 5 And moreover I
is no straw given to your servants, have heard the groaning of the chil-
and they say to us, ‘Make brick’: dren of Israel, whom the Egyptians
and, behold, your servants are keep in bondage; and I have re-
beaten; but the fault is in your own membered my covenant. 6 There-
people.” 17 But he said, “You are fore say to the children of Israel, ‘I
idle, you are idle: therefore you say, am Jehovah, and I will bring you
‘Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah.’ out from under the burdens of the
18 Go therefore now, and work; for Egyptians, and I will rid you out of
there shall no straw be given you, their bondage, and I will redeem
yet shall you deliver the number of you with an outstretched arm, and
bricks.” 19 And the officers of the with great judgments: 7 and I will
children of Israel saw that they take you to me for a people, and I
were in evil case, when it was said, will be to you a God; and you shall
“You shall not diminish anything know that I am Jehovah your God,
from your bricks, your daily tasks.” who brings you out from under the
20 And they met Moses and Aaron, burdens of the Egyptians. 8 And I
who stood in the way, as they came will bring you in to the land which
forth from Pharaoh: 21 and they I swore to give to Abraham, to
said to them, “Jehovah look upon Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it
you, and judge: because you have you for a heritage: I am Jehovah.’ ”
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9 And Moses spoke so to the chil- years. 21 And the sons of Izhar: Ko-
dren of Israel: but they did not lis- rah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. 22
ten to Moses for anguish of spirit, And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael,
and for cruel bondage. and Elzaphan, and Sithri. 23 And
10 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Aaron took to himself Elisheba, the
saying, 11 “Go in, speak to Pharaoh daughter of Amminadab, the sister
king of Egypt, that he let the chil- of Nahshon, to wife; and she bore
dren of Israel go out of his land.” 12 him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and
And Moses spoke before Jehovah, Ithamar. 24 And the sons of Korah:
saying, “Behold, the children of Is- Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph;
rael have not listened to me; how these are the families of the Ko-
then shall Pharaoh hear me, who rahites. 25 And Eleazar Aaron’s son
am of uncircumcised lips?” 13 And took to himself one of the daugh-
Jehovah spoke to Moses and to ters of Putiel to wife; and she bore
Aaron, and gave them a charge to him Phinehas. These are the heads
the children of Israel, and to of the fathers’ houses of the Levites
Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the according to their families. 26 These
children of Israel out of the land of are that Aaron and Moses, to whom
Egypt. Jehovah said, “Bring out the chil-
14 These are the heads of their fa- dren of Israel from the land of
thers’ houses. The sons of Reuben Egypt according to their hosts.” 27
the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and These are they who spoke to
Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out
the families of Reuben. 15 And the the children of Israel from Egypt:
sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, these are that Moses and Aaron.
and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, 28 And it came to pass on the day
and Shaul the son of a Canaanite when Jehovah spoke to Moses in
woman; these are the families of the land of Egypt, 29 that Jehovah
Simeon. 16 And these are the names spoke to Moses, saying, “I am Jeho-
of the sons of Levi according to vah: speak to Pharaoh king of
their generations: Gershon, and Ko- Egypt all that I speak to you.” 30
hath, and Merari; and the years of And Moses said before Jehovah,
the life of Levi were a hundred and “Behold, I am of uncircumcised
thirty-seven years. 17 The sons of lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen
Gershon: Libni and Shimei, accord- to me?”
ing to their families. 18 And the
sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, 7 And Jehovah said to Moses,
“See, I have made you as God
and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother
years of the life of Kohath were a shall be your prophet. 2 You shall
hundred and thirty-three years. 19 speak all that I command you; and
And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Aaron your brother shall speak to
Mushi. These are the families of the Pharaoh, that he let the children of
Levites according to their genera- Israel go out of his land. 3 And I
tions. 20 And Amram took him will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and
Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; multiply my signs and my wonders
and she bore him Aaron and Moses: in the land of Egypt. 4 But Pharaoh
and the years of the life of Amram will not listen to you, and I will lay
were a hundred and thirty-seven my hand upon Egypt, and bring
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forth my hosts, my people the chil- in the wilderness”: and, behold, un-
dren of Israel, out of the land of til now you have not listened. 17
Egypt by great judgments. 5 And Thus says Jehovah, “In this you
the Egyptians shall know that I am shall know that I am Jehovah: be-
Jehovah, when I stretch forth my hold, I will strike with the rod that
hand upon Egypt, and bring out the is in my hand upon the waters
children of Israel from among which are in the river, and they
them.” 6 And Moses and Aaron did shall be turned to blood. 18 And the
so; as Jehovah commanded them, fish that are in the river shall die,
so they did. 7 And Moses was and the river shall become foul; and
eighty years old, and Aaron eighty- the Egyptians shall loathe to drink
three years old, when they spoke to water from the river.” ’ ” 19 And Je-
Pharaoh. hovah said to Moses, “Say to
8 And Jehovah spoke to Moses Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch
and to Aaron, saying, 9 “When out your hand over the waters of
Pharaoh shall speak to you, saying, Egypt, over their rivers, over their
‘Show a wonder for you’; then you streams, and over their pools, and
shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your rod, over all their ponds of water, that
and cast it down before Pharaoh, they may become blood; and there
that it become a serpent.’ ” 10 And shall be blood throughout all the
Moses and Aaron went in to land of Egypt, both in vessels of
Pharaoh, and they did so, as Jeho- wood and in vessels of stone.’ ”
vah had commanded: and Aaron 20 And Moses and Aaron did so,
cast down his rod before Pharaoh as Jehovah commanded; and he
and before his servants, and it be- lifted up the rod, and struck the wa-
came a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh ters that were in the river, in the
also called for the wise men and the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of
sorcerers: and they also, the magi- his servants; and all the waters that
cians of Egypt, did in like manner were in the river were turned to
with their enchantments. 12 For blood. 21 And the fish that were in
they cast down every man his rod, the river died; and the river became
and they became serpents: but foul, and the Egyptians could not
Aaron’s rod swallowed up their drink water from the river; and the
rods. 13 And Pharaoh’s heart was blood was throughout all the land
hardened, and he did not listen to of Egypt. 22 And the magicians of
them; as Jehovah had spoken. Egypt did in like manner with their
14 And Jehovah said to Moses, enchantments: and Pharaoh’s heart
“Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn, he re- was hardened, and he did not listen
fuses to let the people go. 15 Get to to them; as Jehovah had spoken. 23
Pharaoh in the morning; behold, he And Pharaoh turned and went into
goes out to the water; and you shall his house, neither did he lay even
stand by the river’s brink to meet this to heart. 24 And all the Egyp-
him; and the rod which was turned tians dug all around the river for
to a serpent shall you take in your water to drink; for they could not
hand. 16 And you shall say to him, drink of the water of the river. 25
‘Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, And seven days were fulfilled, after
has sent me to you, saying, “Let my Jehovah had struck the river.
people go, that they may serve me
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8 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, servants, and from your people;

“Go in to Pharaoh, and say to they shall remain in the river only.”
him, ‘Thus says Jehovah, “Let my 12 And Moses and Aaron went out
people go, that they may serve me. from Pharaoh: and Moses cried to
2 And if you refuse to let them go, Jehovah concerning the frogs
behold, I will strike all your borders which he had brought upon
with frogs: 3 and the river shall Pharaoh. 13 And Jehovah did ac-
swarm with frogs, which shall go cording to the word of Moses; and
up and come into your house, and the frogs died out of the houses, out
into your bedroom, and on your of the courts, and out of the fields.
bed, and into the house of your ser- 14 And they gathered them to-
vants, and on your people, and into gether in heaps; and the land stank.
your ovens, and into your kneading 15 But when Pharaoh saw that
troughs: 4 and the frogs shall come there was respite, he hardened his
up both on you, and on your peo- heart, and did not listen to them, as
ple, and on all your servants.” ’ ” 5 Jehovah had spoken.
And Jehovah said to Moses, “Say to 16 And Jehovah said to Moses,
Aaron, ‘Stretch forth your hand “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your
with your rod over the rivers, over rod, and strike the dust of the earth,
the streams, and over the pools, that it may become lice throughout
and cause frogs to come up upon all the land of Egypt.’ ” 17 And they
the land of Egypt.’ ” 6 And Aaron did so; and Aaron stretched out his
stretched out his hand over the wa- hand with his rod, and struck the
ters of Egypt; and the frogs came dust of the earth, and there were
up, and covered the land of Egypt. lice on man, and on beast; all the
7 And the magicians did in like dust of the earth became lice
manner with their enchantments, throughout all the land of Egypt. 18
and brought up frogs upon the land And the magicians did so with their
of Egypt. enchantments to bring forth lice,
8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses but they could not: and there were
and Aaron, and said, “Entreat Jeho- lice on man, and on beast. 19 Then
vah, that he take away the frogs the magicians said to Pharaoh,
from me, and from my people; and “This is the finger of God”: and
I will let the people go, that they Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and
may sacrifice to Jehovah.” 9 And he did not listen to them; as Jeho-
Moses said to Pharaoh, “Have this vah had spoken.
glory over me: against what time 20 And Jehovah said to Moses,
shall I entreat for you, and for your “Rise up early in the morning, and
servants, and for your people, that stand before Pharaoh; behold, he
the frogs be destroyed from you comes forth to the water; and say to
and your houses, and remain in the him, ‘Thus says Jehovah, “Let my
river only?” 10 And he said, people go, that they may serve me.
“Against tomorrow.” And he said, 21 Else, if you will not let my peo-
“Be it according to your word; that ple go, behold, I will send swarms
you may know that there is none of flies upon you, and upon your
like Jehovah our God. 11 And the servants, and upon your people,
frogs shall depart from you, and and into your houses: and the
from your houses, and from your houses of the Egyptians shall be full
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of swarms of flies, and also the and from his people; there re-
ground on which they are. 22 And I mained not one. 32 And Pharaoh
will set apart in that day the land of hardened his heart this time also,
Goshen, in which my people dwell, and he did not let the people go.
that no swarms of flies shall be
there; to the end you may know 9 Then Jehovah said to Moses,
“Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him,
that I am Jehovah in the midst of ‘Thus says Jehovah, the God of the
the earth. 23 And I will put a divi- Hebrews, “Let my people go, that
sion between my people and your they may serve me. 2 For if you
people: by tomorrow shall this sign refuse to let them go, and will hold
be.” ’ ” 24 And Jehovah did so; and them still, 3 behold, the hand of Je-
there came grievous swarms of flies hovah is upon your cattle which are
into the house of Pharaoh, and into in the field, upon the horses, upon
his servants’ houses: and in all the the donkeys, upon the camels,
land of Egypt the land was cor- upon the herds, and upon the
rupted by reason of the swarms of flocks: there shall be a very grievous
flies. plague. 4 And Jehovah shall make a
25 And Pharaoh called for Moses distinction between the cattle of Is-
and for Aaron, and said, “Go, sacri- rael and the cattle of Egypt; and
fice to your God in the land.” 26 there shall nothing die of all that be-
And Moses said, “It is not proper so longs to the children of Israel.” ’ ” 5
to do; for we shall sacrifice the And Jehovah appointed a set time,
abomination of the Egyptians to Je- saying, “tomorrow Jehovah shall
hovah our God: behold, shall we do this thing in the land.” 6 And Je-
sacrifice the abomination of the hovah did that thing on the next
Egyptians before their eyes, and day; and all the cattle of Egypt died;
will they not stone us? 27 We will but of the cattle of the children of Is-
go three days’ journey into the rael died not one. 7 And Pharaoh
wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah sent, and, behold, there was not so
our God, as he shall command us.” much as one of the cattle of the Is-
28 And Pharaoh said, “I will let you raelites dead. But the heart of
go, that you may sacrifice to Jeho- Pharaoh was stubborn, and he did
vah your God in the wilderness; not let the people go.
only you shall not go very far away: 8 And Jehovah said to Moses and
entreat for me.” 29 And Moses said, to Aaron, “Take to you handfuls of
“Behold, I go out from you, and I ashes of the furnace, and let Moses
will entreat Jehovah that the sprinkle it toward heaven in the
swarms of flies may depart from sight of Pharaoh. 9 And it shall be-
Pharaoh, from his servants, and come small dust over all the land of
from his people, tomorrow: only do Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking
not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any forth with sores on man and on
more in not letting the people go to beast, throughout all the land of
sacrifice to Jehovah.” 30 And Moses Egypt.” 10 And they took ashes of
went out from Pharaoh, and en- the furnace, and stood before Phar-
treated Jehovah. 31 And Jehovah aoh; and Moses sprinkled it up to-
did according to the word of Moses; ward heaven; and it became a boil
and he removed the swarms of flies breaking forth with sores on man
from Pharaoh, from his servants, and on beast. 11 And the magicians
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could not stand before Moses be- heaven, that there may be hail in all
cause of the boils; for the boils were the land of Egypt, upon man, and
on the magicians, and on all the upon beast, and upon every herb of
Egyptians. 12 And Jehovah hard- the field, throughout the land of
ened the heart of Pharaoh, and he Egypt.” 23 And Moses stretched
did not listen to them, as Jehovah forth his rod toward heaven: and
had spoken to Moses. Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and
13 And Jehovah said to Moses, fire ran down to the earth; and Je-
“Rise up early in the morning, and hovah rained hail upon the land of
stand before Pharaoh, and say to Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and fire
him, ‘Thus says Jehovah, the God of mingled with the hail, very griev-
the Hebrews, “Let my people go, ous, such as had not been in all the
that they may serve me. 14 For I land of Egypt since it became a na-
will this time send all my plagues tion. 25 And the hail struck
upon your heart, and upon your throughout all the land of Egypt all
servants, and upon your people; that was in the field, both man and
that you may know that there is beast; and the hail struck every
none like me in all the earth. 15 For herb of the field, and broke every
now I have put forth my hand, and tree of the field. 26 Only in the land
struck you and your people with of Goshen, where the children of Is-
pestilence, and you have been cut rael were, was there no hail.
off from the earth: 16 but indeed for 27 And Pharaoh sent, and called
this cause have I made you to for Moses and Aaron, and said to
stand, to show you my power, and them, “I have sinned this time: Je-
that my name may be declared hovah is righteous, and I and my
throughout all the earth. 17 As yet people are wicked. 28 Entreat Jeho-
you exalt yourself against my peo- vah; for there has been enough of
ple, that you will not let them go? these mighty thunderings and hail;
18 Behold, tomorrow about this and I will let you go, and you shall
time I will cause it to rain a very stay no longer.” 29 And Moses said
grievous hail, such as has not been to him, “As soon as I am gone out
in Egypt since the day it was of the city, I will spread abroad my
founded even until now. 19 Now hands to Jehovah; the thunders
therefore send, hasten in your cattle shall cease, neither shall there be
and all that you have in the field; for any more hail; that you may know
every man and beast that shall be that the earth is Jehovah’s. 30 But as
found in the field, and shall not be for you and your servants, I know
brought home, the hail shall come that you will not yet fear Jehovah
down upon them, and they shall God.” 31 And the flax and the bar-
die.” ’ ” 20 He who feared the word ley were struck: for the barley was
of Jehovah among the servants of in the ear, and the flax was in
Pharaoh made his servants and his bloom. 32 But the wheat and the
cattle flee into the houses: 21 and he spelt were not struck: for they were
who did not regard the word of Je- not grown up. 33 And Moses went
hovah left his servants and his cat- out of the city from Pharaoh, and
tle in the field. spread abroad his hands unto Jeho-
22 And Jehovah said to Moses, vah: and the thunders and hail
“Stretch forth your hand toward ceased, and the rain was not
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poured upon the earth. 34 And that Egypt is destroyed?” 8 And
when Pharaoh saw that the rain Moses and Aaron were brought
and the hail and the thunders were again to Pharaoh: and he said to
ceased, he sinned yet more, and them, “Go, serve Jehovah your
hardened his heart, he and his ser- God; but who are those who shall
vants. 35 And the heart of Pharaoh go?” 9 And Moses said, “We will go
was hardened, and he did not let with our young and with our old;
the children of Israel go, as Jehovah with our sons and with our daugh-
had spoken by Moses. ters, with our flocks and with our

10 And Jehovah said to herds will we go; for we must hold

Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh: a feast to Jehovah.” 10 And he said
for I have hardened his heart, and to them, “So be Jehovah with you,
the heart of his servants, that I may as I will let you go, and your little
show these my signs in the midst of ones: look to it; for evil is before
them, 2 and that you may tell in the you. 11 Not so: go now you who are
ears of your son, and of your son’s men, and serve Jehovah; for that is
son, what things I have worked what you desire.” And they were
upon Egypt, and my signs which I driven out from Pharaoh’s pres-
have done among them; that you ence.
may know that I am Jehovah.” 3 12 And Jehovah said to Moses,
And Moses and Aaron went in to “Stretch out your hand over the
Pharaoh, and said to him, “Thus land of Egypt for the locusts, that
says Jehovah, the God of the He- they may come up upon the land of
brews, ‘How long will you refuse to Egypt, and eat every herb of the
humble yourself before me? let my land, even all that the hail has left.”
people go, that they may serve me. 13 And Moses stretched forth his
4 Else, if you refuse to let my people rod over the land of Egypt, and Je-
go, behold, tomorrow will I bring hovah brought an east wind upon
locusts into your border: 5 and they the land all that day, and all the
shall cover the face of the earth, so night; and when it was morning,
that one shall not be able to see the the east wind brought the locusts.
earth: and they shall eat the residue 14 And the locusts went up over all
of that which is escaped, which re- the land of Egypt, and rested in all
mains to you from the hail, and the borders of Egypt; very grievous
shall eat every tree which grows for were they; before them there were
you out of the field: 6 and your no such locusts as they, neither after
houses shall be filled, and the them shall be such. 15 For they cov-
houses of all your servants, and the ered the face of the whole earth, so
houses of all the Egyptians; as nei- that the land was darkened; and
ther your fathers nor your fathers’ they ate every herb of the land, and
fathers have seen, since the day that all the fruit of the trees which the
they were upon the earth to this hail had left: and there remained
day.’ ” And he turned, and went out not any green thing, either tree or
from Pharaoh. 7 And Pharaoh’s ser- herb of the field, through all the
vants said to him, “How long shall land of Egypt. 16 Then Pharaoh
this man be a snare to us? let the called for Moses and Aaron in
men go, that they may serve Jeho- haste; and he said, “I have sinned
vah their God: do you not yet know against Jehovah your God, and
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against you. 17 Now therefore for- again no more.”
give, please, my sin only this once,
and entreat Jehovah your God, that
he may take away from me this 11 And Jehovah said unto
Moses, “Yet one plague more
death only.” 18 And he went out will I bring upon Pharaoh, and
from Pharaoh, and entreated Jeho- upon Egypt; afterwards he will let
vah. 19 And Jehovah turned an ex- you go from here: when he shall let
ceeding strong west wind, which you go, he shall surely thrust you
took up the locusts, and drove them out from here altogether. 2 Speak
into the Red Sea; there remained now in the ears of the people, and
not one locust in all the border of let them ask every man of his
Egypt. 20 But Jehovah hardened neighbor, and every woman of her
Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let neighbor, jewels of silver, and jew-
the children of Israel go. els of gold.” 3 And Jehovah gave
21 And Jehovah said to Moses, the people favor in the sight of the
“Stretch out your hand toward Egyptians. Moreover the man
heaven, that there may be darkness Moses was very great in the land of
over the land of Egypt, even dark- Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s ser-
ness which may be felt.” 22 And vants, and in the sight of the peo-
Moses stretched forth his hand to- ple.
ward heaven; and there was a thick 4 And Moses said, “Thus says Je-
darkness in all the land of Egypt hovah, ‘About midnight will I go
three days; 23 they did not see one out into the midst of Egypt: 5 and
another, neither rose any one from all the firstborn in the land of Egypt
his place for three days: but all the shall die, from the firstborn of
children of Israel had light in their Pharaoh who sits on his throne,
dwellings. 24 And Pharaoh called even to the firstborn of the maidser-
to Moses, and said, “Go, serve Jeho- vant who is behind the mill; and all
vah; only let your flocks and your the firstborn of cattle. 6 And there
herds be left behind: let your little shall be a great cry throughout all
ones also go with you.” 25 And the land of Egypt, such as there has
Moses said, “You must also give not been, nor shall be any more. 7
into our hand sacrifices and burnt But against any of the children of
offerings, that we may sacrifice to Israel shall not a dog move his
Jehovah our God. 26 Our cattle also tongue, against man or beast: that
shall go with us; there not a hoof you may know that Jehovah makes
shall be left behind: for of it must a distinction between the Egyptians
we take to serve Jehovah our God; and Israel. 8 And all these your ser-
and we do not know with what we vants shall come down to me, and
must serve Jehovah, until we come bow down themselves to me, say-
there.” 27 But Jehovah hardened ing, “Get out, and all the people
Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not who follow you”: and after that I
let them go. 28 And Pharaoh said to will go out.’ And he went out from
him, “Get from me, take heed to Pharaoh in hot anger.
yourself, see my face no more; for 9 And Jehovah said to Moses,
in the day you see my face you shall “Pharaoh will not listen to you; that
die.” 29 And Moses said, “You have my wonders may be multiplied in
spoken well; I will see your face the land of Egypt.” 10 And Moses
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and Aaron did all these wonders vah’s passover. 12 For I will go
before Pharaoh: and Jehovah hard- through the land of Egypt in that
ened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did night, and will strike all the first-
not let the children of Israel go out born in the land of Egypt, both man
of his land. and beast; and against all the gods

12 And Jehovah spoke to of Egypt I will execute judgments: I

Moses and Aaron in the land am Jehovah. 13 And the blood shall
of Egypt, saying, 2 “This month be to you for a token on the houses
shall be to you the beginning of where you are: and when I see the
months: it shall be the first month blood, I will pass over you, and
of the year to you. 3 Speak to all the there shall no plague be upon you
congregation of Israel, saying, ‘In to destroy you, when I strike the
the tenth day of this month they land of Egypt. 14 And this day shall
shall take to them every man a be to you for a memorial, and you
lamb, according to their fathers’ shall keep it a feast to Jehovah:
houses, a lamb for a household: 4 throughout your generations you
and if the household is too little for shall keep it a feast by an ordinance
a lamb, then shall he and his neigh- for ever.
bor next to his house take one ac- 15 “Seven days shall you eat un-
cording to the number of the souls; leavened bread; even the first day
according to every man’s eating you shall put away leaven out of
you shall make your count for the your houses: for whosoever eats
lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without leavened bread from the first day
blemish, a male a year old: you until the seventh day, that soul shall
shall take it from the sheep, or from be cut off from Israel. 16 And in the
the goats: 6 and you shall keep it first day there shall be to you a holy
until the fourteenth day of the same convocation, and in the seventh
month; and the whole assembly of day a holy convocation; no manner
the congregation of Israel shall kill of work shall be done in them, ex-
it at evening. 7 And they shall take cept that which every man must
of the blood, and put it on the two eat, that only may be done by you.
doorposts and on the lintel, upon 17 And you shall observe the feast of
the houses in which they shall eat unleavened bread; for in this very
it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh in same day have I brought your hosts
that night, roast with fire, and un- out of the land of Egypt: therefore
leavened bread; with bitter herbs shall you observe this day through-
they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat of it out your generations by an ordi-
raw, nor boiled at all with water, nance for ever. 18 In the first month,
but roast with fire; its head with its on the fourteenth day of the month
legs and with the inner parts of it. at evening, you shall eat unleav-
10 And you shall let nothing of it re- ened bread, until the twenty-first
main until the morning; but that day of the month at evening. 19
which remains of it until the morn- Seven days shall there be no leaven
ing you shall burn with fire. 11 And found in your houses: for whoso-
thus shall you eat it: with your loins ever eats that which is leavened,
girded, your sandals on your feet, that soul shall be cut off from the
and your staff in your hand; and congregation of Israel, whether he
you shall eat it in haste: it is Jeho- be a sojourner, or one who is born
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in the land. 20 You shall eat nothing And Pharaoh rose up in the night,
leavened; in all your habitations he, and all his servants, and all the
shall you eat unleavened bread.” Egyptians; and there was a great
21 Then Moses called for all the cry in Egypt, for there was not a
elders of Israel, and said to them, house where there was not one
“Draw out, and take lambs accord- dead. 31 And he called for Moses
ing to your families, and kill the and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise
passover. 22 And you shall take a up, get you forth from among my
bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the people, both you and the children
blood that is in the basin, and strike of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as
the lintel and the two doorposts you have said. 32 Take both your
with the blood that is in the basin; flocks and your herds, as you have
and none of you shall go out of the said, and be gone; and bless me
door of his house until the morn- also.” 33 And the Egyptians were
ing. 23 For Jehovah will pass urgent upon the people, to send
through to strike the Egyptians; them out of the land in haste; for
and when he sees the blood on the they said, “We are all dead men.” 34
lintel, and on the two doorposts, Je- And the people took their dough
hovah will pass over the door, and before it was leavened, their knead-
will not allow the destroyer to come ing troughs being bound up in their
in to your houses to strike you. 24 clothes on their shoulders. 35 And
And you shall observe this thing for the children of Israel did according
an ordinance to you and to your to the word of Moses; and they
sons for ever. 25 And it shall come asked of the Egyptians jewels of sil-
to pass, when you come to the land ver, and jewels of gold, and cloth-
which Jehovah will give you, ac- ing: 36 and Jehovah gave the people
cording as he has promised, that favor in the sight of the Egyptians,
you shall keep this service. 26 And so that they let them have what
it shall come to pass, when your they asked. And they despoiled the
children shall say to you, ‘What do Egyptians.
you mean by this service?’ 27 that 37 And the children of Israel jour-
you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of neyed from Rameses to Succoth,
Jehovah’s passover, who passed about six hundred thousand on
over the houses of the children of foot who were men, besides chil-
Israel in Egypt, when he struck the dren. 38 And a mixed multitude
Egyptians, and delivered our went up also with them; and flocks,
houses.’ ” And the people bowed and herds, even very much cattle.
the head and worshipped. 28 And 39 And they baked unleavened
the children of Israel went and did cakes of the dough which they
so; as Jehovah had commanded brought forth out of Egypt; for it
Moses and Aaron, so they did. was not leavened, because they
29 And it came to pass at mid- were thrust out of Egypt, and could
night, that Jehovah struck all the not delay, neither had they pre-
firstborn in the land of Egypt, from pared for themselves any provi-
the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on sions. 40 Now the time that the
his throne to the firstborn of the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt
captive who was in the dungeon; was four hundred and thirty years.
and all the firstborn of cattle. 30 41 And it came to pass at the end of
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four hundred and thirty years, even came out from Egypt, out of the
the very same day it came to pass, house of bondage; for by strength
that all the hosts of Jehovah went of hand Jehovah brought you out
out from the land of Egypt. 42 It is a from this place: there shall no leav-
night to be much observed to Jeho- ened bread be eaten. 4 This day you
vah for bringing them out from the go forth in the month Abib. 5 And it
land of Egypt: this is that night of shall be, when Jehovah shall bring
Jehovah, to be much observed by you into the land of the Canaanite,
all the children of Israel throughout and the Hittite, and the Amorite,
their generations. and the Hivite, and the Jebusite,
43 And Jehovah said to Moses which he swore to your fathers to
and Aaron, “This is the ordinance give you, a land flowing with milk
of the passover: there shall no for- and honey, that you shall keep this
eigner eat of it; 44 but every man’s service in this month. 6 Seven days
servant who is bought for money, you shall eat unleavened bread,
when you have circumcised him, and in the seventh day shall be a
then shall he eat of it. 45 A so- feast to Jehovah. 7 Unleavened
journer and a hired servant shall bread shall be eaten throughout the
not eat of it. 46 In one house shall it seven days; and there shall no leav-
be eaten; you shall not carry forth ened bread be seen with you, nei-
anything of the flesh abroad out of ther shall there be leaven seen with
the house; neither shall you break a you, in all your borders. 8 And you
bone of it. 47 All the congregation shall tell your son in that day, say-
of Israel shall keep it. 48 And when ing, ‘It is because of that which Je-
a stranger shall sojourn with you, hovah did for me when I came forth
and will keep the passover to Jeho- out of Egypt.’ 9 And it shall be for a
vah, let all his males be circum- sign to you upon your hand, and
cised, and then let him come near for a memorial between your eyes,
and keep it; and he shall be as one that the law of Jehovah may be in
who is born in the land: but no un- your mouth: for with a strong hand
circumcised person shall eat of it. has Jehovah brought you out of
49 One law shall be to him who is Egypt. 10 You shall therefore keep
native, and to the stranger who so- this ordinance in its season from
journs among you.” 50 Thus did all year to year.
the children of Israel; as Jehovah 11 “And it shall be, when Jehovah
commanded Moses and Aaron, so shall bring you into the land of the
they did. 51 And it came to pass the Canaanite, as he swore to you and
very same day, that Jehovah to your fathers, and shall give it
brought the children of Israel out of you, 12 that you shall set apart to
the land of Egypt by their hosts. Jehovah all that opens the womb,

13 And Jehovah spoke to and every firstborn which you have

Moses, saying, 2 “Sanctify to that comes from a beast; the males
me all the firstborn, whatsoever shall be Jehovah’s. 13 And every
opens the womb among the chil- firstborn of a donkey you shall re-
dren of Israel, both of man and of deem with a lamb; and if you will
beast: it is mine.” not redeem it, then you shall break
3 And Moses said to the people, its neck: and all the firstborn of man
“Remember this day, in which you among your sons shall you redeem.
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14 And it shall be, when your son
asks you in time to come, saying, 14 And Jehovah spoke to
Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to
‘What is this?’ that you shall say to the children of Israel, that they turn
him, ‘By strength of hand Jehovah back and encamp before Pi-hahi-
brought us out from Egypt, from roth, between Migdol and the sea,
the house of bondage: 15 and it before Baal-zephon: opposite it
came to pass, when Pharaoh would shall you encamp by the sea. 3 And
hardly let us go, that Jehovah slew Pharaoh will say of the children of
all the firstborn in the land of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the
Egypt, both the firstborn of man, land, the wilderness has shut them
and the firstborn of beast: therefore in.’ 4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s
I sacrifice to Jehovah all that opens heart, and he shall follow after
the womb, being males; but all the them; and I will get honor upon
firstborn of my sons I redeem.’ 16 Pharaoh, and upon all his host: and
And it shall be for a sign on your the Egyptians shall know that I am
hand, and for frontlets between Jehovah.” And they did so. 5 And it
your eyes: for by strength of hand was told the king of Egypt that the
Jehovah brought us forth out of people had fled: and the heart of
Egypt.” Pharaoh and of his servants was
17 And it came to pass, when changed towards the people, and
Pharaoh had let the people go, that they said, “What is this we have
God did not lead them by the way done, that we have let Israel go
of the land of the Philistines, al- from serving us?” 6 And he made
though that was near; for God said, ready his chariot, and took his peo-
“Lest perhaps the people repent ple with him: 7 and he took six hun-
when they see war, and they return dred chosen chariots, and all the
to Egypt”: 18 but God led the peo- chariots of Egypt, and captains over
ple around, by the way of the all of them. 8 And Jehovah hard-
wilderness by the Red Sea: and the ened the heart of Pharaoh king of
children of Israel went up armed Egypt, and he pursued after the
out of the land of Egypt. 19 And children of Israel: for the children of
Moses took the bones of Joseph Israel went out with a high hand. 9
with him: for he had strictly sworn And the Egyptians pursued after
the children of Israel, saying, “God them, all the horses and chariots of
will surely visit you; and you shall Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his
carry up my bones away from here army, and overtook them encamp-
with you.” 20 And they took their ing by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth,
journey from Succoth, and en- before Baal-zephon.
camped in Etham, in the edge of the 10 And when Pharaoh drew near,
wilderness. 21 And Jehovah went the children of Israel lifted up their
before them by day in a pillar of eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians
cloud, to lead them the way, and by were marching after them; and they
night in a pillar of fire, to give them were severely afraid: and the chil-
light; that they might go by day and dren of Israel cried out to Jehovah.
by night: 22 the pillar of cloud by 11 And they said to Moses, “Be-
day, and the pillar of fire by night, cause there were no graves in
did not depart from before the peo- Egypt, have you taken us away to
ple. die in the wilderness? why have
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you dealt thus with us, to bring us the sea dry land, and the waters
forth out of Egypt? 12 Is not this the were divided. 22 And the children
word that we spoke to you in of Israel went into the midst of the
Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that sea on the dry ground: and the wa-
we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it ters were a wall to them on their
were better for us to serve the right hand, and on their left. 23 And
Egyptians, than that we should die the Egyptians pursued, and went in
in the wilderness.” 13 And Moses after them into the midst of the sea,
said to the people, “Do not fear, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots,
stand still, and see the salvation of and his horsemen. 24 And it came
Jehovah, which he will work for to pass in the morning watch, that
you today: for the Egyptians whom Jehovah looked forth upon the host
you have seen today, you shall see of the Egyptians through the pillar
them again no more for ever. 14 Je- of fire and of cloud, and confused
hovah will fight for you, and you the army of the Egyptians. 25 And
shall hold your peace.” he took off their chariot wheels, and
15 And Jehovah said to Moses, they drove them heavily; so that the
“Why do you cry unto me? speak to Egyptians said, “Let us flee from
the children of Israel, that they go the face of Israel; for Jehovah fights
forward. 16 And lift up your rod, for them against the Egyptians.”
and stretch out your hand over the 26 And Jehovah said to Moses,
sea, and divide it: and the children “Stretch out your hand over the sea,
of Israel shall go into the midst of that the waters may come again
the sea on dry ground. 17 And I, be- upon the Egyptians, upon their
hold, I will harden the hearts of the chariots, and upon their horse-
Egyptians, and they shall go in after men.” 27 And Moses stretched
them: and I will get honor upon forth his hand over the sea, and the
Pharaoh, and upon all his army, sea returned to its strength when
upon his chariots, and upon his the morning appeared; and the
horsemen. 18 And the Egyptians Egyptians fled against it; and Jeho-
shall know that I am Jehovah, when vah overthrew the Egyptians in the
I have gotten honor upon Pharaoh, midst of the sea. 28 And the waters
upon his chariots, and upon his returned, and covered the chariots,
horsemen.” 19 And the angel of and the horsemen, even all the
God, who went before the camp of army of Pharaoh that went in after
Israel, removed and went behind them into the sea; there remained
them; and the pillar of cloud re- not so much as one of them. 29 But
moved from before them, and the children of Israel walked on dry
stood behind them: 20 and it came land in the midst of the sea; and the
between the camp of Egypt and the waters were a wall to them on their
camp of Israel; and there was the right hand, and on their left. 30
cloud and the darkness, yet gave it Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day
light by night: and the one did not out of the hand of the Egyptians;
come near the other all the night. and Israel saw the Egyptians dead
21 And Moses stretched out his on the seashore. 31 And Israel saw
hand over the sea; and Jehovah the great work which Jehovah did
caused the sea to go back by a strong upon the Egyptians, and the people
east wind all the night, and made feared Jehovah: and they believed
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in Jehovah, and in his servant
Moses.
15 Then sang Moses and the 11 Who is like you, O Jehovah,
children of Israel this song to
Jehovah, and spoke, saying,
“I will sing to Jehovah, for he has
triumphed gloriously:
The horse and his rider has he
thrown into the sea.
2 Jehovah is my strength and song,
And he has become my salvation: 13 You in your lovingkindness
This is my God, and I will praise
him;
My father’s God, and I will exalt
him.
3 Jehovah is a man of war:
Jehovah is his name.
4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his army
has he cast into the sea;
And his chosen captains are sunk
in the Red Sea.
5 The deeps cover them:
They went down into the depths
like a stone.
6 Your right hand, O Jehovah, is
glorious in power,
Your right hand, O Jehovah,
dashes in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of your ex-
cellency you overthrow those
who rise up against you:
You send forth your wrath, it con-
sumes them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of your nos-
trils the waters were piled up,
The floods stood upright as a 17 You will bring them in, and
heap;
The deeps were congealed in the
heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I
will overtake, I will divide the
spoil;
My desire shall be satisfied upon
them;
I will draw my sword, my hand
shall destroy them.’
10 You blew with your wind, the in with his chariots and with his
sea covered them:
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They sank as lead in the mighty
waters.
among the gods?
Who is like you, glorious in
holiness,
Fearful in praises, doing
wonders?
12 You stretch out your right hand,
The earth swallowed them.
have led the people that you
have redeemed:
You have guided them in your
strength to your holy
habitation.
14 The peoples have heard, they
tremble:
Pangs have taken hold on the
inhabitants of Philistia.
15 Then were the chiefs of Edom
dismayed;
The mighty men of Moab,
trembling takes hold upon
them:
All the inhabitants of Canaan
are melted away.
16 Terror and dread falls upon
them;
By the greatness of your arm
they are as still as a stone;
Until your people pass over, O
Jehovah,
Until the people pass over
whom you have purchased.
plant them in the mountain of
your inheritance,
The place, O Jehovah, which
you have made for you to
dwell in,
The sanctuary, O Lord, which
your hands have established.
18 Jehovah shall reign for ever and
ever.”
19 For the horses of Pharaoh went
horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah
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brought back the waters of the sea Sin, which is between Elim and
upon them; but the children of Is- Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the
rael walked on dry land in the second month after their departing
midst of the sea. 20 And Miriam the out of the land of Egypt. 2 And the
prophetess, the sister of Aaron, whole congregation of the children
took a timbrel in her hand; and all of Israel murmured against Moses
the women went out after her with and against Aaron in the wilder-
timbrels and with dances. 21 And ness: 3 and the children of Israel
Miriam answered them, said to them, “Would that we had
“Sing to Jehovah, for he has died by the hand of Jehovah in the
triumphed gloriously; land of Egypt, when we sat by the
The horse and his rider has he flesh pots, when we ate bread to the
thrown into the sea.” full; for you have brought us forth
22 And Moses led Israel onward into this wilderness, to kill this
from the Red Sea, and they went whole assembly with hunger.”
out into the wilderness of Shur; and 4 Then said Jehovah to Moses,
they went three days in the wilder- “Behold, I will rain bread from
ness, and found no water. 23 And heaven for you; and the people
when they came to Marah, they shall go out and gather a day’s por-
could not drink of the waters of tion every day, that I may test them,
Marah, for they were bitter: there- whether they will walk in my law,
fore the name of it was called or not. 5 And it shall come to pass
Marah. 24 And the people mur- on the sixth day, that they shall pre-
mured against Moses, saying, pare that which they bring in, and it
“What shall we drink?” 25 And he shall be twice as much as they
cried to Jehovah; and Jehovah gather daily.” 6 And Moses and
showed him a tree, and he cast it Aaron said to all the children of Is-
into the waters, and the waters rael, “At evening, then you shall
were made sweet. There he made know that Jehovah has brought you
for them a statute and an ordi- out from the land of Egypt; 7 and in
nance, and there he tested them; 26 the morning, then you shall see the
and he said, “If you will diligently glory of Jehovah; for he hears your
listen to the voice of Jehovah your murmurings against Jehovah: and
God, and will do that which is right what are we, that you murmur
in his eyes, and will give ear to his against us?” 8 And Moses said,
commandments, and keep all his “This shall be, when Jehovah shall
statutes, I will put none of the dis- give you in the evening flesh to eat,
eases upon you, which I have put and in the morning bread to the
upon the Egyptians: for I am Jeho- full; for Jehovah hears your mur-
vah who heals you.” murings which you murmur
27 And they came to Elim, where against him: and what are we? your
were twelve springs of water, and murmurings are not against us, but
seventy palm trees: and they en- against Jehovah.” 9 And Moses said
camped there by the waters. to Aaron, “Say to all the congrega-

16 And they took their jour- tion of the children of Israel, ‘Come
ney from Elim, and all the near before Jehovah; for he has
congregation of the children of Is- heard your murmurings.’ ” 10 And
rael came unto the wilderness of it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to
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the whole congregation of the chil- by morning, every man according
dren of Israel, that they looked to- to his eating: and when the sun be-
ward the wilderness, and, behold, came hot, it melted. 22 And it came
the glory of Jehovah appeared in to pass, that on the sixth day they
the cloud. 11 And Jehovah spoke to gathered twice as much bread, two
Moses, saying, 12 “I have heard the omers for each one: and all the
murmurings of the children of Is- rulers of the congregation came and
rael: speak to them, saying, ‘At told Moses. 23 And he said to them,
evening you shall eat flesh, and in “This is that which Jehovah has
the morning you shall be filled with spoken, “Tomorrow is a solemn
bread: and you shall know that I am rest, a holy sabbath to Jehovah:
Jehovah your God.’ ” bake that which you will bake, and
13 And it came to pass at evening, boil that which you will boil; and
that the quails came up, and cov- all that remains over lay up for you
ered the camp: and in the morning to be kept until the morning.” 24
the dew lay all around the camp. 14 And they laid it up until the morn-
And when the dew that lay was ing, as Moses commanded: and it
gone up, behold, upon the face of did not become foul, neither was
the wilderness a small round thing, there any worm in it. 25 And Moses
small as the frost on the ground. 15 said, “Eat that today; for today is a
And when the children of Israel sabbath to Jehovah: today you shall
saw it, they said one to another, not find it in the field. 26 Six days
“What is it?” for they did not know you shall gather it; but on the sev-
what it was. And Moses said to enth day is the sabbath, in it there
them, “It is the bread which Jeho- shall be none.” 27 And it came to
vah has given you to eat. 16 This is pass on the seventh day, that there
the thing which Jehovah has com- went out some of the people to
manded, ‘Gather of it every man gather, and they found none. 28
according to his eating; an omer a And Jehovah said to Moses, “How
head, according to the number of long do you refuse to keep my com-
your persons, shall you take it, ev- mandments and my laws? 29 See,
ery man for those who are in his for Jehovah has given you the Sab-
tent.’ ” 17 And the children of Israel bath, therefore he gives you on the
did so, and gathered some more, sixth day the bread of two days; re-
some less. 18 And when they mea- main every man in his place, let no
sured it with an omer, he who gath- man go out of his place on the sev-
ered much had nothing over, and enth day.” 30 So the people rested
he who gathered little had no lack; on the seventh day.
they gathered every man according 31 And the house of Israel called
to his eating. 19 And Moses said to the name of it Manna: and it was
them, “Let no man leave of it until like coriander seed, white; and the
the morning. 20 Notwithstanding taste of it was like wafers made with
they did not listen to Moses; but honey. 32 And Moses said, “This is
some of them left of it until the the thing which Jehovah has com-
morning, and it bred worms, and manded, ‘Let an omerful of it be
became foul: and Moses was angry kept throughout your generations,
with them. that they may see the bread with
21 And they gathered it morning which I fed you in the wilderness,
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when I brought you forth from the place Massah, and Meribah, be-
land of Egypt.’ ” 33 And Moses said cause of the striving of the children
to Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an of Israel, and because they tempted
omerful of manna in it, and lay it Jehovah, saying, “Is Jehovah
up before Jehovah, to be kept among us, or not?”
throughout your generations.” 34 8 Then came Amalek, and fought
As Jehovah commanded Moses, so with Israel in Rephidim. 9 And
Aaron laid it up before the Testi- Moses said to Joshua, “Choose us
mony, to be kept. 35 And the chil- out men, and go out, fight with
dren of Israel ate the manna forty Amalek: tomorrow I will stand on
years, until they came to a land in- the top of the hill with the rod of
habited; they ate the manna, until God in my hand.” 10 So Joshua did
they came to the borders of the land as Moses had said to him, and
of Canaan. 36 Now an omer is the fought with Amalek: and Moses,
tenth part of an ephah. Aaron, and Hur went up to the top

17 And all the congregation of of the hill. 11 And it came to pass,

the children of Israel jour- when Moses held up his hand, that
neyed from the wilderness of Sin, Israel prevailed; and when he let
by their journeys, according to the down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
commandment of Jehovah, and en- 12 But Moses’ hands were heavy;
camped in Rephidim: and there and they took a stone, and put it
was no water for the people to under him, and he sat on it; and
drink. 2 Therefore the people strove Aaron and Hur held up his hands,
with Moses, and said, “Give us wa- the one on the one side, and the
ter that we may drink.” And Moses other on the other side; and his
said to them, “Why do you strive hands were steady until the going
with me? why do you tempt Jeho- down of the sun. 13 And Joshua de-
vah?” 3 And the people thirsted feated Amalek and his people with
there for water; and the people the edge of the sword. 14 And Jeho-
murmured against Moses, and vah said to Moses, “Write this for a
said, “Why have you brought us up memorial in a book, and rehearse it
out of Egypt, to kill us and our chil- in the ears of Joshua: that I will ut-
dren and our cattle with thirst?” 4 terly blot out the remembrance of
And Moses cried to Jehovah, say- Amalek from under heaven.” 15
ing, “What shall I do to this people? And Moses built an altar, and called
they are almost ready to stone me.” the name of it Jehovah-nissi; 16
5 And Jehovah said to Moses, “Pass And he said, “Jehovah has sworn:
on before the people, and take with Jehovah will have war with Amalek
you of the elders of Israel; and your from generation to generation.”
rod, with which you struck the
river, take in your hand, and go. 6 18 Now Jethro, the priest of
Midian, Moses’ father-in-
Behold, I will stand before you law, heard of all that God had done
there upon the rock in Horeb; and for Moses, and for Israel his people,
you shall strike the rock, and there how that Jehovah had brought Is-
shall come water out of it, that the rael out of Egypt. 2 And Jethro,
people may drink.” And Moses did Moses’ father-in-law, took Zippo-
so in the sight of the elders of Israel. rah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent
7 And he called the name of the her away, 3 and her two sons; of
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whom the name of the one was the evening. 14 And when Moses’
Gershom; for he said, “I have been father-in-law saw all that he did to
a sojourner in a foreign land”: 4 and the people, he said, “What is this
the name of the other was Eliezer; thing that you do to the people?
for he said, The God of my father why are you sitting yourself alone,
was my help, and delivered me and all the people stand around
from the sword of Pharaoh. 5 And you from morning to evening?” 15
Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came And Moses said to his father-in-
with his sons and his wife to Moses law, “Because the people come to
into the wilderness where he was me to inquire of God: 16 when they
encamped, at the mount of God: 6 have a matter, they come to me; and
and he said to Moses, “I, your fa- I judge between a man and his
ther-in-law Jethro, have come to neighbor, and I make them know
you, and your wife, and her two the statutes of God, and his laws.”
sons with her.” 7 And Moses went 17 And Moses’ father-in-law said to
out to meet his father-in-law, and him, “The thing that you do is not
did obeisance, and kissed him: and good. 18 You will surely wear away,
they asked each other of their wel- both you, and this people who is
fare; and they came into the tent. 8 with you: for the thing is too heavy
And Moses told his father-in-law for you; you are not able to perform
all that Jehovah had done to it yourself alone. 19 Listen now to
Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for my voice, I will give you counsel,
Israel’s sake, all the travail that had and God be with you: be for the
come upon them by the way, and people toward God, and bring the
how Jehovah delivered them. 9 causes to God: 20 and you shall
And Jethro rejoiced for all the good- teach them the statutes and the
ness which Jehovah had done to Is- laws, and shall show them the way
rael, in that he had delivered them in which they must walk, and the
out of the hand of the Egyptians. 10 work that they must do. 21 More-
And Jethro said, “Blessed be Jeho- over you shall provide out of all the
vah, who has delivered you out of people able men, such as fear God,
the hand of the Egyptians, and out men of truth, hating unjust gain;
of the hand of Pharaoh; who has and place such over them, to be
delivered the people from under rulers of thousands, rulers of hun-
the hand of the Egyptians. 11 Now dreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of
I know that Jehovah is greater than tens: 22 and let them judge the peo-
all gods; yes, in the thing in which ple at all seasons: and it shall be,
they dealt proudly against them.” that every great matter they shall
12 And Jethro, Moses’ father-in- bring to you, but every small mat-
law, took a burnt offering and sacri- ter they shall judge themselves: so
fices for God: and Aaron came, and shall it be easier for yourself, and
all the elders of Israel, to eat bread they shall bear the burden with you.
with Moses’ father-in-law before 23 If you shall do this thing, and
God. God command you so, then you
13 And it came to pass on the next shall be able to endure, and all this
day, that Moses sat to judge the people also shall go to their place in
people: and the people stood peace.” 24 So Moses listened to the
around Moses from the morning to voice of his father-in-law, and did
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all that he had said. 25 And Moses that the people may hear when I
chose able men out of all Israel, and speak with you, and may also be-
made them heads over the people, lieve you for ever.” And Moses told
rulers of thousands, rulers of hun- the words of the people to Jehovah.
dreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of 10 And Jehovah said to Moses, “Go
tens. 26 And they judged the people to the people, and sanctify them to-
at all seasons: the hard causes they day and tomorrow, and let them
brought to Moses, but every small wash their garments, 11 and be
matter they judged themselves. 27 ready against the third day; for the
And Moses let his father-in-law de- third day Jehovah will come down
part; and he went his way into his in the sight of all the people upon
own land. Mount Sinai. 12 And you shall set

19 In the third month after the bounds to the people all around,
children of Israel were gone saying, ‘Take heed to yourselves,
forth out of the land of Egypt, the that you do not go up into the
same day they came into the mountain, or touch the border of it:
wilderness of Sinai. 2 And when whosoever touches the mountain
they had departed from Rephidim, shall be surely put to death: 13 no
and had come to the wilderness of hand shall touch him, but he shall
Sinai, they encamped in the wilder- surely be stoned, or shot through;
ness; and there Israel encamped be- whether it be beast or man, he shall
fore the mountain. 3 And Moses not live: when the trumpet sounds
went up to God, and Jehovah called long, they shall come up to the
to him out of the mountain, saying, mountain.’ ” 14 And Moses went
“Thus shall you say to the house of down from the mountain to the
Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: people, and sanctified the people;
4 ‘You have seen what I did to the and they washed their garments. 15
Egyptians, and how I bore you on And he said to the people, “Be
eagles’ wings, and brought you to ready against the third day: do not
myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will come near a woman.”
obey my voice indeed, and keep 16 And it came to pass on the
my covenant, then you shall be my third day, when it was morning,
own possession from among all that there were thunders and light-
peoples: for all the earth is mine: 6 nings, and a thick cloud upon the
and you shall be to me a kingdom mountain, and the voice of a trum-
of priests, and a holy nation.’ These pet exceedingly loud; and all the
are the words which you shall people who were in the camp trem-
speak unto the children of Israel.” bled. 17 And Moses brought forth
7 And Moses came and called for the people out of the camp to meet
the elders of the people, and set be- God; and they stood at the lowest
fore them all these words which Je- part of the mountain. 18 And
hovah commanded him. 8 And all Mount Sinai, the whole of it,
the people answered together, and smoked, because Jehovah de-
said, “All that Jehovah has spoken scended upon it in fire; and the
we will do.” And Moses reported smoke of it ascended as the smoke
the words of the people to Jehovah. of a furnace, and the whole moun-
9 And Jehovah said to Moses, “Be- tain quaked greatly. 19 And when
hold, I come to you in a thick cloud, the voice of the trumpet became
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louder and louder, Moses spoke, mandments.
and God answered him by a voice. 7 You shall not take the name of
20 And Jehovah came down upon Jehovah your God in vain; for Jeho-
Mount Sinai, to the top of the vah will not hold him guiltless who
mountain: and Jehovah called takes his name in vain.
Moses to the top of the mountain; 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to
and Moses went up. 21 And Jeho- keep it holy. 9 Six days shall you la-
vah said to Moses, “Go down, bor, and do all your work; 10 but
charge the people, lest they break the seventh day is a Sabbath to Je-
through to Jehovah to gaze, and hovah your God: in it you shall not
many of them perish. 22 And let the do any work, you, nor your son,
priests also, who come near to Jeho- nor your daughter, your male ser-
vah, sanctify themselves, lest Jeho- vant, nor your female servant, nor
vah break forth upon them.” 23 your cattle, nor your stranger who
And Moses said to Jehovah, “The is within your gates: 11 for in six
people cannot come up to Mount days Jehovah made heaven and
Sinai: for you charged us, saying, earth, the sea, and all that in them
‘Set bounds around the mountain, is, and rested the seventh day:
and sanctify it.’ ” 24 And Jehovah therefore Jehovah blessed the Sab-
said to him, “Go, get down; and bath day, and hallowed it.
you shall come up, you, and Aaron 12 Honor your father and your
with you: but do not let the priests mother, that your days may be long
and the people break through to in the land which Jehovah your
come up to Jehovah, lest he break God gives you.
forth upon them.” 25 So Moses 13 You shall not kill.
went down to the people, and told 14 You shall not commit adultery.
them. 15 You shall not steal.

20 And God spoke all these

words, saying,
2 “I am Jehovah your God, who
16 You shall not bear false witness
against your neighbor.
17 You shall not covet your neigh-
brought you out of the land of bor’s house, you shall not covet
Egypt, out of the house of bondage. your neighbor’s wife, nor his male
3 You shall have no other gods be- servant, nor his female servant, nor
fore me. his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything
4 You shall not make to you a that is your neighbor’s.”
graven image, nor any likeness of 18 And all the people perceived
any thing that is in heaven above, or the thunderings, and the light-
that is in the earth beneath, or that nings, and the voice of the trumpet,
is in the water under the earth: 5 and the mountain smoking: and
you shall not bow down yourself to when the people saw it, they trem-
them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah bled, and stood afar off. 19 And
your God am a jealous God, visit- they said to Moses, “Speak with us,
ing the iniquity of the fathers upon and we will hear; but do not let God
the children, upon the third and speak with us, lest we die.” 20 And
upon the fourth generation of those Moses said to the people, “Do not
who hate me, 6 and showing lov- fear: for God is come to test you,
ingkindness to thousands of those and that his fear may be before you,
who love me and keep my com- that you do not sin.” 21 And the
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people stood afar off, and Moses she does not please her master, who
drew near to the thick darkness has betrothed her to himself, then
where God was. shall he let her be redeemed: to sell
22 And Jehovah said to Moses, her to a foreign people he shall
“Thus you shall say to the children have no power, seeing he has dealt
of Israel, ‘You yourselves have seen deceitfully with her. 9 And if he be-
that I have talked with you from troths her to his son, he shall deal
heaven. 23 You shall not make other with her after the manner of daugh-
gods with me; gods of silver, or gods ters. 10 If he takes to him another
of gold, you shall not make to you. wife; her food, her clothing, and her
24 An altar of earth you shall make duty of marriage, shall he not di-
to me, and shall sacrifice on it your minish. 11 And if he does not do
burnt offerings, and your peace these three things to her, then shall
offerings, your sheep, and your ox- she go out for nothing, without
en: in every place where I record money.
my name I will come to you and I 12 He who sticks a man, so that he
will bless you. 25 And if you make dies, shall surely be put to death. 13
me an altar of stone, you shall not And if a man did not lie in wait, but
build it of hewn stones; for if you God delivered him into his hand;
lift up your tool upon it, you have then I will appoint you a place to
polluted it. 26 Neither shall you go which he shall flee. 14 And if a man
up by steps to my altar, that your comes presumptuously upon his
nakedness be not uncovered on it.’ neighbor, to slay him with deceit;

21 Now these are the ordi- you shall take him from my altar,
nances which you shall set that he may die.
before them. 15 And he who strikes his father,
2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, six or his mother, shall be surely put to
years he shall serve: and in the sev- death.
enth he shall go out free for noth- 16 And he who steals a man, and
ing. 3 If he comes in by himself, he sells him, or if he is found in his
shall go out by himself: if he is mar- hand, he shall surely be put to
ried, then his wife shall go out with death.
him. 4 If his master gives him a wife 17 And he who curses his father
and she bears him sons or daugh- or his mother, shall surely be put to
ters; the wife and her children shall death.
be her master’s, and he shall go out 18 And if men contend, and one
by himself. 5 But if the servant shall strikes the other with a stone, or
plainly say, ‘I love my master, my with his fist, and he does not die,
wife, and my children; I will not go but keeps his bed; 19 if he rises
out free’: 6 then his master shall again, and walks abroad upon his
bring him to God, and shall bring staff, then shall he who struck him
him to the door, or to the doorpost; be free: only he shall pay for the
and his master shall bore his ear loss of his time, and shall cause him
through with an awl; and he shall to be thoroughly healed.
serve him for ever. 20 And if a man strikes his ser-
7 And if a man sells his daughter vant, or his maid, with a rod, and
to be a female servant, she shall not he dies under his hand; he shall
go out as the male servants do. 8 If surely be punished. 21 Notwith-
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standing, if he continues a day or make it good; he shall give money
two, he shall not be punished: for to the owner of it, and the dead
he is his money. beast shall be his.
22 And if men strive together, and 35 And if one man’s ox hurt an-
hurt a woman with child, so that other’s, so that it dies, then they
her fruit departs, and yet no harm shall sell the live ox, and divide the
follows; he shall be surely fined, ac- price of it; and the dead also they
cording as the woman’s husband shall divide. 36 Or if it be known
shall lay upon him; and he shall that the ox was accustomed to gore
pay as the judges determine. 23 But in time past, and its owner has not
if any harm follow, then you shall kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for
give life for life, 24 eye for eye, ox, and the dead beast shall be his
tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot own.
for foot, 25 burning for burning,
wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 22 If a man shall steal an ox, or
a sheep, and kill it, or sell it;
26 And if a man strikes the eye of he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and
his servant, or the eye of his maid, four sheep for a sheep. 2 If the thief
and destroy it; he shall let him go is found breaking in, and is struck
free for his eye’s sake. 27 And if he so that he dies, there shall be no
strikes out his male servant’s tooth, bloodguiltiness for him. 3 If the sun
or his female servant’s tooth, he is risen upon him, there shall be
shall let him go free for his tooth’s bloodguiltiness for him; he shall
sake. make restitution: if he has nothing,
28 And if an ox gore a man or a then he shall be sold for his theft. 4
woman to death, the ox shall be If the theft be found in his hand
surely stoned, and its flesh shall not alive, whether it be ox, or donkey,
be eaten; but the owner of the ox or sheep, he shall pay double.
shall be free. 29 But if the ox was ac- 5 If a man shall cause a field or
customed to gore in time past, and vineyard to be eaten, and shall let
it has been testified to its owner, his beast loose, and it feed in an-
and he has not kept it in, but it has other man’s field; of the best of his
killed a man or a woman; the ox own field, and of the best of his
shall be stoned, and its owner also own vineyard, shall he make resti-
shall be put to death. 30 If there be tution.
laid on him a ransom, then he shall 6 If fire breaks out, and catches in
give for the redemption of his life thorns, so that the shocks of grain,
whatsoever is laid upon him. 31 or the standing grain, or the field
Whether it has gored a son, or has are consumed; he who kindled the
gored a daughter, according to this fire shall surely make restitution.
judgment shall it be done to him. 32 7 If a man shall deliver to his
If the ox gore a male servant or a fe- neighbor money or stuff to keep,
male servant, there shall be given to and it is stolen out of the man’s
their master thirty shekels of silver, house; if the thief is found, he shall
and the ox shall be stoned. pay double. 8 If the thief is not
33 And if a man shall open a pit, found, then the master of the house
or if a man shall dig a pit and not shall come near to God, to see
cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls whether he has not put his hand to
in it, 34 the owner of the pit shall his neighbor’s goods. 9 For every
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matter of trespass, whether it is for fatherless child. 23 If you afflict
ox, for donkey, for sheep, for cloth- them at all, and they cry at all to
ing, or for any manner of lost thing, me, I will surely hear their cry; 24
of which one says, ‘This is it’, the and my wrath shall become hot,
cause of both parties shall come be- and I will kill you with the sword;
fore God; he whom God shall con- and your wives shall be widows,
demn shall pay double to his and your children fatherless.
neighbor. 25 If you lend money to any of my
10 If a man delivers to his neigh- people with you who is poor, you
bor a donkey, or an ox, or a sheep, shall not be to him as a creditor; nei-
or any beast, to keep; and it dies, or ther shall you lay upon him inter-
is hurt, or driven away, no man see- est. 26 If you at all take your
ing it: 11 the oath of Jehovah shall neighbor’s garment to pledge, you
be between them both, whether he shall restore it to him before the sun
has not put his hand to his neigh- does down: 27 for that is his only
bor’s goods; and the owner of it covering, it is his garment for his
shall accept it, and he shall not skin: in what shall he sleep? and it
make restitution. 12 But if it is shall come to pass, when he cries to
stolen from him, he shall make me, that I will hear; for I am gra-
restitution to the owner of it. 13 If it cious.
is torn in pieces, let him bring it for 28 You shall not revile God, nor
witness: he shall not make good curse a ruler of your people. 29 You
that which was torn. shall not delay to offer of your har-
14 And if a man borrows anything vest, and of the outflow of your
of his neighbor, and it is hurt, or presses. The firstborn of your sons
dies, the owner of it not being with shall you give to me. 30 Likewise
it, he shall surely make restitution. shall you do with your oxen, and
15 If the owner of it is with it, he with your sheep: seven days it shall
shall not make it good: if it is a be with its dam; on the eighth day
hired thing, it came for its hire. you shall give it me. 31 And you
16 And if a man entices a virgin shall be holy men to me: therefore
who is not betrothed, and lies with you shall not eat any flesh that is
her, he shall surely pay a dowry for torn of beasts in the field; you shall
her to be his wife. 17 If her father cast it to the dogs.
utterly refuses to give her to him,
he shall pay money according to
the dowry of virgins.
23 You shall not take up a
false report: do not put your
hand with the wicked to be an un-
18 You shall not suffer a sorceress righteous witness. 2 You shall not
to live. follow a multitude to do evil; nei-
19 Whosoever lies with a beast ther shall you speak in a cause to
shall surely be put to death. turn aside after a multitude to twist
20 He who sacrifices to any god, justice: 3 neither shall you favor a
except to Jehovah only, shall be ut- poor man in his cause.
terly destroyed. 21 And a sojourner 4 If you meet your enemy’s ox or
shall you not wrong, neither shall his donkey going astray, you shall
you oppress him: for you were so- surely bring it back to him again. 5
journers in the land of Egypt. 22 If you see the donkey of him who
You shall not afflict any widow, or hate you lying under his burden,
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you shall refrain from leaving him, Three times in the year all your
you shall surely release it with him. males shall appear before the Lord
6 You shall not twist the justice Jehovah.
due to your poor in his cause. 7 18 You shall not offer the blood of
Keep far from a false matter; and my sacrifice with leavened bread;
the innocent and righteous do not neither shall the fat of my feast re-
slay: for I will not justify the main all night until the morning. 19
wicked. 8 And you shall take no The first of the first fruits of your
bribe: for a bribe blinds those who ground you shall bring into the
have sight, and perverts the words house of Jehovah your God. You
of the righteous. 9 And a sojourner shall not boil a kid in its mother’s
shall you not oppress: for you milk.
know the heart of a sojourner, see- 20 Behold, I send an angel before
ing you were sojourners in the land you, to keep you by the way, and to
of Egypt. bring you into the place which I
10 And six years you shall sow have prepared. 21 Take heed before
your land, and shall gather in the him, and listen to his voice; do not
increase of it: 11 but the seventh provoke him; for he will not pardon
year you shall let it rest and lie fal- your transgression: for my name is
low; that the poor of your people in him. 22 But if you shall indeed
may eat: and what they leave the listen to his voice, and do all that I
beast of the field shall eat. In like speak; then I will be an enemy to
manner you shall deal with your your enemies, and an adversary to
vineyard, and with your olive your adversaries. 23 For my angel
grove. 12 Six days you shall do shall go before you, and bring you
your work, and on the seventh day in to the Amorite, and the Hittite,
you shall rest; that your ox and and the Perizzite, and the Canaan-
your donkey may have rest, and the ite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: and
son of your handmaid, and the so- I will cut them off. 24 You shall not
journer, may be refreshed. 13 And bow down to their gods, nor serve
in all things that I have said to you them, nor do after their works; but
take heed: and make no mention of you shall utterly overthrow them,
the name of other gods, neither let and break in pieces their pillars. 25
it be heard out of your mouth. And you shall serve Jehovah your
14 Three times you shall keep a God, and he will bless your bread,
feast to me in the year. 15 The feast and your water; and I will take sick-
of unleavened bread shall you ness away from the midst of you. 26
keep: seven days you shall eat un- There shall none cast her young,
leavened bread, as I commanded nor be barren, in your land: the
you, at the time appointed in the number of your days I will fulfill.
month Abib (for in it you came out 27 I will send my terror before you,
from Egypt); and none shall appear and will confuse all the people to
before me empty: 16 and the feast whom you will come, and I will
of harvest, the first fruits of your make all your enemies turn their
labors, which you sow in the field: backs to you. 28 And I will send the
and the feast of ingathering, at the hornet before you, which shall
end of the year, when you gather in drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite,
your labors out of the field. 17 and the Hittite, from before you. 29
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I will not drive them out from be- and they said, “All that Jehovah has
fore you in one year, lest the land spoken will we do, and be obedi-
become desolate, and the beasts of ent.” 8 And Moses took the blood,
the field multiply against you. 30 and sprinkled it on the people, and
By little and little I will drive them said, “Behold the blood of the
out from before you, until you are covenant, which Jehovah has made
increased, and inherit the land. 31 with you concerning all these
And I will set your border from the words.”
Red Sea even unto the sea of the 9 Then went up Moses, and
Philistines, and from the wilder- Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and sev-
ness to the River: for I will deliver enty of the elders of Israel: 10 and
the inhabitants of the land into your they saw the God of Israel; and
hand: and you shall drive them out there was under his feet as it were a
before you. 32 You shall make no paved work of sapphire stone, and
covenant with them, nor with their as it were the very heaven for clear-
gods. 33 They shall not dwell in ness. 11 And upon the nobles of the
your land, lest they make you sin children of Israel he laid not his
against me; for if you serve their hand: and they beheld God, and
gods, it will surely be a snare to did eat and drink.
you.” 12 And Jehovah said to Moses,

24 And he said to Moses, “Come up to me into the mountain,

“Come up to Jehovah, you, and be there: and I will give you the
and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and tables of stone, and the law and the
seventy of the elders of Israel; and commandment, which I have writ-
worship afar off: 2 and Moses alone ten, that you may teach them.” 13
shall come near to Jehovah; but And Moses rose up, and Joshua his
they shall not come near; neither minister: and Moses went up into
shall the people go up with him.” 3 the mountain of God. 14 And he
And Moses came and told the peo- said to the elders, “Remain here for
ple all the words of Jehovah, and all us, until we come again to you: and,
the ordinances: and all the people behold, Aaron and Hur are with
answered with one voice, and said, you: whosoever has a cause, let him
“All the words which Jehovah has come near to them.” 15 And Moses
spoken will we do.” 4 And Moses went up into the mountain, and the
wrote all the words of Jehovah, and cloud covered the mountain. 16
rose up early in the morning, and And the glory of Jehovah abode
built an altar under the mountain, upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud
and twelve pillars, according to the covered it six days: and the seventh
twelve tribes of Israel. 5 And he day he called to Moses out of the
sent young men of the children of midst of the cloud. 17 And the ap-
Israel, who offered burnt offerings, pearance of the glory of Jehovah
and sacrificed peace offerings of was like devouring fire on the top
oxen to Jehovah. 6 And Moses took of the mountain in the eyes of the
half of the blood, and put it in children of Israel. 18 And Moses en-
basins; and half of the blood he tered into the midst of the cloud,
sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he and went up into the mountain:
took the book of the covenant, and and Moses was in the mountain
read in the audience of the people: forty days and forty nights.
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25 And Jehovah spoke to the breadth of it. 18 And you shall

Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to make two cherubim of gold; of
the children of Israel, that they take beaten work shall you make them,
for me an offering: of every man at the two ends of the mercy seat. 19
whose heart makes him willing you And make one cherub at the one
shall take my offering. 3 And this is end, and one cherub at the other
the offering which you shall take of end: of one piece with the mercy
them: gold, and silver, and brass, 4 seat shall you make the cherubim
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, on the two ends of it. 20 And the
and fine linen, and goats’ hair, 5 and cherubim shall spread out their
rams’ skins dyed red, and seal- wings on high, covering the mercy
skins, and acacia wood, 6 oil for the seat with their wings, with their
light, spices for the anointing oil, faces to one another; toward the
and for the sweet incense, 7 onyx mercy seat shall the faces of the
stones, and stones to be set, for the cherubim be. 21 And you shall put
ephod, and for the breastplate. 8 the mercy seat above upon the ark;
And let them make me a sanctuary, and in the ark you shall put the tes-
that I may dwell among them. 9 Ac- timony that I shall give you. 22 And
cording to all that I show you, the there I will meet with you, and I
pattern of the tabernacle, and the will commune with you from
pattern of all the furniture of it, above the mercy seat, from between
even so shall you make it. the two cherubim which are upon
10 And they shall make an ark of the ark of the testimony, of all
acacia wood: two and a half cubits things which I will give you in com-
shall be the length of it, and a cubit mandment to the children of Israel.
and a half the breadth of it, and a 23 And you shall make a table of
cubit and a half the height of it. 11 acacia wood: two cubits shall be the
And you shall overlay it with pure length of it, and a cubit the breadth
gold, inside and outside shall you of it, and a cubit and a half the
overlay it, and shall make upon it a height of it. 24 And you shall over-
crown of gold all around. 12 And lay it with pure gold, and make to it
you shall cast four rings of gold for a crown of gold all around. 25 And
it, and put them in the four feet of you shall make to it a border of a
it; and two rings shall be on the one handbreadth all around; and you
side of it, and two rings on the other shall make a golden crown to the
side of it. 13 And you shall make border of it all around. 26 And you
poles of acacia wood, and overlay shall make for it four rings of gold,
them with gold. 14 And you shall and put the rings in the four cor-
put the poles into the rings on the ners that are on the four feet of it. 27
sides of the ark, with which to bear Close by the border shall the rings
the ark. 15 The poles shall be in the be, for places for the poles to bear
rings of the ark: they shall not be the table. 28 And you shall make
taken from it. 16 And you shall put the poles of acacia wood, and over-
into the ark the testimony which I lay them with gold, that the table
shall give you. 17 And you shall may be borne with them. 29 And
make a mercy seat of pure gold: you shall make the dishes of it, and
two and a half cubits shall be the the spoons of it, and the pitchers of
length of it, and a cubit and a half it, and the bowls of it, with which to
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pour out: of pure gold shall you bim the work of the skillful work-
make them. 30 And you shall set on man shall you make them. 2 The
the table showbread before me al- length of each curtain shall be
ways. twenty-eight cubits, and the
31 And you shall make a candle- breadth of each curtain four cubits:
stick of pure gold: of beaten work all the curtains shall have one mea-
shall the candlestick be made, even sure. 3 Five curtains shall be cou-
its base, and its shaft; its cups, its pled together to one another; and
knops, and its flowers, shall be of the other five curtains shall be cou-
one piece with it: 32 and there shall pled to one another. 4 And you
be six branches going out of the shall make loops of blue on the
sides of it; three branches of the edge of the one curtain from the
candlestick out of the one side of it, selvedge in the coupling; and like-
and three branches of the candle- wise shall you make in the edge of
stick out of the other side of it: 33 the curtain that is outermost in the
three cups made like almond blos- second coupling. 5 Fifty loops shall
soms in one branch, a knop and a you make in the one curtain, and
flower; and three cups made like al- fifty loops shall you make in the
mond blossom in the other branch, edge of the curtain that is in the sec-
a knop and a flower: so for the six ond coupling; the loops shall be op-
branches going out of the candle- posite to one another. 6 And you
stick: 34 and in the candlestick four shall make fifty clasps of gold, and
cups made like almond blossoms, couple the curtains to one another
the knops of it, and the flowers of it; with the clasps: and the tabernacle
35 and a knop under two branches shall be one whole.
of one piece with it, and a knop un- 7 And you shall make curtains of
der two branches of one piece with goats’ hair for a tent over the taber-
it, and a knop under two branches nacle: eleven curtains shall you
of one piece with it, for the six make them. 8 The length of each
branches going out of the candle- curtain shall be thirty cubits, and
stick. 36 Their knops and their the breadth of each curtain four cu-
branches shall be of one piece with bits: the eleven curtains shall have
it; the whole of it one beaten work one measure. 9 And you shall cou-
of pure gold. 37 And you shall ple five curtains by themselves, and
make the lamps of it, seven: and six curtains by themselves, and
they shall light the lamps of it, to shall double over the sixth curtain
give light adjacent to it. 38 And the in the forefront of the tent. 10 And
snuffers of it, and the pans of it, you shall make fifty loops on the
shall be of pure gold. 39 Of a talent edge of the one curtain that is out-
of pure gold shall it be made, with ermost in the coupling, and fifty
all these vessels. 40 And see that loops on the edge of the curtain
you make them after their pattern, which is outermost in the second
which has been showed you on the coupling. 11 And you shall make
mountain. fifty clasps of brass, and put the

26 Moreover you shall make clasps into the loops, and couple
the tabernacle with ten cur- the tent together, that it may be one.
tains; of fine twined linen, and blue, 12 And the overhanging part that
and purple, and scarlet, with cheru- remains of the curtains of the tent,
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the half curtain that remains, shall another board.
hang over the back of the taberna- 26 And you shall make bars of
cle. 13 And the cubit on the one acacia wood: five for the boards of
side, and the cubit on the other the one side of the tabernacle, 27
side, of that which remains in the and five bars for the boards of the
length of the curtains of the tent, other side of the tabernacle, and
shall hang over the sides of the five bars for the boards of the side
tabernacle on this side and on that of the tabernacle, for the rear part
side, to cover it. 14 And you shall westward. 28 And the middle bar
make a covering for the tent of in the midst of the boards shall pass
rams’ skins dyed red, and a cover- through from end to end. 29 And
ing of sealskins above. you shall overlay the boards with
15 And you shall make the boards gold, and make their rings of gold
for the tabernacle of acacia wood, for places for the bars: and you
standing up. 16 Ten cubits shall be shall overlay the bars with gold. 30
the length of a board, and a cubit And you shall rear up the taberna-
and a half the breadth of each cle according to the fashion of it
board. 17 Two tenons shall there be which has been shown you on the
in each board, joined one to anoth- mountain.
er: thus shall you make for all the 31 And you shall make a veil of
boards of the tabernacle. 18 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
you shall make the boards for the fine twined linen: with cherubim
tabernacle, twenty boards for the the work of the skillful workman
south side southward. 19 And you shall it be made: 32 and you shall
shall make forty sockets of silver hang it on four pillars of acacia
under the twenty boards; two sock- overlaid with gold; their hooks shall
ets under one board for its two be of gold, on four sockets of silver.
tenons, and two sockets under an- 33 And you shall hang up the veil
other board for its two tenons: 20 under the clasps, and shall bring in
and for the second side of the taber- there within the veil the ark of the
nacle, on the north side, twenty testimony: and the veil shall sepa-
boards, 21 and their forty sockets of rate to you between the holy place
silver; two sockets under one and the most holy. 34 And you shall
board, and two sockets under an- put the mercy seat on the ark of the
other board. 22 And for the rear testimony in the most holy place. 35
part of the tabernacle westward And you shall set the table outside
you shall make six boards. 23 And the veil, and the candlestick oppo-
two boards shall you make for the site the table on the side of the
corners of the tabernacle in the rear tabernacle toward the south: and
part. 24 And they shall be double you shall put the table on the north
beneath, and in like manner they side.
shall be entirely to the top of it to 36 And you shall make a screen
one ring: thus shall it be for them for the door of the Tent, of blue, and
both; they shall be for the two cor- purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
ners. 25 And there shall be eight linen, the work of the embroiderer.
boards, and their sockets of silver, 37 And you shall make for the
sixteen sockets; two sockets under screen five pillars of acacia, and
one board, and two sockets under overlay them with gold: their hooks
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shall be of gold: and you shall cast side shall be hangings of fifty cu-
five sockets of brass for them. bits; their pillars ten, and their sock-

27 And you shall make the al- ets ten. 13 And the breadth of the
tar of acacia wood, five cu- court on the east side eastward
bits long, and five cubits broad; the shall be fifty cubits. 14 The hang-
altar shall be foursquare: and the ings for the one side of the gate shall
height of it shall be three cubits. 2 be fifteen cubits; their pillars three,
And you shall make the horns of it and their sockets three. 15 And for
on the four corners of it; the horns the other side shall be hangings of
of it shall be of one piece with it: fifteen cubits; their pillars three,
and you shall overlay it with brass. and their sockets three. 16 And for
3 And you shall make its pots to the gate of the court shall be a
take away its ashes, and its shovels, screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and
and its basins, and its flesh hooks, purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
and its firepans: all the vessels of it linen, the work of the embroiderer;
you shall make of brass. 4 And you their pillars four, and their sockets
shall make for it a grating of net- four. 17 All the pillars of the court
work of brass: and on the net shall all around shall be filleted with sil-
you make four brazen rings in the ver; their hooks of silver, and their
four corners of it. 5 And you shall sockets of brass. 18 The length of
put it under the ledge around the the court shall be a hundred cubits,
altar beneath, that the net may and the breadth fifty every where,
reach halfway up the altar. 6 And and the height five cubits, of fine
you shall make poles for the altar, twined linen, and their sockets of
poles of acacia wood, and overlay brass. 19 All the instruments of the
them with brass. 7 And the poles of tabernacle in all the service of it,
it shall be put into the rings, and the and all the pins of it, and all the
staves shall be on the two sides of pins of the court, shall be of brass.
the altar, in bearing it. 8 Hollow 20 And you shall command the
with planks shall you make it: as it children of Israel, that they bring to
has been shown you on the moun- you pure olive oil beaten for the
tain, so shall they make it. light, to cause a lamp to burn con-
9 And you shall make the court of tinually. 21 In the tent of meeting,
the tabernacle: for the south side outside the veil which is before the
southward there shall be hangings testimony, Aaron and his sons shall
for the court of fine twined linen a keep it in order from evening to
hundred cubits long for one side: 10 morning before Jehovah: it shall be
and the pillars of it shall be twenty, a statute for ever throughout their
and their sockets twenty, of brass; generations on the behalf of the
the hooks of the pillars and their fil- children of Israel.
lets shall be of silver. 11 And like-
wise for the north side in length 28 And bring near to you
Aaron your brother, and his
there shall be hangings a hundred sons with him, from among the
cubits long, and the pillars of it children of Israel, that he may min-
twenty, and their sockets twenty, of ister to me in the priest’s office,
brass; the hooks of the pillars, and even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,
their fillets, of silver. 12 And for the Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
breadth of the court on the west 2 And you shall make holy gar-
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ments for Aaron your brother, for before Jehovah on his two shoul-
glory and for beauty. 3 And you ders for a memorial. 13 And you
shall speak to all who are wise- shall make settings of gold, 14 and
hearted, whom I have filled with two chains of pure gold; like cords
the spirit of wisdom, that they shall you make them, of wreathed
make Aaron’s garments to sanctify work: and you shall put the
him, that he may minister to me in wreathed chains on the settings.
the priest’s office. 4 And these are 15 And you shall make a breast-
the garments which they shall plate of judgment, the work of the
make: a breastplate, and an ephod, skillful workman; like the work of
and a robe, and a tunic of checker the ephod you shall make it; of
work, a mitre, and a sash: and they gold, of blue, and purple, and scar-
shall make holy garments for let, and fine twined linen, shall you
Aaron your brother, and his sons, make it. 16 Foursquare it shall be
that he may minister to me in the and double; a span shall be the
priest’s office. 5 And they shall take length of it, and a span the breadth
the gold, and the blue, and the pur- of it. 17 And you shall set in it set-
ple, and the scarlet, and the fine tings of stones, four rows of stones:
linen. a row of sardius, topaz, and carbun-
6 And they shall make the ephod cle shall be the first row; 18 and the
of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, second row an emerald, a sapphire,
and fine twined linen, the work of and a diamond; 19 and the third
the skillful workman. 7 It shall have row a jacinth, an agate, and an
two shoulder pieces joined to the amethyst; 20 and the fourth row a
two ends of it, that it may be joined beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper:
together. 8 And the skillfully woven they shall be enclosed in gold in
band, which is upon it, with which their settings. 21 And the stones
to gird it on, shall be like the work shall be according to the names of
of it and of the same piece; of gold, the children of Israel, twelve, ac-
of blue, and purple, and scarlet, cording to their names; like the en-
and fine twined linen. 9 And you gravings of a signet, every one
shall take two onyx stones, and en- according to his name, they shall be
grave on them the names of the for the twelve tribes. 22 And you
children of Israel: 10 six of their shall make on the breastplate
names on the one stone, and the chains like cords, of wreathed work
names of the six who remain on the of pure gold. 23 And you shall
other stone, according to their birth. make on the breastplate two rings
11 With the work of an engraver in of gold, and shall put the two rings
stone, like the engravings of a on the two ends of the breastplate.
signet, shall you engrave the two 24 And you shall put the two
stones, according to the names of wreathed chains of gold in the two
the children of Israel: you shall rings at the ends of the breastplate.
make them to be enclosed in set- 25 And the other two ends of the
tings of gold. 12 And you shall put two wreathed chains you shall put
the two stones on the shoulder on the two settings, and put them
pieces of the ephod, to be stones of on the shoulder pieces of the ephod
memorial for the children of Israel: in the front of it. 26 And you shall
and Aaron shall bear their names make two rings of gold, and you
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shall put them on the two ends of that he does not die.
the breastplate, on the edge of it, 36 And you shall make a plate of
which is toward the side of the pure gold, and engrave on it, like
ephod inward. 27 And you shall the engravings of a signet, HOLY
make two rings of gold, and shall TO JEHOVAH. 37 And you shall
put them on the two shoulder put it on a lace of blue, and it shall
pieces of the ephod underneath, in be on the turban; on the forefront of
the front of it, close by the coupling the turban it shall be. 38 And it shall
of it, above the skillfully woven be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron
band of the ephod. 28 And they shall bear the iniquity of the holy
shall bind the breastplate by the things, which the children of Israel
rings of it to the rings of the ephod shall hallow in all their holy gifts;
with a lace of blue, that it may be on and it shall be always on his fore-
the skillfully woven band of the head, that they may be accepted be-
ephod, and that the breastplate is fore Jehovah. 39 And you shall
not loosed from the ephod. 29 And weave the coat in checker work of
Aaron shall bear the names of the fine linen, and you shall make a tur-
children of Israel in the breastplate ban of fine linen, and you shall
of judgment on his heart, when he make a sash, the work of the em-
goes in to the holy place, for a broiderer.
memorial before Jehovah continu- 40 And for Aaron’s sons you shall
ally. 30 And you shall put in the make tunics, and you shall make
breastplate of judgment the Urim for them sashes, and head-bands
and the Thummim; and they shall shall you make for them, for glory
be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes and for beauty. 41 And you shall
in before Jehovah: and Aaron shall put them on Aaron your brother,
bear the judgment of the children of and on his sons with him, and shall
Israel on his heart before Jehovah anoint them, and consecrate them,
continually. and sanctify them, that they may
31 And you shall make the robe of minister to me in the priest’s office.
the ephod all of blue. 32 And it shall 42 And you shall make them linen
have a hole for the head in the breeches to cover the flesh of their
midst of it: it shall have a binding of nakedness; from the loins even to
woven work all around the hole of the thighs they shall reach: 43 and
it, as it were the hole of a coat of they shall be on Aaron, and on his
mail, that it is not torn. 33 And on sons, when they go in to the tent of
the hems of it you shall make meeting, or when they come near to
pomegranates of blue, and of pur- the altar to minister in the holy
ple, and of scarlet, all around the place; that they do not bear iniquity,
hems of it; and bells of gold be- and die: it shall be a statute for ever
tween them all around: 34 a golden to him and to his seed after him.
bell and a pomegranate, a golden
bell and a pomegranate, on the 29 And this is the thing that
you shall do to those to hal-
skirts of the robe all around. 35 And low them, to minister to me in the
it shall be on Aaron to minister: and priest’s office: take one young bull
the sound of it shall be heard when and two rams without blemish, 2
he goes in to the holy place before and unleavened bread, and cakes
Jehovah, and when he comes out, unleavened mingled with oil, and
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wafers unleavened anointed with 16 And you shall slay the ram, and
oil: of fine wheat flour shall you you shall take its blood, and sprin-
make them. 3 And you shall put kle it all around on the altar. 17 And
them into one basket, and bring you shall cut the ram into its pieces,
them in the basket, with the bull and wash its inner parts, and its
and the two rams. 4 And Aaron and legs, and put them with its pieces,
his sons you shall bring to the door and with its head. 18 And you shall
of the tent of meeting, and shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it
wash them with water. 5 And you is a burnt offering to Jehovah; it is a
shall take the garments, and put on sweet savor, an offering made by
Aaron the tunic, and the robe of the fire to Jehovah.
ephod, and the ephod, and the 19 And you shall take the other
breastplate, and gird him with the ram; and Aaron and his sons shall
skillfully woven band of the ephod; lay their hands upon the head of
6 and you shall set the turban on his the ram. 20 Then shall you kill the
head, and put the holy crown on ram, and take of its blood, and put
the turban. 7 Then shall you take it on the tip of the right ear of
the anointing oil, and pour it on his Aaron, and on the tip of the right
head, and anoint him. 8 And you ear of his sons, and on the thumb of
shall bring his sons, and put tunics their right hand, and on the great
on them. 9 And you shall gird them toe of their right foot, and sprinkle
with sashes, Aaron and his sons, the blood on the altar all around. 21
and bind head-bands on them: and And you shall take of the blood that
they shall have the priesthood by a is on the altar, and of the anointing
perpetual statute: and you shall oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and
consecrate Aaron and his sons. on his garments, and on his sons,
10 And you shall bring the bull and on the garments of his sons
before the tent of meeting: and with him: and he shall be hallowed,
Aaron and his sons shall lay their and his garments, and his sons, and
hands on the head of the bull. 11 his sons’ garments with him. 22
And you shall kill the bull before Je- Also you shall take of the ram the
hovah, at the door of the tent of fat, and the fat tail, and the fat that
meeting. 12 And you shall take of covers the inner parts, and the lobe
the blood of the bull, and put it on of the liver, and the two kidneys,
the horns of the altar with your fin- and the fat that is on them, and the
ger; and you shall pour out all the right thigh (for it is a ram of conse-
blood at the base of the altar. 13 cration), 23 and one loaf of bread,
And you shall take all the fat that and one cake of oiled bread, and
covers the inner parts, and the lobe one wafer, out of the basket of un-
on the liver, and the two kidneys, leavened bread that is before Jeho-
and the fat that is on them, and vah: 24 and you shall put the whole
burn them on the altar. 14 But the on the hands of Aaron, and on the
flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its hands of his sons, and shall wave
dung, shall you burn with fire out- them for a wave offering before Je-
side the camp: it is a sin offering. hovah. 25 And you shall take them
15 You shall also take the one ram; from their hands, and burn them on
and Aaron and his sons shall lay the altar on the burnt offering, for a
their hands on the head of the ram. sweet savor before Jehovah: it is an
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offering made by fire to Jehovah. them. 36 And every day shall you
26 And you shall take the breast of offer the bull of sin offering for
Aaron’s ram of consecration, and atonement: and you shall cleanse
wave it for a wave offering before the altar, when you make atone-
Jehovah: and it shall be your por- ment for it; and you shall anoint it,
tion. 27 And you shall sanctify the to sanctify it. 37 Seven days you
breast of the wave offering, and the shall make atonement for the altar,
thigh of the heave offering, which is and sanctify it: and the altar shall be
waved, and which is heaved up, of most holy; whatsoever touches the
the ram of consecration, even of altar shall be holy.
that which is for Aaron, and of that 38 Now this is that which you
which is for his sons: 28 and it shall shall offer on the altar: two lambs a
be for Aaron and his sons as their year old day by day continually. 39
portion for ever from the children The one lamb you shall offer in the
of Israel; for it is a heave offering: morning; and the other lamb you
and it shall be a heave offering from shall offer at evening: 40 and with
the children of Israel of the sacri- the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah
fices of their peace offerings, even of fine flour mingled with the
their heave offering to Jehovah. fourth part of a hin of beaten oil,
29 And the holy garments of and the fourth part of a hin of wine
Aaron shall be for his sons after for a drink offeering. 41 And the
him, to be anointed in them, and to other lamb you shall offer at
be consecrated in them. 30 Seven evening, and shall do to it accord-
days shall the son who is priest in ing to the meal offering of the
his place put them on, when he morning, and according to the
comes into the tent of meeting to drink offering of it, for a sweet sa-
minister in the holy place. vor, an offering made by fire to Je-
31 And you shall take the ram of hovah. 42 It shall be a continual
consecration, and boil its flesh in a burnt offering throughout your
holy place. 32 And Aaron and his generations at the door of the tent
sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, of meeting before Jehovah, where I
and the bread that is in the basket, will meet with you, to speak there
at the door of the tent of meeting. 33 to you. 43 And there I will meet
And they shall eat those things with the children of Israel; and the
with which atonement was made, Tent shall be sanctified by my glory.
to consecrate and to sanctify them: 44 And I will sanctify the tent of
but a stranger shall not eat of it, be- meeting, and the altar: Aaron also
cause they are holy. 34 And if any- and his sons will I sanctify, to min-
thing of the flesh of the ister to me in the priest’s office. 45
consecration, or of the bread, re- And I will dwell among the chil-
mains to the morning, then you dren of Israel, and will be their
shall burn the remainder with fire: God. 46 And they shall know that I
it shall not be eaten, because it is am Jehovah their God, who
holy. brought them forth out of the land
35 And thus shall you do to of Egypt, that I might dwell among
Aaron, and to his sons, according to them: I am Jehovah their God.
all that I have commanded you:
seven days shall you consecrate 30
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acacia wood shall you make it. 2 A when you number them. 13 This
cubit shall be the length of it, and a they shall give, every one who
cubit the breadth of it; foursquare passes over to them who are num-
shall it be; and two cubits shall be bered, half a shekel after the shekel
the height of it: the horns of it shall of the sanctuary; (the shekel is
be of one piece with it. 3 And you twenty gerahs), half a shekel for an
shall overlay it with pure gold, the offering to Jehovah. 14 Every one
top of it, and the sides of it all who passes over to them who are
around, and the horns of it; and you numbered, from twenty years old
shall make to it a crown of gold all and upward, shall give the offering
around. 4 And two golden rings of Jehovah. 15 The rich shall not
shall you make for it under the give more, and the poor shall not
crown of it; upon the two ribs of it, give less, than the half shekel, when
on the two sides of it shall you they give the offering of Jehovah, to
make them; and they shall be for make atonement for your souls. 16
places for poles with which to bear And you shall take the atonement
it. 5 And you shall make the poles money from the children of Israel,
of acacia wood, and overlay them and shall appoint it for the service
with gold. 6 And you shall put it be- of the tent of meeting; that it may be
fore the veil that is by the ark of the a memorial for the children of Israel
testimony, before the mercy seat before Jehovah, to make atonement
that is over the testimony, where I for your souls.”
will meet with you. 7 And Aaron 17 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
shall burn on it incense of sweet saying, 18 “You shall also make a
spices: every morning, when he laver of brass, and the base of it of
dresses the lamps, he shall burn it. brass, at which to wash. And you
8 And when Aaron lights the lamps shall put it between the tent of
at evening, he shall burn it, a per- meeting and the altar, and you shall
petual incense before Jehovah put water in it. 19 And Aaron and
throughout your generations. 9 You his sons shall wash their hands and
shall offer no strange incense on it, their feet at it: 20 when they go into
nor burnt offering, nor meal offer- the tent of meeting, they shall wash
ing; and you shall pour no drink with water, that they do not die; or
offering on it. 10 And Aaron shall when they come near to the altar to
make atonement on the horns of it minister, to burn an offering made
once in the year; with the blood of by fire to Jehovah. 21 So they shall
the sin offerings of atonement once wash their hands and their feet,
in the year shall he make atone- that they do not die: and it shall be
ment for it throughout your genera- a statute for ever to them, even to
tions: it is most holy to Jehovah.” him and to his seed throughout
11 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, their generations.”
saying, 12 “When you take the sum 22 Moreover Jehovah spoke to
of the children of Israel, according Moses, saying, 23 “Take also to you
to those who are numbered of the chief spices: of flowing myrrh
them, then shall they give every five hundred shekels, and of sweet
man a ransom for his soul to Jeho- cinnamon half so much, even two
vah, when you number them; that hundred and fifty, and of sweet
there be no plague among them, cane two hundred and fifty, 24 and
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of cassia five hundred, after the you shall not make for yourselves:
shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive it shall be to you holy for Jehovah.
oil a hin; 25 and you shall make it a 38 Whosoever shall make like to
holy anointing oil, a perfume com- that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off
pounded after the art of the per- from his people.”
fumer: it shall be a holy anointing
oil. 26 And you shall anoint with it 31 And Jehovah spoke to
Moses, saying, 2 “See, I have
the tent of meeting, and the ark of called by name Bezalel the son of
the testimony, 27 and the table and Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of
all the vessels of it, and the candle- Judah: 3 and I have filled him with
stick and the vessels of it, and the the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in
altar of incense, 28 and the altar of understanding, and in knowledge,
burnt offering with all the vessels of and in all manner of workmanship,
it, and the laver and the base of it. 4 to devise skillful works, to work
29 And you shall sanctify them, in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
that they may be most holy: what- 5 and in cutting of stones for set-
soever touches them shall be holy. ting, and in carving of wood, to
30 And you shall anoint Aaron and work in all manner of workman-
his sons, and sanctify them, that ship. 6 And I, behold, I have ap-
they may minister to me in the pointed with him Oholiab, the son
priest’s office. 31 And you shall of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan;
speak to the children of Israel, say- and in the heart of all who are wise-
ing, ‘This shall be a holy anointing hearted I have put wisdom, that
oil to me throughout your genera- they may make all that I have com-
tions. 32 Upon the flesh of man manded you: 7 the tent of meeting,
shall it not be poured, neither shall and the ark of the testimony, and
you make any like it, according to the mercy seat that is on it, and all
the composition of it: it is holy, and the furniture of the Tent, 8 and the
it shall be holy to you. 33 Whoso- table and its vessels, and the pure
ever compounds any like it, or candlestick with all its vessels, and
whosoever puts any of it on a the altar of incense, 9 and the altar
stranger, he shall be cut off from his of burnt offering with all its vessels,
people.’ ” and the laver and its base, 10 and
34 And Jehovah said to Moses, the finely woven garments, and the
“Take to you sweet spices, stacte, holy garments for Aaron the priest,
and onycha, and galbanum; sweet and the garments of his sons, to
spices with pure frankincense: of minister in the priest’s office, 11 and
each shall there be a like weight; 35 the anointing oil, and the incense of
and you shall make of it incense, a sweet spices for the holy place: ac-
perfume after the art of the per- cording to all that I have com-
fumer, seasoned with salt, pure and manded you shall they do.”
holy: 36 and you shall beat some of 12 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
it very small, and put of it before saying, 13 “Speak also to the chil-
the testimony in the tent of meet- dren of Israel, saying, “Truly you
ing, where I will meet with you: it shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a
shall be to you most holy. 37 And sign between me and you through-
the incense which you shall make, out your generations; that you may
according to the composition of it know that I am Jehovah who sancti-
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fies you. 14 You shall keep the Sab- Israel, which brought you up out of
bath therefore; for it is holy to you: the land of Egypt.” 5 And when
every one who profanes it shall Aaron saw this, he built an altar be-
surely be put to death; for whoso- fore it; and Aaron made proclama-
ever does any work in it, that soul tion, and said, “Tomorrow shall be
shall be cut off from among his peo- a feast to Jehovah.” 6 And they rose
ple. 15 Six days shall work be done, up early on the next day, and
but on the seventh day is a Sabbath offered burnt offerings, and
of solemn rest, holy to Jehovah: brought peace offerings; and the
whosoever does any work on the people sat down to eat and to
Sabbath day, he shall surely be put drink, and rose up to play.
to death. 16 Therefore the children 7 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to “Go, get down; for your people,
observe the Sabbath throughout who you brought up out of the land
their generations, for a perpetual of Egypt, have corrupted them-
covenant. 17 It is a sign between me selves: 8 they have turned aside
and the children of Israel for ever: quickly out of the way which I com-
for in six days Jehovah made manded them: they have made
heaven and earth, and on the sev- themselves a molten calf, and have
enth day he rested, and was re- worshipped it, and have sacrificed
freshed.” to it, and said, “These are your
18 And he gave to Moses, when gods, O Israel, which brought you
he had made an end of communing up out of the land of Egypt.” 9 And
with him on Mount Sinai, the two Jehovah said to Moses, “I have seen
tables of the testimony, tables of this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-
stone, written with the finger of necked people: 10 now therefore let
God. me alone, that my wrath may be-

32 And when the people saw come hot against them, and that I
that Moses delayed to come may consume them: and I will
down from the mountain, the peo- make of you a great nation.” 11 And
ple gathered themselves together to Moses beseeched Jehovah his God,
Aaron, and said to him, “Up, make and said, “Jehovah, why does your
us gods, which shall go before us; wrath become hot against your
for as for this Moses, the man who people, that you have brought forth
brought us up out of the land of out of the land of Egypt with great
Egypt, we do not know what has power and with a mighty hand? 12
become of him.” 2 And Aaron said Why should the Egyptians speak,
to them, “Break off the golden saying, ‘For evil did he bring them
rings, which are in the ears of your forth, to slay them in the moun-
wives, of your sons, and of your tains, and to consume them from
daughters, and bring them to me.” the face of the earth?’ Turn from
3 And all the people broke off the your fierce wrath, and repent of this
golden rings which were in their evil against your people. 13 Re-
ears, and brought them to Aaron. 4 member Abraham, Isaac, and Is-
And he received it at their hand, rael, your servants, to whom you
and fashioned it with a graving swore by your own self, and said to
tool, and made it a molten calf: and them, 'I will multiply your seed as
they said, “These are your gods, O the stars of heaven, and all this land
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that I have spoken of will I give to they gave it me; and I cast it into the
your seed, and they shall inherit it fire, and there came out this calf.”
for ever.’ ” 14 And Jehovah re- 25 And when Moses saw that the
pented of the evil which he said he people were broken loose, (for
would do to his people. Aaron had let them loose for a deri-
15 And Moses turned, and went sion among their enemies,) 26 then
down from the mountain, with the Moses stood in the gate of the
two tables of the testimony in his camp, and said, “Whoever is on Je-
hand; tables that were written on hovah’s side, let him come to me.”
both their sides; on the one side and And all the sons of Levi gathered
on the other were they written. 16 themselves together to him. 27 And
And the tables were the work of he said to them, “Thus says Jeho-
God, and the writing was the writ- vah, the God of Israel, ‘Put every
ing of God, engraved on the tables. man his sword on his thigh, and go
17 And when Joshua heard the to and fro from gate to gate
noise of the people as they shouted, throughout the camp, and slay ev-
he said to Moses, “There is a noise ery man his brother, and every man
of war in the camp.” 18 And he his companion, and every man his
said, “It is not the voice of those neighbor.’ ” 28 And the sons of Levi
who shout for mastery, neither is it did according to the word of Moses:
the voice of those who cry for being and there fell of the people that day
overcome; but the noise of those about three thousand men. 29 And
who sing I hear.” 19 And it came to Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves
pass, as soon as he came near to the today to Jehovah, yes, every man
camp, that he saw the calf and the against his son, and against his
dancing: and Moses’ anger became brother; that he may bestow upon
hot, and he cast the tables out of his you a blessing this day.”
hands, and broke them beneath the 30 And it came to pass on the next
mountain. 20 And he took the calf day, that Moses said to the people,
which they had made, and burnt it “You have sinned a great sin: and
with fire, and ground it to powder, now I will go up to Jehovah; per-
and scattered it on the water, and haps I shall make atonement for
made the children of Israel drink of your sin.” 31 And Moses returned
it. to Jehovah, and said, “Oh, this peo-
21 And Moses said to Aaron, ple have sinned a great sin, and
“What did this people do to you, have made them gods of gold. 32
that you have brought a great sin Yet now, if you will forgive their
upon them?” 22 And Aaron said, sin—; and if not, blot me, please,
“Do not let the anger of my lord be- out of your book which you have
come hot: you know the people, written.” 33 And Jehovah said to
that they are set on evil. 23 For they Moses, “Whosoever has sinned
said to me, ‘Make us gods, which against me, him will I blot out of
shall go before us; for as for this my book. 34 And now go, lead the
Moses, the man who brought us up people to the place of which I have
out of the land of Egypt, we do not spoken to you: behold, my angel
know what has become of him.’ 24 shall go before you; nevertheless in
And I said to them, ‘Whosoever has the day when I visit, I will visit their
any gold, let them break it off’: so sin upon them.” 35 And Jehovah
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struck the people, because they Moses. 10 And all the people saw
made the calf, which Aaron made. the pillar of cloud stand at the door

33 And Jehovah spoke to of the Tent: and all the people rose
Moses, “Depart, go up from up and worshipped, every man at
here, you and the people who you his tent door. 11 And Jehovah spoke
have brought up out of the land of to Moses face to face, as a man
Egypt, to the land of which I swore speaks to his friend. And he turned
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, again into the camp: but his minis-
saying, ‘To your seed will I give it’: ter Joshua, the son of Nun, a young
2 and I will send an angel before man, did not depart out of the Tent.
you; and I will drive out the 12 And Moses said to Jehovah,
Canaanite, the Amorite, and the "See, you say to me, “Bring up this
Hittite, and the Perizzite, the people: and you have not let me
Hivite, and the Jebusite: 3 to a land know whom you will send with
flowing with milk and honey: for I me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you
will not go up in the midst of you, by name, and you have also found
for you are a stiff-necked people, favor in my sight.’ 13 Now there-
lest I consume you in the way.” 4 fore, please, if I have found favor in
And when the people heard these your sight, show me now your
evil tidings, they mourned: and no ways, that I may know you, to the
man put on him his ornaments. 5 end that I may find favor in your
And Jehovah said to Moses, “Say to sight: and consider that this nation
the children of Israel, ‘You are a is your people.” 14 And he said,
stiff-necked people; if I go up into “My presence shall go with you, and
the midst of you for one moment, I I will give you rest.” 15 And he said
shall consume you: therefore now to him, “If your presence does not
put off your ornaments from you, go with me, do not carry us up from
that I may know what to do to here. 16 For in what now shall it be
you.” 6 And the children of Israel known that I have found favor in
stripped themselves of their orna- your sight, I and your people? is it
ments from Mount Horeb onward. not in that you go with us, so that
7 Now Moses used to take the tent we are separated, I and your peo-
and to pitch it outside the camp, ple, from all the people who are on
afar off from the camp; and he the face of the earth?”
called it, the Tent of Meeting. And it 17 And Jehovah said to Moses, “I
came to pass, that every one who will do this thing also that you have
sought Jehovah went out to the spoken; for you have found favor in
Tent of Meeting, which was outside my sight, and I know you by
the camp. 8 And it came to pass, name.” 18 And he said, "Show me,
when Moses went out to the Tent, please, your glory.” 19 And he said,
that all the people rose up, and “I will make all my goodness pass
stood, every man at his tent door, before you, and will proclaim the
and looked after Moses, until he name of Jehovah before you; and I
had gone into the Tent. 9 And it will be gracious to whom I will be
came to pass, when Moses entered gracious, and will show mercy on
into the Tent, the pillar of cloud de- whom I will show mercy.” 20 And
scended, and stood at the door of he said, “You can not see my face;
the Tent: and Jehovah spoke with for man shall not see me and live.”
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21 and Jehovah said, “Behold, there shipped. 9 And he said, “If now I
is a place by me, and you shall have found favor in your sight, O
stand on the rock: 22 and it shall Lord, let the Lord, please, go in the
come to pass, while my glory midst of us; for it is a stiff-necked
passes by, that I will put you in a people; and pardon our iniquity
cleft of the rock, and will cover you and our sin, and take us for your in-
with my hand until I have passed heritance.”
by: 23 and I will take away my 10 And he said, “Behold, I make a
hand, and you shall see my back; covenant: before all your people I
but my face shall not be seen.” will do marvels, such as have not

34 And Jehovah said to been worked in all the earth, nor in

Moses, “Hew you two tables any nation; and all the people
of stone like the first: and I will among which you are shall see the
write on the tables the words that work of Jehovah; for it is a terrible
were on the first tables, which you thing that I do with you. 11 Observe
broke. 2 And be ready by the morn- that which I command you this
ing, and come up in the morning to day: behold, I drive out before you
Mount Sinai, and present yourself the Amorite, and the Canaanite,
there to me on the top of the moun- and the Hittite, and the Perizzite,
tain. 3 And no man shall come up and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 12
with you; neither let any man be Take heed to yourself, lest you
seen throughout all the mountain; make a covenant with the inhabi-
neither let the flocks nor herds feed tants of the land to which you go,
before that mountain.” 4 And he lest it be for a snare in the midst of
hewed two tables of stone like the you: 13 but you shall break down
first; and Moses rose up early in the their altars, and dash in pieces their
morning, and went up to Mount pillars, and you shall cut down
Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded their Asherim; 14 (for you shall
him, and took in his hand two ta- worship no other god: for Jehovah,
bles of stone. 5 And Jehovah de- whose name is Jealous, is a jealous
scended in the cloud, and stood God); 15 lest you make a covenant
with him there, and proclaimed the with the inhabitants of the land,
name of Jehovah. 6 And Jehovah and they play the harlot after their
passed by before him, and pro- gods, and sacrifice to their gods,
claimed, “Jehovah, Jehovah, a God and one call you and you eat of his
merciful and gracious, slow to sacrifice; 16 and you take of their
anger, and abundant in lovingkind- daughters to your sons, and their
ness and truth; 7 keeping lov- daughters play the harlot after their
ingkindness for thousands, gods, and make your sons play the
forgiving iniquity and transgres- harlot after their gods. 17 You shall
sion and sin; and who will by no make you no molten gods.
means clear the guilty, visiting the 18 The feast of unleavened bread
iniquity of the fathers upon the shall you keep. Seven days you
children, and upon the children’s shall eat unleavened bread, as I
children, upon the third and upon commanded you, at the time ap-
the fourth generation.” 8 And pointed in the month Abib; for in
Moses made haste, and bowed his the month Abib you came out from
head toward the earth, and wor- Egypt. 19 All who open the womb
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are mine; and all your cattle that are came down from the mountain,
male, the firstborn of cow and that Moses did not know that the
sheep. 20 And the firstborn of a skin of his face shone by reason of
donkey you shall redeem with a his speaking with him. 30 And
lamb: and if you will not redeem it, when Aaron and all the children of
then you shall break its neck. All Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin
the firstborn of your sons you shall of his face shone; and they were
redeem. And none shall appear be- afraid to come near him. 31 And
fore me empty. Moses called to them; and Aaron
21 Six days you shall work, but on and all the rulers of the congrega-
the seventh day you shall rest: in tion returned to him: and Moses
plowing time and in harvest you spoke to them. 32 And afterward all
shall rest. 22 And you shall observe the children of Israel came near:
the Feast of Weeks, even of the first and he gave them in command-
fruits of wheat harvest, and the ment all that Jehovah had spoken
Feast of Ingathering at the year’s with him on Mount Sinai. 33 And
end. 23 Three times in the year shall when Moses had done speaking
all your males appear before the with them, he put a veil on his face.
Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel. 24 34 But when Moses went in before
For I will cast out nations before Jehovah to speak with him, he took
you, and enlarge your borders: nei- the veil off, until he came out; and
ther shall any man desire your he came out, and spoke to the chil-
land, when you go up to appear be- dren of Israel that which he was
fore Jehovah your God three times commanded. 35 And the children
in the year. of Israel saw the face of Moses, that
25 You shall not offer the blood of the skin of Moses’ face shone: and
my sacrifice with leavened bread; Moses put the veil on his face again,
neither shall the sacrifice of the until he went in to speak with him.
feast of the passover be left to the
morning. 26 The first of the first 35 And Moses assembled all
the congregation of the chil-
fruits of your ground you shall dren of Israel, and said to them,
bring to the house of Jehovah your “These are the words which Jeho-
God. You shall not boil a kid in its vah has commanded, that you
mother’s milk.” should do them. 2 Six days shall
27 And Jehovah said to Moses, work be done; but on the seventh
“Write these words: for after the day there shall be to you a holy day,
tenor of these words I have made a a Sabbath of solemn rest to Jehovah:
covenant with you and with Is- whosoever does any work in it
rael.” 28 And he was there with Je- shall be put to death. 3 You shall
hovah forty days and forty nights; kindle no fire throughout your
he did neither eat bread, nor drink habitations on the Sabbath day.”
water. And he wrote on the tables 4 And Moses spoke to all the con-
the words of the covenant, the Ten gregation of the children of Israel,
Commandments. saying, “This is the thing which Je-
29 And it came to pass, when hovah commanded, saying, 5 ‘Take
Moses came down from Mount you from among you an offering to
Sinai with the two tables of the tes- Jehovah; whosoever is of a willing
timony in Moses’ hand, when he heart, let him bring it, Jehovah’s
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offering: gold, and silver, and brass, work of the tent of meeting, and for
6 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, all the service of it, and for the holy
and fine linen, and goats’ hair, 7 and garments. 22 And they came, both
rams’ skins dyed red, and seal- men and women, as many as were
skins, and acacia wood, 8 and oil willing-hearted, and brought
for the light, and spices for the brooches, and earrings, and signet
anointing oil, and for the sweet in- rings, and armlets, all jewels of
cense, 9 and onyx stones, and gold; even every man who offered
stones to be set, for the ephod, and an offering of gold to Jehovah. 23
for the breastplate. And every man, with whom was
10 And let every wise-hearted found blue, and purple, and scarlet,
man among you come, and make and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and
all that Jehovah has commanded: 11 rams’ skins dyed red, and seal-
the tabernacle, its tent, and its cov- skins, brought them. 24 Every one
ering, its clasps, and its boards, its who offered an offering of silver
bars, its pillars, and its sockets; 12 and brass brought Jehovah’s offer-
the ark, and the poles of it, the ing; and every man, with whom
mercy seat, and the veil of the was found acacia wood for any
screen; 13 the table, and its poles, work of the service, brought it. 25
and all its vessels, and the show- And all the women who were wise-
bread; 14 the candlestick also for hearted spun with their hands, and
the light, and its vessels, and its brought that which they had spun,
lamps, and the oil for the light; 15 the blue, and the purple, the scarlet,
and the altar of incense, and its and the fine linen. 26 And all the
poles, and the anointing oil, and the women whose heart stirred them
sweet incense, and the screen for up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair.
the door, at the door of the taberna- 27 And the rulers brought the onyx
cle; 16 the altar of burnt offering, stones, and the stones to be set, for
with its grating of brass, its poles, the ephod, and for the breastplate;
and all its vessels, the laver and its 28 and the spice, and the oil; for the
base; 17 the hangings of the court, light, and for the anointing oil, and
the pillars of it, and their sockets, for the sweet incense. 29 The chil-
and the screen for the gate of the dren of Israel brought a freewill
court; 18 the pins of the tabernacle, offering to Jehovah; every man and
and the pins of the court, and their woman, whose heart made them
cords; 19 the finely woven gar- willing to bring for all the work,
ments, for ministering in the holy which Jehovah had commanded to
place, the holy garments for Aaron be made by Moses.
the priest, and the garments of his 30 And Moses said to the children
sons, to minister in the priest’s of Israel, “See, Jehovah has called
office.’ ” by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the
20 And all the congregation of the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; 31
children of Israel departed from the and he has filled him with the Spirit
presence of Moses. 21 And they of God, in wisdom, in understand-
came, every one whose heart ing, and in knowledge, and in all
stirred him up, and every one manner of workmanship; 32 and to
whom his spirit made willing, and devise skillful works, to work in
brought Jehovah’s offering, for the gold, and in silver, and in brass, 33
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and in cutting of stones for setting, work for the offering of the sanctu-
and in carving of wood, to work in ary.” So the people were restrained
all manner of skillful workman- from bringing. 7 For the stuff they
ship. 34 And he has put in his heart had was sufficient for all the work
that he may teach, both he, and to make it, and too much.
Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of 8 And all the wise-hearted men
the tribe of Dan. 35 He has filled among them who worked the work
them with wisdom of heart, to made the tabernacle with ten cur-
work all manner of workmanship, tains; of fine twined linen, and blue,
of the engraver, and of the skillful and purple, and scarlet, with cheru-
workman, and of the embroiderer, bim, the work of the skillful work-
in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, man, Bezalel made them. 9 The
and in fine linen, and of the weaver, length of each curtain was twenty-
even of those who do any work- eight cubits, and the breadth of
manship, and of those who devise each curtain four cubits: all the cur-
skillful works. tains had one measure. 10 And he

36 And Bezalel and Oholiab coupled five curtains to one anoth-

shall work, and every wise- er: and the other five curtains he
hearted man, in whom Jehovah has coupled to one another. 11 And he
put wisdom and understanding to made loops of blue on the edge of
know how to work all the work for the one curtain from the selvedge in
the service of the sanctuary, accord- the coupling: likewise he made in
ing to all that Jehovah has com- the edge of the curtain that was out-
manded. most in the second coupling. 12
2 And Moses called Bezalel and Fifty loops he made in the one cur-
Oholiab, and every wise-hearted tain, and fifty loops he made in the
man, in whose heart Jehovah had edge of the curtain that was in the
put wisdom, even every one whose second coupling: the loops were
heart stirred him up to come to the opposite one another. 13 And he
work to do it: 3 and they received of made fifty clasps of gold, and cou-
Moses all the offering which the pled the curtains one to another
children of Israel had brought for with the clasps: so the tabernacle
the work of the service of the sanc- was one.
tuary, with which to make it. And 14 And he made curtains of goats’
they kept bringing to him freewill hair for a tent over the tabernacle:
offerings every morning. 4 And all eleven curtains he made them. 15
the wise men, who worked all the The length of each curtain was
work of the sanctuary, came every thirty cubits, and four cubits the
man from his work which they breadth of each curtain: the eleven
worked; 5 and they spoke to Moses, curtains had one measure. 16 And
saying, “The people bring much he coupled five curtains by them-
more than enough for the service of selves, and six curtains by them-
the work which Jehovah com- selves. 17 And he made fifty loops
manded to make.” 6 And Moses on the edge of the curtain that was
gave commandment, and they outermost in the coupling, and fifty
caused it to be proclaimed through- loops made he on the edge of the
out the camp, saying, “Let neither curtain which was outermost in the
man nor woman make any more second coupling. 18 And he made
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fifty clasps of brass to couple the from the one end to the other. 34
tent together, that it might be one. And he overlaid the boards with
19 And he made a covering for the gold, and made their rings of gold
tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a for places for the bars, and overlaid
covering of sealskins above. the bars with gold.
20 And he made the boards for 35 And he made the veil of blue,
the tabernacle, of acacia wood, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
standing up. 21 Ten cubits was the twined linen: with cherubim, the
length of a board, and a cubit and a work of the skillful workman, he
half the breadth of each board. 22 made it. 36 And he made for it four
Each board had two tenons, joined pillars of acacia, and overlaid them
to one another: thus did he make with gold: their hooks were of gold;
for all the boards of the tabernacle. and he cast for them four sockets of
23 And he made the boards for the silver. 37 And he made a screen for
tabernacle: twenty boards for the the door of the Tent, of blue, and
south side southward; 24 and he purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
made forty sockets of silver under linen, the work of the embroiderer;
the twenty boards; two sockets un- 38 and the five pillars of it with
der one board for its two tenons, their hooks: and he overlaid their
and two sockets under another capitals and their fillets with gold;
board for its two tenons. 25 And for and their five sockets were of brass.
the second side of the tabernacle,
on the north side, he made twenty 37 And Bezalel made the ark
of acacia wood: two and a
boards, 26 and their forty sockets of half cubits was the length of it, and
silver; two sockets under one a cubit and a half the breadth of it,
board, and two sockets under an- and a cubit and a half the height of
other board. 27 And for the rear it. 2 And he overlaid it with pure
part of the tabernacle westward he gold inside and outside, and made
made six boards. 28 And two a crown of gold to it all around. 3
boards he made for the corners of And he cast for it four rings of gold,
the tabernacle in the rear part. 29 in the four feet of it; even two rings
And they were double beneath; and on the one side of it, and two rings
in like manner they were entirely to on the other side of it. 4 And he
the top of it to one ring: thus he did made poles of acacia wood, and
to both of them in the two corners. overlaid them with gold. 5 And he
30 And there were eight boards, put the poles into the rings on the
and their sockets of silver, sixteen sides of the ark, to bear the ark. 6
sockets; under every board two And he made a mercy seat of pure
sockets. gold: two and a half cubits was the
31 And he made bars of acacia length of it, and a cubit and a half
wood; five for the boards of the one the breadth of it. 7 And he made
side of the tabernacle, 32 and five two cherubim of gold; of beaten
bars for the boards of the other side work made he them, at the two
of the tabernacle, and five bars for ends of the mercy seat; 8 one cherub
the boards of the tabernacle for the at the one end, and one cherub at
rear part westward. 33 And he the other end: of one piece with the
made the middle bar to pass mercy seat he made the cherubim at
through in the midst of the boards the two ends of it. 9 And the cheru-
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bim spread out their wings on high, two branches of one piece with it,
covering the mercy seat with their and a knop under two branches of
wings, with their faces to one an- one piece with it, for the six
other; toward the mercy seat were branches going out of it. 22 Their
the faces of the cherubim. knops and their branches were of
10 And he made the table of acacia one piece with it: the whole of it
wood: two cubits was the length of it, was one beaten work of pure gold.
and a cubit the breadth of it, and a cubit 23 And he made the lamps of it,
and a half the height of it. 11 And he seven, and the snuffers of it, and the
overlaid it with pure gold, and made for pans of it, of pure gold. 24 Of a tal-
it a crown of gold all around. 12 And he ent of pure gold he made it, and all
made for it a border of a handbreadth the vessels of it.
all around, and made a golden crown to 25 And he made the altar of in-
the border of it all around. 13 And he cense of acacia wood: a cubit was
cast for it four rings of gold, and put the the length of it, and a cubit the
rings in the four corners that were on breadth of it, foursquare; and two
the four feet of it. 14 Close by the bor- cubits was the height of it; the
der were the rings, the places for the horns of it were of one piece with it.
poles to bear the table. 15 And he made 26 And he overlaid it with pure
the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid gold, the top of it, and the sides of it
them with gold, to bear the table. 16 all around, and the horns of it: and
And he made the vessels which were he made for it a crown of gold all
on the table, the dishes of it, and the around. 27 And he made for it two
spoons of it, and the bowls of it, and the golden rings under the crown of it,
pitchers of it, with which to pour out, of on the two ribs of it, on the two
pure gold. sides of it, for places for poles with
17 And he made the candlestick of which to bear it. 28 And he made
pure gold: of beaten work he made the poles of acacia wood, and over-
the candlestick, even its base, and laid them with gold. 29 And he
its shaft; its cups, its knops, and its made the holy anointing oil, and
flowers, were of one piece with it. the pure incense of sweet spices, af-
18 And there were six branches go- ter the art of the perfumer.
ing out of the sides of it; three
branches of the candlestick out of 38 And he made the altar of
burnt offering of acacia
the one side of it, and three wood: five cubits was the length of
branches of the candlestick out of it, and five cubits the breadth of it,
the other side of it: 19 three cups foursquare; and three cubits the
made like almond blossoms in one height of it. 2 And he made the
branch, a knop and a flower, and horns of it on the four corners of it;
three cups made like almond blos- the horns of it were of one piece
soms in the other branch, a knop with it: and he overlaid it with
and a flower: so for the six branches brass. 3 And he made all the vessels
going out of the candlestick. 20 And of the altar, the pots, and the shov-
in the candlestick were four cups els, and the basins, the flesh hooks,
made like almond blossoms, the and the firepans: all the vessels of it
knops of it, and the flowers of it; 21 he made of brass. 4 And he made
and a knop under two branches of for the altar a grating of network of
one piece with it, and a knop under brass, under the ledge around it be-
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neath, reaching halfway up. 5 And derer, of blue, and purple, and scar-
he cast four rings for the four ends let, and fine twined linen: and
of the grating of brass, to be places twenty cubits was the length, and
for the poles. 6 And he made the the height in the breadth was five
poles of acacia wood, and overlaid cubits, answerable to the hangings
them with brass. 7 And he put the of the court. 19 And their pillars
poles into the rings on the sides of were four, and their sockets four, of
the altar, with which to bear it; he brass; their hooks of silver, and the
made it hollow with planks. overlaying of their capitals, and
8 And he made the laver of brass, their fillets, of silver. 20 And all the
and the base of it of brass, of the pins of the tabernacle, and of the
mirrors of the ministering women court round about, were of brass.
who ministered at the door of the 21 This is the sum of the things for
tent of meeting. the tabernacle, even the tabernacle
9 And he made the court: for the of the testimony, as they were
south side southward the hangings counted, according to the com-
of the court were of fine twined mandment of Moses, for the service
linen, a hundred cubits; 10 their pil- of the Levites, by the hand of
lars were twenty, and their sockets Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
twenty, of brass; the hooks of the 22 And Bezalel the son of Uri, the
pillars and their fillets were of sil- son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,
ver. 11 And for the north side a hun- made all that Jehovah commanded
dred cubits, their pillars twenty, Moses. 23 And with him was Oho-
and their sockets twenty, of brass; liab, the son of Ahisamach, of the
the hooks of the pillars, and their tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a
fillets, of silver. 12 And for the west skillful workman, and an embroi-
side were hangings of fifty cubits, derer in blue, and in purple, and in
their pillars ten, and their sockets scarlet, and in fine linen.
ten; the hooks of the pillars, and 24 All the gold that was used for
their fillets, of silver. 13 And for the the work in all the work of the sanc-
east side eastward fifty cubits. 14 tuary, even the gold of the offering,
The hangings for the one side of the was twenty-nine talents, and seven
gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars hundred and thirty shekels, after
three, and their sockets three; 15 the shekel of the sanctuary. 25 And
and so for the other side: on this the silver of those who were num-
hand and that hand by the gate of bered of the congregation was a
the court were hangings of fifteen hundred talents, and a thousand
cubits; their pillars three, and their seven hundred and seventy-five
sockets three. 16 All the hangings of shekels, after the shekel of the sanc-
the court all around were of fine tuary: 26 a beka a head, that is, half
twined linen. 17 And the sockets for a shekel, after the shekel of the
the pillars were of brass; the hooks sanctuary, for every one who
of the pillars, and their fillets, of sil- passed over to those who were
ver; and the overlaying of their cap- numbered, from twenty years old
itals, of silver; and all the pillars of and upward, for six hundred and
the court were filleted with silver. three thousand and five hundred
18 And the screen for the gate of the and fifty men. 27 And the hundred
court was the work of the embroi- talents of silver were for casting the
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sockets of the sanctuary, and the ephod, to be stones of memorial for
sockets of the veil; a hundred sock- the children of Israel; as Jehovah
ets for the hundred talents, a talent commanded Moses.
for a socket. 28 And of the thousand 8 And he made the breastplate,
seven hundred seventy-five shekels the work of the skillful workman,
he made hooks for the pillars, and like the work of the ephod; of gold,
overlaid their capitals, and made of blue, and purple, and scarlet,
fillets for them. 29 And the brass of and fine twined linen. 9 It was
the offering was seventy talents, foursquare; they made the breast-
and two thousand four hundred plate double: a span was the length
shekels. 30 And with it he made the of it, and a span the breadth of it,
sockets to the door of the tent of being double. 10 And they set in it
meeting, and the brazen altar, and four rows of stones. A row of
the brazen grating for it, and all the sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was
vessels of the altar, 31 and the sock- the first row; 11 and the second row,
ets of the court all around, and the an emerald, a sapphire, and a dia-
sockets of the gate of the court, and mond; 12 and the third row, a
all the pins of the tabernacle, and all jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
the pins of the court all around. 13 and the fourth row, a beryl, an

39 And of the blue, and pur- onyx, and a jasper: they were en-
ple, and scarlet, they made closed in enclosings of gold in their
finely woven garments, for minis- settings. 14 And the stones were ac-
tering in the holy place, and made cording to the names of the chil-
the holy garments for Aaron; as Je- dren of Israel, twelve, according to
hovah commanded Moses. their names; like the engravings of
2 And he made the ephod of gold, a signet, every one according to his
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and name, for the twelve tribes. 15 And
fine twined linen. 3 And they beat they made on the breastplate chains
the gold into thin plates, and cut it like cords, of wreathed work of
into wires, to work it in the blue, pure gold. 16 And they made two
and in the purple, and in the scarlet, settings of gold, and two gold rings,
and in the fine linen, the work of and put the two rings on the two
the skillful workman. 4 They made ends of the breastplate. 17 And they
shoulder pieces for it, joined to- put the two wreathed chains of
gether; at the two ends was it joined gold in the two rings at the ends of
together. 5 And the skillfully woven the breastplate. 18 And the other
band, that was on it, with which to two ends of the two wreathed
gird it on, was of the same piece and chains they put on the two settings,
like the work of it; of gold, of blue, and put them on the shoulder
and purple, and scarlet, and fine pieces of the ephod, in the front of
twined linen; as Jehovah com- it. 19 And they made two rings of
manded Moses. gold, and put them on the two ends
6 And they worked the onyx of the breastplate, on the edge of it,
stones, enclosed in settings of gold, which was toward the side of the
engraved with the engravings of a ephod inward. 20 And they made
signet, according to the names of two rings of gold, and put them on
the children of Israel. 7 And he put the two shoulder pieces of the
them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod underneath, in the front of it,
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close by the coupling of it, above according to all that Jehovah com-
the skillfully woven band of the manded Moses; so they did. 33 And
ephod. 21 And they bound the they brought the tabernacle to
breastplate by the rings of it to the Moses, the Tent, and all its furni-
rings of the ephod with a lace of ture, its clasps, its boards, its bars,
blue, that it might be on the skill- and its pillars, and its sockets; 34
fully woven band of the ephod, and and the covering of rams’ skins
that the breastplate might not be dyed red, and the covering of seal-
loosed from the ephod; as Jehovah skins, and the veil of the screen; 35
commanded Moses. the ark of the testimony, and the
22 And he made the robe of the poles of it, and the mercy seat; 36
ephod of woven work, all of blue; the table, all the vessels of it, and
23 and the hole of the robe in the the showbread; 37 the pure candle-
midst of it, as the hole of a coat of stick, the lamps of it, even the
mail, with a binding all around the lamps to be set in order, and all the
hole of it, that it should not be torn. vessels of it, and the oil for the light;
24 And they made on the hems of 38 and the golden altar, and the
the robe pomegranates of blue, and anointing oil, and the sweet in-
purple, and scarlet, and twined cense, and the screen for the door of
linen. 25 And they made bells of the Tent; 39 the brazen altar, and its
pure gold, and put the bells be- grating of brass, its poles, and all its
tween the pomegranates on the vessels, the laver and its base; 40
hems of the robe all around, be- the hangings of the court, its pillars,
tween the pomegranates; 26 a bell and its sockets, and the screen for
and a pomegranate, a bell and a the gate of the court, the cords of it,
pomegranate, on the skirts of the and the pins of it, and all the instru-
robe all around, to minister in; as Je- ments of the service of the taberna-
hovah commanded Moses. cle, for the tent of meeting; 41 the
27 And they made the coats of finely woven garments for minis-
fine linen of woven work for Aaron, tering in the holy place, and the
and for his sons, 28 and the turban holy garments for Aaron the priest,
of fine linen, and the head-bands of and the garments of his sons, to
fine linen, and the linen breeches of minister in the priest’s office. 42 Ac-
fine twined linen, 29 and the sash of cording to all that Jehovah com-
fine twined linen, and blue, and manded Moses, so the children of
purple, and scarlet, the work of the Israel did all the work. 43 And
embroiderer; as Jehovah com- Moses saw all the work, and, be-
manded Moses. hold, they had done it; as Jehovah
30 And they made the plate of the had commanded, even so had they
holy crown of pure gold, and wrote done it: and Moses blessed them.
on it a writing, like the engravings
of a signet, HOLY TO JEHOVAH. 40 And Jehovah spoke to
Moses, saying, 2 “On the
31 And they tied to it a lace of blue, first day of the first month shall you
to fasten it on the turban above; as set up the tabernacle of the tent of
Jehovah commanded Moses. meeting. 3 And you shall put in it
32 Thus was finished all the work the ark of the testimony, and you
of the tabernacle of the tent of meet- shall screen the ark with the veil. 4
ing: and the children of Israel did And you shall bring in the table,
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and set in order the things that are laid its sockets, and set up the
on it; and you shall bring in the can- boards of it, and put in the bars of
dlestick, and light the lamps of it. 5 it, and set up its pillars. 19 And he
And you shall set the golden altar spread the tent over the tabernacle,
for incense before the ark of the tes- and put the covering of the tent
timony, and put the screen of the above on it; as Jehovah com-
door to the tabernacle. 6 And you manded Moses. 20 And he took and
shall set the altar of burnt offering put the testimony into the ark, and
before the door of the tabernacle of set the poles on the ark, and put the
the tent of meeting. 7 And you shall mercy seat above on the ark: 21 and
set the laver between the tent of he brought the ark into the taberna-
meeting and the altar, and shall put cle, and set up the veil of the screen,
water in it. 8 And you shall set up and screened the ark of the testi-
the court round about, and hang up mony; as Jehovah commanded
the screen of the gate of the court. 9 Moses. 22 And he put the table in
And you shall take the anointing the tent of meeting, on the side of
oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and the tabernacle northward, outside
all that is in it, and shall hallow it, the veil. 23 And he set the bread in
and all the furniture of it: and it order on it before Jehovah; as Jeho-
shall be holy. 10 And you shall vah commanded Moses. 24 And he
anoint the altar of burnt offering, put the candlestick in the tent of
and all its vessels, and sanctify the meeting, adjacent from the table, on
altar: and the altar shall be most the side of the tabernacle south-
holy. 11 And you shall anoint the ward. 25 And he lit the lamps be-
laver and its base, and sanctify it. 12 fore Jehovah; as Jehovah
And you shall bring Aaron and his commanded Moses. 26 And he put
sons to the door of the tent of meet- the golden altar in the tent of meet-
ing, and shall wash them with wa- ing before the veil: 27 and he burnt
ter. 13 And you shall put on Aaron on it incense of sweet spices; as Je-
the holy garments; and you shall hovah commanded Moses. 28 And
anoint him, and sanctify him, that he put the screen of the door to the
he may minister to me in the tabernacle. 29 And he set the altar
priest’s office. 14 And you shall of burnt offering at the door of the
bring his sons, and put coats on tabernacle of the tent of meeting,
them; 15 and you shall anoint them, and offered upon it the burnt offer-
as you anointed their father, that ing and the meal offering; as Jeho-
they may minister to me in the vah commanded Moses. 30 And he
priest’s office: and their anointing set the laver between the tent of
shall be to them for an everlasting meeting and the altar, and put wa-
priesthood throughout their gener- ter in it, with which to wash. 31
ations. 16 Thus did Moses: accord- And Moses and Aaron and his sons
ing to all that Jehovah commanded washed their hands and their feet at
him, so he did. it; 32 when they went into the tent
17 And it came to pass in the first of meeting, and when they came
month in the second year, on the near to the altar, they washed; as Je-
first day of the month, that the hovah commanded Moses. 33 And
tabernacle was set up. 18 And he set up the court all around the
Moses set up the tabernacle, and tabernacle and the altar, and set up
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the screen of the gate of the court.
So Moses finished the work.
34 Then the cloud covered the
tent of meeting, and the glory of Je-
hovah filled the tabernacle. 35 And
Moses was not able to enter into the
tent of meeting, because the cloud
settled on it, and the glory of Jeho-
vah filled the tabernacle. 36 And
when the cloud was taken up from
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over the tabernacle, the children of
Israel went onward, throughout all
their journeys: 37 but if the cloud
was not taken up, then they did not
journey until the day that it was
taken up. 38 For the cloud of Jeho-
vah was on the tabernacle by day,
and there was fire in it by night, in
the sight of all the house of Israel,
throughout all their journeys.
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THE THIRD BOOK OF MOSES,
COMMONLY CALLED
LEV ITICUS
1 And Jehovah called to Moses,
and spoke to him out of the tent
of meeting, saying, 2 “Speak to the
children of Israel, and say to them,
‘When any man of you offers an
oblation to Jehovah, you shall offer
your oblation of the cattle, even of
the herd and of the flock.
3 If his oblation is a burnt offering
of the herd, he shall offer it a male
without blemish: he shall offer it at
the door of the tent of meeting, that
he may be accepted before Jehovah.
4 And he shall lay his hand on the
head of the burnt offering; and it
shall be accepted for him to make
atonement for him. 5 And he shall
kill the bull before Jehovah: and
Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall
present the blood, and sprinkle the
blood all around on the altar that is
at the door of the tent of meeting. 6
And he shall skin the burnt offer-
ing, and cut it into its pieces. 7 And
the sons of Aaron the priest shall
put fire on the altar, and lay wood
in order on the fire; 8 and Aaron’s
sons, the priests, shall lay the
pieces, the head, and the fat, in or-
der on the wood that is on the fire
which is on the altar: 9 but its inner
parts and its legs shall he wash
with water: and the priest shall
burn the whole on the altar, for a
burnt offering, an offering made by
fire, of a sweet savor to Jehovah.
10 And if his offering is of the
flock, of the sheep, or of the goats,
for a burnt offering; he shall offer it
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a male without blemish. 11 And he
shall kill it on the side of the altar
northward before Jehovah: and
Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall
sprinkle its blood on the altar all
around. 12 And he shall cut it into
its pieces, with its head and its fat;
and the priest shall lay them in or-
der on the wood that is on the fire
which is on the altar: 13 but the in-
ner parts and the legs shall he wash
with water; and the priest shall
offer the whole, and burn it on the
altar: it is a burnt offering, an offer-
ing made by fire, of a sweet savor to
Jehovah.
14 And if his offering to Jehovah
is a burnt offering of birds, then he
shall offer his offering of turtle
doves, or of young pigeons. 15 And
the priest shall bring it to the altar,
and wring off its head, and burn it
on the altar; and the blood of it shall
be drained out on the side of the al-
tar; 16 and he shall take away its
crop with the filth of it, and cast it
beside the altar on the east part, in
the place of the ashes: 17 and he
shall tear it by the wings of it, but
shall not divide it apart. And the
priest shall burn it on the altar, on
the wood that is on the fire: it is a
burnt offering, an offering made by
fire, of a sweet savor to Jehovah.
2 And when any one offer a
meal offering to Jehovah, his
offering shall be of fine flour; and
he shall pour oil on it, and put
frankincense on it: 2 and he shall
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bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests; you season with salt; neither shall
and he shall take from it his hand- you allow the salt of the covenant
ful of the fine flour of it, and of the of your God to be lacking from
oil of it, with all the frankincense of your meal offering: with all your
it. And the priest shall burn it as the offerings you shall offer salt.
memorial of it on the altar, an offer- 14 And if you offer a meal offering
ing made by fire, of a sweet savor to of first fruits to Jehovah, you shall
Jehovah: 3 and that which is left of offer for the meal offering of your
the meal offering shall be Aaron’s first fruits grain in the ear parched
and his sons’: it is a thing most holy with fire, bruised grain of the fresh
of the offerings of Jehovah made by ear. 15 And you shall put oil on it,
fire. and lay frankincense on it: it is a
4 And when you offer a meal meal offering. 16 And the priest
offering baked in the oven, it shall shall burn the memorial of it, part
be unleavened cakes of fine flour of the bruised grain of it, and part
mingled with oil, or unleavened of the oil of it, with all the frankin-
wafers anointed with oil. 5 And if cense of it: it is an offering made by
your offering is a meal offering of fire to Jehovah.
the baking pan, it shall be of fine
flour unleavened, mingled with oil. 3 And if his offering is a sacri-
fice of peace offerings; if he
6 You shall part it in pieces, and offers of the herd, whether male or
pour oil on it: it is a meal offering. 7 female, he shall offer it without
And if your offering is a meal offer- blemish before Jehovah. 2 And he
ing of the frying pan, it shall be shall lay his hand on the head of his
made of fine flour with oil. 8 And offering, and kill it at the door of
you shall bring the meal offering the tent of meeting: and Aaron’s
that is made of these things to Jeho- sons the priests shall sprinkle the
vah: and it shall be presented to the blood on the altar all around. 3 And
priest, and he shall bring it to the al- he shall offer of the sacrifice of
tar. 9 And the priest shall take up peace offerings an offering made by
from the meal offering the memo- fire to Jehovah; the fat that covers
rial of it, and shall burn it on the al- the inner parts, and all the fat that is
tar, an offering made by fire, of a on the inner parts, 4 and the two
sweet savor to Jehovah. 10 And that kidneys, and the fat that is on them,
which is left of the meal offering which is by the loins, and the lobe
shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a on the liver, with the kidneys, shall
thing most holy of the offerings of he take away. 5 And Aaron’s sons
Jehovah made by fire. shall burn it on the altar upon the
11 No meal offering, which you burnt offering, which is on the
shall offer to Jehovah, shall be wood that is on the fire: it is an
made with leaven; for you shall offering made by fire, of a sweet sa-
burn no leaven, nor any honey, as vor to Jehovah.
an offering made by fire to Jehovah. 6 And if his offering for a sacrifice
12 As an offering of first fruits you of peace offerings to Jehovah is of
shall offer them to Jehovah: but the flock; male or female, he shall
they shall not come up for a sweet offer it without blemish. 7 If he
savor on the altar. 13 And every offers a lamb for his offering, then
offering of thy meal offering shall shall he offer it before Jehovah; 8
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and he shall lay his hand on the them: 3 if the anointed priest shall
head of his offering, and kill it be- sin so as to bring guilt on the peo-
fore the tent of meeting: and ple, then let him offer for his sin,
Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle the which he has sinned, a young bull
blood of it on the altar all around. 9 without blemish to Jehovah for a
And he shall offer of the sacrifice of sin offering. 4 And he shall bring
peace offerings an offering made by the bull to the door of the tent of
fire to Jehovah; the fat of it, the fat meeting before Jehovah; and he
tail entire, he shall take away close shall lay his hand on the head of the
to the backbone; and the fat that bullock, and kill the bullock before
covers the inner parts, and all the Jehovah. 5 And the anointed priest
fat that is on the inner parts, 10 and shall take the blood of the bull, and
the two kidneys, and the fat that is bring it to the tent of meeting: 6 and
on them, which is by the loins, and the priest shall dip his finger in the
the lobe on the liver, with the kid- blood, and sprinkle the blood seven
neys, shall he take away. 11 And the times before Jehovah, before the
priest shall burn it on the altar: it is veil of the sanctuary. 7 And the
the food of the offering made by fire priest shall put the blood on the
to Jehovah. horns of the altar of sweet incense
12 And if his offering is a goat, before Jehovah, which is in the tent
then he shall offer it before Jehovah: of meeting; and all the blood of the
13 and he shall lay his hand on the bull shall he pour out at the base of
head of it, and kill it before the tent the altar of burnt offering, which is
of meeting; and the sons of Aaron at the door of the tent of meeting. 8
shall sprinkle the blood of it on the And all the fat of the bull of the sin
altar all around. 14 And he shall offering he shall take off from it; the
offer from it his offering, even an fat that covers the inner parts, and
offering made by fire to Jehovah; all the fat that is on the inner parts,
the fat that covers the inner parts, 9 and the two kidneys, and the fat
and all the fat that is on the inner that is on them, which is by the
parts, 15 and the two kidneys, and loins, and the lobe on the liver, with
the fat that is on them, which is by the kidneys, shall he take away, 10
the loins, and the lobe on the liver, as it is taken off from the ox of the
with the kidneys, shall he take sacrifice of peace offerings: and the
away. 16 And the priest shall burn priest shall burn them on the altar
them on the altar: it is the food of of burnt offering. 11 And the skin of
the offering made by fire, for a the bull, and all its flesh, with its
sweet savor; all the fat is Jehovah’s. head, and with its legs, and its in-
17 It shall be a perpetual statute ner parts, and its dung, 12 even the
throughout your generations in all whole bull shall he carry forth out-
your dwellings, that you shall eat side the camp to a clean place,
neither fat nor blood. where the ashes are poured out,

4 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, and burn it on wood with fire:

saying, 2 “Speak to the children where the ashes are poured out
of Israel, saying, ‘If any one shall shall it be burnt.
sin unwittingly, in any of the things 13 And if the whole congregation
which Jehovah has commanded not of Israel errs, and the thing is hid-
to be done, and shall do any one of den from the eyes of the assembly,
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and they have done any of the sin offering with his finger, and put
things which Jehovah has com- it on the horns of the altar of burnt
manded not to be done, and are offering; and the blood of it shall he
guilty; 14 when the sin in which pour out at the base of the altar of
they have sinned is known, then burnt offering. 26 And all the fat of
the assembly shall offer a young it shall he burn on the altar, as the
bull for a sin offering, and bring it fat of the sacrifice of peace offer-
before the tent of meeting. 15 And ings; and the priest shall make
the elders of the congregation shall atonement for him as concerning
lay their hands on the head of the his sin, and he shall be forgiven.
bull before Jehovah; and the bull 27 And if any one of the common
shall be killed before Jehovah. 16 people sin unwittingly, in doing
And the anointed priest shall bring any of the things which Jehovah
the blood of the bull to the tent of has commanded not to be done,
meeting: 17 and the priest shall dip and is guilty; 28 if his sin, which he
his finger in the blood, and sprinkle has sinned, is made known to him,
it seven times before Jehovah, be- then he shall bring for his offering a
fore the veil. 18 And he shall put the goat, a female without blemish, for
blood on the horns of the altar his sin which he has sinned. 29 And
which is before Jehovah, that is in he shall lay his hand on the head of
the tent of meeting; and all the the sin offering, and kill the sin
blood shall he pour out at the base offering in the place of burnt offer-
of the altar of burnt offering, which ing. 30 And the priest shall take the
is at the door of the tent of meeting. blood of it with his finger, and put
19 And all the fat of it shall he take it on the horns of the altar of burnt
off from it, and burn it on the altar. offering; and all the blood of it shall
20 Thus shall he do with the bull; as he pour out at the base of the altar.
he did with the bull of the sin offer- 31 And all the fat of it shall he take
ing, so shall he do with this; and the away, as the fat is taken away from
priest shall make atonement for off the sacrifice of peace offerings;
them, and they shall be forgiven. 21 and the priest shall burn it on the
And he shall carry forth the bull altar for a sweet savor to Jehovah;
outside the camp, and burn it as he and the priest shall make atone-
burned the first bull: it is the sin ment for him, and he shall be for-
offering for the assembly. given.
22 When a ruler sins, and does 32 And if he brings a lamb as his
unwittingly any one of all the offering for a sin offering, he shall
things which Jehovah his God has bring it a female without blemish.
commanded not to be done, and is 33 And he shall lay his hand on the
guilty; 23 if his sin, in which he has head of the sin offering, and kill it
sinned, is made known to him, he for a sin offering in the place where
shall bring for his offering a goat, a they kill the burnt offering. 34 And
male without blemish. 24 And he the priest shall take the blood of the
shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering with his finger, and put
goat, and kill it in the place where it on the horns of the altar of burnt
they kill the burnt offering before offering; and all the blood of it shall
Jehovah: it is a sin offering. 25 And he pour out at the base of the altar.
the priest shall take the blood of the 35 And all the fat of it shall he take
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away, as the fat of the lamb is taken bring them to the priest, who shall
away from the sacrifice of peace offer that which is for the sin offer-
offerings; and the priest shall burn ing first, and wring off its head
them on the altar, on the offerings from its neck, but shall not divide it
of Jehovah made by fire; and the apart: 9 and he shall sprinkle the
priest shall make atonement for blood of the sin offering on the side
him concerning his sin that he has of the altar; and the rest of the blood
sinned, and he shall be forgiven. shall be drained out at the base of

5 And if any one sins, in that he the altar: it is a sin offering. 10 And
hears the voice of adjuration, he he shall offer the second for a burnt
being a witness, whether he has offering, according to the ordi-
seen or known, if he does not utter nance; and the priest shall make
it, then he shall bear his iniquity. 2 atonement for him as concerning
Or if any one touches any unclean his sin which he has sinned, and he
thing, whether it be the carcass of shall be forgiven.
an unclean beast, or the carcass of 11 But if his means do not suffice
unclean cattle, or the carcass of un- for two turtle doves, or two young
clean creeping things, and it is hid- pigeons, then he shall bring his
den from him, and he is unclean, offering for that in which he has
then he shall be guilty. 3 Or if he sinned, the tenth part of an ephah
touches the uncleanness of man, of fine flour for a sin offering: he
whatsoever his uncleanness is with shall put no oil on it, neither shall
which he is unclean, and it is hid- he put any frankincense on it; for it
den from him; when he knows of it, is a sin offering. 12 And he shall
then he shall be guilty. 4 Or if any bring it to the priest, and the priest
one swears rashly with his lips to shall take his handful of it as the
do evil, or to do good, whatsoever memorial of it, and burn it on the
it is that a man shall utter rashly altar, on the offerings of Jehovah
with an oath, and it is hidden from made by fire: it is a sin offering. 13
him; when he knows of it, then he And the priest shall make atone-
shall be guilty in one of these things. ment for him concerning his sin
5 And it shall be, when he shall be that he has sinned in any of these
guilty in one of these things, that he things, and he shall be forgiven:
shall confess that in which he has and the remnant shall be the priest’s,
sinned: 6 and he shall bring his tres- as the meal offering.’ ”
pass offering to Jehovah for his sin 14 And Jehovah spake to Moses,
which he has sinned, a female from saying, 15 “If any one commits a
the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin trespass, and sins unwittingly, in
offering; and the priest shall make the holy things of Jehovah; then he
atonement for him as concerning shall bring his trespass offering
his sin. unto Jehovah, a ram without blem-
7 And if his means do not suffice ish out of the flock, according to
for a lamb, then he shall bring his your estimation in silver by
trespass offering for that in which shekels, after the shekel of the sanc-
he has sinned, two turtle doves, or tuary, for a trespass offering: 16 and
two young pigeons, to Jehovah; one he shall make restitution for that
for a sin offering, and the other for which he has done amiss in the
a burnt offering. 8 And he shall holy thing, and shall add the fifth
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part to it, and give it to the priest; make atonement for him before Je-
and the priest shall make atone- hovah; and he shall be forgiven
ment for him with the ram of the concerning whatsoever he does so
trespass offering, and he shall be as to be guilty by it.”
forgiven. 8 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
17 And if any one sins, and does saying, 9 “Command Aaron and his
any of the things which Jehovah sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the
has commanded not to be done; burnt offering: the burnt offering
though he did not know it not, still shall be on the hearth on the altar
he is guilty, and shall bear his iniq- all night until the morning; and the
uity. 18 And he shall bring a ram fire of the altar shall be kept burn-
without blemish out of the flock, ac- ing on it. 10 And the priest shall put
cording to your estimation, for a on his linen garment, and his linen
trespass offering, to the priest; and breeches shall he put on his flesh;
the priest shall make atonement for and he shall take up the ashes to
him concerning the thing in which which the fire has consumed the
he erred unwittingly and did not burnt offering on the altar, and he
know it, and he shall be forgiven. 19 shall put them beside the altar. 11
It is a trespass offering: he is cer- And he shall take off his garments,
tainly guilty before Jehovah.” and put on other garments, and

6 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, carry forth the ashes outside the
saying, 2 “If any one sins, and camp to a clean place. 12 And the
commits a trespass against Jeho- fire on the altar shall be kept burn-
vah, and deals falsely with his ing on it, it shall not go out; and the
neighbor in a matter of deposit, or priest shall burn wood on it every
of bargain, or of robbery, or have morning: and he shall lay the burnt
oppressed his neighbor, 3 or have offering in order on it, and shall
found that which was lost, and deal burn on it the fat of the peace offer-
falsely in it, and swears to a lie; in ings. 13 Fire shall be kept burning
any of all these things that a man on the altar continually; it shall not
does, sinning in it; 4 then it shall be, go out.
if he has sinned, and is guilty, that 14 And this is the law of the meal
he shall restore that which he took offering: the sons of Aaron shall
by robbery, or the thing which he offer it before Jehovah, before the
has gotten by oppression, or the de- altar. 15 And he shall take up from
posit which was committed to him, it his handful, of the fine flour of the
or the lost thing which he found, 5 meal offering, and of the oil of it,
or any thing about which he has and all the frankincense which is on
sworn falsely; he shall even restore the meal offering, and shall burn it
it in full, and shall add the fifth part on the altar for a sweet savor, as the
more to it: to him to whom it apper- memorial of it, to Jehovah. 16 And
tains shall he give it, in the day of that which is left of it shall Aaron
his being found guilty. 6 And he and his sons eat: it shall be eaten
shall bring his trespass offering to without leaven in a holy place; in
Jehovah, a ram without blemish out the court of the tent of meeting they
of the flock, according to your esti- shall eat it. 17 It shall not be baked
mation, for a trespass offering, to with leaven. I have given it as their
the priest: 7 and the priest shall portion of my offerings made by
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fire; it is most holy, as the sin offer- priests shall eat of it: it is most holy.
ing, and as the trespass offering. 18 30 And no sin offering, of which
Every male among the children of any of the blood is brought into the
Aaron shall eat of it, as his portion tent of meeting to make atonement
for ever throughout your genera- in the holy place, shall be eaten: it
tions, from the offerings of Jehovah shall be burnt with fire.
made by fire: whosoever touches
them shall be holy.’ ” 7 And this is the law of the tres-
pass offering: it is most holy. 2
19 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, In the place where they kill the
saying, 20 “This is the offering of burnt offering shall they kill the
Aaron and of his sons, which they trespass offering; and the blood of it
shall offer to Jehovah in the day shall he sprinkle on the altar all
when he is anointed: the tenth part around. 3 And he shall offer of it all
of an ephah of fine flour for a meal the fat of it: the fat tail, and the fat
offering perpetually, half of it in the that covers the inner parts, 4 and
morning, and half of it in the the two kidneys, and the fat that is
evening. 21 On a baking pan it shall on them, which is by the loins, and
be made with oil; when it is soaked, the lobe on the liver, with the kid-
you shall bring it in: in baked pieces neys, shall he take away; 5 and the
shall you offer the meal offering for priest shall burn them on the altar
a sweet savor to Jehovah. 22 And for an offering made by fire to Jeho-
the anointed priest that shall be in vah: it is a trespass offering. 6 Every
his place from among his sons shall male among the priests shall eat of
offer it: by a statute for ever it shall it: it shall be eaten in a holy place: it
be wholly burnt to Jehovah. 23 And is most holy. 7 As is the sin offering,
every meal offering of the priest so is the trespass offering; there is
shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be one law for them: the priest who
eaten.” makes atonement with it, he shall
24 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, have it. 8 And the priest who offers
saying, 25 “Speak to Aaron and to any man’s burnt offering, even the
his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of priest shall have to himself the skin
the sin offering: in the place where of the burnt offering which he has
the burnt-offering is killed shall the offered. 9 And every meal offering
sin offering be killed before Jeho- that is baked in the oven, and all
vah: it is most holy. 26 The priest that is dressed in the frying pan,
who offers it for sin shall eat it: in a and on the baking pan, shall be the
holy place shall it be eaten, in the priest’s who offers it. 10 And every
court of the tent of meeting. 27 meal offering, mingled with oil, or
Whatsoever shall touch the flesh of dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have,
it shall be holy; and when there is one as well as another.
sprinkled of the blood of it on any 11 And this is the law of the sacri-
garment, you shall wash that on fice of peace offerings, which one
which it was sprinkled in a holy shall offer to Jehovah. 12 If he offers
place. 28 But the earthen vessel in it for a thanksgiving, then he shall
which it is boiled shall be broken; offer with the sacrifice of thanks-
and if it is boiled in a brazen vessel, giving unleavened cakes mingled
it shall be scoured, and rinsed in with oil, and unleavened wafers
water. 29 Every male among the anointed with oil, and cakes min-
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gled with oil, of fine flour soaked. Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat,
13 With cakes of leavened bread he of ox, or sheep, or goat. 24 And the
shall offer his offering with the sac- fat of that which dies of itself, and
rifice of his peace offerings for the fat of that which is torn by
thanksgiving. 14 And of it he shall beasts, may be used for any other
offer one out of each offering for a service; but you shall in no way eat
heave offering to Jehovah; it shall of it. 25 For whosoever eats the fat
be the priest’s who sprinkles the of the beast, of which men offer an
blood of the peace offerings. offering made by fire to Jehovah,
15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of even the soul who eats it shall be
his peace offerings for thanksgiving cut off from his people. 26 And you
shall be eaten on the day of his shall eat no manner of blood,
offering; he shall not leave any of it whether it be of bird or of beast, in
until the morning. 16 But if the sac- any of your dwellings. 27 Whoso-
rifice of his offering is a vow, or a ever it is who eats any blood, that
freewill offering, it shall be eaten on soul shall be cut off from his peo-
the day that he offers his sacrifice; ple.’ ”
and on the next day that which re- 28 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
mains of it shall be eaten: 17 but saying, 29 “Speak to the children of
that which remains of the flesh of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the
the sacrifice on the third day shall sacrifice of his peace offerings to Je-
be burnt with fire. 18 And if any of hovah shall bring his offering to Je-
the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace hovah out of the sacrifice of his
offerings is eaten on the third day, it peace offerings: 30 his own hands
shall not be accepted, neither shall shall bring the offerings of Jehovah
it be imputed to him who offers it: made by fire; the fat with the breast
it shall be an abomination, and the shall he bring, that the breast may
soul who eats of it shall bear his in- be waved for a wave offering before
iquity. Jehovah. 31 And the priest shall
19 And the flesh that touches any burn the fat on the altar; but the
unclean thing shall not be eaten; it breast shall be Aaron’s and his
shall be burnt with fire. And as for sons’. 32 And the right thigh shall
the flesh, every one who is clean you give to the priest for a heave
shall eat of it: 20 but the soul who offering out of the sacrifices of your
eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings. 33 He among the
peace offerings, that pertains to Je- sons of Aaron who offers the blood
hovah, having his uncleanness of the peace offerings, and the fat,
upon him, that soul shall be cut off shall have the right thigh for a por-
from his people. 21 And when any tion. 34 For the breast of the wave
one shall touch any unclean thing, and the thigh of the heave have I
the uncleanness of man, or an un- taken of the children of Israel out of
clean beast, or any unclean abomi- the sacrifices of their peace offer-
nation, and eat of the flesh of the ings, and have given them to Aaron
sacrifice of peace offerings, which the priest and to his sons as their
pertains to Jehovah, that soul shall portion for ever from the children
be cut off from his people.’ ” of Israel.
22 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, 35 This is the anointing portion of
saying, 23 “Speak to the children of Aaron, and the anointing portion of
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his sons, out of the offerings of Je- front, he set the golden plate, the
hovah made by fire, in the day holy crown; as Jehovah com-
when he presented them to minis- manded Moses.
ter to Jehovah in the priest’s office; 10 And Moses took the anointing
36 which Jehovah commanded to oil, and anointed the tabernacle and
be given them by the children of Is- all that was in it, and sanctified
rael, in the day that he anointed them. 11 And he sprinkled of it on
them. It is their portion for ever the altar seven times, and anointed
throughout their generations. the altar and all its vessels, and the
37 This is the law of the burnt laver and its base, to sanctify them.
offering, of the meal offering, and 12 And he poured the anointing oil
of the sin offering, and of the tres- on Aaron’s head, and anointed him,
pass offering, and of the consecra- to sanctify him. 13 And Moses
tion, and of the sacrifice of peace brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed
offerings; 38 which Jehovah com- them with tunics, and girded them
manded Moses on Mount Sinai, in with sashes, and bound head-
the day that he commanded the bands on them; as Jehovah com-
children of Israel to offer their offer- manded Moses.
ings to Jehovah, in the wilderness 14 And he brought the bull of the
of Sinai.’ ” sin offering: and Aaron and his

8 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, sons laid their hands on the head of
saying, 2 “Take Aaron and his the bull of the sin offering. 15 And
sons with him, and the garments, he slew it; and Moses took the
and the anointing oil, and the bull blood, and put it on the horns of the
of the sin offering, and the two altar all around with his finger, and
rams, and the basket of unleavened purified the altar, and poured out
bread; 3 and assemble all the con- the blood at the base of the altar,
gregation at the door of the tent of and sanctified it, to make atone-
meeting.” 4 And Moses did as Jeho- ment for it. 16 And he took all the
vah commanded him; and the con- fat that was on the inner parts, and
gregation was assembled at the the lobe of the liver, and the two
door of the tent of meeting. 5 And kidneys, and their fat; and Moses
Moses said to the congregation, burned it on the altar. 17 But the
“This is the thing which Jehovah bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and
has commanded to be done.” its dung, he burnt with fire outside
6 And Moses brought Aaron and the camp; as Jehovah commanded
his sons, and washed them with Moses.
water. 7 And he put on him the tu- 18 And he presented the ram of
nic, and girded him with the sash, the burnt offering: and Aaron and
and clothed him with the robe, and his sons laid their hands on the
put the ephod on him, and he head of the ram. 19 And he killed it;
girded him with the skillfully wo- and Moses sprinkled the blood on
ven band of the ephod, and bound the altar all around. 20 And he cut
it to him with it. 8 And he placed the ram into its pieces; and Moses
the breastplate on him: and in the burnt the head, and the pieces, and
breastplate he put the Urim and the the fat. 21 And he washed the inner
Thummim. 9 And he set the turban parts and the legs with water; and
on his head; and on the turban, in Moses burnt the whole ram on the
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altar: it was a burnt offering for a sons, and on his sons’ garments
sweet savor: it was an offering with him, and sanctified Aaron, his
made by fire to Jehovah; as Jehovah garments, and his sons, and his
commanded Moses. sons’ garments with him.
22 And he presented the other 31 And Moses said to Aaron and
ram, the ram of consecration: and to his sons, “Boil the flesh at the
Aaron and his sons laid their hands door of the tent of meeting: and
on the head of the ram. 23 And he there eat it and the bread that is in
slew it; and Moses took the blood of the basket of consecration, as I com-
it, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s manded, saying, ‘Aaron and his
right ear, and on the thumb of his sons shall eat it.’ 32 And that which
right hand, and on the great toe of remains of the flesh and of the
his right foot. 24 And he brought bread shall you burn with fire. 33
Aaron’s sons; and Moses put the And you shall not go out from the
blood on the tip of their right ear, door of the tent of meeting seven
and on the thumb of their right days, until the days of your conse-
hand, and on the great toe of their cration is fulfilled: for he shall con-
right foot: and Moses sprinkled the secrate you seven days. 34 As has
blood on the altar all around. 25 been done this day, so Jehovah has
And he took the fat, and the fat tail, commanded to do, to make atone-
and all the fat that was on the inner ment for you. 35 And at the door of
parts, and the lobe of the liver, and the tent of meeting shall you re-
the two kidneys, and their fat, and main day and night seven days,
the right thigh: 26 and out of the and keep the charge of Jehovah,
basket of unleavened bread, that that you do not die: for so I am
was before Jehovah, he took one commanded.” 36 And Aaron and
unleavened cake, and one cake of his sons did all the things which Je-
oiled bread, and one wafer, and hovah commanded by Moses.
placed them on the fat, and on the
right thigh: 27 and he put the whole 9 And it came to pass on the
eighth day, that Moses called
on the hands of Aaron, and on the Aaron and his sons, and the elders
hands of his sons, and waved them of Israel; 2 and he said to Aaron,
for a wave offering before Jehovah. “Take a calf of the herd for a sin
28 And Moses took them from off offering, and a ram for a burnt
their hands, and burnt them on the offering, without blemish, and offer
altar on the burnt offering: they them before Jehovah. 3 And to the
were a consecration for a sweet sa- children of Israel you shall speak,
vor: it was an offering made by fire saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin
to Jehovah. 29 And Moses took the offering; and a calf and a lamb, both
breast, and waved it for a wave a year old, without blemish, for a
offering before Jehovah: it was burnt offering; 4 and an ox and a
Moses’ portion of the ram of conse- ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice
cration; as Jehovah commanded before Jehovah; and a meal offering
Moses. mingled with oil: for today Jehovah
30 And Moses took of the anoint- appears to you.’ ” 5 And they
ing oil, and of the blood which was brought that which Moses com-
on the altar, and sprinkled it on manded before the tent of meeting:
Aaron, on his garments, and on his and all the congregation drew near
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and stood before Jehovah. 6 And the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of
Moses said, “This is the thing peace offerings, which was for the
which Jehovah commanded that people: and Aaron’s sons delivered
you should do: and the glory of Je- to him the blood, which he sprin-
hovah shall appear to you.” 7 And kled on the altar all around, 19 and
Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the fat of the ox and of the ram, the
the altar, and offer your sin offer- fat tail, and that which covers the in-
ing, and your burnt offering, and ner parts, and the kidneys, and the
make atonement for yourself, and lobe of the liver: 20 and they put the
for the people; and offer the offer- fat on the breasts, and he burnt the
ing of the people, and make atone- fat on the altar: 21 and the breasts
ment for them; as Jehovah and the right thigh Aaron waved
commanded.” for a wave offering before Jehovah;
8 So Aaron drew near to the altar, as Moses commanded.
and slew the calf of the sin offering, 22 And Aaron lifted up his hands
which was for himself. 9 And the toward the people, and blessed
sons of Aaron presented the blood them; and he came down from
to him; and he dipped his finger in offering the sin offering, and the
the blood, and put it on the horns of burnt offering, and the peace offer-
the altar, and poured out the blood ings. 23 And Moses and Aaron
at the base of the altar: 10 but the went into the tent of meeting, and
fat, and the kidneys, and the lobe came out, and blessed the people:
from the liver of the sin offering, he and the glory of Jehovah appeared
burnt on the altar; as Jehovah com- to all the people. 24 And there came
manded Moses. 11 And the flesh forth fire from before Jehovah, and
and the skin he burnt with fire out- consumed on the altar the burnt
side the camp. offering and the fat: and when all
12 And he slew the burnt offering; the people saw it, they shouted,
and Aaron’s sons delivered to him and fell on their faces.
the blood, and he sprinkled it on
the altar all around. 13 And they 10 And Nadab and Abihu, the
sons of Aaron, took each of
delivered the burnt offering to him, them his censer, and put fire in it,
piece by piece, and the head: and he and laid incense on it, and offered
burnt them on the altar. 14 And he strange fire before Jehovah, which
washed the inner parts and the he had not commanded them. 2
legs, and burnt them on the burnt And there came forth fire from be-
offering on the altar. fore Jehovah, and devoured them,
15 And he presented the people’s and they died before Jehovah. 3
offering, and took the goat of the Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is
sin offering which was for the peo- it that Jehovah spoke, saying, ‘I will
ple, and slew it, and offered it for be sanctified in those who come
sin, as the first. 16 And he presented near me, and before all the people I
the burnt offering, and offered it ac- will be glorified.’ ” And Aaron held
cording to the ordinance. 17 And he his peace. 4 And Moses called
presented the meal offering, and Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of
filled his hand from it, and burnt it Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said
on the altar, besides the burnt offer- to them, “Draw near, carry your
ing of the morning. 18 He slew also brethren from before the sanctuary
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out of the camp.” 5 So they drew of the sacrifices of the peace offer-
near, and carried them in their tu- ings of the children of Israel. 15 The
nics out of the camp, as Moses had thigh of the heave and the breast of
said. 6 And Moses said to Aaron, the wave shall they bring with the
and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his offerings made by fire of the fat, to
sons, “Let not the hair of your wave it for a wave offering before
heads go loose, neither tear your Jehovah: and it shall be yours, and
clothes; that you do not die, and your sons’ with you, as a portion
that he be not angry with all the for ever; as Jehovah has com-
congregation: but let your brethren, manded.”
the whole house of Israel, bewail 16 And Moses diligently sought
the burning which Jehovah has kin- the goat of the sin offering, and, be-
dled. 7 And you shall not go out hold, it was burnt: and he was an-
from the door of the tent of meet- gry with Eleazar and with Ithamar,
ing, lest you die; for the anointing the sons of Aaron who were left,
oil of Jehovah is upon you.” And saying, 17 “Why have you not
they did according to the word of eaten the sin offering in the place of
Moses. the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy,
8 And Jehovah spoke to Aaron, and he has given it to you to bear
saying, 9 “Drink no wine nor strong the iniquity of the congregation, to
drink, you, nor your sons with you, make atonement for them before Je-
when you go into the tent of meet- hovah? 18 Behold, the blood of it
ing, that you do not die: it shall be a was not brought into the sanctuary
statute for ever throughout your within: you should certainly have
generations: 10 and that you may eaten it in the sanctuary, as I com-
make a distinction between the manded.” 19 And Aaron spoke to
holy and the common, and between Moses, “Behold, this day have they
the unclean and the clean; 11 and offered their sin offering and their
that you may teach the children of burnt offering before Jehovah; and
Israel all the statutes which Jehovah there have befallen me such things
has spoken to them by Moses.” as these: and if I had eaten the sin
12 And Moses spoke to Aaron, offering today, would it have been
and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his well-pleasing in the sight of Jeho-
sons who were left, “Take the meal- vah?” 20 And when Moses heard
offering that remains of the offer- that, it was well-pleasing in his
ings of Jehovah made by fire, and sight.
eat it without leaven beside the al-
tar; for it is most holy; 13 and you 11 And Jehovah spoke to
Moses and to Aaron, saying
shall eat it in a holy place, because to them, 2 “Speak to the children of
it is your portion, and your sons’ Israel, saying, ‘These are the living
portion, of the offerings of Jehovah things which you may eat among
made by fire: for so I am com- all the beasts that are on the earth. 3
manded. 14 And the breast of the Whatsoever parts the hoof, and is
wave and the thigh of the heave cloven-footed, and chews the cud,
shall you eat in a clean place, you, among the beasts, that may you eat.
and your sons, and your daughters 4 Nevertheless these shall you not
with you: for they are given as your eat of those that chew the cud, or of
portion, and your sons’ portion, out those that part the hoof: the camel,
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because he chews the cud but does eat of all winged creeping things
not part the hoof, he is unclean to that go on all fours, which have legs
you. 5 And the hyrax, because he above their feet, with which to leap
chews the cud but does not part the on the earth. 22 Even these of those
hoof, he is unclean to you. 6 And you may eat: the locust after its
the hare, because she chews the cud kind, and the bald locust after its
but does not part the hoof, she is kind, and the cricket after its kind,
unclean to you. 7 And the swine, and the grasshopper after its kind.
because he parts the hoof, and is 23 But all winged creeping things,
cloven-footed, but does not chew which have four feet, are an abomi-
the cud, he is unclean to you. 8 Of nation to you.
their flesh you shall not eat, and 24 And by these you shall become
their carcasses you shall not touch; unclean: whosoever touches the
they are unclean to you. carcass of them shall be unclean un-
9 These may you eat of all that are til the evening; 25 And whosoever
in the waters: whatsoever has fins bears anything of the carcass of
and scales in the waters, in the seas, them shall wash his clothes, and be
and in the rivers, that may you eat. unclean until the evening. 26 Every
10 And all that do not have fins and beast which parts the hoof, and is
scales in the seas, and in the rivers, not cloven-footed, nor chews the
of all that move in the waters, and cud, is unclean to you: every one
of all the living creatures that are in that touches them shall be unclean.
the waters, they are an abomination 27 And whatsoever goes on its
to you, 11 and they shall be an paws, among all beasts that go on
abomination to you; you shall not all fours, they are unclean to you:
eat of their flesh, and their carcasses whoever touches their carcass shall
you shall have in abomination. 12 be unclean until the evening. 28
Whatsoever does not have fins nor And he who bears the carcass of
scales in the waters, that is an them shall wash his clothes, and be
abomination to you. unclean until the evening: they are
13 And these you shall have in unclean to you.
abomination among the birds; they 29 And these are they which are
shall not be eaten, they are an unclean to you among the creeping
abomination: the eagle, and the things that creep on the earth: the
bearded vulture, and the osprey, 14 weasel, and the mouse, and the
and the kite, and the falcon after its great lizard after its kind, 30 and
kind, 15 every raven after its kind, the gecko, and the land-crocodile,
16 and the ostrich, and the and the lizard, and the sand lizard,
nighthawk, and the seagull, and the and the chameleon. 31 These are
hawk after its kind, 17 and the little they which are unclean to you
owl, and the cormorant, and the among all that creep: whosoever
great owl, 18 and the horned owl, touches them, when they are dead,
and the pelican, and the vulture, 19 shall be unclean until the evening.
and the stork, the heron after its 32 And on whatsoever any of them,
kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. when they are dead, falls, it shall be
20 All winged creeping things unclean; whether it be any vessel of
that go on all fours are an abomina- wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack,
tion to you. 21 Yet these may you whatsoever vessel it is, with which
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any work is done, it must be put you should be defiled by them. 44
into water, and it shall be unclean For I am Jehovah your God: sanc-
until the evening; then shall it be tify yourselves therefore, and be
clean. 33 And every earthen vessel, holy; for I am holy: neither shall
into which any of them falls, what- you defile yourselves with any
soever is in it shall be unclean, and manner of creeping thing that
it you shall break. 34 All food in it moves on the earth. 45 For I am Je-
which may be eaten, that on which hovah that brought you up out of
water comes, shall be unclean; and the land of Egypt, to be your God:
all drink that may be drunk in ev- you shall therefore be holy, for I am
ery such vessel shall be unclean. 35 holy.
And every thing on which any part 46 This is the law of the beast, and
of their carcass falls shall be un- of the bird, and of every living crea-
clean; whether oven, or range for ture that moves in the waters, and
pots, it shall be broken in pieces: of every creature that creeps on the
they are unclean, and shall be un- earth; 47 to make a distinction be-
clean to you. 36 Nevertheless a tween the unclean and the clean,
fountain or a pit in which is a gath- and between the living thing that
ering of water shall be clean: but may be eaten and the living thing
that which touches their carcass that may not be eaten.’ ”
shall be unclean. 37 And if anything
of their carcass falls on any sowing 12 And Jehovah spoke to
Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to
seed which is to be sown, it is clean. the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a
38 But if water is put on the seed, woman conceives seed, and bears a
and anything of their carcass falls on male child, then she shall be un-
it, it is unclean to you. clean seven days; as in the days of
39 And if any beast, of which you the impurity of her sickness shall
may eat, dies; he who touches the she be unclean. 3 And in the eighth
carcass of it shall be unclean until day the flesh of his foreskin shall be
the evening. 40 And he who eats of circumcised. 4 And she shall con-
the carcass of it shall wash his tinue in the blood of her purifying
clothes, and be unclean until the thirty-three days; she shall touch no
evening: he also who bears the car- hallowed thing, nor come into the
cass of it shall wash his clothes, and sanctuary, until the days of her pu-
be unclean until the evening. rifying are fulfilled. 5 But if she bear
41 And every creeping thing that a female child, then she shall be un-
creeps on the earth is an abomina- clean two weeks, as in her impu-
tion; it shall not be eaten. 42 What- rity; and she shall continue in the
soever goes on the belly, and blood of her purifying sixty-six
whatsoever goes on all fours, or days.
whatsoever has many feet, even all 6 And when the days of her puri-
creeping things that creep on the fying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a
earth, those you shall not eat; for daughter, she shall bring a lamb a
they are an abomination. 43 You year old for a burnt offering, and a
shall not make yourselves abom- young pigeon, or a turtle dove, for
inable with any creeping thing that a sin offering, to the door of the tent
creeps, neither shall you make of meeting, to the priest: 7 and he
yourselves unclean with them, that shall offer it before Jehovah, and
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make atonement for her; and she he has shown himself to the priest
shall be cleansed from the fountain for his cleansing, he shall show
of her blood. This is the law for her himself to the priest again: 8 and
who bears, whether a male or a fe- the priest shall look; and, behold, if
male. 8 And if her means do not the scab has spread in the skin, then
suffice for a lamb, then she shall the priest shall pronounce him un-
take two turtle doves, or two young clean: it is leprosy.
pigeons; the one for a burnt offer- 9 When the plague of leprosy is in
ing, and the other for a sin offering: a man, then he shall be brought to
and the priest shall make atone- the priest; 10 and the priest shall
ment for her, and she shall be look; and, behold, if there is a white
clean.’ ” rising in the skin, and it has turned

13 And Jehovah spoke to the hair white, and there is quick

Moses and to Aaron, saying, raw flesh in the rising, 11 it is an old
2 “When a man shall have in the leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and
skin of his flesh a rising, or a scab, the priest shall pronounce him un-
or a bright spot, and it becomes in clean: he shall not shut him up, for
the skin of his flesh the plague of he is unclean. 12 And if the leprosy
leprosy, then he shall be brought to breaks out abroad in the skin, and
Aaron the priest, or to one of his the leprosy covers all the skin of
sons the priests: 3 and the priest him who has the plague from his
shall look on the plague in the skin head even to his feet, as far as ap-
of the flesh: and if the hair in the pears to the priest; 13 then the
plague has turned white, and the priest shall look; and, behold, if the
appearance of the plague is deeper leprosy has covered all his flesh, he
than the skin of his flesh, it is the shall pronounce him clean who has
plague of leprosy; and the priest the plague: it is all turned white: he
shall look on him, and pronounce is clean. 14 But whensoever raw
him unclean. 4 And if the bright flesh appears in him, he shall be un-
spot is white in the skin of his flesh, clean. 15 And the priest shall look
and the appearance of it is not on the raw flesh, and pronounce
deeper than the skin, and the hair him unclean: the raw flesh is un-
of it is not turned white, then the clean: it is leprosy. 16 Or if the raw
priest shall shut up him who has the flesh turns again, and is changed to
plague seven days: 5 and the priest white, then he shall come to the
shall look on him the seventh day: priest; 17 and the priest shall look
and, behold, if in his eyes the on him; and, behold, if the plague
plague has halted, and the plague has turned into white, then the
has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean
priest shall shut him up seven days who has the plague: he is clean.
more: 6 and the priest shall look on 18 And when the flesh has in the
him again the seventh day; and, be- skin of it a boil, and it is healed, 19
hold, if the plague is dim, and the and in the place of the boil there is
plague has not spread in the skin, a white rising, or a bright spot, red-
then the priest shall pronounce him dish-white, then it shall be shown
clean: it is a scab: and he shall wash to the priest; 20 and the priest shall
his clothes, and be clean. 7 But if the look; and, behold, if the appearance
scab spread abroad in the skin, after of it is lower than the skin, and the
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hair of it has turned white, then the skin, and there is in it yellow thin
priest shall pronounce him un- hair, then the priest shall pro-
clean: it is the plague of leprosy, it nounce him unclean: it is a scale, it
has broken out in the boil. 21 But if is leprosy of the head or of the
the priest looks on it, and, behold, beard. 31 And if the priest looks on
there is no white hairs in it, and it is the plague of the scale, and, behold,
not lower than the skin, but is dim; the appearance of it is not deeper
then the priest shall shut him up than the skin, and there is no black
seven days: 22 and if it spreads hair in it, then the priest shall shut
abroad in the skin, then the priest up him who has the plague of the
shall pronounce him unclean: it is a scale seven days: 32 and in the sev-
plague. 23 But if the bright spot enth day the priest shall look on the
stays in its place, and has not plague; and, behold, if the scale has
spread, it is the scar of the boil; and not spread, and there is in it no yel-
the priest shall pronounce him low hair, and the appearance of the
clean. scale is not deeper than the skin, 33
24 Or when the flesh has in the then he shall be shaven, but the
skin of it a burning by fire, and the scale shall he not shave; and the
quick flesh of the burning becomes priest shall shut up him who has the
a bright spot, reddish-white, or scale seven days more: 34 and in
white; 25 then the priest shall look the seventh day the priest shall look
on it; and, behold, if the hair in the on the scale; and, behold, if the
bright spot has turned white, and scale has not spread in the skin, and
the appearance of it is deeper than the appearance of it is not deeper
the skin; it is leprosy, it has broken than the skin; then the priest shall
out in the burning: and the priest pronounce him clean: and he shall
shall pronounce him unclean: it is wash his clothes, and be clean. 35
the plague of leprosy. 26 But if the But if the scale spreads abroad in
priest looks on it, and, behold, there the skin after his cleansing, 36 then
is no white hair in the bright spot, the priest shall look on him; and,
and it is no lower than the skin, but behold, if the scale has spread in the
is dim; then the priest shall shut skin, the priest shall not seek for the
him up seven days: 27 and the yellow hair; he is unclean. 37 But if
priest shall look on him the seventh in his eyes the scale has halted, and
day: if it spreads abroad in the skin, black hair has grown up in it; the
then the priest shall pronounce him scale is healed, he is clean: and the
unclean: it is the plague of leprosy. priest shall pronounce him clean.
28 And if the bright spot stays in its 38 And when a man or a woman
place, and is not spread in the skin, has in the skin of the flesh bright
but is dim; it is the rising of the spots, even white bright spots; 39
burning, and the priest shall pro- then the priest shall look; and, be-
nounce him clean: for it is the scar hold, if the bright spots in the skin
of the burning. of their flesh are of a dull white, it is
29 And when a man or woman a white spot, it has broken out in
has a plague on the head or on the the skin; he is clean.
beard, 30 then the priest shall look 40 And if a man’s hair is fallen off
on the plague; and, behold, if the his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
appearance of it is deeper than the 41 And if his hair is fallen off from
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the front part of his head, he is fore- woolen or in linen, or anything of
head bald; yet is he clean. 42 But if skin, in which the plague is: for it is
there is in the bald head, or the bald a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt
forehead, a reddish-white plague; it in the fire.
is leprosy breaking out in his bald 53 And if the priest shall look,
head, or his bald forehead. 43 Then and, behold, the plague has not
the priest shall look on him; and, spread in the garment, either in the
behold, if the rising of the plague is warp, or in the woof, or in anything
reddish-white in his bald head, or of skin; 54 then the priest shall com-
in his bald forehead, as the appear- mand that they wash the thing in
ance of leprosy in the skin of the which the plague is, and he shall
flesh; 44 he is a leprous man, he is shut it up seven days more: 55 and
unclean: the priest shall surely pro- the priest shall look, after that the
nounce him unclean; his plague is plague is washed; and, behold, if
in his head. the plague has not changed its
45 And the leper in whom the color, and the plague has not
plague is, his clothes shall be torn, spread, it is unclean; you shall burn
and the hair of his head shall go it in the fire: it is a fret, whether the
loose, and he shall cover his upper bareness is inside or outside.
lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean, un- 56 And if the priest looks, and, be-
clean.’ 46 All the days in which the hold, the plague is dim after the
plague is in him he shall be un- washing of it, then he shall tear it
clean; he is unclean: he shall dwell out of the garment, or out of the
alone; outside the camp shall his skin, or out of the warp, or out of
dwelling be. the woof: 57 and if it appears still in
47 The garment also that the the garment, either in the warp, or
plague of leprosy is in, whether it is in the woof, or in anything of skin,
a woolen garment, or a linen gar- it is breaking out: you shall burn
ment; 48 whether it is in warp, or that in which the plague is with fire.
woof; of linen, or of wool; whether 58 And the garment, either the
in a skin, or in anything made of warp, or the woof, or whatsoever
skin; 49 if the plague is greenish or thing of skin it is, which you shall
reddish in the garment, or in the wash, if the plague is departed
skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, from them, then it shall be washed
or in anything of skin; it is the the second time, and shall be clean.
plague of leprosy, and shall be 59 This is the law of the plague of
shown to the priest. 50 And the leprosy in a garment of wool or
priest shall look on the plague, and linen, either in the warp, or the
shut up that which has the plague woof, or anything of skin, to pro-
seven days: 51 and he shall look on nounce it clean, or to pronounce it
the plague on the seventh day: if unclean.”
the plague has spread in the gar-
ment, either in the warp, or in the 14 And Jehovah spoke to
Moses, saying, 2 “This shall
woof, or in the skin, whatever ser- be the law of the leper in the day of
vice skin is used for; the plague is a his cleansing: he shall be brought to
fretting leprosy; it is unclean. 52 the priest: 3 and the priest shall go
And he shall burn the garment, forth out of the camp; and the priest
whether the warp or the woof, in shall look; and, behold, if the
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plague of leprosy is healed in the male lamb in the place where they
leper, 4 then shall the priest com- kill the sin offering and the burnt
mand to take for him that is to be offering, in the place of the sanctu-
cleansed two living clean birds, and ary: for as the sin offering is the
cedar wood, and scarlet, and hys- priest’s, so is the trespass offering:
sop: 5 and the priest shall com- it is most holy. 14 And the priest
mand to kill one of the birds in an shall take of the blood of the tres-
earthen vessel over running water. pass offering, and the priest shall
6 As for the living bird, he shall take put it on the tip of the right ear of
it, and the cedar wood, and the him who is to be cleansed, and on
scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall the thumb of his right hand, and on
dip them and the living bird in the the great toe of his right foot. 15
blood of the bird that was killed And the priest shall take of the log
over the running water: 7 and he of oil, and pour it into the palm of
shall sprinkle on him that is to be his own left hand; 16 and the priest
cleansed from the leprosy seven shall dip his right finger in the oil
times, and shall pronounce him that is in his left hand, and shall
clean, and shall let go the living sprinkle the oil with his finger
bird into the open field. 8 And he seven times before Jehovah. 17 And
that is to be cleansed shall wash his of the rest of the oil that is in his
clothes, and shave off all his hair, hand shall the priest put on the tip
and bathe himself in water; and he of the right ear of him who is to be
shall be clean: and after that he cleansed, and on the thumb of his
shall come into the camp, but shall right hand, and on the great toe of
dwell outside his tent seven days. 9 his right foot, on the blood of the
And it shall be on the seventh day, trespass offering: 18 and the rest of
that he shall shave all his hair off the oil that is in the priest’s hand he
his head and his beard and his eye- shall put on the head of him who is
brows, even all his hair he shall to be cleansed: and the priest shall
shave off: and he shall wash his make atonement for him before Je-
clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh hovah. 19 And the priest shall offer
in water, and he shall be clean. the sin offering, and make atone-
10 And on the eighth day he shall ment for him who is to be cleansed
take two male lambs without blem- because of his uncleanness: and af-
ish, and one ewe lamb a year old terward he shall kill the burnt offer-
without blemish, and three tenth ing; 20 and the priest shall offer the
parts of an ephah of fine flour for a burnt offering and the meal offer-
meal offering, mingled with oil, ing on the altar: and the priest shall
and one log of oil. 11 And the priest make atonement for him, and he
who cleanses him shall set the man shall be clean.
who is to be cleansed, and those 21 And if he is poor, and cannot
things, before Jehovah, at the door get so much, then he shall take one
of the tent of meeting. 12 And the male lamb for a trespass offering to
priest shall take one of the male be waved, to make atonement for
lambs, and offer him for a trespass him, and one tenth part of an ephah
offering, and the log of oil, and of fine flour mingled with oil for a
wave them for a wave offering be- meal offering, and a log of oil; 22
fore Jehovah: 13 and he shall kill the and two turtle doves, or two young
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pigeons, such as he is able to get; 33 And Jehovah spoke to Moses
and the one shall be a sin offering, and to Aaron, saying, 34 “When
and the other a burnt offering. 23 you have come into the land of
And on the eighth day he shall Canaan, which I give to you for a
bring them for his cleansing to the possession, and I put the plague of
priest, to the door of the tent of leprosy in a house of the land of
meeting, before Jehovah: 24 and the your possession; 35 then he who
priest shall take the lamb of the owns the house shall come and tell
trespass offering, and the log of oil, the priest, saying, “There seems to
and the priest shall wave them for a me to be as it were a plague in the
wave offering before Jehovah. 25 house.” 36 And the priest shall
And he shall kill the lamb of the command that they empty the
trespass offering; and the priest house, before the priest goes in to
shall take of the blood of the tres- see the plague, that all who are in
pass offering, and put it on the tip the house are not made unclean:
of the right ear of him who is to be and afterward the priest shall go in
cleansed, and on the thumb of his to see the house: 37 and he shall
right hand, and on the great toe of look on the plague; and, behold, if
his right foot. 26 And the priest the plague is in the walls of the
shall pour the oil into the palm of house with hollow streaks, green-
his own left hand; 27 and the priest ish or reddish, and the appearance
shall sprinkle with his right finger of it is lower than the wall; 38 then
some of the oil that is in his left the priest shall go out of the house
hand seven times before Jehovah: to the door of the house, and shut
28 and the priest shall put the oil up the house seven days. 39 And
that is in his hand on the tip of the the priest shall come again the sev-
right ear of him who is to be enth day, and shall look; and, be-
cleansed, and on the thumb of his hold, if the plague is spread in the
right hand, and on the great toe of walls of the house; 40 then the
his right foot, on the place of the priest shall command that they take
blood of the trespass offering: 29 out the stones in which the plague
and the rest of the oil that is in the is, and cast them into an unclean
priest’s hand he shall put on the place outside the city: 41 and he
head of him who is to be cleansed, shall cause the house to be scraped
to make atonement for him before within all around, and they shall
Jehovah. 30 And he shall offer one pour out the mortar, that they
of the turtle doves, or of the young scrape off, outside the city into an
pigeons, such as he is able to get, 31 unclean place: 42 and they shall
even such as he is able to get, the take other stones, and put them in
one for a sin offering, and the other the place of those stones; and he
for a burnt offering, with the meal shall take other mortar, and shall
offering: and the priest shall make plaster the house.
atonement for him who is to be 43 And if the plague comes again,
cleansed before Jehovah. 32 This is and breaks out in the house, after
the law of him in whom is the he has taken out the stones, and af-
plague of leprosy, who is not able to ter he has scraped the house, and
get that which pertains to his cleans- after it is plastered; 44 then the
ing.” priest shall come in and look; and,
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behold, if the plague is spread in
the house, it is a fretting leprosy in15 And Jehovah spoke to
Moses and to Aaron, saying,
the house: it is unclean. 45 And he 2 “Speak to the children of Israel,
shall break down the house, the and say to them, ‘When any man
stones of it, and the timber of it, and has an issue out of his flesh, be-
all the mortar of the house; and he cause of his issue he is unclean. 3
shall carry them forth out of the city And this shall be his uncleanness in
into an unclean place. 46 Moreover his issue: whether his flesh runs
he who goeth into the house all the with his issue, or his flesh be
while that it is shut up shall be un- stopped from his issue, it is his un-
clean until the evening. 47 And he cleanness. 4 Every bed on which he
who lies in the house shall wash his who has the issue lies shall be un-
clothes; and he who eats in the clean; and everything on which he
house shall wash his clothes. sits shall be unclean. 5 And whoso-
48 And if the priest shall come in, ever touches his bed shall wash his
and look, and, behold, the plague clothes, and bathe himself in water,
has not spread in the house, after and be unclean until the evening. 6
the house was plastered; then the And he who sits on anything on
priest shall pronounce the house which he who has the issue sat shall
clean, because the plague is healed. wash his clothes, and bathe himself
49 And he shall take to cleanse the in water, and be unclean until the
house two birds, and cedar wood, evening. 7 And he who touches the
and scarlet, and hyssop: 50 and he flesh of him who has the issue shall
shall kill one of the birds in an wash his clothes, and bathe himself
earthen vessel over running water: in water, and be unclean until the
51 and he shall take the cedar even. 8 And if he who has the issue
wood, and the hyssop, and the scar- spit on him who is clean, then he
let, and the living bird, and dip shall wash his clothes, and bathe
them in the blood of the slain bird, himself in water, and be unclean
and in the running water, and until the evening. 9 And whatso-
sprinkle the house seven times: 52 ever saddle he who has the issue
and he shall cleanse the house with rides on shall be unclean. 10 And
the blood of the bird, and with the whosoever touches anything that
running water, and with the living was under him shall be unclean un-
bird, and with the cedar wood, and til the evening: and he who bears
with the hyssop, and with the scar- those things shall wash his clothes,
let: 53 but he shall let go the living and bathe himself in water, and be
bird out of the city into the open unclean until the evening. 11 And
field: so shall he make atonement whomsoever he who has the issue
for the house; and it shall be clean. touches, without having rinsed his
54 This is the law for all manner of hands in water, he shall wash his
plague of leprosy, and for a scale, 55 clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and for the leprosy of a garment, and be unclean until the evening.
and for a house, 56 and for a rising, 12 And the earthen vessel, which he
and for a scab, and for a bright spot; who has the issue touches, shall be
57 to teach when it is unclean, and broken; and every vessel of wood
when it is clean: this is the law of shall be rinsed in water.
leprosy.” 13 And when he who has an issue
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is cleansed of his issue, then he the evening. 24 And if any man lies
shall number to himself seven days with her, and her impurity is on
for his cleansing, and wash his him, he shall be unclean seven
clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh days; and every bed on which he
in running water, and shall be lies shall be unclean.
clean. 14 And on the eighth day he 25 And if a woman has an issue of
shall take to him two turtle doves, her blood many days not in the
or two young pigeons, and come time of her impurity, or if she has an
before Jehovah to the door of the issue beyond the time of her impu-
tent of meeting, and give them to rity; all the days of the issue of her
the priest: 15 and the priest shall uncleanness she shall be as in the
offer them, the one for a sin offer- days of her impurity: she is un-
ing, and the other for a burnt offer- clean. 26 Every bed on which she
ing; and the priest shall make lies all the days of her issue shall be
atonement for him before Jehovah to her as the bed of her impurity:
for his issue. and everything on which she sits
16 And if any man’s seed of copu- shall be unclean, as the uncleanness
lation go out from him, then he of her impurity. 27 And whosoever
shall bathe all his flesh in water, touches those things shall be un-
and be unclean until the evening. clean, and shall wash his clothes,
17 And every garment, and every and bathe himself in water, and be
skin, on which is the seed of copu- unclean until the evening. 28 But if
lation, shall be washed with water, she is cleansed of her issue, then
and be unclean until the evening. she shall number to herself seven
18 The woman also with whom a days, and after that she shall be
man shall lie with seed of copula- clean. 29 And on the eighth day she
tion, they shall both bathe them- shall take to her two turtle doves, or
selves in water, and be unclean two young pigeons, and bring them
until the evening. to the priest, to the door of the tent
19 And if a woman has an issue, of meeting. 30 And the priest shall
and her issue in her flesh is blood, offer the one for a sin offering, and
she shall be in her impurity seven the other for a burnt offering; and
days: and whosoever touches her the priest shall make atonement for
shall be unclean until the evening. her before Jehovah for the issue of
20 And everything that she lies on her uncleanness.’
in her impurity shall be unclean: 31 Thus shall you separate the
everything also that she sits on children of Israel from their un-
shall be unclean. 21 And whosoever cleanness, that they do not die in
touches her bed shall wash his their uncleanness, when they defile
clothes, and bathe himself in water, my tabernacle that is in the midst of
and be unclean until the evening. them.
22 And whosoever touches any- 32 This is the law of him who has
thing that she sits on shall wash his an issue, and of him whose seed of
clothes, and bathe himself in water, copulation goes from him, so that
and be unclean until the evening. he is unclean by it; 33 and of her
23 And if it is on the bed, or on any- who is sick with her impurity, and
thing on which she sits, when he of him who has an issue, of the
touches it, he shall be unclean until man, and of the woman, and of him
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who lies with her who is unclean.’ ” shall kill the bull of the sin offering

16 And Jehovah spoke to which is for himself. 12 And he

Moses, after the death of the shall take a censer full of coals of
two sons of Aaron, when they drew fire from off the altar before Jeho-
near before Jehovah, and died; 2 vah, and his hands full of sweet in-
and Jehovah said to Moses, “Speak cense beaten small, and bring it
to Aaron your brother, that he does within the veil: 13 and he shall put
not come at all times into the holy the incense on the fire before Jeho-
place within the veil, before the vah, that the cloud of the incense
mercy seat which is on the ark; that may cover the mercy seat that is on
he does not die: for I will appear in the testimony, that he does not die:
the cloud on the mercy seat. 3 With 14 and he shall take the blood of the
this shall Aaron come into the holy bull, and sprinkle it with his finger
place: with a young bull for a sin on the mercy seat on the east; and
offering, and a ram for a burnt before the mercy seat shall he sprin-
offering. 4 He shall put on the holy kle of the blood with his finger
linen tunic, and he shall have the seven times.
linen breeches on his flesh, and 15 Then shall he kill the goat of
shall be girded with the linen sash, the sin offering, that is for the peo-
and with the linen turban shall he ple, and bring his blood within the
be attired: they are the holy gar- veil, and do with his blood as he
ments; and he shall bathe his flesh did with the blood of the bull, and
in water, and put them on. 5 And he sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and
shall take of the congregation of the before the mercy seat: 16 and he
children of Israel two male goats shall make atonement for the holy
for a sin offering, and one ram for a place, because of the uncleannesses
burnt offering. of the children of Israel, and be-
6 And Aaron shall present the bull cause of their transgressions, even
of the sin offering, which is for him- all their sins: and so shall he do for
self, and make atonement for him- the tent of meeting, that dwells
self, and for his house. 7 And he with them in the midst of their un-
shall take the two goats, and set cleannesses. 17 And there shall be
them before Jehovah at the door of no man in the tent of meeting when
the tent of meeting. 8 And Aaron he goes in to make atonement in the
shall cast lots on the two goats; one holy place, until he comes out, and
lot for Jehovah, and the other lot for has made atonement for himself,
Azazel. 9 And Aaron shall present and for his household, and for all
the goat on which the lot fell for Je- the assembly of Israel. 18 And he
hovah, and offer him for a sin offer- shall go out to the altar that is be-
ing. 10 But the goat, on which the fore Jehovah, and make atonement
lot fell for Azazel, shall be set alive for it, and shall take the blood of the
before Jehovah, to make atonement bull, and the blood of the goat, and
for him, to send him away for put it on the horns of the altar all
Azazel into the wilderness. around. 19 And he shall sprinkle
11 And Aaron shall present the the blood on it with his finger seven
bull of the sin offering, which is for times, and cleanse it, and hallow it
himself, and shall make atonement from the uncleannesses of the chil-
for himself, and for his house, and dren of Israel.
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20 And when he has made an end shall afflict your souls, and shall do
of atoning for the holy place, and no manner of work, the native, or
the tent of meeting, and the altar, he the stranger who sojourns among
shall present the live goat: 21 and you: 30 for on this day shall atone-
Aaron shall lay both his hands on ment be made for you, to cleanse
the head of the live goat, and con- you; from all your sins shall you be
fess over him all the iniquities of clean before Jehovah. 31 It is a sab-
the children of Israel, and all their bath of solemn rest to you, and you
transgressions, even all their sins; shall afflict your souls; it is a statute
and he shall put them on the head for ever. 32 And the priest, who
of the goat, and shall send him shall be anointed and who shall be
away by the hand of a man who is consecrated to be priest in his fa-
in readiness into the wilderness: 22 ther’s stead, shall make the atone-
and the goat shall bear on him all ment, and shall put on the linen
their iniquities to a solitary land: garments, even the holy garments:
and he shall let go the goat in the 33 and he shall make atonement for
wilderness. the holy sanctuary; and he shall
23 And Aaron shall come into the make atonement for the tent of
tent of meeting, and shall take off meeting and for the altar; and he
the linen garments, which he put shall make atonement for the
on when he went into the holy priests and for all the people of the
place, and shall leave them there: 24 assembly. 34 And this shall be an
and he shall bathe his flesh in water everlasting statute to you, to make
in a holy place, and put on his gar- atonement for the children of Israel
ments, and come forth, and offer because of all their sins once in the
his burnt offering and the burnt year.” And he did as Jehovah com-
offering of the people, and make manded Moses.
atonement for himself and for the
people. 25 And the fat of the sin 17 And Jehovah spoke to
Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to
offering shall he burn on the altar. Aaron, and to his sons, and to all
26 And he who lets go the goat for the children of Israel, and say to
Azazel shall wash his clothes, and them: ‘This is the thing which Jeho-
bathe his flesh in water, and after- vah has commanded, saying, 3
ward he shall come into the camp. “Whatsoever man there is of the
27 And the bull of the sin offering, house of Israel, who kills an ox, or
and the goat of the sin offering, lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who
whose blood was brought in to kills it outside the camp, 4 and has
make atonement in the holy place, not brought it to the door of the tent
shall be carried forth outside the of meeting, to offer it as an offering
camp; and they shall burn in the to Jehovah before the tabernacle of
fire their skins, and their flesh, and Jehovah: blood shall be imputed to
their dung. 28 And he who burns that man; he has shed blood; and
them shall wash his clothes, and that man shall be cut off from
bathe his flesh in water, and after- among his people: 5 to the end that
ward he shall come into the camp. the children of Israel may bring
29 And it shall be a statute for their sacrifices, which they sacrifice
ever to you: in the seventh month, in the open field, even that they
on the tenth day of the month, you may bring them to Jehovah, to the
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door of the tent of meeting, to the Israel, ‘You shall eat the blood of no
priest, and sacrifice them for sacri- manner of flesh; for the life of all
fices of peace offerings to Jehovah. flesh is the blood of it: whosoever
6 And the priest shall sprinkle the eats it shall be cut off.’ 15 “And ev-
blood on the altar of Jehovah at the ery soul who eats that which dies of
door of the tent of meeting, and itself, or that which is torn by
burn the fat for a sweet savor to Je- beasts, whether he is native or a so-
hovah. 7 And they shall no more journer, he shall wash his clothes,
sacrifice their sacrifices to the male and bathe himself in water, and be
goats, after which they play the unclean until the evening: then
harlot. This shall be a statute for- shall he be clean. 16 But if he does
ever to them throughout their gen- not wash them, nor bathe his flesh,
erations.” ’ then he shall bear his iniquity.”
8 “And you shall say to them,
‘Whatsoever man there is of the 18 And Jehovah spoke to
Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to
house of Israel, or of the strangers the children of Israel, and say to
who sojourn among them, who them, ‘I am Jehovah your God. 3
offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, 9 After the doings of the land of
and does not bring it to the door of Egypt, in which you dwelt, you
the tent of meeting, to sacrifice it to shall not do: and after the doings of
Jehovah; that man shall be cut off the land of Canaan, to which I bring
from his people. you, you shall not do; neither shall
10 ‘And whatsoever man there is you walk in their statutes. 4 My or-
of the house of Israel, or of the dinances shall you do, and my
strangers who sojourn among statutes shall you keep, to walk in
them, who eats any manner of them: I am Jehovah your God. 5
blood, I will set my face against that You shall therefore keep my
soul who eats blood, and will cut statutes, and my ordinances; which
him off from among his people. 11 if a man does, he shall live in them:
For the life of the flesh is in the I am Jehovah.
blood; and I have given it to you on 6 None of you shall approach to
the altar to make atonement for any who are near of kin to him, to
your souls: for it is the blood that uncover their nakedness: I am Jeho-
makes atonement by reason of the vah. 7 The nakedness of your fa-
life.’ 12 Therefore I said to the chil- ther, even the nakedness of your
dren of Israel, ‘No soul of you shall mother, shall you not uncover: she
eat blood, neither shall any stranger is your mother; you shall not un-
who sojourns among you eat cover her nakedness. 8 The naked-
blood.’ 13 “And whatsoever man ness of your father’s wife shall you
there is of the children of Israel, or not uncover: it is your father’s
of the strangers who sojourn nakedness. 9 The nakedness of
among them, who take in hunting your sister, the daughter of your fa-
any beast or bird that may be eaten; ther, or the daughter of your
he shall pour out the blood of it, mother, whether born at home, or
and cover it with dust. born abroad, even their nakedness
14 For as to the life of all flesh, the you shall not uncover. 10 The
blood of it is all one with the life of nakedness of your son’s daughter,
it: therefore I said to the children of or of your daughter’s daughter,
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even their nakedness you shall not stand before a beast, to lie down
uncover: for theirs is your own with it: it is confusion.
nakedness. 11 The nakedness of 24 Do not defile yourselves in any
your father’s wife’s daughter, be- of these things: for in all these the
gotten by your father, she is your nations are defiled which I cast out
sister, you shall not uncover her from before you; 25 and the land is
nakedness. 12 You shall not un- defiled: therefore I visit the iniquity
cover the nakedness of your fa- of it upon it, and the land vomits
ther’s sister: she is your father’s out her inhabitants. 26 You there-
near kinswoman. 13 You shall not fore shall keep my statutes and my
uncover the nakedness of your ordinances, and shall not do any of
mother’s sister: for she is your these abominations; neither the na-
mother’s near kinswoman. 14 You tive, nor the stranger who sojourns
shall not uncover the nakedness of among you; 27 (for all these abomi-
your father’s brother, you shall not nations have the men of the land
approach his wife: she is your aunt. done, who were before you, and the
15 You shall not uncover the naked- land is defiled); 28 that the land
ness of your daughter-in-law: she is does not vomit you out also, when
your son’s wife; you shall not un- you defile it, as it vomited out the
cover her nakedness. 16 You shall nation that was before you. 29 For
not uncover the nakedness of your whosoever shall do any of these
brother’s wife: it is your brother’s abominations, even the souls who
nakedness. 17 You shall not un- do them shall be cut off from
cover the nakedness of a woman among their people. 30 Therefore
and her daughter; you shall not shall you keep my charge, that you
take her son’s daughter, or her do not practice any of these abom-
daughter’s daughter, to uncover inable customs, which were prac-
her nakedness; they are near ticed before you, and that you do
kinswomen: it is wickedness. 18 not defile yourselves in them: I am
And you shall not take a wife to her Jehovah your God.’ ”

her nakedness, besides the other in

her lifetime.
19
sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover And Jehovah spoke to
Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to
all the congregation of the children
19 And you shall not approach a of Israel, and say to them, ‘You shall
woman to uncover her nakedness, be holy; for I Jehovah your God am
as long as she is impure by her un- holy. 3 You shall fear every man his
cleanness. 20 And you shall not lie mother, and his father; and you
carnally with your neighbor’s wife, shall keep my Sabbaths: I am Jeho-
to defile yourself with her. 21 And vah your God. 4 Do not turn to
you shall not give any of your seed idols, nor make to yourselves
to make them pass through the fire molten gods: I am Jehovah your
to Molech; neither shall you pro- God.
fane the name of your God: I am Je- 5 And when you offer a sacrifice
hovah. 22 You shall not lie with of peace offerings to Jehovah, you
mankind, as with womankind: it is shall offer it that you may be ac-
abomination. 23 And you shall not cepted. 6 It shall be eaten the same
lie with any beast to defile yourself day you offer it, and on the next
with it; neither shall any woman day: and if anything remains until
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the third day, it shall be burned people; but you shall love your
with fire. 7 And if it is eaten at all on neighbor as yourself: I am Jehovah.
the third day, it is an abomination; 19 You shall keep my statutes. You
it shall not be accepted: 8 but every shall not let your cattle crossbreed
one who eats it shall bear his iniq- with a diverse kind: you shall not
uity, because he has profaned the sow your field with two kinds of
holy thing of Jehovah: and that soul seed: neither shall there come on
shall be cut off from his people. you a garment of two kinds of stuff
9 And when you reap the harvest mingled together. 20 And whoso-
of your land, you shall not wholly ever lies carnally with a woman,
reap the corners of your field, nei- who is a bondmaid, betrothed to a
ther shall you gather the gleaning husband, and not at all redeemed,
of your harvest. 10 And you shall nor freedom given her; they shall
not glean your vineyard, neither be punished; they shall not be put
shall you gather the fallen fruit of to death, because she was not free.
your vineyard; you shall leave 21 And he shall bring his trespass
them for the poor and for the so- offering to Jehovah, to the door of
journer: I am Jehovah your God. the tent of meeting, even a ram for
11 You shall not steal; neither shall a trespass offering. 22 And the
you deal falsely, nor lie to one an- priest shall make atonement for
other. 12 And you shall not swear him with the ram of the trespass
by my name falsely, and profane offering before Jehovah for his sin
the name of your God: I am Jeho- which he has sinned: and the sin
vah. which he has sinned shall be for-
13 You shall not oppress your given him.
neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of 23 And when you shall come into
a hired servant shall not remain the land, and shall have planted all
with you all night until the morn- manner of trees for food, then you
ing. 14 You shall not curse the deaf, shall count the fruit of it as their un-
nor put a stumbling block before circumcision: three years shall they
the blind; but you shall fear your be as uncircumcised to you; it shall
God: I am Jehovah. not be eaten. 24 But in the fourth
15 You shall do no unrighteous- year all the fruit of it shall be holy,
ness in judgment: you shall not re- for giving praise to Jehovah. 25
spect the person of the poor, nor And in the fifth year shall you eat of
honor the person of the mighty; but the fruit of it, that it may yield to
in righteousness shall you judge you the increase of it: I am Jehovah
your neighbor. 16 You shall not go your God.
up and down as a talebearer among 26 You shall not eat anything with
your people: neither shall you the blood: neither shall you use en-
stand against the blood of your chantments, nor practice interpre-
neighbor: I am Jehovah. tation of signs. 27 You shall not
17 You shall not hate your brother round the corners of your heads,
in your heart: you shall surely re- neither shall you mar the corners of
buke your neighbor, and not bear your beard. 28 You shall not make
sin because of him. 18 You shall not any cuttings in your flesh for the
take vengeance, nor bear any dead, nor print any marks on you: I
grudge against the children of your am Jehovah.
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29 Do not profane your daughter, from that man, when he gives his
to make her a harlot; lest the land seed to Molech, and not put him to
fall to whoredom, and the land be- death; 5 then I will set my face
come full of wickedness. 30 You against that man, and against his
shall keep my Sabbaths, and revere family, and will cut him off, and all
my sanctuary; I am Jehovah. who play the harlot after him, to
31 Do not turn to those who have play the harlot with Molech, from
familiar spirits, nor to the wizards; among their people.
do not seek them out, to be defiled 6 And the soul who turns to those
by them: I am Jehovah your God. who have familiar spirits, and to
32 You shall rise up before the the wizards, to play the harlot after
gray head, and honor the face of the them, I will even set my face
old man, and you shall fear your against that soul, and will cut him
God: I am Jehovah. off from among his people. 7 Sanc-
33 And if a stranger sojourns with tify yourselves therefore, and be
you in your land, you shall not do holy; for I am Jehovah your God. 8
him wrong. 34 The stranger who And you shall keep my statutes,
sojourns with you shall be to you as and do them: I am Jehovah who
the native among you, and you sanctifies you. 9 For every one who
shall love him as yourself; for you curses his father or his mother shall
were sojourners in the land of surely be put to death: he has
Egypt: I am Jehovah your God. cursed his father or his mother; his
35 You shall do no unrighteous- blood shall be upon him.
ness in judgment, in measures of 10 And the man who commits
length, of weight, or of quantity. 36 adultery with another man’s wife,
Just balances, just weights, a just even he who commits adultery
ephah, and a just hin, shall you with his neighbor’s wife, the adul-
have: I am Jehovah your God, who terer and the adulteress shall surely
brought you out of the land of be put to death. 11 And the man
Egypt. 37 And you shall observe all who lies with his father’s wife has
my statutes, and all my ordinances, uncovered his father’s nakedness:
and do them: I am Jehovah.’ ” both of them shall surely be put to

20 And Jehovah spoke to death; their blood shall be upon

Moses, saying, 2 “Moreover, them. 12 And if a man lies with his
you shall say to the children of Is- daughter-in-law, both of them shall
rael, ‘Whosoever he is of the chil- surely be put to death: they have
dren of Israel, or of the strangers worked confusion; their blood shall
who sojourn in Israel, who gives of be upon them. 13 And if a man lies
his seed to Molech; he shall surely with mankind, as with wom-
be put to death: the people of the ankind, both of them have commit-
land shall stone him with stones. 3 ted abomination: they shall surely
I also will set my face against that be put to death; their blood shall be
man, and will cut him off from upon them. 14 And if a man takes a
among his people; because he has wife and her mother, it is wicked-
given his seed to Molech, to defile ness: they shall be burnt with fire,
my sanctuary, and to profane my both he and they; that there be no
holy name. 4 And if the people of wickedness among you. 15 And if a
the land do at all hide their eyes man lies with a beast, he shall
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surely be put to death: and you your God, who has separated you
shall slay the beast. 16 And if a from the peoples. 25 You shall
woman approaches any beast, and therefore make a distinction be-
lies down with it, you shall kill the tween the clean beast and the un-
woman, and the beast: they shall clean, and between the unclean
surely be put to death; their blood fowl and the clean: and you shall
shall be upon them. not make your souls abominable by
17 And if a man shall take his sis- beast, or by bird, or by anything
ter, his father’s daughter, or his with which the ground teems,
mother’s daughter, and see her which I have separated from you as
nakedness, and she sees his naked- unclean. 26 And you shall be holy
ness; it is a shameful thing; and to me: for I, Jehovah, am holy, and
they shall be cut off in the sight of have set you apart from the peo-
the children of their people: he has ples, that you should be mine.
uncovered his sister’s nakedness; 27 A man also or a woman who
he shall bear his iniquity. 18 And if has a familiar spirit, or that is a wiz-
a man shall lie with a woman hav- ard, shall surely be put to death:
ing her sickness, and shall uncover they shall stone them with stones;
her nakedness; he has made naked their blood shall be upon them.’ ”
her fountain, and she has uncov-
ered the fountain of her blood: and 21 And Jehovah said to Moses,
“Speak to the priests, the
both of them shall be cut off from sons of Aaron, and say to them,
among their people. 19 And you ‘There shall none defile himself for
shall not uncover the nakedness of the dead among his people; 2 ex-
your mother’s sister, nor of your fa- cept for his kin, who is near to him,
ther’s sister; for he has made naked for his mother, and for his father,
his near kin: they shall bear their in- and for his son, and for his daugh-
iquity. 20 And if a man shall lie with ter, and for his brother, 3 and for his
his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered sister a virgin, who is near to him,
his uncle’s nakedness: they shall who has had no husband; for her he
bear their sin; they shall die child- may defile himself. 4 He shall not
less. 21 And if a man shall take his defile himself, being a chief man
brother’s wife, it is impurity: he has among his people, to profane him-
uncovered his brother’s nakedness; self. 5 They shall not make baldness
they shall be childless. on their head, neither shall they
22 You shall therefore keep all my shave off the corner of their beard,
statutes, and all my ordinances, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
and do them; that the land, to 6 They shall be holy to their God,
which I bring you to dwell in it, and not profane the name of their
does not vomit you out. 23 And you God; for the offerings of Jehovah
shall not walk in the customs of the made by fire, the bread of their
nation, which I cast out before you: God, they offer: therefore they shall
for they did all these things, and be holy. 7 They shall not take a
therefore I abhorred them. 24 But I woman who is a harlot, or profane;
have said to you, “You shall inherit neither shall they take a woman put
their land, and I will give it to you away from her husband: for he is
to possess it, a land flowing with holy to his God. 8 You shall sanctify
milk and honey”: I am Jehovah him therefore; for he offers the
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bread of your God: he shall be holy he has a blemish; he shall not come
to you: for I Jehovah, who sanctify near to offer the bread of his God.
you, am holy. 9 And the daughter of 22 He shall eat the bread of his God,
any priest, if she profaned herself both of the most holy, and of the
by playing the harlot, she profanes holy: 23 only he shall not go in to
her father: she shall be burned with the veil, nor come near to the altar,
fire. because he has a blemish; that he
10 And he who is the high priest does not profane my sanctuaries:
among his brethren, on whose head for I am Jehovah who sanctifies
the anointing oil is poured, and them.’ ” 24 So Moses spoke to
who is consecrated to put on the Aaron, and to his sons, and to all
garments, shall not let the hair of the children of Israel.
his head go loose, nor tear his
clothes; 11 neither shall he go in to 22 And Jehovah spoke to
Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to
any dead body, nor defile himself Aaron and to his sons, that they
for his father, or for his mother; 12 separate themselves from the holy
neither shall he go out of the sanc- things of the children of Israel,
tuary, nor profane the sanctuary of which they hallow to me, and that
his God; for the crown of the they do not profane my holy name:
anointing oil of his God is on him: I I am Jehovah. 3 Say to them,
am Jehovah. 13 And he shall take a ‘Whosoever he is of all your seed
wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or throughout your generations, who
one divorced, or a profane woman, approaches the holy things, which
a harlot, these shall he not take: but the children of Israel hallow to Je-
a virgin of his own people shall he hovah, having his uncleanness
take to wife. 15 And he shall not upon him, that soul shall be cut off
profane his seed among his people: from before me: I am Jehovah. 4
for I am Jehovah who sanctifies What man soever of the seed of
him.’ ” Aaron is a leper, or has an issue; he
16 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, shall not eat of the holy things, until
saying, 17 “Speak to Aaron, saying, he be clean. And whoso touches
‘Whosoever he is of your seed anything that is unclean by the
throughout their generations who dead, or a man whose seed goes
has a blemish, let him not approach from him; 5 or whosoever touches
to offer the bread of his God. 18 For any creeping thing, by which he
whatsoever man he is who has a may be made unclean, or a man of
blemish, he shall not approach: a whom he may take uncleanness,
blind man, or a lame, or he who has whatsoever uncleanness he has; 6
a flat nose, or anything superflu- the soul who touches any such shall
ous, 19 or a man who is broken- be unclean until the evening, and
footed, or broken-handed, 20 or shall not eat of the holy things, un-
crook-backed, or a dwarf, or who less he bathe his flesh in water. 7
has a blemish in his eye, or is And when the sun is down, he shall
scurvy, or scabbed, or has his stones be clean; and afterward he shall eat
broken; 21 no man of the seed of of the holy things, because it is his
Aaron the priest, who has a blem- bread. 8 That which dies of itself, or
ish, shall come near to offer the is torn of beasts, he shall not eat, to
offerings of Jehovah made by fire: defile himself with it:—I am Jeho-
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vah. 9 They shall therefore keep my ever offers a sacrifice of peace offer-
charge, lest they bear sin for it, and ings to Jehovah to accomplish a
die in it, if they profane it: I am Je- vow, or for a freewill offering, of the
hovah who sanctifies them. herd or of the flock, it shall be per-
10 No stranger shall eat of the fect to be accepted; there shall be no
holy thing: a sojourner of the blemish in it. 22 Blind, or broken, or
priest’s, or a hired servant, shall not maimed, or having a wart, or
eat of the holy thing. 11 But if a scurvy, or scabs, you shall not offer
priest buys any soul, the purchase these to Jehovah, nor make an offer-
of his money, he shall eat of it; and ing by fire of them on the altar to Je-
such as are born in his house, they hovah. 23 Either a bull or a lamb
shall eat of his bread. 12 And if a that has anything superfluous or
priest’s daughter is married to a lacking in his parts, that may you
stranger, she shall not eat of the offer for a freewill offering; but for
heave offering of the holy things. 13 a vow it shall not be accepted. 24
But if a priest’s daughter is a That which has its stones bruised,
widow, or divorced, and has no or crushed, or broken, or cut, you
child, and is returned to her fa- shall not offer to Jehovah; neither
ther’s house, as in her youth, she shall you do thus in your land. 25
shall eat of her father’s bread: but Neither from the hand of a for-
no stranger shall eat of it. 14 And if eigner shall you offer the bread of
a man eats of the holy thing unwit- your God of any of these; because
tingly, then he shall put the fifth their corruption is in them, there is
part of it to it, and shall give to the a blemish in them: they shall not be
priest the holy thing. 15 And they accepted for you.’ ”
shall not profane the holy things of 26 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
the children of Israel, which they saying, 27 “When a bull, or a sheep,
offer to Jehovah, 16 and so cause or a goat, is brought forth, then it
them to bear the iniquity who shall be seven days under the dam;
brings guilt, when they eat their and from the eighth day and there-
holy things: for I am Jehovah who after it shall be accepted for the
sanctifies them.’ ” offering made by fire to Jehovah. 28
17 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, And whether it is cow or ewe, you
saying, 18 “Speak to Aaron, and to shall not kill it and its young both
his sons, and to all the children of in one day. 29 And when you sacri-
Israel, and say to them, ‘Whosoever fice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Je-
he is of the house of Israel, or of the hovah, ye shall sacrifice it that you
sojourners in Israel, who offers his may be accepted. 30 On the same
offering, whether it is any of their day it shall be eaten; you shall leave
vows, or any of their freewill offer- none of it until the morning: I am
ings, which they offer to Jehovah Jehovah. 31 Therefore shall you
for a burnt offering; 19 that you keep my commandments, and do
may be accepted, you shall offer a them: I am Jehovah. 32 And you
male without blemish, of the bulls, shall not profane my holy name;
of the sheep, or of the goats. 20 But but I will be hallowed among the
whatsoever has a blemish, that children of Israel: I am Jehovah
shall you not offer: for it shall not be who hallows you, 33 who brought
acceptable for you. 21 And whoso- you out of the land of Egypt, to be
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your God: I am Jehovah.’ ” made by fire to Jehovah for a sweet

23 And Jehovah spoke to savor; and the drink offering of it

Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to shall be of wine, the fourth part of a
the children of Israel, and say to hin. 14 And you shall eat neither
them, ‘The set feasts of Jehovah, bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh
which you shall proclaim to be holy ears, until this very same day, until
convocations, even these are my set you have brought the offering of
feasts. 3 Six days shall work be your God: it is a statute for ever
done: but on the seventh day is a throughout your generations in all
Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy con- your dwellings.
vocation; you shall do no manner of 15 And you shall count to you
work: it is a sabbath to Jehovah in from the next day after the Sabbath,
all your dwellings. from the day that you brought the
4 These are the set feasts of Jeho- sheaf of the wave offering; seven
vah, even holy convocations, which sabbaths shall there be complete: 16
you shall proclaim in their ap- even unto the morrow after the sev-
pointed season. 5 In the first month, enth Sabbaths shall you number
on the fourteenth day of the month fifty days; and you shall offer a new
at evening, is Jehovah’s Passover. 6 meal offering to Jehovah. 17 You
And on the fifteenth day of the shall bring out of your habitations
same month is the Feast of Unleav- two wave loaves of two tenths of an
ened Bread to Jehovah: seven days ephah: they shall be of fine flour,
you shall eat unleavened bread. 7 they shall be baked with leaven, for
In the first day you shall have a first fruits to Jehovah. 18 And you
holy convocation: you shall do no shall present with the bread seven
servile work. 8 But you shall offer lambs without blemish a year old,
an offering made by fire to Jehovah and one young bull, and two rams:
seven days: in the seventh day is a they shall be a burnt offering to Je-
holy convocation; you shall do no hovah, with their meal offering,
servile work.’ ” and their drink offerings, even an
9 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, offering made by fire, of a sweet sa-
saying, 10 “Speak to the children of vor to Jehovah. 19 And you shall
Israel, and say to them, ‘When You offer one male goat for a sin offer-
come into the land which I give to ing, and two male lambs a year old
you, and shall reap the harvest of it, for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20
then you shall bring the sheaf of the And the priest shall wave them
first fruits of your harvest to the with the bread of the first fruits for
priest: 11 and he shall wave the a wave offering before Jehovah,
sheaf before Jehovah, to be ac- with the two lambs: they shall be
cepted for you: on the next day af- holy to Jehovah for the priest. 21
ter the Sabbath the priest shall And you shall make proclamation
wave it. 12 And in the day when on the very same day; there shall be
you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a holy convocation to you; you
a male lamb without blemish a year shall do no servile work: it is a
old for a burnt offering to Jehovah. statute for ever in all your
13 And the meal offering of it shall dwellings throughout your genera-
be two tenths of an ephah of fine tions.
flour mingled with oil, an offering 22 And when you reap the har-
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vest of your land, you shall not tabernacles for seven days to Jeho-
wholly reap the corners of your vah. 35 On the first day shall be a
field, neither shall you gather the holy convocation: you shall do no
gleaning of your harvest: you shall servile work. 36 Seven days you
leave them for the poor, and for the shall offer an offering made by fire
sojourner: I am Jehovah your God.’ to Jehovah: on the eighth day shall
” be a holy convocation to you; and
23 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, you shall offer an offering made by
saying, 24 “Speak to the children of fire to Jehovah: it is a solemn as-
Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh sembly; you shall do no servile
month, on the first day of the work.
month, shall be a solemn rest to 37 These are the set feasts of Jeho-
you, a memorial of blowing of vah, which you shall proclaim to be
trumpets, a holy convocation. 25 holy convocations, to offer an offer-
You shall do no servile work; and ing made by fire to Jehovah, a burnt
you shall offer an offering made by offering, and a meal offering, a sac-
fire to Jehovah.’ ” rifice, and drink offerings, each on
26 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, its own day; 38 besides the Sab-
saying, 27 “However on the tenth baths of Jehovah, and besides your
day of this seventh month is the gifts, and besides all your vows,
day of atonement: it shall be a holy and besides all your freewill offer-
convocation to you, and you shall ings, which you give to Jehovah.
afflict your souls; and you shall 39 However on the fifteenth day
offer an offering made by fire to Je- of the seventh month, when you
hovah. 28 And you shall do no have gathered in the fruits of the
manner of work in that same day; land, you shall keep the feast of Je-
for it is a day of atonement, to make hovah seven days: on the first day
atonement for you before Jehovah shall be a solemn rest, and on the
your God. 29 For whatsoever soul it eighth day shall be a solemn rest. 40
is that shall not be afflicted in that And you shall take on the first day
same day; he shall be cut off from the fruit of beautiful trees, branches
his people. 30 And whatsoever soul of palm trees, and boughs of thick
it is who does any manner of work trees, and willows of the brook; and
in that same day, that soul will I de- you shall rejoice before Jehovah
stroy from among his people. 31 your God seven days. 41 And you
You shall do no manner of work: it shall keep it a feast to Jehovah
is a statute for ever throughout seven days in the year: it is a statute
your generations in all your for ever throughout your genera-
dwellings. 32 It shall be to you a tions; you shall keep it in the sev-
sabbath of solemn rest, and you enth month. 42 You shall dwell in
shall afflict your souls: in the ninth booths seven days; all who are na-
day of the month at evening, from tive in Israel shall dwell in booths;
evening to evening, shall you keep 43 that your generations may know
your sabbath.” that I made the children of Israel to
33 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, dwell in booths, when I brought
saying, 34 “Speak to the children of them out of the land of Egypt: I am
Israel, saying, ‘On the fifteenth day Jehovah your God.’ ” 44 And Moses
of this seventh month is the feast of declared to the children of Israel the
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set feasts of Jehovah. 13 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,

24 And Jehovah spoke to saying, 14 “Bring forth him who

Moses, saying, 2 “Command has cursed outside the camp; and
the children of Israel, that they let all who heard him lay their
bring to you pure olive oil beaten hands on his head, and let all the
for the light, to cause a lamp to congregation stone him. 15 And
burn continually. 3 Outside the veil you shall speak to the children of Is-
of the testimony, in the tent of meet- rael, saying, ‘Whosoever curses his
ing, shall Aaron keep it in order God shall bear his sin. 16 And he
from evening to morning before Je- who blasphemes the name of Jeho-
hovah continually: it shall be a vah, he shall surely be put to death;
statute for ever throughout your all the congregation shall certainly
generations. 4 He shall keep in or- stone him: as well the sojourner, as
der the lamps on the pure candle- the native, when he blasphemes the
stick before Jehovah continually. name of Jehovah, shall be put to
5 And you shall take fine flour, death. 17 And he who strikes any
and bake twelve cakes of it: two man mortally shall surely be put to
tenths of an ephah shall be in one death. 18 And he who strikes a
cake. 6 And you shall set them in beast mortally shall make it good,
two rows, six on a row, on the pure life for life. 19 And if a man causes
table before Jehovah. 7 And you a blemish in his neighbor; as he has
shall put pure frankincense on each done, so shall it be done to him: 20
row, that it may be to the bread for breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth
a memorial, even an offering made for tooth; as he has caused a blem-
by fire to Jehovah. 8 Every Sabbath ish in a man, so shall it be rendered
day he shall set it in order before Je- to him. 21 And he who kills a beast
hovah continually; it is on the be- shall make it good: and he who kills
half of the children of Israel, an a man shall be put to death. 22 You
everlasting covenant. 9 And it shall shall have one manner of law, as
be for Aaron and his sons; and they well for the sojourner, as for the na-
shall eat it in a holy place: for it is tive: for I am Jehovah your God.’ ”
most holy to him of the offerings of 23 And Moses spoke to the children
Jehovah made by fire by a perpet- of Israel; and they brought forth
ual statute.” him who had cursed out of the
10 And the son of an Israelite camp, and stoned him with stones.
woman, whose father was an Egyp- And the children of Israel did as Je-
tian, went out among the children hovah commanded Moses.

woman and a man of Israel strove 25

of Israel; and the son of the Israelite And Jehovah spoke to
Moses on Mount Sinai, say-
together in the camp: 11 and the son ing, 2 “Speak to the children of Is-
of the Israelite woman blasphemed rael, and say to them, ‘When you
the Name, and cursed; and they come into the land which I give
brought him to Moses. And his you, then shall the land keep a sab-
mother’s name was Shelomith, the bath to Jehovah. 3 Six years you
daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of shall sow your field, and six years
Dan. 12 And they put him in cus- you shall prune your vineyard, and
tody, that it might be declared to gather in the fruits of it; 4 but in the
them at the mouth of Jehovah. seventh year shall be a sabbath of
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solemn rest for the land, a sabbath number of years after the Jubilee
to Jehovah: you shall neither sow you shall buy from your neighbor,
your field, nor prune your vine- and according to the number of
yard. 5 That which grows of itself of years of the crops he shall sell to
your harvest you shall not reap, you. 16 According to the multitude
and the grapes of your undressed of the years you shall increase the
vine you shall not gather: it shall be price of it, and according to the few-
a year of solemn rest for the land. 6 ness of the years you shall diminish
And the sabbath of the land shall be the price of it; for the number of the
for food for you; for you, and for crops he sells to you. 17 And you
your servant and for your female shall not wrong one another; but
servant, and for your hired servant you shall fear your God: for I am Je-
and for your stranger, who sojourn hovah your God.
with you. 7 And for your cattle, and 18 Therefore you shall do my
for the beasts that are in your land, statutes, and keep my ordinances
shall all the increase of it be for and do them; and you shall dwell in
food. the land in safety. 19 And the land
8 And you shall number seven shall yield its fruit, and you shall
sabbaths of years to you, seven eat your fill, and dwell in it in
times seven years; and there shall safety. 20 And if you shall say,
be to you the days of seven sab- “What shall we eat the seventh
baths of years, even forty-nine year? behold, we shall not sow, nor
years. 9 Then shall you send abroad gather in our increase”; 21 then I
the loud trumpet on the tenth day will command my blessing upon
of the seventh month; in the day of you in the sixth year, and it shall
atonement shall you send abroad bring forth fruit for the three years.
the trumpet throughout all your 22 And you shall sow the eighth
land. 10 And you shall hallow the year, and eat of the fruits, the old
fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty store; until the ninth year, until its
throughout the land to all the in- fruits come in, you shall eat the old
habitants of it: it shall be a Jubilee to store.
you; and you shall return every 23 And the land shall not be sold
man to his possession, and you in perpetuity; for the land is mine:
shall return every man to his fam- for you are strangers and sojourn-
ily. 11 A Jubilee shall that fiftieth ers with me. 24 And in all the land
year be to you: you shall not sow, of your possession you shall grant a
neither reap that which grows of it- redemption for the land. 25 If you
self in it, nor gather the grapes in it of brother becomes poor, and sell
the undressed vines. 12 For it is a some of his possession, then shall
Jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you his kinsman who is next to him
shall eat the increase of it out of the come, and shall redeem that which
field. his brother has sold. 26 And if a
13 In this Year of Jubilee you shall man has no one to redeem it, and he
return every man to his possession. becomes rich and finds sufficient to
14 And if you sell anything to your redeem it; 27 then let him reckon
neighbor, or buy from your neigh- the years of the sale of it, and re-
bor’s hand, you shall not wrong store the surplus to the man to
one another. 15 According to the whom he sold it; and he shall re-
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turn to his possession. 28 But if he brought you forth out of the land of
is not able to get it back for himself, Egypt, to give you the land of
then that which he has sold shall re- Canaan, and to be your God.
main in the hand of him who has 39 And if your brother becomes
bought it until the Year of Jubilee: poor with you, and sells himself to
and in the Jubilee it shall go out, you; you shall not make him to
and he shall return to his posses- serve as a bondservant. 40 As a
sion. hired servant, and as a sojourner, he
29 And if a man sells a dwelling shall be with you; he shall serve
house in a walled city, then he may with you until the Year of Jubilee:
redeem it within a whole year after 41 then shall he go out from you, he
it is sold; for a full year shall he and his children with him, and
have the right of redemption. 30 shall return to his own family, and
And if it is not redeemed within the to the possession of his fathers shall
space of a full year, then the house he return. 42 For they are my ser-
that is in the walled city shall be vants, whom I brought forth out of
made sure in perpetuity to him the land of Egypt: they shall not be
who bought it, throughout his gen- sold as bondmen. 43 You shall not
erations: it shall not go out in the rule over him with rigor, but shall
Jubilee. 31 But the houses of the vil- fear your God. 44 And as for your
lages which have no wall around bondmen, and your bondmaids,
them shall be reckoned with the whom you shall have; of the na-
fields of the country: they may be tions that are all around you, of
redeemed, and they shall go out in them shall you buy bondmen and
the Jubilee. 32 Nevertheless the bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the
cities of the Levites, the houses of children of the strangers who so-
the cities of their possession, may journ among you, of them shall you
the Levites redeem at any time. 33 buy, and of their families who are
And if one of the Levites redeems, with you, which they have begotten
then the house that was sold, and in your land: and they shall be your
the city of his possession, shall go possession. 46 And you shall make
out in the Jubilee; for the houses of them an inheritance for your chil-
the cities of the Levites are their dren after you, to hold for a posses-
possession among the children of sion; of them shall you take your
Israel. 34 But the field of the out- bondmen for ever: but over your
skirts of their cities may not be sold; brethren the children of Israel you
for it is their perpetual possession. shall not rule, one over another,
35 And if your brother becomes with rigor.
poor, and his hand fails with you; 47 And if a stranger or sojourner
then you shall uphold him: as a with you becomes rich, and your
stranger and a sojourner shall he brother becomes poor beside him,
live with you. 36 Take no interest and sells himself to the stranger or
from him or increase, but fear your sojourner with you, or to the stock
God; that your brother may live of the stranger’s family; 48 after he
with you. 37 You shall not give him is sold he may be redeemed: one of
your money upon interest, nor give his brothers may redeem him; 49 or
him your provisions for increase. 38 his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may re-
I am Jehovah your God, who deem him, or any who is near of kin
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to him of his family may redeem will give peace in the land, and you
him; or if he becomes rich, he may shall lie down, and none shall make
redeem himself. 50 And he shall you afraid: and I will cause evil
reckon with him who bought him beasts to cease out of the land, nei-
from the year that he sold himself ther shall the sword go through
to him to the Year of Jubilee: and your land. 7 And you shall chase
the price of his sale shall be accord- your enemies, and they shall fall
ing to the number of years; accord- before you by the sword. 8 And five
ing to the time of a hired servant of you shall chase a hundred, and a
shall he be with him. 51 If there is hundred of you shall chase ten
still many years, according to them thousand; and your enemies shall
he shall give back the price of his fall before you by the sword. 9 And
redemption out of the money that I will have respect to you, and make
he was bought for. 52 And if there you fruitful, and multiply you, and
remains but few years to the Year of will establish my covenant with
Jubilee, then he shall reckon with you. 10 And you shall eat old store
him; according to his years shall he long kept, and you shall bring forth
give back the price of his redemp- the old because of the new. 11 And
tion. 53 As a servant hired year by I will set my tabernacle among you:
year shall he be with him: he shall and my soul shall not abhor you. 12
not rule with rigor over him in your And I will walk among you, and
sight. 54 And if he is not redeemed will be your God, and you shall be
by these means, then he shall go out my people. 13 I am Jehovah your
in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his God, who brought you forth out of
children with him. 55 For to me the the land of Egypt, that you should
children of Israel are servants; they not be their bondmen; and I have
are my servants whom I brought broken the bars of your yoke, and
forth out of the land of Egypt: I am made you go upright.
Jehovah your God. 14 But if you will not listen to me,

26 You shall make you no and will not do all these command-
idols, neither shall you set ments; 15 and if you shall reject my
up a graven image, or a pillar, nei- statutes, and if your soul abhors my
ther shall you place any figured ordinances, so that you will not do
stone in your land, to bow down to all my commandments, but break
it: for I am Jehovah your God. 2 You my covenant; 16 I also will do this
shall keep my Sabbaths, and revere to you: I will appoint terror over
my sanctuary: I am Jehovah. you, even consumption and fever,
3 If you walk in my statutes, and that shall consume the eyes, and
keep my commandments, and do make the soul to pine away; and
them; 4 then I will give your rains you shall sow your seed in vain, for
in their season, and the land shall your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I
yield its increase, and the trees of will set my face against you, and
the field shall yield their fruit. 5 you shall be struck before your ene-
And your threshing shall reach to mies: those who hate you shall rule
the vintage, and the vintage shall over you; and you shall flee when
reach to the sowing time; and you none pursues you. 18 And if you
shall eat your bread to the full, and will not still for these things listen
dwell in your land safely. 6 And I to me, then I will chastise you seven
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times more for your sins. 19 And I you. 31 And I will make your cities
will break the pride of your power: a waste, and will bring your sanctu-
and I will make your heaven as aries to desolation, and I will not
iron, and your earth as brass; 20 smell the savor of your sweet
and your strength shall be spent in odors. 32 And I will bring the land
vain; for your land shall not yield into desolation; and your enemies
its increase, neither shall the trees of who dwell in it shall be astonished
the land yield their fruit. at it. 33 And you will I scatter
21 And if you walk contrary to among the nations, and I will draw
me, and will not listen to me, I will out the sword after you: and your
bring seven times more plagues land shall be a desolation, and your
upon you according to your sins. 22 cities shall be a waste.
And I will send the beast of the field 34 Then shall the land enjoy its
among you, which shall rob you of sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate,
your children, and destroy your and you are in your enemies’ land;
cattle, and make you few in num- even then shall the land rest, and
ber; and your ways shall become enjoy its sabbaths. 35 As long as it
desolate. lies desolate it shall have rest, even
23 And if by these things you will the rest which it did not have in
not be reformed to me, but will your sabbaths, when you dwelt on
walk contrary to me; 24 then will I it. 36 And as for those who are left
also walk contrary to you; and I of you, I will send a faintness into
will strike you, even I, seven times their heart in the lands of their ene-
for your sins. 25 And I will bring a mies: and the sound of a driven leaf
sword upon you, that shall execute shall chase them; and they shall
the vengeance of the covenant; and flee, as one flees from the sword;
you shall be gathered together and they shall fall when none pur-
within your cities: and I will send sues. 37 And they shall stumble one
the pestilence among you; and you upon another, as it were before the
shall be delivered into the hand of sword, when none pursues: and
the enemy. 26 When I break your you shall have no power to stand
staff of bread, ten women shall bake before your enemies. 38 And you
your bread in one oven, and they shall perish among the nations, and
shall deliver your bread again by the land of your enemies shall eat
weight: and you shall eat, and not you up. 39 And those who are left
be satisfied. of you shall pine away in their iniq-
27 And if you will not for all this uity in your enemies’ lands; and
listen to me, but walk contrary to also in the iniquities of their fathers
me; 28 then I will walk contrary to shall they pine away with them.
you in wrath; and I also will chas- 40 And they shall confess their in-
tise you seven times for your sins. iquity, and the iniquity of their fa-
29 And you shall eat the flesh of thers, in their trespass which they
your sons, and the flesh of your trespassed against me, and also
daughters shall you eat. 30 And I that, because they walked contrary
will destroy your high places, and to me, 41 I also walked contrary to
cut down your sun images, and cast them, and brought them into the
your dead bodies on the bodies of land of their enemies: if then their
your idols; and my soul shall abhor uncircumcised heart is humbled,
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and they then accept the punish- And if it is from a month old even
ment of their iniquity; 42 then will I to five years old, then your estima-
remember my covenant with Jacob; tion shall be of the male five shekels
and also my covenant with Isaac, of silver, and for the female your es-
and also my covenant with Abra- timation shall be three shekels of
ham I will remember; and I will re- silver. 7 And if it is from sixty years
member the land. 43 The land also old and upward; if it is a male, then
shall be left by them, and shall en- your estimation shall be fifteen
joy its sabbaths, while it lies deso- shekels, and for the female ten
late without them: and they shall shekels. 8 But if he is poorer than
accept the punishment of their iniq- your estimation, then he shall be set
uity; because, even because they re- before the priest, and the priest
jected my ordinances, and their shall value him; according to the
soul abhorred my statutes. 44 And ability of him who vowed shall the
yet for all that, when they are in the priest value him.
land of their enemies, I will not re- 9 And if it is a beast, of which men
ject them, neither will I abhor them, offer an offering to Jehovah, all that
to destroy them utterly, and to any man gives of such to Jehovah
break my covenant with them; for I shall be holy. 10 He shall not alter it,
am Jehovah their God; 45 but I will nor change it, a good for a bad, or a
for their sakes remember the bad for a good: and if he shall at all
covenant of their ancestors, whom I change beast for beast, then both it
brought forth out of the land of and that for which it is changed
Egypt in the sight of the nations, shall be holy. 11 And if it is any un-
that I might be their God: I am Jeho- clean beast, of which they do not
vah.’ ” offer an offering to Jehovah, then he
46 These are the statutes and ordi- shall set the beast before the priest;
nances and laws, which Jehovah 12 and the priest shall value it,
made between him and the chil- whether it is good or bad: as you
dren of Israel on Mount Sinai by the priest value it, so shall it be. 13
Moses. But if he will indeed redeem it, then

27 And Jehovah spoke to he shall add a fifth of it to your esti-

Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to mation.
the children of Israel, and say to 14 And when a man shall sanctify
them, “When a man shall accom- his house to be holy to Jehovah,
plish a vow, the persons shall be for then the priest shall estimate it,
Jehovah by your estimation. 3 And whether it is good or bad: as the
your estimation shall be of the male priest shall estimate it, so shall it
from twenty years old even to sixty stand. 15 And if he who sanctified it
years old, even your estimation will redeem his house, then he shall
shall be fifty shekels of silver, after add a fifth of the money of your es-
the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 And if timation to it, and it shall be his.
it is a female, then your estimation 16 And if a man shall sanctify to
shall be thirty shekels. 5 And if it is Jehovah part of the field of his pos-
from five years old even to twenty session, then your estimation shall
years old, then your estimation be according to the sowing of it: the
shall be of the male twenty shekels, sowing of a homer of barley shall be
and for the female ten shekels. 6 valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If
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he sanctifies his field from the Year
of Jubilee, according to your esti-
mation it shall stand. 18 But if he
sanctifies his field after the Jubilee,
then the priest shall reckon to him
the money according to the years
that remain to the Year of Jubilee;
and an abatement shall be made
from your estimation. 19 And if he
who sanctified the field will indeed
redeem it, then he shall add a fifth
of the money of your estimation to
it, and it shall be assured to him. 20
And if he will not redeem the field,
or if he has sold the field to another
man, it shall not be redeemed any
more: 21 but the field, when it goes
out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to
Jehovah, as a field devoted; the pos-
session of it shall be the priest’s. 22
And if he sanctifies to Jehovah a
field which he has bought, which is
not of the field of his possession; 23
then the priest shall reckon to him
the worth of your estimation to the
Year of Jubilee: and he shall give
your estimation in that day, as a
holy thing to Jehovah. 24 In the
Year of Jubilee the field shall return
to him of whom it was bought,
even to him to whom the posses-
sion of the land belongs. 25 And all
your estimations shall be according
to the shekel of the sanctuary:
twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
26 Only the firstborn among
beasts, which is made a firstborn to
Jehovah, no man shall sanctify it;
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whether it is ox or sheep, it is Jeho-
vah’s. 27 And if it is of an unclean
beast, then he shall ransom it ac-
cording to your estimation, and
shall add to it a fifth of it: or if it is
not redeemed, then it shall be sold
according to your estimation.
28 Notwithstanding, no devoted
thing, that a man shall devote to Je-
hovah of all that he has, whether of
man or beast, or of the field of his
possession, shall be sold or re-
deemed: every devoted thing is
most holy to Jehovah. 29 No one
devoted, who shall be devoted
from among men, shall be ran-
somed; he shall surely be put to
death.
30 And all the tithe of the land,
whether of the seed of the land, or
of the fruit of the tree, is Jehovah’s:
it is holy to Jehovah. 31 And if a
man will redeem anything of his
tithe, he shall add to it a fifth of it.
32 And all the tithe of the herd or
the flock, whatsoever passes under
the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Je-
hovah. 33 He shall not search
whether it is good or bad, neither
shall he change it: and if he changes
it at all, then both it and that for
which it is changed shall be holy; it
shall not be redeemed.’ ”
34 These are the commandments,
which Jehovah commanded Moses
for the children of Israel on Mount
Sinai.
 NUMBERS

THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES,

COMMONLY CALLED

N UMBER S

1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses And Moses and Aaron took these
in the wilderness of Sinai, in the men who were mentioned by
tent of meeting, on the first day of name: 18 And they assembled all
the second month, in the second the congregation together on the
year after they had come out of the first day of the second month; and
land of Egypt, saying, 2 “Take the they declared their pedigrees after
sum of all the congregation of the their families, by their fathers’
children of Israel, by their families, houses, according to the number of
by their fathers’ houses, according the names, from twenty years old
to the number of the names, every and upward, by their polls. 19 As
male, by their polls; 3 from twenty Jehovah commanded Moses, so he
years old and upward, all who are numbered them in the wilderness
able to go forth to war in Israel, you of Sinai.
and Aaron shall number them by 20 And the children of Reuben, Is-
their armies. 4 And with you there rael’s firstborn, their generations,
shall be a man of every tribe; every by their families, by their fathers’
one head of his fathers’ house. 5 houses, according to the number of
And these are the names of the men the names, by their polls, every
who shall stand with you. Of male from twenty years old and up-
Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur. ward, all who were able to go forth
6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of to war; 21 those who were num-
Zurishaddai. 7 Of Judah: Nahshon bered of them, of the tribe of
the son of Amminadab. 8 Of Is- Reuben, were forty-six thousand
sachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar. 9 five hundred.
Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon. 22 Of the children of Simeon, their
10 Of the children of Joseph: Of generations, by their families, by
Ephraim: Elishama the son of Am- their fath-ers’ houses, those who
mihud. Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the were numbered of it, according to
son of Pedahzur. 11 Of Benjamin: the number of the names, by their
Abidan the son of Gideoni. 12 Of polls, every male from twenty years
Dan: Ahiezer the son of Am- old and upward, all who were able
mishaddai. 13 Of Asher: Pagiel the to go forth to war; 23 those who
son of Ochran. 14 Of Gad: Eliasaph were numbered of them, of the
the son of Deuel. 15 Of Napthtali: tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine
Ahira the son of Enan.” 16 These thousand three hundred.
are those who were called of the 24 Of the children of Gad, their
congregation, the princes of the generations, by their families, by
tribes of their fathers; they were the their fathers’ houses, from twenty
heads of the thousands of Israel. 17 years old and upward, all who
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were able to go forth to war; 25 of the tribe of Manasseh, were
those who were THEnumbered of them,
FOURTH thirty-two
BOOK thousand two hundred.
OF MOSES,
of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five 36 Of the children of Benjamin,
COMMONLYtheir
CALLED
thousand fifty. generations, by their families,
26 Of the children of Judah, their by their fathers’ houses, according
N UMBERS
generations, by their families, by to the number of the names, from
their fathers’ houses, according to twenty years old and upward, all
the number of the names, from who were able to go forth to war; 37
twenty years old and upward, all those who were numbered of them,
who were able to go forth to war; 27 of the tribe of Benjamin, were
those who were numbered of them, thirty-five thousand four hundred.
of the tribe of Judah, were seventy- 38 Of the children of Dan, their
four thousand six hundred. generations, by their families, by
28 Of the children of Issachar, their fathers’ houses, according to
their generations, by their families, the number of the names, from
by their fathers’ houses, according twenty years old and upward, all
to the number of the names, from who were able to go forth to war; 39
twenty years old and upward, all those who were numbered of them,
who were able to go forth to war; 29 of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two
those who were numbered of them, thousand seven hundred.
of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty- 40 Of the children of Asher, their
four thousand four hundred. generations, by their families, by
30 Of the children of Zebulun, their fathers’ houses, according to
their generations, by their families, the number of the names, from
by their fathers’ houses, according twenty years old and upward, all
to the number of the names, from who were able to go forth to war; 41
twenty years old and upward, all those who were numbered of them,
who were able to go forth to war; 31 of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one
those who were numbered of them, thousand five hundred.
of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty- 42 Of the children of Napthtali,
seven thousand four hundred. their generations, by their families,
32 Of the children of Joseph, by their fathers’ houses, according
namely the children of Ephraim, to the number of the names, from
their generations, by their families, twenty years old and upward, all
by their fathers’ houses, according who were able to go forth to war; 43
to the number of the names, from those who were numbered of them,
twenty years old and upward, all of the tribe of Napthtali, were fifty-
who were able to go forth to war; 33 three thousand four hundred.
those who were numbered of them, 44 These are those who were
of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty numbered, whom Moses and
thousand five hundred. Aaron numbered, and the princes
34 Of the children of Manasseh, of Israel, being twelve men: they
their generations, by their families, were each one for his fathers’
by their fathers’ houses, according house. 45 So all those who were
to the number of the names, from numbered of the children of Israel
twenty years old and upward, all by their fathers’ houses, from
who were able to go forth to war; 35 twenty years old and upward, all
those who were numbered of them, who were able to go forth to war in
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Israel; 46 even all those who were according to their armies: and the
numbered were six hundred and prince of the children of Judah shall
three thousand five hundred and be Nahshon the son of Ammi-
fifty. nadab. 4 And his army, and those
47 But the Levites after the tribe of who were numbered of them, were
their fathers were not numbered seventy-four thousand six hun-
among them. 48 For Jehovah spoke dred. 5 And those who encamp
to Moses, saying, 49 “Only the tribe next to him shall be the tribe of Is-
of Levi you shall not number, nei- sachar: and the prince of the chil-
ther shall you take the sum of them dren of Issachar shall be Nethanel
among the children of Israel; 50 but the son of Zuar. 6 And his army,
appoint the Levites over the taber- and those who were numbered of
nacle of the testimony, and over all it, were fifty-four thousand four
the furniture of it, and over all that hundred. 7 And the tribe of Zebu-
belongs to it: they shall bear the lun: and the prince of the children
tabernacle, and all the furniture of of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of
it; and they shall minister to it, and Helon. 8 And his army, and those
shall encamp all around the taber- who were numbered of it, were
nacle. 51 And when the tabernacle fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
sets forward, the Levites shall take 9 All who were numbered of the
it down; and when the tabernacle is camp of Judah were a hundred
to be pitched, the Levites shall set it eighty-six thousand four hundred,
up: and the stranger who comes according to their armies. They
near shall be put to death. 52 And shall set forth first.
the children of Israel shall pitch 10 On the south side shall be the
their tents, every man by his own standard of the camp of Reuben ac-
camp, and every man by his own cording to their armies: and the
standard, according to their armies. prince of the children of Reuben
53 But the Levites shall encamp all shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
around the tabernacle of the testi- 11 And his army, and those who
mony, that there be no wrath upon were numbered of it, were forty-six
the congregation of the children of thousand five hundred. 12 And
Israel: and the Levites shall keep those who encamp next to him shall
the charge of the tabernacle of the be the tribe of Simeon: and the
testimony.” 54 Thus did the chil- prince of the children of Simeon
dren of Israel; according to all that shall be Shelumiel the son of Zur-
Jehovah commanded Moses, so ishaddai. 13 And his army, and
they did. those who were numbered of them,

2 And Jehovah spoke to Moses were fifty-nine thousand three hun-

and to Aaron, saying, 2 “The dred. 14 And the tribe of Gad: and
children of Israel shall encamp ev- the prince of the children of Gad
ery man by his own standard, with shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
the signs of their fathers’ houses: 15 And his army, and those who
adjacent to the tent of meeting shall were numbered of them, were
they encamp all around. 3 And forty-five thousand six hundred
those who encamp on the east side and fifty. 16 All who were num-
toward the sunrise shall be those of bered of the camp of Reuben were a
the standard of the camp of Judah, hundred thousand fifty-one thou-
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sand four hundred and fifty, ac- numbered of them, were forty-one
cording to their armies. And they thousand five hundred. 29 And the
shall set forth second. tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of
17 Then the tent of meeting shall the children of Naphtali shall be
set forward, with the camp of the Ahira the son of Enan. 30 And his
Levites in the midst of the camps: army, and those who were num-
as they encamp, so shall they set bered of them, were fifty-three
forward, every man in his place, by thousand four hundred. 31 All who
their standards. were numbered of the camp of Dan
18 On the west side shall be the were a hundred and fifty-seven
standard of the camp of Ephraim thousand six hundred. They shall
according to their hosts: and the set forth last by their standards.”
prince of the children of Ephraim 32 These are those who were
shall be Elishama the son of Ammi- numbered of the children of Israel
hud. 19 And his army, and those by their fathers’ houses: all who
who were numbered of them, were were numbered of the camps ac-
forty thousand five hundred. 20 cording to their armies were six
And next to him shall be the tribe of hundred and three thousand five
Manasseh: and the prince of the hundred and fifty. 33 But the
children of Manasseh shall be Levites were not numbered among
Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 21 the children of Israel; as Jehovah
And his army, and those who were commanded Moses. 34 Thus did
numbered of them, were thirty-two the children of Israel; according to
thousand two hundred. 22 And the all that Jehovah commanded Mos-
tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of es, so they encamped by their stan-
the children of Benjamin shall be dards, and so they set forward, ev-
Abidan the son of Gideoni. 23 And ery one by their families, according
his army, and those who were num- to their fathers’ houses.
bered of them, were thirty-five
thousand four hundred. 24 All who 3 Now these are the generations
of Aaron and Moses in the day
were numbered of the camp of that Jehovah spoke with Moses on
Ephraim were a hundred and eight Mount Sinai. 2 And these are the
thousand one hundred, according names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab
to their armies. And they shall set the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar,
forth third. and Ithamar. 3 These are the names
25 On the north side shall be the of the sons of Aaron, the priests
standard of the camp of Dan ac- who were anointed, whom he con-
cording to their armies: and the secrated to minister in the priest’s
prince of the children of Dan shall office. 4 And Nadab and Abihu
be Ahiezer the son of Ammishad- died before Jehovah, when they
dai. 26 And his host, and those who offered strange fire before Jehovah,
were numbered of them, were in the wilderness of Sinai, and they
sixty-two thousand seven hundred. had no children; and Eleazar and
27 And those who encamp next to Ithamar ministered in the priest’s
him shall be the tribe of Asher: and office in the presence of Aaron their
the prince of the children of Asher father.
shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran. 28 5 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
And his army, and those who were saying, 6 “Bring the tribe of Levi
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near, and set them before Aaron the by their families: Mahli and Mushi.
priest, that they may minister to These are the families of the Levites
him. 7 And they shall keep his according to their fathers’ houses.
charge, and the charge of the whole 21 Of Gershon was the family of
congregation before the tent of the Libnites, and the family of the
meeting, to do the service of the Shimeites: these are the families of
tabernacle. 8 And they shall keep the Gershonites. 22 Those who
all the furniture of the tent of meet- were numbered of them, according
ing, and the charge of the children to the number of all the males, from
of Israel, to do the service of the a month old and upward, even
tabernacle. 9 And you shall give the those who were numbered of them
Levites to Aaron and to his sons: were seven thousand five hundred.
they are wholly given to him on the 23 The families of the Gershonites
behalf of the children of Israel. 10 shall encamp behind the tabernacle
And you shall appoint Aaron and westward. 24 And the prince of the
his sons, and they shall keep their fathers’ house of the Gershonites
priesthood: and the stranger who shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael. 25
comes near shall be put to death.” And the charge of the sons of Ger-
11 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, shon in the tent of meeting shall be
saying, 12 “And I, behold, I have the tabernacle, and the Tent, the
taken the Levites from among the covering of it, and the screen for the
children of Israel instead of all the door of the tent of meeting, 26 and
firstborn who opens the womb the hangings of the court, and the
among the children of Israel; and screen for the door of the court,
the Levites shall be mine: 13 for all which is by the tabernacle, and by
the firstborn are mine; on the day the altar all around, and the cords
that I struck all the firstborn in the of it for all the service of it.
land of Egypt I hallowed to me all 27 And of Kohath was the family
the firstborn in Israel, both man and of the Amramites, and the family of
beast; mine they shall be: I am Jeho- the Izharites, and the family of the
vah.” Hebronites, and the family of the
14 And Jehovah spoke to Moses in Uzzielites: these are the families of
the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 15 the Kohathites. 28 According to the
“Number the children of Levi by number of all the males, from a
their fathers’ houses, by their fami- month old and upward, there were
lies: every male from a month old eight thousand six hundred, keep-
and upward shall you number ing the charge of the sanctuary. 29
them.” 16 And Moses numbered The families of the sons of Kohath
them according to the word of Jeho- shall encamp on the side of the
vah, as he was commanded. 17 And tabernacle southward. 30 And the
these were the sons of Levi by their prince of the fathers’ house of the
names: Gershon, and Kohath, and families of the Kohathites shall be
Merari. 18 And these are the names Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. 31 And
of the sons of Gershon by their fam- their charge shall be the ark, and
ilies: Libni and Shimei. 19 And the the table, and the candlestick, and
sons of Kohath by their families: the altars, and the vessels of the
Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and sanctuary with which they minis-
Uzziel. 20 And the sons of Merari ter, and the screen, and all the ser-
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vice of it. 32 And Eleazar the son of the cattle of the Levites instead of
Aaron the priest shall be prince of all the firstborn among the cattle of
the princes of the Levites, and have the children of Israel.” 42 And
the oversight of those who keep the Moses numbered, as Jehovah com-
charge of the sanctuary. manded him, all the firstborn
33 Of Merari was the family of the among the children of Israel. 43
Mahlites, and the family of the And all the firstborn males accord-
Mushites: these are the families of ing to the number of names, from a
Merari. 34 And those who were month old and upward, of those
numbered of them, according to the who were numbered of them, were
number of all the males, from a twenty-two thousand two hundred
month old and upward, were six and seventy-three.
thousand two hundred. 35 And the 44 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
prince of the fathers’ house of the saying, 45 “Take the Levites instead
families of Merari was Zuriel the of all the firstborn among the chil-
son of Abihail: they shall encamp dren of Israel, and the cattle of the
on the side of the tabernacle north- Levites instead of their cattle; and
ward. 36 And the appointed charge the Levites shall be mine: I am Jeho-
of the sons of Merari shall be the vah. 46 And for the redemption of
boards of the tabernacle, and the the two hundred and seventy-three
bars of it, and the pillars of it, and of the firstborn of the children of Is-
the sockets of it, and all the instru- rael, who are over and above the
ments of it, and all the service of it, number of the Levites, 47 you shall
37 and the pillars of the court all take five shekels apiece by the poll;
around, and their sockets, and their after the shekel of the sanctuary
pins, and their cords. shall you take them (the shekel is
38 And those who encamp before twenty gerahs): 48 and you shall
the tabernacle eastward, before the give the money, with which the odd
tent of meeting toward the sunrise, number of them is redeemed, to
shall be Moses, and Aaron and his Aaron and to his sons.” 49 And
sons, keeping the charge of the Moses took the redemption money
sanctuary for the charge of the chil- from those who were over and
dren of Israel; and the stranger who above those who were redeemed by
comes near shall be put to death. 39 the Levites; 50 from the firstborn of
All who were numbered of the the children of Israel he took the
Levites, whom Moses and Aaron money, a thousand three hundred
numbered at the commandment of and seventy-five shekels, after the
Jehovah, by their families, all the shekel of the sanctuary: 51 and
males from a month old and up- Moses gave the redemption money
ward, were twenty-two thousand. to Aaron and to his sons, according
40 And Jehovah said to Moses, to the word of Jehovah, as Jehovah
“Number all the firstborn males of commanded Moses.
the children of Israel from a month
old and upward, and take the num- 4 And Jehovah spoke to Moses
and to Aaron, saying, 2 “Take
ber of their names. 41 And you shall the sum of the sons of Kohath from
take the Levites for me (I am Jeho- among the sons of Levi, by their
vah) instead of all the firstborn families, by their fathers’ houses, 3
among the children of Israel; and from thirty years old and upward
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even until fifty years old, all who tar; and they shall spread on it a
enter upon the service, to do the covering of sealskin, and put in the
work in the tent of meeting. 4 This poles of it. 15 And when Aaron and
is the service of the sons of Kohath his sons have made an end of cov-
in the tent of meeting, about the ering the sanctuary, and all the fur-
most holy things: 5 when the camp niture of the sanctuary, as the camp
sets forward, Aaron shall go in, and is set forward; after that, the sons of
his sons, and they shall take down Kohath shall come to bear it: but
the veil of the screen, and cover the they shall not touch the sanctuary,
ark of the testimony with it, 6 and lest they die. These things are the
shall put on it a covering of seal- burden of the sons of Kohath in the
skin, and shall spread over it a cloth tent of meeting. 16 And the charge
all of blue, and shall put in the of Eleazar the son of Aaron the
poles of it. 7 And on the table of priest shall be the oil for the light,
showbread they shall spread a cloth and the sweet incense, and the con-
of blue, and put on it the dishes, tinual meal offering, and the
and the spoons, and the bowls and anointing oil, the charge of all the
the cups with which to pour out; tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the
and the continual bread shall be on sanctuary, and the furniture of it.”
it: 8 and they shall spread on them 17 And Jehovah spoke to Moses
a cloth of scarlet, and cover the and to Aaron, saying, 18 “Do not
same with a covering of sealskin, cut off the tribe of the families of the
and shall put in the poles of it. 9 Kohathites from among the Levites;
And they shall take a cloth of blue, 19 but thus do to them, that they
and cover the candlestick of the may live, and not die, when they
light, and its lamps, and its approach the most holy things:
snuffers, and its pans, and all the oil Aaron and his sons shall go in, and
vessels of it, with which they minis- appoint them every one to his ser-
ter to it: 10 and they shall put it and vice and to his burden; 20 but they
all the vessels of it within a cover- shall not go in to see the sanctuary
ing of sealskin, and shall put it on even for a moment, lest they die.”
the frame. 11 And on the golden al- 21 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
tar they shall spread a cloth of blue, saying, 22 “Take the sum of the
and cover it with a covering of seal- sons of Gershon also, by their fa-
skin, and shall put in the poles of it: thers’ houses, by their families; 23
12 and they shall take all the vessels from thirty years old and upward
of ministry, with which they minis- until fifty years old shall you num-
ter in the sanctuary, and put them ber them; all who enter in to wait
in a cloth of blue, and cover them upon the service, to do the work in
with a covering of sealskin, and the tent of meeting. 24 This is the
shall put them on the frame. 13 And service of the families of the Ger-
they shall take away the ashes from shonites, in serving and in bearing
the altar, and spread a purple cloth burdens: 25 they shall bear the cur-
on it: 14 and they shall put on it all tains of the tabernacle, and the tent
the vessels of it, with which they of meeting, its covering, and the
minister around it, the firepans, the covering of sealskin that is above
flesh hooks, and the shovels, and on it, and the screen for the door of
the basins, all the vessels of the al- the tent of meeting, 26 and the
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hangings of the court, and the upward even to fifty years old, ev-
screen for the door of the gate of the ery one who entered upon the ser-
court, which is by the tabernacle vice, for work in the tent of
and by the altar all around, and meeting: 36 and those who were
their cords, and all the instruments numbered of them by their families
of their service, and whatsoever were two thousand seven hundred
shall be done with them: in it shall and fifty. 37 These are those who
they serve. 27 At the command- were numbered of the families of
ment of Aaron and his sons shall be the Kohathites, all who served in
all the service of the sons of the Ger- the tent of meeting, whom Moses
shonites, in all their burden, and in and Aaron numbered according to
all their service; and you shall ap- the commandment of Jehovah by
point to them in charge all their Moses.
burden. 28 This is the service of the 38 And those who were num-
families of the sons of the Gershon- bered of the sons of Gershon, their
ites in the tent of meeting: and their families, and by their fathers’
charge shall be under the hand of houses, 39 from thirty years old and
Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. upward even to fifty years old, ev-
29 As for the sons of Merari, you ery one who entered upon the ser-
shall number them by their fami- vice, for work in the tent of
lies, by their fathers’ houses; 30 meeting, 40 even those who were
from thirty years old and upward numbered of them, by their fami-
even to fifty years old shall you lies, by their fathers’ houses, were
number them, every one who en- two thousand six hundred and
ters upon the service, to do the thirty. 41 These are those who were
work of the tent of meeting. 31 And numbered of the families of the
this is the charge of their burden, sons of Gershon, all who served in
according to all their service in the the tent of meeting, whom Moses
tent of meeting: the boards of the and Aaron numbered according to
tabernacle, and the bars of it, and the commandment of Jehovah.
the pillars of it, and the sockets of it, 42 And those who were num-
32 and the pillars of the court all bered of the families of the sons of
around, and their sockets, and their Merari, by their families, by their
pins, and their cords, with all their fathers’ houses, 43 from thirty years
instruments, and with all their ser- old and upward even to fifty years
vice: and by name you shall ap- old, every one who entered upon
point the instruments of the charge the service, for work in the tent of
of their burden. 33 This is the ser- meeting, 44 even those who were
vice of the families of the sons of numbered of them by their families,
Merari, according to all their ser- were three thousand two hundred.
vice, in the tent of meeting, under 45 These are those who were num-
the hand of Ithamar the son of bered of the families of the sons of
Aaron the priest.” Merari, whom Moses and Aaron
34 And Moses and Aaron and the numbered according to the com-
princes of the congregation num- mandment of Jehovah by Moses.
bered the sons of the Kohathites by 46 All those who were numbered
their families, and by their fathers’ of the Levites, whom Moses and
houses, 35 from thirty years old and Aaron and the princes of Israel
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numbered, by their families, and by every heave offering of all the holy
their fathers’ houses, 47 from thirty things of the children of Israel,
years old and upward even to fifty which they present to the priest,
years old, every one who entered in shall be his. 10 And every man’s
to do the work of service, and the hallowed things shall be his: what-
work of bearing burdens in the tent soever any man gives the priest, it
of meeting, 48 even those who were shall be his.’ ”
numbered of them, were eight 11 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
thousand five hundred and eighty. saying, 12 “Speak to the children of
49 According to the commandment Israel, and say to them, ‘If any
of Jehovah they were numbered by man’s wife go aside, and commits a
Moses, every one according to his trespass against him, 13 and a man
service, and according to his bur- lies with her carnally, and it is hid-
den: thus were they numbered by den from the eyes of her husband,
him, as Jehovah commanded and be kept close, and she is de-
Moses. filed, and there is no witness

5 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, against her, and she is not taken in
saying, 2 “Command the chil- the act; 14 and the spirit of jealousy
dren of Israel, that they put out of comes upon him, and he is jealous
the camp every leper, and every of his wife, and she is defiled: or if
one who has an issue, and whoso- the spirit of jealousy comes upon
ever is unclean by the dead: 3 both him, and he is jealous of his wife,
male and female shall you put out, and she is not defiled: 15 then shall
outside the camp shall you put the man bring his wife to the priest,
them; that they do not defile their and shall bring her offering for her,
camp, in the midst of which I the tenth part of an ephah of barley
dwell.” 4 And the children of Israel meal; he shall pour no oil on it, nor
did so, and put them out outside put frankincense on it; for it is a
the camp; as Jehovah spoke to meal offering of jealousy, a meal
Moses, so did the children of Israel. offering of memorial, bringing iniq-
5 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, uity to remembrance.
saying, 6 “Speak to the children of 16 And the priest shall bring her
Israel, ‘When a man or woman shall near, and set her before Jehovah: 17
commit any sin that men commit, and the priest shall take holy water
so as to trespass against Jehovah, in an earthen vessel; and of the dust
and that soul shall be guilty; 7 then that is on the floor of the tabernacle
he shall confess his sin which he the priest shall take, and put it into
has done: and he shall make restitu- the water. 18 And the priest shall
tion for his guilt in full, and add to set the woman before Jehovah, and
it the fifth part of it, and give it to let the hair of the woman’s head go
him in respect of whom he has been loose, and put the meal offering of
guilty. 8 But if the man has no kins- memorial in her hands, which is the
man to whom restitution may be meal offering of jealousy: and the
made for the guilt, the restitution priest shall have in his hand the wa-
for guilt which is made to Jehovah ter of bitterness that causes the
shall be the priest’s; besides the ram curse. 19 And the priest shall cause
of the atonement, by which atone- her to swear, and shall say to the
ment shall be made for him. 9 And woman, “If no man has lain with
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you, and if you have not gone aside clean; then she shall be free, and
to uncleanness, being under your shall conceive seed.
husband, be free from this water of 29 This is the law of jealousy,
bitterness that causes the curse. 20 when a wife, being under her hus-
But if you have gone aside, being band, goes aside, and is defiled; 30
under your husband, and if you are or when the spirit of jealousy comes
defiled, and some man has lain upon a man, and he is jealous of his
with you besides your husband”: wife; then shall he set the woman
21 then the priest shall cause the before Jehovah, and the priest shall
woman to swear with the oath of execute upon her all this law. 31
cursing, and the priest shall say to And the man shall be free from in-
the woman, “Jehovah makes you a iquity, and that woman shall bear
curse and an oath among you peo- her iniquity.’ ”
ple, when Jehovah makes your
thigh to fall away, and your body to 6 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
saying, 2 “Speak to the children
swell; 22 and this water that causes of Israel, and say to them, ‘When ei-
the curse shall go into your bowels, ther man or woman shall make a
and make your body to swell, and special vow, the vow of a Nazirite,
your thigh to fall away.” And the to separate himself to Jehovah, 3 he
woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.” shall separate himself from wine
23 And the priest shall write these and strong drink; he shall drink no
curses in a book, and he shall blot vinegar of wine, or vinegar of
them out into the water of bitter- strong drink, neither shall he drink
ness: 24 and he shall make the any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh
woman drink the water of bitter- grapes or dried. 4 All the days of his
ness that causes the curse; and the separation shall he eat nothing that
water that causes the curse shall en- is made of the grapevine, from the
ter into her and become bitter. 25 kernels even to the husk.
And the priest shall take the meal 5 All the days of his vow of sepa-
offering of jealousy out of the ration no razor shall come upon his
woman’s hand, and shall wave the head: until the days are fulfilled, in
meal offering before Jehovah, and which he separates himself to Jeho-
bring it to the altar: 26 and the vah, he shall be holy; he shall let the
priest shall take a handful of the locks of the hair of his head grow
meal offering, as the memorial of it, long.
and burn it on the altar, and after- 6 All the days that he separates
ward shall make the woman drink himself to Jehovah he shall not
the water. 27 And when he has come near to a dead body. 7 He
made her drink the water, then it shall not make himself unclean for
shall come to pass, if she is defiled, his father, or for his mother, for his
and has committed a trespass brother, or for his sister, when they
against her husband, that the water die; because his separation to God
that causes the curse shall enter into is upon his head. 8 All the days of
her and become bitter, and her body his separation he is holy to Jehovah.
shall swell, and her thigh shall fall 9 And if any man dies very sud-
away: and the woman shall be a denly beside him, and he defiles the
curse among her people. 28 And if head of his separation; then he shall
the woman is not defiled, but be shave his head in the day of his
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cleansing, on the seventh day shall the boiled shoulder of the ram, and
he shave it. 10 And on the eighth one unleavened cake out of the bas-
day he shall bring two turtledoves, ket, and one unleavened wafer, and
or two young pigeons, to the priest, shall put them on the hands of the
to the door of the tent of meeting: 11 Nazirite, after he has shaved the
and the priest shall offer one for a head of his separation; 20 and the
sin offering, and the other for a priest shall wave them for a wave
burnt offering, and make atone- offering before Jehovah; this is holy
ment for him, because he sinned by for the priest, together with the
reason of the dead, and shall hal- breast of the wave and thigh of the
low his head that same day. 12 And heave: and after that the Nazirite
he shall separate to Jehovah the may drink wine.
days of his separation, and shall 21 This is the law of the Nazirite
bring a male lamb a year old for a who vows, and of his offering to Je-
trespass offering; but the former hovah for his separation, besides
days shall be void, because his sep- that which he is able to get: accord-
aration was defiled. ing to his vow which he vows, so he
13 And this is the law of the must do after the law of his separa-
Nazirite, when the days of his sepa- tion.’ ”
ration are fulfilled: he shall be 22 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
brought to the door of the tent of saying, 23 “Speak to Aaron and to
meeting: 14 and he shall offer his his sons, saying, ‘In this way you
offering to Jehovah, one male lamb shall bless the children of Israel:
a year old without blemish for a you shall say to them,
burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a 24 “Jehovah bless you, and keep
year old without blemish for a sin you:
offering, and one ram without 25 Jehovah make his face to shine
blemish for peace offerings, 15 and upon you, and be gracious to you:
a basket of unleavened bread, cakes 26 Jehovah lift up his countenance
of fine flour mingled with oil, and upon you, and give you peace.” ‘
unleavened wafers anointed with 27 So shall they put my name
oil, and their meal offering, and upon the children of Israel; and I
their drink offerings. 16 And the will bless them.”
priest shall present them before Je-
hovah, and shall offer his sin offer- 7 And it came to pass on the
day that Moses had made an
ing, and his burnt offering: 17 and end of setting up the tabernacle,
he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice and had anointed it and sanctified
of peace offerings to Jehovah, with it, and all the furniture of it, and the
the basket of unleavened bread: the altar and all the vessels of it, and
priest shall offer also the meal offer- had anointed them and sanctified
ing of it, and the drink offering of it. them; 2 that the princes of Israel,
18 And the Nazirite shall shave the the heads of their fathers’ houses,
head of his separation at the door of offered. These were the princes of
the tent of meeting, and shall take the tribes, these are those who were
the hair of the head of his separa- over those who were numbered: 3
tion, and put it on the fire which is and they brought their offering be-
under the sacrifice of peace offer- fore Jehovah, six covered wagons,
ings. 19 And the priest shall take and twelve oxen; a wagon for every
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two of the princes, and for each one Amminadab.
an ox: and they presented them be- 18 On the second day Nethanel
fore the tabernacle. 4 And Jehovah the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar,
spoke to Moses, saying, 5 “Take it offered: 19 he offered for his offer-
from them, that they may be used in ing one silver platter, the weight of
doing the service of the tent of which was a hundred and thirty
meeting; and you shall give them to shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
the Levites, to every man according shekels, after the shekel of the sanc-
to his service.” 6 And Moses took tuary; both of them full of fine flour
the wagons and the oxen, and gave mingled with oil for a meal offer-
them to the Levites. 7 Two wagons ing; 20 one golden spoon of ten
and four oxen he gave to the sons of shekels, full of incense; 21 one young
Gershon, according to their service: bull, one ram, one male lamb a year
8 and four wagons and eight oxen old, for a burnt offering; 22 one
he gave to the sons of Merari, ac- male of the goats for a sin offering;
cording to their service, under the 23 and for the sacrifice of peace
hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
the priest. 9 But to the sons of Ko- male goats, five male lambs a year
hath he gave none, because the ser- old: this was the offering of
vice of the sanctuary belonged to Nethanel the son of Zuar.
them; they bore it upon their shoul- 24 On the third day Eliab the son
ders. 10 And the princes offered for of Helon, prince of the children of
the dedication of the altar in the Zebulun: 25 his offering was one
day that it was anointed, even the silver platter, the weight of which
princes offered their offering before was a hundred and thirty shekels,
the altar. 11 And Jehovah said to one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
Moses, “They shall offer their offer- after the shekel of the sanctuary;
ing, each prince on his day, for the both of them full of fine flour min-
dedication of the altar.” gled with oil for a meal offering; 26
12 And he who offered his offer- one golden spoon of ten shekels, full
ing the first day was Nahshon the of incense; 27 one young bull, one
son of Amminadab, of the tribe of ram, one male lamb a year old, for
Judah: 13 and his offering was one a burnt offering; 28 one male of the
silver platter, the weight of which goats for a sin offering; 29 and for
was a hundred and thirty shekels, the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, oxen, five rams, five male goats,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; five male lambs a year old: this was
both of them full of fine flour min- the offering of Eliab the son of
gled with oil for a meal offering; 14 Helon.
one golden spoon of ten shekels, full 30 On the fourth day Elizur the
of incense; 15 one young bull, one son of Shedeur, prince of the chil-
ram, one male lamb a year old, for dren of Reuben: 31 his offering was
a burnt offering; 16 one male of the one silver platter, the weight of
goats for a sin offering; 17 and for which was a hundred and thirty
the sacrifice of peace offerings, two shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
oxen, five rams, five male goats, shekels, after the shekel of the sanc-
five male lambs a year old: this was tuary; both of them full of fine flour
the offering of Nahshon the son of mingled with oil for a meal offer-
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ing; 32 one golden spoon of ten 48 On the seventh day Elishama
shekels, full of incense; 33 one young the son of Ammihud, prince of the
bull, one ram, one male lamb a year children of Ephraim: 49 his offering
old, for a burnt offering; 34 one was one silver platter, the weight of
male of the goats for a sin offering; which was a hundred and thirty
35 and for the sacrifice of peace shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five shekels, after the shekel of the sanc-
male goats, five male lambs a year tuary; both of them full of fine flour
old: this was the offering of Elizur mingled with oil for a meal offer-
the son of She-deur. ing; 50 one golden spoon of ten
36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the shekels, full of incense; 51 one young
son of Zurishaddai, prince of the bull, one ram, one male lamb a year
children of Simeon: 37 his offering old, for a burnt offering; 52 one
was one silver platter, the weight of male of the goats for a sin offering;
which was a hundred and thirty 53 and for the sacrifice of peace
shekels, one silver bowl of seventy offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
shekels, after the shekel of the sanc- male goats, five male lambs a year
tuary; both of them full of fine flour old: this was the offering of El-
mingled with oil for a meal offer- ishama the son of Ammihud.
ing; 38 one golden spoon of ten 54 On the eighth day Gamaliel the
shekels, full of incense; 39 one young son of Pedahzur, prince of the chil-
bull, one ram, one male lamb a year dren of Manasseh: 55 his offering
old, for a burnt offering; 40 one was one silver platter, the weight of
male of the goats for a sin offering; which was a hundred and thirty
41 and for the sacrifice of peace shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five shekels, after the shekel of the sanc-
male goats, five male lambs a year tuary; both of them full of fine flour
old: this was the offering of Shelu- mingled with oil for a meal offer-
miel the son of Zurishaddai. ing; 56 one golden spoon of ten
42 On the sixth day Eliasaph the shekels, full of incense; 57 one young
son of Deuel, prince of the children bull, one ram, one male lamb a year
of Gad: 43 his offering was one sil- old, for a burnt offering; 58 one
ver platter, the weight of which was male of the goats for a sin offering;
a hundred and thirty shekels, one 59 and for the sacrifice of peace
silver bowl of seventy shekels, after offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
the shekel of the sanctuary; both of male goats, five male lambs a year
them full of fine flour mingled with old: this was the offering of
oil for a meal offering; 44 one Gamaliel the son of Ped-ahzur.
golden spoon of ten shekels, full of 60 On the ninth day Abidan the
incense; 45 one young bull, one son of Gideoni, prince of the chil-
ram, one male lamb a year old, for dren of Benjamin: 61 his offering
a burnt offering; 46 one male of the was one silver platter, the weight of
goats for a sin offering; 47 and for which was a hundred and thirty
the sacrifice of peace offerings, two shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
oxen, five rams, five male goats, shekels, after the shekel of the sanc-
five male lambs a year old: this was tuary; both of them full of fine flour
the offering of Eliasaph the son of mingled with oil for a meal offer-
Deuel. ing; 62 one golden spoon of ten
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shekels, full of incense; 63 one young son of Enan, prince of the children
bull, one ram, one male lamb a year of Naphtali: 79 his offering was one
old, for a burnt offering; 64 one silver platter, the weight of which
male of the goats for a sin offering; was a hundred a thirty shekels, one
65 and for the sacrifice of peace silver bowl of seventy shekels, after
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
male goats, five male lambs a year them full of fine flour mingled with
old: this was the offering of Abidan oil for a meal offering; 80 one
the son of Gid-eoni. golden spoon of ten shekels, full of
66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the incense; 81 one young bull, one
son of Ammishaddai, prince of the ram, one male lamb a year old, for
children of Dan: 67 his offering was a burnt offering; 82 one male of the
one silver platter, the weight of goats for a sin offering; 83 and for
which was a hundred and thirty the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
shekels, one silver bowl of seventy oxen, five rams, five male goats,
shekels, after the shekel of the sanc- five male lambs a year old: this was
tuary; both of them full of fine flour the offering of Ahira the son of
mingled with oil for a meal offer- Enan.
ing; 68 one golden spoon of ten 84 This was the dedication of the
shekels, full of incense; 69 one young altar, in the day when it was
bull, one ram, one male lamb a year anointed, by the princes of Israel:
old, for a burnt offering; 70 one twelve silver platters, twelve silver
male of the goats for a sin offering; bowls, twelve golden spoons; 85
71 and for the sacrifice of peace each silver platter weighing a hun-
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five dred and thirty shekels, and each
male goats, five male lambs a year bowl seventy; all the silver of the
old: this was the offering of Ahiezer vessels two thousand and four hun-
the son of Ammishaddai. dred shekels, after the shekel of the
72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the sanctuary; 86 the twelve golden
son of Ochran, prince of the chil- spoons, full of incense, weighing ten
dren of Asher: 73 his offering was shekels apiece, after the shekel of the
one silver platter, the weight of sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons
which was a hundred and thirty a hundred and twenty shekels; 87 all
shekels, one silver bowl of seventy the oxen for the burnt offering
shekels, after the shekel of the sanc- twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the
tuary; both of them full of fine flour male lambs a year old twelve, and
mingled with oil for a meal offer- their meal offering; and the males
ing; 74 one golden spoon of ten of the goats for a sin offering
shekels, full of incense; 75 one young twelve; 88 and all the oxen for the
bull, one ram, one male lamb a year sacrifice of peace offerings twenty
old, for a burnt offering; 76 one and four bulls, the rams sixty, the
male of the goats for a sin offering; male goats sixty, the male lambs a
77 and for the sacrifice of peace year old sixty. This was the dedica-
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five tion of the altar, after that it was
male goats, five male lambs a year anointed.
old: this was the offering of Pagiel 89 And when Moses went into the
the son of Ochran. tent of meeting to speak with him,
78 On the twelfth day Ahira the then he heard the Voice speaking to
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him from above the mercy seat that offering, to Jehovah, to make atone-
was on the ark of the testimony, ment for the Levites. 13 And you
from between the two cherubim: shall set the Levites before Aaron,
and he spoke to him. and before his sons, and offer them

8 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, for a wave offering to Jehovah.

saying, 2 “Speak to Aaron, and 14 Thus shall you separate the
say to him, ‘When you light the Levites from among the children of
lamps, the seven lamps shall give Israel; and the Levites shall be
light in front of the candlestick.’ ” 3 mine. 15 And after that shall the
And Aaron did so; he lit the lamps Levites go in to do the service of the
of it so as to give light in front of the tent of meeting: and you shall
candlestick, as Jehovah command- cleanse them, and offer them for a
ed Moses. 4 And this was the work wave offering. 16 For they are
of the candlestick, beaten work of wholly given to me from among the
gold; to the base of it, and to the children of Israel; instead of all who
flowers of it, it was beaten work: ac- opens the womb, even the first born
cording to the pattern which Jeho- of all the children of Israel, have I
vah had shown Moses, so he made taken them to me. 17 For all the
the candlestick. firstborn among the children of Is-
5 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, rael are mine, both man and beast:
saying, 6 “Take the Levites from on the day that I struck all the first-
among the children of Israel, and born in the land of Egypt I sancti-
cleanse them. 7 And thus shall you fied them for myself. 18 And I have
do to them, to cleanse them: sprin- taken the Levites instead of all the
kle the water of expiation on them, firstborn among the children of Is-
and let them cause a razor to pass rael. 19 And I have given the
over all their flesh, and let them Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his
wash their clothes, and cleanse sons from among the children of Is-
themselves. 8 Then let them take a rael, to do the service of the chil-
young bull, and its meal offering, dren of Israel in the tent of meeting,
fine flour mingled with oil; and an- and to make atonement for the chil-
other young bull shall you take for dren of Israel; that there be no
a sin offering. 9 And you shall plague among the children of Is-
present the Levites before the tent rael, when the children of Israel
of meeting: and you shall assemble come near the sanctuary.”
the whole congregation of the chil- 20 Thus did Moses, and Aaron,
dren of Israel: 10 and you shall and all the congregation of the chil-
present the Levites before Jehovah. dren of Israel, to the Levites: ac-
And the children of Israel shall lay cording unto all that Jehovah
their hands on the Levites: 11 and commanded Moses concerning the
Aaron shall offer the Levites before Levites, so did the children of Israel
Jehovah for a wave offering, on the to them. 21 And the Levites puri-
behalf of the children of Israel, that fied themselves from sin, and they
it may be theirs to do the service of washed their clothes: and Aaron
Jehovah. 12 And the Levites shall offered them for a wave offering be-
lay their hands on the heads of the fore Jehovah; and Aaron made
bulls: and offer you the one for a sin atonement for them to cleanse
offering, and the other for a burnt them. 22 And after that went the
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Levites in to do their service in the kept back, that we may not offer the
tent of meeting before Aaron, and offering of Jehovah in its appointed
before his sons: as Jehovah had season among the children of Is-
commanded Moses concerning the rael?” 8 And Moses said to them,
Levites, so they did to them. “Stay, that I may hear what Jehovah
23 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, will command concerning you.”
saying, 24 “This is that which be- 9 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
longs to the Levites: from twenty- saying, 10 “Speak to the children of
five years old and upward they Israel, saying, ‘If any man of you or
shall go in to wait upon the service of your generations shall be un-
in the work of the tent of meeting: clean by reason of a dead body, or
25 and from the age of fifty years be on a journey afar off, yet he shall
they shall cease waiting upon the keep the passover to Jehovah. 11 In
work, and shall serve no more, 26 the second month on the fourteenth
but shall minister with their day at evening they shall keep it;
brethren in the tent of meeting, to they shall eat it with unleavened
keep the charge, and shall do no bread and bitter herbs: 12 they shall
service. Thus shall you do to the leave none of it to the morning, nor
Levites concerning their charges.” break a bone of it: according to all

9 And Jehovah spoke to Moses the statute of the passover they

in the wilderness of Sinai, in the shall keep it. 13 But the man who is
first month of the second year after clean, and is not on a journey, and
they had come out of the land of refrains from keeping the passover,
Egypt, saying, 2 “Moreover let the that soul shall be cut off from his
children of Israel keep the passover people; because he did not offer the
in its appointed season. 3 In the offering of Jehovah in its appointed
fourteenth day of this month, at season, that man shall bear his sin.
evening, you shall keep it in its ap- 14 And if a stranger shall sojourn
pointed season: according to all the among you, and will keep the
statutes of it, and according to all passover to Jehovah; according to
the ordinances of it, shall you keep the statute of the passover, and ac-
it.” 4 And Moses spoke to the chil- cording to the ordinance of it, so
dren of Israel, that they should shall he do: you shall have one
keep the passover. 5 And they kept statute, both for the sojourner, and
the passover in the first month, on for him who is born in the land.
the fourteenth day of the month, at 15 And on the day that the taber-
evening, in the wilderness of Sinai: nacle was reared up the cloud cov-
according to all that Jehovah com- ered the tabernacle, even the tent of
manded Moses, so did the children the testimony: and at evening it
of Israel. 6 And there were certain was upon the tabernacle as it were
men, who were unclean by reason the appearance of fire, until morn-
of the dead body of a man, so that ing. 16 So it was always: the cloud
they could not keep the passover covered it, and the appearance of
on that day: and they came before fire by night. 17 And whenever the
Moses and before Aaron on that cloud was taken up from over the
day: 7 and those men said to him, Tent, then after that the children of
“We are unclean by reason of the Israel journeyed: and in the place
dead body of a man: why are we where the cloud settled, there the
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children of Israel encamped. 18 At of Israel, shall gather themselves to
the commandment of Jehovah the you. 5 And when you blow an
children of Israel journeyed, and at alarm, the camps that lie on the east
the commandment of Jehovah they side shall take their journey. 6 And
encamped: as long as the cloud set- when you blow an alarm the sec-
tled upon the tabernacle they re- ond time, the camps that lie on the
mained encamped. 19 And when south side shall take their journey:
the cloud remained upon the taber- they shall blow an alarm for their
nacle many days, then the children journeys. 7 But when the assembly
of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, is to be gathered together, you shall
and did not journey. 20 And some- blow, but you shall not sound an
times the cloud was a few days alarm. 8 And the sons of Aaron, the
upon the tabernacle; then according priests, shall blow the trumpets;
to the commandment of Jehovah and they shall be to you for a
they remained encamped, and ac- statute for ever throughout your
cording to the commandment of Je- generations. 9 And when you go to
hovah they journeyed. 21 And war in your land against the adver-
sometimes the cloud was from sary who oppresses you, then you
evening until morning; and when shall sound an alarm with the
the cloud was taken up in the trumpets; and you shall be remem-
morning, they journeyed: or if it bered before Jehovah your God,
continued by day and by night, and you shall be saved from your
when the cloud was taken up, they enemies. 10 Also in the day of your
journeyed. 22 Whether it were two gladness, and in your set feasts, and
days, or a month, or a year, that the in the beginnings of your months,
cloud remained upon the taberna- you shall blow the trumpets over
cle, settling on it, the children of Is- your burnt offerings, and over the
rael remained encamped, and did sacrifices of your peace offerings;
not journey; but when it was taken and they shall be to you for a
up, they journeyed. 23 At the com- memorial before your God: I am Je-
mandment of Jehovah they en- hovah your God.”
camped, and at the commandment 11 And it came to pass in the sec-
of Jehovah they journeyed: they ond year, in the second month, on
kept the charge of Jehovah, at the the twentieth day of the month,
commandment of Jehovah by that the cloud was taken up from
Moses. over the tabernacle of the testi-

10 And Jehovah spoke to mony. 12 And the children of Israel

Moses, saying, 2 “Make two set forward according to their jour-
trumpets of silver; of beaten work neys out of the wilderness of Sinai;
shall you make them: and you shall and the cloud settled in the wilder-
use them for the calling of the con- ness of Paran. 13 And they first took
gregation, and for the journeying of their journey according to the com-
the camps. 3 And when they shall mandment of Jehovah by Moses. 14
blow them, all the congregation And in the first place the standard of
shall gather themselves to you at the camp of the children of Judah
the door of the tent of meeting. 4 set forward according to their
And if they blow but one, then the armies: and over his army was
princes, the heads of the thousands Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
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15 And over the army of the tribe of son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’
the children of Issachar was father-in-law, “We are journeying
Nethanel the son of Zuar. 16 And to the place of which Jehovah said,
over the army of the tribe of the ‘I will give it you’: come with us,
children of Zebulun was Eliab the and we will do you good; for Jeho-
son of Helon. vah has spoken good concerning Is-
17 And the tabernacle was taken rael.” 30 And he said to him, “I will
down; and the sons of Gershon and not go; but I will depart to my own
the sons of Merari, who bore the land, and to my kindred.” 31 And
tabernacle, set forward. 18 And the he said, “Do not leave us, I pray; be-
standard of the camp of Reuben set cause you know how we are to en-
forward according to their armies: camp in the wilderness, and you
and over his army was Elizur the shall be to us instead of eyes. 32
son of Shedeur. 19 And over the And it shall be, if you go with us,
army of the tribe of the children of yes, it shall be, that whatsoever
Simeon was Shelumiel the son of good Jehovah shall do to us, the
Zurishaddai. 20 And over the army same will we do to you.”
of the tribe of the children of Gad 33 And they set forward from the
was Eliasaph the son of Deuel. mount of Jehovah three days’ jour-
21 And the Kohathites set for- ney; and the ark of the covenant of
ward, bearing the sanctuary: and Jehovah went before them three
the others set up the tabernacle days’ journey, to seek out a resting-
against their coming. 22 And the place for them. 34 And the cloud of
standard of the camp of the chil- Jehovah was over them by day,
dren of Ephraim set forward ac- when they set forward from the
cording to their armies: and over camp.
his army was Elishama the son of 35 And it came to pass, when the
Ammihud. 23 And over the army of ark set forward, that Moses said,
the tribe of the children of Man- “Rise up, O Jehovah, and let your
asseh was Gamaliel the son of enemies be scattered; and let them
Pedahzur. 24 And over the army of who hate you flee before you.” 36
the tribe of the children of Benjamin And when it rested, he said, “Re-
was Abidan the son of Gideoni. turn, O Jehovah, to the ten thou-
25 And the standard of the camp sands of the thousands of Israel.”
of the children of Dan, which was
the rear guard of all the camps, set 11 And the people were as
murmurers, speaking evil in
forward according to their armies: the ears of Jehovah: and when Jeho-
and over his army was Ahiezer the vah heard it, his anger was kindled;
son of Ammishaddai. 26 And over and the fire of Jehovah burned
the army of the tribe of the children among them, and devoured in the
of Asher was Pagiel the son of uttermost part of the camp. 2 And
Ochran. 27 And over the army of the people cried to Moses; and
the tribe of the children of Naphtali Moses prayed to Jehovah, and the
was Ahira the son of Enan. 2 Thus fire abated. 3 And the name of that
were the journeyings of the chil- place was called Taberah, because
dren of Israel according to their the fire of Jehovah burned among
armies; and they set forward. them.
29 And Moses said to Hobab, the 4 And the mixed multitude who
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was among them lusted exceeding- 16 And Jehovah said to Moses,
ly: and the children of Israel also “Gather to me seventy men of the
wept again, and said, “Who shall elders of Israel, whom you know to
give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember be the elders of the people, and offi-
the fish, which we ate in Egypt for cers over them; and bring them to
nothing; the cucumbers, and the the tent of meeting, that they may
melons, and the leeks, and the stand there with you. 17 And I will
onions, and the garlic: 6 but now come down and talk with you
our soul is dried away; there is there: and I will take of the Spirit
nothing at all except this manna to which is upon you, and will put it
look upon.” 7 And the manna was upon them; and they shall bear the
like coriander seed, and the appear- burden of the people with you, that
ance of it as the appearance of bdel- you do not bear it yourself alone. 18
lium. 8 The people went around, And say to the people, ‘Sanctify
and gathered it, and ground it in yourselves against tomorrow, and
mills, or beat it in mortars, and you shall eat flesh; for you have
boiled it in pots, and made cakes of wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying,
it: and the taste of it was as the taste “Who shall give us flesh to eat? for
of fresh oil. 9 And when the dew it was well with us in Egypt”: there-
fell on the camp in the night, the fore Jehovah will give you flesh,
manna fell on it. and you shall eat. 19 You shall not
10 And Moses heard the people eat one day, nor two days, nor five
weeping throughout their families, days, neither ten days, nor twenty
every man at the door of his tent: days, 20 but a whole month, until it
and the anger of Jehovah was kin- comes out at your nostrils, and it is
dled greatly; and Moses was dis- loathsome to you; because you
pleased. 11 And Moses said to have rejected Jehovah who is
Jehovah, “Why have you dealt ill among you, and have wept before
with your servant? and why have I him, saying, “Why did we come
not found favor in your sight, that forth out of Egypt?” ’ ” 21 And
you lay the burden of all this people Moses said, “The people, among
upon me? 12 Have I conceived all whom I am, are six hundred thou-
this people? have I brought them sand footmen; and you have said, ‘I
forth, that you should say to me, will give them flesh, that they may
‘Carry them in your bosom, as a eat a whole month.’ 22 Shall flocks
nursing father carries the sucking and herds be slain for them, to
child’, to the land which you swore suffice them? or shall all the fish of
to their fathers? 13 From where the sea be gathered together for
should I have flesh to give to all this them, to suffice them?” 23 And Je-
people? for they weep to me, say- hovah said to Moses, “Is Jehovah’s
ing, ‘Give us flesh, that we may hand shortened? now shall you see
eat.’ 14 I am not able to bear all this whether my word shall come to
people alone, because it is too pass to you or not.”
heavy for me. 15 And if you deal 24 And Moses went out, and told
thus with me, kill me, I pray, out of the people the words of Jehovah:
hand, if I have found favor in your and he gathered seventy men of the
sight; and let me not see my elders of the people, and set them
wretchedness.” all around the Tent. 25 And Jehovah
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came down in the cloud, and spoke place was called Kibroth-hat-
to him, and took of the Spirit that taavah, because there they buried
was upon him, and put it upon the the people who lusted. 35 From Ki-
seventy elders: and it came to pass, broth-hattaavah the people jour-
that, when the Spirit rested upon neyed unto Hazeroth; and they
them, they prophesied, but they did remained at Hazeroth.
so no more.
26 But there remained two men in 12 And Miriam and Aaron
spoke against Moses because
the camp, the name of the one was of the Cushite woman whom he
Eldad, and the name of the other had married; for he had married a
Medad: and the Spirit rested upon Cushite woman. 2 And they said,
them; and they were of those who “has Jehovah indeed spoken only
were written, but had not gone out with Moses? has he not spoken also
to the Tent; and they prophesied in with us?” And Jehovah heard it. 3
the camp. 27 And there ran a young Now the man Moses was very
man, and told Moses, and said, “El- meek, above all the men who were
dad and Medad prophesy in the on the face of the earth.
camp.” 28 And Joshua the son of 4 And Jehovah spoke suddenly to
Nun, the minister of Moses, one of Moses, and to Aaron, and to
his chosen men, answered and said, Miriam, “Come out you three to the
“My lord Moses, forbid them.” 29 tent of meeting.” And they three
And Moses said to him, “Are you came out. 5 And Jehovah came
jealous for my sake? would that all down in a pillar of cloud, and stood
Jehovah’s people were prophets, at the door of the Tent, and called
that Jehovah would put his Spirit Aaron and Miriam; and they both
upon them!” 30 And Moses with- came forth. 6 And he said, “Hear
drew into the camp, he and the el- now my words: if there be a
ders of Israel. prophet among you, I Jehovah will
31 And there went forth a wind make myself known to him in a vi-
from Jehovah, and brought quails sion, I will speak with him in a
from the sea, and let them fall by dream. 7 My servant Moses is not
the camp, about a day’s journey on so; he is faithful in all my house: 8
this side, and a day’s journey on the with him will I speak mouth to
other side, all around the camp, and mouth, even manifestly, and not in
about two cubits above the face of dark speeches; and the form of Je-
the earth. 32 And the people rose hovah shall he behold: why then
up all that day, and all the night, were you not afraid to speak
and all the next day, and gathered against my servant, against
the quails: he who gathered least Moses?”
gathered ten homers: and they 9 And the anger of Jehovah was
spread them all abroad for them- kindled against them; and he de-
selves all around the camp. 33 parted. 10 And the cloud removed
While the flesh was still between from over the Tent; and, behold,
their teeth, before it was chewed, Miriam was leprous, as white as
the anger of Jehovah was kindled snow: and Aaron looked upon
against the people, and Jehovah Miriam, and, behold, she was lep-
struck the people with a very great rous. 11 And Aaron said to Moses,
plague. 34 And the name of that “Oh, my lord, do not lay, I pray, sin
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upon us, because we have done Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. 14
foolishly, and because we have Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the
sinned. 12 Do not let her, please, be son of Vophsi. 15 Of the tribe of
as one dead, of whom the flesh is Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 16
half consumed when he comes out These are the names of the men
of his mother’s womb.” 13 And who Moses sent to spy out the land.
Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, And Moses called Hoshea the son
“Heal her, O God, I beseech you.” of Nun Joshua.
14 And Jehovah said to Moses, “If 17 And Moses sent them to spy
her father had but spit in her face, out the land of Canaan, and said to
should she not be ashamed seven them, “Get up this way by the
days? let her be shut up outside the South, and go up into the hill coun-
camp seven days, and after that she try: 18 and see the land, what it is;
shall be brought in again.” 15 And and the people who dwell in it,
Miriam was shut up outside the whether they are strong or weak,
camp seven days: and the people whether they are few or many; 19
did not journey until Miriam was and what the land is that they dwell
brought in again. in, whether it is good or bad; and
16 And afterward the people jour- what cities they are that they dwell
neyed from Hazeroth, and en- in, whether in camps, or in
camped in the wilderness of Paran. strongholds; 20 and what the land

13 And Jehovah spoke to Mos- is, whether it is fat or lean, whether

es, saying, 2 “Send men, that there is wood in it, or not. And be of
they may spy out the land of good courage, and bring of the fruit
Canaan, which I give to the chil- of the land. Now the time was the
dren of Israel: of every tribe of their time of the first ripe grapes.
fathers shall you send a man, every 21 So they went up, and spied out
one a prince among them.” 3 And the land from the wilderness of Zin
Moses sent them from the wilder- to Rehob, to the entrance of
ness of Paran according to the com- Hamath. 22 And they went up by
mandment of Jehovah: all of them the South, and came to Hebron; and
men who were heads of the chil- Ahaiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the
dren of Israel. 4 And these were children of Anak, were there. (Now
their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Hebron was built seven years be-
Shammua the son of Zaccur. 5 Of fore Zoan in Egypt.) 23 And they
the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son came to the valley of Eshcol, and
of Hori. 6 Of the tribe of Judah, cut down from there a branch with
Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 7 Of one cluster of grapes, and they bore
the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of it on a staff between two; they
Joseph. 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, brought also of the pomegranates,
Hoshea the son of Nun. 9 Of the and of the figs. 24 That place was
tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of called the Valley of Eshcol, because
Raphu. 10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, of the cluster which the children of
Gaddiel the son of Sodi. 11 Of the Israel cut down from there.
tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe 25 And they returned from spying
of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. out the land at the end of forty
12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the days. 26 And they went and came
son of Gemalli. 13 Of the tribe of to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all
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the congregation of the children of we had died in the land of Egypt! or
Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to would that we had died in this
Kadesh; and brought back word to wilderness! 3 And why does Jeho-
them, and to all the congregation, vah bring us to this land, to fall by
and showed them the fruit of the the sword? Our wives and our little
land. 27 And they told him, and ones will be a prey: were it not bet-
said, “We came to the land to which ter for us to return into Egypt?”
you sent us; and surely it flows 4 And they said one to another,
with milk and honey; and this is the “Let us make a captain, and let us
fruit of it. 28 However the people return into Egypt.” 5 Then Moses
who dwell in the land are strong, and Aaron fell on their faces before
and the cities are fortified, and very all the assembly of the congregation
great: and moreover we saw the of the children of Israel. 6 And
children of Anak there. 29 Amalek Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb
dwells in the land of the South: and the son of Jephunneh, who were of
the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the those who spied out the land, tore
Amorite, dwell in the hill country; their clothes: 7 and they spoke to all
and the Canaanite dwells by the the congregation of the children of
sea, and along by the side of the Jor- Israel, saying, “The land, which we
dan.” passed through to spy it out, is an
30 And Caleb stilled the people exceedingly good land. 8 If Jehovah
before Moses, and said, “Let us go delights in us, then he will bring us
up at once, and possess it; for we into this land, and give it to us; a
are well able to overcome it.” 31 But land which flows with milk and
the men who went up with him honey. 9 Only do not rebel against
said, "We are not able to go up Jehovah, neither fear the people of
against the people; for they are the land; for they are bread for us:
stronger than we.” 32 And they their defense is removed from over
brought up an evil report of the them, and Jehovah is with us: do
land which they had spied out to not fear them.” 10 But all the con-
the children of Israel, saying, "The gregation said stone them with
land, through which we have gone stones. And the glory of Jehovah
to spy it out, is a land that eats up appeared in the tent of meeting to
the inhabitants of it; and all the peo- all the children of Israel.
ple who we saw in it are men of 11 And Jehovah said to Moses,
great stature. 33 And there we saw “How long will this people despise
the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, me? and how long will they not be-
who come from the Nephilim: and lieve in me, for all the signs which I
we were in our own sight as have worked among them? 12 I will
grasshoppers, and so we were in strike them with the pestilence, and
their sight." disinherit them, and will make of

14 And all the congregation you a nation greater and mightier

lifted up their voice, and than they.”
cried; and the people wept that 13 And Moses said to Jehovah,
night. 2 And all the children of Is- “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for
rael murmured against Moses and you brought up this people in your
against Aaron: and the whole con- might from among them; 14 and
gregation said to them, “Would that they will tell it to the inhabitants of
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this land. They have heard that you seed shall possess it. 25 Now the
Jehovah are in the midst of this peo- Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell
ple; for you Jehovah are seen face to in the valley: tomorrow turn, and
face, and your cloud stands over get into the wilderness by the way
them, and you go before them, in a to the Red Sea.”
pillar of cloud by day, and in a pil- 26 And Jehovah spoke to Moses
lar of fire by night. 15 Now if you and to Aaron, saying, 27 “How long
shall kill this people as one man, shall I bear with this evil congrega-
then the nations which have heard tion, who murmur against me? I
the fame of you will speak, saying, have heard the murmurings of the
16 ‘Because Jehovah was not able to children of Israel, which they mur-
bring this people into the land mur against me. 28 Say to them, ‘As
which he swore to them, therefore I live, says Jehovah, surely as you
he has slain them in the wilder- have spoken in my ears, so will I do
ness.’ 17 And now, I pray, let the to you: 29 your dead bodies shall
power of the Lord be great, accord- fall in this wilderness; and all who
ing as you have spoken, saying, 18 were numbered of you, according
‘Jehovah is slow to anger, and to your whole number, from twenty
abundant in lovingkindness, for- years old and upward, who have
giving iniquity and transgression; murmured against me, 30 surely
and that will by no means clear the you shall not come into the land,
guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fa- concerning which I swore that I
thers upon the children, upon the would make you dwell in it, except
third and upon the fourth genera- Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and
tion.’ 19 Pardon, please, the iniq- Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But your
uity of this people according unto little ones, that you said should be a
the greatness of your lovingkind- prey, them will I bring in, and they
ness, and according as you have shall know the land which you
forgiven this people, from Egypt have rejected. 32 But as for you,
even until now.” your dead bodies shall fall in this
20 And Jehovah said, “I have par- wilderness. 33 And your children
doned according to your word: 21 shall be wanderers in the wilder-
but indeed, as I live, and as all the ness forty years, and shall bear
earth shall be filled with the glory your whoredoms, until your dead
of Jehovah; 22 because all those bodies be consumed in the wilder-
men who have seen my glory, and ness. 34 After the number of the
my signs, which I worked in Egypt days in which you spied out the
and in the wilderness, yet have land, even forty days, for every day
tempted me these ten times, and a year, shall you bear your iniqui-
have not listened to my voice; 23 ties, even forty years, and you shall
surely they shall not see the land know my alienation. 35 I, Jehovah,
which I swore to their fathers, nei- have spoken, surely this will I do to
ther shall any of them who de- all this evil congregation, who are
spised me see it: 24 but my servant gathered together against me: in
Caleb, because he had another this wilderness they shall be con-
spirit with him, and has followed sumed, and there they shall die.’ ”
me fully, him will I bring into the 36 And the men, whom Moses
land into which he went; and his sent to spy out the land, who re-
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turned, and made all the congrega- ing, or in your set feasts, to make a
tion to murmur against him, by sweet savor to Jehovah, of the herd,
bringing up an evil report against or of the flock; 4 then shall he who
the land, 37 even those men who offers his offering offer to Jehovah a
brought up an evil report of the meal offering of a tenth part of an
land, died by the plague before Je- ephah of fine flour mingled with the
hovah. 38 But Joshua the son of fourth part of a hin of oil: 5 and
Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephun- wine for the drink offering, the
neh, remained alive of those men fourth part of a hin, shall you pre-
who went to spy out the land. pare with the burnt offering, or for
39 And Moses told these words to the sacrifice, for each lamb. 6 Or for
all the children of Israel: and the a ram, you shall prepare for a meal
people mourned greatly. 40 And offering two tenth parts of an ephah
they rose up early in the morning, of fine flour mingled with the third
and went up to the top of the part of a hin of oil: 7 and for the
mountain, saying, “Lo, we are here, drink offering you shall offer the
and will go up to the place which third part of a hin of wine, of a
Jehovah has promised: for we have sweet savor to Jehovah. 8 And
sinned.” 41 And Moses said, “Why when you prepare a bull for a burnt
now do you transgress the com- offering, or for a sacrifice, to accom-
mandment of Jehovah, seeing it plish a vow, or for peace offerings
shall not prosper? 42 Do not go up, to Jehovah; 9 then shall he offer
for Jehovah is not among you; that with the bull a meal offering of
you are not struck down before three tenth parts of an ephah of fine
your enemies. 43 For there the flour mingled with half a hin of oil:
Amalekite and the Canaanite are 10 and you shall offer for the drink
before you, and you shall fall by the offering half a hin of wine, for an
sword: because you have turned offering made by fire, of a sweet sa-
back from following Jehovah, vor to Jehovah.
therefore Jehovah will not be with 11 Thus shall it be done for each
you.” 44 But they presumed to go bull, or for each ram, or for each of
up to the top of the mountain: nev- the male lambs, or of the kids. 12
ertheless the ark of the covenant of According to the number that you
Jehovah, and Moses, did not depart shall prepare, so shall you do to ev-
out of the camp. 45 Then the ery one according to their number.
Amalekite came down, and the 13 All who are native shall do these
Canaanite who dwelt in that moun- things after this manner, in offering
tain, and struck them and beat an offering made by fire, of a sweet
them down, even to Hormah. savor to Jehovah. 14 And if a

15 And Jehovah spoke to stranger sojourns with you, or

Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to whosoever may be among you
the children of Israel, and say to throughout your generations, and
them, ‘When you come into the will offer an offering made by fire,
land of your habitations, which I of a sweet savor to Jehovah; as you
give to you, 3 and will make an do, so he shall do. 15 For the assem-
offering by fire to Jehovah, a burnt bly, there shall be one statute for
offering, or a sacrifice, to accom- you, and for the stranger who so-
plish a vow, or as a freewill offer- journs with you, a statute for ever
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throughout your generations: as of all the people it was done unwit-
you are, so shall the sojourner be tingly.
before Jehovah. 16 One law and one 27 And if one person sins unwit-
ordinance shall be for you, and for tingly, then he shall offer a female
the stranger who sojourns with goat a year old for a sin offering. 28
you.’ ” And the priest shall make atone-
17 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, ment for the soul who errs, when he
saying, 18 “Speak to the children of sins unwittingly, before Jehovah, to
Israel, and say to them, ‘When you make atonement for him; and he
come into the land to which I bring shall be forgiven. 29 You shall have
you, 19 then it shall be, that, when one law for him who does anything
you eat of the bread of the land, you unwittingly, for him who is native
shall offer up a heave offering to Je- among the children of Israel, and
hovah. 20 Of the first of your dough for the stranger who sojourns
you shall offer up a cake for a heave among them. 30 But the soul who
offering: as the heave offering of the does anything with a high hand,
threshing floor, so shall you heave whether he is native or a sojourner,
it. 21 Of the first of your dough you the same blasphemes Jehovah; and
shall give to Jehovah a heave offer- that soul shall be cut off from
ing throughout your generations. among his people. 31 Because he
22 And when you shall err, and has despised the word of Jehovah,
not observe all these command- and has broken his commandment,
ments, which Jehovah has spoken that soul shall utterly be cut off; his
to Moses, 23 even all that Jehovah iniquity shall be upon him.’ ”
has commanded you by Moses, 32 And while the children of Is-
from the day that Jehovah gave rael were in the wilderness, they
commandment, and onward found a man gathering sticks on the
throughout your generations; 24 Sabbath day. 33 And those who
then it shall be, if it is done unwit- found him gathering sticks brought
tingly, without the knowledge of him to Moses and Aaron, and to all
the congregation, that all the con- the congregation. 34 And they put
gregation shall offer one young bull him in custody, because it had not
for a burnt offering, for a sweet sa- been declared what should be done
vor to Jehovah, with the meal offer- to him. 35 And Jehovah said to
ing of it, and the drink offering of it, Moses, “The man shall surely be
according to the ordinance, and one put to death: all the congregation
male goat for a sin offering. 25 And shall stone him with stones outside
the priest shall make atonement for the camp.” 36 And all the congrega-
all the congregation of the children tion brought him outside the camp,
of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; and stoned him to death with
for it was an error, and they have stones; as Jehovah commanded
brought their offering, an offering Moses.
made by fire to Jehovah, and their 37 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
sin offering before Jehovah, for saying, 38 “Speak to the children of
their error: 26 and all the congrega- Israel, and tell them that they make
tion of the children of Israel shall be fringes in the borders of their gar-
forgiven, and the stranger who so- ments throughout their genera-
journs among them; for in respect tions, and that they put on the
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fringe of each border a cord of blue: Korah, “Hear now, you sons of
39 and it shall be to you for a fringe, Levi: 9 does it seem but a small thing
that you may look upon it, and re- to you, that the God of Israel has
member all the commandments of separated you from the congrega-
Jehovah, and do them; and that you tion of Israel, to bring you near to
do not follow after your own heart himself, to do the service of the
and your own eyes, after which you tabernacle of Jehovah, and to stand
use to play the harlot; 40 that you before the congregation to minister
may remember and do all my com- to them; 10 and who he has brought
mandments, and be holy to your you near, and all your brethren the
God. 41 I am Jehovah your God, sons of Levi with you? and you
who brought you out of the land of seek the priesthood also? 11 There-
Egypt, to be your God: I am Jeho- fore you and all your company are
vah your God.” gathered together against Jehovah:

16 Now Korah, the son of and Aaron, who is he that you mur-
Izhar, the son of Kohath, the mur against him?”
son of Levi, with Dathan and Abi- 12 And Moses sent to call Dathan
ram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and
son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took they said, “We will not come up: 13
men: 2 and they rose up before is it a small thing that you have
Moses, with certain of the children brought us up out of a land flowing
of Israel, two hundred and fifty with milk and honey, to kill us in
princes of the congregation, called the wilderness, but you must make
to the assembly, men of renown; 3 yourself also a prince over us? 14
and they assembled themselves to- Moreover you have not brought us
gether against Moses and against into a land flowing with milk and
Aaron, and said to them, “You take honey, nor given us inheritance of
too much upon you, seeing all the fields and vineyards: will you put
congregation is holy, every one of out the eyes of these men? we will
them, and Jehovah is among them: not come up.”
why then do you lift up yourselves 15 And Moses was very angry,
above the assembly of Jehovah?” and said to Jehovah, “Do not re-
4 And when Moses heard it, he spect their offering: I have not
fell on his face: 5 and he spoke to taken one donkey from them, nei-
Korah and to all his company, say- ther have I hurt one of them.” 16
ing, “In the morning Jehovah will And Moses said to Korah, “You and
show who are his, and who is holy, all your company be before Jeho-
and will cause him to come near to vah, you, and they, and Aaron, to-
him: even him whom he shall morrow: 17 and take every man his
choose will he cause to come near censer, and put incense on them,
to him. 6 Do this: take censers, Ko- and bring before Jehovah every
rah, and all his company; 7 and put man his censer, two hundred and
fire in them, and put incense on fifty censers; you also, and Aaron,
them before Jehovah tomorrow: each his censer.” 18 And they took
and it shall be that the man whom every man his censer, and put fire
Jehovah chooses, he shall be holy: in them, and laid incense on them,
you take too much upon you, you and stood at the door of the tent of
sons of Levi.” 8 And Moses said to meeting with Moses and Aaron. 19
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And Korah assembled all the con- made an end of speaking all these
gregation against them to the door words, that the ground split apart
of the tent of meeting: and the glory that was under them; 32 and the
of Jehovah appeared to all the con- earth opened its mouth, and swal-
gregation. lowed them up, and their house-
20 And Jehovah spoke to Moses holds, and all the men who
and to Aaron, saying, 21 “Separate appertained to Korah, and all their
yourselves from among this con- goods. 33 So they, and all who ap-
gregation, that I may consume pertained to them, went down alive
them in a moment.” 22 And they into Sheol: and the earth closed
fell on their faces, and said, “O upon them, and they perished from
God, the God of the spirits of all among the assembly. 34 And all Is-
flesh, shall one man sin, and will rael who were around them fled at
you be angry with all the congrega- the cry of them; for they said, “Lest
tion?" 23 And Jehovah spoke to the earth swallow us up.” 35 And
Moses, saying, 24 “Speak to the fire came forth from Jehovah, and
congregation, saying, ‘Get up from devoured the two hundred and
around the dwelling of Korah, fifty men who offered the incense.
Dathan, and Abiram.’ ” 36 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
25 And Moses rose up and went saying, 37 “Speak to Eleazar the son
to Dathan and Abiram; and the el- of Aaron the priest, that he take up
ders of Israel followed him. 26 And the censers out of the burning, and
he spoke to the congregation, say- scatter the fire over there; for they
ing, “Depart, I pray, from the tents are holy, 38 even the censers of
of these wicked men, and touch these sinners against their own
nothing of theirs, lest you be con- lives; and let them be made beaten
sumed in all their sins.” 27 So they plates for a covering of the altar: for
go up from the dwelling of Korah, they offered them before Jehovah;
Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: therefore they are holy; and they
and Dathan and Abiram came out, shall be a sign to the children of Is-
and stood at the door of their tents, rael.” 39 And Eleazar the priest
and their wives, and their sons, and took the brazen censers, which
their little ones. 28 And Moses said, those who were burnt had offered;
“By this you shall know that Jeho- and they beat them out for a cover-
vah has sent me to do all these ing of the altar, 40 to be a memorial
works; for I have not done them of to the children of Israel, to the end
my own mind. 29 If these men die that no stranger, that is not of the
the common death of all men, or if seed of Aaron, come near to burn
they are visited after the visitation incense before Jehovah; that he be
of all men; then Jehovah has not not as Korah, and as his company:
sent me. 30 But if Jehovah makes a as Jehovah spoke to him by Moses.
new thing, and the ground opens 41 But on the next day all the con-
its mouth, and swallows them up, gregation of the children of Israel
with all who appertain to them, and murmured against Moses and
they go down alive into Sheol; then against Aaron, saying, “You have
you shall understand that these killed the people of Jehovah.” 42
men have despised Jehovah.” And it came to pass, when the con-
31 And it came to pass, as he gregation was assembled against
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Moses and against Aaron, that they the man whom I shall choose shall
looked toward the tent of meeting: bud: and I will make to cease from
and, behold, the cloud covered it, me the murmurings of the children
and the glory of Jehovah appeared. of Israel, which they murmur
43 And Moses and Aaron came to against you.” 6 And Moses spoke to
the front of the tent of meeting. 44 the children of Israel; and all their
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, say- princes gave him rods, for each
ing, 45 “Get up from among this prince one, according to their fa-
congregation, that I may consume thers’ houses, even twelve rods:
them in a moment.” And they fell and the rod of Aaron was among
on their faces. 46 And Moses said to their rods. 7 And Moses laid up the
Aaron, “Take your censer, and put rods before Jehovah in the tent of
fire in it from off the altar, and lay the testimony.
incense on it, and carry it quickly to 8 And it came to pass on the next
the congregation, and make atone- day, that Moses went into the tent
ment for them: for wrath has gone of the testimony; and, behold, the
out from Jehovah; the plague has rod of Aaron for the house of Levi
begun.” 47 And Aaron took as was budded, and put forth buds,
Moses spoke, and ran into the and produced blossoms, and bare
midst of the assembly; and, behold, ripe almonds. 9 And Moses
the plague had begun among the brought out all the rods from before
people: and he put on the incense, Jehovah to all the children of Israel:
and made atonement for the peo- and they looked, and took every
ple. 48 And he stood between the man his rod. 10 And Jehovah said
dead and the living; and the plague to Moses, “Put back the rod of
was stopped. 49 Now those who Aaron before the testimony, to be
died by the plague were fourteen kept for a token against the chil-
thousand seven hundred, besides dren of rebellion; that you may
those who died about the matter of make an end of their murmurings
Korah. 50 And Aaron returned to against me, that they not die.” 11
Moses to the door of the tent of Thus Moses did: as Jehovah com-
meeting: and the plague was manded him, so he did.
stopped. 12 And the children of Israel

17 And Jehovah spoke to spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold,

Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to we perish, we are undone, we are
the children of Israel, and take from all undone. 13 Every one who
them rods, one for each fathers’ comes near, who comes near to the
house, of all their princes according tabernacle of Jehovah, dies: shall
to their fathers’ houses, twelve we perish all of us?”
rods: write every man’s name on
his rod. 3 And you shall write 18 And Jehovah said to Aaron,
“You and your sons and your
Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi; fathers’ house with you shall bear
for there shall be one rod for each the iniquity of the sanctuary; and
head of their fathers’ houses. 4 And you and your sons with you shall
you shall lay them up in the tent of bear the iniquity of your priest-
meeting before the testimony, hood. 2 And your brethren also, the
where I meet with you. 5 And it tribe of Levi, the tribe of your fa-
shall come to pass, that the rod of ther, bring near with you, that they
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may be joined to you, and minister ing of their gift, even all the wave
to you: but you and your sons with offerings of the children of Israel; I
you shall be before the tent of the have given them to you, and to
testimony. 3 And they shall keep your sons and to your daughters
your charge, and the charge of all with you, as a portion for ever; ev-
the Tent: only they shall not come ery one who is clean in your house
near to the vessels of the sanctuary shall eat of it. 12 All the best of the
and to the altar, that they not die, oil, and all the best of the vintage,
neither they, nor you. 4 And they and of the grain, the first fruits of
shall be joined to you, and keep the them which they give to Jehovah, to
charge of the tent of meeting, for all you have I given them. 13 The first
the service of the Tent: and a ripe fruits of all that is in their land,
stranger shall not come near to you. which they bring to Jehovah, shall
5 And you shall keep the charge of be yours; every one who is clean in
the sanctuary, and the charge of the your house shall eat of it. 14 Every-
altar; that there be wrath no more thing devoted in Israel shall be
upon the children of Israel. 6 And I, yours. 15 Everything that opens the
behold, I have taken your brethren womb, of all flesh which they offer
the Levites from among the chil- to Jehovah, both of man and beast
dren of Israel: to you they are a gift, shall be yours: nevertheless the
given to Jehovah, to do the service firstborn of man shall you surely re-
of the tent of meeting. 7 And you deem, and the firstborn of unclean
and your sons with you shall keep beasts shall you redeem. 16 And
your priesthood for everything of those that are to be redeemed of
the altar, and for that within the them from a month old shall you
veil; and you shall serve: I give you redeem, according to your estima-
the priesthood as a service of gift: tion, for the money of five shekels,
and the stranger who comes near after the shekel of the sanctuary
shall be put to death.” (the same is twenty gerahs). 17 But
8 And Jehovah spoke to Aaron, the firstborn of a cow, or the first-
“And I, behold, I have given you born of a sheep, or the firstborn of a
the charge of my heave offerings, goat, you shall not redeem; they are
even all the hallowed things of the holy: you shall sprinkle their blood
children of Israel; to you have I on the altar, and shall burn their fat
given them by reason of the anoint- for an offering made by fire, for a
ing, and to your sons, as a portion sweet savor to Jehovah. 18 And the
for ever. 9 This shall be yours of the flesh of them shall be yours, as the
most holy things, reserved from the wave breast and as the right thigh,
fire: every offering of theirs, even it shall be yours. 19 All the heave
every meal offering of theirs, and offerings of the holy things, which
every sin offering of theirs, and ev- the children of Israel offer to Jeho-
ery trespass offering of theirs, vah, have I given you, and your
which they shall render to me, shall sons and your daughters with you,
be most holy for you and for your as a portion for ever: it is a covenant
sons. 10 As the most holy things of salt for ever before Jehovah to
you shall eat of it; every male shall you and to your seed with you.” 20
eat of it: it shall be holy to you. 11 And Jehovah said to Aaron, “You
And this is yours: the heave offer- shall have no inheritance in their
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land, neither shall you have any When ye heave the best thereof
portion among them: I am your from it, then it shall be reckoned
portion and your inheritance unto the Levites as the increase of
among the children of Israel. the threshing-floor, and as the in-
21 And to the children of Levi, be- crease of the winepress. 31 And you
hold, I have given all the tithe in Is- shall eat it in every place, you and
rael for an inheritance, in return for your households: for it is your re-
their service which they serve, even ward in return for your service in
the service of the tent of meeting. 22 the tent of meeting. 32 And you
And henceforth the children of Is- shall bear no sin by reason of it,
rael shall not come near the tent of when you have heaved from it the
meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. best of it: and you shall not profane
23 But the Levites shall do the ser- the holy things of the children of Is-
vice of the tent of meeting, and they rael, that you not die.’ ”

statute for ever throughout your 19

shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a And Jehovah spoke to
Moses and to Aaron, saying,
generations; and among the chil- 2 “This is the statute of the law
dren of Israel they shall have no in- which Jehovah has commanded,
heritance. 24 For the tithe of the saying, ‘Speak to the children of Is-
children of Israel, which they offer rael, that they bring you a red heifer
as a heave offering to Jehovah, I without spot, in which is no blem-
have given to the Levites for an in- ish, and on which never came yoke.
heritance: therefore I have said to 3 And you shall give her to Eleazar
them, ‘Among the children of Israel the priest, and he shall bring her
they shall have no inheritance.’ ” forth outside the camp, and one
25 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, shall slay her before his face: 4 and
saying, 26 “Moreover you shall Eleazar the priest shall take of her
speak to the Levites, and say to blood with his finger, and sprinkle
them, ‘When you take from the her blood toward the front of the
children of Israel the tithe which I tent of meeting seven times. 5 And
have given you from them for your one shall burn the heifer in his
inheritance, then you shall offer up sight; her skin, and her flesh, and
a heave offering of it for Jehovah, a her blood, with her dung, shall he
tithe of the tithe. 27 And your heave burn: 6 and the priest shall take
offering shall be reckoned to you, cedar wood, and hyssop, and scar-
as though it were the grain of the let, and cast it into the midst of the
threshing floor, and as the fullness burning of the heifer. 7 Then the
of the winepress. 28 Thus ye also priest shall wash his clothes, and he
shall offer a heave-offering unto Je- shall bathe his flesh in water, and
hovah of all your tithes, which ye afterward he shall come into the
receive of the children of Israel; and camp, and the priest shall be un-
thereof ye shall give Jehovah’s clean until the evening. 8 And he
heave-offering to Aaron the priest. who burns her shall wash his
29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer clothes in water, and bathe his flesh
every heave-offering of Jehovah, of in water, and shall be unclean until
all the best thereof, even the hal- the evening. 9 And a man who is
lowed part thereof out of it. 30 clean shall gather up the ashes of
Therefore thou shalt say unto them, the heifer, and lay them up outside
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the camp in a clean place; and it on the unclean on the third day, and
shall be kept for the congregation of on the seventh day: and on the sev-
the children of Israel for a water for enth day he shall purify him; and
impurity: it is a sin offering. 10 And he shall wash his clothes, and bathe
he who gathers the ashes of the himself in water, and shall be clean
heifer shall wash his clothes, and be at evening.
unclean until the evening: and it 20 But the man who shall be un-
shall be to the children of Israel, clean, and shall not purify himself,
and to the stranger who sojourns that soul shall be cut off from the
among them, for a statute for ever. midst of the assembly, because he
11 He who touches the dead body has defiled the sanctuary of Jeho-
of any man shall be unclean seven vah: the water for impurity has not
days: 12 the same shall purify him- been sprinkled on him; he is un-
self with it on the third day, and on clean. 21 And it shall be a perpetual
the seventh day he shall be clean: statute to them: and he who sprin-
but if he does not purify himself the kles the water for impurity shall
third day, then the seventh day he wash his clothes, and he who
shall not be clean. 13 Whosoever touches the water for impurity shall
touches a dead person, the body of be unclean until evening. 22 And
a man who has died, and does not whatsoever the unclean person
purify himself, defiles the taberna- touches shall be unclean; and the
cle of Jehovah; and that soul shall soul who touches it shall be un-
be cut off from Israel: because the clean until evening.’ ”
water for impurity was not sprin-
kled on him, he shall be unclean;
his uncleanness is still upon him.
20 And the children of Israel,
even the whole congrega-
tion, came into the wilderness of
14 This is the law when a man Zin in the first month: and the peo-
dies in a tent: every one who comes ple stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam
into the tent, and every one who is died there, and was buried there.
in the tent, shall be unclean seven 2 And there was no water for the
days. 15 And every open vessel, congregation: and they assembled
which has no covering bound on it, themselves together against Moses
is unclean. 16 And whosoever in and against Aaron. 3 And the peo-
the open field touches one who is ple contended with Moses, and
slain with a sword, or a dead body, spoke, saying, “Would that we had
or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall died when our brethren died before
be unclean seven days. 17 And for Jehovah! 4 And why have you
the unclean they shall take of the brought the assembly of Jehovah
ashes of the burning of the sin offer- into this wilderness, that we should
ing; and running water shall be put die there, we and our beasts? 5 And
to them in a vessel: 18 and a clean why have you made us to come up
person shall take hyssop, and dip it out of Egypt, to bring us in to this
in the water, and sprinkle it on the evil place? it is no place of seed, or
tent, and on all the vessels, and on of figs, or of vines, or of
the persons who were there, and on pomegranates; neither is there any
him who touched the bone, or the water to drink.” 6 And Moses and
slain, or the dead, or the grave: 19 Aaron went from the presence of
and the clean person shall sprinkle the assembly to the door of the tent
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of meeting, and fell on their faces: through your land: we will not pass
and the glory of Jehovah appeared through field or through vineyard,
to them. 7 And Jehovah spoke to neither will we drink of the water
Moses, saying, 8 “Take the rod, and of the wells: we will go along the
assemble the congregation, you, king’s highway; we will not turn
and Aaron your brother, and speak aside to the right hand nor to the
to the rock before their eyes, that it left, until we have passed your bor-
give forth its water; and you shall der.’ ” 18 And Edom said to him,
bring forth to them water out of the “You shall not pass through me, lest
rock; so you shall give the congre- I come out with the sword against
gation and their cattle drink.” 9 you.” 19 And the children of Israel
And Moses took the rod from be- said to him, “We will go up by the
fore Jehovah, as he commanded highway; and if we drink of your
him. water, I and my cattle, then will I
10 And Moses and Aaron gath- give the price of it: let me only,
ered the assembly together before without doing anything else, pass
the rock, and he said to them, “Hear through on my feet.” 20 And he
now, you rebels; shall we bring you said, “You shall not pass through.”
forth water out of this rock?” 11 And Edom came out against him
And Moses lifted up his hand, and with many people, and with a
struck the rock with his rod twice: strong hand. 21 Thus Edom refused
and water came forth abundantly, to give Israel passage through his
and the congregation drank, and border: therefore Israel turned
their cattle. 12 And Jehovah said to away from him.
Moses and Aaron, “Because you 22 And they journeyed from
did not believe in me, to sanctify Kadesh: and the children of Israel,
me in the eyes of the children of Is- even the whole congregation, came
rael, therefore you shall not bring to Mount Hor. 23 And Jehovah
this assembly into the land which I spoke to Moses and Aaron at
have given them. 13 These are the Mount Hor, by the border of the
waters of Meribah; because the chil- land of Edom, saying, 24 “Aaron
dren of Israel contended with Jeho- shall be gathered to his people; for
vah, and he was sanctified in he shall not enter into the land
them.” which I have given to the children
14 And Moses sent messengers of Israel, because you rebelled
from Kadesh to the king of Edom, against my word at the waters of
“Thus says your brother Israel, Meribah. 25 Take Aaron and
‘You know all the travail that has Eleazar his son, and bring them up
happened to us: 15 how our fathers to Mount Hor; 26 and strip Aaron
went down into Egypt, and we of his garments, and put them upon
dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be
Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our gathered to his people, and shall die
fathers: 16 and when we cried to Je- there.” 27 And Moses did as Jeho-
hovah, he heard our voice, and sent vah commanded: and they went up
an angel, and brought us forth out to Mount Hor in the sight of all the
of Egypt: and, behold, we are in congregation. 28 And Moses
Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of stripped Aaron of his garments,
your border. 17 Let us pass, I pray, and put them on Eleazar his son;
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and Aaron died there on the top of made a serpent of brass, and set it
the mount: and Moses and Eleazar on the standard: and it came to
came down from the mountain. 29 pass, that if a serpent had bitten any
And when all the congregation saw man, when he looked to the serpent
that Aaron was dead, they wept for of brass, he lived.
Aaron thirty days, even all the 10 And the children of Israel jour-
house of Israel. neyed, and encamped in Oboth. 11

21 And the Canaanite, the And they journeyed from Oboth,

king of Arad, who dwelt in and encamped in Iye-abarim, in the
the South, heard that Israel came by wilderness which is before Moab,
the way of Atharim; and he fought toward the sunrise. 12 From there
against Israel, and took some of they journeyed, and encamped in
them captive. 2 And Israel vowed a the Valley of Zered. 13 From there
vow to Jehovah, and said, “If you they journeyed, and encamped on
wilt indeed deliver this people into the other side of the Arnon, which
my hand, then I will utterly destroy is in the wilderness, that comes out
their cities.” 3 And Jehovah listened of the border of the Amorites: for
to the voice of Israel, and delivered the Arnon is the border of Moab,
up the Canaanites; and they utterly between Moab and the Amorites.
destroyed them and their cities: and 14 Therefore it is said in the book of
the name of the place was called the Wars of Jehovah,
Hormah. “Vaheb in Suphah,
4 And they journeyed from And the valleys of the Arnon,
Mount Hor by the way to the Red 15 And the slope of the valleys
Sea, to go around the land of Edom: That inclines toward the
and the soul of the people was dwelling of Ar,
much discouraged because of the And leans upon the border of
way. 5 And the people spoke Moab.”
against God, and against Moses, 16 And from there they journeyed to
“Why have you brought us up out Beer: that is the well of which Jeho-
of Egypt to die in the wilderness? vah said to Moses, “Gather the peo-
for there is no bread, and there is no ple together, and I will give them
water; and our soul loathes this water.”
light bread.” 6 And Jehovah sent 17 Then Israel sang this song:
fiery serpents among the people, “Spring up, O well; sing to it:
and they bit the people; and many 18 The well, which the princes
people of Israel died. 7 And the dug,
people came to Moses, and said, Which the nobles of the people
“We have sinned, because we have dug,
spoken against Jehovah, and With the scepter, and with their
against you; pray to Jehovah, that staffs.”
he take away the serpents from us.” And from the wilderness they jour-
And Moses prayed for the people. 8 neyed to Mattanah; 19 and from
And Jehovah said to Moses, “Make Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from
a fiery serpent, and set it on a stan- Nahaliel to Bamoth; 20 and from
dard: and it shall come to pass, that Bamoth to the valley that is in the
every one who is bitten, when he field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah,
sees it, shall live.” 9 And Moses which looks down upon the desert.
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21 And Israel sent messengers to is perished even to Dibon,
Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, And we have laid waste even to
22 “Let me pass through your land: Nophah,
we will not turn aside into field, or Which reaches to Medeba.”
into vineyard; we will not drink of 31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of
the water of the wells: we will go by the Amorites. 32 And Moses sent to
the king’s highway, until we have spy out Jazer; and they took the
passed your border. 23 And Sihon towns of it, and drove out the
would not allow Israel to pass Amorites who were there.
through his border: but Sihon gath- 33 And they turned and went up
ered all his people together, and by the way of Bashan: and Og the
went out against Israel into the king of Bashan went out against
wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and them, he and all his people, to bat-
he fought against Israel. 24 And Is- tle at Edrei. 34 And Jehovah said to
rael struck him with the edge of the Moses, “Do not fear him: for I have
sword, and possessed his land from delivered him into your hand, and
the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the all his people, and his land; and
children of Ammon; for the border you shall do to him as you did to Si-
of the children of Ammon was hon king of the Amorites, who
strong. 25 And Israel took all these dwelt at Heshbon.” 35 So they
cities: and Israel dwelt in all the struck him, and his sons and all his
cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, people, until there was none left
and in all the towns of it. 26 For him remaining: and they possessed
Heshbon was the city of Sihon the his land.
king of the Amorites, who had
fought against the former king of 22 And the children of Israel
journeyed, and encamped in
Moab, and taken all his land out of the plains of Moab beyond the
his hand, even to the Arnon. 27 Jordan at Jericho.
Therefore those who speak in
proverbs say, 2 And Balak the son of Zippor
“Come to Heshbon; saw all that Israel had done to the
Let the city of Sihon be built Amorites. 3 And Moab was se-
and established: verely afraid of the people, because
28 For a fire has gone out of Hesh- they were many: and Moab was
bon, distressed because of the children
A flame from the city of Sihon: of Israel. 4 And Moab said to the el-
It has devoured Ar of Moab, ders of Midian, “Now will this mul-
The lords of the high places of titude lick up all that is around us,
the Arnon. as the ox licks up the grass of the
29 Woe to you, Moab! field.” And Balak the son of Zippor
You are undone, O people of was king of Moab at that time. 5
Chemosh: And he sent messengers to Balaam
He has given his sons as the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is
fugitives, by the River, to the land of the chil-
And his daughters into dren of his people, to call him, say-
captivity, ing, “Behold, there is a people come
To Sihon king of the Amorites. out from Egypt: behold, they cover
30 We have shot at them; Heshbon the face of the earth, and they dwell
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opposite me. 6 Come now there- fore, I pray, curse this people.’ ” 18
fore, I pray, curse me this people; And Balaam answered and said to
for they are too mighty for me: per- the servants of Balak, “If Balak
haps I shall prevail, that we may would give me his house full of sil-
strike them, and that I may drive ver and gold, I cannot go beyond
them out of the land; for I know the word of Jehovah my God, to do
that he whom you bless is blessed, less or more. 19 Now therefore,
and he whom you curse is cursed.” please, stay also here this night,
7 And the elders of Moab and the that I may know what Jehovah will
elders of Midian departed with the speak to me more.” 20 And God
rewards of divination in their hand; came to Balaam at night, and said
and they came to Balaam, and to him, “If the men have come to
spoke to him the words of Balak. 8 call you, rise up, go with them; but
And he said to them, “Lodge here only the word which I speak to you,
this night, and I will bring you that shall you do.”
word again, as Jehovah shall speak 21 And Balaam rose up in the
to me: and the princes of Moab morning, and saddled his donkey,
stayed with Balaam. 9 And God and went with the princes of Moab.
came to Balaam, and said, “Who 22 And God’s anger was kindled
are men these with you?” 10 And because he went; and the angel of
Balaam said to God, “Balak the son Jehovah placed himself in the way
of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to for an adversary against him. Now
me, saying, 11 ‘Behold, the people he was riding upon his donkey, and
who have come out of Egypt, it cov- his two servants were with him. 23
ers the face of the earth: now, come And the donkey saw the angel of
curse them; perhaps I shall be able Jehovah standing in the way, with
to fight against them, and shall his sword drawn in his hand; and
drive them out.’ ” 12 And God said the donkey turned aside out of the
to Balaam, “You shall not go with way, and went into the field: and
them; you shall not curse the peo- Balaam struck the donkey, to turn
ple; for they are blessed.” 13 And her into the way. 24 Then the angel
Balaam rose up in the morning, and of Jehovah stood in a narrow path
said to the princes of Balak, “Get between the vineyards, a wall being
into your land; for Jehovah refuses on this side, and a wall on that side.
to give me permission to go with 25 And the donkey saw the angel of
you.” 14 And the princes of Moab Jehovah, and she thrust herself to
rose up, and they went to Balak, the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot
and said, “Balaam refuses to come against the wall: and he struck her
with us.” again. 26 And the angel of Jehovah
15 And Balak sent yet again went further, and stood in a narrow
princes, more, and more honorable place, where was no way to turn ei-
than they. 16 And they came to Bal- ther to the right hand or to the left.
aam, and said to him, “Thus says 27 And the donkey saw the angel of
Balak the son of Zippor, 'Let noth- Jehovah, and she lay down under
ing, I pray, hinder you from coming Balaam: and Balaam’s anger was
to me: 17 for I will promote you to kindled, and he struck the donkey
very great honor, and whatsoever with his staff. 28 And Jehovah
you say to me I will do: come there- opened the mouth of the donkey,
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and she said to Balaam, “What Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I
have I done to you, that you have have come to you: have I now any
struck me these three times?” 29 power at all to speak anything? the
And Balaam said to the donkey, word that God puts in my mouth,
“Because you have mocked me, I that shall I speak.” 39 And Balaam
wish there were a sword in my went with Balak, and they came
hand, for now I had killed you.” 30 unto Kiriath-huzoth. 40 And Balak
And the donkey said to Balaam, sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent
“Am not I your donkey, on which to Balaam, and to the princes who
you have ridden all your life long to were with him.
this day? was I ever accustomed to 41 And it came to pass in the
do so to you?” and he said, “No.” morning, that Balak took Balaam,
31 Then Jehovah opened the eyes and brought him up into the high
of Balaam, and he saw the angel of places of Baal; and he saw from
Jehovah standing in the way, with there the utmost part of the people.
his sword drawn in his hand; and
he bowed his head, and fell on his 23 And Balaam said to Balak,
“Build me here seven altars,
face. 32 And the angel of Jehovah and prepare me here seven bulls
said to him, “Why have you struck and seven rams.” 2 And Balak did
your donkey these three times? be- as Balaam had spoken; and Balak
hold, I have come forth for an ad- and Balaam offered on every altar a
versary, because your way is bullock and a ram. 3 And Balaam
perverse before me: 33 and the don- said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt
key saw me, and turned aside be- offering, and I will go: perhaps Je-
fore me these three times: unless hovah will come to meet me; and
she had turned aside from me, whatsoever he shows me I will tell
surely now I had even slain you, you.” And he went to a bare height.
and saved her alive.” 34 And Bal- 4 And God met Balaam: and he said
aam said to the angel of Jehovah, “I to him, “I have prepared the seven
have sinned; for I did not know that altars, and I have offered up a bull
you stood in the way against me: and a ram on every altar.” 5 And Je-
now therefore, if it displeases you, I hovah put a word in Balaam’s
will get back again.” 35 And the an- mouth, and said, “Return to Balak,
gel of Jehovah said to Balaam, “Go and thus you shall speak.” 6 And he
with the men; but only the word returned to him, and, behold, he
that I shall speak to you, that you was standing by his burnt offering,
shall speak.” So Balaam went with he, and all the princes of Moab. 7
the princes of Balak. And he took up his parable, and
36 And when Balak heard that said,
Balaam had come, he went out to “From Aram has Balak brought
meet him to the City of Moab, me,
which is on the border of the The king of Moab from the
Arnon, which is in the utmost part mountains of the East:
of the border. 37 And Balak said to Come, curse me Jacob,
Balaam, “Did I not earnestly send And come, defy Israel.
to you to call you? why did you not 8 How shall I curse, whom God has
come to me? am I not able indeed to not cursed?
promote you to honor?” 38 And And how shall I defy, whom Je-
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hovah has not defied? 19 God is not a man, that he should
9 For from the top of the rocks I see lie,
him, Neither the son of man, that he
And from the hills I behold him: should repent:
Behold, it is a people who dwells Has he said, and will he not do
alone, it?
And shall not be reckoned among Or has he spoken, and will he
the nations. not make it good?
10 Who can count the dust of Ja- 20 Behold, I have received com-
cob, mandment to bless:
Or number the fourth part of And he has blessed, and I
Israel? cannot reverse it.
Let me die the death of the 21 He has not beheld iniquity in Ja-
righteous, cob;
And let my last end be like Neither has he seen
his!” perverseness in Israel:
11 And Balak said to Balaam, Jehovah his God is with him,
“What have you done to me? I took And the shout of a king is
you to curse my enemies, and, be- among them.
hold, you have blessed them alto- 22 God brings them forth out of
gether.” 12 And he answered and Egypt;
said, “Must I not take heed to speak He has as it were the strength
that which Jehovah puts in my of the wild ox.
mouth?” 23 Surely there is no enchantment
13 And Balak said to him, “Come, with Jacob;
please, with me to another place, Neither is there any divination
from where you may see them; you with Israel:
shall see but the utmost part of Now shall it be said of Jacob
them, and shall not see them all: and of Israel,
and curse them from there.” 14 And What has God worked!
he took him into the field of 24 Behold, the people rise up as a
Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and lioness,
built seven altars, and offered up a And as a lion he lifts himself
bull and a ram on every altar. 15 up:
And he said to Balak, “Stand here He shall not lie down until he
by your burnt offering, while I meet heats of the prey,
Jehovah over there.” 16 And Jehovah And drinks the blood of the
met Balaam, and put a word in his slain.”
mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, 25 And Balak said to Balaam, “Nei-
and thus shall you speak.” 17 And ther curse them at all, nor bless
he came to him, and, behold, he them at all.” 26 But Balaam an-
was standing by his burnt offering, swered and said to Balak, “Did I
and the princes of Moab with him. not tell you, saying, ‘All that Jeho-
And Balak said to him, “What has vah speaks, that I must do’? ”
Jehovah spoken?” 18 And he took 27 And Balak said to Balaam,
up his parable, and said, “Come now, I will take you to an-
“Rise up, Balak, and hear; other place; perhaps it will please
Listen to me, son of Zippor: God that you may curse them from
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there.” 28 And Balak took Balaam the wild ox:
to the top of Peor, that looks down He shall eat up the nations his ad-
upon the desert. 29 And Balaam versaries,
said to Balak, “Build me here seven And shall break their bones in
altars, and prepare me here seven pieces,
bulls and seven rams.” 30 And And strike them through with his
Balak did as Balaam had said, and arrows.
offered up a bull and a ram on ev- 9 He couched, he lies down as a
ery altar. lion,

24 And when Balaam saw

that it pleased Jehovah to
bless Israel, he did not go, as at the
And as a lioness; who shall rouse
him up?
Blessed be every one who blesses
other times, to meet with enchant- you,
ments, but he set his face toward And cursed be every one who
the wilderness. 2 And Balaam lifted curses you.”
up his eyes, and he saw Israel 10 And Balak’s anger was kindled
dwelling according to their tribes; against Balaam, and he struck his
and the Spirit of God came upon hands together; and Balak said to
him. 3 And he took up his parable, Balaam, “I called you to curse my
and said, enemies, and, behold, you have al-
“Balaam the son of Beor says, together blessed them these three
And the man whose eye was times. 11 Therefore now flee to your
closed says; place: I thought to promote you to
4 He says, who hears the words of great honor; but, behold, Jehovah
God, has kept you back from honor.” 12
Who sees the vision of the And Balaam said to Balak, “Did I
Almighty, not speak also to your messengers
Falling down, and having his that you sent to me, saying, 13 ‘If
eyes open: Balak would give me his house full
5 How lovely are your tents, O Ja- of silver and gold, I cannot go be-
cob, yond the word of Jehovah, to do ei-
Your dwellings, O Israel! ther good or bad of my own mind;
6 As valleys are they spread forth, what Jehovah speaks, that will I
As gardens by the riverside, speak’? 14 And now, behold, I go to
As aloes which Jehovah has my people: come, and I will adver-
planted, tise what this people shall do to
As cedars beside the waters. your people in the latter days.” 15
7 Water shall flow from his buck- And he took up his parable, and
ets, said,
And his seed shall be in many “Balaam the son of Beor says,
waters, And the man whose eye was
And his king shall be higher than closed says;
Agag, 16 He says, who hears the words of
And his kingdom shall be ex- God,
alted. And knows the knowledge of
8 God brings him forth out of the Most High,
Egypt; Who sees the vision of the
He has as it were the strength of Almighty,
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Falling down, and having his also went his way.
eyes open:
17 I see him, but not now;
I behold him, but not near:
25 And Israel remained in
Shittim; and the people be-
gan to play the harlot with the
There shall come forth a star daughters of Moab: 2 for they
out of Jacob, called the people to the sacrifices of
And a scepter shall rise out of their gods; and the people ate, and
Israel, bowed down to their gods. 3 And
And shall strike through the Israel joined himself to Baal-peor:
corners of Moab, and the anger of Jehovah was kin-
And break down all the sons of dled against Israel. 4 And Jehovah
tumult. said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of
18 And Edom shall be a posses- the people, and hang them up to Je-
sion, hovah before the sun, that the fierce
Seir also shall be a possession, anger of Jehovah may turn away
who were his enemies; from Israel.” 5 And Moses said to
While Israel does valiantly. the judges of Israel, “Slay every one
19 And out of Jacob shall one have his men who have joined them-
dominion, selves to Baal-peor.”
And shall destroy the remnant 6 And, behold, one of the children
from the city.” of Israel came and brought to his
20 And he looked on Amalek, and brethren a Midianite woman in the
took up his parable, and said, sight of Moses, and in the sight of
“Amalek was the first of the all the congregation of the children
nations; of Israel, while they were weeping
But his latter end shall come to at the door of the tent of meeting. 7
destruction.” And when Phinehas, the son of
21 And he looked on the Kenite, Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,
and took up his parable, and saw it, he rose up from the midst of
said, the congregation, and took a spear
“Strong is your dwelling place, in his hand; 8 and he went after the
And your nest is set in the rock. man of Israel into the pavilion, and
22 Nevertheless Kain shall be thrust both of them through, the
wasted, man of Israel, and the woman
Until Asshur shall carry you through her body. So the plague
away captive.” was stayed from the children of Is-
23 And he took up his parable, and rael. 9 And those who died by the
said, plague were twenty-four thousand.
“Alas, who shall live when God 10 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
does this? saying, 11 “Phinehas, the son of
24 But ships shall come from the Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,
coast of Kittim, has turned my wrath away from
And they shall afflict Asshur, the children of Israel, in that he was
and shall afflict Eber; jealous with my jealousy among
And he also shall come to them, so that I did not consume the
destruction.” children of Israel in my jealousy. 12
25 And Balaam rose up, and went Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him
and returned to his place; and Balak my covenant of peace: 13 and it
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shall be to him, and to his seed after the Carmites. 7 These are the fami-
him, the covenant of an everlasting lies of the Reubenites; and those
priesthood; because he was jealous who were numbered of them were
for his God, and made atonement forty-three thousand seven hun-
for the children of Israel.’ ” dred and thirty. 8 And the sons of
14 Now the name of the man of Is- Pallu: Eliab. 9 And the sons of Eliab:
rael who was slain, who was slain Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram.
with the Midianite woman, was These are that Dathan and Abiram,
Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a who were called of the congrega-
fathers’ house among the Sime- tion, who contended against Moses
onites. 15 And the name of the Mid- and against Aaron in the company
ianite woman who was slain was of Korah, when they contended
Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was against Jehovah, 10 and the earth
head of the people of a fathers’ opened its mouth, and swallowed
house in Midian. them up together with Korah,
16 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, when that company died; when the
saying, 17 “Distress the Midianites, fire devoured two hundred and
and strike them; 18 for they distress fifty men, and they became a sign.
you with their schemes, with which 11 Notwithstanding, the sons of
they have deceived you in the mat- Korah did not die.
ter of Peor, and in the matter of 12 The sons of Simeon according
Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of to their families: of Nemuel, the
Midian, their sister, who was slain family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin,
on the day of the plague in the mat- the family of the Jaminites; of
ter of Peor. Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;

26 And it came to pass after 13 of Zerah, the family of the Zer-

the plague, that Jehovah ahites; of Shaul, the family of the
spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the Shaulites. 14 These are the families
son of Aaron the priest, saying, 2 of the Simeonites, twenty-two
“Take the sum of all the congrega- thousand two hundred.
tion of the children of Israel, from 15 The sons of Gad according to
twenty years old and upward, by their families: of Zephon, the family
their fathers’ houses, all who are of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the
able to go forth to war in Israel.” 3 family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the
And Moses and Eleazar the priest family of the Shunites; 16 of Ozni,
spoke with them in the plains of the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the
Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, say- family of the Erites; 17 of Arod, the
ing, 4 “Take the sum of the people, family of the Arodites; of Areli, the
from twenty years old and upward; family of the Arelites. 18 These are
as Jehovah commanded Moses and the families of the sons of Gad ac-
the children of Israel, who came cording to those who were num-
forth out of the land of Egypt.” bered of them, forty thousand five
5 Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; hundred.
the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the 19 The sons of Judah: Er and
family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, Onan; and Er and Onan died in the
the family of the Palluites; 6 of land of Canaan. 20 And the sons of
Hezron, the family of the Judah according to their families
Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of were: of Shelah, the family of the
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Shelanites; of Perez, the family of and those who were numbered of
the Perezites; of Zerah, the family them were fifty-two thousand
of the Zerahites. 21 And the sons of seven hundred.
Perez were: of Hezron, the family of 35 These are the sons of Ephraim
the Hezronites; of Hamul, the fam- according to their families: of
ily of the Hamulites. 22 These are Shuthelah, the family of the
the families of Judah according to Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family
those who were numbered of them, of the Becherites; of Tahan, the fam-
seventy-six thousand five hundred. ily of the Tahanites. 36 And these
23 The sons of Issachar according are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran,
to their families: of Tola, the family the family of the Eranites. 37 These
of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family are the families of the sons of
of the Punites; 24 of Jashub, the Ephraim according to those who
family of the Jashubites; of Shim- were numbered of them, thirty-two
ron, the family of the Shimronites. thousand five hundred. These are
25 These are the families of Issachar the sons of Joseph according to
according to those who were num- their families.
bered of them, sixty-four thousand 38 The sons of Benjamin accord-
three hundred. 26 The sons of Ze- ing to their families: of Bela, the
bulun according to their families: of family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the
Sered, the family of the Seredites; of family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram,
Elon, the family of the Elonites; of the family of the Ahiramites; 39 of
Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. Shephupham, the family of the
27 These are the families of the Ze- Shuphamites; of Hupham, the fam-
bulunites according to those who ily of the Huphamites. 40 And the
were numbered of them, sixty thou- sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman:
sand five hundred. of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of
28 The sons of Joseph according to Naaman, the family of the
their families: Manasseh and Naamites. 41 These are the sons of
Ephraim. 29 The sons of Manasseh: Benjamin according to their fami-
of Machir, the family of the lies; and those who were numbered
Machirites; and Machir begat of them were forty-five thousand
Gilead: of Gilead, the family of the six hundred.
Gileadites. 30 These are the sons of 42 These are the sons of Dan ac-
Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the cording to their families: of
Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Shuham, the family of the
Helekites; 31 and of Asriel, the fam- Shuhamites. These are the families
ily of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, of Dan according to their families.
the family of the Shechemites; 32 43 All the families of the
and of Shemida, the family of the Shuhamites, according to those
Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the who were numbered of them, were
family of the Hepherites. 33 And sixty-four thousand four hundred.
Zelophehad the son of Hepher had 44 The sons of Asher according to
no sons, but daughters: and the their families: of Imnah, the family
names of the daughters of Zelophe- of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family
had were Mahlah, and Noah, of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family
Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 34 of the Berites. 45 Of the sons of Be-
These are the families of Manasseh; riah: of Heber, the family of the
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Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of of the Mahlites, the family of the
the Malchielites. 46 And the name Mushites, the family of the Ko-
of the daughter of Asher was Serah. rahites. And Kohath begot Amram.
47 These are the families of the sons 59 And the name of Amram’s wife
of Asher according to those who was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi,
were numbered of them, fifty-three who was born to Levi in Egypt: and
thousand four hundred. she bore to Amram Aaron and
48 The sons of Naphtali according Moses, and Miriam their sister. 60
to their families: of Jahzeel, the fam- And to Aaron were born Nadab
ily of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 61
family of the Gunites; 49 of Jezer, And Nadab and Abihu died, when
the family of the Jezerites; of they offered strange fire before Je-
Shillem, the family of the hovah. 62 And those who were
Shillemites. 50 These are the fami- numbered of them were twenty-
lies of Naphtali according to their three thousand, every male from a
families; and those who were num- month old and upward: for they
bered of them were forty-five thou- were not numbered among the chil-
sand four hundred. dren of Israel, because there was no
51 These are those who were inheritance given them among the
numbered of the children of Israel, children of Israel.
six hundred and one thousand 63 These are those who were
seven hundred and thirty. numbered by Moses and Eleazar
52 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, the priest, who numbered the chil-
saying, 53 “To these the land shall dren of Israel in the plains of Moab
be divided for an inheritance ac- by the Jordan at Jericho. 64 But
cording to the number of names. 54 among these there was not a man of
To the many you shall give the them who was numbered by Moses
greater inheritance, and to the and Aaron the priest, who num-
fewer you shall give the lesser in- bered the children of Israel in the
heritance: to every one according to wilderness of Sinai. 65 For Jehovah
those who were numbered of him had said of them, “They shall
shall his inheritance be given. 55 surely die in the wilderness.” And
Notwithstanding, the land shall be there was not left a man of them,
divided by lot: according to the except Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
names of the tribes of their fathers and Joshua the son of Nun.
they shall inherit. 56 According to
the lot shall their inheritance be di-27 Then drew near the daugh-
ters of Zelophehad, the son
vided between the many and the of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the
fewer. son of Machir, the son of Manasseh,
57 And these are those who were of the families of Manasseh the son
numbered of the Levites according of Joseph; and these are the names
to their families: of Gershon, the of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah,
family of the Gershonites; of Ko- and Hoglah, and Milcah, and
hath, the family of the Kohathites; Tirzah. 2 And they stood before
of Merari, the family of the Mer- Moses, and before Eleazar the
arites. 58 These are the families of priest, and before the princes and
Levi: the family of the Libnites, the all the congregation, at the door of
family of the Hebronites, the family the tent of meeting, saying, 3 “Our
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father died in the wilderness, and waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the
he was not among the company of wilderness of Zin.)”
those who gathered themselves to- 15 And Moses spoke to Jehovah,
gether against Jehovah in the com- saying, 16 “Let Jehovah, the God of
pany of Korah: but he died in his the spirits of all flesh, appoint a
own sin; and he had no sons. 4 Why man over the congregation, 17 who
should the name of our father be may go out before them, and who
taken away from among his family, may come in before them, and who
because he had no son? Give to us a may lead them out, and who may
possession among the brothers of bring them in; that the congrega-
our father.” 5 And Moses brought tion of Jehovah be not as sheep
their cause before Jehovah. which have no shepherd.” 18 And
6 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Jehovah said to Moses, “Take
saying, 7 “The daughters of Joshua the son of Nun, a man in
Zelophehad speak right: you shall whom is the Spirit, and lay your
surely give them a possession of an hand on him; 19 and set him before
inheritance among their father’s Eleazar the priest, and before all the
brothers; and you shall cause the congregation; and give him a
inheritance of their father to pass to charge in their sight. 20 And you
them. 8 And you shall speak to the shall put your honor upon him, that
children of Israel, saying, ‘If a man all the congregation of the children
dies, and has no son, then you shall of Israel may obey. 21 And he shall
cause his inheritance to pass to his stand before Eleazar the priest, who
daughter. 9 And if he has no daugh- shall inquire for him by the judg-
ter, then you shall give his inheri- ment of the Urim before Jehovah: at
tance to his brothers. 10 And if he his word shall they go out, and at
has no brothers, then you shall give his word they shall come in, both
his inheritance to his father’s broth- he, and all the children of Israel
ers. 11 And if his father has no with him, even all the congrega-
brothers, then you shall give his in- tion.” 22 And Moses did as Jehovah
heritance to his kinsman who is commanded him; and he took
next to him of his family, and he Joshua, and set him before Eleazar
shall possess it: and it shall be to the the priest, and before all the congre-
children of Israel a statute and ordi- gation: 23 and he laid his hands
nance, as Jehovah commanded upon him, and gave him a charge,
Moses.’ ” as Jehovah spoke by Moses.
12 And Jehovah said to Moses,
“Get up into this mountain of 28 And Jehovah spoke to
Moses, saying, 2 “Command
Abarim, and behold the land which the children of Israel, and say to
I have given to the children of Is- them, “My offering, my food for
rael. 13 And when you have seen it, my offerings made by fire, of a
you also shall be gathered to your sweet savor to me, shall you ob-
people, as Aaron your brother was serve to offer to me in their due sea-
gathered; 14 because you rebelled son. 3 And you shall say to them,
against my word in the wilderness ‘This is the offering made by fire
of Zin, in the strife of the congrega- which you shall offer to Jehovah:
tion, to sanctify me at the waters be- male lambs a year old without
fore their eyes. (These are the blemish, two day by day, for a con-
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tinual burnt offering. 4 The one of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt
lamb shall you offer in the morning, offering of every month throughout
and the other lamb shall you offer the months of the year. 15 And one
at evening; 5 and the tenth part of male goat for a sin offering to Jeho-
an ephah of fine flour for a meal vah; it shall be offered besides the
offering, mingled with the fourth continual burnt offering, and the
part of a hin of beaten oil. 6 It is a drink offering of it.
continual burnt offering, which 16 And in the first month, on the
was ordained at Mount Sinai for a fourteenth day of the month, is Je-
sweet savor, an offering made by hovah’s Passover. 17 And on the fif-
fire to Jehovah. 7 And the drink teenth day of this month shall be a
offering of it shall be the fourth part feast: seven days shall unleavened
of a hin for the one lamb: in the holy bread be eaten. 18 On the first day
place shall you pour out a drink shall be a holy convocation: you
offering of strong drink to Jehovah. shall do no servile work; 19 but you
8 And the other lamb shall you shall offer an offering made by fire,
offer at evening: as the meal offer- a burnt offering to Jehovah: two
ing of the morning, and as the drink young bulls, and one ram, and
offering of it, you shall offer it, an seven male lambs a year old; they
offering made by fire, of a sweet sa- shall be to you without blemish; 20
vor to Jehovah. and their meal offering, fine flour
9 And on the Sabbath day two mingled with oil: three-tenths shall
male lambs a year old without you offer for a bull, and two-tenths
blemish, and two-tenths of an ephah for the ram; 21 a tenth shall you
of fine flour for a meal offering, offer for every lamb of the seven
mingled with oil, and the drink lambs; 22 and one male goat for a
offering of it: 10 this is the burnt sin offering, to make atonement for
offering of every Sabbath, besides you. 23 You shall offer these besides
the continual burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the morning,
the drink offering of it. which is for a continual burnt offer-
11 And in the beginnings of your ing. 24 After this manner you shall
months you shall offer a burnt offer daily, for seven days, the food
offering to Jehovah: two young of the offering made by fire, of a
bulls, and one ram, seven male sweet savor to Jehovah: it shall be
lambs a year old without blemish; offered besides the continual burnt
12 and three-tenths of an ephah of offering, and the drink offering of
fine flour for a meal offering, min- it. 25 And on the seventh day you
gled with oil, for each bull; and shall have a holy convocation: you
two-tenths of fine flour for a meal shall do no servile work.
offering, mingled with oil, for the 26 Also in the day of the first
one ram; 13 and one-tenth of fine fruits, when you offer a new meal
flour mingled with oil for a meal offering to Jehovah in your feast of
offering to every lamb; for a burnt weeks, you shall have a holy convo-
offering of a sweet savor, an offer- cation; you shall do no servile
ing made by fire to Jehovah. 14 And work; 27 but you shall offer a burnt
their drink offerings shall be half a offering for a sweet savor to Jeho-
hin of wine for a bull, and one-third vah: two young bulls, one ram,
of a hin for the ram, and one-fourth seven male lambs a year old; 28 and
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their meal offering, fine flour min- offering of atonement, and the con-
gled with oil, three-tenths for each tinual burnt offering, and the meal
bull, two-tenths for the one ram, 29 offering of it, and their drink offer-
a tenth for every lamb of the seven ings.
lambs; 30 one male goat, to make 12 And on the fifteenth day of the
atonement for you. 31 Besides the seventh month you shall have a
continual burnt offering, and the holy convocation; you shall do no
meal offering of it, you shall offer servile work, and you shall keep a
them (they shall be to you without feast to Jehovah seven days: 13 and
blemish), and their drink offerings. you shall offer a burnt offering, an

29 And in the seventh month, offering made by fire, of a sweet sa-

on the first day of the month, vor to Jehovah; thirteen young
you shall have a holy convocation; bulls, two rams, fourteen male
you shall do no servile work: it is a lambs a year old; they shall be with-
day of blowing of trumpets to you. out blemish; 14 and their meal
2 And you shall offer a burnt offer- offering, fine flour mingled with
ing for a sweet savor to Jehovah: oil, three-tenths for every bull of the
one young bull, one ram, seven thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each
male lambs a year old without ram of the two rams, 15 and a tenth
blemish; 3 and their meal offering, for every lamb of the fourteen
fine flour mingled with oil, three- lambs; 16 and one male goat for a
tenths for the bull, two-tenths for sin offering, besides the continual
the ram, 4 and one-tenth for every burnt offering, the meal offering of
lamb of the seven lambs; 5 and one it, and the drink offering of it.
male goat for a sin offering, to make 17 And on the second day you
atonement for you; 6 besides the shall offer twelve young bulls, two
burnt offering of the new moon, rams, fourteen male lambs a year
and the meal offering of it, and the old without blemish; 18 and their
continual burnt-offering and the meal offering and their drink offer-
meal offering of it, and their drink ings for the bulls, for the rams, and
offerings, according to their ordi- for the lambs, according to their
nance, for a sweet savor, an offering number, according to the ordi-
made by fire to Jehovah. nance; 19 and one male goat for a
7 And on the tenth day of this sev- sin offering; besides the continual
enth month you shall have a holy burnt offering, and the meal offer-
convocation; and you shall afflict ing of it, and their drink offerings.
your souls: you shall do no manner 20 And on the third day eleven
of work; 8 but you shall offer a bulls, two rams, fourteen male
burnt offering to Jehovah for a lambs a year old without blemish;
sweet savor: one young bull, one 21 and their meal- offering and
ram, seven male lambs a year old; their drink offerings for the bulls,
they shall be to you without blem- for the rams, and for the lambs, ac-
ish; 9 and their meal offering, fine cording to their number, according
flour mingled with oil, three-tenths to the ordinance; 22 and one male
for the bull, two-tenths for the one goat for a sin offering; besides the
ram, 10 a tenth for every lamb of continual burnt offering, and the
the seven lambs: 11 one male goat meal offering of it, and the drink
for a sin offering; besides the sin offering of it.
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23 And on the fourth day ten made by fire, of a sweet savor to Je-
bulls, two rams, fourteen male hovah: one bull, one ram, seven
lambs a year old without blemish; male lambs a year old without
24 their meal offering and their blemish; 37 their meal offering and
drink offerings for the bulls, for the their drink offerings for the bull, for
rams, and for the lambs, according the ram, and for the lambs, shall be
to their number, according to the according to their number, accord-
ordinance; 25 and one male goat for ing to the ordinance: 38 and one
a sin offering; besides the continual male goat for a sin- offering, be-
burnt offering, the meal offering of sides the continual burnt offering,
it, and the drink offering of it. and the meal offering of it, and the
26 And on the fifth day nine bulls, drink offering of it.
two rams, fourteen male lambs a 39 These you shall offer to Jeho-
year old without blemish; 27 and vah in your set feasts, besides your
their meal offering and their drink vows, and your freewill offerings,
offerings for the bulls, for the rams, for your burnt offerings, and for
and for the lambs, according to your meal offerings, and for your
their number, according to the ordi- drink offerings, and for your peace
nance; 28 and one male goat for a offerings.” 40 And Moses told the
sin offering, besides the continual children of Israel according to all
burnt offering, and the meal offer- that Jehovah commanded Moses.

29 And on the sixth day eight 30

ing of it, and the drink offering of it. And Moses spoke to the
heads of the tribes of the
bulls, two rams, fourteen male children of Israel, saying, “This is
lambs a year old without blemish; the thing which Jehovah has com-
30 and their meal offering and their manded. 2 When a man vows a
drink offerings for the bulls, for the vow to Jehovah, or swears an oath
rams, and for the lambs, according to bind his soul with a bond, he
to their number, according to the shall not break his word; he shall do
ordinance; 31 and one male goat for according to all that proceeds out of
a sin offering; besides the continual his mouth. 3 Also when a woman
burnt offering, the meal offering of vows a vow to Jehovah, and binds
it, and the drink offerings of it. herself by a bond, being in her fa-
32 And on the seventh day seven ther’s house, in her youth, 4 and
bulls, two rams, fourteen male her father hears her vow, and her
lambs a year old without blemish; bond with which she has bound her
33 and their meal offering and their soul, and her father holds his peace
drink offerings for the bulls, for the at her; then all her vows shall stand,
rams, and for the lambs, according and every bond with which she has
to their number, according to the bound her soul shall stand. 5 But if
ordinance; 34 and one male goat for her father disallows her in the day
a sin offering; besides the continual that he hears, none of her vows, or
burnt offering, the meal offering of of her bonds with which she has
it, and the drink offering of it. bound her soul, shall stand: and Je-
35 On the eighth day you shall hovah will forgive her, because her
have a solemn assembly: you shall father disallowed her.
do no servile work; 36 but you shall 6 And if she is married to a hus-
offer a burnt offering, an offering band, while her vows are upon her,
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or the rash utterance of her lips, which Jehovah commanded Moses,
with which she has bound her soul, between a man and his wife, be-
7 and her husband hears it, and tween a father and his daughter, be-
holds his peace at her in the day ing in her youth, in her father’s
that he hears it; then her vows shall house.
stand, and her bonds with which
she has bound her soul shall stand. 31 And Jehovah spoke to
Moses, saying, 2 “Avenge the
8 But if her husband disallows her children of Israel of the Midianites:
in the day that he hears it, then he afterward you shall be gathered to
shall make void her vow which is your people.” 3 And Moses spoke
upon her, and the rash utterance of to the people, saying, “Arm men
her lips, with which she has bound from among you for the war, that
her soul: and Jehovah will forgive they may go against Midian, to exe-
her. cute Jehovah’s vengeance on Mid-
9 But the vow of a widow, or of ian. 4 Of every tribe a thousand,
her who is divorced, even every- throughout all the tribes of Israel,
thing with which she has bound shall you send to the war.” 5 So
her soul, shall stand against her. 10 there were delivered, out of the
And if she vowed in her husband’s thousands of Israel, a thousand of
house, or bound her soul by a bond every tribe, twelve thousand armed
with an oath, 11 and her husband for war. 6 And Moses sent them, a
heard it, and held his peace at her, thousand of every tribe, to the war,
and did not disallow her; then all them and Phinehas the son of
her vows shall stand, and every Eleazar the priest, to the war, with
bond with which she bound her the vessels of the sanctuary and the
soul shall stand. 12 But if her hus- trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
band made them null and void in 7 And they warred against Midian,
the day that he heard them, then as Jehovah commanded Moses; and
whatsoever proceeded out of her they slew every male. 8 And they
lips concerning her vows, or con- slew the kings of Midian with the
cerning the bond of her soul, shall rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem,
not stand: her husband has made and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the
them void; and Jehovah will for- five kings of Midian: Balaam also
give her. the son of Beor they slew with the
13 Every vow, and every binding sword. 9 And the children of Israel
oath to afflict the soul, her husband took captive the women of Midian
may establish it, or her husband and their little ones; and all their
may make it void. 14 But if her hus- cattle, and all their flocks, and all
band altogether holds his peace at their goods, they took for plunder.
her from day to day, then he estab- 10 And all their cities in the places
lishes all her vows, or all her bonds, in which they dwelt, and all their
which are upon her: he has estab- encampments, they burned with
lished them, because he held his fire. 11 And they took all the spoil,
peace at her in the day that he and all the plunder, both of man
heard them. 15 But if he shall make and of beast. 12 And they brought
them null and void after he has the captives, and the plunder, and
heard them, then he shall bear her the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar
iniquity.” 16 These are the statutes, the priest, and to the congregation
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of the children of Israel, to the camp purity: and all that does not endure
at the plains of Moab, which are by the fire you shall make to go
the Jordan at Jericho. through the water. 24 And you shall
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the wash your clothes on the seventh
priest, and all the princes of the day, and you shall be clean; and af-
congregation, went forth to meet terward you shall come into the
them outside the camp. 14 And camp.”
Moses was angry with the officers 25 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
of the army, the captains of thou- saying, 26 “Take the sum of the
sands and the captains of hun- plunder that was taken, both of
dreds, who came from the service man and of beast, you, and Eleazar
of the war. 15 And Moses said to the priest, and the heads of the fa-
them, “Have you saved all the thers’ houses of the congregation; 27
women alive? 16 Behold, these and divide the plunder into two
caused the children of Israel, parts: between the men skilled in
through the counsel of Balaam, to war, who went out to battle, and all
commit trespass against Jehovah in the congregation. 28 And levy a
the matter of Peor, and so the tribute to Jehovah of the men of
plague was among the congrega- war who went out to battle: one
tion of Jehovah. 17 Now therefore soul of five hundred, both of the
kill every male among the little persons, and of the oxen, and of the
ones, and kill every woman who donkeys, and of the flocks: 29 take
has known man by lying with him. it from their half, and give it to
18 But all the women-children, who Eleazar the priest, for Jehovah’s
have not known man by lying with heave offering. 30 And of the chil-
him, keep alive for yourselves. 19 dren of Israel’s half, you shall take
And encamp outside the camp one drawn out of every fifty, of the
seven days: whosoever has killed persons, of the oxen, of the don-
any person, and whosoever has keys, and of the flocks, even of all
touched any slain, purify your- the cattle, and give them to the
selves on the third day and on the Levites, who keep the charge of the
seventh day, you and your captives. tabernacle of Jehovah.” 31 And
20 And as to every garment, and all Moses and Eleazar the priest did as
that is made of skin, and all work of Jehovah commanded Moses.
goats’ hair, and all things made of 32 Now the plunder, over and
wood, you shall purify your- above the booty which the men of
selves.” war took, was six hundred and sev-
21 And Eleazar the priest said to enty-five thousand sheep, 33 and
the men of war who went to the seventy-two thousand oxen, 34 and
battle, “This is the statute of the law sixty-one thousand donkeys, 35
which Jehovah has commanded and thirty-two thousand persons in
Moses: 22 nevertheless the gold, all, of the women who had not
and the silver, the brass, the iron, known man by lying with him. 36
the tin, and the lead, 23 everything And the half, which was the por-
that may endure the fire, you shall tion of those who went out to war,
make to go through the fire, and it was in number three hundred and
shall be clean; nevertheless it shall thirty-seven thousand five hundred
be purified with the water for im- sheep: 37 and Jehovah’s tribute of
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the sheep was six hundred and sev- they offered up to Jehovah, of the
enty-five. And the oxen were captains of thousands, and of the
thirty-six thousand; of which Jeho- captains of hundreds, was sixteen
vah’s tribute was seventy-two. 39 thousand seven hundred and fifty
And the donkeys were thirty thou- shekels. 53 (For the men of war had
sand five hundred; of which Jeho- taken booty, every man for him-
vah’s tribute was sixty-one. 40 And self.) 54 And Moses and Eleazar the
the persons were sixteen thousand; priest took the gold of the captains
of whom Jehovah’s tribute was of thousands and of hundreds, and
thirty-two persons. 41 And Moses brought it into the tent of meeting,
gave the tribute, which was Jeho- for a memorial for the children of
vah’s heave offering, to Eleazar the Israel before Jehovah.
priest, as Jehovah commanded
Moses. 32 Now the children of
Reuben and the children of
42 And of the children of Israel’s Gad had a very great multitude of
half, which Moses divided off from cattle: and when they saw the land
the men who warred 43 (now the of Jazer, and the land of Gilead,
congregation’s half was three hun- that, behold, the place was a place
dred and thirty-seven thousand for cattle; 2 the children of Gad and
and five hundred sheep, 44 and the children of Reuben came and
thirty and six thousand oxen, 45 spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the
and thirty thousand five hundred priest, and to the princes of the con-
asses, 46 and sixteen thousand per- gregation, saying, 3 “Ataroth, and
sons), 47 even of the children of Is- Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and
rael’s half, Moses took one drawn Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam,
out of every fifty, both of man and and Nebo, and Beon, 4 the land
of beast, and gave them to the which Jehovah struck before the
Levites, that kept the charge of the congregation of Israel, is a land for
tabernacle of Jehovah; as Jehovah cattle; and your servants have cat-
commanded Moses. tle.” 5 And they said, “If we have
48 And the officers who were over found favor in your sight, let this
the thousands of the army, the cap- land be given to your servants for a
tains of thousands, and the captains possession; do not bring us over the
of hundreds, came near to Moses; Jordan.”
49 and they said to Moses, “Your 6 And Moses said to the children
servants have taken the sum of the of Gad, and to the children of
men of war who are under our Reuben, “Shall your brethren go to
charge, and there does not lack one the war, and shall you sit here? 7
man of us. 50 And we have brought And why do you discourage the
Jehovah’s offering, what every man heart of the children of Israel from
has gotten, of jewels of gold, ankle going over into the land which Je-
chains, and bracelets, signet rings, hovah has given them? 8 Thus did
earrings, and armlets, to make your fathers, when I sent them from
atonement for our souls before Je- Kadesh-barnea to see the land. 9
hovah.” 51 And Moses and Eleazar For when they went up to the val-
the priest took the gold from them, ley of Eshcol, and saw the land,
even all worked jewels. 52 And all they discouraged the heart of the
the gold of the heave offering that children of Israel, that they should
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not go into the land which Jehovah vah to the war, 21 and every armed
had given them. 10 And Jehovah’s man of you will pass over the Jor-
anger was kindled in that day, and dan before Jehovah, until he has
he swore, saying, 11 ‘Surely none of driven out his enemies from before
the men who came up out of Egypt, him, 22 and the land is subdued be-
from twenty years old and upward, fore Jehovah; then afterward you
shall see the land which I swore to shall return, and be guiltless to-
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; be- wards Jehovah, and towards Israel;
cause they have not wholly fol- and this land shall be to you for a
lowed me: 12 except Caleb the son possession before Jehovah. 23 But if
of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and you will not do so, behold, you
Joshua the son of Nun; because have sinned against Jehovah; and
they have wholly followed Jeho- be sure your sin will find you out.
vah.’ 13 And Jehovah’s anger was 24 Build cities for your little ones,
kindled against Israel, and he made and folds for your sheep; and do
them wander to and fro in the that which has proceeded out of
wilderness forty years, until all the your mouth.” 25 And the children
generation, who had done evil in of Gad and the children of Reuben
the sight of Jehovah, was con- spoke to Moses, saying, “Your ser-
sumed. 14 And, behold, you have vants will do as my lord com-
risen up in your fathers’ place, an mands. 26 Our little ones, our
increase of sinful men, to augment wives, our flocks, and all our cattle,
still the fierce anger of Jehovah to- shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
ward Israel. 15 For if you turn away 27 but your servants will pass over,
from after him, he will yet again every man who is armed for war,
leave them in the wilderness; and before Jehovah to battle, as my lord
you will destroy all this people.” says.”
16 And they came near to him, 28 So Moses gave charge concern-
and said, “We will build sheepfolds ing them to Eleazar the priest, and
here for our cattle, and cities for our to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the
little ones: 17 but we ourselves will heads of the fathers’ houses of the
be armed ready to go before the tribes of the children of Israel. 29
children of Israel, until we have And Moses said to them, “If the
brought them to their place: and children of Gad and the children of
our little ones shall dwell in the for- Reuben will pass with you over the
tified cities because of the inhabi- Jordan, every man who is armed to
tants of the land. 18 We will not battle, before Jehovah, and the land
return to our houses, until the chil- shall be subdued before you; then
dren of Israel have inherited every you shall give them the land of
man his inheritance. 19 For we will Gilead for a possession: 30 but if
not inherit with them on the other they will not pass over with you
side of the Jordan, and forward; be- armed, they shall have possessions
cause our inheritance is fallen to us among you in the land of Canaan.”
on this side of the Jordan east- 31 And the children of Gad and the
ward.” children of Reuben answered, say-
20 And Moses said to them, “If ing, “As Jehovah has said to your
you will do this thing, if you will servants, so will we do. 32 We will
arm yourselves to go before Jeho- pass over armed before Jehovah
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into the land of Canaan, and the first month; on the next day after
possession of our inheritance shall the passover the children of Israel
remain with us beyond the Jordan.” went out with a high hand in the
33 And Moses gave to them, even sight of all the Egyptians, 4 while
to the children of Gad, and to the the Egyptians were burying all
children of Reuben, and to the half- their firstborn, whom Jehovah had
tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, struck among them: upon their
the kingdom of Sihon king of the gods also Jehovah executed judg-
Amorites, and the kingdom of Og ments.
king of Bashan, the land, according 5 And the children of Israel jour-
to the cities of it with their borders, neyed from Rameses, and en-
even the cities of the land all camped in Succoth. 6 And they
around. 34 And the children of Gad journeyed from Succoth, and en-
built Dibon, and Ataroth, and camped in Etham, which is in the
Aroer, 35 and Atrothshophan, and edge of the wilderness. 7 And they
Jazer, and Jogbehah, 36 and Beth- journeyed from Etham, and turned
nimrah, and Beth-haran: fortified back to Pi-hahiroth, which is before
cities, and folds for sheep. 37 And Baal-zephon: and they encamped
the children of Reuben built Hesh- before Migdol. 8 And they jour-
bon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim, neyed from before Hahiroth, and
38 and Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their passed through the midst of the sea
names being changed,) and into the wilderness: and they went
Sibmah: and they gave other names three days’ journey in the wilder-
to the cities which they built. 39 ness of Etham, and encamped in
And the children of Machir the son Marah. 9 And they journeyed from
of Manasseh went to Gilead, and Marah, and came to Elim: and in
took it, and dispossessed the Amor- Elim were twelve springs of water,
ites who were in it. 40 And Moses and seventy palm trees; and they
gave Gilead to Machir the son of encamped there. 10 And they jour-
Manasseh; and he dwelt in it. 41 neyed from Elim, and encamped by
And Jair the son of Manasseh went the Red Sea. 11 And they journeyed
and took the towns of it, and called from the Red Sea, and encamped in
them Havvoth-jair. 42 And Nobah the wilderness of Sin. 12 And they
went and took Kenath, and the vil- journeyed from the wilderness of
lages of it, and called it Nobah, ac- Sin, and encamped in Dophkah. 13
cording to his own name. And they journeyed from

33 These are the journeys of Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.

the children of Israel, when 14 And they journeyed from Alush,
they went forth out of the land of and encamped in Rephidim, where
Egypt by their armies under the was no water for the people to
hand of Moses and Aaron. 2 And drink. 15 And they journeyed from
Moses wrote their goings out ac- Rephidim, and encamped in the
cording to their journeys by the wilderness of Sinai. 16 And they
commandment of Jehovah: and journeyed from the wilderness of
these are their journeys according Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth-
to their goings out. 3 And they jour- hattaavah. 17 And they journeyed
neyed from Rameses in the first from Kibroth-hattaavah, and en-
month, on the fifteenth day of the camped in Hazeroth. 18 And they
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journeyed from Hazeroth, and en- of Israel had come out of the land of
camped in Rithmah. 19 And they Egypt, in the fifth month, on the
journeyed from Rithmah, and en- first day of the month. 39 And
camped in Rimmon-perez. 20 And Aaron was a hundred and twent-
they journeyed from Rimmon- three years old when he died on
perez, and encamped in Libnah. 21 Mount Hor.
And they journeyed from Libnah, 40 And the Canaanite, the king of
and encamped in Rissah. 22 And Arad, who dwelt in the South in the
they journeyed from Rissah, and land of Canaan, heard of the com-
encamped in Kehelathah. 23 And ing of the children of Israel.
they journeyed from Kehelathah, 41 And they journeyed from
and encamped at Mount Shepher. Mount Hor, and encamped in Zal-
24 And they journeyed from Mount monah. 42 And they journeyed
Shepher, and encamped in from Zalmonah, and encamped in
Haradah. 25 And they journeyed Punon. 43 And they journeyed
from Haradah, and encamped in from Punon, and encamped in
Makheloth. 26 And they journeyed Oboth. 44 And they journeyed from
from Makheloth, and encamped in Oboth, and encamped in Iye-
Tahath. 27 And they journeyed abarim, at the border of Moab. 45
from Tahath, and encamped in And they journeyed from Iyim, and
Terah. 28 And they journeyed from encamped in Dibon-gad. 46 And
Terah, and encamped in Mithkah. they journeyed from Dibon-gad,
29 And they journeyed from and encamped in Almon-diblath-
Mithkah, and encamped in Hash- aim. 47 And they journeyed from
monah. 30 And they journeyed Almon-diblathaim, and encamped
from Hashmonah, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before
in Moseroth. 31 And they jour- Nebo. 48 And they journeyed from
neyed from Moseroth, and en- the mountains of Abarim, and en-
camped in Bene-jaakan. 32 And camped in the plains of Moab by
they journeyed from Bene-jaakan, the Jordan at Jericho. 49 And they
and encamped in Hor-haggidgad. encamped by the Jordan, from
33 And they journeyed from Hor- Beth-jeshimoth even to Abel-shit-
haggidgad, and encamped in Jot- tim in the plains of Moab.
bathah. 34 And they journeyed 50 And Jehovah spoke to Moses in
from Jotbathah, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at
Abronah. 3 And they journeyed Jericho, saying, 51 “Speak to the
from Abronah, and encamped in children of Israel, and say to them,
Ezion-geber. 36 And they jour- ‘When you pass over the Jordan
neyed from Ezion-geber, and en- into the land of Canaan, 52 then
camped in the wilderness of Zin you shall drive out all the inhabi-
(the same is Kadesh). 37 And they tants of the land from before you,
journeyed from Kadesh, and en- and destroy all their figured stones,
camped at Mount Hor, in the edge and destroy all their molten im-
of the land of Edom. ages, and demolish all their high
38 And Aaron the priest went up places: 53 and you shall take pos-
into Mount Hor at the command- session of the land, and dwell in it;
ment of Jehovah, and died there, in for to you have I given the land to
the fortieth year after the children possess it. 54 And you shall inherit
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the land by lot according to your the goings out of the border shall be
families; to the more you shall give at Zedad; 9 and the border shall go
the more inheritance, and to the forth to Ziphron, and the goings
fewer you shall give the less inheri- out of it shall be at Hazar-enan: this
tance: wheresoever the lot falls to shall be your north border.
any man, that shall be his; accord- 10 And you shall mark out your
ing to the tribes of your fathers east border from Hazar-enan to
shall you inherit. 55 But if you will Shepham; 11 and the border shall
not drive out the inhabitants of the go down from Shepham to Riblah,
land from before you, then shall on the east side of Ain; and the bor-
those who you let remain of them der shall go down, and shall reach
be as pricks in your eyes, and as to the side of the Sea of Chinnereth
thorns in your sides, and they shall eastward; 12 and the border shall
vex you in the land in which you go down to the Jordan, and the go-
dwell. 56 And it shall come to pass, ings out of it shall be at the Salt Sea.
that, as I thought to do to them, so This shall be your land according to
will I do to you.’ ” the borders of it all around.’ ”

34 And Jehovah spoke to 13 And Moses commanded the

Moses, saying, 2 “Command children of Israel, saying, “This is
the children of Israel, and say to the land which you shall inherit by
them, ‘When you come into the lot, which Jehovah has commanded
land of Canaan (this is the land that to give to the nine tribes, and to the
shall fall to you for an inheritance, half-tribe; 14 for the tribe of the
even the land of Canaan according children of Reuben according to
to the borders of it), 3 then your their fathers’ houses, and the tribe
south quarter shall be from the of the children of Gad according to
wilderness of Zin along by the side their fathers’ houses, have received,
of Edom, and your south border and the half-tribe of Manasseh have
shall be from the end of the Salt Sea received, their inheritance: 15 the
eastward; 4 and your border shall two tribes and the half-tribe have
turn about southward of the ascent received their inheritance beyond
of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; the Jordan at Jericho eastward, to-
and the goings out of it shall be ward the sunrise.”
southward of Kadesh-barnea; and 16 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
it shall go forth to Hazar-addar, and saying, 17 “These are the names of
pass along to Azmon; 5 and the bor- the men who shall divide the land
der shall turn from Azmon to the to you for inheritance: Eleazar the
brook of Egypt, and the goings out priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
of it shall be at the sea. 18 And you shall take one prince of
6 And for the western border, you every tribe, to divide the land for
shall have the great sea and the bor- inheritance. 19 And these are the
der of it: this shall be your west bor- names of the men: Of the tribe of Ju-
der. dah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 20
7 And this shall be your north And of the tribe of the children of
border: from the Great Sea you Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammi-
shall mark out for you Mount Hor; hud. 21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, El-
8 from Mount Hor you shall mark idad the son of Chislon. 22 And of
out to the entrance of Hamath; and the tribe of the children of Dan a
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prince, Bukki the son of Jogli. 23 Of manslayer to flee to: and besides
the children of Joseph: of the tribe them you shall give forty-two
of the children of Manasseh a cities. 7 All the cities which you
prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod. shall give to the Levites shall be
24 And of the tribe of the children fort-eight cities; them shall you give
of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the with their outskirts. 8 And concern-
son of Shiphtan. 25 And of the tribe ing the cities which you shall give
of the children of Zebulun a prince, of the possession of the children of
Elizaphan the son of Parnach. 26 Israel, from the many you shall take
And of the tribe of the children of many; and from the few you shall
Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of take few: every one according to his
Azzan. 27 And of the tribe of the inheritance which he inherits shall
children of Asher a prince, Ahihud give of his cities to the Levites.”
the son of Shelomi. 28 And of the 9 And Jehovah spoke to Moses,
tribe of the children of Naphtali a saying, 10 “Speak to the children of
prince, Pedahel the son of Ammi- Israel, and say to them, “When you
hud.” 29 These are those whom Je- pass over the Jordan into the land
hovah commanded to divide the of Canaan, 11 then you shall ap-
inheritance to the children of Israel point cities to be cities of refuge for
in the land of Canaan. you, that the manslayer who kills

35 And Jehovah spoke to any person unwittingly may flee

Moses in the plains of Moab there. 12 And the cities shall be to
by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 2 you for refuge from the avenger,
“Command the children of Israel, that the manslayer does not die, un-
that they give to the Levites of the til he stands before the congrega-
inheritance of their possession tion for judgment. 13 And the cities
cities to dwell in; and outskirts for which you shall give shall be for
the cities around them shall you you six cities of refuge. 14 You shall
give to the Levites. 3 And the cities give three cities beyond the Jordan,
shall they have to dwell in; and and three cities shall you give in the
their outskirts shall be for their cat- land of Canaan; they shall be cities
tle, and for their substance, and for of refuge. 15 For the children of Is-
all their beasts. 4 And the outskirts rael, and for the stranger and for
of the cities, which you shall give to the sojourner among them, shall
the Levites, shall be from the wall these six cities be for refuge; that
of the city and outward a thousand every one who kills any person un-
cubits all around. 5 And you shall wittingly may flee there.
measure outside the city for the east 16 But if he struck him with an in-
side two thousand cubits, and for strument of iron, so that he died, he
the south side two thousand cubits, is a murderer: the murderer shall
and for the west side two thousand surely be put to death. 17 And if he
cubits, and for the north side two struck him with a stone in the hand,
thousand cubits, the city being in by which a man may die, and he
the midst. This shall be to them the died, he is a murderer: the mur-
outskirts of the cities. 6 And the derer shall surely be put to death.
cities which you shall give to the 18 Or if he struck him with a
Levites, they shall be the six cities of weapon of wood in the hand, by
refuge, which you shall give for the which a man may die, and he died,
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he is a murderer: the murderer shall throughout your generations in all
surely be put to death. 19 The your dwellings. 30 Whoever kills
avenger of blood shall himself put any person, the murderer shall be
the murderer to death: when he slain at the mouth of witnesses: but
meets him, he shall put him to one witness shall not testify against
death. 20 And if he thrust him from any person that he dies. 31 More-
hatred, or hurled at him, lying in over you shall take no ransom for
wait, so that he died, 21 or in en- the life of a murderer, who is guilty
mity struck him with his hand, so of death; but he shall surely be put
that he died; he who struck him to death. 32 And you shall take no
shall surely be put to death; he is a ransom for him who has fled to his
murderer: the avenger of blood city of refuge, that he may come
shall put the murderer to death, again to dwell in the land, until the
when he meets him. death of the priest. 33 So you shall
22 But if he thrusts him suddenly not pollute the land in which you
without enmity, or hurled upon are: for blood, it pollutes the land;
him anything without lying in wait, and no expiation can be made for
23 or with any stone, by which a the land for the blood that is shed in
man may die, not seeing him, and it, but by the blood of him who
casts it upon him, so that he died, shed it. 34 And you shall not defile
and he was not his enemy, neither the land which you inhabit, in the
sought his harm; 24 then the con- midst of which I dwell: for I, Jeho-
gregation shall judge between the vah, dwell in the midst of the chil-
striker and the avenger of blood ac- dren of Israel.”
cording to these ordinances; 25 and
the congregation shall deliver the 36 And the heads of the fa-
thers’ houses of the family of
manslayer out of the hand of the the children of Gilead, the son of
avenger of blood, and the congre- Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the
gation shall restore him to his city families of the sons of Joseph, came
of refuge, to which he had fled: and near, and spoke before Moses, and
he shall dwell in it until the death of before the princes, the heads of the
the high priest, who was anointed fathers’ houses of the children of Is-
with the holy oil. 26 But if the rael: 2 and they said, “Jehovah com-
manslayer shall at any time go be- manded my lord to give the land
yond the border of his city of for inheritance by lot to the children
refuge, to which he flees, 27 and the of Israel: and my lord was com-
avenger of blood finds him outside manded by Jehovah to give the in-
the border of his city of refuge, and heritance of Zelophehad our
the avenger of blood slay the brother to his daughters. 3 And if
manslayer; he shall not be guilty of they are married to any of the sons
blood, 28 because he should have of the other tribes of the children of
remained in his city of refuge until Israel, then will their inheritance be
the death of the high priest: but af- taken away from the inheritance of
ter the death of the high priest the our fathers, and will be added to
manslayer shall return into the land the inheritance of the tribe to which
of his possession. they shall belong: so will it be taken
29 And these things shall be for a away from the lot of our inheri-
statute and ordinance to you tance. 4 And when the jubilee of the
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children of Israel shall be, then will
their inheritance be added to the in-
heritance of the tribe to which they
shall belong: so will their inheri-
tance be taken away from the inher-
itance of the tribe of our fathers.”
5 And Moses commanded the
children of Israel according to the
word of Jehovah, saying, “The tribe
of the sons of Joseph speaks right. 6
This is the thing which Jehovah
commands concerning the daugh-
ters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let
them be married to whom they
think best; only into the family of
the tribe of their father shall they be
married. 7 So shall no inheritance of
the children of Israel remove from
tribe to tribe; for the children of Is-
rael shall cleave every one to the in-
heritance of the tribe of his fathers.
8 And every daughter, who pos-
sesses an inheritance in any tribe of
the children of Israel, shall be wife
to one of the family of the tribe of
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her father, that the children of Israel
may possess every man the inheri-
tance of his fathers. 9 So shall no in-
heritance remove from one tribe to
another tribe; for the tribes of the
children of Israel shall cleave every
one to his own inheritance.’ ”
10 Even as Jehovah commanded
Moses, so did the daughters of
Zelophehad: 11 for Mahlah, Tirzah,
and Hoglah, and Milcah, and
Noah, the daughters of
Zelophedad, were married to their
father’s brothers’ sons. 12 They
were married into the families of
the sons of Manasseh the son of
Joseph; and their inheritance re-
mained in the tribe of the family of
their father.
13 These are the commandments
and the ordinances which Jehovah
commanded by Moses to the chil-
dren of Israel in the plains of Moab
by the Jordan at Jericho.
 DEUTERONOMY

THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES,

COMMONLY CALLED

DEUTER O N O MY

1 These are the words which saying, ‘I am not able to bear you
Moses spoke to all Israel beyond myself alone: 10 Jehovah your God
the Jordan in the wilderness, in the has multiplied you, and, behold,
Arabah opposite Suph, between you are this day as the stars of
Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and heaven for multitude. 11 Jehovah,
Hazeroth, and Di-zahab. 2 It is the God of your fathers, make you
eleven days’ journey from Horeb by a thousand times as many as you
the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh- are, and bless you, as he has
barnea. 3 And it came to pass in the promised you! 12 How can I myself
fortieth year, in the eleventh month, alone bear your load, and your bur-
on the first day of the month, that den, and your strife? 13 Take you
Moses spoke to the children of Is- wise men, and understanding, and
rael, according to all that Jehovah known, according to your tribes,
had given him in commandment to and I will make them heads over
them; 4 after he had struck Sihon you.’ 14 And you answered me,
the king of the Amorites, who and said, ‘The thing which you
dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king have spoken is good for us to do.’ 15
of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, So I took the heads of your tribes,
at Edrei. 5 Beyond the Jordan, in the wise men, and known, and made
land of Moab, began Moses to de- them heads over you, captains of
clare this law, saying, 6 “Jehovah thousands, and captains of hun-
our God spoke to us in Horeb, say- dreds, and captains of fifties, and
ing, ‘You have dwelt long enough captains of tens, and officers, ac-
at this mountain: 7 turn, and take cording to your tribes. 16 And I
your journey, and go to the hill charged your judges at that time,
country of the Amorites, and to all saying, ‘Hear the causes between
the places near to it, in the Arabah, in your brethren, and judge righ-
the hill country, and in the lowland, teously between a man and his
and in the South, and by the brother, and the sojourner who is
seashore, the land of the Canaan- with him. 17 You shall not respect
ites, and Lebanon, as far as the persons in judgment; you shall hear
great river, the river Euphrates. 8 the small and the great alike; you
Behold, I have set the land before shall not be afraid of the face of
you: go in and possess the land man; for the judgment is God’s: and
which Jehovah swore to your fa- the cause that is too hard for you
thers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to you shall bring to me, and I will
Jacob, to give to them and to their hear it.’ 18 And I commanded you
seed after them.’ at that time all the things which you
9 And I spoke to you at that time, should do.
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19 And we journeyed from Horeb, Then I said to you, ‘Do not dread,
and went through all that great and neither be afraid of them. 30 Jeho-
terrible wildernessTHEwhich you saw,
FIFTH BOOKvahOFyourMOSES,
God who goes before you,
by the way to the hill country of the he will fight for you, according to
Amorites, as Jehovah our God COMMONLY
com- all CALLED
that he did for you in Egypt be-
manded us; and we came to fore your eyes, 31 and in the wilder-
Kadesh-barnea. 20 And DEUTERO NO
I said to ness, MYyou have seen how
where
you, ‘you have come to the hill Jehovah your God bore you, as a
country of the Amorites, which Je- man bears his son, in all the way
hovah our God gives to us. 21 Be- that you went, until you came to
hold, Jehovah your God has set the this place.’ 32 Yet in this thing you
land before you: go up, take posses- did not believe Jehovah your God,
sion, as Jehovah, the God of your 33 who went before you in the way,
fathers, has spoken to you; do not to seek you out a place to pitch your
fear, neither be dismayed.’ 22 And tents in, in fire by night, to show
you came near to me every one of you by what way you should go,
you, and said, ‘Let us send men be- and in the cloud by day.
fore us, that they may search the 34 And Jehovah heard the voice of
land for us, and bring us word your words, and was angry, and
again of the way by which we must swore, saying, 35 ‘Surely shall not
go up, and the cities to which we one of these men of this evil gener-
shall come.’ 23 And the thing ation see the good land, which I
pleased me well; and I took twelve swore to give to your fathers, 36 ex-
men of you, one man for every cept Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he
tribe: 24 and they turned and went shall see it; and to him I will give
up into the hill country, and came the land that he has trodden upon,
to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it and to his children, because he has
out. 25 And they took of the fruit of wholly followed Jehovah.’ 37 Also
the land in their hands, and Jehovah was angry with me for
brought it down to us, and brought your sakes, saying, ‘You also shall
us word again, and said, ‘It is a not go in there: 38 Joshua the son of
good land which Jehovah our God Nun, who stands before you, he
gives to us.’ shall go in there: encourage him; for
26 Yet you would not go up, but he shall cause Israel to inherit it.’ 39
rebelled against the commandment Moreover your little ones, that you
of Jehovah your God: 27 and you said should be a prey, and your
murmured in your tents, and said, children, that this day have no
‘Because Jehovah hated us, he has knowledge of good or evil, they
brought us forth out of the land of shall go in there, and to them I will
Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of give it, and they shall possess it. 40
the Amorites, to destroy us. 28 But as for you, turn, and take your
Where are we going up? our journey into the wilderness by the
brethren have made our heart to way to the Red Sea.’
melt, saying, “The people are 41 Then you answered and said to
greater and taller than we; the cities me, ‘We have sinned against Jeho-
are great and fortified up to heaven; vah, we will go up and fight, ac-
and moreover we have seen the cording to all that Jehovah our God
sons of the Anakim there.” ’ 29 commanded us.’ And you girded
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on every man his weapons of war, through this great wilderness: these
and were forward to go up into the forty years Jehovah your God has
hill country. 42 And Jehovah said to been with you; you have lacked
me, ‘Say to them, “Do not go up, nothing.” ’ 8 So we passed by from
neither fight; for I am not among our brethren the children of Esau,
you; lest you be struck before your who dwell in Seir, from the way of
enemies.” ’ 43 So I spoke to you, the Arabah from Elath and from
and you did not listen; but you re- Ezion-geber.
belled against the commandment And we turned and passed by the
of Jehovah, and were presumptu- way of the wilderness of Moab. 9
ous, and went up into the hill coun- And Jehovah said to me, ‘Do not
try. 44 And the Amorites, who distress Moab, neither contend
dwelt in that hill country, came out with them in battle; for I will not
against you, and chased you, as give you of his land for a posses-
bees do, and beat you down in Seir, sion; because I have given Ar to the
even to Hormah. 45 And you re- children of Lot for a possession.’ ”
turned and wept before Jehovah; 10 (The Emim dwelt there in former
but Jehovah did not listen to your times, a people great, and many,
voice, nor gave ear to you. 46 So and tall, as the Anakim: 11 these
you remained in Kadesh many also are accounted Rephaim, as the
days, according to the days that Anakim; but the Moabites call them
you remained there. Emim. 12 The Horites also dwelt in

2 Then we turned, and took our Seir in former times, but the chil-
journey into the wilderness by dren of Esau succeeded them; and
the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah they destroyed them from before
spoke to me; and we went around them, and dwelt in their place; as
Mount Seir many days. 2 And Jeho- Israel did to the land of his posses-
vah spoke to me, saying, 3 ‘You sion, which Jehovah gave to them).
have gone around this mountain 13 Now rise up, and get over the
long enough: turn northward. 4 brook Zered.’ And we went over
And command the people, saying, the brook Zered. 14 And the days in
“You are to pass through the border which we came from Kadesh-
of your brethren the children of barnea, until we had come over the
Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they brook Zered, were thirty-eight
will be afraid of you. Take good years; until all the generation of the
heed to yourselves therefore; 5 do men of war were consumed from
not contend with them; for I will the midst of the camp, as Jehovah
not give you of their land, no, not so swore to them. 15 Moreover the
much as for the sole of the foot to hand of Jehovah was against them,
tread on; because I have given to destroy them from the midst of
Mount Seir to Esau for a posses- the camp, until they were con-
sion. 6 You shall purchase food sumed.
from them for money, that you may 16 So it came to pass, when all the
eat; and you shall also buy water men of war were consumed and
from them for money, that you may dead from among the people, 17
drink. 7 For Jehovah your God has that Jehovah spoke to me, saying,
blessed you in all the work of your 18 ‘You are this day to pass over Ar,
hand; he has known your walking the border of Moab: 19 and when
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you come near opposite the chil- the children of Esau who dwell in
dren of Ammon, do not distress Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in
them, nor contend with them; for I Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over
will not give you of the land of the the Jordan into the land which Je-
children of Ammon for a posses- hovah our God gives us.’ 30 But Si-
sion; because I have given it to the hon king of Heshbon would not let
children of Lot for a possession. 20 us pass by him; for Jehovah your
(That also is accounted a land of God hardened his spirit, and made
Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt there in his heart obstinate, that he might
former times; but the Ammonites deliver him into your hand, as at
call them Zamzummim, 21 a people this day. 31 And Jehovah said to
great, and many, and tall, as the me, ‘Behold, I have begun to de-
Anakim; but Jehovah destroyed liver up Sihon and his land before
them before them; and they suc- you: begin to possess, that you may
ceeded them, and dwelt in their inherit his land.’ 32 Then Sihon
place; 22 as he did for the children came out against us, he and all his
of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he people, to battle at Jahaz. 33 And Je-
destroyed the Horites from before hovah our God delivered him up
them; and they succeeded them, before us; and we struck him, and
and dwelt in their place even to this his sons, and all his people. 34 And
day: 23 And the Avvim, who dwelt we took all his cities at that time,
in villages as far as Gaza, the Caph- and utterly destroyed every inhab-
torim, who came forth out of Caph- ited city, with the women and the
tor, destroyed them, and dwelt in little ones; we left none remaining:
their place.) 24 Rise up, take your 35 only the cattle we took for a
journey, and pass over the valley of plunder to ourselves, with the spoil
the Arnon: behold, I have given of the cities which we had taken. 36
into your hand Sihon the Amorite, From Aroer, which is on the edge of
king of Heshbon, and his land; be- the valley of the Arnon, and from
gin to possess it, and contend with the city that is in the valley, even to
him in battle. 25 This day I will be- Gilead, there was not a city too high
gin to put the dread of you and the for us; Jehovah our God delivered
fear of you upon the peoples who up all before us: 37 only to the land
are under the whole heaven, who of the children of Ammon you did
shall hear the report of you, and not come near; all the side of the
shall tremble, and be in anguish be- river Jabbok, and the cities of the
cause of you.’ hill country, and wheresoever Jeho-
26 And I sent messengers out of vah our God forbid us.
the wilderness of Kedemoth to Si-
hon king of Heshbon with words of 3 Then we turned, and went up
the way to Bashan: and Og the
peace, saying, 27 ‘Let me pass king of Bashan came out against us,
through your land: I will go along he and all his people, to battle at
by the highway, I will turn neither Edrei. 2 And Jehovah said to me,
to the right hand nor to the left. 28 ‘Do not fear him; for I have deliv-
You shall sell me food for money, ered him, and all his people, and
that I may eat; and give me water his land, into your hand; and you
for money, that I may drink: only let shall do to him as you did to Sihon
me pass through on my feet; 29 as king of the Amorites, who dwelt at
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Heshbon.’ 3 So Jehovah our God (The same is called the land of
delivered into our hand Og also, Rephaim. 14 Jair the son of Man-
the king of Bashan, and all his peo- asseh took all the region of Argob,
ple: and we struck him until none to the border of the Geshurites and
was left to him remaining. 4 And the Maacathites, and called them,
we took all his cities at that time; even Bashan, after his own name,
there was not a city which we did Havvoth-jair, to this day.) 15 And I
not take from them; sixty cities, all gave Gilead to Machir. 16 And to
the region of Argob, the kingdom of the Reubenites and to the Gadites I
Og in Bashan. 5 All these were cities gave from Gilead even to the valley
fortified with high walls, gates, and of the Arnon, the middle of the val-
bars; besides the unwalled towns a ley, and the border of it, even to the
great many. 6 And we utterly de- river Jabbok, which is the border of
stroyed them, as we did to Sihon the children of Ammon; 17 the
king of Heshbon, utterly destroying Arabah also, and the Jordan and the
every inhabited city, with the border of it, from Chinnereth even
women and the little ones. 7 But all to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt
the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah
we took for a plunder to ourselves. eastward.
8 And we took the land at that time 18 And I commanded you at that
out of the hand of the two kings of time, saying, ‘Jehovah your God
the Amorites who were beyond the has given you this land to possess
Jordan, from the valley of the it: you shall pass over armed before
Arnon to Mount Hermon; 9 (which your brethren the children of Israel,
Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, all the men of valor. 19 But your
and the Amorites call it Senir); 10 wives, and your little ones, and
all the cities of the plain, and all your cattle, (I know that you have
Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah much cattle), shall remain in your
and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of cities which I have given you, 20
Og in Bashan. 11 (For only Og king until Jehovah gives rest to your
of Bashan remained of the remnant brethren, as to you, and they also
of the Rephaim; behold, his bed- possess the land which Jehovah
stead was a bedstead of iron; is it your God gives them beyond the
not in Rabbah of the children of Jordan: then shall you return every
Ammon? nine cubits was the man to his possession, which I have
length of it, and four cubits the given you.’ 21 And I commanded
breadth of it, after the cubit of a Joshua at that time, saying, ‘Your
man.) eyes have seen all that Jehovah
12 And this land we took in pos- your God has done to these two
session at that time: from Aroer, kings: so shall Jehovah do to all the
which is by the valley of the Arnon, kingdoms where you go over. 22
and half the hill country of Gilead, You shall not fear them; for Jehovah
and the cities of it, I gave to the your God, it is he who fights for
Reubenites and to the Gadites: 13 you.’
and the rest of Gilead, and all 23 And I beseeched Jehovah at
Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave that time, saying, 24 ‘O Lord Jeho-
to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the vah, you have begun to show your
region of Argob, even all Bashan. servant your greatness, and your
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strong hand: for what god is there therefore and do them; for this is
in heaven or in earth, that can do your wisdom and your under-
according to your works, and ac- standing in the sight of the peoples,
cording to your mighty acts? 25 Let that shall hear all these statutes,
me go over, I pray, and see the good and say, ‘Surely this great nation is
land that is beyond the Jordan, that a wise and understanding people.’
good mountain, and Lebanon.’ 26 7 For what great nation is there,
But Jehovah was angry with me for that has a god so near to them, as
your sakes, and did not listen to Jehovah our God is whensoever we
me; and Jehovah said to me, ‘Let it call upon him? 8 And what great
suffice you; speak no more to me of nation is there, that has statutes and
this matter. 27 Get up to the top of ordinances so righteous as all this
Pisgah, and lift up your eyes west- law, which I set before you this
ward, and northward, and south- day?
ward, and eastward, and behold 9 Only take heed to yourself, and
with your eyes: for you shall not go keep your soul diligently, lest you
over this Jordan. 28 But charge forget the things which your eyes
Joshua, and encourage him, and saw, and lest they depart from your
strengthen him; for he shall go over heart all the days of your life; but
before this people, and he shall make them known to your children
cause them to inherit the land and your children’s children; 10 the
which you shall see.’ 29 So we re- day that you stood before Jehovah
mained in the valley opposite Beth- your God in Horeb, when Jehovah
peor. said to me, ‘Assemble the people,

4 And now, O Israel, listen to and I will make them hear my

the statutes and to the ordi- words, that they may learn to fear
nances, which I teach you, to do me all the days that they live on the
them; that you may live, and go in earth, and that they may teach their
and possess the land which Jeho- children.’ 11 And you came near
vah, the God of your fathers, gives and stood under the mountain; and
you. 2 You shall not add to the the mountain burned with fire to
word which I command you, nei- the heart of heaven, with darkness,
ther shall you diminish from it, that cloud, and thick darkness. 12 And
you may keep the commandments Jehovah spoke to you out of the
of Jehovah your God which I com- midst of the fire: you heard the
mand you. 3 Your eyes have seen voice of words, but you saw no
what Jehovah did because of Baal- form; only you heard a voice. 13 And
peor; for all the men who followed he declared to you his covenant,
Baal-peor, Jehovah your God has which he commanded you to per-
destroyed them from the midst of form, even the ten commandments;
you. 4 But you who cleaved to Jeho- and he wrote them on two tables of
vah your God are alive every one of stone. 14 And Jehovah commanded
you this day. 5 Behold, I have me at that time to teach you statutes
taught you statutes and ordinances, and ordinances, that you might do
even as Jehovah my God com- them in the land to which you go
manded me, that you should do so over to possess it.
in the midst of the land to which 15 Take therefore good heed to
you go in to possess it. 6 Keep yourselves; for you saw no manner
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of form on the day that Jehovah God, to provoke him to anger; 26 I
spoke to you in Horeb out of the call heaven and earth to witness
midst of the fire; 16 lest you corrupt against you this day, that you shall
yourselves, and make a graven im- soon utterly perish from off the
age in the form of any figure, the land to which you go over the Jor-
likeness of male or female, 17 the dan to possess it; you shall not pro-
likeness of any beast that is on the long your days upon it, but shall
earth, the likeness of any winged utterly be destroyed. 27 And Jeho-
bird that flies in the heavens, 18 the vah will scatter you among the peo-
likeness of anything that creeps on ples, and you shall be left few in
the ground, the likeness of any fish number among the nations, to
that is in the water under the earth; which Jehovah shall lead you away.
19 and lest you lift up your eyes to 28 And there you shall serve gods,
heaven, and when you see the sun the work of men’s hands, wood and
and the moon and the stars, even all stone, which neither see, nor hear,
the host of heaven, you be drawn nor eat, nor smell. 29 But from there
away and worship them, and serve you shall seek Jehovah your God,
them, which Jehovah your God has and you shall find him, when you
allotted to all the peoples under the search after him with all your heart
whole heaven. 20 But Jehovah has and with all your soul. 30 When
taken you, and brought you forth you are in tribulation, and all these
out of the iron furnace, out of things come upon you, in the latter
Egypt, to be to him a people of in- days you shall return to Jehovah
heritance, as at this day. 21 Further- your God, and listen to his voice: 31
more Jehovah was angry with me for Jehovah your God is a merciful
for your sakes, and swore that I God; he will not fail you, neither
should not go over the Jordan, and destroy you, nor forget the
that I should not go in to that good covenant of your fathers which he
land, which Jehovah your God swore to them.
gives you for an inheritance: 22 but 32 For ask now of the days that
I must die in this land, I must not go are past, which were before you,
over the Jordan; but you shall go since the day that God created man
over, and possess that good land. 23 on the earth, and from the one end
Take heed to yourselves, lest you of heaven to the other, whether
forget the covenant of Jehovah your there has been any such thing as this
God, which he made with you, and great thing is, or has been heard
make a graven image in the form of like it? 33 Did ever a people hear
anything which Jehovah your God the voice of God speaking out of the
has forbidden you. 24 For Jehovah midst of the fire, as you have heard,
your God is a devouring fire, a jeal- and live? 34 Or has God attempted
ous God. to go and take him a nation from
25 When you shall beget children, the midst of another nation, by tri-
and children’s children, and you als, by signs, and by wonders, and
shall have been long in the land, by war, and by a mighty hand, and
and shall corrupt yourselves, and by an outstretched arm, and by
make a graven image in the form of great terrors, according to all that
anything, and shall do that which is Jehovah your God did for you in
evil in the sight of Jehovah your Egypt before your eyes? 35 To you
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it was shown, that you might know peor, in the land of Sihon king of
that Jehovah he is God; there is the Amorites, who dwelt at Hesh-
none else besides him. 36 Out of bon, whom Moses and the children
heaven he made you to hear his of Israel struck, when they came
voice, that he might instruct you: forth out of Egypt. 47 And they
and on earth he made you to see his took his land in possession, and the
great fire; and you heard his words land of Og king of Bashan, the two
out of the midst of the fire. 37 And kings of the Amorites, who were
because he loved your fathers, beyond the Jordan toward the sun-
therefore he chose their seed after rising; 48 from Aroer, which is on
them, and brought you out with his the edge of the valley of the Arnon,
presence, with his great power, out even to Mount Sion (the same is
of Egypt; 38 to drive out nations Hermon), 49 and all the Arabah be-
from before you greater and might- yond the Jordan eastward, even to
ier than you, to bring you in, to give the sea of the Arabah, under the
you their land for an inheritance, as slopes of Pisgah.
at this day. 39 Know therefore this
day, and lay it to your heart, that Je-5 And Moses called to all Israel,
and said to them, “Hear, O Is-
hovah he is God in heaven above rael, the stat-utes and the ordi-
and on the earth beneath; there is nances which I speak in your ears
none else. 40 And you shall keep this day, that you may learn them,
his statutes, and his command- and observe to do them. 2 Jehovah
ments, which I command you this our God made a covenant with us
day, that it may go well with you, in Horeb. 3 Jehovah did not make
and with your children after you, this covenant with our fathers, but
and that you may prolong your with us, even us, who are all of us
days in the land, which Jehovah here alive this day. 4 Jehovah spoke
your God gives you, for ever.” with you face to face at the moun-
41 Then Moses set apart three tain out of the midst of the fire, 5 (I
cities beyond the Jordan toward the stood between Jehovah and you at
sunrising; 42 that the manslayer that time, to show you the word of
might flee there, who slays his Jehovah: for you were afraid be-
neighbor unaware, and did not cause of the fire, and did not go up
hate him in time past; and that flee- into the mountain;) saying,
ing to one of these cities he might 6 ‘I am Jehovah your God, who
live: 43 namely, Bezer in the wilder- brought you out of the land of
ness, in the plain country, for the Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gil-ead, 7 You shall have no other gods be-
for the Gadites; and Golan in fore me.
Bashan, for the Manassites. 8 You shall not make to you a
44 And this is the law which graven image, nor any likeness of
Moses set before the children of Is- anything that is in heaven above, or
rael: 45 these are the testimonies, that is in the earth beneath, or that
and the statutes, and the ordi- is in the water under the earth: 9
nances, which Moses spoke to the you shall not bow down yourself to
children of Israel, when they came them, nor serve them; for I, Jeho-
forth out of Egypt, 46 beyond the vah, your God, am a jealous God,
Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth- visiting the iniquity of the fathers
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upon the children, and upon the male servant, his ox, or his donkey,
third and upon the fourth genera- or anything that is your neigh-
tion of those who hate me; 10 and bor’s.’
showing lovingkindness to thou- 22 These words Jehovah spoke to
sands of those who love me and all your assembly in the mountain
keep my commandments. out of the midst of the fire, of the
11 You shall not take the name of cloud, and of the thick darkness,
Jehovah your God in vain: for Jeho- with a great voice: and he added no
vah will not hold him guiltless who more. And he wrote them on two
takes his name in vain. tablets of stone, and gave them to
12 Observe the Sabbath day, to me. 23 And it came to pass, when
keep it holy, as Jehovah your God you heard the voice out of the midst
commanded you. 13 Six days shall of the darkness, while the moun-
you labor, and do all your work; 14 tain was burning with fire, that you
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to came near to me, even all the heads
Jehovah your God: in it you shall of your tribes, and your elders; 24
not do any work, you, nor your son, and you said, ‘Behold, Jehovah our
nor your daughter, nor your male God has shown us his glory and his
servant, nor your female servant, greatness, and we have heard his
nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor voice out of the midst of the fire: we
any of your cattle, nor your have seen this day that God speaks
stranger who is within your gates; with man, and he lives. 25 Now
that your male servant and your fe- therefore why should we die? for
male servant may rest as well as this great fire will consume us: if we
you. 15 And you shall remember hear the voice of Jehovah our God
that you were a servant in the land any more, then we shall die. 26 For
of Egypt, and Jehovah your God who is there of all flesh, who has
brought you out from there by a heard the voice of the living God
mighty hand and by an out- speaking out of the midst of the fire,
stretched arm: therefore Jehovah as we have, and lived? 27 Go near,
your God commanded you to keep and hear all that Jehovah our God
the Sabbath day. shall say: and speak to us all that Je-
16 Honor your father and your hovah our God shall speak to you;
mother, as Jehovah your God com- and we will hear it, and do it.’
manded you; that your days may 28 And Jehovah heard the voice of
be long, and that it may go well your words, when you spoke to me;
with you, in the land which Jeho- and Jehovah said to me, ‘I have
vah your God gives you. heard the voice of the words of this
17 You shall not kill. people, which they have spoken to
18 Neither shall you commit adul- you: they have said well all that
tery. they have spoken. 29 Oh that there
19 Neither shall you steal. were such a heart in them, that they
20 Neither shall you bear false would fear me, and keep all my
witness against your neighbor. commandments always, that it
21 Neither shall you covet your might be well with them, and with
neighbor’s wife; neither shall you their children for ever! 30 ‘Go say to
desire your neighbor’s house, his them, “Return to your tents.” 31
field, or his male servant, or his fe- But as for you, stand here by me,
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and I will speak to you all the com- them for a sign on your hand, and
mandment, and the statutes, and they shall be for frontlets between
the ordinances, which you shall your eyes. 9 And you shall write
teach them, that they may do them them on the doorposts of your
in the land which I give them to house, and on your gates.
possess it.’ 32 You shall observe to 10 And it shall be, when Jehovah
do therefore as Jehovah your God your God shall bring you into the
has commanded you: you shall not land which he swore to their fa-
turn aside to the right hand or to thers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
the left. 33 You shall walk in all the Jacob, to give you, great and good
way which Jehovah your God has cities, which you did not build, 11
commanded you, that you may and houses full of all good things,
live, and that it may be well with which you did not fill, and cisterns
you, and that you may prolong hewn out, which you did not hew,
your days in the land which you vineyards and olive trees, which
shall possess. you did not plan, and you shall eat

6 Now this is the command- and be full; 12 then beware lest you
ment, the statutes, and the ordi- forget Jehovah, who brought you
nances, which Jehovah your God forth out of the land of Egypt, out of
commanded to teach you, that you the house of bondage. 13 You shall
might do them in the land to which fear Jehovah your God; and him
you go over to possess it; 2 that you shall you serve, and shall swear by
might fear Jehovah your God, to his name. 14 You shall not go after
keep all his statutes and his com- other gods, of the gods of the peo-
mandments, which I command ples that are around you; 15 for Je-
you, you, and your son, and your hovah your God in the midst of you
son’s son, all the days of your life; is a jealous God; lest the anger of Je-
and that your days may be pro- hovah your God be kindled against
longed. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, you, and he destroy you from off
and observe to do it; that it may be the face of the earth.
well with you, and that you may in- 16 You shall not tempt Jehovah
crease mightily, as Jehovah, the your God, as you tempted him in
God of your fathers, has promised Massah. 17 You shall diligently
to you, in a land flowing with milk keep the commandments of Jeho-
and honey. vah your God, and his testimonies,
4 Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God and his statutes, which he has com-
is one Jehovah: 5 and you shall love manded you. 18 And you shall do
Jehovah your God with all your that which is right and good in the
heart, and with all your soul, and sight of Jehovah; that it may be well
with all your might. 6 And these with you, and that you may go in
words, which I command you this and possess the good land which
day, shall be upon your heart; 7 and Jehovah swore to your fathers, 19 to
you shall teach them diligently to thrust out all your enemies from be-
your children, and shall talk of fore you, as Jehovah has spoken.
them when you sit in your house, 20 When your son asks you in
and when you walk by the way, time to come, saying, ‘What mean
and when you lie down, and when the testimonies, and the statutes,
you rise up. 8 And you shall bind and the ordinances, which Jehovah
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our God has commanded you?’ 21 down their Asherim, and burn their
then you shall say to your son, ‘We graven images with fire.
were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt: 6 For you are a holy people to Je-
and Jehovah brought us out of hovah your God: Jehovah your
Egypt with a mighty hand; 22 and God has chosen you to be a people
Jehovah showed signs and won- for his own possession, above all
ders, great and sore, upon Egypt, peoples who are on the face of the
upon Pharaoh, and upon all his earth. 7 Jehovah did not set his love
house, before our eyes; 23 and he upon you, nor choose you, because
brought us out from there, that he you were more in number than any
might bring us in, to give us the people; for you were the fewest of
land which he swore to our fathers. all peoples: 8 but because Jehovah
24 And Jehovah commanded us to loves you, and because he would
do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah keep the oath which he swore to
our God, for our good always, that your fathers, has Jehovah brought
he might preserve us alive, as at you out with a mighty hand, and
this day. 25 And it shall be right- redeemed you out of the house of
eousness to us, if we observe to do bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh
all this commandment before Jeho- king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore
vah our God, as he has commanded that Jehovah your God, he is God,
us.’ the faithful God, who keeps

7 When Jehovah your God shall covenant and lovingkindness with

bring you into the land to those who love him and keep his
which you go to possess it, and commandments to a thousand gen-
shall cast out many nations before erations, 10 and pays those who
you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, hate him to their face, to destroy
and the Amorite, and the Canaan- them: he will not be slack to him
ite, and the Perizzite, and the who hates him, he will repay him to
Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven na- his face. 11 You shall therefore keep
tions greater and mightier than the commandment, and the
you; 2 and when Jehovah your God statutes, and the ordinances, which
shall deliver them up before you, I command you this day, to do
and you shall strike them; then you them.
shall utterly destroy them: you 12 And it shall come to pass, be-
shall make no covenant with them, cause you listen to these ordi-
nor show mercy to them; 3 neither nances, and keep and do them, that
shall you make marriages with Jehovah your God will keep with
them; your daughter you shall not you the covenant and the lov-
give to his son, nor his daughter ingkindness which he swore to
shall you take to your son. 4 For he your fathers: 13 and he will love
will turn away your son from fol- you, and bless you, and multiply
lowing me, that they may serve you; he will also bless the fruit of
other gods: so will the anger of Je- your body and the fruit of your
hovah be kindled against you, and ground, your grain and your new
he will destroy you quickly. 5 But wine and your oil, the increase of
thus shall you deal with them: you your cattle and the young of your
shall break down their altars, and flock, in the land which he swore to
dash in pieces their pillars, and hew your fathers to give you. 14 You
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shall be blessed above all peoples: destroyed them. 25 The graven im-
there shall not be male or female ages of their gods shall you burn
barren among you, or among your with fire: you shall not covet the sil-
cattle. 15 And Jehovah will take ver or the gold that is on them, nor
away from you all sickness; and take it to you, lest you be snared in
none of the evil diseases of Egypt, it; for it is an abomination to Jeho-
which you know, will he put upon vah your God. 26 And you shall not
you, but will lay them upon all bring an abomination into your
those who hate you. 16 And you house, and become a devoted thing
shall consume all the peoples like it: you shall utterly detest it,
whom Jehovah your God shall de- and you shall utterly abhor it; for it
liver to you; your eye shall not pity is a devoted thing.
them: neither shall you serve their
8
gods; for that will be a snare to you.
All the commandment which
I command you this day shall
17 If you shall say in your heart, you observe to do, that you may
‘These nations are more than I; how live, and multiply, and go in and
can I dispossess them?’ 18 you shall possess the land which Jehovah
not be afraid of them: you shall re- swore to your fathers. 2 And you
member well what Jehovah your shall remember all the way which
God did to Pharaoh, and to all Jehovah your God has led you
Egypt; 19 the great trials which these forty years in the wilderness,
your eyes saw, and the signs, and that he might humble you, to test
the wonders, and the mighty hand, you, to know what was in your
and the outstretched arm, by which heart, whether you would keep his
Jehovah your God brought you out: commandments, or not. 3 And he
so shall Jehovah your God do to all humbled you, and allowed you to
the peoples of whom you are hunger, and fed you with manna,
afraid. 20 Moreover Jehovah your which you did not know, neither
God will send the hornet among did your fathers know; that he
them, until those who are left, and might make you know that man
hide themselves, perish from before does not live by bread only, but by
you. 21 You shall not be frightened everything that proceeds out of the
of them; for Jehovah your God is in mouth of Jehovah does man live. 4
the midst of you, a great God and Your clothing did not wear out on
terrifying. 22 And Jehovah your you, neither did your foot swell,
God will cast out those nations be- these forty years. 5 And you shall
fore you by little and little: you may consider in your heart, that, as a
not consume them at once, lest the man chastens his son, so Jehovah
beasts of the field increase upon your God chastens you. 6 And you
you. 23 But Jehovah your God will shall keep the commandments of
deliver them up before you, and Jehovah your God, to walk in his
will confuse them with a great con- ways, and to fear him. 7 For Jeho-
fusion, until they are destroyed. 24 vah your God brings you into a
And he will deliver their kings into good land, a land of brooks of wa-
your hand, and you shall make ter, of fountains and springs, flow-
their name to perish from under ing forth in valleys and hills; 8 a
heaven: no man shall be able to land of wheat and barley, and vines
stand before you, until you have and fig trees and pomegranates; a
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land of olive trees and honey; 9 a that you shall surely perish. 20 As
land in which you shall eat bread the nations that Jehovah makes to
without scarceness, you shall not perish before you, so shall you per-
lack anything in it; a land whose ish; because you would not listen to
stones are iron, and out of whose the voice of Jehovah your God.
hills you may dig copper. 10 And
you shall eat and be full, and you 9 Hear, O Israel: you are to pass
over the Jordan this day, to go in
shall bless Jehovah your God for to dispossess nations greater and
the good land which he has given mightier than yourself, cities great
you. and fortified up to heaven, 2 a peo-
11 Beware lest you forget Jehovah ple great and tall, the sons of the
your God, in not keeping his com- Anakim, whom you know, and of
mandments, and his ordinances, whom you have heard say, ‘Who
and his statutes, which I command can stand before the sons of Anak?’
you this day: 12 lest, when you 3 Know therefore this day, that Je-
have eaten and are full, and have hovah your God is he who goes
built good houses, and dwelt in over before you as a devouring fire;
them; 13 and when your herds and he will destroy them, and he will
your flocks multiply, and your sil- bring them down before you: so
ver and your gold is multiplied, shall you drive them out, and make
and all that you have is multiplied; them to perish quickly, as Jehovah
14 then your heart be lifted up, and has spoken to you. 4 Do not speak
you forget Jehovah your God, who in your heart, after Jehovah your
brought you forth out of the land of God has thrust them out from be-
Egypt, out of the house of bondage; fore you, saying, ‘For my righteous-
15 who led you through the great ness Jehovah has brought me in to
and terrible wilderness, in which possess this land; whereas for the
were fiery serpents and scorpions, wickedness of these nations Jeho-
and thirsty ground where no water vah drives them out from before
was; who brought you forth water you. 5 Not for your righteousness,
out of the rock of flint; 16 who fed or for the uprightness of your heart,
you in the wilderness with manna, do you go in to possess their land;
which your fathers did not know; but for the wickedness of these na-
that he might humble you, and that tions Jehovah your God drives
he might test you, to do you good at them out from before you, and that
your latter end: 17 and lest you say he may establish the word which
in your heart, ‘My power and the Jehovah swore to your fathers, to
might of my hand has gotten me Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
this wealth.’ 18 But you shall re- 6 Know therefore, that Jehovah
member Jehovah your God, for it is your God does not give you this
he who gives you power to get good land to possess it for your
wealth; that he may establish his righteousness; for you are a stiff-
covenant which he swore to your necked people. 7 Remember, do not
fathers, as at this day. 19 And it forget, how you provoked Jehovah
shall be, if you shall forget Jehovah your God to wrath in the wilder-
your God, and walk after other ness: from the day that you went
gods, and serve them, and worship forth out of the land of Egypt, until
them, I testify against you this day you came to this place, you have
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been rebellious against Jehovah. 8 commanded you. 17 And I took
Also in Horeb you provoked Jeho- hold of the two tables, and cast
vah to wrath, and Jehovah was an- them out of my two hands, and
gry with you to destroy you. 9 broke them before your eyes. 18
When I had gone up into the moun- And I fell down before Jehovah, as
tain to receive the tables of stone, at the first, forty days and forty
even the tables of the covenant nights; I neither ate bread nor
which Jehovah made with you, drank water; because of all your sin
then I remained on the mountain which you sinned, in doing that
forty days and forty nights; I nei- which was evil in the sight of Jeho-
ther ate bread nor drank water. 10 vah, to provoke him to anger. 19
And Jehovah delivered to me the For I was afraid of the anger and
two tables of stone written with the hot displeasure, with which Jeho-
finger of God; and on them was vah was angry against you to de-
written according to all the words, stroy you. But Jehovah listened to
which Jehovah spoke with you in me that time also. 20 And Jehovah
the mountain out of the midst of the was very angry with Aaron to de-
fire in the day of the assembly. 11 stroy him: and I prayed for Aaron
And it came to pass at the end of also at the same time. 21 And I took
forty days and forty nights, that Je- your sin, the calf which you had
hovah gave me the two tables of made, and burned it with fire, and
stone, even the tables of the stamped it, grinding it very small,
covenant. 12 And Jehovah said to until it was as fine as dust: and I
me, ‘Arise, get down quickly from cast the dust of it into the brook that
here; for your people whom you descended out of the mountain.
have brought forth out of Egypt 22 And at Taberah, and at Massah,
have corrupted themselves; they and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you pro-
have quickly turned aside out of voked Jehovah to wrath. 23 And
the way which I commanded them; when Jehovah sent you from
they have made themselves a Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and
molten image.’ 13 Furthermore Je- possess the land which I have given
hovah spoke to me, saying, ‘I have you’; then you rebelled against the
seen this people, and, behold, it is a commandment of Jehovah your
stiff-necked people: 14 leave me God, and you did not believe him,
alone, that I may destroy them, and nor listen to his voice. 24 You have
blot out their name from under been rebellious against Jehovah
heaven; and I will make of you a from the day that I knew you.
nation mightier and greater than 25 So I fell down before Jehovah
they.’ 15 So I turned and came the forty days and forty nights that
down from the mountain, and the I fell down, because Jehovah had
mountain was burning with fire: said he would destroy you. 26 And
and the two tables of the covenant I prayed to Jehovah, and said, ‘O
were in my two hands. 16 And I Lord Jehovah, do not destroy your
looked, and, behold, you had people and your inheritance, that
sinned against Jehovah your God; you have redeemed through your
you had made yourselves a molten greatness, that you have brought
calf: you had turned aside quickly forth out of Egypt with a mighty
out of the way which Jehovah had hand. 27 Remember your servants,
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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah
look to the stubbornness of this to minister to him, and to bless in
people, nor to their wickedness, nor his name, to this day. 9 Therefore
to their sin, 28 lest the land to which Levi has no portion nor inheritance
you brought us out say, ‘Because Je- with his brethren; Jehovah is his in-
hovah was not able to bring them heritance, according as Jehovah
into the land which he promised to your God spoke to him.) 10 “And I
them, and because he hated them, stayed on the mountain, as at the
he has brought them out to slay first time, forty days and forty
them in the wilderness.’ 29 Yet they nights: and Jehovah listened to me
are your people and your inheri- that time also; Jehovah would not
tance, which you brought out by destroy you. 11 And Jehovah said
your great power and by your out- to me, ‘Arise, take your journey be-
stretched arm. fore the people; and they shall go in

10 At that time Jehovah said to and possess the land, which I swore
me, ‘Hew two tables of stone to their fathers to give to them.’
like the first, and come up to me 12 And now, Israel, what does Je-
onto the mountain, and make an hovah your God require of you, but
ark of wood. 2 And I will write on to fear Jehovah your God, to walk
the tables the words that were on in all his ways, and to love him, and
the first tables which you broke, to serve Jehovah your God with all
and you shall put them in the ark.’ your heart and with all your soul,
3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, 13 to keep the commandments of
and hewed two tables of stone like Jehovah, and his statutes, which I
the first, and went up onto the command you this day for your
mountain, having the two tables in good? 14 Behold, to Jehovah your
my hand. 4 And he wrote on the ta- God belongs heaven and the
bles, according to the first writing, heaven of heavens, the earth, with
the Ten Commandments, which Je- all that is in it. 15 Only Jehovah had
hovah spoke to you on the moun- a delight in your fathers to love
tain out of the midst of the fire in them, and he chose their seed after
the day of the assembly: and Jeho- them, even you above all peoples,
vah gave them to me. 5 And I as at this day. 16 Circumcise there-
turned and came down from the fore the foreskin of your heart, and
mountain, and put the tables in the be no more stiff-necked. 17 For Je-
ark which I had made; and there hovah your God, he is God of gods,
they are as Jehovah commanded and Lord of lords, the great God,
me.” 6 (And the children of Israel the mighty, and the terrifying, who
journeyed from Beeroth Bene- does not regard persons, nor take
jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron reward. 18 He executes justice for
died, and there he was buried; and the fatherless and widow, and loves
Eleazar his son ministered in the the sojourner, in giving him food
priest’s office in his place. 7 From and clothing. 19 Love therefore the
there they journeyed to Gudgodah; sojourner; for you were sojourners
and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a in the land of Egypt. 20 You shall
land of brooks of water. 8 At that fear Jehovah your God; him shall
time Jehovah set apart the tribe of you serve; and to him shall you
Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant cleave, and by his name shall you
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swear. 21 He is your praise, and he them and to their seed, a land flow-
is your God, who has done for you ing with milk and honey. 10 For the
these great and terrifying things, land, to which you go in to possess
which your eyes have seen. 22 Your it, is not as the land of Egypt, from
fathers went down into Egypt with where you came out, where you
seventy persons; and now Jehovah sowed your seed, and watered it
your God has made you as the stars with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
of heaven for multitude. 11 but the land, to which to go over

11 Therefore you shall love Je- to possess it, is a land of hills and
hovah your God, and keep valleys, and drinks water of the rain
his charge, and his statutes, and his of heaven, 12 a land which Jehovah
ordinances, and his command- your God cares for: the eyes of Je-
ments, always. 2 And know this hovah your God are always upon
day: for I do not speak with your it, from the beginning of the year
children who have not known, and even to the end of the year.
who have not seen the chastisement 13 And it shall come to pass, if
of Jehovah your God, his greatness, you shall listen diligently to my
his mighty hand, and his out- commandments which I command
stretched arm, 3 and his signs, and you this day, to love Jehovah your
his works, which he did in the God, and to serve him with all your
midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king heart and with all your soul, 14 that
of Egypt, and to all his land; 4 and I will give the rain of your land in
what he did to the army of Egypt, its season, the former rain and the
to their horses, and to their chariots; latter rain, that you may gather in
how he made the water of the Red your grain, and your new wine,
Sea to overflow them as they pur- and your oil. 15 And I will give
sued after you, and how Jehovah grass in your fields for your cattle,
has destroyed them to this day; 5 and you shall eat and be full. 16
and what he did to you in the Take heed to yourselves, lest your
wilderness, until you came to this heart be deceived, and you turn
place; 6 and what he did to Dathan aside, and serve other gods, and
and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the worship them; 17 and the anger of
son of Reuben; how the earth Jehovah be kindled against you,
opened its mouth, and swallowed and he shut up the heavens, so that
them up, and their households, and there shall be no rain, and the land
their tents, and every living thing shall not yield its fruit; and you per-
that followed them, in the midst of ish quickly from off the good land
all Israel: 7 but your eyes have seen which Jehovah gives you.
all the great work of Jehovah which 18 Therefore shall you lay up
he did. these my words in your heart and
8 Therefore shall you keep all the in your soul; and you shall bind
commandment which I command them for a sign on your hand, and
you this day, that you may be they shall be for frontlets between
strong, and go in and possess the your eyes. 19 And you shall teach
land, to which you go over to pos- them your children, talking of
sess it; 9 and that you may prolong them, when you sit in your house,
your days in the land, which Jeho- and when you walk by the way,
vah swore to your fathers to give to and when you lie down, and when
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you rise up. 20 And you shall write in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, be-
them on the door posts of your side the oaks of Moreh? 31 For you
house, and on your gates; 21 that are to pass over the Jordan to go in
your days may be multiplied, and to possess the land which Jehovah
the days of your children, in the your God gives you, and you shall
land which Jehovah swore to your possess it, and dwell in it. 32 And
fathers to give them, as the days of you shall observe to do all the
the heavens above the earth. 22 For statutes and the ordinances which I
if you shall diligently keep all this set before you this day.
commandment which I command
you, to do it, to love Jehovah your 12 These are the statutes and
the ordinances which you
God, to walk in all his ways, and to shall observe to do in the land
cleave to him; 23 then will Jehovah which Jehovah, the God of your fa-
drive out all these nations from be- thers, has given you to possess it,
fore you, and you shall dispossess all the days that you live on the
nations greater and mightier than earth. 2 You shall surely destroy all
yourselves. 24 Every place on the places in which the nations that
which the sole of your foot shall you shall dispossess served their
tread shall be yours: from the gods, on the high mountains, and
wilderness, and Lebanon, from the on the hills, and under every green
river, the river Euphrates, even to tree: 3 and you shall break down
the western sea shall be your bor- their altars, and dash in pieces their
der. 25 There no man shall be able pillars, and burn their Asherim
to stand before you: Jehovah your with fire; and you shall hew down
God shall lay the fear of you and the graven images of their gods;
the dread of you upon all the land and you shall destroy their name
that you shall tread on, as he has out of that place. 4 You shall not do
spoken to you. so to Jehovah your God. 5 But to the
26 Behold, I set before you this place which Jehovah your God
day a blessing and a curse: 27 the shall choose out of all your tribes, to
blessing, if you shall listen to the put his name there, even to his
commandments of Jehovah your habitation shall you seek, and there
God, which I command you this you shall come; 6 and there you
day; 28 and the curse, if you shall shall bring your burnt offerings,
not listen to the commandments of and your sacrifices, and your tithes,
Jehovah your God, but turn aside and the heave offering of your
out of the way which I command hand, and your vows, and your
you this day, to go after other gods, freewill offerings, and the firstborn
which you have not known. 29 And of your herd and of your flock: 7
it shall come to pass, when Jehovah and there you shall eat before Jeho-
your God shall bring you into the vah your God, and you shall rejoice
land to which you go to possess it, in all that you put your hand to,
that you shall set the blessing upon you and your households, in which
Mount Gerizim, and the curse upon Jehovah your God has blessed you.
Mount Ebal. 30 Are they not be- 8 You shall not do after all the
yond the Jordan, behind the way of things that we do here this day, ev-
the going down of the sun, in the ery man whatsoever is right in his
land of the Canaanites who dwell own eyes; 9 for you have not as yet
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come to the rest and to the inheri- heave offering of your hand; 18 but
tance, which Jehovah your God you shall eat them before Jehovah
gives you. 10 But when you go over your God in the place which Jeho-
the Jordan, and dwell in the land vah your God shall choose, you,
which Jehovah your God causes and your son, and your daughter,
you to inherit, and he gives you rest and your male servant, and your fe-
from all your enemies all around, male servant, and the Levite who is
so that you dwell in safety; 11 then within your gates: and you shall re-
it shall come to pass that to the joice before Jehovah your God in all
place which Jehovah your God that you put your hand to. 19 Take
shall choose, to cause his name to heed to yourself that you do not
dwell there, there shall you bring forsake the Levite as long as you
all that I command you: your burnt live in your land.
offerings, and your sacrifices, your 20 When Jehovah your God shall
tithes, and the heave offering of enlarge your border, as he has
your hand, and all your choice promised you, and you shall say, ‘I
vows which you vow to Jehovah. will eat flesh,’ because your soul
12 And you shall rejoice before Je- desires to eat flesh; you may eat
hovah your God, you, and your flesh, after all the desire of your
sons, and your daughters, and your soul. 21 If the place which Jehovah
male servants, and your female ser- your God shall choose, to put his
vants, and the Levite who is within name there, be too far from you,
your gates, because he has no por- then you shall kill from your herd
tion nor inheritance with you. 13 and from your flock, which Jeho-
Take heed to yourself that you do vah has given you, as I have com-
not offer your burnt-offerings in ev- manded you; and you may eat
ery place that you see; 14 but in the within your gates, according to all
place which Jehovah shall choose in the desire of your soul. 22 Even as
one of your tribes, there you shall the gazelle and as the deer is eaten,
offer your burnt offerings, and so you shall eat of it: the unclean
there you shall do all that I com- and the clean may eat of it alike. 23
mand you. Only be sure that you do not eat the
15 Notwithstanding, you may kill blood: for the blood is the life; and
and eat flesh within all your gates, you shall not eat the life with the
after all the desire of your soul, ac- flesh. 24 You shall not eat it; you
cording to the blessing of Jehovah shall pour it out upon the earth as
your God which he has given you: water. 25 You shall not eat it; that it
the unclean and the clean may eat may go well with you, and with
of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the your children after you, when you
deer. 16 Only you shall not eat the shall do that which is right in the
blood; you shall pour it out upon eyes of Jehovah. 26 Only your holy
the earth as water. 17 You may not things which you have, and your
eat within your gates the tithe of vows, you shall take, and go to the
your grain, or of your new wine, or place which Jehovah shall choose;
of your oil, or the firstborn of your 27 and you shall offer your burnt
herd or of your flock, nor any of offerings, the flesh and the blood,
your vows which you vow, nor on the altar of Jehovah your God;
your freewill offerings, nor the and the blood of your sacrifices
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shall be poured out on the altar of his voice, and you shall serve him,
Jehovah your God; and you shall and cleave to him. 5 And that
eat the flesh. 28 Observe and hear prophet, or that dreamer of dreams,
all these words which I command shall be put to death, because he
you, that it may go well with you, has spoken rebellion against Jeho-
and with your children after you vah your God, who brought you
for ever, when you do that which is out of the land of Egypt, and re-
good and right in the eyes of Jeho- deemed you out of the house of
vah your God. bondage, to draw you aside out of
29 When Jehovah your God shall the way which Jehovah your God
cut off the nations from before you, commanded you to walk in. So
to which you go in to dispossess shall you put away the evil from
them, and you dispossess them, the midst of you.
and dwell in their land; 30 take 6 If your brother, the son of your
heed to yourself that you are not mother, or your son, or your
ensnared to follow them, after they daughter, or the wife of your bo-
are destroyed from before you; and som, or your friend, who is as your
that you do not inquire after their own soul, entices you secretly, say-
gods, saying, ‘How do these na- ing, ‘Let us go and serve other
tions serve their gods? even so will gods,’ which you have not known,
I do likewise.’ 31 You shall not do you, nor your fathers; 7 of the gods
so to Jehovah your God: for every of the peoples who are around you,
abomination to Jehovah, which he near to you, or far off from you,
hates, they have done to their gods; from the one end of the earth even
for even their sons and their daugh- to the other end of the earth; 8 you
ters do they burn in the fire to their shall not consent to him, nor listen
gods. to him; neither shall your eye pity
32 Whatsoever thing I command him, neither shall you spare, nei-
you, that shall you observe to do: ther shall you conceal him: 9 but
you shall not add to it, nor diminish you shall surely kill him; your hand
from it. shall be first upon him to put him to

13 If there arises in the midst death, and afterwards the hand of

of you a prophet, or a all the people. 10 And you shall
dreamer of dreams, and he gives stone him to death with stones, be-
you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the cause he has sought to draw you
sign or the wonder comes to pass, away from Jehovah your God, who
of which he spoke to you, saying, brought you out of the land of
‘Let us go after other gods, which Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
you have not known, and let us 11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear,
serve them;’ 3 you shall not listen to and shall do no more any such
the words of that prophet, or to that wickedness as this is in the midst of
dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah you.
your God tests you, to know 12 If you shall hear concerning
whether you love Jehovah your one of your cities, which Jehovah
God with all your heart and with all your God gives you to dwell there,
your soul. 4 You shall walk after Je- saying, 13 ‘Certain base men have
hovah your God, and fear him, and gone out from the midst of you, and
keep his commandments, and obey have drawn away the inhabitants
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of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and and has the hoof cloven in two, and
serve other gods,’ which you have chews the cud, among the beasts,
not known; 14 then shall you in- that you may eat. 7 Nevertheless
quire, and make search, and ask these you shall not eat of those that
diligently; and, behold, if it is truth, chew the cud, or of those that have
and the thing certain, that such the hoof cloven: the camel, and the
abomination is worked in the midst hare, and the hyrax; because they
of you, 15 you shall surely strike the chew the cud but do not part the
inhabitants of that city with the hoof, they are unclean to you. 8
edge of the sword, destroying it ut- And the swine, because he parts the
terly, and all that is in it and the cat- hoof but does not chew the cud, he
tle of it, with the edge of the sword. is unclean to you: of their flesh you
16 And you shall gather all the spoil shall not eat, and their carcasses
of it into the midst of the street of it, you shall not touch.
and shall burn with fire the city, 9 These you may eat of all that are
and all the spoil of it completely, to in the waters: whatsoever has fins
Jehovah your God: and it shall be a and scales you may eat; 10 and
heap for ever; it shall not be built whatsoever does not have fins and
again. 17 And there shall cleave scales you shall not eat; it is unclean
nothing of the devoted thing to to you.
your hand; that Jehovah may turn 11 Of all clean birds you may eat.
from the fierceness of his anger, and 12 But these are those of which you
show your mercy, and have com- shall not eat: the eagle, and the
passion on you, and multiply you, bearded vulture, and the osprey, 13
as he has sworn to your fathers; 18 and the red kite, and the falcon, and
when you shall listen to the voice of the kite after its kind, 14 and every
Jehovah your God, to keep all his raven after its kind, 15 and the os-
commandments which I command trich, and the nighthawk, and the
you this day, to do that which is sea gull, and the hawk after its
right in the eyes of Jehovah your kind, 16 the little owl, and the great
God. owl, and the horned owl, 17 and the

14 You are the children of Je- pelican, and the vulture, and the
hovah your God: you shall cormorant, 18 and the stork, and
not cut yourselves, nor make any the heron after its kind, and the
baldness between your eyes for the hoopoe, and the bat. 19 And all
dead. 2 For you are a holy people to winged creeping things are unclean
Jehovah your God, and Jehovah has to you: they shall not be eaten. 20
chosen you to be a people for his Of all clean birds you may eat.
own possession, above all peoples 21 you shall not eat of anything
who are on the face of the earth. that dies of itself: you may give it to
3 You shall not eat any abom- the sojourner who is within your
inable thing. 4 These are the beasts gates, that he may eat it; or you may
which you may eat: the ox, the sell it to a foreigner: for you are a
sheep, and the goat, 5 the deer, and holy people to Jehovah your God.
the gazelle, and the roebuck, and You shall not boil a kid in its
the wild goat, and the pygarg, and mother’s milk.
the antelope, and the chamois. 6 22 You shall surely tithe all the in-
And every beast that parts the hoof, crease of your seed, that which
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comes forth from the field year by lease that which he has lent to his
year. 23 And you shall eat before Je- neighbor; he shall not exact it of his
hovah your God, in the place which neighbor and his brother; because
he shall choose, to cause his name Jehovah’s release has been pro-
to dwell there, the tithe of your claimed. 3 Of a foreigner you may
grain, of your new wine, and of exact it: but whatsoever of yours is
your oil, and the firstborn of your with your brother your hand shall
herd and of your flock; that you release. 4 However there shall be no
may learn to fear Jehovah your God poor with you (for Jehovah will
always. 24 And if the way is too surely bless you in the land which
long for you, so that you are not Jehovah your God gives you for an
able to carry it, because the place is inheritance to possess it), 5 if only
too far from you, which Jehovah you diligently listen to the voice of
your God shall choose, to set his Jehovah your God, to observe to do
name there, when Jehovah your all this commandment which I
God shall bless you; 25 then shall command you this day. 6 For Jeho-
you turn it into money, and bind up vah your God will bless you, as he
the money in your hand, and shall promised you: and you shall lend
go to the place which Jehovah your to many nations, but you shall not
God shall choose: 26 and you shall borrow; and you shall rule over
spend the money for whatsoever many nations, but they shall not
your soul desires, for oxen, or for rule over you.
sheep, or for wine, or for strong 7 If there is with you a poor man,
drink, or for whatsoever your soul one of your brethren, within any of
asks of you; and you shall eat there your gates in your land which Jeho-
before Jehovah your God, and you vah your God gives you, you shall
shall rejoice, you and your house- not harden your heart, nor shut
hold. 27 And the Levite who is your hand from your poor brother;
within your gates, you shall not for- 8 but you shall surely open your
sake him; for he has no portion nor hand to him, and shall surely lend
inheritance with you. him sufficient for his need in that
28 At the end of every three years which he wants. 9 Beware that
you shall bring forth all the tithe of there is not a base thought in your
your increase in the same year, and heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the
shall lay it up within your gates: 29 year of release, is at hand;’ and your
and the Levite, because he has no eye is evil against your poor
portion nor inheritance with you, brother, and you give him nothing;
and the sojourner, and the father- and he cries to Jehovah against you,
less, and the widow, who are and it be sin to you. 10 You shall
within your gates, shall come, and surely give him, and your heart
shall eat and be satisfied; that Jeho- shall not be grieved when you give
vah your God may bless you in all to him; because for this thing Jeho-
the work of your hand which you vah your God will bless you in all
do. your work, and in all that you put

15 At the end of every seven your hand to. 11 For the poor will
years you shall make a re- never cease out of the land: there-
lease. 2 And this is the manner of fore I command you, saying, ‘You
the release: every creditor shall re- shall surely open your hand to your
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brother, to your needy, and to your alike, as the gazelle, and as the deer.
poor, in your land.’ 23 Only you shall not eat the blood
12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, of it; you shall pour it out on the
or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, ground as water.
and serves you six years; then in the
seventh year you shall let him go 16 Observe the month of Abib,
and keep the passover to Je-
free from you. 13 And when you let hovah your God; for in the month
him go free from you, you shall not of Abib Jehovah your God brought
let him go empty: 14 you shall fur- you forth out of Egypt by night. 2
nish him liberally out of your flock, And you shall sacrifice the pass-
and out of your threshing floor, and over to Jehovah your God, of the
out of your winepress; as Jehovah flock and the herd, in the place
your God has blessed you you shall which Jehovah shall choose, to
give to him. 15 And you shall re- cause his name to dwell there. 3
member that you were a bondman You shall eat no leavened bread
in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah with it; seven days shall you eat un-
your God redeemed you: therefore leavened bread with it, even the
I command you this thing today. 16 bread of affliction; for you came
And it shall be, if he says to you, ‘I forth out of the land of Egypt in
will not go out from you, because haste: that you may remember the
he loves you and your house, be- day when you came forth out of the
cause he is well with you; 17 then land of Egypt all the days of your
you shall take an awl, and thrust it life. 4 And there shall be no leaven
through his ear to the door, and he seen with you in all your borders
shall be your servant for ever. And seven days; neither shall any of the
also to your female servant you flesh, which you sacrifice the first
shall do likewise. 18 It shall not day at evening, remain all night un-
seem hard to you, when you let him til the morning. 5 You may not sac-
go free from you; for to the double rifice the passover within any of
of the wages of a hired man has he your gates, which Jehovah your
served you six years: and Jehovah God gives you; 6 but at the place
your God will bless you in all that which Jehovah your God shall
you do. choose, to cause his name to dwell
19 All the firstborn males that are in, there you shall sacrifice the
born of your herd and of your flock passover at evening, at the going
you shall sanctify to Jehovah your down of the sun, at the season that
God: you shall do no work with the you came forth out of Egypt. 7 And
firstborn of your herd, nor shear the you shall roast and eat it in the
firstborn of your flock. 20 You shall place which Jehovah your God
eat it before Jehovah your God year shall choose: and you shall turn in
by year in the place which Jehovah the morning, and go to your tents. 8
shall choose, you and your house- Six days you shall eat unleavened
hold. 21 And if it has any blemish, bread; and on the seventh day shall
as if it is lame or blind, any ill blem- be a solemn assembly to Jehovah
ish whatsoever, you shall not sacri- your God; you shall do no work in
fice it to Jehovah your God. 22 You it.
shall eat it within your gates: the 9 Seven weeks shall you number
unclean and the clean shall eat it to you: from the time you begin to
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put the sickle to the standing grain which he has given you.
shall you begin to number seven 18 Judges and officers shall you
weeks. 10 And you shall keep the make in all your gates, which Jeho-
feast of weeks to Jehovah your God vah your God gives you, according
with a tribute of a freewill offering to your tribes; and they shall judge
of your hand, which you shall give, the people with righteous judg-
according as Jehovah your God ment. 19 You shall not twist justice:
blesses you: 11 and you shall rejoice you shall not respect persons; nei-
before Jehovah you God, you, and ther shall thou take a bribe; for a
your son, and your daughter, and bribe blinds the eyes of the wise,
your male servant, and your female and perverts the words of the right-
servant, and the Levite who is eous. 20 That which is altogether
within your gates, and the so- just shall you follow, that you may
journer, and the fatherless, and the live, and inherit the land which Je-
widow, who are in the midst of you, hovah your God gives you.
in the place which Jehovah your 21 You shall not plant an Asherah
God shall choose, to cause his name of any kind of tree beside the altar
to dwell there. 12 And you shall re- of Jehovah your God, which you
member that you were a bondman shall make. 22 Neither shall you set
in Egypt: and you shall observe and up a pillar; which Jehovah your
do these statutes. God hates.
13 You shall keep the feast of
tabernacles seven days, after you 17 You shall not sacrifice to Je-
hovah your God an ox, or a
have gathered in from your thresh- sheep, in which is a blemish, or any-
ing floor and from your winepress: thing evil; for that is an abomina-
14 and you shall rejoice in your tion to Jehovah your God.
feast, you, and your son, and your 2 If there is found in the midst of
daughter, and your male servant, you, within any of your gates
and your female servant, and the which Jehovah your God gives you,
Levite, and the sojourner, and the man or woman, who does that
fatherless, and the widow, who are which is evil in the sight of Jehovah
within your gates. 15 Seven days your God, in transgressing his
shall you keep a feast to Jehovah covenant, 3 and has gone and
your God in the place which Jeho- served other gods, and worshipped
vah shall choose; because Jehovah them, or the sun, or the moon, or
your God will bless you in all your any of the host of heaven, which I
increase, and in all the work of your have not commanded; 4 and it is
hands, and you shall be altogether told you, and you have heard of it;
joyful. 16 Three times in a year shall then shall you inquire diligently;
all your males appear before Jeho- and, behold, if it is true, and the
vah your God in the place which he thing certain, that such abomina-
shall choose: in the feast of unleav- tion is worked in Israel, 5 then shall
ened bread, and in the feast of you bring forth that man or that
weeks, and in the feast of taberna- woman, who has done this evil
cles; and they shall not appear be- thing, to your gates, even the man
fore Jehovah empty: 17 every man or the woman; and you shall stone
shall give as he is able, according to them to death with stones. 6 At the
the blessing of Jehovah your God mouth of two witnesses, or three
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witnesses, shall he who is to die be around me;’ 15 you shall surely set
put to death; at the mouth of one him king over you, whom Jehovah
witness he shall not be put to death. your God shall choose: one from
7 The hand of the witnesses shall be among your brethren shall you set
first on him to put him to death, king over you; you may not put a
and afterward the hand of all the foreigner over you, who is not your
people. So you shall put away the brother. 16 Only he shall not multi-
evil from the midst of you. ply horses to himself, nor cause the
8 If there arise a matter too hard people to return to Egypt, to the
for you in judgment, between end that he may multiply horses;
blood and blood, between plea and forasmuch as Jehovah has said to
plea, and between stroke and you, ‘You shall henceforth return
stroke, being matters of contro- no more that way.’ 17 Neither shall
versy within your gates; then shall he multiply wives to himself, that
you arise, and get up to the place his heart no turn away: neither
which Jehovah your God shall shall he greatly multiply to himself
choose; 9 and you shall come to the silver and gold.
priests the Levites, and to the judge 18 And it shall be, when he sits on
who shall be in those days: and you the throne of his kingdom, that he
shall inquire; and they shall show shall write himself a copy of this
you the sentence of judgment. 10 law in a book, out of that which is
And you shall do according to the before the priests the Levites: 19
tenor of the sentence which they and it shall be with him, and he
shall show you from that place shall read in it all the days of his
which Jehovah shall choose; and life; that he may learn to fear Jeho-
you shall observe to do according vah his God, to keep all the words
to all that they shall teach you: 11 of this law and these statutes, to do
according to the tenor of the law them; 20 that his heart be not lifted
which they shall teach you, and ac- up above his brethren, and that he
cording to the judgment which they not turn aside from the command-
shall tell you, you shall do; you ment, to the right hand, or to the
shall not turn aside from the sen- left: to the end that he may prolong
tence which they shall show you, to his days in his kingdom, he and his
the right hand, nor to the left. 12 children, in the midst of Israel.
And the man who does presumptu-
ously, in not listening to the priest 18 The priests the Levites, even
all the tribe of Levi, shall
who stands to minister there before have no portion nor inheritance
Jehovah your God, or to the judge, with Israel: they shall eat the offer-
even that man shall die: and you ings of Jehovah made by fire, and
shall put away the evil from Israel. his inheritance. 2 And they shall
13 And all the people shall hear, have no inheritance among their
and fear, and do no more presump- brethren: Jehovah is their inheri-
tuously. tance, as he has spoken to them. 3
14 When you come to the land And this shall be the priests’ due
which Jehovah your God gives you, from the people, from those who
and shall possess it, and shall dwell offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or
in it, and shall say, ‘I will set a king sheep, that they shall give to the
over me, like all the nations that are priest the shoulder, and the two
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cheeks, and the maw. 4 The first all that you desire of Jehovah your
fruits of your grain, of your new God in Horeb in the day of the as-
wine, and of your oil, and the first sembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear
of the fleece of your sheep, shall again the voice of Jehovah my God,
you give him. 5 For Jehovah your neither let me see this great fire any
God has chosen him out of all your more, that I do not die.’ 17 And Je-
tribes, to stand to minister in the hovah said to me, ‘They have said
name of Jehovah, him and his sons well that which they have spoken.
for ever. 18 I will raise them up a prophet
6 And if a Levite comes from any from among their brethren, like
of your gates out of all Israel, where you; and I will put my words in his
he sojourns, and come with all the mouth, and he shall speak to them
desire of his soul to the place which all that I shall command him. 19
Jehovah shall choose; 7 then he And it shall come to pass, that
shall minister in the name of Jeho- whosoever will not listen to my
vah his God, as all his brethren the words which he shall speak in my
Levites do, who stand there before name, I will require it of him.
Jehovah. 8 They shall have like por- 20 But the prophet, who shall
tions to eat, besides that which speak a word presumptuously in
comes from the sale of his patri- my name, which I have not com-
mony. manded him to speak, or who shall
9 When you have come into the speak in the name of other gods,
land which Jehovah your God gives that same prophet shall die.’ 21
you, you shall not learn to do ac- And if you say in your heart, ‘How
cording to the abominations of shall we know the word which Je-
those nations. 10 There shall not be hovah has not spoken? 22 when a
found with you any one who prophet speaks in the name of Jeho-
makes his son or his daughter to vah, if the thing does not follow,
pass through the fire, one who uses nor come to pass, that is the thing
divination, one who practices au- which Jehovah has not spoken: the
gury, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, prophet has spoken it presumptu-
11 or a charmer, or a consulter with ously, you shall not be afraid of
a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a him.
necromancer. 12 For whosoever
does these things is an abomination 19 When Jehovah your God
shall cut off the nations,
to Jehovah: and because of these whose land Jehovah your God
abominations Jehovah your God gives you, and you succeed them,
drives them out from before you. 13 and dwell in their cities, and in
You shall be perfect with Jehovah their houses; 2 you shall set apart
your God. 14 For these nations, that three cities for you in the midst of
you shall dispossess, listen to those your land, which Jehovah your
who practice augury, and to divin- God gives you to possess it. 3 You
ers; but as for you, Jehovah your shall prepare the way, and divide
God has not allowed you to do so. the borders of your land, which Je-
15 Jehovah your God will raise up hovah your God causes you to in-
for you a prophet from the midst of herit, into three parts, that every
you, from your brethren, like me; to manslayer may flee there.
him you shall listen; 16 according to 4 And this is the case of the
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manslayer, who shall flee there and of old time have set, in your inheri-
live: whoever kills his neighbor un- tance which you shall inherit, in the
aware, and did not hate him in time land that Jehovah your God gives
past; 5 as when a man goes into the you to possess it.
forest with his neighbor to hew 15 One witness shall not rise up
wood, and his hand wields a stroke against a man for any iniquity, or
with the axe to cut down the tree, for any sin, in any sin that he sins:
and the head slips from the handle, at the mouth of two witnesses, or at
and falls on his neighbor, so that he the mouth of three witnesses, shall
dies; he shall flee to one of these a matter be established. 16 If an un-
cities and live: 6 lest the avenger of righteous witness rise up against
blood pursue the manslayer, while any man to testify against him of
his heart is hot, and overtake him, wrongdoing, 17 then both the men,
because the way is long, and strike between whom is the controversy,
him mortally; whereas he was not shall stand before Jehovah, before
worthy of death, inasmuch as he the priests and the judges who shall
did not hate him in time past. 7 be in those days; 18 and the judges
Therefore I command you, saying, shall make diligent inquisition:
‘You shall set apart three cities for and, behold, if the witness is a false
yourself. 8 And if Jehovah your witness, and has testified falsely
God enlarges your border, as he has against his brother; 19 then shall
sworn to your fathers, and gives you do to him, as he had thought to
you all the land which he promised do to his brother: so shall you put
to give to your fathers; 9 if you shall away the evil from the midst of
keep all this commandment to do it, you. 20 And those who remain shall
which I command you this day, to hear, and fear, and shall henceforth
love Jehovah your God, and to commit no more any such evil in
walk ever in his ways; then shall the midst of you. 21 And your eyes
you add three cities more for your- shall not pity; life shall go for life,
selves, besides these three: 10 that eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand
innocent blood be not shed in the for hand, foot for foot.
midst of your land, which Jehovah
your God gives you for an inheri-
tance, and so blood be upon you.
20 When you go forth to battle
against your enemies, and
see hors-es, and chariots, and a peo-
11 But if any man hates his neigh- ple more than you, you shall not be
bor, and lies in wait for him, and afraid of them; for Jehovah your
rises up against him, and strikes God is with you, who brought you
him mortally so that he dies, and he up out of the land of Egypt. 2 And
flees into one of these cities; 12 then it shall be, when you draw near to
the elders of his city shall send and the battle, that the priest shall ap-
fetch him from there, and deliver proach and speak to the people, 3
him into the hand of the avenger of and shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Is-
blood, that he may die. 13 Your eye rael, you draw near this day to bat-
shall not pity him, but you shall put tle against your enemies: do not let
away the innocent blood from Is- your heart faint; do not fear, nor
rael, that it may go well with you. tremble, neither be frightened at
14 You shall not remove your them; 4 for Jehovah your God is he
neighbor’s landmark, which those who goes with you, to fight for you
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against your enemies, to save you.’ you. 15 Thus shall you do to all the
5 And the officers shall speak to the cities which are very far off from
people, saying, ‘What man is there your, which are not of the cities of
who has built a new house, and has these nations. 16 But of the cities of
not dedicated it? let him go and re- these peoples, that Jehovah your
turn to his house, lest he die in the God gives you for an inheritance,
battle, and another man dedicate it. you shall save alive nothing that
6 And what man is there who has breaths; 17 but you shall utterly de-
planted a vineyard, and has not stroy them: the Hittite, and the
used the fruit of it? let him go and Amorite, the Canaanite, and the
return to his house, lest he die in the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Je-
battle, and another man use the busite; as Jehovah your God has
fruit of it. 7 And what man is there commanded you; 18 that they teach
who has betrothed a wife, and has you not to do according to all their
not taken her? let him go and return abominations, which they have
to his house, lest he die in the battle, done to their gods; so would you
and another man take her.’ 8 And sin against Jehovah your God.
the officers shall speak further to 19 When you shall besiege a city a
the people, and they shall say, long time, in making war against it
‘What man is there who is fearful to take it, you shall not destroy the
and fainthearted? let him go and re- trees of it by wielding an axe
turn to his house, lest his brethren’s against them; for you may eat of
heart melt as his heart.’ 9 And it them, and you shall not cut them
shall be, when the officers have down; for is the tree of the field
made an end of speaking to the man, that it should be besieged of
people, that they shall appoint cap- you? 20 Only the trees of which you
tains of hosts at the head of the peo- know that they are not trees for
ple. food, you shall destroy and cut
10 When you draw near to a city them down; and you shall build
to fight against it, then proclaim bulwarks against the city that
peace to it. 11 And it shall be, if it makes war with you, until it falls.
makes you answer of peace, and
opens to you, then it shall be, that 21 If one is found slain in the
land which Jehovah your
all the people who are found in it God gives you to possess it, lying in
shall become tributary to you, and the field, and it is not known who
shall serve you. 12 And if it will has struck him; 2 then your elders
make no peace with you, but will and your judges shall come forth,
make war against you, then you and they shall measure to the cities
shall besiege it: 13 and when Jeho- which are around him who is slain:
vah your God delivers it into your 3 and it shall be, that the city which
hand, you shall strike every male of is nearest to the slain man, even the
it with the edge of the sword: 14 but elders of that city shall take a heifer
the women, and the little ones, and of the herd, which has not been
the cattle, and all that is in the city, worked with, and which has not
even all the spoil of it, shalt you drawn in the yoke; 4 and the elders
take for a prey for yourself; and you of that city shall bring down the
shall eat the spoil of your enemies, heifer to a valley with running wa-
which Jehovah your God has given ter, which is neither plowed nor
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sown, and shall break the heifer’s 15 If a man has two wives, the one
neck there in the valley. 5 And the beloved, and the other hated, and
priests the sons of Levi shall come they have borne him children, both
near; for them Jehovah your God the beloved and the hated; and if
has chosen to minister to him, and the firstborn son is hers who was
to bless in the name of Jehovah; and hated; 16 then it shall be, in the day
according to their word shall every that he causes his sons to inherit
controversy and every stroke be. 6 that which he has, that he may not
And all the elders of that city, who make the son of the beloved the
are nearest to the slain man, shall firstborn before the son of the
wash their hands over the heifer hated, who is the firstborn: 17 but
whose neck was broken in the val- he shall acknowledge the firstborn,
ley; 7 and they shall answer and the son of the hated, by giving him
say, ‘Our hands have not shed this a double portion of all that he has;
blood, neither have our eyes seen it. for he is the beginning of his
8 Forgive, O Jehovah, your people strength; the right of the firstborn is
Israel, whom you have redeemed, his.
and do not allow innocent blood to 18 If a man has a stubborn and re-
remain in the midst of your people bellious son, that will not obey the
Israel.’ And the blood shall be for- voice of his father, or the voice of
given them. 9 So shall you put his mother, and, though they chas-
away the innocent blood from the ten him, will not listen to them; 19
midst of you, when you shall do then shall his father and his mother
that which is right in the eyes of Je- lay hold on him, and bring him out
hovah. to the elders of his city, and to the
10 When you go forth to battle gate of his place; 20 and they shall
against your enemies, and Jehovah say to the elders of his city, ‘This
your God delivers them into your our son is stubborn and rebellious,
hands, and you carry them away he will not obey our voice; he is a
captive, 11 and see among the cap- glutton, and a drunkard.’ 21 And
tives a beautiful woman, and you all the men of his city shall stone
have a desire for her, and would him to death with stones: so shall
take her to you to wife; 12 then you you put away the evil from the
shall bring her home to your house; midst of you; and all Israel shall
and she shall shave her head, and hear, and fear.
trim her nails; 13 and she shall put 22 And if a man has committed a
the clothing of her captivity from sin worthy of death, and he is put to
off her, and shall remain in your death, and you hang him on a tree;
house, and bewail her father and 23 his body shall not remain all
her mother a full month: and after night on the tree, but you shall
that you shall go in to her, and be surely bury him the same day; for
her husband, and she shall be your he who is hanged is accursed of
wife. 14 And it shall be, if you have God; that you do not defile your
no delight in her, then you shall let land which Jehovah your God gives
her go where she will; but you shall you for an inheritance.
not sell her at all for money, you
shall not deal with her as a slave,
because you have humbled her.
22 You shall not see your
brother’s ox or his sheep go
astray, and hide yourself from
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them: you shall surely bring them gled fabric, wool and linen to-
again to your brother. 2 And if your gether.
brother is not near to you, or if you 12 You shall make fringes on the
do not know him, then you shall four borders of your clothing, with
bring it home to your house, and it which you cover yourself.
shall be with you until your brother 13 If any man takes a wife, and
seeks after it, and you shall restore goes in unto her, and hates her, 14
it to him. 3 And so shall you do and lays shameful things to her
with his donkey; and so shall you charge, and brings up an evil name
do with his clothing; and so shall upon her, and says, ‘I took this
you do with every lost thing of woman, and when I came near to
your brother’s, which he has lost, her, I did not find in her the tokens
and you have found: you may not of virginity;’ 15 then shall the father
hide yourself. 4 You shall not see of the young woman, and her
your brother’s donkey or his ox mother, take and bring forth the to-
fallen down by the way, and hide kens of the young woman’s virgin-
yourself from them: you shall ity to the elders of the city in the
surely help him to lift them up gate; 16 and the young woman’s fa-
again. ther shall say to the elders, ‘I gave
5 A woman shall not wear that my daughter to this man to wife,
which pertains to a man, neither and he hates her; 17 and, behold, he
shall a man put on a woman’s gar- has laid shameful things to her
ment; for whosoever does these charge, saying, “I did not find in
things is an abomination to Jehovah your daughter the tokens of virgin-
your God. ity;” and yet these are the tokens of
6 If a bird’s nest happens to be be- my daughter’s virginity.’ And they
fore you in the way, in any tree or shall spread the garment before the
on the ground, with young ones or elders of the city. 18 And the elders
eggs, and the mother sitting upon of that city shall take the man and
the young, or upon the eggs, you chastise him; 19 and they shall fine
shall not take the dam with the him a hundred shekels of silver, and
young: 7 you shall surely let the give them to the father of the young
mother go, but the young you may woman, because he has brought up
take for thyself; that it may be well an evil name upon a virgin of Israel:
with you, and that you may pro- and she shall be his wife; he may
long your days. not put her away all his days. 20
8 When you build a new house, But if this thing is true, that the to-
then you shall make a parapet for kens of virginity were not found in
your roof, that you do not bring the young woman; 21 then they
blood upon your house, if any man shall bring out the young woman to
fall from there. the door of her father’s house, and
9 You shall not sow your vineyard the men of her city shall stone her
with two kinds of seed, lest the to death with stones, because she
whole fruit be forfeited, the seed has worked folly in Israel, to play
which you have sown, and the in- the harlot in her father’s house: so
crease of the vineyard. 10 You shall shall you put away the evil from
not plow with an ox and an donkey the midst of you.
together. 11 You shall not wear min- 22 If a man is found lying with a
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woman married to a husband, then 2 A bastard shall not enter into the
they shall both of them die, the man assembly of Jehovah; even to the
who lays with the woman, and the tenth generation shall none of his
woman: so shall you put away the enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
evil from Israel. 3 An Ammonite or a Moabite
23 If there is a young woman who shall not enter into the assembly of
is a virgin betrothed to a husband, Jehovah; even to the tenth genera-
and a man finds her in the city, and tion shall none belonging to them
lies with her; 24 then you shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah
bring them both out to the gate of for ever: 4 because they did not
that city, and you shall stone them meet you with not with bread and
to death with stones; the young with water in the way, when you
woman, because she did not cry came forth out of Egypt, and be-
out, being in the city; and the man, cause they hired against you Bal-
because he has humbled his neigh- aam the son of Beor from Pethor of
bor’s wife: so you shall put away Mesopotamia, to curse you. 5 Nev-
the evil from the midst of you. ertheless Jehovah your God would
25 But if the man finds the young not listen to Balaam; but Jehovah
woman who is betrothed in the your God turned the curse into a
field, and the man forces her, and blessing for you, because Jehovah
lies with her; then the man only your God loved you. 6 You shall not
who lays with her shall die: 26 but seek their peace nor their prosper-
to the young woman you shall do ity all your days for ever.
nothing; there is in the young 7 You shall not abhor an Edomite;
woman no sin worthy of death: for for he is your brother: you shall not
as when a man rises against his abhor an Egyptian, because you
neighbor, and slays him, even so is were a sojourner in his land. 8 The
this matter; 27 for he found her in children of the third generation
the field, the betrothed young who are born to them shall enter
woman cried, and there was none into the assembly of Jehovah.
to save her. 9 When you go forth in camp
28 If a man finds a young woman against your enemies, then you
who is a virgin, who is not be- shall keep from every evil thing. 10
trothed, and lays hold on her, and If there is among you any man, who
lies with her, and they are found; 29 is not clean by reason of that which
then the man who lays with her chances upon him by night, then
shall give to the young woman’s fa- shall he go abroad out of the camp,
ther fifty shekels of silver, and she he shall not come within the camp:
shall be his wife, because he has 11 but it shall be, when evening
humbled her; he may not put her comes on, he shall bathe himself in
away all his days. water; and when the sun is down,
30 A man shall not take his fa- he shall come within the camp. 12
ther’s wife, and shall not uncover You shall have a place also outside
his father’s skirt. the camp, where you shall go forth

23 He who is wounded in the abroad: 13 and you shall have an

stones, or has his private implement among your weapons;
member cut off, shall not enter into and it shall be, when you sit down
the assembly of Jehovah. abroad, you shall dig with it, and
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shall turn back and cover that promised with your mouth.
which comes from you: 14 for Jeho- 24 When you come into your
vah your God walks in the midst of neighbor’s vineyard, then you may
your camp, to deliver you, and to eat of grapes your fill at your own
give up your enemies before you; pleasure; but you shall not put any
therefore shall your camp be holy, in your vessel. 25 When you come
that he may not see an unclean into your neighbor’s standing
thing in you, and turn away from grain, then you may pluck the ears
you. with your hand; but you shall not
15 You shall not deliver to his move a sickle to your neighbor’s
master a servant who is escaped standing grain.
from his master to you: 16 he shall
dwell with you, in the midst of you, 24 When a man takes a wife,
and marries her, then it shall
in the place which he shall choose be, if she finds no favor in his eyes,
within one of your gates, where it because he has found some un-
pleases him best: you shall not op- seemly thing in her, that he shall
press him. write her a bill of divorce, and give
17 There shall be no prostitute of it in her hand, and send her out of
the daughters of Israel, neither shall his house. 2 And when she has de-
there be a sodomite of the sons of parted out of his house, she may go
Israel. 18 You shall not bring the and be another man’s wife. 3 And if
wages of a harlot, or the wages of a the latter husband hates her, and
dog, into the house of Jehovah your writes her a bill of divorce, and
God for any vow: for even both gives it in her hand, and sends her
these are an abomination to Jeho- out of his house; or if the latter hus-
vah your God. band dies, who took her to be his
19 You shall not lend upon inter- wife; 4 her former husband, who
est to your brother; interest of sent her away, may not take her
money, interest of provisions, inter- again to be his wife, after she is de-
est of anything that is lent upon in- filed; for that is abomination before
terest. 20 To a foreigner you may Jehovah: and you shall not cause
lend upon interest; but to your the land to sin, which Jehovah your
brother you shall not lend upon in- God gives you for an inheritance.
terest, that Jehovah your God may 5 When a man takes a new wife,
bless you in all that you put your he shall not go out in the army, nei-
hand to, in the land where you go ther shall he be charged with any
in to possess it. business: he shall be free at home
21 When you shall vow a vow to one year, and shall cheer his wife
Jehovah your God, you shall not be whom he has taken.
slack to pay it: for Jehovah your 6 No man shall take the mill or the
God will surely require it of you; upper millstone to pledge; for he
and it would be sin in you. 22 But if takes a man’s life to pledge.
you shall refrain to vow, it shall be 7 If a man is found stealing any of
no sin in you. 23 That which is gone his brethren of the children of Is-
out of your lips you shall observe rael, and he deals with him as a
and do; according as you have slave, or sells him; then that thief
vowed to Jehovah your God, a shall die: so shall you put away the
freewill offering, which you have evil from the midst of you.
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8 Take heed in the plague of lep- sheaf in the field, you shall not go
rosy, that you observe diligently, again to fetch it: it shall be for the
and do according to all that the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for
priests the Levites shall teach you: the widow; that Jehovah your God
as I commanded them, so you shall may bless you in all the work of
observe to do. 9 Remember what Je- your hands. 20 When you beat your
hovah your God did to Miriam, by olive tree, you shall not go over the
the way as you came forth out of boughs again: it shall be for the so-
Egypt. journer, for the fatherless, and for
10 When you lend your neighbor the widow. 21 When you gather the
any manner of loan, you shall not grapes of your vineyard, you shall
go into his house to fetch his not glean it after you: it shall be for
pledge. 11 You shall stand outside, the sojourner, for the fatherless, and
and the man to whom you lend for the widow. 22 And thou shall re-
shall bring forth the pledge outside member that you were a bondman
to you. 12 And if he is a poor man, in the land of Egypt: therefore I
you shall not sleep with his pledge; command you to do this thing.
13 you shall surely restore to him
the pledge when the sun goes 25 If there is a controversy be-
tween men, and they come
down, that he may sleep in his gar- to judgment, and the judges judge
ment, and bless you: and it shall be them; then they shall justify the
righteousness to you before Jeho- righteous, and condemn the
vah your God. wicked. 2 And it shall be, if the
14 You shall not oppress a hired wicked man is worthy to be beaten,
servant who is poor and needy, that the judge shall cause him to lie
whether he is of your brethren, or down, and to be beaten before his
of your sojourners who are in your face, according to his wickedness,
land within your gates: 15 in his by number. 3 Forty blows he may
day you shall give him his wages, give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if
neither shall the sun go down upon he should exceed, and beat him
it (for he is poor, and sets his heart above these with many stripes,
upon it); lest he cry against you to then your brother should seem vile
Jehovah, and it be sin to you. to you.
16 The fathers shall not be put to 4 You shall not muzzle the ox
death for the children, neither shall when he treads out the grain.
the children be put to death for the 5 If brethren dwell together, and
fathers: every man shall be put to one of them dies, and has no son,
death for his own sin. the wife of the dead shall not be
17 You shall not twist the justice married outside to a stranger: her
due to the sojourner, or to the father- husband’s brother shall go in to her,
less, nor take the widow’s clothing and take her to him to wife, and
to pledge; 18 but you shall remem- perform the duty of a husband’s
ber that you were a bondman in brother to her. 6 And it shall be, that
Egypt, and Jehovah your God re- the firstborn that she bears shall
deemed you from there: therefore I succeed in the name of his brother
command you to do this thing. who is dead, that his name is not
19 When you reap your harvest in blotted out of Israel. 7 And if the
your field, and have forgotten a man does not want to take his
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brother’s wife, then his brother’s fore it shall be, when Jehovah your
wife shall go up to the gate to the God has given you rest from all
elders, and say, ‘My husband’s your enemies all around, in the
brother refuses to raise up to his land which Jehovah your God gives
brother a name in Israel; he will not you for an inheritance to possess it,
perform the duty of a husband’s that you shall blot out the remem-
brother to me.’ 8 Then the elders of brance of Amalek from under
his city shall call him, and speak to heaven; you shall not forget.
him: and if he stands, and says, ‘I
do not want to take her;’ 9 then 26 And it shall be, when you
have come in to the land
shall his brother’s wife come to him which Jehovah your God gives you
in the presence of the elders, and for an inheritance, and possess it,
loose his sandal from off his foot, and dwell in it, 2 that you shall take
and spit in his face; and she shall of the first of all the fruit of the
answer and say, ‘So shall it be done ground, which you shall bring in
to the man who does not build up from your land that Jehovah your
his brother’s house.’ 10 And his God gives you; and you shall put it
name shall be called in Israel, ‘The in a basket, and shall go to the place
house of him who has his sandal which Jehovah your God shall
loosed.’ choose, to cause his name to dwell
11 When men strive together one there. 3 And you shall come to the
with another, and the wife of the priest who shall be in those days,
one draws near to deliver her hus- and say to him, ‘I profess this day to
band out of the hand of him who Jehovah your God, that I have come
strikes him, and puts forth her to the land which Jehovah swore to
hand, and takes him by the secrets; our fathers to give us.’ 4 And the
12 then you shall cut off her hand, priest shall take the basket out of
your eye shall have no pity. your hand and set it down before
13 You shall not have in your bag the altar of Jehovah your God. 5
differing weights, a great and a And you shall answer and say be-
small. 14 You shall not have in your fore Jehovah your God, ‘A Syrian
house differing measures, a great ready to perish was my father; and
and a small. 15 A perfect and just he went down into Egypt, and so-
weight shall you have; a perfect journed there, few in number; and
and just measure shall you have: he became there a nation, great,
that your days may be long in the mighty, and populous. 6 And the
land which Jehovah your God gives Egyptians dealt ill with us, and
you. 16 For all who do such things, afflicted us, and laid upon us hard
even all who do unrighteously, are bondage: 7 and we cried to Jeho-
an abomination to Jehovah your vah, the God of our fathers, and Je-
God. hovah heard our voice, and saw our
17 Remember what Amalek did to affliction, and our toil, and our op-
you by the way as you came forth pression; 8 and Jehovah brought us
out of Egypt; 18 how he met you by forth out of Egypt with a mighty
the way, and struck the rear of you, hand, and with an outstretched
all who were feeble behind you, arm, and with great terribleness,
when you were faint and weary; and with signs, and with wonders;
and he did not fear God. 19 There- 9 and he has brought us into this
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place, and has given us this land, a your heart, and with all your soul.
land flowing with milk and honey. 17 You have proclaimed Jehovah
10 And now, behold, I have brought this day to be your God, and that
the first of the fruit of the ground, you would walk in his ways, and
which you, O Jehovah, have given keep his statutes, and his com-
me.’ And you shall set it down be- mandments, and his ordinances,
fore Jehovah your God, and wor- and listen to his voice: 18 and Jeho-
ship before Jehovah your God: 11 vah have proclaimed this day to be
and you shall rejoice in all the good a people for his own possession, as
which Jehovah your God has given he has promised you, and that you
to you, and to your house, you, and should keep all his command-
the Levite, and the sojourner who is ments; 19 and to make you high
in the midst of you. above all nations that he has made,
12 When you have made an end in praise, and in name, and in
of tithing all the tithe of your in- honor; and that you may be a holy
crease in the third year, which is the people to Jehovah your God, as he
year of tithing, then you shall give has spoken.”

the fatherless, and to the widow, 27

it to the Levite, to the sojourner, to And Moses and the elders
of Israel commanded the
that they may eat within your people, saying, “Keep all the com-
gates, and be filled. 13 And you mandment which I command you
shall say before Jehovah your God, this day. 2 And it shall be on the day
‘I have put away the hallowed when you shall pass over the Jor-
things out of my house, and also dan to the land which Jehovah your
have given them to the Levite, and God gives you, that you shall set up
to the sojourner, to the fatherless, great stones, and plaster them with
and to the widow, according to all plaster: 3 and you shall write on
your commandment which you them all the words of this law,
have commanded me: I have not when you are passed over; that you
transgressed any of your com- may go in unto the land which Je-
mandments, neither have I forgot- hovah your God gives you, a land
ten them: 14 I have not eaten of it in flowing with milk and honey, as Je-
my mourning, neither have I put hovah, the God of your fathers, has
away of it, being unclean, nor given promised you. 4 And it shall be,
of it for the dead: I have listened to when you have passed over the Jor-
the voice of Jehovah my God; I dan, that you shall set up these
have done according to all that you stones, which I command you this
have commanded me. 15 Look day, on Mount Ebal, and you shall
down from your holy habitation, plaster them with plaster. 5 And
from heaven, and bless your people there shall you build an altar to Je-
Israel, and the ground which you hovah your God, an altar of stones:
have given us, as you swore to our you shall lift up no iron tool upon
fathers, a land flowing with milk them. 6 You shall build the altar of
and honey.’ Jehovah your God of unhewn
16 This day Jehovah your God stones; and you shall offer burnt
commanded you to do these offerings on it to Jehovah your God:
statutes and ordinances: you shall 7 and you shall sacrifice peace
therefore keep and do them with all offerings, and shall eat there; and
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you shall rejoice before Jehovah covered his father’s skirt.’ And all
your God. 8 And you shall write on the people shall say, ‘Amen.'
the stones all the words of this law 21 ‘Cursed is he who lies with any
very plainly.” manner of beast.’ And all the peo-
9 And Moses and the priests the ple shall say, ‘Amen.
Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, 22 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his
“Keep silent, and listen, O Israel: sister, the daughter of his father, or
This day you have become the peo- the daughter of his mother.’ And all
ple of Jehovah your God. 10 You the people shall say, ‘Amen.'
shall therefore obey the voice of Je- 23 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his
hovah your God, and do his com- mother-in-law.’ And all the people
mandments and his statutes, which shall say, ‘Amen.’
I command you this day.” 24 ‘Cursed is he who strikes his
11 And Moses charged the people neighbor in secret.’ And all the peo-
the same day, saying, 12 “These ple shall say, ‘Amen.’
shall stand on Mount Gerizim to 25 ‘Cursed is he who taketh a
bless the people, when you have bribe to slay an innocent person.’
passed over the Jordan: Simeon, And all the people shall say,
and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, ‘Amen.’
and Joseph, and Benjamin. 13 And 26 ‘Cursed is he who do not con-
these shall stand on Mount Ebal for firm the words of this law to do
the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, them.’ And all the people shall say,
and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. ‘Amen.’
14 And the Levites shall answer,
and say to all the men of Israel with
a loud voice,
28 And it shall come to pass, if
you will listen diligently to
the voice of Jehovah your God, to
15 ‘Cursed is the man who makes observe to do all his command-
a graven or molten image, an ments which I command you this
abomination to Jehovah, the work day, that Jehovah your God will set
of the hands of the craftsman, and you on high above all the nations of
sets it up in secret.’ And all the peo- the earth: 2 and all these blessings
ple shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’ shall come upon you, and overtake
16 ‘Cursed is he who sets light by you, if you will listen to the voice of
his father or his mother.’ And all the Jehovah your God. 3 Blessed shall
people shall say, ‘Amen.’ you be in the city, and blessed shall
17 ‘Cursed is he who removes his you be in the field. 4 Blessed shall
neighbor’s landmark.’ And all the be the fruit of your body, and the
people shall say, ‘Amen.’ fruit of your ground, and the fruit
18 ‘Cursed is he who makes the of your beasts, the increase of your
blind to wander out of the way.’ cattle, and the young of your flock.
And all the people shall say, 5 Blessed shall be your basket and
‘Amen.’ your kneading trough. 6 Blessed
19 ‘Cursed is he who twists the shall you be when you come in, and
justice due to the sojourner, father- blessed shall you be when you go
less, and widow.’ And all the peo- out.
ple shall say, ‘Amen.’ 7 Jehovah will cause your ene-
20 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his mies who rise up against you to be
father’s wife, because he has un- struck before you: they shall come
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out against you one way, and shall shall be your basket and your
flee before you seven ways. 8 Jeho- kneading trough. 18 Cursed shall
vah will command the blessing be the fruit of your body, and the
upon you in your barns, and in all fruit of your ground, the increase of
that you put your hand to; and he your cattle, and the young of your
will bless you in the land which Je- flock. 19 Cursed shall you be when
hovah your God gives you. 9 Jeho- you come in, and cursed shall you
vah will establish you for a holy be when you go out.
people to himself, as he has sworn 20 Jehovah will send upon you
to you; if you will keep the com- cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in
mandments of Jehovah your God, all that you put your hand to do,
and walk in his ways. 10 And all the until you are destroyed, and until
peoples of the earth shall see that you perish quickly; because of the
you are called by the name of Jeho- evil of your doings, whereby you
vah; and they shall be afraid of you. have forsaken me. 21 Jehovah will
11 And Jehovah will make you make the pestilence cleave to you,
plenteous for good, in the fruit of until he has consumed you from off
your body, and in the fruit of your the land, to which you go in to pos-
cattle, and in the fruit of your sess it. 22 Jehovah will strike you
ground, in the land which Jehovah with consumption, and with fever,
swore to your fathers to give you. and with inflammation, and with
12 Jehovah will open to you his fiery heat, and with the sword, and
good treasure the heavens, to give with blasting, and with mildew;
the rain of your land in its season, and they shall pursue you until you
and to bless all the work of your perish. 23 And your heaven that is
hand: and you shall lend to many over your head shall be brass, and
nations, and you shall not borrow. the earth that is under you shall be
13 And Jehovah will make you the iron. 24 Jehovah will make the rain
head, and not the tail; and you shall of your land powder and dust:
be above only, and you shall not be from heaven shall it come down on
beneath; if you shall listen to the you, until you are destroyed.
commandments of Jehovah your 25 Jehovah will cause you to be
God, which I command you this struck before your enemies; you
day, to observe and to do them, 14 shall go out one way against them,
and shall not turn aside from any of and shall flee seven ways before
the words which I command you them: and you shall be tossed to
this day, to the right hand, or to the and from among all the kingdoms
left, to go after other gods to serve of the earth. 26 And your dead
them. body shall be food to all birds of the
15 But it shall come to pass, if you heavens, and to the beasts of the
will not listen to the voice of Jeho- earth; and there shall be none to
vah your God, to observe to do all frighten them away. 27 Jehovah will
his commandments and his statutes strike you with the boil of Egypt,
which I command you this day, that and with the hemorrhoids, and
all these curses shall come upon with the scurvy, and with the itch,
you, and overtake you. 16 Cursed of which you can not be healed. 28
shall you be in the city, and cursed Jehovah will strike you with mad-
shall you be in the field. 17 Cursed ness, and with blindness, and with
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astonishment of heart; 29 and you shall consume it. 39 You shall plant
shall grope at noonday, as the blind vineyards and dress them, but you
gropes in darkness, and you shall shall neither drink of the wine, nor
not prosper in your ways: and you gather the grapes; for the worm shall
shall be only oppressed and robbed eat them. 40 You shall have olive
always, and there shall be none to trees throughout all your borders,
save you. 30 You shall betroth a but you shall not anoint yourself
wife, and another man shall lie with with the oil; for your olive shall cast
her: you shall build a house, and its fruit. 41 You shall beget sons and
you shall not dwell in it: you shall daughters, but they shall not be
plant a vineyard, and shall not use yours; for they shall go into captiv-
the fruit of it. 31 Your ox shall be ity. 42 All your trees and the fruit of
slain before your eyes, and you your ground shall the locust pos-
shall not eat of it: your donkey shall sess. 43 The sojourner who is in the
be violently taken away from be- midst of you shall mount up above
fore your face, and shall not be re- you higher and higher; and you
stored to you: your sheep shall be shall come down lower and lower.
given to your enemies, and you 44 He shall lend to you, and you
shall have none to save you. 32 shall not lend to him: he shall be the
Your sons and your daughters shall head, and you shall be the tail. 45
be given to another people; and And all these curses shall come
your eyes shall look, and fail with upon you, and shall pursue you,
longing for them all the day: and and overtake you, until you are de-
there shall be nothing in the power stroyed; because you did not listen
of your hand. 33 The fruit of your to the voice of Jehovah your God, to
ground, and all your labors, shall a keep his commandments and his
nation which you do not know eat statutes which he commanded you:
up; and you shall be only op- 46 and they shall be upon you for a
pressed and crushed always; 34 so sign and for a wonder, and upon
that you shall be mad for the sight your seed for ever.
of your eyes which you shall see. 35 47 Because you did not serve Je-
Jehovah will strike you in the hovah your God with joyfulness,
knees, and in the legs, with a sore and with gladness of heart, by rea-
boil, of which you can not be son of the abundance of all things;
healed, from the sole of your foot to 48 therefore shall you serve your
the crown of your head. enemies that Jehovah shall send
36 Jehovah will bring you, and against you, in hunger, and in
your king whom you shall set over thirst, and in nakedness, and in
you, to a nation that you have not want of all things: and he shall put
known, you nor your fathers; and a yoke of iron on your neck, until he
there shall you serve other gods, has destroyed you. 49 Jehovah will
wood and stone. 37 And you shall bring a nation against you from far,
become an astonishment, a from the end of the earth, as the ea-
proverb, and a byword, among all gle flies; a nation whose tongue you
the peoples to which Jehovah shall shall not understand; 50 a nation of
lead you away. 38 You shall carry fierce countenance, that shall not
much seed out into the field, and regard the person of the old, nor
shall gather little in; for the locust show favor to the young, 51 and
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shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the words of this law that are writ-
the fruit of your ground, until you ten in this book, that you may fear
are destroyed; that also shall not this glorious and fearful name, JE-
leave you grain, new wine, or oil, HOVAH YOUR GOD; 59 then Jeho-
the increase of thy cattle, or the vah will make your plagues severe,
young of your flock, until they have and the plagues of your seed, even
caused you to perish. 52 And they great plagues, and of long continu-
shall besiege you in all your gates, ance, and sore sicknesses, and of
until your high and fortified walls long continuance. 60 And he will
come down, in which you trusted, bring upon you again all the dis-
throughout all your land; and they eases of Egypt, which you were
shall besiege you in all your gates afraid of; and they shall cleave to
throughout all your land, which Je- you. 61 Also every sickness, and ev-
hovah your God has given you. 53 ery plague, which is not written in
And you shall eat the fruit of your the book of this law, these will Jeho-
own body, the flesh of your sons vah bring upon you, until you are
and of your daughters, whom Jeho- destroyed. 62 And you shall be left
vah your God has given you, in the few in number, whereas you were
siege and in the distress with which as the stars of heaven for multitude;
your enemies shall distress you. 54 because you did not listen to the
The man who is tender among you, voice of Jehovah your God. 63 And
and very delicate, his eye shall be it shall come to pass, that, as Jeho-
evil toward his brother, and toward vah rejoiced over you to do you
the wife of his bosom, and toward good, and to multiply you, so Jeho-
the remnant of his children whom vah will rejoice over you to cause
he has remaining; 55 so that he will you to perish, and to destroy you;
not give to any of them of the flesh and you shall be plucked from off
of his children whom he shall eat, the land to which you go in to pos-
because he has nothing left him, in sess it. 64 And Jehovah will scatter
the siege and in the distress with you among all peoples, from the
which your enemy shall distress one end of the earth even to the
you in all your gates. 56 The tender other end of the earth; and there
and delicate woman among you, you shall serve other gods, which
who would not venture to set the you have not known, you nor your
sole of her foot on the ground for fathers, even wood and stone. 65
delicateness and tenderness, her And among these nations shall you
eye shall be evil toward the hus- find no ease, and there shall be no
band of her bosom, and toward her rest for the sole of your foot: but Je-
son, and toward her daughter, 57 hovah will give you there a trem-
and toward her young one who bling heart, and failing of eyes, and
comes out from between her feet, pining of soul; 66 and your life shall
and toward her children whom she hang in doubt before you; and you
shall bear; for she shall eat them for shall fear night and day, and shall
want of all things secretly, in the have no assurance of your life. 67 In
siege and in the distress with which the morning you shall say, “Would
your enemy shall distress you in it were evening!” and at evening
your gates. you shall say, “Would it were morn-
58 If you will not observe to do all ing!” for the fear of your heart
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which you shall fear, and for the rael, 11 your little ones, your wives,
sight of your eyes which you shall and your sojourner who is in the
see. 68 And Jehovah will bring you midst of your camps, from the
into Egypt again with ships, by the hewer of your wood to the drawer
way of which I said to you, “You of your water; 12 that you may en-
shall see it no more again: and there ter into the covenant of Jehovah
you shall sell yourselves to your en- your God, and into his oath, which
emies for bondmen and for bond- Jehovah your God makes with you
women, and no man shall buy you. this day; 13 that he may establish

29 These are the words of the you this day to himself for a people,
covenant which Jehovah and that he may be to you a God, as
commanded Moses to make with he spoke to you, and as he swore to
the children of Israel in the land of your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,
Moab, besides the covenant which and to Jacob.
he made with them in Horeb. 14 Neither with you only do I
2 And Moses called to all Israel, make this covenant and this oath,
and said to them, “You have seen 15 but with him who stands here
all that Jehovah did before your with us this day before Jehovah our
eyes in the land of Egypt to God, and also with him who is not
Pharaoh, and to all his servants, here with us this day 16 (for you
and to all his land; 3 the great trials know how we dwelt in the land of
which your eyes saw, the signs, and Egypt, and how we came through
those great wonders: 4 but Jehovah the midst of the nations through
has not given you a heart to know, which you passed; 17 and you have
and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to seen their abominations, and their
this day. 5 And I have led you forty idols, wood and stone, silver and
years in the wilderness: your gold, which were among them); 18
clothes have not worn out on you, lest there should be among you
and your sandal did not wear out man, or woman, or family, or tribe,
on your foot. 6 You have not eaten whose heart turns away this day
bread, neither have you drunk from Jehovah our God, to go to
wine or strong drink; that you may serve the gods of those nations; lest
know that I am Jehovah your God. there should be among you a root
7 And when you came to this place, that bears gall and wormwood; 19
Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og and it come to pass, when he hears
the king of Bashan, came out the words of this curse, that he
against us to battle, and we struck blesses himself in his heart, saying,
them: 8 and we took their land, and ‘I shall have peace, though I walk in
gave it for an inheritance to the the stubbornness of my heart, to de-
Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and stroy the moist with the dry.’ 20 Je-
to the half-tribe of the Manassites. 9 hovah will not pardon him, but
Keep therefore the words of this then the anger of Jehovah and his
covenant, and do them, that you jealousy will strike against that
may prosper in all that you do. man, and all the curse that is writ-
10 You stand this day all of you ten in this book shall lie upon him,
before Jehovah your God; your and Jehovah will blot out his name
heads, your tribes, your elders, and from under heaven. 21 And Jeho-
your officers, even all the men of Is- vah will set him apart for evil out of
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all the tribes of Israel, according to which Jehovah your God has
all the curses of the covenant that is driven you, 2 and shall return to Je-
written in this book of the law. hovah your God, and shall obey his
22 And the generation to come, voice according to all that I com-
your children who shall rise up af- mand you this day, you and your
ter you, and the foreigner who shall children, with all your heart, and
come from a far land, shall say, with all your soul; 3 that then Jeho-
when they see the plagues of that vah your God will turn your captiv-
land, and the sicknesses with which ity, and have compassion upon
Jehovah has made it sick; 23 and you, and will return and gather you
that the whole land of it is brim- from all the peoples, to which Jeho-
stone, and salt, and a burning, that it vah your God has scattered you. 4
is not sown, nor bears, nor any If any of your outcasts are in the ut-
grass grows in it, like the overthrow termost parts of heaven, from there
of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah will Jehovah your God gather you,
and Zeboiim, which Jehovah over- and from there will he fetch you: 5
threw in his anger, and in his wrath: and Jehovah your God will bring
24 even all the nations shall say, you into the land which your fa-
‘Why has Jehovah done thus to this thers possessed, and you shall pos-
land? what does the heat of this sess it; and he will do you good,
great anger mean?’ 25 Then men and multiply you above your fa-
shall say, ‘Because they forsook the thers. 6 And Jehovah your God will
covenant of Jehovah, the God of circumcise your heart, and the
their fathers, which he made with heart of your seed, to love Jehovah
them when he brought them forth your God with all your heart, and
out of the land of Egypt, 26 and with all your soul, that you may
went and served other gods, and live. 7 And Jehovah your God will
worshipped them, gods that they put all these curses upon your ene-
did not know, and that he had not mies, and on those who hate you,
given to them: 27 therefore the who persecuted you. 8 And you
anger of Jehovah was kindled shall return and obey the voice of
against this land, to bring upon it Jehovah, and do all his command-
all the curse that is written in this ments which I command you this
book; 28 and Jehovah rooted them day. 9 And Jehovah your God will
out of their land in anger, and in make you plentiful in all the work
wrath, and in great indignation, of your hand, in the fruit of your
and cast them into another land, as body, and in the fruit of your cattle,
at this day.’ 29 The secret things be- and in the fruit of your ground, for
long to Jehovah our God; but the good: for Jehovah will again rejoice
things that are revealed belong to over you for good, as he rejoiced
us and to our children for ever, that over your fathers; 10 if you shall
we may do all the words of this law. obey the voice of Jehovah your

30 And it shall come to pass, God, to keep his commandments

when all these things have and his statutes which are written
come upon you, the blessing and in this book of the law; if you turn
the curse, which I have set before to Jehovah your God with all your
you, and you shall call them to heart, and with all your soul.
mind among all the nations, to 11 For this commandment which
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I command you this day, it is not I can no longer go out and come in:
too hard for you, neither is it far off. and Jehovah has said to me, ‘You
12 It is not in heaven, that you shall not go over this Jordan.’ 3 Je-
should say, ‘Who shall go up for us hovah your God, he will go over
to heaven, and bring it to us, and before you; he will destroy these
make us to hear it, that we may do nations from before you, and you
it?’ 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, shall dispossess them: and Joshua,
that you should say, 'Who shall go he shall go over before you, as Jeho-
over the sea for us, and bring it to vah has spoken. 4 And Jehovah will
us, and make us to hear it, that we do to them as he did to Sihon and to
may do it?’ 14 But the word is very Og, the kings of the Amorites, and
near to you, in your mouth, and in to their land; whom he destroyed. 5
your heart, that you may do it. And Jehovah will deliver them up
15 See, I have set before you this before you, and you shall do to
day life and good, and death and them according to all the com-
evil; 16 in that I command you this mandment which I have com-
day to love Jehovah your God, to manded you. 6 Be strong and of
walk in his ways, and to keep his good courage, do not fear, nor be
commandments and his statutes frightened at them: for Jehovah
and his ordinances, that you may your God, it is he who goes with
live and multiply, and that Jehovah you; he will not fail you, nor for-
your God may bless you in the land sake you.” 7 And Moses called to
to which you go in to possess it. 17 Joshua, and said to him in the sight
But if your heart turns away, and of all Israel, “Be strong and of good
you will not hear, but shall be courage: for you shall go with this
drawn away, and worship other people into the land which Jehovah
gods, and serve them; 18 I an- has sworn to their fathers to give
nounce to you this day, that you them; and you shall cause them to
shall surely perish; you shall not inherit it. 8 And Jehovah, it is he
prolong your days in the land, to who goes before you; he will be
which you pass over the Jordan to with you, he will not fail you, nei-
go in to possess it. 19 I call heaven ther forsake you: do not fear, nei-
and earth to witness against you ther be dismayed.”
this day, that I have set before you 9 And Moses wrote this law, and
life and death, the blessing and the delivered it to the priests the sons of
curse: therefore choose life, that Levi, who bore the ark of the
you may live, you and your seed; covenant of Jehovah, and to all the
20 to love Jehovah your God, to elders of Israel. 10 And Moses com-
obey his voice, and to cleave to him; manded them, saying, “At the end
for he is your life, and the length of of every seven years, in the set time
your days; that you may dwell in of the year of release, in the feast of
the land which Jehovah swore to tabernacles, 11 when all Israel has
your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, come to appear before Jehovah
and to Jacob, to give them.” your God in the place which he

31 And Moses went and spoke shall choose, you shall read this law
these words to all Israel. 2 before all Israel in their hearing. 12
And he said to them, “I am a hun- Assemble the people, the men and
dred and twenty years old this day; the women and the little ones, and
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your sojourner who is within your swore to their fathers, flowing with
gates, that they may hear, and that milk and honey, and they shall
they may learn, and fear Jehovah have eaten and filled themselves,
your God, and observe to do all the and grown fat; then will they turn
words of this law; 13 and that their to other gods, and serve them, and
children, who have not known, despise me, and break my
may hear, and learn to fear Jehovah covenant. 21 And it shall come to
your God, as long as you live in the pass, when many evils and troubles
land to which you go over the Jor- have come upon them, that this
dan to possess it.” song shall testify before them as a
14 And Jehovah said to Moses, witness; for it shall not be forgotten
“Behold, your days approach that out of the mouths of their seed: for
you must die: call Joshua, and I know their imagination which
present yourselves in the tent of they frame this day, before I have
meeting, that I may give him a brought them into the land which I
charge.” And Moses and Joshua swore.” 22 So Moses wrote this
went, and presented themselves in song the same day, and taught it the
the tent of meeting. 15 And Jehovah children of Israel. 23 And he gave
appeared in the Tent in a pillar of Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and
cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood said, “Be strong and of good
over the door of the Tent. 16 And Je- courage; for you shall bring the
hovah said to Moses, “Behold, you children of Israel into the land
shall sleep with your fathers; and which I swore to them: and I will be
this people will rise up, and play with you.”
the harlot after the strange gods of 24 And it came to pass, when
the land, to which they go to be Moses had made an end of writing
among them, and will forsake me, the words of this law in a book, un-
and break my covenant which I til they were finished, 25 that Moses
have made with them. 17 Then my commanded the Levites, who bore
anger shall be kindled against them the ark of the covenant of Jehovah,
in that day, and I will forsake them, saying, 26 “Take this book of the
and I will hide my face from them, law, and put it by the side of the ark
and they shall be devoured, and of the covenant of Jehovah your
many evils and troubles shall come God, that it may be there for a wit-
upon them; so that they will say in ness against you. 27 For I know
that day, ‘Are not these evils come your rebellion, and your stiff neck:
upon us because our God is not behold, while I am still alive with
among us?’ 18 And I will surely you this day, you have been rebel-
hide my face in that day for all the lious against Jehovah; and how
evil which they shall have worked, much more after my death? 28 As-
in that they have turned to other semble to me all the elders of your
gods. 19 Now therefore write this tribes, and your officers, that I may
song for yourselves, and teach it the speak these words in their ears, and
children of Israel: put it in their call heaven and earth to witness
mouths, that this song may be a against them. 29 For I know that af-
witness for me against the children ter my death you will utterly cor-
of Israel. 20 For when I shall have rupt yourselves, and turn aside
brought them into the land which I from the way which I have com-
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manded you; and evil will befall
you in the latter days; because you
will do that which is evil in the
sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to
anger through the work of your
hands.”
30 And Moses spoke in the ears of
all the assembly of Israel the words
of this song, until they were fin- 10 He found him in a desert land,
ished.
32 “Give ear, you heavens,
and I will speak;
And let the earth hear the words
of my mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the
rain;
My speech shall distill as the dew,
As the small rain on the tender
grass,
And as the showers on the herb.
3 or I will proclaim the name of Je-
hovah:
Ascribe greatness to our God.
4 he Rock, his work is perfect;
For all his ways are justice:
A God of faithfulness and with-
out iniquity,
Just and right is he.
5 They have dealt corruptly with
him, they are not his children, it
is their blemish;
They are a perverse and crooked 14 Butter of the herd, and milk of
generation.
6 Do you thus repay Jehovah,
O foolish people and unwise?
Is not he your father who has
bought you?
He has made you, and estab-
lished you.
7 Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of many gen-
erations:
Ask your father, and he will show
you;
Your elders, and they will tell
you.
8 When the Most High gave to the
nations their inheritance,
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When he separated the children
of men,
He set the bounds of the peoples
According to the number of the
children of Israel.
9 For Jehovah’s portion is his peo-
ple;
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
And in the waste howling
wilderness;
He encircled him, he cared for
him,
He kept him as the apple of his
eye.
11 As an eagle that stirs up her
nest,
That flutters over her young,
He spread abroad his wings, he
took them,
He bore them on his pinions.
12 Jehovah alone lead him,
And there was no foreign god
with him.
13 He made him ride on the high
places of the earth,
And he ate the increase of the
field;
And he made him to suck
honey out of the rock,
And oil out of the flinty rock;
the flock,
With fat of lambs,
And rams of the breed of
Bashan, and goats,
With the finest of the wheat;
And of the blood of the grape
you drank wine.
15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and
kicked:
You have grown fat, you have
grown thick, you have
become stubborn;
Then he forsook God who
made him,
And lightly esteemed the Rock
of his salvation.
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16 They moved him to jealousy
with strange gods;
With abominations they
provoked him to anger.
17 They sacrificed to demons,
which were no God,
To gods that they did not know,
To new gods that came up of 25
late,
Which your fathers did not
dread.
18 Of the Rock that begot you you
are unmindful,
And have forgotten God who
gave you birth. 26
19 And Jehovah saw it, and ab-
horred them,
Because of the provocation of
his sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, ‘I will hide my face 27
from them,
I will see what their end shall
be:
For they are a very perverse
generation,
Children in whom is no
faithfulness.
21 They have moved me to jeal- 28
ousy with that which is not
God;
They have provoked me to
anger with their vanities: 29
And I will move them to
jealousy with those who are
not a people;
I will provoke them to anger 30
with a foolish nation.
22 For a fire is kindled in my anger,
And burns to the lowest Sheol,
And devours the earth with its
increase,
And sets on fire the
foundations of the
mountains. 31
23 I will heap evils on them;
I will spend my arrows upon
them: 32
24 They shall be wasted with
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hunger, and devoured with
burning heat
And bitter destruction;
And the teeth of beasts will I
send upon them,
With the poison of crawling
things of the dust.
Outside shall the sword be-
reave,
And in the chambers terror;
It shall destroy both young man
and virgin,
The suckling with the man of
gray hairs.
I said, “I would scatter them
afar,
I would make the remembrance
of them to cease from among
men;”
Were it not that I feared the
provocation of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should
judge amiss,
Lest they should say, “Our
hand is exalted,
And Jehovah has not done all
this.”
For they are a nation void of
counsel,
And there is no understanding
in them.
Oh that they were wise, that
they understood this,
That they would consider their
latter end!
How should one chase a thou-
sand,
And two put ten thousand to
flight,
Except their Rock had sold
them,
And Jehovah had delivered
them up?
For their rock is not as our Rock,
Even our enemies themselves
being judges.
For their vine is of the vine of
Sodom,
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And of the fields of Gomorrah: And will recompense those
Their grapes are grapes of gall, who hate me.
Their clusters are bitter: 42 I will make my arrows drunk
33 Their wine is the poison of ser- with blood,
pents, And my sword shall devour
And the cruel venom of asps. flesh;
34 ‘Is not this laid up in store with With the blood of the slain and
me, the captives,
Sealed up among my treasures? From the head of the leaders of
35 Vengeance is mine, and recom- the enemy.” ’
pense, 43 Rejoice, O you nations, with his
At the time when their foot people:
shall slide: For he will avenge the blood of
For the day of their calamity is his servants,
at hand, And will render vengeance to
And the things that are to come his adversaries,
upon them shall make haste. And will make expiation for his
36 For Jehovah will judge his peo- land, for his people.”
ple, 44 And Moses came and spoke all
And repent himself for his the words of this song in the ears of
servants; the people, he, and Hoshea the son
When he sees that their power of Nun. 45 And Moses made an end
is gone, of speaking all these words to all Is-
And there is none remaining, rael; 46 And he said to them, “Set
shut up or left at large.’ your heart to all the words which I
37 And he will say, ‘Where are testify to you this day, which you
their gods, shall command your children to ob-
The rock in which they took serve to do, even all the words of
refuge; this law. 47 For it is no vain thing
38 Which ate the fat of their sacri- for you; because it is your life, and
fices, through this thing you shall pro-
And drank the wine of their long your days in the land, to
drink offering? which ye go over the Jordan to pos-
Let them rise up and help you, sess it.”
Let them be your protection. 48 And Jehovah spoke to Moses
39 See now that I, even I, am he, that very same day, saying, 49 “Get
And there is no god with me: up onto this mountain of Abarim,
I kill, and I make alive; to Mount Nebo, which is in the land
I wound, and I heal; of Moab, that is adjacent to Jericho;
And there is none who can and behold the land of Canaan,
deliver out of my hand. which I give to the children of Israel
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, for a possession; 50 and die on the
And say, “As I live for ever, mountain to which you go up, and
41 If I sharpen my glittering sword, be gathered to your people, as
And my hand takes hold on Aaron your brother died on Mount
judgment; Hor, and was gathered to his peo-
I will render vengeance to my ple: 51 because you trespassed
adversaries, against me in the midst of the chil-
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dren of Israel at the waters of waters of Meribah;
Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilder- 9 Who said of his father, and of his
ness of Zin; because you did not mother, ‘I have not seen him;’
sanctify me in the midst of the chil- Neither did he acknowledge his
dren of Israel. 52 For you shall see brethren,
the land before you; but you shall Nor knew he his own children:
not go there into the land which I For they have observed your
give the children of Israel.” word,

33 And this is the blessing, And keep your covenant.

with which Moses the man 10 They shall teach Jacob your or-
of God blessed the children of Israel dinances,
before his death. 2 And he said, And Israel your law:
“Jehovah came from Sinai, They shall put incense before
And rose from Seir to them; you,
He shined forth from Mount Par- And whole burnt offering on
an, your altar.
And he came from the ten thou- 11 Bless, Jehovah, his substance,
sands of holy ones: And accept the work of his
At his right hand was a fiery law hands:
for them. Strike through the loins of those
3 Yes, he loves the people; who rise up against him,
All his saints are in your hand: And of those who hate him,
And they sat down at your feet; that they do not rise again.”
Every one shall receive of your 12 Of Benjamin he said,
words. “The beloved of Jehovah shall
4 Moses commanded us a law, dwell in safety by him;
An inheritance for the assembly He covers him all the day long,
of Jacob. And he dwells between his
5 And he was king in Jeshurun, shoulders.”
When the heads of the people 13 And of Joseph he said,
were gathered, “Blessed of Jehovah be his land,
All the tribes of Israel together. For the precious things of
6 Let Reuben live, and not die; heaven, for the dew,
Nor let his men be few.” And for the deep that couches
7 And this is the blessing of Judah: beneath,
and he said, 14 And for the precious things of
“Hear, Jehovah, the voice of Ju- the fruits of the sun,
dah, And for the precious things of
And bring him in to his people. the growth of the moons,
With his hands he contended for 15 And for the chief things of the
himself; ancient mountains,
And you shall be a help against And for the precious things of
his adversaries.” the everlasting hills,
8 And of Levi he said, 16 And for the precious things of
“Your Thummim and your Urim the earth and the fullness of it,
are with your godly one, And the good will of him who
Whom you tested at Massah, dwelt in the bush.
With whom you contended at the Let the blessing come upon the
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head of Joseph,
And upon the crown of the
head of him who was
separate from his brethren.
17 The firstborn of his herd,
majesty is his;
And his horns are the horns of
the wild ox:
With them he shall push the
peoples all of them, even the
ends of the earth:
And they are the ten thousands 25 Your bars shall be iron and
of Ephraim,
And they are the thousands of
Manasseh.”
18 And of Zebulun he said,
“Rejoice, Zebulun, in your
going out;
And, Issachar, in your tents.
19 They shall call the peoples to the
mountain;
There shall they offer sacrifices 27 The eternal God is your dwell-
of righteousness:
For they shall suck the
abundance of the seas,
And the hidden treasures of the
sand.”
20 And of Gad he said,
“Blessed be he who enlarges
Gad:
He dwells as a lioness,
And tears the arm, yes, the
crown of the head.
21 And he provided the first part
for himself,
For there was the lawgiver’s
portion reserved;
And he came with the heads of
the people;
He executed the righteousness
of Jehovah,
And his ordinances with
Israel.”
22 And of Dan he said,
23
“Dan is a lion’s whelp,
That leaps forth from Bashan.”
And of Naphtali he said,
34
“O Naphtali, satisfied with
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favor,
And full with the blessing of
Jehovah,
Possess the west and the
south.”
24 And of Asher he said,
“Blessed be Asher with
children;
Let him be acceptable to his
brethren,
And let him dip his foot in oil.
brass;
And as your days, so shall your
strength be.
26 There is none like God, O Jeshu-
run,
Who rides upon the heavens
for your help,
And in his excellency on the
skies.
ing place,
And underneath are the
everlasting arms.
And he thrusts out the enemy
from before you,
And said, ‘Destroy.'
28 And Israel dwells in safety,
The fountain of Jacob alone,
In a land of grain and new
wine;
Yes, his heavens drop down
dew.
29 Happy are you, O Israel:
Who is like you, a people saved
by Jehovah,
The shield of your help,
And the sword of your
excellency!
And your enemies shall submit
themselves to you;
And you shall tread on their
high places.”
And Moses went up from
the plains of Moab to Mount
Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is
opposite Jericho. And Jehovah
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showed him all the land of Gilead,
to Dan, 2 and all Naphtali, and the
land of Ephraim and Manasseh,
and all the land of Judah, to the
Western Sea, 3 and the South, and
the Plain of the valley of Jericho the
city of palm trees, to Zoar. 4 And Je-
hovah said to him, “This is the land
which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it
to your seed:’ I have caused you to
see it with your eyes, but you shall
not go over there.” 5 So Moses the
servant of Jehovah died there in the
land of Moab, according to the
word of Jehovah. 6 And he buried
him in the valley in the land of
Moab opposite Beth-peor: but no
man knows of his sepulcher to this
day. 7 And Moses was a hundred
and twenty years old when he died:
his eye was not dim, nor his natural
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force abated. 8 And the children of
Israel wept for Moses in the plains
of Moab thirty days: so the days of
weeping in the mourning for Moses
were ended.
9 And Joshua the son of Nun was
full of the spirit of wisdom; for
Moses had laid his hands on him:
and the children of Israel listened to
him, and did as Jehovah command-
ed Moses. 10 And there has not
arisen a prophet since in Israel like
Moses, whom Jehovah knew face to
face, 11 in all the signs and the
wonders, which Jehovah sent him
to do in the land of Egypt, to Phar-
aoh, and to all his servants, and to
all his land, 12 and in all the mighty
hand, and in all the great terror,
which Moses worked in the sight of
all Israel.
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BOOK I

1 Blessed is the man who does not

walk in the counsel of the
wicked,
4 He who sits in the heavens will
laugh:
The Lord will have them in deri-
Nor stands in the way of sinners, sion.
Nor sits in the seat of scoffers: 5 Then will he speak to them in his
2 But his delight is in the law of Je- wrath,
hovah; And terrify them in his severe
And on his law he meditates day displeasure:
and night. 6 “Yet I have set my king
3 And he shall be like a tree planted Upon my holy hill of Zion.”
by the streams of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its 7 I will tell of the decree:
season, Jehovah said to me, “You are my
Whose leaf also does not wither; son;
And whatsoever he does shall This day have I begotten you.”
prosper. 8 Ask of me, and I will give you the
4 The wicked are not so, nations for your inheritance,
But are like the chaff which the And the uttermost parts of the
wind drives away. earth for your possession.
5 Therefore the wicked shall not 9 You shall break them with a rod
stand in the judgment, of iron;
Nor sinners in the congregation You shall dash them in pieces like
of the righteous. a potter’s vessel.
6 For Jehovah knows the way of
the righteous; 10 Now therefore be wise, O kings:
But the way of the wicked shall Be instructed, judges of the
perish. earth.
11 Serve Jehovah with fear,

2 Why do the nations rage, And rejoice with trembling.

And the peoples meditate a 12 Kiss the son, lest he be angry,
vain thing? and you perish in the way,
2 The kings of the earth set them- For his wrath will soon be
selves, kindled.
And the rulers take counsel to- Blessed are all those who take
gether, refuge in him.
Against Jehovah, and against his
anointed, saying,
3 “Let us break their bonds apart,
And cast away their cords from
us.”

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A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom
his son.
3 Jehovah, how my adversaries
have increased!
Many are those who rise up
against me.
2 Many there are who say of my
soul,
“There is no help for him in
God.” [Selah
3 But you, O Jehovah, are a shield 5 Offer the sacrifices of righteous-
around me;
My glory and the lifter up of my
head.
4 I cry to Jehovah with my voice,
And he answers me out of his
holy hill. [Selah
5 I laid down and slept;
I awoke; for Jehovah sustains me.
6 I will not be afraid of ten thou-
sands of the people
Who have set themselves against
me all around.
7 Arise, O Jehovah; save me, O my
God:
For you have struck all my ene-
mies on the cheek bone;
You have broken the teeth of the For the Chief Musician; with the Nehiloth. A
wicked.
8 Salvation belongs to Jehovah:
Your blessing be upon your peo-
ple. 5
[Selah
For the Chief Musician; on stringed
instruments. A Psalm of David.
4 Answer me when I call, O God 3 O Jehovah, in the morning you
of my righteousness;
You have relieved me when I was
in distress:
Have mercy on me, and hear my
prayer.
2 O you sons of men, how long will
my glory be turned into dis-
honor?
How long will you love vanity,
and seek after falsehood? [Se-
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lah
3 But know that Jehovah has set
apart for himself him who is
godly:
Jehovah will hear when I call to
him.
4 Stand in awe, and do not sin:
Commune with your own heart
on your bed, and be still. [Se-
lah
ness,
And put your trust in Jehovah.
6 Many there are who say,
“Who will show us any good?”
Jehovah, lift up the light of your
countenance upon us.
7 You have put gladness in my
heart,
More than they have when their
grain and their new wine are
increased.
8 In peace will I both lie down and
sleep;
For you, Jehovah, alone make me
dwell in safety.
Psalm of David.
Give ear to my words, O Jeho-
vah,
Consider my meditation.
2 Listen to the voice of my cry, my
King, and my God;
For to you do I pray.
shall hear my voice;
In the morning I will order my
prayer to you, and will keep
watch.
4 For you are not a God who has
pleasure in wickedness:
Evil shall not sojourn with you.
5 The arrogant shall not stand in
your sight:
You hate all workers of iniquity.
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6 You will destroy those who speak
lies:
Jehovah abhors the bloodthirsty
and deceitful man.
7 But as for me, in the abundance
of your lovingkindness I will
come into your house:
In your fear I will worship to-
ward your holy temple.
8 Lead me, O Jehovah, in your
righteousness because of my
enemies;
Make your way straight before
my face.
9 For there is no faithfulness in
their mouth;
Their inward part is very wicked-
ness;
Their throat is an open sepulcher;
They flatter with their tongue.
10 Hold them guilty, O God;
Let them fall by their own coun-
sels;
Thrust them out in the multitude
of their transgressions;
For they have rebelled against
you.
11 But let all those who take refuge
in you rejoice,
Let them ever shout for joy,
because you defend them:
Let those also who love your
name be joyful in you.
12 For you will bless the righteous;
O Jehovah, you will surround
him with favor as with a
shield.
For the Chief Musician; on stringed
instruments, set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of
David.
6 O Jehovah, do not rebuke me in 3 O Jehovah my God, if I have done
your anger,
Neither chasten me in your hot
displeasure.
2 Have mercy on me, O Jehovah;
for I am withered away:
O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones
are troubled.
3 My soul also is severely troubled:
And you, O Jehovah, how long?
4 Return, O Jehovah, deliver my
soul:
Save me for your lovingkindness’
sake.
5 For in death there is no remem-
brance of you:
In Sheol who will give you
thanks?
6 I am weary with my groaning;
Every night I make my bed to
swim;
I water my couch with my tears.
7 My eye wastes away because of
grief;
It grows old because of all my ad-
versaries.
8 Depart from me, all you workers
of iniquity;
For Jehovah has heard the voice
of my weeping.
9 Jehovah has heard my supplica-
tion;
Jehovah will receive my prayer.
10 All my enemies shall be put to
shame and severely troubled:
They shall turn back, they shall
be put to shame suddenly.
Shiggaion of David, which he sang to Jehovah,
concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite.
7 O Jehovah my God, in you do I
take refuge:
Save me from all those who pur-
sue me, and deliver me,
2 Lest they tear my soul like a lion,
Tearing it in pieces, while there is
none to deliver.
this;
If there be iniquity in my hands;
4 If I have rewarded evil to him
who was at peace with me
(Or, I have delivered him who
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without cause was my adver-
sary);
5 Let the enemy pursue my soul,
and overtake it;
Yes, let him tread my life down to
the earth,
And lay my glory in the dust.
[Selah
6 Arise, O Jehovah, in your anger;
Lift up yourself against the rage
of my adversaries,
And awake for me; you have
commanded judgment.
7 And let the congregation of the
peoples surround you;
And over them return on high.
8 Jehovah ministers judgment to
the peoples:
Judge me, O Jehovah, according
to my righteousness, and to
my integrity that is in me.
9 Oh let the wickedness of the
wicked come to an end, but es-
tablish the righteous:
For the righteous God tests the 4
minds and hearts.
10 My shield is with God,
Who saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge,
Yes, a God who has indignation
every day.
12 If a man does not turn, he will
sharpen his sword;
He has bent his bow, and made
it ready;
13 He has also prepared for him
the instruments of death;
He makes his arrows fiery
shafts.
14 Behold, he conceives iniquity;
Yes, he has conceived mischief,
and brought forth falsehood.
15 He has made a pit, and dug it,
And is fallen into the ditch
which he made.
16 His mischief shall return upon
his own head,
And his violence shall come
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PSALMS
down upon his own head.
17 I will give thanks to Jehovah ac-
cording to his righteousness,
And will sing praise to the
name of Jehovah Most High.
For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A
Psalm of David.
8 O Jehovah, our Lord,
How excellent is your name in
all the earth,
Who have set your glory upon
the heavens!
2 Out of the mouth of babes and
sucklings you have established
strength,
Because of your adversaries,
That you might still the enemy
and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which
you have ordained;
What is man, that you are mind-
ful of him?
And the son of man, that you
visit him?
5 For you have made him but little
lower than God,
And crowned him with glory and
honor.
6 You make him to have dominion
over the works of your hands;
You have put all things under his
feet:
7 All sheep and oxen,
Yes, and the beasts of the field,
8 The birds of the heavens, and the
fish of the sea,
Whatsoever passes through the
paths of the seas.
9 O Jehovah, our Lord,
How excellent is your name in all
the earth!

For the Chief Musician; set to Muth-labben. A
Psalm of David.
9 I will give thanks to Jehovah
with my whole heart;
I will show forth all your mar-
velous works.
2 I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O 14
Most High.
3 When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and perish at your
presence.
4 For you have maintained my 15
right and my cause;
You sit in the throne judging righ-
teously.
5 You have rebuked the nations, 16
you have destroyed the wicked;
You have blotted out their name
for ever and ever.
6 The enemy has come to an end,
they are desolate for ever;
And the cities which you have 17 The wicked shall be turned back
overthrown,
The very remembrance of them
has perished.
7 But Jehovah sits as king for ever: 18 For the needy shall not always
He has prepared his throne for
judgment;
8 And he will judge the world in
righteousness,
He will minister judgment to the
peoples in uprightness.
9 Jehovah also will be a high tower
for the oppressed,
A high tower in times of trouble;
10 And those who know your
name will put their trust in
you;
For you, Jehovah, have not
forsaken those who seek you.
11 Sing praises to Jehovah, who
dwells in Zion:
Declare among the people his
doings.
12 For he who makes inquisition
for blood remembers them;
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He does not forget the cry of
the poor.
13 Have mercy on me, O Jehovah;
Behold my affliction which I
suffer from those who hate
me,
You who lift me up from the
gates of death;
That I may show forth all your
praise.
In the gates of the daughter of
Zion I will rejoice in your
salvation.
The nations are sunk down in
the pit that they made:
In the net which they hid is
their own foot taken.
Jehovah has made himself
known, he has executed judg-
ment:
The wicked is snared in the
work of his own hands.
[Higgaion. Selah
to Sheol,
Even all the nations that forget
God.
be forgotten,
Nor the expectation of the poor
perish for ever.
19 Arise, O Jehovah; do not let man
prevail:
Let the nations be judged in
your sight.
20 Put them in fear, O Jehovah:
Let the nations know
themselves to be but men.
[Selah
10
Why do you stand afar off, O
Jehovah?
Why do you hide yourself in
times of trouble?
2 In the pride of the wicked the
poor is hotly pursued;
Let them be taken in the devices
that they have conceived.
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3 For the wicked boasts of his mischief and spite, to repay it
heart’s desire, with your hand:
And the covetous renounces, yes, The helpless commits himself to
scorns Jehovah. you;
4 The wicked, in the pride of his You have been the helper of the
countenance, says, “He will not fatherless.
require it.” 15 Break the arm of the wicked;
All his thoughts are, “There is no And as for the evil man, seek
God.” out his wickedness until you
5 His ways are firm at all times; find none.
Your judgments are far above out 16 Jehovah is King for ever and ev-
of his sight: er:
As for all his adversaries, he puffs The nations have perished out
at them. of his land.
6 He says in his heart, “I shall not 17 Jehovah, you have heard the de-
be moved; sire of the meek:
To all generations I shall not be in You will prepare their heart,
adversity.” you will cause your ear to
7 His mouth is full of cursing and hear;
deceit and oppression: 18 To judge the fatherless and the
Under his tongue is mischief and oppressed,
iniquity. That man who is of the earth
8 He sits in the lurking places of the may be terrible no more.
villages;
In the secret places he murders For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
the innocent;
His eyes are secretly set against
the helpless.
9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his
11 In Jehovah do I take refuge:
How do you say to my soul,
“Flee as a bird to your moun-
cover; tain;”
He lies in wait to catch the poor: 2 For, behold, the wicked bend the
He catches the poor, when he bow,
draws him in his net. They make ready their arrow
10 He crouches, he bows down, upon the string,
And the helpless fall by his That they may shoot in darkness
strong ones. at the upright in heart;
11 He says in his heart, “God has 3 If the foundations be destroyed,
forgotten; What can the righteous do?
He hides his face; he will never 4 Jehovah is in his holy temple;
see it.” Jehovah, his throne is in heaven;
12 Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up His eyes behold, his eyelids test,
your hand: the children of men.
Do not forget the poor. 5 Jehovah tests the righteous;
13 Why does the wicked scorn But the wicked and him who
God, loves violence his soul hates.
And say in his heart, 6 Upon the wicked he will rain
“You will not require it?” snares;
14 You have seen it; for you behold Fire and brimstone and burning
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wind shall be the portion of from me?
their cup. 2 How long shall I take counsel in
7 For Jehovah is righteous; my soul,
He loves righteousness: Having sorrow in my heart all the
The upright shall behold his face. day?
How long will my enemy be ex-
For the Chief Musician; set to the Sheminith. A alted over me?
Psalm of David. 3 Consider and answer me, O Jeho-
vah my God:

12 Help, Jehovah; for the godly

man ceases;
Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the
sleep of death;
For the faithful fail from among 4 Lest my enemy say, “I have pre-
the children of men. vailed against him;”
2 They speak falsehood every one Lest mine adversaries rejoice
with his neighbor: when I am moved.
With flattering lip, and with a 5 But I have trusted in your lov-
double heart, do they speak. ingkindness;
3 Jehovah will cut off all flattering My heart shall rejoice in your sal-
lips, vation.
The tongue that speaks great 6 I will sing to Jehovah,
things; Because he has dealt bountifully
4 Who have said, “With our tongue with me.
will we prevail;
Our lips are our own: who is lord For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
over us?”
5 Because of the oppression of the
poor, because of the sighing of
the needy,
14 The fool has said in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they have done
Now will I arise, says Jehovah; abominable works;
I will set him in the safety he There is none who does good.
pants for. 2 Jehovah looked down from
6 The words of Jehovah are pure heaven upon the children of
words; men,
As silver refined in a furnace on To see if there were any who un-
the earth, derstand,
Purified seven times. Who seek after God.
7 You will keep them, O Jehovah, 3 They are all gone aside; they are
You will preserve them from this together become filthy;
generation for ever. There is none who does good, no,
8 The wicked walk on every side, not one.
When vileness is exalted among 4 Have all the workers of iniquity
the sons of men. no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. bread,
And do not call upon Jehovah?

13 How long, O Jehovah? will 5 There they were in great fear;

you forget me for ever?
How long will you hide your face
For God is in the generation of
the righteous.
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6 You put to shame the counsel of
the poor,
Because Jehovah is his refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel
would come out of Zion!
When Jehovah brings back the 5 Jehovah is the portion of my in-
captivity of his people,
Then will Jacob rejoice, and Israel
will be glad.
A Psalm of David.
15 Jehovah, who will sojourn in
your tabernacle?
Who will dwell in your holy hill?
2 He who walks uprightly, and 8 I have set Jehovah always before
works righteousness,
And speaks truth in his heart;
3 He who does not slander with his
tongue,
Nor does evil to his friend,
Nor takes up a reproach against
his neighbor;
4 In whose eyes a reprobate is de-
spised,
But who honors those who fear
Jehovah;
He who swears to his own hurt,
and does not change;
5 He who does not put out his
money to interest,
Nor takes reward against the in-
nocent.
He who does these things shall
never be moved.
Michtam of David.
16 Preserve me, O God; for in
you do I take refuge.
2 O my soul, you have said to Jeho-
vah, “You are my Lord:
I have no good beyond you.”
3 As for the saints who are in the
earth,
They are the excellent in whom is
all my delight.
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied
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who give gifts for another god:
Their drink offerings of blood I
will not offer,
Nor take their names upon my
lips.
heritance and of my cup:
You maintain my lot.
6 The lines are fallen unto me in
pleasant places;
Yes, I have a beautiful heritage.
7 I will bless Jehovah, who has
given me counsel;
Yes, my heart instructs me in the
night seasons.
me:
Because he is at my right hand, I
shall not be moved.
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and
my glory rejoices;
My flesh also will dwell in safety.
10 For you will not leave my soul
to Sheol;
Neither will you allow your
holy one to see corruption.
11 You will show me the path of
life:
In your presence is fullness of
joy;
In your right hand there are
pleasures for evermore.
A Prayer of David.
17 Hear the right, O Jehovah,
attend to my cry;
Give ear to my prayer, that does
not go out of feigned lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth from
your presence;
Let your eyes look upon equity.
3 You have tested my heart; you
have visited me in the night;
You have tested me, and find
nothing;
I am purposed that my mouth
shall not transgress.
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4 As for the works of men, by the
word of your lips
I have kept myself from the ways
of the violent.
5 My steps have held fast to your
paths,
My feet have not slipped.
6 I have called upon you, for you
will answer me, O God:
Incline your ear to me, and hear For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the
my speech.
7 Show your marvelous loving-
kindness,
O you who save by your right
hand those who take refuge in
you
From those who rise up against
them.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye;
Hide me under the shadow of
your wings,
9 From the wicked who oppress
me,
My deadly enemies, who sur- 3 I will call upon Jehovah, who is
round me.
10 They are enclosed in their own
fat:
With their mouth they speak
proudly.
11 They have now surrounded us
in our steps;
They set their eyes to cast us
down to the earth.
12 He is like a lion that is greedy of
his prey,
And as it were a young lion
lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, O Jehovah,
Confront him, cast him down:
Deliver my soul from the
wicked by your sword;
14 From men by your hand, O Je-
hovah,
From men of the world, whose
portion is in this life,
And whose belly you fill with
your treasure:
They are satisfied with
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children,
And leave the rest of their
substance to their babes.
15 As for me, I shall behold your
face in righteousness;
I shall be satisfied, when I
awake, with beholding your
form.
servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the
words of this song in the day that Jehovah
delivered him from the hand of all his enemies,
and from the hand of Saul: and he said,
18 I love you, O Jehovah, my
strength.
2 Jehovah is my rock, and my
fortress, and my deliverer;
My God, my rock, in whom I will
take refuge;
My shield, and the horn of my
salvation, my high tower.
worthy to be praised:
So shall I be saved from my ene-
mies.
4 The cords of death surrounded
me,
And the floods of ungodliness
made me afraid.
5 The cords of Sheol were all
around me;
The snares of death came upon
me.
6 In my distress I called upon Jeho-
vah,
And cried to my God:
He heard my voice out of his tem-
ple,
And my cry before him came into
his ears.
7 Then the earth shook and trem-
bled;
The foundations also of the
mountains quaked
And were shaken, because he
was angry.
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8 There went up a smoke out of his
nostrils, 19
And fire out of his mouth de-
voured:
Coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and 20
came down;
And thick darkness was under
his feet.
10 And he rode upon a cherub, and
flew; 21
Yes, he soared upon the wings
of the wind.
11 He made darkness his hiding
place, his pavilion around 22
him,
Darkness of waters, thick
clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness before him his 23
thick clouds passed,
Hailstones and coals of fire.
13 Jehovah also thundered in the 24
heavens,
And the Most High uttered his
voice,
Hailstones and coals of fire.
14 And he sent out his arrows, and 25
scattered them;
Yes, lightnings manifold, and
discomfited them.
15 Then the channels of waters ap- 26
peared,
And the foundations of the
world were laid bare,
At your rebuke, O Jehovah, 27
At the blast of the breath of
your nostrils.
16 He sent from on high, he took
me; 28
He drew me out of many
waters.
17 He delivered me from my 29
strong enemy,
And from those who hated me;
for they were too mighty for 30
me.
18 They came upon me in the day
of my calamity;
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But Jehovah was my support.
He brought me forth also into a
large place;
He delivered me, because he
delighted in me.
Jehovah has rewarded me ac-
cording to my righteousness;
According to the cleanness of
my hands he has rewarded
me.
For I have kept the ways of Je-
hovah,
And have not wickedly
departed from my God.
For all his ordinances were be-
fore me,
And I did not put away his
statutes from me.
I was also perfect with him,
And I kept myself from my
iniquity.
Therefore has Jehovah re-
warded me according to my
righteousness,
According to the cleanness of
my hands in his eyesight.
With the merciful you will show
yourself merciful;
With the perfect man you will
show yourself perfect;
With the pure you will show
yourself pure;
And with the perverse you will
show yourself tortuous.
For you will save the afflicted
people;
But the haughty eyes you will
bring down.
For you will light my lamp:
Jehovah my God will lighten
my darkness.
For by you I run upon a troop;
And by my God do I leap over
a wall.
As for God, his way is perfect:
The word of Jehovah is tried;
He is a shield to all those who
take refuge in him.
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31 For who is God, except Jeho-
vah?
And who is a rock, besides our
God,
32 The God who girds me
with strength,
And makes my way perfect?
33 He makes my feet like does’ feet:
And sets me upon my high
places.
34 He teaches my hands to war;
So that my arms bend a bow of
brass.
35 You have also given me the
shield of your salvation;
And your right hand has held
me up,
And your gentleness has made
me great.
36 You have enlarged my steps un-
der me,
And my feet have not slipped.
37 I will pursue my enemies, and
overtake them;
Neither will I turn again until
they are consumed.
38 I will strike them through, so 49 Therefore I will give thanks to
that they shall not be able to
rise:
They shall fall under my feet.
39 For you have girded me with
strength for the battle:
You have subdued under me
those who rose up against
me.
40 You have also made my enemies
turn their backs to me,
That I might cut off those who
hate me.
41 They cried, but there was none
to save;
Even to Jehovah, but he did not
answer them.
42 Then I beat them small as the
dust before the wind;
I cast them out as the mire of
the streets.
43 You have delivered me from the 3 There is no speech nor language;
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strivings of the people;
You have made me the head of
the nations:
A people whom I have not
known shall serve me.
44 As soon as they hear of me they
shall obey me;
The foreigners shall submit
themselves to me.
45 The foreigners shall fade away,
And shall come trembling out
of their close places.
46 Jehovah lives; and blessed be
my rock;
And exalted be the God of my
salvation,
47 Even the God who executes
vengeance for me,
And subdues peoples under
me.
48 He rescues me from my ene-
mies;
Yes, you lift me up above those
who rise up against me;
You deliver me from the violent
man.
you, O Jehovah, among the
nations,
And will sing praises to your
name.
50 Great deliverance he gives to his
king,
And shows lovingkindness to
his anointed,
To David and to his seed, for
evermore.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
19 The heavens declare the
glory of God;
And the firmament shows his
handiwork.
2 Day to day utters speech,
And night to night shows knowl-
edge.
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Their voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all
the earth,
And their words to the end of the
world.
In them has he set a tabernacle for
the sun,
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming
out of his chamber,
And rejoices as a strong man to
run his course.
6 His going forth is from the end of
the heavens,
And his circuit to the ends of it;
And there is nothing hidden from
the heat of it.
7 The law of Jehovah is perfect,
restoring the soul:
The testimony of Jehovah is sure,
making wise the simple.
8 The precepts of Jehovah are right,
rejoicing the heart:
The commandment of Jehovah is
pure, enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of Jehovah is clean, en- 6 Now I know that Jehovah saves
during for ever:
The ordinances of Jehovah are
true, and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than
gold, yes, than much fine
gold;
Sweeter also than honey and
the droppings of the
honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is your ser- 8 They are bowed down and fallen;
vant warned:
In keeping them there is great
reward.
12 Who can discern his errors?
Clear me from hidden faults.
13 Keep back your servant also
from presumptuous sins;
Let them not have dominion
over me:
Then shall I be upright,
And I shall be clear from great
transgression.
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14 Let the words of my mouth and
the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in your sight, O
Jehovah, my rock, and my
redeemer.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
20 Jehovah answer you in the
day of trouble;
The name of the God of Jacob set
you up on high;
2 Send you help from the sanctu-
ary,
And strengthen you out of Zion;
3 Remember all your offerings,
And accept your burnt sacrifice;
[Selah
4 Grant you your heart’s desire,
And fulfill all your counsel.
5 We will triumph in your salva-
tion,
And in the name of our God we
will set up our banners:
Jehovah fulfill all your petitions.
his anointed;
He will answer him from his holy
heaven
With the saving strength of his
right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots, and some
in horses;
But we will make mention of the
name of Jehovah our God.
But we are risen, and stand up-
right.
9 Save, Jehovah:
Let the King answer us when we
call.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
21 The king shall rejoice in your
strength, O Jehovah;
And in your salvation how
greatly shall he rejoice!
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2 You have given him his heart’s power.
desire,
And have not withheld the re- For the Chief Musician; set to Aijeleth hash-
quest of his lips. [Selah Shahar. A Psalm of David.
3 For you meet him with the bless-
ings of goodness:
You set a crown of fine gold on
his head.
22 My God, my God, why have
you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from helping
4 He asked life of you, you gave it me, and from the words of my
him, groaning?
Even length of days for ever and 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime,
ever. but you do not answer;
5 His glory is great in your salva- And in the night season, and am
tion: not silent.
Honor and majesty do you lay 3 But you are holy, O you who in-
upon him. habit the praises of Israel.
6 For you make him most blessed 4 Our fathers trusted in you:
for ever: They trusted, and you delivered
You make him glad with joy in them.
your presence. 5 They cried to you, and were de-
7 For the king trusts in Jehovah; livered:
And through the lovingkindness They trusted in you, and were
of the Most High he shall not not put to shame.
be moved. 6 But I am a worm, and no man;
8 Your hand will find out all your A reproach of men, and despised
enemies; by the people.
Your right hand will find out 7 All those who see me laugh me to
those who hate you. scorn:
9 You will make them as a fiery fur- They shoot out the lip, they shake
nace in the time of your anger: the head, saying,
Jehovah will swallow them up in 8 “Commit yourself to Jehovah; let
his wrath, him deliver him:
And the fire shall devour them. Let him rescue him, seeing he de-
10 Their fruit will you destroy lights in him.”
from the earth, 9 But you are he who took me out
And their seed from among the of the womb;
children of men. You made me trust when I was
11 For they intended evil against upon my mother’s breasts.
you; 10 I was cast upon you from the
They conceived a device which womb;
they are not able to perform. You are my God since my
12 For you will make them turn mother bore me.
their back; 11 Do not be far from me; for trou-
You will make ready with your ble is near;
bowstrings against their face. For there is none to help.
13 Be exalted, O Jehovah, in your 12 Many bulls have surrounded
strength: me;
So will we sing and praise your Strong bulls of Bashan have
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surrounded me.
13 They gape upon me with their
mouth,
As a ravening and a roaring
lion.
14 I am poured out like water,
And all my bones are out of
joint:
My heart is like wax;
It is melted within me.
15 My strength is dried up like a
potsherd;
And my tongue cleaves to my
jaws;
And you have brought me into
the dust of death.
16 For dogs have surrounded me:
A company of evildoers have
enclosed me;
They pierced my hands and my
feet.
17 I may count all my bones.
They look and stare upon me;
18 They part my garments among
them,
And upon my clothing do they
cast lots.
19 But be not you far off, O Jeho-
vah:
O you my strength, hasten to
help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword,
My darling from the power of
the dog.
21 Save me from the lion’s mouth;
Yes, from the horns of the wild
oxen you have answered me.
22 I will declare your name to my
brethren:
In the midst of the assembly I
will praise you.
23 You who fear Jehovah, praise 2
him;
All you the seed of Jacob,
glorify him;
And stand in awe of him, all
you the seed of Israel.
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24 For he has not despised nor ab-
horred the affliction of the
afflicted;
Neither has he hid his face from
him;
But when he cried to him, he
heard.
25 Of you comes my praise in the
great assembly:
I will pay my vows before those
who fear him.
26 The meek shall eat and be satis-
fied;
They shall praise Jehovah who
seek after him:
Let your heart live for ever.
27 All the ends of the earth shall re-
member and turn to Jehovah;
And all the kindreds of the
nations shall worship before
you.
28 For the kingdom is Jehovah’s;
And he is the ruler over the
nations.
29 All the fat ones of the earth shall
eat and worship:
All those who go down to the
dust shall bow before him,
Even he who cannot keep his
soul alive.
30 A seed shall serve him;
It shall be told of the Lord to
the next generation.
31 They shall come and shall de-
clare his righteousness
To a people who shall be born,
that he has done it.
A Psalm of David.
23 Jehovah is my shepherd; I
shall not want.
He makes me to lie down in
green pastures;
He leads me beside still waters.
3 He restores my soul:
He guides me in the paths of
righteousness for his name’s
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sake. doors:
4 Yea, though I walk through the And the King of glory will come
valley of the shadow of death, in.
I will fear no evil; for you are 8 Who is the King of glory?
with me; Jehovah strong and mighty,
Your rod and your staff, they Jehovah mighty in battle.
comfort me. 9 Lift up your heads, O you gates;
5 You prepare a table before me in Yes, lift them up, you everlasting
the presence of my enemies: doors:
You have anointed my head with And the King of glory will come
oil; in.
My cup runs over. 10 Who is this King of glory?
6 Surely goodness and lovingkind- Jehovah of hosts,
ness shall follow me all the He is the King of glory. [Selah
days of my life;
And I shall dwell in the house of A Psalm of David.
Jehovah for ever.

A Psalm of David. 25 To you, O Jehovah, do I lift

up my soul.
2 O my God, in you have I trusted,

24 The earth is Jehovah’s, and

the fullness of it;
The world, and those who dwell
Do not let me be put to shame;
Do not let my enemies triumph
over me.
in it. 3 Yes, none who wait for you shall
2 For he has founded it upon the be put to shame:
seas, They shall be put to shame who
And established it upon the floods. deal treacherously without
cause.
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of 4 Show me your ways, O Jehovah;
Jehovah? Teach me your paths.
And who shall stand in his holy 5 Guide me in your truth, and
place? teach me;
4 He who has clean hands, and a For you are the God of my salva-
pure heart; tion;
Who has not lifted up his soul to For you do I wait all the day.
falsehood, 6 Remember, O Jehovah, your ten-
And has not sworn deceitfully. der mercies and your lov-
5 He shall receive a blessing from ingkindness;
Jehovah, For they have been ever of old.
And righteousness from the God 7 Do not remember the sins of my
of his salvation. youth, nor my transgressions:
6 This is the generation of those According to your lovingkind-
who seek after him, ness remember me,
Who seek your face, even Jacob. For your goodness’ sake, O Jeho-
[Selah vah.
8 Good and upright is Jehovah:
7 Lift up your heads, O you gates; Therefore will he instruct sinners
And be lifted up, you everlasting in the way.
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9 The meek will he guide in justice;
And the meek will he teach his
way.
10 All the paths of Jehovah are lov-
ingkindness and truth
Unto such as keep his covenant
and his testimonies.
11 For your name’s sake, O Jeho-
vah,
Pardon my iniquity, for it is
great.
12 What man is he who fears Jeho-
vah?
Him shall he instruct in the
way that he shall choose.
13 His soul shall dwell at ease;
And his seed shall inherit the
land.
14 The friendship of Jehovah is
with those who fear him;
And he will show them his
covenant.
15 My eyes are ever toward Jeho-
vah;
For he will pluck my feet out of
the net.
16 Turn to me, and have mercy on
me;
For I am desolate and afflicted.
17 The troubles of my heart are en- 8 Jehovah, I love the habitation of
larged:
Oh bring me out of my
distresses.
18 Consider my affliction and my 9 Do not gather my soul with sin-
travail;
And forgive all my sins.
19 Consider my enemies, for they 10 In whose hands is wickedness,
are many;
And they hate me with cruel
hatred.
20 Oh keep my soul, and
deliver me:
Let me not be put to shame, for
I take refuge in you.
21 Let integrity and uprightness
preserve me,
For I wait for you.
22 Redeem Israel, O God,
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Out of all his troubles.
A Psalm of David.
26 Judge me, O Jehovah, for I
have walked in my integri-
ty:
I have trusted also in Jehovah
without wavering.
2 Examine me, O Jehovah, and test
me;
Test my heart and my mind.
3 For your lovingkindness is before
my eyes;
And I have walked in your truth.
4 I have not sat with men of false-
hood;
Neither will I go in with hyp-
ocrites.
5 I hate the assembly of evildoers,
And will not sit with the wicked.
6 I will wash my hands in inno-
cence:
So will I encircle your altar, O Je-
hovah;
7 That I may make the voice of
thanksgiving to be heard,
And tell of all your wondrous
works.
your house,
And the place where your glory
dwells.
ners,
Nor my life with men of blood;
And their right hand is full of
bribes.
11 But as for me, I will walk in my
integrity:
Redeem me, and be merciful to
me.
12 My foot stands in an even place:
In the congregations will I bless
Jehovah.
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A Psalm of David.
27 Jehovah is my light and my
salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
Jehovah is the strength of my life;
Of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When evildoers came upon me to
eat up my flesh,
Even my adversaries and my foes,
they stumbled and fell.
3 Though an army should encamp
against me,
My heart shall not fear:
Though war should rise against
me,
Even then will I be confident.
4 One thing have I asked of Jeho-
vah, that will I seek after:
That I may dwell in the house of
Jehovah all the days of my
life,
To behold the beauty of Jehovah,
And to inquire in his temple.
5 For in the day of trouble he will
keep me secretly in his pavilion:
In the cover of his tabernacle will
he hide me;
He will lift me up upon a rock.
6 And now shall my head be lifted
up above my enemies all
around me;
And I will offer in his tabernacle 2 Hear the voice of my supplica-
sacrifices of joy;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises
to Jehovah.
7 Hear, O Jehovah, when I cry with
my voice:
Have mercy also on me, and an-
swer me.
8 When you said, “Seek my face;”
my heart said to you,
“Your face, Jehovah, will I seek.”
9 Do not hide your face from me;
Do not put your servant away in
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anger:
You have been my help;
Do not cast me off, neither for-
sake me, O God of my salva-
tion.
10 When my father and my mother
forsake me,
Then Jehovah will take me up.
11 Teach me your way, O Jehovah;
And lead me in a level path,
Because of my enemies.
12 Do not deliver me over to the
will of my adversaries:
For false witnesses have risen
up against me,
And such as breathe out
cruelty.
13 I would have fainted, unless I had
believed to see the goodness
of Jehovah
In the land of the living.
14 Wait for Jehovah:
Be strong, and let your heart
take courage;
Yes, wait for Jehovah.
A Psalm of David.
28 To you, O Jehovah, will I call:
My rock, do not be deaf to
me;
Lest, if you be silent to me,
I become like those who go down
into the pit.
tions, when I cry to you,
When I lift up my hands toward
your holy of holies.
3 Do not draw me away with the
wicked,
And with the workers of iniquity;
Who speak peace with their
neighbors,
But mischief is in their hearts.
4 Give them according to their
work, and according to the
wickedness of their doings:
Give them after the operation of
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their hands;
Render to them their desert.
5 Because they do not regard the
works of Jehovah,
Nor the operation of his hands,
He will break them down and not
build them up.
6 Blessed be Jehovah,
Because he has heard the voice of
my supplications.
7 Jehovah is my strength and my
shield;
My heart has trusted in him, and
I am helped:
Therefore my heart greatly re-
joices;
And with my song will I praise
him.
8 Jehovah is their strength,
And he is a stronghold of salva-
tion to his anointed.
9 Save your people, and bless your
inheritance:
Be their shepherd also, and bear
them up for ever.
A Psalm of David.
29 Ascribe to Jehovah, O you
sons of the mighty,
Ascribe to Jehovah glory and 2
strength.
2 Ascribe to Jehovah the glory due 3
to his name;
Worship Jehovah in holy array.
3 The voice of Jehovah is on the 4
waters:
The God of glory thunders,
Even Jehovah on many waters.
4 The voice of Jehovah is powerful; 5
The voice of Jehovah is full of
majesty.
5 The voice of Jehovah breaks the
cedars;
Yes, Jehovah breaks in pieces the
cedars of Lebanon.
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6 He makes them also to skip like a
calf;
Lebanon and Sirion like a young
wild ox.
7 The voice of Jehovah cleaves the
flames of fire.
8 The voice of Jehovah shakes the
wilderness;
Jehovah shakes the wilderness of
Kadesh.
9 The voice of Jehovah makes the
hinds to calve,
And strips the forests bare:
And in his temple everything
says, “Glory.”
10 Jehovah sat as King at the Flood;
Yes, Jehovah sits as King for
ever.
11 Jehovah will give strength to his
people;
Jehovah will bless his people
with peace.
A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the
House. A Psalm of David.
30 I will extol you, O Jehovah;
for you have raised me up,
And have not made my foes to re-
joice over me.
O Jehovah my God, I cried to
you, and you have healed me.
O Jehovah, you have brought up
my soul from Sheol;
You have kept me alive, that I
should not go down to the pit.
Sing praise to Jehovah, O you
saints of his,
And give thanks to his holy
memorial name.
For his anger is but for a moment;
His favor is for a lifetime:
Weeping may stay for the night,
But joy comes in the morning.
6 As for me, I said in my prosperity,
I shall never be moved.
7 You, Jehovah, by your favor had
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made my mountain to stand
strong:
You hid your face; I was troubled.
8 I cried to you, O Jehovah;
And to Jehovah I made supplica-
tion:
9 What profit is there in my blood,
when I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise you? will it
declare your truth?
10 Hear, O Jehovah, and have
mercy on me:
Jehovah, be my helper.
11 You have turned for me my
mourning into dancing;
You have loosed my sackcloth,
and girded me with gladness;
12 To the end that my glory may
sing praise to you, and not be
silent.
O Jehovah my God, I will give
thanks to you for ever.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
31 In you, O Jehovah, do I take
refuge;
Let me never be put to shame:
Deliver me in your righteous-
ness.
2 Bow down your ear to me; de-
liver me speedily:
Be to me a strong rock,
A house of defense to save me.
3 For you are my rock and my
fortress;
Therefore for your name’s sake 14 But I trusted in you, O Jehovah:
lead me and guide me.
4 Pluck me out of the net that they 15 My times are in your hand:
have laid secretly for me;
For you are my stronghold.
5 Into your hand I commend my
spirit:
You have redeemed me, O Jeho-
vah, God of truth.
6 I hate those who regard lying
vanities;
But I trust in Jehovah.
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7 I will be glad and rejoice in your
lovingkindness;
For you have seen my affliction:
You have known my soul in ad-
versities;
8 And you have not shut me up
into the hand of the enemy;
You have set my feet in a large
place.
9 Have mercy on me, O Jehovah,
for I am in distress:
My eye wastes away with grief,
yes, my soul and my body.
10 For my life is spent with sorrow,
And my years with sighing:
My strength fails because of my
iniquity,
And my bones are wasted
away.
11 Because of all my adversaries I
have become a reproach,
Yes, to my neighbors
exceedingly,
And a fear to my acquaintance:
Those who did see me outside
fled from me.
12 I am forgotten as a dead man
out of mind:
I am like a broken vessel.
13 For I have heard the defaming
of many,
Terror on every side:
While they took counsel
together against me
They devised to take away my
life.
I said, “You are my God.”
Deliver me from the hand of
my enemies, and from those
who persecute me.
16 Make your face to shine on your
servant:
Save me in your
lovingkindness.
17 Let me not be put to shame, O
Jehovah; for I have called on
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you:
Let the wicked be put to shame,
let them be silent in Sheol.
18 Let the lying lips be mute,
Which speak against the
righteous insolently,
With pride and contempt.
19 Oh how great is your goodness,
Which you have laid up for
those who fear you,
Which you have worked for
those who take refuge in you,
Before the sons of men!
20 In the cover of your presence
will you hide them from the
plottings of man:
You will keep them secretly in a
pavilion from the strife of
tongues.
21 Blessed be Jehovah;
For he has shown me his
marvelous lovingkindness in
a strong city.
22 As for me, I said in my haste, I
am cut off from before your
eyes:
Nevertheless you heard the
voice of my supplications,
When I cried to you.
23 Oh love Jehovah, all you his
saints:
Jehovah preserves the faithful,
And plentifully rewards him
who deals proudly.
24 Be strong, and let your heart
take courage,
All you who hope in Jehovah.
A Psalm of David. Maschil.
32 Blessed is he whose trans- 11 Be glad in Jehovah, and rejoice,
gression is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man to whom Jeho-
vah does not impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no
deceit.
3 When I kept silence, my bones
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wasted away
Through my groaning all the day
long.
4 For day and night your hand was
heavy upon me:
My moisture was changed as
with the drought of summer.
[Selah
5 I acknowledged my sin to you,
And my iniquity I did not hide:
I said, “I will confess my trans-
gressions to Jehovah;”
And you forgave the iniquity of
my sin. [Selah
6 For this let every one who is
godly pray to you in a time
when you may be found:
Surely when the great waters
overflow they shall not reach
to him.
7 You are my hiding place; you will
preserve me from trouble;
You will surround with songs of
deliverance. [Selah
8 I will instruct you and teach you
in the way which you shall go:
I will counsel you with my eye
upon you.
9 Be not as the horse, or as the
mule, which have no under-
standing;
Whose trappings must be bit and
bridle to hold them in,
Else they will not come near to
you.
10 Many sorrows shall be to the
wicked;
But he who trusts in Jehovah,
lovingkindness shall
surround him.
you righteous;
And shout for joy, all you who
are upright in heart.
33 Rejoice in Jehovah, O you
righteous:
Praise is becoming for the up-
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right.
2 Give thanks to Jehovah with the 16 There is no king saved by the
harp:
Sing praises to him with the
psaltery of ten strings.
3 Sing to him a new song;
Play skillfully with a loud noise.
4 For the word of Jehovah is right;
And all his work is done in faith-
fulness.
5 He loves righteousness and jus-
tice:
The earth is full of the lov-
ingkindness of Jehovah.
6 By the word of Jehovah were the
heavens made,
And all the host of them by the 20 Our soul has waited for Jeho-
breath of his mouth.
7 He gathers the waters of the sea
together as a heap:
He lays up the deeps in store
houses.
8 Let all the earth fear Jehovah:
Let all the inhabitants of the 22 Let your lovingkindness, O Je-
world stand in awe of him.
9 For he spoke, and it was done;
He commanded, and it stood fast.
10 Jehovah brings the counsel of
the nations to nothing;
He makes the thoughts of the
peoples to be of no effect.
11 The counsel of Jehovah stands
fast for ever,
The thoughts of his heart to all
generations.
12 Blessed is the nation whose God
is Jehovah,
The people whom he has
chosen for his own
inheritance.
13 Jehovah looks from heaven;
He beholds all the sons of men;
14 From the place of his habitation
he looks forth
Upon all the inhabitants of the
earth,
15 He who fashioned the hearts of
them all,
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Who considers all their works.
multitude of a host:
A mighty man is not delivered
by great strength.
17 A horse is a vain thing for
safety;
Neither does he deliver any by
his great power.
18 Behold, the eye of Jehovah is
upon those who fear him,
Upon those who hope in his
lovingkindness;
19 To deliver their soul from death,
And to keep them alive in
famine.
vah:
He is our help and our shield.
21 For our heart shall rejoice in
him,
Because we have trusted in his
holy name.
hovah, be upon us,
According as we have hoped in
you.
A Psalm of David; when he changed his
behavior before Abimelech, who drove him
away, and he departed.
34 I will bless Jehovah at all
times:
His praise shall continually be in
my mouth.
2 My soul shall make her boast in
Jehovah:
The meek shall hear of it, and be
glad.
3 Oh magnify Jehovah with me,
And let us exalt his name to-
gether.
4 I sought Jehovah, and he an-
swered me,
And delivered me from all my
fears.
5 They looked to him, and were ra-
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And their faces shall never be
confounded.
6 This poor man cried, and Jehovah
heard him,
And saved him out of all his trou-
bles.
7 The angel of Jehovah encamps all
around those who fear him,
And delivers them.
8 Oh taste and see that Jehovah is
good:
Blessed is the man who takes 22 Jehovah redeems the soul of his
refuge in him.
9 Oh fear Jehovah, you his saints;
For there is no want to those who
fear him.
10 The young lions lack, and suffer
hunger;
But those who seek Jehovah
shall not want any good
thing.
11 Come, you children, listen to
me:
I will teach you the fear of
Jehovah.
12 What man is he who desires life, 3 Draw out also the spear, and stop
And loves many days, that he
may see good?
13 Keep your tongue from evil,
And your lips from speaking
deceit.
14 Depart from evil, and do good;
Seek peace, and pursue it.
15 The eyes of Jehovah are toward
the righteous,
And his ears are open to their
cry.
16 The face of Jehovah is against
those who do evil,
To cut off the remembrance of
them from the earth.
17 The righteous cried, and Jehovah
heard,
And delivered them out of all
their troubles.
18 Jehovah is near to those who are
of a broken heart,
And saves such as are of a
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contrite spirit.
19 Many are the afflictions of the
righteous;
But Jehovah delivers him out of
them all.
20 He keeps all his bones:
Not one of them is broken.
21 Evil shall slay the wicked;
And those who hate the
righteous shall be
condemned.
servants;
And none of those who take
refuge in him shall be
condemned.
A Psalm of David.
35 Strive, O Jehovah, with those
who strive with me:
Fight against those who fight
against me.
2 Take hold of shield and buckler,
And stand up for my help.
the way against those who pur-
sue me:
Say to my soul, “I am your salva-
tion.”
4 Let those be put to shame and
brought to dishonor who seek
after my soul:
Let those be turned back and con-
founded who devise my hurt.
5 Let them be as chaff before the
wind,
And the angel of Jehovah driving
them on.
6 Let their way be dark and slip-
pery,
And the angel of Jehovah pursu-
ing them.
7 For without cause have they hid
for me their net in a pit;
Without cause have they dug a pit
for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him
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unexpectedly;
And let his net that he has hidden
catch himself:
With destruction let him fall in it. 19
9 And my soul shall be joyful in Je-
hovah:
It shall rejoice in his salvation.
10 All my bones shall say,
“Jehovah, who is like you,
Who delivers the poor from 20
him who is too strong for
him,
Yes, the poor and the needy
from him who robs him?” 21
11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I do
not know.
12 They reward me evil for good, 22
To the bereaving of my soul.
13 But as for me, when they were
sick, my clothing was sack- 23
cloth:
I afflicted my soul with fasting;
And my prayer returned into
my own bosom. 24
14 I behaved myself as though it
had been my friend or my
brother:
I bowed down mourning, as
one who mourns his mother. 25
15 But in my adversity they re-
joiced, and gathered them-
selves together:
The broken gathered 26
themselves together against
me, and I did not know it;
They tore me, and did not
cease:
16 Like the profane mockers in
feasts, 27
They gnashed on me with their
teeth.
17 Lord, how long will you look
on?
Rescue my soul from their
destructions,
My darling from the lions. 28
18 I will give you thanks in the
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great assembly:
I will praise you among many
people.
Do not let those who are my en-
emies wrongfully rejoice over
me;
Neither let them wink with the
eye who hate me without a
cause.
For they do not speak peace;
But they devise deceitful words
against those who are quiet in
the land.
Yes, they opened their mouth
wide against me;
They said, “Aha, aha, our eye
has seen it.”
You have seen it, O Jehovah; do
not keep silent:
O Lord, do not be far from me.
Stir up yourself, and awake to
the justice due to me,
Even to my cause, my God and
my Lord.
Judge me, O Jehovah my God,
according to your righteous-
ness;
And let them not rejoice over
me.
Let them not say in their heart,
“Aha, so would we have it:”
Let them not say, “We have
swallowed him up.”
Let them be put to shame and
confounded together who re-
joice at my hurt:
Let them be clothed with shame
and dishonor who magnify
themselves against me.
Let them shout for joy, and be
glad, who favor my righteous
cause:
Yes, let them say continually,
“Jehovah be magnified,
Who has pleasure in the
prosperity of his servant.”
And my tongue shall talk of
your righteousness
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And of your praise all the day And your righteousness to the
long. upright in heart.
11 Let not the foot of pride come
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the against me,
servant of Jehovah. And let not the hand of the
wicked drive me away.

36 The transgression of the 12 There are the workers of iniq-

wicked says within my
heart,
uity fallen:
They are thrust down, and will
There is no fear of God before his not be able to rise.
eyes.
2 For he flatters himself in his own A Psalm of David.
eyes,
That his iniquity will not be
found out and be hated.
3 The words of his mouth are iniq-
37 Do not fret yourself because
of evildoers,
Neither be envious against those
uity and deceit: who work unrighteousness.
He has ceased to be wise and to 2 For they shall soon be cut down
do good. like the grass,
4 He devises iniquity on his bed; And wither as the green herb.
He sets himself in a way that is 3 Trust in Jehovah, and do good;
not good; Dwell in the land, and feed on his
He does not abhor evil. faithfulness.
4 Delight yourself also in Jehovah;
5 Your lovingkindness, O Jehovah, And he will give you the desires
is in the heavens; of your heart.
Your faithfulness reaches to the 5 Commit your way to Jehovah;
skies. Trust also in him, and he will
6 Your righteousness is like the bring it to pass.
mountains of God; 6 And he will make your right-
Your judgments are a great deep: eousness to go forth as the light,
O Jehovah, you preserve man And your justice as the noonday.
and beast. 7 Rest in Jehovah, and wait pa-
7 How precious is your lov- tiently for him:
ingkindness, O God! Do not fret yourself because of
And the children of men take him who prospers in his way,
refuge under the shadow of Because of the man who brings
your wings. wicked devices to pass.
8 They shall be abundantly satis- 8 Cease from anger, and forsake
fied with the fatness of your wrath:
house; Do not fret yourself, it tends only
And you will make them drink of to evil doing.
the river of your pleasures. 9 For evildoers shall be cut off;
9 For with you is the fountain of But those who wait for Jehovah,
life: they shall inherit the land.
In your light shall we see light. 10 For yet a little while, and the
10 Oh continue your lovingkind- wicked shall not be:
ness to those who know you, Yes, you will diligently
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consider his place, and he But the righteous deals
shall not be. graciously, and giveth.
11 But the meek shall inherit the 22 For such as are blessed of him
land, shall inherit the land;
And shall delight themselves in And those who are cursed of
the abundance of peace. him shall be cut off.
12 The wicked plots against the 23 A man’s goings are established
just, by Jehovah;
And gnashes upon him with And he delights in his way.
his teeth. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be
13 The Lord will laugh at him; utterly cast down;
For he sees that his day is For Jehovah upholds him with
coming. his hand.
14 The wicked have drawn out the 25 I have been young, and now am
sword, and have bent their old;
bow, Yet have I not seen the
To cast down the poor and righteous forsaken,
needy, Nor his seed begging bread.
To slay such as are upright in 26 All the day long he deals gra-
the way. ciously, and lends;
15 Their sword shall enter into And his seed is blessed.
their own heart, 27 Depart from evil, and do good;
And their bows shall be broken. And dwell for evermore.
16 Better is a little that the right- 28 For Jehovah loves justice,
eous has And does not forsake his saints;
Than the abundance of many They are preserved for ever:
wicked. But the seed of the wicked shall
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be cut off.
be broken; 29 The righteous shall inherit the
But Jehovah upholds the land,
righteous. And dwell in it for ever.
18 Jehovah knows the days of the 30 The mouth of the righteous
perfect; talks of wisdom,
And their inheritance shall be And his tongue speaks justice.
for ever. 31 The law of his God is in his
19 They shall not be put to shame heart;
in the None of his steps shall slide.
time of evil; 32 The wicked watches the right-
time of evil; eous,
And in the days of famine they And seeks to slay him.
shall be satisfied. 33 Jehovah will not leave him in
20 But the wicked shall perish, his hand,
And the enemies of Jehovah Nor condemn him when he is
shall be as the fat of lambs: judged.
They shall consume; in smoke 34 Wait for Jehovah, and keep his
shall they consume away. way,
21 The wicked borrows, and does And he will exalt you to inherit
not pay again; the land:
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When the wicked are cut off,
you shall see it.
35 I have seen the wicked in great
power,
And spreading himself like a
green tree in its native soil.
36 But one passed by, and, behold,
he was not:
Yes, I sought him, but he could
not be found.
37 Mark the perfect man, and be-
hold the upright;
For there is a happy end to the
man of peace.
38 As for transgressors, they shall
be destroyed together;
The end of the wicked shall be
cut off.
39 But the salvation of the right-
eous is of Jehovah;
He is their stronghold in the
time of trouble.
40 And Jehovah helps them, and
rescues them;
He rescues them from the
wicked, and saves them,
Because they have taken refuge
in him.
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
38 O Jehovah, do not rebuke me
in your wrath;
Neither chasten me in your hot
displeasure.
2 For your arrows stick fast in me,
And your hand presses me se-
verely.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh 16 For I said, “Lest they rejoice
because of your indignation;
Neither is there any health in my
bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities are gone over
my head:
As a heavy burden they are too
heavy for me.
5 My wounds are loathsome and 18 For I will declare my iniquity;
corrupt,
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Because of my foolishness.
6 I am pained and bowed down
greatly;
I go mourning all the day long.
7 For my loins are filled with burn-
ing;
And there is no soundness in my
flesh.
8 I am faint and severely bruised:
I have groaned by reason of the
disquietness of my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before you;
And my groaning is not hidden
from you.
10 My heart throbs, my strength
fails me:
As for the light of my eyes, it
also is gone from me.
11 My loved ones and my friends
stand aloof from my plague;
And my relatives stand afar off.
12 Those also who seek after my
life lay snares for me;
And those who seek my hurt
speak mischievous things,
And meditate deceits all the
day long.
13 But I, as a deaf man, do not hear;
And I am as a mute man who
does not open his mouth.
14 Yes, I am as a man who does not
hear,
And in whose mouth are no
reproofs.
15 For in you, O Jehovah, do I
hope:
You will answer, O Lord my
God.
over me:
When my foot slips, they
magnify themselves against
me.”
17 For I am ready to fall,
And my sorrow is continually
before me.
I will be sorry for my sin.
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19 But my enemies are lively, and
are strong;
strong.
And those who hate me
wrongfully have multiplied.
20 Those also who render evil for
good
Are adversaries to me, because
I follow the thing that is
good.
21 Do not forsake me, O Jehovah:
O my God, Do not be far from
me.
22 Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation.
For the Chief Musician, for Jeduthun. A Psalm 11 When you with rebukes correct
of David.
39 I said, “I will take heed to my
ways,
That I do not sin with my tongue:
I will keep my mouth with a bri- 12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and
dle,
While the wicked is before me.”
2 I was mute with silence, I held
my peace, even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred.
3 My heart was hot within me;
While I was musing the fire 13 Oh spare me, that I may recover
burned:
Then I spoke with my tongue:
4 “Jehovah, make me to know my
end,
And the measure of my days,
what it is;
Let me know how frail I am.”
5 Behold, you have made my days
as handbreadths;
And my lifetime is as nothing be-
fore you:
Surely every man at his best es-
tate is altogether vanity. [Se-
lah
6 Surely every man walks in a vain
show;
Surely they are disquieted in
vain:
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He heaps up riches, and does not
know who will gather them.
7 And now, Lord, what do I wait
for?
My hope is in you.
8 Deliver me from all my transgres-
sions:
Do not make me the reproach of
the foolish.
9 I was mute, I did not open my
mouth;
Because you did it.
10 Remove your stroke away from
me:
I am consumed by the blow of
your hand.
man for iniquity,
You make his beauty to
consume away like a moth:
Surely every man is vanity.
[Selah
give ear to my cry;
Do not hold your peace at my
tears:
For I am a stranger with you,
A sojourner, as all my fathers
were.
strength,
Before I go from here, and be
no more.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
40 I waited patiently for Jeho-
vah;
And he inclined to me, and heard
my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of a
horrible pit, out of the miry
clay;
And he set my feet on a rock, and
established my goings.
3 And he has put a new song in my
mouth, even praise to our God:
Many will see it, and fear,
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4 Blessed is the man who makes Je-
hovah his trust,
And does not respect the proud,
nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 Many, O Jehovah my God, are the
wonderful works which you
have done,
And your thoughts which are to-
ward us;
They cannot be set in order to
you;
If I would declare and speak of
them,
They are more than can be num-
bered.
6 Sacrifice and offering you have
no delight in;
My ears you have opened:
Burnt offering and sin offering
you have not required.
7 Then I said, “Behold, I have 16 Let all those who seek you re-
come;
In the roll of the book it is written
of me:
8 I delight to do your will, O my
God;
Yes, your law is within my
heart.”
9 I have proclaimed glad tidings of
righteousness in the great as-
sembly;
Behold, I will not refrain my lips,
O Jehovah, you know.
10 I have not hidden your right-
eousness within my heart;
I have declared your
faithfulness and your
salvation;
I have not concealed your
lovingkindness and your
truth from the great assembly.
11 Do not withhold your tender
mercies from me, O Jehovah;
Let your lovingkindness and
your truth continually
preserve me.
12 For innumerable evils have sur-
rounded me;
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My iniquities have overtaken
me, so that I am not able to
look up;
They are more than the hairs of
my head;
And my heart has failed me.
13 Be pleased, O Jehovah, to de-
liver me:
Make haste to help me, O
Jehovah.
14 Let them be put to shame and
confounded together
Who seek after my soul to
destroy it:
Let them be turned backward
and brought to dishonor
Who delight in my hurt.
15 Let them be desolate by reason
of their shame
Who say to me, “Aha, aha.”
joice and be glad in you:
Let such as love your salvation
say continually, “Jehovah be
magnified.”
17 But I am poor and needy;
Yet the Lord thinks upon me:
You are my help and my
deliverer;
Do not delay, O my God.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
41 Blessed is he who considers
the poor:
Jehovah will deliver him in the day
of evil.
2 Jehovah will preserve him, and
keep him alive,
And he will be blessed on the
earth;
And do not deliver him to the
will of his enemies.
3 Jehovah will support him on the
couch of languishing:
You make all his bed in his sick-
ness.
4 I said, “O Jehovah, have mercy

on me:
Heal my soul; for I have sinned
against you.”
5 My enemies speak evil against
me, saying,
“When will he die, and his name
perish?”
6 And if he comes to see me, he
speaks falsehood;
His heart gathers iniquity to it-
self:
When he goes abroad, he tells it.
7 All who hate me whisper to-
gether against me;
Against me do they devise my
hurt.
8 An evil disease, they say, cleaves
fast to him;
And now that he lies he will rise
up no more.
For the Chief Musician. Maschil of the sons of
Korah.
42 As the deer pants after the
water brooks,
So pants my soul after you, O
God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the
living God:
When shall I come and appear
before God?
3 My tears have been my food day
and night,
While they continually say to me,
“Where is your God?”
4 These things I remember, and
pour out my soul within me,
How I went with the throng, and
led them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise, a
multitude keeping holy day. 9
5 Why are you cast down, O my
soul?
And why are you disquieted
within me?
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PSALMS
9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in
whom I trusted,
Who ate of my bread,
Has lifted up his heel against me.
10 But you, O Jehovah, have mercy
on me, and raise me up,
That I may repay them.
11 By this I know that you delight
in me,
Because my enemy does not
triumph over me.
12 And as for me, you uphold me
in my integrity,
And set me before your face for
ever.
13 Blessed be Jehovah, the God of
Israel, From everlasting and to
everlasting.
Amen, and Amen.
BOOK II
Hope in God; for I shall yet praise
him
For the help of his countenance.
6 O my God, my soul is cast down
within me:
Therefore do I remember you
from the land of the Jordan,
And the Hermons, from the hill
Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of
your waterfalls:
All your waves and your billows
have Gone over me:
8 Yet Jehovah will command his
lovingkindness in the daytime;
And in the night his song shall be
with me,
Even a prayer to the God of my
life.
I will say to God my rock,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because
of the oppression of the en-
emy?”
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10 As with a sword in my bones,
my adversaries reproach me,
While they continually say to
me, “Where is your God?”
11 Why are you cast down, O my
soul?
And why are you disquieted
within me?
Hope in God; for I shall yet
praise him,
Who is the help of my
countenance, and my God.
43 Judge me, O God, and plead
my cause against an un-
godly nation:
Oh deliver me from the deceitful 4 You are my King, O God:
and unjust man.
2 For you are the God of my 5 Through you will we push down
strength; why have you cast me
off?
Why do I go mourning because
of the oppression of the en-
emy?
3 Oh send out your light and your
truth; let them lead me:
Let them bring me to your holy
hill,
And to your tabernacles.
4 Then will I go to the altar of God, 8 In God we have made our boast
To God my exceeding joy;
And on the harp will I praise you,
O God, my God.
5 Why are you cast down, O my
soul?
And why are you disquieted
within me?
Hope in God; for I shall yet praise
him,
Who is the help of my counte-
nance, and my God.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of 11 You have made us like sheep ap-
Korah. Maschil.
44 We have heard with our
ears, O God,
Our fathers have told us,
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What work you did in their days,
In the days of old.
2 You drove out the nations with
your hand;
But them you planted:
You afflicted the peoples;
But them you spread abroad.
3 For they did not get the land in
possession by their own sword,
Neither did their own arm save
them;
But your right hand, and your
arm, and the light of your
countenance,
Because you were favorable to
them.
Command deliverance for Jacob.
our adversaries:
Through your name will we tread
those under who rise up
against us.
6 For I will not trust in my bow,
Neither shall my sword save me.
7 But you have saved us from our
adversaries,
And have put those to shame
who hate us.
all the day long,
And we will give thanks to your
name for ever. [Selah
9 But now you have cast us off, and
brought us to dishonor,
And do not go forth with our
armies.
10 You make us to turn back from
the adversary;
And those who hate us take
spoil for themselves.
pointed for food,
And have scattered us among
the nations.
12 You sell your people for noth-
ing,
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And have not increased your the dust:
wealth by their price. Our body cleaves to the earth.
13 You make us a reproach to our 26 Rise up for our help,
neighbors, And redeem us for your
A scoffing and a derision to lovingkindness’ sake.
those who are all around us.
14 You make us a byword among For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. A
the nations, Psalm of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song
A shaking of the head among of loves.
the peoples.
15 All the day long is my dishonor
before me,
And the shame of my face has
45 My heart overflows with a
good matter;
I speak the things which I have
covered me, made concerning the king:
16 For the voice of him who re- My tongue is the pen of a ready
proaches and blasphemes, writer.
By reason of the enemy and the 2 You are fairer than the children of
avenger. men;
17 All this has come upon us; yet Grace is poured into your lips:
we have not forgotten you, Therefore God has blessed you
Neither have we dealt falsely in for ever.
your covenant. 3 Gird your sword on your thigh,
18 Our heart is not turned back, O mighty one,
Neither have our steps declined Your glory and your majesty.
from your way, 4 And in your majesty ride on
19 That you have severely broken prosperously,
us in the place of jackals, Because of truth and meekness
And covered us with the and righteousness:
shadow of death. And your right hand shall teach
20 If we have forgotten the name of you terrible things.
our God, 5 Your arrows are sharp;
Or spread forth our hands to a The peoples fall under you;
strange god; They are in the heart of the king’s
21 Will not God search this out? enemies.
For he knows the secrets of the 6 Your throne, O God, is for ever
heart. and ever:
22 Yes, for your sake we are killed
all the day long; A scepter of equity is the scepter
We are accounted as sheep for of your kingdom.
the slaughter. 7 You have loved righteousness,
23 Awake, why do you sleep, O and hated wickedness:
Lord? Therefore God, your God, has
Arise, do not cast us off for anointed you
ever. With the oil of gladness above
24 Why do you hide your face, your companions.
And forget our affliction and 8 All your garments smell of myrrh,
our oppression? and aloes, and cassia;
25 For our soul is bowed down to Out of ivory palaces stringed in-
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struments have made you
glad.
9 Kings’ daughters are among your
honorable women:
At your right hand stands the
queen in gold of Ophir.
10 Listen, O daughter, and con-
sider, and incline your ear;
Forget also your own people,
and your father’s house:
11 So will the king desire your
beauty;
For he is your lord; and revere
him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre shall
be there with a gift;
The rich among the people will
entreat your favor.
13 The king’s daughter within the
palace is all glorious:
Her clothing is interwoven with
gold.
14 She shall be led to the king in
embroidered work:
The virgins her companions
who follow her
Shall be brought to you.
15 With gladness and rejoicing
shall they be led:
They shall enter into the king’s
palace.
16 Instead of your fathers shall be
your children,
Whom you shall make princes
in all the earth.
17 I will make your name to be re-
membered in all generations:
Therefore shall the peoples give
you thanks for ever and ever.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of
Korah; set to Alamoth. A Song.
46 God is our refuge and
strength,
A very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear,
though the earth does change,
Oh clap your hands, all you
peoples;
Shout to God with the voice of
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And though the mountains be
shaken into the heart of the
seas
3 Though the waters of it roar and
be troubled,
Though the mountains tremble
with the swelling of it. [Selah
4 There is a river, the streams of
which make glad the city of
God,
The holy place of the tabernacles
of the Most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she
shall not be moved:
God will help her, and that right
early.
6 The nations raged, the kingdoms
were moved:
He uttered his voice, the earth
melted.
7 Jehovah of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
[Selah
8 Come, behold the works of Jeho-
vah,
What desolations he has made in
the earth.
9 He makes wars to cease to the
end of the earth;
He breaks the bow, and cuts the
spear in two;
He burns the chariots in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am
God:
I will be exalted among the
nations, I will be exalted in
the earth.
11 Jehovah of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
[Selah
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of
Korah.
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triumph.
2 For Jehovah Most High is terri-
ble;
He is a great King over all the
earth.
3 He subdues peoples under us,
And nations under our feet.
4 He chooses our inheritance for
us,
The glory of Jacob whom he
loved. [Selah
5 God is gone up with a shout,
Jehovah with the sound of a
trumpet.
6 Sing praises to God, sing
praises:
Sing praises to our King, sing
praises.
7 For God is the King of all the
earth:
Sing praises with understanding.
8 God reigns over the nations:
God sits on his holy throne.
9 The princes of the peoples are
gathered together
To be the people of the God of
Abraham;
For the shields of the earth be-
long to God:
He is greatly exalted.
A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.
48 Great is Jehovah, and greatly 14 For this God is our God for ever
to be praised,
In the city of our God, in his holy
mountain.
2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of
the whole earth,
Is mount Zion, on the sides of the
north,
3
The city of the great King.
God has made himself known in
her palaces for a refuge.
4 For, behold, the kings assembled 2 Both low and high,
themselves,
They passed by together.
5 They saw it, then they were
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amazed;
They were dismayed, they has-
tened away.
6 Trembling took hold of them
there,
Pain, as of a woman in travail.
7 With the east wind
You break the ships of Tarshish.
8 As we have heard, so have we
seen
In the city of Jehovah of hosts, in
the city of our God:
God will establish it for ever.
[Selah
9 We have thought on your lov-
ingkindness, O God,
In the midst of your temple.
10 As is your name, O God,
So is your praise to the ends of
the earth:
Your right hand is full of
righteousness.
11 Let mount Zion be glad,
Let the daughters of Judah
rejoice,
Because of your judgments.
12 Walk about Zion, and go all
around her;
Number the towers of it;
13 Mark well her bulwarks;
Consider her palaces:
That you may tell it to the
generation following.
and ever:
He will be our guide even to
death.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of
Korah.
49 Hear this, all you peoples;
Give ear, all you inhabitants
of the world,
Rich and poor together.
3 My mouth shall speak wisdom;
And the meditation of my heart
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shall be of understanding.
4 I will incline my ear to a parable:
I will open my dark saying on
the harp.
5 Why should I fear in the days of
evil,
When iniquity at my heels
surround me?
6 Those who trust in their wealth,
And boast themselves in the
multitude of their riches;
7 None of them can by any means
redeem his brother,
Nor give to God a ransom for
him;
8 (For the redemption of their life is
costly,
And it fails for ever),
9 That he should still live always,
That he should not see
corruption.
10 For he will see it.
Wise men die;
The fool and the brutish alike
perish,
And leave their wealth to
others.
11 Their inward thought is, that
their houses will continue for
ever,
And their dwelling places to all
generations;
They call their lands after their
own names.
12 But man being in honor does not
remain:
He is like the beasts that perish.
13 This their way is their folly:
Yet after them men approve
their sayings. [Selah 4
14 They are appointed as a flock
for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall have
dominion over them in the
morning;
And their beauty shall be for
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Sheol to consume,
That there be no habitation for
it.
15 But God will redeem my soul
from the power of Sheol;
For he will receive me. [Selah
16 Do not be afraid when one is
made rich,
When the glory of his house is
increased:
17 For when he dies he shall carry
nothing away;
His glory shall not descend
after him.
18 Though while he lived he
blessed his soul
(And men praise you, when
you do well to yourself),
19 He shall go to the generation of
his fathers;
They shall never see the light.
20 Man who is in honor, and does
not understand,
Is like the beasts that perish.
A Psalm of Asaph.
50 The Mighty One, God, Jeho-
vah, has spoken,
And called the earth from the ris-
ing of the sun to the going
down of it.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of
beauty,
God has shined forth.
3 Our God comes, and does not
keep silent:
A fire devours before him,
And it is very tempestuous all
around him.
He calls to the heavens above,
And to the earth, that he may
judge his people:
5 “Gather my saints together to me,
Those who have made a
covenant with me by sacri-
fice.”
6 And the heavens will declare his
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righteousness; 19 You give your mouth to evil,
For God is judge himself. [Selah And your tongue frames deceit.
7 “Hear, O my people, and I will 20 You sit and speak against your
speak; brother;
O Israel, and I will testify to you: You slander your own mother’s
I am God, even your God. son.
8 I will not reprove you for your 21 These things have you done,
sacrifices; and I kept silent;
And your burnt offerings are con- You thought that I was
tinually before me. altogether such a one as
9 I will take no bull out of your yourself:
house, But I will reprove you, and set
Nor male goats out of your folds. them in order before your
10 For every beast of the forest is eyes.
mine,
And the cattle upon a thousand 22 Now consider this, you who for-
hills. get God,
11 I know all the birds of the Lest I tear you in pieces, and
mountains; there be none to deliver:
And the wild beasts of the field 23 Whosoever offers the sacrifice of
are mine. thanksgiving glorifies me;
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell And to him who orders his way
you; aright
For the world is mine, and the Will I show the salvation of
fullness of it. God.”
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
Or drink the blood of goats? For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David;
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he
thanksgiving; had gone in to Bath-sheba.
And pay your vows to the Most
High;
15 And call on me in the day of
trouble:
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Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your lov-
ingkindness:
I will deliver you, and you shall
According to the multitude of
glorify me.” your tender mercies blot out
my transgressions.
16 But to the wicked God says, 2 Wash me thoroughly from my in-
“What have you to do to iquity,
declare my statutes, And cleanse me from my sin.
And that you have taken my 3 For I know my transgressions;
covenant in your mouth, And my sin is ever before me.
17 Seeing you hate instruction, 4 Against you, you only, have I
And cast my words behind sinned,
you? And done that which is evil in
18 When you saw a thief, you con- your sight;
sent with him, That you may be justified when
And have been partaker with you speak,
adulterers. And be clear when you judge.
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5 Behold, I was brought forth in in- A broken and a contrite heart,
iquity; O God, you will not despise.
And in sin did my mother con-
ceive me. 18 Do good in your good pleasure
6 Behold, you desire truth in the in- to Zion:
ward parts; Build the walls of Jerusalem.
And in the hidden part you will 19 Then you will delight in the sac-
make me to know wisdom. rifices of righteousness,
7 Purify me with hyssop, and I In burnt offering and whole
shall be clean: burnt offering:
Wash me, and I shall be whiter Then they will offer bulls on
than snow. your altar.
8 Make me to hear joy and glad-
ness, For the Chief Musician. Maschil of David;
That the bones which you have when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul,
broken may rejoice. and said to him, “David is come to the house of
9 Hide your face from my sins, Ahimelech.”
And blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O
God;
And renew a right spirit within
52 Why do you boast yourself
in mischief, O mighty
man?
me. The lovingkindness of God en-
11 Do not cast me away from your dures continually.
presence; 2 Your tongue devises very
And do not take your holy wickedness,
Spirit from me. Like a sharp razor, working de-
12 Restore to me the joy of your ceitfully.
salvation; 3 You love evil more than good,
And uphold me with a willing And lying rather than to speak
spirit. righteousness. [Selah
13 Then will I teach transgressors 4 You love all devouring words,
your ways; O you deceitful tongue.
And sinners shall be converted 5 God will likewise destroy you for
to you. ever;
14 Deliver me from bloodguilti- He will take you up, and pluck
ness, O God, God of my salva- you out of your tent,
tion; And root you out of the land of
And my tongue shall sing the living. [Selah
aloud of your righteousness. 6 The righteous also shall see it,
15 O Lord, open my lips; and fear,
And my mouth shall show And shall laugh at him, saying,
forth your praise. 7 “Behold, this is the man who did
16 For you do not delight in sacri- not make God his strength,
fice; else I would give it: But trusted in the abundance of
You have no pleasure in burnt his riches,
offering. And strengthened himself in his
17 The sacrifices of God are a bro- wickedness.”
ken spirit: 8 But as for me, I am like a green
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I trust in the lovingkindness of
God for ever and ever.
9 I will give you thanks for ever,
because you have done it;
And I will hope in your name, for
it is good, in the presence of
your saints.
For the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath.
Maschil of David.
53 The fool has said in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and have done
abominable iniquity;
There is none who does good.
2 God looked down from heaven
upon the children of men,
To see if there were any who un-
derstand,
Who seek after God.
3 Every one of them has gone back;
they have together become
filthy;
There is none who does good, no,
not one.
4 Have the workers of iniquity no
knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat
bread,
And do not call upon God?
5 There they were in great fear,
where no fear was;
For God has scattered the bones
of him who encamps against
you:
You have put them to shame, be-
cause God has rejected them.
6 Oh that the salvation of Israel
would come out of Zion!
When God brings back the cap-
tivity of his people,
Then Jacob will rejoice, and Israel
will be glad.
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For the Chief Musician; on stringed
instruments. Maschil of David; when the
Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Does not
David hide himself with us?”
54 Save me, O God, by your
name,
And judge me in your might.
2 Hear my prayer, O God;
Give ear to the words of my
mouth.
3 For strangers have risen up
against me,
And violent men have sought af-
ter my soul:
They have not set God before
them. [Selah
4 Behold, God is my helper:
The Lord is of those who uphold
my soul.
5 He will repay the evil to my ene-
mies:
Destroy them in your truth.
6 With a freewill offering will I sac-
rifice to you:
I will give thanks to your name,
O Jehovah, for it is good.
7 For he has delivered me out of all
trouble;
And my eye has seen my desire
upon my enemies.
For the Chief Musician; on stringed
instruments. Maschil of David.
55 Give ear to my prayer, O
God;
And do not hide yourself from my
supplication.
2 Attend to me, and answer me:
I am restless in my complaint,
and moan,
3 Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the oppression of the
wicked;
For they cast iniquity upon me,
And in anger they persecute me.
4 My heart is extremely pained
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upon me.
5 Fearfulness and trembling are
come upon me,
And horror has overwhelmed
me.
6 And I said, “Oh that I had wings
like a dove!
Then would I fly away, and be at
rest.
7 Behold, then would I wander far
off,
I would lodge in the wilderness.
[Selah
8 I would hasten to a shelter
From the stormy wind and tem-
pest.”
9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their
tongue;
For I have seen violence and
strife in the city.
10 Day and night they go about it
on the walls of it:
Iniquity also and mischief are
in the midst of it.
11 Wickedness is in the midst of it:
Oppression and deceit do not
depart from its streets.
12 For it was not an enemy who re-
proached me;
Then I could have borne it:
Neither was it he who hated me 23 But you, O God, will bring them
who magnified himself
against me;
Then I would have hid myself
from him:
13 But it was you, a man my equal,
My companion, and my
familiar friend.
14 We took sweet counsel together;
We walked in the house of God
with the throng.
15 Let death come suddenly upon
them,
Let them go down alive into
Sheol;
For wickedness is in their
dwelling, in the midst of
them.
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16 As for me, I will call upon God;
And Jehovah will save me.
17 Evening, and morning, and at
noonday, will I complain, and
moan;
And he will hear my voice.
18 He has redeemed my soul in
peace from the battle that was
against me;
For they were many who strove
with me.
19 God will hear, and answer
them,
Even he who abides of old,
[Selah
The men who have no changes,
And who do not fear God.
20 He has put forth his hands
against such as were at peace
with him:
He has profaned his covenant.
21 His mouth was smooth as but-
ter,
But his heart was war:
His words were softer than oil,
Yet were they drawn swords.
22 Cast your burden upon Jeho-
vah, and he will sustain you:
He will never allow the
righteous to be moved.
down into the pit of destruc-
tion:
Bloodthirsty and deceitful men
shall not live out half their
days;
But I will trust in you.
For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem
rehokim. A Psalm of David. Michtam; when
the Philistines took him in Gath.
56 Be merciful to me, O God;
for man would swallow
me up:
All the day long he fighting oppresses me.
2 My enemies would swallow me
up all the day long;
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proudly against me.
3 When I am afraid, I will put my
trust in you.
4 In God (I will praise his word),
In God have I put my trust, I will
not be afraid;
What can flesh do to me?
5 All the day long they twist my
words:
All their thoughts are against me
for evil.
6 They gather themselves together,
they hide themselves,
They mark my steps,
Even as they have waited for my
soul.
7 Shall they escape by iniquity?
In anger cast down the peoples,
O God.
8 You number my wanderings:
Put my tears into your bottle;
Are they not in your book?
9 Then will my enemies turn back
in the day that I call:
This I know, that God is for me.
10 In God (I will praise his word),
In Jehovah (I will praise his
word),
11 In God have I put my trust, I
will not be afraid;
What can man do to me?
12 Your vows are upon me, O God:
I will render thank offerings to
you.
13 For you have delivered my soul
from death:
Have you not delivered my feet
from falling,
That I may walk before God
In the light of the living?
For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A
Psalm of David. Michtam; when he fled from 11 Be exalted, O God, above the
Saul, in the cave.
57 Be merciful to me, O God, be
merciful to me;
For my soul takes refuge in you:
Yes, in the shadow of your wings
will I take refuge,
Until these calamities pass over.
2 I will cry to God Most High,
To God who performs all things
for me.
3 He will send from heaven, and
save me,
When he who would swallow me
up reproaches; [Selah
God will send forth his lov-
ingkindness and his truth.
4 My soul is among lions;
I lie among those who are set on
fire,
Even the sons of men, whose
teeth are spears and arrows,
And their tongue a sharp sword.
5 Be exalted, O God, above the
heavens;
Let your glory be above all the
earth.
6 They have prepared a net for my
steps;
My soul is bowed down:
They have dug a pit before me;
They are fallen into the midst of it
themselves. [Selah
7 My heart is fixed, O God, my
heart is fixed:
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.
8 Awake, my glory; awake,
psaltery and harp:
I myself will awake right early.
9 I will give thanks to you, O Lord,
among the peoples:
I will sing praises to you among
the nations.
10 For your lovingkindness is great
to the heavens,
And your truth to the skies.
heavens;
Let your glory be above all the
earth.
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For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Truly there is a God who judges
Psalm of David. Michtam. in the earth.”

58 Do you indeed in silence For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A

speak righteousness?
Do you judge uprightly, O you
Psalm of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and
they watched the house to kill him.
sons of men?
2 No, in heart you work wicked-
ness;
You weigh out the violence of
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Deliver me from my ene-
mies, O my God:
Set me on high from those who
your hands in the earth. rise up against me.
3 The wicked are estranged from 2 Deliver me from the workers of
the womb: iniquity,
They go astray as soon as they are And save me from the blood-
born, speaking lies. thirsty men.
4 Their poison is like the poison of 3 For, behold, they lie in wait for
a serpent: my soul;
They are like the deaf adder that The mighty gather themselves to-
stops her ear, gether against me:
5 Which does not listen to the voice Not for my transgression, nor for
of charmers, my sin, O Jehovah.
Charming never so wisely. 4 They run and prepare themselves
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their without my fault:
mouth: Awake to help me, and behold.
Break out the great teeth of the 5 Even you, O Jehovah God of
young lions, O Jehovah. hosts, the God of Israel,
7 Let them melt away as water that Arise to visit all the nations:
runs swiftly: Do not be merciful to any wicked
When he aims his arrows, let transgressors. [Selah
them be as though they were 6 They return at evening, they
cut off. howl like a dog,
8 Let them be as a snail which melts And go all around the city.
and passeth away, 7 Behold, they belch out with their
Like the untimely birth of a mouth;
woman, who has not seen the Swords are in their lips:
sun. For “Who,” they say, “hears?”
9 Before your pots can feel the 8 But you, O Jehovah, will laugh at
thorns, them;
He will take them away with a You will have all the nations in
whirlwind, the green and the derision.
burning alike. 9 Because of his strength I will give
10 The righteous shall rejoice when heed to you;
he sees the vengeance: For God is my high tower.
He shall wash his feet in the 10 My God with his lovingkind-
blood of the wicked; ness will meet me:
11 So that men will say, “Truly God will let me see my desire
there is a reward for the righ- upon my enemies.
teous: 11 Do not slay them, lest my peo-
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ple forget:
Scatter them by your power,
and bring them down,
O Lord our shield.
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.
13 Consume them in wrath, con-
sume them, so that they shall
be no more:
And let them know that God
rules in Jacob,
To the ends of the earth. [Selah
14 And at evening let them return,
let them howl like a dog,
And go all around the city.
15 They shall wander up and
down for food,
And stay all night if they are
not satisfied.
16 But I will sing of your strength;
Yes, I will sing aloud of your
lovingkindness in the
morning:
For you have been my high
tower,
And a refuge in the day of my
distress.
17 To you, O my strength, will I
sing praises:
For God is my high tower, the
God of my mercy.
For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth.
Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove
with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah,
and Joab returned, and struck of Edom in the
Valley of Salt twelve thousand.
60 O God you have cast us off,
you have broken us down;
You have been angry; oh restore
For the Chief Musician; on a stringed
instrument. A Psalm of David.
us again.
2 You have made the land to trem-
ble; you have torn it:
Hear my cry, O God;
Attend to my prayer.
2 From the end of the earth will I
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Heal the breaches of it; for it
shakes.
3 You have showed your people
hard things:
You have made us to drink the
wine of staggering.
4 You have given a banner to those
who fear you,
That it may be displayed because
of the truth. [Selah
5 That your beloved may be deliv-
ered,
Save with your right hand, and
answer us.
6 God has spoken in his holiness:
I will exult;
I will divide Shechem, and mea-
sure out the Valley of Succoth.
7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is
mine;
Ephraim also is the defense of my
head;
Judah is my scepter.
8 Moab is my washpot;
Upon Edom will I cast my shoe:
Philistia, shout because of me.
9 Who will bring me into the strong
city?
Who has led me to Edom?
10 Have not you, O God, cast us
off?
And you do not go forth, O
God, with our hosts.
11 Give us help against the adver-
sary;
For vain is the help of man.
12 Through God we shall do
valiantly;
For he it is who will tread
down our adversaries.
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call to you, when my heart is
overwhelmed:
Lead me to the rock that is higher
than I.
3 For you have been a refuge for 6 He only is my rock and my salva-
me,
A strong tower from the enemy.
4 I will dwell in your tabernacle for
ever:
I will take refuge in the cover of
your wings.
[Selah
5 For you, O God, have heard my 8 Trust in him at all times, you peo-
vows:
You have given me the heritage of
those who fear your name.
6 You will prolong the king’s life;
His years shall be as many gener-
ations.
7 He shall abide before God for ev-
er:
Oh prepare lovingkindness and
truth, that they may preserve 10 Do not trust in oppression,
him.
8 So will I sing praise to your name
for ever,
That I may daily perform my
vows.
For the Chief Musician; after the manner of
Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
they curse inwardly. [Selah
5 My soul, wait in silence for God
only;
For my expectation is from him.
tion:
He is my high tower;
I shall not be moved.
7 With God is my salvation and my
glory:
The rock of my strength, and my
refuge, is in God.
ple;
Pour out your heart before him:
God is a refuge for us. [Selah
9 Surely men of low degree are
vanity, and men of high degree
are a lie:
In the balances they will go up;
They are together lighter than
vanity.
And do not become vain in
robbery:
If riches increase, do not set
your heart on it.
11 God has spoken once,
Twice have I heard this,
That power belongs to God.
12 Also to you, O Lord, belongs
lovingkindness;

62 My soul waits in silence for

God only:
From him comes my salvation.
For you render to every man
according to his work.

2 He only is my rock and my salva- A Psalm of David, when he was in the

tion: wilderness of Judah.
He is my high tower;
I shall not be greatly moved.
3 How long will you set upon a
man,
63 O God, you are my God;
earnestly will I seek you:
My soul thirsts for you, my flesh
That you may slay him, all of you, longs for you,
Like a leaning wall, like a totter- In a dry and weary land, where
ing fence? no water is.
4 They only consult to thrust him 2 So have I looked upon you in the
down from his dignity; sanctuary,
They delight in lies; To see your power and your
They bless with their mouth, but glory.
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3 Because your lovingkindness is
better than life,
My lips shall praise you.
4 So will I bless you while I live:
I will lift up my hands in your
name.
5 My soul shall be satisfied as with
marrow and fatness;
And my mouth shall praise you
with joyful lips;
6 When I remember you on my
bed,
And meditate on you in the night
watches.
7 For you have been my help,
And in the shadow of your wings
will I rejoice.
8 My soul follows hard after you:
Your right hand upholds me.
9 But those who seek my soul, to
destroy it,
Shall go into the lower parts of
the earth.
10 They shall be given over to the
power of the sword:
They shall be a portion for
jackals.
11 But the king shall rejoice in God:
Every one who swears by him
shall glory;
For the mouth of those who
speak lies shall be stopped.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
64 Hear my voice, O God, in my
complaint:
Preserve my life from fear of the And to you shall the vow be per-
enemy.
2 Hide me from the secret counsel 2 O you who hear prayer,
of evildoers,
From the tumult of the workers 3 Iniquities prevail against me:
of iniquity;
3 Who have sharpened their
tongue like a sword, 4 Blessed is the man whom you
And have aimed their arrows,
even bitter words,
4 That they may shoot in secret
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places at the perfect:
Suddenly do they shoot at him,
and do not fear.
5 They encourage themselves in an
evil purpose;
They commune of laying snares
secretly;
They say, “Who will see them?”
6 They search out iniquities;
“We have accomplished,” they
say, “a diligent search”:
And the inward thought and the
heart of every one is deep.
7 But God will shoot at them;
With an arrow suddenly shall
they be wounded.
8 So they shall be made to stumble,
their own tongue being against
them:
All who see them shall wag the
head.
9 And all men shall fear;
And they shall declare the work
of God,
And shall wisely consider of his
doing.
10 The righteous shall be glad in
Jehovah, and shall take refuge
in him;
And all the upright in heart shall
glory.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm. A Song of
David.
65
Praise waits for you, O God,
in Zion;
formed.
To you shall all flesh come.
As for our transgressions, you
will forgive them.
choose, and cause to approach
you,
That he may dwell in your courts:
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We shall be satisfied with the
goodness of your house,
Your holy temple.
5 By terrible things you will an-
swer us in righteousness,
O God of our salvation,
You who are the confidence of all
the ends of the earth,
And of those who are afar off
upon the sea:
6 Who by his strength sets fast the
mountains,
Being girded around with might;
7 Who stills the roaring of the seas,
The roaring of their waves,
And the tumult of the peoples.
8 Those also who dwell in the ut-
termost parts are afraid at your
signs:
You make the outgoings of the
morning and evening to re-
joice.
9 You visit the earth, and water it, 7 He rules by his might for ever;
You greatly enrich it;
The river of God is full of water:
You provide them grain, when
you have so prepared the
earth.
10 You water its furrows abun-
dantly;
You settle the ridges of it:
You make it soft with showers;
You bless the springing of it.
11 You crown the year with your
goodness;
And your paths drop fatness.
12 They drop upon the pastures of
the wilderness;
And the hills are girded with
joy.
13 The pastures are clothed with
flocks;
The valleys also are covered
over with grain;
They shout for joy, they also
sing.
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For the Chief Musician. A Song, a Psalm.
66 Make a joyful noise to God,
all the earth:
2 Sing forth the glory of his name:
Make his praise glorious.
3 Say to God, “How terrible are
your works!
Through the greatness of your
power shall your enemies
submit themselves to you.
4 All the earth shall worship you,
And shall sing to you;
They shall sing to your name.”
[Selah
5 Come, and see the works of God;
He is terrible in his doing toward
the children of men.
6 He turned the sea into dry land;
They went through the river on
foot:
There did we rejoice in him.
His eyes observe the nations:
Do not let the rebellious exalt
themselves. [Selah
8 Oh bless our God, you peoples,
And make the voice of his praise
to be heard;
9 Who holds our soul in life,
And does not allow our feet to be
moved.
10 For you, O God, have tested us:
You have refined us, as silver is
refined.
11 You brought us into the net;
You laid a sore burden upon
our loins.
12 You caused men to ride over our
heads;
We went through fire and
through water;
But you brought us out into a
wealthy
place.
13 I will come into your house with
burnt-offerings;
I will pay thee my vows,
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14 Which my lips uttered,
And my mouth spake, when I
was in distress.
15 I will offer unto thee burnt offer- 7 God will bless us;
ings of fatlings,
With the incense of rams;
I will offer bulls with goats.
[Selah
16 Come, and hear, all you who
fear God,
And I will declare what he has
done for my soul.
17 I cried to him with my mouth,
And he was extolled with my
tongue.
18 If I regard iniquity in my heart,
The Lord will not hear:
19 But truly God has heard;
He has attended to the voice of
my prayer.
20 Blessed be God,
Who has not turned away my
prayer,
Nor his lovingkindness from
me.
For the Chief Musician; on stringed
instruments. A Psalm, a Song.
67 God be merciful to us, and 5 A father of the fatherless, and a
bless us,
And cause his face to shine on us;
2 That your way may be known on
earth,
Your salvation among all nations.
3 Let the peoples praise you, O
God;
Let all the peoples praise you.
4 Oh let the nations be glad and
sing for joy;
For you will judge the peoples
with equity,
And govern the nations on earth.
5 Let the peoples praise you, O
God;
Let all the peoples praise you.
6 The earth has yielded its increase:
God, even our own God, will
bless us.
And all the ends of the earth shall
fear him.
For the Chief Musician; A Psalm of David, a
Song.
68 Let God arise, let his enemies
be scattered;
Let those also who hate him flee
before him.
2 As smoke is driven away, so
drive them away:
As wax melts before the fire,
So let the wicked perish at the
presence of God.
3 But let the righteous be glad; let
them exult before God:
Yes, let them rejoice with glad-
ness.
4 Sing to God, sing praises to his
name:
Cast up a highway for him who
rides through the deserts;
His name is Jehovah; and exult
before him.
judge of the widows,
Is God in his holy habitation.
[Selah 6 God sets the solitary in families:
He brings out the prisoners into
prosperity;
But the rebellious dwell in a
parched land.
7 O God, when you went forth be-
fore your people,
When you marched through the
wilderness; [Selah
8 The earth trembled,
The heavens also dropped rain at
[Selah the presence of God:
Yon Sinai trembled at the presence
of God, the God of Israel.
9 You, O God, sent a plentiful rain,
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You confirmed your inheritance, 20 God is to us a God of deliver-
when it was weary. ances;
10 Your congregation dwelt in it: And to Jehovah the Lord
You, O God, prepared from belongs escape from death.
your goodness for the poor. 21 But God will strike through the
11 The Lord gives the word: head of his enemies,
The women who publish the The hairy scalp of such a one as
tidings are a great host. goes on still in his guiltiness.
12 Kings of armies flee, they flee;22 The Lord said, “I will bring
And she who stays at home again from Bashan,
divides the spoil. I will bring them again from the
13 When you lie among the sheep- depths of the sea;
folds, 23 That you may crush them, dip-
It is as the wings of a dove ping your foot in blood,
covered with silver, That the tongue of your dogs
And her pinions with yellow may have its portion from
gold. your enemies.”
14 When the Almighty scattered 24 They have seen your goings, O
kings in it, God,
It was as when it snows in Even the goings of my God, my
Zalmon. King, into the sanctuary.
15 A mountain of God is the moun- 25 The singers went before, the
tain of Bashan; musicians followed after,
A high mountain is the In the midst of the young
mountain of Bashan. women playing with
16 Why do you look with hostility, timbrels.
you high mountains, 26 Bless God in the congregations,
At the mountain which God Even the Lord, you who are of
has desired for his dwelling? the fountain of Israel.
Yes, Jehovah will dwell in it for
27 There is little Benjamin their
ever. ruler,
17 The chariots of God are twenty The princes of Judah and their
thousand, even thousands council,
upon thousands: The princes of Zebulun, the
The Lord is among them, as in princes of Naphtali.
Sinai, in the sanctuary. 28 your God has commanded your
18 You have ascended on high, you strength:
have led away captives; Strengthen, O God, that which
You have received gifts among you have worked for us.
men, 29 Because of your temple at
Yes, among the rebellious also, Jerusalem Kings shall bring
that Jehovah God might presents to you.
dwell with them. 30 Rebuke the wild beast of the
reeds,
19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily The multitude of the bulls, with
bears our burden, the calves of the peoples,
Even the God who is our sal- Trampling under foot the pieces
vation. [Selah of silver:
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He has scattered the peoples And my sins are not hidden from
who delight in war. you.
31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; 6 Do not let those who wait for you
Ethiopia shall haste to stretch be put to shame through me, O
out her hands to God. Lord Jehovah of hosts:
32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of Do not let those who seek you be
the earth; brought to dishonor through
Oh sing praises to the Lord; me, O God of Israel.
[Selah 7 Because for your sake I have
33 To him who rides on the heaven borne reproach;
of heavens, which are of old; Shame has covered my face.
Behold, he utters his voice, a 8 I have become a stranger to my
mighty voice. brothers,
34 Ascribe strength to God: And an alien to my mother’s chil-
His excellency is over Israel, dren.
And his strength is in the skies. 9 For the zeal of your house has
35 O God, you are terrible out of eaten me up;
your holy places: And the reproaches of those who
The God of Israel, he gives reproach you are fallen upon
strength and power to his me.
people. 10 When I wept, and chastened my
Blessed be God. soul with fasting,
That was to my reproach.
For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. A 11 When I made sackcloth my
Psalm of David. clothing,
I became a byword to them.

69 Save me, O God;

For the waters have come in
to my soul.
2 I sink in deep mire, where there is
no standing:
I have come into deep waters,
where the floods overflow
me.
3 I am weary with my crying; my
throat is dried:
My eyes fail while I wait for my
God.
4 Those who hate me without a
cause are more than the hairs of
my head:
Those who would cut me off, be-
ing my enemies wrongfully, 15 Do not let the floodwater over-
are mighty:
That which I did not take away I
have to restore.
5 O God, you know my foolish-
ness;
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12 Those who sit in the gate talk of
me;
And I am the song of the
drunkards.
13 But as for me, my prayer is to
you, O Jehovah, in an accept-
able time:
O God, in the abundance of
your lovingkindness,
Answer me in the truth of your
salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire, and
do not let me sink:
Let me be delivered from those
who hate me, and out of the
deep waters.
whelm me,
Neither let the deep swallow
me up;
And do not let the pit shut its
mouth upon me.
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16 Answer me, O Jehovah; for your your righteousness.
lovingkindness is good: 28 Let them be blotted out of the
According to the multitude of book of life,
your tender mercies turn to And not be written with the
me. righteous.
17 And do not hide your face from 29 But I am poor and sorrowful:
your servant; Let your salvation, O God, set
For I am in distress; answer me me up on high.
speedily. 30 I will praise the name of God
18 Draw near to my soul, and re- with a song,
deem it: And will magnify him with
Ransom me because of my thanksgiving.
enemies. 31 And it will please Jehovah bet-
19 You know my reproach, and my ter than an ox,
shame, and my dishonor: Or a bull that has horns and
My adversaries are all before hoofs.
you. 32 The meek have seen it, and are
20 Reproach has broken my heart; glad:
and I am full of heaviness: You who seek after God, let
And I looked for some to take your heart live.
pity, but there was none; 33 For Jehovah hears the needy,
And for comforters, but I found And does not despise his
none. prisoners.
21 They gave me also gall for my 34 Let heaven and earth praise
food; him,
And in my thirst they gave me The seas, and everything that
vinegar to drink. moves in it.
22 Let their table before them be- 35 For God will save Zion, and
come a snare; build the cities of Judah;
And when they are in peace, let And they shall abide there, and
it become a trap. have it in possession.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, so 36 The seed also of his servants
that they cannot see; shall inherit it;
And make their loins And those who love his name
continually to shake. shall dwell in it.
24 Pour out your indignation upon
them, For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; to
And let the fierceness of your bring to remembrance.
anger overtake them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate;
Let none dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom
70 Make haste, O God, to deliver
me;
Make haste to help me, O Jeho-
you have struck; vah.
And they tell of the sorrow of 2 Let them be put to shame and
those whom you have confounded
wounded. Who seek after my soul:
27 Add iniquity to their iniquity; Let them be turned backward
And do not let them come into and brought to dishonor
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3 Let them be turned back by rea-
son of their shame
Who say, “Aha, aha.”
4 Let all those who seek you rejoice
and be glad in you;
And let such as love your salva-
tion say continually,
“Let God be magnified.”
5 But I am poor and needy;
Make haste to me, O God:
You are my help and my deliv-
erer;
O Jehovah, do not delay.
71 In you, O Jehovah, do I take
refuge:
Let me never be put to shame.
2 Deliver me in your righteous- 14 But I will hope continually,
ness, and rescue me:
Bow down your ear to me, and
save me.
3 Be to me a rock of habitation, to
which I may continually resort:
You have given commandment to
save me;
For you are my rock and my
fortress.
4 Rescue me, O my God, out of the
hand of the wicked,
Out of the hand of the unrigh-
teous and cruel man.
5 For you are my hope, O Lord Je- 17 O God, you have taught me
hovah:
You are my trust from my youth.
6 By you have I been held up from
the womb;
You are he who took me out of
my mother’s bowels:
My praise shall be continually of
you.
7 I am as a wonder to many;
But you are my strong refuge.
8 My mouth shall be filled with
your praise,
And with your honor all the day.
9 Do not cast me off in the time of
old age;
Do not forsake me when my
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strength fails.
10 For my enemies speak concern-
ing me;
And those who watch for my
soul take counsel together,
11 Saying, “God has forsaken him:
Pursue and take him; for there
is none to deliver.”
12 O God, do not be far from me;
O my God, make haste to help
me.
13 Let them be put to shame and
consumed who are adver-
saries to my soul;
Let them be covered with
reproach and dishonor who
seek my hurt.
And will praise you yet more
and more.
15 My mouth shall tell of your
righteousness,
And of your salvation all the
day;
For I do not know the numbers
of it.
16 I will come with the mighty acts
of the Lord Jehovah:
I will make mention of your
righteousness, even of yours
only.
from my youth;
And until now have I declared
your wondrous works.
18 Yes, even when I am old and
gray-headed, O God, do not
forsake me,
Until I have declared your
strength to the next
generation,
Your might to every one who is
to come.
19 Your righteousness also, O God,
is very high;
You who have done great
things, O God, who is like
you?
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20 You, who have shown us many
and severe troubles,
Will revive us again,
And will bring us up again
from the depths of the earth.
21 Increase my greatness,
And turn again and comfort
me.
22 I will also praise you with the
psaltery,
Even your truth, O my God:
To you will I sing praises with
the harp,
O Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips shall shout for joy when
I sing praises to you;
And my soul, which you have
redeemed.
24 My tongue also shall talk of
your righteousness all the day
long;
For they are put to shame, for
they are confounded, who
seek my hurt.
A Psalm of Solomon.
72 Give the king your judg-
ments, O God,
And your righteousness to the 14 He will redeem their soul from
king’s son.
2 He will judge your people with
righteousness,
And your poor with justice.
3 The mountains shall bring peace
to the people,
And the hills, in righteousness.
4 He will judge the poor of the peo-
ple,
He will save the children of the
needy,
And will break in pieces the op-
pressor.
5 They shall fear you while the sun
endures,
And so long as the moon,
throughout all generations.
6 He will come down like rain on
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the mown grass,
As showers that water the earth.
7 In his days shall the righteous
flourish,
And abundance of peace, until
the moon is no more.
8 He shall have dominion also
from sea to sea,
And from the River to the ends of
the earth.
9 Those who dwell in the wilder-
ness shall bow before him;
And his enemies shall lick the
dust.
10 The kings of Tarshish and of the
isles shall render tribute:
The kings of Sheba and Seba
shall offer gifts.
11 Yes, all kings shall fall down be-
fore him;
All nations shall serve him.
12 For he will deliver the needy
when he cries,
And the poor, who has no
helper.
13 He will have pity on the poor
and needy,
And the souls of the needy he
will save.
oppression and violence;
And precious will their blood
be in his sight:
15 And they shall live; and to him
shall be given of the gold of
Sheba:
And men shall pray for him
continually;
They shall bless him all the day
long.
16 There shall be abundance of
grain in the earth on the top of
the mountains;
The fruit of it shall shake like
Lebanon:
And those of the city shall
flourish like grass of the
earth.
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17 His name shall endure for ever; Who only does wondrous
His name shall be continued as things:
long as the sun: 19 And blessed be his glorious
And men shall be blessed in name for ever;
him; And let the whole earth be
All nations shall call him filled with his glory.
happy. Amen, and Amen.

18 Blessed be Jehovah God, the 20 The prayers of David the son of

God of Israel, Jesse are ended.

BOOK III
A Psalm of Asaph. 9 They have set their mouth in the
heavens,

73 Surely God is good to Israel,

Even to such as are pure in
heart.
And their tongue walks through
the earth.
10 Therefore his people return
2 But as for me, my feet were al- here:
most gone; And waters of a full cup are
My steps had almost slipped. drained by them.
3 For I was envious at the arrogant, 11 And they say, “How does God
When I saw the prosperity of the know?
wicked. And is there knowledge in the
4 For there are no pangs in their Most High?”
death; 12 Behold, these are the wicked;
My steps had almost slipped. And, being always at ease, they
3 For I was envious at the arrogant, increase in riches.
When I saw the prosperity of the 13 Surely in vain have I cleansed
wicked. my heart,
4 For there are no pangs in their And washed my hands in
death; innocence;
But their strength is firm. 14 For all the day long have I been
5 They are not in trouble as other plagued,
men; And chastened every morning.
Neither are they plagued like 15 If I had said, “I will speak thus;”
other men. Behold, I had dealt
6 Therefore pride is as a chain treacherously with the
around their neck; generation of your children.
Violence covers them as a gar- 16 When I thought how I might
ment. know this,
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: It was too painful for me;
They have more than heart could 17 Until I went into the sanctuary
wish. of God,
8 They scoff, and in wickedness ut- And considered their latter end.
ter oppression: 18 Surely you set them in slippery
They speak loftily. places:
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You cast them down to
destruction.
19 How they are become a desola-
tion in a moment!
They are utterly consumed
with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awakes,
So, O Lord, when you awake,
you will despise their image.
21 For my soul was grieved,
And I was pricked in my heart:
22 So brutish was I, and ignorant;
I was as a beast before you.
23 Nevertheless I am continually
with you:
You have held my right hand.
24 You will guide me with your
counsel,
And afterward receive me to
glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is none on earth that
I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart fail;
But God is the strength of my
heart and my portion for ever.
27 For, behold, those who are far
from you shall perish:
You have destroyed all those
who play the harlot, departing
from you.
28 But it is good for me to draw
near to God:
I have made the Lord Jehovah
my refuge,
That I may tell of all your
works.
Maschil of Asaph.
74 O God, why have you cast us
off for ever?
Why does your anger smoke
12
against the sheep of your pas-
ture? 13
2 Remember your congregation,
which you have gotten of old,
Which you have redeemed to be
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the tribe of your inheritance;
And mount Zion, in which you
have dwelt.
3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual
ruins,
All the evil that the enemy has
done in the sanctuary.
4 Your adversaries have roared in
the midst of your assembly;
They have set up their signs for
signs.
5 They seemed as men who lifted
up
Axes upon a thicket of trees.
6 And now all the carved work
of it
They break down with hatchet
and hammers.
7 They have set your sanctuary on
fire;
They have profaned the dwelling
place of your name by casting
it to the ground.
8 They said in their heart, “Let us
make havoc of them altogeth-
er:”
They have burned up all the syn-
agogues of God in the land.
9 We do not see our signs:
There is no longer any prophet;
Neither is there among us any
who knows how long.
10 How long, O God, will the ad-
versary reproach?
Will the enemy blaspheme your
name for ever?
11 Why do you draw back your
hand, even your right hand?
Pluck it out of your bosom and
consume them.
Yet God is my King of old,
Working salvation in the midst
of the earth.
You divided the sea by your
strength:
You broke the heads of the sea
monsters in the waters.
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14 You broke the heads of
leviathan in pieces;
You gave him to be food to the
people inhabiting the
wilderness.
15 You split open fountain and
flood:
You dried up mighty rivers.
16 The day is yours, the night also
is yours:
You have prepared the light
and the sun.
17 You have set all the borders of
the earth:
You have made summer and
winter.
18 Remember this, that the enemy
has reproached, O Jehovah,
And that a foolish people has
blasphemed your name.
19 Oh do not deliver the soul of
your turtledove to the wild
beast:
Do not forget the life of your
poor for ever.
20 Have respect to the covenant;
For the dark places of the earth
are full of the habitations of
violence.
21 Oh do not let the oppressed re-
turn ashamed:
Let the poor and needy praise
your name.
22 Arise, O God, plead your own
cause:
Remember how the foolish man
reproaches you all the day.
23 Do not forget the voice of your
adversaries:
The tumult of those who rise
up against you ascends
continually.
For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A
Psalm of Asaph, a Song.
75 We give thanks to you, O
God;
We give thanks, for your name is
near:
Men tell of your wondrous
works.
2 “When I shall find the set time,
I will judge uprightly.
3 The earth and all the inhabitants
of it are dissolved:
I have set up the pillars of it. [Selah
4 I said to the arrogant, ‘Do not
deal arrogantly;’
And to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up
the horn:
5 Do not lift up your horn on high;
Do not speak with a stiff neck.’ ”
6 For neither from the east, nor
from the west,
Nor yet from the south, comes lift-
ing up.
7 But God is the judge:
He puts down one, and lifts up
another.
8 For in the hand of Jehovah there
is a cup, and the wine foams;
It is full of mixture, and he pours
out of the same:
Surely the dregs of it, all the
wicked of the earth shall
drain them, and drink them.
9 But I will declare for ever,
I will sing praises to the God of
Jacob.
10 “All the horns of the wicked
also will I cut off;
But the horns of the righteous
shall be lifted up.”
For the Chief Musician; on stringed
instruments. A Psalm of Asaph, a Song.
76 In Judah is God known:
His name is great in Israel.
2 In Salem also is his tabernacle,
And his dwelling place in Zion.
3 There he broke the arrows of the
bow;
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The shield, and the sword, and
the battle. [Selah

4 Glorious are you and excellent,
From the mountains of prey.
5 The stouthearted were plun-
dered,
They have slept their sleep;
And none of the men of might
have found their hands.
6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
Both chariot and horse are cast
into a deep sleep.
7 You, even you, are to be feared;
And who may stand in your sight
when once you are angry?
8 You caused sentence to be heard
from heaven;
The earth feared, and was still,
9 When God arose to judgment,
To save all the meek of the earth.
10 Surely the wrath of man shall
praise you:
The residue of wrath shall you
gird on you.
11 Vow, and pay to Jehovah your
God:
Let all who are around him
bring presents to him who
ought to be feared.
12 He will cut off the spirit of
princes:
He is terrible to the kings of the
earth.
For the Chief Musician; after the manner of
Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.
77 I will cry to God with my
voice,
Even to God with my voice; and
he will give ear to me.
2 In the day of my trouble I sought
the Lord:
My hand was stretched out in the
night, and did not slack;
My soul refused to be comforted.
3 I remember God, and am disqui- 16 The waters saw you, O God;
eted:
I complain, and my spirit is over-
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PSALMS
whelmed. [Selah
4 You hold my eyes watching:
I am so troubled that I cannot
speak.
5 I have considered the days of old,
The years of ancient times.
6 I call to remembrance my song in
the night:
I commune with my own heart;
And my spirit makes diligent
search.
7 Will the Lord cast off for ever?
And will he be favorable no
more?
8 Is his lovingkindness gone for
ever?
Does his promise fail for ever-
more?
[Selah 9 Has God forgotten to be gra-
cious?
Has he in anger shut up his ten-
der mercies? [Selah
10 And I said, “This is my infir-
mity;
But I will remember the years of
the right hand of the Most
High.”
11 I will make mention of the
deeds of Jehovah;
For I will remember your
wonders of old.
12 I will meditate also upon all
your work,
And muse on your doings.
13 Your way, O God, is in the sanc-
tuary:
Who is a great god like God?
14 You are the God who does won-
ders:
You have made known your
strength among the peoples.
15 You have with your arm re-
deemed your people,
The sons of Jacob and Joseph.
[Selah
The waters saw you, they were
afraid:
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17 The clouds poured out water; God,
The skies sent out a sound: And not forget the works of God,
Your arrows also went abroad. But keep his commandments,
18 The voice of your thunder was 8 And might not be as their fathers,
in the whirlwind; A stubborn and rebellious gener-
The lightnings illuminated the ation,
world: A generation that did not set their
The earth trembled and shook. heart rightly,
19 Your way was in the sea, And whose spirit was not stead-
And your paths in the great fast with God.
waters, 9 The children of Ephraim, being
And your footsteps were not armed and carrying bows,
known. Turned back in the day of battle.
20 You led your people like a flock, 10 They did not keep the covenant
By the hand of Moses and of God,
Aaron. And refused to walk in his law;
11 And they forgot his doings,
Maschil of Asaph. And his wondrous works that
he had shown them.

78 Give ear, O my people, to my 12 Marvelous things he did in the

law:
Incline your ears to the words of
sight of their fathers,
In the land of Egypt, in the field
my mouth. of Zoan.
2 I will open my mouth in a para- 13 He split the sea, and caused
ble; them to pass through;
I will utter dark sayings of old, And he made the waters to
3 Which we have heard and stand as a heap.
known, 14 In the day time also he led them
And our fathers have told us. with a cloud,
4 We will not hide them from their And all the night with a light of
children, fire.
Telling to the generation to come 15 He split rocks in the wilderness,
the praises of Jehovah, And gave them drink
And his strength, and his won- abundantly as out of the
drous works that he has done. depths.
5 For he established a testimony in 16 He brought streams also out of
Jacob, the rock,
And appointed a law in Israel, And caused waters to run
Which he commanded our fa- down like rivers.
thers, 17 Yet they went on still to sin
That they should make them against him,
known to their children; To rebel against the Most High
6 That the generation to come in the desert.
might know them, even the chil- 18 And they tempted God in their
dren who should be born; heart
Who should arise and tell them to By asking food according to
their children, their desire.
7 That they might set their hope in 19 Yes, they spoke against God;
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table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, he struck the rock, so
that waters gushed out, 32
And streams overflowed;
Can he give bread also?
Will he provide flesh for his 33
people?”
21 Therefore Jehovah heard, and
was angry; 34
And a fire was kindled against
Jacob,
And anger also went up against
Israel; 35
22 Because they did not believe in
God,
And did not trust in his
salvation. 36
23 Yet he commanded the skies
above,
And opened the doors of
heaven; 37
24 And he rained down manna
upon them to eat,
And gave them food from
heaven. 38
25 Man ate the bread of the mighty:
He sent them food to the full.
26 He caused the east wind to blow
in the heavens;
And by his power he guided
the south wind.
27 He rained flesh also upon them 39
as the dust,
And winged birds as the sand
of the seas:
28 And he let it fall in the midst of 40
their camp,
All around their habitations.
29 So they ate, and were well filled; 41
And he gave them their own
desire.
30 They were not estranged from
that which they desired, 42
Their food was yet in their
mouths,
31 When the anger of God went up
against them, 43
And slew of the fattest of them,
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And struck down the young
men of Israel.
For all this they sinned still,
And did not believe in his
wondrous works.
Therefore their days he con-
sumed in vanity,
And their years in terror.
When he slew them, then they
inquired after him;
And they returned and sought
God earnestly.
And they remembered that God
was their rock,
And the Most High God their
redeemer.
But they flattered him with their
mouth,
And lied to him with their
tongue.
For their heart was not right
with him,
Neither were they faithful in
his covenant.
But he, being merciful, forgave
their iniquity, and did not de-
stroy them:
Yes, frequently he turned his
anger away,
And did not stir up all his
wrath.
And he remembered that they
were but flesh,
A wind that passes away, and
does not come again.
How often they rebelled against
him in the wilderness,
And grieve him in the desert!
And they turned again and
tempted God,
And provoked the Holy One of
Israel.
They did not remember his
hand,
Nor the day when he redeemed
them from the adversary;
How he set his signs in Egypt,
And his wonders in the field of
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Zoan,
44 And turned their rivers into
blood,
And their streams, so that they
could not drink. 56
45 He sent among them swarms of
flies, which devoured them;
And frogs, which destroyed
them. 57
46 He gave also their increase to
the caterpillar,
And their labor to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with
hail, 58
And their sycamore trees with
frost.
48 He gave over their cattle also to
the hail, 59
And their flocks to hot
thunderbolts.
49 He cast upon them the fierce- 60
ness of his anger,
Wrath, and indignation, and
trouble,
A band of angels of evil. 61
50 He made a path for his anger;
He did not spare their soul
from death,
But gave their life over to the 62
pestilence,
51 And struck all the firstborn in
Egypt,
The chief of their strength in 63
the tents of Ham.
52 But he led forth his own people
like sheep, 64
And guided them in the
wilderness like a flock.
53 And he led them safely, so that 65
they did not fear;
But the sea overwhelmed their
enemies.
54 And he brought them to the bor- 66
der of his sanctuary,
To this mountain, which his
right hand had gotten.
55 He drove out the nations also 67
before them,
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And allotted them for an
inheritance by line,
And made the tribes of Israel to
dwell in their tents.
Yet they tempted and rebelled
against the Most High God,
And did not keep his
testimonies;
But turned back, and dealt
treacherously like their fa-
thers:
They were turned aside like a
deceitful bow.
For they provoked him to anger
with their high places,
And moved him to jealousy
with their graven images.
When God heard this, he was
angry,
And greatly abhorred Israel;
So that he forsook the tabernacle
of Shiloh,
The tent which he placed
among men;
And delivered his strength into
captivity,
And his glory into the
adversary’s hand.
He gave his people over also to
the sword,
And was angry with his
inheritance.
Fire devoured their young men;
And their virgins had no
marriage song.
Their priests fell by the sword;
And their widows made no
lamentation.
Then the Lord awoke as one out
of sleep,
Like a mighty man who shouts
by reason of wine.
And he struck his adversaries
backward:
He put them to a perpetual
reproach.
Moreover he refused the tent of
Joseph,
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And did not choose the tribe of
Ephraim,
68 But chose the tribe of Judah,
The mount Zion which he
loved.
69 And he built his sanctuary like
the heights,
Like the earth which he has
established for ever.
70 He chose David also his servant,
And took him from the
sheepfolds:
71 From following the ewes that
have their young he brought
him,
To be the shepherd of Jacob his
people, and Israel his
inheritance.
72 So he was their shepherd ac-
cording to the integrity of his
heart,
And guided them by the
skillfulness of his hands.
A Psalm of Asaph.
79 O God, the nations have
come into your inheri-
tance;
Your holy temple have they de-
filed;
They have laid Jerusalem in
heaps.
2 The dead bodies of your servants
have they given to be food to
the birds of the heavens,
The flesh of your saints to the
beasts of the earth.
3 Their blood have they shed like
water all around Jerusalem;
And there was none to bury
4
them.
We have become a reproach to
our neighbors,
A scoffing and derision to those
who are all around us.
5 How long, O Jehovah? will you 2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin
be angry for ever?
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Will your jealousy burn like fire?
6 Pour out your wrath on the na-
tions that do not know you,
And on the kingdoms that do not
call upon your name.
7 For they have devoured Jacob,
And laid waste his habitation.
8 Do not remember against us the
iniquities of our forefathers:
Let your tender mercies speedily
meet us;
For we are brought very low.
9 Help us, O God of our salvation,
for the glory of your name;
And deliver us, and forgive our
sins, for your name’s sake.
10 Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Let the avenging of the blood of
your servants which is shed
Be known among the nations in
our sight.
11 Let the sighing of the prisoner
come before you:
According to the greatness of
your power preserve those
who are appointed to death;
12 And render to our neighbors
sevenfold into their bosom
Their reproach, with which
they have reproached you, O
Lord.
13 So we your people and sheep of
your pasture
Will give you thanks for ever:
We will show forth your praise
to all generations.
For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim
Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph.
80 Give ear, O Shepherd of Is-
rael,
You who lead Joseph like a flock;
You who sit above the cherubim,
shine forth.
and Manasseh, stir up your

And come to save us.
3 Turn us again, O God;
And cause your face to shine, and 16 It is burned with fire, it is cut
we shall be saved.
4 O Jehovah God of hosts,
How long will you be angry 17 Let your hand be upon the man
against the prayer of your
people?
5 You have fed them with the bread
of tears,
And given them tears to drink in
large measure.
6 You make us a strife to our neigh-
bors;
And our enemies laugh among
themselves.
7 Turn us again, O God of hosts;
And cause your face to shine, and
we shall be saved.
8 You brought a vine out of Egypt:
You drove out the nations, and
planted it.
9 You prepared room before it,
And it took deep root, and filled
the land.
10 The mountains were covered
with the shadow of it,
And the boughs of it were like
cedars of God.
11 It sent out its branches to the
sea,
And its shoots to the River.
12 Why have you broken down its 4
walls,
So that all those who pass by
the way pluck it?
13 The boar out of the wood rav-
ages it,
And the wild beasts of the field
feed on it.
14 Turn again, we beseech you, O 6
God of hosts:
Look down from heaven, and
behold, and visit this vine,
15 And the stock which your right 7
hand planted,
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And the branch that you made
strong for yourself.
down:
They perish at the rebuke of
your countenance.
of your right hand,
Upon the son of man whom
you made strong for yourself.
18 So shall we not go back from
you:
Revive us, and we will call
upon your name.
19 Turn us again, O Jehovah God
of hosts;
Cause your face to shine, and
we shall be saved.
For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A
Psalm of Asaph.
81 Sing aloud to God our
strength:
Make a joyful noise to the God of
Jacob.
2 Raise a song, and bring here the
timbrel,
The pleasant harp with the
psaltery.
3 Blow the trumpet at the new
moon,
At the full moon, on our feast
day.
For it is a statute for Israel,
An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 He appointed it in Joseph for a
testimony,
When he went out over the land
of Egypt,
Where I heard a language that I
did not know.
“I removed his shoulder from the
burden:
His hands were freed from the
basket.
You called in trouble, and I deliv-
ered you;
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of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of
Meribah. [Selah
8 Hear, O my people, and I will tes-
tify to you:
O Israel, if you would listen to
me!
9 There shall be no strange god in
you;
Neither shall you worship any
foreign god.
10 I am Jehovah your God,
Who brought you up out of the
land of Egypt:
Open your mouth wide, and I
will fill it.
11 But my people did not listen to
my voice;
And Israel would none of me.
12 So I let them go after the stub-
bornness of their heart,
That they might walk in their
own counsels.
13 Oh that my people would listen
to me,
That Israel would walk in my
ways!
14 I would soon subdue their ene-
mies,
And turn my hand against their
adversaries.
15 The haters of Jehovah should
submit themselves to him:
But their time should endure
for ever.
16 He would feed them also with
the finest of the wheat;
And with honey out of the rock
would I satisfy you.”
A Psalm of Asaph.
82 God stands in the congrega-
tion of God;
He judges among the gods. 6
2 How long will you judge un-
justly,
And respect the persons of the 7
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wicked? [Selah
3 Judge the poor and fatherless:
Do justice to the afflicted and des-
titute.
4 Rescue the poor and needy:
Deliver them out of the hand of
the wicked.
5 They do not know, neither do
they understand;
They walk to and fro in darkness:
All the foundations of the earth
are shaken.
6 I said, “You are gods,
And all of you sons of the Most
High.
7 Nevertheless you shall die like
men,
And fall like one of the princes.”
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth;
For you shall inherit all the na-
tions.
A Song, a Psalm of Asaph.
83 O God, do not keep silent:
Do not hold your peace, and
be not still, O God.
2 For, behold, your enemies make a
tumult;
And those who hate you have
lifted up the head.
3 They take crafty counsel against
your people,
And consult together against
your hidden ones.
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.”
5 For they have consulted together
with one consent;
Against you do they make a
covenant:
The tents of Edom and the Ish-
maelites;
Moab, and the Hagarenes;
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;
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Philistia with the inhabitants of My heart and my flesh cry out to
Tyre: the living God.
8 Assyria also is joined with them; 3 Yes, the sparrow has found her a
They have helped the children of house,
Lot. [Selah And the swallow a nest for her-
9 Do to them as to Midian, self, where she may lay her
As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the young,
river Kishon; Even your altars, O Jehovah of
10 Who perished at Endor, hosts,
Who became as dung for the My King, and my God.
earth. 4 Blessed are those who dwell in
your house:
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and They will be still praising you.
Zeeb; [Selah
Yes, all their princes like Zebah 5 Blessed is the man whose
and Zalmunna; strength is in you;
12 Who said, “Let us take to our- In whose heart are the highways
selves in possession to Zion.
The habitations of God.” 6 Passing through the Valley of
13 O my God, make them like the Weeping they make it a place of
whirling dust; springs;
As stubble before the wind. Yes, the early rain covers it with
14 As the fire that burns the forest, blessings.
And as the flame that sets the 7 They go from strength to
mountains on fire, strength;
15 So pursue them with your tem- Every one of them appears before
pest, God in Zion.
And terrify them with your 8 O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my
storm. prayer;
16 Fill their faces with confusion, Give ear, O God of Jacob. [Selah
That they may seek your name, 9 Behold, O God our shield,
O Jehovah. And look upon the face of your
17 Let them be put to shame and anointed.
dismayed for ever; 10 For a day in your courts is better
Yes, let them be confounded than a thousand.
and perish; I had rather be a doorkeeper in
18 That they may know that you the house of my God,
alone, whose name is Jehovah, Than to dwell in the tents of
Are the Most High over all the earth. wickedness.
11 For Jehovah God is a sun and a
For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A shield:
Psalm of the sons of Korah. Jehovah will give grace and
glory;

84 How amiable are your taber-

nacles,
O Jehovah of hosts!
No good thing will he withhold
from those who walk
uprightly.
2 My soul longs, yes, even faints 12 O Jehovah of hosts,
for the courts of Jehovah; Blessed is the man who trusts
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13 Righteousness will go before
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of
Korah. him,
And will make his footsteps a

85 Jehovah, you have been fa-

vorable to your land;
You have brought back the cap-
way to walk in.

A Prayer of David.
tivity of Jacob.
2 You have forgiven the iniquity of
your people;
You have covered all their sin.
86
Bow down your ear, O Jeho-
vah, and answer me;
For I am poor and needy.
[Selah 2 Preserve my soul; for I am godly:
3 You have taken away all your O you my God, save your servant
wrath; who trusts in you.
You have turned yourself from the 3 Be merciful to me, O Lord;
fierceness of your anger. For to you do I cry all the day
4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, long.
And cause your indignation to- 4 Rejoice the soul of your servant;
ward us to cease. For to you, O Lord, do I lift up my
5 Will you be angry with us for soul.
ever? 5 For you, Lord, are good, and
Will you draw out your anger to ready to forgive,
all generations? And abundant in lovingkindness
6 Will you not revive us again, to all those who call on you.
That your people may rejoice in 6 Give ear, O Jehovah, to my
you? prayer;
7 Show us your lovingkindness, O And listen to the voice of my sup-
Jehovah, plications.
And grant us your salvation. 7 In the day of my trouble I will call
8 I will hear what God Jehovah will on you;
speak; For you will answer me.
For he will speak peace to his 8 There is none like you among the
people, and to his saints: gods, O Lord;
But let them not turn again to Neither are there any works like
folly. your works.
9 Surely his salvation is near those 9 All nations whom you have
who fear him, made shall come and worship
That glory may dwell in our land. before you, O Lord;
10 Mercy and truth have met to- And they shall glorify your
gether; name.
Righteousness and peace have 10 For you are great, and do won-
kissed each other. drous things:
11 Truth springs out of the earth; You are God alone.
And righteousness has looked 11 Teach me your way, O Jehovah;
down from heaven. I will walk in your truth:
12 Yes, Jehovah will give that Unite my heart to fear your
which is good; name.
And our land will yield its 12 I will praise you, O Lord my
increase. God, with my whole heart;
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And I will glorify your name
for evermore.
13 For great is your lovingkindness
toward me;
And you have delivered my
soul from the lowest Sheol.
14 O God, the proud are risen up
against me,
And a company of violent men
have sought after my soul,
And have not set you before
them.
15 But you, O Lord, are a God mer-
ciful and gracious,
Slow to anger, and abundant in
lovingkindness and truth.
16 Oh turn to me, and have mercy
on me;
Give your strength to your
servant,
And save the son of your
maidservant.
17 Show me a token for good,
That those who hate me may
see it, and be put to shame,
Because you, Jehovah, have
helped me, and comforted
me.
A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song.
87
2
His foundation is in the holy 6
mountains.
Jehovah loves the gates of Zion
More than all the dwellings of Ja- 7
cob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of
you,
O city of God. [Selah
4 “I will make mention of Rahab
and Babylon as among those
who know me:
Behold, Philistia, and Tyre, with
Ethiopia:
‘This one was born there.’
5 Yes, of Zion it shall be said,
“This one and that one were born
in her;
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And the Most High himself will
establish her.”
6 Jehovah will count, when he
writes up the peoples,
This one was born there. [Selah
7 Those who sing as well as those
who dance shall say,
“All my fountains are in you.”
A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the
Chief Musician; set to Mahalath Leannoth.
Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.
88 O Jehovah, the God of my
salvation,
I have cried day and night before
you.
2 Let my prayer enter into your
presence;
Incline your ear to my cry.
3 For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near to Sheol.
4 I am reckoned with those who go
down into the pit;
I am as a man who has no help,
5 Cast off among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in the
grave,
Whom you remember no more,
And they are cut off from your
hand.
You have laid me in the lowest
pit,
In dark places, in the deeps.
Your wrath lies hard upon me,
And you have afflicted me with
all your waves. [Selah
8 You have put my acquaintance
far from me;
You have made me an abomina-
tion to them:
I am shut up, and I cannot come
forth.
9 My eye wastes away by reason of
affliction:
I have called daily on you, O Je-
hovah;
I have spread forth my hands to
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you.
10 Will you show wonders to the
dead?
Shall those who are deceased
arise and praise you? [Selah 4 ‘Your seed will I establish for
11 Shall your lovingkindness be
declared in the grave?
Or your faithfulness in
Destruction?
12 Shall your wonders be known
in the dark?
And your righteousness in the
land of forgetfulness?
13 But to you, O Jehovah, have I
cried;
And in the morning shall my
prayer come before you.
14 Jehovah, why do you cast off
my soul?
Why do you hide your face
from me?
15 I am afflicted and ready to die
from my youth up:
While I suffer your terrors I am
distracted.
16 Your fierce wrath is gone over
me;
Your terrors have cut me off.
17 They came all around me like
water all the day long;
They surrounded together.
18 Lover and friend have you put
far from me,
And my acquaintance into
darkness.
Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
89 I will sing of the lovingkind-
ness of Jehovah for ever:
With my mouth will I make
known your faithfulness to all 13 You have a mighty arm;
generations.
2 For I have said, “Mercy shall be
built up for ever;
Your faithfulness will you estab-
lish in the very heavens.”
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3 “I have made a covenant with my
chosen,
I have sworn to David my ser-
vant:
ever,
And build up your throne to all
generations.’ ” [Selah
5 And the heavens will praise your
wonders, O Jehovah;
Your faithfulness also in the as-
sembly of the holy ones.
6 For who in the skies can be com-
pared to Jehovah?
Who among the sons of the
mighty is like Jehovah,
7 A God very terrible in the council
of the holy ones,
And to be feared above all those
who are all around him?
8 O Jehovah God of hosts,
Who is a mighty one, like you, O
Jehovah?
And your faithfulness is all
around you.
9 You rule the pride of the sea:
When the waves of it arise, you
still them.
10 You have broken Rahab in
pieces, as one who is slain;
You have scattered your
enemies with the arm of your
strength.
11 The heavens are yours, the earth
also is yours:
The world and the fullness of it,
you have founded them.
12 The north and the south, you
have created them:
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in
your name.
Strong is your hand, and high
is your right hand.
14 Righteousness and justice are
the foundation of your throne:
Lovingkindness and truth go
before your face.
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15 Blessed is the people who know
the joyful sound:
They walk, O Jehovah, in the
light of your countenance.
16 In your name do they rejoice all
the day;
And in your righteousness are
they exalted.
17 For you are the glory of their
strength;
And in your favor our horn
shall be exalted.
18 For our shield belongs to Jeho-
vah;
And our king to the Holy One
of Israel.
19 Then you spoke in vision to
your saints,
And said, “I have laid help
upon one who is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen out
of the people.
20 I have found David my servant;
With my holy oil have I
anointed him:
21 With whom my hand shall be
established;
My arm also shall strengthen
him.
22 The enemy shall not exact from
him,
Nor the son of wickedness
afflict him.
23 And I will beat down his adver-
saries before him,
And strike those who hate him.
24 But my faithfulness and my lov-
ingkindness shall be with him;
And in my name shall his horn
be exalted.
25 I will set his hand also on the
sea,
And his right hand on the
rivers.
26 He shall cry to me, ‘You are my
Father,
My God, and the rock of my
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salvation.’
27 I also will make him my first-
born,
The highest of the kings of the
earth.
28 My lovingkindness will I keep
for him for evermore;
And my covenant shall stand
fast with him.
29 His seed also will I make to en-
dure for ever,
And his throne as the days of
heaven.
30 If his children forsake my law,
And do not walk in my
ordinances;
31 If they break my statutes,
And do not keep my
commandments;
32 Then will I visit their transgres-
sion with the rod,
And their iniquity with blows.
33 But my lovingkindness will I
not utterly take from him,
Nor suffer my faithfulness to
fail.
34 My covenant will I not break,
Nor alter the thing that is gone
out of my lips.
35 Once have I sworn by my holi-
ness:
I will not lie to David:
36 His seed shall endure for ever,
And his throne as the sun
before me.
37 It shall be established for ever as
the moon,
And as the faithful witness in
the sky.” [Selah
38 But you have cast off and re-
jected,
You have been angry with your
anointed.
39 You have abhorred the covenant
of your servant:
You have profaned his crown
by casting it to the ground.

40 You have broken down all his
hedges;
You have brought his
strongholds to ruin.
41 All who pass by the way rob
him:
He is become a reproach to his
neighbors.
42 You have exalted the right hand
of his adversaries;
You have made all his enemies
to rejoice.
43 Yes, you turn back the edge of
his sword,
And have not made him to
stand in the battle.
44 You have made his brightness to
cease,
And cast his throne down to
the ground.
45 The days of his youth have you
shortened:
You have covered him with
shame. [Selah
46 How long, O Jehovah? will you
hide yourself for ever?
How long will your wrath burn
A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
90 Lord, you have been our 5
dwelling place
In all generations.
2 Before the mountains were
brought forth,
Or ever you had formed the earth
and the world,
Even from everlasting to ever-
lasting, you are God.
3 You turn man to destruction,
And say, “Return, O children of
men.”
4 For a thousand years in your 8
sight
Are but as yesterday when it is
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like fire?
47 Oh remember how short my
time is:
For what vanity have you
created all the children of
men!
48 What man is he who shall live
and not see death,
Who shall deliver his soul from
the power of Sheol? [Selah
49 Lord, where are your former
lovingkindnesses,
Which you swore to David in
your faithfulness?
50 Remember, Lord, the reproach
of your servants;
How I bear in my bosom the
reproach of all the mighty
peoples,
51 With which your enemies have
reproached, I Jehovah,
With which they have
reproached the footsteps of
your anointed.
52 Blessed be Jehovah for ever-
more.
Amen, and Amen.
BOOK IV
past,
And as a watch in the night.
You carry them away as with a
flood; they are as a sleep:
In the morning they are like grass
which grows up.
6 In the morning it flourishes, and
grows up;
In the evening it is cut down, and
withers.
7 For we are consumed in your
anger,
And in your wrath we are trou-
bled.
You have set our iniquities before
you,
Our secret sins in the light of your
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countenance. refuge and my fortress;
9 For all our days are passed away My God, in whom I trust.”
in your wrath: 3 For he will deliver you from the
We bring our years to an end as a snare of the fowler,
sigh. And from the deadly pestilence.
10 The days of our years are sev- 4 He will cover you with his pin-
enty years, ions,
Or even by reason of strength And under his wings will you
eighty years; take refuge:
Yet is their pride but labor and His truth is a shield and a buck-
sorrow; ler.
For it is soon gone, and we fly 5 You shall not be afraid for the ter-
away. ror by night,
11 Who knows the power of your Nor for the arrow that flies by
anger, day;
And your wrath according to 6 For the pestilence that walks in
the fear that is due to you? darkness,
12 So teach us to number our days, Nor for the destruction that
That we may get a heart of wastes at noonday.
wisdom. 7 A thousand shall fall at your side,
13 Return, O Jehovah; how long? And ten thousand at your right
And let it repent you hand;
concerning your servants. But it shall not come near you.
14 Oh satisfy us in the morning 8 Only with your eyes shall you be-
with your lovingkindess, hold,
That we may rejoice and be And see the reward of the
glad all our days. wicked.
15 Make us glad according to the 9 For you, O Jehovah, are my
days in which you have refuge!
afflicted us, You have made the Most High
And the years in which we your habitation;
have seen evil. 10 There shall no evil befall you,
16 Let your work appear to your Neither shall any plague come
servants, near your tent.
And your glory upon their 11 For he will give his angels
children. charge over you,
17 And let the favor of the Lord our To keep you in all your ways.
God be upon us; 12 They shall bear you up in their
And establish the work of our hands,
hands Lest you dash your foot against
Yes, the work of our hands a stone.
establish it. 13 You shall tread upon the lion
and adder:

91 He who dwells in the secret

place of the Most High
The young lion and the serpent
shall you trample under foot.
Shall abide under the shadow of 14 “Because he has set his love
the Almighty. upon me, therefore will I de-
2 I will say of Jehovah, “He is my liver him:
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I will set him on high, because
he has known my name.
15 He shall call on me, and I will
answer him;
I will be with him in trouble:
I will deliver him, and honor
him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him,
And show him my salvation.”
A Psalm, a Song for the Sabbath day.
10 But my horn have you exalted
like the horn of the wild ox:
I am anointed with fresh oil.
11 My eye also has seen my desire
on my enemies,
My ears have heard my desire
of the evildoers who rise up
against me.
12 The righteous shall flourish like
the palm tree:
He shall grow like a cedar in
Lebanon.

92 It is a good thing to give 13 They are planted in the house of

thanks to Jehovah,
And to sing praises to your name,
Jehovah;
They shall flourish in the courts
O Most High; of our God.
2 To show forth your lovingkind- 14 They shall still bring forth fruit
ness in the morning, in old age;
And your faithfulness every They shall be full of sap and
night, green:
3 With an instrument of ten strings, 15 To show that Jehovah is upright;
and with the psaltery; He is my rock, and there is no
With a solemn sound upon the unrighteousness in him.
harp.
4 For you, Jehovah, have made me
glad through your work:
I will triumph in the works of
93 Jehovah reigns;
He is clothed with majesty;
Jehovah is clothed with strength;
your hands. he has girded himself with it:
5 How great are your works, O Je- The world also is established,
hovah! that it cannot be moved.
Your thoughts are very deep. 2 Your throne is established of old:
6 A brutish man does not know; You are from everlasting.
Neither does a fool understand 3 The floods have lifted up, O Jeho-
this: vah,
7 When the wicked spring as the The floods have lifted up their
grass, voice;
And when all the workers of iniq- The floods lift up their waves.
uity flourish; 4 Above the voices of many waters,
It is that they shall be destroyed The mighty breakers of the sea,
for ever. Jehovah on high is mighty.
8 But you, O Jehovah, are on high 5 Your testimonies are very sure:
for evermore. Holiness befits your house, O Je-
9 For, behold, your enemies, O Je- hovah, for evermore.
hovah,
For, behold, your enemies shall
perish;
All the workers of iniquity shall
94 O Jehovah, God to whom
vengeance belongs,
O God to whom vengeance be-
be scattered. longs, shine forth.
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2 Lift up yourself, O judge of the
earth:
Render to the proud their desert.
3 Jehovah, how long shall the 16 Who will rise up for me against
wicked,
How long shall the wicked tri-
umph?
4 They pour out, they speak arro-
gantly:
All the workers of iniquity boast
themselves.
5 They break in pieces your people,
O Jehovah,
And afflict your heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the so-
journer,
And murder the fatherless.
7 And they say, “Jehovah will not
see,
Neither will the God of Jacob
consider.”
8 Consider, you brutish among the
people;
And you fools, when will you be
wise?
9 He who planted the ear, shall he
not hear?
He who formed the eye, shall he 22 But Jehovah has been my high
not see?
10 He who chastises the nations,
shall not he correct,
Even he who teaches man
knowledge?
11 Jehovah knows the thoughts of
man,
That they are vanity.
12 Blessed is the man whom you
chasten, O Jehovah,
And teach out of your law;
13 That you may give him rest
from the days of adversity,
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Until the pit be dug for the
wicked.
14 For Jehovah will not cast off his
people,
Neither will he forsake his
inheritance.
15 For judgment will return to
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righteousness;
And all the upright in heart will
follow it.
the evildoers?
Who will stand up for me
against the workers of
iniquity?
17 Unless Jehovah had been my
help,
My soul would have soon
dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, “My foot slips;”
Your lovingkindness, O
Jehovah, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts
within me
Your comforts delight my soul.
20 Shall the throne of wickedness
have fellowship with you,
Which frames mischief by
statute?
21 They gather themselves to-
gether against the soul of the
righteous,
And condemn the innocent
blood.
tower,
And my God the rock of my
refuge.
23 And he has brought upon them
their own iniquity,
And will cut them off in their
own wickedness;
Jehovah our God will cut them
off.
Oh come, let us sing to Jeho-
vah;
Let us make a joyful noise to the
rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence
with thanksgiving;
Let us make a joyful noise to him
with psalms.
3 For Jehovah is a great God,
And a great King above all gods.
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the earth;
The heights of the mountains are
his also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it;
And his hands formed the dry
land.
6 Oh come, let us worship and bow
down;
Let us kneel before Jehovah our
Maker:
7 For he is our God,
And we are the people of his pas-
ture, and the sheep of his
hand.
Today, oh that you would hear
his voice!
8 “Do not harden your heart, as at
Meribah,
As in the day of Massah in the
wilderness;
9 When your fathers tempted me,
Tested me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved
with that generation,
And said, ‘It is a people who
err in their heart,
And they have not known my
ways:’
11 Therefore I swore in my wrath,
That they should not enter into
my rest.”
96 Oh sing to Jehovah a new
song:
Sing to Jehovah, all the earth.
2 Sing to Jehovah, bless his name;
Show forth his salvation from
day to day.
3 Declare his glory among the na- 2 Clouds and darkness are all
tions,
His marvelous works among all
the peoples.
4 For great is Jehovah, and greatly 3 A fire goes before him,
to be praised:
He is to be feared above all gods.
5 For all the gods of the peoples are 4 His lightnings illuminated the
idols;
But Jehovah made the heavens.
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6 Honor and majesty are before
him:
Strength and beauty are in his
sanctuary.
7 Ascribe to Jehovah, you kindreds
of the peoples,
Ascribe to Jehovah glory and
strength.
8 Ascribe to Jehovah the glory due
to his name:
Bring an offering, and come into
his courts.
9 Oh worship Jehovah in holy ar-
ray:
Tremble before him, all the earth.
10 Say among the nations, Jehovah
reigns:
The world also is established
that it cannot be moved:
He will judge the peoples with
equity
11 Let the heavens be glad, and let
the earth rejoice;
Let the sea roar, and the
fullness of it;
12 Let the field exult, and all that is
in it;
Then will all the trees of the
wood sing for joy
13 Before Jehovah; for he comes,
For he comes to judge the earth:
He will judge the world with
righteousness,
And the peoples with his truth.
97 Jehovah reigns; let the earth
rejoice;
Let the multitude of isles be glad.
around him:
Righteousness and justice are the
foundation of his throne.
And burns up his adversaries all
around.
world:
The earth saw, and trembled.
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at the presence of Jehovah,
At the presence of the Lord of the
whole earth.
6 The heavens declare his right-
eousness,
And all the peoples have seen his
glory.
7 Let all those be put to shame who
serve graven images,
Who boast themselves of idols:
Worship him, all you gods.
8 Zion heard and was glad,
And the daughters of Judah re-
joiced,
Because of your judgments, O Je-
hovah.
9 For you, Jehovah, are most high
above all the earth:
You are exalted far above all
gods.
10 O you who love Jehovah, hate
evil:
He preserves the souls of his
saints;
He delivers them out of the
hand of the wicked.
11 Light is sown for the righteous,
And gladness for the upright in
heart.
12 Be glad in Jehovah, you right-
eous;
And give thanks to his holy
memorial name.
2 Jehovah is great in Zion;
A Psalm.
98 Oh sing to Jehovah a new 3 Let them praise your great and
song;
For he has done marvelous
things:
His right hand, and his holy arm, 4 The king’s strength also loves jus-
have worked salvation for
him.
2 Jehovah has made known his sal-
vation:
His righteousness has he openly 5 Exalt Jehovah our God,
shown in the sight of the na-
tions.
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3 He has remembered his lov-
ingkindness and his faithful-
ness toward the house of Israel:
All the ends of the earth have
seen the salvation of our God.
4 Make a joyful noise to Jehovah,
all the earth:
Break forth and sing for joy, yes,
sing praises.
5 Sing praises to Jehovah with the
harp;
With the harp and the voice of
melody.
6 With trumpets and sound of
melody
Make a joyful noise before the
King, Jehovah.
7 Let the sea roar, and the fullness
of it;
The world, and those who dwell
in it;
8 Let the floods clap their hands;
Let the hills sing for joy together
9 Before Jehovah; for he comes to
judge the earth:
He will judge the world with
righteousness,
And the peoples with equity.
99 Jehovah reigns; let the peo-
ples tremble:
He sits above the cherubim; let the
earth be moved.
And he is high above all the peo-
ples.
terrible name:
Holy is he.
tice;
You establish equity;
You execute justice and right-
eousness in Jacob.
And worship at his footstool:
Holy is he.
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6 Moses and Aaron among his
priests,
And Samuel among those who
call upon his name;
They called upon Jehovah, and
he answered them.
7 He spoke to them in the pillar of
cloud:
They kept his testimonies,
And the statute that he gave
them.
8 You answered them, O Jehovah
our God:
You were a God who forgave
them,
Though you took vengeance of
their doings.
9 Exalt Jehovah our God,
And worship at his holy hill;
For Jehovah our God is holy.
A Psalm of thanksgiving.
100
2
Make a joyful noise to Je-
hovah, all you lands.
Serve Jehovah with gladness:
Come before his presence with
singing.
3 Know that Jehovah, he is God:
It is he who has made us, and we
are his;
We are his people, and the sheep
of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanks-
giving,
And into his courts with praise:
Give thanks to him, and bless his
5
name.
For Jehovah is good; his lov-
ingkindness endures for ever,
And his faithfulness to all genera- 2 Do not hide your face from me in
tions.
A Psalm of David.
101 I will sing of lovingkind- 3 For my days consume away like
ness and justice:
To you, O Jehovah, will I sing
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praises.
2 I will behave myself wisely in a
perfect way:
Oh when will you come to me?
I will walk within my house with
a perfect heart.
3 I will set no base thing before my
eyes:
I hate the work of those who turn
aside;
It shall not cleave to me.
4 A perverse heart shall depart
from me:
I will know no evil thing.
5 Whoever secretly slanders his
neighbor, him will I destroy:
He who has a high look and a
proud heart will I not endure.
6 My eyes shall be upon the faith-
ful of the land, that they may
dwell with me:
He who walks in a perfect way,
he shall minister to me.
7 He who works deceit shall not
dwell within my house:
He who speaks falsehood shall
not be established before my
eyes.
8 Morning by morning will I de-
stroy all the wicked of the land;
To cut off all the workers of iniq-
uity from the city of Jehovah.
A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is
overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint
before Jehovah.
102 Hear my prayer, O Jeho-
vah,
And let my cry come to you.
the day of my distress:
Incline your ear to me;
In the day when I call answer me
speedily.
smoke,
And my bones are burned as a
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firebrand.
4 My heart is struck like grass, and
withered;
For I forget to eat my bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my
groaning
My bones cleave to my flesh.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilder-
ness;
I have become as an owl of the
waste places.
7 I watch, and have become like a
sparrow
That is alone upon the housetop.
8 My enemies reproach me all the
day;
Those who are mad against me
curse by me.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And mingled my drink with
weeping,
10 Because of your indignation
and your wrath:
For you have taken me up, and
cast me away.
11 My days are like a shadow that
declines;
And I am withered like grass.
12 But you, O Jehovah, will abide
for ever;
And your memorial name to all 25 Of old did you lay the founda-
generations.
13 You will arise, and have mercy
on Zion;
For it is time to have pity on
her,
Yes, the set time is come.
14 For your servants take pleasure
in her stones,
And have pity on her dust.
15 So the nations shall fear the
name of Jehovah,
And all the kings of the earth
your glory.
16 For Jehovah has built up Zion;
He has appeared in his glory.
17 He has regarded the prayer of
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the destitute,
And has not despised their
prayer.
18 This shall be written for the gen-
eration to come;
And a people which shall be
created shall praise Jehovah.
19 For he has looked down from
the height of his sanctuary;
From heaven did Jehovah
behold the earth;
20 To hear the sighing of the pris-
oner;
To loose those who are
appointed to death;
21 That men may declare the name
of Jehovah in Zion,
And his praise in Jerusalem;
22 When the peoples are gathered
together,
And the kingdoms, to serve
Jehovah.
23 He weakened my strength in
the way;
He shortened my days.
24 I said, “O my God, do not take
me away in the midst of my
days:
Your years are throughout all
generations.
tion of the earth;
And the heavens are the work
of your hands.
26 They shall perish, but you will
endure;
Yes, all of them shall grow old
like a garment;
As a garment you will change
them, and they shall be
changed:
27 But you are the same,
And your years shall have no
end.
28 The children of your servants
shall continue,
And their seed shall be
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established before you. So Jehovah pities those who
fear him.
A Psalm of David. 14 For he knows our frame;
He remembers that we are dust.

103 Bless Jehovah, O my soul; 15

And all that is within me,
bless his holy name.
2 Bless Jehovah, O my soul,
And do not forget all his benefits: 16 For the wind passes over it, and
3 Who forgives all your iniquities;
Who heals all your diseases;
4 Who redeems your life from de-
struction;
Who crowns you with lov-
ingkindness and tender mer-
cies;
5 Who satisfies your desire with
good things,
So that your youth is renewed like 18 To such as keep his covenant,
the eagle.
6 Jehovah executes righteous acts,
And judgments for all who are 19
oppressed.
7 He made known his ways to
Moses,
His doings to the children of Is-
rael.
8 Jehovah is merciful and gra-
cious,
Slow to anger, and abundant in 21
lovingkindness.
9 He will not always chide;
Neither will he keep his anger for 22 Bless Jehovah, all you his works,
ever.
10 He has not dealt with us accord-
ing to our sins,
Nor rewarded us according to
our iniquities.
11 For as the heavens are high
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above the earth,
So great is his lovingkindness
toward those who fear him.
12 As far as the east is from the
west,
So far has he removed our
transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pities his chil-
dren,
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As for man, his days are as
grass;
As a flower of the field, so he
flourishes.
it is gone;
And the place of it shall know it
no more.
17 But the lovingkindness of Jeho-
vah is from everlasting to ev-
erlasting on those who fear
him,
And his righteousness to
children’s children;
And to those who remember
his precepts to do them.
Jehovah has established his
throne in the heavens;
And his kingdom rules over all.
20 Bless Jehovah, you his angels,
Who are mighty in strength,
who fulfill his word,
Listening to the voice of his
word.
Bless Jehovah, all you his hosts,
You ministers of his, who do his
pleasure.
In all places of his dominion:
Bless Jehovah, O my soul.
Bless Jehovah, O my soul.
O Jehovah my God, you
are very great;
You are clothed with honor and
majesty:
2 Who cover yourself with light as
with a garment;
Who stretches out the heavens
like a curtain;
3 Who lays the beams of his cham-
bers in the waters;
Who makes the clouds his char-
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iot;
Who walks on the wings of the
wind;
4 Who makes winds his messen-
gers;
Flames of fire his ministers;
5 Who laid the foundations of the
earth,
That it should not be moved for 17
ever.
6 You covered it with the deep as
with a garment;
The waters stood above the 18
mountains.
7 At your rebuke they fled;
At the voice of your thunder they
hastened away
8 (The mountains rose, the valleys
sank down)
To the place which you had 20
founded for them.
9 You have set a bound that they
may not pass over;
That they do not turn again to 21
cover the earth.
10 He sends forth springs into the
valleys;
They run among the
mountains;
11 They give drink to every beast
of the field;
The wild donkeys quench their
thirst.
12 By them the birds of the heavens 24
have their habitation;
They sing among the branches.
13 He waters the mountains from
his chambers:
The earth is filled with the fruit 25
of your works.
14 He causes the grass to grow for
the cattle,
And herb for the service of
man;
That he may bring forth food
out of the earth,
15 And wine that makes glad the
heart of man,
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And oil to make his face to
shine,
And bread that strengthens
man’s heart.
16 The trees of Jehovah are filled
with moisture,
The cedars of Lebanon, which
he has planted;
Where the birds make their
nests:
As for the stork, the fir trees are
her house.
The high mountains are for the
wild goats;
The rocks are a refuge for the
hyrax.
19 He appointed the moon for sea-
sons:
The sun knows his going down.
You make darkness, and it is
night,
In which all the beasts of the
forest creep forth.
The young lions roar after their
prey,
And seek their food from God.
22 The sun arises, they get them
away,
And lay them down in their
dens.
23 Man goes forth to his work
And to his labor until the
evening.
O Jehovah, how manifold are
your works!
In wisdom have you made
them all:
The earth is full of your riches.
There is the sea, great and wide,
In which are things creeping
innumerable,
Both small and great beasts.
26 There go the ships;
There is Leviathan, whom you
have formed to play in it.
27 These wait all for you,
That you may give them their
food in due season.
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28 You give to them, they gather;
You open your hand, they are
satisfied with good.
29 You hide your face, they are
troubled;
You take away their breath,
they die,
And return to their dust.
30 You send forth your Spirit, they
are created;
And you renew the face of the
ground.
31 Let the glory of Jehovah endure
for ever;
Let Jehovah rejoice in his
works:
32 Who looks on the earth, and it
trembles;
He touches the mountains, and
they smoke.
33 I will sing to Jehovah as long as
I live:
I will sing praise to my God
while I have any being.
34 Let your meditation be sweet to
him:
I will rejoice in Jehovah.
35 Let sinners be consumed out of
the earth.
And let the wicked be no more.
Bless Jehovah, O my soul.
Praise Jehovah.
105 Oh give thanks to Jeho- 15 Saying, “Do not touch my
vah, call upon his
name;
Make known among the peoples 16 And he called for a famine upon
his doings.
2 Sing to him, sing praises to him;
Talk of all his marvelous works.
3 Glory in his holy name:
Let the heart of those rejoice who
seek Jehovah.
4 Seek Jehovah and his strength;
Seek his face evermore.
5 Remember his marvelous works
that he has done,
His wonders, and the judgments
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of his mouth,
6 O you seed of Abraham his ser-
vant,
You children of Jacob, his chosen
ones.
7 He is Jehovah our God:
His judgments are in all the earth.
8 He has remembered his covenant
for ever,
The word which he commanded
to a thousand generations,
9 The covenant which he made with
Abraham,
And his oath to Isaac,
10 And confirmed the same to Ja-
cob for a statute,
To Israel for an everlasting
covenant,
11 Saying, “To you will I give the
land of Canaan,
The lot of your inheritance;”
12 When they were but a few men
in number,
Yes, very few, and sojourners in
it.
13 And they went about from na-
tion to nation,
From one kingdom to another
people.
14 He allowed no man to do them
wrong;
Yes, he reproved kings for their
sakes,
anointed ones,
And do my prophets no harm.”
the land;
He broke the whole staff of
bread.
17 He sent a man before them;
Joseph was sold for a servant:
18 His feet they hurt with fetters:
He was laid in chains of iron,
19 Until the time that his word
came to pass,
The word of Jehovah tested
him.
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Even the ruler of peoples, and ground.
let him go free. 36 He struck also all the firstborn
21 He made him lord of his house, in their land,
And ruler of all his substance; The chief of all their strength.
22 To bind his princes at his plea- 37 And he brought them forth with
sure, silver and gold;
And teach his elders wisdom. And there was not one feeble
23 Israel also came into Egypt; person among his tribes.
And Jacob sojourned in the 38 Egypt was glad when they de-
land of Ham. parted;
24 And he increased his people For the fear of them had fallen
greatly, upon them.
And made them stronger than 39 He spread a cloud for a cover-
their adversaries. ing,
25 He turned their heart to hate his And fire to give light in the
people, night.
To deal subtly with his 40 They asked, and he brought
servants. quails,
26 He sent Moses his servant, And satisfied them with the
And Aaron whom he had bread of heaven.
chosen. 41 He opened the rock, and waters
27 They set among them his signs, gushed out;
And wonders in the land of They ran in the dry places like a
Ham. river.
28 He sent darkness, and made it 42 For he remembered his holy
dark; word,
And they did not rebel against And Abraham his servant.
his words. 43 And he brought forth his people
29 He turned their waters into with joy,
blood, And his chosen with singing.
And slew their fish. 44 And he gave them the lands of
30 Their land swarmed with frogs the nations;
In the chambers of their kings. And they took the labor of the
31 He spoke, and there came peoples in possession:
swarms of flies, 45 That they might keep his
And lice in all their borders. statutes,
32 He gave them hail for rain, And observe his laws.
And flaming fire in their land. Praise Jehovah.
33 He struck their vines also and
their fig trees,
And broke the trees of their
borders.
106 Praise Jehovah.
Oh give thanks to Jeho-
vah; for he is good;
34 He spoke, and the locust came, For his lovingkindness endures
And the grasshopper, and that for ever.
without number, 2 Who can utter the mighty acts of
35 And ate up every herb in their Jehovah,
land, Or show forth all his praise?
And ate up the fruit of their 3 Blessed are those who keep jus-
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tice, 15 And he gave them their request,
And he who does righteousness But sent leanness into their
at all times. soul.
4 Remember me, O Jehovah, with 16 They envied Moses also in the
the favor that you bear to your camp,
people; And Aaron the saint of Jehovah.
Oh visit me with your salvation, 17 The earth opened and swal-
5 That I may see the prosperity of lowed up Dathan,
your chosen, And covered the company of
That I may rejoice in the gladness Abiram.
of your nation, 18 And a fire was kindled in their
That I may glory with your inher- company;
itance. The flame burned up the
wicked.
6 We have sinned with our fathers, 19 They made a calf in Horeb,
We have committed iniquity, we And worshipped a molten
have done wickedly. image.
7 Our fathers did not understand 20 Thus they changed their glory
your wonders in Egypt; For the likeness of an ox that
They did not remember the mul- eats grass.
titude of your lovingkind- 21 They forgot God their Savior,
nesses, Who had done great things in
But were rebellious at the sea, Egypt,
even at the Red Sea. 22 Wondrous works in the land of
8 Nevertheless he saved them for Ham,
his name’s sake, And terrible things by the Red
That he might make his mighty Sea.
power to be known. 23 Therefore he said that he would
9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and destroy them,
it was dried up: Had not Moses his chosen
So he led them through the stood before him in the
depths, as through a wilder- breach,
ness. To turn away his wrath, lest he
10 And he saved them from the should destroy them.
hand of him who hated them, 24 Yes, they despised the pleasant
And redeemed them from the land,
hand of the enemy. They did not believe his word,
11 And the waters covered their 25 But murmured in their tents,
adversaries; And did not listen to the voice
There was not one of them left. of Jehovah.
12 Then they believed his words; 26 Therefore he swore to them,
They sang his praise. That he would overthrow them
13 They soon forgot his works; in the wilderness,
They did not wait for his 27 And that he would overthrow
counsel, their seed among the nations,
14 But lusted exceedingly in the And scatter them in the lands.
wilderness, 28 They joined themselves also to
And tempted God in the desert. Baal-peor,
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And ate the sacrifices of the
dead.
29 Thus they provoked him to
anger with their doings;
And the plague broke in upon
them.
30 Then stood up Phinehas, and
executed judgment;
And so the plague was stayed.
31 And that was reckoned to him
for righteousness,
To all generations for evermore.
32 They angered him also at the
waters of Meribah,
So that it went ill with Moses
for their sakes;
33 Because they were rebellious
against his spirit,
And he spoke unadvisedly
with his lips.
34 They did not destroy the peo-
ples,
As Jehovah commanded them,
O give thanks to Jehovah; for
he is good;
For his lovingkindness endures
for
35 But mingled themselves with
the nations,
And learned their works,
36 And served their idols,
Which became a snare to them.
37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to de-
mons,
38 And shed innocent blood,
Even the blood of their sons
and of their daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the
idols of Canaan;
And the land was polluted with
blood.
39 Thus were they defiled with
their works,
And played the harlot in their
doings.
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40 Therefore was the wrath of Je-
hovah kindled against his
people,
And he abhorred his
inheritance.
41 And he gave them into the hand
of the nations;
And those who hated them
ruled over them.
42 Their enemies also oppressed
them,
And they were brought into
subjection under their hand.
43 Many times did he deliver
them;
But they were rebellious in
their counsel,
And were brought low in their
iniquity.
44 Nevertheless he regarded their
distress,
When he heard their cry:
45 And he remembered for them
his covenant,
And repented according to the
multitude of his lovingkind-
nesses.
46 He made them also to be pitied
Of all those who carried them
captive.
47 Save us, O Jehovah our God,
And gather us from among the
nations,
To give thanks to your holy
name,
And to triumph in your praise.
48 Blessed be Jehovah, the God of
Israel,
From everlasting even to
everlasting.
And let all the people say,
“Amen.”
Praise Jehovah.
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BOOK V

107 Oh give thanks to Jeho-

vah; for he is good;
For his lovingkindness endures
none to help.
13 Then they cried to Jehovah in
their trouble,
for ever. And he saved them out of their
2 Let the redeemed of Jehovah say distresses.
so, 14 He brought them out of darkness
Whom he has redeemed from the and the shadow of death,
hand of the adversary, And broke their bonds apart.
3 And gathered out of the lands, 15 Oh that men would praise Jeho-
From the east and from the west, vah for his lovingkindness,
From the north and from the And for his wonderful works to
south. the children of men!
16 For he has broken the gates of
4 They wandered in the wilderness brass,
in a desert way; And cut the bars of iron apart.
They found no city of habitation.
5 Hungry and thirsty, 17 Fools because of their transgres-
Their soul fainted in them. sion,
6 Then they cried to Jehovah in And because of their iniquities,
their trouble, are afflicted.
And he delivered them out of 18 Their soul abhors all manner of
their distresses, food;
7 He led them also by a straight And they draw near to the
way, gates of death.
That they might go to a city of 19 Then they cry to Jehovah in
habitation. their trouble,
8 Oh that men would praise Jeho- And he saves them out of their
vah for his lovingkindness, distresses.
And for his wonderful works to 20 He sends his word, and heals
the children of men! them,
9 For he satisfies the longing soul, And delivers them from their
And the hungry soul he fills with destructions.
good. 21 Oh that men would praise Jeho-
10 Such as sat in darkness and in vah for his lovingkindness,
the shadow of death, And for his wonderful works to
Being bound in affliction and the children of men!
iron, 22 And let them offer the sacrifices
11 Because they rebelled against of thanksgiving,
the words of God, And declare his works with
And scorned the counsel of the singing.
Most High:
12 Therefore he brought down 23 Those who go down to the sea
their heart with labor; in ships,
They fell down, and there was Who do business in great
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waters;
24 These see the works of Jehovah,
And his wonders in the deep.
25 For he commands, and raises
the stormy wind,
Which lifts up the waves of it.
26 They mount up to the heavens,
they go down again to the
depths:
Their soul melts away because
of trouble.
27 They reel to and fro, and stagger
like a drunken man,
And are at their wits’ end.
28 Then they cry to Jehovah in
their trouble,
And he brings them out of their
distresses.
29 He makes the storm a calm,
So that the waves of it are still.
30 Then are they glad because they
are quiet;
So he brings them to their
desired haven.
31 Oh that men would praise Jeho-
vah for his lovingkindness,
And for his wonderful works to
the children of men!
32 Let them exalt him also in the
assembly of the people,
And praise him in the seat of
the elders.
33 He turns rivers into a wilder-
ness,
And springs of water into a
thirsty ground;
34 A fruitful land into a salt desert, 3
For the wickedness of those
who dwell in it.
35 He turns a wilderness into a
pool of water,
And a dry land into springs of
water.
36 And there he makes the hungry
to dwell,
That they may prepare a city of
habitation,
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37 And sow fields, and plant vine-
yards,
And get fruits of increase.
38 He blesses them also, so that
they are multiplied greatly;
And he does not allow their
cattle to decrease.
39 Again, they are diminished and
bowed down
Through oppression, trouble,
and sorrow.
40 He pours contempt upon
princes,
And causes them to wander in
the waste, where there is no
way.
41 Yet he sets the needy on high
from affliction,
And makes him families like a
flock.
42 The upright will see it, and be
glad;
And all iniquity will stop her
mouth.
43 Whoever is wise will give heed
to these things;
And they will consider the
lovingkindnesses of Jehovah.
A Song, a Psalm of David.
108 My heart is fixed, O God;
I will sing, yes, I will sing
praises, even with my
glory.
2 Awake, psaltery and harp:
I myself will awake right early.
I will give thanks to you, O Jeho-
vah, among the peoples;
And I will sing praises to you
among the nations.
4 For your lovingkindness is great
above the heavens;
And your truth reaches to the
skies.
5 Be exalted, O God, above the
heavens,
And your glory above all the
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earth.
6 That your beloved may be deliv-
ered,
Save with your right hand, and
answer us.
7 God has spoken in his holiness: “I
will exult;
I will divide Shechem, and mea-
sure out the valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is
mine;
Ephraim also is the defense of my
head;
Judah is my scepter.
9 Moab is my washpot;
Upon Edom will I cast my shoe;
Over Philistia will I shout.”
10 Who will bring me into the forti-
fied city?
Who has led me to Edom?
11 Have you not cast us off, O
God?
And you do not go forth, O
God, with our armies.
12 Give us help against the adver-
sary;
For vain is the help of man.
13 Through God we shall do
valiantly:
For he it is who will tread
down our adversaries.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
109 Do not hold your peace, O
God of my praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and
the mouth of deceit have they
opened against me:
They have spoken to me with a
lying tongue.
3 They have surrounded also with
words of hatred,
And fought against me without a
cause.
4 For my love they are my adver-
saries:
But I give myself to prayer.
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5 And they have rewarded me evil
for good,
And hatred for my love.
6 Set a wicked man over him;
And let an adversary stand at his
right hand.
7 When he is judged, let him come
forth guilty;
And let his prayer be turned into
sin.
8 Let his days be few;
And let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be vagabonds,
and beg;
And let them seek their bread
out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that
he has;
And let strangers make spoil of
his labor.
12 Let there be none to extend
kindness to him;
Neither let there be any to have
pity on his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off;
In the generation following let
their name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be
remembered with Jehovah;
And do not let the sin of his
mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before Jehovah con-
tinually,
That he may cut off the
memory of them from the
earth;
16 Because he did not remember to
show kindness,
But persecuted the poor and
needy man,
And the broken in heart, to slay
them.
17 Yes, he loved cursing, and it
came to him;
And he did not delight in
blessing, and it was far from
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him. vah with my mouth;
18 He clothed himself also with Yes, I will praise him among
cursing as with his garment, the multitude.
And it came into his inward 31 For he will stand at the right
parts like water, hand of the needy,
And like oil into his bones. To save him from those who
19 Let it be to him as the clothing judge his soul.
with which he covers himself,
And for the belt with which he A Psalm of David.
is girded continually.
20 This is the reward of my adver-
saries from Jehovah,
And of those who speak evil
110 Jehovah says to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
Until I make your enemies your
against my soul. footstool.
21 But deal with me, O Jehovah the 2 Jehovah will send forth the rod of
Lord, for your name’s sake: your strength out of Zion:
Because your lovingkindness is Rule in the midst of your ene-
good, deliver me; mies.
22 For I am poor and needy, 3 Your people offer themselves
And my heart is wounded willingly In the day of your
within me. power, in holy array:
23 I am gone like the shadow when Out of the womb of the morning
it declines: You have the dew of your youth.
I am tossed up and down as the 4 Jehovah has sworn, and will not
locust. repent:
24 My knees are weak through You are a priest for ever
fasting; After the order of Melchizedek.
And my flesh fails of fatness. 5 The Lord at your right hand
25 I have become also a reproach to Will strike through kings in the
them: day of his wrath.
When they see me, they shake 6 He will judge among the nations,
their head. He will fill the places with dead
26 Help me, O Jehovah my God; bodies;
Oh save me according to your He will strike through the head in
lovingkindness: many countries.
27 That they may know that this is 7 He will drink of the brook in the
your hand; way:
That you, Jehovah, have done it. Therefore he will lift up the head.
28 Let them curse, but bless you:
When they arise, they shall be
put to shame,
But your servant shall rejoice.
111 Praise Jehovah.
I will give thanks to Jeho-
vah with my whole
29 Let my adversaries be clothed heart,
with dishonor, In the council of the upright, and
And let them cover themselves in the congregation.
with their own shame as with 2 The works of Jehovah are great,
a robe. Sought out by all those who have
30 I will give great thanks to Jeho- pleasure in them.
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And his righteousness endures
for ever.
4 He has made his wonderful
works to be remembered:
Jehovah is gracious and merciful.
5 He has given food to those who
fear him:
He will ever be mindful of his
covenant.
6 He has shown his people the
power of his works,
In giving them the heritage of the
nations.
7 The works of his hands are truth
and justice;
All his precepts are sure.
8 They are established for ever and
ever;
They are done in truth and up-
rightness.
9 He has sent redemption to his
people;
He has commanded his covenant
for ever:
Holy and revered is his name.
10 The fear of Jehovah is the begin-
ning of wisdom;
A good understanding have all
those who do his
commandments:
His praise endures for ever.
112 Praise Jehovah.
Blessed is the man who
fears Jehovah,
Who delights greatly in his com- 3
mandments.
2 His seed will be mighty on earth:
The generation of the upright 4
will be blessed.
3 Wealth and riches are in his 5
house;
And his righteousness endures 6
for ever.
4 To the upright there arises light in
the darkness:
He is gracious, and merciful, and
righteous.
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5 It is well with the man who deals
graciously and lends;
He will maintain his cause in
judgment.
6 For he will never be moved;
The righteous will be had in ever-
lasting remembrance.
7 He will not be afraid of evil tid-
ings:
His heart is fixed, trusting in Je-
hovah.
8 His heart is established, he will
not be afraid,
Until he sees his desire upon his
adversaries.
9 He has dispersed, he has given to
the needy;
His righteousness endures for ev-
er:
His horn will be exalted with
honor.
10 The wicked will see it, and be
grieved;
He will gnash with his teeth,
and melt away:
The desire of the wicked shall
perish.
113 Praise Jehovah.
Praise, O you servants of
Jehovah,
Praise the name of Jehovah.
2 Blessed be the name of Jehovah
From this time forth and for ever-
more.
From the rising of the sun to the
going down of the same
Jehovah’s name is to be praised.
Jehovah is high above all nations,
And his glory above the heavens.
Who is like Jehovah our God,
Who has his seat on high,
Who humbles himself to behold
The things that are in heaven and
in the earth?
7 He raises up the poor out of the
dust,
And lifts up the needy from the
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dunghill;
8 That he may set him with princes,
Even with the princes of his peo-
ple.
9 He makes the barren woman to 6 They have ears, but they do not
keep house,
And to be a joyful mother of chil-
dren.
Praise Jehovah.
114 When Israel went forth
out of Egypt,
The house of Jacob from a people
of strange language;
2 Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.
3 The sea saw it, and fled;
The Jordan was driven back.
4 The mountains skipped like 9 O Israel, trust in Jehovah:
rams,
The little hills like lambs.
5 What ails you, O sea, that you
flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?
6 O mountains, that you skip like 11 You who fear Jehovah, trust in
rams;
O little hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence
of the Lord,
At the presence of the God of Ja-
cob,
8 Who turned the rock into a pool
of water,
The flint into a fountain of wa-
ters.
115 Not to us, O Jehovah, not
to us,
But to your name give glory,
For your lovingkindness, and for
your truth’s sake.
2 Why should the nations say,
“Where is now their God?”
3 But our God is in the heavens:
He has done whatsoever he
pleased.
4 Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.
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5 They have mouths, but they do
not speak;
They have eyes, but they do not
see;
hear;
They have noses, but they do not
smell;
7 They have hands, but they do not
handle;
They have feet, but they do not
walk;
Neither do they speak through
their throat.
8 Those who make them will be
like them;
Yes, every one who trusts in
them.
He is their help and their shield.
10 O house of Aaron, trust in Jeho-
vah:
He is their help and their
shield.
Jehovah:
He is their help and their
shield.
12 Jehovah has been mindful of us;
he will bless us:
He will bless the house of
Israel;
He will bless the house of
Aaron.
13 He will bless those who fear Je-
hovah,
Both small and great.
14 Jehovah increase you more and
more,
You and your children.
15 Blessed are you of Jehovah,
Who made heaven and earth.
16 The heavens are the heavens of
Jehovah;
But the earth has he given to
the children of men.
17 The dead do not praise Jehovah,
Neither any who go down into
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silence;
18 But we will bless Jehovah
From this time forth and for
evermore.
Praise Jehovah.
116 I love Jehovah, because he
hears
My voice and my supplications.
2 Because he has inclined his ear to
me,
Therefore I will call upon him as
long as I live.
3 The cords of death surrounded
me,
And the pains of Sheol got hold
of me:
I found trouble and sorrow.
4 Then called I on the name of Jeho-
vah:
“O Jehovah, I beseech you, de-
liver my soul.”
5 Gracious is Jehovah, and right-
eous;
Yes, our God is merciful.
6 Jehovah preserves the simple:
I was brought low, and he saved
me.
7 Return to your rest, O my soul;
For Jehovah has dealt bountifully
with you.
8 For you have delivered my soul For his lovingkindness endures for
from death,
My eyes from tears,
And my feet from falling.
9 I will walk before Jehovah
In the land of the living.
10 I believe, for I will speak:
“I was greatly afflicted:”
11 I said in my haste,
“All men are liars.”
12 What shall I render to Jehovah
For all his benefits toward me?
13 I will take the cup of salvation, 5 Out of my distress I called on Je-
And call on the name of
Jehovah.
14 I will pay my vows to Jehovah,
Yes, in the presence of all his
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people.
15 Precious in the sight of Jehovah
Is the death of his saints.
16 O Jehovah, truly I am your ser-
vant:
I am your servant, the son of
your maidservant;
You hast loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of
thanksgiving,
And will call on the name of
Jehovah.
18 I will pay my vows to Jehovah,
Yes, in the presence of all his
people,
19 In the courts of Jehovah’s house,
In the midst of you, O
Jerusalem.
Praise Jehovah.
117 O praise Jehovah, all you
nations;
Laud him, all you peoples.
2 For his lovingkindness is great
toward us;
And the truth of Jehovah endures
for ever.
Praise Jehovah.
118 Oh give thanks to Jeho-
vah; for he is good;
ever.
2 Let Israel now say,
That his lovingkindness endures
for ever.
3 Let the house of Aaron now say,
That his lovingkindness endures
for ever.
4 Let those now who fear Jehovah
say,
That his lovingkindness endures
for ever.
hovah:
Jehovah answered me and set me
in a large place.
6 Jehovah is on my side; I will not
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fear: 19 Open to me the gates of righ-
What can man do to me? teousness:
7 Jehovah is on my side among I will enter into them, I will
those who help me: give thanks to Jehovah.
Therefore shall I see my desire on 20 This is the gate of Jehovah;
those who hate me. The righteous shall enter into it.
8 It is better to take refuge in Jeho- 21 I will give thanks to you; for you
vah have answered me,
Than to put confidence in man. And have become my
9 It is better to take refuge in Jeho- salvation.
vah 22 The stone which the builders re-
Than to put confidence in jected
princes. Has become the head of the
10 All nations surrounded me: corner.
In the name of Jehovah I will 23 This is Jehovah’s doing;
cut them off. It is marvelous in our eyes.
11 They surrounded me; yea, they 24 This is the day which Jehovah
surrounded me: has made;
In the name of Jehovah I will We will rejoice and be glad in it.
cut them off. 25 Save now, we beseech you, O Je-
12 They surrounded me like bees; hovah:
they are quenched as the fire O Jehovah, we beseech you,
of thorns: send now prosperity.
In the name of Jehovah I will 26 Blessed be he who comes in the
cut them off. name of Jehovah:
13 You thrust severely at me that I We have blessed you out of the
might fall; house of Jehovah.
But Jehovah helped me. 27 Jehovah is God, and he has
14 Jehovah is my strength and given us light:
song; Bind the sacrifice with cords,
And he has become my even to the horns of the altar.
salvation. 28 You are my God, and I will give
15 The voice of rejoicing and salva- thanks to you:
tion is in the tents of the righ- You are my God, I will exalt
teous: you.
The right hand of Jehovah does 29 Oh give thanks to Jehovah; for
valiantly. he is good;
16 The right hand of Jehovah is ex- For his lovingkindness endures
alted: for ever.
The right hand of Jehovah does
valiantly. ‫ א‬ALEPH.
17 I shall not die, but live,
And declare the works of
Jehovah.
18 Jehovah has chastened me se-
119 Blessed are those who are
perfect in the way,
Who walk in the law of Jehovah.
verely; 2 Blessed are those who keep his
But he has not given me over to testimonies,
death. Who seek him with the whole
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heart.
3 Yes, they do no unrighteousness;
They walk in his ways.
4 You have commanded us your
precepts,
That we should observe them
diligently.
5 Oh that my ways were estab-
lished
To observe your statutes!
6 Then shall I not be put to shame,
When I have respect to all your
commandments.
7 I will give thanks to you with up-
rightness of heart,
When I learn your righteous
judgments.
8 I will observe your statutes:
Oh do not forsake me utterly.
‫ כ‬BETH.
9 With what shall a young man
cleanse his way?
By taking heed to it according to
your word.
10 With my whole heart have I
sought you:
Oh let me not wander from
your commandments.
11 Your word have I laid up in my
heart,
That I might not sin against
you.
12 Blessed are you, O Jehovah:
Teach me your statutes.
13 With my lips have I declared
All the ordinances of your
mouth.
14 I have rejoiced in the way of 27 Make me to understand the way
your testimonies,
As much as in all riches.
15 I will meditate on your precepts,
And have respect to your ways. 28 My soul melts for heaviness:
16 I will delight myself in your
statutes:
I will not forget your word.
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‫ נ‬GIMEL.
17 Deal bountifully with your ser-
vant, that I may live;
So will I observe your word.
18 Open my eyes, that I may be-
hold
Wondrous things out of your
law.
19 I am a sojourner in the earth:
Do not hide your
commandments from me.
20 My soul breaks for the longing
That it has to your ordinances
at all times.
21 You have rebuked the proud
who are cursed,
Who wander from your
commandments.
22 Take away from me reproach
and contempt;
For I have kept your
testimonies.
23 Princes also sat and talked
against me;
But your servant meditated on
your statutes.
24 Your testimonies also are my de-
light
And my counselors.
‫ ר‬DALETH.
25 My soul cleaves to the dust:
Revive me according to your
word.
26 I declared my ways, and you an-
swered me:
Teach me your statutes.
of your precepts:
So shall I meditate on your
wondrous works.
Strengthen me according to
your word.
29 Remove from me the way of
falsehood;
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And grant me your law Even your salvation, according
graciously. to your word.
30 I have chosen the way of faith- 42 So shall I have an answer for
fulness: him who reproaches me;
Your ordinances have I set For I trust in your word.
before me. 43 And do not take the word of
31 I cleave to your testimonies: truth utterly out of my mouth;
O Jehovah, do not put me to For I have hoped in your
shame. ordinances.
32 I will run the way of your com- 44 So shall I observe your law con-
mandments, tinually
When you shall enlarge my For ever and ever.
heart. 45 And I shall walk at liberty;
For I have sought your
‫ ה‬HE. precepts.
46 I will also speak of your testi-
33 Teach me, O Jehovah, the way of monies before kings,
your statutes; And shall not be put to shame.
And I shall keep it to the end. 47 And I will delight myself in
34 Give me understanding, and I your commandments,
shall keep your law; Which I have loved.
Yes, I shall observe it with my 48 I will lift up my hands also to
whole heart. your commandments, which I
35 Make me to go in the path of have loved;
your commandments; And I will meditate on your
For in it do I delight. statutes.
36 Incline my heart to your testi-
monies, ‫ ז‬ZAYIN.
And not to covetousness.
37 Turn away my eyes from 49 Remember the word to your
beholding vanity, servant,
And revive me in your ways. Because you have made me to
38 Confirm to your servant your hope.
word, 50 This is my comfort in my afflic-
Which is in order to the fear of tion;
you. For your word has revived me.
39 Turn away my reproach of 51 The proud have had me greatly
which I am afraid; in derision:
For your ordinances are good. Yet have I not swerved from
40 Behold, I have longed after your your law.
precepts: 52 I have remembered your ordi-
Revive me in your nances of old, O Jehovah,
righteousness. And have comforted myself.
53 Hot indignation has taken hold
‫ ו‬VAV. upon me,
Because of the wicked who
41 Let your lovingkindnesses also forsake your law.
come to me, O Jehovah, 54 Your statutes have been my
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songs For I have believed in your
In the house of my pilgrimage. commandments.
55 I have remembered your name, 67 Before I was afflicted I went
O Jehovah, in the night, astray;
And have observed your law. But now I observe your word.
56 This I have had, 68 You are good, and do good;
Because I have kept your Teach me your statutes.
precepts. 69 The proud have forged a lie
against me:
‫ ח‬HHETH. With my whole heart will I
keep your precepts.
57 Jehovah is my portion: 70 Their heart is as fat as grease;
I have said that I would But I delight in your law.
observe your words. 71 It is good for me that I have
58 I entreated your favor with my been afflicted;
whole heart: That I may learn your statutes.
Be merciful to me according to 72 The law of your mouth is better
your word. to me
59 I thought on my ways, Than thousands of gold and
And turned my feet to your silver.
testimonies.
60 I made haste, and did not delay, ‫ י‬YODH.
To observe your
commandments. 73 Your hands have made me and
61 The cords of the wicked have fashioned me:
wrapped around me; Give me understanding, that I
But I have not forgotten your may learn your
law. commandments.
62 At midnight I will rise to give 74 Those who fear you shall see me
thanks to you and be glad,
Because of your righteous Because I have hoped in your
ordinances. word.
63 I am a companion of all those 75 I know, O Jehovah, that your
who fear you, judgments are righteous,
And of those who observe your And that in faithfulness you
precepts. have afflicted me.
64 The earth, O Jehovah, is full of 76 Let, I pray, your lovingkindness
your lovingkindness: be for my comfort,
Teach me your statutes. According to your word to
your servant.
‫ ט‬TETH. 77 Let your tender mercies come to
me, that I may live;
65 You have dealt well with your For your law is my delight.
servant, 78 Let the proud be put to shame;
O Jehovah, according to your for they have overthrown me
word. wrongfully:
66 Teach me good judgment and But I will meditate on your
knowledge; precepts.
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79 Let those who fear you turn to
me;
And they shall know your
testimonies.
80 Let my heart be perfect in your 92 Unless your law had been my
statutes,
That I not be put to shame.
‫ כ‬KAPH.
81 My soul faints for your salva-
tion;
But I hope in your word.
82 My eyes fail for your word,
While I say, “When will you
comfort me?”
83 For I have become like a wine-
skin in the smoke;
Yet I do not forget your
statutes.
84 How many are the days of your
servant?
When will you execute
judgment on those who
persecute me?
85 The proud have dug pits for me,
Who are not according to your 97 Oh how love I your law!
law.
86 All your commandments are 98 Your commandments make me
faithful:
They persecute me wrongfully;
helpme.
87 They had almost consumed me
on earth;
But I did not forsake your
precepts.
88 Revive me after your lov-
ingkindness;
So shall I observe the testimony
of your mouth.
‫ ל‬LAMEDH.
89 For ever, O Jehovah,
Your word is settled in heaven.
90 Your faithfulness is to all gener-
ations:
You have established the earth,
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and it stands.
91 They stand this day according
to your ordinances;
For all things are your servants.
delight,
I should then have perished in
my affliction.
93 I will never forget your pre-
cepts;
For with them you have
revived me.
94 I am yours, save me;
For I have sought your
precepts.
95 The wicked have waited for me,
to destroy me;
But I will consider your
testimonies.
96 I have seen an end of all perfec-
tion;
But your commandment is
exceedingly broad.
‫ מ‬MEM.
It is my meditation all the day.
wiser than my enemies;
For they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than
all my teachers;
For your testimonies are my
meditation.
100 I understand more than the
aged,
Because I have kept your
precepts.
101 I have refrained my feet from
every evil way,
That I might observe your
word.
102 I have not turned aside from
your ordinances;
For you have taught me.
103 How sweet are your words to
my taste!
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Yes, sweeter than honey to my commandments of my God.
mouth! 116 Uphold me according to your
104 Through your precepts I get word, that I may live;
understanding: And let me not be ashamed of
Therefore I hate every false my hope.
way. 117 Hold me up, and I shall be safe,
And shall have respect to thy
‫ נ‬NUN. statutes continually.
118 You have rejected all those who
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, err from your statutes;
And light unto my path. For their deceit is falsehood.
106 I have sworn, and have con- 119 You put away all the wicked of
firmed it, the earth like dross:
That I will observe your Therefore I love your
righteous ordinances. testimonies.
107 I am afflicted very much: 120 M∞y flesh trembles
Revive me, O Jehovah, for fear of you;
according to your word. And I am afraid of your
108 Accept, I beseech you, the judgments.
freewill offerings of my
mouth, O Jehovah, ‫ ע‬AYIN.
And teach me your
ordinances. 121 I have done justice and righ-
109 My soul is continually in my teousness:
hand; Do not leave me to my
Yet do I not forget your law. oppressors.
110 The wicked have laid a snare 122 Be surety for your servant for
for me; good:
Yet I have not gone astray Do not let the proud oppress
from your precepts. me.
111 Your testimonies I have taken 123 My eyes fail for your salvation,
as a heritage for ever; And for your righteous word.
For they are the rejoicing of 124 Deal with your servant accord-
my heart. ing to your lovingkindness,
112 I have inclined my heart to per- And teach me your statutes.
form your statutes 125 I am your servant; give me un-
For ever, even to the end. derstanding,
That I may know your
‫ ם‬SAMEKH. testimonies.
126 It is time for Jehovah to work;
113 I hate those who are of a dou- For they have made void your
ble mind; law.
But your law I love. 127 Therefore I love your com-
114 You are my hiding place and mandments
my shield: Above gold, yes, above fine
I hope in your word. gold.
115 Depart from me, you evildoers, 128 Therefore I esteem all your pre-
That I may keep the cepts concerning all things to
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be right;
And I hate every false way.
‫ פ‬PE.
129 Your testimonies are wonder-
ful;
Therefore my soul keeps them.
130 The opening of your words
gives light;
It gives understanding to the
simple.
131 I opened wide my mouth, and
panted;
For I longed for your
commandments.
132 Turn to me, and have mercy on
me,
As you used to do to those
who love your name.
133 Establish my footsteps in your
word;
And do not let any iniquity
have dominion over me.
134 Redeem me from the oppres-
sion of man:
So will I observe your
precepts.
135 Make your face to shine on
your servant;
And teach me your statutes.
136 Streams of water run down my
eyes,
Because they do not observe
your law.
‫ צ‬TSADHE.
137 Righteous are you, O Jehovah,
And upright are your
judgments.
138 You have commanded your
testimonies in righteousness
And very faithfulness.
139 My zeal has consumed me,
Because my adversaries have
forgotten your words.
140 Your word is very pure;
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Therefore your servant loves
it.
141 I am small and despised;
Yet I do not forget your
precepts.
142 Your righteousness is an ever-
lasting righteousness,
And your law is truth.
143 Trouble and anguish have
taken hold on me;
Yet your commandments are
my delight.
144 Your testimonies are righteous
for ever:
Give me understanding, and I
shall live.
‫ ק‬QOPH.
145 I have called with my whole
heart; answer me, O Jehovah:
I will keep your statutes.
146 I have called to you; save me,
And I shall observe your
testimonies.
147 I anticipated the dawning of
the morning, and cried:
I hoped in your words.
148 My eyes anticipated the night-
watches,
That I might meditate on your
word.
149 Hear my voice according to
your lovingkindness:
Revive me, O Jehovah,
according to your
ordinances.
150 They draw near who follow af-
ter wickedness;
They are far from your law.
151 You are near, O Jehovah;
And all your commandments
are truth.
152 Of old have I known from your
testimonies,
That you have founded them
for ever.
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‫ ר‬RESH.
153 Consider my affliction, and de-
liver me;
For I do not forget your law.
154 Plead my cause, and redeem
me:
Revive me according to your
word.
155 Salvation is far from the
wicked;
For they do not seek your
statutes.
156 Great are your tender mercies,
O Jehovah:
Revive me according to your
ordinances.
157 Many are my persecutors and
my adversaries;
Yet have I not swerved from
your testimonies.
158 I beheld the treacherous, and
was grieved,
Because they do not observe
your word.
159 Consider how I love your pre-
cepts:
Revive me, O Jehovah,
according to your
lovingkindness.
160 The sum of your word is truth;
And every one of your
righteous ordinances endures
for ever.
‫ ש‬SHIN.
161 Princes have persecuted me
without a cause;
But my heart stands in awe of
your words.
162 I rejoice at your word,
As one who finds great spoil.
163 I hate and abhor falsehood;
But your law do I love.
164 Seven times a day do I praise 176 I have gone astray like a lost
you,
Because of your righteous
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ordinances.
165 Great peace have they who
love your law;
And they have no occasion of
stumbling.
166 I have hoped for your salva-
tion, O Jehovah,
And have done your
commandments.
167 My soul has observed your tes-
timonies;
And I love them exceedingly.
168 I have observed your precepts
and your testimonies;
For all my ways are before
you.
‫ ת‬TAV.
169 Let my cry come near before
you, O Jehovah:
Give me understanding
according to your word.
170 Let my supplication come be-
fore you:
Deliver me according to your
word.
171 Let my lips utter praise;
For you teach me your
statutes.
172 Let my tongue sing of your
word;
For all your commandments
are righteousness.
173 Let your hand be ready to help
me;
For I have chosen your
precepts.
174 I have longed for your salva-
tion, O Jehovah;
And your law is my delight.
175 Let my soul live, and it shall
praise you;
And let your ordinances help
me.
sheep; seek your servant;
For I do not forget your
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commandments. He will keep your soul.
8 Jehovah will keep your going out
A Song of Ascents. and your coming in
From this time forth and for ever-

120 In my distress I cried to

Jehovah,
And he answered me.
more.

A Song of Ascents; of David.

2 Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from

3
lying lips,
And from a deceitful tongue. 122 I was glad when they said
to me,
What shall be given to you, and “Let us go to the house of Jehovah.”
what shall be done more to you, 2 Our feet are standing
You deceitful tongue? Within your gates, O Jerusalem,
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, 3 Jerusalem, that are built
With coals of juniper. As a city that is compact together;
5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in 4 Where the tribes go up, even the
Meshech, tribes of Jehovah,
That I dwell among the tents of For an ordinance for Israel,
Kedar! To give thanks to the name of Je-
6 My soul has long had her hovah.
dwelling 5 For there are set thrones for judg-
With him who hates peace. ment,
7 I am for peace: The thrones of the house of
But when I speak, they are for David.
war. 6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
They shall prosper who love you.
A Song of Ascents. 7 Peace be within your walls,
And prosperity within your

121 I will lift up my eyes to

the mountains:
From where will my help come?
palaces.
8 For my brethren and compan-
ions’ sakes,
2 My help comes from Jehovah, I will now say, “Peace be within
Who made heaven and earth. you.”
9 For the sake of the house of Jeho-
3 He will not allow your foot to be vah our God
moved: I will seek your good.
He who keeps you will not slum-
ber. A Song of Ascents
4 Behold, he who keeps Israel

5
Will neither slumber nor sleep.
Jehovah is your keeper:
Jehovah is your shade on your
123 To you do I lift up my
eyes,

right hand. O you who sits in the heavens.

6 The sun shall not strike you by 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants
day, look to the hand of their master,
Nor the moon by night. As the eyes of a maid to the hand
7 Jehovah will keep you from all of her mistress;
evil; So our eyes look to Jehovah our
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Until he have mercy on us.
3 Have mercy on us, O Jehovah,
have mercy on us;
For we are exceedingly filled
with contempt.
4 Our soul is exceedingly filled
With the scoffing of those who
are at ease,
And with the contempt of the
proud.
A Song of Ascents; of David.
salem,
So Jehovah surrounds his people
From this time forth and for ever-
more.
3 For the scepter of wickedness
shall not rest on the lot of the
righteous;
That the righteous do not put
forth their hands to iniquity.
4 Do good, O Jehovah, to those
who are good,
And to those who are upright in
their hearts.

124 If it had not been Jehovah 5 But as for such as turn aside to
who was on our side,
Let Israel now say,
their crooked ways,
Jehovah will lead them forth with
2 “If it had not been Jehovah who the workers of iniquity.
was on our side, Peace be upon Israel.
When men rose up against us;
3 Then they had swallowed us up A Song of Ascents.
alive,
When their wrath was kindled
against us;
4 Then the waters would have
126 When Jehovah brought
back those who re-
turned to Zion,
overwhelmed us, We were like those who dream.
The stream would have gone 2 Then was our mouth filled with
over our soul; laughter,
5 Then the proud waters would And our tongue with singing:
have gone over our soul.” Then they said among the na-
6 Blessed be Jehovah, tions,
Who has not given us as a prey to “Jehovah has done great things
their teeth. for them.”
7 Our soul has escaped as a bird 3 Jehovah has done great things for
out of the snare of the fowlers: us,
The snare is broken, and we have Of which we are glad.
escaped. 4 Turn again our captivity, O Jeho-
8 Our help is in the name of Jeho- vah,
vah, As the streams in the South.
Who made heaven and earth. 5 Those who sow in tears shall reap
in joy.
A Song of Ascents. 6 He who goes forth and weeps,
bearing seed for sowing,

125 Those who trust in Jeho-

vah
Are as mount Zion, which cannot
Shall doubtless come again with
joy, bringing his sheaves with
him.
be moved, but abides for ever.
2 As the mountains surround Jeru-

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A Song of Ascents; of Solomon.
127 Except Jehovah build the
house,
They labor in vain who build it:
Except Jehovah keep the city,
The watchman wakes but in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early,
To take rest late,
To eat the bread of toil;
For so he gives to his beloved
sleep.
3 Behold, children are a heritage of
Jehovah;
And the fruit of the womb is his
reward.
4 As arrows in the hand of a
mighty man,
So are the children of youth.
5 Happy is the man who has his
quiver full of them:
They shall not be put to shame,
When they speak with their ene-
mies in the gate.
A Song of Ascents.
128 Blessed is every one who
fears Jehovah,
Who walks in his ways.
2 For you shall eat the labor of your
hands:
Happy shall you be, and it shall
be well with you.
3 Your wife shall be as a fruitful
vine,
In the innermost parts of your 2 Lord, hear my voice:
house;
Your children like olive plants,
All around your table.
4 Behold, thus shall the man be
blessed
Who fears Jehovah.
5 Jehovah bless you out of Zion:
And see the good of Jerusalem all 5 I wait for Jehovah, my soul waits,
the days of your life.
6 Yes, see your children’s children. 6 My soul waits for the Lord
Peace be upon Israel.
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PSALMS
A Song of Ascents.
129 “Many times have they
afflicted me from my
youth up,”
Let Israel now say,
2 “Many times have they afflicted
me from my youth up:”
Yet they have not prevailed
against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my
back;
They made long their furrows.
4 Jehovah is righteous:
He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
5 Let them be put to shame and
turned backward,
All those who hate Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass on the
housetops,
Which withers before it grows
up;
7 With which the reaper does not
fill his hand,
Nor he who binds sheaves his bo-
som.
8 Neither do they who go by say,
“The blessing of Jehovah be upon
you;
We bless you in the name of Jeho-
vah.”
A Song of Ascents.
130 Out of the depths have I
cried to you, O Jehovah.
Let your ears be attentive
To the voice of my supplications.
3 If you, Jehovah, should mark in-
iquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with you,
That you may be feared.
And in his word do I hope.
More than watchmen wait for the
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Yes, more than watchmen for the rathah:
morning. We found it in the field of the
7 O Israel, hope in Jehovah; wood.
For with Jehovah there is lov- 7 We will go into his tabernacles;
ingkindness, We will worship at his footstool.
And with him is plentiful re- 8 Arise, O Jehovah, into your rest-
demption. ing place;
8 And he will redeem Israel You, and the ark of your strength.
From all his iniquities. 9 Let your priests be clothed with
righteousness;
A Song of Ascents; of David. And let your saints shout for joy.
10 For your servant David’s sake

131 Jehovah, my heart is not

haughty, nor my eyes
lofty;
Neither do I exercise myself in
great matters,
Or in things too wonderful for
me.
2 Surely I have stilled and quieted 12 If your children will keep my
my soul;
Like a weaned child with his
mother,
Like a weaned child is my soul
within me.
3 O Israel, hope in Jehovah
From this time forth and for ever-
more.
A Song of Ascents.
Do not turn away the face of
your anointed.
11 Jehovah has sworn to David in
truth;
He will not turn from it:
“Of the fruit of your body will I
set on your throne.
covenant
And my testimony that I shall
teach them,
Their children also shall sit on
your throne for evermore.”
13 For Jehovah has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for his
habitation.
14 This is my resting place for ever:
Here will I dwell; for I have
desired it.
15 I will abundantly bless her pro-

132 Jehovah, remember for

David
All his affliction;
vision:
I will satisfy her poor with
bread.
2 How he swore to Jehovah, 16 Her priests also will I clothe
And vowed to the Mighty One of with salvation;
Jacob: And her saints shall shout
3 Surely I will not come into the aloud for joy.
tabernacle of my house, 17 There will I make the horn of
Nor go up into my bed; David to bud:
4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, I have ordained a lamp for my
Or slumber to my eyelids; anointed.
5 Until I find out a place for Jeho- 18 His enemies will I clothe with
vah, shame;
A tabernacle for the Mighty One But on himself shall his crown
of Jacob. flourish.
6 Behold, we heard of it in Eph-
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A Song of Ascents; of David.
133 Behold, how good and
how pleasant it is
For brethren to dwell together in
unity!
2 It is like the precious oil upon the
head,
That ran down upon the beard,
Even Aaron’s beard;
That came down upon the skirt of
his garments;
3 Like the dew of Hermon,
That comes down upon the
mountains of Zion:
For there Jehovah commanded
the blessing,
Even life for evermore.
A Song of Ascents.
134 Behold, bless Jehovah, all
you servants of Jeho-
vah,
That by night stand in the house
of Jehovah.
2 Lift up your hands to the sanctu-
ary,
And bless Jehovah.
3 Jehovah bless you out of Zion;
Even he who made heaven and
earth.
135 Praise Jehovah.
Praise the name of Jeho-
vah;
Praise him, O you servants of Je-
hovah,
2 You who stand in the house of Je-
hovah,
In the courts of the house of our
God.
3 Praise Jehovah; for Jehovah is
good:
Sing praises to his name; for it is 16
pleasant.
4 For Jehovah has chosen Jacob to
himself,
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And Israel for his own posses-
sion.
5 For I know that Jehovah is great,
And that our Lord is above all
gods.
6 Whatsoever Jehovah pleased,
that has he done,
In heaven and in earth, in the seas
and in all deeps;
7 Who causes the vapors to ascend
from the ends of the earth;
Who makes lightnings for the
rain;
Who brings forth the wind out of
his treasuries;
8 Who struck the firstborn of
Egypt,
Both of man and beast;
9 Who sent signs and wonders into
the midst of you, O Egypt,
Upon Pharaoh, and upon all his
servants;
10 Who struck many nations,
And slew mighty kings,
11 Sihon king of the Amorites,
And Og king of Bashan,
And all the kingdoms of
Canaan,
12 And gave their land for a her-
itage,
A heritage to Israel his people.
13 Your name, O Jehovah, endures
for ever;
Your memorial name, O
Jehovah, throughout all
generations.
14 For Jehovah will judge his peo-
ple,
And repent himself concerning
his servants.
15 The idols of the nations are sil-
ver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.
They have mouths, but they do
not speak;
Eyes have they, but they do not
see;
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hear; night;
Neither is there any breath in For his lovingkindness endures
their mouths. for ever:
18 Those who make them shall be 10 To him who struck Egypt in
like them; their firstborn;
Yes, every one who trusts in For his lovingkindness endures
them. for ever;
19 O house of Israel, bless Jehovah:
11 And brought out Israel from
O house of Aaron, bless among them;
Jehovah: For his lovingkindness endures
20 O house of Levi, bless Jehovah: for ever;
You who fear Jehovah, bless 12 With a strong hand, and with an
Jehovah. outstretched arm;
21 Blessed be Jehovah out of Zion, For his lovingkindness endures
Who dwells in Jerusalem. for ever:
Praise Jehovah. 13 To him who divided the Red Sea
apart;

136 Oh give thanks to Jeho-

vah; for he is good;
For his lovingkindness endures
for ever;
For his lovingkindness endures 14 And made Israel to pass
for ever. through the midst of it;
2 Oh give thanks to the God of For his lovingkindness endures
gods; for ever;
For his lovingkindness endures 15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his
for ever. army in the Red Sea;
3 Oh give thanks to the Lord of For his lovingkindness endures
lords; for ever:
For his lovingkindness endures 16 To him who led his people
for ever: through the wilderness;
4 To him who alone does great For his lovingkindness endures
wonders; for ever:
For his lovingkindness endures 17 To him who struck great kings;
for ever: For his lovingkindness endures
5 To him who by understanding for ever;
made the heavens; 18 And slew famous kings;
For his lovingkindness endures For his lovingkindness endures
for ever: for ever:
6 To him who spread forth the 19 Sihon king of the Amorites;
earth above the waters; For his lovingkindness endures
For his lovingkindness endures forever;
for ever: 20 And Og king of Bashan;
7 To him who made great lights; For his lovingkindness endures
For his lovingkindness endures for ever;
for ever: 21 And gave their land for a her-
8 The sun to rule by day; itage;
For his lovingkindness endures For his lovingkindness endures
for ever; for ever;
9 The moon and stars to rule by 22 Even a heritage to Israel his ser-
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vant; Happy shall he be, who rewards
For his lovingkindness endures you
for ever: As you have served us.
23 Who remembered us in our low 9 Happy shall he be, who takes and
estate; dashes your little ones
For his lovingkindness endures Against the rock.
for ever;
24 And has delivered us from our A Psalm of David.
adversaries;
For his lovingkindness endures
for ever:
25 Who giveth food to all flesh;
138 I will give you thanks
with my whole heart:
Before the gods will I sing praises
For his lovingkindness endures to you.
for ever. 2 I will worship toward your holy
26 Oh give thanks to the God of temple,
heaven; And give thanks to your name for
For his lovingkindness endures your lovingkindness and for
for ever. your truth:
For you have magnified your

137 By the rivers of Babylon, word above all your name.

There we sat down, yes, 3 In the day that I called you an-
we wept, swered me,
When we remembered Zion. You encouraged me with
2 On the willows in the midst of it strength in my soul.
We hung up our harps. 4 All the kings of the earth shall
3 For there those who led us cap- give you thanks, O Jehovah,
tive required of us songs, For they have heard the words of
And those who wasted us re- your mouth.
quired of us mirth, saying, 5 Yes, they shall sing of the ways of
“Sing us one of the songs of Jehovah;
Zion.” For great is the glory of Jehovah.
4 How shall we sing Jehovah’s 6 For though Jehovah is high, yet
song has he respect to the lowly;
In a foreign land? But the haughty he knows from
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, afar.
Let my right hand forget her skill. 7 Though I walk in the midst of
6 Let my tongue cleave to the roof trouble, you will revive me;
of my mouth, You will stretch forth your hand
If I do not remember you; against the wrath of my ene-
If I do not prefer Jerusalem mies,
Above my chief joy. And your right hand will save
7 Remember, O Jehovah, against me.
the children of Edom 8 Jehovah will perfect that which
The day of Jerusalem; concerns me:
Who said, “Raze it, raze it, Your lovingkindness, O Jehovah,
Even to the foundation of it.” endures for ever;
8 O daughter of Babylon, who are Do not forsake the works of your
to be destroyed, own hands.
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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
139 O Jehovah, you have 14
searched
known me.
me,
2 You know my sitting down and
my rising up;
You understand my thought afar
off.
3 You search out my path and my
lying down,
And are acquainted with all my
ways.
4 For there is not a word in my 16
tongue,
But, behold, O Jehovah, you
know it altogether.
5 You have enclosed me behind
and before,
And laid your hand on me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful
for me;
It is high, I cannot attain to it.
7 Where shall I go from thy Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your 18
presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, you
are there:
If I make my bed in Sheol, be-
hold, you are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts
of the sea;
10 Even there shall your hand lead 20
me,
And your right hand shall hold
me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness 21
shall overwhelm me,
And the light around me shall
be night;”
12 Even the darkness does not hide
from you,
But the night shines as the day:
The darkness and the light are
both alike to you.
13 For you formed my inward
parts:
PSALMS
You covered me in my mother’s
womb.
and
I will give thanks to you; for I
am fearfully and wonderfully
made:
Wonderful are your works;
And that my soul knows very
well.
15 My frame was not hidden from
you,
When I was made in secret,
And curiously worked in the
lowest parts of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed
substance;
And in your book they were all
written,
Even the days that were
ordained for me,
When as yet there was none of
them.
17 How precious also are your
thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are
more in number than the
sand:
When I awake, I am still with
you.
19 Surely you will slay the wicked,
O God:
Depart from me therefore, you
bloodthirsty men.
For they speak against you
wickedly,
And my enemies take your
name in vain.
Do I not hate them, O Jehovah,
who hate you?
And am not I grieved with
those who rise up against
you?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred:
They have become my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know
my heart:
Test me, and know my
thoughts;
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 PSALMS
way in me, Let them be cast into the fire,
And lead me in the way Into deep pits, from which they
everlasting. shall not rise.
11 An evil speaker shall not be es-
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. tablished in the earth:
Evil shall hunt the violent man

140 Deliver me, O Jehovah,

from the evil man;
Preserve me from the violent
to overthrow him.”
12 I know that Jehovah will main-
tain the cause of the afflicted,
man: And justice for the needy.
2 Who devise mischiefs in their 13 Surely the righteous shall give
heart; thanks to your name:
Continually do they gather them- The upright shall dwell in your
selves together for war. presence.
3 They have sharpened their
tongue like a serpent; A Psalm of David.
Adders’ poison is under their
lips.
4 Keep me, O Jehovah, from the
hands of the wicked;
141
[Selah Jehovah, I have called
upon you; make haste
to me:
Preserve me from the violent Give ear to my voice, when I call
man: to you.
Who have purposed to thrust 2 Let my prayer be set forth as in-
aside my steps. cense before you;
5 The proud have hid a snare for The lifting up of my hands as the
me, and cords; evening sacrifice.
They have spread a net by the 3 Set a watch, O Jehovah, before
wayside; my mouth;
They have set traps for me. [Selah Keep the door of my lips.
4 Do not incline my heart to any
6 I said to Jehovah, “You are my evil thing,
God: To practice deeds of wickedness
Give ear to the voice of my sup- With men who work iniquity:
plications, O Jehovah. And do not let me eat of their del-
7 O Jehovah the Lord, the strength icacies.
of my salvation, 5 Let the righteous strike me, it
You have covered my head in the shall be a kindness;
day of battle. And let him reprove me, it shall be
8 Do not grant, O Jehovah, the de- as oil on the head;
sires of the wicked; Do not let my head refuse it:
Do not further his evil device, lest For even in their wickedness
they exalt themselves. shall my prayer continue.
[Selah 6 Their judges are thrown down by
9 As for the head of those who sur- the sides of the rock;
rounded me, And they shall hear my words;
Let the mischief of their own lips for they are sweet.
cover them. 7 As when one plows and cleaves
10 Let burning coals fall on them: the earth,
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mouth of Sheol.
8 For my eyes are to you, O Jeho-
vah the Lord:
In you do I take refuge; do not
leave my soul destitute.
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9 Keep me from the snare which
they have laid for me,
And from the gins of the workers 2 And do not enter into judgment
of iniquity.
10 Let the wicked fall into their
own nets,
While I altogether escape.
Maschil of David, when he was in the cave; a
Prayer.
A Psalm of David.
Hear my prayer, O Jeho-
vah; give ear to my sup-
plications:
In your faithfulness answer me,
and in your righteousness.
with your servant;
For in your sight no man living is
righteous.
3 For the enemy has persecuted my
soul;
He has struck my life down to the
ground:
He has made me to dwell in dark

142 I cry with my voice to Je-

hovah;
places, as those who have
been long dead.
With my voice to Jehovah do I 4 Therefore is my spirit over-
make supplication. whelmed within me;
2 I pour out my complaint before My heart within me is desolate.
him; 5 I remember the days of old;
I show before him my trouble. I meditate on all your doings;
3 When my spirit was over- I muse on the work of your
whelmed within me, hands.
You knew my path. 6 I spread forth my hands to you:
In the way in which I walk My soul thirsts after you, as a
Have they hidden a snare for me. weary land. [Selah
4 Look on my right hand, and see; 7 Make haste to answer me, O Je-
For there is no man who knows hovah; my spirit fails:
me: Do not hide your face from me,
Refuge has failed me; Lest I become like those who go
No man cares for my soul. down into the pit.
5 I cried to you, O Jehovah; 8 Cause me to hear your lov-
I said, “You are my refuge, ingkindness in the morning;
My portion in the land of the liv- For in you do I trust:
ing. Cause me to know the way in
6 Attend to my cry; which I should walk;
For I am brought very low: For I lift up my soul to you.
Deliver me from my persecutors; 9 Deliver me, O Jehovah, from my
For they are stronger than I. enemies:
7 Bring my soul out of prison, I flee to you to hide me.
That I may give thanks to your 10 Teach me to do your will;
name: For you are my God:
The righteous shall surround me; Your Spirit is good;
For you will deal bountifully Lead me in the land of
with me.” uprightness.
11 Revive me, O Jehovah, for your
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soul out of trouble. to kings;
12 And in your lovingkindness cut Who rescues David his servant
off my enemies, from the hurtful sword.
And destroy all those who 11 Rescue me, and deliver me out
afflict my soul; of the hand of aliens,
For I am your servant. Whose mouth speaks deceit,
And whose right hand is a right
A Psalm of David. hand of falsehood.

144 Blessed be Jehovah my 12 When our sons shall be as plants

rock,
Who teaches my hands to war,
And my fingers to fight:
2 My lovingkindness, and my
fortress,
My high tower, and my deliverer;
My shield, and he in whom I take
refuge;
Who subdues my people under
me.
3 Jehovah, what is man, that you
take knowledge of him?
Or the son of man, that you make
account of him?
4 Man is like vanity:
His days are as a shadow that
passes away.
5 Bow your heavens, O Jehovah,
and come down:
Touch the mountains, and they
shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter
them;
Send out your arrows, and con-
fuse them.
7 Stretch forth your hand from
above;
Rescue me, and deliver me out of 3 Great is Jehovah, and greatly to
great waters,
Out of the hand of aliens;
8 Whose mouth speaks deceit,
And whose right hand is a right 4 One generation shall laud your
hand of falsehood.
9 I will sing a new song to you, O
God:
Upon a psaltery of ten strings 5 Of the glorious majesty of your
will I sing praises to you.
10 You are he who gives salvation
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grown up in their youth,
And our daughters as
cornerstones hewn after the
fashion of a palace;
13 When our granaries are full,
affording all manner of store,
And our sheep bring forth
thousands and ten thousands
in our fields;
14 When our oxen are well laden;
When there is no breaking in,
and no going forth,
And no outcry in our streets:
15 Happy is the people who is in
such a case;
Yes, happy is the people whose
God is Jehovah.
A Psalm of praise; of David.
145 I will extol you, my God,
O King;
And I will bless your name for ever
and ever.
2 Every day will I bless you;
And I will praise your name for
ever and ever.
be praised;
And his greatness is unsearch-
able.
works to another,
And shall declare your mighty
acts.
honor,
And of your wondrous works,
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6 And men shall speak of the might love him;
of your terrible acts; But all the wicked will he
And I will declare your greatness. destroy.
7 They shall utter the memory of 21 My mouth shall speak the
your great goodness, praise of Jehovah;
And shall sing of your righteous- And let all flesh bless his holy
ness. name for ever and ever.
8 Jehovah is gracious, and merci-
ful;
Slow to anger, and of great lov-
ingkindness.
146 Praise Jehovah.
Praise Jehovah, O my
soul.
9 Jehovah is good to all; 2 While I live will I praise Jehovah:
And his tender mercies are over I will sing praises to my God
all his works. while I have any being.
10 All your works shall give 3 Do not put your trust in princes,
thanks to you, O Jehovah; Nor in the son of man, in whom
And your saints shall bless you. there is no help.
11 They shall speak of the glory of 4 His breath goeth forth, he returns
your kingdom, to his earth;
And talk of your power; In that very day his thoughts per-
12 To make known to the sons of ish.
men his mighty acts, 5 Happy is he who has the God of
And the glory of the majesty of Jacob for his help,
his kingdom. Whose hope is in Jehovah his
13 Your kingdom is an everlasting God:
kingdom, 6 Who made heaven and earth,
And your dominion endures The sea, and all that in them is;
throughout all generations. Who keeps truth for ever;
14 Jehovah upholds all who fall, 7 Who executes justice for the op-
And raises up all those who are pressed;
bowed down. Who gives food to the hungry.
15 The eyes of all wait for you; Jehovah looses the prisoners;
And you give them their food 8 Jehovah opens the eyes of the
in due season. blind;
16 You open your hand, Jehovah raises up those who are
And satisfy the desire of every bowed down;
living thing. Jehovah loves the righteous;
17 Jehovah is righteous in all his 9 Jehovah preserves the sojourners;
ways, He upholds the fatherless and
And gracious in all his works. widow;
18 Jehovah is near to all those who But the way of the wicked he
call on him, turns upside down.
To all who call on him in truth. 10 Jehovah will reign for ever,
19 He will fulfill the desire of those Your God, O Zion, to all genera-
who fear him; tions.
He also will hear their cry and Praise Jehovah.
will save them.
20 Jehovah preserves all those who
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147 Praise Jehovah; the wheat.

For it is good to sing 15 He sends out his commandment
praises to our God; upon earth;
For it is pleasant, and praise is be- His word runs very swiftly.
coming. 16 He gives snow like wool;
2 Jehovah builds up Jerusalem; He scatters the frost like ashes.
He gathers together the outcasts 17 He casts forth his ice like
of Israel. morsels:
3 He heals the broken in heart, Who can stand before his cold?
And binds up their wounds. 18 He sends out his word, and
4 He counts the number of the melts them:
stars; He causes his wind to blow,
He calls them all by their names. and the waters flow.
5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in 19 He shows his word to Jacob,
power; His statutes and his ordinances
His understanding is infinite. to Israel.
6 Jehovah upholds the meek: 20 He has not dealt so with any na-
He brings the wicked down to tion;
the ground. And as for his ordinances, they
7 Sing to Jehovah with thanksgiv- have not known them.
ing; Praise Jehovah.
Sing praises on the harp to our
God,
8 Who covers the heavens with
clouds,
148 Praise Jehovah.
Praise Jehovah from the
heavens:
Who prepares rain for the earth, Praise him in the heights.
Who makes grass to grow on the 2 Praise him, all his angels:
mountains. Praise him, all his host.
9 He gives to the beast his food, 3 Praise him, sun and moon:
And to the young ravens which Praise him, all you stars of light.
cry. 4 Praise him, you heavens of heav-
10 He does not delight in the ens,
strength of the horse: And you waters that are above
He takes no pleasure in the legs the heavens.
of a man. 5 Let them praise the name of Jeho-
11 Jehovah takes pleasure in those vah;
who fear him, For he commanded, and they
In those who hope in his were created.
lovingkindness. 6 He has also established them for
12 Praise Jehovah, O Jerusalem; ever and ever:
Praise your God, O Zion. He has made a decree which shall
13 For he has strengthened the bars not pass away.
of your gates; 7 Praise Jehovah from the earth,
He has blessed your children You sea monsters, and all deeps.
within you. 8 Fire and hail, snow and vapor;
14 He makes peace in your bor- Stormy wind, fulfilling his word;
ders; 9 Mountains and all hills;
He fills you with the finest of Fruitful trees and all cedars;
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10 Beasts and all cattle; beds.
Creeping things and flying 6 Let the high praises of God be in
birds; their mouth,
11 Kings of the earth and all peo- And a two-edged sword in their
ples; hand;
Princes and all judges of the
earth; 7 To execute vengeance on the na-
12 Both young men and virgins; tions,
Old men and children: And punishments on the peo-
13 Let them praise the name of Je- ples;
hovah; 8 To bind their kings with chains,
For his name alone is exalted; And their nobles with fetters of
His glory is above the earth and iron;
the heavens. 9 To execute on them the judgment
14 And he has lifted up the horn of written:
his people, This honor have all his saints.
The praise of all his saints; Praise Jehovah.
Even of the children of Israel, a
people near to him.
Praise Jehovah. 150 Praise Jehovah.
Praise God in his sanctu-
ary:

149 Praise Jehovah.

Sing to Jehovah a new
song,
And his praise in the assembly of
the saints.
2 Let Israel rejoice in him who
made him:
Let the children of Zion be joyful
in their King.
3 Let them praise his name in the
dance:
Let them sing praises to him with
timbrel and harp.
4 For Jehovah takes pleasure in his
people:
He will beautify the meek with
salvation.
5 Let the saints exult in glory:
Let them sing for joy on their
2
Praise him in the firmament of
his power.
Praise him for his mighty acts:
Praise him according to his excel-
lent greatness.
3 Praise him with trumpet sound:
Praise him with psaltery and
harp.
4 Praise him with timbrel and
dance:
Praise him with stringed instru-
ments and pipe.
5 Praise him with loud cymbals:
Praise him with high sounding
cymbals.
6 Let everything that has breath
praise Jehovah.
Praise Jehovah.

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 THE PR O V ER BS

1
2
The proverbs of Solomon the
son of David, king of Israel:
To know wisdom and instruction;
To discern the words of under-
standing;
3 To receive instruction in wise
dealing,
In righteousness and justice and
equity;
4 To give prudence to the simple,
To the young man knowledge
and discretion:
5 That the wise man may hear, and
increase in learning;
And that the man of understand-
ing may acquire sound coun-
sels:
6 To understand a proverb, and a
figure,
The words of the wise, and their
dark sayings.
7 The fear of Jehovah is the begin-
ning of knowledge;
But the foolish despise wisdom
and instruction.
8 My son, hear the instruction of 20 Wisdom cries aloud in the
your father,
And do not forsake the law of
your mother:
9 For they shall be a garland of 21 She cries in the chief place of
grace to your head,
And chains about your neck.
10 My son, if sinners entice you,
Do not consent.
11 If they say, “Come with us”,
Let us lie in wait for blood;
Let us lurk secretly for the
innocent without cause;
12 Let us swallow them up alive as 23 Turn at my reproof:
Sheol,
And whole, as those who go
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down into the pit;
13 We shall find all precious sub-
stance;
We shall fill our houses with
spoil;
14 You shall cast your lot among
us;
We will all have one purse”:
15 My son, do not walk in the way
with them;
Refrain your foot from their
path:
16 For their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed
blood.
17 For in vain is the net spread
In the sight of any bird:
18 And these lie in wait for their
own blood;
They lurk secretly for their own
lives.
19 So are the ways of every one
who is greedy of gain;
It takes away the life of its
owners.
street;
She utters her voice in the
broad places;
concourse;
At the entrance of the gates,
In the city, she utters her words:
22 How long, you simple ones, will
you love simplicity?
And scoffers delight themselves
in scoffing,
And fools hate knowledge?
Behold, I will pour out my
spirit on you;
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I will make known my words
to you.
24 Because I have called, and you
have refused;
I have stretched out my hand,
and no man has regarded;
25 But you have neglected all my
counsel,
And would have none of my
reproof:
26 I also will laugh in the day of
your calamity;
I will mock when your fear
comes;
27 When your fear comes as a
storm,
And your calamity comes on as
a whirlwind;
When distress and anguish
come upon you.
28 Then they will call on me, but I
will not answer;
They will seek me diligently,
but they will not find me:
29 Because they hated knowledge,
And did not choose the fear of
Jehovah:
30 They would have none of my
counsel;
They despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the
fruit of their own way,
And be filled with their own
devices.
32 For the backsliding of the sim-
ple will slay them,
And the careless ease of fools
will destroy them.
33 But whoever listens to me will
dwell securely,
And will be at ease without fear
of evil.
dom,
And apply your heart to under-
standing;
3 Yes, if you cry for discernment,
And lift up your voice for under-
standing;
4 If you seek her as silver,
And search for her as for hidden
treasures:
5 Then you will understand the
fear of Jehovah,
And find the knowledge of God.
6 For Jehovah gives wisdom;
Out of his mouth comes knowl-
edge and understanding:
7 He stores up sound wisdom for
the upright;
He is a shield to those who walk
in integrity;
8 That he may guard the paths of
justice,
And preserve the way of his
saints.
9 Then you will understand right-
eousness and justice,
And equity, yes, every good path.
10 For wisdom shall enter into
your heart,
And knowledge will be pleasant to
your soul;
11 Discretion will watch over you;
Understanding will keep you:
12 To deliver you from the way of
evil,
From the men who speak perverse
things;
13 Who forsake the paths of up-
rightness,
To walk in the ways of darkness;

2 My son, if you will receive my 14 Who rejoice to do evil,

words,
And treasure my commandments
And delight in the perversity of evil;

with you; 15 Who are crooked in their ways,

2 So as to incline your ear to wis- And wayward in their paths:
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16 To deliver you from the strange
woman,
Even from the foreigner who
flatters with her words;
17 Who forsakes the friend of her 6 In all your ways acknowledge
youth,
And forgets the covenant of her
God:
18 For her house sinks down to
death,
And her paths to the dead;
19 None who go to her return
again,
Neither do they attain to the paths
of life:
20 That you may walk in the way
of good men,
And keep the paths of the
righteous.
21 For the upright will dwell in the 12 For whom Jehovah loves he re-
land,
And the blameless will remain in it.
22 But the wicked shall be cut off
from the land,
And the treacherous shall be
rooted out of it.
In the sight of God and man.
5 Trust in Jehovah with all your
heart,
And do not lean on your own un-
derstanding:
him,
And he will direct your paths.
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;
Fear Jehovah, and depart from
evil:
8 It will be health to your navel,
And marrow to your bones.
9 Honor Jehovah with your sub-
stance,
And with the first fruits of all
your increase:
10 So will your barns be filled with
plenty,
And your vats will overflow
with new wine.
11 My son, do not despise the chas-
tening of Jehovah;
Neither be weary of his reproof:
proves;
Even as a father the son in
whom he delights.
13 Happy is the man who finds
wisdom,
And the man that gets
understanding.
14 For the gaining of it is better
than the gaining of silver,

3 My son, do not forget my law; And its profit than fine gold.
But let your heart keep my com- 15 She is more precious than ru-
mandments: bies:
2 For length of days, and years of And none of the things you can
life, desire are to be compared to
And peace, they will add to you. her.
3 Do not let kindness and truth for- 16 Length of days is in her right
sake you: hand;
Bind them around your neck; In her left hand are riches and
Write them on the tablet of your honor.
heart: 17 Her ways are ways of pleasant-
4 So you will find favor and good ness,
understanding And all her paths are peace.
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18 She is a tree of life to those who
lay hold on her:
And happy is every one who
retains her.
19 Jehovah by wisdom founded
the earth;
By understanding he
established the heavens.
20 By his knowledge the depths
were broken up,
And the skies drip down the
dew.
21 My son, do not let them depart
from your eyes;
Keep sound wisdom and
discretion:
22 So they will be life to your soul,
And grace to your neck.
23 Then you will walk in your way
securely,
And your foot will not stumble.
24 When you lie down, you will
not be afraid:
Yes, you will lie down, and
your sleep will be sweet.
25 Do not be afraid of sudden fear,
Neither of the desolation of the
wicked, when it comes:
26 For Jehovah will be your confi-
dence,
And will keep your foot from
being taken.
27 Do not withhold good from 5
those to whom it is due,
When it is in the power of your
hand to do it.
28 Do not say to your neighbor,
“Go, and come again,
And tomorrow I will give;”
When you have it by you.
29 Do not devise evil against your
neighbor,
Seeing he dwells securely by
you.
30 Do not strive with a man with-
out cause,
If he has done you no harm.
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31 Do not envy the man of vio-
lence,
And choose none of his ways.
32 For the perverse is an abomina-
tion to Jehovah;
But his friendship is with the
upright.
33 The curse of Jehovah is in the
house of the wicked;
But he blesses the habitation of
the righteous.
34 Surely he scoffs at the scoffers;
But he gives grace to the lowly.
35 The wise shall inherit glory;
But shame shall be the
promotion of fools.
4 Hear, my sons, the instruction
of a father,
And give attention to know un-
derstanding:
2 For I give you good doctrine;
Do not forsake my law.
3 For I was a son to my father,
Tender and only beloved in the
sight of my mother.
4 And he taught me, and said to
me:
Let your heart retain my words;
Keep my commandments, and
live;
Get wisdom, get understanding;
Do not forget, neither turn away
from the words of my mouth;
6 Do not forsake her, and she will
preserve you;
Love her, and she will keep you.
7 Wisdom is the principal thing;
therefore get wisdom;
Yes, with all your getting get un-
derstanding.
8 Exalt her, and she will promote
you;
She will bring you to honor,
when you embrace her.
9 She will give to your head a gar-
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land of grace;
A crown of beauty she will de-
liver to you.
10 Hear, O my son, and receive my
sayings;
And the years of your life will
be many.
11 I have taught you in the way of
wisdom;
I have led you in paths of
uprightness.
12 When you go, your steps will
not be impeded;
And if you run, you will not
stumble.
13 Take firm hold of instruction; do
not let her go:
Keep her; for she is your life.
14 Do not enter into the path of the
wicked,
And do not walk in the way of
evil men.
15 Avoid it, do not pass by it;
Turn from it, and pass on.
16 For they do not sleep, unless
they do evil;
And their sleep is taken away,
unless they cause some to fall.
17 For they eat the bread of
wickedness,
And drink the wine of violence.
18 But the path of the righteous is
as the dawning light,
That shines more and more
until the perfect day.
19 The way of the wicked is as
darkness:
They do not know at what they
stumble.
20 My son, give attention to my
words;
Incline your ear to my sayings.
21 Do not let them depart from 7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to
your eyes;
Keep them in the midst of your
heart.
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22 For they are life to those who
find them,
And health to all their flesh.
23 Keep your heart with all dili-
gence;
For out of it are the issues of
life.
24 Put away from you a wayward
mouth,
And perverse lips put far from
you.
25 Let your eyes look right on,
And let your eyelids look
straight before you.
26 Make level the path of your feet,
And let all your ways be
established.
27 Do not turn to the right hand
nor to the left:
Remove your foot from evil.
5 My son, give attention to my
wisdom;
Incline your ear to my under-
standing:
2 That you may preserve discre-
tion,
And that your lips may keep
knowledge.
3 For the lips of a strange woman
drip honey,
And her mouth is smoother than
oil:
4 But in the end she is bitter as
wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death;
Her steps take hold on Sheol;
6 So that she does not find the level
path of life:
Her ways are unstable, and she
does not know it.
me,
And do not depart from the
words of my mouth.
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8 Remove your way far from her,
And do not come near the door of
her house;
9 Lest you give your honor to oth-
ers,
And your years to the cruel;
10 Lest strangers be filled with
your strength,
And your labors be in the house
of an alien,
11 And you mourn at your latter
end,
When your flesh and your body
are consumed,
12 And say, “How I have hated in-
struction,
And my heart despised reproof;
13 Neither have I obeyed the voice
of my teachers,
Nor inclined my ear to those
who instructed me!
14 I was almost in all evil
In the midst of the assembly
and congregation.”
15 Drink waters out of your own
cistern,
And running waters out of
your own well.
16 Should your springs be dis-
persed abroad,
And streams of water in the
streets?
17 Let them be for yourself alone,
And not for strangers with you.
18 Let your fountain be blessed;
And rejoice in the wife of your
youth.
19 As a loving hind and a pleasant
doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all
times;
And be ravished always with
her love.
20 For why should you, my son, be
ravished with a strange 9
woman,
And embrace the bosom of a
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foreigner?
21 For the ways of man are before
the eyes of Jehovah;
And he makes level all his
paths.
22 His own iniquities will take the
wicked,
And he will be held with the
cords of his sin.
23 He shall die for lack of
instruction;
And in the greatness of his folly
he shall go astray.
6 My son, if you have become
surety for your neighbor,
If you have stricken your hands for a
stranger;
2 You are snared with the words of
your mouth,
You are taken with the words of
your mouth.
3 Do this now, my son, and deliver
yourself,
Seeing you have come into the
hand of your neighbor:
Go, humble yourself, and press
your neighbor;
4 Do not give sleep to your eyes,
Nor slumber to your eyelids;
5 Deliver yourself as a gazelle from
the hand of the hunter,
And as a bird from the hand of
the fowler.
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
Consider her ways, and be wise:
7 Which having no chief,
Overseer, or ruler,
8 Provides her bread in the sum-
mer,
And gathers her food in the har-
vest.
How long will you sleep, O slug-
gard?
When will you arise out of your
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sleep?
10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to
sleep:
11 So shall your poverty come as a
robber,
And your want as an armed
man.
12 A worthless person, a man of in-
iquity,
Is he who walks with a
perverse mouth;
13 Who winks with his eyes, who
speaks with his feet,
Who makes signs with his
fingers;
14 In whose heart is perversity,
Who devises evil continually,
Who sows discord.
15 Therefore shall his calamity
come suddenly;
Suddenly he shall be broken,
and that without remedy.
16 There are six things which Jeho-
vah hates;
Yes, seven which are an
abomination to him:
17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent
blood;
18 A heart that devises wicked pur-
poses,
Feet that are swift in running to
mischief,
19 A false witness that utters lies,
And he who sows discord
among brethren.
20 My son, keep the command-
ment of your father,
And do not forsake the law of 33
your mother:
21 Bind them continually on your
heart;
Tie them around your neck. 34
22 When you walk, it will lead you;
When you sleep, it will watch
over you; 35
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And when you awake, it will
talk with you.
23 For the commandment is a
lamp; and the law is light;
And reproofs of instruction are
the way of life:
24 To keep you from the evil
woman,
From the flattery of the
foreigner’s tongue.
25 Do not lust after her beauty in
your heart;
Neither let her take you with
her eyelids.
26 For on account of a harlot a man
is brought to a piece of bread;
And the adulteress hunts for
the precious life.
27 Can a man take fire in his bo-
som,
And his clothes not be burned?
28 Or can one walk upon hot coals,
And his feet not be scorched?
29 So he who goes in to his neigh-
bor’s wife;
Whosoever touches her shall
not be unpunished.
30 Men do not despise a thief, if he
steals
To satisfy himself when he is
hungry:
31 But if he be found, he shall re-
store sevenfold;
He shall give all the substance
of his house.
32 He who commits adultery with
a woman is void of under-
standing:
He does it who would destroy
his own soul.
Wounds and dishonor will he
get;
And his reproach will not be
wiped away.
For jealousy is the rage of a man;
And he will not spare in the
day of vengeance.
He will not regard any ransom;
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Neither will he rest content,
though you give many gifts.
7 My son, keep my words,
And treasure my command-
ments with you.
14
2 Keep my commandments and 15
live;
And my law as the apple of your
eye.
3 Bind them on your fingers; 16
Write them on the tablet of your
heart.
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sis-
ter;” 17
And call understanding your kin:
5 That they may keep you from the
strange woman, 18
From the foreigner who flatters
with her words.
6 For at the window of my house
I looked forth through my lattice; 19
7 And I beheld among the simple
ones, 20
I discerned among the youths,
A young man void of under-
standing,
8 Passing through the street near 21
her corner;
And he went the way to her
house,
9 In the twilight, in the evening of 22
the day,
In the middle of the night and in
the darkness.
10 And, behold, there a woman 23
met him
With the attire of a harlot, and
crafty of heart.
11 (She is boisterous and rebel-
lious;
Her feet do not abide in her 24
house:
12 Now she is in the streets, now in
the broad places,
And lies in wait at every 25
corner.)
13 So she caught him, and kissed
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him,
And with a shameless face she
said to him:
“Sacrifices of peace offerings are
with me;
This day I have paid my vows.
Therefore I came forth to meet
you,
Diligently to seek your face,
and I have found you.
I have spread my couch with
carpets of tapestry,
With striped cloths of the yarn
of Egypt.
I have perfumed my bed
With myrrh, aloes, and
cinnamon.
Come, let us take our fill of love
until the morning;
Let us delight ourselves with
loves.
For the man is not at home;
He is gone a long journey:
He has taken a bag of money
with him;
He will come home at the full
moon.”
With her many persuasions she
caused him to yield;
With the flattering of her lips
she forced him along.
He goes after her suddenly,
As an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or as one in fetters to the
correction of the fool;
Until an arrow strikes through
his liver;
As a bird hastens to the snare,
And does not know that it is for
his life.
Now therefore, my sons, listen
to me,
And pay attention to the words
of my mouth.
Do not let your heart turn aside
to her ways;
Do not go astray in her paths.
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26 For she has cast down many desired are not to be
wounded: compared to it.
Yes, all her slain are a mighty 12 I wisdom have made prudence
host. my dwelling,
27 Her house is the way to Sheol, And find out knowledge and
Going down to the chambers of discretion.
death. 13 The fear of Jehovah is to hate
evil:

8 Does not wisdom cry,

And understanding put forth
her voice?
Pride, and arrogance, and the
evil way,
And the perverse mouth, I hate.
2 On the top of high places by the 14 Counsel is mine, and sound
way, knowledge:
Where the paths meet, she I am understanding; I have
stands; might.
3 Beside the gates, at the entry of 15 By me kings reign,
the city, And princes decree justice.
At the coming in at the doors, she 16 By me princes rule,
cries aloud: And nobles, even all the judges
4 “To you, O men, I call; of the earth.
And my voice is to the sons of 17 I love those who love me;
men. And those who seek me
5 O you simple, understand pru- diligently will find me.
dence; 18 Riches and honor are with me;
And, you fools, be of an under- Yes, enduring wealth and
standing heart. righteousness.
6 Hear, for I will speak excellent 19 My fruit is better than gold, yes,
things; than fine gold;
And the opening of my lips will And my revenue than choice
be right things. silver.
7 For my mouth will utter truth; 20 I walk in the way of righteous-
And wickedness is an abomina- ness,
tion to my lips. In the midst of the paths of
8 All the words of my mouth are in justice;
righteousness; 21 That I may cause those who love
There is nothing crooked or per- me to inherit substance,
verse in them. And that I may fill their
9 They are all plain to him who un- treasuries.
derstands,
And right to those who find 22 “Jehovah possessed me in the
knowledge. beginning of his way,
10 Receive my instruction, and not Before his works of old.
silver; 23 I was set up from everlasting,
And knowledge rather than from the beginning,
choice gold. Before the earth was.
11 For wisdom is better than ru- 24 When there were no depths, I
bies; was brought forth,
And all the things that may be When there were no fountains
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abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains were set-
tled,
Before the hills I was brought
forth;
26 While as yet he had not made
the earth, nor the fields,
Nor the beginning of the dust
of the world.
27 When he established the heav-
ens, I was there:
When he set a circle upon the
face of the deep,
28 When he made firm the skies
above,
When the fountains of the deep
became strong,
29 When he gave to the sea its
boundary,
That the waters should not
transgress his commandment,
When he marked out the
foundations of the earth;
30 Then I was by him, as a master
workman;
And I was daily his delight,
Rejoicing always before him,
31 Rejoicing in his habitable earth;
And my delight was with the
sons of men.
32 “Now therefore, my sons, listen
to me;
For blessed are those who keep
my ways.
33 Hear instruction, and be wise,
And do not refuse it.
34 Blessed is the man who hears
me,
Watching daily at my gates,
Waiting at the posts of my
doors.
35 For whoever finds me finds life,
And will obtain favor from
Jehovah.
36 But he who sins against me
wrongs his own soul:
All those who hate me love
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death.”
9 Wisdom has built her house;
She has hewn out her seven pil-
lars:
2 She has killed her beasts; she has
mingled her wine;
She has also furnished her table:
3 She has sent forth her maidens;
She cries on the highest places of
the city:
4 “Whoever is simple, let him turn
in here:
As for him who is void of under-
standing, she says to him,
5 Come, eat of my bread,
And drink of the wine which I
have mingled.
6 Leave off, you simple ones, and
live;
And walk in the way of under-
standing.
7 He who corrects a scoffer gets to
himself reviling;
And he who reproves a wicked
man gets himself a blot.
8 Do not reprove a scoffer, lest he
hate you:
Reprove a wise man, and he will
love you.
9 Give instruction to a wise man,
and he will be yet wiser:
Teach a righteous man, and he
will increase in learning.
10 The fear of Jehovah is the begin-
ning of wisdom;
And the knowledge of the Holy
One is understanding.
11 For by me your days shall be
multiplied,
And the years of your life will
be increased.
12 If you are wise, you are wise for
yourself;
And if you scoff, you alone will
bear it.”
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13 The foolish woman is boister-
ous;
She is simple, and knows
nothing.
14 And she sits at the door of her
house,
On a seat in the high places of
the city,
15 To call to those who pass by,
Who go right on their ways:
16 “Whoever is simple, let him
turn in here”;
And as for him who is void of
understanding, she says to
him,
17 “Stolen waters are sweet,
And bread eaten in secret is
pleasant.”
18 But he does not know that the
dead are there;
That her guests are in the
depths of Sheol.
10 The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a glad father;
But a foolish son is the heaviness 14 Wise men lay up knowledge;
of his mother.
2 Treasures of wickedness profit
nothing;
But righteousness delivers from
death.
3 Jehovah will not allow the soul of
the righteous to starve;
But he thrusts away the desire of
the wicked.
4 He becomes poor who works
with a slack hand;
But the hand of the diligent
makes rich.
5 He who gathers in summer is a
wise son;
But he who sleeps in harvest is a
son who causes shame.
6 Blessings are on the head of the
righteous;
But violence covers the mouth of
the wicked.
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7 The memory of the righteous is
blessed;
But the name of the wicked will
rot.
8 The wise in heart will receive
commandments;
But a babbling fool will fall.
9 He who walks uprightly walks
securely;
But he that perverts his ways will
be known.
10 He who winks with the eye
causes sorrow;
But a babbling fool will fall.
11 The mouth of the righteous is a
fountain of life;
But violence covers the mouth
of the wicked.
12 Hatred stirs up strifes;
But love covers all
transgressions.
13 In the lips of him who has dis-
cernment wisdom is found;
But a rod is for the back of him
who is void of
understanding.
But the mouth of the foolish is a
present destruction.
15 The rich man’s wealth is his
strong city:
The destruction of the poor is
their poverty.
16 The labor of the righteous tends
to life;
The increase of the wicked, to
sin.
17 He is in the way of life who
heeds correction;
But he who forsakes reproof
errs.
18 He who hides hatred is of lying
lips;
And he who utters a slander is
a fool.
19 In the multitude of words trans-
gression is not lacking;
But he who refrains his lips
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does wisely. 32 The lips of the righteous know
20 The tongue of the righteous is as what is acceptable;
choice silver: But the mouth of the wicked
The heart of the wicked is speaks perverseness.
worth little.
21 The lips of the righteous feed
many;
11 A false balance is an abomina-
tion to Jehovah;
But a just weight is his delight.
But the foolish die for lack of 2 When pride comes, then comes
understanding. shame;
22 The blessing of Jehovah, it But with the lowly is wisdom.
makes rich; 3 The integrity of the upright will
And he adds no sorrow with it. guide them;
23 It is as sport to a fool to do But the perversity of the treacher-
wickedness; ous will destroy them.
And so is wisdom to a man of 4 Riches do not profit in the day of
understanding. wrath;
24 The fear of the wicked, it will But righteousness delivers from
come upon him; death.
And the desire of the righteous 5 The righteousness of the perfect
will be granted. will direct his way;
25 When the whirlwind passes, the But the wicked will fall by his
wicked is no more; own wickedness.
But the righteous is an 6 The righteousness of the upright
everlasting foundation. will deliver them;
26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as But the treacherous will be taken
smoke to the eyes, in their own iniquity.
So is the sluggard to those who 7 When a wicked man dies, his ex-
send him. pectation will perish;
27 The fear of Jehovah prolongs And the hope of iniquity per-
days; ishes.
But the years of the wicked will 8 The righteous is delivered out of
be shortened. trouble,
28 The hope of the righteous will be And the wicked comes in his
gladness; stead.
But the expectation of the 9 With his mouth the godless man
wicked will perish. destroys his neighbor;
29 The way of Jehovah is a strong- But through knowledge will the
hold to the upright; righteous be delivered.
But it is a destruction to the 10 When it goes well with the
workers of iniquity. righteous, the city rejoices;
30 The righteous will never be re- And when the wicked perish,
moved; there is shouting.
But the wicked will not dwell 11 By the blessing of the upright
in the land. the city is exalted;
31 The mouth of the righteous But it is overthrown by the
brings forth wisdom; mouth of the wicked.
But the perverse tongue will be 12 He who despises his neighbor is
cut off. void of wisdom;
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But a man of understanding increases yet more;
holds his peace. And there is one who withholds
13 He who goes about as a tale- more than is right, but it tends
bearer reveals secrets; only to want.
But he who is of a faithful spirit 25 The liberal soul will be made fat;
conceals a matter. And he who waters will be
14 Where no wise guidance is, the watered also himself.
people fall; 26 He who withholds grain, the
But in the multitude of people will curse him;
counselors there is safety. But blessing will be on the head
15 He who is surety for a stranger of him who sells it.
will suffer for it; 27 He who diligently seeks good
But he who hates suretyship is seeks favor;
secure. But he who searches after evil,
16 A gracious woman obtains it will come to him.
honor; 28 He who trusts in his riches will
And violent men obtain riches. fall;
17 The merciful man does good to But the righteous will flourish
his own soul; as the green leaf.
But he who is cruel troubles his 29 He who troubles his own house
own flesh. will inherit the wind;
18 The wicked earns deceitful And the foolish will be servant
wages; to the wise of heart.
But he who sows righteousness 30 The fruit of the righteous is a
has a sure reward. tree of life;
19 He who is steadfast in right- And he who is wise wins souls.
eousness will attain to life; 31 Behold, the righteous will be re-
And he who pursues evil does it warded in the earth:
to his own death. How much more the wicked
20 Those who are perverse in heart and the sinner!
are an abomination to Jeho-
vah;
But such as are perfect in their
12 Whoever loves correction
loves knowledge;
But he who hates reproof is
way are his delight. stupid.
21 Though hand join in hand, the 2 A good man will obtain favor
evil man will not be unpun- from Jehovah;
ished; But a man of wicked devices he
But the seed of the righteous will condemn.
will be delivered. 3 A man will not be established by
22 As a ring of gold in a swine’s wickedness;
snout, But the root of the righteous will
So is a fair woman who is not be moved.
without discretion. 4 A worthy woman is the crown of
23 The desire of the righteous is her husband;
only good; But she who makes ashamed is as
But the expectation of the rottenness in his bones.
wicked is wrath. 5 The thoughts of the righteous are
24 There is one who scatters, and just;
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But the counsels of the wicked are 17
deceit.
6 The words of the wicked are of
lying in wait for blood;
But the mouth of the upright will
deliver them.
7 The wicked are overthrown, and
are not;
But the house of the righteous
will stand.
8 A man will be commended ac-
cording to his wisdom;
But he who is of a perverse heart
will be despised.
9 Better is he who is lightly es-
teemed, and has a servant,
Than he who honors himself, and
lacks bread.
10 A righteous man regards the life
of his beast;
But the tender mercies of the
wicked are cruel.
11 He who tills his land will have
plenty of bread;
But he who follows after vain
persons is void of
understanding.
12 The wicked desires the net of 24
evil men;
But the root of the righteous
yields fruit.
13 In the transgression of the lips is 25
a snare to the evil man;
But the righteous will come out
of trouble.
14 A man will be satisfied with
good by the fruit of his mouth;
And the doings of a man’s
hands will be rendered to
him.
15 The way of a fool is right in his
own eyes;
But he who is wise listens to
counsel.
16 A fool’s vexation is presently
known;
But a prudent man conceals
shame.
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He who utters truth shows forth
righteousness;
But a false witness, deceit.
18 There is one who speaks rashly
like the piercings of a sword;
But the tongue of the wise is
health.
19 The lip of truth will be estab-
lished forever;
But a lying tongue is but for a
moment.
20 Deceit is in the heart of those
who devise evil;
But to the counselors of peace is
joy.
21 There shall no mischief happen
to the righteous;
But the wicked will be filled
with evil.
22 Lying lips are an abomination to
Jehovah;
But those who deal truly are his
delight.
23 A prudent man conceals knowl-
edge;
But the heart of fools proclaims
foolishness.
The hand of the diligent will
rule;
But the slothful will be put
under forced labor.
Heaviness in the heart of a man
makes it stoop;
But a good word makes it glad.
26 The righteous is a guide to his
neighbor;
But the way of the wicked
causes them to err.
27 The slothful man does not roast
that which he took in hunting;
But the precious substance of
men is to the diligent.
28 In the way of righteousness is
life;
And in its pathway there is no
death.
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13 A wise son hears his father’s
instruction;
But a scoffer does not hear re- 14
buke.
2 A man shall eat good by the fruit
of his mouth;
But the soul of the treacherous 15
shall eat violence.
3 He who guards his mouth keeps
his life;
But he who opens wide his lips 16
shall have destruction.
4 The soul of the sluggard desires,
and has nothing;
But the soul of the diligent shall
be made fat.
5 A righteous man hates lying;
But a wicked man is loathsome, 18
and comes to shame.
6 Righteousness guards him who is
upright in the way;
But wickedness overthrows the 19
sinner.
7 There is one who makes himself
rich, yet has nothing:
There is one who makes himself 20
poor, yet has great wealth.
8 The ransom of a man’s life is his
riches;
But the poor hears no threaten- 21
ing.
9 The light of the righteous rejoices;
But the lamp of the wicked will 22
be put out.
10 By pride comes only contention;
But with the well-advised is
wisdom.
11 Wealth gotten by emptiness will 23
be diminished;
But he who gathers by labor
will have increase.
12 Hope deferred makes the heart 24
sick;
But when the desire comes, it is
a tree of life.
13 Whoever despises the word 25
brings destruction on himself;
But he who fears the
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commandment will be
rewarded.
The law of the wise is a fountain
of life,
That one may depart from the
snares of death.
Good understanding gives fa-
vor;
But the way of the transgressor
is hard.
Every prudent man works with
knowledge;
But a fool flaunts his folly.
17 A wicked messenger falls into
evil;
But a faithful ambassador is
health.
Poverty and shame will be to
him who refuses correction;
But he who regards reproof will
be honored.
The desire accomplished is
sweet to the soul;
But it is an abomination to fools
to depart from evil.
Walk with wise men, and you
will be wise;
But the companion of fools will
suffer for it.
Evil pursues sinners;
But the righteous will be
rewarded with good.
A good man leaves an inheri-
tance to his children’s chil-
dren;
And the wealth of the sinner is
laid up for the righteous.
Much food is in the fallow
ground of the poor;
But there is what is destroyed
by reason of injustice.
He who spares his rod hates his
son;
But he who loves him chastens
him early.
The righteous eats to the satisfy-
ing of his soul;
But the belly of the wicked will
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want. And the end of joy is heaviness.

14 Every wise woman builds 14 The backslider in heart will be

her house;
But the foolish plucks it down
filled with his own ways;
And a good man will be satisfied
with her own hands. from himself.
2 He who walks in his uprightness 15 The simple believes every word;
fears Jehovah; But the prudent man looks well
But he who is perverse in his to his going.
ways despises him. 16 A wise man fears, and departs
from evil;
3 In the mouth of the foolish is a But the fool bears himself
rod for his pride; insolently, and is confident.
But the lips of the wise will pre- 17 He who is soon angry will deal
serve them. foolishly;
4 Where no oxen are, the manger is And a man of wicked devices is
clean; hated.
But much increase is by the 18 The simple inherit folly;
strength of the ox. But the prudent are crowned
5 A faithful witness will not lie; with knowledge.
But a false witness utters lies. 19 The evil bow down before the
6 A scoffer seeks wisdom, and does good;
not find it; And the wicked, at the gates of
But knowledge is easy to him the righteous.
who has understanding. 20 The poor is hated even by his
7 Go into the presence of a foolish own neighbor;
man, But the rich has many friends.
And you will not perceive in him 21 He who despises his neighbor
the lips of knowledge. sins;
8 The wisdom of the prudent is to But he who has pity on the
understand his way; poor, happy is he.
But the folly of fools is deceit. 22 Do they not err who devise evil?
9 A trespass offering mocks fools; But mercy and truth will be to
But among the upright there is them who devise good.
good will. 23 In all labor there is profit;
10 The heart knows its own bitter- But the talk of the lips tends
ness; only to poverty.
And a stranger does not 24 The crown of the wise is their
intermeddle with its joy. riches;
11 The house of the wicked will be But the folly of fools is only
overthrown; folly.
But the tent of the upright will 25 A true witness delivers souls;
flourish. But he who utters lies causes
12 There is a way which seems deceit.
right to a man; 26 In the fear of Jehovah is strong
But its end are the ways of confidence;
death. And his children will have a
13 Even in laughter the heart is sor- place of refuge.
rowful; 27 The fear of Jehovah is a fountain
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of life,
That one may depart from the
snares of death.
28 In the multitude of people is the
king’s glory;
But in the lack of people is the
destruction of the prince.
29 He who is slow to anger is of
great understanding;
But he who is hasty of spirit
exalts folly.
30 A tranquil heart is the life of the
flesh;
But envy is the rottenness of the 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an
bones.
31 He who oppresses the poor re-
proaches his Maker;
But he who has mercy on the
needy honors him.
32 The wicked is thrust down in
his evil-doing;
But the righteous has a refuge
in his death.
33 Wisdom rests in the heart of him
who has understanding;
But that which is in the inward
part of fools is made known.
34 Righteousness exalts a nation;
But sin is a reproach to any
people.
35 The king’s favor is toward a ser-
vant who deals wisely;
But his wrath will be against
him who causes shame.
ing of the spirit.
5 A fool despises his father’s cor-
rection;
But he who regards reproof gets
prudence.
6 In the house of the righteous is
much treasure;
But in the revenues of the wicked
is trouble.
7 The lips of the wise disperse
knowledge;
But the heart of the foolish does
not do so.
abomination to Jehovah;
But the prayer of the upright is
his delight.
9 The way of the wicked is an
abomination to Jehovah;
But he loves him who follows af-
ter righteousness.
10 There is grievous correction for
him who forsakes the way;
And he who hates reproof will
die.
11 Sheol and Abaddon are before
Jehovah:
How much more then the
hearts of the children of men!
12 A scoffer loves not to be re-
proved;
He will not go to the wise.
13 A glad heart makes a cheerful
countenance;

15 A soft answer turns away

wrath;
But by sorrow of heart the spirit
is broken.
But a grievous word stirs up 14 The heart of him who has un-
anger. derstanding seeks knowledge;
2 The tongue of the wise utters But the mouth of fools feeds on
knowledge rightly; folly.
But the mouth of fools pours out 15 All the days of the afflicted are
folly. evil;
3 The eyes of Jehovah are in every But he who is of a cheerful
place, heart has a continual feast.
Keeping watch on the evil and 16 Better is little, with the fear of Je-
the good. hovah,
4 A gentle tongue is a tree of life; Than great treasure and trouble
But perverseness in it is a break- with it.
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where love is, righteous.
Than a fattened ox and hatred 30 The light of the eyes rejoices the
with it. heart;
18 A wrathful man stirs up con- And good tidings make the
tention; bones fat.
But he who is slow to anger 31 The ear that listens to the re-
appeases strife. proof of life
19 The way of the sluggard is as a Will abide among the wise.
hedge of thorns; 32 He who refuses correction de-
But the path of the upright is spises his own soul;
made a highway. But he who listens to reproof
20 A wise son makes a glad father; gets understanding.
But a foolish man despises his 33 The fear of Jehovah is the in-
mother. struction of wisdom;
21 Folly is joy to him who is void of And before honor goes humility.
wisdom;

22
But a man of understanding
makes straight his going.
Where there is no counsel, pur-
16 The plans of the heart belong
to man;
But the answer of the tongue is
poses are disappointed; from Jehovah.
But in the multitude of 2 All the ways of a man are clean in
counselors they are his own eyes;
established. But Jehovah weighs the spirits.
23 A man has joy in the answer of 3 Commit your works to Jehovah,
his mouth; And your purposes will be estab-
And a word in due season, how lished.
good is it! 4 Jehovah has made everything for
24 To the wise the way of life goes its own end;
upward, Yes, even the wicked for the day
That he may depart from Sheol of evil.
beneath. 5 Every one who is proud in heart
25 Jehovah will root up the house is an abomination to Jehovah:
of the proud; Though hand join in hand, he will
But he will establish the border not be unpunished.
of the widow. 6 By mercy and truth iniquity is
26 Evil devices are an abomination atoned for;
to Jehovah; And by the fear of Jehovah men
But pleasant words are pure. depart from evil.
27 He who is greedy of gain trou- 7 When a man’s ways please Jeho-
bles his own house; vah,
But he who hates bribes will He makes even his enemies to be
live. at peace with him.
28 The heart of the righteous stud- 8 Better is a little, with righteous-
ies to answer; ness,
But the mouth of the wicked Than great revenues with injus-
pours out evil things. tice.
29 Jehovah is far from the wicked; 9 A man’s heart devises his way;
But he hears the prayer of the But Jehovah directs his steps.
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10 A divine sentence is in the lips of life to him who has it;
of the king; But the correction of fools is
His mouth shall not transgress their folly.
in judgment. 23 The heart of the wise instructs
11 A just balance and scales are Je- his mouth,
hovah’s; And adds learning to his lips.
All the weights of the bag are 24 Pleasant words are as a honey-
his work. comb,
12 It is an abomination to kings to Sweet to the soul, and health to
commit wickedness; the bones.
For the throne is established by 25 There is a way which seems
righteousness. right to a man,
13 Righteous lips are the delight of But its end are the ways of
kings; death.
And they love him who speaks 26 The appetite of the laboring
right. man labors for him;
14 The wrath of a king is as mes- For his mouth urges him on.
sengers of death; 27 A worthless man devises mis-
But a wise man will pacify it. chief;
15 In the light of the king’s counte- And in his lips there is as a
nance is life; scorching fire.
And his favor is as a cloud of 28 A perverse man scatters abroad
the latter rain. strife;
16 How much better is it to get wis- And a whisperer separates
dom than gold! chief friends.
Yes, to get understanding is 29 A man of violence entices his
rather to be chosen than neighbor,
silver. And leads him in a way that is
17 The highway of the upright is to not good.
depart from evil: 30 He who shutters his eyes, it is to
He who keeps his way devise perverse things:
preserves his soul. He who compresses his lips
18 Pride goes before destruction, brings evil to pass.
And a haughty spirit before a 31 The gray head is a crown of
fall. glory;
19 Better it is to be of a lowly spirit It will be found in the way of
with the poor, righteousness.
Than to divide the spoil with 32 He who is slow to anger is better
the proud. than the mighty;
20 He who gives heed to the word And he who rules his spirit,
will find good; than he who takes a city.
And whoever trusts in Jehovah, 33 The lot is cast into the lap;
happy is he. But the whole disposing of it is
21 The wise in heart will be called from Jehovah.
prudent;
And the sweetness of the lips
increases learning.
17 Better is a dry morsel, and
quietness with it,
Than a house full of feasting with
22 Understanding is a well-spring strife.
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2 A servant who deals wisely will 15
have rule over a son who
causes shame,
And will have part in the inheri-
tance among the brothers.
3 The refining pot is for silver, and 16
the furnace for gold;
But Jehovah tries the hearts.
4 An evildoer gives heed to wicked
lips; 17
And a liar gives ear to a mis-
chievous tongue.
5 Whoever mocks the poor re- 18
proaches his Maker;
And he who is glad at calamity
will not be unpunished.
6 Children’s children are the crown 19
of old men;
And the glory of children are
their fathers.
7 Excellent speech does not be- 20
come a fool;
Much less do lying lips a prince.
8 A bribe is as a precious stone in
the eyes of him who has it; 21
Wherever it turns, it prospers.
9 He who covers a transgression
seeks love;
But he who harps on a matter 22
separates chief friends.
10 A rebuke enters deeper into one
who has understanding
Than a hundred stripes into a 23
fool.
11 An evil man seeks only rebel-
lion; 24
Therefore a cruel messenger
will be sent against him.
12 Let a bear robbed of her cubs
meet a man, 25
Rather than a fool in his folly.
13 Whoever rewards evil for good,
Evil will not depart from his
house. 26
14 The beginning of strife is as
when one lets out water:
Therefore leave off contention,
before there is quarreling. 27
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He who justifies the wicked,
and he who condemns the
righteous,
Both of them alike are an
abomination to Jehovah.
Why is there a price in the hand
of a fool to buy wisdom,
Seeing he has no
understanding?
A friend loves at all times;
And a brother is born for
adversity.
A man void of understanding
strikes hands,
And becomes surety in the
presence of his neighbor.
He loves transgression who
loves strife:
He who raises high his gate
seeks destruction.
He who has a wayward heart
finds no good;
And he who has a perverse
tongue falls into mischief.
He who begets a fool does it to
his sorrow;
And the father of a fool has no
joy.
A cheerful heart is a good
medicine;
But a broken spirit dries up the
bones.
A wicked man receives a bribe
out of the bosom,
To pervert the ways of justice.
Wisdom is before the face of him
who has understanding;
But the eyes of a fool are in the
ends of the earth.
A foolish son is a grief to his fa-
ther,
And bitterness to her who bore
him.
Also to punish the righteous is
not good,
Nor to strike the noble for their
uprightness.
He who spares his words has
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knowledge;
And he who is of a cool spirit is
a man of understanding.
28 Even a fool, when he holds his
peace, is counted wise;
When he shuts his lips, he is
esteemed as prudent.
18 He who separates himself
seeks his own desire,
And rages against all sound wis-
dom.
2 A fool has no delight in under-
standing,
But only that his heart may reveal
itself.
3 When the wicked comes, there
comes also contempt,
And with dishonor comes re-
proach.
4 The words of a man’s mouth are
as deep waters;
The wellspring of wisdom is as a
flowing brook.
5 To respect the person of the
wicked is not good,
Nor to turn aside the righteous in
judgment.
6 A fool’s lips enter into contention,
And his mouth calls for stripes.
7 A fool’s mouth is his destruction,
And his lips are the snare of his
soul.
8 The words of a whisperer are as
dainty morsels,
And they go down into the inner-
most parts.
9 He also who is slack in his work
Is brother to him who is a de-
stroyer.
10 The name of Jehovah is a strong
tower;
The righteous run into it, and is
safe.
11 The rich man’s wealth is his
strong city,
And as a high wall in his own
imagination.
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12 Before destruction the heart of
man is haughty;
And before honor goes humility.
13 He who gives an answer before
he hears,
It is folly and shame to him.
14 The spirit of a man will sustain
his infirmity;
But a broken spirit who can
bear?
15 The heart of the prudent gets
knowledge;
And the ear of the wise seeks
knowledge.
16 A man’s gift makes room for
him,
And brings him before great
men.
17 He who pleads his cause first
seems just;
But his neighbor comes and
searches him out.
18 The lot causes contentions to
cease,
And parts between the mighty.
19 A brother offended is harder to be
won than a strong city;
And such contentions are like
the bars of a castle.
20 A man’s belly will be filled with
the fruit of his mouth;
With the increase of his lips will
he be satisfied.
21 Death and life are in the power
of the tongue;
And those who love it will eat
its fruit.
22 Whoever finds a wife finds a
good thing,
And obtains favor from
Jehovah.
23 The poor uses entreaties;
But the rich answers roughly.
24 He who makes many friends
does it to his own destruction;
But there is a friend who sticks
closer than a brother.
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19 Better is the poor who walks
in his integrity
Than he who is perverse in his
lips and is a fool.
2 Also, that the soul be without
knowledge is not good;
And he who hastens with his feet
sins.
3 The foolishness of man subverts
his way;
And his heart frets against Jeho-
vah.
4 Wealth adds many friends;
But the poor is separated from his 16
friend.
5 A false witness will not be un-
punished;
And he who utters lies will not 17
escape.
6 Many will entreat the favor of the
liberal man;
And every man is a friend to him 18
who gives gifts.
7 All the brothers of the poor hate
him:
How much more do his friends 19
go far from him!
He pursues them with words, but
they are gone.
8 He who gets wisdom loves his 20
own soul:
He who keeps understanding
will find good.
9 A false witness will not be un- 21
punished;
And he who utters lies will per-
ish.
10 Delicate living is not fitting for a 22
fool;
Much less for a servant to have
rule over princes.
11 The discretion of a man makes 23
him slow to anger;
And it is his glory to pass over a
transgression.
12 The king’s wrath is as the roar- 24
ing of a lion;
But his favor is as dew upon
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the grass.
A foolish son is the calamity of
his father;
And the contentions of a wife
are a continual dripping.
14 House and riches are an inheri-
tance from fathers;
But a prudent wife is from
Jehovah.
15 Slothfulness casts into a deep
sleep;
And the idle soul will suffer
hunger.
He who keeps the command-
ment keeps his soul;
But he who is careless of his
ways will die.
He who has pity on the poor
lends to Jehovah,
And his good deed will he pay
him again.
Chasten your son, seeing there
is hope;
And set not your heart on his
destruction.
A man of great wrath will bear
the penalty;
For if you deliver him, you
must do it yet again.
Hear counsel, and receive in-
struction,
That you may be wise in your
latter end.
There are many devices in a
man’s heart;
But the counsel of Jehovah, that
will stand.
That which makes a man to be
desired is his kindness;
And a poor man is better than a
liar.
The fear of Jehovah tends to life;
And he who has it will abide
satisfied;
He will not be visited with evil.
The sluggard buries his hand in
the dish,
And will not so much as bring
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it to his mouth again. 8 A king who sits on the throne of
25 Strike a scoffer, and the simple judgment
will learn prudence; Scatters away all evil with his
And reprove one who has eyes.
understanding, and he will 9 Who can say, “I have made my
understand knowledge. heart clean,
26 He who does violence to his fa- I am pure from my sin”?
ther, and chases away his 10 Diverse weights, and diverse
mother, measures,
Is a son who causes shame and Both of them alike are an
brings reproach. abomination to Jehovah.
27 Cease, my son, to hear instruc- 11 Even a child makes himself
tion known by his doings,
Only to err from the words of Whether his work be pure, and
knowledge. whether it be right.
28 A worthless witness mocks at 12 The hearing ear, and the seeing
justice; eye,
And the mouth of the wicked Jehovah has made even both of
swallows iniquity. them.
29 Judgments are prepared for 13 Do not love sleep, lest you come
scoffers, to poverty;
And stripes for the back of Open your eyes, and you will
fools. be satisfied with bread.

20 Wine is a mocker, strong 14 “It is bad, it is bad”, says the

drink a brawler;
And whosoever errs by it is not
buyer;
But when he is gone his way,
wise. then he boasts.
2 The terror of a king is as the roar- 15 There is gold, and abundance of
ing of a lion: rubies;
He who provokes him to anger But the lips of knowledge are a
sins against his own life. precious jewel.
3 It is an honor for a man to keep 16 Take his garment who is surety
aloof from strife; for a stranger;
But every fool will be quarreling. And hold him in pledge who is
4 The sluggard will not plow by surety for foreigners.
reason of the winter; 17 Bread of falsehood is sweet to a
Therefore he will beg in harvest, man;
and have nothing. But afterwards his mouth will
5 Counsel in the heart of man is like be filled with gravel.
deep water; 18 Every purpose is established by
But a man of understanding will counsel;
draw it out. And by wise guidance make
6 Most men will proclaim every war.
one his own kindness; 19 He who goes about as a tale-
But a faithful man who can find? bearer reveals secrets;
7 A righteous man who walks in Therefore do not keep company
his integrity, with him who opens wide his
Blessed are his children after him. lips.
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20 Whoever curses his father or his 3 To do righteousness and justice
mother, Is more acceptable to Jehovah
His lamp shall be put out in than sacrifice.
blackness of darkness. 4 A high look, and a proud heart,
21 An inheritance may be gotten Even the lamp of the wicked, is
hastily at the beginning; sin.
But the end of it will not be 5 The thoughts of the diligent tend
blessed. only to abundance;
22 Do not say, “I will repay evil”: But every one who is hasty hastens
Wait for Jehovah, and he will only to want.
save you.
23 Diverse weights are an abomi- 6 The getting of treasures by a ly-
nation to Jehovah; ing tongue
And a false balance is not good. Is a vapor driven to and fro by
24 A man’s goings are of Jehovah; those who seek death.
How then can man understand 7 The violence of the wicked will
his way? sweep them away,
25 It is a snare to a man rashly to Because they refuse to do justice.
say, “It is holy”, 8 The way of him who is laden
And after vows to make with guilt is exceeding crooked;
inquiry. But as for the pure, his work is
26 A wise king winnows the right.
wicked, 9 It is better to dwell in the corner
And brings the threshing wheel of the housetop,
over them. Than with a contentious woman
27 The spirit of man is the lamp of in a wide house.
Jehovah, 10 The soul of the wicked desires
Searching all his innermost evil:
parts. His neighbor finds no favor in
28 Kindness and truth preserve the his eyes.
king; 11 When the scoffer is punished,
And his throne is upheld by the simple is made wise;
kindness. And when the wise is
29 The glory of young men is their instructed, he receives
strength; knowledge.
And the beauty of old men is 12 The righteous man considers
the gray head. the house of the wicked,
30 Stripes that wound cleanse How the wicked are overthrown
away evil; to their ruin.
And strokes reach the innermost 13 Whoever stops his ears at the
parts. cry of the poor,

21 The king’s heart is in the

hand of Jehovah as the wa-
tercourses:
He turns it wherever he will.
2 Every way of a man is right in his
own eyes;
But Jehovah weighs the hearts.
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He also will cry, but will not be
heard.
14 A gift in secret pacifies anger;
And a present in the bosom,
strong wrath.
15 It is joy to the righteous to do
justice;
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workers of iniquity. 28 A false witness will perish;
16 The man who wanders out of But the man who hears will
the way of understanding speak so as to endure.
Will rest in the assembly of the 29 A wicked man hardens his face;
dead. But as for the upright, he
17 He who loves pleasure will establishes his ways.
be a poor man: 30 There is no wisdom nor under-
standing
He who loves wine and oil will Nor counsel against Jehovah.
not be rich. 31 The horse is prepared against
18 The wicked is a ransom for the the day of battle;
righteous; But victory is of Jehovah.
And the treacherous comes in
the stead of the upright.
19 It is better to dwell in a desert
22 A good name is rather to be
chosen than great riches,
And loving favor rather than sil-
land, ver and gold.
Than with a contentious and 2 The rich and the poor meet to-
fretful woman. gether:
20 There is precious treasure and Jehovah is the maker of them all.
oil in the dwelling of the wise; 3 A prudent man sees the evil, and
But a foolish man swallows it hides himself;
up. But the simple pass on, and suffer
21 He who follows after righteous- for it.
ness and kindness 4 The reward of humility and the
Finds life, righteousness, and fear of Jehovah
honor. Are riches, and honor, and life.
22 A wise man scales the city of the 5 Thorns and snares are in the way
mighty, of the perverse:
And brings down the strength He who keeps his soul will be far
of the confidence thereof. from them.
23 Whoever keeps his mouth and 6 Train up a child in the way he
his tongue should go,
Keeps his soul from troubles. And even when he is old he will
24 The proud and haughty man, not depart from it.
scoffer is his name; 7 The rich rule over the poor;
He works in the arrogance of And the borrower is servant to
pride. the lender.
25 The desire of the sluggard kills 8 He who sows iniquity will reap
him; calamity;
For his hands refuse to labor. And the rod of his wrath will fail.
26 There is one who covets greedily 9 He who has a bountiful eye will
all the day long; be blessed;
But the righteous gives and For he gives of his bread to the
does not withhold. poor.
27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an 10 Cast out the scoffer, and con-
abomination: tention will go out;
How much more, when he Yes, strife and dishonor will
brings it with a wicked mind! cease.
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11 He who loves pureness of heart,
For the grace of his lips the king
will be his friend.
12 The eyes of Jehovah preserve
him who has knowledge;
But he overthrows the words of
the treacherous man.
13 The sluggard says, “There is a
lion without;
I shall be slain in the streets.”
14 The mouth of strange women is
a deep pit;
He who is abhorred of Jehovah
will fall there.
15 Foolishness is bound up in the
heart of a child;
But the rod of correction will
drive it far from him.
16 He who oppresses the poor to
increase his gain,
And he who gives to the rich,
will come only to want.
17 Incline your ear, and hear the
words of the wise,
And apply your heart to my
18
knowledge.
For it is a pleasant thing if you
keep them within you,
If they be established together
on your lips.
19 That your trust may be in Jeho-
vah,
I have made them known to you 3 Do not be desirous of his delica-
this day, even to you.
20 Have I not written to you excel-
lent things
Of counsels and knowledge,
21 To make you know the certainty 5 Will you set your eyes on that
of the words of truth,
That you may carry back words
of truth to those who send
you?
22 Do not rob the poor, because he 6 Do not eat the bread of him who
is poor;
Neither oppress the afflicted in
the gate:
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23 For Jehovah will plead their
cause,
And plunder of life those who
plunder them.
24 Make no friendship with a man
who is given to anger;
And with a wrathful man you
shall not go:
25 Lest you learn his ways,
And get a snare to your soul.
26 Do not be one of those who
strike hands,
Or of those who are sureties for
debts.
27 If you have nothing with which
to pay,
Why should he take away your
bed from under you?
28 Do not remove the ancient land-
mark,
Which your fathers have set.
29 Do you see a man diligent in his
business? he will stand before
kings;
He will not stand before
obscure men.
23 When you sit to eat with a
ruler,
Consider diligently him who is
before you;
2 And put a knife to your throat,
If you are a man given to ap-
petite.
cies;
Seeing they are deceitful food.
4 Do not weary yourself to be rich;
Cease from your own wisdom.
which is not?
For riches certainly make them-
selves wings,
Like an eagle that flies toward
heaven.
has an evil eye,
Neither desire his delicacies:
7 For as he thinks within himself,
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Eat and drink, he says to you;
But his heart is not with you.
22
8 The morsel which you have eaten
you will vomit up,
And lose your sweet words.
9 Do not speak in the hearing of a 23
fool;
For he will despise the wisdom of
your words. 24
10 Do not remove the ancient land-
mark;
And do not enter into the fields
of the fatherless: 25
11 For their Redeemer is strong;
He will plead their cause
against you.
12 Apply your heart to instruction, 26
And your ears to the words of
knowledge.
13 Do not withhold correction 27
from the child;
For if you beat him with the
rod, he will not die. 28
14 You shall beat him with the rod,
And shall deliver his soul from
Sheol. 29
15 My son, if your heart is wise,
My heart will be glad, even
mine:
16 Yes, my heart will rejoice,
When your lips speak right 30
things.
17 Do not let your heart envy sin-
ners;
But be in the fear of Jehovah all 31
the day long:
18 For surely there is a reward;
And your hope will not be cut
off. 32
19 Hear, my son, and be wise,
And guide your heart in the 33
way.
20 Do not be among drunkards,
Among gluttonous eaters of
flesh: 34
21 For the drunkard and the glut-
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ton will come to poverty;
And drowsiness will clothe a
man with rags.
Listen to your father who begot
you,
And do not despise your
mother when she is old.
Buy the truth, and do not sell it;
Yes, wisdom, and instruction,
and understanding.
The father of the righteous will
greatly rejoice;
And he who begets a wise child
will have joy in him.
Let your father and your mother
be glad,
And let her who bare you
rejoice.
My son, give me your heart;
And let your eyes delight in my
ways.
For a harlot is a deep ditch;
And a foreign woman is a
narrow pit.
Yes, she lies in wait as a robber,
And increases the treacherous
among men.
Who has woe? who has sorrow?
who has contentions?
Who has complaining? who has
wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?
Those who delay long at the
wine;
Those who go to seek out
mixed wine.
Do not look on the wine when it
is red,
When it sparkles in the cup,
When it goes down smoothly:
At the last it bites like a serpent,
And stings like an adder.
Your eyes will behold strange
things,
And your heart will utter
perverse things.
Yes, you will be as he who lies
down in the midst of the sea,
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Or as he who lies on the top of
a mast.
35 “They have struck me”, you will
say, “and I was not hurt;
They have beaten me, and I did 13
not feel it:
When shall I awake? I will seek
it yet again."
24 Do not be envious against 14
evil men;
Neither desire to be with them:
2 For their heart studies oppres-
sion,
And their lips talk of mischief.
3 Through wisdom is a house built; 15
And by understanding it is estab-
lished;
4 And by knowledge are the cham-
bers filled
With all precious and pleasant 16
riches.
5 A wise man is strong;
Yes, a man of knowledge in-
creases might. 17
6 For by wise guidance you will
make your war;
And in the multitude of coun-
selors there is safety. 18
7 Wisdom is too high for a fool:
He does not open his mouth in
the gate.
8 He who devises to do evil, 19
Men will call him a mischief-
maker.
9 The thought of foolishness is sin;
And the scoffer is an abomination 20
to men.
10 If you faint in the day of adver-
sity,
Your strength is small. 21
11 Deliver those who are carried
away to death,
And those who are ready to be
slain see that you hold back.
12 If you say, “Behold, we did not 22
know this;”
Does not he who weighs the
hearts consider it?
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And he who keeps your soul,
does he not know it?
And will he not render to every
man according to his work?
My son, eat honey, for it is good;
And the drippings of the
honeycomb, which are sweet
to your taste:
So will you know wisdom to be
to your soul;
If you have found it, then will
there be a reward,
And your hope will not be cut
off.
Do not lie in wait, O wicked
man, against the habitation of
the righteous;
Do not destroy his resting
place:
For a righteous man falls seven
times, and rises up again;
But the wicked are overthrown
by calamity.
Do not rejoice when your en-
emy falls,
And let not your heart be glad
when he is overthrown;
Lest Jehovah see it, and it dis-
please him,
And he turn away his wrath
from him.
Do not fret yourself because of
evildoers;
Neither be envious at the
wicked:
For there will be no reward to
the evil man;
The lamp of the wicked will be
put out.
My son, fear Jehovah and the
king;
And do not keep company with
those who are given to
change:
For their calamity will rise sud-
denly;
And the destruction from them
both, who knows it?
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23 These also are sayings of the
wise.
To have respect of persons in
judgment is not good.
24 He who says to the wicked,
“You are righteous,"
Peoples will curse him, nations
will abhor him;
25 But to those who rebuke him
will be delight,
And a good blessing will come
upon them.
26 He kisses the lips
Who gives a right answer.
27 Prepare your work outside,
And make it ready for you in
the field;
And afterwards build your
house.
28 Do not be a witness against your
neighbor without cause;
And do not deceive with your
lips.
29 Do not say, “I will do so to him
as he has done to me;
I will render to the man
according to his work.”
30 I went by the field of the slug-
gard,
And by the vineyard of the man
void of understanding;
31 And, lo, it was all grown over
with thorns,
The face of it was covered with
nettles,
And the stone its wall was
broken down.
32 Then I beheld, and considered
well;
I saw, and received instruction:
33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, 10 Lest he who hears it revile you,
A little folding of the hands to
sleep;
34 So shall your poverty come as a
robber,
And your want as an armed
man.
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25 These also are proverbs of
Solomon, which the men of
Hezekiah king of Judah
copied out.
2 It is the glory of God to conceal a
thing;
But the glory of kings is to search
out a matter.
3 As the heavens for height, and
the earth for depth,
So the heart of kings is unsearch-
able.
4 Take away the dross from the sil-
ver,
And there comes forth a vessel
for the refiner:
5 Take away the wicked from before
the king,
And his throne will be estab-
lished in righteousness.
6 Do not put yourself forward in
the presence of the king,
And do not stand in the place of
great men:
7 For better is it that it be said to
you, "Come up here,”
Than that you should be put
lower in the presence of the
prince,
Whom your eyes have seen.
8 Do not go forth hastily to strive,
Lest you do not know what to do
in its end,
When your neighbor has put you
to shame.
9 Debate your cause with your
neighbor himself,
And do not disclose the secret of
another;
And your infamy not turn
away.
11 A word fitly spoken
Is like apples of gold in network
of silver.
12 As an earring of gold, and an or-
nament of fine gold,
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So is a wise reprover upon an
obedient ear.
13 As the cold of snow in the time
of harvest,
So is a faithful messenger to
those who send him;
For he refreshes the soul of his
masters.
14 As clouds and wind without
rain,
So is he who boasts himself of
his gifts falsely.
15 By long forbearing is a ruler per-
suaded,
And a soft tongue breaks the
bone.
16 Have you found honey? eat so
much as is sufficient for you,
Lest you be filled with it, and
17
vomit it.
Let your foot be seldom in your
neighbor’s house,
Lest he be weary of you, and
hate you.
18 A man who bears false witness
against his neighbor
Is a maul, and a sword, and a
sharp arrow.
19 Confidence in an unfaithful
man in time of trouble
Is like a broken tooth, and a foot
out of joint.
20 As one who takes off a garment 5 Answer a fool according to his
in cold weather, and as vinegar
on soda,
So is he who sings songs to a
heavy heart.
21 If your enemy is hungry, give
him bread to eat;
And if he is thirsty, give him
water to drink:
22 For you will heap coals of fire on
his head,
And Jehovah will reward you.
23 The north wind brings forth
rain:
So does a backbiting tongue an 9 As a thorn that goes up into the
angry countenance.
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24 It is better to dwell in the corner
of the housetop,
Than with a contentious
woman in a wide house.
25 As cold waters to a thirsty soul,
So is good news from a far
country.
26 As a troubled fountain, and a
corrupted spring,
So is a righteous man who gives
way before the wicked.
27 It is not good to eat much hon-
ey:
So for men to search out their
own glory is grievous.
28 He whose spirit is without re-
straint
Is like a city that is broken down
and without walls.
26 As snow in summer, and as
rain in harvest,
So honor is not fitting for a fool.
2 As the sparrow in her wandering,
as the swallow in her flying,
So the curse that is causeless does
not alight.
3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for
the donkey,
And a rod for the back of fools.
4 Answer not a fool according to
his folly,
Lest you also be like him.
folly,
Lest he be wise in his own con-
ceit.
6 He who sends a message by the
hand of a fool
Cuts off his own feet, and drinks in
damage.
7 The legs of the lame hang loose;
So is a parable in the mouth of
fools.
8 As one who binds a stone in a
sling,
So is he who gives honor to a fool.
hand of a drunkard,
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So is a parable in the mouth of And they go down into the
fools. innermost parts.
10 As an archer that wounds all, 23 Fervent lips and a wicked heart
So is he who hires a fool and he Are like an earthen vessel
who hires those who pass by. overlaid with silver dross.
11 As a dog that returns to his 24 He who hates disguises with his
vomit, lips;
So is a fool who repeats his But he lays up deceit within
folly. him:
12 Do you see a man wise in his 25 When he speaks fair, do not be-
own conceit? lieve him;
There is more hope for a fool For there are seven
than for him. abominations in his heart:
13 The sluggard says, “There is a 26 Though his hatred cover itself
lion in the way; with deceit,
A lion is in the streets.” His wickedness will be openly
14 As the door turns on its hinges, showed before the assembly.
So does the sluggard on his 27 Whoever digs a pit will fall into
bed. it;
15 The sluggard buries his hand in And he who rolls a stone, it will
the dish; return upon him.
It wearies him to bring it again 28 A lying tongue hates those
to his mouth. whom it has wounded;
16 The sluggard is wiser in his own And a flattering mouth works
conceit ruin.
Than seven men who can
render a reason.
17 He who passes by, and vexes
27 Do not boast about tomor-
row;
For you do not know what a day
himself with strife not belong- may bring forth.
ing to him, 2 Let another man praise you, and
Is like one who takes a dog by not your own mouth;
the ears. A stranger, and not your own
18 As a madman who casts fire- lips.
brands, 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand
Arrows, and death, weighty;
19 So is the man who deceives his But a fool’s vexation is heavier
neighbor, than them both.
And says, “Am not I joking?” 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is over-
20 For lack of wood the fire goes whelming;
out; But who is able to stand before
And where there is no jealousy?
whisperer, contention ceases. 5 Better is open rebuke
21 As coals are to hot embers, and Than love that is hidden.
wood to fire, 6 Faithful are the wounds of a
So is a contentious man to friend;
inflame strife. But the kisses of an enemy are
22 The words of a whisperer are as profuse.
dainty morsels, 7 The full soul loathes a honey-
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But to the hungry soul every bit- will be honored.
ter thing is sweet. 19 As in water face answers to face,
8 As a bird that wanders from her So the heart of man to man.
nest, 20 Sheol and Abaddon are never
So is a man who wanders from satisfied;
his place. And the eyes of man are never
9 Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; satisfied.
So does the sweetness of a man’s 21 The refining pot is for silver, and
friend who comes by hearty the furnace for gold;
counsel. And a man is tried by his praise.
10 Your own friend, and your fa- 22 Though you should pound a
ther’s friend, do not forsake; fool in a mortar with a pestle
And do not go to your along with bruised grain,
brother’s house in the day of Yet his foolishness will not
your calamity: depart from him.
Better is a neighbor who is near
than a brother far off. 23 Be diligent to know the state of
11 My son, be wise, and make my your flocks,
heart glad, And look well to your herds:
That I may answer him who 24 For riches are not for ever:
reproaches me. And does the crown endure to
12 A prudent man sees the evil, and all generations?
hides himself; 25 The hay is carried, and the ten-
But the simple pass on, and der grass shows itself,
suffer for it. And the herbs of the mountains
13 Take his garment who is surety are gathered in.
for a stranger; 26 The lambs are for your clothing,
And hold him in pledge who is And the goats are the price of
surety for a foreign woman. the field;
14 He who blesses his friend with a 27 And there will be goats’ milk
loud voice, rising early in the enough for your food, for the
morning, food of your household,
It will be counted a curse to And maintenance for your
him. maidens.
15 A continual dripping in a very
rainy day
And a contentious woman are
alike:
28 The wicked flee when no
man pursues;
But the righteous are bold as a
16 He who would restrain her re- lion.
strains the wind; 2 For the transgression of a land
And his right hand encounters many are its princes;
oil. But by men of understanding and
17 Iron sharpens iron; knowledge its state will be
So a man sharpens the prolonged.
countenance of his friend. 3 A needy man who oppresses the
18 Whoever keeps the fig tree will poor
eat its fruit; Is like a sweeping rain which
And he who regards his master leaves no food.
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4 Those who forsake the law praise 15
the wicked;
But such as keep the law contend
with them.
5 Evil men do not understand jus- 16
tice;
But those who seek Jehovah un-
derstand all things.
6 Better is the poor who walks in
his integrity, 17
Than he who is perverse in his
ways, though he be rich.
7 Whoever keeps the law is a wise
son; 18
But he who is a companion of
gluttons shames his father.
8 He who increases his substance
by interest and increase, 19
Gathers it for him who has pity
on the poor.
9 He who turns away his ear from
hearing the law,
Even his prayer is an abomina- 20
tion.
10 Whoever causes the upright to
go astray in an evil way,
He will fall himself into his 21
own pit;
But the perfect will inherit
good.
11 The rich man is wise in his own
conceit; 22
But the poor who has
understanding searches him
out.
12 When the righteous triumph, 23
there is great glory;
But when the wicked rise, men
hide themselves.
13 He who covers his transgres- 24
sions will not prosper:
But whoever confesses and
forsakes them will obtain
mercy.
14 Happy is the man who fears al- 25
ways;
But he who hardens his heart
will fall into mischief.
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As a roaring lion, and a ranging
bear,
So is a wicked ruler over a poor
people.
The prince who lacks under-
standing is also a great op-
pressor;
But he who hates covetousness
will prolong his days.
A man who is laden with the
blood of any person
Will flee to the pit; let no man
stay him.
Whoever walks uprightly will
be delivered;
But he who is perverse in his
ways will fall at once.
He who tills his land will have
plenty of bread;
But he who follows after vain
persons will have poverty
enough.
A faithful man will abound with
blessings;
But he who makes haste to be
rich will not be unpunished.
To have respect of persons is not
good;
Neither that a man should
transgress for a piece of
bread.
He who has an evil eye hastens
after riches,
And does not know that want
will come upon him.
He who rebukes a man will af-
terward find more favor
Than he who flatters with the
tongue.
Whoever robs his father or his
mother, and says, “It is no
transgression,”
The same is the companion of a
destroyer.
He who is of a greedy spirit stirs
up strife;
But he who puts his trust in
Jehovah will be made fat.
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26 He who trusts in his own heart 11
is a fool;
But whoever walks wisely, he
will be delivered.
27 He who gives to the poor will
not lack;
But he who hides his eyes will
have many a curse.
28 When the wicked rise, men hide
themselves;
But when they perish, the
righteous increase.
29 He who being often re-
proved hardens his neck
Will suddenly be destroyed, and
that without remedy
2 When the righteous are in-
creased, the people rejoice;
But when a wicked man rules, the
people sigh.
3 Whoever loves wisdom rejoices
his father;
But he who keeps company with
harlots wastes his substance.
4 The king by justice establishes
the land;
But he who exacts gifts over-
throws it.
5 A man who flatters his neighbor
Spreads a net for his steps.
6 In the transgression of an evil
man there is a snare;
But the righteous sings and re-
joices.
7 The righteous takes knowledge
of the cause of the poor;
The wicked has not understand-
ing to know it.
8 Scoffers set a city in a flame;
But wise men turn away wrath.
9 If a wise man has a controversy
with a foolish man,
Whether he be angry or laugh,
there will be no rest.
10 The bloodthirsty hate him who 23
is perfect;
And as for the upright, they
seek his life.
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A fool utters all his anger;
But a wise man keeps it back
and stills it.
12 If a ruler listens to falsehood,
All his servants are wicked.
13 The poor man and the oppres-
sor meet together;
Jehovah enlightens the eyes of
them both.
14 The king who faithfully judges
the poor,
His throne will be established
15
for ever.
The rod and reproof give wis-
dom;
But a child left to himself
causes shame to his mother.
16 When the wicked are increased,
transgression increases;
But the righteous will look on
their fall.
17 Correct your son, and he will
give you rest;
Yes, he will give delight to your
soul.
18 Where there is no vision, the
people cast off restraint;
But he who keeps the law,
happy is he.
19 A servant will not be corrected
by words;
For though he understands, he
will not give heed.
20 Do you see a man who is hasty
in his words?
There is more hope of a fool
than for him.
21 He who delicately brings up his
servant from a child
Will have him become a son at
the last.
22 An angry man stirs up strife,
And a wrathful man abounds
in transgression.
A man’s pride shall bring him
low;
But he who is of a lowly spirit
will obtain honor.
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24 Whoever is partner with a thief 8 Remove far from me falsehood
hates his own soul;
He hears the oath and utters
nothing.
25 The fear of man brings a snare;
But whoever puts his trust in
Jehovah shall be safe.
26 Many seek the ruler’s favor;
But a man’s judgment comes
from Jehovah.
27 An unjust man is an abomina-
tion to the righteous;
And he who is upright in the
way is an abomination to the
wicked.
30 The words of Agur the son of
Jakeh; the oracle.
The man said to Ithiel, to Ithiel
and Ucal:
2 Surely I am more stupid than any
man,
And do not have the understand-
ing of a man;
3 And I have not learned wisdom,
Neither have I the knowledge of
the Holy One.
4 Who has ascended up into
heaven, and descended?
Who has gathered the wind in his
fists?
Who has bound the waters in his
garment?
Who has established all the ends 15 The leech has two daughters,
of the earth?
What is his name, and what is his
son’s name, if you know?
5 Every word of God is tried:
He is a shield to those who take 16 Sheol; and the barren womb;
refuge in him.
6 Do not add to his words,
Lest he reprove you, and you be
found a liar.
7 Two things have I asked of you;
Do not deny them before I die:
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and lies;
Give me neither poverty nor
riches;
Feed me with the food that is nec-
essary for me:
9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and
say, “Who is Jehovah?”
Or lest I be poor, and steal,
And use profanely the name of
my God.
10 Do not slander a servant to his
master,
Lest he curse you, and you be
held guilty.
11 There is a generation that curse
their father,
And do not bless their mother.
12 There is a generation that are
pure in their own eyes,
And yet are not washed from
their filthiness.
13 There is a generation, oh how
lofty are their eyes!
And their eyelids are lifted up.
14 There is a generation whose
teeth are as swords, and their
jaw teeth as knives,
To devour the poor from off the
earth, and the needy from
among men.
crying, “Give, give.”
There are three things that are
never satisfied,
Yes, four that do not say,
“Enough”:
The earth that is not satisfied
with water;
And the fire that does not say,
“Enough.”
17 The eye that mocks at his father,
And despises to obey his
mother,
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The ravens of the valley will
pick it out,
And the young eagles will eat
it.
18 There are three things which are
too wonderful for me,
Yes, four which I do not know:
19 The way of an eagle in the air;
The way of a serpent on a rock;
The way of a ship in the midst
of the sea;
And the way of a man with a
maiden.
20 So is the way of an adulterous
woman;
She eats, and wipes her mouth,
And says, “I have done no
wickedness.”
21 For three things the earth trem-
bles,
And for four, which it cannot
bear:
22 For a servant when he is king;
And a fool when he is filled
with food;
23 For an odious woman when she
is married;
And a maidservant who is heir
to her mistress.
24 There are four things which are
little upon the earth,
But they are exceeding wise:
25 The ants are a people not strong, 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is
Yet they provide their food in
the summer;
26 The hyrax are but a feeble folk,
Yet make they their houses in
the rocks;
27 The locusts have no king,
Yet they go forth all of them by
bands;
28 The lizard takes hold with her
hands,
Yet she is in kings’ palaces.
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29 There are three things which are
stately in their march,
Yes, four which are stately in
going:
30 The lion, which is mightiest
among beasts,
And does not turn away for
any;
31 The greyhound; the male goat
also;
And the king against whom
there is no rising up.
32 If you have done foolishly in
lifting up yourself,
Or if you have thought evil,
Lay your hand on your mouth.
33 For the churning of milk brings
forth butter,
And the wringing of the nose
brings forth blood;
So the forcing of wrath brings
forth strife.
31 The words of king Lemuel;
the oracle which his
mother taught him.
2 What, my son? and what, O son
of my womb?
And what, O son of my vows?
3 Do not give your strength to
women,
Nor your ways to that which de-
stroys kings.
not for kings to drink wine;
Nor for princes to say, "Where is
strong drink?”
5 Lest they drink, and forget the
law,
And pervert the justice due to any
who is afflicted.
6 Give strong drink to him who is
ready to perish,
And wine to the bitter in soul:
7 Let him drink, and forget his
poverty,
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And remember his misery no
more.
8 Open your mouth for the dumb, 21 She is not afraid of the snow for
In the cause of all such as are left
desolate.
9 Open your mouth, judge righ-
teously,
And minister justice to the poor
and needy.
10 A worthy woman who can find? 23 Her husband is known in the
For her price is far above
rubies.
11 The heart of her husband trusts
in her,
And he will have no lack of
gain.
12 She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life.
13 She seeks wool and flax,
And works willingly with her
hands.
14 She is like the merchant ships;
She brings her bread from afar.
15 She rises also while it is yet
night,
And gives food to her
household,
And their task to her maidens.
16 She considers a field, and buys
it;
With the fruit of her hands she
plants a vineyard.
17 She girds her loins with
strength,
And makes strong her arms.
18 She perceives that her merchan-
dise is profitable;
Her lamp does not go out by
night.
19 She lays her hands to the distaff,
And her hands hold the
spindle.
20 She stretches out her hand to the
poor;
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Yes, she reaches forth her hands
to the needy.
her household;
For all her household are
clothed with scarlet.
22 She makes for herself carpets of
tapestry;
Her clothing is fine linen and
purple.
gates,
When he sits among the elders
of the land.
24 She makes linen garments and
sells them,
And delivers belts unto the
merchant.
25 Strength and dignity are her
clothing;
And she laughs at the time to
come.
26 She opens her mouth with wis-
dom;
And the law of kindness is on
her tongue.
27 She looks well to the ways of her
household,
And eats not the bread of
idleness.
28 Her children rise up, and call
her blessed;
Her husband also, and he
praises her, saying:
29 “Many daughters have done
worthily,
But you excel them all.”
30 Grace is deceitful, and beauty is
vain;
But a woman who fears
Jehovah, she shall be praised.
31 Give her of the fruit of her
hands;
And let her works praise her in
the gates.
 EC CLESIASTES
OR, THE PREACHER

1 The words of the Preacher, the the sons of men to be exercised

son of David, king in Jerusalem. with. 14 I have seen all the works
2 Vanity of vanities, says the that are done under the sun; and,
Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is behold, all is vanity and a striving
vanity. 3 What profit has man in all after wind. 15 That which is
his labor in which he labors under crooked cannot be made straight;
the sun? 4 One generation goes, and that which is lacking cannot be
and another generation comes; but numbered. 16 I communed with
the earth remains forever. 5 The sun my own heart, saying, “Look, I
also rises, and the sun goes down, have attained great wisdom above
and hastens to its place where it all who were before me in
rises. 6 The wind goes toward the Jerusalem; yes, my heart has had
south, and turns around to the great experience of wisdom and
north; it turns around continually knowledge.” 17 And I applied my
in its course, and the wind returns heart to know wisdom, and to
again to its circuits. 7 All the rivers know madness and folly: I per-
run into the sea, yet the sea is not ceived that this also was a striving
full; to the place where the rivers after wind. 18 For in much wisdom
go, there they go again. 8 All things is much grief; and he who increases
are full of weariness; man cannot knowledge increases sorrow.
utter it: the eye is not satisfied with
seeing, nor the ear filled with hear- 2 I said in my heart, “Come now,
I will test you with joy; therefore
ing. 9 That which has been is that enjoy pleasure”: and, behold, this
which will be; and that which has also was vanity. 2 I said of laughter,
been done is that which will be “It is mad”; and of joy, “What does
done: and there is no new thing un- it do?” 3 I searched in my heart how
der the sun. 10 Is there a thing of to cheer my flesh with wine, my
which it may be said, “See, this is heart yet guiding me with wisdom,
new?” it has been long ago, in the and how to lay hold on folly, until I
ages which were before us. 11 There might see what it was good for the
is no remembrance of the former sons of men that they should do un-
generations; neither will there be der heaven all the days of their life.
any remembrance of the latter gen- 4 I made myself great works; I built
erations that are to come, among myself houses; I planted myself
those who will come after. vineyards; 5 I made myself gardens
12 I the Preacher was king over Is- and parks, and I planted trees in
rael in Jerusalem. 13 And I applied them of all kinds of fruit; 6 I made
my heart to seek and to search out myself pools of water, from which
by wisdom concerning all that is to water the forest where trees were
done under heaven: it is a burden- reared; 7 I bought male servants
some travail that God has given to and female servants, and had ser-
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vants born in my house; also I had for all is vanity and a striving after
great possessions of herds and wind.
flocks, above all who were before 18 And I hated all my labor in
me in Jerusalem; 8 I gathered my- which I labored under the sun, see-
self also silver and gold, and the ing that I must leave it to the man
treasure of kings and of the prov- who will be after me. 19 And who
inces; I gathered myself male knows whether he will be a wise
singers and female singers, and the man or a fool? yet he will have rule
delights of the sons of men, musical over all my labor in which I have la-
instruments, and that of all sorts. 9 bored, and in which I have shown
So I was great, and increased more myself wise under the sun. This
than all who were before me in also is vanity. 20 Therefore I turned
Jerusalem: also my wisdom re- about to cause my heart to despair
mained with me. 10 And whatso- concerning all the labor in which I
ever my eyes desired I did not keep had labored under the sun. 21 For
from them; I did not withhold my there is a man whose labor is with
heart from any joy; for my heart re- wisdom, and with knowledge, and
joiced because of all my labor; and with skillfulness; yet to a man who
this was my portion from all my la- has not labored for it shall he leave
bor. 11 Then I looked on all the it for his portion. This also is vanity
works that my hands had done, and a great evil. 22 For what has a
and on the labor that I had labored man for all his labor, and for the
to do; and, behold, all was vanity striving of his heart, in which he
and a striving after wind, and there labors under the sun? 23 For all his
was no profit under the sun. days are but sorrows, and his tra-
12 And I turned myself to behold vail is grief; yes, even in the night
wisdom, and madness, and folly: his heart takes no rest. This also is
for what can the man do who comes vanity.
after the king? even that which has 24 There is nothing better for a
been done long ago. 13 Then I saw man than that he should eat and
that wisdom excels folly, as far as drink, and make his soul enjoy
light excels darkness. 14 The wise good in his labor. This also I saw,
man’s eyes are in his head, and the that it is from the hand of God. 25
fool walks in darkness: and yet I For who can eat, or who can have
perceived that one event happens enjoyment, more than I? 26 For to
to them all. 15 Then I said in my the man who pleases him God gives
heart, “As it happens to the fool, so wisdom, and knowledge, and joy;
will it happen even to me; and why but to the sinner he gives travail, to
was I then more wise?” Then I said gather and to heap up, that he may
in my heart, that this also is vanity. give to him who pleases God. This
16 For of the wise man, even as of also is vanity and a striving after
the fool, there is no remembrance wind.
forever; seeing that in the days to
come all will have been long forgot- 3 For everything there is a sea-
son, and a time for every pur-
ten. And how does the wise man pose under heaven: 2 a time to be
die even as the fool! 17 So I hated born, and a time to die; a time to
life, because the work that is done plant, and a time to pluck up that
under the sun was grievous to me; which is planted; 3 a time to kill,
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and a time to heal; a time to break heart, “It is because of the sons of
down, and a time to build up; 4 a men, that God may test them, and
time to weep, and a time to laugh; a that they may see that they them-
time to mourn, and a time to dance; selves are but as beasts.” 19 For that
5 a time to cast away stones, and a which happens to the sons of men
time to gather stones together; a happens to beasts; even one thing
time to embrace, and a time to re- happens to them: as the one dies, so
frain from embracing; 6 a time to dies the other; yes, they have all one
seek, and a time to lose; a time to breath; and man has no preemi-
keep, and a time to cast away; 7 a nence above the beasts: for all is
time to tear, and a time to sew; a vanity. 20 All go to one place; all are
time to keep silence, and a time to of the dust, and all turn to dust
speak; 8 a time to love, and a time again. 21 Who knows the spirit of
to hate; a time for war, and a time man, whether it goes upward, and
for peace. 9 What profit has he who the spirit of the beast, whether it
works in that in which he labors? 10 goes downward to the earth? 22 So
I have seen the travail which God I saw that there is nothing better,
has given to the sons of men to be than that a man should rejoice in
exercised with. 11 He has made ev- his works; for that is his portion: for
erything beautiful in its time: also who will bring him back to see what
he has set eternity in their heart, yet will be after him?
so that man cannot find out the
work that God has done from the 4 Then I returned and saw all
the oppressions that are done
beginning even to the end. 12 I under the sun: and, behold, the
know that there is nothing better tears of such as were oppressed,
for them, than to rejoice, and to do and they had no comforter; and on
good so long as they live. 13 And the side of their oppressors there
also that every man should eat and was power; but they had no com-
drink, and enjoy good in all his la- forter. 2 Therefore I praised the
bor, is the gift of God. 14 I know dead who have been long dead
that, whatsoever God does, it shall more than the living who are still
be forever: nothing can be put to it, alive; 3 yes, better than them both
nor anything taken from it; and did I esteem him who has not yet
God has done it, that men should been, who has not seen the evil
fear before him. 15 That which is work that is done under the sun.
has been long ago; and that which 4 Then I saw all labor and every
is to be has long ago been: and God skillful work, that for this a man is
seeks again that which is passed envied by his neighbor. This also is
away. vanity and a striving after wind. 5
16 And moreover I saw under the The fool folds his hands together,
sun, in the place of justice, that and eats his own flesh. 6 Better is a
wickedness was there; and in the handful, with quietness, than two
place of righteousness, that wicked- handfuls with labor and striving af-
ness was there. 17 I said in my ter wind.
heart, “God will judge the right- 7 Then I returned and saw vanity
eous and the wicked; for there is a under the sun. 8 There is one who is
time there for every purpose and alone, and he has not a second; yes,
for every work.” 18 I said in my he has neither son nor brother; yet
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is there no end of all his labor, nei- fools: pay that which you vow. 5
ther are his eyes satisfied with Better is it that you should not vow,
riches. “For whom then,” says he, than that you should vow and not
“do I labor, and deprive my soul of pay. 6 Do not permit your mouth to
good?” This also is vanity, yes, it is cause your flesh to sin; neither say
a severe travail. 9 Two are better before the angel, that it was an er-
than one, because they have a good ror: why should God be angry at
reward for their labor. 10 For if they your voice, and destroy the work of
fall, the one will lift up his compan- your hands? 7 For in the multitude
ion; but woe to him who is alone of dreams there are vanities, and in
when he falls, and does not have many words: but fear God.
another to lift him up. 11 Again, if 8 If you see the oppression of the
two lie together, then they have poor, and the violent taking away
warmth; but how can one be warm of justice and righteousness in a
alone? 12 And if a man prevail province, do not marvel at the mat-
against him who is alone, two will ter: for one higher than the high re-
withstand him; and a threefold gards; and there are higher than
cord is not quickly broken. those. 9 Moreover the profit of the
13 Better is a poor and wise youth earth is for all: the king himself is
than an old and foolish king, who served by the field.
does not know how to receive ad- 10 He who loves silver will not be
monition anymore. 14 For out of satisfied with silver; nor he who
prison he came forth to be king; yes, loves abundance, with increase:
even in his kingdom he was born this also is vanity. 11 When goods
poor. 15 I saw all the living who increase, they are increased who eat
walk under the sun, that they were them; and what advantage is there
with the youth, the second, who to the owner of it, except the be-
stood up in his stead. 16 There was holding of them with his eyes? 12
no end of all the people, even of all The sleep of a laboring man is
those over whom he was: yet those sweet, whether he eat little or
who come after will not rejoice in much; but the fullness of the rich
him. Surely this also is vanity and a will not permit him to sleep.
striving after wind. 13 There is a grievous evil which I

5 Keep your foot when you go have seen under the sun, namely,
to the house of God; for to draw riches kept by the owner of it to his
near to hear is better than to give hurt: 14 and those riches perish by
the sacrifice of fools: for they do not evil venture; and if he has begotten
know that they do evil. 2 Do not be a son, there is nothing in his hand.
rash with your mouth, and do not 15 As he came forth from his
let your heart be hasty to utter any- mother’s womb, naked shall he go
thing before God; for God is in again as he came, and shall take
heaven, and you upon earth: there- nothing for his labor, which he may
fore let your words be few. 3 For a carry away in his hand. 16 And this
dream comes with a multitude of also is a grievous evil, that in all
business, and a fool’s voice with a points as he came, so shall he go:
multitude of words. 4 When you and what profit has he who he
vow a vow to God, do not defer to labors for the wind? 17 All his days
pay it; for he has no pleasure in also he eats in darkness, and he is
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severely vexed, and has sickness ity and a striving after wind.
and wrath. 10 Whatsoever has been, the
18 Behold, that which I have seen name of it was given long ago; and
to be good and to be fitting is for it is known what man is; neither
one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy can he contend with him who is
good in all his labor, in which he mightier than he. 11 Seeing there
labors under the sun, all the days of are many things that increase van-
his life which God has given him: ity, what is man the better? 12 For
for this is his portion. 19 Every man who knows what is good for man in
also to whom God has given riches his life, all the days of his vain life
and wealth, and has given him which he spends as a shadow? for
power to eat of it, and to take his who can tell a man what will be af-
portion, and to rejoice in his labor— ter him under the sun?
this is the gift of God. 20 For he will
not much remember the days of his 7 A good name is better than
precious oil; and the day of
life; because God answers him in death, than the day of one’s birth. 2
the joy of his heart. It is better to go to the house of

6 There is an evil which I have mourning than to go to the house of

seen under the sun, and it is feasting: for that is the end of all
heavy upon men: 2 a man to whom men; and the living will lay it to his
God gives riches, wealth, and heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laugh-
honor, so that he lacks nothing for ter; for by the sadness of the counte-
his soul of all that he desires, yet nance the heart is made glad. 4 The
God does not give power to eat of heart of the wise is in the house of
it, but an alien eats it; this is vanity, mourning; but the heart of fools is
and it is an evil disease. 3 If a man in the house of joy.
beget a hundred children, and live 5 It is better to hear the rebuke of
many years, so that the days of his the wise, than for a man to hear the
years are many, but his soul is not song of fools. 6 For as the crackling
filled with good, and moreover he of thorns under a pot, so is the
has no burial; I say, that an un- laughter of the fool: this also is van-
timely birth is better than he: 4 for it ity. 7 Surely extortion makes the
comes in vanity, and departs in wise man foolish; and a bribe de-
darkness, and the name of it is cov- stroys the understanding.
ered with darkness; 5 moreover it 8 Better is the end of a thing than
has not seen the sun nor known it; the beginning of it; and the patient
this has rest rather than the other: 6 in spirit is better than the proud in
yes, though he live a thousand spirit. 9 Do not be hasty in your
years twice told, and yet enjoy no spirit to be angry; for anger rests in
good, do not all go to one place? the bosom of fools. 10 Do not say,
7 All the labor of man is for his “What is the cause that the former
mouth, and yet the appetite is not days were better than these?” for
filled. 8 For what advantage has the you do not inquire wisely concern-
wise more than the fool? or what ing this.
has the poor man, who knows how 11 Wisdom is as good as an inher-
to walk before the living? 9 Better is itance; yes, more excellent is it for
the sight of the eyes than the wan- those who see the sun. 12 For wis-
dering of the desire: this also is van- dom is a defense, even as money is
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a defense; but the excellency of ness. 26 And I find more bitter than
knowledge is, that wisdom pre- death the woman whose heart is
serves the life of him who has it. 13 snares and nets, and whose hands
Consider the work of God: for who are fetters: whoever pleases God
can make that straight, which he shall escape from her; but the sin-
has made crooked? 14 In the day of ner shall be taken by her. 27 “Be-
prosperity be joyful, and in the day hold, this have I found,” says the
of adversity consider; yes, God has Preacher, “laying one thing to an-
made the one side by side with the other, to find out the account; 28
other, to the end that man should which my soul still seeks, but I have
not find out anything that will be af- not found: one man among a thou-
ter him. sand have I found; but a woman
15 All this have I seen in my days among all those have I not found.
of vanity: there is a righteous man 29 Behold, this only have I found:
who perishes in his righteousness, that God made man upright; but
and there is a wicked man who pro- they have sought out many inven-
longs his life in his evil-doing. 16 Do tions.”
not be overly righteous; neither
make yourself overly wise: why 8 Who is as the wise man? and
who knows the interpretation
should you destroy yourself? 17 Do of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes
not be overly wicked, neither be his face to shine, and the hardness
foolish: why should you die before of his face is changed. 2 I counsel
your time? 18 It is good that you you, “Keep the king’s command,
should take hold of this; yes, also and that in regard of the oath of
from that do not withdraw your God. 3 Do not be hasty to go out of
hand: for he who fears God will his presence; do not persist in an
come forth from them all. evil thing: for he does whatsoever
19 Wisdom is a strength to the pleases him.” 4 For the king’s word
wise man more than ten rulers who has power; and who may say to
are in a city. 20 Surely there is not a him, “What are you doing?” 5
righteous man upon earth, who Whoever keeps the commandment
does good, and does not sin. 21 will know no evil thing; and a wise
Also do not take heed to all words man’s heart discerns time and judg-
that are spoken, lest you hear your ment: 6 for to every purpose there
servant curse you; 22 for often also is a time and judgment; because the
your own heart knows that you misery of man is great upon him: 7
yourself likewise have cursed oth- for he does not know that which
ers. will be; for who can tell him how it
23 All this have I tested in wis- will be? 8 There is no man who has
dom: I said, “I will be wise”; but it power over the spirit to retain the
was far from me. 24 That which is, spirit; neither has he power over
is far off and exceedingly deep; the day of death; and there is no
who can find it out? 25 I turned discharge in war: neither will
around, and my heart was set to wickedness deliver him who is
know and to search out, and to seek given to it.
wisdom and the reason of things, 9 All this have I seen, and applied
and to know that wickedness is my heart to every work that is done
folly, and that foolishness is mad- under the sun: there is a time in
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which one man has power over an- righteous, and the wise, and their
other to his hurt. 10 So I saw the works, are in the hand of God;
wicked buried, and they came to the whether it be love or hatred, man
grave; and those who had done does not know it; all is before them.
right went away from the holy 2 All things come alike to all: there
place, and were forgotten in the is one event to the righteous and to
city: this also is vanity. 11 Because the wicked; to the good and to the
sentence against an evil work is not clean and to the unclean; to him
executed speedily, therefore the who sacrifices and to him who does
heart of the sons of men is fully set not sacrifice; as is the good, so is the
in them to do evil. 12 Though a sin- sinner; and he who swears, as he
ner does evil a hundred times, and who fears an oath. 3 This is an evil
prolong his days, yet surely I know in all that is done under the sun,
that it will be well with those who that there is one event to all: yes
fear God, who fear before him: 13 also, the heart of the sons of men is
but it will not be well with the full of evil, and madness is in their
wicked, neither will he prolong his heart while they live, and after that
days, which are as a shadow; be- they go to the dead. 4 For to him
cause he does not fear before God. who is joined with all the living
14 There is a vanity which is done there is hope; for a living dog is bet-
on the earth, that there are right- ter than a dead lion. 5 For the living
eous men to whom it happens ac- know that they will die: but the
cording to the work of the wicked; dead do not know anything, nei-
again, there are wicked men to ther have they any more a reward;
whom it happens according to the for the memory of them is forgot-
work of the righteous: I said that ten. 6 As well their love, as their ha-
this also is vanity. 15 Then I com- tred and their envy, is perished long
mended joy, because a man has no ago; neither have they any more a
better thing under the sun, than to portion forever in anything that is
eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: done under the sun.
for this will remain with him in his 7 Go your way, eat your bread
labor all the days of his life which with joy, and drink your wine with
God has given him under the sun. a merry heart; for God has already
16 When I applied my heart to accepted your works. 8 Let your
know wisdom, and to see the busi- garments be always white; and do
ness that is done on the earth (for not let your head lack oil. 9 Live
also there is that neither day nor joyfully with the wife whom you
night sees sleep with his eyes), 17 love all the days of your life of van-
then I beheld all the work of God, ity, which he has given you under
that man cannot find out the work the sun, all thy days of vanity: for
that is done under the sun: because that is your portion in life, and in
however much a man labors to seek your labor in which you labor un-
it out, yet he will not find it; yes der the sun. 10 Whatsoever your
moreover, though a wise man think hand finds to do, do it with your
to know it, yet will he not be able to might; for there is no work, nor de-
find it. vice, nor knowledge, nor wisdom,

9 For all this I laid to my heart, in Sheol, to which you are going.
even to explore all this: that the
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sun, that the race is not to the swift, 6 folly is set in great dignity, and the
nor the battle to the strong, neither rich sit in a low place. 7 I have seen
yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches servants upon horses, and princes
to men of understanding, nor yet walking like servants upon the
favor to men of skill; but time and earth.
chance happens to them all. 12 For 8 He who digs a pit will fall into
man also does not know his time: as it; and whoever breaks through a
the fish that are taken in an evil net, wall, a serpent will bite him. 9
and as the birds that are caught in Whoever hews out stones will be
the snare, even so are the sons of hurt by them; and he who splits
men snared in an evil time, when it wood is endangered by them. 10 If
falls suddenly upon them. the iron is blunt, and one does not
13 I have also seen wisdom under sharpen the edge, then he must ex-
the sun in this way, and it seemed ert more strength: but wisdom is
great to me: 14 There was a little profitable to direct. 11 If the serpent
city, and few men within it; and bites before it is charmed, then is
there came a great king against it, there no advantage in the charmer.
and besieged it, and built great bul- 12 The words of a wise man’s
warks against it. 15 Now there was mouth are gracious; but the lips of
found in it a poor wise man, and he a fool will swallow up himself. 13
by his wisdom delivered the city; The beginning of the words of his
yet no man remembered that same mouth is foolishness; and the end
poor man. 16 Then I said, “Wisdom of his talk is mischievous madness.
is better than strength”: neverthe- 14 A fool also multiplies words: yet
less the poor man’s wisdom is de- man does not know what will be;
spised, and his words are not and that which will be after him,
heard. 17 The words of the wise who can tell him? 15 The labor of
heard in quiet are better than the fools wearies every one of them; for
cry of him who rules among fools. he does not know how to go to the
18 Wisdom is better than weapons city.
of war; but one sinner destroys 16 Woe to you, O land, when your
much good. king is a child, and your princes eat

10 Dead flies cause the oil of in the morning! 17 Happy are you,
the perfumer to send forth an O land, when your king is the son
evil odor; so does a little folly out- of nobles, and your princes eat in
weigh wisdom and honor. 2 A wise due season, for strength, and not
man’s heart is at his right hand; but for drunkenness! 18 By slothfulness
a fool’s heart at his left. 3 Yes also, the roof sinks in; and through idle-
when the fool walks by the way, his ness of the hands the house leaks.
understanding fails him, and he 19 A feast is made for laughter, and
says to everyone that he is a fool. 4 wine makes glad the life; and
If the spirit of the ruler rises up money answers all things. 20 Do
against you, do not leave your not revile the king, no, not in your
place; for gentleness allays great thought; and do not revile the rich
offenses. in your bedroom: for a bird of the
5 There is an evil which I have heavens will carry the voice, and
seen under the sun, as it were an er- that which has wings will tell the
ror which proceeds from the ruler: matter.
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11 Cast your bread upon the after the rain; 3 in the day when the
waters; for you will find it af- keepers of the house will tremble,
ter many days. 2 Give a portion to and the strong men will bow them-
seven, yes, even to eight; for you do selves, and the grinders cease be-
not know what evil will be upon cause they are few, and those who
the earth. 3 If the clouds are full of look out of the windows will be
rain, they empty themselves upon darkened, 4 and the doors will be
the earth; and if a tree falls toward shut in the street; when the sound
the south, or toward the north, in of the grinding is low, and one will
the place where the tree falls, there rise up at the voice of a bird, and all
shall it be. 4 He who observes the the daughters of music will be
wind will not sow; and he who re- brought low; 5 yes, they will be
gards the clouds will not reap. 5 As afraid of that which is high, and ter-
you do not know what is the way of rors will be in the way; and the al-
the wind, nor how the bones grow mond tree will blossom, and the
in the womb of her who is with grasshopper will be a burden, and
child; even so you do not know the desire will fail; because man goes to
work of God who does all. 6 In the his everlasting home, and the
morning sow your seed, and in the mourners go about the streets: 6 be-
evening do not withhold your fore the silver cord is loosed, or the
hand; for you do not know which golden bowl is broken, or the
will prosper, whether this or that, pitcher is broken at the fountain, or
or whether they both will be alike the wheel broken at the cistern, 7
good. 7 Truly the light is sweet, and and the dust returns to the earth as
a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to it was, and the spirit returns to God
behold the sun. 8 Yes, if a man lives who gave it. 8 “Vanity of vanities,”
many years, let him rejoice in them says the Preacher; “all is vanity.”
all; but let him remember the days 9 And further, because the
of darkness, for they will be many. Preacher was wise, he still taught
All that comes is vanity. the people knowledge; yes, he pon-
9 Rejoice, O young man, in your dered, and sought out, and set in or-
youth, and let your heart cheer you der many proverbs. 10 The
in the days of your youth, and walk Preacher sought to find out accept-
in the ways of your heart, and in the able words, and that which was
sight of your eyes; but know, that written uprightly, even words of
for all these things God will bring truth.
you into judgment. 10 Therefore re- 11 The words of the wise are as
move sorrow from your heart, and goads; and as nails well-fastened
put away evil from your flesh; for are the words of the masters of as-
youth and the dawn of life are van- semblies, which are given from one

12 ity. 1 Remember also your shepherd. 12 And furthermore, my

Creator in the days of your son, be admonished: of making
youth, before the evil days come, many books there is no end; and
and the years draw near, when you much study is a weariness of the
will say, “I have no pleasure in flesh.
them”; 2 before the sun, and the 13 This is the end of the matter; all
light, and the moon, and the stars, has been heard: Fear God, and keep
are darkened, and the clouds return his commandments; for this is the
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whole duty of man. 14 For God will with every hidden thing, whether it
bring every work into judgment, be good, or whether it be evil.

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ISAIAH

1 The vision of Isaiah the son of 10 Hear the word of Jehovah, you
Amoz, which he saw concerning rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law
Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of of our God, you people of Gomor-
Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and rah. 11 “What to me is the multi-
Hezekiah, kings of Judah. tude of your sacrifices?” says
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O Jehovah: “I have had enough of the
earth; for Jehovah has spoken: “I burnt offerings of rams, and the fat
have nourished and brought up of fed beasts; and I do not delight in
children, and they have rebelled the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of
against me. 3 The ox knows his male goats. 12 When you come to
owner, and the donkey his master’s appear before me, who has re-
manger; but Israel does not know, quired this at your hand, to trample
my people do not consider.” 4 Ah my courts? 13 Bring no more vain
sinful nation, a people laden with offerings; incense is an abomina-
iniquity, a seed of evildoers, chil- tion to me; new moon and sabbath,
dren who deal corruptly! they have the calling of assemblies,—I cannot
forsaken Jehovah, they have de- endure iniquity and the solemn
spised the Holy One of Israel, they meeting. 14 Your new moons and
are estranged and gone backward. your appointed feasts my soul
5 Why will you be still stricken, that hates; they are a trouble to me; I am
you revolt more and more? the weary of bearing them. 15 And
whole head is sick, and the whole when you spread forth your hands,
heart faint. 6 From the sole of the I will hide my eyes from you; yes,
foot even to the head there is no when you make many prayers, I
soundness in it; but wounds, and will not hear: your hands are full of
bruises, and fresh wounds: they blood. 16 Wash yourselves, make
have not been closed, neither yourselves clean; put away the evil
bound up, neither mollified with of your doings from before my
oil. 7 Your country is desolate; your eyes; cease to do evil; 17 learn to do
cities are burned with fire; your well; seek justice, relieve the op-
land, strangers devour it in your pressed, judge the fatherless, plead
presence, and it is desolate, as over- for the widow.
thrown by strangers. 8 And the 18 “Come now, and let us reason
daughter of Zion is left as a booth in together,” says Jehovah: “though
a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of your sins be as scarlet, they shall be
cucumbers, as a besieged city. 9 Un- as white as snow; though they be
less Jehovah of hosts had left to us red like crimson, they shall be as
a very small remnant, we should wool. 19 If you are willing and obe-
have been as Sodom, we should dient, you shall eat the good of the
have been like Gomorrah. land: 20 but if you refuse and rebel,
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you shall be devoured with the 2 And it shall come to pass in the
sword; for the mouth of Jehovah latter days, that the mountain of Je-
has spoken it.” hovah’s house shall be established
21 How has the faithful city be-on the top of the mountains, and
come a harlot! she who was full ofshall be exalted above the hills; and
justice! righteousness lodged in her,
all nations shall flow to it. 3 And
but now murderers. 22 Your silver many peoples shall go and say,
has become dross, your wine mixed “Come, and let us go up to the
with water. 23 Your princes are re-
mountain of Jehovah, to the house
bellious, and companions of of the God of Jacob; and he will
thieves; every one loves bribes, and
teach us of his ways, and we will
follows after rewards: they do notwalk in his paths:” for out of Zion
judge the fatherless, neither doesshall go forth the law, and the word
the cause of the widow come to of Jehovah from Jerusalem. 4 And
them. he will judge between the nations,
24 Therefore says the Lord, Jeho-
and will decide concerning many
vah of hosts, the Mighty One of Is-
peoples; and they shall beat their
rael, “Ah, I will ease myself of my
swords into plowshares, and their
adversaries, and avenge myself of spears into pruning hooks; nation
my enemies; 25 and I will turn my shall not lift up sword against na-
hand upon you, and thoroughly tion, neither shall they learn war
purge away your dross, and will any more.
take away all your tin; 26 and I will
5 O house of Jacob, come, and let
restore your judges as at the first,
us walk in the light of Jehovah. 6
and your counselors as at the be- For you have forsaken your people
ginning: afterward you shall be the house of Jacob, because they are
called The City of Righteousness, a
filled with customs from the east,
faithful town. 27 Zion shall be re-
and are soothsayers like the
deemed with justice, and her con- Philistines, and they strike hands
verts with righteousness. 28 But the
with the children of foreigners. 7
destruction of transgressors and And their land is full of silver and
sinners shall be together, and those
gold, neither is there any end of
who forsake Jehovah shall be con- their treasures; their land also is full
sumed. 29 For they shall be of horses, neither is there any end
ashamed of the oaks which you of their chariots. 8 Their land also is
have desired, and you shall be con-
full of idols; they worship the work
founded for the gardens that you of their own hands, that which their
have chosen. 30 For you shall be as
own fingers have made. 9 And the
an oak whose leaf fades, and as a common man is bowed down, and
garden that has no water. 31 And the great man is brought low: there-
the strong shall be as tow, and his
fore do not forgive them. 10 Enter
work as a spark; and they shall both
into the rock, and hide in the dust,
burn together, and none shall from before the terror of Jehovah,
quench them. and from the glory of his majesty. 11
The lofty looks of man shall be

2 The word that Isaiah the son brought low, and the haughtiness
of Amoz saw concerning Judah of men shall be bowed down, and
and Jerusalem. Jehovah alone shall be exalted in
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that day. honorable man, and the counselor,
12 For there shall be a day of Jeho- and the expert artisan, and the skill-
vah of hosts upon all that is proud ful enchanter. 4 And I will give chil-
and haughty, and upon all that is dren to be their princes, and babes
lifted up; and it shall be brought shall rule over them. 5 And the peo-
low; 13 and upon all the cedars of ple shall be oppressed, every one
Lebanon, that are high and lifted by another, and every one by his
up, and upon all the oaks of neighbor: the child shall behave
Bashan, 14 and upon all the high himself proudly against the old
mountains, and upon all the hills man, and the base against the hon-
that are lifted up, 15 and upon ev- orable. 6 When a man shall take
ery lofty tower, and upon every for- hold of his brother in the house of
tified wall, 16 and upon all the his father, saying, “You have cloth-
ships of Tarshish, and upon all ing, be our ruler, and let this ruin be
pleasant imagery. 17 And the lofti- under your hand;” 7 in that day
ness of man shall be bowed down, shall he lift up his voice, saying, “I
and the haughtiness of men shall be will not be a healer; for in my house
brought low; and Jehovah alone is neither bread nor clothing: you
shall be exalted in that day. 18 And shall not make me ruler of the peo-
the idols shall utterly pass away. 19 ple. 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and
And men shall go into the caves of Judah is fallen; because their
the rocks, and into the holes of the tongue and their doings are against
earth, from before the terror of Je- Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his
hovah, and from the glory of his glory. 9 The show of their counte-
majesty, when he arises to shake nance witnesses against them; and
mightily the earth. 20 In that day they declare their sin as Sodom,
men shall cast away their idols of they do not hide it. Woe to their
silver, and their idols of gold, which soul! for they have done evil to
have been made for them to wor- themselves. 10 Say of the righteous,
ship, to the moles and to the bats; 21 that it shall be well with him; for
to go into the caverns of the rocks, they shall eat the fruit of their do-
and into the clefts of the ragged ings. 11 Woe to the wicked! it shall
rocks, from before the terror of Je- be ill with him; for what his hands
hovah, and from the glory of his have done shall be done to him. 12
majesty, when he arises to shake As for my people, children are their
mightily the earth. 22 Cease your- oppressors, and women rule over
selves from man, whose breath is in them. O my people, those who lead
his nostrils; for in what is he to be you cause you to err, and destroy
accounted of? the way of your paths.”

3 For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah 13 Jehovah stands up to contend,

of hosts, takes away from and stands to judge the peoples. 14
Jerusalem and from Judah support Jehovah will enter into judgment
and staff, the whole support of with the elders of his people, and
bread, and the whole support of the princes of it: “It is you who have
water; 2 the mighty man, and the eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of
man of war; the judge, and the the poor is in your houses: 15 what
prophet, and the diviner, and the el- do you mean that you crush my
der; 3 the captain of fifty, and the people, and grind the face of the
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poor?” says the Lord, Jehovah of Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even
hosts. 16 Moreover Jehovah said, every one who is written among
“Because the daughters of Zion are the living in Jerusalem; 4 when the
haughty, and walk with out- Lord shall have washed away the
stretched necks and wanton eyes, filth of the daughters of Zion, and
walking and mincing as they go, shall have purged the blood of
and making a tinkling with their Jerusalem from the midst of it, by
feet; 17 therefore the Lord will the spirit of justice, and by the spirit
strike with a scab the crown of the of burning. 5 And Jehovah will cre-
head of the daughters of Zion, and ate over the whole habitation of
Jehovah will lay bare their secret mount Zion, and over her assem-
parts. 18 In that day the Lord will blies, a cloud and smoke by day,
take away the beauty of their an- and the shining of a flaming fire by
klets, and the headbands, and the night; for over all the glory shall be
crescents; 19 the pendants, and the spread a covering. 6 And there shall
bracelets, and the veils; 20 the head- be a pavilion for a shade in the day-
dresses, and the ankle chains, and time from the heat, and for a refuge
the sashes, and the perfume boxes, and for a cover from storm and
and the amulets; 21 the rings, and from rain.
the nose jewels; 22 the festival
robes, and the mantles, and the
shawls, and the satchels; 23 the 5 Let me sing for my well-
beloved a song of my beloved
hand mirrors, and the fine linen, touching his vineyard. My well-
and the turbans, and the veils. 24 beloved had a vineyard on a very
And it shall come to pass, that in- fruitful hill: 2 and he dug it, and
stead of sweet spices there shall be gathered out the stones of it, and
rottenness; and instead of a belt, a planted it with the choicest vine,
rope; and instead of well-set hair, and built a tower in the midst of it,
baldness; and instead of a robe, a and also hewed out a winepress in
girding of sackcloth; branding in- it: and he looked that it should
stead of beauty. 25 Your men shall bring forth grapes, and it brought
fall by the sword, and your mighty forth wild grapes.
in the war. 26 And her gates shall 3 And now, O inhabitants of
lament and mourn; and she shall be Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge,
desolate and sit on the ground. I pray you, between me and my

4 And seven women shall take vineyard. 4 What could have been
hold of one man in that day, done more to my vineyard, that I
saying, “We will eat our own bread, have not done in it? why, when I
and wear our own apparel: only let looked that it should bring forth
us be called by your name; take grapes, brought it forth wild
away our reproach.” grapes? 5 And now I will tell you
2 In that day shall the branch of what I will do to my vineyard: I will
Jehovah be beautiful and glorious, take away the hedge of it, and it
and the fruit of the land shall be ex- shall be eaten up; I will break down
cellent and beautiful for those who the wall of it, and it shall be trodden
have escaped of Israel. 3 And it down: 6 and I will lay it waste; it
shall come to pass, that he who is shall not be pruned nor hoed; but
left in Zion, and he who remains in there shall come up briers and
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thorns: I will also command the 18 Woe to those who draw iniq-
clouds that they rain no rain upon uity with cords of falsehood, and
it. 7 For the vineyard of Jehovah of sin as it were with a cart rope; 19
hosts is the house of Israel, and the who say, “Let him make speed, let
men of Judah his pleasant plant: him hasten his work, that we may
and he looked for justice, but, be- see it; and let the counsel of the
hold, oppression; for righteousness, Holy One of Israel draw near and
but, behold, a cry. come, that we may know it!” 20
8 Woe to those who join house to Woe to those who call evil good,
house, who lay field to field, until and good evil; who put darkness
there be no room, and you be made for light, and light for darkness;
to dwell alone in the midst of the who put bitter for sweet, and sweet
land! 9 In my ears says Jehovah of for bitter! 21 Woe to those who are
hosts, “Truly many houses shall be wise in their own eyes, and prudent
desolate, even great and fair, with- in their own sight! 22 Woe to those
out inhabitant. 10 For ten acres of who are mighty to drink wine, and
vineyard shall yield one bath, and a men of strength to mingle strong
homer of seed shall yield but an drink; 23 who justify the wicked for
ephah.” 11 Woe to those who rise a bribe, and take away the right-
up early in the morning, that they eousness of the righteous from him!
may follow strong drink; that delay 24 Therefore as the tongue of fire
late into the night, until wine in- devours the stubble, and as the dry
flames them! 12 And the harp and grass sinks down in the flame, so
the lute, the tambourine and the their root shall be as rottenness, and
pipe, and wine, are in their feasts; their blossom shall go up as dust;
but they do not regard the work of because they have rejected the law
Jehovah, neither have they consid- of Jehovah of hosts, and despised
ered the operation of his hands. the word of the Holy One of Israel.
13 Therefore my people are gone 25 Therefore is the anger of Jehovah
into captivity for lack of knowl- kindled against his people, and he
edge; and their honorable men are has stretched forth his hand against
famished, and their multitude are them, and has struck them; and the
parched with thirst. 14 Therefore mountains tremble, and their dead
Sheol has enlarged its desire, and bodies are as refuse in the midst of
opened its mouth without measure; the streets. For all this his anger is
and their glory, and their multi- not turned away, but his hand is
tude, and their pomp, and he who stretched out still.
rejoices among them, descend into 26 And he will lift up a sign to the
it. 15 And the common man is nations from far, and will hiss for
bowed down, and the great man is them from the end of the earth; and,
humbled, and the eyes of the lofty behold, they shall come with speed
are humbled: 16 but Jehovah of swiftly. 27 None shall be weary nor
hosts is exalted in justice, and God stumble among them; none shall
the Holy One is sanctified in right- slumber nor sleep; neither shall the
eousness. 17 Then shall the lambs belt of their loins be loosed, nor the
feed as in their pasture, and the strap of their sandals be broken: 28
waste places of the fat ones shall whose arrows are sharp, and all
wanderers eat. their bows bent; their horses’ hoofs
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shall be accounted as flint, and their Make the heart of this people fat,
wheels as a whirlwind: 29 their and make their ears heavy, and shut
roaring shall be like a lioness, they their eyes; lest they see with their
shall roar like young lions; yes, they eyes, and hear with their ears, and
shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, understand with their heart, and
and carry it away safe, and there turn again, and be healed.” 11 Then
shall be none to deliver. 30 And I said, “Lord, how long?" And he
they shall roar against them in that answered, “Until cities be waste
day like the roaring of the sea: and without inhabitant, and houses
if one look to the land, behold, without man, and the land become
darkness and distress; and the light utterly waste, 12 and Jehovah has
is darkened in the clouds of it. removed men far away, and the for-
saken places be many in the midst

6 In the year that king Uzziah of the land. 13 And if there be yet a
died I saw the Lord sitting on a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be
throne, high and lifted up; and his eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an
train filled the temple. 2 Above him oak, whose stock remains, when
stood the seraphim: each one had they are cut down; so the holy seed
six wings; with two he covered his is the stock of it.”
face, and with two he covered his
feet, and with two he flew. 3 And 7 And it came to pass in the
days of Ahaz the son of Jotham,
one cried to another, and said, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah,
“Holy, holy, holy, is Jehovah of that Rezin the king of Syria, and
hosts: the whole earth is full of his Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of
glory.” 4 And the foundations of the Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war
thresholds shook at the voice of against it, but could not prevail
him who cried, and the house was against it. 2 And it was told the
filled with smoke. 5 Then I said, house of David, saying, “Syria is
“Woe is me! for I am undone; be- confederated with Ephraim.” And
cause I am a man of unclean lips, his heart trembled, and the heart of
and I dwell in the midst of a people his people, as the trees of the forest
of unclean lips: for my eyes have tremble with the wind.
seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.” 3 Then Jehovah said to Isaiah,
6 Then flew one of the seraphim “Go forth now to meet Ahaz, you,
to me, having a live coal in his and Shear-jashub your son, at the
hand, which he had taken with the end of the conduit of the upper
tongs from off the altar: 7 and he pool, in the highway of the Fuller’s
touched my mouth with it, and Field; 4 and say to him, ‘Take heed,
said, “Behold, this has touched and be quiet; do not fear, neither let
your lips; and your iniquity is taken your heart be faint, because of these
away, and your sin forgiven.” 8 two tails of smoking firebrands, for
And I heard the voice of the Lord, the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria,
saying, “Whom shall I send, and and of the son of Remaliah. 5 Be-
who will go for us?” Then I said, cause Syria, Ephraim, and the son
“Here am I; send me.” 9 And he of Remaliah, have purposed evil
said, "Go, and tell this people, ‘Hear against you, saying, 6 “Let us go up
indeed, but do not understand; and against Judah, and distress it, and
see indeed, but do not perceive.’ 10 let us make a breach in it for us, and
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set up a king in the midst of it, even upon all thorn hedges, and upon all
the son of Tabeel;” 7 thus says the pastures.
Lord Jehovah, “It shall not stand, 20 In that day will the Lord shave
neither shall it come to pass. 8 For with a razor that is hired in the
the head of Syria is Damascus, and parts beyond the River, even with
the head of Damascus is Rezin; and the king of Assyria, the head and
within sixty-five years shall the hair of the feet; and it shall also
Ephraim be broken in pieces, so consume the beard.
that it shall not be a people: 9 and 21 And it shall come to pass in
the head of Ephraim is Samaria, that day, that a man will keep alive
and the head of Samaria is Re- a young cow, and two sheep; 22 and
maliah’s son. If you will not be- it shall come to pass, that because of
lieve, surely you shall not be the abundance of milk which they
established.’ ” will give he will eat butter: for but-
10 And Jehovah spoke again to ter and honey will every one eat
Ahaz, saying, 11 “Ask a sign of Je- who is left in the midst of the land.
hovah your God; ask it either in the 23 And it shall come to pass in
depth, or in the height above.” 12 that day, that every place, where
But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nei- there were a thousand vines at a
ther will I tempt Jehovah.” 13 And thousand silver pieces, shall be for
he said, “Hear now, O house of briers and thorns. 24 With arrows
David: Is it a small thing for you to and with bow will one come there,
weary men, that you will weary my because all the land will be briers
God also? 14 Therefore the Lord and thorns. 25 And all the hills that
himself will give you a sign: be- were dug with the hoe, you will not
hold, a virgin shall conceive, and come there for fear of briers and
bear a son, and shall call his name thorns; but it will be for the sending
Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey forth of oxen, and for the treading
shall he eat, when he knows to of sheep.
refuse the evil, and choose the
good. 16 For before the child shall
know to refuse the evil, and choose 8 And Jehovah said to me,
“Take a great tablet, and write
the good, the land whose two kings on it with the pen of a man, ‘For
you abhor shall be forsaken. 17 Je- Maher-shalal-hash-baz;’ 2 and I
hovah will bring upon you, and will take to me faithful witnesses to
upon your people, and upon your record, Uriah the priest, and
father’s house, days that have not Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. 3
come, from the day that Ephraim And I went to the prophetess; and
departed from Judah—even the she conceived, and bare a son.”
king of Assyria.” Then said Jehovah to me, “Call his
18 And it shall come to pass in name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 4 For
that day, that Jehovah will hiss for before the child shall have knowl-
the fly that is in the uttermost part edge to cry, ‘My father,’ and, ‘My
of the rivers of Egypt, and for the mother,’ the riches of Damascus
bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 and the spoil of Samaria will be car-
And they shall come, and shall rest ried away before the king of As-
all of them in the desolate valleys, syria.”
and in the clefts of the rocks, and 5 And Jehovah spoke to me yet
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again, saying, 6 “Because this peo- the children whom Jehovah has
ple have refused the waters of given me are for signs and for won-
Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in ders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts,
Rezin and Remaliah’s son; 7 now who dwells in mount Zion.
therefore, behold, the Lord brings 19 And when they will say to you,
up upon them the waters of the “Seek those who have familiar spir-
River, strong and many, even the its and to the wizards, who chirp
king of Assyria and all his glory: and who mutter: should not a peo-
and it will come up over all its ple seek their God? on behalf of the
channels, and go over all its banks; living should they seek the dead? 20
8 and it will sweep onward into Ju- To the law and to the testimony! if
dah; it will overflow and pass they do not speak according to this
through; it will reach even to the word, surely there is no morning
neck; and the stretching out of its for them. 21 And they will pass
wings will fill the breadth of your through it, severely distressed and
land, O Immanuel. hungry; and it shall come to pass
9 Make an uproar, O you peoples, that, when they will be hungry,
and be broken in pieces; and give they will be enraged, and curse by
ear, all you of far countries: gird their king and by their God, and
yourselves, and be broken in turn their faces upward: 22 and
pieces; gird yourselves, and be bro- they will look to the earth, and be-
ken in pieces. 10 Take counsel to- hold, distress and darkness, the
gether, and it will be brought to gloom of anguish; and into thick
nothing; speak the word, and it will darkness they will be driven away.
not stand: for God is with us.” 11
For Jehovah spoke thus to me with 9 But there will be no gloom to
her who was in anguish. In the
a strong hand, and instructed me former time he brought into con-
not to walk in the way of this peo- tempt the land of Zebulun and the
ple, saying, 12 “ Do not say, ‘A con- land of Naphtali; but in the latter
spiracy,’ concerning all which this time he has made it glorious, by the
people will say, ‘A conspiracy;’ nei- way of the sea, beyond the Jordan,
ther fear their fear, nor be in dread Galilee of the nations. 2 The people
of it. 13 Jehovah of hosts, him shall who walked in darkness have seen
you sanctify; and let him be your a great light: those who dwelt in the
fear, and let him be your dread. 14 land of the shadow of death, upon
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but them has the light shined. 3 You
for a stone of stumbling and for a have multiplied the nation, you
rock of offense to both the houses of have increased their joy: they re-
Israel, for a trap and for a snare to joice before you according to the joy
the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 in harvest, as men rejoice when
And many shall stumble on it, and they divide the spoil. 4 For the yoke
fall, and be broken, and be snared, of his burden, and the staff of his
and be taken.” shoulder, the rod of his oppressor,
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the you have broken as in the day of
law among my disciples. 17 And I Midian. 5 For all the armor of the
will wait for Jehovah, who hides his armed man in the tumult, and the
face from the house of Jacob, and I garments rolled in blood, will be for
will look for him. 18 Behold, I and burning, for fuel of fire. 6 For unto
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us a child is born, unto us a son is fane and an evildoer, and every
given; and the government shall be mouth speaks folly. For all this his
upon his shoulder: and his name anger is not turned away, but his
shall be called Wonderful, Coun- hand is stretched out still.
selor, Mighty God, Everlasting Fa- 18 For wickedness burns as the
ther, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the fire; it devours the briers and
increase of his government and of thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets
peace there shall be no end, upon of the forest, and they roll upward
the throne of David, and upon his in a column of smoke. 19 Through
kingdom, to establish it, and to up- the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the
hold it with justice and with right- land burnt up; and the people are
eousness from henceforth even for as the fuel of fire: no man spares his
ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts brother. 20 And one shall snatch on
will perform this. the right hand, and be hungry; and
8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, he shall eat on the left hand, and
and it has fallen upon Israel. 9 And they shall not be satisfied: they
all the people will know, even shall eat every man the flesh of his
Ephraim and the inhabitant of own arm: 21 Manasseh, Ephraim;
Samaria, who say in pride and in and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they
stoutness of heart, 10 “The bricks together shall be against Judah. For
are fallen, but we will build with all this his anger is not turned away,
hewn stone; the sycamores are cut but his hand is stretched out still.
down, but we will put cedars in
their place.” 11 Therefore Jehovah 10 Woe to those who decree
unrighteous decrees, and to
will set up on high against him the the writers who write perverseness;
adversaries of Rezin, and will stir 2 to turn aside the needy from jus-
up his enemies, 12 the Syrians be- tice, and to rob the poor of my peo-
fore, and the Philistines behind; ple of their right, that widows may
and they shall devour Israel with be their spoil, and that they may
open mouth. For all this his anger is make the fatherless their prey! 3
not turned away, but his hand is And what will you do in the day of
stretched out still. visitation, and in the desolation
13 Yet the people have not turned which shall come from far? to
to him who struck them, neither whom will you flee for help? and
have they sought Jehovah of hosts. where will you leave your glory? 4
14 Therefore Jehovah will cut off They shall only bow down under
from Israel head and tail, palm the prisoners, and shall fall under
branch and rush, in one day. 15 The the slain. For all this his anger is not
elder and the honorable man, he is turned away, but his hand is
the head; and the prophet who stretched out still.
teaches lies, he is the tail. 16 For
those who lead this people cause 5 Ho Assyrian, the rod of my
them to err; and those who are led anger, the staff in whose hand is my
by them are destroyed. 17 There- indignation! 6 I will send him
fore the Lord will not rejoice over against a profane nation, and
their young men, neither will he against the people of my wrath will
have compassion on their fatherless I give him a charge, to take the
and widows; for every one is pro- spoil, and to take the prey, and to
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tread them down like the mire of the light of Israel will be for a fire,
the streets. 7 However he does not and his Holy One for a flame; and it
mean so, neither does his heart will burn and devour his thorns
think so; but it is in his heart to de- and his briers in one day. 18 And he
stroy, and to cut off nations not a will consume the glory of his forest,
few. 8 For he says, “Are not my and of his fruitful field, both soul
princes all of them kings? 9 Is not and body: and it will be as when a
Calno as Carchemish? is not standard-bearer faints. 19 And the
Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria remnant of the trees of his forest
as Damascus? 10 As my hand has will be few, so that a child may
found the kingdoms of the idols, write them.
whose graven images did excel 20 And it shall come to pass in
those of Jerusalem and of Samaria; that day, that the remnant of Israel,
11 shall I not, as I have done to and those who are escaped of the
Samaria and her idols, so do to house of Jacob, will no more again
Jerusalem and her idols?” lean upon him who struck them,
12 Therefore it shall come to pass, but will lean upon Jehovah, the
that, when the Lord has performed Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 A
his whole work upon mount Zion remnant will return, even the rem-
and on Jerusalem, I will punish the nant of Jacob, to the mighty God. 22
fruit of the stout heart of the king of For though your people, Israel, be
Assyria, and the glory of his high as the sand of the sea, only a rem-
looks. 13 For he has said, “By the nant of them will return: a destruc-
strength of my hand I have done it, tion is determined, overflowing
and by my wisdom; for I have un- with righteousness. 23 For a full
derstanding: and I have removed end, and that determined, will the
the boundaries of the peoples, and Lord, Jehovah of hosts, make in the
have robbed their treasures, and midst of all the earth.
like a valiant man I have brought 24 Therefore thus says the Lord,
down those who sit on thrones: 14 Jehovah of hosts, “O my people
and my hand has found as a nest who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid
the riches of the peoples; and as one of the Assyrian, though he strike
gathers eggs that are forsaken, have you with the rod, and lift up his
I gathered all the earth: and there staff against you, after the manner
was none who moved the wing, or of Egypt. 25 For yet a very little
who opened the mouth, or while, and the indignation against
chirped.” you will be accomplished, and my
15 Shall the axe boast itself anger will be directed to his de-
against him who hews with it? shall struction.” 26 And Jehovah of hosts
the saw magnify itself against him will stir up against him a scourge,
who wields it? as if a rod should as in the slaughter of Midian at the
wield those who lift it up, or as if a rock of Oreb: and his rod will be
staff should lift up him who is not over the sea, and he will lift it up af-
wood. 16 Therefore will the Lord, ter the manner of Egypt. 27 And it
Jehovah of hosts, send among his shall come to pass in that day, that
fat ones leanness; and under his his burden will depart from off
glory there will be kindled a burn- your shoulder, and his yoke from
ing like the burning of fire. 17 And off your neck, and the yoke will be
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destroyed by reason of fatness. down with the kid; and the calf and
28 He has come to Aiath, he is the young lion and the fatling to-
passed through Migron; at Mich- gether; and a little child shall lead
mash he lays up his baggage; 29 them. 7 And the cow and the bear
they have gone over the pass; they shall feed; their young ones shall lie
have taken up their lodging at down together; and the lion shall
Geba; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of eat straw like the ox. 8 And the
Saul is fled. 30 Cry aloud with your sucking child shall play on the hole
voice, O daughter of Gallim! listen, of the asp, and the weaned child
O Laishah! O you poor Anathoth! shall put his hand on the adder’s
31 Madmenah is a fugitive; the in- den. 9 They shall not hurt nor de-
habitants of Gebim flee for safety. stroy in all my holy mountain; for
32 This very day shall he halt at the earth shall be full of the knowl-
Nob: he shakes his hand at the edge of Jehovah, as the waters
mount of the daughter of Zion, the cover the sea.
hill of Jerusalem. 10 And it shall come to pass in
33 Behold, the Lord, Jehovah of that day, that the root of Jesse, that
hosts, will lop the boughs with ter- stands for a sign of the peoples,
ror: and the high of stature will be unto him shall the nations seek; and
hewn down, and the lofty will be his resting place shall be glorious.
brought low. 34 And he will cut 11 And it shall come to pass in
down the thickets of the forest with that day, that the Lord will set his
iron, and Lebanon will fall by a hand again the second time to re-
mighty one. cover the remnant of his people,

11 And there shall come forth a who will remain, from Assyria, and
shoot out of the stock of Jesse, from Egypt, and from Pathros, and
and a branch out of his roots shall from Cush, and from Elam, and
bear fruit. 2 And the Spirit of Jeho- from Shinar, and from Hamath, and
vah shall rest upon him, the spirit from the islands of the sea. 12 And
of wisdom and understanding, the he will set up a sign for the nations,
spirit of counsel and might, the and will assemble the outcasts of Is-
spirit of knowledge and of the fear rael, and gather together the dis-
of Jehovah. 3 And his delight shall persed of Judah from the four
be in the fear of Jehovah; and he corners of the earth. 13 The envy
shall not judge after the sight of his also of Ephraim shall depart, and
eyes, neither decide after the hear- those who distress Judah shall be
ing of his ears; 4 but with righteous- cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Ju-
ness shall he judge the poor, and dah, and Judah shall not distress
decide with equity for the meek of Ephraim. 14 And they shall fly
the earth; and he shall strike the down upon the shoulder of the
earth with the rod of his mouth; Philistines on the west; together
and with the breath of his lips shall shall they despoil the children of
he slay the wicked. 5 And right- the east: they shall put forth their
eousness shall be the belt of his hand upon Edom and Moab; and
waist, and faithfulness the belt of the children of Ammon shall obey
his loins. them. 15 And Jehovah will utterly
6 And the wolf shall dwell with destroy the tongue of the Egyptian
the lamb, and the leopard shall lie sea; and with his scorching wind
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will he wave his hand over the They come from a far country, from
River, and will strike it into seven the uttermost part of heaven, even
streams, and cause men to march Jehovah, and the weapons of his in-
over in sandals. 16 And there will dignation, to destroy the whole
be a highway for the remnant of his land.
people, who will remain, from As- 6 Wail; for the day of Jehovah is at
syria; like as there was for Israel inhand; as destruction from the
the day that he came up out of the Almighty shall it come. 7 Therefore
land of Egypt. will all hands be feeble, and every

12 And in that day you will

say, “I will give thanks to
you, O Jehovah; for though you
heart of man will melt: 8 and they
will be dismayed; pangs and sor-
rows will take hold of them; they
were angry with me, your anger is will be in pain as a woman in tra-
turned away and you comfort me. 2 vail: they will look in amazement
Behold, God is my salvation; I will one at another; their faces will be
trust, and will not be afraid; for Je-faces of flame. 9 Behold, the day of
hovah, even Jehovah, is my Jehovah comes, cruel, with wrath
strength and song; and he has be- and fierce anger; to make the land a
come my salvation.” 3 Therefore desolation, and to destroy the sin-
with joy will you draw water out of ners of it out of it. 10 For the stars of
the wells of salvation. 4 And in that heaven and the constellations of it
day will you say, “Give thanks to will not give their light; the sun will
Jehovah, call upon his name, de- be darkened in its going forth, and
clare his doings among the peoples, the moon will not cause its light to
make mention that his name is ex- shine. 11 “And I will punish the
alted. 5 Sing to Jehovah; for he has world for their evil, and the wicked
done excellent things: let this be for their iniquity: and I will cause
known in all the earth. 6 Cry aloud the arrogance of the proud to cease,
and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; and will lay low the haughtiness of
for great in the midst of you is the the terrible. 12 I will make a man
Holy One of Israel.” more rare than fine gold, even a
man than the pure gold of Ophir. 13

13 The burden of Babylon, Therefore I will make the heavens

which Isaiah the son of to tremble, and the earth will be
Amoz saw. shaken out of its place, in the wrath
2 “Set up a sign on the bare moun- of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day
tain, lift up the voice to them, wave of his fierce anger. 14 And it shall
the hand, that they may go into the come to pass, that as the chased
gates of the nobles. 3 I have com- gazelle, and as sheep that no man
manded my consecrated ones, yes, gathers, they will turn every man to
I have called my mighty men for his own people, and will flee every
my anger, even my proudly exult- man to his own land. 15 Every one
ing ones.” 4 The noise of a multi- who is found will be thrust
tude in the mountains, as of a great through; and every one who is
people! the noise of a tumult of the taken will fall by the sword. 16
kingdoms of the nations gathered Their infants also will be dashed in
together! Jehovah of hosts is mus- pieces before their eyes; their
tering the army for the battle. 5 houses will be plundered, and their
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wives ravished. ceased! the golden city ceased! 5 Je-
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes hovah has broken the staff of the
against them, who will not regard wicked, the scepter of the rulers; 6
silver, and as for gold, they will not who struck the peoples in wrath
delight in it. 18 And their bows will with a continual stroke, who ruled
dash the young men in pieces; and the nations in anger, with a perse-
they will have no pity on the fruit of cution who none restrained. 7 The
the womb; their eye will not spare whole earth is at rest, and is quiet:
children. 19 And Babylon, the glory they break forth into singing. 8 Yes,
of kingdoms, the beauty of the the fit trees rejoice at you, and the
Chaldeans’ pride, will be as when cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since
God overthrew Sodom and Gomor- you are laid low, no woodcutter
rah. 20 It will never be inhabited, will come up against us.’ 9 Sheol
neither will it be dwelt in from gen- from beneath is moved for you to
eration to generation: neither will meet you at your coming; it stirs up
the Arabian pitch tent there; neither the dead for you, even all the chief
will shepherds make their flocks to ones of the earth; it has raised up
lie down there. 21 But wild beasts from their thrones all the kings of
of the desert will lie there; and their the nations. 10 All those shall an-
houses will be full of hyenas; and swer and say to you, ‘Have you
ostriches will dwell there, and wild also become weak as we? have you
goats will dance there. 22 And jack- become like us? 11 Your pomp is
als will cry in their palaces, and brought down to Sheol, and the
jackals in the pleasant palaces: and noise of your stringed instruments:
her time is near to come, and her the worm is spread under you, and
days will not be prolonged.” worms cover you.’

14 For Jehovah will have com- 12 How you have fallen from
passion on Jacob, and will heaven, O morning star, son of the
yet choose Israel, and set them in morning! how are you cut down to
their own land: and the sojourner the ground, who laid low the na-
shall join himself with them, and tions! 13 And you said in your
they shall cleave to the house of Ja- heart, ‘I will ascend into heaven, I
cob. 2 And the peoples shall take will exalt my throne above the stars
them, and bring them to their place; of God; and I will sit upon the
and the house of Israel shall possess mount of congregation, in the utter-
them in the land of Jehovah for ser- most parts of the north; 14 I will as-
vants and for maidservants: and cend above the heights of the
they shall take them captive whose clouds; I will make myself like the
captives they were; and they shall Most High.’ 15 Yet you shalt be
rule over their oppressors. brought down to Sheol, to the utter-
3 And it shall come to pass in the most parts of the pit. 16 Those who
day that Jehovah shall give you rest see you shall gaze at you, they shall
from your sorrow, and from your consider you, saying, ‘Is this the
trouble, and from the hard service man who made the earth to trem-
in which you were made to serve, 4 ble, who shook kingdoms; 17 who
that you shall take up this parable made the world as a wilderness,
against the king of Babylon, and and overthrew the cities of it; who
say, “How has the oppressor did not let loose his prisoners to
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their home?’ 18 All the kings of the 29 “Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all
nations, all of them, sleep in glory,
of you, because the rod that struck
every one in his own house. 19 But you is broken; for out of the ser-
you are cast forth away from your pent’s root shall come forth an
sepulcher like an abominable adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery
branch, clothed with the slain, who flying serpent. 30 And the first-born
are thrust through with the sword, of the poor shall feed, and the
who go down to the stones of the needy shall lie down in safety; and
pit; as a dead body trodden under I will kill your root with famine,
foot. 20 You shall not be joined with
and your remnant shall be slain. 31
them in burial, because you have Howl, O gate; cry, O city; you are
destroyed your land, you have melted away, O Philistia, all of you;
slain your people; the seed of evil-for there comes a smoke out of the
doers shall not be named for ever. north, and there is no straggler in
21 Prepare slaughter for his chil-his ranks.”
dren for the iniquity of their fa- 32 What then shall one answer the
thers, that they do not rise up, andmessengers of the nation? That Je-
possess the earth, and fill the face of
hovah has founded Zion, and in her
the world with cities.” 22 “And I shall the afflicted of his people take
will rise up against them,” says Je-refuge.
hovah of hosts, “and cut off from
Babylon name and remnant, and
son and son’s son,” says Jehovah.
15 The burden of Moab.
For in a night Ar of Moab is
laid waste, and brought to nothing;
23 “I will also make it a possessionfor in a night Kir of Moab is laid
for the porcupine, and pools of wa- waste, and brought to nothing. 2
ter: and I will sweep it with the They have gone up to Bayith, and
broom of destruction,” says Jeho- to Dibon, to the high places, to
vah of hosts. weep: Moab wails over Nebo, and
24 Jehovah of hosts has sworn, over Medeba; on all their heads is
saying, “Surely, as I have thought, baldness, every beard is cut off. 3 In
so shall it come to pass; and as I their streets they gird themselves
have purposed, so shall it stand: 25with sackcloth; on their housetops,
that I will break the Assyrian in myand in their broad places, every one
land, and upon my mountains wails, weeping abundantly. 4 And
tread him under foot: then shall hisHeshbon cries out, and Elealeh;
yoke depart from off them, and his their voice is heard even to Jahaz:
burden depart from off their shoul- therefore the armed men of Moab
der. 26 This is the purpose that is cry aloud; his soul trembles within
purposed upon the whole earth; him. 5 My heart cries out for Moab;
and this is the hand that is stretched
her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath-
out upon all the nations. 27 For Je-shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of
hovah of hosts has purposed, and Luhith with weeping they go up;
who shall annul it? and his hand is for in the way of Horonaim they
stretched out, and who shall turn itraise up a cry of destruction. 6 For
back?” the waters of Nimrim will be deso-
late; for the grass is withered away,
28 In the year that king Ahaz died the tender grass fails, there is no
was this burden. green thing. 7 Therefore the abun-
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dance they have gotten, and that were spread abroad, they passed
which they have laid up, they will over the sea. 9 Therefore I will weep
carry away over the brook of the with the weeping of Jazer for the
willows. 8 For the cry has gone all vine of Sibmah; I will water you
around the borders of Moab; the with my tears, O Heshbon, and
wailing of it to Eglaim, and the Elealeh: for upon your summer
wailing of it to Beer-elim. 9 For the fruits and upon your harvest the
waters of Dimon are full of blood; battle shout has fallen. 10 And glad-
for I will bring yet more upon Di- ness is taken away, and joy out of
mon, a lion upon them of Moab the fruitful field; and in the vine-
who escape, and upon the remnant yards there will be no singing, nei-
of the land. ther joyful noise: no treader will

16 Send the lambs for the ruler tread out wine in the presses; I have
of the land from Selah to the made the vintage shout to cease. 11
wilderness, to the mountain of the Therefore my heart sounds like a
daughter of Zion. 2 For it shall be harp for Moab, and my inward
that, as wandering birds, as a scat- parts for Kir-heres. 12 And it shall
tered nest, so shall the daughters of come to pass, when Moab presents
Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. himself, when he wearies himself
3 Give counsel, execute justice; on the high place, and will come to
make your shade as the night in the his sanctuary to pray, that he will
midst of the noonday; hide the out- not prevail.
casts; do not betray the fugitive. 4 13 This is the word that Jehovah
Let my outcasts dwell with you; as spoke concerning Moab in time
for Moab, be a covering to him from past. 14 But now Jehovah has spo-
the face of the destroyer. For the ex- ken, saying, “Within three years, as
tortioner is brought to nothing, de- the years of a hired man, the glory
struction ceases, the oppressors are of Moab will be brought into con-
consumed out of the land. 5 And a tempt, with all his great multitude;
throne will be established in lov- and the remnant will be very small
ingkindness; and one will sit on it and of no account.”
in truth, in the tent of David, judg-
ing, and seeking justice, and swift
to do righteousness.
17 The burden of Damascus.
“Behold, Damascus is
taken away from being a city, and it
6 We have heard of the pride of will be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities
Moab, that he is very proud; even of Aroer are forsaken; they will be
of his arrogance, and his pride, and for flocks, which will lie down, and
his wrath; his boastings are noth- none will make them afraid. 3 And
ing. 7 Therefore shall Moab wail for the fortress will cease from
Moab, every one shall wail: for the Ephraim, and the kingdom from
raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth shall Damascus, and the remnant of
you mourn, utterly stricken. 8 For Syria; they will be as the glory of
the fields of Heshbon languish, and the children of Israel,” says Jehovah
the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the of hosts.
nations have broken down the 4 “And it shall come to pass in
choice branches of it, which that day, that the glory of Jacob will
reached even to Jazer, which wan- be made thin, and the fatness of his
dered into the wilderness; its shoots flesh will become lean. 5 And it
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shall be as when the harvester gath- us, and the lot of those who rob us.
ers the standing grain, and his arm
reaps the ears; yes, it shall be as
when one gleans ears in the valley 18 Ah, the land of the rustling
of wings, which is beyond
of Rephaim. 6 Yet there will be left the rivers of Ethiopia; 2 that sends
in it gleanings, as the shaking of an ambassadors by the sea, even in
olive tree, two or three berries in vessels of papyrus upon the waters,
the top of the uppermost bough, saying, “Go, swift messengers, to a
four or five in the outmost branches nation tall and smooth, to a people
of a fruitful tree,” says Jehovah, the terrible from their beginning on-
God of Israel. 7 In that day will men ward, a nation that measures out
look to their Maker, and their eyes and treads down, whose land the
will have respect to the Holy One of rivers divide!” 3 All inhabitants of
Israel. 8 And they will not look to the world, and dwellers on the
the altars, the work of their hands; earth, when a sign is lifted up on
neither will they have respect to the mountains, see; and when the
that which their fingers have made, trumpet is blown, hear.
either the Asherim, or the sun im- 4 For thus has Jehovah said to me,
ages. 9 In that day will their strong “I will be still, and I will behold in
cities be as the forsaken places in my dwelling place, like clear heat in
the wood and on the mountain top, sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the
which were forsaken from before heat of harvest. 5 For before the
the children of Israel; and it will be harvest, when the blossom is over,
a desolation. 10 For you have for- and the flower becomes a ripening
gotten the God of your salvation, grape, he will cut off the sprigs with
and have not been mindful of the pruning hooks, and the spreading
rock of your strength; therefore you branches will he take away and cut
plant pleasant plants, and set it down. 6 They will be left together
with strange branches. 11 In the day to the ravenous birds of the moun-
of your planting you hedge it in, tains, and to the beasts of the earth;
and in the morning you make your and the ravenous birds will sum-
seed to blossom; but the harvest mer on them, and all the beasts of
flees away in the day of grief and of the earth will winter on them. 7 In
desperate sorrow. that time a present will be brought
12 Ah, the uproar of many peo- to Jehovah of hosts from a people
ples, who roar like the roaring of tall and smooth, even from a people
the seas; and the rushing of nations, terrible from their beginning on-
who rush like the rushing of ward, a nation that measures out
mighty waters! 13 The nations will and treads down, whose land the
rush like the rushing of many wa- rivers divide, to the place of the
ters: but he will rebuke them, and name of Jehovah of hosts, the
they will flee far off, and will be Mount Zion.
chased as the chaff of the moun-
tains before the wind, and like the 19 The burden of Egypt.
Behold, Jehovah rides upon a
whirling dust before the storm. 14 swift cloud, and comes to Egypt:
At evening, behold, terror; and be- and the idols of Egypt will tremble
fore the morning they are not. This at his presence; and the heart of
is the portion of those who despoil Egypt will melt in the midst of it. 2
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“And I will stir up the Egyptians the princes of Memphis are de-
against the Egyptians: and they will ceived; they have caused Egypt to
fight every one against his brother, go astray, who are the cornerstone
and every one against his neighbor; of her tribes. 14 Jehovah has min-
city against city, and kingdom gled a spirit of perverseness in the
against kingdom. 3 And the spirit midst of her; and they have caused
of Egypt will fail in the midst of it; Egypt to go astray in every work of
and I will destroy the counsel of it: it, as a drunken man staggers in his
and they will seek unto the idols, vomit. 15 Neither will there be for
and to the charmers, and to those Egypt any work, which head or tail,
who have familiar spirits, and to palm branch or rush, may do.
the wizards. 4 And I will give over 16 In that day will the Egyptians
the Egyptians into the hand of a be like women; and they will trem-
cruel lord; and a fierce king will ble and fear because of the shaking
rule over them,” says the Lord, Je- of the hand of Jehovah of hosts,
hovah of hosts. which he shakes over them. 17 And
5 And the waters will fail from the the land of Judah will become a ter-
sea, and the river will be wasted ror to Egypt; every one to whom
and become dry. 6 And the rivers mention is made of it will be afraid,
will become foul; the streams of because of the purpose of Jehovah
Egypt will be diminished and dried of hosts, which he purposes against
up; the reeds and flags will wither it.
away. 7 The meadows by the Nile, 18 In that day there will be five
by the brink of the Nile, and all the cities in the land of Egypt that
sown fields of the Nile, will become speak the language of Canaan, and
dry, be driven away, and be no swear to Jehovah of hosts; one will
more. 8 And the fishermen will be called the City of Destruction.
lament, and all those who cast an- 19 In that day there will be an al-
gle into the Nile will mourn, and tar to Jehovah in the midst of the
those who spread nets upon the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the
waters will languish. 9 Moreover border of it to Jehovah. 20 And it
those who work in combed flax, will be for a sign and for a witness
and those who weave white cloth, to Jehovah of hosts in the land of
will be confounded. 10 And the pil- Egypt; for they will cry to Jehovah
lars of Egypt will be broken in because of oppressors, and he will
pieces; all those who work for hire send them a savior, and a defender,
will be grieved in soul. and he will deliver them. 21 And Je-
11 The princes of Zoan are utterly hovah will be known to Egypt, and
foolish; the counsel of the wisest the Egyptians will know Jehovah in
counselors of Pharaoh has become that day; yes, they will worship
brutish: how do you say to with sacrifice and offering, and will
Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, vow a vow to Jehovah, and will
the son of ancient kings?” 12 Where perform it. 22 And Jehovah will
then are your wise men? and let strike Egypt, striking and healing;
them tell you now; and let them and they will return to Jehovah,
know what Jehovah of hosts has and he will be entreated by them,
purposed concerning Egypt. 13 The and will heal them.
princes of Zoan have become fools, 23 In that day will there be a high-
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way out of Egypt to Assyria, and
the Assyrian will come into Egypt,
and the Egyptian into Assyria; and
the Egyptians will worship with the
Assyrians.
24 In that day will Israel be the
third with Egypt and with Assyria,
a blessing in the midst of the earth;
25 because Jehovah of hosts has
blessed them, saying, “Blessed be
Egypt my people, and Assyria the
work of my hands, and Israel my
inheritance.”
20 In the year that Tartan
came to Ashdod, when Sar-
gon the king of Assyria sent him,
and he fought against Ashdod and
took it; 2 at that time Jehovah spoke
by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying,
“Go, and loose the sackcloth from
off your loins, and put your sandal
from off your foot.” And he did so,
walking naked and barefoot. 3 And
Jehovah said, “Like my servant Isa-
iah has walked naked and barefoot
three years for a sign and a wonder
concerning Egypt and concerning
Ethiopia; 4 so shall the king of As-
syria lead away the captives of
Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia,
young and old, naked and barefoot,
and with buttocks uncovered, to
the shame of Egypt. 5 And they
shall be dismayed and confounded,
because of Ethiopia their expecta-
tion, and of Egypt their glory. 6 And
the inhabitant of this coastland will
say in that day, “Behold, such is our
expectation, to which we fled for
help to be delivered from the king
of Assyria: and we, how shall we “Watchman, what of the night?
escape?
21 The burden of the wilder- comes, and also the night: if you
ness of the sea.
As whirlwinds in the South
sweep through, it comes from the
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wilderness, from a terrible land. 2 A
grievous vision is declared to me;
the treacherous man deals treacher-
ously, and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media;
all the sighing of it have I made to
cease. 3 Therefore are my loins
filled with anguish; pangs have
taken hold upon me, as the pangs
of a woman in travail: I am pained
so that I cannot hear; I am dis-
mayed so that I cannot see. 4 My
heart flutters, horror has frightened
me; the twilight that I desired has
been turned into trembling to me. 5
They prepare the table, they set the
watch, they eat, they drink: rise up,
you princes, anoint the shield. 6 For
thus has the Lord said to me, “Go,
set a watchman: let him declare
what he sees: 7 and when he sees a
troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of
donkeys, a troop of camels, he will
listen diligently with much heed.” 8
And he cried as a lion: “O Lord, I
stand continually on the watch-
tower in the daytime, and am set in
my post whole nights; 9 and, be-
hold, here comes a troop of men,
horsemen in pairs.” And he an-
swered and said, “Fallen, fallen is
Babylon; and all the graven images
of her gods are broken to the
ground.”
10 O my threshing, and the grain
of my floor! that which I have heard
from Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel, have I declared to you.
11 The burden of Dumah.
One calls to me out of Seir,
Watchman, what of the night?” 12
The watchman said, “The morning
will inquire, inquire: turn, come.
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In the forest in Arabia will you
lodge, O you caravans of Dedan-
ites. 14 To him who was thirsty they
brought water; the inhabitants of
the land of Tema met the fugitives
with their bread. 15 For they fled
away from the swords, from the
drawn sword, and from the bent
bow, and from the grievousness of
war. 16 For thus has the Lord said
to me, “Within a year, according to
the years of a hired man, all the
glory of Kedar will fail; 17 and the
residue of the number of the
archers, the mighty men of the chil-
dren of Kedar, will be few; for Jeho-
vah, the God of Israel, has spoken
it.”
gate. 8 And he took away the cover-
ing of Judah; and you looked in that
day to the armor in the house of the
forest. 9 And you saw the breaches
of the city of David, that they were
many; and you gathered together
the waters of the lower pool; 10 and
you numbered the houses of
Jerusalem, and you broke down the
houses to fortify the wall; 11 you
made also a reservoir between the
two walls for the water of the old
pool. But you did not look to him
who had done this, neither had you
respect to him who purposed it
long ago.
12 And in that day did the Lord,
Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping,
and to mourning, and to baldness,

22 The burden of the valley of

vision.
What ails you now, that you are
and to girding with sackcloth: 13
and behold, joy and gladness, slay-
ing oxen and killing sheep, eating
wholly gone up to the housetops? 2 flesh and drinking wine: let us eat
O you who are full of shoutings, a and drink, for tomorrow we shall
tumultuous city, a joyous town; die. 14 And Jehovah of hosts re-
your slain are not slain with the vealed himself in my ears, “Surely
sword, neither are they dead in bat- this iniquity will not be forgiven
tle. 3 All your rulers fled away to- you until you die,” says the Lord,
gether, they were bound by the Jehovah of hosts.
archers; all who were found of you
were bound together; they fled afar 15 Thus says the Lord, Jehovah of
off. 4 Therefore I said, “Look away hosts, “Go, get to this treasurer,
from me, I will weep bitterly; do even to Shebna, who is over the
not labor to comfort me for the de- house, and say, 16 ‘What are you
struction of the daughter of my doing here? and whom do you
people.” have here, that you have hewn out
5 For it is a day of discomfiture, here a sepulcher? hewing him out a
and of treading down, and of per- sepulcher on high, engraving a
plexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of habitation for himself in the rock!
hosts, in the valley of vision; a 17 Behold, Jehovah, like a strong
breaking down of the walls, and a man, will hurl you away violently;
crying to the mountains. 6 And yes, he will wrap you up closely. 18
Elam bore the quiver, with chariots He will surely wind you round and
of men and horsemen; and Kir un- round, and toss you like a ball into
covered the shield. 7 And it came to a large country; there shall you die,
pass, that your choicest valleys and there shall be the chariots of
were full of chariots, and the horse- your glory, you shame of your
men set themselves in array at the lord’s house. 19 And I will thrust
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you from your office; and from
your station shall you be pulled
down. 20 And it shall come to pass
in that day, that I will call my ser-
vant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 21
and I will clothe him with your
robe, and strengthen him with your
belt, and I will commit your gov-
ernment into his hand; and he shall
be a father to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and to the house of Ju-
dah. 22 And the key of the house of
David will I lay upon his shoulder;
and he shall open, and none shall
shut; and he shall shut, and none
shall open. 23 And I will fasten him
as a nail in a sure place; and he shall through your land as the Nile, O
be for a throne of glory to his fa-
ther’s house. 24 And they shall
hang upon him all the glory of his
father’s house, the offspring and
the issue, every small vessel, from
the cups even to all the flagons. 25
In that day,’ says Jehovah of hosts,
‘shall the nail that was fastened in a “You will no longer rejoice, O you
sure place give way; and it shall be
hewn down, and fall; and the bur-
den that was upon it shall be cut
off; for Jehovah has spoken it.’ ”
gins.” 5 When the report comes to
Egypt, they will be severely pained
at the report of Tyre. 6 Pass over to
Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of
the coast. 7 Is this your joyous city,
whose antiquity is of ancient days,
whose feet carried her afar off to so-
journ?
8 Who has purposed this against
Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants are princes,
whose tradesmen are the honorable
of the earth? 9 Jehovah of hosts has
purposed it, to stain the pride of all
glory, to bring into contempt all the
honorable of the earth. 10 Pass
daughter of Tarshish; there is no re-
straint any more. 11 He has
stretched out his hand over the sea,
he has shaken the kingdoms: Jeho-
vah has given commandment con-
cerning Canaan, to destroy the
strongholds of it. 12 And he said,
oppressed virgin daughter of
Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim;
even there will you have no rest.”
13 Behold, the land of the
Chaldeans: this people was not; the

23 The burden of Tyre. Assyrian founded it for those who

Howl, you ships of dwell in the wilderness; they set up
Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that their towers; they overthrew the
there is no house, no entering in: palaces of it; they made it a ruin. 14
from the land of Kittim it is re- Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for
vealed to them. 2 Be still, you in- your stronghold is laid waste. 15
habitants of the coast, you whom And it shall come to pass in that
the merchants of Sidon, who pass day, that Tyre will be forgotten sev-
over the sea, have replenished. 3 enty years, according to the days of
And on great waters the seed of the one king: after the end of seventy
Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was years it will be to Tyre as in the song
her revenue; and she was the mar- of the harlot. 16 Take a harp, go
ket of nations. 4 Be ashamed, O about the city, you harlot who has
Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the been forgotten; make sweet
stronghold of the sea, saying, “I melody, sing many songs, that you
have not travailed, nor brought may be remembered. 17 And it
forth, neither have I nourished shall come to pass after the end of
young men, nor brought up vir- seventy years, that Jehovah will
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visit Tyre, and she will return to her come in. 11 There is a crying in the
wages, and will play the harlot streets because of the wine; all joy is
with all the kingdoms of the world darkened, the mirth of the land is
upon the face of the earth. 18 And gone. 12 In the city is left desola-
her merchandise and her wages tion, and the gate is struck with de-
will be holiness to Jehovah: it will struction. 13 For thus shall it be in
not be treasured nor laid up; for her the midst of the earth among the
merchandise will be for those who peoples, as the shaking of an olive
dwell before Jehovah, to eat suffi- tree, as the gleanings when the vin-
ciently, and for durable clothing. tage is done.
14 These shall lift up their voice,

24 Behold, Jehovah makes the they shall shout; for the majesty of
earth empty, and makes it Jehovah they cry aloud from the
waste, and turns it upside down, sea. 15 Therefore glorify Jehovah in
and scatters abroad the inhabitants the east, even the name of Jehovah,
of it. 2 And it shall be, as with the the God of Israel, in the isles of the
people, so with the priest; as with sea. 16 From the uttermost part of
the servant, so with his master; as the earth have we heard songs:
with the maid, so with her mistress; “Glory to the righteous.”
as with the buyer, so with the seller; But I said, “I pine away, I pine
as with the creditor, so with the away, woe is me! the treacherous
debtor; as with the taker of interest, have dealt treacherously; yes, the
so with the giver of interest to him. treacherous have dealt very treach-
3 The earth shall be utterly emp- erously.” 17 Fear, and the pit, and
tied, and utterly laid waste; for Je- the snare, are upon you, O inhabi-
hovah has spoken this word. 4 The tant of the earth. 18 And it shall
earth mourns and fades away, the come to pass, that he who flees
world languishes and fades away, from the noise of the fear shall fall
the lofty people of the earth lan- into the pit; and he who comes up
guish. 5 The earth also is polluted out of the midst of the pit shall be
under the inhabitants of it; because taken in the snare: for the windows
they have transgressed the laws, vi- on high are opened, and the foun-
olated the statutes, broken the ever- dations of the earth tremble. 19 The
lasting covenant. 6 Therefore has earth is utterly broken, the earth is
the curse devoured the earth, and torn apart, the earth is shaken vio-
those who dwell in it are found lently. 20 The earth shall stagger
guilty: therefore the inhabitants of like a drunken man, and shall sway
the earth are burned, and few men to and fro like a hammock; and the
left. 7 The new wine mourns, the transgression of it shall be heavy
vine languishes, all the merry- upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise
hearted sigh. 8 The mirth of tam- again.
bourines ceases, the noise of those 21 And it shall come to pass in
who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp that day, that Jehovah will punish
ceases. 9 They shall not drink wine the host of the high ones on high,
with a song; strong drink shall be and the kings of the earth upon the
bitter to those who drink it. 10 The earth. 22 And they will be gathered
waste city is broken down; every together, as prisoners are gathered
house is shut up, that no man may in the pit, and will be shut up in the
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prison; and after many days will him, we will be glad and rejoice in
they be visited. 23 Then the moon his salvation.” 10 For in this moun-
will be confounded, and the sun tain will the hand of Jehovah rest;
ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts will and Moab shall be trodden down in
reign in Mount Zion, and in his place, even as straw is trodden
Jerusalem; and before his elders down in the water of the dunghill.
will be glory. 11 And he shall spread forth his

25 O Jehovah, you are my hands in the midst of it, as he who

God; I will exalt you, I will swims spreads forth his hands to
praise your name; for you have swim; but Jehovah will lay low his
done wonderful things, even coun- pride together with the craft of his
sels of old, in faithfulness and truth. hands. 12 And the high fortress of
2 For you have made of a city a your walls has he brought down,
heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a laid low, and brought to the
palace of strangers to be no city; it ground, even to the dust.
shall never be built. 3 Therefore will
a strong people glorify you; a city of26 In that day shall this song
be sung in the land of Judah:
terrible nations will fear you. 4 For We have a strong city; salvation will
you have been a stronghold to the he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
poor, a stronghold to the needy in 2 Open the gates, that the righteous
his distress, a refuge from the nation which keeps faith may enter
storm, a shade from the heat, when in. 3 You will keep him in perfect
the blast of the terrible ones is as a peace, whose mind is stayed on
storm against the wall. 5 As the you; because he trusts in you. 4
heat in a dry place will you bring Trust in Jehovah for ever; for in Je-
down the noise of strangers; as the hovah, even Jehovah, is an everlast-
heat by the shade of a cloud, the ing rock. 5 For he has brought
song of the terrible ones will be down those who dwell on high, the
brought low. 6 And in this moun- lofty city: he lays it low, he lays it
tain will Jehovah of hosts make to low even to the ground; he brings it
all peoples a feast of fat things, a even to the dust. 6 The foot shall
feast of wines on the lees, of fat tread it down; even the feet of the
things full of marrow, of wines on poor, and the steps of the needy. 7
the lees well-refined. 7 And he will The way of the just is uprightness:
destroy in this mountain the face of you who are upright direct the path
the covering that covers all peoples, of the just.
and the veil that is spread over all 8 Yes, in the way of your judg-
nations. 8 He has swallowed up ments, O Jehovah, have we waited
death for ever; and the Lord Jeho- for you; to your name, even to your
vah will wipe away tears from off memorial name, is the desire of our
all faces; and the reproach of his soul. 9 With my soul have I desired
people will he take away from off you in the night; yes, with my spirit
all the earth: for Jehovah has spo- within me will I seek you earnestly:
ken it. for when your judgments are in the
9 And it shall be said in that day, earth, the inhabitants of the world
“Behold, this is our God; we have learn righteousness. 10 Let favor be
waited for him, and he will save us: shown to the wicked, yet will he
this is Jehovah; we have waited for not learn righteousness; in the land
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of uprightness will he deal wrong- to punish the inhabitants of the
fully, and will not behold the earth for their iniquity: the earth
majesty of Jehovah. also will disclose her blood, and
11 Jehovah, your hand is lifted up, will no longer cover her slain.
yet they do not see: but they will
see your zeal for the people, and be 27 In that day Jehovah with
his hard and great and
put to shame; yes, fire shall devour strong sword will punish leviathan
your adversaries. 12 Jehovah, you the swift serpent, and leviathan the
will ordain peace for us; for you crooked serpent; and he will slay
have also worked all our works for the monster that is in the sea.
us. 13 O Jehovah our God, other 2 In that day: “A vineyard of
lords besides you have had domin- wine, sing to it. 3 I Jehovah am its
ion over us; but by you only will we keeper; I will water it every mo-
make mention of your name. 14 ment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it
They are dead, they will not live; night and day. 4 Wrath is not in me:
they are deceased, they will not would that the briers and thorns
rise: therefore have you visited and were against me in battle! I would
destroyed them, and made all re- march upon them, I would burn
membrance of them to perish. 15 them together. 5 Or else let him take
You have increased the nation, O Je- hold of my strength, that he may
hovah, you have increased the na- make peace with me; yes, let him
tion; you are glorified; you have make peace with me.” 6 In days to
enlarged all the borders of the land. come shall Jacob take root; Israel
16 Jehovah, in trouble have they shall blossom and bud; and they
visited you; they poured out a shall fill the face of the world with
prayer when your chastening was fruit.
upon them. 17 Like as a woman 7 Has he struck them as he struck
with child, who draws near the those who struck them? or are they
time of her delivery, is in pain and slain according to the slaughter of
cries out in her pangs; so we have those who were slain by them? 8 In
been before you, O Jehovah. 18 We measure, when you send them
have been with child, we have been away, you contend with them; he
in pain, we have as it were brought has removed them with his rough
forth wind; we have not worked blast in the day of the east wind. 9
any deliverance in the earth; nei- Therefore by this will the iniquity
ther have the inhabitants of the of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all
world fallen. 19 Your dead shall the fruit of taking away his sin: that
live; my dead bodies shall arise. he makes all the stones of the altar
Awake and sing, you who dwell in as chalkstones that are beaten into
the dust; for your dew is as the dew pieces, so that the Asherim and the
of herbs, and the earth shall cast sun images shall rise no more. 10
forth the dead. For the fortified city is solitary, a
20 Come, my people, enter thou habitation deserted and forsaken,
into your rooms, and shut your like the wilderness: there will the
doors around you: hide yourself for calf feed, and there will he lie
a little moment, until the indigna- down, and consume the branches
tion passes over. 21 For, behold, Je- of it. 11 When the boughs of it are
hovah comes forth out of his place withered, they will be broken off;
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the women shall come, and set
them on fire; for it is a people of no
understanding: therefore he who
made them will not have compas-
sion upon them, and he who
formed them will show them no fa-
vor.
12 And it shall come to pass in
that day, that Jehovah will beat off
his fruit from the flood of the River
to the brook of Egypt; and you will
be gathered one by one, O you chil-
dren of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass in
that day, that a great trumpet will
be blown; and they will come who
were ready to perish in the land of
Assyria, and those who were out-
casts in the land of Egypt; and they
shall worship Jehovah in the holy
mountain at Jerusalem.
7 And even these reel with wine,
and stagger with strong drink; the
priest and the prophet reel with
strong drink, they are swallowed
up by wine, they stagger with
strong drink; they err in vision,
they stumble in judgment. 8 For all
tables are full of vomit and filthi-
ness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom will he teach knowl-
edge? and whom will he make to
understand the message? those
who are weaned from the milk, and
drawn from the breasts? 10 For it is
precept upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line upon
line; here a little, there a little.
11 No, but by men of strange lips
and with another tongue will he
speak to this people; 12 to whom he
said, “This is the rest, give rest to
him who is weary; and this is the

28 Woe to the crown of pride refreshing:” yet they would not

of the drunkards of Ephraim, hear. 13 Therefore shall the word of
and to the fading flower of his glo- Jehovah be to them precept upon
rious beauty, which is on the head precept, precept upon precept; line
of the fat valley of those who are upon line, line upon line; here a lit-
overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the tle, there a little; that they may go,
Lord has a mighty and strong one; and fall backward, and be broken,
as a tempest of hail, a destroying and snared, and taken.
storm, as a tempest of mighty wa- 14 Therefore hear the word of Je-
ters overflowing, will he cast down hovah, you scoffers, who rule this
to the earth with the hand. 3 The people who are in Jerusalem: 15 Be-
crown of pride of the drunkards of cause you have said, We have made
Ephraim will be trodden under a covenant with death, and with
foot: 4 and the fading flower of his Sheol are we in agreement; when
glorious beauty, which is on the the overflowing scourge will pass
head of the fat valley, will be as the through, it will not come to us; for
early figs before the summer; which we have made lies our refuge, and
when he who looks upon it sees, under falsehood have we hid our-
while it is still in his hand he eats it selves: 16 therefore thus says the
up. 5 In that day will Jehovah of Lord Jehovah, “Behold, I lay in
hosts become a crown of glory, and Zion for a foundation a stone, a
a diadem of beauty, to the residue tested stone, a precious cornerstone
of his people; 6 and a spirit of jus- of sure foundation: he who believes
tice to him who sits in judgment, will not be in haste. 17 And I will
and strength to those who turn make justice the line, and right-
back the battle at the gate. eousness the plummet; and the hail
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will sweep away the refuge of lies, horses scatter it, he does not grind
and the waters will overflow the it. 29 This also comes forth from Je-
hiding place. 18 And your covenant hovah of hosts, who is wonderful in
with death will be annulled, and counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
your agreement with Sheol will not
stand; when the overflowing 29 Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city
where David encamped! add
scourge will pass through, then you year to year; let the feasts come
will be trodden down by it. 19 As around: 2 then will I distress Ariel,
often as it passes through, it will and there shall be mourning and
take you; for morning by morning lamentation; and she shall be to me
will it pass through, by day and by as Ariel. 3 And I will encamp
night: and it will be nothing but ter- against you all around, and will lay
ror to understand the message.” 20 siege against you with posted
For the bed is shorter than that a troops, and I will raise siege works
man can stretch himself on it; and against you. 4 And you shall be
the covering narrower than that he brought down, and shall speak out
can wrap himself in it. 21 For Jeho- of the ground, and your speech
vah will rise up as in Mount Per- shall be low out of the dust; and
azim, he will be angry as in the your voice shall be as of one who
Valley of Gibeon; that he may do has a familiar spirit, out of the
his work, his strange work, and ground, and your speech shall
bring to pass his act, his strange act. whisper out of the dust.
22 Now therefore do not be not 5 But the multitude of your foes
scoffers, lest your bonds be made shall be like small dust, and the
strong; for a decree of destruction multitude of the terrible ones as
have I heard from the Lord, Jeho- chaff that passes away: yes, it shall
vah of hosts, upon the whole earth. be in an instant suddenly. 6 She will
23 Give ear, and hear my voice; be visited by Jehovah of hosts with
listen, and hear my speech. 24 Does thunder, and with earthquake, and
he who plows to sow plow continu- great noise, with whirlwind and
ally? does he continually open and tempest, and the flame of a devour-
harrow his ground? 25 When he ing fire. 7 And the multitude of all
has leveled the face of it, does he the nations who fight against Ariel,
not cast abroad the black cumin, even all who fight against her and
and scatter the cumin, and put in her stronghold, and who distress
the wheat in rows, and the barley in her, shall be as a dream, a vision of
the appointed place, and the spelt the night. 8 And it shall be as when
in the border of it? 26 For his God a hungry man dreams, and, behold,
instructs him rightly, and teaches he eats; but he awakes, and his soul
him. 27 For the black cumin are not is empty: or as when a thirsty man
threshed with a sharp threshing in- dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but
strument, neither is a cart wheel he awakes, and, behold, he is faint,
turned round upon the cumin; but and his soul has appetite: so shall
the black cumin are beaten out with the multitude of all the nations be,
a staff, and the cumin with a rod. 28 who fight against Mount Zion.
Bread grain is ground; for he will 9 Linger and wonder; take your
not be always threshing it: and pleasure and be blind: they are
though the wheel of his cart and his drunken, but not with wine; they
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stagger, but not with strong drink. meek also shall increase their joy in
10 For Jehovah has poured out Jehovah, and the poor among men
upon you the spirit of deep sleep, shall rejoice in the Holy One of Is-
and has closed your eyes, the rael. 20 For the terrible one is
prophets; and your heads, the brought to nothing, and the scoffer
seers, has he covered. 11 And all vi- ceases, and all those who watch for
sion has become to you as the iniquity are cut off; 21 who make a
words of a book that is sealed, man an offender in his cause, and
which men deliver to one who is lit- lay a snare for him who reproves in
erate, saying, “Read this, I ask the gate, and turn aside the just
you;” and he says, “I cannot, for it with a thing of nothing.
is sealed:” 12 and the book is deliv- 22 Therefore thus says Jehovah,
ered to him who is illiterate, saying, who redeemed Abraham, concern-
“Read this, I ask you;” and he says, ing the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall
“I am not literate.” not now be ashamed, neither shall
13 And the Lord said, “Because his face now grow pale. 23 But
this people draw near to me, and when he sees his children, the work
with their mouth and with their of my hands, in the midst of him,
lips honor me, but have removed they will sanctify my name; yes,
their heart far from me, and their they will sanctify the Holy One of
fear of me is a commandment of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the
men which has been taught them; 14 God of Israel. 24 They also who err
therefore, behold, I will proceed to in spirit will come to understand-
do a marvelous work among this ing, and those who murmur will re-
people, even a marvelous work and ceive instruction.”
a wonder; and the wisdom of their
wise men shall perish, and the un-
derstanding of their prudent men
shall be hidden.”
30 “Woe to the rebellious chil-
dren,” says Jehovah, who
take counsel, but not of me; and
15 Woe to those who hide deep who make a league, but not of my
their counsel from Jehovah, and Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
whose works are in the dark, and 2 that set out to go down into
who say, “Who sees us? and who Egypt, and have not asked at my
knows us?” 16 Turn things upside mouth; to strengthen themselves in
down! Shall the potter be esteemed the strength of Pharaoh, and to take
as clay; that the thing made should refuge in the shadow of Egypt! 3
say of him who made it, “He did Therefore shall the strength of
not make me;” or the thing formed Pharaoh be your shame, and the
say of him that formed it, “He has refuge in the shadow of Egypt your
no understanding?” confusion. 4 For their princes are at
17 Is it not yet a very little while, Zoan, and their ambassadors will
and Lebanon shall be turned into a come to Hanes. 5 They shall all be
fruitful field, and the fruitful field ashamed because of a people that
shall be esteemed as a forest? 18 cannot profit them, that are not a
And in that day shall the deaf hear help nor profit, but a shame, and
the words of the book, and the eyes also a reproach.”
of the blind shall see out of obscu- 6 The burden of the beasts of the
rity and out of darkness. 19 The South.
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Through the land of trouble and swift;” therefore shall those who
anguish, from where come the lion- pursue you be swift. 17 One thou-
ess and the lion, the viper and fiery sand shall flee at the threat of one; at
flying serpent, they carry their the threat of five shall you flee: until
riches on the shoulders of young you are left as a beacon on the top
donkeys, and their treasures on the of a mountain, and as a sign on a
humps of camels, to a people who hill.
shall not profit them. 7 For Egypt 18 And therefore will Jehovah
helped in vain, and to no purpose: wait, that he may be gracious to
therefore have I called her Rahab you; and therefore will he be ex-
who sits still. alted, that he may have mercy on
8 Now go, write it before them on you: for Jehovah is a God of justice;
a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, blessed are all those who wait for
that it may be for the time to come him. 19 For the people shall dwell
for ever and ever. 9 For it is a rebel- in Zion at Jerusalem; you shall
lious people, lying children, chil- weep no more; he will surely be
dren who will not hear the law of gracious to you at the voice of your
Jehovah; 10 who say to the seers, cry; when he will hear, he will an-
“Do not see;” and to the prophets, swer you. 20 And though the Lord
“Do not prophesy to us right give you the bread of adversity and
things, speak to us smooth things, the water of affliction, yet will not
prophesy deceits, 11 get out of the your teachers be hidden anymore,
way, turn aside out of the path, but your eyes shall see your teach-
cause the Holy One of Israel to ers; 21 and your ears shall hear a
cease from before us.” 12 Therefore word behind you, saying, “This is
thus says the Holy One of Israel, the way, walk in it;” when you turn
“Because you despise this word, to the right hand, and when you
and trust in oppression and per- turn to the left. 22 And you will de-
verseness, and rely on it; 13 there- file the overlaying of your graven
fore this iniquity shall be to you as images of silver, and the plating of
a breach ready to fall, swelling out your molten images of gold: you
in a high wall, whose breaking will cast them away as an unclean
comes suddenly in an instant. 14 thing; you will say to it, “Get
And he shall break it as a potter’s away.”
vessel is broken, breaking it in 23 And he will give the rain for
pieces without sparing; so that your seed, with which you will sow
there shall not be found among the the ground; and bread of the in-
pieces of it a shard with which to crease of the ground, and it will be
take fire from the hearth, or to dip fat and plenteous. In that day will
up water out of the cistern.” 15 For your cattle feed in large pastures; 24
thus said the Lord Jehovah, the the oxen likewise and the young
Holy One of Israel, “In returning donkeys that till the ground will eat
and rest shall you be saved; in savory fodder, which has been win-
quietness and in confidence shall be nowed with the shovel and with
your strength.” And you would the fork. 25 And there will be on ev-
not: 16 but you said, “No, for we ery lofty mountain, and on every
will flee on horses;” therefore shall high hill, brooks and streams of wa-
you flee: and, “We will ride on the ters, in the day of the great slaugh-
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ter, when the towers fall. 26 More-
over the light of the moon will be as
the light of the sun, and the light of
the sun will be sevenfold, as the
light of seven days, in the day that
Jehovah binds up the hurt of his
people, and heals the stroke of their
wound.
27 Behold, the name of Jehovah
comes from far, burning with his
anger, and in thick rising smoke: his
lips are full of indignation, and his
tongue is as a devouring fire; 28
and his breath is as an overflowing
stream, that reaches even to the
neck, to sift the nations with the
sieve of destruction: and a bridle
that causes to err shall be in the jaws
of the peoples. 29 You shall have a
song as in the night when a holy
feast is kept; and gladness of heart,
as when one goes with a pipe to
come to the mountain of Jehovah,
to the Rock of Israel. 30 And Jeho-
vah will cause his glorious voice to
be heard, and will show the de-
scending of his arm, with the indig-
nation of his anger, and the flame of
a devouring fire, with a blast, and
tempest, and hailstones. 31 For
through the voice of Jehovah will
the Assyrian be dismayed; with his
rod will he strike him. 32 And every
stroke of the appointed staff, which
Jehovah will lay upon him, will be
with the sound of tambourines and
harps; and in battles with the bran-
dishing of his arm will he fight with
them. 33 For a Topheth is prepared
of old; yes, for the king it is made
ready; he has made it deep and
large; the pile of it is fire and much
wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a
stream of brimstone, kindles it.
31 Woe to those who go down
to Egypt for help, and rely on
horses, and trust in chariots be-
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cause they are many, and in horse-
men because they are very strong,
but they do not look to the Holy
One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!
2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring
evil, and will not call back his
words, but will arise against the
house of the evildoers, and against
the help of those who work iniq-
uity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men,
and not God; and their horses flesh,
and not spirit: and when Jehovah
will stretch out his hand, both he
who helps will stumble, and he
who is helped will fall, and they all
will be consumed together.
4 For thus says Jehovah to me,
“As the lion and the young lion
growling over his prey, if a multi-
tude of shepherds is called forth
against him, will not be dismayed
at their voice, nor terrify himself for
the noise of them: so will Jehovah
of hosts come down to fight on
Mount Zion, and on the hill of it. 5
As birds hovering, so will Jehovah
of hosts protect Jerusalem; he will
protect and deliver it, he will pass
over and preserve it. 6 Turn to him
from whom you have deeply re-
volted, O children of Israel. 7 For in
that day they shall cast away every
man his idols of silver, and his idols
of gold, which your own hands
have made to you for a sin. 8 And
the Assyrian shall fall by the sword,
not of man; and the sword, not of
men, shall devour him; and he shall
flee from the sword, and his young
men shall become subject to forced
labor. 9 And his rock shall pass
away by reason of terror, and his
princes shall be dismayed at the
sign,” says Jehovah, whose fire is in
Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
32 Behold, a king will reign in
righteousness, and princes
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will rule in justice. 2 And a man will a pasture of flocks; 15 until the
be as a hiding place from the wind, Spirit is poured upon us from on
and a cover from the tempest, as high, and the wilderness becomes a
streams of water in a dry place, as fruitful field, and the fruitful field is
the shade of a great rock in a weary esteemed as a forest.
land. 3 And the eyes of those who 16 Then justice will dwell in the
see will not be dim, and the ears of wilderness; and righteousness will
those who hear will listen. 4 And abide in the fruitful field. 17 And
the heart of the rash will under- the work of righteousness will be
stand knowledge, and the tongue peace; and the effect of righteous-
of the stammerers will be ready to ness, quietness and confidence for
speak plainly. 5 The fool will be no ever. 18 And my people will live in
longer called noble, nor the peasant a peaceable habitation, and in safe
said to be bountiful. 6 For the fool dwellings, and in quiet resting
will speak folly, and his heart will places. 19 But it will hail in the
work iniquity, to practice profane- downfall of the forest; and the city
ness, and to utter error against Je- will be utterly laid low. 20 Blessed
hovah, to make empty the soul of are you who sow beside all waters,
the hungry, and to cause the drink who send forth the feet of the ox
of the thirsty to fail. 7 And the in- and the donkey.
struments of the peasant are evil: he
devises wicked devices to destroy
the meek with lying words, even
when the needy speaks right. 8 But
33 Woe to you who destroys,
and you were not destroyed;
and deals treacherously, and they
the noble devises noble things; and did not deal treacherously with
in noble things shall he continue. you! When you have ceased to de-
stroy, you will be destroyed; and
9 Rise up, you women who are at when you have made an end of
ease, and hear my voice; you care- dealing treacherously, they will
less daughters, give ear to my deal treacherously with you. 2 O Je-
speech. 10 For days beyond a year hovah, be gracious to us; we have
will you be troubled, you careless waited for you: be our arm every
women; for the vintage will fail, the morning, our salvation also in the
ingathering will not come. 11 Trem- time of trouble. 3 At the noise of the
ble, you women who are at ease; be tumult the peoples have fled; at the
troubled, you careless ones; strip lifting up of yourself the nations
yourselves, and make yourselves have scattered. 4 And your spoil
bare, and gird sackcloth upon your shall be gathered as the caterpillar
waists. 12 They shall strike upon gathers: as locusts leap shall men
the breasts for the pleasant fields, leap upon it. 5 Jehovah is exalted;
for the fruitful vine. 13 Upon the for he dwells on high: he has filled
land of my people shall come up Zion with justice and righteous-
thorns and briers; yes, upon all the ness. 6 And there will be stability in
houses of joy in the joyous city. 14 your times, abundance of salvation,
For the palace will be forsaken; the wisdom, and knowledge: the fear
populous city will be deserted; the of Jehovah is your treasure.
hill and the watchtower will be for 7 Behold, their valiant ones cry
dens for ever, a joy of wild donkeys, outside; the ambassadors of peace
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weep bitterly. 8 The highways lie of our solemnities: your eyes will
waste, the traveling man ceases: the see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a
enemy has broken the covenant, he tent that will not be removed, the
has despised the cities, he does not stakes of which will never be
regard man. 9 The land mourns and plucked up, neither will any of the
languishes; Lebanon is confounded cords of it be broken. 21 But there
and withers away; Sharon is like a Jehovah will be with us in majesty,
desert; and Bashan and Carmel a place of broad rivers and streams,
shake off their leaves. 10 “Now will I in which will go no galley with
arise,” says Jehovah; “now will I lift oars, neither will gallant ship pass
up myself; now will I be exalted. 11 by it. 22 For Jehovah is our judge,
You shall conceive chaff, you shall Jehovah is our lawgiver, Jehovah is
bring forth stubble: your breath is a our king; he will save us. 23 Your
fire that shall devour you. 12 And tacklings are loosed; they could not
the peoples shall be as the burnings strengthen the foot of their mast,
of lime, as thorns cut down, that are they could not spread the sail: then
burned in the fire. was the prey of a great spoil di-
13 Hear, you who are far off, what vided; the lame took the prey. 24
I have done; and, you who are near, And the inhabitant will not say, “I
acknowledge my might.” 14 The am sick”: the people who dwell in it
sinners in Zion are afraid; trem- will be forgiven their iniquity.
bling has seized the godless ones:
Who among us can dwell with the
devouring fire? who among us can 34 Come near, you nations, to
hear; and listen, you peo-
dwell with everlasting burnings? ples: let the earth hear, and the full-
15 He who walks righteously, and ness of it; the world, and all things
speaks uprightly; he who despises that come forth from it. 2 For Jeho-
the gain of oppressions, who vah has indignation against all the
shakes his hands from taking a nations, and wrath against all their
bribe, who stops his ears from hear- armies: he has utterly destroyed
ing of blood, and shuts his eyes them, he has delivered them to the
from looking on evil: 16 He will slaughter. 3 Their slain also shall be
dwell on high; his place of defense cast out, and the stench of their
will be the munitions of rocks; his dead bodies shall come up; and the
bread will be given him; his waters mountains shall be melted with
will be sure. their blood. 4 And all the host of
17 Your eyes will see the king in heaven shall be dissolved, and the
his beauty: they will behold a land heavens shall be rolled together as
that reaches afar. 18 Your heart will a scroll; and all their host shall fade
muse on the terror: Where is he away, as the leaf fades from off the
who counted, where is he who vine, and as a fading leaf from the
weighed the tribute? where is he fig tree. 5 “For my sword has drunk
who counted the towers? 19 You its fill in heaven: behold, it shall
will not see the fierce people, a peo- come down on Edom, and on the
ple of a deep speech that you can- people of my curse, to judgment. 6
not comprehend, of a strange The sword of Jehovah is filled with
tongue that you cannot under- blood, it is made fat with fatness,
stand. 20 Look upon Zion, the city with the blood of lambs and goats,
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with the fat of the kidneys of rams; lot for them, and his hand has di-
for Jehovah has a sacrifice in vided it to them by line: they shall
Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the possess it for ever; from generation
land of Edom. 7 And the wild oxen to generation shall they dwell in it.
shall come down with them, and
the bulls with the bulls: and their
land shall be drunk with blood, and
their dust made fat with fatness.”
35 The wilderness and the dry
land shall be glad; and the
desert shall rejoice, and blossom as
8 For Jehovah has a day of the rose. 2 It shall blossom abun-
vengeance, a year of recompense dantly, and rejoice even with joy
for the cause of Zion. 9 And the and singing; the glory of Lebanon
streams of Edom shall be turned shall be given to it, the excellency of
into pitch, and the dust of it into Carmel and Sharon: they shall see
brimstone, and the land of it shall the glory of Jehovah, the excellency
become burning pitch. 10 It shall of our God.
not be quenched night nor day; the 3 Strengthen the weak hands, and
smoke of it shall go up for ever; confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to
from generation to generation it those who are of a fearful heart, “Be
shall lie waste; none shall pass strong, do not fear: behold, your
through it for ever and ever. 11 But God will come with vengeance, with
the pelican and the porcupine shall the recompense of God; he will
possess it; and the owl and the come and save you.”
raven shall dwell in it: and he will 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall
stretch over it the line of confusion, be opened, and the ears of the deaf
and the plummet of emptiness. 12 shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the
They shall call the nobles of it to the lame man leap as a deer, and the
kingdom, but none shall be there; tongue of the mute shall sing; for in
and all its princes shall be nothing. the wilderness shall waters break
13 And thorns shall come up in its out, and streams in the desert. 7
palaces, nettles and thistles in the And the glowing sand shall become
fortresses of it; and it shall be a a pool, and the thirsty ground
habitation of jackals, a court for os- springs of water: in the habitation
triches. 14 And the wild beasts of of jackals, where they lay, shall be
the desert shall meet with the jack- grass with reeds and rushes. 8 And
als, and the wild goat shall cry to a highway shall be there, and a way,
his fellow; yes, the night monster and it shall be called the Way of Ho-
shall settle there, and shall find her liness; the unclean shall not pass
a place of rest. 15 There shall the over it; but it shall be for the re-
dart snake make her nest, and lay, deemed: the traveling men, yes fools,
and hatch, and gather under her shall not err in it. 9 No lion shall be
shade; yes, there shall the kites be there, nor shall any ravenous beast
gathered, every one with her mate. go up on it; they shall not be found
16 Seek out of the book of Jeho- there; but the redeemed shall walk
vah, and read: no one of these shall there: 10 and the ransomed of Jeho-
be missing, none shall want her vah shall return, and come with
mate; for my mouth, it has com- singing to Zion; and everlasting joy
manded, and his Spirit, it has gath- shall be on their heads: they shall
ered them. 17 And he has cast the obtain gladness and joy, and sor-
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row and sighing shall flee away. against this land to destroy it? Jeho-
vah said to me, “Go up against this

36 Now it came to pass in the land, and destroy it.” ’ ”

fourteenth year of king 11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna
Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of and Joah to Rabshakeh, “Speak, I
Assyria came up against all the for- ask you, to your servants in the Syr-
tified cities of Judah, and took ian language; for we understand it:
them. 2 And the king of Assyria and do not speak to us in the Jews’
sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to language, in the ears of the people
Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a who are on the wall.” 12 But Rab-
great army. And he stood by the shakeh said, “Has my master sent
conduit of the upper pool in the me to your master, and to you, to
highway of the Fuller’s Field. 3 speak these words? has he not sent
Then came forth to him Eliakim the me to the men who sit on the wall,
son of Hilkiah, who was over the to eat their own dung, and to drink
household, and Shebna the scribe, their own water with you?”
and Joah, the son of Asaph, the 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and
recorder. cried with a loud voice in the Jews’
4 And Rabshakeh said to them, language, and said, “Hear the
“Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says words of the great king, the king of
the great king, the king of Assyria, Assyria. 14 Thus says the king, ‘Do
What confidence is this in which not let Hezekiah deceive you; for he
you trust? 5 I say, your counsel and will not be able to deliver you: 15
strength for the war are but vain neither let Hezekiah make you trust
words: now on whom do you trust, in Jehovah, saying, “Jehovah will
that you have rebelled against me? surely deliver us; this city will not
6 Behold, you trust upon the staff of be given into the hand of the king of
this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, Assyria.” ’ 16 Do not listen to
on which if a man lean, it will go Hezekiah: for thus says the king of
into his hand, and pierce it: so is Assyria, ‘Make your peace with me,
Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who and come out to me; and eat every
trust on him. 7 But if you say to me, one of his vine, and every one of his
“We trust in Jehovah our God”: is fig tree, and drink every one the
not that he, whose high places and waters of his own cistern; 17 until I
whose altars Hezekiah has taken come and take you away to a land
away, and has said to Judah and to like your own land, a land of grain
Jerusalem, “Ye shall worship before and new wine, a land of bread and
this altar?” 8 Now therefore, I ask vineyards. 18 Beware lest Hezekiah
you, give pledges to my master the persuade you, saying, “Jehovah
king of Assyria, and I will give you will deliver us.” Have any of the
two thousand horses, if you are gods of the nations delivered his
able on your part to set riders on land out of the hand of the king of
them. 9 How then can you turn Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of
away the face of one captain of the Hamath and Arpad? where are the
least of my master’s servants, and gods of Sepharvaim? and have they
put your trust on Egypt for chariots delivered Samaria out of my hand?
and for horsemen? 10 And have I 20 Who are they among all the gods
now come up without Jehovah of these countries, who have deliv-
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ered their country out of my hand, fall by the sword in his own land.”
that Jehovah should deliver ’ ”
Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ” 8 So Rabshakeh returned, and
21 But they held their peace, and found the king of Assyria warring
did not answer him a word; for the against Libnah; for he had heard
king’s commandment was, saying, that he had departed from Lachish.
“Do not answer him.” 22 Then 9 And he heard say concerning
came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has
who was over the household, and come out to fight against you.” And
Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son when he heard it, he sent messen-
of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah gers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 “Thus
with their clothes torn, and told shall you speak to Hezekiah king of
him the words of Rabshakeh. Judah, saying, ‘Do not let your God

37 And it came to pass, when in whom you trust deceive you,

king Hezekiah heard it, that saying, “Jerusalem shall not be
he tore his clothes, and covered given into the hand of the king of
himself with sackcloth, and went Assyria.” 11 Behold, you have
into the house of Jehovah. 2 And he heard what the kings of Assyria
sent Eliakim, who was over the have done to all lands, by destroy-
household, and Shebna the scribe, ing them utterly: and shall you be
and the elders of the priests, cov- delivered? 12 Have the gods of the
ered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the nations delivered them, which my
prophet the son of Amoz. 3 And fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and
they said to him, “Thus says Haran, and Rezeph, and the chil-
Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of dren of Eden who were in Telassar?
trouble, and of rebuke, and of con- 13 Where is the king of Hamath,
tempt; for the children have come and the king of Arpad, and the king
to the birth, and there is not of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena,
strength to bring forth. 4 It may be and Ivvah?’ ”
Jehovah your God will hear the 14 And Hezekiah received the let-
words of Rabshakeh, whom the ter from the hand of the messen-
king of Assyria his master has sent gers, and read it; and Hezekiah
to defy the living God, and will re- went up to the house of Jehovah,
buke the words which Jehovah and spread it before Jehovah. 15
your God has heard: therefore lift And Hezekiah prayed to Jehovah,
up your prayer for the remnant saying, 16 “O Jehovah of hosts, the
who is left.’ ” God of Israel, who sits above the
5 So the servants of king cherubim, you are the God, even
Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 And Isa- you alone, of all the kingdoms of
iah said to them, “Thus shall you the earth; you have made heaven
say to your master, ‘Thus says Jeho- and earth. 17 Incline your ear, O Je-
vah, “Do not be afraid of the words hovah, and hear; open your eyes, O
that you have heard, with which Jehovah, and see; and hear all the
the servants of the king of Assyria words of Sennacherib, who has sent
have blasphemed me. 7 Behold, I to defy the living God. 18 Truly, Je-
will put a spirit in him, and he shall hovah, the kings of Assyria have
hear tidings, and shall return to his laid waste all the countries, and
own land; and I will cause him to their land, 19 and have cast their
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gods into the fire: for they were not know your sitting down, and your
gods, but the work of men’s hands, going out, and your coming in, and
wood and stone; therefore they your raging against me. 29 Because
have destroyed them. 20 Now of your raging against me, and be-
therefore, O Jehovah our God, save cause your arrogance has come up
us from his hand, that all the king- into my ears, therefore will I put my
doms of the earth may know that hook in your nose, and my bridle in
you are Jehovah, even you only.” your lips, and I will turn you back
21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz by the way by which you came.
sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus 30 And this shall be the sign to
says Jehovah, the God of Israel, you: you shall eat this year that
‘Since you have prayed to me which grows of itself, and in the
against Sennacherib king of As- second year that which springs of
syria, 22 this is the word which Je- the same; and in the third year sow,
hovah has spoken concerning him: and reap, and plant vineyards, and
“The virgin daughter of Zion has eat the fruit of them. 31 And the
despised you and laughed you to remnant who is escaped of the
scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem house of Judah shall again take root
has shaken her head at you. 23 downward, and bear fruit upward.
Whom have you defied and blas- 32 For out of Jerusalem shall go
phemed? and against whom have forth a remnant, and out of Mount
you exalted your voice and lifted Zion those who shall escape. The
up your eyes on high? even against zeal of Jehovah of hosts will per-
the Holy One of Israel. 24 By your form this.’ ”
servants have you defied the Lord, 33 “Therefore thus says Jehovah
and have said, ‘With the multitude concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He
of my chariots have I come up to shall not come to this city, nor shoot
the height of the mountains, to the an arrow there, neither shall he
innermost parts of Lebanon; and I come before it with shield, nor cast
will cut down the tall cedars of it, up a mound against it. 34 By the
and the choice fir trees of it; and I way that he came, by the same shall
will enter into its farthest height, he return, and he shall not come to
the forest of its fruitful field; 25 I this city,’ says Jehovah. 35 ‘For I will
have dug and drunk water, and defend this city to save it, for my
with the sole of my feet will I dry own sake, and for my servant
up all the rivers of Egypt.” David’s sake.’ ”
26 Have you not heard how I have 36 And the angel of Jehovah went
done it long ago, and formed it of forth, and struck in the camp of the
ancient times? now have I brought Assyrians one hundred and eighty-
it to pass, that it should be yours to five thousand; and when men arose
lay waste fortified cities into ru- early in the morning, behold, these
inous heaps. 27 Therefore their in- were all dead bodies. 37 So Sen-
habitants were of small power, they nacherib king of Assyria departed,
were dismayed and confounded; and went and returned, and dwelt
they were as the grass of the field, at Nineveh. 38 And it came to pass,
and as the green herb, as the grass as he was worshipping in the house
on the housetops, and as a field of of Nisroch his god, that Adramm-
grain before it is grown up. 28 But I elech and Sharezer his sons smote
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him with the sword; and they es-
caped into the land of Ararat. And
Esar-haddon his son reigned in his
stead. 12
38 In those days
Hezekiah sick unto death.
And Isaiah the prophet the son of
was
Amoz came to him, and said to
him, Thus says Jehovah, “Set your
house in order; for you shall die,
and not live.” 2 Then Hezekiah
turned his face to the wall, and 13
prayed to Jehovah, 3 and said, “Re-
member now, O Jehovah, I beseech
you, how I have walked before you
in truth and with a perfect heart,
and have done that which is good 14
in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept
severely. 4 Then came the word of
Jehovah to Isaiah, saying, 5 “Go,
and say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says Je-
hovah, the God of David your fa-
ther, “I have heard your prayer, I 15
have seen your tears: behold, I will
add to your days fifteen years. 6
And I will deliver you and this city
out of the hand of the king of As-
syria; and I will defend this city.” ’
7 And this shall be the sign to you 16
from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do
this thing that he has spoken: 8 be-
hold, I will cause the shadow on the
steps, which is gone down on the
dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return
backward ten steps.” So the sun re- 17
turned ten steps on the dial on
which it had gone down.
9 The writing of Hezekiah king of
Judah, when he had been sick, and
had recovered from his sickness.
10 I said, “In the noontime of my
days I shall go into the gates of 18
Sheol:
I am deprived of the residue of
my years.”
11 I said, “I shall not see Jehovah, 19
even Jehovah in the land of
the living:
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I shall behold man no more
with the inhabitants of the
world.
My dwelling is removed, and is
carried away from me as a
shepherd’s tent:
I have rolled up, like a weaver,
my life; he will cut me off
from the loom:
From day even to night will
you make an end of me.
I quieted myself until morning;
as a lion, so he breaks all my
bones:
From day even to night will
you make an end of me.
Like a swallow or a crane, so did
I chatter;
I moaned as a dove; my eyes
fail with looking upward:
O Lord, I am oppressed, be my
surety.
What shall I say? he has both
spoken to me, and he himself
has done it:
I shall go softly all my years
because of the bitterness of
my soul.
O Lord, by these things men
live;
And wholly in them is the life
of my spirit:
Therefore recover me, and
make me to live.
Behold, it was for my peace that
I had great bitterness:
But you have in love to my soul
delivered it from the pit of
corruption;
For you have cast all my sins
behind your back.
For Sheol cannot praise you,
death cannot celebrate you:
Those who go down into the pit
cannot hope for your truth.
The living, the living, he shall
praise you, as I do this day:
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make known your truth. of your sons who shall issue from
20 Jehovah is ready to save me: you, whom you shalt beget, shall
Therefore we will sing my they take away; and they shall be
songs with stringed eunuchs in the palace of the king of
instruments Babylon.’ ” 8 Then Hezekiah said to
All the days of our life in the Isaiah, “Good is the word of Jeho-
house of Jehovah.” vah which you have spoken.” He
21 Now Isaiah had said, “Let said moreover, “For there shall be
them take a cake of figs, and lay it peace and truth in my days.”
for a plaster on the boil, and he
shall recover.” 22 Hezekiah also
had said, “What is the sign that I 40 “Comfort, comfort my peo-
ple,” says your God. 2
shall go up to the house of Jeho- “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem;
vah?” and cry to her, that her warfare is

39 At that time Merodach-bal- accomplished, that her iniquity is

adan the son of Baladan, pardoned, that she has received of
king of Babylon, sent letters and a Jehovah’s hand double for all her
present to Hezekiah; for he heard sins.”
that he had been sick, and had re- 3 The voice of one who cries, “Pre-
covered. 2 And Hezekiah was glad pare in the wilderness the way of
of them, and showed them the Jehovah; make level in the desert a
house of his precious things, the sil- highway for our God. 4 Every val-
ver, and the gold, and the spices, ley shall be exalted, and every
and the precious oil, and all the mountain and hill shall be made
house of his armor, and all that was low; and the uneven shall be made
found in his treasures: there was level, and the rough places a plain:
nothing in his house, nor in all his 5 and the glory of Jehovah shall be
dominion, that Hezekiah did not revealed, and all flesh shall see it to-
show them. 3 Then came Isaiah the gether; for the mouth of Jehovah
prophet to king Hezekiah, and said has spoken it.”
to him, “What did these men say? 6 The voice of one saying, “Cry.”
and from where did they come to And one said, “What shall I cry?”
you?” And Hezekiah said, “They All flesh is grass, and all the goodli-
came from a far country to me, even ness of it is as the flower of the field.
from Babylon.” 4 Then he said, 7 The grass withers, the flower
“What have they seen in your fades, because the breath of Jeho-
house?” And Hezekiah answered, vah blows upon it; surely the peo-
“All that is in my house have they ple is grass. 8 The grass withers, the
seen: there is nothing among my flower fades; but the word of our
treasures that I have not showed God shall stand forever.
them.” 5 Then said Isaiah to 9 O you who tell good tidings to
Hezekiah, “Hear the word of Jeho- Zion, get up on a high mountain; O
vah of hosts: 6 ‘Behold, the days are you who tell good tidings to
coming, when all that is in your Jerusalem, lift up your voice with
house, and that which your fathers strength; lift it up, do not be afraid;
have laid up in store until this day, say to the cities of Judah, “Behold,
shall be carried to Babylon: nothing your God!” 10 Behold, the Lord Je-
shall be left,’ says Jehovah. 7 ‘And hovah will come as a mighty one,
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and his arm will rule for him: Be- of the earth? 22 It is he who sits
hold, his reward is with him, and above the circle of the earth, and the
his recompense before him. 11 He inhabitants of it are as grasshop-
will feed his flock like a shepherd, pers; who stretches out the heavens
he will gather the lambs in his arm, as a curtain, and spreads them out
and carry them in his bosom, and as a tent to dwell in; 23 who brings
will gently lead those who have princes to nothing; who makes the
their young. judges of the earth as vanity. 24 Yes,
12 Who has measured the waters they have not been planted; yes,
in the hollow of his hand, and mea- they have not been sown; yes, their
sured out heaven with the span, stock has not taken root in the
and comprehended the dust of the earth: moreover he blows on them,
earth in a measure, and weighed and they wither, and the whirlwind
the mountains in scales, and the takes them away as stubble. 25 “To
hills in a balance? 13 Who has di- whom then will you liken me, that
rected the Spirit of Jehovah, or be- I should be equal to him?” says the
ing his counselor has taught him? Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes on
14 With whom took he counsel, and high, and see who has created
who instructed him, and taught these, who brings out their host by
him in the path of justice, and number; he calls them all by name;
taught him knowledge, and by the greatness of his might, and
showed to him the way of under- because he is strong in power, not
standing? 15 Behold, the nations one is lacking.
are as a drop of a bucket, and are ac- 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and
counted as the small dust of the bal- speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden
ance: behold, he takes up the isles from Jehovah, and the justice due to
as a very little thing. 16 And me is passed away from my God?”
Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, 28 Have you not known? have you
nor the beasts of it sufficient for a not heard? The everlasting God, Je-
burnt offering. 17 All the nations hovah, the Creator of the ends of
are as nothing before him; they are the earth, does not faint, neither is
accounted by him as less than noth- weary; there is no searching of his
ing, and vanity. understanding. 29 He gives power
18 To whom then will you liken to the faint; and to him who has no
God? or what likeness will you might he increases strength. 30
compare to him? 19 The image, a Even the youths shall faint and be
workman has cast it, and the gold- weary, and the young men shall ut-
smith overlays it with gold, and terly fall: 31 but those who wait for
casts for it silver chains. 20 He who Jehovah shall renew their strength;
is too impoverished for such an they shall mount up with wings as
offering chooses a tree that will not eagles; they shall run, and not be
rot; he seeks unto him a skillful weary; they shall walk, and not
workman to set up a graven image, faint.
that will not be moved. 21 Have
you not known? have you not 41 “Keep silent before me, O
islands; and let the peoples
heard? has it not been told you renew their strength: let them come
from the beginning? have you not near; then let them speak; let us
understood from the foundations come near together to judgment. 2
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Who has raised up one from the will help you.’ 14 ‘Fear not, you
east, whom he calls in righteous- worm Jacob, and you men of Israel;
ness to his foot? he gives nations I will help you,’ says Jehovah, and
before him, and makes him rule your Redeemer is the Holy One of
over kings; he gives them as the Israel. 15 Behold, I have made you
dust to his sword, as the driven to be a new sharp threshing instru-
stubble to his bow. 3 He pursues ment having teeth; you shall thresh
them, and passes on safely, even by the mountains, and beat them
a way that he had not gone with his small, and shall make the hills as
feet. 4 Who has worked and done it, chaff. 16 You shall winnow them,
calling the generations from the be- and the wind shall carry them
ginning? I, Jehovah, the first, and away, and the whirlwind shall scat-
with the last, I am he.” 5 The isles ter them; and you shall rejoice in Je-
have seen, and fear; the ends of the hovah, you shall glory in the Holy
earth tremble; they draw near, and One of Israel.
come. 6 They help every one his 17 The poor and needy seek wa-
neighbor; and every one says to his ter, and there is none, and their
brother, ‘Be of good courage.’ 7 So tongue fails for thirst; I, Jehovah,
the carpenter encourages the gold- will answer them, I, the God of Is-
smith, and he who smooths with rael, will not forsake them. 18 I will
the hammer him who strikes the open rivers on the bare heights, and
anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is fountains in the midst of the val-
good;” and he fastens it with nails, leys; I will make the wilderness a
that it should not be moved. pool of water, and the dry land
8 “But you, Israel, my servant, Ja- springs of water. 19 I will put in the
cob whom I have chosen, the seed wilderness the cedar, the acacia,
of Abraham my friend, 9 you and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I
whom I have taken hold of from the will set in the desert the fir tree, the
ends of the earth, and called from pine, and the box tree together: 20
the corners of it, and said to you, that they may see, and know, and
‘You are my servant, I have chosen consider, and understand together,
you and not cast you away; 10 fear that the hand of Jehovah has done
not, for I am with you; do not be this, and the Holy One of Israel has
dismayed, for I am your God; I will created it.”
strengthen you; yes, I will help you; 21 “Produce your cause,” says Je-
yes, I will uphold you with the hovah; “bring forth your strong
right hand of my righteousness.’ 11 reasons,” says the King of Jacob. 22
Behold, all those who are incensed “Let them bring forth, and declare
against you shall be put to shame to us what will happen: declare the
and confounded: those who strive former things, what they are, that
with you shall be as nothing, and we may consider them, and know
shall perish. 12 You shall seek them, the latter end of them; or show us
and shall not find them, even those things to come. 23 Declare the
who contend with you: those who things that are to come after this,
war against you shall be as nothing, that we may know that you are
and as a nothing. 13 For I, Jehovah gods: yes, do good, or do evil, that
your God, will hold your right we may be dismayed, and behold it
hand, saying to you, ‘Do not fear; I together. 24 Behold, you are of
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nothing, and your work is of noth- give you for a covenant of the peo-
ing; an abomination is he who ple, for a light of the Gentiles; 7 to
chooses you. open the blind eyes, to bring out the
25 I have raised up one from the prisoners from the dungeon, and
north, and he has come; from the those who sit in darkness out of the
rising of the sun one who calls prison house. 8 I am Jehovah, that is
upon my name: and he shall come my name; and my glory I will not
upon rulers as upon mortar, and as give to another, neither my praise
the potter treads clay. 26 Who has to graven images. 9 Behold, the for-
declared it from the beginning, that mer things have come to pass, and
we may know? and formerly, that new things do I declare; before they
we may say, ‘He is right?’ yes, there spring forth I tell you of them.”
is none who declares, yes, there is 10 Sing to Jehovah a new song,
none who shows, yes, there is none and his praise from the end of the
who hears your words. 27 I am the earth; you who go down to the sea,
first who says to Zion, ‘Behold, be- and all that is in it, the isles, and the
hold them;’ and I will give to inhabitants of it. 11 Let the wilder-
Jerusalem one who brings good tid- ness and the cities of it lift up their
ings. 28 And when I look, there is voice, the villages that Kedar in-
no man: even among them there is habits; let the inhabitants of Sela
no counselor, that, when I ask of sing, let them shout from the top of
them, can answer a word. 29 Be- the mountains. 12 Let them give
hold, all of them, their works are glory to Jehovah, and declare his
vanity and nothing; their molten praise in the islands. 13 Jehovah
images are wind and confusion. will go forth as a mighty man; he

42 Behold, my servant, whom will stir up his zeal like a man of

I uphold; my chosen, in war: he will cry, yes, he will shout
whom my soul delights: I have put aloud; he will do mightily against
my Spirit upon him; he will bring his enemies.
forth justice to the Gentiles. 2 He 14 “I have long time held my
will not cry, nor lift up his voice, peace; I have been still, and re-
nor cause it to be heard in the street. frained myself: now will I cry out
3 A bruised reed he will not break, like a travailing woman; I will gasp
and a dimly burning wick he will and pant together. 15 I will lay
not quench: he will bring forth jus- waste mountains and hills, and dry
tice in truth. 4 He will not fail nor be up all their herbs; and I will make
discouraged, until he have set jus- the rivers islands, and will dry up
tice in the earth; and the isles shall the pools. 16 And I will bring the
wait for his law.” blind by a way that they do not
5 Thus says God Jehovah, he who know; in paths that they do not
created the heavens, and stretched know will I lead them; I will make
them forth; he who spread abroad darkness light before them, and
the earth and that which comes out crooked places straight. These
of it; he who gives breath to the things will I do, and I will not for-
people on it, and spirit to those who sake them. 17 They shall be turned
walk in it: 6 “I, Jehovah, have called back, they shall be utterly put to
you in righteousness, and will hold shame, who trust in graven images,
your hand, and will keep you, and who say to molten images, ‘You are
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our gods.’ have been precious in my sight, and
18 Hear, you deaf; and look, you honorable, and I have loved you;
blind, that you may see. 19 Who is therefore will I give men in your
blind, but my servant? or deaf, as stead, and peoples instead of your
my messenger who I send? who is life. 5 Do not fear; for I am with
blind as he who is at peace with me, you: I will bring your seed from the
and blind as Jehovah’s servant? 20 east, and gather you from the west;
You see many things, but you do 6 I will say to the north, ‘Give up’;
not observe; his ears are open, but and to the south, ‘Do not keep
he does not hear.” 21 It pleased Je- back’; bring my sons from far, and
hovah, for his righteousness’ sake, my daughters from the end of the
to magnify the law, and make it earth; 7 every one who is called by
honorable. 22 But this is a people my name, and whom I have created
robbed and plundered; they are all for my glory, whom I have formed,
of them snared in holes, and they yes, whom I have made.”
are hidden in prison houses: they 8 Bring forth the blind people
are for a prey, and none delivers; for who have eyes, and the deaf who
a spoil, and none says, “Restore.” have ears. 9 Let all the nations be
23 Who is there among you who gathered together, and let the peo-
will give ear to this? who will listen ples be assembled: who among
and hear for the time to come? 24 them can declare this, and show us
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Is- former things? let them bring their
rael to the robbers? did not Jeho- witnesses, that they may be justi-
vah? he against whom we have fied; or let them hear, and say, “It is
sinned, and in whose ways they truth.” 10 “You are my witnesses,”
would not walk, neither were they says Jehovah, “and my servant
obedient to his law. 25 Therefore he whom I have chosen; that you may
poured upon him the fierceness of know and believe me, and under-
his anger, and the strength of battle; stand that I am he: before me there
and it set him on fire all around, yet was no God formed, neither shall
he did not know; and it burned there be after me. 11 I, even I, am Je-
him, yet he did not lay it to heart. hovah; and besides me there is no

43 But now thus says Jehovah savior. 12 I have declared, and I

who created you, O Jacob, have saved, and I have shown; and
and he who formed you, O Israel: there was no strange god among
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you: therefore you are my wit-
you; I have called you by your nesses,” says Jehovah, “and I am
name, you are mine. 2 When you God. 13 Yes, since the day was I am
pass through the waters, I will be he; and there is none who can de-
with you; and through the rivers, liver out of my hand: I will work,
they shall not overflow you: when and who can hinder it?”
you walk through the fire, you shall 14 Thus says Jehovah, your Re-
not be burned, neither shall the deemer, the Holy One of Israel:
flame kindle upon you. 3 For I am “For your sake I have sent to Baby-
Jehovah your God, the Holy One of lon, and I will bring down all of
Israel, your Savior; I have given them as fugitives, even the
Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia Chaldeans, in the ships of their re-
and Seba in your stead. 4 Since you joicing. 15 I am Jehovah, your Holy
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One, the Creator of Israel, your
King.” 16 Thus says Jehovah, who 44 Yet now hear, O Jacob my
servant, and Israel, who I
makes a way in the sea, and a path have chosen: 2 Thus says Jehovah
in the mighty waters; 17 who brings who made you, and formed you
forth the chariot and horse, the from the womb, who will help you:
army and the mighty man (they lie ‘Do not fear, O Jacob my servant;
down together, they shall not rise; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have
they are extinct, they are quenched chosen. 3 For I will pour water
as a wick): 18 Do not remember the upon him who is thirsty, and
former things, neither consider the streams upon the dry ground; I will
things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a pour my Spirit upon your seed, and
new thing; now shall it spring forth; my blessing upon your offspring: 4
shall you not know it? I will even and they will spring up among the
make a way in the wilderness, and grass, as willows by the water-
rivers in the desert. 20 The beasts of courses.’ 5 One will say, ‘I am Jeho-
the field will honor me, the jackals vah’s’; and another will call himself
and the ostriches; because I give by the name of Jacob; and another
waters in the wilderness, and rivers will subscribe with his hand to Je-
in the desert, to give drink to my hovah, and surname himself by the
people, my chosen, 21 the people name of Israel.”
which I formed for myself, that 6 Thus says Jehovah, the King of
they might set forth my praise. Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah
22 Yet you have not called upon of hosts: “I am the first, and I am the
me, O Jacob; but you have been last; and besides me there is no
weary of me, O Israel. 23 You have God. 7 And who, as I, shall call, and
not brought me your sheep for shall declare it, and set it in order
burnt offerings; neither have you for me, since I established the an-
honored me with your sacrifices. I cient people? and the things that
have not burdened you with offer- are coming, and that shall come to
ings, nor wearied you with frankin- pass, let them declare. 8 Do not fear,
cense. 24 You have bought me no neither be afraid: have I not de-
sweet cane with money, neither clared to you of old, and shown it?
have you filled me with the fat of and you are my witnesses. Is there
your sacrifices; but you have bur- a God besides me? yes, there is no
dened me with your sins, you have Rock; I know not any.”
wearied me with your iniquities. 9 Those who fashion a graven im-
25 I, even I, am he who blots out age are all of them vanity; and the
your transgressions for my own things that they delight in shall not
sake; and I will not remember your profit; and their own witnesses do
sins. 26 Put me in remembrance; let not see, nor know: that they may be
us plead together: set forth your put to shame. 10 Who has fash-
cause, that you may be justified. 27 ioned a god, or molten an image
Your first father sinned, and your that is profitable for nothing? 11 Be-
teachers have transgressed against hold, all his companions shall be
me. 28 Therefore I will profane the put to shame; and the workmen,
princes of the sanctuary; and I will they are of men: let them all be
make Jacob a curse, and Israel a re- gathered together, let them stand
viling. up; they shall fear, they shall be put
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to shame together. him aside; and he cannot deliver
12 The smith makes an axe, and his soul, nor say, “Is there not a lie
works in the coals, and fashions it in my right hand?”
with hammers, and works it with 21 “Remember these things, O Ja-
his strong arm: yes, he is hungry, cob, and Israel; for you are my ser-
and his strength fails; he drinks no vant: I have formed you; you are
water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter my servant: O Israel, you shall not
stretches out a line; he marks it out be forgotten by me. 22 I have blot-
with a pencil; he shapes it with ted out, as a thick cloud, your trans-
planes, and he marks it out with the gressions, and, as a cloud, your
compasses, and shapes it after the sins: return to me; for I have re-
figure of a man, according to the deemed you.” 23 Sing, O you heav-
beauty of a man, to dwell in a ens, for Jehovah has done it; shout,
house. 14 He hews down cedars, you lower parts of the earth; break
and takes the holm tree and the forth into singing, you mountains,
oak, and strengthens for himself O forest, and every tree in it: for Je-
one among the trees of the forest: he hovah has redeemed Jacob, and
plants a fir tree, and the rain nour- will glorify himself in Israel.
ishes it. 15 Then shall it be for a man 24 Thus says Jehovah, your Re-
to burn; and he takes of it, and deemer, and he who formed you
warms himself; yes, he kindles it, from the womb: “I am Jehovah,
and bakes bread: yes, he makes a who makes all things; who
god, and worships it; he makes it a stretches forth the heavens alone;
graven image, and falls down to it. who spreads abroad the earth (who
16 He burns part of it in the fire; is with me?); 25 who frustrates the
with part of it he eats flesh; he signs of the liars, and makes divin-
roasts roast, and is satisfied; yes, he ers mad; who turns wise men back-
warns himself, and says, “Aha, I ward, and makes their knowledge
am warm, I have seen the fire.” 17 foolish; 26 who confirms the word
And the residue of it he makes a of his servant, and performs the
god, even his graven image; he falls counsel of his messengers; who
down to it and worships, and prays says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be in-
to it, and says, “Deliver me; for you habited’; and of the cities of Judah,
are my god.” ‘They shall be built, and I will raise
18 They do not know, neither do up the waste places of it’; 27 who
they consider: for he has shut their says to the deep, ‘Be dry, and I will
eyes, that they cannot see; and their dry up your rivers’; 28 Who says of
hearts, that they cannot under- Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and
stand. 19 And none calls to mind, shall perform all my pleasure’, even
neither is there knowledge nor un- saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be
derstanding to say, “I have burned built’; and of the temple, ‘Thy foun-
part of it in the fire; yes, also I have dation shall be laid.’ ”
baked bread on the coals of it; I
have roasted flesh and eaten it: and 45 Thus says Jehovah to his
anointed, to Cyrus, whose
shall I make the residue of it an right hand I have held, to subdue
abomination? shall I fall down to nations before him, and I will loose
the stock of a tree?” 20 He feeds on the loins of kings; to open the doors
ashes; a deceived heart has turned before him, and the gates will not
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be shut: 2 “I will go before you, and manded. 13 I have raised him up in
make the rough places smooth; I righteousness, and I will make
will break in pieces the doors of straight all his ways: he shall build
brass, and cut in pieces the bars of my city, and he shall let my exiles
iron; 3 and I will give you the trea- go free, not for price nor reward,”
sures of darkness, and hidden says Jehovah of hosts.
riches of secret places, that you may 14 Thus says Jehovah, “The labor
know that it is I, Jehovah, who call of Egypt, and the merchandise of
you by your name, even the God of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of
Israel. 4 For Jacob my servant’s stature, shall come over to you, and
sake, and Israel my chosen, I have they shall be yours: they shall go af-
called you by your name: I have ter you, in chains they shall come
surnamed you, though you have over; and they shall fall down to
not known me. 5 I am Jehovah, and you, they shall make supplication
there is none else; besides me there to you, saying, ‘Surely God is in
is no God. I will gird you, though you; and there is none else, there is
you have not known me; 6 that they no God.’ ” 15 Truly you are a God
may know from the rising of the who hides yourself, O God of Is-
sun, and from the west, that there is rael, the Savior. 16 They shall be put
none besides me: I am Jehovah, and to shame, yes, confounded, all of
there is none else. 7 I form the light, them; they shall go into confusion
and create darkness; I make peace, together who are makers of idols.
and create evil. I am Jehovah, who 17 But Israel shall be saved by Jeho-
does all these things. vah with an everlasting salvation:
8 Drip, you heavens, from above, you shall not be put to shame nor
and let the skies pour down righ- confounded world without end.
teousness: let the earth open, that it 18 For thus says Jehovah who cre-
may bring forth salvation, and let it ated the heavens, the God who
cause righteousness to spring up formed the earth and made it, who
together; I, Jehovah, have created it. established it and created it not a
9 Woe to him who strives with his waste, who formed it to be inhabit-
Maker! a potsherd among the pot- ed: “I am Jehovah; and there is none
sherds of the earth! Shall the clay else. 19 I have not spoken in secret,
say to him who fashions it, ‘What in a place of the land of darkness; I
are you making?’ or your work, ‘He did not say to the seed of Jacob,
has no hands’? 10 Woe to him who ‘Seek me in vain’: I, Jehovah, speak
says to a father, ‘What are you righteousness, I declare things that
begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With are right.
what are you travailing?’ ” 20 Assemble yourselves and
11 Thus says Jehovah, the Holy come; draw near together, you who
One of Israel, and his Maker: “Ask have escaped of the nations: they
me of the things that are to come; have no knowledge who carry the
concerning my sons, and concern- wood of their graven image, and
ing the work of my hands, com- pray to a god that cannot save. 21
mand me. 12 I have made the earth, Declare, and bring it forth; yes, let
and created man upon it: I, even my them take counsel together: who
hands, have stretched out the heav- has shown this from ancient time?
ens; and all their host have I com- who has declared it of old? have not
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I, Jehovah? and there is no other
God besides me, a just God and a
Savior; there is none besides me. 22
Look to me, and be saved, all the
ends of the earth; for I am God, and
there is no one else. 23 By myself
have I sworn, the word is gone
forth from my mouth in righteous-
ness, and shall not return, that to
me every knee shall bow, every
tongue shall swear. 24 ‘Only in Je-
hovah’, it is said of me, ‘is right-
eousness and strength; even to him
shall men come; and all those who
were incensed against him shall be
put to shame. 25 In Jehovah shall all
the seed of Israel be justified, and
shall glory.’ ”
nor save him out of his trouble.
8 Remember this, and show your-
selves men; bring it again to mind,
O you transgressors. 9 Remember
the former things of old: for I am
God, and there is none else; I am
God, and there is none like me; 10
declaring the end from the begin-
ning, and from ancient times things
that are not yet done; saying, My
counsel shall stand, and I will do all
my pleasure; 11 calling a ravenous
bird from the east, the man of my
counsel from a far country; yes, I
have spoken, I will also bring it to
pass; I have purposed, I will also do
it.
12 Listen to me, you stout-
hearted, who are far from righ-

46 Bel bows down, Nebo teousness: 13 I bring near my right-

stoops; their idols are on the eousness, it shall not be far off, and
beasts, and on the cattle: the things my salvation shall not delay; and I
that you carried around are made a will place salvation in Zion for Is-
load, a burden to the weary beast. 2 rael my glory.
They stoop, they bow down to-
gether; they could not deliver the 47 Come down, and sit in the
dust, O virgin daughter of
burden, but have themselves gone Babylon; sit on the ground without
into captivity. a throne, O daughter of the
3 “Listen to me, O house of Jacob, Chaldeans: for you shall no longer
and all the remnant of the house of be called tender and delicate. 2 Take
Israel, who have been borne by me the millstones, and grind meal; re-
from their birth, who have been move your veil, strip off the train,
carried from the womb; 4 and even uncover the leg, pass through the
to old age I am he, and even to gray rivers. 3 Your nakedness shall be
hairs will I carry you; I have made, uncovered, yes, your shame shall
and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and be seen: I will take vengeance, and
will deliver. 5 To whom will you will spare no man.” 4 Our Re-
liken me, and make me equal, and deemer, Jehovah of hosts is his
compare me, that we may be like? 6 name, the Holy One of Israel. 5 “Sit
Such as lavish gold out of the bag, silent, and get into darkness, O
and weigh silver in the balance, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you
they hire a goldsmith, and he shall no longer be called “The Mis-
makes it a god; they fall down, yes, tress of Kingdoms. 6 I was angry
they worship. 7 They bear it on the with my people, I profaned my in-
shoulder, they carry it, and set it in heritance, and gave them into your
its place, and it stands, from its hand: you showed them no mercy;
place shall it not remove: yes, one upon the aged have you very heav-
may cry to it, yet it cannot answer, ily laid your yoke. 7 And you said,
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‘I shall be mistress for ever’; so that which you have labored: those who
you did not lay these things to your have traded with you from your
heart, neither remembered the lat- youth shall wander every one to his
ter end of them. quarter; there shall be none to save
8 Now therefore hear this, you you.
who are given to pleasures, who sit
securely, who say in your heart, ‘I 48 Hear this, O house of Ja-
cob, who are called by the
am, and there is none else besides name of Israel, and have come forth
me; I shall not sit as a widow, nei- out of the waters of Judah; who
ther shall I know the loss of chil- swear by the name of Jehovah, and
dren’: 9 but these two things shall make mention of the God of Israel,
come to you in a moment in one but not in truth, nor in righteous-
day, the loss of children, and wid- ness 2 (for they call themselves of
owhood; in their full measure shall the holy city, and stay themselves
they come upon you, in the multi- upon the God of Israel; Jehovah of
tude of your sorceries, and the great hosts is his name): 3 I have declared
abundance of your enchantments. the former things from of old; yes,
10 For you have trusted in your they went forth out of my mouth,
wickedness; you have said, ‘None and I showed them: suddenly I did
sees me’; your wisdom and your them, and they came to pass. 4 Be-
knowledge, it has perverted you, cause I knew that you are obstinate,
and you have said in your heart, ‘I and your neck is an iron sinew, and
am, and there is none else besides your brow brass; 5 therefore I have
me.’ 11 Therefore shall evil come declared it to you from of old; be-
upon you; you shall not know the fore it came to pass I showed it you;
dawning of it: and mischief shall lest you should say, ‘My idol has
fall upon you; you shall not be able done them, and my graven image,
to put it away: and desolation shall and my molten image, has com-
come upon you suddenly, which manded them.’ 6 You have heard it;
you do not know. behold all this; and you, will you
12 Stand now with your enchant- not declare it? I have shown you
ments, and with the multitude of new things from this time, even
your sorceries, in which you have hidden things, which you have not
labored from your youth; if per- known. 7 They are created now,
haps you will be able to profit, if and not from of old; and before this
perhaps you may prevail. 13 You day you did not hear them; lest you
are wearied in the multitude of should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
your counsels: let now the as- 8 Yes, you did not hear; yes, you did
trologers, the stargazers, the not know; yes, from of old your ear
monthly prognosticators, stand up, was not opened: for I knew that
and save you from the things that you dealt very treacherously, and
shall come upon you. 14 Behold, were called a transgressor from the
they shall be as stubble; the fire womb. 9 For my name’s sake will I
shall burn them; they shall not de- defer my anger, and for my praise
liver themselves from the power of will I refrain for you, that I do not
the flame: it shall not be a coal to cut you off. 10 Behold, I have re-
warm at, nor a fire to sit before. 15 fined you, but not as silver; I have
Thus shall the things be to you in chosen you in the furnace of afflic-
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tion. 11 For my own sake, for my split the rock also, and the waters
own sake, will I do it; for how gushed out. 22 There is no peace,”
should my name be profaned? and says Jehovah, “to the wicked.”
my glory I will not give to another.
12 Listen to me, O Jacob, and Is- 49 Listen, O isles, to me; and
listen, you peoples, from far:
rael my called: I am he; I am the Jehovah has called me from the
first, I also am the last. 13 Yes, my womb; from the bowels of my
hand has laid the foundation of the mother has he made mention of my
earth, and my right hand has name: 2 and he has made my
spread out the heavens: when I call mouth like a sharp sword; in the
to them, they stand up together. 14 shadow of his hand has he hidden
Assemble yourselves, all you, and me: and he has made me a polished
hear; who among them has de- shaft; in his quiver has he kept me
clared these things? He whom Jeho- close: 3 and he said to me, “You are
vah loves shall perform his my servant; Israel, in whom I will
pleasure on Babylon, and his arm be glorified.” 4 But I said, “I have
shall be on the Chaldeans. 15 I, labored in vain, I have spent my
even I, have spoken; yes, I have strength for nothing and vanity; yet
called him; I have brought him, and surely the justice due to me is with
he shall make his way prosperous. Jehovah, and my recompense with
16 Come near to me, hear this; from my God.”
the beginning I have not spoken in 5 And now says Jehovah who
secret; from the time that it was, formed me from the womb to be his
there am I: and now the Lord Jeho- servant, to bring Jacob again to
vah has sent me, and his Spirit.” him, and that Israel be gathered to
17 Thus says Jehovah, your Re- him (for I am honorable in the eyes
deemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I of Jehovah, and my God has be-
am Jehovah your God, who teaches come my strength); 6 yes, he says,
you to profit, who leads you by the “It is too light a thing that you
way that you should go. 18 Oh that should be my servant to raise up
you had listened to my command- the tribes of Jacob, and to restore
ments! then would have your peace the preserved of Israel: I will also
been as a river, and your righteous- give you for a light to the Gentiles,
ness as the waves of the sea: 19 your that you may be my salvation to the
seed also would have been as the end of the earth.” 7 Thus says Jeho-
sand, and the offspring of your vah, the Redeemer of Israel, and his
bowels like the grains of it: his Holy One, to him whom man de-
name would not be cut off nor de- spises, to him whom the nation ab-
stroyed from before me. hors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings
20 Go forth from Babylon, flee shall see and arise; princes, and
from the Chaldeans; with a voice of they shall worship; because of Jeho-
singing declare, tell this, utter it vah who is faithful, even the Holy
even to the end of the earth: say, ‘Je- One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
hovah has redeemed his servant Ja- 8 Thus says Jehovah, “In an ac-
cob.’ 21 And they did not thirst ceptable time have I answered you,
when he led them through the and in a day of salvation have I
deserts; he caused the waters to helped you; and I will preserve
flow out of the rock for them; he you, and give you for a covenant of
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the people, to raise up the land, to be far away. 20 The children of your
make them inherit the desolate her- bereavement will yet say in your
itages: 9 saying to those who are ears, ‘The place is too narrow for
bound, ‘Go forth; to those who are me; give place to me that I may
in darkness, Show yourselves. They dwell.’ 21 Then will you say in your
shall feed in the ways, and on all heart, ‘Who has begotten me these,
bare heights shall be their pasture. seeing I have been bereaved of my
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; children, and am solitary, an exile,
neither shall the heat nor sun strike and wandering to and fro? and who
them: for he who has mercy on has brought up these? Behold, I
them will lead them, even by was left alone; these, where were
springs of water will he guide they?’ ”
them. 11 And I will make all my 22 Thus says the Lord Jehovah,
mountains a way, and my high- “Behold, I will lift up my hand to
ways shall be exalted. 12 Behold, the nations, and set up my sign to
these shall come from far; and, be- the peoples; and they shall bring
hold, these from the north and from your sons in their bosom, and your
the west; and these from the land of daughters shall be carried on their
Sinim.” 13 Sing, O heavens; and be shoulders. 23 And kings shall be
joyful, O earth; and break forth into your nursing fathers, and their
singing, O mountains: for Jehovah queens your nursing mothers: they
has comforted his people, and will shall bow down to you with their
have compassion on his afflicted. faces to the earth, and lick the dust
14 But Zion said, “Jehovah has of your feet; and you will know that
forsaken me, and the Lord has for- I am Jehovah; and those who wait
gotten me.” 15 “Can a woman for- for me shall not be put to shame.”
get her sucking child, that she 24 Shall the prey be taken from
should not have compassion on the the mighty, or the lawful captives
son of her womb? yes, these may be delivered? 25 But thus says Jeho-
forget, yet I will not forget you. 16 vah, “Even the captives of the
Behold, I have engraved you upon mighty shall be taken away, and the
the palms of my hands; your walls prey of the terrible shall be deliv-
are continually before me. 17 Your ered; for I will contend with him
children make haste; your destroy- who contends with you, and I will
ers and those who made you waste save your children. 26 And I will
shall go forth from you. 18 Lift up feed those who oppress you with
your eyes around, and behold: all their own flesh; and they shall be
these gather themselves together, drunk with their own blood, as
and come to you. As I live,” says Je- with sweet wine: and all flesh shall
hovah, “you shall surely clothe know that I, Jehovah, am your Sav-
yourselves with them all as with an ior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty
ornament, and gird yourself with One of Jacob.”
them, like a bride. 19 For, as for
your waste and your desolate 50 Thus says Jehovah, “Where
is the certificate of your
places, and your land that has been mother’s divorce, with which I
destroyed, surely now will you be have put her away? or which of my
too narrow for the inhabitants, and creditors is it to whom I have sold
those who swallowed you up will you? Behold, for your iniquities
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were you sold, and for your trans- of your fire, and among the brands
gressions was your mother put that you have kindled. This shall
away. 2 Why, when I came, was you have of my hand; you shall lie
there no man? when I called, was down in sorrow.
there none to answer? Is my hand
shortened at all, that it cannot re- 51 “Listen to me, you who fol-
low after righteousness, you
deem? or have I no power to de- who seek Jehovah: look to the rock
liver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry from which you were hewn, and to
up the sea, I make the rivers a the hole of the pit from which you
wilderness: their fish stink, because were dug. 2 Look to Abraham your
there is no water, and die for thirst. father, and to Sarah who bore you;
3 I clothe the heavens with black- for when he was but one I called
ness, and I make sackcloth their him, and I blessed him, and made
covering.” him many. 3 For Jehovah has com-
4 The Lord Jehovah has given me forted Zion; he has comforted all
the tongue of those who are taught, her waste places, and has made her
that I may know how to sustain wilderness like Eden, and her
with words him who is weary: he desert like the garden of Jehovah;
wakens morning by morning, he joy and gladness will be found in it,
wakens my ear to hear as those thanksgiving, and the voice of
who are taught. 5 The Lord Jehovah melody.
has opened my ear, and I was not 4 Attend to me, O my people; and
rebellious, neither turned away give ear to me, O my nation: for a
backward. 6 I gave my back to the law shall go forth from me, and I
strikers, and my cheeks to those will establish my justice for a light
who plucked off the hair; I did not of the peoples. 5 My righteousness
hide my face from shame and spit- is near, my salvation has gone forth,
ting. 7 For the Lord Jehovah will and my arms shall judge the peo-
help me; therefore have I not been ples; the isles shall wait for me, and
confounded: therefore have I set on my arm shall they trust. 6 Lift up
my face like a flint, and I know that your eyes to the heavens, and look
I will not be put to shame. 8 He is upon the earth beneath; for the
near who justifies me; who will heavens shall vanish away like
contend with me? let us stand up smoke, and the earth shall grow old
together: who is my adversary? let like a garment; and those who
him come near to me. 9 Behold, the dwell in it shall die in like manner:
Lord Jehovah will help me; who is but my salvation shall be for ever,
he who will condemn me? behold, and my righteousness shall not be
all those will grow old as a gar- abolished.
ment, the moth will eat them up. 7 Listen to me, you who know
10 Who is among you who fears righteousness, the people in whose
Jehovah, who obeys the voice of his heart is my law; do not fear the re-
servant? he who walks in darkness, proach of men, neither be dis-
and has no light, let him trust in the mayed at their revilings. 8 For the
name of Jehovah, and rely upon his moth shall eat them up like a gar-
God. 11 Behold, all you who kindle ment, and the worm shall eat them
a fire, who gird yourselves around like wool; but my righteousness
with firebrands; walk in the flame shall be for ever, and my salvation
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to all generations.” brought forth; neither is there any
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, who takes her by the hand among
O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the all the sons that she has brought up.
days of old, the generations of an- 19 These two things are befallen
cient times. Is it not you who cut you, who will bemoan you? desola-
Rahab in pieces, who pierced the tion and destruction, and the
monster? 10 Is it not you who dried famine and the sword; how shall I
up the sea, the waters of the great comfort you? 20 Your sons have
deep; who made the depths of the fainted, they lie at the head of all
sea a way for the redeemed to pass the streets, as an antelope in a net;
over? 11 And the ransomed of Jeho- they are full of the wrath of Jeho-
vah shall return, and come with vah, the rebuke of your God.
singing to Zion; and everlasting joy 21 Therefore hear now this, you
shall be upon their heads: they shall afflicted, and drunk, but not with
obtain gladness and joy; and sor- wine: 22 Thus says your Lord Jeho-
row and sighing shall flee away. vah, and your God who pleads the
12 “I, even I, am he who comforts cause of his people, “Behold, I have
you: who are you, that you are taken out of your hand the cup of
afraid of man who will die, and of staggering, even the bowl of the
the son of man who will be made as cup of my wrath; you shall no more
grass; 13 and have forgotten Jeho- drink it again: 23 and I will put it
vah your Maker, who stretched into the hand of those who afflict
forth the heavens, and laid the you, who have said to your soul,
foundations of the earth; and fear ‘Bow down, that we may go over’;
continually all the day because of and you have laid your back as the
the fury of the oppressor, when he ground, and as the street, to those
makes ready to destroy? and where who go over.”
is the fury of the oppressor? 14 The
captive exile will speedily be 52 Awake, awake, put on
your strength, O Zion; put
loosed; and he will not die and go on your beautiful garments, O
down into the pit, neither will his Jerusalem, the holy city: for hence-
bread fail. 15 For I am Jehovah your forth there shall no longer come
God, who stirs up the sea, so that into you the uncircumcised and the
the waves of it roar: Jehovah of unclean. 2 Shake yourself from the
hosts is his name. 16 And I have put dust; arise, sit on your throne, O
my words in your mouth, and have Jerusalem: loose yourself from the
covered you in the shadow of my bonds of your neck, O captive
hand, that I may plant the heavens, daughter of Zion.
and lay the foundations of the 3 For thus says Jehovah, “You
earth, and say to Zion, ‘You are my were sold for nothing; and you
people.’ ” shall be redeemed without money.”
17 Awake, awake, stand up, O 4 For thus says the Lord Jehovah,
Jerusalem, who has drunk at the “My people went down at the first
hand of Jehovah the cup of his into Egypt to sojourn there: and the
wrath; you have drunk the bowl of Assyrian has oppressed them with-
the cup of staggering, and drained out cause. 5 Now therefore, what
it. 18 There is none to guide her do I here,” says Jehovah, “seeing
among all the sons whom she has that my people is taken away for
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nothing? those who rule over them arm of Jehovah been revealed? 2
howl,” says Jehovah, “and my For he grew up before him as a ten-
name continually all the day is blas- der plant, and as a root out of a dry
phemed. 6 Therefore my people ground: he has no form nor splen-
shall know my name: therefore dor; and when we see him, there is
they shall know in that day that I no beauty that we should desire
am he who speaks; behold, it is I.” him. 3 He was despised, and re-
7 How beautiful upon the moun- jected by men; a man of sorrows,
tains are the feet of him who brings and acquainted with grief: and as
good news, who publishes peace, one from whom men hide their face
who brings good news of good, he was despised; and we did not es-
who publishes salvation, who says teem him.
to Zion, “Your God reigns!” 8 The 4 Surely he has borne our griefs,
voice of your watchmen! they lift and carried our sorrows; yet we es-
up the voice, together do they sing; teemed him stricken, smitten of
for they shall see eye to eye, when God, and afflicted. 5 But he was
Jehovah returns to Zion. 9 Break wounded for our transgressions, he
forth into joy, sing together, you was bruised for our iniquities; the
waste places of Jerusalem; for Jeho- chastisement of our peace was
vah has comforted his people, he upon him; and with his wounds we
has redeemed Jerusalem. 10 Jeho- are healed. 6 All we like sheep have
vah has made bare his holy arm in gone astray; we have turned every
the eyes of all the nations; and all one to his own way; and Jehovah
the ends of the earth have seen the has laid on him the iniquity of us
salvation of our God. all.
11 Depart, depart, go out from 7 He was oppressed, yet when he
there, touch no unclean thing; go was afflicted he did not open his
out of the midst of her; cleanse mouth; as a lamb that is led to the
yourselves, you who bear the ves- slaughter, and as a sheep that be-
sels of Jehovah. 12 For you shall not fore its shearers is silent, so he did
go out in haste, neither shall you go not open his mouth. 8 By oppres-
by flight: for Jehovah will go before sion and judgment he was taken
you; and the God of Israel will be away; and as for his generation,
your rearward. who among them considered that
13 Behold, my servant shall deal he was cut off out of the land of the
wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted living for the transgression of my
up, and shall be very high. 14 Like people to whom the stroke was
as many were astonished at you due? 9 And they made his grave
(his visage was so marred more with the wicked, and with a rich
than any man, and his form more man in his death; although he had
than the sons of men), 15 so shall he done no violence, neither was any
sprinkle many nations; kings shall deceit in his mouth.
shut their mouths at him: for that 10 Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise
which had not been told them shall him; he has put him to grief: when
they see; and that which they had you shall make his soul an offering
not heard shall they understand. for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall

53 Who has believed our mes- prolong his days, and the pleasure
sage? and to whom has the of Jehovah shall prosper in his
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hand. 11 He shall see of the travail but with everlasting lovingkind-
of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by ness will I have mercy on you,”
the knowledge of himself shall my says Jehovah your Redeemer.
righteous servant justify many; and 9 “For this is as the waters of
he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Noah to me; for as I have sworn
Therefore I will divide him a por- that the waters of Noah shall no
tion with the great, and he shall di- more go over the earth, so have I
vide the spoil with the strong; sworn that I will not be angry with
because he poured out his soul you, nor rebuke you. 10 For the
unto death, and was numbered mountains may depart, and the
with the transgressors: yet he bore hills be removed; but my lov-
the sin of many, and made interces- ingkindness shall not depart from
sion for the transgressors. you, neither shall my covenant of

54 “Sing, O barren, you who peace be removed,” says Jehovah

did not bear; break forth into who has mercy on you. 11 “O you
singing, and cry aloud, you who afflicted, tossed with tempest, and
did not travail with child: for more not comforted, behold, I will set
are the children of the desolate than your stones in fair colors, and lay
the children of the married wife,” your foundations with sapphires.
says Jehovah. 2 “Enlarge the place 12 And I will make your pinnacles
of your tent, and let them stretch of rubies, and your gates of pre-
forth the curtains of your habita- cious stones, and all your border of
tions; do not spare: lengthen your precious stones. 13 And all your
cords, and strengthen your stakes. 3 children shall be taught by Jehovah;
For you will spread abroad on the and great shall be the peace of your
right hand and on the left; and your children. 14 In righteousness shall
seed will possess the nations, and you be established: you shall be far
make the desolate cities to be in- from oppression, for you shall not
habited. fear; and from terror, for it shall not
4 Do not fear; for you will not be come near you. 15 Behold, they
ashamed: neither be confounded; may gather together, but not by me:
for you will not be put to shame: for whosoever shall gather together
you will forget the shame of your against you shall fall because of
youth; and the reproach of your you. 16 Behold, I have created the
widowhood will you remember no smith who blows the fire of coals,
more. 5 For your Maker is your and brings forth a weapon for his
husband; Jehovah of hosts is his work; and I have created the waster
name: and the Holy One of Israel is to destroy. 17 No weapon that is
your Redeemer; the God of the formed against you shall prosper;
whole earth shall he be called. 6 For and every tongue that shall rise
Jehovah has called you as a wife against you in judgment you shall
forsaken and grieved in spirit, even condemn. This is the heritage of the
a wife of youth, when she is cast servants of Jehovah, and their
off,” says your God. 7 “For a small righteousness which is of me,” says
moment have I forsaken you; but Jehovah.
with great mercies will I gather
you. 8 In overflowing wrath I hid 55 “Ho, every one who thirsts,
come to the waters, and he
my face from you for a moment; who has no money; come, buy, and
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eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk and the hills shall break forth be-
without money and without price. fore you into singing; and all the
2 Why do you spend money for trees of the fields shall clap their
that which is not bread? and your hands. 13 Instead of the thorn shall
labor for that which does not sat- come up the fir tree; and instead of
isfy? listen diligently to me, and eat the brier shall come up the myrtle
that which is good, and let your tree: and it shall be to Jehovah for a
soul delight itself in fatness. 3 In- name, for an everlasting sign that
cline your ear, and come to me; shall not be cut off.”
hear, and your soul shall live: and I
will make an everlasting covenant 56 Thus says Jehovah, “Keep
justice, and do righteous-
with you, even the sure mercies of ness; for my salvation is near to
David. 4 Behold, I have given him come, and my righteousness to be
for a witness to the peoples, a revealed. 2 Blessed is the man who
leader and commander to the peo- does this, and the son of man who
ples. 5 Behold, you shall call a na- holds it fast; who keeps the sabbath
tion that you do not know; and a from profaning it, and keeps his
nation that did not know you shall hand from doing any evil.” 3 Nei-
run to you, because of Jehovah ther let the foreigner, who has
your God, and for the Holy One of joined himself to Jehovah, speak,
Israel; for he has glorified you.” saying, “Jehovah will surely sepa-
6 Seek Jehovah while he may be rate me from his people”; neither
found; call upon him while he is let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a
near: 7 let the wicked forsake his dry tree.” 4 For thus says Jehovah
way, and the unrighteous man his of the eunuchs who keep my sab-
thoughts; and let him return to Je- baths, and choose the things that
hovah, and he will have mercy please me, and hold fast my
upon him; and to our God, for he covenant: 5 “To them will I give in
will abundantly pardon. 8 “For my my house and within my walls a
thoughts are not your thoughts, memorial and a name better than of
neither are your ways my ways,” sons and of daughters; I will give
says Jehovah. 9 “For as the heavens them an everlasting name, that
are higher than the earth, so are my shall not be cut off.
ways higher than your ways, and 6 Also the foreigners who join
my thoughts than your thoughts. themselves to Jehovah, to minister
10 For as the rain comes down and to him, and to love the name of Je-
the snow from heaven, and does hovah, to be his servants, every one
not return there, but waters the who keeps the sabbath from pro-
earth, and makes it bring forth and faning it, and holds fast my
bud, and gives seed to the sower covenant; 7 even them will I bring
and bread to the eater; 11 so shall to my holy mountain, and make
my word be that goes forth out of them joyful in my house of prayer:
my mouth: it shall not return to me their burnt offerings and their sacri-
void, but it shall accomplish that fices shall be accepted on mine al-
which I please, and it shall prosper tar; for my house shall be called a
in the thing to which I sent it. 12 For house of prayer for all peoples.” 8
you shall go out with joy, and be led The Lord Jehovah, who gathers the
forth with peace: the mountains outcasts of Israel, says, “Yet will I
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gather others to him, besides his and the posts have you set up your
own who are gathered.” memorial: for you have uncovered
9 All you beasts of the field, come yourself to another than me, and
to devour, yes, all you beasts in the have gone up; you have enlarged
forest. 10 His watchmen are blind, your bed, and made a covenant
they are all without knowledge; with them: you love their bed
they are all mute dogs, they cannot where you saw it. 9 And you went
bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to the king with oil, and increased
to slumber. 11 Yes, the dogs are your perfumes, and sent your am-
greedy, they can never have bassadors far off, and debased
enough; and these are shepherds yourself even to Sheol. 10 You were
who cannot understand: they have wearied with the length of your
all turned to their own way, each way; yet you did not say, ‘It is in
one to his gain, from every quarter. vain’: you found a reviving of your
12 “Come you,” they say, I will strength; therefore you were not
fetch wine, and we will fill our- faint.
selves with strong drink; and to- 11 And of whom have you been
morrow will be as this day, a day afraid and in fear, that you lied, and
great beyond measure.” have not remembered me, nor laid

57 The righteous perishes, it to your heart? have I not held my

and no man lays it to heart; peace even of long time, and you
and merciful men are taken away, do not fear me? 12 I will declare
none considering that the righteous your righteousness; and as for your
is taken away from the evil to come. works, they will not profit you. 13
2 He enters into peace; they rest in When you cry, let those who you
their beds, each one who walks in have gathered deliver you; but the
his uprightness. wind will take them, a breath will
3 “But draw near here, you sons carry them all away: but he who
of the sorceress, the seed of the takes refuge in me shall possess the
adulterer and the harlot. 4 Against land, and shall inherit my holy
whom do you sport yourselves? mountain.”
against whom you make a wide 14 And he will say, “Cast up, cast
mouth, and put out the tongue? are up, prepare the way, take up the
you not children of transgression, a stumbling block out of the way of
seed of falsehood, 5 you who in- my people.” 15 For thus says the
flame yourselves among the oaks, high and lofty One who inhabits
under every green tree; who slay eternity, whose name is Holy: “I
the children in the valleys, under dwell in the high and holy place,
the clefts of the rocks? 6 Among the with him also who is of a contrite
smooth stones of the valley is your and humble spirit, to revive the
portion; they, they are your lot; spirit of the humble, and to revive
even to them have you poured a the heart of the contrite. 16 For I
drink offering, you have offered an will not contend for ever, neither
offering. Shall I be appeased for will I be always angry; for the spirit
these things? 7 Upon a high and would faint before me, and the
lofty mountain have you set your souls that I have made. 17 For the
bed; there also you went up to offer iniquity of his covetousness was I
sacrifice. 8 And behind the doors angry, and struck him; I hid my face
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and was angry; and he went on the poor who are cast out to your
backsliding in the way of his heart. house? when you see the naked,
18 I have seen his ways, and will that you cover him; and that you do
heal him: I will lead him also, and not hide yourself from your own
restore comforts to him and to his flesh? 8 Then shall your light break
mourners. 19 I create the fruit of the forth as the morning, and your
lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far healing shall spring forth speedily;
off and to him who is near,” says Je- and your righteousness shall go be-
hovah; “and I will heal him. 20 But fore you; the glory of Jehovah shall
the wicked are like the troubled sea; be your rear guard. 9 Then will you
for it cannot rest, and its waters cast call, and Jehovah will answer; you
up mire and dirt. 21 There is no will cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’
peace,” says my God, “to the If you take away from the midst
wicked.” of you the yoke, the putting forth of

58 “Cry aloud, do not spare, the finger, and speaking wickedly;

lift up your voice like a trum- 10 and if you draw out your soul to
pet, and declare to my people their the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted
transgression, and to the house of soul: then shall your light rise in
Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me darkness, and your obscurity be as
daily, and delight to know my the noonday; 11 and Jehovah will
ways: as a nation that did right- guide you continually, and satisfy
eousness, and did not forsake the your soul in dry places, and make
ordinance of their God, they ask of strong your bones; and you will be
me righteous judgments; they de- like a watered garden, and like a
light to draw near to God. 3 ‘Why spring of water, whose waters do
have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you not fail. 12 And those who shall be
not see? why have we afflicted our of you shall build the old waste
soul, and you take no knowledge?’ places; you shall raise up the foun-
Behold, in the day of your fast you dations of many generations; and
find your own pleasure, and exact you shall be called the Repairer of
all your labors. 4 Behold, you fast the Breach, the Restorer of Paths to
for strife and contention, and to Dwell In.
strike with the fist of wickedness: 13 If you turn away your foot
you do not fast this day so as to from the sabbath, from doing your
make your voice to be heard on pleasure on my holy day; and call
high. 5 Is such the fast that I have the sabbath a delight, and the holy
chosen? the day for a man to afflict of Jehovah honorable; and shall
his soul? Is it to bow down his head honor it, not doing your own ways,
as a rush, and to spread sackcloth nor finding your own pleasure, nor
and ashes under him? will you call speaking your own words: 14 then
this a fast, and an acceptable day to shall you delight yourself in Jeho-
Jehovah? 6 Is not this the fast that I vah; and I will make you to ride
have chosen: to loose the bonds of upon the high places of the earth;
wickedness, to undo the straps of and I will feed you with the her-
the yoke, and to let the oppressed itage of Jacob your father: for the
go free, and that you break every mouth of Jehovah has spoken it.”
yoke? 7 Is it not to deal your bread
to the hungry, and that you bring 59
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save; neither his ear heavy, that it gressions are with us, and as for our
cannot hear: 2 but your iniquities iniquities, we know them: 13 trans-
have separated between you and gressing and denying Jehovah, and
your God, and your sins have hid- turning away from following our
den his face from you, so that he God, speaking oppression and re-
will not hear. 3 For your hands are volt, conceiving and uttering from
defiled with blood, and your fin- the heart words of falsehood. 14
gers with iniquity; your lips have And justice is turned away back-
spoken lies, your tongue mutter ward, and righteousness stands
wickedness. 4 No one sues in right- afar off; for truth has fallen in the
eousness, and no one pleads in street, and uprightness cannot en-
truth: they trust in vanity, and ter. 15 Yes, truth is lacking; and he
speak lies; they conceive mischief, who departs from evil makes him-
and bring forth iniquity. 5 They self a prey.
hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the And Jehovah saw it, and it dis-
spider’s web: he who eats of their pleased him that there was no jus-
eggs dies; and that which is tice.
crushed breaks out into a viper. 6 16 And he saw that there was no
Their webs will not become gar- man, and wondered that there was
ments, neither will they cover no intercessor: therefore his own
themselves with their works: their arm brought salvation to him; and
works are works of iniquity, and his righteousness, it upheld him. 17
the act of violence is in their hands. And he put on righteousness as a
7 Their feet run to evil, and they breastplate, and a helmet of salva-
make haste to shed innocent blood: tion on his head; and he put on gar-
their thoughts are thoughts of iniq- ments of vengeance for clothing,
uity; desolation and destruction are and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
in their paths. 8 The way of peace 18 According to their deeds, ac-
they do not know; and there is no cordingly he will repay, wrath to
justice in their goings: they have his adversaries, recompense to his
made them crooked paths; whoso- enemies; to the islands he will re-
ever goes in it does not know peace. pay recompense. 19 So shall they
9 Therefore is justice far from us, fear the name of Jehovah from the
neither does righteousness over- west, and his glory from the rising
take us: we look for light, but, be- of the sun; for he will come as a
hold, darkness; for brightness, but rushing stream, which the breath of
we walk in obscurity. 10 We grope Jehovah drives. 20 “And a Re-
for the wall like the blind; yes, we deemer will come to Zion, and to
grope as those who have no eyes: those who turn from transgression
we stumble at noonday as in the in Jacob,” says Jehovah. 21 “And as
twilight; among those who are for me, this is my covenant with
lusty we are as dead men. 11 We them,” says Jehovah: “my Spirit
roar all like bears, and moan like that is upon you, and my words
doves: we look for justice, but there which I have put in your mouth,
is none; for salvation, but it is far off shall not depart out of your mouth,
from us. 12 For our transgressions nor out of the mouth of your seed,
are multiplied before you, and our nor out of the mouth of your seeds’
sins testify against us; for our trans- seed,” says Jehovah, “from hence-
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forth and for ever.” shall not be shut day nor night; that

60 Arise, shine; for your light men may bring to you the wealth of
has come, and the glory of the nations, and their kings led cap-
Jehovah has risen upon you. 2 For, tive. 12 For that nation and king-
behold, darkness shall cover the dom that will not serve you shall
earth, and gross darkness the peo- perish; yes, those nations shall be
ples; but Jehovah will arise upon utterly wasted. 13 The glory of
you, and his glory will be seen Lebanon shall come to you, the fir
upon you. 3 And nations shall come tree, the pine, and the box tree to-
to your light, and kings to the gether, to beautify the place of my
brightness of your rising. sanctuary; and I will make the place
4 “Lift up your eyes all around, of my feet glorious. 14 And the sons
and see: they all gather themselves of those who afflicted you shall
together, they come to you; your come bending to you; and all those
sons shall come from far, and your who despised you shall bow them-
daughters shall be carried in the selves down at the soles of your
arms. 5 Then you shall see and be feet; and they shall call you The
radiant, and your heart shall thrill City of Jehovah, The Zion of the
and be enlarged; because the abun- Holy One of Israel.
dance of the sea shall be turned to 15 Whereas you have been for-
you, the wealth of the nations shall saken and hated, so that no man
come to you. 6 The multitude of passed through you, I will make
camels shall cover you, the camels you an eternal excellency, a joy of
of Midian and Ephah; all those many generations. 16 You shall also
from Sheba shall come; they shall suck the milk of the nations, and
bring gold and frankincense, and shall suck the breast of kings; and
shall proclaim the praises of Jeho- you shall know that I, Jehovah, am
vah. 7 All the flocks of Kedar shall your Savior, and your Redeemer,
be gathered together to you, the the Mighty One of Jacob. 17 For
rams of Nebaioth shall minister to brass I will bring gold, and for iron
you; they shall come up with accep- I will bring silver, and for wood
tance on my altar; and I will glorify brass, and for stones iron. I will also
the house of my glory. 8 Who are make your officers peace, and your
these who fly as a cloud, and as the exactors righteousness. 18 Violence
doves to their windows? 9 Surely shall no longer be heard in your
the isles shall wait for me, and the land, desolation nor destruction
ships of Tarshish first, to bring your within your borders; but you shall
sons from far, their silver and their call your walls Salvation, and your
gold with them, for the name of Je- gates Praise. 19 The sun shall be no
hovah your God, and for the Holy longer your light by day; neither for
One of Israel, because he has glori- brightness shall the moon give light
fied you. to you: but Jehovah will be to you
10 And foreigners shall build up an everlasting light, and your God
your walls, and their kings shall your glory. 20 Your sun shall no
minister to you: for in my wrath I longer go down, neither shall your
struck you, but in my favor have I moon withdraw itself; for Jehovah
had mercy on you. 11 Your gates will be your everlasting light, and
also shall be open continually; they the days of your mourning shall be
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ended. 21 Your people also shall be them their recompense in truth,
all righteous; they shall inherit the and I will make an everlasting
land for ever, the branch of my covenant with them. 9 And their
planting, the work of my hands, seed shall be known among the na-
that I may be glorified. 22 The little tions, and their offspring among
one shall become a thousand, and the peoples; all who see them shall
the small one a strong nation; I, Je- acknowledge them, that they are
hovah, will hasten it in its time.” the seed which Jehovah has

61 “The Spirit of the Lord Je- blessed.”

hovah is upon me; because 10 I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah,
Jehovah has anointed me to preach my soul shall be joyful in my God;
good tidings to the meek; he has for he has clothed me with the gar-
sent me to bind up the broken- ments of salvation, he has covered
hearted, to proclaim liberty to the me with the robe of righteousness,
captives, and the opening of the as a bridegroom decks himself with
prison to those who are bound; 2 to a garland, and as a bride adorns
proclaim the year of Jehovah’s fa- herself with her jewels. 11 For as the
vor, and the day of vengeance of earth brings forth its bud, and as
our God; to comfort all who mourn; the garden causes the things that
3 to appoint to those who mourn in are sown in it to spring forth; so the
Zion, to give to them a garland for Lord Jehovah will cause righteous-
ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, ness and praise to spring forth be-
the garment of praise for the spirit fore all the nations.
of heaviness; that they may be
called trees of righteousness, the 62 For Zion’s sake will I not
hold my peace, and for
planting of Jehovah, that he may be Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, un-
glorified.” til her righteousness goes forth as
4 And they shall build the old brightness, and her salvation as a
wastes, they shall raise up the for- lamp that burns. 2 And the nations
mer desolations, and they shall re- shall see your righteousness, and
pair the waste cities, the all kings your glory, and you shall
desolations of many generations. 5 be called by a new name, which the
And strangers shall stand and feed mouth of Jehovah will name. 3 You
your flocks, and foreigners shall be shall also be a crown of beauty in
your plowmen and your vine- the hand of Jehovah, and a royal di-
dressers. 6 But you shall be named adem in the hand of your God. 4
the priests of Jehovah; men shall You shall no longer be termed For-
call you the ministers of our God: saken; neither shall your land any
you shall eat the wealth of the na- more be termed Desolate: but you
tions, and in their glory shall you shall be called Hephzi-bah, and
boast yourselves. 7 Instead of your your land Beulah; for Jehovah de-
shame ye shall have double; and in- lights in you, and your land shall be
stead of dishonor they shall rejoice married. 5 For as a young man mar-
in their portion: therefore in their ries a virgin, so shall your sons
land they shall possess double; ev- marry you; and as the bridegroom
erlasting joy shall be to them. 8 “For rejoices over the bride, so shall your
I, Jehovah, love justice, I hate rob- God rejoice over you.
bery with iniquity; and I will give 6 I have set watchmen on your
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walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never vengeance was in my heart, and the
hold their peace day nor night: you year of my redeemed has come. 5
who are Jehovah’s remembrancers, And I looked, and there was none
take no rest, 7 and give him no rest, to help; and I wondered that there
until he establishes, and until he was none to uphold: therefore my
makes Jerusalem a praise in the own arm brought salvation unto
earth. 8 Jehovah has sworn by his me; and my wrath, it upheld me. 6
right hand, and by the arm of his And I trod down the peoples in my
strength, “Surely I will no longer anger, and made them drunk in my
give your grain to be food for your wrath, and I poured out their
enemies; and foreigners shall not lifeblood on the earth.”
drink your new wine, for which 7 I will make mention of the lov-
you hast labored: 9 but those who ingkindnesses of Jehovah, and the
have garnered it shall eat it, and praises of Jehovah, according to all
praise Jehovah; and those who that Jehovah has bestowed on us,
have gathered it shall drink it in the and the great goodness toward the
courts of my sanctuary.” house of Israel, which he has be-
10 Go through, go through the stowed on them according to his
gates; prepare the way of the peo- mercies, and according to the mul-
ple; cast up, cast up the highway; titude of his lovingkindnesses. 8
gather out the stones; lift up a sign For he said, “Surely, they are my
for the peoples. 11 Behold, Jehovah people, children who will not deal
has proclaimed to the end of the falsely”: so he was their Savior. 9 In
earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, all their affliction he was afflicted,
‘Behold, your salvation comes; be- and the angel of his presence saved
hold, his reward is with him, and them: in his love and in his pity he
his recompense before him.’ ” 12 redeemed them; and he bore them,
And they shall call them The Holy and carried them all the days of old.
People, The Redeemed of Jehovah: 10 But they rebelled, and grieved
and you shall be called Sought Out, his holy Spirit: therefore he was
A City Not Forsaken. turned to be their enemy, and him-

63 Who is this who comes self fought against them. 11 Then he

from Edom, with dyed gar- remembered the days of old, Moses
ments from Bozrah? this who is glo- and his people, saying, “Where is
rious in his apparel, marching in he who brought them up out of the
the greatness of his strength? “I sea with the shepherds of his flock?
who speak in righteousness, where is he who put his holy Spirit
mighty to save.” 2 Why are you red in the midst of them? 12 who
in your apparel, and your garments caused his glorious arm to go at the
like him who treads in the wine- right hand of Moses? who divided
press? 3 “I have trodden the wine the waters before them, to make
press alone; and of the peoples himself an everlasting name? 13
there was no man with me: yes, I who led them through the depths,
trod them in my anger, and tram- as a horse in the wilderness, so that
pled them in my wrath; and their they did not stumble?” 14 As the
lifeblood is sprinkled upon my gar- cattle that go down into the valley,
ments, and I have stained all my the Spirit of Jehovah caused them
clothing. 4 For the day of to rest; so did you lead your people,
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to make yourself a glorious name. righteousnesses are as a polluted
15 Look down from heaven, and garment: and we all fade as a leaf;
behold from the habitation of your and our iniquities, like the wind,
holiness and of your glory: where take us away. 7 And there is none
are your zeal and your mighty acts? who calls upon your name, who
the yearning of your heart and your stirs up himself to take hold of you;
compassions are restrained toward for you have hidden your face from
me. 16 For you are our Father, us, and have consumed us by
though Abraham does not know means of our iniquities.
us, and Israel does not acknowl- 8 But now, O Jehovah, you are our
edge us: you, O Jehovah, are our Father; we are the clay, and you our
Father; our Redeemer from ever- potter; and we all are the work of
lasting is your name. 17 O Jehovah, your hand. 9 Do not be angry very
why do you make us to err from severely, O Jehovah, neither re-
your ways, and harden our heart member iniquity for ever: behold,
from your fear? Return for your look, we beseech you, we are all
servants’ sake, the tribes of your in- your people. 10 Your holy cities
heritance. 18 Your holy people pos- have become a wilderness, Zion
sessed it but a little while: our has become a wilderness, Jerusalem
adversaries have trodden down thy a desolation. 11 Our holy and our
sanctuary. 19 We have become as beautiful house, where our fathers
those over whom you never ruled, praised you, is burned with fire;
as those who were not called by and all our pleasant places are laid
your name. waste. 12 Will you refrain yourself

64 Oh that you would tear the for these things, O Jehovah? will
heavens, that you would you hold your peace, and afflict us
come down, that the mountains very severely?
might quake at your presence, 2 as
when fire kindles the brushwood, 65 “I am inquired of by those
who did not ask for me; I am
and the fire causes the waters to found by those who did not seek
boil; to make your name known to me: I said, ‘Behold me, behold me,’
your adversaries, that the nations to a nation that was not called by
may tremble at your presence! 3 my name. 2 I have spread out my
When you did terrible things which hands all the day to a rebellious
we did not look for, you came people, who walk in a way that is
down, the mountains quaked at not good, after their own thoughts;
your presence. 4 For from of old 3 a people who provoke me to my
men have not heard, nor perceived face continually, sacrificing in gar-
by the ear, neither has the eye seen dens, and burning incense on
a God besides you, who worked for bricks; 4 who sit among the graves,
him who waits for him. 5 You meet and lodge in the secret places; who
him who rejoices and works right- eat swine’s flesh, and broth of
eousness, those who remember you abominable things is in their ves-
in your ways: behold, you were an- sels; 5 who say, ‘Stand by yourself,
gry, and we sinned: in them have do not come near to me, for I am
we been of long time; and shall we holier than you.’ These are a smoke
be saved? 6 For we have all become in my nose, a fire that burns all the
as one who is unclean, and all our day. 6 Behold, it is written before
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me: I will not keep silent, but will will call his servants by another
repay, yes, I will repay into their bo- name: 16 so that he who blesses
som, 7 your own iniquities, and the himself in the earth shall bless him-
iniquities of your fathers together,’ self in the God of truth; and he who
says Jehovah, “who have burned swears in the earth shall swear by
incense on the mountains, and blas- the God of truth; because the for-
phemed me on the hills; therefore mer troubles are forgotten, and be-
will I first measure their work into cause they are hidden from my
their bosom.” eyes.
8 Thus says Jehovah, "As the new 17 For, behold, I create new heav-
wine is found in the cluster, and ens and a new earth; and the former
one says, ‘Do not destroy it, for a things shall not be remembered,
blessing is in it’: so will I do for my nor come into mind. 18 But be glad
servants’ sake, that I may not de- and rejoice for ever in that which I
stroy them all. 9 And I will bring create; for, behold, I create
forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her peo-
Judah an inheritor of my moun- ple a joy. 19 And I will rejoice in
tains; and my chosen shall inherit Jerusalem, and joy in my people;
it, and my servants shall dwell and there shall be heard in her no
there. 10 And Sharon shall be a fold more the voice of weeping and the
of flocks, and the valley of Achor a voice of crying. 20 There shall be no
place for herds to lie down in, for more there an infant of days, nor an
my people who have sought me. 11 old man who has not filled his
But you who forsake Jehovah, who days; for the child shall die a hun-
forget my holy mountain, who pre- dred years old, and the sinner being
pare a table for Fortune, and who a hundred years old shall be ac-
fill up mingled wine to Destiny; 12 cursed. 21And they shall build
I will destine you to the sword, and houses, and inhabit them; and they
you shall all bow down to the shall plant vineyards, and eat the
slaughter; because when I called, fruit of them. 22 They shall not
you did not answer; when I spoke, build, and another inhabit; they
you did not hear; but you did that shall not plant, and another eat: for
which was evil in my eyes, and as the days of a tree shall be the
chose that in which I do not de- days of my people, and my chosen
light.” shall long enjoy the work of their
13 Therefore thus says the Lord hands. 23 They shall not labor in
Jehovah, “Behold, my servants vain, nor bring forth for calamity;
shall eat, but you shall be hungry; for they are the seed of the blessed
behold, my servants shall drink, of Jehovah, and their offspring with
but you shall be thirsty; behold, my them. 24 And it shall come to pass
servants shall rejoice, but you shall that, before they call, I will answer;
be put to shame; 14 behold, my ser- and while they are yet speaking, I
vants shall sing for joy of heart, but will hear. 25 The wolf and the lamb
you shall cry for sorrow of heart, shall feed together, and the lion
and shall wail for vexation of spirit. shall eat straw like the ox; and dust
15 And you shall leave your name shall be the serpent’s food. They
for a curse to my chosen; and the shall not hurt nor destroy in all my
Lord Jehovah will slay you; and he holy mountain,” says Jehovah.
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66 Thus says Jehovah, cause to bring forth?” says Jehovah:

“Heaven is my throne, and “shall I who cause to bring forth
the earth is my footstool: what shut the womb?” says your God.
manner of house will you build 10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be
unto me? and what place shall be glad for her, all you who love her:
my rest? 2 For all these things has rejoice for joy with her, all you who
my hand made, and so all these mourn over her; 11 that you may
things came to be,” says Jehovah: suck and be satisfied with the
“but to this man will I look, even to breasts of
him who is poor and of a contrite her consolations; that you may
spirit, and who trembles at my milk out, and be delighted with the
word. 3 He who kills an ox is as he abundance of her glory. 12 For thus
who slays a man; he who sacrifices says Jehovah, “Behold, I will ex-
a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s tend peace to her like a river, and
neck; he who offers an offering, as the glory of the nations like an
he who offers swine’s blood; he overflowing stream: and you shall
who burns frankincense, as he who suck of it; you shall be borne on the
blesses an idol. Yes, they have cho- side, and shall be dandled on the
sen their own ways, and their soul knees. 13 As one whom his mother
delights in their abominations: 4 I comforts, so will I comfort you; and
also will choose their delusions, you shall be comforted in
and will bring their fears upon Jerusalem. 14 And you shall see it,
them; because when I called, none and your heart shall rejoice, and
answered; when I spoke, they did your bones shall flourish like the
not hear: but they did that which tender grass: and the hand of Jeho-
was evil in my eyes, and chose that vah shall be known toward his ser-
in which I do not delight.” vants; and he will have indignation
5 Hear the word of Jehovah, you against his enemies.
who tremble at his word: “Your 15 For, behold, Jehovah will come
brethren who hate you, who cast with fire, and his chariots will be
you out for my name’s sake, have like the whirlwind; to render his
said, ‘Let Jehovah be glorified, that anger with fierceness, and his re-
we may see your joy’; but it is they buke with flames of fire. 16 For by
who shall be put to shame. 6 A fire will Jehovah execute judgment,
voice of tumult from the city, a and by his sword, on all flesh; and
voice from the temple, a voice of Je- the slain of Jehovah shall be many.
hovah who renders recompense to 17 Those who sanctify themselves
his enemies. and purify themselves to go to the
7 Before she travailed, she gardens, behind one in the midst,
brought forth; before her pain eating swine’s flesh, and the abom-
came, she was delivered of a male ination, and the mouse, they shall
child. 8 Who has heard such a come to an end together,” says Je-
thing? who has seen such things? hovah.
Shall a land be born in one day? 18 “For I know their works and
shall a nation be brought forth at their thoughts: the time comes, that
once? for as soon as Zion travailed, I will gather all nations and
she brought forth her children. 9 tongues; and they shall come, and
Shall I bring to the birth, and not shall see my glory. 19 And I will set
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a sign among them, and I will send
such as escape of them to the na-
tions, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud,
who draw the bow, to Tubal and Ja-
van, to the isles afar off, who have
not heard my fame, neither have
seen my glory; and they shall de-
clare my glory among the nations.
20 And they shall bring all your
brethren out of all the nations for an
offering to Jehovah, on horses, and
in chariots, and in litters, and on
mules, and on camels, to my holy
mountain Jerusalem,” says Jeho-
vah, “as the children of Israel bring
their offering in a clean vessel into
the house of Jehovah. 21 And of
them also will I take for priests and
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for Levites,” says Jehovah.
22 “For as the new heavens and
the new earth, which I will make,
shall remain before me,” says Jeho-
vah, so shall your seed and your
name remain. 23 And it shall come
to pass, that from one new moon to
another, and from one sabbath to
another, shall all flesh come to wor-
ship before me,” says Jehovah. 24
“And they shall go forth, and look
on the dead bodies of the men who
have transgressed against me: for
their worm shall not die, neither
shall their fire be quenched; and
they shall be an abhorring to all
flesh.”
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THE NEW TESTAMENT

OF

OUR LORD AND SAVIOR

JESUS CHRIST
TRANSLATED OUT OF THE GREEK

BEING THE VERSION SET FORTH A.D. 1611

COMPARED WITH THE MOST ANCIENT AUTHORITIES AND REVISED

A.D. 1881

Edited by the New Testament Members of the

American Revision Committee

A.D. 1900

Compared with the most ancient authorities and Refreshed

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1 The book of the generation of Matthan; and Matthan begot Jacob;

Jesus Christ, the son of David, 16 and Jacob begot Joseph the hus-
the son of Abraham. band of Mary, of whom was born
2 Abraham begot Isaac; and Isaac Jesus, who is called Christ.
begot Jacob; and Jacob begot Judah 17 So all the generations from
and his brothers; 3 and Judah begot Abraham to David are fourteen
Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and generations; and from David to the
Perez begot Hezron; and Hezron carrying away to Babylon fourteen
begot Ram; 4 and Ram begot Am- generations; and from the carrying
minadab; and Amminadab begot away to Babylon to the Christ four-
Nahshon; and Nahshon begat teen generations.
Salmon; 5 and Salmon begot Boaz 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ
by Rahab; and Boaz begot Obed by was in this way: When his mother
Ruth; and Obed begot Jesse; 6 and Mary had been betrothed to Joseph,
Jesse begot David the king. before they came together she was
And David begot Solomon by her found with child of the Holy Spirit.
who had been the wife of Uriah; 7 and 19 And Joseph her husband, being
Solomon begot Rehoboam; and Re- a righteous man, and not willing to
hoboam begot Abijah; and Abijah make her a public example, was
begot Asa; 8 and Asa begot Je- minded to put her away secretly. 20
hoshaphat; and Jehoshaphat begot But when he thought on these
Joram; and Joram begot Uzziah; 9 things, behold, an angel of the Lord
and Uzziah begot Jotham; and appeared to him in a dream, saying,
Jotham begot Ahaz; and Ahaz be- “Joseph, son of David, do not be
got Hezekiah; 10 and Hezekiah be- afraid to take to you Mary your
got Manasseh; and Manasseh begot wife: for that which is conceived in
Amon; and Amon begot Josiah; 11 her is of the Holy Spirit. 21 And she
and Josiah begot Jechoniah and his will bring forth a son; and you shall
brothers, at the time of the carrying call his name JESUS; for it is he who
away to Babylon. will save his people from their
12 And after the carrying away to sins.” 22 Now all this is come to
Babylon, Jechoniah begot Shealtiel; pass, that it might be fulfilled
and Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel; 13 which was spoken by the Lord
and Zerubbabel begot Abiud; and through the prophet, saying,
Abiud begot Eliakim; and Eliakim 23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with
begot Azor; 14 and Azor begot child, and shall bring forth a
Sadoc; and Sadoc begot Achim; and son,
Achim begot Eliud; 15 and Eliud And they shall call his name
begot Eleazar; and Eleazar begot Immanuel;”
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which is, being interpreted, “God great joy. 11 And they came into the
with us.” 24 And Joseph arose from house and saw the young child
his sleep, and did as the angel of the with Mary his mother; and they fell
Lord commanded him, and took to down and worshipped him; and
him his wife; 25 and did not know opening their treasures they offered
her until she had brought forth a to him gifts, gold and frankincense
son: and he called his name JESUS. and myrrh. 12 And being warned

2 Now when Jesus was born in by God in a dream that they should
Bethlehem of Judea in the days not return to Herod, they departed
of Herod the king, behold, Wise into their own country another
men from the east came to way.
Jerusalem, saying, 2 “Where is he 13 Now when they were de-
who is born King of the Jews? for parted, behold, an angel of the Lord
we saw his star in the east, and appears to Joseph in a dream, say-
have come to worship him.” 3 And ing, “Arise and take the young
when Herod the king heard it, he child and his mother, and flee into
was troubled, and all Jerusalem Egypt, and be there until I tell you:
with him. 4 And gathering together for Herod will seek the young child
all the chief priests and scribes of to destroy him.” 14 And he arose
the people, he inquired of them and took the young child and his
where the Christ should be born. 5 mother by night, and departed into
And they said to him, “In Bethle- Egypt; 15 and was there until the
hem of Judea: for thus it is written death of Herod: that it might be ful-
through the prophet, filled which was spoken by the
6 ‘And you Bethlehem, land of Ju- Lord through the prophet, saying,
dah, “Out of Egypt did I call my son.”
Are in no way least among the 16 Then Herod, when he saw that
princes of Judah: he was mocked by the wise men,
For out of you shall come forth a was exceedingly angry, and sent
governor, forth, and slew all the male children
Who will be shepherd of my peo- who were in Bethlehem, and in all
ple Israel.’ ” the borders of it, from two years old
7 Then Herod secretly called the and under, according to the time
Wise men, and learned from them which he had exactly learned from
exactly what time the star ap- the Wise men. 17 Then was fulfilled
peared. 8 And he sent them to Beth- that which was spoken through
lehem, and said, “Go and search Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
out exactly concerning the young 18 “A voice was heard in Ramah,
child; and when you have found Weeping and great mourning,
him, bring me word, that I also may Rachel weeping for her
come and worship him.” 9 And children;
they, having heard the king, went And she would not be
their way; and behold, the star, comforted, because they are
which they saw in the east, went not.”
before them, until it came and 19 But when Herod was dead, be-
stood over where the young child hold, an angel of the Lord appears
was. 10 And when they saw the in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, say-
star, they rejoiced with exceedingly ing, 20 “Arise and take the young
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child and his mother, and go into root of the trees: every tree there-
the land of Israel: for they are dead fore that does not bring forth good
who sought the young child’s life.” fruit is hewn down, and cast into
21 And he arose and took the young the fire. 11 I indeed baptize you in
child and his mother, and came into water unto repentance: but he who
the land of Israel. 22 But when he comes after me is mightier than I,
heard that Archelaus was reigning whose sandals I am not worthy to
over Judea in place of his father bear: he will baptize you in the
Herod, he was afraid to go there; Holy Spirit and in fire: 12 whose fan
and being warned by God in a is in his hand, and he will thor-
dream, he withdrew into the parts oughly cleanse his threshing floor;
of Galilee, 23 and came and dwelt and he will gather his wheat into
in a city called Nazareth; that it the granary, but the chaff he will
might be fulfilled which was spo- burn up with unquenchable fire.”
ken through the prophets, that he 13 Then comes Jesus from Galilee
should be called a Nazarene. to the Jordan to John, to be baptized

3 And in those days comes John by him. 14 But John would have
the Baptist, preaching in the hindered him, saying, “I have need
wilderness of Judea, saying, 2 “Re- to be baptized by you, and do you
pent; for the kingdom of heaven is come to me?” 15 But Jesus answer-
at hand.” 3 For this is he who was ing said to him, “Allow it now: for
spoken of through Isaiah the thus it becomes us to fulfill all right-
prophet, saying, eousness.” Then he allows him. 16
“The voice of one crying in the And Jesus, when he was baptized,
wilderness, went up immediately from the wa-
Make ready the way of the Lord, ter: and behold, the heavens were
Make his paths straight.” opened to him, and he saw the
4 Now John himself had his cloth- Spirit of God descending as a dove,
ing of camel’s hair, and a leather and coming upon him; 17 and be-
belt around his loins; and his food hold, a voice out of the heavens,
was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then saying, “This is my beloved Son, in
went out to him Jerusalem, and all whom I am well pleased.”
Judea, and all the region around the
Jordan; 6 and they were baptized 4 Then Jesus was led up by the
Spirit into the wilderness to be
by him in the river Jordan, confess- tempted by the devil. 2 And when
ing their sins. 7 But when he saw he had fasted forty days and forty
many of the Pharisees and Sad- nights, he afterward hungered. 3
ducees coming to his baptism, he And the tempter came and said to
said to them, “You offspring of him, “If you are the Son of God,
vipers, who warned you to flee command that these stones become
from the wrath to come? 8 Bring bread.” 4 But he answered and said,
forth therefore fruit worthy of re- “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by
pentance: 9 and do not think to say bread alone, but by every word that
within yourselves, ‘We have Abra- proceeds out of the mouth of God.’
ham to our father:’ for I say to you, ” 5 Then the devil takes him into
that God is able of these stones to the holy city; and he set him on the
raise up children to Abraham. 10 pinnacle of the temple, 6 and says
And even now the axe lies at the to him, “If you are the Son of God,
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cast yourself down: for it is written, who is called Peter, and Andrew his
‘He shall give his angels charge brother, casting a net into the sea;
concerning you:’ for they were fishers. 19 And he
and, says to them, “Come after me, and
‘On their hands they shall bear I will make you fishers of men.” 20
you up, And they immediately left the nets,
Lest perhaps you dash your foot and followed him. 21 And going on
against a stone.’ ” from there he saw two other broth-
7 Jesus said to him, “Again it is ers, James the son of Zebedee, and
written, ‘You shall not put to the John his brother, in the boat with
test the Lord your God.’ ” 8 Again, Zebedee their father, mending their
the devil takes him to an exceed- nets; and he called them. 22 And
ingly high mountain, and shows they immediately left the boat and
him all the kingdoms of the world, their father, and followed him.
and the glory of them; 9 and he said 23 And Jesus went about in all
to him, “All these things will I give Galilee, teaching in their syna-
you, if you will fall down and wor- gogues, and preaching the gospel
ship me.” 10 Then says Jesus to of the kingdom, and healing all
him, “Be gone, Satan: for it is writ- manner of disease and all manner
ten, ‘You shall worship the Lord of sickness among the people. 24
your God, and him only shall you And the report of him went forth
serve.’ ” 11 Then the devil leaves into all Syria: and they brought to
him; and behold, angels came and him all who were sick, seized with
ministered to him. various diseases and torments, pos-
12 Now when he heard that John sessed with demons, and epileptics,
was delivered up, he withdrew into and paralytics; and he healed them.
Galilee; 13 and leaving Nazareth, 25 And there followed him great
he came and dwelt in Capernaum, multitudes from Galilee and De-
which is by the sea, in the borders capolis and Jerusalem and Judea
of Zebulun and Naphtali: 14 that it and from beyond the Jordan.
might be fulfilled which was spo-
ken through Isaiah the prophet,
saying,
5 And seeing the multitudes, he
went up into the mountain: and
when he had sat down, his disci-
15 “The land of Zebulun and the ples came to him: 2 and he opened
land of Naphtali, his mouth and taught them, saying,
Toward the sea, beyond the 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit:
Jordan, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Galilee of the Gentiles, 4 Blessed are those who mourn:
16 The people who sat in darkness for they shall be comforted.
Saw a great light, 5 Blessed are the meek: for they
And to those who sat in the shall inherit the earth.
region and shadow of death, 6 Blessed are those who hunger
To them did light spring up.” and thirst after righteousness: for
17 From that time began Jesus to they shall be filled.
preach, and to say, “Repent; for the 7 Blessed are the merciful: for
kingdom of heaven is at hand.” they shall obtain mercy.
18 And walking by the sea of 8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for
Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon they shall see God.
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9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for to those of old, ‘You shall not kill;
they shall be called sons of God. and whosoever shall kill shall be in
10 Blessed are those who have danger of the judgment:’ 22 but I
been persecuted for righteousness’ say to you, that every one who is
sake: for theirs is the kingdom of angry with his brother shall be in
heaven. 11 Blessed are you when danger of the judgment; and
men shall reproach you, and perse- whosoever shall say to his brother,
cute you, and say all manner of evil ‘Raca,’ shall be in danger of the
against you falsely, for my sake. 12 council; and whosoever shall say,
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad: ‘You fool,’ shall be in danger of the
for great is your reward in heaven: hell of fire. 23 If therefore you are
for so they persecuted the prophets offering your gift at the altar, and
who were before you. there remember that your brother
13 You are the salt of the earth: but has anything against you, 24 leave
if the salt has lost its savor, with there your gift before the altar, and
what shall it be salted? it is from go your way, first be reconciled to
that time onward good for nothing, your brother, and then come and
but to be cast out and trodden un- offer your gift. 25 Agree with your
der foot by men. 14 You are the light adversary quickly, while you are
of the world. A city set on a hill can- with him in the way; lest perhaps
not be hidden. 15 Neither do men the adversary deliver you to the
light a lamp, and put it under the judge, and the judge deliver you to
bushel, but on the stand; and it the officer, and you be cast into
shines to all who are in the house. prison. 26 Truly I say to you, you
16 Even so let your light shine be- shall by no means come out from
fore men; that they may see your there, until you have paid the last
good works, and glorify your Fa- quadron.
ther who is in heaven. 27 You have heard that it was
17 Do not think that I came to de- said, ‘You shall not commit adul-
stroy the law or the prophets: I did tery:’ 28 but I say to you, that every
not come to destroy, but to fulfill. 18 one who looks on a woman to lust
For truly I say unto you, until after her has committed adultery
heaven and earth pass away, one jot with her already in his heart. 29
or one tittle shall in no way pass And if your right eye causes you to
away from the law, until all things stumble, pluck it out, and cast it
are accomplished. 19 Whosoever from you: for it is profitable for you
therefore shall break one of these that one of your members should
least commandments, and shall perish, and not your whole body be
teach men so, shall be called least in cast into hell. 30 And if your right
the kingdom of heaven: but whoso- hand causes you to stumble, cut it
ever shall do and teach them, he off, and cast it from you: for it is
shall be called great in the kingdom profitable for you that one of your
of heaven. 20 For I say to you, that members should perish, and not
except your righteousness shall ex- your whole body go into hell. 31 It
ceed the righteousness of the scribes was said also, ‘Whosoever shall put
and Pharisees, you shall in no way away his wife, let him give her a
enter into the kingdom of heaven. certificate of divorce:’ 32 but I say to
21 You have heard that it was said you, that every one who puts away
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his wife, except for the cause of for- more than others? do not even the
nication, makes her an adulteress: Gentiles do the same? 48 You there-
and whosoever shall marry her fore shall be perfect, as your heav-
when she is put away commits enly Father is perfect.
adultery.
33 Again, you have heard that it 6 Take heed that you do not do
your righteousness before men,
was said to those of old, ‘You shall to be seen by them: else you have
not swear falsely, but shall perform no reward with your Father who is
to the Lord your oaths:’ 34 but I say in heaven.
to you, do not swear at all; neither 2 When therefore you do alms, do
by the heaven, for it is the throne of not sound a trumpet before you, as
God; 35 nor by the earth, for it is the the hypocrites do in the syna-
footstool of his feet; nor by Jeru- gogues and in the streets, that they
salem, for it is the city of the great may have glory from men. Truly I
King. 36 Neither shall you swear by say to you, they have received their
your head, for you cannot make reward. 3 But when you do alms,
one hair white or black. 37 But let do not let your left hand know
your speech be, ‘Yes, yes;’ ‘No, no:’ what your right hand does: 4 that
and whatsoever is more than these your alms may be in secret: and
is of the evil one. your Father who sees in secret will
38 You have heard that it was reward you.
said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth 5 And when you pray, you shall
for a tooth:’ 39 but I say to you, do not be as the hypocrites: for they
not resist him who is evil: but love to stand and pray in the syna-
whosoever strikes you on your gogues and in the corners of the
right cheek, turn to him the other streets, that they may be seen by
also. 40 And if any man would go to men. Truly I say to you, they have
law with you, and take away your received their reward. 6 But you,
tunic, let him have your cloak also. when you pray, enter into your in-
41 And whosoever shall compel ner room, and having shut your
you to go one mile, go with him door, pray to your Father who is in
two. 42 Give to him who asks you, secret, and your Father who sees in
and from him who would borrow secret will reward you. 7 And in
from you do not turn away. praying do not use vain repetitions,
43 You have heard that it was as the Gentiles do: for they think
said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, that they will be heard for their
and hate your enemy:’ 44 but I say much speaking. 8 Do not be there-
to you, love your enemies, and pray fore like them: for your Father
for those who persecute you; 45 knows what things you have need
that you may be sons of your Father of, before you ask him. 9 After this
who is in heaven: for he makes his manner therefore pray: Our Father
sun to rise on the evil and the good, who is in heaven, Hallowed be
and sends rain on the just and the your name. 10 Your kingdom come.
unjust. 46 For if you love those who Your will be done, as in heaven, so
love you, what reward do you on earth. 11 Give us this day our
have? do not even the tax collectors daily bread. 12 And forgive us our
do the same? 47 And if you greet debts, as we also have forgiven our
your brethren only, what do you do debtors. 13 And do not bring us
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into temptation, but deliver us from they do not sow, neither do they
the evil one. 14 For if you forgive reap, nor gather into barns; and
men their trespasses, your heav- your heavenly Father feeds them.
enly Father will also forgive you. 15 Are you not of much more value
But if you do not forgive men their than they? 27 And which of you by
trespasses, neither will your Father being anxious can add one cubit to
forgive your trespasses. the measure of his life? 28 And why
16 Moreover when you fast, do are you anxious concerning cloth-
not be, as the hypocrites, with a sad ing? Consider the lilies of the field,
countenance: for they disfigure how they grow; they do not toil,
their faces, that they may be seen by neither do they spin: 29 yet I say to
men to fast. Truly I say to you, they you, that even Solomon in all his
have received their reward. 17 But glory was not arrayed like one of
you, when you fast, anoint your these. 30 But if God so clothes the
head, and wash your face; 18 that grass of the field, which today is,
you are not seen by men to fast, but and tomorrow is cast into the oven,
by your Father who is in secret: and will he not much more clothe you, O
your Father, who sees in secret, will you of little faith? 31 Do not be
reward you. therefore anxious, saying, ‘What
19 Do not lay up for yourselves shall we eat?’ or, ‘What shall we
treasures on the earth, where moth drink?’ or, ‘With what shall we be
and rust consume, and where clothed?’ 32 For after all these
thieves break through and steal: 20 things do the Gentiles seek; for
but lay up for yourselves treasures your heavenly Father knows that
in heaven, where neither moth nor you have need of all these things.
rust consumes, and where thieves 33 But seek first his kingdom, and
do not break through nor steal: 21 his righteousness; and all these
for where your treasure is, there things shall be added to you. 34 Do
will your heart be also. 22 The lamp not be therefore anxious for tomor-
of the body is the eye: if therefore row: for tomorrow will be anxious
your eye is single, your whole body for itself. Sufficient for the day is
will be full of light. 23 But if your the evil of it.
eye is evil, your whole body will be
full of darkness. If therefore the 7 Do not judge, that you be not
judged. 2 For with what judg-
light that is in you is darkness, how ment you judge, you will be
great is the darkness! 24 No man judged: and with what measure
can serve two masters: for either he you measure out, it will be mea-
will hate the one, and love the sured to you. 3 And why do you
other; or else he will hold to one, look at the speck that is in your
and despise the other. You cannot brother’s eye, but do not consider
serve God and wealth. 25 Therefore the beam that is in your own eye? 4
I say to you, do not be anxious for Or how will you say to your
your life, what you shall eat, or brother, Let me cast out the speck
what you shall drink; nor yet for out of your eye; and look, the beam
your body, what you shall put on. Is is in your own eye? 5 You hyp-
not the life more than the food, and ocrite, cast out first the beam out of
the body than the clothing? 26 Be- your own eye; and then will you
hold the birds of the heaven, that see clearly to cast out the speck out
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of your brother’s eye. into the kingdom of heaven; but he
6 Do not give that which is holy to who does the will of my Father who
the dogs, neither cast your pearls is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me
before the swine, lest perhaps they in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not
trample them under their feet, and prophesy by your name, and by
turn and tear you in pieces. your name cast out demons, and by
7 Ask, and it will be given you; your name do many mighty
seek, and you will find; knock, and works?’ 23 And then will I profess
it will be opened to you: 8 for every to them, ‘I never knew you: depart
one who asks receives; and he who from me, you who work iniquity.’
seeks finds; and to him who knocks 24 Everyone therefore who hears
it will be opened. 9 Or what man is these words of mine, and does
there of you, who, if his son will ask them, will be likened to a wise man,
him for a loaf, will give him a stone; who built his house on the rock: 25
10 or if he asks for a fish, will give and the rain descended, and the
him a serpent? 11 If you then, being floods came, and the winds blew,
evil, know how to give good gifts to and beat on that house; and it did
your children, how much more will not fall: for it was founded on the
your Father who is in heaven give rock. 26 And every one who hears
good things to those who ask him? these words of mine, and does not
12 All things therefore whatsoever do them, will be likened to a foolish
you wish that men should do to man, who built his house on the
you, even so do you also to them: sand: 27 and the rain descended,
for this is the law and the prophets. and the floods came, and the winds
13 Enter in by the narrow gate: for blew, and struck upon that house;
wide is the gate, and broad is the and it fell: and great was the fall of
way, that leads to destruction, and it.”
many are those who enter in by it. 28 And it came to pass, when Je-
14 For narrow is the gate, and con- sus had finished these words, the
stricted the way, that leads to life, multitudes were astonished at his
and few are those who find it. teaching: 29 for he taught them as
15 Beware of false prophets, who one having authority, and not as
come to you in sheep’s clothing, but their scribes.
inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16
By their fruits you will know them. 8 And when he had come down
from the mountain, great multi-
Do men gather grapes from thorns, tudes followed him. 2 And behold,
or figs from thistles? 17 Even so ev- there came to him a leper and wor-
ery good tree brings forth good shipped him, saying, “Lord, if you
fruit; but the corrupt tree brings will, you can make me clean.” 3
forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree can- And he stretched forth his hand,
not bring forth evil fruit, neither and touched him, saying, “I will; be
can a corrupt tree bring forth good made clean.” And immediately his
fruit. 19 Every tree that does not leprosy was cleansed. 4 And Jesus
bring forth good fruit is hewn says to him, “See you tell no man;
down, and cast into the fire. 20 but go, show yourself to the priest,
Therefore by their fruits you will and offer the gift that Moses com-
know them. 21 Not every one who manded, for a testimony to them.”
says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter 5 And when he had entered into
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Capernaum, there came to him a 18 Now when Jesus saw great
centurion, beseeching him, 6 and multitudes around him, he gave
saying, “Lord, my servant lies in commandment to depart to the
the house paralyzed, grievously other side. 19 And there came a
tormented.” 7 And he says to him, scribe, and said to him, “Teacher, I
“I will come and heal him.” 8 And will follow you wherever you go.”
the centurion answered and said, 20 And Jesus says to him, “The
“Lord, I am not worthy that you foxes have holes, and the birds of
should come under my roof; but the heaven have nests; but the Son
only say the word, and my servant of Man has nowhere to lay his
will be healed. 9 For I also am a head.” 21 And another of the disci-
man under authority, having under ples said to him, “Lord, allow me
myself soldiers: and I say to this first to go and bury my father.” 22
one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to an- But Jesus says to him, “Follow me;
other, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to and leave the dead to bury their
my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does own dead.”
it.” 10 And when Jesus heard it, he 23 And when he had entered into
marveled, and said to those who a boat, his disciples followed him.
followed, “Truly I say to you, I have 24 And behold, there arose a great
not found so great faith, no, not in tempest in the sea, insomuch that
Israel. 11 And I say to you, that the boat was covered with the
many will come from the east and waves: but he was asleep. 25 And
the west, and will sit down with they came to him, and awoke him,
Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in saying, “Save, Lord; we perish.” 26
the kingdom of heaven: 12 but the And he says to them, “Why are you
sons of the kingdom will be cast fearful, O you of little faith?” Then
forth into the outer darkness: there he arose, and rebuked the winds
will be the weeping and the gnash- and the sea; and there was a great
ing of teeth.” 13 And Jesus said to calm. 27 And the men marveled,
the centurion, “Go your way; as saying, “What manner of man is
you have believed, so be it done to this, that even the winds and the
you.” And the servant was healed sea obey him?”
in that hour. 28 And when he had come to the
14 And when Jesus had come into other side into the country of the
Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s Gadarenes, there met him two pos-
mother lying sick with a fever. 15 sessed with demons, coming forth
And he touched her hand, and the out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce,
fever left her; and she arose, and so that no man could pass by that
ministered to him. 16 And when way. 29 And behold, they cried out,
evening had come, they brought to saying, “What have we to do with
him many possessed with demons: you, you Son of God? have you
and he cast out the spirits with a come here to torment us before the
word, and healed all who were sick: time?” 30 Now there was afar off
17 that it might be fulfilled which from them a herd of many swine
was spoken through Isaiah the feeding. 31 And the demons be-
prophet, saying, “He himself took seeched him, saying, “If you cast us
our infirmities, and bore our dis- out, send us away into the herd of
eases.” swine.” 32 And he said to them,
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“Go.” And they came out, and went disciples, “Why does your Teacher
into the swine: and behold, the eat with the tax collectors and sin-
whole herd rushed down the steep ners?” 12 But when he heard it, he
bank into the sea, and perished in said, “Those who are whole have
the waters. 33 And those who fed no need of a physician, but those
them fled, and went away into the who are sick. 13 But go and learn
city, and told everything, and what what this means, ‘I desire mercy,
was happened to those that were and not sacrifice:’ for I did not come
possessed with demons. 34 And be- to call the righteous, but sinners.”
hold, all the city came out to meet 14 Then come to him the disciples
Jesus: and when they saw him, they of John, saying, “Why do we and
beseeched him that he would de- the Pharisees fast often, but your
part from their borders. disciples do not fast?” 15 And Jesus

9 And he entered into a boat, said to them, “Can the sons of the
and crossed over, and came into bridal chamber mourn, as long as
his own city. 2 And behold, they the bridegroom is with them? but
brought to him a paralytic, lying on the days will come, when the bride-
a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith groom shall be taken away from
said to the paralytic, “Son, be of them, and then will they fast. 16
good cheer; your sins are forgiven.” And no man puts a piece of un-
3 And behold, some of the scribes dressed cloth on an old garment;
said within themselves, “This man for that which should fill it up takes
blasphemes.” 4 And Jesus knowing from the garment, and a worse tear
their thoughts said, “Why do you is made. 17 Neither do men put new
think evil in your hearts? 5 For wine into old wineskins: else the
which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are skins burst, and the wine is spilled,
forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and and the skins perish: but they put
walk?’ 6 But that you may know new wine into fresh wineskins, and
that the Son of Man has authority both are preserved.”
on earth to forgive sins” (then he 18 While he spoke these things to
says to the paralytic), “Arise, and them, behold, there came a ruler,
take up your bed, and go to your and worshipped him, saying, “My
house.” 7 And he arose, and de- daughter is even now dead: but
parted to his house. 8 But when the come and lay your hand on her, and
multitudes saw it, they were afraid, she will live.” 19 And Jesus arose,
and glorified God, who had given and followed him, and so did his
such authority to men. disciples. 20 And behold, a woman,
9 And as Jesus passed by from who had an issue of blood twelve
there, he saw a man, called years, came behind him, and
Matthew, sitting at the place of toll: touched the border of his garment:
and he says to him, “Follow me.” 21 for she said within herself, “If I
And he arose, and followed him. do but touch his garment, I shall be
10 And it came to pass, as he re- made whole.” 22 But Jesus turning
clined at the table in the house, be- and seeing her said, “Daughter, be
hold, many tax collectors and of good cheer; your faith has made
sinners came and sat down with Je- you whole.” And the woman was
sus and his disciples. 11 And when made whole from that hour. 23 And
the Pharisees saw it, they said to his when Jesus came into the ruler’s
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house, and saw the flute players, 38 Pray therefore the Lord of the
and the crowd making a tumult, 24 harvest, that he send forth laborers
he said, “Give place: for the girl is into his harvest.”
not dead, but sleeps.” And they
laughed him to scorn. 25 But when 10 And he called to him his
twelve disciples, and gave
the crowd was put outside, he en- them authority over unclean spir-
tered in, and took her by the hand; its, to cast them out, and to heal all
and the girl arose. 26 And the fame manner of disease and all manner
of this went forth into all that land. of sickness.
27 And as Jesus passed by from 2 Now the names of the twelve
there, two blind men followed him, apostles are these: The first, Simon,
crying out, and saying, “Have who is called Peter, and Andrew his
mercy on us, you son of David.” 28 brother; James the son of Zebedee,
And when he had come into the and John his brother; 3 Philip, and
house, the blind men came to him: Bartholomew; Thomas, and
and Jesus says to them, “Do you be- Matthew the tax collector; James
lieve that I am able to do this?” the son of Alphaeus, and Thad-
They say to him, “Yes, Lord.” 29 daeus; 4 Simon the Cananean, and
Then he touched their eyes, saying, Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed
“According to your faith be it done him.
to you.” 30 And their eyes were 5 These twelve Jesus sent forth,
opened. And Jesus strictly charged and charged them, saying, “Do not
them, saying, “See that no man go into any way of the Gentiles, and
knows it.” 31 But they went forth, do not enter into any city of the
and spread abroad his fame in all Samaritans: 6 but go rather to the
that land. lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7
32 And as they went forth, be- And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The
hold, there was brought to him a kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ 8
mute man possessed with a demon. Heal the sick, raise the dead,
33 And when the demon was cast cleanse the lepers, cast out demons:
out, the mute man spoke: and the freely you received, freely give. 9
multitudes marveled, saying, “It Get no gold, nor silver, nor brass in
was never so seen in Israel.” 34 But your money belts; 10 no bag for
the Pharisees said, “By the prince of your journey, neither two tunics,
the demons he casts out demons.” nor sandals, nor staff: for the la-
35 And Jesus went about all the borer is worthy of his food. 11 And
cities and the villages, teaching in into whatsoever city or village you
their synagogues, and preaching shall enter, search out who in it is
the gospel of the kingdom, and worthy; and there stay until you go
healing all manner of disease and forth. 12 And as you enter into the
all manner of sickness. 36 But when house, greet it. 13 And if the house
he saw the multitudes, he was is worthy, let your peace come
moved with compassion for them, upon it: but if it is not worthy, let
because they were distressed and your peace return to you. 14 And
scattered, as sheep not having a whosoever shall not receive you,
shepherd. 37 Then he says to his nor hear your words, as you go
disciples, “The harvest indeed is forth out of that house or that city,
plentiful, but the laborers are few. shake off the dust of your feet. 15
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Truly I say to you, it will be more of those who kill the body, but are
tolerable for the land of Sodom and not able to kill the soul: but rather
Gomorrah in the day of judgment, fear him who is able to destroy both
than for that city. soul and body in hell. 29 Are not
16 Behold, I send you forth as two sparrows sold for a copper
sheep in the midst of wolves: be coin? and not one of them will fall
therefore wise as serpents, and on the ground without your Father:
harmless as doves. 17 But beware of 30 but the very hairs of your head
men: for they will deliver you up to are all numbered. 31 Do not fear
councils, and in their synagogues therefore: you are of more value
they will scourge you; 18 yes and than many sparrows. 32 Everyone
before governors and kings will therefore who will confess me be-
you be brought for my sake, for a fore men, him will I also confess be-
testimony to them and to the Gen- fore my Father who is in heaven. 33
tiles. 19 But when they deliver you But whosoever shall deny me be-
up, do not be anxious how or what fore men, him will I also deny be-
you shall speak: for it will be given fore my Father who is in heaven.
you in that hour what you shall 34 Do not think that I came to
speak. 20 For it is not you who send peace on the earth: I came not
speak, but the Spirit of your Father to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I
who speaks in you. 21 And brother came to set a man at variance
will deliver up brother to death, against his father, and the daughter
and the father his child: and chil- against her mother, and the daugh-
dren will rise up against parents, ter-in-law against her mother-in-
and cause them to be put to death. law: 36 and a man’s foes will be
22 And you will be hated by all men those of his own household. 37 He
for my name’s sake: but he who en- who loves father or mother more
dures to the end, the same will be than me is not worthy of me; and he
saved. 23 But when they persecute who loves son or daughter more
you in this city, flee into the next: than me is not worthy of me. 38
for truly I say to you, you will not And he who does not take his cross
have gone through the cities of Is- and follow after me, is not worthy
rael, until the Son of Man comes. of me. 39 He who finds his life will
24 A disciple is not above his lose it; and he who loses his life for
teacher, nor a servant above his my sake will find it.
lord. 25 It is enough for the disciple 40 He who receives you receives
that he be as his teacher, and the me, and he who receives me re-
servant as his lord. If they have ceives him who sent me. 41 He who
called the master of the house receives a prophet in the name of a
Beelzebub, how much more those prophet shall receive a prophet’s re-
of his household! 26 Do not fear ward: and he who receives a right-
them therefore: for there is nothing eous man in the name of a
covered, that will not be revealed; righteous man shall receive a right-
and hidden, that will not be known. eous man’s reward. 42 And whoso-
27 What I tell you in the darkness, ever shall give to drink to one of
speak in the light; and what you these little ones a cup of cold water
hear in the ear, proclaim on the only, in the name of a disciple, truly
housetops. 28 And do not be afraid I say to you he shall in no way lose
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his reward.” prophesied until John. 14 And if

11 And it came to pass when you are willing to receive it, this is
Jesus had finished command- Elijah, who is to come. 15 He who
ing his twelve disciples, he de- has ears to hear, let him hear. 16 But
parted from there to teach and to what shall I liken this genera-
preach in their cities. tion? It is like children sitting in the
2 Now when John heard in the marketplaces, who call to their
prison the works of the Christ, he companions 17 and say, ‘We piped
sent by his disciples 3 and said to to you, and you did not dance; we
him, “Are you he who comes, or do wailed, and you did not mourn.’ 18
we look for another?” 4 And Jesus For John came neither eating nor
answered and said to them, “Go drinking, and they say, ‘He has a
and tell John the things which you demon.’ 19 The Son of Man came
hear and see: 5 the blind receive eating and drinking, and they say,
their sight, and the lame walk, the ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a
lepers are cleansed, and the deaf wine-drinker, a friend of tax collec-
hear, and the dead are raised up, tors and sinners!’ And wisdom is
and the poor have good tidings justified by her works.”
preached to them. 6 And blessed is 20 Then he began to reproach the
he, whosoever shall find no occa- cities in which most of his mighty
sion of stumbling in me.” works were done, because they did
7 And as these went their way, Je- not repent. 21 “Woe to you, Chor-
sus began to say to the multitudes azin! woe to you, Bethsaida! for if
concerning John, “What did you go the mighty works had been done in
out into the wilderness to behold? a Tyre and Sidon which were done in
reed shaken with the wind? 8 But you, they would have repented
what did you go out to see? a man long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22
clothed in soft clothing? Behold, But I say to you, it will be more tol-
those who wear soft clothing are in erable for Tyre and Sidon in the day
kings’ houses. 9 But why did you of judgment, than for you. 23 And
go out? to see a prophet? Yes, I say you, Capernaum, will you be ex-
to you, and much more than a alted to heaven? you will go down
prophet. 10 This is he, of whom it is to Hades: for if the mighty works
written, had been done in Sodom which
‘Behold, I send my messenger be- were done in you, it would have re-
fore your face, mained until this day. 24 But I say
Who will prepare your way be- to you that it will be more tolerable
fore you.’ for the land of Sodom in the day of
11 Truly I say to you, among those judgment, than for you.”
who are born of women there has 25 At that time Jesus answered
not arisen a greater than John the and said, “I thank you, O Father,
Baptist: yet he who is but little in Lord of heaven and earth, that you
the kingdom of heaven is greater have hidden these things from the
than he. 12 And from the days of wise and understanding, and re-
John the Baptist until now the king- vealed them to babes: 26 yes, Fa-
dom of heaven suffers violence, ther, for so it was well-pleasing in
and men of violence take it by force. your sight. 27 All things have been
13 For all the prophets and the law delivered to me by my Father: and
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no one knows the Son, except the into a pit on the Sabbath Day, will
Father; neither does any know the he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
Father, except the Son, and he to 12 How much then is a man of more
whomsoever the Son wills to reveal value than a sheep! Therefore it is
him. 28 Come to me, all you who la- lawful to do good on the Sabbath
bor and are heavy laden, and I will Day.” 13 Then he says to the man,
give you rest. 29 Take my yoke “Stretch forth your hand.” And he
upon you, and learn from me; for I stretched it forth; and it was re-
am meek and lowly in heart: and stored whole, as the other. 14 But
you will find rest for your souls. 30 the Pharisees went out, and took
For my yoke is easy, and my burden counsel against him, how they
is light.” might destroy him.

12 At that time Jesus went on 15 And Jesus perceiving it with-

the Sabbath Day through the drew from there: and many fol-
grain fields; and his disciples were lowed him; and he healed them all,
hungry and began to pluck ears 16 and charged them that they
and to eat. 2 But the Pharisees, should not make him known: 17
when they saw it, said to him, “Be- that it might be fulfilled which was
hold, your disciples do that which spoken through Isaiah the prophet,
it is not lawful to do on the Sab- saying,
bath.” 3 But he said to them, “Have 18 “Behold, my servant whom I
you not read what David did, when have chosen;
he was hungry, and those who were My beloved in whom my soul
with him; 4 how he entered into the is well pleased:
house of God, and ate the show- I will put my Spirit upon him,
bread, which it was not lawful for And he will declare judgment
him to eat, neither for those who to the Gentiles.
were with him, but only for the 19 He will not quarrel, nor cry
priests? 5 Or have you not read in aloud;
the law, that on the Sabbath Day the Neither will anyone hear his
priests in the temple profane the voice in the streets.
Sabbath, and are guiltless? 6 But I 20 A bruised reed he will not break,
say to you, that one greater than the And smoking flax he will not
temple is here. 7 But if you had quench,
known what this means, ‘I desire Until he sends forth judgment
mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you to victory.
would not have condemned the 21 And in his name will the Gen-
guiltless. 8 For the Son of Man is tiles hope.”
Lord of the Sabbath.” 22 Then was brought to him one
9 And he departed from there, possessed with a demon, blind and
and went into their synagogue: 10 mute: and he healed him, insomuch
and behold, a man having a with- that the mute man spoke and saw.
ered hand. And they asked him, 23 And all the multitudes were
saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the amazed, and said, “Can this be the
Sabbath Day?” that they might ac- son of David?” 24 But when the
cuse him. 11 And he said to them, Pharisees heard it, they said, “This
“What man will there be of you, man does not cast out demons, but
who has one sheep, and if this falls by Beelzebub the prince of the
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demons.” 25 And knowing their your words you shall be con-
thoughts he said to them, “Every demned.”
kingdom divided against itself is 38 Then some of the scribes and
brought to desolation; and every Pharisees answered him, saying,
city or house divided against itself “Teacher, we wish to see a sign
shall not stand: 26 and if Satan casts from you.” 39 But he answered and
out Satan, he is divided against said to them, “An evil and adulter-
himself; how then will his kingdom ous generation seeks after a sign;
stand? 27 And if I by Beelzebub cast and there will no sign be given to it
out demons, by whom do your sons but the sign of Jonah the prophet:
cast them out? therefore shall they 40 for as Jonah was three days and
be your judges. 28 But if I by the three nights in the belly of the
Spirit of God cast out demons, then whale; so will the Son of Man be
is the kingdom of God come upon three days and three nights in the
you. 29 Or how can one enter into heart of the earth. 41 The men of
the house of the strong man, and Nineveh will stand up in the judg-
plunder his goods, except he first ment with this generation, and will
bind the strong man? and then he condemn it: for they repented at the
will plunder his house. 30 He who preaching of Jonah; and behold, a
is not with me is against me, and he greater than Jonah is here. 42 The
who does not gather with me scat- queen of the south will rise up in
ters. 31 Therefore I say to you, ev- the judgment with this generation,
ery sin and blasphemy shall be and will condemn it: for she came
forgiven men; but the blasphemy from the ends of the earth to hear
against the Spirit shall not be for- the wisdom of Solomon; and be-
given. 32 And whosoever shall hold, a greater than Solomon is
speak a word against the Son of here. 43 But the unclean spirit,
Man, it shall be forgiven him; but when he is gone out of the man,
whosoever shall speak against the passes through waterless places,
Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven seeking rest, and does not find it. 44
him, neither in this world, nor in Then he says, ‘I will return into my
that which is to come. 33 Either house from which I came out;’ and
make the tree good, and its fruit when he has come, he finds it
good; or make the tree corrupt, and empty, swept, and decorated. 45
its fruit corrupt: for the tree is Then he goes, and takes with him-
known by its fruit. 34 You offspring self seven other spirits more evil
of vipers, how can you, being evil, than himself, and they enter in and
speak good things? for out of the dwell there: and the last state of
abundance of the heart the mouth that man becomes worse than the
speaks. 35 The good man out of his first. Even so shall it be also unto
good treasure brings forth good this evil generation.”
things: and the evil man out of his 46 While he was still speaking to
evil treasure brings forth evil the multitudes, behold, his mother
things. 36 And I say to you, that ev- and his brothers stood outside,
ery idle word that men shall speak, seeking to speak to him. 47 And one
they shall give account of it in the said to him, “Behold, your mother
day of judgment. 37 For by your and your brothers stand outside,
words you shall be justified, and by seeking to speak to you. 48 But he
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answered and said to him who told hear, neither do they understand.
him, “Who is my mother? and who 14 And to them is fulfilled the
are my brothers?” 49 And he prophecy of Isaiah, which says,
stretched forth his hand towards ‘By hearing you will hear, and
his disciples, and said, “Behold, my shall in no way understand;
mother and my brothers! 50 For And seeing you will see, and
whosoever shall do the will of my shall in no way perceive:
Father who is in heaven, he is my 15 For this people’s heart has be-
brother, and sister, and mother.” come dull,

13 On that day Jesus went out

of the house, and sat by the
seaside. 2 And there were gathered
And their ears are dull of
hearing,
And their eyes they have
to him great multitudes, so that he closed;
entered into a boat, and sat; and all Lest perhaps they should
the multitude stood on the beach. 3 perceive with their eyes,
And he spoke to them many things And hear with their ears,
in parables, saying, “Behold, the And understand with their
sower went forth to sow; 4 and as heart,
he sowed, some seeds fell by the And should turn again,
wayside, and the birds came and And I should heal them.’
devoured them: 5 and others fell on 16 But blessed are your eyes, for
the rocky places, where they had they see; and your ears, for they
not much earth: and immediately hear. 17 For truly I say to you, that
they sprang up, because they had many prophets and righteous men
no depth of earth: 6 and when the desired to see the things which you
sun had risen, they were scorched; see, and did not see them; and to
and because they had no root, they hear the things which you hear, and
withered away. 7 And others fell on did not hear them. 18 Hear then the
the thorns; and the thorns grew up parable of the sower. 19 When any-
and choked them: 8 and others fell one hears the word of the kingdom,
on the good ground, and yielded and does not understand it, then
fruit, some a hundredfold, some comes the evil one, and snatches
sixty, some thirty. 9 He who has away that which has been sown in
ears, let him hear.” his heart. This is he who was sown
10 And the disciples came, and by the wayside. 20 And he who was
said to him, “Why do you speak to sown on the rocky places, this is he
them in parables?” 11 And he an- who hears the word, and immedi-
swered and said to them, “To you it ately with joy receives it; 21 yet he
is given to know the mysteries of has not root in himself, but endures
the kingdom of heaven, but to them for a while; and when tribulation or
it is not given. 12 For whosoever persecution arises because of the
has, to him will be given, and he word, immediately he stumbles. 22
will have abundance: but whoso- And he who was sown among the
ever does not have, from him will thorns, this is he who hears the
be taken away even that which he word; and the care of the world,
has. 13 Therefore I speak to them in and the deceitfulness of riches,
parables; because seeing they do choke the word, and he becomes
not see, and hearing they do not unfruitful. 23 And he who was
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sown on the good ground, this is he parables to the multitudes; and
who hears the word, and under- without a parable he spoke nothing
stands it; who truly bears fruit, and to them: 35 that it might be fulfilled
brings forth, some a hundredfold, which was spoken through the
some sixty, some thirty.” prophet, saying,
24 Another parable he set before “I will open my mouth in
them, saying, “The kingdom of parables;
heaven is likened to a man who I will utter things hidden from
sowed good seed in his field: 25 but the foundation of the world.”
while men slept, his enemy came 36 Then he left the multitudes,
and sowed tares also among the and went into the house: and his
wheat, and went away. 26 But when disciples came to him, saying, “Ex-
the blade sprang up and brought plain to us the parable of the tares
forth fruit, then appeared the tares of the field.” 37 And he answered
also. 27 And the servants of the and said, “He who sows the good
master of the house came and said seed is the Son of Man; 38 and the
to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good field is the world; and the good
seed in your field? from what seed, these are the sons of the king-
source then does it have tares?’ 28 dom; and the tares are the sons of
And he said to them, ‘An enemy the evil one; 39 and the enemy who
has done this.’ And the servants say sowed them is the devil: and the
to him, ‘Do you want then that we harvest is the end of the world; and
go and gather them up?’ 29 But he the reapers are angels. 40 As there-
says, ‘No; lest perhaps while you fore the tares are gathered up and
gather up the tares, you root up the burned with fire; so will it be in the
wheat with them. 30 Let both grow end of the world. 41 The Son of
together until the harvest: and in Man will send forth his angels, and
the time of the harvest I will say to they will gather out of his kingdom
the reapers, “Gather up first the all things that cause stumbling, and
tares, and bind them in bundles to those who do iniquity, 42 and will
burn them; but gather the wheat cast them into the furnace of fire:
into my barn.” ’ ” there will be the weeping and the
31 Another parable he set before gnashing of teeth. 43 Then will the
them, saying, “The kingdom of righteous shine forth as the sun in
heaven is like a grain of mustard the kingdom of their Father. He
seed, which a man took, and sowed who has ears, let him hear.
in his field: 32 which indeed is less 44 The kingdom of heaven is like
than all seeds; but when it is grown, a treasure hidden in the field;
it is greater than the herbs, and be- which a man found, and hid; and in
comes a tree, so that the birds of the his joy he goes and sells all that he
heaven come and lodge in the has, and buys that field.
branches of it.” 45 Again, the kingdom of heaven
33 Another parable he spoke to is like a man who is a merchant
them; “The kingdom of heaven is seeking fine pearls: 46 and having
like leaven, which a woman took, found one pearl of great price, he
and hid in three measures of meal, went and sold all that he had, and
until it was all leavened.” bought it.
34 All these things spoke Jesus in 47 Again, the kingdom of heaven
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is like a net, that was cast into the fore these powers work in him.” 3
sea, and gathered of every kind: 48 For Herod had laid hold on John,
which, when it was filled, they and bound him, and put him in
drew up on the beach; and they sat prison for the sake of Herodias, his
down, and gathered the good into brother Philip’s wife. 4 For John
vessels, but the bad they cast away. said to him, “It is not lawful for you
49 So will it be in the end of the to have her.” 5 And when he would
world: the angels will come forth, have put him to death, he feared
and sever the wicked from among the multitude, because they
the righteous, 50 and will cast them counted him as a prophet. 6 But
into the furnace of fire: there will be when Herod’s birthday came, the
the weeping and the gnashing of daughter of Herodias danced in the
teeth. midst, and pleased Herod. 7 There-
51 Have you understood all these fore he promised with an oath to
things?” They say to him, “Yes.” 52 give her whatsoever she should
And he said to them, “Therefore ev- ask. 8 And she, being put forward
ery scribe who has been made a dis- by her mother, says, “Give me here
ciple to the kingdom of heaven is on a platter the head of John the
like a man who is a master of a Baptist.” 9 And the king was
house, who brings forth out of his grieved; but for the sake of his
treasure things new and old.” oaths, and of those who reclined
53 And it came to pass, when Je- with him, he commanded it to be
sus had finished these parables, he given; 10 and he sent and beheaded
departed from there. John in the prison. 11 And his head
54 And coming into his own was brought on a platter, and given
country he taught them in their to the girl: and she brought it to her
synagogue, insomuch that they mother. 12 And his disciples came,
were astonished, and said, “From and took up the corpse, and buried
where did this man get this wis- him; and they went and told Jesus.
dom, and these mighty works? 55 Is 13 Now when Jesus heard it, he
not this the carpenter’s son? is not withdrew from there in a boat, to a
his mother called Mary? and his desert place privately: and when
brothers, James, and Joseph, and Si- the multitudes heard of it, they fol-
mon, and Judas? 56 And his sisters, lowed him on foot from the cities.
are they not all with us? From 14 And he came forth, and saw a
where then did this man get all great multitude, and he had com-
these things?” 57 And they were passion on them, and healed their
offended in him. But Jesus said to sick. 15 And when evening had
them, “A prophet is not without come, the disciples came to him,
honor, except in his own country, saying, “The place is desert, and the
and in his own house.” 58 And he time is already past; send the multi-
did not many mighty works there tudes away, that they may go into
because of their unbelief. the villages, and buy themselves

14 At that time Herod the food.” 16 But Jesus said to them,

tetrarch heard the report con- “They have no need to go away;
cerning Jesus, 2 and said to his ser- give them to eat.” 17 And they say
vants, “This is John the Baptist; he to him, “We have here but five
is risen from the dead; and there- loaves, and two fish.” 18 And he
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said, “Bring them here to me.” 19 doubt?” 32 And when they had
And he commanded the multitudes gone up into the boat, the wind
to sit down on the grass; and he ceased. 33 And those who were in
took the five loaves, and the two the boat worshipped him, saying,
fish, and looking up to heaven, he “Truly you are the Son of God.”
blessed, and broke and gave the 34 And when they had crossed
loaves to the disciples, and the dis- over, they came to the land, to Gen-
ciples to the multitudes. 20 And nesaret. 35 And when the men of
they all ate, and were filled: and that place knew him, they sent into
they took up that which remained all the surrounding region, and
over of the broken pieces, twelve brought to him all who were sick;
baskets full. 21 And those who 36 and they beseeched him that
were eating were about five thou- they might only touch the border of
sand men, besides women and chil- his garment: and as many as
dren. touched were made whole.
22 And immediately he con-
strained the disciples to enter into 15 Then there come to Jesus
from Jerusalem Pharisees
the boat, and to go before him to the and scribes, saying, 2 “Why do
other side, until he should send the your disciples transgress the tradi-
multitudes away. 23 And after he tion of the elders? for they do not
had sent the multitudes away, he wash their hands when they eat
went up into the mountain pri- bread.” 3 And he answered and
vately to pray: and when evening said to them, “Why do you also
had come, he was there alone. 24 transgress the commandment of
But the boat was now in the midst God because of your tradition? 4
of the sea, distressed by the waves; For God said, ‘Honor your father
for the wind was contrary. 25 And and your mother:’ and, ‘He who
in the fourth watch of the night he speaks evil of father or mother, let
came to them, walking on the sea. him die the death.’ 5 But you say,
26 And when the disciples saw him ‘Whosoever shall say to his father
walking on the sea, they were trou- or his mother, “That with which
bled, saying, “It is a ghost;” and you might have been profited by
they cried out for fear. 27 But imme- me is given to God;” 6 he shall not
diately Jesus spoke to them, saying, honor his father.’ And you have
“Be of good cheer; it is I; do not be made void the word of God be-
afraid.” 28 And Peter answered cause of your tradition. 7 You hyp-
him and said, “Lord, if it be you, ocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of
bid me come to you on the waters.” you, saying,
29 And he said, “Come.” And Peter 8 ‘This people honors me with
went down from the boat, and their lips;
walked on the waters to come to Je- But their heart is far from me.
sus. 30 But when he saw the wind, 9 But in vain do they worship me,
he was afraid; and beginning to Teaching as their doctrines the
sink, he cried out, saying, “Lord, precepts of men.’ ”
save me.” 31 And immediately Je- 10 And he called to him the multi-
sus stretched forth his hand, and tude, and said to them, “Hear, and
took hold of him, and says to him, understand: 11 ‘Not that which en-
“O you of little faith, why did you ters into the mouth defiles the man;
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but that which proceeds out of the Lord: for even the dogs eat of the
mouth, this defiles the man.’ ” 12 crumbs which fall from their mas-
Then came the disciples, and said ters’ table.” 28 Then Jesus answered
to him, “Do you know that the and said to her, “O woman, great is
Pharisees were offended, when your faith: be it done to you even as
they heard this saying?” 13 But he you will.” And her daughter was
answered and said, “Every plant healed from that hour.
which my heavenly Father did not 29 And Jesus departed from there,
plant, shall be rooted up. 14 Leave and came near to the sea of Galilee;
them alone: they are blind guides. and he went up into the mountain,
And if the blind guide the blind, and sat there. 30 And there came to
both will fall into a pit.” 15 And Pe- him great multitudes, having with
ter answered and said to him, “De- them the lame, blind, mute,
clare to us the parable.” 16 And he maimed, and many others, and
said, “Are you also even still with- they cast them down at his feet; and
out understanding? 17 Do you not he healed them: 31 insomuch that
perceive, that whatsoever goes into the multitude wondered, when
the mouth passes into the belly, and they saw the mute speaking, the
is eliminated? 18 But the things maimed whole, and the lame walk-
which proceed out of the mouth ing, and the blind seeing: and they
come forth out of the heart; and glorified the God of Israel.
they defile the man. 19 For out of 32 And Jesus called to him his dis-
the heart come forth evil thoughts, ciples, and said, “I have compas-
murders, adulteries, fornications, sion on the multitude, because they
thefts, false witness, railings: 20 continue with me now three days
these are the things which defile the and have nothing to eat: and I do
man; but to eat with unwashed not want to send them away fast-
hands does not defile the man.” ing, lest perhaps they faint on the
21 And Jesus went out from there, way.” 33 And the disciples say to
and withdrew into the parts of Tyre him, “From where should we have
and Sidon. 22 And behold, a so many loaves in a desert place as
Canaanite woman came out from to fill so great a multitude?” 34 And
those borders, and cried, saying, Jesus said to them, “How many
“Have mercy on me, O Lord, you loaves do you have?” And they
son of David; my daughter is griev- said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”
ously possessed with a demon.” 23 35 And he commanded the multi-
But he answered her not a word. tude to sit down on the ground; 36
And his disciples came and be- and he took the seven loaves and
seeched him, saying, “Send her the fish; and he gave thanks and
away; for she cries after us.” 24 But broke, and gave to the disciples,
he answered and said, “I was not and the disciples to the multitudes.
sent but to the lost sheep of the 37 And they all ate, and were filled:
house of Israel.” 25 But she came and they took up that which re-
and worshipped him, saying, mained over of the broken pieces,
“Lord, help me.” 26 And he an- seven baskets full. 38 And those
swered and said, “It is not proper to who were eating were four thou-
take the children’s bread and cast it sand men, besides women and chil-
to the dogs.” 27 But she said, “Yes, dren. 39 And he sent away the
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multitudes, and entered into the say that the Son of Man is?” 14 And
boat, and came into the borders of they said, “Some say John the Bap-
Magadan. tist; some, Elijah; and others,

16 And the Pharisees and Sad- Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”

ducees came, and testing 15 He says to them, “But who do
him asked him to show them a sign you say that I am?” 16 And Simon
from heaven. 2 But he answered Peter answered and said, “You are
and said to them, “When it is the Christ, the Son of the living
evening, you say, ‘It will be fair God.” 17 And Jesus answered and
weather: for the heaven is red.’ 3 said to him, “Blessed are you, Si-
And in the morning, ‘It will be foul mon Bar-Jonah: for flesh and blood
weather today: for the heaven is red has not revealed it to you, but my
and lowering.’ You know how to Father who is in heaven. 18 And I
discern the face of the heaven; but also say to you, that you are Peter,
you cannot discern the signs of the and upon this rock I will build my
times. 4 An evil and adulterous church; and the gates of Hades
generation seeks after a sign; and shall not prevail against it. 19 I will
there shall no sign be given to it, but give to you the keys of the kingdom
the sign of Jonah.” And he left of heaven: and whatsoever you
them, and departed. shall bind on earth shall be bound
5 And the disciples came to the in heaven; and whatsoever you
other side and forgot to take bread. shall loose on earth shall be loosed
6 And Jesus said to them, “Take in heaven.” 20 Then he charged the
heed and beware of the leaven of disciples that they should tell no
the Pharisees and Sadducees.” 7 man that he was the Christ.
And they reasoned among them- 21 From that time began Jesus to
selves, saying, “We took no bread.” show to his disciples, that he must
8 And Jesus perceiving it said, “O go to Jerusalem, and suffer many
you of little faith, why do you rea- things from the elders and chief
son among yourselves, because you priests and scribes, and be killed,
have no bread? 9 Do you not yet and the third day be raised up. 22
perceive, neither remember the five And Peter took him, and began to
loaves of the five thousand, and rebuke him, saying, “Be it far from
how many baskets you took up? 10 you, Lord: this shall never be to
Neither the seven loaves of the four you.” 23 But he turned, and said to
thousand, and how many baskets Peter, “Get behind me, Satan: you
you took up? 11 How is it that you are a stumbling-block to me: for
do not perceive that I did not speak you do not mind the things of God,
to you concerning bread? But be- but the things of men.” 24 Then
ware of the leaven of the Pharisees said Jesus to his disciples, “If any
and Sadducees.” 12 Then they un- man would come after me, let him
derstood that he did not tell them to deny himself, and take up his cross,
beware of the leaven of bread, but and follow me. 25 For whosoever
of the teaching of the Pharisees and would save his life shall lose it: and
Sadducees. whosoever shall lose his life for my
13 Now when Jesus came into the sake shall find it. 26 For what will a
parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked man be profited, if he shall gain the
his disciples, saying, “Who do men whole world, and forfeit his life? or
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what shall a man give in exchange
for his life? 27 For the Son of Man
will come in the glory of his Father
with his angels; and then he will
render to every man according to
his deeds. 28 Truly I say to you,
there are some of those who stand
here, who shall in no way taste of
death, until they see the Son of Man
coming in his kingdom.”
17 And after six days Jesus
takes with him Peter, and
James, and John his brother, and
brings them up into a high moun-
tain privately: 2 and he was trans-
figured before them; and his face
shone as the sun, and his garments
became white as the light. 3 And
behold, there appeared to them
Moses and Elijah talking with him.
4 And Peter answered, and said to
Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be
here: if you wish, I will make here
three tabernacles; one for you, and
one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
5 While he was still speaking, be-
hold, a bright cloud overshadowed
them: and behold, a voice out of the
cloud, saying, “This is my beloved
Son, in whom I am well pleased;
hear him.” 6 And when the disci-
ples heard it, they fell on their face,
and were extremely afraid. 7 And
Jesus came and touched them and
said, “Arise, and do not be afraid.”
8 And lifting up their eyes, they
saw no one, except Jesus only.
9 And as they were coming down
from the mountain, Jesus com-
manded them, saying, “Tell the vi-
sion to no man, until the Son of
Man be risen from the dead.” 10
And his disciples asked him, say-
ing, “Why then say the scribes that
Elijah must first come?” 11 And he
9
Many authorities, some ancient, insert, ver. 21, But this kind does not go out except by
prayer and fasting.
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answered and said, “Elijah indeed
comes, and will restore all things:
12 but I say to you, that Elijah is
come already, and they did not
know him, but did to him whatso-
ever they wished. Even so shall the
Son of Man also suffer by them.” 13
Then understood the disciples that
he spoke to them of John the Bap-
tist.
14 And when they had come to
the multitude, there came to him a
man, kneeling to him, and saying,
15 “Lord, have mercy on my son:
for he is epileptic, and suffers griev-
ously; for often he falls into the fire,
and often into the water. 16 And I
brought him to your disciples, and
they could not cure him.” 17 And
Jesus answered and said, “O faith-
less and perverse generation, how
long shall I be with you? how long
shall I bear with you? bring him
here to me.” 18 And Jesus rebuked
him; and the demon went out of
him: and the boy was cured from
that hour.
19 Then came the disciples to Je-
sus privately, and said, “Why could
we not cast it out?” 20 And he says
to them, “Because of your little
faith: for truly I say to you, if you
have faith as a grain of mustard
seed, you will say to this mountain,
‘Move from here to there;’ and it
will move; and nothing will be im-
possible to you.”9
22 And while they were waiting
in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The
Son of Man will be delivered up
into the hands of men; 23 and they
will kill him, and the third day he
will be raised up.” And they were
exceedingly sorrowful.
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Capernaum, those who received
the half-shekel came to Peter, and
said, “Does not your teacher pay
the half-shekel?” 25 He said, “Yes.”
And when he came into the house,
Jesus spoke first to him, saying,
“What do you think, Simon? the
kings of the earth, from whom do
they receive toll or tribute? from
their sons, or from strangers?” 26
And when he said, “From
strangers,” Jesus said to him,
“Therefore the sons are free. 27 But,
lest we cause them to stumble, go to
the sea, and cast a hook, and take
up the fish that first comes up; and
when you have opened his mouth,
you will find a shekel: that take,
and give to them for me and you.”
18 In that hour came the disci-
ples to Jesus, saying, “Who
then is greatest in the kingdom of
heaven?” 2 And he called to him a
little child, and set him in the midst
of them, 3 and said, “Truly I say to
you, except you turn, and become
as little children, you will in no way
enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4
Whosoever therefore will humble
himself as this little child, the same
is the greatest in the kingdom of
heaven. 5 And whoever shall re-
ceive one such little child in my
name receives me: 6 but whoever
shall cause one of these little ones
that believe on me to stumble, it is
profitable for him that a great mill-
stone should be hung around his
neck, and that he should be sunk in
the depth of the sea.
7 Woe to the world because of oc-
casions of stumbling! for it must be
that the occasions come; but woe to
that man through whom the occa-
sion comes! 8 And if your hand or
10
Many authorities, some ancient, insert, ver. 11, For the Son of Man came to save that which
was lost.
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your foot causes you to stumble,
cut it off, and cast it from you: it is
good for you to enter into life
maimed or lame, rather than hav-
ing two hands or two feet to be cast
into the eternal fire. 9 And if your
eye causes you to stumble, pluck it
out, and cast it from you: it is good
for you to enter into life with one
eye, rather than having two eyes to
be cast into the hell of fire. 10 See
that you do not despise one of these
little ones; for I say to you, that in
heaven their angels always behold
the face of my Father who is in
heaven.¹⁰ 12 What do you think? if
any man has a hundred sheep, and
one of them is gone astray, does he
not leave the ninety-nine, and go to
the mountains, and seek that which
goes astray? 13 And if indeed he
finds it, truly I say to you, he re-
joices over it more than over the
ninety-nine which have not gone
astray. 14 Even so it is not the will of
your Father who is in heaven, that
one of these little ones should per-
ish.
15 And if your brother sins
against you, go, show him his fault
between him and him alone: if he
hears you, you have gained your
brother. 16 But if he does not hear
you, take with you one or two
more, that at the mouth of two wit-
nesses or three every word may be
established. 17 And if he refuses to
hear them, tell it to the church: and
if he refuse to hear the church also,
let him be to you as the Gentile and
the tax collector. 18 Truly I say to
you, whatsoever things you shall
bind on earth shall be bound in
heaven; and whatever things you
shall loose on earth shall be loosed
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in heaven. 19 Again I say to you, and says to him, ‘You wicked ser-
that if two of you shall agree on vant, I forgave you all that debt, be-
earth concerning anything that they cause you beseeched me: 33 should
shall ask, it shall be done for them not you also have had mercy on
by my Father who is in heaven. 20 your fellow servant, even as I had
For where two or three are gathered mercy on you?’ 34 And his lord was
together in my name, there am I in angry, and delivered him to the tor-
the midst of them.” mentors, until he should pay all
21 Then came Peter and said to that was due. 35 So will also my
him, “Lord, how often will my heavenly Father do to you, if you
brother sin against me, and I for- do not forgive each one his brother
give him? until seven times?” 22 Je- from your hearts.”
sus says to him, “I do not say to
you, until seven times; but, until 19 And it came to pass when
Jesus had finished these
seventy times seven. 23 Therefore is words, he departed from Galilee,
the kingdom of heaven likened to a and came into the borders of Judea
certain king, who wished to settle beyond the Jordan; 2 and great
accounts with his servants. 24 And multitudes followed him; and he
when he had begun to settle, one healed them there.
was brought to him, who owed him 3 And there came to him Phar-
ten thousand talents. 25 But be- isees, testing him, and saying, “Is it
cause he did not have that which to lawful for a man to put away his
pay, his lord commanded him to be wife for every cause?” 4 And he an-
sold, and his wife, and children, swered and said, “Have you not
and all that he had, and payment to read, that he who made them from
be made. 26 The servant therefore the beginning made them male and
fell down and worshipped him, female, 5 and said, ‘For this cause
saying, ‘Lord, have patience with shall a man leave his father and
me, and I will pay you all.’ 27 And mother, and shall cleave to his wife;
the lord of that servant, being and the two shall become one flesh?
moved with compassion, released 6 So that they are no more two, but
him, and forgave him the debt. 28 one flesh.’ What therefore God has
But that servant went out, and joined together, let not man sepa-
found one of his fellow servants, rate.” 7 They say to him, “Why then
who owed him a hundred denarii: did Moses command to give a cer-
and he laid hold on him, and took tificate of divorce, and to put her
him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay what away?” 8 He says to them, “Moses
you owe.’ 29 So his fellow servant for your hardness of heart allowed
fell down and beseeched him, say- you to put away your wives: but
ing, ‘Have patience with me, and I from the beginning it has not been
will pay you.’ 30 And he would not: so. 9 And I say to you, whosoever
but went and cast him into prison, shall put away his wife, except for
until he should pay that which was fornication, and shall marry an-
due. 31 So when his fellow servants other, commits adultery: and he
saw what was done, they were ex- who marries her when she is put
ceedingly sorrowful, and came and away commits adultery.” 10 The
told to their lord all that was done. disciples say to him, “If the case of
32 Then his lord called him to him, the man is so with his wife, it is not
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expedient to marry.” 11 But he said 23 And Jesus said to his disciples,
to them, “Not all men can receive “Truly I say to you, it is hard for a
this saying, but those to whom it is rich man to enter into the kingdom
given. 12 For there are eunuchs, of heaven. 24 And again I say to
who were so born from their you, it is easier for a camel to go
mother’s womb: and there are eu- through a needle’s eye, than for a
nuchs, who were made eunuchs by rich man to enter into the kingdom
men: and there are eunuchs, who of God.” 25 And when the disciples
made themselves eunuchs for the heard it, they were astonished ex-
kingdom of heaven’s sake. He who ceedingly, saying, “Who then can
is able to receive it, let him receive be saved?” 26 And Jesus looking
it.” upon them said to them, “With men
13 Then were there brought to this is impossible; but with God all
him little children, that he should things are possible.” 27 Then an-
lay his hands on them, and pray: swered Peter and said to him, “Be-
and the disciples rebuked them. 14 hold, we have left all, and followed
But Jesus said, “Allow the little you; what then shall we have?” 28
children, and do not forbid them, to And Jesus said to them, “Truly I say
come to me: for to such belongs the to you, that you who have followed
kingdom of heaven.” 15 And he me, in the regeneration when the
laid his hands on them, and de- Son of Man shall sit on the throne of
parted from there. his glory, you also shall sit on
16 And behold, one came to him twelve thrones, judging the twelve
and said, “Teacher, what good tribes of Israel. 29 And every one
thing shall I do, that I may have who has left houses, or brothers, or
eternal life?” 17 And he said to him, sisters, or father, or mother, or chil-
“Why do you ask me concerning dren, or lands, for my name’s sake,
that which is good? One there is shall receive a hundredfold, and
who is good: but if you would enter shall inherit eternal life. 30 But
into life, keep the commandments.” many shall be last who are first; and
18 He says to him, “Which?” And first who are last.
Jesus said, “You shall not kill, You
shall not commit adultery, You shall 20 For the kingdom of heaven
is like a man who was a mas-
not steal, You shall not bear false ter of the house, who went out early
witness, 19 Honor your father and in the morning to hire laborers into
your mother; and, You shall love his vineyard. 2 And when he had
your neighbor as yourself.” 20 The agreed with the laborers for a
young man says to him, “All these denarius a day, he sent them into
things have I observed: what do I his vineyard. 3 And he went out
still lack?” 21 Jesus said to him, “If about the third hour, and saw oth-
you would be perfect, go, sell that ers standing in the marketplace
which you have, and give to the idle; 4 and to them he said, “Go also
poor, and you will have treasure in into the vineyard, and whatsoever
heaven: and come, follow me.” 22 is right I will give you.” And they
But when the young man heard the went their way. 5 Again he went
saying, he went away sorrowful; out about the sixth and the ninth
for he was one who had great pos- hour, and did likewise. 6 And about
sessions. the eleventh hour he went out, and
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found others standing; and he says a certain thing of him. 21 And he
to them, “Why do you stand here said to her, “What do you wish?”
all the day idle?” 7 They say to him, She says to him, “Command that
“Because no man has hired us.” He these my two sons may sit, one on
says to them, “Go also into the your right hand, and one on your
vineyard.” 8 And when evening left hand, in your kingdom.” 22 But
had come, the lord of the vineyard Jesus answered and said, “You do
says to his steward, “Call the labor- not know what you ask. Are you
ers, and pay them their wages, be- able to drink the cup that I am
ginning from the last to the first.” 9 about to drink?” They say to him,
And when they came who were “We are able.” 23 He says to them,
hired about the eleventh hour, they “My cup indeed you shall drink:
received every man a denarius. 10 but to sit on my right hand, and on
And when the first came, they sup- my left hand, is not mine to give;
posed that they would receive but it is for those for whom it has
more; and they likewise received been prepared by my Father.” 24
every man a denarius. 11 And when And when the ten heard it, they
they received it, they murmured were moved with indignation con-
against the master of the house, 12 cerning the two brothers. 25 But Je-
saying, “These last have spent but sus called them to him, and said,
one hour, and you have made them “You know that the rulers of the
equal to us, who have borne the Gentiles lord it over them, and their
burden of the day and the scorch- great ones exercise authority over
ing heat.” 13 But he answered and them. 26 Not so shall it be among
said to one of them, “Friend, I do you: but whosoever would become
you no wrong: did not you agree great among you shall be your min-
with me for a denarius? 14 Take up ister; 27 and whosoever would be
that which is yours, and go your first among you shall be your ser-
way; it is my will to give to this last, vant: 28 even as the Son of Man did
even as to you. 15 Is it not lawful for not come to be ministered to, but to
me to do what I will with my own? minister, and to give his life a ran-
or is your eye evil, because I am som for many.”
good? 16 So the last will be first, 29 And as they went out from Jeri-
and the first last.” cho, a great multitude followed
17 And as Jesus was going up to him. 30 And behold, two blind men
Jerusalem, he took the twelve disci- sitting by the way side, when they
ples privately, and on the way he heard that Jesus was passing by,
said to them, 18 “Behold, we go up cried out, saying, “Lord, have
to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man mercy on us, you son of David.” 31
will be delivered to the chief priests And the multitude rebuked them,
and scribes; and they will condemn that they should hold their peace:
him to death, 19 and will deliver but they cried out the more, saying,
him to the Gentiles to mock, and to “Lord, have mercy on us, you son
scourge, and to crucify: and the of David.” 32 And Jesus stood still,
third day he will be raised up.” and called them, and said, “What
20 Then came to him the mother will you that I should do to you?”
of the sons of Zebedee with her 33 They say to him, “Lord, that our
sons, worshipping him, and asking eyes may be opened.” 34 And Jesus,
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being moved with compassion, money changers, and the seats of
touched their eyes; and immedi- those who sold the doves; 13 and he
ately they received their sight, and says to them, “It is written, ‘My
followed him. house shall be called a house of

21 And when they drew near prayer:’ but you make it a den of
to Jerusalem, and came to robbers.” 14 And the blind and the
Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, lame came to him in the temple;
then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 say- and he healed them. 15 But when
ing to them, “Go into the village the chief priests and the scribes saw
that is opposite you, and immedi- the wonderful things that he did,
ately you will find a donkey tied, and the children who were crying
and a colt with her: loose them, and in the temple and saying, “Hosanna
bring them to me. 3 And if anyone to the son of David;” they were
says anything to you, you shall say, moved with indignation, 16 and
‘The Lord has need of them;’ and said to him, “Do you hear what
immediately he will send them.” 4 these are saying?” And Jesus says
Now this is come to pass, that it to them, “Yes: did you never read,
might be fulfilled which was spo- ‘Out of the mouth of babes and
ken through the prophet, saying, sucklings you have perfected
5 “Tell the daughter of Zion, praise?’ ” 17 And he left them, and
Behold, your King comes to you, went forth out of the city to
Meek, and riding on a donkey, Bethany, and lodged there.
And on a colt the foal of a don- 18 Now in the morning as he re-
key.” turned to the city, he became hun-
6 And the disciples went, and did gry. 19 And seeing a fig tree by the
even as Jesus appointed them, 7 way side, he came to it, and found
and brought the donkey, and the nothing on it, but leaves only; and
colt, and put on them their gar- he says to it, “Let there be no fruit
ments; and he sat on them. 8 And from you from this time on for
the greatest part of the multitude ever.” And immediately the fig tree
spread their garments in the way; withered away. 20 And when the
and others cut branches from the disciples saw it, they marveled,
trees, and spread them in the way. 9 saying, “How did the fig tree im-
And the multitudes that went be- mediately wither away?” 21 And
fore him, and who followed, cried, Jesus answered and said to them,
saying, “Hosanna to the son of “Truly I say to you, if you have
David: Blessed is he who comes in faith, and do not doubt, you will
the name of the Lord; Hosanna in not only do what is done to the fig
the highest.” 10 And when he had tree, but even if you shall say to this
come into Jerusalem, all the city mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast
was stirred, saying, “Who is this?” into the sea,’ it will be done. 22 And
11 And the multitudes said, “This is all things, whatsoever you shall ask
the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth in prayer, believing, you will re-
of Galilee.” ceive.”
12 And Jesus entered into the tem- 23 And when he had come into
ple of God, and cast out all those the temple, the chief priests and the
who sold and bought in the temple, elders of the people came to him as
and overthrew the tables of the he was teaching, and said, “By
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what authority are you doing these when the season of the fruits drew
things? and who gave you this au- near, he sent his servants to the
thority?” 24 And Jesus answered vinedressers, to receive his fruits.
and said to them, “I also will ask 35 And the vinedressers took his
you one question, which if you tell servants, and beat one, and killed
me, I likewise will tell you by what another, and stoned another. 36
authority I do these things. 25 The Again, he sent other servants more
baptism of John, where was it than the first: and they did to them
from? from heaven or from men?” in like manner. 37 But afterward he
And they reasoned with them- sent to them his son, saying, ‘They
selves, saying, “If we shall say, will respect my son.’ 38 But the
‘From heaven;’ he will say to us, vinedressers, when they saw the
‘Why then did you not believe son, said among themselves, ‘This
him?’ 26 But if we shall say, ‘From is the heir; come, let us kill him, and
men;’ we fear the multitude; for all take his inheritance.’ 39 And they
hold John as a prophet.” 27 And took him, and cast him forth out of
they answered Jesus, and said, “We the vineyard, and killed him. 40
do not know.” He also said to them, When therefore the lord of the vine-
“Neither do I tell you by what au- yard shall come, what will he do to
thority I do these things. 28 But those vinedressers?” 41 They say to
what do you think? A man had two him, “He will miserably destroy
sons; and he came to the first, and those miserable men, and will let
said, ‘Son, go work today in the out the vineyard to other vine-
vineyard.’ 29 And he answered and dressers, who will render him the
said, ‘I will not:’ but afterward he fruits in their seasons.” 42 Jesus
repented himself, and went. 30 And says to them, “Did you never read
he came to the second, and said in the Scriptures,
likewise. And he answered and ‘The stone which the builders
said, ‘I go, sir:’ and did not go. 31 rejected,
Which of the two did the will of his The same was made the head of
father?” They say, “The first.” Jesus the corner;
says to them, “Truly I say to you, This was from the Lord,
that the tax collectors and the har- And it is marvelous in our
lots go into the kingdom of God be- eyes?’
fore you. 32 For John came to you in 43 Therefore I say to you, the king-
the way of righteousness, and you dom of God will be taken away
did not believe him; but the tax col- from you, and will be given to a na-
lectors and the harlots believed tion bringing forth the fruits of it. 44
him: and you, when you saw it, did And he who falls on this stone will
not even repent yourselves after- be broken to pieces: but on whom-
ward, that you might believe him. soever it shall fall, it will scatter him
33 Hear another parable: there as dust.” 45 And when the chief
was a man who was a master of a priests and the Pharisees heard his
house, who planted a vineyard, and parables, they perceived that he
set a hedge around it, and dug a spoke of them. 46 And when they
winepress in it, and built a tower, sought to lay hold on him, they
and let it out to vinedressers, and feared the multitudes, because they
went into another country. 34 And took him for a prophet.
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22 And Jesus answered and snare him in his talk. 16 And they
spoke again in parables to send to him their disciples, with the
them, saying, 2 “the kingdom of Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we
heaven is likened to a certain king, know that you are true, and teach
who made a marriage feast for his the way of God in truth, and do not
son, 3 and sent forth his servants to care for anyone: for you do not re-
call those who were bidden to the gard the person of men. 17 Tell us
marriage feast: and they would not therefore, what do you think? Is it
come. 4 Again he sent forth other lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or
servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are not?” 18 But Jesus perceived their
bidden, “Behold, I have prepared wickedness, and said, “Why do you
my dinner; my oxen and my test me, you hypocrites? 19 Show
fatlings are killed, and all things are me the tribute money.” And they
ready: come to the marriage feast.” brought to him a denarius. 20 And
’ 5 But they made light of it, and he says to them, “Whose is this im-
went their ways, one to his own age and superscription?” 21 They
farm, another to his merchandise; 6 say to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he
and the rest laid hold on his ser- says to them, “Render therefore to
vants, and treated them shamefully, Caesar the things that are Caesar’s;
and killed them. 7 But the king was and to God the things that are
angry; and he sent his armies, and God’s.” 22 And when they heard it,
destroyed those murderers, and they marveled, and left him, and
burned their city. 8 Then he says to went away.
his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, 23 On that day there came to him
but those who were bidden were Sadducees, those who say that
not worthy. 9 Go therefore to the there is no resurrection: and they
partings of the highways, and as asked him, 24 saying, “Teacher,
many as you shall find, bid to the Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having
marriage feast.’ 10 And those ser- no children, his brother shall marry
vants went out into the highways, his wife, and raise up seed to his
and gathered together all as many brother.’ 25 Now there were with us
as they found, both bad and good: seven brothers: and the first mar-
and the wedding was filled with ried and deceased, and having no
guests. 11 But when the king came seed left his wife to his brother; 26
in to behold the guests, he saw in like manner the second also, and
there a man who did not have on a the third, to the seventh. 27 And af-
wedding garment: 12 and he says ter them all, the woman died. 28 In
to him, ‘Friend, how did you come the resurrection therefore whose
in here not having a wedding gar- wife will she be of the seven? for
ment?’ And he was speechless. 13 they all had her.” 29 But Jesus an-
Then the king said to the servants, swered and said to them, “You err,
‘Bind him hand and foot, and cast not knowing the Scriptures, nor the
him out into the outer darkness; power of God. 30 For in the resur-
there will be the weeping and the rection they neither marry, nor are
gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are given in marriage, but are as angels
called, but few chosen.’ ” in heaven. 31 But concerning the
15 Then went the Pharisees, and resurrection of the dead, have you
took counsel how they might en- not read that which was spoken to
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you by God, saying, 32 ‘I am the
God of Abraham, and the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ God is
not the God of the dead, but of the
living.” 33 And when the multi-
tudes heard it, they were aston-
ished at his teaching.
34 But the Pharisees, when they
heard that he had put the Sad-
ducees to silence, gathered them-
selves together. 35 And one of
them, a lawyer, asked him a ques-
tion, testing him: 36 “Teacher,
which is the great commandment
in the law?” 37 And he said to him,
“You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart, and with all
your soul, and with all your mind.
38 This is the great and first com-
mandment. 39 And a second like it
is this, ‘You shall love your neigh-
bor as yourself.’ 40 On these two
commandments the whole law
hangs, and the prophets.”
41 Now while the Pharisees were
gathered together, Jesus asked
them a question, 42 saying, “What
do you think of the Christ? whose
son is he?” They say to him, “The
son of David.” 43 He says to them,
“How then does David in the Spirit
call him Lord, saying,
44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit on my right hand,
Until I put your enemies under-
neath your feet?” ’
45 If David then calls him Lord,
how is he his son?” 46 And no one
was able to answer him a word, nei-
ther dared any man from that day
forth ask him any more questions.
23 Then Jesus spoke to the
multitudes and to his disci-
ples, 2 saying, “The scribes and the
Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat: 3 all
11
Some authorities, insert here or after ver. 12, ver. 14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for you devour widows’ houses, even while for a pretense you make long prayers:
therefore you shall receive greater condemnation.
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things therefore whatsoever they
bid you, these do and observe: but
do not according to their works; for
they say, and do not. 4 Yes, they
bind heavy burdens and grievous
to be borne, and lay them on men’s
shoulders; but they themselves will
not move them with their finger. 5
But all their works they do to be
seen by men: for they make broad
their phylacteries, and enlarge the
borders of their garments, 6 and
love the chief place at feasts, and
the chief seats in the synagogues, 7
and the greetings in the market-
places, and to be called by men,
Rabbi. 8 But do not be called Rabbi:
for one is your teacher, and all you
are brethren. 9 And call no man
your father on the earth: for one is
your Father, even he who is in
heaven. 10 Neither be called mas-
ters: for one is your master, even
the Christ. 11 But he who is greatest
among you shall be your servant.
12 And whosoever shall exalt him-
self shall be humbled; and whoso-
ever shall humble himself shall be
exalted.
13 But woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! because you
shut the kingdom of heaven against
men: for you do not enter in your-
selves, neither allow those who are
entering in to enter.¹¹
15 Woe to you, scribes and Phar-
isees, hypocrites! for you go around
sea and land to make one proselyte;
and when he is become so, you
make him twofold more a son of
hell than yourselves.
16 Woe to you, you blind guides,
who say, ‘Whosoever shall swear
by the temple, it is nothing; but
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of the temple, he is a debtor.’ 17 You 30 and say, ‘If we had been in the
fools and blind: for which is greater, days of our fathers, we would not
the gold, or the temple that has have been partakers with them in
sanctified the gold? 18 And, the blood of the prophets.’ 31
Whosoever shall swear by the altar, Therefore you witness to your-
it is nothing; but whosoever shall selves, that you are sons of those
swear by the gift that is on it, he is a who slew the prophets. 32 Fill up
debtor. 19 You blind: for which is then the measure of your fathers. 33
greater, the gift, or the altar that You serpents, you offspring of
sanctifies the gift? 20 He therefore vipers, how shall you escape the
who swears by the altar, swears by judgment of hell? 34 Therefore, be-
it, and by all things on it. 21 And he hold, I send to you prophets, and
who swears by the temple, swears wise men, and scribes: some of
by it, and by him who dwells in it. them you will kill and crucify; and
22 And he who swears by the some of them you will scourge in
heaven, swears by the throne of your synagogues, and persecute
God, and by him who sits on it. from city to city: 35 that upon you
23 Woe to you, scribes and Phar- may come all the righteous blood
isees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint shed on the earth, from the blood of
and anise and cumin, and have left Abel the righteous to the blood of
undone the weightier matters of the Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom
law, justice, and mercy, and faith: you slew between the sanctuary
but these you ought to have done, and the altar. 36 Truly I say to you,
and not to have left the other un- All these things shall come upon
done. 24 You blind guides, who this generation.
strain out the gnat, and swallow the 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who
camel! kills the prophets, and stones those
25 Woe to you, scribes and Phar- who are sent to her! how often
isees, hypocrites! for you cleanse would I have gathered your chil-
the outside of the cup and of the dren together, even as a hen gathers
platter, but within they are full from her chickens under her wings, and
extortion and excess. 26 You blind you would not! 38 Behold, your
Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of house is left to you desolate. 39 For
the cup and of the platter, that the I say to you, You shall not see me
outside of it may become clean also. henceforth, until you shall say,
27 Woe to you, scribes and Phar- ‘Blessed is he who comes in the
isees, hypocrites! for you are like name of the Lord.’ ”
whited sepulchers, which out-
wardly appear beautiful, but in- 24 And Jesus went out from
the temple, and was going
wardly are full of dead men’s on his way; and his disciples came
bones, and of all uncleanness. 28 to him to show him the buildings of
Even so you also outwardly appear the temple. 2 But he answered and
righteous to men, but inwardly you said to them, “Do you not see all
are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. these things? truly I say to you,
29 Woe to you, scribes and Phar- There shall not be left here one
isees, hypocrites! for you build the stone upon another, that shall not
sepulchers of the prophets, and be thrown down.”
garnish the tombs of the righteous, 3 And as he sat on the mount of
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Olives, the disciples came to him with child and to those who give
privately, saying, “Tell us, when suck in those days! 20 And pray
will these things be? and what will that your flight not be in the winter,
be the sign of your coming, and of neither on a Sabbath: 21 for then
the end of the world?” 4 And Jesus will be great tribulation, such as has
answered and said to them, “Take not been from the beginning of the
heed that no man lead you astray. 5 world until now, no, nor ever shall
For many will come in my name, be. 22 And except those days had
saying, ‘I am the Christ;’ and will been shortened, no flesh would
lead many astray. 6 And you will have been saved: but for the elect’s
hear of wars and rumors of wars; sake those days will be shortened.
see that you not be troubled: for 23 Then if any man shall say to you,
these things must come to pass; but ‘Look, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘Here;’
the end is not yet. 7 For nation will do not believe it. 24 For there will
rise against nation, and kingdom arise false Christs, and false
against kingdom; and there will be prophets, and will show great signs
famines and earthquakes in various and wonders; so as to lead astray, if
places. 8 But all these things are the possible, even the elect. 25 Behold,
beginning of travail. 9 Then they I have told you beforehand. 26 If
will deliver you up to tribulation, therefore they shall say to you, ‘Be-
and will kill you: and you will be hold, he is in the wilderness;’ do
hated by all the nations for my not go forth: ‘Behold, he is in the in-
name’s sake. 10 And then many ner chambers;’ do not believe it. 27
will stumble, and will deliver up For as the lightning comes forth
one another, and will hate one an- from the east, and is seen even to
other. 11 And many false prophets the west; so will be the coming of
will arise, and will lead many the Son of Man. 28 Wheresoever the
astray. 12 And because iniquity will carcass is, there will the eagles be
be multiplied, the love of the many gathered together.
will become cold. 13 But he who en- 29 But immediately after the
dures to the end, the same shall be tribulation of those days the sun
saved. 14 And this gospel of the will be darkened, and the moon
kingdom shall be preached in the will not give her light, and the stars
whole world for a testimony to all will fall from heaven, and the pow-
the nations; and then will the end ers of the heavens will be shaken:
come. 30 and then will appear the sign of
15 When therefore you see the the Son of Man in heaven: and then
abomination of desolation, which will all the tribes of the earth
was spoken of through Daniel the mourn, and they will see the Son of
prophet, standing in the holy place Man coming on the clouds of
(let him who reads understand), 16 heaven with power and great glory.
then let those who are in Judea flee 31 And he will send forth his angels
to the mountains: 17 let him who is with a great sound of a trumpet,
on the housetop not go down to and they will gather together his
take out the things that are in his elect from the four winds, from one
house: 18 and let him who is in the end of heaven to the other.
field not return back to take his 32 Now from the fig tree learn her
cloak. 19 But woe to those who are parable: when her branch is now
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become tender, and puts forth its begin to beat his fellow servants,
leaves, you know that the summer and shall eat and drink with the
is near; 33 even so you also, when drunken; 50 the lord of that servant
you see all these things, know that will come in a day when he does
he is near, even at the doors. 34 not expect, and in an hour when he
Truly I say to you, This generation does not know, 51 and will cut him
shall not pass away, until all these in two, and appoint his portion
things be accomplished. 35 Heaven with the hypocrites: there shall be
and earth will pass away, but my the weeping and the gnashing of
words shall not pass away. 36 But of teeth.
that day and hour knows no one,
not even the angels of heaven, nei- 25 Then shall the kingdom of
heaven be likened to ten vir-
ther the Son, but the Father only. 37 gins, who took their lamps, and
And as were the days of Noah, so went forth to meet the bridegroom.
will be the coming of the Son of 2 And five of them were foolish,
Man. 38 For as in those days which and five were wise. 3 For the fool-
were before the flood they were eat- ish, when they took their lamps,
ing and drinking, marrying and took no oil with them: 4 but the
giving in marriage, until the day wise took oil in their vessels with
that Noah entered into the ark, 39 their lamps. 5 Now while the bride-
and they did not know until the groom was delaying, they all slum-
flood came, and took them all bered and slept. 6 But at midnight
away; so will be the coming of the there is a cry, ‘Behold, the bride-
Son of Man. 40 Then will two men groom! Come forth to meet him.’ 7
be in the field; one is taken, and one Then all those virgins arose, and
is left: 41 two women will be grind- trimmed their lamps. 8 And the
ing at the mill; one is taken, and one foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us of
is left. 42 Watch therefore: for you your oil; for our lamps are going
do not know on what day your out.’ 9 But the wise answered, say-
Lord comes. 43 But know this, that ing, ‘Perhaps there will not be
if the master of the house had enough for us and you: go rather to
known in what watch the thief was those who sell, and buy for your-
coming, he would have watched, selves.’ 10 And while they went
and would not have allowed his away to buy, the bridegroom came;
house to be broken through. 44 and those who were ready went in
Therefore be you also ready; for in with him to the marriage feast: and
an hour that you do not think the the door was shut. 11 Afterward
Son of Man comes. came also the other virgins, saying,
45 Who then is the faithful and ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’ 12 But he
wise servant, whom his lord has set answered and said, ‘Truly I say to
over his household, to give them you, I do not know you.’ 13 Watch
their food in due season? 46 Blessed therefore, for you do not know the
is that servant, whom his lord when day nor the hour.
he comes will find so doing. 47 14 For it is as when a man, going
Truly I say to you, that he will set into another country, called his own
him over all that he has. 48 But if servants, and delivered to them his
that evil servant shall say in his goods. 15 And to one he gave five
heart, ‘My lord delays;’ 49 and shall talents, to another two, to another
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one; to each according to his respec- interest. 28 Take away therefore the
tive ability; and he went on his jour- talent from him, and give it to him
ney. 16 Immediately he who who has the ten talents. 29 For to
received the five talents went and every one who has will be given,
traded with them, and made an- and he will have abundance: but
other five talents. 17 In like manner from him who does not have, even
he also who received the two gained that which he has will be taken
another two. 18 But he who re- away. 30 And cast out the un-
ceived the one went away and dug profitable servant into the outer
in the earth, and hid his lord’s darkness: there will be the weeping
money. 19 Now after a long time and the gnashing of teeth.’
the lord of those servants comes, 31 But when the Son of Man shall
and settles accounts with them. 20 come in his glory, and all the angels
And he who received the five tal- with him, then will he sit on the
ents came and brought another five throne of his glory: 32 and before
talents, saying, ‘Lord, you deliv- him will be gathered all the nations:
ered to me five talents: look, I have and he will separate them one from
gained another five talents.’ 21 His another, as the shepherd separates
lord said to him, ‘Well done, good the sheep from the goats; 33 and he
and faithful servant: you have been will set the sheep on his right hand,
faithful over a few things, I will set but the goats on the left. 34 Then
you over many things; enter into will the King say to those on his
the joy of your lord.’ 22 And he also right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of
who received the two talents came my Father, inherit the kingdom pre-
and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to pared for you from the foundation
me two talents: look, I have gained of the world: 35 for I was hungry,
another two talents.’ 23 His lord and you gave me to eat; I was
said to him, ‘Well done, good and thirsty, and you gave me drink; I
faithful servant: you have been was a stranger, and you took me in;
faithful over a few things, I will set 36 naked, and you clothed me; I
you over many things; enter into was sick, and you visited me; I was
the joy of your lord. 24 And he also in prison, and you came to me.’ 37
who had received the one talent Then will the righteous answer
came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we
that you are a hard man, reaping see you hungry, and fed you? or
where you did not sow, and gather- thirsty, and gave you drink? 38 And
ing where you did not scatter; 25 when did we see you a stranger,
and I was afraid, and went away and took you in? or naked, and
and hid your talent in the earth: clothed you? 39 And when did we
look, you have your own.’ 26 But see you sick, or in prison, and came
his lord answered and said to him, to you?’ 40 And the King shall an-
‘You wicked and slothful servant, swer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to
you knew that I reap where I did you, Inasmuch as you did it to one
not sow, and gather where I did not of these my brethren, even these
scatter; 27 you ought therefore to least, you did it to me.’ 41 Then will
have put my money with the he say also to those on the left hand,
bankers, and at my coming I should ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into
have received back my own with the eternal fire which is prepared
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for the devil and his angels: 42 for Iyou trouble the woman? for she has
was hungry, and you did not give worked a good work upon me. 11
me to eat; I was thirsty, and you For you have the poor always with
gave me no drink; 43 I was a you; but me you do not always
stranger, and you did not take me have. 12 For in that she poured this
in; naked, and you did not clothe ointment upon my body, she did it
me; sick, and in prison, and you did to prepare me for burial. 13 Truly I
not visit me.’ 44 Then will they also say to you, Wheresoever this gospel
answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we shall be preached in the whole
see you hungry, or thirsty, or a world, that also which this woman
stranger, or naked, or sick, or in has done will be spoken of for a
prison, and did not minister to memorial of her.”
you?’ 45 Then will he answer them, 14 Then one of the twelve, who
saying, ‘Truly I say to you, Inas- was called Judas Iscariot, went to
much as you did not do it to one of the chief priests, 15 and said, “What
these least, you did not do it to me.’are you willing to give me, and I
46 And these shall go away into will deliver him to you?” And they
eternal punishment: but the right- weighed to him thirty pieces of sil-
eous into eternal life.” ver. 16 And from that time he
sought opportunity to deliver him

26 And it came to pass, when to them.

Jesus had finished all these 17 Now on the first day of Unleav-
words, he said to his disciples, 2 ened Bread the disciples came to Je-
“You know that after two days the sus, saying, “Where do you will
Passover comes, and the Son of that we make ready for you to eat
Man is delivered up to be cruci- the Passover?” 18 And he said, “Go
fied.” 3 Then were gathered to- into the city to such a man, and say
gether the chief priests, and the to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time
elders of the people, to the court of is at hand; I keep the Passover at
the high priest, who was called Ca- your house with my disciples.” ’ ”
iaphas; 4 and they took counsel to- 19 And the disciples did as Jesus
gether that they might take Jesus by appointed them; and they made
subtlety, and kill him. 5 But they ready the Passover.
said, “Not during the feast, lest a 20 Now when evening had come,
tumult arise among the people.” he was reclining at the table with
6 Now when Jesus was in the twelve disciples; 21 and as they
Bethany, in the house of Simon the were eating, he said, “Truly I say to
leper, 7 there came to him a woman you, that one of you will betray
having an alabaster vase of exceed- me.” 22 And they were exceedingly
ingly precious ointment, and she sorrowful, and began to say to him
poured it upon his head, as he re- every one, “Is it I, Lord?” 23 And he
clined at the table. 8 But when the answered and said, “He who
disciples saw it, they had indigna- dipped his hand with me in the
tion, saying, “To what purpose is dish, the same will betray me. 24
this waste? 9 For this ointment The Son of Man goes, even as it is
might have been sold for much, written of him: but woe to that man
and given to the poor.” 10 But Jesus through whom the Son of Man is
perceiving it said to them, “Why do betrayed! good were it for that man
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if he had not been born.” 25 And Ju- tle, and fell on his face, and prayed,
das, who betrayed him, answered saying, “My Father, if it be possible,
and said, “Is it I, Rabbi?” He says to let this cup pass away from me:
him, “You have said.” nevertheless, not as I will, but as
26 And as they were eating, Jesus you will.” 40 And he comes to the
took bread, and blessed, and broke disciples, and finds them sleeping,
it; and he gave to the disciples, and and says to Peter, “What, could you
said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” 27 not watch with me one hour? 41
And he took a cup, and gave Watch and pray, that you do not en-
thanks, and gave to them, saying, ter into temptation: the spirit in-
“Drink you all of it; 28 for this is my deed is willing, but the flesh is
blood of the covenant, which is weak.” 42 Again a second time he
poured out for many to remission went away, and prayed, saying,
of sins. 29 But I say to you, I shall “My Father, if this cannot pass
not drink henceforth of this fruit of away, except I drink it, your will be
the vine, until that day when I done.” 43 And he came again and
drink it new with you in my Fa- found them sleeping, for their eyes
ther’s kingdom.” were heavy. 44 And he left them
30 And when they had sung a again, and went away, and prayed
hymn, they went out to the mount a third time, saying again the same
of Olives. words. 45 Then he comes to the dis-
31 Then says Jesus to them, “All ciples, and says to them, “Sleep on
you will be offended in me this now, and take your rest: behold, the
night: for it is written, ‘I will strike hour is at hand, and the Son of Man
the shepherd, and the sheep of the is betrayed into the hands of sin-
flock shall be scattered abroad.’ 32 ners. 46 Arise, let us be going: be-
But after I am raised up, I will go hold, he is at hand who betrays
before you into Galilee.” 33 But Pe- me.”
ter answered and said to him, “If all 47 And while he was still speak-
will be offended in you, I will never ing, behold, Judas, one of the
be offended.” 34 Jesus said to him, twelve, came, and with him a great
Truly I say to you, that this night, multitude with swords and clubs,
before the cock crows, you will from the chief priests and elders of
deny me three times.” 35 Peter says the people. 48 Now he who be-
to him, “Even if I must die with trayed him gave them a sign, say-
you, yet will I not deny you.” Like- ing, “Whomsoever I shall kiss, that
wise also said all the disciples. is he: take him.” 49 And immedi-
36 Then comes Jesus with them to ately he came to Jesus, and said,
a place called Gethsemane, and “Hail, Rabbi;” and kissed him. 50
says to his disciples, “Sit here, And Jesus said to him, “Friend, do
while I go over there and pray.” 37 that for which you are come.” Then
And he took with him Peter and the they came and laid hands on Jesus,
two sons of Zebedee, and began to and took him. 51 And behold, one
be sorrowful and extremely trou- of those who were with Jesus
bled. 38 Then he says to them, “My stretched out his hand, and drew
soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even his sword, and struck the servant of
to death: stay here, and watch with the high priest, and struck off his
me.” 39 And he went forward a lit- ear. 52 Then says Jesus to him, “Put
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up again your sword into its place: tore his garments, saying, “He has
for all those who take the sword spoken blasphemy: what further
will perish with the sword. 53 Or need have we of witnesses? behold,
do you think that I cannot beseech now you have heard the blasphe-
my Father, and he will even now my: 66 what do you think?” They
send me more than twelve legions answered and said, “He is worthy
of angels? 54 How then should the of death.” 67 Then they spat in his
Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it face and beat him: and some struck
must be?” 55 In that hour said Jesus him with the palms of their hands,
to the multitudes, “Are you come 68 saying, “Prophesy to us, you
out as against a robber with swords Christ: who is he who struck you?”
and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in 69 Now Peter was sitting outside
the temple teaching, and you did in the court: and a servant girl came
not take me. 56 But all this is come to him, saying, “You also were with
to pass, that the Scriptures of the Jesus the Galilean.” 70 But he de-
prophets might be fulfilled.” Then nied before them all, saying, “I do
all the disciples left him, and fled. not know what you are saying.” 71
57 And those who had taken Jesus And when he was gone out into the
led him away to the house of Ca- porch, another servant girl saw him,
iaphas the high priest, where the and says to those who were there,
scribes and the elders were gath- “This man also was with Jesus of
ered together. 58 But Peter followed Nazareth.” 72 And again he denied
him afar off, to the court of the high with an oath, “I do not know the
priest, and entered in, and sat with man.” 73 And after a little while
the officers, to see the end. 59 Now those who stood by came and said
the chief priests and the whole to Peter, “Truly you also are one of
council sought false witness against them; for your speech makes you
Jesus, that they might put him to known.” 74 Then he began to curse
death; 60 and they did not find it, and to swear, “I do not know the
though many false witnesses came. man.” And immediately the cock
But afterward came two, 61 and crew. 75 And Peter remembered the
said, “This man said, ‘I am able to word which Jesus had said, “Before
destroy the temple of God, and to the cock crows, you will deny me
build it in three days.’ ” 62 And the three times.” And he went out, and
high priest stood up, and said to wept bitterly.
him, “Do you answer nothing?
what is it which these witness 27 Now when morning had
come, all the chief priests
against you?” 63 But Jesus held his and the elders of the people took
peace. And the high priest said to counsel against Jesus to put him to
him, “I adjure you by the living death: 2 and they bound him, and
God, that you tell us whether you led him away, and delivered him
are the Christ, the Son of God. 64 Je- up to Pilate the governor.
sus says to him, “You have said: 3 Then Judas, who betrayed him,
nevertheless I say to you, hence- when he saw that he was con-
forth you will see the Son of Man demned, repented himself, and
sitting at the right hand of Power, brought back the thirty pieces of sil-
and coming on the clouds of ver to the chief priests and elders, 4
heaven.” 65 Then the high priest saying, “I have sinned in that I be-
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trayed innocent blood.” But they nothing to do with that righteous
said, “What is that to us? You see to man; for I have suffered many
it.” 5 And he cast down the pieces things this day in a dream because
of silver into the sanctuary, and de- of him.” 20 Now the chief priests
parted; and he went away and and the elders persuaded the multi-
hung himself. 6 And the chief tudes that they should ask for
priests took the pieces of silver, and Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. 21 But
said, “It is not lawful to put them the governor answered and said to
into the treasury, since it is the price them, “Which of the two will you
of blood.” 7 And they took counsel, that I release to you?” And they
and bought with them the potter’s said, “Barabbas.” 22 Pilate says to
field, to bury strangers in. 8 There- them, “What then shall I do to Jesus
fore that field was called, The Field who is called Christ?” They all say,
of Blood, to this day. 9 Then was “Let him be crucified.” 23 And he
fulfilled that which was spoken said, “Why, what evil has he
through Jeremiah the prophet, say- done?” But they cried out exceed-
ing, “And they took the thirty ingly, saying, “Let him be cruci-
pieces of silver, the price of him fied.” 24 So when Pilate saw that he
who was priced, whom certain of was accomplishing nothing, but
the children of Israel did price; 10 rather that a tumult was arising, he
and they gave them for the potter’s took water, and washed his hands
field, as the Lord appointed me.” before the multitude, saying, “I am
11 Now Jesus stood before the innocent of the blood of this right-
governor: and the governor asked eous man; you see to it.” 25 And all
him, saying, “Are you the King of the people answered and said, “His
the Jews?” And Jesus said to him, blood be on us, and on our chil-
“You say.” 12 And when he was ac- dren.” 26 Then he released to them
cused by the chief priests and el- Barabbas; but Jesus he scourged
ders, he answered nothing. 13 Then and delivered to be crucified.
says Pilate to him, “Do you not hear 27 Then the soldiers of the gover-
how many things they witness nor took Jesus into the Praetorium,
against you?” 14 And he gave him and gathered to him the whole co-
no answer, not even to one word: hort. 28 And they stripped him, and
insomuch that the governor mar- put on him a scarlet robe. 29 And
veled greatly. 15 Now at the feast they twisted a crown of thorns and
the governor was accustomed to re- put it on his head, and a reed in his
lease to the multitude one prisoner, right hand; and they kneeled down
whom they wished. 16 And they before him, and mocked him, say-
had then a notable prisoner, called ing, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 30
Barabbas. 17 When therefore they And they spat on him, and took the
were gathered together, Pilate said reed and struck him on the head. 31
to them, “Whom will you that I re- And when they had mocked him,
lease to you? Barabbas, or Jesus they took off from him the robe,
who is called Christ?” 18 For he and put on him his garments, and
knew that for envy they had deliv- led him away to crucify him.
ered him up. 19 And while he was 32 And as they came out, they
sitting on the judgment seat, his found a man of Cyrene, Simon by
wife sent to him, saying, “Have name: him they compelled to go
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with them, that he might bear his vinegar, and put it on a reed, and
cross. gave him to drink. 49 And the rest
33 And when they had come to a said, “Let be; let us see whether
place called Golgotha, that is to say, Elijah comes to save him.” 50 And
The Place of a Skull, 34 they gave Jesus cried again with a loud voice,
him wine to drink mingled with and yielded up his spirit. 51 And
gall: and when he had tasted it, he behold, the veil of the temple was
would not drink. 35 And when they torn in two from the top to the bot-
had crucified him, they parted his tom; and the earth quaked; and the
garments among them, casting lots; rocks were torn; 52 and the tombs
36 and they sat and watched him were opened; and many bodies of
there. 37 And they set up over his the saints who had fallen asleep
head his accusation written, THIS were raised; 53 and coming forth
IS JESUS THE KING OF THE out of the tombs after his resurrec-
JEWS. 38 Then are there crucified tion they entered into the holy city
with him two robbers, one on the and appeared to many. 54 Now the
right hand and one on the left. 39 centurion, and those who were
And those who passed by railed on with him watching Jesus, when
him, wagging their heads, 40 and they saw the earthquake, and the
saying, “You who destroy the tem- things that were done, feared ex-
ple, and build it in three days, save ceedingly, saying, “Truly this was
yourself: if you are the Son of God, the Son of God.” 55 And many
come down from the cross.” 41 In women were there beholding from
the same manner also the chief afar, who had followed Jesus from
priests mocking him, with the Galilee, ministering to him: 56
scribes and elders, said, 42 “He among whom was Mary Magda-
saved others; himself he cannot lene, and Mary the mother of James
save. He is the King of Israel; let and Joses, and the mother of the
him now come down from the sons of Zebedee.
cross, and we will believe on him. 57 And when evening had come,
43 He trusts on God; let him deliver there came a rich man from Ari-
him now, if he desires him: for he mathea, named Joseph, who also
said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ” 44 himself was Jesus’ disciple: 58 this
And the robbers also who were cru- man went to Pilate, and asked for
cified with him cast upon him the the body of Jesus. Then Pilate com-
same reproach. manded it to be given up. 59 And
45 Now from the sixth hour there Joseph took the body, and wrapped
was darkness over all the land until it in a clean linen cloth, 60 and laid
the ninth hour. 46 And about the it in his own new tomb, which he
ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud had hewn out in the rock: and he
voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama rolled a great stone to the door of
sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my the tomb, and departed. 61 And
God, why have you forsaken me?” Mary Magdalene was there, and
47 And some of those who stood the other Mary, sitting opposite the
there, when they heard it, said, sepulcher.
“This man calls Elijah.” 48 And im- 62 Now on the next day, which is
mediately one of them ran, and the day after the Preparation, the
took a sponge, and filled it with chief priests and the Pharisees were
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gathered together to Pilate, 63 say-
ing, “Sir, we remember that that de-
ceiver said while he was still alive,
‘After three days I rise again.’ 64
Command therefore that the sepul-
cher be made secure until the third
day, lest perhaps his disciples come
and steal him away, and say to the
people, ‘He is risen from the dead:’
and the last error will be worse than
the first.” 65 Pilate said to them,
“You have a guard: go, make it as
secure as you can.” 66 So they went,
and made the sepulcher secure,
sealing the stone, the guard being
with them.
28 Now late on the Sabbath
Day, as it began to dawn to-
ward the first day of the week,
came Mary Magdalene and the
other Mary to see the sepulcher. 2
And behold, there was a great
earthquake; for an angel of the Lord
descended from heaven, and came
and rolled away the stone, and sat
upon it. 3 His appearance was as
lightning, and his raiment white as
snow: 4 and for fear of him the
watchers quaked, and became as
dead men. 5 And the angel an-
swered and said to the women, “Do
not fear; for I know that you seek
Jesus, who has been crucified. 6 He
is not here; for he is risen, even as
he said. Come, see the place where
the Lord lay. 7 And go quickly, and
tell his disciples, ‘He is risen from
the dead; and behold, he goes be-
fore you into Galilee; there you will
see him:’ behold, I have told you.”
8 And they departed quickly from
the tomb with fear and great joy,
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and ran to bring his disciples word.
9 And behold, Jesus met them, say-
ing, “Greetings.” And they came
and took hold of his feet, and wor-
shipped him. 10 Then says Jesus to
them, “Do not fear: go tell my
brethren that they depart into
Galilee, and there they will see me.”
11 Now while they were going,
behold, some of the guard came
into the city, and told the chief
priests all the things that were come
to pass. 12 And when they were as-
sembled with the elders, and had
taken counsel, they gave much
money to the soldiers, 13 saying,
“Say, ‘His disciples came by night,
and stole him away while we slept.’
14 And if this come to the gover-
nor’s ears, we will persuade him,
and rid you of care.” 15 So they
took the money, and did as they
were taught: and this saying was
spread abroad among the Jews, and
continues until this day.
16 But the eleven disciples went
into Galilee, to the mountain where
Jesus had appointed them. 17 And
when they saw him, they wor-
shipped him; but some doubted. 18
And Jesus came to them and spoke
to them, saying, “All authority has
been given to me in heaven and on
earth. 19 Go therefore, and make
disciples of all the nations, baptiz-
ing them into the name of the Fa-
ther and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit: 20 teaching them to observe
all things whatsoever I com-
manded you: and behold, I am with
you always, even to the end of the
world.”
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1 The beginning of the gospel of ness. 13 And he was in the wilder-

Jesus Christ, the Son of God. ness forty days tempted by Satan;
2 Even as it is written in Isaiah the and he was with the wild beasts;
prophet, and the angels ministered to him.
“Behold, I send my messenger 14 Now after John was delivered
before your face, up, Jesus came into Galilee, preach-
Who will prepare your way; ing the gospel of God, 15 and say-
3 The voice of one crying in the ing, “The time is fulfilled, and the
wilderness, kingdom of God is at hand: repent,
Make ready the way of the Lord, and believe in the gospel.”
Make his paths straight;” 16 And passing along by the sea
4 John came, who baptized in the of Galilee, he saw Simon and An-
wilderness and preached the bap- drew the brother of Simon casting a
tism of repentance for remission of net in the sea; for they were fisher-
sins. 5 And there went out to him men. 17 And Jesus said to them,
all the country of Judea, and all “Come after me, and I will make
those of Jerusalem; and they were you to become fishers of men.” 18
baptized by him in the river Jordan, And immediately they left the nets,
confessing their sins. 6 And John and followed him. 19 And going on
was clothed with camel’s hair, and a little further, he saw James the son
had a leather belt around his loins, of Zebedee, and John his brother,
and ate locusts and wild honey. 7 who also were in the boat mending
And he preached, saying, “There the nets. 20 And immediately he
comes after me he who is mightier called them: and they left their fa-
than I, the strap of whose sandals I ther Zebedee in the boat with the
am not worthy to stoop down and hired servants, and went after him.
unloose. 8 I baptized you in water; 21 And they go into Capernaum;
but he will baptize you in the Holy and immediately on the Sabbath
Spirit.” Day he entered into the synagogue
9 And it came to pass in those and taught. 22 And they were as-
days, that Jesus came from tonished at his teaching: for he
Nazareth of Galilee, and was bap- taught them as having authority,
tized by John in the Jordan. 10 And and not as the scribes. 23 And im-
immediately coming up out of the mediately there was in their syna-
water, he saw the heavens torn gogue a man with an unclean spirit;
apart, and the Spirit as a dove de- and he cried out, 24 saying, “What
scending upon him: 11 and a voice have we to do with you, Jesus you
came out of the heavens, “You are Nazarene? are you come to destroy
my beloved Son, in you I am well us? I know who you are, the Holy
pleased.” One of God.” 25 And Jesus rebuked
12 And immediately the Spirit him, saying, “Hold your peace, and
drives him forth into the wilder- come out of him.” 26 And the un-
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clean spirit, tearing him and crying down to him, and saying to him, “If
with a loud voice, came out of him. you will, you can make me clean.”
27 And they were all amazed, inso- 41 And being moved with compas-
much that they questioned among sion, he stretched forth his hand,
themselves, saying, “What is this? a and touched him, and says to him,
new teaching! with authority he “I will; be made clean.” 42 And im-
commands even the unclean spir- mediately the leprosy departed
its, and they obey him.” 28 And the from him, and he was made clean.
report of him went out immedi- 43 And he strictly charged him, and
ately everywhere into all the region immediately sent him out, 44 and
around Galilee. says to him, “See you say nothing
29 And immediately, when they to any man: but go show yourself to
had come out of the synagogue, the priest, and offer for your cleans-
they came into the house of Simon ing the things which Moses com-
and Andrew, with James and John. manded, for a testimony to them.”
30 Now Simon’s wife’s mother lay 45 But he went out, and began to
sick of a fever; and immediately publish it much, and to spread
they tell him of her: 31 and he came abroad the matter, insomuch that
and took her by the hand, and Jesus could no more openly enter
raised her up; and the fever left her, into a city, but was outside in desert
and she ministered to them. places: and they came to him from
32 And at evening, when the sun every quarter.
had set, they brought to him all
who were sick, and those that were 2 And when he entered again
into Capernaum after some
possessed with demons. 33 And all days, it was heard that he was in
the city was gathered together at the house. 2 And many were gath-
the door. 34 And he healed many ered together, so that there was no
who were sick with various dis- longer room for them, no, not even
eases, and cast out many demons; near the door: and he spoke the
and he did not allow the demons to word to them. 3 And they come,
speak, because they knew him. bringing to him a paralytic man,
35 And in the morning, a great carried by four. 4 And when they
while before day, he rose up and could not come near to him for the
went out, and departed into a crowd, they uncovered the roof
desert place, and there prayed. 36 where he was: and when they had
And Simon and those who were broken it up, they let down the bed
with him followed after him; 37 on which the paralytic lay. 5 And Je-
and they found him, and say to sus seeing their faith says to the
him, “All are seeking you.” 38 And paralytic, “Son, your sins are for-
he says to them, “Let us go else- given.” 6 But there were certain of
where into the next towns, that I the scribes sitting there, and reason-
may preach there also; for to this ing in their hearts, 7 “Why does this
end I came forth.” 39 And he went man thus speak? he blasphemes:
into their synagogues throughout who can forgive sins but one, even
all Galilee, preaching and casting God?” 8 And immediately Jesus,
out demons. perceiving in his spirit that they so
40 And there comes to him a leper, reasoned within themselves, says
beseeching him, and kneeling to them, “Why do you reason these
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things in your hearts? 9 Which is the bridegroom with them, they
easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your cannot fast. 20 But the days will
sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, come, when the bridegroom will be
and take up your bed, and walk?’ taken away from them, and then
10 But that you may know that the will they fast in that day. 21 No man
Son of Man has authority on earth sews a piece of undressed cloth on
to forgive sins (he says to the para- an old garment: else that which
lytic), 11 I say to you, Arise, take up should fill it up takes from it, the
your bed, and go to your house.” 12 new from the old, and a worse tear
And he arose, and immediately is made. 22 And no man puts new
took up the bed, and went forth be- wine into old wineskins; else the
fore them all; insomuch that they wine will burst the skins, and the
were all amazed, and glorified God, wine perishes, and the skins: but
saying, “We never saw it like this.” they put new wine into fresh wine-
13 And he went forth again by the skins.”
seaside; and all the multitude was 23 And it came to pass, that he
coming to him, and he taught them. was going on the Sabbath Day
14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi through the grain fields; and his
the son of Alphaeus sitting at the disciples began, as they went, to
place of toll, and he says to him, pluck the ears. 24 And the Pharisees
“Follow me.” And he arose and fol- said to him, “Behold, why do they
lowed him. on the Sabbath Day that which is
15 And it came to pass, that he not lawful?“ 25 And he said to
was reclining at the table in his them, “Did you never read what
house, and many tax collectors and David did, when he had need, and
sinners sat down with Jesus and his was hungry, he, and those who
disciples: for there were many, and were with him? 26 How he entered
they followed him. 16 And the into the house of God when Abi-
scribes of the Pharisees, when they athar was high priest, and ate the
saw that he was eating with the sin- showbread, which it is not lawful to
ners and tax collectors, said to his eat except for the priests, and gave
disciples, “How is it that he eats and also to those who were with him?”
drinks with tax collectors and sin- 27 And he said to them, “The Sab-
ners?” 17 And when Jesus heard it, bath was made for man, and not
he says to them, “Those who are man for the Sabbath: 28 so that the
whole have no need of a physician, Son of Man is Lord even of the Sab-
but those who are sick: I did not bath.”
come to call the righteous, but sin-
ners.” 3 And he entered again into the
synagogue; and there was a
18 And John’s disciples and the man there who had his hand with-
Pharisees were fasting: and they ered. 2 And they watched him,
come and say to him, “Why do whether he would heal him on the
John’s disciples and the disciples of Sabbath Day; that they might ac-
the Pharisees fast, but you disciples cuse him. 3 And he says to the man
do not fast?” 19 And Jesus said to who had his hand withered, “Stand
them, “Can the sons of the bridal forth.” 4 And he says to them, “Is it
chamber fast, while the bridegroom lawful on the Sabbath Day to do
is with them? as long as they have good, or to do harm? to save a life,
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or to kill?” But they held their daeus, and Simon the Cananean, 19
peace. 5 And when he had looked and Judas Iscariot, who also be-
around at them with anger, being trayed him.
grieved at the hardening of their And he comes into a house. 20
heart, he says to the man, “Stretch And the multitude comes together
forth your hand.” And he stretched again, so that they could not so
it forth; and his hand was restored. much as eat bread. 21 And when his
6 And the Pharisees went out, and friends heard it, they went out to
immediately with the Herodians lay hold on him: for they said, “He
took counsel against him, how they is beside himself.” 22 And the
might destroy him. scribes who came down from
7 And Jesus with his disciples Jerusalem said, “He has Beelze-
withdrew to the sea: and a great bub,” and, “By the prince of the
multitude from Galilee followed; demons he casts out the demons.”
and from Judea, 8 and from 23 And he called them to him, and
Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and said to them in parables, “How can
beyond the Jordan, and around Satan cast out Satan? 24 And if a
Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, kingdom be divided against itself,
hearing what great things he did, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And
came to him. 9 And he spoke to his if a house be divided against itself,
disciples, that a little boat should that house will not be able to stand.
wait on him because of the crowd, 26 And if Satan has risen up against
lest they should throng him: 10 for himself, and is divided, he cannot
he had healed many; insomuch that stand, but has an end. 27 But no one
as many as had plagues pressed can enter into the house of the
upon him that they might touch strong man, and spoil his goods, ex-
him. 11 And the unclean spirits, cept he first bind the strong man;
whensoever they beheld him, fell and then he will plunder his house.
down before him, and cried, say- 28 Truly I say to you, All their sins
ing, “You are the Son of God.” 12 shall be forgiven to the sons of men,
And he charged them much that and their blasphemies with which
they should not make him known. ever they shall blaspheme: 29 but
13 And he goes up into the moun- whosoever shall blaspheme against
tain, and calls to him whom he him- the Holy Spirit never has forgive-
self would; and they went to him. ness, but is guilty of an eternal sin:
14 And he appointed twelve, that 30 because they said, ‘He has an un-
they might be with him, and that he clean spirit.’ ”
might send them forth to preach, 15 31 And there come his mother
and to have authority to cast out and his brethren; and, standing out-
demons: 16 and Simon he sur- side, they sent to him, calling him.
named Peter; 17 and James the son 32 And a multitude was sitting
of Zebedee, and John the brother of around him; and they say to him,
James; and them he surnamed “Behold, your mother and your
Boanerges, which is, “Sons of brothers outside seek for you.” 33
Thunder”: 18 and Andrew, and And he answers them, and says,
Philip, and Bartholomew, and “Who is my mother and my broth-
Matthew, and Thomas, and James ers?” 34 And looking around at
the son of Alphaeus, and Thad- those who sat around him, he says,
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“Behold, my mother and my broth- sower sows the word. 15 And these
ers! 35 For whosoever shall do the are those by the way side, where
will of God, the same is my brother, the word is sown; and when they
and sister, and mother.” have heard, immediately comes Sa-

4 And again he began to teach tan, and takes away the word
by the seaside. And there is which has been sown in them. 16
gathered to him a very great multi- And these in like manner are those
tude, so that he entered into a boat, who are sown upon the rocky
and sat in the sea; and all the multi- places, who, when they have heard
tude were by the sea on the land. 2 the word, immediately receive it
And he taught them many things in with joy; 17 and they have no root
parables, and said to them in his in themselves, but endure for a
teaching, 3 “Listen: Behold, the while; then, when tribulation or
sower went forth to sow: 4 and it persecution arises because of the
came to pass, as he sowed, some word, immediately they stumble.
seed fell by the way side, and the 18 And others are those who are
birds came and devoured it. 5 And sown among the thorns; these are
other fell on the rocky ground, those who have heard the word, 19
where it did not have much earth; and the cares of the world, and the
and immediately it sprang up, be- deceitfulness of riches, and the
cause it had no depth of earth: 6 lusts of other things entering in,
and when the sun had risen, it was choke the word, and it becomes un-
scorched; and because it had no fruitful. 20 And those are they who
root, it withered away. 7 And other were sown upon the good ground;
fell among the thorns, and the such as hear the word, and accept
thorns grew up, and choked it, and it, and bear fruit, thirtyfold, and six-
it yielded no fruit. 8 And others fell tyfold, and a hundredfold.”
into the good ground, and yielded 21 And he said to them, “Is the
fruit, growing up and increasing; lamp brought to be put under the
and brought forth, thirtyfold, and bushel, or under the bed, and not to
sixtyfold, and a hundredfold.” 9 be put on the stand? 22 For there is
And he said, “Who has ears to hear, nothing hid, except that it should
let him hear.” be made known; neither was any-
10 And when he was alone, those thing made secret, but that it should
who were around him with the come to light. 23 If any man has
twelve asked of him the parables. ears to hear, let him hear.” 24 And
11 And he said to them, “To you is he said to them, “Take heed what
given the mystery of the kingdom you hear: with what measure you
of God: but to those who are out- measure it will be measured to you;
side, all things are done in parables: and more will be given to you. 25
12 that seeing they may see, and not For he who has, to him will be
perceive; and hearing they may given: and he who does not have,
hear, and not understand; lest per- from him will be taken away even
haps they should turn again, and it that which he has.”
should be forgiven them.” 13 And 26 And he said, “So is the king-
he says to them, “Do you not know dom of God, as if a man should cast
this parable? and how will you seed upon the earth; 27 and should
know all the parables? 14 The sleep and rise night and day, and
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the seed should spring up and wind and the sea obey him?”
grow, he does not know how. 28
5
The earth bears fruit by herself; first
And they came to the other
side of the sea, into the country
the blade, then the ear, then the full of the Gerasenes. 2 And when he
grain in the ear. 29 But when the had come out of the boat, immedi-
fruit is ripe, immediately he puts ately there met him out of the
forth the sickle, because the harvest tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
is come.” 3 who had his dwelling in the
30 And he said, “How shall we tombs: and no man could any more
liken the kingdom of God? or in bind him, no, not with a chain; 4 be-
what parable shall we set it forth? cause he had been often bound
31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, with fetters and chains, and the
which, when it is sown upon the chains had been torn apart by him,
earth, though it be less than all the and the fetters broken in pieces:
seeds that are upon the earth, 32 yet and no man had strength to tame
when it is sown, grows up, and be- him. 5 And always, night and day,
comes greater than all the herbs, in the tombs and in the mountains,
and puts out great branches; so that he was crying out, and cutting him-
the birds of the heaven can lodge self with stones. 6 And when he
under the shadow of it.” saw Jesus from afar, he ran and
33 And with many such parables worshipped him; 7 and crying out
he spoke the word to them, as they with a loud voice, he says, “What
were able to hear it; 34 and without have I to do with you, Jesus, you
a parable he did not speak to them: Son of the Most High God? I adjure
but privately to his own disciples you by God, do not torment me.” 8
he expounded all things. 35 And on For he said to him, “Come forth,
that day, when evening had come, unclean spirit, out of the man.” 9
he says to them, “Let us go over to And he asked him, “What is your
the other side.” 36 And leaving the name?” And he says to him, “My
multitude, they take him with name is Legion; for we are many.”
them, even as he was, in the boat. 10 And he beseeched him much
And other boats were with him. 37 that he would not send them away
And there arises a great storm of out of the country. 11 Now there
wind, and the waves beat into the was there on the mountainside a
boat, insomuch that the boat was great herd of swine feeding. 12 And
now filling. 38 And he himself was they beseeched him, saying, “Send
in the stern, asleep on the cushion: us into the swine, that we may en-
and they awake him, and say to ter into them.” 13 And he gave
him, “Teacher, do you not care that them permission. And the unclean
we perish?” 39 And he awoke, and spirits came out, and entered into
rebuked the wind, and said to the the swine: and the herd rushed
sea, “Peace, be still.” And the wind down the steep bank into the sea, in
ceased, and there was a great calm. number about two thousand; and
40 And he said to them, “Why are they were drowned in the sea. 14
you fearful? do you not yet have And those who fed them fled, and
faith?” 41 And they feared exceed- told it in the city, and in the country.
ingly, and said to one another, And they came to see what it was
“Who then is this, that even the that had come to pass. 15 And they
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come to Jesus, and behold him who shall be made whole.” 29 And im-
was possessed with demons sitting, mediately the fountain of her blood
clothed and in his right mind, even was dried up; and she felt in her
him who had the legion: and they body that she was healed of her
were afraid. 16 And those who saw plague. 30 And immediately Jesus,
it declared to them how it befell perceiving in himself that the
him who was possessed with power proceeding from him had
demons, and concerning the swine. gone forth, turned him around in
17 And they began to beseech him the crowd, and said, “Who touched
to depart from their borders. 18 my garments?” 31 And his disciples
And as he was entering into the said to him, “You see the multitude
boat, he who had been possessed thronging you, and you say, ‘Who
with demons beseeched him that he touched me?’ ” 32 And he looked
might be with him. 19 And he did around to see her who had done
not allow him, but says to him, “Go this thing. 33 But the woman fear-
to your house to your friends, and ing and trembling, knowing what
tell them how great things the Lord had been done to her, came and fell
has done for you, and how he had down before him, and told him all
mercy on you.” 20 And he went his the truth. 34 And he said to her,
way, and began to publish in De- “Daughter, your faith has made
capolis how great things Jesus had you whole; go in peace, and be
done for him: and all men mar- healed of your plague.”
veled. 35 While he was still speaking,
21 And when Jesus had crossed they come from the ruler of the syn-
over again in the boat to the other agogue’s house saying, “Your
side, a great multitude was gath- daughter is dead: why trouble the
ered to him; and he was by the sea. Teacher any further?” 36 But Jesus,
22 And there comes one of the not heeding the word spoken, says
rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do
name; and seeing him, he falls at his not fear, only believe.” 37 And he
feet, 23 and beseeches him much, allowed no man to follow with him,
saying, “My little daughter is at the except Peter, and James, and John
point of death: I ask you, that you the brother of James. 38 And they
come and lay your hands on her, come to the house of the ruler of the
that she may be made whole, and synagogue; and he beholds a tu-
live.” 24 And he went with him; mult, and many weeping and wail-
and a great multitude followed ing greatly. 39 And when he had
him, and they thronged him. entered in, he says to them, “Why
25 And a woman, who had an is- do you make a tumult, and weep?
sue of blood twelve years, 26 and the child is not dead, but sleeps.” 40
had suffered many things by many And they laughed him to scorn. But
physicians, and had spent all that he, having put them all out, takes
she had, and was nothing bettered, the father of the child and her
but rather grew worse, 27 having mother and those who were with
heard the things concerning Jesus, him, and goes in where the child
came in the crowd behind, and was. 41 And taking the child by the
touched his garment. 28 For she hand, he says to her, “Talitha
said, “If I touch but his garments, I cumi;” which is, being interpreted,
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“Girl, I say to you, Arise.” 42 And depart from there. 11 And whatso-
immediately the girl rose up, and ever place shall not receive you,
walked; for she was twelve years and they do not hear you, as you go
old. And they were amazed imme- forth from there, shake off the dust
diately with a great amazement. 43 that is under your feet for a testi-
And he charged them much that no mony to them.” 12 And they went
man should know this: and he com- out, and preached that men should
manded that something should be repent. 13 And they cast out many
given her to eat. demons, and anointed with oil

6 And he went out from there; many who were sick, and healed
and he comes into his own them.
country; and his disciples follow 14 And king Herod heard of it; for
him. 2 And when the Sabbath had his name had become known: and
come, he began to teach in the syn- he said, “John the Baptizer is risen
agogue: and many hearing him from the dead, and therefore do
were astonished, saying, “Where these powers work in him.” 15 But
has this man these things?” and, others said, “It is Elijah.” And oth-
“What is the wisdom that is given ers said, “It is a prophet, even as one
to this man, and what mean such of the prophets.” 16 But Herod,
mighty works worked by his when he heard of it, said, “John,
hands? 3 Is not this the carpenter, whom I beheaded, he is risen.” 17
the son of Mary, and brother of For Herod himself had sent forth
James, and Joses, and Judas, and Si- and laid hold on John, and bound
mon? and are not his sisters here him in prison for the sake of Hero-
with us?” And they were offended dias, his brother Philip’s wife; for
in him. 4 And Jesus said to them, “A he had married her. 18 For John
prophet is not without honor, ex- said to Herod, “It is not lawful for
cept in his own country, and among you to have your brother’s wife.”
his own kin, and in his own house. 19 And Herodias set herself against
5 And he could there do no mighty him, and desired to kill him; and
work, except that he laid his hands she could not; 20 for Herod feared
upon a few sick folk, and healed John, knowing that he was a right-
them. 6 And he marveled because eous and holy man, and kept him
of their unbelief. safe. And when he heard him, he
And he went around the villages was much perplexed; and he heard
teaching. him gladly. 21 And when a conve-
7 And he calls to him the twelve, nient day had come, that Herod on
and began to send them forth by his birthday made a supper to his
two and two; and he gave them au- lords, and the high captains, and
thority over the unclean spirits; 8 the chief men of Galilee; 22 and
and he charged them that they when the daughter of Herodias
should take nothing for their jour- herself came in and danced, she
ney, except a staff only; no bread, pleased Herod and those who re-
no bag, no money in their belt; 9 but clined at the table with him; and the
to go shod with sandals: and, he said, king said to the girl, “Ask of me
do not put on two tunics. 10 And he whatsoever you will, and I will give
said to them, “Wheresoever you en- it to you.” 23 And he swore to her,
ter into a house, there stay until you “Whatsoever you shall ask of me, I
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will give it to you, up to half of my they may go into the country and
kingdom.” 24 And she went out, villages around, and buy them-
and said to her mother, “What shall selves something to eat. 37 But he
I ask?” And she said, “The head of answered and said to them, “You
John the Baptizer.“ 25 And she give them to eat.” And they say to
came in immediately with haste to him, “Shall we go and buy two
the king, and asked, saying, “I will hundred denarii worth of bread,
that you immediately give me on a and give them to eat?” 38 And he
platter the head of John the Bap- says to them, “How many loaves
tist.“ 26 And the king was exceed- do you have? go and see.” And
ingly sorry; but for the sake of his when they knew, they say, “Five,
oaths, and of those who reclined at and two fish.” 39 And he com-
the table, he would not reject her. 27 manded them that all should sit
And immediately the king sent down by groups on the green grass.
forth a soldier of his guard, and 40 And they sat down in ranks, by
commanded to bring his head: and hundreds, and by fifties. 41 And he
he went and beheaded him in the took the five loaves and the two
prison, 28 and brought his head on fish, and looking up to heaven, he
a platter, and gave it to the girl; and blessed, and broke the loaves; and
the girl gave it to her mother. 29 he gave to the disciples to set before
And when his disciples heard of it, them; and the two fish he divided
they came and took up his corpse, among them all. 42 And they all ate,
and laid it in a tomb. and were filled. 43 And they took
30 And the apostles gather them- up broken pieces, twelve basket-
selves together to Jesus; and they fuls, and also of the fish. 44 And
told him all things, whatsoever those who ate the loaves were five
they had done, and whatsoever thousand men.
they had taught. 31 And he says to 45 And immediately he con-
them, “Come you yourselves aside strained his disciples to enter into
into a desert place, and rest a while. the boat, and to go before him to the
For there were many coming and other side to Bethsaida, while he
going, and they had no leisure so himself sends the multitude away.
much as to eat. 32 And they went 46 And after he had taken leave of
away in the boat to a desert place them, he departed into the moun-
by themselves. 33 And the people tain to pray. 47 And when evening
saw them going, and many knew had come, the boat was in the midst
them, and they ran together there on of the sea, and he alone on the land.
foot from all the cities, and arrived 48 And seeing them distressed in
before them. 34 And he came forth rowing, for the wind was contrary
and saw a great multitude, and he to them, about the fourth watch of
had compassion on them, because the night he comes to them, walk-
they were as sheep not having a ing on the sea; and he would have
shepherd: and he began to teach passed by them: 49 but they, when
them many things. 35 And when they saw him walking on the sea,
the day was now far spent, his dis- supposed that it was a ghost, and
ciples came to him, and said, “The cried out; 50 for they all saw him,
place is desert, and the day is now and were troubled. But he immedi-
far spent; 36 send them away, that ately spoke with them, and says to
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them, “Be of good cheer: it is I; do
not be afraid.” 51 And he went up
to them into the boat; and the wind
ceased: and they were extremely
amazed in themselves; 52 for they
did not understand concerning the
loaves, but their heart was hard-
ened.
53 And when they had crossed
over, they came to the land to Gen-
nesaret, and moored to the shore.
54 And when they had come out of
the boat, immediately the people
knew him, 55 and ran about that
whole region, and began to carry
about on their beds those who were
sick, where they heard he was. 56
And wheresoever he entered, into
villages, or into cities, or into the
country, they laid the sick in the
marketplaces, and beseeched him
that they might touch if it were but
the border of his garment: and as
many as touched him were made
whole.
7 And there are gathered to-
gether to him the Pharisees, and
certain of the scribes, who had
come from Jerusalem, 2 and had
seen that some of his disciples ate
their bread with defiled, that is, un-
washed, hands. 3 (For the Phar-
isees, and all the Jews, except they
wash their hands diligently, do not
eat, holding the tradition of the el-
ders; 4 and when they come from the
marketplace, except they bathe
themselves, they do not eat; and
many other things there are, which
they have received to hold, wash-
ings of cups, and pots, and brass
vessels.) 5 And the Pharisees and
the scribes ask him, “Why do your
disciples not walk according to the
tradition of the elders, but eat their
bread with defiled hands?” 6 And
¹² Many ancient authorities insert ver. 16 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.
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he said to them, “Well did Isaiah
prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is
written,
‘This people honors me with
their lips,
But their heart is far from me.
7 But in vain do they worship me,
Teaching as their doctrines the
precepts of men.’
8 You leave the commandment of
God, and hold fast the tradition of
men.” 9 And he said to them, “Full
well do you reject the command-
ment of God, that you may keep
your tradition. 10 For Moses said,
‘Honor your father and your
mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil
of father or mother, let him die the
death:’ 11 but you say, ‘If a man
shall say to his father or his mother,
“That with which you might have
been profited by me is Corban,” ’
that is to say, Given to God; 12 you
no longer allow him to do anything
for his father or his mother; 13 mak-
ing void the word of God by your
tradition, which you have deliv-
ered: and many such like things
you do.” 14 And he called to him
the multitude again, and said to
them, “Hear me all of you, and un-
derstand: 15 there is nothing from
outside the man, that going into
him can defile him; but the things
which proceed out of the man are
those that defile the man.”¹¹ 17 And
when he had entered into the house
from the multitude, his disciples
asked of him the parable. 18 And he
says to them, “Are you so without
understanding also? Do you not
perceive, that whatsoever from out-
side goes into the man, it cannot de-
file him; 19 because it does not go
into his heart, but into his belly, and
is eliminated?” This he said, making
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all meats clean. 20 And he said, and touched his tongue; 34 and
“That which proceeds out of the looking up to heaven, he sighed,
man, that defiles the man. 21 For and says to him, “Ephphatha,” that
from within, out of the heart of is, “Be opened.” 35 And his ears
men, evil thoughts proceed, forni- were opened, and the bond of his
cations, thefts, murders, adulteries, tongue was loosed, and he spoke
22 covetings, wickednesses, deceit, plain. 36 And he charged them that
licentiousness, an evil eye, railing, they should tell no man: but the
pride, foolishness: 23 all these evil more he charged them, so much the
things proceed from within, and more a great deal they published it.
defile the man. 37 And they were beyond measure
24 And from there he arose, and astonished, saying, “He has done
went away into the borders of Tyre all things well; he makes even the
and Sidon. And he entered into a deaf to hear, and the mute to
house, and would have no man speak.”
know it; and he could not be hid. 25
But immediately a woman, whose 8 In those days, when there was
again a great multitude, and
little daughter had an unclean they had nothing to eat, he called to
spirit, having heard of him, came him his disciples, and says to them,
and fell down at his feet. 26 Now 2 “I have compassion on the multi-
the woman was a Greek, a Sy- tude, because they continue with
rophoenician by race. And she be- me now three days, and have noth-
seeched him that he would cast ing to eat: 3 and if I send them away
forth the demon out of her daugh- fasting to their home, they will faint
ter. 27 And he said to her, “Let the on the way; and some of them are
children first be filled: for it is not come from far.” 4 And his disciples
proper to take the children’s bread answered him, “Where will one be
and cast it to the dogs. 28 But she able to fill these men with bread
answered and says to him, “Yes, here in a desert place?” 5 And he
Lord; even the dogs under the table asked them, “How many loaves do
eat of the children’s crumbs.” 29 you have?” And they said, “Seven.”
And he said to her, “For this saying 6 And he commands the multitude
go your way; the demon is gone out to sit down on the ground: and he
of your daughter.” 30 And she went took the seven loaves, and having
away to her house, and found the given thanks, he broke, and gave to
child laid upon the bed, and the de- his disciples, to set before them;
mon gone out. and they set them before the multi-
31 And again he went out from tude. 7 And they had a few small
the borders of Tyre, and came fish: and having blessed them, he
through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, commanded to set these also before
through the midst of the borders of them. 8 And they ate, and were
Decapolis. 32 And they bring to filled: and they took up, of broken
him one who was deaf, and had an pieces that remained over, seven
impediment in his speech; and they baskets. 9 And they were about
beseech him to lay his hand upon four thousand: and he sent them
him. 33 And he took him aside from away. 10 And immediately he en-
the multitude privately, and put his tered into the boat with his disci-
fingers into his ears, and he spat, ples, and came into the parts of
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Damanutha. up, and said, “I see men; for I be-
11 And the Pharisees came forth, hold them as trees, walking.” 25
and began to question with him, Then again he laid his hands upon
seeking of him a sign from heaven, his eyes; and he looked steadfastly,
testing him. 12 And he sighed and was restored, and saw all
deeply in his spirit, and says, “Why things clearly. 26 And he sent him
does this generation seek a sign? away to his home, saying, “Do not
truly I say to you, There shall no even enter into the village.”
sign be given to this generation.” 13 27 And Jesus went forth, and his
And he left them, and again enter- disciples, into the villages of Cae-
ing into the boat departed to the sarea Philippi: and on the way he
other side. asked his disciples, saying to them,
14 And they forgot to take bread; “Who do men say that I am?” 28
and they did not have in the boat And they told him, saying, “John
with them more than one loaf. 15 the Baptist;” and others, “Elijah;”
And he charged them, saying, but others, “One of the prophets.”
“Take heed, beware of the leaven of 29 And he asked them, “But who
the Pharisees and the leaven of do you say that I am?” Peter an-
Herod.” 16 And they reasoned with swers and says to him, “You are the
one another, saying, “We have no Christ.” 30 And he charged them
bread.” 17 And Jesus perceiving it that they should tell no man of him.
says to them, “Why do you reason, 31 And he began to teach them,
because you have no bread? do you that the Son of Man must suffer
not yet perceive, neither under- many things, and be rejected by the
stand? do you have your heart elders, and the chief priests, and the
hardened? 18 Having eyes, do you scribes, and be killed, and after
not see? and having ears, do you three days rise again. 32 And he
not hear? and do you not remem- spoke the saying openly. And Peter
ber? 19 When I broke the five loaves took him, and began to rebuke him.
among the five thousand, how 33 But he turning around, and see-
many baskets full of broken pieces ing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and
did you take up?” They say to him, says, “Get behind me, Satan; for
“Twelve.” 20 “And when the seven you are not minding the things of
among the four thousand, how God, but the things of men.” 34
many basketfuls of broken pieces And he called to him the multitude
did you take up?” And they say to with his disciples, and said to them,
him, “Seven.” 21 And he said to “If any man would come after me,
them, “Do you not yet under- let him deny himself, and take up
stand?” his cross, and follow me. 35 For
22 And they come to Bethsaida. whosoever would save his life shall
And they bring to him a blind man, lose it; and whosoever shall lose his
and beseech him to touch him. 23 life for my sake and the gospel’s
And he took hold of the blind man shall save it. 36 For what does it
by the hand, and brought him out profit a man, to gain the whole
of the village; and when he had spit world, and forfeit his life? 37 For
on his eyes, and laid his hands what should a man give in ex-
upon him, he asked him, “Do you change for his life? 38 For whoso-
see anything?” 24 And he looked ever shall be ashamed of me and of
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my words in this adulterous and first, and restores all things: and
sinful generation, the Son of Man how is it written of the Son of Man,
also shall be ashamed of him, when that he should suffer many things
he comes in the glory of his Father and be despised? 13 But I say to
with the holy angels.” you, that Elijah is come, and they

9 And he said to them, “Truly I have also done to him whatsoever

say to you, There are some here they wished, even as it is written of
of those who stand by, who shall in him.”
no way taste of death, until they see 14 And when they came to the
the kingdom of God come with disciples, they saw a great multi-
power.” tude around them, and scribes
2 And after six days Jesus takes questioning with them. 15 And im-
with him Peter, and James, and mediately all the multitude, when
John, and brings them up into a they saw him, were greatly
high mountain privately by them- amazed, and running to him
selves: and he was transfigured be- greeted him. 16 And he asked them,
fore them; 3 and his garments “What do you question with
became glistening, exceedingly them?” 17 And one of the multitude
white, so as no fuller on earth can answered him, “Teacher, I brought
whiten them. 4 And there appeared to you my son, who has a mute
to them Elijah with Moses: and they spirit; 18 and wheresoever it takes
were talking with Jesus. 5 And Pe- him, it dashes him down: and he
ter answers and says to Jesus, foams, and grinds his teeth, and be-
“Rabbi, it is good for us to be here: comes rigid: and I spoke to your
and let us make three tabernacles; disciples that they should cast it
one for you, and one for Moses, and out; and they were not able.” 19
one for Elijah.” 6 For he did not And he answers them and says, “O
know what to answer; for they be- faithless generation, how long shall
came extremely afraid. 7 And there I be with you? how long shall I bear
came a cloud overshadowing them: with you? bring him to me.” 20 And
and there came a voice out of the they brought him to him: and when
cloud, “This is my beloved Son: he saw him, immediately the spirit
hear him.” 8 And suddenly looking convulsed him grievously; and he
around, they saw no one any more, fell on the ground, and wallowed
except Jesus only with themselves. foaming. 21 And he asked his fa-
9 And as they were coming down ther, “How long is it since this has
from the mountain, he charged come to him?” And he said, “From
them that they should tell no man a child. 22 And often it has cast him
what things they had seen, except both into the fire and into the wa-
when the Son of Man should have ters, to destroy him: but if you can
risen again from the dead. 10 And do anything, have compassion on
they kept the saying, questioning us, and help us.” 23 And Jesus said
among themselves what the rising to him, “If you can! All things are
again from the dead should mean. possible to him who believes.” 24
11 And they asked him, saying, Immediately the father of the child
“How is it that the scribes say that cried out, and said, “I believe; help
Elijah must first come?” 12 And he my unbelief.” 25 And when Jesus
said to them, “Elijah indeed comes saw that a multitude came running
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together, he rebuked the unclean
spirit, saying to him, “You mute
and deaf spirit, I command you,
come out of him, and enter no more
into him.” 26 And having cried out,
and convulsed him much, he came
out: and the boy became as one
dead; insomuch that the majority
said, “He is dead.” 27 But Jesus
took him by the hand, and raised
him up; and he arose. 28 And when
he had come into the house, his dis-
ciples asked him privately, “How is
it that we could not cast it out?” 29
And he said to them, “This kind can
come out by nothing, except by
prayer.”
30 And they went forth from
there, and passed through Galilee;
and he did not wish that any man
should know it. 31 For he taught his
disciples, and said to them, “The
Son of Man is delivered up into the
hands of men, and they will kill
him; and when he is killed, after
three days he will rise again.” 32
But they did not understand the
saying, and were afraid to ask him.
33 And they came to Capernaum:
and when he was in the house he
asked them, “What were you rea-
soning on the way?” 34 But they
held their peace: for they had dis-
puted with one another on the way,
who was the greatest. 35 And he sat
down, and called the twelve; and
he says to them, “If any man would
be first, he shall be last of all, and
servant of all.” 36 And he took a lit-
tle child, and set him in the midst of
them: and taking him in his arms,
he said to them, 37 “Whosoever
shall receive one of such little chil-
dren in my name, receives me: and
10
whosoever receives me, does not
¹³ Ver. 44 and 46 (which are identical with ver. 48) are omitted by the best ancient
authorities.
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receive me, but him who sent me.”
38 John said to him, “Teacher, we
saw one casting out demons in
your name; and we forbid him, be-
cause he did not follow us.” 39 But
Jesus said, “Do not forbid him: for
there is no man who will do a
mighty work in my name, and be
able quickly to speak evil of me. 40
For he who is not against us is for
us. 41 For whosoever shall give you
a cup of water to drink, because
you are Christ’s, truly I say to you,
he shall in no way lose his reward.
42 And whosoever shall cause one
of these little ones who believe on
me to stumble, it were better for
him if a great millstone were hung
around his neck, and he were cast
into the sea. 43 And if your hand
cause you to stumble, cut it off: it is
good for you to enter into life
maimed, rather than having your
two hands to go into hell, into the
unquenchable fire.¹³ 45 And if your
foot causes you to stumble, cut it
off: it is good for you to enter into
life lame, rather than having your
two feet to be cast into hell. 47 And
if your eye causes you to stumble,
cast it out: it is good for you to enter
into the kingdom of God with one
eye, rather than having two eyes to
be cast into hell; 48 where their
worm does not die, and the fire is
not quenched. 49 For everyone will
be salted with fire. 50 Salt is good:
but if the salt has lost its saltiness,
with what will you season it? Have
salt in yourselves, and be at peace
with one another.”
And he arose from there
and comes into the borders
of Judea and beyond the Jordan:
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him again; and, as he was accus- “Good Teacher, what shall I do that
tomed, he taught them again. I may inherit eternal life?” 18 And
2 And there came to him Phar- Jesus said to him, “Why do you call
isees, and asked him, “Is it lawful me good? none is good except one,
for a man to put away his wife?” even God. 19 You know the com-
testing him. 3 And he answered mandments, ‘Do not kill,’ ‘Do not
and said to them, “What did Moses commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’
command you?” 4 And they said, ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Do not
“Moses allowed to write a bill of di- defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and
vorce, and to put her away.” 5 But mother.’ ” 20 And he said to him,
Jesus said to them, “For your hard- “Teacher, all these things have I ob-
ness of heart he wrote you this com- served from my youth.” 21 And Je-
mandment. 6 But from the sus looking upon him loved him,
beginning of the creation, ‘Male and said to him, “One thing you
and female made he them. 7 For lack: go, sell whatsoever you have,
this cause shall a man leave his fa- and give to the poor, and you will
ther and mother, and shall cleave to have treasure in heaven: and come,
his wife; 8 and the two shall become follow me.” 22 But his countenance
one flesh: so that they are no more fell at the saying, and he went away
two, but one flesh.’ 9 What there- sorrowful: for he was one who had
fore God has joined together, let not great possessions.
man separate.” 10 And in the house 23 And Jesus looked around, and
the disciples asked him again of says to his disciples, “How diffi-
this matter. 11 And he says to them, cultly will those who have riches
“Whosoever shall put away his enter into the kingdom of God!” 24
wife, and marry another, commits And the disciples were amazed at
adultery against her: 12 and if she his words. But Jesus answers again,
herself shall put away her husband, and says to them, “Children, how
and marry another, she commits hard is it for those who trust in
adultery.” riches to enter into the kingdom of
13 And they were bringing to him God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go
little children, that he should touch through a needle’s eye, than for a
them: and the disciples rebuked rich man to enter into the kingdom
them. 14 But when Jesus saw it, he of God.” 26 And they were aston-
was moved with indignation, and ished exceedingly, saying to him,
said to them, “Allow the little chil- “Then who can be saved?” 27 Jesus
dren to come to me; do not forbid looking upon them says, “With
them: for to such belongs the king- men it is impossible, but not with
dom of God. 15 Truly I say to you, God: for all things are possible with
Whosoever shall not receive the God.” 28 Peter began to say to him,
kingdom of God as a little child, he “Behold, we have left all, and have
shall in no way enter into it.” 16 followed you.” 29 Jesus said, “Truly
And he took them in his arms, and I say to you, There is no man who
blessed them, laying his hands has left house, or brothers, or sis-
upon them. ters, or mother, or father, or chil-
17 And as he was going forth into dren, or lands, for my sake, and for
the way, there ran one to him, and the gospel’s sake, 30 but he shall re-
kneeled to him, and asked him, ceive a hundredfold now in this
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time, houses, and brothers, and sis- moved with indignation concern-
ters, and mothers, and children, ing James and John. 42 And Jesus
and lands, with persecutions; and called them to him, and says to
in the world to come eternal life. 31 them, “You know that those who
But many who are first will be last; are accounted to rule over the Gen-
and the last first.” tiles lord it over them; and their
32 And they were on the way, go- great ones exercise authority over
ing up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was them. 43 But it is not so among you:
going before them: and they were but whosoever would become great
amazed; and those who followed among you, shall be your minister;
were afraid. And he took again the 44 and whosoever would be first
twelve, and began to tell them the among you, shall be servant of all.
things that were to happen to him, 45 For the Son of Man also came not
33 saying, “Behold, we go up to to be ministered to, but to minister,
Jerusalem; and the Son of Man will and to give his life a ransom for
be delivered to the chief priests and many.”
the scribes; and they will condemn 46 And they come to Jericho: and
him to death, and will deliver him as he went out from Jericho, with
to the Gentiles: 34 and they will his disciples and a great multitude,
mock him, and will spit upon him, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a
and will scourge him, and will kill blind beggar, was sitting by the
him; and after three days he will way side. 47 And when he heard
rise again.” that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he
35 And there come near to him began to cry out, and say, “Jesus,
James and John, the sons of you son of David, have mercy on
Zebedee, saying to him, “Teacher, me.” 48 And many rebuked him,
we wish that you should do for us that he should hold his peace: but
whatsoever we shall ask of you.” 36 he cried out the more a great deal,
And he said to them, “What do you “You son of David, have mercy on
wish that I should do for you?” 37 me.” 49 And Jesus stood still, and
And they said to him, “Grant to us said, “Call him.” And they call the
that we may sit, one on your right blind man, saying to him, “Be of
hand, and one on your left hand, in good cheer: rise, he calls you.” 50
your glory.” 38 But Jesus said to And he, casting away his garment,
them, “You do not know what you sprang up, and came to Jesus. 51
ask. Are you able to drink the cup And Jesus answered him, and said,
that I drink? or to be baptized with “What do you will that I should do
the baptism that I am baptized to you?” And the blind man said to
with?” 39 And they said to him, him, “Rabboni, that I may receive
“We are able.” And Jesus said to my sight.” 52 And Jesus said to
them, “The cup that I drink you him, “Go your way; your faith has
will drink; and with the baptism made you whole.” And immedi-
that I am baptized with will you be ately he received his sight, and fol-
baptized: 40 but to sit on my right lowed him in the way.
hand or on my left hand is not mine
11
to give; but it is for those for whom it
And when they draw near
to Jerusalem, to Bethphage
has been prepared.” 41 And when and Bethany, at the mount of
the ten heard it, they began to be Olives, he sends two of his disci-
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ples, 2 and says to them, “Go your
way into the village that is opposite
you: and immediately as you enter
into it, you will find a colt tied, on
which no man ever yet sat; loose
him, and bring him. 3 And if any-
one say to you, ‘Why do you do
this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of
him;’ and immediately he will send
him back here.” 4 And they went
away, and found a colt tied at the
door outside in the open street; and
they loose him. 5 And certain of
those who stood there said to them,
“What are you doing, loosing the
colt?” 6 And they said to them even
as Jesus had said: and they let them
go. 7 And they bring the colt to Je-
sus, and cast on him their garments;
and he sat upon him. 8 And many
spread their garments upon the
way; and others branches, which
they had cut from the fields. 9 And
they that went before, and those
who followed, cried, “Hosanna;
Blessed is he who comes in the
name of the Lord: 10 Blessed is the
kingdom that comes, the kingdom of
our father David: Hosanna in the
highest.”
11 And he entered into Jerusalem,
into the temple; and when he had
looked around upon all things, it
being now evening, he went out to
Bethany with the twelve.
12 And on the next day, when
they had come out from Bethany, he
hungered. 13 And seeing a fig tree
afar off having leaves, he came, if
perhaps he might find anything on
it: and when he came to it, he found
nothing but leaves; for it was not
the season of figs. 14 And he an-
swered and said to it, “No man eat
fruit from you from this time on for
¹⁴ Many ancient authorities add ver. 26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father
who is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
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ever.” And his disciples heard it.
15 And they come to Jerusalem:
and he entered into the temple, and
began to cast out those who sold
and those who bought in the tem-
ple, and overthrew the tables of the
moneychangers, and the seats of
those who sold the doves; 16 and he
would not allow that any man
should carry a vessel through the
temple. 17 And he taught, and said
to them, “Is it not written, ‘My
house shall be called a house of
prayer for all the nations?’ but you
have made it a den of robbers.” 18
And the chief priests and the
scribes heard it, and sought how
they might destroy him: for they
feared him, for all the multitude
was astonished at his teaching.
19 And every evening he went
forth out of the city.
20 And as they passed by in the
morning, they saw the fig tree with-
ered away from the roots. 21 And
Peter calling to remembrance says
to him, “Rabbi, behold, the fig tree
which you cursed is withered
away.” 22 And Jesus answering
says to them, “Have faith in God.
23 Truly I say to you, Whosoever
shall say to this mountain, ‘Be taken
up and cast into the sea;’ and shall
not doubt in his heart, but shall be-
lieve that what he says comes to
pass; he will have it. 24 Therefore I
say to you, All things whatsoever
you pray and ask for, believe that
you receive them, and you will
have them. 25 And whensoever
you stand praying, forgive, if you
have anything against anyone; that
your Father also who is in heaven
may forgive you your trespasses.”¹⁴
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Jerusalem: and as he was walking ours.’ 8 And they took him, and
in the temple, there come to him the killed him, and cast him forth out of
chief priests, and the scribes, and the vineyard. 9 What therefore will
the elders; 28 and they said to him, the lord of the vineyard do? he will
“By what authority are you doing come and destroy the vinedressers,
these things? or who gave you this and will give the vineyard to oth-
authority to do these things?” 29 ers. 10 Have you not read even this
And Jesus said to them, “I will ask Scripture:
of you one question, and answer ‘The stone which the builders
me, and I will tell you by what au- rejected,
thority I do these things. 30 The The same was made the head of
baptism of John, was it from the corner;
heaven, or from men? answer me.” 11 This was from the Lord,
31 And they reasoned with them- And it is marvelous in our
selves, saying, “If we shall say, eyes?’ ”
‘From heaven;’ he will say, ‘Why 12 And they sought to lay hold on
then did you not believe him?’ 32 him; and they feared the multitude;
But should we say, ‘From men’ — for they perceived that he spoke the
they feared the people: for all truly parable against them: and they left
held John to be a prophet.” 33 And him, and went away.
they answered Jesus and say, “We 13 And they send to him certain of
do not know.” And Jesus says to the Pharisees and of the Herodians,
them, “Neither do I tell you by that they might catch him in talk. 14
what authority I do these things.” And when they had come, they say

12 And he began to speak to to him, “Teacher, we know that you

them in parables. “A man are true, and do not care for any-
planted a vineyard, and set a hedge one; for you do not regard the per-
around it, and dug a pit for the son of men, but in truth teach the
winepress, and built a tower, and way of God: Is it lawful to give trib-
let it out to vinedressers, and went ute to Caesar, or not? 15 Shall we
into another country. 2 And at the give, or shall we not give?” But he,
season he sent to the vinedressers a knowing their hypocrisy, said to
servant, that he might receive from them, “Why do you test me? bring
the vinedressers of the fruits of the me a denarius, that I may see it.” 16
vineyard. 3 And they took him, and And they brought it. And he says to
beat him, and sent him away them, “Whose is this image and su-
empty. 4 And again he sent to them perscription?” And they said to
another servant; and him they him, “Caesar’s.” 17 And Jesus said
wounded in the head, and handled to them, “Render to Caesar the
shamefully. 5 And he sent another; things that are Caesar’s, and to God
and him they killed: and many oth- the things that are God’s.” And
ers; beating some, and killing some. they marveled greatly at him.
6 He had still one, a beloved son: he 18 And there come to him Sad-
sent him last to them, saying, ‘They ducees, who say that there is no res-
will respect my son.’ 7 But those urrection; and they asked him,
vinedressers said among them- saying, 19 “Teacher, Moses wrote to
selves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and
kill him, and the inheritance will be leave a wife behind him, and leave
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no child, that his brother should strength, and to love his neighbor
take his wife, and raise up seed to as himself, is much more than all
his brother.’ 20 There were seven whole burnt offerings and sacri-
brothers: and the first took a wife, fices.” 34 And when Jesus saw that
and dying left no seed; 21 and the he answered discreetly, he said to
second took her, and died, leaving him, “You are not far from the king-
no seed behind him; and the third dom of God.” And no man after
likewise: 22 and the seven left no that dared ask him any question.
seed. Last of all the woman also 35 And Jesus answered and said,
died. 23 In the resurrection whose as he taught in the temple, “How
wife will she be of them? for the say the scribes that the Christ is the
seven had her as wife.” 24 Jesus son of David? 36 David himself
said to them, “Is it not for this cause said in the Holy Spirit,
that you err, that you do not know ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
the Scriptures, nor the power of Sit on my right hand,
God? 25 For when they shall rise Until I make your enemies the
from the dead, they neither marry, footstool of your feet.’
nor are given in marriage; but are as 37 David himself calls him Lord;
angels in heaven. 26 But concerning and how is he his son?” And the
the dead, that they are raised; have common people heard him gladly.
you not read in the book of Moses, 38 And in his teaching he said,
in the place concerning the Bush, how “Beware of the scribes, who desire
God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the to walk in long robes, and to have
God of Abraham, and the God of greetings in the marketplaces, 39
Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ 27 He and chief seats in the synagogues,
is not the God of the dead, but of and chief places at feasts: 40 those
the living: you do greatly err.” who devour widows’ houses, and
28 And one of the scribes came, for a pretense make long prayers;
and heard them questioning to- these will receive greater condem-
gether, and knowing that he had nation.”
answered them well, asked him, 41 And he sat down opposite the
“What commandment is the first of treasury, and beheld how the multi-
all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The first tude cast money into the treasury:
is, ‘Hear, O Israel; The Lord our and many who were rich cast in
God, the Lord is one: 30 and you much. 42 And there came a poor
shall love the Lord your God with widow, and she cast in two small
all your heart, and with all your copper coins, which make a quad-
soul, and with all your mind, and ran. 43 And he called to him his dis-
with all your strength.’ 31 The sec- ciples, and said to them, “Truly I
ond is this, ‘You shall love your say to you, this poor widow cast in
neighbor as yourself.’ There is no more than all those who are casting
other commandment greater than into the treasury: 44 for they all had
these.” 32 And the scribe said to cast in of their superfluity; but she
him, “Truly, Teacher, you have well of her want had cast in all that she
said that he is one; and there is no had, even all her living.”
other but he: 33 and to love him
with all the heart, and with all the 13 And as he went forth out of
the temple, one of his disci-
understanding, and with all the ples says to him, “Teacher, behold,
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what manner of stones and what shall be saved.
manner of buildings!” 2 And Jesus 14 But when you see the abomina-
said to him, “Do you see these great tion of desolation standing where
buildings? there shall not be left he ought not (let him who reads un-
here one stone upon another, which derstand), then let those who are in
shall not be thrown down.” Judea flee to the mountains: 15 and
3 And as he sat on the mount of let him who is on the housetop not
Olives opposite the temple, Peter go down, nor enter in, to take any-
and James and John and Andrew thing out of his house: 16 and let
asked him privately, 4 “Tell us, him who is in the field not return
when will these things be? and back to take his cloak. 17 But woe to
what will be the sign when these those who are with child and to
things are all about to be accom- those who give suck in those days!
plished?” 5 And Jesus began to say 18 And pray that it be not in the
to them, “Take heed that no man winter. 19 For those days will be
lead you astray. 6 Many will come tribulation, such as there has not
in my name, saying, ‘I am he;’ and been the like from the beginning of
will lead many astray. 7 And when the creation which God created un-
you shall hear of wars and rumors til now, and never shall be. 20 And
of wars, do not be troubled: these except the Lord had shortened the
things must come to pass; but the days, no flesh would have been
end is not yet. 8 For nation will rise saved; but for the elect’s sake,
against nation, and kingdom whom he chose, he shortened the
against kingdom; there will be days. 21 And then if any man shall
earthquakes in various places; there say to you, ‘Behold, here is the
will be famines: these things are the Christ; or, Behold, there;’ do not be-
beginning of travail. lieve it: 22 for there will arise false
9 But take heed to yourselves: for Christs and false prophets, and will
they will deliver you up to councils; show signs and wonders, that they
and in synagogues will you be may lead astray, if possible, the
beaten; and before governors and elect. 23 But take heed: behold, I
kings will you stand for my sake, have told you all things before-
for a testimony to them. 10 And the hand.
gospel must first be preached to all 24 But in those days, after that
the nations. 11 And when they lead tribulation, the sun will be dark-
you to judgment, and deliver you ened, and the moon will not give
up, do not be anxious beforehand her light, 25 and the stars will be
what you shall speak: but whatso- falling from heaven, and the pow-
ever shall be given you in that hour, ers that are in the heavens will be
that speak; for it is not you who shaken. 26 And then will they see
speak, but the Holy Spirit. 12 And the Son of Man coming in clouds
brother will deliver up brother to with great power and glory. 27 And
death, and the father his child; and then will he send forth the angels,
children will rise up against par- and will gather together his elect
ents, and cause them to be put to from the four winds, from the utter-
death. 13 And you will be hated by most part of the earth to the utter-
all men for my name’s sake: but he most part of heaven.
who endures to the end, the same 28 Now from the fig tree learn her
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parable: when her branch has al- been made? 5 For this ointment
ready become tender, and puts might have been sold for above
forth its leaves, you know that the three hundred denarii, and given to
summer is near; 29 even so you the poor.” And they murmured
also, when you see these things against her. 6 But Jesus said, “Leave
coming to pass, know that he is her alone; why do you trouble her?
near, even at the doors. 30 Truly I she has worked a good work on me.
say to you, This generation shall 7 For you have the poor always
not pass away, until all these things with you, and whensoever you will
be accomplished. 31 Heaven and you can do them good: but me you
earth will pass away: but my words do not have always. 8 She has done
shall not pass away. 32 But of that what she could; she has anointed
day or that hour knows no one, not my body beforehand for the bury-
even the angels in heaven, neither ing. 9 And truly I say to you, where-
the Son, but the Father. soever the gospel shall be preached
33 Take heed, watch and pray: for throughout the whole world, that
you do not know when the time is. also which this woman has done
34 It is as when a man, sojourning in will be spoken of for a memorial of
another country, having left his her.”
house, and given authority to his 10 And Judas Iscariot, he who was
servants, to each one his work, one of the twelve, went away to the
commanded also the doorkeeper to chief priests, that he might deliver
watch. 35 Watch therefore: for you him to them. 11 And they, when
do not know when the lord of the they heard it, were glad, and
house comes, whether at evening, promised to give him money. And
or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, he sought how he might conve-
or in the morning; 36 lest coming niently deliver him to them.
suddenly he find you sleeping. 37 12 And on the first day of Unleav-
And what I say to you I say to all, ened Bread, when they sacrificed
Watch.” the Passover, his disciples say to

14 Now after two days was the him, “Where do you will that we go
feast of the Passover and the and make ready that you may eat
Unleavened Bread: and the chief the Passover?” 13 And he sends
priests and the scribes sought how two of his disciples, and says to
they might take him with subtlety, them, “Go into the city, and there
and kill him: 2 for they said, “Not will meet you a man bearing a
during the feast, lest perhaps there pitcher of water: follow him; 14 and
will be a tumult of the people.” wheresoever he shall enter in, say
3 And while he was in Bethany in to the master of the house, ‘The
the house of Simon the leper, as he Teacher says, “Where is my guest
reclined at the table, there came a room, where I shall eat the Passover
woman having an alabaster vase of with my disciples?” ’ 15 And he
ointment of pure nard very costly; will himself show you a large up-
and she broke the vase, and poured per room furnished and ready: and
it over his head. 4 But there were there make ready for us. 16 And the
some who had indignation among disciples went forth, and came into
themselves, saying, “To what pur- the city, and found as he had said to
pose has this waste of the ointment them: and they made ready the
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Passover.” And in like manner also said them
17 And when it was evening he all.
comes with the twelve. 18 And as 32 And they come to a place
they sat and were eating, Jesus said, which was named Gethsemane:
“Truly I say to you, One of you will and he says to his disciples, “Sit
betray me, even he who eats with here, while I pray.” 33 And he takes
me.” 19 They began to be sorrow- with him Peter and James and John,
ful, and to say to him one by one, and began to be greatly amazed,
“Is it I?” 20 And he said to them, “It and extremely troubled. 34 And he
is one of the twelve, he who dips says to them, “My soul is exceed-
with me in the dish. 21 For the Son ingly sorrowful even to death: stay
of Man goes, even as it is written of here, and watch.” 35 And he went
him: but woe to that man through forward a little, and fell on the
whom the Son of Man is betrayed! ground, and prayed that, if it were
good were it for that man if he had possible, the hour might pass away
not been born.” from him. 36 And he said, “Abba,
22 And as they were eating, he Father, all things are possible to
took bread, and when he had you; remove this cup from me: nev-
blessed, he broke it, and gave to ertheless not what I will, but what
them, and said, “Take: this is my you will.” 37 And he comes, and
body.” 23 And he took a cup, and finds them sleeping, and says to Pe-
when he had given thanks, he gave ter, “Simon, are you sleeping?
to them: and they all drank of it. 24 could you not watch one hour? 38
And he said to them, “This is my Watch and pray, that you do not en-
blood of the covenant, which is ter into temptation: the spirit in-
poured out for many. 25 Truly I say deed is willing, but the flesh is
to you, I shall no more drink of the weak.” 39 And again he went away,
fruit of the vine, until that day and prayed, saying the same
when I drink it new in the kingdom words. 40 And again he came, and
of God.” found them sleeping, for their eyes
26 And when they had sung a were very heavy; and they did not
hymn, they went out to the mount know what to answer him. 41 And
of Olives. he comes the third time, and says to
27 And Jesus says to them, “All them, “Sleep on now, and take your
you will be offended: for it is writ- rest: it is enough; the hour is come;
ten, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and behold, the Son of Man is betrayed
the sheep will be scattered abroad.’ into the hands of sinners. 42 Arise,
28 Nevertheless, after I am raised let us be going: behold, he who be-
up, I will go before you into trays me is at hand.”
Galilee.” 29 But Peter said to him, 43 And immediately, while he
“Although all will be offended, yet was still speaking, comes Judas,
I will not.” 30 And Jesus says to one of the twelve, and with him a
him, “Truly I say to you, that you multitude with swords and clubs,
today, even this night, before the from the chief priests and the
cock crows twice, will deny me scribes and the elders. 44 Now he
three times.” 31 But he spoke ex- who betrayed him had given them
ceedingly vehemently, “If I must a token, saying, “Whomsoever I
die with you, I will not deny you.” shall kiss, that is he; take him, and
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lead him away safely.” 45 And you answer nothing? what is it
when he had come, immediately he which these witness against you?”
came to him, and says, “Rabbi;” 61 But he held his peace, and an-
and kissed him. 46 And they laid swered nothing. Again the high
hands on him, and took him. 47 But priest asked him, and says to him,
a certain one of them who stood by “Are you the Christ, the Son of the
drew his sword, and smote the ser- Blessed?” 62 And Jesus said, “I am:
vant of the high priest, and struck and you shall see the Son of Man
off his ear. 48 And Jesus answered sitting at the right hand of Power,
and said to them, “Have you come and coming with the clouds of
out, as against a robber, with heaven.” 63 And the high priest
swords and clubs to seize me? 49 I tore his clothes, and says, “What
was daily with you in the temple further need have we of witnesses?
teaching, and you did not take me: 64 You have heard the blasphemy:
but this is done that the Scriptures what do you think?” And they all
might be fulfilled.” 50 And they all condemned him to be worthy of
left him, and fled. death. 65 And some began to spit
51 And a certain young man fol- on him, and to cover his face, and to
lowed with him, having a linen strike him, and to say to him,
cloth cast around him, over his “Prophesy”: and the officers re-
naked body: and they lay hold on ceived him with blows of their
him; 52 but he left the linen cloth, hands.
and fled naked. 66 And as Peter was beneath in
53 And they led Jesus away to the the court, there comes one of the
high priest: and there come to- servant girls of the high priest; 67
gether with him all the chief priests and seeing Peter warming himself,
and the elders and the scribes. 54 she looked upon him, and says,
And Peter had followed him afar “You also were with the Nazarene,
off, even within, into the court of even Jesus.” 68 But he denied, say-
the high priest; and he was sitting ing, “I neither know, nor under-
with the officers, and warming stand what you are saying”: and he
himself in the light of the fire. 55 went out into the porch; and the
Now the chief priests and the cock crowed. 69 And the servant
whole council sought witness girl saw him, and began again to
against Jesus to put him to death; say to those who stood by, “This is
and did not find it. 56 For many one of them.” 70 But he again de-
bore false witness against him, and nied it. And after a little while again
their witness did not agree to- those who stood by said to Peter,
gether. 57 And there stood up cer- “Truly you are one of them; for you
tain, and bore false witness against are a Galilean.” 71 But he began to
him, saying, 58 “We heard him say, curse, and to swear, “I do not know
‘I will destroy this temple that is this man of whom you speak.” 72
made with hands, and in three days And immediately the second time
I will build another made without the cock crowed. And Peter called
hands.’ ” 59 And not even so did to mind the word, how that Jesus
their witness agree together. 60 And said to him, “Before the cock crows
the high priest stood up in the twice, you will deny me three
midst, and asked Jesus, saying, “Do times.” And when he thought on it,
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he wept.
15 And immediately in the
morning the chief priests
with the elders and scribes, and the
whole council, held a consultation,
and bound Jesus, and carried him
away, and delivered him up to Pi-
late. 2 And Pilate asked him, “Are
you the King of the Jews?” And he
answering says to him, “You say.” 3
And the chief priests accused him
of many things. 4 And Pilate again
asked him, saying, “Do you answer
nothing? behold how many things
they accuse you of.” 5 But Jesus no
more answered anything; inso-
much that Pilate marveled.
6 Now at the feast he used to re-
lease to them one prisoner, whom
they asked of him. 7 And there was
one called Barabbas, lying bound
with them who had made insurrec-
tion, men who in the insurrection
had committed murder. 8 And the
multitude went up and began to
ask him to do as he was accustomed
to do for them. 9 And Pilate an-
swered them, saying, “Will you that
I release to you the King of the
Jews?” 10 For he perceived that for
envy the chief priests had delivered
him up. 11 But the chief priests
stirred up the multitude, that he
should rather release Barabbas to
them. 12 And Pilate again an-
swered and said to them, “What
then shall I do to him whom you
call the King of the Jews?” 13 And
they cried out again, “Crucify
him.” 14 And Pilate said to them,
“Why, what evil has he done?” But
they cried out exceedingly, “Cru-
cify him.” 15 And Pilate, wishing to
content the multitude, released to
them Barabbas, and delivered Je-
15
Many ancient authorities insert ver. 28 And the Scripture was fulfilled, which says, “And
he was reckoned with transgressors.”
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sus, when he had scourged him, to
be crucified.
16 And the soldiers led him away
within the court, which is the Prae-
torium; and they call together the
whole cohort. 17 And they clothe
him with purple, and twisting a
crown of thorns, they put it on him;
18 and they began to salute him,
“Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 And
they struck his head with a reed,
and spat on him, and bowing their
knees worshipped him. 20 And
when they had mocked him, they
took off from him the purple, and
put on him his garments. And they
lead him out to crucify him.
21 And they compel one passing
by, Simon of Cyrene, coming from
the country, the father of Alexander
and Rufus, to go with them, that he
might bear his cross.
22 And they bring him to the
place Golgotha, which is, being in-
terpreted, The Place of a Skull. 23
And they offered him wine min-
gled with myrrh: but he did not re-
ceive it. 24 And they crucify him,
and part his garments among them,
casting lots on them, what each
should take. 25 And it was the third
hour, and they crucified him. 26
And the superscription of his accu-
sation was written over, THE KING
OF THE JEWS. 27 And with him
they crucify two robbers; one on his
right hand, and one on his left.¹⁵ 29
And those who passed by railed on
him, wagging their heads, and say-
ing, “Ha! you who destroy the tem-
ple, and build it in three days, 30
save yourself, and come down from
the cross.” 31 In like manner also
the chief priests mocking him
among themselves with the scribes
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said, “He saved others; himself he
cannot save. 32 Let the Christ, the
King of Israel, now come down
from the cross, that we may see and
believe.” And those who were cru-
cified with him reproached him.
33 And when the sixth hour had
come, there was darkness over the
whole land until the ninth hour. 34
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried
with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama
sabachthani?” which is, being inter-
preted, “My God, my God, why
have you forsaken me?” 35 And
some of those who stood by, when
they heard it, said, “Behold, he calls
Elijah.” 36 And one ran, and filling
a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a
reed, and gave him to drink, say-
ing, “Let be; let us see whether
16
Elijah comes to take him down.” 37
And Jesus uttered a loud voice, and
breathed his last. 38 And the veil of
the temple was tore in two from the
top to the bottom. 39 And when the
centurion, who stood by opposite
him, saw that he so breathed his
last, he said, “Truly this man was
the Son of God.” 40 And there were
also women beholding from afar:
among whom were both Mary Mag-
dalene, and Mary the mother of
James the less and of Joses, and Sa-
lome; 41 who, when he was in
Galilee, followed him, and minis-
tered to him; and many other
women who came up with him to
Jerusalem.
42 And when evening was now
come, because it was the Prepara-
tion, that is, the day before the Sab-
bath, 43 there came Joseph of
Arimathea, a council member of
honorable estate, who also himself
was looking for the kingdom of
¹⁶ The two oldest Greek manuscripts, and some other authorities, omit from ver. 9 to the
end. Some other authorities have a different ending to the Gospel.
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God; and he boldly went in to Pi-
late, and asked for the body of Je-
sus. 44 And Pilate marveled if he
were already dead: and calling to
him the centurion, he asked him
whether he was already dead. 45
And when he learned it from the
centurion, he granted the corpse to
Joseph. 46 And he bought a linen
cloth, and taking him down,
wound him in the linen cloth, and
laid him in a tomb which had been
hewn out of a rock; and he rolled a
stone against the door of the tomb.
47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary
the mother of Joses beheld where he
was laid.
And when the Sabbath was
past, Mary Magdalene, and
Mary the mother of James, and Sa-
lome, bought spices, that they
might come and anoint him. 2 And
very early on the first day of the
week, they come to the tomb when
the sun had risen. 3 And they were
saying among themselves, “Who
will roll us away the stone from the
door of the tomb?” 4 and looking
up, they see that the stone is rolled
back: for it was exceedingly great. 5
And entering into the tomb, they
saw a young man sitting on the
right side, arrayed in a white robe;
and they were amazed. 6 And he
says to them, “Do not be amazed:
you seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who
has been crucified: he is risen; he is
not here: behold, the place where
they laid him! 7 But go, tell his dis-
ciples and Peter, ‘He goes before
you into Galilee: there you will see
him, as he said to you.’ ” 8 And they
went out, and fled from the tomb;
for trembling and astonishment
had come upon them: and they said
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nothing to anyone; for they were did not believe those who had seen
afraid. him after he was risen. 15 And he
said to them, “Go into all the world,
and preach the gospel to the whole
9 ¹⁶Now when he had risen early creation. 16 He who believes and is
on the first day of the week, he ap- baptized will be saved; but he who
peared first to Mary Magdalene, disbelieves will be condemned. 17
from whom he had cast out seven And these signs will accompany
demons. 10 She went and told those those who believe: in my name will
who had been with him, as they they cast out demons; they will
mourned and wept. 11 And they, speak with new tongues; 18 they
when they heard that he was alive, will take up serpents, and if they
and had been seen by her, disbe- drink any deadly thing, it shall in
lieved. no way hurt them; they will lay
12 And after these things he was hands on the sick, and they will re-
manifested in another form to two cover.”
of them, as they walked, on their 19 So then the Lord Jesus, after he
way into the country. 13 And they had spoken to them, was received
went away and told it to the rest: up into heaven, and sat down at the
neither did they believe them. right hand of God. 20 And they
14 And afterward he was mani- went forth, and preached every-
fested to the eleven themselves as where, the Lord working with
they reclined at the table; and he re- them, and confirming the word by
proached them with their unbelief the signs that followed. Amen.
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1 Forasmuch as many have

taken in hand to draw up a nar-
rative concerning those matters
not fear, Zacharias: because your
supplication is heard, and your
wife Elisabeth will bear you a son,
which have been fulfilled among and you shall call his name John. 14
us, 2 even as they delivered them to And you will have joy and glad-
us, who from the beginning were ness; and many will rejoice at his
eyewitnesses and ministers of the birth. 15 For he will be great in the
word, 3 it seemed good to me also, sight of the Lord, and he shall drink
having traced the course of all no wine nor strong drink; and he
things accurately from the first, to will be filled with the Holy Spirit,
write to you in order, most excellent even from his mother’s womb. 16
Theophilus; 4 that you might know And many of the children of Israel
the certainty concerning the things he will turn to the Lord their God.
in which you were instructed. 17 And he will go before his face in
the spirit and power of Elijah, to
5 There was in the days of Herod, turn the hearts of the fathers to the
king of Judea, a certain priest children, and the disobedient to
named Zacharias, of the division of walk in the wisdom of the just; to
Abijah: and he had a wife of the make ready for the Lord a people
daughters of Aaron, and her name prepared for him.” 18 And Zach-
was Elisabeth. 6 And they were arias said to the angel, “By what
both righteous before God, walking shall I know this? for I am an old
in all the commandments and ordi- man, and my wife well stricken in
nances of the Lord blameless. 7 And years.” 19 And the angel answering
they had no child, because Elisa- said to him, “I am Gabriel, who
beth was barren, and they both stands in the presence of God; and
were now well stricken in years. I was sent to speak to you, and to
8 Now it came to pass, while he bring you these good tidings. 20
executed the priest’s office before And behold, you will be silent and
God in the order of his division, 9 not able to speak, until the day that
according to the custom of the these things shall come to pass, be-
priest’s office, his lot was to enter cause you did not believe my
into the temple of the Lord and words, which will be fulfilled in
burn incense. 10 And the whole their time.” 21 And the people were
multitude of the people were pray- waiting for Zacharias, and they
ing outside at the hour of incense. marveled while he lingered in the
11 And there appeared to him an temple. 22 And when he came out,
angel of the Lord standing on the he could not speak to them: and
right side of the altar of incense. 12 they perceived that he had seen a
And Zacharias was troubled when vision in the temple: and he contin-
he saw him, and fear fell upon him. ued making signs to them, and re-
13 But the angel said to him, “Do mained mute. 23 And it came to
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pass, when the days of his service Mary said, “Behold, the maidser-
were fulfilled, he departed to his vant of the Lord; be it to me accord-
house. ing to your word.” And the angel
24 And after these days Elisabeth departed from her.
his wife conceived; and she hid her- 39 And Mary arose in these days
self five months, saying, 25 “Thus and went into the hill country with
has the Lord done to me in the days haste, into a city of Judah; 40 and
in which he looked upon me, to take entered into the house of Zacharias
away my reproach among men.” and greeted Elisabeth. 41 And it
26 Now in the sixth month the an- came to pass, when Elisabeth heard
gel Gabriel was sent from God to a the greeting of Mary, the babe
city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 27 leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth
to a virgin betrothed to a man was filled with the Holy Spirit; 42
whose name was Joseph, of the and she lifted up her voice with a
house of David; and the virgin’s loud cry, and said, “Blessed are you
name was Mary. 28 And he came in among women, and blessed is the
unto her, and said, “Hail, you who fruit of your womb. 43 And how is
are highly favored, the Lord is with this to me, that the mother of my
you.” 29 But she was greatly trou- Lord should come to me? 44 For be-
bled at the saying, and cast in her hold, when the voice of your greet-
mind what manner of greeting this ing came into my ears, the babe
might be. 30 And the angel said to leaped in my womb for joy. 45 And
her, “Do not fear, Mary: for you blessed is she who believed; for
have found favor with God. 31 And there will be a fulfillment of the
behold, you will conceive in your things which have been spoken to
womb, and bring forth a son, and her from the Lord.” 46 And Mary
shall call his name JESUS. 32 He said,
will be great, and will be called the “My soul magnifies the Lord,
Son of the Most High: and the Lord 47 And my spirit has rejoiced in
God will give to him the throne of God my Savior.
his father David: 33 and he will 48 For he has looked upon the low
reign over the house of Jacob for estate of his maidservant:
ever; and of his kingdom there will For behold, from henceforth all
be no end.” 34 And Mary said to the generations will call me
angel, “How will this be, seeing I blessed.
do not know a man?” 35 And the 49 For he who is mighty has done
angel answered and said to her, to me great things;
“The Holy Spirit will come upon And holy is his name.
you, and the power of the Most 50 And his mercy is unto genera-
High will overshadow you: there- tions and generations
fore also the holy thing which is be- On those who fear him.
gotten shall be called the Son of 51 He has showed strength with
God. 36 And behold, Elisabeth your his arm;
kinswoman, she also has conceived He has scattered the proud in
a son in her old age; and this is the the imagination of their heart.
sixth month with her who was 52 He has put down princes from
called barren. 37 For no word from their thrones,
God will be void of power.” 38 And And has exalted those of low
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degree. 68 “Blessed be the Lord, the God of
53 The hungry he has filled with Israel;
good things; For he has visited and worked
And the rich he has sent empty redemption for his people,
away. 69 And has raised up a horn of sal-
54 He has given help to Israel his vation for us
servant, In the house of his servant
That he might remember mercy David
55 (As he spoke to our fathers) 70 (As he spoke by the mouth of
Toward Abraham and his seed his holy prophets who have
for ever.” been from of old),
56 And Mary stayed with her 71 Salvation from our enemies,
about three months, and returned and from the hand of all who
to her house. hate us;
57 Now Elisabeth’s time was ful- 72 To show mercy towards our fa-
filled that she should be delivered; thers,
and she brought forth a son. 58 And And to remember his holy
her neighbors and her kinsfolk covenant;
heard that the Lord had magnified 73 The oath which he swore to
his mercy towards her; and they re- Abraham our father,
joiced with her. 59 And it came to 74 To grant to us that we being de-
pass on the eighth day, that they livered out of the hand of our
came to circumcise the child; and enemies
they would have called him Should serve him without fear,
Zacharias, after the name of his fa- 75 In holiness and righteousness
ther. 60 And his mother answered before him all our days.
and said, “Not so; but he shall be 76 Yes and you, child, will be called
called John.” 61 And they said to the prophet of the Most High:
her, “There is none of your kindred For you will go before the face
who is called by this name.” 62 And of the Lord to make ready his
they made signs to his father, what ways;
he would have him called. 63 And 77 To give knowledge of salvation
he asked for a writing tablet, and to his people
wrote, saying, “His name is John.” In the remission of their sins,
And they marveled all. 64 And his 78 Because of the tender mercy of
mouth was opened immediately, our God,
and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, With which the dayspring from
blessing God. 65 And fear came on on high will visit us,
all who dwelt around them: and all 79 To shine upon those who sit in
these sayings were talked about darkness and the shadow of
throughout all the hill country of death;
Judea. 66 And all who heard them To guide our feet into the way
laid them up in their heart, saying, of peace.”
“What then will this child be?” For 80 And the child grew, and be-
the hand of the Lord was with him. came strong in spirit, and was in
67 And his father Zacharias was the deserts until the day of his
filled with the Holy Spirit, and showing to Israel.
prophesied, saying,
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2 Now it came to pass in those angels went away from them into
days, there went out a decree heaven, the shepherds said to one
from Caesar Augustus, that all the another, “Let us now go even to
world should be enrolled. 2 This Bethlehem, and see this thing that
was the first enrollment made is come to pass, which the Lord has
when Quirinius was governor of made known unto us.” 16 And they
Syria. 3 And all went to enroll came with haste, and found both
themselves, every one to his own Mary and Joseph, and the babe ly-
city. 4 And Joseph also went up ing in the manger. 17 And when
from Galilee, out of the city of they saw it, they made known con-
Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of cerning the saying which was spo-
David, which is called Bethlehem, ken to them about this child. 18
because he was of the house and And all who heard it wondered at
family of David; 5 to enroll himself the things which were spoken to
with Mary, who was betrothed to them by the shepherds. 19 But
him, being great with child. 6 And Mary kept all these sayings, pon-
it came to pass, while they were dering them in her heart. 20 And
there, the days were fulfilled that the shepherds returned, glorifying
she should be delivered. 7 And she and praising God for all the things
brought forth her firstborn son; and that they had heard and seen, even
she wrapped him in swaddling as it was spoken to them.
clothes, and laid him in a manger, 21 And when eight days were ful-
because there was no room for filled for circumcising him, his
them in the inn. name was called JESUS, which was
8 And there were shepherds in the so called by the angel before he was
same country living in the field, conceived in the womb.
and keeping watch by night over 22 And when the days of their pu-
their flock. 9 And an angel of the rification according to the law of
Lord stood by them, and the glory Moses were fulfilled, they brought
of the Lord shone around them: him up to Jerusalem, to present him
and they were extremely afraid. 10 to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the
And the angel said to them, “Do law of the Lord, Every male who
not be afraid; for behold, I bring opens the womb shall be called
you good tidings of great joy which holy to the Lord), 24 and to offer a
will be to all the people: 11 for there sacrifice according to that which is
is born to you this day in the city of said in the law of the Lord, “A pair
David a Savior, who is Christ the of turtledoves, or two young pi-
Lord. 12 And this is the sign to you: geons.” 25 And behold, there was a
You will find a babe wrapped in man in Jerusalem, whose name was
swaddling clothes, and lying in a Simeon; and this man was right-
manger. 13 And suddenly there eous and devout, looking for the
was with the angel a multitude of consolation of Israel: and the Holy
the heavenly host praising God, Spirit was upon him. 26 And it had
and saying, been revealed to him by the Holy
14 ‘Glory to God in the highest, Spirit, that he should not see death,
And on earth peace among men before he had seen the Lord’s
in whom he is well pleased.’ ” Christ. 27 And he came in the Spirit
15 And it came to pass, when the into the temple: and when the par-
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ents brought in the child Jesus, that came strong, filled with wisdom:
they might do concerning him after and the grace of God was upon
the custom of the law, 28 then he re- him.
ceived him into his arms, and 41 And his parents went every
blessed God, and said, year to Jerusalem at the feast of the
29 “Now you are letting your ser- Passover. 42 And when he was
vant depart, Lord, twelve years old, they went up ac-
According to your word, in cording to the custom of the feast;
peace; 43 and when they had fulfilled the
30 For my eyes have seen your sal- days, as they were returning, the
vation, boy Jesus lingered behind in
31 Which you have prepared be- Jerusalem: and his parents did not
fore the face of all peoples; know it; 44 but supposing him to be
32 A light for revelation to the Gen- in the caravan, they went a day’s
tiles, journey; and they sought for him
And the glory of your people among their kinsfolk and acquain-
Israel.” tances: 45 and when they did not
33 And his father and his mother find him, they returned to
were marveling at the things which Jerusalem, seeking for him. 46 And
were spoken concerning him; 34 it came to pass, after three days
and Simeon blessed them, and said they found him in the temple, sit-
to Mary his mother, “Behold, this ting in the midst of the teachers,
child is set for the falling and the ris- both hearing them, and asking
ing of many in Israel; and for a sign them questions: 47 and all who
which is spoken against; 35 yes and heard him were amazed at his un-
a sword will pierce through your derstanding and his answers. 48
own soul; that thoughts out of And when they saw him, they were
many hearts may be revealed.” 36 astonished; and his mother said to
And there was one Anna, a him, “Son, why have you thus dealt
prophetess, the daughter of with us? behold, your father and I
Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she sought you sorrowing.” 49 And he
was of a great age, having lived said to them, “How is it that you
with a husband seven years from sought me? did you not know that
her virginity, 37 and she had been a I must be in my Father’s house?” 50
widow even to eighty-four years), And they did not understand the
who did not depart from the tem- saying which he spoke to them. 51
ple, worshipping with fastings and And he went down with them, and
supplications night and day. 38 came to Nazareth; and he was sub-
And coming up at that very hour ject to them: and his mother kept all
she gave thanks to God, and spoke these sayings in her heart.
of him to all those who were look- 52 And Jesus advanced in wis-
ing for the redemption of dom and stature, and in favor with
Jerusalem. 39 And when they had God and men.
accomplished all things that were
according to the law of the Lord, 3 Now in the fifteenth year of
the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
they returned into Galilee, to their Pontius Pilate being governor of
own city Nazareth. Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of
40 And the child grew, and be- Galilee, and his brother Philip
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tetrarch of the region of Iturea and And he said to them, “Extort no
Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch more than that which is appointed
of Abilene, 2 in the high-priesthood you.” 14 And soldiers also asked
of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of him, saying, “And we, what must
God came to John the son of we do?” And he said to them, “Ex-
Zacharias in the wilderness. 3 And tort from no man by violence, nei-
he came into all the region around ther accuse anyone wrongfully; and
the Jordan, preaching the baptism be content with your wages.”
of repentance unto remission of 15 And as the people were in ex-
sins; 4 as it is written in the book of pectation, and all men reasoned in
the words of Isaiah the prophet, their hearts concerning John,
“The voice of one crying in the whether perhaps he was the Christ;
wilderness, 16 John answered, saying to them
Make ready the way of the Lord, all, “I indeed baptize you with wa-
Make his paths straight. ter; but there comes he who is
5 Every valley shall be filled, mightier than I, the strap of whose
And every mountain and hill sandals I am not worthy to unloose:
shall be brought low; he will baptize you in the Holy
And the crooked shall become Spirit and in fire: 17 whose fan is in
straight, his hand, thoroughly to cleanse his
And the rough ways smooth; threshing floor, and to gather the
6 And all flesh shall see the salva- wheat into his granary; but the
tion of God.” chaff he will burn up with un-
7 He said therefore to the multi- quenchable fire.”
tudes that went out to be baptized 18 With many other exhortations
by him, “You offspring of vipers, therefore he preached good tidings
who warned you to flee from the to the people; 19 but Herod the
wrath to come? 8 Bring forth there- tetrarch, being reproved by him for
fore fruits worthy of repentance, Herodias his brother’s wife, and for
and do not begin to say within all the evil things which Herod had
yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as done, 20 added this also to them all,
our father’: for I say to you, that that he shut up John in prison.
God is able of these stones to raise 21 Now it came to pass, when all
up children to Abraham. 9 And the people were baptized, that, Je-
even now the axe also lies at the sus also having been baptized, and
root of the trees: every tree there- praying, the heaven was opened, 22
fore that does not bring forth good and the Holy Spirit descended in a
fruit is hewn down, and cast into bodily form, as a dove, upon him,
the fire.” 10 And the multitudes and a voice came out of heaven,
asked him, saying, “What then “You are my beloved Son: in you I
must we do?” 11 And he answered am well pleased.”
and said to them, “He who has two 23 And Jesus himself, when he be-
tunics, let him impart to him who gan to teach, was about thirty years
has none; and he who has food, let of age, being the son (as was sup-
him do likewise.” 12 And there posed) of Joseph, the son of Heli, 24
came also tax collectors to be bap- the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,
tized, and they said to him, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai,
“Teacher, what must we do?” 13 the son of Joseph, 25 the son of Mat-
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tathias, the son of Amos, the son of live by bread alone.’ ” 5 And he led
Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of him up, and showed him all the
Naggai, 26 the son of Maath, the son kingdoms of the world in a mo-
of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the ment of time. 6 And the devil said
son of Josech, the son of Joda, 27 the to him, “To you will I give all this
son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the authority, and the glory of them: for
son of Zerubbabel, the son of it has been delivered to me; and to
Shealtiel, the son of Neri, 28 the son whomsoever I will I give it. 7 If you
of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of therefore will worship before me, it
Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son will all be yours.” 8 And Jesus an-
of Er, 29 the son of Jesus, the son of swered and said to him, “It is writ-
Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of ten, ‘You shall worship the Lord
Matthat, the son of Levi, 30 the son your God, and him only shall you
of Symeon, the son of Judas, the son serve.” 9 And he led him to
of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son Jerusalem, and set him on the pin-
of Eliakim, 31 the son of Melea, the nacle of the temple, and said to
son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, him, “If you are the Son of God, cast
the son of Nathan, the son of David, yourself down from here: 10 for it is
32 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, written,
the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, ‘He shall give his angels charge
the son of Nahshon, 33 the son of concerning you, to guard
Amminadab, the son of Arni, the you:’
son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the 11 and,
son of Judah, 34 the son of Jacob, the ‘On their hands they shall bear
son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the you up,
son of Terah, the son of Nahor, 35 Lest haply you dash your foot
the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the against a stone.’ ”
son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son 12 And Jesus answering said to
of Shelah, 36 the son of Cainan, the him, “It is said, ‘you shall not put to
son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the test the Lord your God.’ ”
the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, 13 And when the devil had com-
37 the son of Methuselah, the son of pleted every temptation, he de-
Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of parted from him for a time.
Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, 38 14 And Jesus returned in the
the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and
son of Adam, the son of God. a fame went out concerning him

4 And Jesus, full of the Holy through all the surrounding region.
Spirit, returned from the Jor- 15 And he taught in their syna-
dan, and was led in the Spirit in the gogues, being glorified by all.
wilderness 2 during forty days, be- 16 And he came to Nazareth,
ing tempted by the devil. And he where he had been brought up: and
ate nothing in those days: and he entered, as his custom was, into
when they were completed, he the synagogue on the Sabbath Day,
hungered. 3 And the devil said to and stood up to read. 17 And there
him, “If you are the Son of God, was delivered to him the book of
command this stone that it become the prophet Isaiah. And he opened
bread.” 4 And Jesus answered to the book, and found the place
him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not where it was written,
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18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon city, and led him to the brow of the
me, hill on which their city was built,
Because he anointed me to that they might throw him down
preach good tidings to the headlong. 30 But he passing
poor: through the midst of them went his
He has sent me to proclaim way.
release to the captives, 31 And he came down to Caper-
And recovering of sight to the naum, a city of Galilee. And he was
blind, teaching them on the Sabbath Day:
To set at liberty those who are 32 and they were astonished at his
bruised, teaching; for his word was with au-
19 To proclaim the acceptable year thority. 33 And in the synagogue
of the Lord.” there was a man, who had a spirit
20 And he closed the book, and of an unclean demon; and he cried
gave it back to the attendant, and out with a loud voice, 34 “Ah! what
sat down: and the eyes of all in the have we to do with you, Jesus you
synagogue were fastened on him. Nazarene? are you come to destroy
21 And he began to say to them, us? I know you who you are, the
“Today has this Scripture been ful- Holy One of God.” 35 And Jesus re-
filled in your ears.” 22 And all bore buked him, saying, “Hold your
him witness, and wondered at the peace, and come out of him.” And
words of grace which proceeded when the demon had thrown him
out of his mouth: and they said, “Is down in the midst, he came out of
not this Joseph’s son?” 23 And he him, having done him no hurt. 36
said to them, “Doubtless you will And amazement came upon all,
say to me this parable, ‘Physician, and they spoke together, with one
heal yourself: whatsoever we have another, saying, “What is this
heard done at Capernaum, do also word? for with authority and
here in your own country.’ 24 And power he commands the unclean
he said, “Truly I say to you, No spirits, and they come out.” 37 And
prophet is acceptable in his own there went forth a rumor concern-
country. 25 But in truth I say to you, ing him into every place of the sur-
There were many widows in Israel rounding region.
in the days of Elijah, when the 38 And he rose up from the syna-
heaven was shut up three years and gogue, and entered into the house
six months, when there came a of Simon. And Simon’s wife’s
great famine over all the land; 26 mother was seized with a great
and to none of them was Elijah sent, fever; and they beseeched him for
but only to Zarephath, in the land her. 39 And he stood over her, and
of Sidon, to a woman who was a rebuked the fever; and it left her:
widow. 27 And there were many and immediately she rose up and
lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha ministered to them.
the prophet; and none of them was 40 And when the sun was setting,
cleansed, but only Naaman the Syr- all those who had any sick with
ian. 28 And they were all filled with various diseases brought them to
wrath in the synagogue, as they him; and he laid his hands on every
heard these things; 29 and they rose one of them, and healed them. 41
up, and cast him forth out of the And demons also came out from
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many, crying out, and saying, “You was amazed, and all who were with
are the Son of God.” And rebuking him, at the catch of the fish which
them, he did not allow them to they had taken; 10 and so were also
speak, because they knew that he James and John, sons of Zebedee,
was the Christ. who were partners with Simon.
42 And when it was day, he came And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not
out and went into a desert place: fear; from henceforth you will catch
and the multitudes sought after men.” 11 And when they had
him, and came to him, and would brought their boats to land, they
have held him back, that he should left all, and followed him.
not go from them. 43 But he said to 12 And it came to pass, while he
them, “I must preach the good tid- was in one of the cities, behold, a
ings of the kingdom of God to the man full of leprosy: and when he
other cities also: for therefore I was saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and
sent.” beseeched him, saying, “Lord, if
44 And he was preaching in the you will, you can make me clean.”
synagogues of Galilee. 13 And he stretched forth his hand,

5 Now it came to pass, while and touched him, saying, “I will; be

the multitude pressed upon made clean.” And immediately the
him and heard the word of God, leprosy departed from him. 14 And
that he was standing by the lake of he charged him to tell no man: “but
Gennesaret; 2 and he saw two boats go your way, and show yourself to
standing by the lake: but the fisher- the priest, and offer for your cleans-
men had gone out of them, and ing, according as Moses com-
were washing their nets. 3 And he manded, for a testimony to them.”
entered into one of the boats, which 15 But so much the more went
was Simon’s, and asked him to put abroad the report concerning him:
out a little from the land. And he sat and great multitudes came together
down and taught the multitudes to hear, and to be healed of their in-
out of the boat. 4 And when he had firmities. 16 But he withdrew him-
left speaking, he said to Simon, self in the deserts, and prayed.
“Put out into the deep, and let 17 And it came to pass on one of
down your nets for a catch.” 5 And those days, that he was teaching;
Simon answered and said, “Master, and there were Pharisees and doc-
we toiled all night, and took noth- tors of the law sitting by, who had
ing: but at your word I will let come out of every village of Galilee
down the nets.” 6 And when they and Judea and Jerusalem: and the
had done this, they inclosed a great power of the Lord was with him to
multitude of fish; and their nets heal. 18 And behold, men bring on
were breaking; 7 and they beck- a bed a man who was paralyzed:
oned to their partners in the other and they sought to bring him in,
boat, that they should come and and to lay him before him. 19 And
help them. And they came, and not finding by what way they might
filled both the boats, so that they bring him in because of the multi-
began to sink. 8 But Simon Peter, tude, they went up to the housetop,
when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ and let him down through the tiles
knees, saying, “Depart from me; for with his couch into the midst before
I am a sinful man, O Lord.” 9 For he Jesus. 20 And seeing their faith, he
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said, “Man, your sins are forgiven and drink.” 34 And Jesus said to
you.” 21 And the scribes and the them, “Can you make the sons of
Pharisees began to reason, saying, the bridal chamber fast, while the
“Who is this who speaks blas- bridegroom is with them? 35 But
phemies? Who can forgive sins, but the days will come; and when the
God alone?” 22 But Jesus perceiv- bridegroom will be taken away
ing their reasonings, answered and from them, then will they fast in
said to them, “Why do you reason those days.” 36 And he spoke also a
in your hearts? 23 Which is easier, parable to them: “No man tears a
to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you;’ piece from a new garment and puts
or to say, ‘Arise and walk?’ 24 But it on an old garment; else he will
that you may know that the Son of tear the new, and also the piece
Man has authority on earth to for- from the new will not agree with
give sins” (he said to him who was the old. 37 And no man puts new
paralyzed), “I say to you, Arise, and wine into old wineskins; else the
take up your couch, and go to your new wine will burst the skins, and
house.” 25 And immediately he itself will be spilled, and the skins
rose up before them, and took up will perish. 38 But new wine must
that on which he lay, and departed be put into fresh wineskins. 39 And
to his house, glorifying God. 26 no man having drunk old wine de-
And amazement took hold on all, sires new; for he says, ‘The old is
and they glorified God; and they good.”
were filled with fear, saying, “We
have seen strange things today.” 6 Now it came to pass on a Sab-
bath, that he was going through
27 And after these things he went the grain fields; and his disciples
forth, and beheld a tax collector, plucked the ears, and ate, rubbing
named Levi, sitting at the place of them in their hands. 2 But certain of
toll, and said to him, “Follow me.” the Pharisees said, “Why do you
28 And he forsook all, and rose up that which it is not lawful to do on
and followed him. the Sabbath Day?” 3 And Jesus an-
29 And Levi made him a great swering them said, “Have you not
feast in his house: and there was a read even this, what David did,
great multitude of tax collectors when he was hungry, he, and those
and of others who were reclining who were with him; 4 how he en-
with them. 30 And the Pharisees tered into the house of God, and
and their scribes murmured against took and ate the showbread, and
his disciples, saying, “Why do you gave also to those who were with
eat and drink with the tax collectors him; which it is not lawful to eat ex-
and sinners?” 31 And Jesus answer- cept for the priests alone?” 5 And
ing said to them, “Those who are in he said to them, “The Son of Man is
health have no need of a physician; Lord of the Sabbath.”
but those who are sick. 32 I am not 6 And it came to pass on another
come to call the righteous but sin- Sabbath, that he entered into the
ners to repentance.” synagogue and taught: and there
33 And they said to him, “The dis- was a man there, and his right hand
ciples of John fast often, and make was withered. 7 And the scribes
supplications; likewise also the dis- and the Pharisees watched him,
ciples of the Pharisees; but yours eat whether he would heal on the Sab-
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bath; that they might find how to God. 21 Blessed are you who
accuse him. 8 But he knew their hunger now: for you shall be filled.
thoughts; and he said to the man Blessed are you who weep now: for
who had his hand withered. “Rise you shall laugh. 22 Blessed are you,
up, and stand forth in the midst.” when men shall hate you, and
And he arose and stood forth. 9 when they shall separate you from
And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, their company, and reproach you,
Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do and cast out your name as evil, for
good, or to do harm? to save a life, the Son of Man’s sake. 23 Rejoice in
or to destroy it?” 10 And he looked that day, and leap for joy: for be-
around on them all, and said to hold, your reward is great in
him, “Stretch forth your hand.” heaven; for in the same manner did
And he did so: and his hand was re- their fathers to the prophets. 24 But
stored. 11 But they were filled with woe to you who are rich! for you
rage; and communed with one an- have received your consolation. 25
other what they might do to Jesus. Woe to you, you who are full now!
12 And it came to pass in these for you shall hunger. Woe to you,
days, that he went out into the you who laugh now! for you shall
mountain to pray; and he contin- mourn and weep. 26 Woe to you,
ued all night in prayer to God. 13 when all men shall speak well of
And when it was day, he called his you! for in the same manner did
disciples; and he chose from them their fathers to the false prophets.
twelve, whom also he named apos- 27 But I say to you who hear, Love
tles: 14 Simon, whom he also your enemies, do good to those
named Peter, and Andrew his who hate you, 28 bless those who
brother, and James and John, and curse you, pray for those who de-
Philip and Bartholomew, 15 and spitefully use you. 29 To him who
Matthew and Thomas, and James strikes you on the one cheek offer
the son of Alphaeus, and Simon also the other; and from him who
who was called the Zealot, 16 and takes away your cloak do not with-
Judas the son of James, and Judas Is- hold your tunic also. 30 Give to ev-
cariot, who became a traitor; 17 and ery one who asks you; and of him
he came down with them, and tho takes away your goods do not
stood on a level place, and a great ask them again. 31 And as you wish
multitude of his disciples, and a that men should do to you, do you
great number of the people from all also to them likewise. 32 And if you
Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea love those who love you, what
coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came thanks do you have? for even sin-
to hear him, and to be healed of ners love those who love them. 33
their diseases; 18 and those who And if you do good to those who
were troubled with unclean spirits do good to you, what thanks do
were healed. 19 And all the multi- you have? for even sinners do the
tude sought to touch him; for same. 34 And if you lend to those of
power came forth from him, and whom you hope to receive, what
healed them all. thanks do you have? even sinners
20 And he lifted up his eyes on his lend to sinners, to receive again as
disciples, and said, “Blessed are you much. 35 But love your enemies,
poor: for yours is the kingdom of and do them good, and lend, never
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despairing; and your reward will 46 And why do you call me,
be great, and you will be sons of the ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not the things
Most High: for he is kind toward which I say? 47 Every one who
the unthankful and evil. 36 Be mer- comes to me, and hears my words,
ciful, even as your Father is merci- and does them, I will show you to
ful. 37 And do not judge, and you whom he is like: 48 he is like a man
will not be judged: and do not con- building a house, who dug and
demn, and you will not be con- went deep, and laid a foundation
demned: release, and you will be upon the rock: and when a flood
released: 38 give, and it will be arose, the stream broke against that
given to you; good measure, house, and could not shake it: be-
pressed down, shaken together, cause it had been well built. 49 But
running over, will they give into he who hears, and does not, is like
your bosom. For with what mea- a man who built a house upon the
sure you measured it will be mea- earth without a foundation; against
sured to you again.” which the stream broke, and imme-
39 And he spoke also a parable to diately it fell in; and the ruin of that
them, “Can the blind guide the house was great.”
blind? will they not both fall into a
pit? 40 The disciple is not above his 7 After he had ended all his say-
ings in the ears of the people, he
teacher: but everyone when he is entered into Capernaum.
perfected will be as his teacher. 41 2 And a certain centurion’s ser-
And why do you behold the speck vant, who was dear to him, was
that is in your brother’s eye, but do sick and at the point of death. 3 And
not consider the beam that is in when he heard concerning Jesus, he
your own eye? 42 Or how can you sent to him elders of the Jews; ask-
say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me ing him that he would come and
cast out the speck that is in you eye, save his servant. 4 And they, when
when you yourself do not behold they came to Jesus, beseeched him
the beam that is in your own eye? earnestly, saying, “He is worthy
You hypocrite, cast out first the that you should do this for him; 5
beam out of your own eye, and for he loves our nation, and himself
then you will see clearly to cast out built us our synagogue.” 6 And Je-
the speck that is in your brother’s sus went with them. And when he
eye. 43 For there is no good tree that was now not far from the house, the
brings forth corrupt fruit; nor again centurion sent friends to him, say-
a corrupt tree that brings forth good ing to him, “Lord, do not trouble
fruit. 44 For each tree is known by yourself; for I am not worthy that
its own fruit. For from thorns men you should come under my roof: 7
do not gather figs, nor from a bram- therefore neither I thought myself
ble bush do they gather grapes. 45 worthy to come to you: but say the
The good man out of the good trea- word, and my servant will be
sure of his heart brings forth that healed. 8 For I also am a man set
which is good; and the evil man out under authority, having under my-
of the evil treasure brings forth that self soldiers: and I say to this one,
which is evil: for out of the abun- ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another,
dance of the heart his mouth ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my
speaks. servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” 9
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And when Jesus heard these things, to them, “Go and tell John the
he marveled at him, and turned things which you have seen and
and said to the multitude who fol- heard; the blind receive their sight,
lowed him, “I say to you, I have not the lame walk, the lepers are
found so great faith, no, not in Is- cleansed, and the deaf hear, the
rael.” 10 And those who were sent, dead are raised up, the poor have
returning to the house, found the good tidings preached to them. 23
servant whole. And blessed is he, whosoever shall
11 And it came to pass soon after- find no occasion of stumbling in
wards, that he went to a city called me.”
Nain; and his disciples went with 24 And when the messengers of
him, and a great multitude. 12 Now John were departed, he began to
when he drew near to the gate of say to the multitudes concerning
the city, behold, there was carried John, “What did you go out into the
out one who was dead, the only son wilderness to behold? a reed
of his mother, and she was a wid- shaken with the wind? 25 But what
ow: and many people of the city did you go out to see? a man
were with her. 13 And when the clothed in soft raiment? Behold,
Lord saw her, he had compassion those who are gorgeously appar-
on her, and said to her, “Do not eled, and live delicately, are in
weep.” 14 And he came near and kings’ courts. 26 But what did you
touched the bier: and the bearers go out to see? a prophet? Yes, I say
stood still. And he said, “Young to you, and much more than a
man, I say to you, Arise.” 15 And he prophet. 27 This is he of whom it is
who was dead sat up, and began to written,
speak. And he gave him to his ‘Behold, I send my messenger
mother. 16 And fear took hold on before your face,
all: and they glorified God, saying, Who will prepare your way
“A great prophet is arisen among before you.’
us”: and, “God has visited his peo- 28 I say to you, Among those who
ple.” 17 And this report went forth are born of women there is none
concerning him in the whole of greater than John: yet he who is but
Judea, and all the surrounding re- little in the kingdom of God is
gion. greater than he. 29 And all the peo-
18 And the disciples of John told ple when they heard, and the tax
him of all these things. 19 And John collectors, justified God, being bap-
calling to him two of his disciples tized with the baptism of John. 30
sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are But the Pharisees and the lawyers
you he who comes, or do we look rejected for themselves the counsel
for another?” 20 And when the men of God, being not baptized of him.
had come to him, they said, “John 31 To what then shall I liken the
the Baptist has sent us to you, say- men of this generation, and to what
ing, ‘Are you he who comes, or do are they like? 32 They are like chil-
we look for another?’ ” 21 In that dren who sit in the marketplace,
hour he cured many of diseases and and call to one another; who say,
plagues and evil spirits; and on ‘We piped to you, and you did not
many who were blind he bestowed dance; we wailed, and you did not
sight. 22 And he answered and said weep.’ 33 For John the Baptist is
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come eating no bread nor drinking with her hair. 45 You gave me no
wine; and you say, ‘He has a de- kiss: but she, since the time I came
mon.’ 34 The Son of Man is come in, has not ceased to kiss my feet. 46
eating and drinking; and you say, My head with oil you did not
‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a anoint: but she has anointed my
wine-drinker, a friend of tax collec- feet with ointment. 47 Therefore I
tors and sinners!’ 35 And wisdom is say to you, Her sins, which are
justified of all her children.” many, are forgiven; for she loved
36 And one of the Pharisees de- much: but to whom little is for-
sired that he would eat with him. given, the same loves little.” 48 And
And he entered into the Pharisee’s he said to her, “Your sins are for-
house, and reclined to eat. 37 And given.” 49 And those who reclined
behold, a woman who was in the at the meal with him began to say
city, a sinner; and when she knew within themselves, “Who is this
that he was reclining at a meal in who even forgives sins?” 50 And he
the Pharisee’s house, she brought said to the woman, “Your faith has
an alabaster cruse of ointment, 38 saved you; go in peace.”
and standing behind at his feet,
weeping, she began to wet his feet 8 And it came to pass soon af-
terwards, that he went around
with her tears, and wiped them through cities and villages, preach-
with the hair of her head, and ing and bringing the good tidings
kissed his feet, and anointed them of the kingdom of God, and with
with the ointment. 39 Now when him the twelve, 2 and certain
the Pharisee who had bidden him women who had been healed of
saw it, he spoke within himself, evil spirits and infirmities: Mary
saying, “This man, if he were a who was called Magdalene, from
prophet, would have perceived whom seven demons had gone out,
who and what manner of woman 3 and Joanna the wife of Chuzas
this is who touches him, that she is Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and
a sinner.” 40 And Jesus answering many others, who ministered to
said to him, “Simon, I have some- them from their substance.
thing to say to you.” And he says, 4 And when a great multitude
“Teacher, say on.” 41 “A certain came together, and those of every
lender had two debtors: the one city traveled to him, he spoke by a
owed five hundred denarii, and the parable: 5 “The sower went forth to
other fifty. 42 When they did not sow his seed: and as he sowed,
have wherewithal to pay, he forgave some fell by the way side; and it
them both. Which of them therefore was trodden under foot, and the
will love him most?” 43 Simon an- birds of the heaven devoured it. 6
swered and said, “He, I suppose, to And other fell on the rock; and as
whom he forgave the most.” And soon as it grew, it withered away,
he said to him, “You have rightly because it had no moisture. 7 And
judged.” 44 And turning to the other fell amidst the thorns; and the
woman, he said to Simon, “Do you thorns grew with it, and choked it.
see this woman? I entered into your 8 And other fell into the good
house, you gave me no water for ground, and grew, and brought
my feet: but she has wet my feet forth fruit a hundredfold.” As he
with her tears, and wiped them said these things, he cried, “He who
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has ears to hear, let him hear.” stand outside, desiring to see you.”
9 And his disciples asked him 21 But he answered and said to
what this parable might be. 10 And them, “My mother and my brothers
he said, “To you it is given to know are these who hear the word of
the mysteries of the kingdom of God, and do it.”
God: but to the rest in parables; that 22 Now it came to pass on one of
seeing they may not see, and hear- those days, that he entered into a
ing they may not understand. 11 boat, himself and his disciples; and
Now the parable is this: The seed is he said to them, “Let us go over to
the word of God. 12 And those by the other side of the lake”: and they
the wayside are those who have launched forth. 23 But as they
heard; then comes the devil, and sailed he fell asleep: and there came
takes away the word from their down a storm of wind on the lake;
heart, that they may not believe and and they were filling with water,
be saved. 13 And those on the rock and were in jeopardy. 24 And they
are those who, when they have came to him, and awoke him, say-
heard, receive the word with joy; ing, “Master, master, we perish.”
and these have no root, who for a And he awoke, and rebuked the
while believe, and in time of temp- wind and the raging of the water:
tation fall away. 14 And that which and they ceased, and there was a
fell among the thorns, these are calm. 25 And he said to them,
those who have heard, and as they “Where is your faith?” And being
go on their way they are choked afraid they marveled, saying to one
with cares and riches and pleasures another, “Who then is this, that he
of this life, and bring no fruit to per- commands even the winds and the
fection. 15 And that in the good water, and they obey him?”
ground, these are such as in an hon- 26 And they arrived at the coun-
est and good heart, having heard try of the Gerasenes, which is oppo-
the word, hold it fast, and bring site Galilee. 27 And when he had
forth fruit with patience. come forth upon the land, there met
16 And no man, when he has lit a him a certain man out of the city,
lamp, covers it with a vessel, or who had demons; and for a long
puts it under a bed; but puts it on a time he had worn no clothes, and
stand, that those who enter in may did not live in any house, but in the
see the light. 17 For nothing is hid- tombs. 28 And when he saw Jesus,
den, that will not be made known; he cried out, and fell down before
nor anything secret, that shall not be him, and with a loud voice said,
known and come to light. 18 Take “What have I to do with you, Jesus,
heed therefore how you hear: for you Son of the Most High God? I
whosoever has, to him will be beseech you, do not torment me.”
given; and whosoever does not 29 For he was commanding the un-
have, from him will be taken away clean spirit to come out from the
even that which he thinks he has.” man. For often it had seized him:
19 And there came to him his and he was kept under guard, and
mother and brothers, and they bound with chains and fetters; and
could not come to him because of breaking the chains apart, he was
the crowd. 20 And it was told him, driven by the demon into the
“Your mother and your brothers deserts. 30 And Jesus asked him,
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“What is your name?” And he said, synagogue: and he fell down at Je-
“Legion”; for many demons had sus’ feet, and beseeched him to
entered into him. 31 And they en- come into his house; 42 for he had
treated him that he would not com- an only daughter, about twelve
mand them to depart into the years of age, and she was dying.
abyss. 32 Now there was there a But as he went the multitudes
herd of many swine feeding on the thronged him.
mountain: and they entreated him 43 And a woman having an issue
that he would give them permis- of blood twelve years, who had
sion to enter into them. And he spent all her living upon physi-
gave them permission. 33 And the cians, and could not be healed by
demons came out from the man, any, 44 came behind him, and
and entered into the swine: and the touched the border of his garment:
herd rushed down the steep bank and immediately the issue of her
into the lake, and were drowned. 34 blood stopped. 45 And Jesus said,
And when those who fed them saw “Who is it who touched me?” And
what had come to pass, they fled, when all denied, Peter said, and
and told it in the city and in the those who were with him, “Master,
country. 35 And they went out to the multitudes press you and crush
see what had come to pass; and you.” 46 But Jesus said, “Someone
they came to Jesus, and found the touched me; for I perceived that
man, from whom the demons were power had gone forth from me.” 47
gone out, sitting, clothed and in his And when the woman saw that she
right mind, at the feet of Jesus: and was not hidden, she came trem-
they were afraid. 36 And those who bling, and falling down before him
saw it told them how he who was declared in the presence of all the
possessed with demons was made people for what cause she touched
whole. 37 And all the people of the him, and how she was healed im-
surrounding country of the mediately. 48 And he said to her,
Gerasenes asked him to depart “Daughter, your faith hath made
from them; for they were seized you whole; go in peace.”
with great fear: and he entered into 49 While he was still speaking,
a boat, and returned. 38 But the there comes one from the ruler of
man from whom the demons had the synagogue’s house, saying,
gone out beseeched him that he “Your daughter is dead; do not
might be with him: but he sent him trouble the Teacher.” 50 But Jesus
away, saying, 39 “Return to your hearing it, answered him, “Do not
house, and declare what great fear: only believe, and she will be
things God has done for you.” And made whole.” 51 And when he
he went his way, publishing came to the house, he did not allow
throughout the whole city what any man to enter in with him, ex-
great things Jesus had done for cept Peter, and John, and James,
him. and the father of the girl and her
40 And as Jesus returned, the mother. 52 And all were weeping,
multitude welcomed him; for they and mourning her: but he said, “Do
were all waiting for him. 41 And be- not weep; for she is not dead, but
hold, there came a man named sleeps.” 53 And they laughed him
Jairus, and he was a ruler of the to scorn, knowing that she was
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dead. 54 But he, taking her by the began to wear away; and the
hand, called, saying, “Girl, arise.” twelve came, and said to him,
55 And her spirit returned, and she “Send the multitude away, that
rose up immediately: and he com- they may go into the surrounding
manded that something be given her villages and country, and lodge,
to eat. 56 And her parents were and get provisions: for we are here
amazed: but he charged them to tell in a desert place.” 13 But he said to
no man what had been done. them, “You give them to eat.” And

9 And he called the twelve to- they said, “We have no more than
gether, and gave them power five loaves and two fish; except we
and authority over all demons, and should go and buy food for all
to cure diseases. 2 And he sent them these people.” 14 For they were
forth to preach the kingdom of about five thousand men. And he
God, and to heal the sick. 3 And he said to his disciples, “Make them sit
said to them, “Take nothing for down in groups, about fifty each.”
your journey, neither staff, nor bag, 15 And they did so, and made them
nor bread, nor money; neither have all sit down. 16 And he took the five
two tunics. 4 And into whatsoever loaves and the two fishes, and look-
house you enter, there stay, and ing up to heaven, he blessed them,
from there depart. 5 And as many and broke; and gave to the disciples
as do not receive you, when you de- to set before the multitude. 17 And
part from that city, shake off the they ate, and were all filled: and
dust from your feet for a testimony there was taken up that which re-
against them.” 6 And they de- mained over to them of broken
parted, and went throughout the pieces, twelve baskets.
villages, preaching the gospel, and 18 And it came to pass, as he was
healing everywhere. praying alone, the disciples were
7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard with him: and he asked them, say-
of all that was done: and he was ing, “Who do the multitudes say
much perplexed, because it was that I am?” 19 And they answering
said by some, that John was risen said, “John the Baptist; but others
from the dead; 8 and by some, that say, Elijah; and others, that one of
Elijah had appeared; and by others, the old prophets is risen again.” 20
that one of the old prophets was And he said to them, “But who do
risen again. 9 And Herod said, you say that I am?” And Peter an-
“John I beheaded: but who is this, swering said, “The Christ of God.”
about whom I hear such things?” 21 But he charged them, and com-
And he sought to see him. manded them to tell this to no man;
10 And the apostles, when they 22 saying, “The Son of Man must
were returned, declared to him suffer many things, and be rejected
what things they had done. And he by the elders and chief priests and
took them, and withdrew privately scribes, and be killed, and the third
to a city called Bethsaida. 11 But the day be raised up.” 23 And he said
multitudes perceiving it followed to all, “If any man would come af-
him: and he welcomed them, and ter me, let him deny himself, and
spoke to them of the kingdom of take up his cross daily, and follow
God, and those who had need of me. 24 For whosoever would save
healing he cured. 12 And the day his life will lose it; but whosoever
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shall lose his life for my sake, the they had seen.
same will save it. 25 For what is a 37 And it came to pass, on the
man profited, if he gain the whole next day, when they had come
world, and lose or forfeit his own down from the mountain, a great
self? 26 For whosoever shall be multitude met him. 38 And behold,
ashamed of me and of my words, of a man from the multitude cried,
him will the Son of Man be saying, “Teacher, I beseech you to
ashamed, when he comes in his look upon my son; for he is my only
own glory, and the glory of the Fa- child: 39 and behold, a spirit takes
ther, and of the holy angels. 27 But him, and he suddenly cries out; and
I tell you truly, There are some of it tears him that he foams, and it
those who stand here, who shall in hardly departs from him, bruising
no way taste of death, until they see him severely. 40 And I beseeched
the kingdom of God.” your disciples to cast it out; and
28 And it came to pass about eight they could not.” 41 And Jesus an-
days after these sayings, that he swered and said, “O faithless and
took with him Peter and John and perverse generation, how long shall
James, and went up into the moun- I be with you, and bear with you?
tain to pray. 29 And as he was pray- bring here your son.” 42 And as he
ing, the fashion of his countenance was still coming, the demon dashed
was altered, and his clothing became him down, and convulsed him
white and dazzling. 30 And behold, grievously. But Jesus rebuked the
there talked with him two men, unclean spirit, and healed the boy,
who were Moses and Elijah; 31 who and gave him back to his father. 43
appeared in glory, and spoke of his And they were all astonished at the
decease which he was about to ac- majesty of God.
complish at Jerusalem. 32 Now Pe- But while all were marveling at all
ter and those who were with him the things which he did, he said to
were heavy with sleep: but when his disciples, 44 “Let these words
they were fully awake, they saw his sink into your ears: for the Son of
glory, and the two men who stood Man will be delivered up into the
with him. 33 And it came to pass, as hands of men.” 45 But they did not
they were parting from him, Peter understand this saying, and it was
said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for concealed from them, that they
us to be here: and let us make three should not perceive it; and they
tabernacles; one for you, and one were afraid to ask him about this
for Moses, and one for Elijah”: not saying.
knowing what he said. 34 And 46 And there arose a reasoning
while he said these things, there among them, which of them was
came a cloud, and overshadowed the greatest. 47 But when Jesus saw
them: and they feared as they en- the reasoning of their heart, he took
tered into the cloud. 35 And a voice a little child, and set him by his
came out of the cloud, saying, “This side, 48 and said to them, “Whoso-
is my Son, my chosen: hear him.” ever shall receive this little child in
36 And when the voice came, Jesus my name receives me: and whoso-
was found alone. And they held ever shall receive me receives him
their peace, and told no man in who sent me: for he who is least
those days any of the things which among you all, the same is great.”
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49 And John answered and said, place, where he himself was about
“Master, we saw one casting out to come. 2 And he said to them,
demons in your name; and we for- “The harvest indeed is plentiful,
bid him, because he did not follow but the laborers are few: beseech
with us.” 50 But Jesus said to him, therefore the Lord of the harvest,
“Do not forbid him: for he who is that he send forth laborers into his
not against you is for you.” harvest. 3 Go your ways; behold, I
51 And it came to pass, when the send you forth as lambs in the
days were approaching that he midst of wolves. 4 Carry no money
should be received up, he stead- bag, no knapsack, no sandals; and
fastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, greet no man on the way. 5 And into
52 and sent messengers before his whatsoever house you shall enter,
face: and they went, and entered first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’ 6
into a village of the Samaritans, to And if a son of peace be there, your
make ready for him. 53 And they peace will rest upon him: but if not,
did not receive him, because his it will turn to you again. 7 And in
face was as though he were going to that same house remain, eating and
Jerusalem. 54 And when his disci- drinking such things as they give:
ples James and John saw this, they for the laborer is worthy of his
said, “Lord, will you that we bid wages. Do not go from house to
fire to come down from heaven, house. 8 And into whatsoever city
and consume them?” 55 But he you enter, and they receive you, eat
turned, and rebuked them. 56 And such things as are set before you: 9
they went to another village. and heal the sick who are in it, and
57 And as they went on the way, a say to them, ‘The kingdom of God
certain man said to him, “I will fol- is come near to you.’ 10 But into
low you wherever you go.” 58 And whatsoever city you shall enter,
Jesus said to him, “The foxes have and they do not receive you, go out
holes, and the birds of the heaven into the streets of it and say, 11
have nests; but the Son of Man has ‘Even the dust from your city, that
nowhere to lay his head.” 59 And cleaves to our feet, we wipe off
he said to another, “Follow me.” against you: nevertheless know
But he said, “Lord, allow me first to this, that the kingdom of God is
go and bury my father.” 60 But he come near.’ 12 I say to you, It will be
said to him, “Leave the dead to more tolerable in that day for
bury their own dead; but you go Sodom, than for that city. 13 Woe to
and publish abroad the kingdom of you, Chorazin! woe to you, Beth-
God.” 61 And another also said, “I saida! for if the mighty works had
will follow you, Lord; but first al- been done in Tyre and Sidon, which
low me to bid farewell to those who were done in you, they would have
are at my house.” 62 But Jesus said repented long ago, sitting in sack-
to him, “No man, having put his cloth and ashes. 14 But it will be
hand to the plow, and looking back, more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon
is fit for the kingdom of God.” in the judgment, than for you. 15

10 Now after these things the And you, Capernaum, will you be
Lord appointed seventy oth- exalted to heaven? you will be
ers, and sent them two and two be- brought down to Hades. 16 He who
fore his face into every city and hears you hears me; and he who re-
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jects you rejects me; and he who re- And he said to him, “You have an-
jects me rejects him who sent me.” swered right: this do, and you will
17 And the seventy returned with live.” 29 But he, desiring to justify
joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons himself, said to Jesus, “And who is
are subject to us in your name.” 18 my neighbor?” 30 Jesus answered
And he said to them, “I beheld Sa- and said, “A certain man was going
tan fallen as lightning from heaven. down from Jerusalem to Jericho;
19 Behold, I have given you author- and he fell among robbers, who
ity to tread upon serpents and scor- both stripped him and beat him,
pions, and over all the power of the and departed, leaving him half
enemy: and nothing shall in any dead. 31 And by chance a certain
way hurt you. 20 Nevertheless in priest was going down that way:
this do not rejoice, that the spirits and when he saw him, he passed by
are subject to you; but rejoice that on the other side. 32 And in like
your names are written in heaven.” manner a Levite also, when he
21 In that same hour he rejoiced in came to the place, and saw him,
the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank passed by on the other side. 33 But
you, O Father, Lord of heaven and a certain Samaritan, as he jour-
earth, that you hid these things neyed, came where he was: and
from the wise and understanding, when he saw him, he was moved
and revealed them to babes: yes, with compassion, 34 and came to
Father; for so it was well-pleasing him, and bound up his wounds,
in your sight. 22 All things have pouring on them oil and wine; and
been delivered to me by my Father: he set him on his own beast, and
and no one knows who the Son is, brought him to an inn, and took
except the Father; and who the Fa- care of him. 35 And on the next day
ther is, except the Son, and he to he took out two denarii, and gave
whomsoever the Son wills to reveal them to the host, and said, ‘Take
him.” 23 And turning to the disci- care of him; and whatsoever you
ples, he said privately, “Blessed are spend more, I, when I come back
the eyes which see the things that again, will repay you.’ 36 Which of
you see: 24 for I say to you, that these three, do you think, proved
many prophets and kings desired neighbor to him who fell among the
to see the things which you see, and robbers?” 37 And he said, “He who
did not see them; and to hear the showed mercy on him.” And Jesus
things which you hear, and did not said to him, “Go, and do likewise.”
hear them.” 38 Now as they went on their
25 And behold, a certain lawyer way, he entered into a certain vil-
stood up and tested him, saying, lage: and a certain woman named
“Teacher, what shall I do to inherit Martha received him into her
eternal life?” 26 And he said to him, house. 39 And she had a sister
“What is written in the law? how called Mary, who also sat at the
do you read?” 27 And he answering Lord’s feet, and heard his word. 40
said, “You shall love the Lord your But Martha was distracted about
God with all your heart, and with much serving; and she came up to
all your soul, and with all your him, and said, “Lord, do you not
strength, and with all your mind; care that my sister left me to serve
and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 alone? bid her therefore that she
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help me.” 41 But the Lord answered If you then, being evil, know how
and said to her, “Martha, Martha, to give good gifts to your children,
you are anxious and troubled about how much more will your heavenly
many things: 42 but one thing is Father give the Holy Spirit to those
necessary: for Mary has chosen the who ask him?”
good part, which will not be taken 14 And he was casting out a de-
away from her.” mon that was mute. And it came to

11 And it came to pass, as he pass, when the demon had gone

was praying in a certain out, the mute man spoke; and the
place, that when he ceased, one of multitudes marveled. 15 But some
his disciples said to him, “Lord, of them said, “By Beelzebub the
teach us to pray, even as John also prince of the demons he casts out
taught his disciples.” 2 And he said demons.” 16 And others, testing
to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Fa- him, sought from him a sign from
ther, Hallowed be your name. Your heaven. 17 But he, knowing their
kingdom come. 3 Give us day by thoughts, said to them, “Every
day our daily bread. 4 And forgive kingdom divided against itself is
us our sins; for we ourselves also brought to desolation; and a house
forgive every one who is indebted divided against a house falls. 18 And
to us. And do not bring us into if Satan also is divided against him-
temptation.” self, how will his kingdom stand?
5 And he said to them, “Which of because you say that I cast out
you will have a friend, and will go demons by Beelzebub. 19 And if I
to him at midnight, and say to him, by Beelzebub cast out demons, by
‘Friend, lend me three loaves; 6 for whom do your sons cast them out?
a friend of mine is come to me from therefore will they be your judges.
a journey, and I have nothing to set 20 But if I by the finger of God cast
before him’; 7 and he from within out demons, then is the kingdom of
shall answer and say, ‘Do not trou- God come upon you. 21 When the
ble me: the door is now shut, and strong man fully armed guards his
my children are with me in bed; I own court, his goods are in peace:
cannot rise and give you’? 8 I say to 22 but when a stronger than he
you, Though he will not rise and shall come upon him, and over-
give him because he is his friend, come him, he takes from him his
yet because of his importunity he whole armor in which he trusted,
will arise and give him as many as and divides his spoils. 23 He who is
he needs. 9 And I say to you, Ask, not with me is against me; and he
and it will be given you; seek, and who does not gather with me scat-
you will find; knock, and it will be ters. 24 The unclean spirit when he
opened to you. 10 For every one is gone out of the man, passes
who asks receives; and he who through waterless places, seeking
seeks finds; and to him who knocks rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I
it will be opened. 11 And of which will turn back to my house from
of you who is a father will his son which I came out.’ 25 And when he
ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? is come, he finds it swept and gar-
or a fish, and he for a fish give him nished. 26 Then he goes, and takes
a serpent? 12 Or if he will ask an to him seven other spirits more evil
egg, will he give him a scorpion? 13 than himself; and they enter in and
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dwell there: and the last state of you light.”
that man becomes worse than the 37 Now as he spoke, a Pharisee
first.” asks him to dine with him: and he
27 And it came to pass, as he said went in, and reclined at the table. 38
these things, a certain woman out And when the Pharisee saw it, he
of the multitude lifted up her voice, marveled that he had not first
and said to him, “Blessed is the washed himself before dinner. 39
womb that bore you, and the And the Lord said to him, “Now
breasts which you sucked.” 28 But you the Pharisees cleanse the out-
he said, “Yes rather, blessed are side of the cup and of the platter;
they who hear the word of God, but your inward part is full of ex-
and keep it.” tortion and wickedness. 40 You
29 And when the multitudes were foolish ones, did not he who made
gathering together to him, he began the outside make the inside also? 41
to say, “This generation is an evil But give for alms those things
generation: it seeks after a sign; and which are within; and behold, all
there will no sign be given to it but things are clean to you.
the sign of Jonah. 30 For even as 42 But woe to you Pharisees! for
Jonah became a sign to the you tithe mint and rue and every
Ninevites, so will also the Son of herb, and pass over justice and the
Man be to this generation. 31 The love of God: but these ought you to
queen of the south will rise up in have done, and not to leave the
the judgment with the men of this other undone. 43 Woe to you Phar-
generation, and will condemn isees! for you love the chief seats in
them: for she came from the ends of the synagogues, and the greetings
the earth to hear the wisdom of in the marketplaces. 44 Woe to you!
Solomon; and behold, a greater for you are as the tombs which do
than Solomon is here. 32 The men not appear, and the men who walk
of Nineveh will stand up in the over them do not know it.”
judgment with this generation, and 45 And one of the lawyers an-
will condemn it: for they repented swering says to him, “Teacher, in
at the preaching of Jonah; and be- saying this you reproach us also.”
hold, a greater than Jonah is here. 46 And he said, “Woe to you
33 No man, when he has lit a lawyers also! for you load men with
lamp, puts it in a cellar, neither un- burdens grievous to be borne, and
der the bushel, but on the stand, you yourselves do not touch the
that those who enter in may see the burdens with one of your fingers.
light. 34 The lamp of your body is 47 Woe to you! for you build the
your eye: when your eye is single, tombs of the prophets, and your fa-
your whole body also is full of thers killed them. 48 So you are wit-
light; but when it is evil, your body nesses and consent to the works of
also is full of darkness. 35 Look your fathers: for they killed them,
therefore whether the light that is in and you build their tombs. 49 There-
you is not darkness. 36 If therefore fore also said the wisdom of God, ‘I
your whole body is full of light, will send to them prophets and
having no part dark, it will be apostles; and some of them they will
wholly full of light, as when the kill and persecute;’ 50 that the
lamp with its bright shining gives blood of all the prophets, which
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was shed from the foundation of And I say to you, every one who
the world, may be required of this shall confess me before men, him
generation; 51 from the blood of will the Son of Man also confess be-
Abel to the blood of Zachariah, fore the angels of God: 9 but he who
who perished between the altar denies me in the presence of men
and the sanctuary: yes, I say to you, will be denied in the presence of the
it shall be required of this genera- angels of God. 10 And every one
tion. 52 Woe to you lawyers! for you who will speak a word against the
took away the key of knowledge: Son of Man, it will be forgiven him:
you did not enter in yourselves, but to him who blasphemes against
and those who were entering in the Holy Spirit it will not be for-
you hindered.” given. 11 And when they bring you
53 And when he had come out before the synagogues, and the
from there, the scribes and the rulers, and the authorities, do not
Pharisees began to press upon him be anxious how or what you shall
vehemently, and to provoke him to answer, or what you shall say: 12
speak of many things; 54 laying for the Holy Spirit will teach you in
wait for him, to catch something that very hour what you ought to
out of his mouth. say.”

12 In the meantime, when the 13 And one out of the multitude

many thousands of the mul- said to him, “Teacher, bid my
titude were gathered together, inso- brother divide the inheritance with
much that they trampled one me.” 14 But he said to him, “Man,
another, he began to say to his disci- who made me a judge or a divider
ples first of all, “Beware of the over you?” 15 And he said to them,
leaven of the Pharisees, which is “Take heed, and keep yourselves
hypocrisy. 2 But there is nothing from all covetousness: for a man’s
covered up, that will not be re- life does not consist in the abun-
vealed; and hidden, that will not be dance of the things which he pos-
known. 3 Therefore whatsoever sesses.” 16 And he spoke a parable
you have said in the darkness will to them, saying, “The ground of a
be heard in the light; and what you certain rich man brought forth
have spoken in the ear in the inner plentifully: 17 and he reasoned
rooms will be proclaimed upon the within himself, saying, ‘What shall
housetops. 4 And I say to you my I do, because I have nowhere to
friends, Do not be afraid of those store my fruits?’ 18 And he said,
who kill the body, and after that ‘This will I do: I will pull down my
have no more that they can do. 5 barns, and build greater; and there
But I will warn you whom you shall will I store all my grain and my
fear: Fear him, who after he has goods. 19 And I will say to my soul,
killed has power to cast into hell; “Soul, you have many goods laid
yes, I say to you, Fear him. 6 Are up for many years; take your ease,
not five sparrows sold for two cop- eat, drink, be merry.” ’ 20 But God
per coins? and not one of them is said to him, ‘You foolish one, this
forgotten in the sight of God. 7 But night is your soul required of you;
the very hairs of your head are all and the things which you have pre-
numbered. Do not fear: you are of pared, whose will they be?’ 21 So is
more value than many sparrows. 8 he who lays up treasure for himself,
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and is not rich toward God.” looking for their lord, when he shall
22 And he said to his disciples, return from the marriage feast; that,
“Therefore I say to you, Do not be when he comes and knocks, they
anxious for your life, what you will may immediately open to him. 37
eat; nor yet for your body, what you Blessed are those servants, whom
will put on. 23 For the life is more the lord when he comes will find
than the food, and the body than watching: truly I say to you, that he
the clothing. 24 Consider the will gird himself, and make them
ravens, that they do not sow, nei- recline at the table, and shall come
ther reap; which have no storeroom and serve them. 38 And if he shall
nor barn; and God feeds them: of come in the second watch, and if in
how much more value are you than the third, and find them so, blessed
the birds! 25 And which of you by are those servants. 39 But know this,
being anxious can add a cubit to the that if the master of the house had
measure of his life? 26 If then you known in what hour the thief was
are not able to do even that which is coming, he would have watched,
least, why are you anxious concern- and not have left his house to be
ing the rest? 27 Consider the lilies, broken through. 40 Be also ready:
how they grow: they do not toil, for in an hour that you do not think
neither do they spin; yet I say to the Son of Man comes.”
you, Even Solomon in all his glory 41 And Peter said, “Lord, do you
was not arrayed like one of these. speak this parable to us, or even to
28 But if God does so clothe the all?”42 And the Lord said, “Who
grass in the field, which today is, then is the faithful and wise stew-
and tomorrow is cast into the oven; ard, whom his lord will set over his
how much more will he clothe you, household, to give them their por-
O you of little faith? 29 And do not tion of food in due season? 43
seek what you shall eat, and what Blessed is that servant, whom his
you shall drink, neither be of lord when he comes will find so do-
doubtful mind. 30 For all these ing. 44 Truly I say to you, that he
things do the nations of the world will set him over all that he has. 45
seek after: but your Father knows But if that servant shall say in his
that you have need of these things. heart, ‘My lord delays his coming;
31 Yet seek his kingdom, and these and shall begin to beat the male ser-
things shall be added to you. 32 Do vants and the female servants, and
not fear, little flock; for it is your Fa- to eat and drink, and to be drunk;
ther’s good pleasure to give you the 46 the lord of that servant will come
kingdom. 33 Sell that which you in a day when he does not expect,
have, and give alms; make for your- and in an hour when he does not
selves money bags which do not know, and will cut him in two, and
become old, a treasure in the heav- appoint his portion with the un-
ens that does not fail, where no faithful. 47 And that servant, who
thief draws near, neither moth de- knew his lord’s will, and did not
stroys. 34 For where your treasure make ready, nor did according to
is, there will your heart be also. his will, shall be beaten with many
35 Let your waist be girded blows; 48 but he who did not know,
around, and your lamps burning; and did things worthy of blows,
36 and be you yourselves like men shall be beaten with few blows. And
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to whomsoever much is given, of who told him of the Galileans,
him will much be required: and to whose blood Pilate had mingled
whom they commit much, of him with their sacrifices. 2 And he an-
will they ask the more. swered and said to them, “Do you
49 I came to cast fire upon the think that these Galileans were sin-
earth; and what do I desire, if it is ners above all the Galileans, be-
already kindled? 50 But I have a cause they have suffered these
baptism to be baptized with; and things? 3 I tell you, No: but, except
how am I straitened until it is ac- you repent, you will all in like man-
complished! 51 Do you think that I ner perish. 4 Or those eighteen,
came to give peace in the earth? I upon whom the tower in Siloam
tell you, No; but rather division: 52 fell, and killed them, do you think
for there will be from henceforth that they were offenders above all
five in one house divided, three the men who dwell in Jerusalem? 5
against two, and two against three. I tell you, No: but, except you re-
53 They will be divided, father pent, you will all likewise perish.”
against son, and son against father; 6 And he spoke this parable; “A
mother against daughter, and certain man had a fig tree planted
daughter against her mother; in his vineyard; and he came seek-
mother-in-law against her daugh- ing fruit on it, and found none. 7
ter-in-law, and daughter-in-law And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Be-
against her mother-in-law.” hold, these three years I come seek-
54 And he said to the multitudes ing fruit on this fig tree, and find
also, “When you see a cloud rising none: cut it down; why does it also
in the west, immediately you say, use up the ground?’ 8 And he an-
‘There comes a shower’; and so it swering says to him, ‘Lord, let it
comes to pass. 55 And when you see alone this year also, until I shall dig
a south wind blowing, you say, around it, and put dung on it: 9 and
‘There will be a scorching heat’; and if it bear fruit from that time on-
it comes to pass. 56 You hypocrites, ward, well; but if not, you will cut it
you know how to interpret the face down.’ ”
of the earth and the heaven; but 10 And he was teaching in one of
how is it that you do not know how the synagogues on the Sabbath Day.
to interpret this time? 57 And why 11 And behold, a woman who had
even of yourselves do you not a spirit of infirmity eighteen years;
judge what is right? 58 For as you and she was bowed together, and
are going with your adversary be- could in no way lift herself up. 12
fore the magistrate, on the way give And when Jesus saw her, he called
diligence to be settle with him; lest her, and said to her, “Woman, you
perhaps he drag you to the judge, are loosed from your infirmity.” 13
and the judge shall deliver you to And he laid his hands upon her:
the officer, and the officer will cast and immediately she was made
you into prison. 59 I say to you, You straight, and glorified God. 14 And
shall by no means come out from the ruler of the synagogue, being
there, until you have paid the very moved with indignation because
last small copper coin.” Jesus had healed on the Sabbath,

13 Now there were some answered and said to the multi-

present at that very season tude, “There are six days in which
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men ought to work: in them there- and drank in your presence, and
fore come and be healed, and not you taught in our streets;’ 27 and he
on the day of the Sabbath.” 15 But will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know
the Lord answered him, and said, where you are from; depart from
“You hypocrites, does not each one me, all you workers of iniquity.’ 28
of you on the Sabbath loose his ox There will be the weeping and the
or his donkey from the stall, and gnashing of teeth, when you shall
lead him away to watering? 16 And see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob,
ought not this woman, being a and all the prophets, in the king-
daughter of Abraham, whom Satan dom of God, and yourselves cast
had bound, behold, these eighteen forth outside. 29 And they will
years, to have been loosed from this come from the east and west, and
bond on the day of the Sabbath?” 17 from the north and south, and will
And as he said these things, all his sit down in the kingdom of God. 30
adversaries were put to shame: and And behold, there are last who will
all the multitude rejoiced for all the be first, and there are first who will
glorious things that were done by be last.”
him. 31 In that very hour there came
18 He said therefore, “To what is certain Pharisees, saying to him,
the kingdom of God like? and to “Get out, and go from here: for
what shall I liken it? 19 It is like a Herod wishes to kill you.” 32 And
grain of mustard seed, which a man he said to them, “Go and say to that
took, and cast into his own garden; fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and
and it grew, and became a tree; and perform cures today and tomorrow,
the birds of the heaven lodged in and the third day I am perfected. 33
the branches of it.” Nevertheless I must go on my way
20 And again he said, “To what today and tomorrow and the day
shall I liken the kingdom of God? following: for it cannot be that a
21 It is like leaven, which a woman prophet perish out of Jerusalem. 34
took and hid in three measures of O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills
meal, until it was all leavened.” the prophets, and stones those who
22 And he went on his way are sent to her! how often would I
through cities and villages, teach- have gathered your children to-
ing, and journeying on to gether, even as a hen gathers her
Jerusalem. 23 And one said to him, own brood under her wings, and
“Lord, are they few who are you would not! 35 Behold, your
saved?” And he said to them, 24 house is left to you desolate: and I
“Strive to enter in by the narrow say to you, You shall not see me,
door: for many, I say to you, will until you shall say, ‘Blessed is he
seek to enter in, and will not be who comes in the name of the
able. 25 When once the master of Lord.’ ”
the house is risen up, and has shut
the door, and you begin to stand 14 And it came to pass, when
he went into the house of one
outside, and to knock at the door, of the rulers of the Pharisees on a
saying, ‘Lord, open to us;’ and he Sabbath to eat bread, that they were
will answer and say to you, ‘I do watching him. 2 And behold, there
not know where you are from;’ 26 was before him a certain man who
then will you begin to say, ‘We ate had dropsy. 3 And Jesus answering
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spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, clined at the table with him heard
saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the these things, he said to him,
Sabbath, or not?” 4 But they held “Blessed is he who will eat bread in
their peace. And he took him, and the kingdom of God.” 16 But he
healed him, and let him go. 5 And said to him, “A certain man made a
he said to them, “Which of you great supper; and he bid many: 17
shall have a donkey or an ox fallen and he sent forth his servant at sup-
into a well, and will not immedi- per time to say to those who were
ately draw him up on a Sabbath bidden, ‘Come; for all things are
Day?” 6 And they could not answer now ready.’ 18 And they all with
again to these things. one consent began to make excuse.
7 And he spoke a parable to those The first said to him, I have bought
who were bidden, when he marked a field, and I must go out and see it;
how they chose out the chief seats; I ask you have me excused.’ 19 And
saying to them, 8 “When you are another said, ‘I have bought five
bidden by any man to a marriage yoke of oxen, and I go to test them;
feast, do not sit down in the chief I ask you have me excused.’ 20 And
seat; lest perhaps a more honorable another said, ‘I have married a
man than you is bidden by him, 9 wife, and therefore I cannot come.’
and he who bid you and him shall 21 And the servant came, and told
come and say to you, “Give this his lord these things. Then the mas-
man place; and then you will begin ter of the house being angry said to
with shame to take the lowest his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the
place. 10 But when you are bidden, streets and lanes of the city, and
go and sit down in the lowest place; bring in here the poor and maimed
that when he who has bidden you and blind and lame.’ 22 And the
comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, servant said, ‘Lord, what you com-
go up higher’: then will you have manded is done, and yet there is
glory in the presence of all who re- room.’ 23 And the lord said to the
cline at the table with you. 11 For servant, ‘Go out into the highways
every one who exalts himself will and hedges, and constrain them to
be humbled; and he who humbles come in, that my house may be
himself will be exalted.” filled. 24 For I say to you, that none
12 And he said to him also who of those men who were bidden
had bidden him, “When you make shall taste of my supper.’ ”
a dinner or a supper, do not call 25 Now there went with him great
your friends, nor your brothers, nor multitudes: and he turned, and said
your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; to them, 26 “If any man comes to
lest perhaps they also bid you me, and does not hate his own fa-
again, and a repayment be made to ther, and mother, and wife, and
you. 13 But when you make a feast, children, and brethren, and sisters,
bid the poor, the maimed, the lame, yes, and his own life also, he cannot
the blind: 14 and you will be be my disciple. 27 Whosoever does
blessed; because they do not have not bear his own cross, and come
wherewithal to repay you: for you after me, cannot be my disciple. 28
shall be repaid in the resurrection of For which of you, desiring to build
the just.” a tower, does not first sit down and
15 And when one of them who re- count the cost, whether he has
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wherewithal to complete it? 29 Lest 8 Or what woman having ten
perhaps, when he has laid a foun- pieces of silver, if she lose one piece,
dation, and is not able to finish, all does not light a lamp, and sweep
that behold begin to mock him, 30 the house, and seek diligently until
saying, ‘This man began to build, she finds it? 9 And when she has
and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or found it, she calls together her
what king, as he goes to encounter friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Re-
another king in war, will not sit joice with me, for I have found the
down first and take counsel piece which I had lost.’ 10 Even so,
whether he is able with ten thou- I say to you, there is joy in the pres-
sand to meet him who comes ence of the angels of God over one
against him with twenty thousand? sinner who repents.”
32 Or else, while the other is yet a 11 And he said, “A certain man
great way off, he sends a delega- had two sons: 12 and the younger
tion, and asks conditions of peace. of them said to his father, ‘Father,
33 So therefore whosoever he be of give me the portion of your sub-
you that does not renounce all that stance that falls to me.’ And he di-
he has, he cannot be my disciple. 34 vided to them his living. 13 And not
Salt therefore is good: but if even many days after, the younger son
the salt has lost its savor, with what gathered all together and took his
shall it be seasoned? 35 It is fit nei- journey into a far country; and
ther for the land nor for the there he wasted his substance with
dunghill: men cast it out. He who wasteful living. 14 And when he
has ears to hear, let him hear.” had spent all, there arose a mighty

15 Now all the tax collectors famine in that country; and he be-
and sinners were drawing gan to be in want. 15 And he went
near to him to hear him. 2 And both and joined himself to one of the cit-
the Pharisees and the scribes mur- izens of that country; and he sent
mured, saying, “This man receives him into his fields to feed swine. 16
sinners, and eats with them.” And he would have filled his belly
3 And he spoke to them this para- with the husks that the swine ate:
ble, saying, 4 “What man of you, and no man gave to him. 17 But
having a hundred sheep, and hav- when he came to himself he said,
ing lost one of them, does not leave ‘How many hired servants of my
the ninety-nine in the wilderness, father’s have bread enough and to
and go after that which is lost, until spare, and I perish here with
he finds it? 5 And when he has hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my
found it, he lays it on his shoulders, father, and will say to him, ‘Father,
rejoicing. 6 And when he comes I have sinned against heaven, and
home, he calls together his friends in your sight: 19 I am no more wor-
and his neighbors, saying to them, thy to be called your son: make me
‘Rejoice with me, for I have found as one of your hired servants.’ 20
my sheep which was lost.’ 7 I say to And he arose, and came to his fa-
you, that even so there will be joy in ther. But while he was still afar off,
heaven over one sinner who re- his father saw him, and was moved
pents, more than over ninety-nine with compassion, and ran, and fell
righteous persons, who need no re- on his neck, and kissed him. 21 And
pentance. the son said to him, ‘Father, I have
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sinned against heaven, and in your you can no longer be steward.’ 3
sight: I am no more worthy to be And the steward said within him-
called your son.’ 22 But the father self, ‘What shall I do, seeing that
said to his servants, ‘Bring forth my lord takes away the steward-
quickly the best robe, and put it on ship from me? I do not have
him; and put a ring on his hand, strength to dig; to beg I am
and sandals on his feet: 23 and ashamed. 4 I am resolved what to
bring the fatted calf, and kill it, and do, that, when I am put out of the
let us eat, and celebrate: 24 for this stewardship, they may receive me
my son was dead, and is alive into their houses.’ 5 And calling to
again; he was lost, and is found.’ him each one of his lord’s debtors,
And they began to be merry. 25 he said to the first, ‘How much do
Now his elder son was in the field: you owe to my lord?’ 6 And he said,
and as he came and drew near to ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ And
the house, he heard music and he said to him, ‘Take your bond,
dancing. 26 And he called to him and sit down quickly and write
one of the servants, and inquired fifty.’ 7 Then said he to another,
what these things might be. 27 And ‘And how much do you owe?’ And
he said to him, ‘Your brother is he said, ‘A hundred measures of
come; and your father has killed the wheat.’ He says to him, ‘Take your
fatted calf, because he has received bond, and write eighty.’ 8 And his
him safe and sound.’ 28 But he was lord commended the unrighteous
angry, and would not go in: and his steward because he had done wise-
father came out, and entreated him. ly: for the sons of this world are for
29 But he answered and said to his their own generation wiser than the
father, ‘Behold, these many years sons of the light. 9 And I say to you,
do I serve you, and I never trans- Make yourselves friends by means
gressed a commandment of yours; of the wealth of unrighteousness;
and yet you never gave me a kid, that, when it shall fail, they may re-
that I might celebrate with my ceive you into the eternal taberna-
friends: 30 but when this your son cles. 10 He who is faithful in a very
came, who has devoured your liv- little is faithful also in much: and he
ing with harlots, you killed for him who is unrighteous in a very little is
the fatted calf.’ 31 And he said to unrighteous also in much. 11 If
him, ‘Son, you are ever with me, therefore you have not been faithful
and all that is mine is yours. 32 But in the unrighteous wealth, who will
it was fitting to celebrate and be commit to your trust the true riches?
glad: for this your brother was 12 And if you have not been faithful
dead, and is alive again; and was in that which is another’s, who will
lost, and is found.’ ” give you that which is your own?

16 And he said also to the dis- 13 No servant can serve two mas-
ciples, “There was a certain ters: for either he will hate the one,
rich man, who had a steward; and and love the other; or else he will
the same was accused to him that hold to one, and despise the other.
he was wasting his goods. 2 And he You cannot serve God and wealth.”
called him, and said to him, ‘What 14 And the Pharisees, who were
is this that I hear of you? render the lovers of money, heard all these
account of your stewardship; for things; and they scoffed at him. 15
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And he said to them, “You are those would pass from here to you may
who justify yourselves in the sight not be able, and that none may
of men; but God knows your cross over from there to us.’ 27 And
hearts: for that which is exalted he said, ‘I ask you therefore, father,
among men is an abomination in that you would send him to my fa-
the sight of God. 16 The law and the ther’s house; 28 for I have five
prophets were until John: from that brothers; that he may testify to
time the gospel of the kingdom of them, lest they also come into this
God is preached, and every man place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham
enters violently into it. 17 But it is says, ‘They have Moses and the
easier for heaven and earth to pass prophets; let them hear them.’ 30
away, than for one tittle of the law And he said, ‘No, father Abraham:
to fall. but if one go to them from the dead,
18 Every one who puts away his they will repent.’ 31 And he said to
wife, and marries another, commits him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and
adultery: and he who marries one the prophets, neither will they be
who is put away from a husband persuaded, if one rise from the
commits adultery. dead.’ ”
19 Now there was a certain rich
man, and he was clothed in purple 17 And he said to his disci-
ples, “It is impossible but
and fine linen, faring sumptuously that occasions of stumbling should
every day: 20 and a certain beggar come; but woe to him, through
named Lazarus was laid at his gate, whom they come! 2 It were well for
full of sores, 21 and desiring to be him if a millstone were hung
fed with the crumbs that fell from around his neck, and he were
the rich man’s table; yes, even the thrown into the sea, rather than that
dogs came and licked his sores. 22 he should cause one of these little
And it came to pass, that the beggar ones to stumble. 3 Take heed to
died, and that he was carried away yourselves: if your brother sin, re-
by the angels into Abraham’s bo- buke him; and if he repent, forgive
som: and the rich man also died, him. 4 And if he sin against you
and was buried. 23 And in Hades seven times in the day, and seven
he lifted up his eyes, being in tor- times turn again to you, saying, ‘I
ments, and sees Abraham afar off, repent;’ you shall forgive him.”
and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And 5 And the apostles said to the
he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, Lord, “Increase our faith.” 6 And
have mercy on me, and send the Lord said, “If you had faith as a
Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of grain of mustard seed, you would
his finger in water, and cool my say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be rooted
tongue; for I am in anguish in this up, and be planted in the sea;’ and
flame.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Son, it would obey you. 7 But who is
remember that you in your lifetime there of you, having a servant
received your good things, and plowing or keeping sheep, that will
Lazarus in like manner evil things: say to him, when he has come in
but now here he is comforted, and from the field, ‘Come immediately
you are in anguish. 26 And besides and recline at the table;’ 8 and will
all this, between us and you there is not rather say to him, ‘Make ready
a great gulf fixed, that those who by which I may have supper, and
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gird yourself, and serve me, until I the Son of Man, and you will not
have eaten and drunk; and after- see it. 23 And they will say to you,
ward you will eat and drink?’ 9 ‘Look, there! Look, here!’ do not go
Does he thank the servant because away, nor follow after them: 24 for
he did the things that were com- as the lightning, when it flashes out
manded? 10 Even so you also, of the one part under the heaven,
when you shall have done all the shines to the other part under
things that are commanded you, heaven; so will the Son of Man be in
say, ‘We are unprofitable servants; his day. 25 But first must he suffer
we have done that which it was our many things and be rejected by this
duty to do.’ ” generation. 26 And as it came to
11 And it came to pass, as they pass in the days of Noah, even so
were on the way to Jerusalem, that will it be also in the days of the Son
he was passing along the borders of of Man. 27 They ate, they drank,
Samaria and Galilee. 12 And as he they married, they were given in
entered into a certain village, there marriage, until the day that Noah
met him ten men who were lepers, entered into the ark, and the flood
who stood afar off: 13 and they came, and destroyed them all. 28
lifted up their voices, saying, “Je- Likewise even as it came to pass in
sus, Master, have mercy on us.” 14 the days of Lot; they ate, they
And when he saw them, he said to drank, they bought, they sold, they
them, “Go and show yourselves to planted, they built; 29 but in the
the priests.” And it came to pass, as day that Lot went out from Sodom
they went, they were cleansed. 15 it rained fire and brimstone from
And one of them, when he saw that heaven, and destroyed them all: 30
he was healed, turned back, with a according to the same manner will
loud voice glorifying God; 16 and it be in the day that the Son of Man
he fell upon his face at his feet, giv- is revealed. 31 In that day, he who
ing him thanks: and he was a will be on the housetop, and his
Samaritan. 17 And Jesus answering goods in the house, let him not go
said, “Were not the ten cleansed? down to take them away: and let
but where are the nine? 18 Were him who is in the field likewise not
there none found who returned to return back. 32 Remember Lot’s
give glory to God, except this wife. 33 Whosoever shall seek to
stranger?” 19 And he said to him, gain his life will lose it: but whoso-
“Arise, and go your way: your faith ever shall lose his life will preserve
has made you whole.” it. 34 I say to you, In that night there
20 And being asked by the Phar- will be two men on one bed; the one
isees, when the kingdom of God will be taken, and the other will be
comes, he answered them and said, left. 35 There will be two women
“The kingdom of God does not grinding together; the one will be
come with observation: 21 neither taken, and the other will be left.” 37
will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, And they answering say to him,
‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of “Where, Lord?” And he said to
God is within you.” them, “Where the body is, there
22 And he said to the disciples, will the eagles also be gathered to-
“The days will come, when you gether.”
will desire to see one of the days of
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18 And he spoke a parable to 15 And they were bringing to him

them to the end that they also their babes, that he should
ought always to pray, and not to touch them: but when the disciples
faint; 2 saying, “There was in a city saw it, they rebuked them. 16 But
a judge, who did not fear God, and Jesus called them to him, saying,
did not regard man: 3 and there “Allow the little children to come to
was a widow in that city; and she me, and do not forbid them: for to
came often to him, saying, ‘Avenge such belongs the kingdom of God.
me of my adversary.’ 4 And he 17 Truly I say to you, whosoever
would not for a while: but after- shall not receive the kingdom of
ward he said within himself, God as a little child, he shall in no
‘Though I do not fear God, nor re- way enter it.”
gard man; 5 yet because this widow 18 And a certain ruler asked him,
troubles me, I will avenge her, lest saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I
she wear me out by her continual do to inherit eternal life?” 19 And
coming.’ ” 6 And the Lord said, Jesus said to him, “Why do you call
“Hear what the unrighteous judge me good? none is good, except one,
says. 7 And shall not God avenge even God. 20 You know the com-
his elect, who cry to him day and mandments, ‘Do not commit adul-
night, and yet he is long-suffering tery,’ ‘Do not kill,’ ‘Do not steal,’
over them? 8 I say to you, that he ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Honor
will avenge them speedily. Never- your father and mother.’ ” 21 And
theless, when the Son of Man he said, “All these things have I ob-
comes, will he find faith on the served from my youth up.” 22 And
earth?” when Jesus heard it, he said to him,
9 And he spoke also this parable “One thing you lack still: sell all
to certain who trusted in them- that you have, and distribute to the
selves that they were righteous, poor, and you will have treasure in
and despised all others: 10 “Two heaven: and come, follow me.” 23
men went up into the temple to But when he heard these things, he
pray; the one a Pharisee, and the became exceedingly sorrowful; for
other a tax collector. 11 The Phar- he was very rich. 24 And Jesus see-
isee stood and prayed thus with ing him said, “How difficultly shall
himself, ‘God, I thank you, that I those who have riches enter into
am not as the rest of men, extortion- the kingdom of God! 25 For it is
ers, unjust, adulterers, or even as easier for a camel to enter in
this tax collector. 12 I fast twice in through a needle’s eye, than for a
the week; I give tithes of all that I rich man to enter into the kingdom
get.’ 13 But the tax collector, stand- of God.” 26 And those who heard it
ing afar off, would not lift up so said, “Then who can be saved?” 27
much as his eyes to heaven, but But he said, “The things which are
struck his breast, saying, ‘God, be impossible with men are possible
merciful to me a sinner.’ 14 I say to with God.” 28 And Peter said, “Be-
you, This man went down to his hold, we have left our own, and fol-
house justified rather than the oth- lowed you.” 29 And he said to
er: for every one who exalts himself them, “Truly I say to you, There is
will be humbled; but he who hum- no man who has left house, or wife,
bles himself will be exalted.” or brothers, or parents, or children,
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for the kingdom of God’s sake, 30 Zacchaeus; and he was a chief tax
who shall not receive manifold collector, and he was rich. 3 And he
more in this time, and in the world sought to see Jesus who he was;
to come eternal life.” and could not for the crowd, be-
31 And he took to him the twelve, cause he was little of stature. 4 And
and said to them, “Behold, we go he ran on before, and climbed up
up to Jerusalem, and all the things into a sycamore tree to see him: for
that are written through the he was to pass that way. 5 And
prophets will be accomplished to when Jesus came to the place, he
the Son of Man. 32 For he will be looked up, and said to him, “Zac-
delivered up to the Gentiles, and chaeus, make haste, and come
will be mocked, and shamefully down; for today I must stay at your
treated, and spit upon: 33 and they house.” 6 And he made haste, and
will scourge and kill him: and the came down, and received him joy-
third day he will rise again.” 34 fully. 7 And when they saw it, they
And they understood none of these all murmured, saying, “He is gone
things; and this saying was hid in to lodge with a man who is a sin-
from them, and they did not per- ner.” 8 And Zacchaeus stood, and
ceive the things that were said. said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the
35 And it came to pass, as he drew half of my goods I give to the poor,
near to Jericho, a certain blind man and if I have wrongfully exacted
sat by the way side begging: 36 and anything of any man, I restore four-
hearing a multitude going by, he in- fold.” 9 And Jesus said to him, “To-
quired what this meant. 37 And day has salvation come to this
they told him, that Jesus of house, forasmuch as he also is a son
Nazareth passes by. 38 And he of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man
cried, saying, “Jesus, you son of came to seek and to save that which
David, have mercy on me.” 39 And was lost.”
those who went before rebuked 11 And as they heard these things,
him, that he should hold his peace: he added and spoke a parable, be-
but he cried out the more a great cause he was near Jerusalem, and
deal, “You son of David, have because they supposed that the
mercy on me.” 40 And Jesus stood, kingdom of God was immediately
and commanded him to be brought to appear. 12 He said therefore, “A
to him: and when he had come certain nobleman went into a far
near, he asked him, 41 “What do country, to receive for himself a
you will that I should do to you?” kingdom, and to return. 13 And he
And he said, “Lord, that I may re- called ten servants of his, and gave
ceive my sight.” 42 And Jesus said them ten minas, and said to them,
to him, “Receive your sight: your ‘Trade with this until I come.’ 14 But
faith has made you whole.” 43 And his citizens hated him, and sent an
immediately he received his sight, delegation after him, saying, ‘We
and followed him, glorifying God: do not will that this man reign over
and all the people, when they saw us.’ 15 And it came to pass, when he
it, gave praise to God. had come back again, having re-

19 And he entered and was ceived the kingdom, that he com-

passing through Jericho. 2 manded these servants, to whom
And behold, a man called by name he had given the money, to be
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called to him, that he might know 30 saying, “Go your way into the
what they had gained by trading. village opposite you; in which as
16 And the first came before him, you enter you will find a colt tied,
saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made on which no man ever yet sat: loose
ten minas more.’ 17 And he said to him, and bring him. 31 And if any
him, ‘Well done, you good servant: one ask you, ‘Why do you loose
because you were found faithful in him?’ thus shall you say, ‘The Lord
a very little, have authority over ten has need of him.’ ” 32 And those
cities.’ 18 And the second came, who were sent went away, and
saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made found even as he had said to them.
five minas.’ 19 And he said to him 33 And as they were loosing the
also, ‘Be you also over five cities.’ colt, the owners of it said to them,
20 And another came, saying, “Why do you loose the colt?” 34
‘Lord, behold, here is your mina, And they said, “The Lord has need
which I kept laid up in a handker- of him.” 35 And they brought him
chief: 21 for I feared you, because to Jesus: and they threw their gar-
you are a severe man: you take up ments upon the colt, and set Jesus
that which you did not lay down, on it. 36 And as he went, they
and reap that which you did not spread their garments in the way.
sow.’ 22 He says to him, ‘Out of 37 And as he was now drawing
your own mouth will I judge you, near, even at the descent of the
you wicked servant. You knew that mount of Olives, the whole multi-
I am a severe man, taking up that tude of the disciples began to re-
which I did not lay down, and reap- joice and praise God with a loud
ing that which I did not sow; 23 voice for all the mighty works
then why did you not give my which they had seen; 38 saying,
money to the bank, and I at my “Blessed is the King who comes in
coming should have collected it the name of the Lord: peace in
with interest?’ 24 And he said to heaven, and glory in the highest.”
those who stood by, ‘Take away 39 And some of the Pharisees from
from him the mina, and give it to the multitude said to him, “Teacher,
him who has the ten minas.’ 25 And rebuke your disciples.” 40 And he
they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten answered and said, I tell you that, if
minas.’ 26 ‘I say to you, that to ev- these will hold their peace, the
ery one who has will be given; but stones will cry out.”
from him who does not have, even 41 And when he drew near, he
that which he has will be taken saw the city and wept over it, 42
away from him. 27 But these my en- saying, “If you had known in this
emies, who did not wish that I day, even you, the things which be-
should reign over them, bring here, long to peace! but now they are hid-
and slay them before me.’ ” den from your eyes. 43 For the days
28 And when he had thus spoken, will come upon you, when your en-
he went on before, going up to emies will cast up an embankment
Jerusalem. around you, and surround you,
29 And it came to pass, when he and keep you in on every side, 44
drew near to Bethphage and and will dash you to the ground,
Bethany, at the mount that is called and your children within you; and
Olivet, he sent two of the disciples, they will not leave in you one stone
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upon another; because you did not vineyard: but the vinedressers beat
know the time of your visitation.” him, and sent him away empty. 11
45 And he entered into the tem- And he sent yet another servant:
ple, and began to cast out those and him also they beat, and han-
who sold, 46 saying to them, “It is dled him shamefully, and sent him
written, ‘And my house shall be a away empty. 12 And he sent yet a
house of prayer:’ but you have third: and him also they wounded,
made it a den of robbers.” and cast him forth. 13 And the lord
47 And he was teaching daily in of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I
the temple. But the chief priests and do? I will send my beloved son; it
the scribes and the principal men of may be they will respect him.’ 14
the people sought to destroy him: But when the vinedressers saw
48 and they could not find what him, they reasoned with one an-
they might do; for the people all other, saying, ‘This is the heir; let us
hung upon him, listening. kill him, that the inheritance may

20 And it came to pass, on one be ours.’ 15 And they cast him forth
of the days, as he was teach- out of the vineyard, and killed him.
ing the people in the temple, and What therefore will the lord of the
preaching the gospel, there came vineyard do to them? 16 He will
upon him the chief priests and the come and destroy these vine-
scribes with the elders; 2 and they dressers, and will give the vineyard
spoke, saying to him, “Tell us: By to others.” And when they heard it,
what authority are you doing these they said, “God forbid.” 17 But he
things? or who is he who gave you looked upon them, and said, “What
this authority?” 3 And he answered then is this that is written,
and said to them, “I also will ask ‘The stone which the builders
you a question; and tell me: 4 The rejected,
baptism of John, was it from The same was made the head of
heaven, or from men?” 5 And they the corner?’
reasoned with themselves, saying, 18 Every one who falls on that stone
“If we shall say, ‘From heaven;’ he will be broken to pieces; but on
will say, ‘Why did you not believe whomsoever it shall fall, it will
him?’ 6 But if we shall say, ‘From scatter him as dust.”
men;’ all the people will stone us: 19 And the scribes and the chief
for they are persuaded that John priests sought to lay hands on him
was a prophet.” 7 And they an- in that very hour; and they feared
swered, that they did not know the people: for they perceived that
where it was from. 8 And Jesus said he spoke this parable against them.
to them, “Neither do I tell you by 20 And they watched him, and sent
what authority I do these things.” forth spies, who feigned them-
9 And he began to speak to the selves to be righteous, that they
people this parable: “A man might take hold of his speech, so as
planted a vineyard, and let it out to to deliver him up to the rule and to
vinedressers, and went into an- the authority of the governor. 21
other country for a long time. 10 And they asked him, saying,
And at the season he sent to the “Teacher, we know that you say
vinedressers a servant, that they and teach rightly, and do not accept
should give him of the fruit of the the person of any, but in truth teach
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the way of God: 22 Is it lawful for the living: for all live to him.” 39
us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?” And certain of the scribes answer-
23 But he perceived their craftiness, ing said, “Teacher, you have well
and said to them, 24 “Show me a said.” 40 For they dared not any
denarius. Whose image and super- more ask him any question.
scription does it have?” And they 41 And he said to them, “How do
said, “Caesar’s.” 25 And he said to they say that the Christ is David’s
them, “Then render to Caesar the son? 42 For David himself says in
things that are Caesar’s, and to God the book of Psalms,
the things that are God’s.” 26 And ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
they were not able to take hold of Sit on my right hand,
the saying before the people: and 43 Until I make your enemies the
they marveled at his answer, and footstool of your feet.’
held their peace. 44 David therefore calls him Lord,
27 And there came to him certain and how is he his son?”
of the Sadducees, those who say 45 And in the hearing of all the
that there is no resurrection; 28 and people he said to his disciples, 46
they asked him, saying, “Teacher, “Beware of the scribes, who desire
Moses wrote to us, that if a man’s to walk in long robes, and love
brother dies, having a wife, and he greetings in the marketplaces, and
is childless, his brother should take chief seats in the synagogues, and
the wife, and raise up seed to his chief places at feasts; 47 who de-
brother. 29 There were therefore vour widows’ houses, and for a
seven brothers: and the first took a pretense make long prayers: these
wife, and died childless; 30 and the will receive greater condemna-
second: 31 and the third took her; tion.”
and likewise the seven also left no
children, and died. 32 Afterward 21 And he looked up, and saw
the rich men who were cast-
the woman also died. 33 In the res- ing their gifts into the treasury. 2
urrection therefore whose wife of And he saw a certain poor widow
them will she be? for the seven had casting in there two small copper
her as wife.” 34 And Jesus said to coins. 3 And he said, “Truly I say to
them, “The sons of this world you, This poor widow cast in more
marry, and are given in marriage: than them all: 4 for all these did of
35 but those who are accounted their superfluity cast into the gifts;
worthy to attain to that world, and but she of her need cast in all the
the resurrection from the dead, nei- living that she had.”
ther marry, nor are given in mar- 5 And as some spoke of the tem-
riage: 36 for neither can they die ple, how it was adorned with beau-
anymore: for they are equal to the tiful stones and offerings, he said, 6
angels; and are sons of God, being “As for these things which you be-
sons of the resurrection. 37 But that hold, the days will come, in which
the dead are raised, even Moses there shall not be left here one stone
showed, in the place concerning the upon another, that shall not be
Bush, when he calls the Lord the thrown down.” 7 And they asked
God of Abraham, and the God of him, saying, “Teacher, when there-
Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 38 Now fore will these things be? and what
he is not the God of the dead, but of will be the sign when these things
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are about to come to pass?” 8 And fulfilled. 23 Woe to those who are
he said, “Take heed that you are not with child and to those who give
led astray: for many will come in suck in those days! for there will be
my name, saying, ‘I am he;’ and, great distress upon the land, and
‘The time is at hand’: do not go after wrath unto this people. 24 And
them. 9 And when you shall hear of they will fall by the edge of the
wars and tumults, do not be terri- sword, and will be led captive into
fied: for these things must come to all the nations: and Jerusalem will
pass first; but the end is not imme- be trampled by the Gentiles, until
diately.” the times of the Gentiles are ful-
10 Then said he to them, “Nation filled.
will rise against nation, and king- 25 And there will be signs in sun
dom against kingdom; 11 and there and moon and stars; and on the
will be great earthquakes, and in earth distress of nations, in perplex-
various places famines and pesti- ity for the roaring of the sea and the
lences; and there will be terrors and waves; 26 men fainting for fear, and
great signs from heaven. 12 But be- for expectation of the things which
fore all these things, they will lay are coming on the world: for the
their hands on you, and will perse- powers of the heavens will be
cute you, delivering you up to the shaken. 27 And then they will see
synagogues and prisons, bringing the Son of Man coming in a cloud
you before kings and governors for with power and great glory. 28 But
my name’s sake. 13 It will turn out when these things begin to come to
to you for a testimony. 14 Settle it pass, look up, and lift up your
therefore in your hearts, not to heads; because your redemption
meditate beforehand how to an- draws near.”
swer: 15 for I will give you a mouth 29 And he spoke to them a para-
and wisdom, which all your adver- ble: “Behold the fig tree, and all the
saries will not be able to withstand trees: 30 when they now shoot
or to contradict. 16 But you will be forth, you see it and know for your-
delivered up even by parents, and selves that the summer is now near.
brothers, and kinsfolk, and friends; 31 Even so you also, when you see
and some of you will they cause to these things coming to pass, know
be put to death. 17 And you will be that the kingdom of God is near. 32
hated by all men for my name’s Truly I say to you, This generation
sake. 18 And not a hair of your head shall not pass away, until all things
shall perish. 19 In your patience are accomplished. 33 Heaven and
you will win your souls. earth will pass away: but my words
20 But when you see Jerusalem shall not pass away.
surrounded with armies, then 34 But take heed to yourselves,
know that her desolation is at hand. lest perhaps your hearts be over-
21 Then let those who are in Judea charged with dissipation, and
flee to the mountains; and let those drunkenness, and cares of this life,
who are in the midst of her depart and that day come on you suddenly
out; and do not let those who are in as a snare: 35 for so it will come
the country enter into it. 22 For upon all those who dwell on the
these are days of vengeance, that all face of all the earth. 36 But watch at
things which are written may be every season, making supplication,
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that you may prevail to escape all ready the Passover.
these things that shall come to pass, 14 And when the hour had come,
and to stand before the Son of he sat down, and the apostles with
Man.” him. 15 And he said to them, “With
37 And every day he was teaching desire I have desired to eat this
in the temple; and every night he Passover with you before I suffer:
went out, and lodged in the mount 16 for I say to you, I shall not eat it,
that is called Olivet. 38 And all the until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of
people came early in the morning God.” 17 And he received a cup,
to him in the temple, to hear him. and when he had given thanks, he

22 Now the Feast of Unleav- said, “Take this, and divide it

ened Bread drew near, which among yourselves: 18 for I say to
is called the Passover. 2 And the you, I shall not drink from hence-
chief priests and the scribes sought forth of the fruit of the vine, until
how they might put him to death; the kingdom of God shall come.” 19
for they feared the people. And he took bread, and when he
3 And Satan entered into Judas had given thanks, he broke it, and
who was called Iscariot, being of gave to them, saying, “This is my
the number of the twelve. 4 And he body which is given for you: this do
went away, and communed with in remembrance of me.” 20 And the
the chief priests and captains, how cup in like manner after supper,
he might deliver him to them. 5 saying, “This cup is the new
And they were glad, and covenant in my blood, even that
covenanted to give him money. 6 which is poured out for you. 21 But
And he consented, and sought op- behold, the hand of him who be-
portunity to deliver him to them in trays me is with me on the table. 22
the absence of the multitude. For the Son of Man indeed goes, as
7 And the Day of Unleavened it has been determined: but woe to
Bread came on which the Passover that man through whom he is be-
must be sacrificed. 8 And he sent trayed!” 23 And they began to
Peter and John, saying, “Go and question among themselves, which
make ready for us the Passover, of them it was that should do this
that we may eat.” 9 And they said thing.
to him, “Where do you will that we 24 And there arose also a con-
make ready?” 10 And he said to tention among them, which of them
them, “Behold, when you have en- was accounted to be greatest. 25
tered into the city, there will meet And he said to them, “The kings of
you a man bearing a pitcher of wa- the Gentiles have lordship over
ter; follow him into the house into them; and those who have author-
which he goes. 11 And you shall say ity over them are called ‘Benefac-
to the master of the house, ‘The tors.’ 26 But you shall not be so: but
Teacher says to you, “Where is the he who is the greater among you,
guest room, where I shall eat the let him become as the younger; and
Passover with my disciples?” ’ 12 he who is chief, as he who serves.
And he will show you a large upper 27 For which is greater, he who re-
room furnished: there make ready.” clines at the table, or he who
13 And they went, and found as he serves? is not he who reclines at the
had said to them: and they made table? but I am in the midst of you
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as he who serves. 28 But you are saying, “Father, if you are willing,
those who have continued with me remove this cup from me; neverthe-
in my temptations; 29 and I appoint less not my will, but yours, be
to you a kingdom, even as my Fa- done.” 43 And there appeared to
ther appointed to me, 30 that you him an angel from heaven,
may eat and drink at my table in strengthening him. 44 And being in
my kingdom; and you will sit on an agony he prayed more earnestly;
thrones judging the twelve tribes of and his sweat became as it were
Israel. great drops of blood falling down
31 Simon, Simon, behold, Satan upon the ground. 45 And when he
asked to have you, that he might rose up from his prayer, he came to
sift you as wheat: 32 but I made the disciples, and found them
supplication for you, that your faith sleeping for sorrow, 46 and said to
not fail; and you, when once you them, “Why do you sleep? rise and
have turned again, establish your pray, that you do not enter into
brethren.” 33 And he said to him, temptation.”
“Lord, with you I am ready to go 47 While he was still speaking, be-
both to prison and to death.” 34 hold, a multitude, and he who was
And he said, “I tell you, Peter, the called Judas, one of the twelve,
cock shall not crow this day, until went before them; and he drew
you will three times deny that you near to Jesus to kiss him. 48 But Je-
know me.” sus said to him, “Judas, are you be-
35 And he said to them, “When I traying the Son of Man with a
sent you forth without money bag, kiss?” 49 And when those who
and knapsack, and sandals, did you were around him saw what would
lack anything?” And they said, follow, they said, “Lord, shall we
“Nothing.” 36 And he said to them, strike with the sword?” 50 And a
“But now, he who has a money bag, certain one of them struck the ser-
let him take it, and likewise a knap- vant of the high priest, and struck
sack; and he who has none, let him off his right ear. 51 But Jesus an-
sell his cloak, and buy a sword. 37 swered and said, “Allow them thus
For I say to you, that this which is far.” And he touched his ear, and
written must be fulfilled in me, healed him. 52 And Jesus said to the
‘And he was reckoned with trans- chief priests, and captains of the
gressors’: for that which concerns temple, and elders, who were come
me has fulfillment.” 38 And they against him, “Are you come out, as
said, “Lord, behold, here are two against a robber, with swords and
swords.” And he said to them, “It is clubs? 53 When I was daily with
enough.” you in the temple, you did not
39 And he came out, and went, as stretch forth your hands against
his custom was, to the mount of me: but this is your hour, and the
Olives; and the disciples also fol- power of darkness.”
lowed him. 40 And when he was at 54 And they seized him, and led
the place, he said to them, “Pray him away, and brought him into the
that you do not enter into tempta- high priest’s house. But Peter fol-
tion.” 41 And he was withdrawn lowed afar off. 55 And when they
from them about a stone’s cast; and had kindled a fire in the midst of
he kneeled down and prayed, 42 the court, and had sat down to-
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gether, Peter sat in the midst of ness? for we ourselves have heard
them. 56 And a certain servant girl from his own mouth.”
seeing him as he sat in the light of
the fire, and looking steadfastly 23 And the whole company of
them rose up, and brought
upon him, said, “This man also was him before Pilate. 2 And they began
with him.” 57 But he denied, say- to accuse him, saying, “We found
ing, “Woman, I do not know him.” this man perverting our nation, and
58 And after a little while another forbidding to give tribute to Caesar,
saw him, and said, “You also are and saying that he himself is Christ
one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, a king.” 3 And Pilate asked him,
I am not.” 59 And after the space of saying, “Are you the King of the
about one hour another confidently Jews?” And he answered him and
affirmed, saying, “In truth this man said, “You say.” 4 And Pilate said to
also was with him; for he is a the chief priests and the multitudes,
Galilean.” 60 But Peter said, “Man, “I find no fault in this man.” 5 But
I do no know what you are saying.” they were the more urgent, saying,
And immediately, while he was still “He stirs up the people, teaching
speaking, the cock crowed. 61 And throughout all Judea, and begin-
the Lord turned, and looked upon ning from Galilee even to this
Peter. And Peter remembered the place.” 6 But when Pilate heard it,
word of the Lord, how that he said he asked whether the man was a
to him, “Before the cock crows this Galilean. 7 And when he knew that
day you will deny me three times.” he was from Herod’s jurisdiction,
62 And he went out, and wept bit- he sent him to Herod, who himself
terly. also was in Jerusalem in these days.
63 And the men who held Jesus 8 Now when Herod saw Jesus, he
mocked him, and beat him. 64 And was exceedingly glad: for he had
they blindfolded him, and asked long desired to see him, because he
him, saying, “Prophesy: who is he had heard concerning him; and he
who struck you?” 65 And many hoped to see some miracle done by
other things spoke they against him. 9 And he questioned him in
him, reviling him. many words; but he answered him
66 And as soon as it was day, the nothing. 10 And the chief priests
assembly of the elders of the people and the scribes stood, vehemently
were gathered together, both chief accusing him. 11 And Herod with
priests and scribes; and they led his soldiers treated him with con-
him away into their council, saying, tempt, and mocked him, and array-
67 “If you are the Christ, tell us.” ing him in gorgeous apparel sent
But he said to them, “If I tell you, him back to Pilate. 12 And Herod
you will not believe: 68 and if I ask and Pilate became friends with
you, you will not answer. 69 But each other that very day: for before
from henceforth will the Son of they were at enmity between them-
Man be seated at the right hand of selves.
the power of God.” 70 And they all 13 And Pilate called together the
said, “Are you then the Son of chief priests and the rulers and the
God?” And he said to them, “You people, 14 and said to them, “You
say that I am.” 71 And they said, brought to me this man, as one who
“What further need have we of wit- perverts the people: and behold, I,
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having examined him before you, Then they will begin to say to the
found no fault in this man concern- mountains, ‘Fall on us’; and to the
ing those things of which you ac- hills, ‘Cover us.’ 31 For if they do
cuse him: 15 no, nor Herod: for he these things in the green tree, what
sent him back to us; and behold, shall be done in the dry?”
nothing worthy of death has been 32 And there were also two oth-
done by him. 16 I will therefore ers, criminals, led with him to be
chastise him, and release him.” 18 put to death.
But they cried out all together, say- 33 And when they came to the
ing, “Away with this man, and re- place which is called The Skull,
lease to us Barabbas”: — 19 one there they crucified him, and the
who for a certain insurrection made criminals, one on the right hand
in the city, and for murder, was cast and the other on the left. 34 And Je-
into prison. 20 And Pilate spoke to sus said, “Father, forgive them; for
them again, desiring to release Je- they do not know what they do.”
sus; 21 but they shouted, saying, And parting his garments among
“Crucify, crucify him.” 22 And he them, they cast lots. 35 And the
said to them the third time, “Why, people stood beholding. And the
what evil has this man done? I have rulers also scoffed at him, saying,
found no cause of death in him: I “He saved others; let him save him-
will therefore chastise him and re- self, if this is the Christ of God, his
lease him.” 23 But they were urgent chosen.” 36 And the soldiers also
with loud voices, asking that he mocked him, coming to him, offer-
might be crucified. And their voices ing him vinegar, 37 and saying, “If
prevailed. 24 And Pilate gave sen- you are the King of the Jews, save
tence that what they asked for yourself.” 38 And there was also a
should be done. 25 And he released superscription over him, THIS IS
him who for insurrection and mur- THE KING OF THE JEWS.
der had been cast into prison, 39 And one of the criminals who
whom they asked for; but Jesus he was hanged railed on him, saying,
delivered up to their will. “Are not you the Christ? save your-
26 And when they led him away, self and us.” 40 But the other an-
they laid hold upon one Simon of swered, and rebuking him said,
Cyrene, coming from the country, “Do you not even fear God, seeing
and laid on him the cross, to bear it you are in the same condemnation?
after Jesus. 41 And we indeed justly; for we re-
27 And there followed him a great ceive the due reward of our deeds:
multitude of the people, and of but this man has done nothing
women who mourned and amiss.” 42 And he said, “Jesus, re-
lamented him. 28 But Jesus turning member me when you come in
to them said, “Daughters of your kingdom.” 43 And he said to
Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but him, “Truly I say to you, Today you
weep for yourselves, and for your shall be with me in Paradise.”
children. 29 For behold, the days 44 And it was now about the sixth
are coming, in which they will say, hour, and a darkness came over the
‘Blessed are the barren, and the whole land until the ninth hour, 45
wombs that never bore, and the the sun’s light failing: and the veil
breasts that never gave suck.’ 30 of the temple was torn in the mid-
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dle. 46 And Jesus, crying with a they were frightened and bowed
loud voice, said, “Father, into your down their faces to the earth, they
hands I commend my spirit”: and said to them, “Why do you seek the
having said this, he breathed his living among the dead? 6 He is not
last. 47 And when the centurion here, but is risen: remember how he
saw what was done, he glorified spoke to you when he was still in
God, saying, “Certainly this was a Galilee, 7 saying that the Son of
righteous man.” 48 And all the mul- Man must be delivered up into the
titudes who came together to this hands of sinful men, and be cruci-
sight, when they beheld the things fied, and the third day rise again.”
that were done, returned striking 8 And they remembered his words,
their breasts. 49 And all his ac- 9 and returned from the tomb, and
quaintances, and the women who told all these things to the eleven,
followed with him from Galilee, and to all the rest. 10 Now they
stood afar off, seeing these things. were Mary Magdalene, and Joanna,
50 And behold, a man named and Mary the mother of James: and
Joseph, who was a council member, the other women with them told
a good and righteous man 51 (he these things to the apostles. 11 And
had not consented to their counsel these words appeared in their sight
and deed), a man of Arimathea, a as idle talk; and they disbelieved
city of the Jews, who was looking them. 12 But Peter arose, and ran to
for the kingdom of God: 52 this the tomb; and stooping and looking
man went to Pilate, and asked for in, he sees the linen cloths by them-
the body of Jesus. 53 And he took it selves; and he departed to his
down, and wrapped it in a linen home, wondering at that which had
cloth, and laid him in a tomb that come to pass.
was hewn in stone, where never 13 And behold, two of them were
man had yet lain. 54 And it was the going that very day to a village
day of the Preparation, and the Sab- named Emmaus, which was sixty
bath drew on. 55 And the women, furlongs from Jerusalem. 14 And
who had come with him out of they communed with each other of
Galilee, followed after, and beheld all these things which had hap-
the tomb, and how his body was pened. 15 And it came to pass,
laid. 56 And they returned, and pre- while they communed and ques-
pared spices and ointments. tioned together, that Jesus himself

24 And on the Sabbath they drew near, and went with them. 16
rested according to the com- But their eyes were held back that
mandment. 1 But on the first day of they should not know him. 17 And
the week, at early dawn, they came he said to them, “What communi-
to the tomb, bringing the spices cations are these that you have with
which they had prepared. 2 And one another, as you walk?” And
they found the stone rolled away they stood still, looking sad. 18 And
from the tomb. 3 And they entered one of them, named Cleopas, an-
in, and did not find the body of the swering said to him, “Do you alone
Lord Jesus. 4 And it came to pass, sojourn in Jerusalem and not know
while they were perplexed about the things which have come to pass
this, behold, two men stood by there in these days?” 19 And he
them in dazzling apparel: 5 and as said to them, “What things?” And
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they said to him, “The things con- opened to us the Scriptures?” 33
cerning Jesus the Nazarene, who And they rose up that very hour,
was a prophet mighty in deed and and returned to Jerusalem, and
word before God and all the peo- found the eleven gathered together,
ple: 20 and how the chief priests and those who were with them, 34
and our rulers delivered him up to saying, “The Lord is risen indeed,
be condemned to death, and cruci- and has appeared to Simon.” 35
fied him. 21 But we hoped that it And they rehearsed the things that
was he who should redeem Israel. happened in the way, and how he
Yes and besides all this, it is now was known by them in the breaking
the third day since these things of the bread.
came to pass. 22 Moreover certain 36 And as they spoke these things,
women of our company amazed us, he himself stood in the midst of
having been early at the tomb; 23 them, and says to them, “Peace be to
and when they did not find his you.” 37 But they were terrified and
body, they came, saying, that they frightened, and supposed that they
had also seen a vision of angels, beheld a spirit. 38 And he said to
who said that he was alive. 24 And them, “Why are you troubled? and
certain of those who were with us why do questionings arise in your
went to the tomb, and found it even heart? 39 See my hands and my
so as the women had said: but him feet, that it is I myself: handle me,
they did not see.” 25 And he said to and see; for a spirit does not have
them, “O foolish men, and slow of flesh and bones, as you behold me
heart to believe in all that the having.” 40 And when he had said
prophets have spoken! 26 Did it not this, he showed them his hands and
behoove the Christ to suffer these his feet. 41 And while they still dis-
things, and to enter into his glory?” believed for joy, and wondered, he
27 And beginning from Moses and said to them, “Do you have here
from all the prophets, he inter- anything to eat?” 42 And they gave
preted to them in all the Scriptures him a piece of a broiled fish. 43 And
the things concerning himself. 28 he took it, and ate before them.
And they drew near unto the vil- 44 And he said to them, “These
lage, where they were going: and are my words which I spoke to you,
he made as though he would go while I was still with you, that all
further. 29 And they constrained things must be fulfilled, which are
him, saying, “Stay with us; for it is written in the law of Moses, and
toward evening, and the day is now the prophets, and the psalms,
far spent.” And he went in to stay concerning me. 45 Then he opened
with them. 30 And it came to pass, their mind, that they might under-
when he had reclined at the table stand the Scriptures; 46 and he
with them, he took the bread and said to them, “Thus it is written,
blessed; and breaking it he gave to that the Christ should suffer, and
them. 31 And their eyes were rise again from the dead the third
opened, and they knew him; and he day; 47 and that repentance and re-
vanished out of their sight. 32 And mission of sins should be preached
they said to one another, “Was not in his name to all the nations, be-
our heart burning within us, while ginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are
he spoke to us in the way, while he witnesses of these things. 49 And
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behold, I send forth the promise of
my Father upon you: but stay in the
city, until you are clothed with
power from on high.
50 And he led them out until they
were as far as Bethany: and he lifted
up his hands, and blessed them. 51
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And it came to pass, while he
blessed them, he parted from them,
and was carried up into heaven. 52
And they worshipped him, and re-
turned to Jerusalem with great joy:
53 and were continually in the tem-
ple, blessing God.
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1 In the beginning was the 17 For the law was given through
Word, and the Word was with Moses; grace and truth came
God, and the Word was God. 2 The through Jesus Christ. 18 No man
same was in the beginning with has seen God at any time; the only
God. 3 All things were made begotten Son, who is in the bosom
through him; and without him not of the Father, he has declared him.
anything was made that has been 19 And this is the witness of John,
made. 4 In him was life; and the life when the Jews sent to him from
was the light of men. 5 And the Jerusalem priests and Levites to ask
light shines in the darkness; and the him, “Who are you?” 20 And he
darkness did not apprehend it. 6 confessed, and denied not; and he
There came a man, sent from God, confessed, “I am not the Christ.” 21
whose name was John. 7 The same And they asked him, ‘What then?
came for witness, that he might bear Are you Elijah?” And he says, “I am
witness of the light, that all might not.” “Are you the prophet?” And
believe through him. 8 He was not he answered, “No.” 22 They said
the light, but came that he might therefore to him, “Who are you?”
bear witness of the light. 9 There that we may give an answer to
was the true light, even the light them that sent us. What do you say
which enlightens every man, com- about yourself?” 23 He said, “I am
ing into the world. 10 He was in the the voice of one crying in the
world, and the world was made wilderness, ‘Make straight the way
through him, and the world did not of the Lord,’ as said Isaiah the
know him. 11 He came to his own, prophet.” 24 And they had been
and those who were his own did sent from the Pharisees. 25 And
not receive him. 12 But as many as they asked him, and said to him,
received him, to them he gave the “Why then do you baptize, if you
right to become children of God, are not the Christ, neither Elijah,
even to those who believe on his neither the prophet?” 26 John an-
name: 13 who were born, not of swered them, saying, “I baptize in
blood, nor of the will of the flesh, water: in the midst of you stands
nor of the will of man, but of God. one whom you do not know, 27
14 And the Word became flesh, and even he who comes after me, the
dwelt among us (and we beheld his strap of whose sandal I am not wor-
glory, glory as of the only begotten thy to untie.” 28 These things were
from the Father), full of grace and done in Bethany beyond the Jordan,
truth. 15 John bears witness of him, where John was baptizing.
and cries, saying, “This was he of 29 On the next day he sees Jesus
whom I said, ‘He who comes after coming to him, and says, “Behold,
me is become before me: for he was the Lamb of God, who takes away
before me.’ ” 16 For of his fullness the sin of the world! 30 This is he of
we all received, and grace for grace. whom I said, 'After me comes a
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man who is become before me: for he finds Philip: and Jesus says to
he was before me.’ 31 And I did not him, “Follow me.” 44 Now Philip
know him; but that he should be was from Bethsaida, of the city of
made known to Israel, for this Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip finds
cause I came baptizing in water.” 32 Nathanael, and says to him, “We
And John bore witness, saying, “I have found him, of whom Moses in
have beheld the Spirit descending the law, and the prophets, wrote, Je-
as a dove out of heaven; and it re- sus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
mained upon him. 33 And I did not 46 And Nathanael said to him,
know him: but he who sent me to “Can any good thing come out of
baptize in water, he said to me, Nazareth?” Philip says to him,
‘Upon whomsoever you will see “Come and see.” 47 Jesus saw
the Spirit descending, and remain- Nathanael coming to him, and says
ing upon him, the same is he who of him, “Behold, an Israelite in-
baptizes in the Holy Spirit. 34 And deed, in whom is no deceit!” 48
I have seen, and have borne witness Nathanael says to him, “How do
that this is the Son of God.” you know me?” Jesus answered
35 Again on the next day John and said to him, “Before Philip
was standing, and two of his disci- called you, when you were under
ples; 36 and he looked upon Jesus the fig tree, I saw you.” 49
as he walked, and says, “Behold, Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi,
the Lamb of God!” 37 And the two you are the Son of God; you are
disciples heard him speak, and they King of Israel.” 50 Jesus answered
followed Jesus. 38 And Jesus and said to him, “Because I said to
turned, and beheld them following, you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig
and says to them, “What do you tree, do you believe? you will see
seek?” And they said to him, greater things than these.’ ” 51 And
“Rabbi (which is to say, being inter- he says to him, “Truly, truly, I say to
preted, Teacher), where are you you, you shall see the heaven
staying?” 39 He says to them, opened, and the angels of God as-
“Come, and you will see.” They cending and descending upon the
came therefore and saw where he Son of Man.”
was staying; and they stayed with
him that day: it was about the tenth 2 And the third day there was a
marriage in Cana of Galilee;
hour. 40 One of the two who heard and the mother of Jesus was there:
John speak, and followed him, was 2 and Jesus also was bidden, and
Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. 41 his disciples, to the marriage. 3 And
He finds first his own brother Si- when the wine failed, the mother of
mon, and says to him, “We have Jesus says to him, “They have no
found the Messiah (which is, being wine.” 4 And Jesus says to her,
interpreted, Christ).” 42 He “Woman, what have I to do with
brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked you? my hour is not yet come.” 5
upon him, and said, “You are Si- His mother says to the servants,
mon the son of John: you shall be “Whatsoever he says to you, do it.”
called Cephas” (which is by inter- 6 Now there were six waterpots of
pretation, Peter). stone set there according to the
43 On the next day he was Jews’ manner of purification, con-
minded to go forth into Galilee, and taining two or three measures
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apiece. 7 Jesus says to them, “Fill this temple in building, and will
the waterpots with water.” And you raise it up in three days?” 21
they filled them up to the brim. 8 But he spoke of the temple of his
And he says to them, “Draw out body. 22 When therefore he was
now, and take to the ruler of the raised from the dead, his disciples
feast.” And they took it. 9 And remembered that he spoke this; and
when the ruler of the feast tasted they believed the Scripture, and the
the water now become wine, and word which Jesus had said.
did not know where it came from 23 Now when he was in
(but the servants who had drawn Jerusalem at the Passover, during
the water knew), the ruler of the the feast, many believed on his
feast calls the bridegroom, 10 and name, beholding his signs which he
says to him, “Every man serves first did. 24 But Jesus did not trust him-
the good wine; and when men have self to them, because he knew all
drunk freely, then that which is men, 25 and because he had no
worse: you have kept the good need that anyone should bear wit-
wine until now.” 11 This beginning ness concerning man; for he himself
of his signs did Jesus in Cana of knew what was in man.
Galilee, and manifested his glory;
and his disciples believed on him. 3 Now there was a man of the
Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a
12 After this he went down to Ca- ruler of the Jews: 2 the same came
pernaum, he, and his mother, and to him by night, and said to him,
his brothers, and his disciples; and “Rabbi, we know that you are a
they did not stay there many days. teacher come from God; for no one
13 And the Passover of the Jews can do these signs that you do, un-
was at hand, and Jesus went up to less God be with him.” 3 Jesus an-
Jerusalem. 14 And he found in the swered and said to him, “Truly,
temple those who sold oxen and truly, I say to you, unless one be
sheep and doves, and the changers born anew, he cannot see the king-
of money sitting: 15 and he made a dom of God.” 4 Nicodemus says to
scourge of cords, and cast all out of him, “How can a man be born
the temple, both the sheep and the when he is old? can he enter a sec-
oxen; and he poured out the chang- ond time into his mother’s womb,
ers’ money, and overthrew their ta- and be born?” 5 Jesus answered,
bles; 16 and to those who sold the “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless
doves he said, “Take these things one be born of water and the Spirit,
away; do not make my Father’s he cannot enter into the kingdom of
house a house of merchandise.” 17 God. 6 That which is born of the
His disciples remembered that it flesh is flesh; and that which is born
was written, “Zeal for your house of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not mar-
will eat me up.” 18 The Jews there- vel that I said to you, ‘You must be
fore answered and said to him, born anew.’ 8 The wind blows
“What sign do you show to us, see- where it will, and you hear the
ing that you do these things?” 19 Je- voice of it, but do not know from
sus answered and said to them, where it comes, and where it goes:
“Destroy this temple, and in three so is every one who is born of the
days I will raise it up.” 20 The Jews Spirit.” 9 Nicodemus answered and
therefore said, “forty-six years was said to him, “How can these things
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be?” 10 Jesus answered and said to Salim, because there was much wa-
him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, ter there: and they came, and were
and do not understand these baptized. 24 For John had not yet
things? 11 Truly, truly, I say to you, been cast into prison. 25 There
we speak that which we know, and arose therefore a debate on the part
bear witness of that which we have of John’s disciples with a Jew about
seen; and you do not receive our purification. 26 And they came to
witness. 12 If I told you earthly John, and said to him, “Rabbi, he
things and you did not believe, who was with you beyond the Jor-
how shall you believe if I tell you dan, to whom you have borne wit-
heavenly things? 13 And no one has ness, behold, the same baptizes,
ascended into heaven, but he who and all men come to him.” 27 John
descended out of heaven, even the answered and said, “A man can re-
Son of Man, who is in heaven. 14 ceive nothing, unless it has been
And as Moses lifted up the serpent given to him from heaven. 28 You
in the wilderness, even so must the yourselves bear me witness, that I
Son of Man be lifted up; 15 that said, I am not the Christ, but, that I
whosoever believes may in him am sent before him. 29 He who has
have eternal life. the bride is the bridegroom: but the
16 For God so loved the world, friend of the bridegroom, who
that he gave his only begotten Son, stands and hears him, rejoices
that whosoever believes on him greatly because of the bridegroom’s
should not perish, but have eternal voice: this my joy therefore is made
life. 17 For God did not send the full. 30 He must increase, but I must
Son into the world to judge the decrease.
world; but that the world should be 31 He who comes from above is
saved through him. 18 He who be- above all: he who is of the earth is
lieves on him is not judged: he who of the earth, and of the earth he
does not believe has been judged speaks: he who comes from heaven
already, because he has not be- is above all. 32 What he has seen
lieved on the name of the only be- and heard, of who he bears witness;
gotten Son of God. 19 And this is and no man receives his witness. 33
the judgment, that the light is come He who has received his witness
into the world, and men loved the has set his seal to this, that God is
darkness rather than the light; for true. 34 For he whom God has sent
their works were evil. 20 For every speaks the words of God: for he
one who does evil hates the light, does not give the Spirit by measure.
and does not come to the light, lest 35 The Father loves the Son, and
his works should be reproved. 21 has given all things into his hand.
But he who does the truth comes to 36 He who believes on the Son has
the light, that his works may be eternal life; but he who does not
made known, that they have been obey the Son shall not see life, but
worked in God.” the wrath of God abides on him.”
22 After these things Jesus and his
disciples came into the land of 4 When therefore the Lord
knew that the Pharisees had
Judea; and there he stayed with heard that Jesus was making and
them, and baptized. 23 And John baptizing more disciples than John
also was baptizing in Aenon near to 2 (although Jesus himself did not
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baptize, but his disciples), 3 he left said well, 'I have no husband:’ 18
Judea, and departed again into for you have had five husbands;
Galilee. 4 And he needed to pass and he whom you now have is not
through Samaria. 5 So he comes to your husband: this have you said
a city of Samaria, called Sychar, truly.” 19 The woman says to him,
near to the parcel of ground that Ja- “Sir, I perceive that you are a
cob gave to his son Joseph: 6 and Ja- prophet. 20 Our fathers wor-
cob’s well was there. Jesus shipped in this mountain; and you
therefore, being wearied with his say, that in Jerusalem is the place
journey, sat thus by the well. It was where men ought to worship.” 21
about the sixth hour. 7 There comes Jesus says to her, “Woman, believe
a woman of Samaria to draw water: me, the hour comes, when neither
Jesus says to her, “Give me to in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem,
drink.” 8 For his disciples were will you worship the Father. 22 You
gone away into the city to buy food. worship that which you do not
9 The Samaritan woman therefore know: we worship that which we
says to him, “How is it that you, be- know; for salvation is from the
ing a Jew, ask a drink from me, who Jews. 23 But the hour comes, and
am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews now is, when the true worshippers
have no dealings with Samaritans.) will worship the Father in spirit
10 Jesus answered and said to her, and truth: for such does the Father
“If you knew the gift of God, and seek to be his worshippers. 24 God
who it is who says to you, ‘Give me is a Spirit: and they who worship
to drink;' you would have asked of him must worship in spirit and
him, and he would have given you truth.” 25 The woman says to him,
living water.” 11 The woman says “I know that Messiah comes (he
to him, “Sir, you have nothing to who is called Christ): when he is
draw with, and the well is deep: come, he will declare to us all
from where then have you that liv- things.” 26 Jesus says to her, “I who
ing water? 12 Are you greater than speak to you am he.”
our father Jacob, who gave us the 27 And upon this came his disci-
well, and drank from it himself, ples; and they marveled that he was
and his sons, and his cattle?” 13 Je- speaking with a woman; yet no
sus answered and said to her, “Ev- man said, “What do you seek?” or,
ery one who drinks of this water “Why do you speak with her?” 28
will thirst again: 14 but whosoever So the woman left her waterpot,
drinks of the water that I shall give and went away into the city, and
him shall never thirst; but the water says to the people, 29 “Come, see a
that I shall give him will become in man, who told me all things that I
him a well of water springing up to ever did: can this be the Christ?” 30
eternal life.” 15 The woman says to They went out of the city, and were
him, “Sir, give me this water, that I coming to him. 31 In the meanwhile
do not thirst, neither come all the the disciples urged him, saying,
way here to draw.” 16 Jesus says to “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But he said to them,
her, “Go, call your husband, and “I have meat to eat that you do not
come here.” 17 The woman an- know.” 33 The disciples therefore
swered and said to him, “I have no said to one another, “Has any man
husband.” Jesus says to her, “You brought him anything to eat?” 34 Je-
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sus says to them, “My meat is to do
the will of him who sent me, and to
accomplish his work. 35 Do not say,
‘There are yet four months, and
then comes the harvest?’ behold, I
say to you, lift up your eyes, and
look on the fields, that they are
white already for harvest. 36 He
who reaps receives wages, and
gathers fruit for life eternal; that he
who sows and he who reaps may
rejoice together. 37 For in this is the
saying true, ‘One sows, and an-
other reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap
that on which you have not la-
bored: others have labored, and
you have entered into their labor.”
39 And from that city many of the
Samaritans believed on him be-
cause of the word of the woman,
who testified, “He told me all
things that I ever did.” 40 So when
the Samaritans came to him, they
beseeched him to stay with them:
and he stayed there two days. 41
And many more believed because
of his word; 42 and they said to the
woman, “Now we believe, not be-
cause of your speaking: for we have
heard for ourselves, and know that
this is indeed the Savior of the
world.”
5 After these things there was a
43 And after the two days he went
forth from there into Galilee. 44 For
Jesus himself testified, that a
prophet has no honor in his own
country. 45 So when he came into
Galilee, the Galileans received him,
having seen all the things that he
did in Jerusalem at the feast: for
they also went to the feast.
46 He came therefore again to
Cana of Galilee, where he made the
water wine. And there was a certain
¹⁷ Many ancient authorities insert, wholly or in part, waiting for the moving of the water: 4
for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and troubled the water:
whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole, with
whatsoever disease he had.
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nobleman, whose son was sick at
Capernaum. 47 When he heard that
Jesus had come out of Judea into
Galilee, he went to him, and be-
seeched him that he would come
down, and heal his son; for he was
at the point of death. 48 Jesus there-
fore said to him, “Unless you see
signs and wonders, you will in no
way believe.” 49 The nobleman
says to him, “Sir, come down before
my child dies.” 50 Jesus says to
him, “Go your way; your son
lives.” The man believed the word
that Jesus spoke to him, and he
went his way. 51 And as he was
now going down, his servants met
him, saying, that his son lived. 52
So he inquired of them the hour
when he began to get better. They
said therefore to him, “Yesterday at
the seventh hour the fever left
him.” 53 So the father knew that it
was at that hour in which Jesus said
to him, “Your son lives”: and he
himself believed, and his whole
house. 54 This is again the second
sign that Jesus did, having come
out of Judea into Galilee.
feast of the Jews; and Jesus
went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the
Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in
Hebrew Bethesda, having five
porches. 3 In these lay a multitude
of those who were sick, blind, lame,
withered.¹⁷ 5 And a certain man
was there, who had been thirty-
eight years in his infirmity. 6 When
Jesus saw him lying, and knew that
he had been now a long time in that
case, he says to him, “Do you wish
to be made well?” 7 The sick man
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answered him, “Sir, I have no man, than these will he show him, that
when the water is troubled, to put you may marvel. 21 For as the Fa-
me into the pool: but while I am ther raises the dead and gives them
coming, another steps down before life, even so the Son also gives life
me.” 8 Jesus says to him, “Arise, to whom he will. 22 For neither
take up your bed, and walk.” 9 And does the Father judge any man, but
immediately the man was made he has given all judgment to the
whole, and took up his bed and Son; 23 that all may honor the Son,
walked. even as they honor the Father. He
Now it was the Sabbath on that who does not honor the Son does
day. 10 So the Jews said to him who not honor the Father who sent him.
was cured, “It is the Sabbath, and it 24 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who
is not lawful for you to take up your hears my word, and believes him
bed.” 11 But he answered them, who sent me, has eternal life, and
“He who made me whole, the same does not come into judgment, but
said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and has passed out of death into life. 25
walk.’ ” 12 They asked him, “Who Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour
is the man who said to you, ‘Take comes, and now is, when the dead
up your bed, and walk?’ ” 13 But he will hear the voice of the Son of
who was healed did no know who God; and those who hear will live.
it was; for Jesus had withdrawn, a 26 For as the Father has life in him-
multitude being in the place. 14 Af- self, even so he gave to the Son also
terward Jesus finds him in the tem- to have life in himself: 27 and he
ple, and said to him, “Behold, you gave him authority to execute judg-
are made whole: sin no more, lest a ment, because he is a son of man. 28
worse thing befall you.” 15 The Do not marvel at this: for the hour
man went away, and told the Jews comes, in which all who are in the
that it was Jesus who had made tombs will hear his voice, 29 and
him whole. 16 And for this cause will come forth; those who have
the Jews persecuted Jesus, because done good, to the resurrection of
he did these things on the Sabbath. life; and those who have done evil,
17 But Jesus answered them, “My to the resurrection of judgment.
Father works even until now, and I 30 I can of myself do nothing: as I
work.” 18 For this cause therefore hear, I judge: and my judgment is
the Jews sought the more to kill righteous; because I seek not my
him, because he not only broke the own will, but the will of him who
Sabbath, but also called God his sent me. 31 If I bear witness of my-
own Father, making himself equal self, my witness is not true. 32 It is
with God. another who bears witness of me;
19 Jesus therefore answered and and I know that the witness which
said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to he witnesses of me is true. 33 You
you, the Son can do nothing of him- have sent to John, and he has borne
self, but what he sees the Father do- witness to the truth. 34 But the wit-
ing: for whatsoever things he does, ness which I receive is not from
these the Son also does in the same man: nevertheless I say these
manner. 20 For the Father loves the things, that you may be saved. 35
Son, and shows him all things that He was the lamp that burns and
he himself does: and greater works shines; and you were willing to re-
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joice for a time in his light. 36 But multitude coming to him, says to
the witness which I have is greater Philip, “Where are we to buy bread,
than that of John; for the works that these may eat?” 6 And this he
which the Father has given me to said to test him: for he himself
accomplish, the very works that I knew what he would do. 7 Philip
do, bear witness of me, that the Fa- answered him, “Two hundred
ther has sent me. 37 And the Father denarii worth of bread is not suffi-
who sent me, he has borne witness cient for them, that every one may
of me. You have neither heard his take a little.” 8 One of his disciples,
voice at any time, nor seen his form. Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother,
38 And you do not have his word says to him, 9 “There is a lad here,
abiding in you: for whom he sent, who has five barley loaves, and two
him you do not believe. 39 You fish: but what are these among so
search the Scriptures, because you many?” 10 Jesus said, “Make the
think that in them you have eternal people sit down.” Now there was
life; and these are those which bear much grass in the place. So the men
witness of me; 40 and you will not sat down, in number about five
come to me, that you may have life. thousand. 11 Jesus therefore took
41 I do not receive glory from men. the loaves; and having given
42 But I know you, that you do not thanks, he distributed to those who
have the love of God in yourselves. were set down; likewise also of the
43 I am come in my Father’s name, fish as much as they wished. 12
and you do not receive me: if an- And when they were filled, he says
other shall come in his own name, to his disciples, “Gather up the bro-
him you will receive. 44 How can ken pieces which remain over, that
you believe, who receive glory one nothing be lost.” 13 So they gath-
of another, and the glory that comes ered them up, and filled twelve bas-
from the only God you do not seek? kets with broken pieces from the
45 Do not think that I will accuse five barley loaves, which remained
you to the Father: there is one who over by those who had eaten. 14
accuses you, even Moses, on whom When therefore the people saw the
you have set your hope. 46 For if sign which he did, they said, “This
you believed Moses, you would be- is truly the prophet who comes into
lieve me; for he wrote of me. 47 But the world.”
if you do not believe his writings, 15 Jesus therefore perceiving that
how will you believe my words?” they were about to come and take

6 After these things Jesus went him by force, to make him king,
away to the other side of the sea withdrew again into the mountain
of Galilee, which is the Sea of himself alone.
Tiberias. 2 And a great multitude 16 And when evening came, his
followed him, because they beheld disciples went down to the sea; 17
the signs which he did on those and they entered into a boat, and
who were sick. 3 And Jesus went up were going over the sea to Caper-
on the mountain, and there he sat naum. And it was now dark, and
with his disciples. 4 Now the Jesus had not yet come to them. 18
Passover, the feast of the Jews, was And the sea was rising by reason of
at hand. 5 Jesus therefore lifting up a great wind that blew. 19 When
his eyes, and seeing that a great therefore they had rowed about
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twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they bread out of heaven to eat.’ ” 32 Je-
behold Jesus walking on the sea, sus therefore said to them, “Truly,
and drawing near to the boat: and truly, I say to you, it was not Moses
they were afraid. 20 But he says to who gave you the bread out of
them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” 21 heaven; but my Father gives you
They were willing therefore to re- the true bread out of heaven. 33 For
ceive him into the boat: and imme- the bread of God is that which
diately the boat was at the land to comes down out of heaven, and
which they were going. gives life to the world.” 34 They
22 On the next day the multitude said therefore to him, “Lord, al-
who stood on the other side of the ways give us this bread.” 35 Jesus
sea saw that there was no other said to them, “I am the bread of life:
boat there, except one, and that Je- he who comes to me shall not
sus had not entered with his disci- hunger, and he who believes on me
ples into the boat, but that his shall never thirst. 36 But I said to
disciples went away alone 23 (how- you, that you have seen me, and yet
ever there came boats from Tiberias do not believe. 37 All that which the
near to the place where they ate the Father gives me shall come to me;
bread after the Lord had given and he who comes to me I will in no
thanks): 24 when the multitude way cast out. 38 For I am come
therefore saw that Jesus was not down from heaven, not to do my
there, neither his disciples, they own will, but the will of him who
themselves got into the boats, and sent me. 39 And this is the will of
came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. him who sent me, that of all that
25 And when they found him on which he has given me I should
the other side of the sea, they said lose nothing, but should raise it up
to him, “Rabbi, when did you come at the last day. 40 For this is the will
here?” 26 Jesus answered them and of my Father, that every one who
said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you beholds the Son, and believes on
seek me, not because you saw him, should have eternal life; and I
signs, but because you ate of the will raise him up at the last day.”
loaves, and were filled. 27 Do not 41 The Jews therefore murmured
work for the food which perishes, concerning him, because he said, ‘I
but for the food which endures to am the bread which came down out
eternal life, which the Son of Man of heaven.’ 42 And they said, “Is
will give to you: for him the Father, not this Jesus, the son of Joseph,
even God, has sealed.” 28 They said whose father and mother we
therefore to him, “What must we know? how does he now say, ‘I am
do, that we may work the works of come down out of heaven?’ ” 43 Je-
God?” 29 Jesus answered and said sus answered and said to them,
to them, “This is the work of God, “Do not murmur among your-
that you believe on him whom he selves. 44 No man can come to me,
has sent.” 30 They said therefore to except the Father who sent me
him, “What then do you for a sign, draw him: and I will raise him up in
that we may see, and believe you? the last day. 45 It is written in the
what work will you do? 31 Our fa- prophets, ‘And they shall all be
thers ate the manna in the wilder- taught of God.’ Every one who has
ness; as it is written, ‘He gave them heard from the Father, and has
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learned, comes to me. 46 Not that cending where he was before? 63 It
any man has seen the Father, except is the spirit who gives life; the flesh
he who is from God, he has seen the profits nothing: the words that I
Father. 47 Truly, truly, I say to you, have spoken to you are spirit, and
he who believes has eternal life. 48 are life. 64 But there are some of
I am the bread of life. 49 Your fa- you who do not believe.” For Jesus
thers ate the manna in the wilder- knew from the beginning who they
ness, and they died. 50 This is the were who did not believe, and who
bread which comes down out of it was that should betray him. 65
heaven, that a man may eat of it, And he said, “For this cause I have
and not die. 51 I am the living bread said to you, that no man can come
which came down out of heaven: if to me, except it be given to him of
any man eat of this bread, he will the Father.”
live for ever: yes and the bread 66 Upon this many of his disciples
which I will give is my flesh, for the went back, and walked no more
life of the world.” with him. 67 Jesus said therefore to
52 The Jews therefore quarreled the twelve, “Do you also wish to go
with one another, saying, “How can away?” 68 Simon Peter answered
this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 him, “Lord, to whom shall we go?
Jesus therefore said to them, “Truly, you have the words of eternal life.
truly, I say to you, unless you eat 69 And we have believed and know
the flesh of the Son of Man and that you are the Holy One of God.”
drink his blood, you do not have 70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not
life in yourselves. 54 He who eats choose you the twelve, and one of
my flesh and drinks my blood has you is a devil?” 71 Now he spoke of
eternal life: and I will raise him up Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for it
at the last day. 55 For my flesh is was he who would betray him, be-
meat indeed, and my blood is drink ing one of the twelve.
indeed. 56 He who eats my flesh
and drinks my blood abides in me, 7 And after these things Jesus
walked in Galilee: for he would
and I in him. 57 As the living Father not walk in Judea, because the Jews
sent me, and I live because of the sought to kill him. 2 Now the feast
Father; so he who eats me, he also of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles,
will live because of me. 58 This is was at hand. 3 His brothers there-
the bread which came down out of fore said to him, “Depart from here,
heaven: not as the fathers ate, and and go into Judea, that your disci-
died; he who eats this bread will ples also may behold your works
live for ever.” 59 These things he which you are doing. 4 For no man
said in the synagogue, as he taught does anything in secret, and he
in Capernaum. himself seeks to be known openly.
60 Many therefore of his disciples, If you do these things, disclose
when they heard this, said, “This is yourself to the world.” 5 For even
a hard saying; who can hear it?” 61 his brothers did not believe on him.
But Jesus knowing in himself that 6 Jesus therefore says to them, “My
his disciples murmured at this, said time is not yet come; but your time
to them, “Does this cause you to is always ready. 7 The world cannot
stumble? 62 What then if you hate you; but me it hates, because I
should behold the Son of Man as- testify of it, that its works are evil. 8
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Go up to the feast: I do not go up to cause I made a man completely
this feast; because my time is not well on the Sabbath? 24 Do not
yet fulfilled.” 9 And having said judge according to appearance, but
these things to them, he stayed in judge righteous judgment.”
Galilee. 25 Some therefore of those from
10 But when his brothers had Jerusalem said, “Is this not he
gone up to the feast, then he also whom they seek to kill? 26 And
went up, not publicly, but as it were look, he speaks openly, and they
in secret. 11 The Jews therefore say nothing to him. Can it be that
sought him at the feast, and said, the rulers indeed know that this is
“Where is he?” 12 And there was the Christ? 27 However, we know
much murmuring among the mul- where this man is from: but when
titudes concerning him; some said, the Christ comes, no one knows
“He is a good man”: others said, where he is from.” 28 Jesus there-
“Not so, but he leads the multitude fore cried out in the temple, teach-
astray.” 13 Yet no man spoke ing and saying, “You both know
openly of him for fear of the Jews. me, and know where I am from;
14 But when it was now the midst and I am not come of myself, but he
of the feast Jesus went up into the who sent me is true, whom you do
temple, and taught. 15 The Jews not know. 29 I know him; because I
therefore marveled, saying, “How am from him, and he sent me.” 30
does this man know letters, having They sought therefore to take him:
never learned?” 16 Jesus therefore and no man laid his hand on him,
answered them and said, “My because his hour had not yet come.
teaching is not mine, but his who 31 But of the multitude many be-
sent me. 17 If any man wills to do lieved on him; and they said,
his will, he shall know of the teach- “When the Christ shall come, will
ing, whether it is of God, or whether he do more signs than those which
I speak from myself. 18 He who this man has done?” 32 The Phar-
speaks from himself seeks his own isees heard the multitude murmur-
glory: but he who seeks the glory of ing these things concerning him;
him who sent him, the same is true, and the chief priests and the Phar-
and no unrighteousness is in him. isees sent officers to take him. 33 Je-
19 Did not Moses give you the law, sus therefore said, “Yet a little while
and yet none of you does the law? am I with you, and I go to him who
Why do you seek to kill me?” 20 sent me. 34 You will seek me, and
The multitude answered, “You will not find me: and where I am,
have a demon: who seeks to kill you cannot come.” 35 The Jews
you?” 21 Jesus answered and said therefore said among themselves,
to them, “I did one work, and you “Where will this man go that we
all marvel because of it. 22 Moses shall not find him? will he go to the
has given you circumcision (not Dispersion among the Greeks, and
that it is of Moses, but of the fa- teach the Greeks? 36 What is this
thers); and on the Sabbath you cir- word that he said, ‘You will seek
cumcise a man. 23 If a man receives me, and will not find me; and
circumcision on the Sabbath, that where I am, you cannot come?’ ”
the law of Moses may not be bro- 37 Now on the last day, the great
ken; are you angry with me, be- day of the feast, Jesus stood and
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cried out, saying, “If any man
thirst, let him come to me and
drink. 38 He who believes on me, as
the Scripture has said, from within
him will flow rivers of living wa-
ter.” 39 But this he spoke of the
Spirit, which they who believed on
him were to receive: for the Spirit
was not yet given; because Jesus
was not yet glorified. 40 Some of the
multitude therefore, when they
heard these words, said, “This is
truly the prophet.” 41 Others said,
“This is the Christ.” But some said,
“What, does the Christ come out of
Galilee? 42 Has not the Scripture
said that the Christ comes from the
seed of David, and from Bethle-
hem, the village where David
was?” 43 So there arose a division
in the multitude because of him. 44
And some of them would have
taken him; but no man laid hands
on him.
45 The officers therefore came to
the chief priests and Pharisees; and
they said to them, “Why did you
not bring him?” 46 The officers an-
swered, “Never has man so spoke.”
47 The Pharisees therefore an-
swered them, “Are you also led
astray? 48 Have any of the rulers
believed on him, or of the Phar-
isees?” 49 But this multitude who
does not know the law are ac-
cursed. 50 Nicodemus says to them
(he who came to him before, being
one of them), 51 “Does our law
judge a man, unless it first hears
from him and knows what he is do-
ing?” 52 They answered and said to
him, “Are you also from Galilee?
Search, and see that out of Galilee
arises no prophet.”
¹⁸ Most of the ancient authorities omit John 7:53-8:11. Those that contain it vary much
from each other.
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53 18[And they went every man to
8 his own house: 1 but Jesus went
to the mount of Olives. 2 And
early in the morning he came again
into the temple, and all the people
came to him; and he sat down, and
taught them. 3 And the scribes and
the Pharisees bring a woman taken
in adultery; and having set her in
the midst, 4 they say to him,
“Teacher, this woman has been
taken in adultery, in the very act. 5
Now in the law Moses commanded
us to stone such: what then do you
say about her?” 6 And this they
said, testing him, that they might
have something of which to accuse
him. But Jesus stooped down, and
with his finger wrote on the
ground. 7 But when they continued
asking him, he lifted up himself,
and said to them, “He who is with-
out sin among you, let him first cast
a stone at her.” 8 And again he
stooped down, and with his finger
wrote on the ground. 9 And they,
when they heard it, went out one
by one, beginning from the eldest,
even to the last: and Jesus was left
alone, and the woman, where she
was, in the midst. 10 And Jesus
lifted up himself, and said to her,
“Woman, where are they? did no
man condemn you?” 11 And she
said, “No man, Lord.” And Jesus
said, “Neither do I condemn you:
go your way; from henceforth sin
no more.”]
12 Again therefore Jesus spoke to
them, saying, “I am the light of the
world: he who follows me shall not
walk in the darkness, but shall have
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the light of life.” 13 The Pharisees speak to the world.” 27 They did
therefore said to him, “You bear not perceive that he spoke to them
witness of yourself; your witness is of the Father. 28 Jesus therefore
not true.” 14 Jesus answered and said, “When you have lifted up the
said to them, “Even if I bear witness Son of Man, then will you know
of myself, my witness is true; for I that I am he, and that I do nothing of
know where I came from, and myself, but as the Father taught me,
where I am going; but you do not I speak these things. 29 And he who
know where I come from, or where sent me is with me; he has not left
I am going. 15 You judge after the me alone; for I do always the things
flesh; I judge no man. 16 Yes and if that are pleasing to him.” 30 As he
I judge, my judgment is true; for I spoke these things, many believed
am not alone, but I and the Father on him.
who sent me. 17 Yes and in your 31 Jesus therefore said to those
law it is written, that the witness of Jews who had believed him, “If you
two men is true. 18 I am he who abide in my word, then are you
bears witness of myself, and the Fa- truly my disciples; 32 and you will
ther who sent me bears witness of know the truth, and the truth will
me.” 19 They said therefore to him, make you free.” 33 They answered
“Where is your Father?” Jesus an- to him, “We are Abraham’s seed,
swered, “You know neither me, nor and have never yet been in
my Father: if you knew me, you bondage to any man: how can you
would know my Father also.” 20 say, ‘You will be made free?’ ” 34 Je-
These words he spoke in the trea- sus answered them, “Truly, truly, I
sury, as he taught in the temple: say to you, every one who commits
and no man took him; because his sin is the bondservant of sin. 35
hour had not yet come. And the bondservant does not re-
21 He said therefore again to main in the house for ever: the son
them, “I go away, and you will seek remains for ever. 36 If therefore the
me, and will die in your sin: where Son shall make you free, you shall
I go, you cannot come.” 22 The Jews be free indeed. 37 I know that you
therefore said, “Will he kill himself, are Abraham’s seed: yet you seek to
that he says, ‘Where I go, you can- kill me, because my word does not
not come?’ ” 23 And he said to make progress in you. 38 I speak
them, “You are from beneath; I am the things which I have seen with
from above: you are of this world; I my Father: and you also do the
am not of this world. 24 I said there- things which you heard from your
fore to you, that you will die in father.” 39 They answered and said
your sins: for unless you believe to him, “Our father is Abraham.”
that I am he, you will die in your Jesus says to them, “If you were
sins.” 25 They said therefore to him, Abraham’s children, you would do
“Who are you?” Jesus said to them, the works of Abraham. 40 But now
“Even that which I have also spo- you seek to kill me, a man who has
ken to you from the beginning. 26 I told you the truth, which I heard
have many things to speak and to from God: this Abraham did not
judge concerning you: but he who do. 41 You do the works of your fa-
sent me is true; and the things ther.” They said to him, “We were
which I heard from him, these I not born of fornication; we have
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one Father, even God.” 42 Jesus said know him’, I shall be like you, a
to them, “If God were your Father, liar: but I know him, and keep his
you would love me: for I came forth word. 56 Your father Abraham re-
and am come from God; for neither joiced to see my day; and he saw it,
have I come of myself, but he sent and was glad.” 57 The Jews there-
me. 43 Why do you not understand fore said to him, “You are not yet
my speech? Even because you can- fifty years old, and have you seen
not hear my word. 44 You are of Abraham?” 58 Jesus said to them,
your father the devil, and the lusts “Truly, truly, I say to you, before
of your father it is your will to do. Abraham was born, I am.” 59 They
He was a murderer from the begin- took up stones therefore to cast at
ning, and does not stand in the him: but Jesus hid himself, and
truth, because there is no truth in went out of the temple.
him. When he speaks a lie, he
speaks of his own: for he is a liar, 9 And as he passed by, he saw a
man blind from his birth. 2 And
and the father of it. 45 But because I his disciples asked him, saying,
say the truth, you do not believe “Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or
me. 46 Which of you convicts me of his parents, that he should be born
sin? If I say truth, why do you not blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither
believe me? 47 He who is of God did this man sin, nor his parents:
hears the words of God: for this but that the works of God should
cause you do not hear them, be- be made known in him. 4 We must
cause you are not of God.” 48 The work the works of him who sent
Jews answered and said to him, me, while it is day: the night comes,
“Do we not say rightly that you are when no man can work. 5 When I
a Samaritan, and have a demon?” am in the world, I am the light of
49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a the world.” 6 When he had thus
demon; but I honor my Father, and spoken, he spat on the ground, and
you dishonor me. 50 But I do not made clay of the saliva, and
seek my own glory: there is one anointed his eyes with the clay, 7
who seeks and judges. 51 Truly, and said to him, “Go, wash in the
truly, I say to you, if a man keeps pool of Siloam” (which is by inter-
my word, he shall never see death.” pretation, Sent). He went away
52 The Jews said to him, “Now we therefore, and washed, and came
know that you have a demon. seeing. 8 The neighbors therefore,
Abraham died, and the prophets; and those who saw him before, that
and you say, ‘If a man keeps my he was a beggar, said, “Is not this he
word, he shall never taste of death.’ who sat and begged?” 9 Others
53 Are you greater than our father said, “It is he”: others said, “No, but
Abraham, who died? and the he is like him.” He said, “I am he.”
prophets died: whom do you make 10 They said therefore to him,
yourself out to be?” 54 Jesus an- “How then were your eyes
swered, “If I glorify myself, my opened?” 11 He answered, “The
glory is nothing: it is my Father man who is called Jesus made clay,
who glorifies me; of whom you say, and anointed my eyes, and said to
that he is your God; 55 and you me, ‘Go to Siloam, and wash:’ so I
have not known him: but I know went away and washed, and I re-
him; and if I should say, ‘I do not ceived sight.” 12 And they said to
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him, “Where is he?” He says, “I do thing I know, that, whereas I was
not know.” blind, now I see.” 26 They said
13 They bring to the Pharisees therefore to him, “What did he do
him who formerly was blind. 14 to you? how did he open your
Now it was the Sabbath on the day eyes?” 27 He answered them, “I
when Jesus made the clay, and told you even now, and you did not
opened his eyes. 15 Again therefore hear; why would you hear it again?
the Pharisees also asked him how would you also become his disci-
he received his sight. And he said to ples?” 28 And they reviled him, and
them, “He put clay on mine eyes, said, “You are his disciple; but we
and I washed, and I see.” 16 Some are disciples of Moses. 29 We know
therefore of the Pharisees said, that God has spoken to Moses: but
“This man is not from God, because as for this man, we do not know
he does not keep the Sabbath.” But where he is from.” 30 The man an-
others said, “How can a man who is swered and said to them, “Why, in
a sinner do such signs?” And there this is the marvel, that you do not
was a division among them. 17 know where he is from, and yet he
They say therefore to the blind man opened my eyes. 31 We know that
again, “What do you say about God does not hear sinners: but if
him, in that he opened your eyes?” any man be a worshipper of God,
And he said, “He is a prophet.” 18 and do his will, he hears him. 32
The Jews therefore did not believe Since the world began it was never
concerning him, that he had been heard that anyone opened the eyes
blind, and had received his sight, of a man born blind. 33 If this man
until they called the parents of him were not from God, he could do
who had received his sight, 19 and nothing.” 34 They answered and
asked them, saying, “Is this your said to him, “You were altogether
son, who you say was born blind?” born in sins, and do you teach us?”
how then does he now see?” 20 His And they cast him out.
parents answered and said, “We 35 Jesus heard that they had cast
know that this is our son, and that him out; and finding him, he said,
he was born blind: 21 but how he “Do you believe on the Son of
now sees, we do not know; or who God?” 36 He answered and said,
opened his eyes, we do not know: “And who is he, Lord, that I may
ask him; he is of age; he will speak believe on him?” 37 Jesus said to
for himself.” 22 These things said him, “You have both seen him, and
his parents, because they feared the he it is who speaks with you.” 38
Jews: for the Jews had agreed al- And he said, “Lord, I believe.” And
ready, that if any man should con- he worshipped him. 39 And Jesus
fess him to be Christ, he should be said, “For judgment I came into this
put out of the synagogue. 23 There- world, that those who do not see
fore said his parents, “He is of age; may see; and that those who see
ask him.” 24 So they called a second may become blind.” 40 Those of the
time the man who was blind, and Pharisees who were with him
said to him, “Give glory to God: we heard these things, and said to him,
know that this man is a sinner.” 25 “Are we also blind?” 41 Jesus said
He therefore answered, “Whether to them, “If you were blind, you
he is a sinner, I do not know: one would have no sin: but now you
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say, ‘We see:’ your sin remains. have, which are not of this fold:

10 Truly, truly, I say to you, he them also I must bring, and they
who does not enter by the will hear my voice: and they will
door into the fold of the sheep, but become one flock, one shepherd. 17
climbs up some other way, the Therefore the Father loves me, be-
same is a thief and a robber. 2 But cause I lay down my life, that I may
he who enters in by the door is the take it again. 18 No one takes it
shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the away from me, but I lay it down of
doorkeeper opens; and the sheep myself. I have power to lay it down,
hear his voice: and he calls his own and I have power to take it again.
sheep by name, and leads them out. This commandment I received from
4 When he has put forth all his own, my Father.”
he goes before them, and the sheep 19 There arose a division again
follow him: for they know his among the Jews because of these
voice. 5 And a stranger they will words. 20 And many of them said,
not follow, but will flee from him: “He has a demon, and is mad; why
for they do not know the voice of do you listen to him?” 21 Others
strangers.” 6 This parable Jesus said, “These are not the sayings of
spoke to them: but they did not un- one possessed with a demon. Can a
derstand what things they were demon open the eyes of the blind?”
which he spoke to them. 22 And it was the Feast of the
7 Jesus therefore said to them Dedication at Jerusalem: 23 it was
again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I winter; and Jesus was walking in
am the door of the sheep. 8 All who the temple in Solomon’s porch. 24
came before me are thieves and rob- The Jews therefore surrounded
bers: but the sheep did not hear him, and said to him, “How long
them. 9 I am the door; by me if any do you hold us in suspense? If you
man enters, he will be saved, and are the Christ, tell us plainly.” 25 Je-
will go in and go out, and will find sus answered them, “I told you,
pasture. 10 The thief does not come, and you do not believe: the works
but that he may steal, and kill, and that I do in my Father’s name, these
destroy: I came that they may have bear witness of me. 26 But you do
life, and may have it abundantly. 11 not believe, because you are not of
I am the good shepherd: the good my sheep. 27 My sheep hear my
shepherd lays down his life for the voice, and I know them, and they
sheep. 12 He who is a hired man, follow me: 28 and I give to them
and not a shepherd, who is not the eternal life; and they shall never
owner of the sheep, sees the wolf perish, and no one shall snatch
coming, and leaves the sheep, and them out of my hand. 29 My Father,
flees, and the wolf snatches them, who has given them to me, is
and scatters them: 13 he flees because greater than all; and no one is able
he is a hired man, and does not care to snatch them out of the Father’s
for the sheep. 14 I am the good hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”
shepherd; and I know my own, and 31 The Jews took up stones again to
my own know me, 15 even as the stone him. 32 Jesus answered them,
Father knows me, and I know the “Many good works have I shown
Father; and I lay down my life for you from the Father; for which of
the sheep. 16 And other sheep I those works do you stone me?” 33
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The Jews answered him, “For a time two days in the place where he
good work we do not stone you, was. 7 Then after this he said to the
but for blasphemy; and because disciples, “Let us go into Judea
you, being a man, make yourself again.” 8 The disciples say to him,
God.” 34 Jesus answered them, “Is “Rabbi, the Jews were just now
it not written in your law, ‘I said, seeking to stone you; and are you
“You are gods” ’? 35 If he called going there again?” 9 Jesus an-
them gods, to whom the word of swered, “Are there not twelve
God came (and the Scripture can- hours in the day? If a man walks in
not be broken), 36 do you say of the day, he does not stumble, be-
him, whom the Father sanctified cause he sees the light of this world.
and sent into the world, ‘You are 10 But if a man walks in the night,
blaspheming’; because I said, ‘I am he stumbles, because the light is not
the Son of God’? 37 If I do not do the in him.” 11 These things he spoke:
works of my Father, do not believe and after this he says to them, “Our
me. 38 But if I do them, though you friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I
do not believe me, believe the go, that I may awake him out of
works: that you may know and un- sleep.” 12 The disciples therefore
derstand that the Father is in me, said to him, “Lord, if he is fallen
and I in the Father.” 39 They sought asleep, he will recover.” 13 Now Je-
again to take him: and he went sus had spoken of his death: but
forth out of their hand. they thought that he spoke of tak-
40 And he went away again be- ing rest in sleep. 14 Then Jesus
yond the Jordan into the place therefore said to them plainly,
where John was at the first baptiz- “Lazarus is dead. 15 And I am glad
ing; and there he stayed. 41 And for your sakes that I was not there,
many came to him; and they said, to the intent you may believe; nev-
“John indeed did no sign: but all ertheless let us go to him.” 16
things whatsoever John spoke Thomas therefore, who is called
about this man were true.” 42 And Didymus, said to his fellow disci-
many believed on him there. ples, “Let us also go, that we may

11 Now a certain man was die with him.”

sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of 17 So when Jesus came, he found
the village of Mary and her sister that he had been in the tomb four
Martha. 2 And it was that Mary days already. 18 Now Bethany was
who anointed the Lord with oint- near Jerusalem, about fifteen fur-
ment, and wiped his feet with her longs off; 19 and many of the Jews
hair, whose brother Lazarus was had come to Martha and Mary, to
sick. 3 The sisters therefore sent to console them concerning their
him, saying, “Lord, behold, he brother. 20 Martha therefore, when
whom you love is sick.” 4 But when she heard that Jesus was coming,
Jesus heard it, he said, “This sick- went and met him: but Mary still
ness is not to death, but for the sat in the house. 21 Martha there-
glory of God, that the Son of God fore said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had
may be glorified by it.” 5 Now Jesus been here, my brother would not
loved Martha, and her sister, and have died. 22 And even now I know
Lazarus. 6 When therefore he heard that, whatsoever you shall ask of
that he was sick, he stayed at that God, God will give you.” 23 Jesus
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says to her, “Your brother will rise it. 39 Jesus says, “Take away the
again.” 24 Martha says to him, “I stone.” Martha, the sister of him
know that he will rise again in the who was dead, says to him, “Lord,
resurrection at the last day.” 25 Je- by this time the body is decaying;
sus said to her, “I am the resurrec- for he has been dead four days.” 40
tion, and the life: he who believes Jesus says to her, “Did I not say to
on me, though he die, yet shall he you, that, if you believe, you would
live; 26 and whosoever lives and see the glory of God?” 41 So they
believes on me shall never die. Do took away the stone. And Jesus
you believe this?” 27 She says to lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father,
him, “Yes, Lord: I have believed I thank you that you have heard
that you are the Christ, the Son of me. 42 And I knew that you hear
God, even he who comes into the me always: but because of the mul-
world.” 28 And when she had said titude who stands around I said it,
this, she went away, and called that they may believe that you sent
Mary her sister secretly, saying, me.” 43 And when he had thus spo-
“The Teacher is here, and is calling ken, he cried with a loud voice,
you.” 29 And she, when she heard “Lazarus, come forth.” 44 He who
it, arose quickly, and went to him. was dead came forth, bound hand
30 (Now Jesus had not yet come and foot with grave-clothes; and his
into the village, but was still in the face was bound around with a face
place where Martha met him.) 31 cloth. Jesus says to them, “Unbind
The Jews then who were with her in him, and let him go.”
the house, and were consoling her, 45 Many therefore of the Jews,
when they saw Mary, that she rose who came to Mary and beheld that
up quickly and went out, followed which he did, believed on him. 46
her, supposing that she was going But some of them went away to the
to the tomb to weep there. 32 Mary Pharisees, and told them the things
therefore, when she came where Je- which Jesus had done.
sus was, and saw him, fell down at 47 The chief priests therefore and
his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you the Pharisees gathered a council,
had been here, my brother would and said, “What are we doing? for
not have died.” 33 When Jesus this man does many signs. 48 If we
therefore saw her weeping, and the let him thus alone, all men will be-
Jews also weeping who came with lieve on him: and the Romans will
her, he groaned in the spirit, and come and take away both our place
was troubled, 34 and said, “Where and our nation.” 49 But a certain
have you laid him?” They say to one of them, Caiaphas, being high
him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus priest that year, said to them, “You
wept. 36 The Jews therefore said, know nothing at all, 50 nor do you
“Behold how he loved him!” 37 But take account that it is expedient for
some of them said, “Could not this you that one man should die for the
man, who opened the eyes of him people, and that the whole nation
who was blind, have caused that not perish.” 51 Now this he said not
this man also should not die?” 38 of himself: but, being high priest
Jesus therefore again groaning in that year, he prophesied that Jesus
himself comes to the tomb. Now it should die for the nation; 52 and
was a cave, and a stone lay against not for the nation only, but that he
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might also gather together into one For the poor you have always with
the children of God who are scat- you; but me you do no have al-
tered abroad. 53 So from that day ways.”
forth they took counsel that they 9 The common people therefore of
might put him to death. the Jews learned that he was there:
54 Jesus therefore walked no and they came, not for Jesus’ sake
more openly among the Jews, but only, but that they might see
departed from there into the coun- Lazarus also, whom he had raised
try near the wilderness, into a city from the dead. 10 But the chief
called Ephraim; and there he stayed priests took counsel that they might
with the disciples. 55 Now the put Lazarus also to death; 11 be-
Passover of the Jews was at hand: cause that by reason of him many of
and many went up to Jerusalem out the Jews went away, and believed
of the country before the Passover, on Jesus.
to purify themselves. 56 They 12 On the next day a great multi-
sought therefore for Jesus, and tude who had come to the feast,
spoke with one another, as they when they heard that Jesus was
stood in the temple, “What do you coming to Jerusalem, 13 took the
think? That he will not come to the branches of the palm trees, and
feast?” 57 Now the chief priests and went forth to meet him, and cried
the Pharisees had given command- out, “Hosanna: Blessed is he who
ment, that, if any man knew where comes in the name of the Lord,
he was, he should show it, that they even the King of Israel.” 14 And Je-
might take him. sus, having found a young donkey,

12 Jesus therefore six days be- sat on it; as it is written, 15 “Do not
fore the Passover came to fear, daughter of Zion: behold, your
Bethany, where Lazarus was, King comes, sitting on a donkey’s
whom Jesus raised from the dead. 2 colt.” 16 These things his disciples
So they made him a supper there: did not understand at the first: but
and Martha served; but Lazarus when Jesus was glorified, then they
was one of those who reclined at remembered that these things were
the table with him. 3 Mary there- written of him, and that they had
fore took a pound of ointment of done these things to him. 17 The
pure nard, very precious, and multitude therefore who was with
anointed the feet of Jesus, and him when he called Lazarus out of
wiped his feet with her hair: and the tomb, and raised him from the
the house was filled with the fra- dead, bear witness. 18 For this
grance of the ointment. 4 But Judas cause also the multitude went and
Iscariot, one of his disciples, who met him, because they heard that
would betray him, says, 5 “Why he had done this sign. 19 The Phar-
was not this ointment sold for three isees therefore said among them-
hundred denarii, and given to the selves, “Behold how you accom-
poor?” 6 Now this he said, not be- plish nothing: look, the world is
cause he cared for the poor; but be- gone after him.”
cause he was a thief, and having the 20 Now there were certain Greeks
bag took away what was put in it. 7 among those who went up to wor-
Jesus therefore said, “Let her be to ship at the feast: 21 these therefore
keep it for the day of my burying. 8 came to Philip, who was of Beth-
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saida of Galilee, and asked him, who walks in the darkness does not
saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” know where he goes. 36 While you
22 Philip comes and tells Andrew: have the light, believe on the light,
Andrew comes, and Philip, and that you may become sons of light.”
they tell Jesus. 23 And Jesus an- These things spoke Jesus, and he
swers them, saying, “The hour is departed and hid himself from
come, that the Son of Man should them. 37 But though he had done so
be glorified. 24 Truly, truly, I say to many signs before them, yet they
you, except a grain of wheat falls did not believe on him: 38 that the
into the earth and dies, it remains word of Isaiah the prophet might
by itself alone; but if it dies, it bears be fulfilled, which he spoke,
much fruit. 25 He who loves his life “Lord, who has believed our
loses it; and he who hates his life in report?
this world will keep it to life eter- And to whom has the arm of
nal. 26 If any man serves me, let the Lord been revealed?”
him follow me; and where I am, 39 For this cause they could not be-
there will also my servant be: if any lieve, because Isaiah said again,
man serves me, him will the Father 40 “He has blinded their eyes, and
honor. 27 Now is my soul troubled; he hardened their heart;
and what shall I say? Father, save Lest they should see with their
me from this hour. But for this eyes, and perceive with their
cause I came to this hour. 28 Father, heart,
glorify your name.” There came And should turn,
therefore a voice out of heaven, say- And I should heal them.”
ing, “I have both glorified it, and 41 These things said Isaiah, because
will glorify it again.” 29 The multi- he saw his glory; and he spoke of
tude therefore, who stood by, and him. 42 Nevertheless even of the
heard it, said that it had thundered: rulers many believed on him; but
others said, “An angel has spoken because of the Pharisees they did
to him.” 30 Jesus answered and not confess it, lest they should be
said, “This voice has not come for put out of the synagogue: 43 for
my sake, but for your sakes. 31 they loved the glory that is of men
Now is the judgment of this world: more than the glory that is of God.
now will the prince of this world be 44 And Jesus cried out and said,
cast out. 32 And I, if I be lifted up “He who believes on me, does not
from the earth, will draw all men to believe on me, but on him who sent
myself.” 33 But this he said, signify- me. 45 And he who beholds me be-
ing by what manner of death he holds him who sent me. 46 I am
should die. 34 The multitude there- come a light into the world, that
fore answered him, “We have heard whosoever believes on me may not
out of the law that the Christ re- abide in the darkness. 47 And if any
mains for ever: and how can you man hear my sayings, and not keep
say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted them, I do not judge him: for I did
up?’ who is this Son of Man?” 35 Je- not come to judge the world, but to
sus therefore said to them, “Yet a save the world. 48 He who rejects
little while is the light among you. me, and does not receive my say-
Walk while you have the light, that ings, has one who judges him: the
darkness not overtake you: and he word that I spoke, the same will
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judge him in the last day. 49 For I feet, and taken his garments, and
spoke not from myself; but the Fa- sat down again, he said to them,
ther who sent me, he has given me “Do you know what I have done to
a commandment, what I should you? 13 You call me, Teacher, and,
say, and what I should speak. 50 Lord: and you say well; for so I am.
And I know that his commandment 14 If I then, the Lord and the
is life eternal: the things therefore Teacher, have washed your feet,
which I speak, even as the Father you also ought to wash one an-
has said to me, so I speak.” other’s feet. 15 For I have given you

13 Now before the feast of the an example, that you also should
Passover, Jesus knowing that do as I have done to you. 16 Truly,
his hour was come that he would Truly, I say to you, a servant is not
depart out of this world to his Fa- greater than his lord; neither one
ther, having loved his own who who is sent greater than he who
were in the world, he loved them to sent him. 17 If you know these
the end. 2 And during supper, the things, blessed are you if you do
devil having already put into the them. 18 I speak not of you all: I
heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, know whom I have chosen: but that
to betray him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Scripture may be fulfilled: ‘He
the Father had given all things into who eats my bread lifted up his
his hands, and that he came forth heel against me.’ 19 From hence-
from God, and goes to God, 4 rises forth I tell you before it comes to
from supper, and lays aside his gar- pass, that, when it is comes to pass,
ments; and he took a towel, and you may believe that I am he. 20
girded himself. 5 Then he pours Truly, truly, I say to you, he who re-
water into the basin, and began to ceives whomsoever I send receives
wash the disciples’ feet, and to me; and he who receives me re-
wipe them with the towel with ceives him who sent me.”
which he was girded. 6 So he comes 21 When Jesus had thus said, he
to Simon Peter. He says to him, was troubled in the spirit, and testi-
“Lord, do you wash my feet?” 7 Je- fied, and said, “Truly, truly, I say to
sus answered and said to him, you, that one of you will betray
“What I do you do not know now; me.” 22 The disciples looked at one
but you will understand after this.” another, doubting of whom he
8 Peter says to him, “You shall spoke. 23 There was at the table re-
never wash my feet.” Jesus an- clining in Jesus’ bosom one of his
swered him, “If I do not wash you, disciples, whom Jesus loved. 24 Si-
you have no part with me.” 9 Si- mon Peter therefore beckons to
mon Peter says to him, “Lord, not him, and says to him, “Tell us who
my feet only, but also my hands it is of whom he speaks.” 25 He
and my head.” 10 Jesus says to him, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus’
“He who is bathed does not need breast says to him, “Lord, who is
except to wash his feet, but is clean it?” 26 Jesus therefore answers, “He
completely: and you are clean, but it is, for whom I shall dip the
not all.” 11 For he knew him who morsel, and give it him.” So when
would betray him; therefore he he had dipped the morsel, he takes
said, “You are not all clean.” and gives it to Judas, the son of Si-
12 So when he had washed their mon Iscariot. 27 And after the
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morsel, then entered Satan into myself; that where I am, there you
him. Jesus therefore says to him, may be also. 4 And where I go, you
“What you do, do quickly.” 28 Now know the way.” 5 Thomas says to
no man at the table knew for what him, “Lord, we do not know where
intent he spoke this to him. 29 For you are going; how do we know the
some thought, because Judas had way?” 6 Jesus says to him, “I am the
the bag, that Jesus said to him, “Buy way, and the truth, and the life: no
what things we have need of for the one comes to the Father, but by me.
feast”; or, that he should give some- 7 If you had known me, you would
thing to the poor. 30 He then having have known my Father also: from
received the morsel went out im- henceforth you know him, and
mediately: and it was night. have seen him.” 8 Philip says to
31 When therefore he had gone him, “Lord, show us the Father, and
out, Jesus says, “Now is the Son of it is sufficient for us.” 9 Jesus says to
Man glorified, and God is glorified him, “Have I been so long time
in him; 32 and God will glorify him with you, and do you not know me,
in himself, and immediately will he Philip? he who has seen me has
glorify him. 33 Little children, yet a seen the Father; how are you say-
little while I am with you. You will ing, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do
seek me: and as I said to the Jews, you not believe that I am in the Fa-
‘Where I go, you cannot come’; so ther, and the Father in me? the
now I say to you. 34 A new com- words that I say to you I speak not
mandment I give to you, that you from myself: but the Father abiding
love one another; even as I have in me does his works. 11 Believe me
loved you, that you also love one that I am in the Father, and the Fa-
another. 35 By this will all men ther in me: or else believe me for the
know that you are my disciples, if very works’ sake. 12 Truly, truly, I
you have love for one another. say to you, he who believes on me,
36 Simon Peter says to him, the works that I do will he do also;
“Lord, where are you going?” Jesus and greater works than these will he
answered, “Where I go, you cannot do; because I go to the Father. 13
follow me now; but you will follow And whatsoever you shall ask in
afterwards.” 37 Peter says to him, my name, that will I do, that the Fa-
“Lord, why cannot I follow you ther may be glorified in the Son. 14
even now? I will lay down my life If you will ask anything in my
for you.” 38 Jesus answers, “Will name, that will I do. 15 If you love
you lay down your life for me? me, you will keep my command-
Truly, truly, I say to you, the cock ments. 16 And I will ask the Father,
shall not crow, until you have de- and he will give you another Com-
nied me three times. forter, that he may be with you for

14 Do not let your heart be ever, 17 even the Spirit of truth:

troubled: believe in God, be- whom the world cannot receive; for
lieve also in me. 2 In my Father’s it does not behold him, neither
house are many mansions; if it were knows him: you know him; for he
not so, I would have told you; for I dwells with you, and will be in you.
go to prepare a place for you. 3 And 18 I will not leave you desolate: I
if I go and prepare a place for you, I come to you. 19. Yet a little while,
come again, and will receive you to and the world beholds me no more;
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but you see me: because I live, you
will live also. 20 In that day you 15 I am the true vine, and my
Father is the vinedresser. 2
will know that I am in my Father, Every branch in me that does not
and you in me, and I in you. 21 He bear fruit, he takes it away: and ev-
who has my commandments, and ery branch that bears fruit, he
keeps them, he it is who loves me: cleanses it, that it may bear more
and he who loves me will be loved fruit. 3 Already you are clean be-
by my Father, and I will love him, cause of the word which I have spo-
and will reveal myself to him.” 22 ken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in
Judas (not Iscariot) says to him, you. As the branch cannot bear fruit
“Lord, what is come to pass that from itself, except it abide in the
you will reveal yourself to us, and vine; so neither can you, except you
not to the world?” 23 Jesus an- abide in me. 5 I am the vine, you are
swered and said to him, “If a man the branches: He who abides in me,
loves me, he will keep my word: and I in him, the same bears much
and my Father will love him, and fruit: for apart from me you can do
we will come to him, and make our nothing. 6 If a man does not abide
home with him. 24 He who does in me, he is cast forth as a branch,
not love me does not keep my and is withered; and they gather
words: and the word which you them, and cast them into the fire,
hear is not mine, but the Father’s and they are burned. 7 If you abide
who sent me. in me, and my words abide in you,
25 These things have I spoken to ask whatsoever you will, and it
you, while yet staying with you. 26 shall be done for you. 8 In this is my
But the Comforter, even the Holy Father glorified, that you bear
Spirit, whom the Father will send in much fruit; and so shall you be my
my name, he will teach you all disciples. 9 Even as the Father has
things, and bring to your remem- loved me, I also have loved you:
brance all that I said to you. 27 abide in my love. 10 If you keep my
Peace I leave with you; my peace I commandments, you will abide in
give to you: not as the world gives, my love; even as I have kept my Fa-
do I give to you. Do not let your ther’s commandments, and abide
heart be troubled, neither let it be in his love. 11 These things I have
fearful. 28 You heard how I said to spoken to you, that my joy may be
you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ in you, and that your joy may be
If you loved me, you would have made full. 12 This is my command-
rejoiced, because I go to the Father: ment, that you love one another,
for the Father is greater than I. 29 even as I have loved you. 13
And now I have told you before it Greater love has no man than this,
comes to pass, that, when it is that a man lay down his life for his
comes to pass, you may believe. 30 friends. 14 You are my friends, if
I will no longer speak much with you do the things which I com-
you, for the prince of the world mand you. 15 No longer do I call
comes: and he has nothing in me; 31 you servants; for the servant does
but that the world may know that I not know what his lord is doing:
love the Father, and as the Father but I have called you friends; for all
gave me commandment, even so I things that I heard from my Father,
do. Arise, let us go from here. I have made known to you. 16 You
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did not choose me, but I chose you, service to God. 3 And these things
and appointed you, that you they will do, because they have not
should go and bear fruit, and that known the Father, nor me. 4 But
your fruit should abide: that what- these things I have spoken to you,
soever you shall ask of the Father in that when their hour comes, you
my name, he may give it you. 17 may remember them, how that I
These things I command you, that told you. And these things I did not
you may love one another. 18 If the say to you from the beginning, be-
world hates you, you know that it cause I was with you. 5 But now I
has hated me before it hated you. 19 go to him who sent me; and none of
If you were of the world, the world you asks me, ‘Where are you go-
would love its own: but because ing?’ 6 But because I have spoken
you are not of the world, but I chose these things to you, sorrow has
you out of the world, therefore the filled your heart. 7 Nevertheless I
world hates you. 20 Remember the tell you the truth: it is expedient for
word that I said to you, ‘A servant you that I go away; for if I do not go
is not greater than his lord.’ If they away, the Comforter will not come
persecuted me, they will also perse- to you; but if I go, I will send him to
cute you; if they kept my word, you. 8 And he, when he has come,
they will keep yours also. 21 But all will convict the world in respect of
these things will they do to you for sin, and of righteousness, and of
my name’s sake, because they do judgment: 9 of sin, because they do
not know him who sent me. 22 If I not believe on me; 10 of righteous-
had not come and spoken to them, ness, because I go to the Father, and
they would not have sin: but now you behold me no more; 11 of judg-
they have no excuse for their sin. 23 ment, because the prince of this
He who hates me hates my Father world has been judged. 12 I have
also. 24 If I had not done among yet many things to say to you, but
them the works which no other did, you cannot bear them now. 13
they would not have sin: but now However when he, the Spirit of
they have both seen and hated both truth, has come, he will guide you
me and my Father. 25 But this comes into all the truth: for he will not
to pass, that the word may be ful- speak from himself; but whatso-
filled that is written in their law, ever things he will hear, these he
‘They hated me without a cause.’ 26 will speak: and he will declare to
But when the Comforter comes, you the things that are to come. 14
whom I will send to you from the He will glorify me: for he will take
Father, even the Spirit of truth, of mine, and will declare it to you.
which proceeds from the Father, he 15 All things whatsoever the Father
will bear witness of me: 27 and you has are mine: therefore I said, that
also bear witness, because you have he takes of mine, and will declare it
been with me from the beginning. to you. 16 A little while, and you

16 These things I have spoken will behold me no more; and again

to you, that you should not a little while, and you will see me.”
be caused to stumble. 2 They will 17 Some of his disciples therefore
put you out of the synagogues: yes, said to one another, “What is this
the hour comes, that whosoever that he says to us, ‘A little while,
kills you will think that he offers and you will not behold me; and
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again a little while, and you will see the Father.” 29 His disciples say,
me’: and, ‘Because I go to the Fa- “See, now you are speaking plainly,
ther’?” 18 They said therefore, and speak no dark saying. 30 Now
“What is this that he says, ‘A little we know that you know all things,
while’? We do not know what he and do not need that any man
says.” 19 Jesus perceived that they should ask you: by this we believe
were desirous to ask him, and he that you came forth from God.” 31
said to them, “Do you inquire Jesus answered them, “Do you now
among yourselves concerning this, believe? 32 Behold, the hour comes,
that I said, ‘A little while, and you yes, is come, that you will be scat-
will not behold, and again a little tered, every man to his own, and
while, and you will see me’? 20 shall leave me alone: and yet I am
Truly, truly, I say to you, that you not alone, because the Father is
will weep and lament, but the with me. 33 These things I have
world will rejoice: you will be sor- spoken to you, that in me you may
rowful, but your sorrow will be have peace. In the world you have
turned into joy. 21 A woman when tribulation: but be of good cheer; I
she is in travail has sorrow, because have overcome the world.”
her hour has come: but when she is
delivered of the child, she no longer 17 These things spoke Jesus;
and lifting up his eyes to
remembers the anguish, for the joy heaven, he said, “Father, the hour is
that a man is born into the world. come; glorify your Son, that the Son
22 And you therefore now have sor- may glorify you: 2 even as you gave
row: but I will see you again, and him authority over all flesh, that to
your heart will rejoice, and your joy all whom you have given him, he
no one takes away from you. 23 should give eternal life. 3 And this
And in that day you will ask me no is life eternal, that they should
question. Truly, truly, I say to you, if know you the only true God, and
you shall ask anything of the Fa- him whom you sent, even Jesus
ther, he will give it you in my name. Christ. 4 I glorified you on the
24 Until now have you asked noth- earth, having accomplished the
ing in my name: ask, and you will work which you have given me to
receive, that your joy may be made do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me
full. with yourself with the glory which
25 These things I have spoken to I had with you before the world
you in dark sayings: the hour was. 6 I manifested your name to
comes, when I shall no longer the men whom you gave me out of
speak to you in dark sayings, but the world: yours they were, and
shall tell you plainly of the Father. you gave them to me; and they
26 In that day you will ask in my have kept your word. 7 Now they
name: and I do not say to you, that know that all things whatsoever
I will ask the Father for you; 27 for you have given me are from you: 8
the Father himself loves you, be- for the words which you gave me I
cause you have loved me, and have have given to them; and they re-
believed that I came forth from the ceived them, and knew truly that I
Father. 28 I came out from the Fa- came forth from you, and they be-
ther, and have come into the world: lieved that you have sent me. 9 I
again, I leave the world, and go to pray for them: I do not pray for the
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world, but for those whom you and loved them, even as you loved
have given me; for they are yours: me. 24 Father, I desire that they also
10 and all things that are mine are whom you have given me be with
yours, and yours are mine: and I me where I am, that they may be-
am glorified in them. 11 And I am hold my glory, which you have
no longer in the world, and these given me: for you loved me before
are in the world, and I come to you. the foundation of the world. 25 O
Holy Father, keep them in your righteous Father, the world did not
name which you have given me, know you, but I knew you; and
that they may be one, even as we these knew that you sent me; 26
are. 12 While I was with them, I and I made known to them your
kept them in your name which you name, and will make it known; that
have given me: and I guarded the love with which you loved me
them, and not one of them per- may be in them, and I in them.
ished, but the son of destruction;
18
that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
When Jesus had spoken
these words, he went forth
13 But now I come to you; and these with his disciples over the brook
things I speak in the world, that Kidron, where there was a garden,
they may have my joy made full in into which he entered, himself and
themselves. 14 I have given them his disciples. 2 Now Judas also,
your word; and the world hated who betrayed him, knew the place:
them, because they are not of the for Jesus often gathered there with
world, even as I am not of the his disciples. 3 Judas then, having
world. 15 I do not pray that you received the band of soldiers, and
should take them from the world, officers from the chief priests and
but that you should keep them the Pharisees, comes there with
from the evil one. 16 They are not of lanterns and torches and weapons.
the world even as I am not of the 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all the
world. 17 Sanctify them in the things that were coming upon him,
truth: your word is truth. 18 As you went forth, and says to them,
sent me into the world, even so I “Whom do you seek?” 5 They an-
sent them into the world. 19 And swered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
for their sakes I sanctify myself, Jesus says to them, “I am he.” And
that they themselves also may be Judas also, who betrayed him, was
sanctified in truth. 20 Neither for standing with them. 6 When there-
these only do I pray, but for those fore he said to them, “I am he,” they
also who believe on me through went backward, and fell to the
their word; 21 that they may all be ground. 7 Again therefore he asked
one; even as you, Father, are in me, them, “Whom do you seek?” And
and I in you, that they also may be they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.” 8 Je-
in us: that the world may believe sus answered, “I told you that I am
that you sent me. 22 And the glory he; if therefore you seek me, let
which you have given me I have these go their way”: 9 that the word
given to them; that they may be might be fulfilled which he spoke,
one, even as we are one; 23 I in “Of those whom you have given
them, and you in me, that they may me I lost not one.” 10 Simon Peter
be perfected into one; that the therefore having a sword drew it,
world may know that you sent me, and struck the high priest’s servant,
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and cut off his right ear. Now the struck Jesus with his hand, saying,
servant’s name was Malchus. 11 Je- “Do you answer the high priest like
sus therefore said to Peter, “Put the that?” 23 Jesus answered him, “If I
sword into the sheath: the cup have spoken evil, bear witness of
which the Father has given me, the evil: but if well, why do you
shall I not drink it?” strike me?” 24 Annas therefore sent
12 So the cohort and the comman- him bound to Caiaphas the high
der, and the officers of the Jews, priest.
seized Jesus and bound him, 13 and 25 Now Simon Peter was stand-
led him to Annas first; for he was ing and warming himself. They
father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was said therefore to him, “Are you also
high priest that year. 14 Now Ca- one of his disciples?” He denied,
iaphas was he who gave counsel to and said, “I am not.” 26 One of the
the Jews, that it was expedient that servants of the high priest, being a
one man should die for the people. kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut
15 And Simon Peter followed Je- off, says, “Did I not see you in the
sus, and so did another disciple. garden with him?” 27 Peter there-
Now that disciple was known to fore denied again: and immediately
the high priest, and entered in with the cock crowed.
Jesus into the court of the high 28 They lead Jesus therefore from
priest; 16 but Peter was standing at Caiaphas into the Praetorium: and
the door outside. So the other disci- it was early; and they themselves
ple, who was known to the high did not enter into the Praetorium,
priest, went out and spoke to her that they might not be defiled, but
who kept the door, and brought in might eat the Passover. 29 Pilate
Peter. 17 The servant girl therefore therefore went out to them, and
who kept the door says to Peter, says, “What accusation do you
“Are you also one of this man’s dis- bring against this man?” 30 They
ciples?” He says, “I am not.” 18 answered and said to him, “If this
Now the servants and the officers man were not an evildoer, we
were standing there, having made a would not have delivered him up
fire of coals; for it was cold; and to you.” 31 Pilate therefore said to
they were warming themselves: them, “Take him yourselves, and
and Peter also was with them, judge him according to your law.”
standing and warming himself. The Jews said to him, “It is not law-
19 The high priest therefore asked ful for us to put any man to death”:
Jesus about his disciples, and about 32 that the word of Jesus might be
his teaching. 20 Jesus answered fulfilled, which he spoke, signify-
him, “I have spoken openly to the ing by what manner of death he
world; I always taught in syna- would die.
gogues, and in the temple, where 33 Pilate therefore entered again
all the Jews come together; and in into the Praetorium, and called Je-
secret I spoke nothing. 21 Why do sus, and said to him, “Are you the
you ask me? ask those who have King of the Jews?” 34 Jesus an-
heard me, what I spoke to them: be- swered, “Are you saying this of
hold, these know the things which I yourself, or did others tell you con-
said.” 22 And when he had said cerning me?” 35 Pilate answered,
this, one of the officers standing by “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and
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the chief priests delivered you to him.” 7 The Jews answered him,
me: what have you done?” 36 Jesus “We have a law, and by that law he
answered, “My kingdom is not of ought to die, because he made him-
this world: if my kingdom were of self the Son of God.” 8 When Pilate
this world, then would my servants therefore heard this saying, he was
fight, that I should not be delivered the more afraid; 9 and he entered
to the Jews: but now is my kingdom into the Praetorium again, and says
not from here.” 37 Pilate therefore to Jesus, “Where are you from?”
said to him, “Are you a king then?” But Jesus gave him no answer. 10
Jesus answered, “You say that I am Pilate therefore says to him, “Are
a king. To this end have I been born, you not speaking to me? do you not
and to this end I am come into the know that I have power to release
world, that I should bear witness to you, and have power to crucify
the truth. Every one who is of the you?” 11 Jesus answered him, “You
truth hears my voice.” 38 Pilate would have no power against me,
says to him, “What is truth?” unless it were given you from
And when he had said this, he above: therefore he who delivered
went out again to the Jews, and me to you has greater sin.” 12 Upon
says to them, “I find no crime in this Pilate sought to release him:
him. 39 But you have a custom, that but the Jews cried out, saying, “If
I should release to you one at the you release this man, you are not
Passover: Do you will therefore that Caesar’s friend: every one who
I release to you the King of the makes himself a king speaks
Jews?” 40 They cried out therefore against Caesar.” 13 When Pilate
again, saying, “Not this man, but therefore heard these words, he
Barabbas.” Now Barabbas was a brought Jesus out, and sat down on
robber. the judgment seat at a place called

19 Then Pilate therefore took The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gab-

Jesus, and scourged him. 2 batha. 14 Now it was the Prepara-
And the soldiers twisted a crown of tion of the Passover: it was about
thorns, and put it on his head, and the sixth hour. And he says to the
arrayed him in a purple garment; 3 Jews, “Behold, your King!” 15 They
and they came to him, and said, therefore cried out, “Away with
“Hail, King of the Jews!” and they him, away with him, crucify him!”
struck him with their hands. 4 And Pilate says to them, “Shall I crucify
Pilate went out again, and says to your King?” The chief priests an-
them, “Behold, I bring him out to swered, “We have no king but Cae-
you, that you may know that I find sar.” 16 Then therefore he delivered
no crime in him.” 5 Jesus therefore him to them to be crucified.
came out, wearing the crown of 17 They took Jesus therefore: and
thorns and the purple garment. he went out, bearing the cross for
And Pilate says to them, “Behold, himself, to the place called The
the man!” 6 When therefore the Place of a Skull, which is called in
chief priests and the officers saw Hebrew, Golgotha: 18 where they
him, they cried out, saying, “Cru- crucified him, and with him two
cify him, crucify him!” Pilate says to others, on either side one, and Jesus
them, “Take him yourselves, and in the middle. 19 And Pilate wrote
crucify him: for I find no crime in a title also, and put it on the cross.
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And there was written, JESUS OF mouth. 30 When Jesus therefore
NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 20 had received the vinegar, he said,
This title therefore read many of the “It is finished”: and he bowed his
Jews, for the place where Jesus was head, and gave up his spirit.
crucified was near the city; and it 31 The Jews therefore, because it
was written in Hebrew, and in was the Preparation, that the bodies
Latin, and in Greek. 21 The chief should not remain on the cross on
priests of the Jews therefore said to the Sabbath (for the day of that Sab-
Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of bath was a high day), asked Pilate
the Jews;’ but that he said, ‘I am that their legs might be broken, and
King of the Jews.’ ” 22 Pilate an- that they might be taken away. 32
swered, “What I have written I The soldiers therefore came, and
have written.” broke the legs of the first, and of the
23 The soldiers therefore, when other who was crucified with him:
they had crucified Jesus, took his 33 but when they came to Jesus,
garments and made four parts, to and saw that he was dead already,
every soldier a part; and also the tu- they did not break his legs: 34 how-
nic: now the tunic was without ever one of the soldiers with a spear
seam, woven from the top through- pierced his side, and immediately
out. 24 They said therefore to one there came out blood and water. 35
another, “Let us not tear it, but cast And he who has seen has borne
lots for it, whose it shall be”: that witness, and his witness is true: and
the Scripture might be fulfilled, he knows that he says true, that you
which says, also may believe. 36 For these
“They divided my garments things came to pass, that the Scrip-
among them, ture might be fulfilled, “A bone of
And upon my clothing they him shall not be broken.” 37 And
cast lots.” again another Scripture says, “They
25 These things therefore the sol- shall look on him whom they
diers did. But there were standing pierced.”
by the cross of Jesus his mother, and 38 And after these things Joseph
his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of of Arimathea, being a disciple of Je-
Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 sus, but secretly for fear of the Jews,
When Jesus therefore saw his asked Pilate that he might take
mother, and the disciple standing away the body of Jesus: and Pilate
by whom he loved, he says to his gave him permission. He came
mother, “Woman, behold your therefore, and took away his body.
son!” 27 Then he says to the disci- 39 And there came also Nicodemus,
ple, “Behold, your mother!” And he who at the first came to him by
from that hour the disciple took her night, bringing a mixture of myrrh
into his own home. and aloes, about a hundred
28 After this Jesus, knowing that pounds. 40 So they took the body of
all things are now finished, that the Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths
Scripture might be accomplished, with the spices, as the custom of the
says, “I thirst.” 29 There was set Jews is to bury. 41 Now in the place
there a vessel full of vinegar: so where he was crucified there was a
they put a sponge full of the vine- garden; and in the garden a new
gar on hyssop, and brought it to his tomb in which was never man yet
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laid. 42 There then because of the sus standing, and did not know
Jews’ Preparation (for the tomb was that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus says to
nearby) they laid Jesus. her, “Woman, why are you weep-

20 Now on the first day of the ing?” whom are you seeking?” She,
week comes Mary Magda- supposing him to be the gardener,
lene early, while it was still dark, to says to him, “Sir, if you have carried
the tomb, and sees the stone taken him away, tell me where you have
away from the tomb. 2 She runs laid him, and I will take him away.”
therefore, and comes to Simon Pe- 16 Jesus says to her, “Mary.” She
ter, and to the other disciple whom turned herself, and says to him in
Jesus loved, and says to them, Hebrew, “Rabboni;” which is to say,
“They have taken away the Lord Teacher. 17 Jesus says to her, “Do
out of the tomb, and we do not not touch me; for I am not yet as-
know where they have laid him.” 3 cended to the Father: but go to my
Peter therefore went forth, and the brethren, and say to them, ‘I ascend
other disciple, and they went to- to my Father and your Father, and
ward the tomb. 4 And they ran both my God and your God.’ ” 18 Mary
together: and the other disciple out- Magdalene comes and tells the dis-
ran Peter, and came first to the ciples, “I have seen the Lord;” and
tomb; 5 and stooping and looking that he had said these things to her.
in, he sees the linen cloths lying; yet 19 When therefore it was evening,
he did not enter in. 6 Simon Peter on that day, the first day of the
therefore also comes, following week, and when the doors were
him, and entered into the tomb; and shut where the disciples were, for
he sees the linen cloths lying, 7 and fear of the Jews, Jesus came and
the face cloth, that was on his head, stood in the midst, and says to
not lying with the linen cloths, but them, “Peace be to you.” 20 And
rolled up in a place by itself. 8 Then when he had said this, he showed
entered in therefore the other disci- to them his hands and his side. The
ple also, who came first to the tomb, disciples therefore were glad, when
and he saw, and believed. 9 For as they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus there-
yet they did not know the Scrip- fore said to them again, “Peace be to
ture, that he must rise again from you: as the Father has sent me, even
the dead. 10 So the disciples went so I send you.” 22 And when he had
away again to their own homes. said this, he breathed on them, and
11 But Mary was standing outside says to them, “Receive the Holy
the tomb weeping: so, as she wept, Spirit: 23 whosoever sins you for-
she stooped and looked into the give, they are forgiven unto them;
tomb; 12 and she sees two angels in whosoever sins you retain, they are
white sitting, one at the head, and retained.”
one at the feet, where the body of 24 But Thomas, one of the twelve,
Jesus had lain. 13 And they say to called Didymus, was not with them
her, “Woman, why are you weep- when Jesus came. 25 The other dis-
ing?” She says to them, “Because ciples therefore said to him, “We
they have taken away my Lord, and have seen the Lord.” But he said to
I do not know where they have laid them, “Unless I shall see in his
him.” 14 When she had thus said, hands the print of the nails, and put
she turned herself back, and sees Je- my finger into the print of the nails,
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and put my hand into his side, I right side of the boat, and you will
will not believe.” find.” They cast therefore, and now
26 And after eight days again his they were not able to draw it for the
disciples were inside, and Thomas multitude of fish. 7 That disciple
with them. Jesus comes, the doors therefore whom Jesus loved says to
being shut, and stood in the midst, Peter, “It is the Lord.” So when Si-
and said, “Peace be to you.” 27 Then mon Peter heard that it was the
he says to Thomas, “Reach your fin- Lord, he tied his outer garment
ger here, and see my hands; and around him (for he was naked), and
reach your hand here, and put it into cast himself into the sea. 8 But the
my side: and do not be faithless, but other disciples came in the little
believing.” 28 Thomas answered boat (for they were not far from the
and said to him, “My Lord and my land, but about two hundred cubits
God.” 29 Jesus says to him, “Be- off), dragging the net full of fish. 9
cause you have seen me, you have So when they got out on the land,
believed: blessed are those who they see a fire of coals there, and
have not seen, and yet have be- fish laid on it, and bread. 10 Jesus
lieved.” says to them, “Bring some of the
30 Many other signs therefore Je- fish which you have now taken.” 11
sus did in the presence of the disci- Simon Peter therefore went up, and
ples, which are not written in this drew the net to land, full of great
book: 31 but these are written, that fish, a hundred and fifty-three: and
you may believe that Jesus is the although there were so many, the
Christ, the Son of God; and that be- net was not torn. 12 Jesus says to
lieving you may have life in his them, “Come and eat breakfast.”
name. And none of the disciples dared in-
quire of him, “Who are you?”

21 After these things Jesus knowing that it was the Lord. 13 Je-
manifested himself again to sus comes, and takes the bread, and
the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias; gives it to them, and the fish like-
and he manifested himself in this wise. 14 This is now the third time
way. 2 There were together Simon that Jesus was manifested to the
Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, disciples, after he was risen from
and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the dead.
and the sons of Zebedee, and two 15 So when they had eaten break-
other of his disciples. 3 Simon Peter fast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, “Si-
says to them, “I am going fishing.” mon, son of John, do you love me
They say to him, “We also are com- more than these?” He says to him,
ing with you.” They went forth, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love
and entered into the boat; and that you.” He says to him, “Feed my
night they took nothing. 4 But lambs.” 16 He says to him again a
when day was now breaking, Jesus second time, “Simon, son of John,
stood on the beach: yet the disciples do you love me?” He says to him,
did not know that it was Jesus. 5 Je- “Yes, Lord; you know that I love
sus therefore says to them, “Chil- you.” He says to him, “Tend my
dren, have you anything to eat?” sheep.” 17 He says to him the third
They answered him, “No.” 6 And time, “Simon, son of John, do you
he said to them, “Cast the net on the love me?” Peter was grieved be-
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cause he said to him the third time,
‘Do you love me?’ And he said to
him, “Lord, you know all things;
you know that I love you.” Jesus
says to him, “Feed my sheep. 18
Truly, truly, I say to you, when you
were young, you girded yourself,
and walked where you wished: but
when you grow old, you will
stretch forth your hands, and an-
other will gird you, and carry you
where you do not wish.” 19 Now
this he spoke, signifying by what
manner of death he would glorify
God. And when he had spoken this,
he says to him, “Follow me.” 20 Pe-
ter, turning around, sees the disci-
ple whom Jesus loved following;
who also leaned back on his chest at
the supper, and said, “Lord, who is
he who betrays you? 21 Peter there-
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fore seeing him says to Jesus,
“Lord, and what shall this man
do?” 22 Jesus says to him, “If I will
that he remain until I come, what is
that to you? you follow me.” 23 This
saying therefore went forth among
the brethren, that that disciple
would not die: yet Jesus did not say
to him, that he would not die; but,
‘If I will that he remain until I come,
what is that to you?’
24 This is the disciple who bears
witness of these things, and wrote
these things: and we know that his
witness is true.
25 And there are also many other
things which Jesus did, which if
they would be written every one, I
suppose that even the world itself
would not contain the books that
would be written.
 THE AC TS

1 The former treatise I made, O why do you stand looking into

Theophilus, concerning all that heaven? this Jesus, who was re-
Jesus began both to do and to teach, ceived up from you into heaven
2 until the day in which he was re- will so come in like manner as you
ceived up, after he had given com- beheld him going into heaven.”
mandment through the Holy Spirit 12 Then they returned to
to the apostles whom he had cho- Jerusalem from the mount called
sen: 3 to whom he also showed Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a
himself alive after his suffering by Sabbath Day’s journey off. 13 And
many proofs, appearing to them when they had come in, they went
during the space of forty days, and up into the upper room, where they
speaking the things concerning the were staying; both Peter and John
kingdom of God: 4 and, being as- and James and Andrew, Philip and
sembled together with them, he Thomas, Bartholomew and Matth-
charged them not to depart from ew, James the son of Alphaeus, and
Jerusalem, but to wait for the prom- Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son
ise of the Father, which, he said, of James. 14 These all with one ac-
“you heard from me: 5 for John in- cord continued steadfastly in pray-
deed baptized with water; but you er, with the women, and Mary the
shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit mother of Jesus, and with his broth-
not many days from now.” ers.
6 They therefore, when they had 15 And in these days Peter stood
come together, asked him, saying, up in the midst of the brethren, and
“Lord, do you at this time restore said (and there was a multitude of
the kingdom to Israel?” 7 And he persons gathered together, about a
said to them, “It is not for you to hundred and twenty), 16 “Brethren,
know times or seasons, which the it was necessary that the Scripture
Father has set within His own au- should be fulfilled, which the Holy
thority. 8 But you shall receive Spirit spoke before by the mouth of
power, when the Holy Spirit has David concerning Judas, who was
come upon you: and you shall be guide to those who took Jesus. 17
my witnesses both in Jerusalem, For he was numbered among us,
and in all Judea and Samaria, and and received his portion in this
to the uttermost part of the earth.” ministry.” 18 (Now this man ob-
9 And when he had said these tained a field with the reward of his
things, as they were looking, he iniquity; and falling headlong, he
was taken up; and a cloud received burst open in the middle, and all
him out of their sight. 10 And while his bowels gushed out. 19 And it
they were looking steadfastly into became known to all the inhabi-
heaven as he went, behold two men tants of Jerusalem; insomuch that in
stood by them in white apparel; 11 their language that field was called
who also said, “Men of Galilee, Akeldama, that is, The Field of
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Blood.) 20 “For it is written in the heard them speaking in his own
book of Psalms, language. 7 And they were all
‘Let his habitation be made amazed and marveled, saying,
desolate, “Behold, are not all these who
And let no man dwell in it:’ speak Galileans? 8 And how is it
and, that we hear, every man in our own
‘His office let another take.’ language in which we were born? 9
21 Of the men therefore who have Parthians and Medes and Elamites,
accompanied us all the time that and those dwelling in Mesopo-
the Lord Jesus went in and went tamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, in
out among us, 22 beginning from Pontus and Asia, 10 in Phrygia and
the baptism of John, to the day that Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts
he was received up from us, of of Libya about Cyrene, and
these must one become a witness sojourners from Rome, both Jews
with us of his resurrection.” 23 And and proselytes, 11 Cretans and
they put forward two, Joseph called Arabians, we hear them speaking
Barsabbas, who was surnamed Jus- in our tongues the mighty works of
tus, and Matthias. 24 And they God.” 12 And they were all
prayed, and said, “You, Lord, who amazed, and were perplexed,
know the hearts of all men, show of saying to one another, “What does
these two the one whom you have this mean?” 13 But others mocking
chosen, 25 to take the place in this said, “They are filled with new
ministry and apostleship from wine.”
which Judas fell away, that he 14 But Peter, standing up with the
might go to his own place.” 26 And eleven, lifted up his voice, and
they gave lots for them; and the lot spoke forth to them, saying, “Men
fell on Matthias; and he was num- of Judea, and all you who dwell in
bered with the eleven apostles. Jerusalem, be this known to you,

2 And when the day of Pente- and give ear to my words. 15 For
cost was now come, they were these are not drunk, as you sup-
all together in one place. 2 And sud- pose; seeing it is but the third hour
denly there came from heaven a of the day; 16 but this is that which
sound as of the rushing of a mighty has been spoken through the
wind, and it filled all the house prophet Joel:
where they were sitting. 3 And 17 ‘And it shall be in the last days,
there appeared to them tongues says God,
distributed, like as of fire; and it sat I will pour forth of my Spirit on
upon each one of them. 4 And they all flesh:
were all filled with the Holy Spirit, And your sons and your
and began to speak with other daughters shall prophesy,
tongues, as the Spirit gave them ut- And your young men shall see
terance. visions,
5 Now there were dwelling in And your old men shall dream
Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from dreams:
every nation under heaven. 6 And 18 Yes and on my servants and on
when this sound was heard, the my handmaidens in those
multitude came together, and were days
confounded, because every man Will I pour forth of my Spirit;
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and they shall prophesy. of the patriarch David, that he both
19 And I will show wonders in the died and was buried, and his tomb
heaven above, is with us to this day. 30 Being
And signs on the earth beneath; therefore a prophet, and knowing
Blood, and fire, and vapor of that God had sworn with an oath to
smoke: him, that of the fruit of his loins he
20 The sun shall be turned into would set one on his throne; 31 he
darkness, foreseeing this spoke of the resur-
And the moon into blood, rection of the Christ, that neither
Before the day of the Lord was he left to Hades, nor did his
comes, flesh see corruption. 32 This Jesus
That great and notable day. did God raise up, of which we all
21 And it shall be, that whosoever are witnesses. 33 Being therefore by
shall call on the name of the the right hand of God exalted, and
Lord shall be saved.’ having received from the Father the
22 Men of Israel, hear these words: promise of the Holy Spirit, he has
Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved poured forth this, which you see
by God to you by mighty works and hear. 34 For David did not as-
and wonders and signs which God cend into the heavens: but he says
did by him in the midst of you, himself,
even as you yourselves know; 23 ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
him, being delivered up by the de- Sit on my right hand,
terminate counsel and foreknowl- 35 Until I make your enemies the
edge of God, you by the hand of footstool of your feet.’
lawless men did crucify and slay: 36 Let all the house of Israel there-
24 whom God raised up, having fore know assuredly, that God has
loosed the pangs of death: because made him both Lord and Christ,
it was not possible that he should this Jesus whom you crucified.”
be held by it. 25 For David says con- 37 Now when they heard this,
cerning him, they were pricked in their heart,
‘I beheld the Lord always and said to Peter and the rest of the
before my face; apostles, “Brethren, what shall we
For he is on my right hand, that do?” 38 And Peter said to them,
I should not be moved: “Repent, and be baptized every one
26 Therefore my heart was glad, of you in the name of Jesus Christ
and my tongue rejoiced; for the remission of your sins; and
Moreover my flesh also will you shall receive the gift of the
dwell in hope: Holy Spirit. 39 For to you is the
27 Because you will not leave my promise, and to your children, and
soul to Hades, to all who are afar off, even as many
Neither will you give your as the Lord our God will call to
Holy One to see corruption. him.” 40 And with many other
28 You made known to me the words he testified, and exhorted
ways of life; them, saying, “Save yourselves
You will make me full of from this crooked generation.” 41
gladness with your Those then who received his word
countenance.’ were baptized: and there were
29 Brethren, I may say to you freely added to them in that day about
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three thousand souls. 42 And they people saw him walking and prais-
continued steadfastly in the apos- ing God: 10 and they took note of
tles’ teaching and fellowship, in the him, that it was he who sat for alms
breaking of bread and the prayers. at the Beautiful Gate of the temple;
43 And fear came upon every and they were filled with wonder
soul: and many wonders and signs and amazement at that which had
were done through the apostles. 44 happened to him.
And all who believed were to- 11 And as he held Peter and John,
gether, and had all things common; all the people ran together to them
45 and they sold their possessions in the porch that is called
and goods, and distributed them to Solomon’s, greatly wondering. 12
all, according as any man had need. And when Peter saw it, he an-
46 And day by day, continuing swered to the people, “Men of Is-
steadfastly with one accord in the rael, why do you marvel at this
temple, and breaking bread at man? or why fasten your eyes on
home, they took their food with us, as though by our own power or
gladness and singleness of heart, 47 godliness we had made him to
praising God, and having favor walk? 13 The God of Abraham, and
with all the people. And the Lord of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of
added to them day by day those our fathers, has glorified his Ser-
who were saved. vant Jesus; whom you delivered

3 Now Peter and John were go- up, and denied before the face of Pi-
ing up into the temple at the late, when he had determined to re-
hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. lease him. 14 But you denied the
2 And a certain man who was lame Holy and Righteous One, and
from his mother’s womb was car- asked for a murderer to be granted
ried, whom they laid daily at the to you, 15 and killed the Prince of
door of the temple which is called life; whom God raised from the
Beautiful, to ask alms of those who dead; of which we are witnesses. 16
entered into the temple; 3 who see- And by faith in his name has his
ing Peter and John about to go into name made this man strong, whom
the temple, asked to receive an you behold and know: yes, the faith
alms. 4 And Peter, fastening his which is through him has given
eyes upon him, with John, said, him this perfect soundness in the
“Look at us.” 5 And he gave heed to presence of you all. 17 And now,
them, expecting to receive some- brethren, I know that in ignorance
thing from them. 6 But Peter said, you did it, as did also your rulers.
“Silver and gold I do not have; but 18 But the things which God fore-
what I have, that I give you. In the told by the mouth of all the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, prophets, that his Christ should
walk.” 7 And he took him by the suffer, he thus fulfilled. 19 Repent
right hand, and raised him up: and therefore, and turn again, that your
immediately his feet and his ankle sins may be blotted out, that so
bones received strength. 8 And there may come seasons of refresh-
leaping up, he stood, and began to ing from the presence of the Lord;
walk; and he entered with them 20 and that he may send the Christ
into the temple, walking, and leap- who has been appointed for you,
ing, and praising God. 9 And all the even Jesus: 21 whom the heaven
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must receive until the times of “By what power, or in what name,
restoration of all things, of which have you done this?” 8 Then Peter,
God spoke by the mouth of his holy filled with the Holy Spirit, said to
prophets who have been from of them, “Rulers of the people, and el-
old. 22 Moses indeed said, ‘A ders, 9 if we this day are examined
prophet will the Lord God raise up concerning a good deed done to an
unto you from among your impotent man, by what means this
brethren, like me; to him shall you man is made whole; 10 be it known
listen to in all things whatsoever he to you all, and to all the people of
shall speak to you. 23 And it shall Israel, that in the name of Jesus
be, that every soul who shall not lis- Christ of Nazareth, whom you cru-
ten to that prophet, shall be utterly cified, whom God raised from the
destroyed from among the people.’ dead, even in him does this man
24 Yes and all the prophets from stand here before you whole. 11 He
Samuel and those who followed af- is the stone which was despised by
ter, as many as have spoken, they you the builders, which was made
also told of these days. 25 You are the head of the corner. 12 And in no
the sons of the prophets, and of the other is there salvation: for neither
covenant which God made with is there any other name under
your fathers, saying to Abraham, heaven, that is given among men,
‘And in your seed shall all the fam- in which we must be saved.”
ilies of the earth be blessed.’ 26 To 13 Now when they beheld the
you first God, having raised up his boldness of Peter and John, and had
Servant, sent him to bless you, in perceived that they were unlearned
turning away every one of you and ignorant men, they marveled;
from your iniquities.” and they recognized them, that

4 And as they spoke to the peo- they had been with Jesus. 14 And
ple, the priests and the captain seeing the man who was healed
of the temple and the Sadducees standing with them, they could say
came upon them, 2 being extremely nothing against it. 15 But when
troubled because they taught the they had commanded them to go
people, and proclaimed in Jesus the aside out of the council, they con-
resurrection from the dead. 3 And ferred among themselves, 16 say-
they laid hands on them, and put ing, “What shall we do to these
them in prison until the next day: men? for that indeed a notable mir-
for it was now evening. 4 But many acle has been worked through
of them who heard the word be- them, is evident to all who dwell in
lieved; and the number of the men Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
came to be about five thousand. 17 But that it spread no further
5 And it came to pass on the next among the people, let us threaten
day, that their rulers and elders and them, that they speak henceforth to
scribes were gathered together in no man in this name.” 18 And they
Jerusalem; 6 and Annas the high called them, and charged them not
priest was there, and Caiaphas, and to speak at all nor teach in the name
John, and Alexander, and as many of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John an-
as were of the kindred of the high swered and said to them, “Whether
priest. 7 And when they had set it is right in the sight of God to lis-
them in the midst, they inquired, ten to you rather than to God, you
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judge: 20 for we cannot but speak were gathered together; and they
the things which we saw and were all filled with the Holy Spirit,
heard.” 21 And they, when they had and they spoke the word of God
further threatened them, let them with boldness.
go, finding no way how they might 32 And the multitude of those
punish them, because of the people; who believed were of one heart and
for all men glorified God for that soul: and not one of them said that
which was done. 22 For the man any of the things which he pos-
was more than forty years old, on sessed was his own; but they had
whom this miracle of healing was all things common. 33 And with
worked. great power gave the apostles their
23 And being let go, they came to witness of the resurrection of the
their own companions, and re- Lord Jesus: and great grace was
ported all that the chief priests and upon them all. 34 For neither was
the elders had said to them. 24 And there among them any who lacked:
they, when they heard it, lifted up for as many as were possessors of
their voice to God with one accord, lands or houses sold them, and
and said, “O Lord, you who made brought the prices of the things that
the heaven and the earth and the were sold, 35 and laid them at the
sea, and all that is in them: 25 who apostles’ feet: and distribution was
by the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of made to each, according as any one
our father David your servant, said, had need.
‘Why did the Gentiles rage, 36 And Joseph, who by the apos-
And the peoples imagine vain tles was surnamed Barnabas
things? (which is, being translated, Son of
26 The kings of the earth set them- Exhortation), a Levite, a man of
selves in array, Cyprus by race, 37 having a field,
And the rulers were gathered sold it, and brought the money and
together, laid it at the apostles’ feet.
Against the Lord, and against
his Anointed:’ 5 But a certain man named Ana-
nias, with Sapphira his wife,
27 for in truth in this city against sold a possession, 2 and kept back
your holy Servant Jesus, whom you part of the price, his wife also being
anointed, both Herod and Pontius aware of it, and brought a certain
Pilate, with the Gentiles and the part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
peoples of Israel, were gathered to- 3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has
gether, 28 to do whatsoever your Satan filled your heart to lie to the
hand and your council foreor- Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of
dained to come to pass. 29 And the price of the land? 4 While it re-
now, Lord, look on their threaten- mained, did it not remain your
ings: and grant to your servants to own? And after it was sold, was it
speak your word with all boldness, not in your power? How is it that
30 while you stretch forth your you have conceived this thing in
hand to heal; and that signs and your heart? you have not lied to
wonders may be done through the men, but to God.” 5 And Ananias
name of your holy Servant Jesus.” hearing these words fell down and
31 And when they had prayed, the breathed his last: and great fear
place was shaken in which they came upon all who heard it. 6 And
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the young men arose and wrapped and laid hands on the apostles, and
him up, and they carried him out put them in public prison. 19 But an
and buried him. angel of the Lord by night opened
7 And it was about the space of the prison doors, and brought them
three hours after, when his wife, not out, and said, 20 “Go, and stand
knowing what was done, came in. 8 and speak in the temple to the peo-
And Peter answered to her, “Tell ple all the words of this Life.” 21
me whether you sold the land for so And when they heard this, they en-
much.” And she said, “Yes, for so tered into the temple about day-
much.” 9 But Peter said to her, break, and taught. But the high
“How is it that you have agreed to- priest came, and those who were
gether to try the Spirit of the Lord? with him, and called the council to-
behold, the feet of those who have gether, and all the senate of the chil-
buried your husband are at the dren of Israel, and sent to the
door, and they will carry you out.” prison-house to have them
10 And she fell down immediately brought. 22 But the officers who
at his feet, and breathed her last: came did not find them in the
and the young men came in and prison; and they returned, and told,
found her dead, and they carried 23 saying, “The prison-house we
her out and buried her by her hus- found shut in all safety, and the
band. 11 And great fear came upon guards standing at the doors: but
the whole church, and upon all when we had opened, we found no
who heard these things. man inside. 24 Now when the cap-
12 And by the hands of the apos- tain of the temple and the chief
tles were many signs and wonders priests heard these words, they
worked among the people; and were greatly perplexed concerning
they were all with one accord in them as to what this would be-
Solomon’s porch. 13 But of the rest come. 25 And there came one and
dared no man join himself to them: told them, “Behold, the men whom
nevertheless the people magnified you put in the prison are in the tem-
them; 14 and believers were the ple standing and teaching the peo-
more added to the Lord, multitudes ple.” 26 Then the captain went with
both of men and women; 15 inso- the officers, and brought them, but
much that they even carried out the without violence; for they feared
sick into the streets, and laid them the people, lest they should be
on beds and couches, that, as Peter stoned. 27 And when they had
came by, at the least his shadow brought them, they set them before
might overshadow some of them. the council. And the high priest
16 And there also came together the asked them, 28 saying, “We strictly
multitudes from the cities sur- charged you not to teach in this
rounding Jerusalem, bringing sick name: and behold, you have filled
folk, and those who were troubled Jerusalem with your teaching, and
with unclean spirits: and they were intend to bring this man’s blood
healed every one. upon us.” 29 But Peter and the
17 But the high priest rose up, and apostles answered and said, “We
all those who were with him (which must obey God rather than men. 30
is the sect of the Sadducees), and The God of our fathers raised up Je-
they were filled with jealousy, 18 sus, whom you slew, hanging him
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on a tree. 31 Him did God exalt home, they did not cease to teach
with his right hand to be a Prince and to preach Jesus as the Christ.
and a Savior, to give repentance to
Israel, and remission of sins. 32 6 Now in these days, when the
number of the disciples was
And we are witnesses of these multiplying, there arose a murmur-
things; and so is the Holy Spirit, ing of the Grecian Jews against the
whom God has given to those who Hebrews, because their widows
obey him.” were neglected in the daily service.
33 But they, when they heard this, 2 And the twelve called the multi-
were cut to the heart, and minded tude of the disciples to them, and
to slay them. 34 But there stood up said, “It is not fitting that we should
one in the council, a Pharisee, forsake the word of God, and serve
named Gamaliel, a doctor of the tables. 3 Seek out therefore,
law, held in honor by all the people, brethren, from among you seven
and commanded to put the men men of good report, full of the
outside a little while. 35 And he Spirit and of wisdom, whom we
said to them, “Men of Israel, take may appoint over this business. 4
heed to yourselves concerning But we will continue steadfastly in
these men, what you are about to prayer, and in the ministry of the
do. 36 For before these days rose up word.” 5 And the saying pleased
Theudas, claiming to be somebody; the whole multitude: and they
to whom a number of men, about chose Stephen, a man full of faith
four hundred, joined themselves: and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip,
who was slain; and all, as many as and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and
obeyed him, were dispersed, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nico-
came to nothing. 37 After this man laus a proselyte of Antioch; 6 whom
rose up Judas of Galilee in the days they set before the apostles: and
of the census, and drew away some when they had prayed, they laid
of the people after him: he also per- their hands on them.
ished; and all, as many as obeyed 7 And the word of God increased;
him, were scattered abroad. 38 And and the number of the disciples
now I say to you, refrain from these multiplied in Jerusalem exceed-
men, and let them alone: for if this ingly; and a great company of the
counsel or this work be of men, it priests were obedient to the faith.
will be overthrown: 39 but if it is of 8 And Stephen, full of grace and
God, you will not be able to over- power, worked great wonders and
throw them; lest perhaps you be signs among the people. 9 But there
found even to be fighting against arose some of those who were of
God.” 40 And with him they the synagogue called the Synagogue
agreed: and when they had called of the Libertines, and of the Cyreni-
the apostles to them, they beat them ans, and of the Alexandrians, and
and charged them not to speak in of those of Cilicia and Asia, disput-
the name of Jesus, and let them go. ing with Stephen. 10 And they were
41 They therefore departed from not able to withstand the wisdom
the presence of the council, rejoic- and the Spirit by which he spoke. 11
ing that they were counted worthy Then they secretly instigated men,
to suffer dishonor for the Name. 42 who said, “We have heard him
And every day, in the temple and at speak blasphemous words against
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Moses, and against God.” 12 And cised him the eighth day; and Isaac
they stirred up the people, and the begot Jacob, and Jacob the twelve
elders, and the scribes, and came patriarchs. 9 And the patriarchs,
upon him, and seized him, and moved with jealousy against
brought him into the council, 13 Joseph, sold him into Egypt: and
and set up false witnesses, who God was with him, 10 and deliv-
said, “This man does not cease to ered him out of all his afflictions,
speak words against this holy and gave him favor and wisdom
place, and the law: 14 for we have before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and
heard him say, that this Jesus of he made him governor over Egypt
Nazareth will destroy this place, and all his house. 11 Now there
and will change the customs which came a famine over all Egypt and
Moses delivered to us.” 15 And all Canaan, and great affliction: and
who sat in the council, fastening our fathers found no sustenance. 12
their eyes on him, saw his face as it But when Jacob heard that there
had been the face of an angel. was grain in Egypt, he sent forth

7 And the high priest said, “Are our fathers the first time. 13 And at
these things so?” 2 And he said, the second time Joseph was made
“Brethren and fathers, listen: The known to his brethren; and Joseph’s
God of glory appeared to our father race became known to Pharaoh. 14
Abraham, when he was in And Joseph sent, and called to him
Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Jacob his father, and all his kindred,
Haran, 3 and said to him, ‘Get out seventy-five souls. 15 And Jacob
of your land, and from your kin- went down into Egypt; and he died,
dred, and come into the land which himself and our fathers; 16 and
I shall show you.’ 4 Then he came they were carried over to Shechem,
out of the land of the Chaldeans, and laid in the tomb that Abraham
and dwelt in Haran: and from bought for a price in silver from the
there, when his father was dead, sons of Hamor in Shechem. 17 But
God removed him into this land, in as the time of the promise drew
which you now dwell: 5 and he near which God vouchsafed to
gave him no inheritance in it, no, Abraham, the people grew and
not so much as to set his foot on: multiplied in Egypt, 18 until there
and he promised that he would arose another king over Egypt, who
give it to him in possession, and to did not know Joseph. 19 The same
his seed after him, when as yet he dealt craftily with our race, and
had no child. 6 And God spoke in mistreated our fathers, that they
this way, that his seed should so- should cast out their babes to the
journ in a strange land, and that end they might not live. 20 At
they should bring them into which time Moses was born, and
bondage, and mistreat them, four was exceedingly beautiful; and he
hundred years. 7 ‘And the nation to was nourished three months in his
which they will be in bondage I will father’s house. 21 and when he was
judge,’ said God: and after that cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took
shall they come forth, and serve me him up, and nourished him for her
in this place. 8 And he gave him the own son. 22 And Moses was in-
covenant of circumcision: and so structed in all the wisdom of the
Abraham begot Isaac, and circum- Egyptians; and he was mighty in
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his words and works. 23 But when hand of the angel who appeared to
he was almost forty years old, it him in the bush. 36 This man led
came into his heart to visit his them forth, having worked won-
brethren the children of Israel. 24 ders and signs in Egypt, and in the
And seeing one of them suffer Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty
wrong, he defended him, and years. 37 This is that Moses, who
avenged him who was oppressed, said to the children of Israel, ‘A
striking down the Egyptian: 25 and prophet will God raise up for you
he supposed that his brethren un- from among your brethren, like
derstood that God by his hand was me.’ 38 This is he who was in the
giving them deliverance; but they church in the wilderness with the
did not understand. 26 And the fol- angel who spoke to him in the
lowing day he appeared to them as Mount Sinai, and with our fathers:
they fought, and tried to reconcile who received living oracles to give
them, saying, ‘Sirs, you are to us: 39 to whom our fathers
brethren; why do you wrong one would not be obedient, but thrust
another?’ 27 But he who did his him from them, and turned back in
neighbor wrong thrust him away, their hearts to Egypt, 40 saying to
saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go
a judge over us? 28 Would you kill before us: for as for this Moses, who
me, as you killed the Egyptian yes- led us forth out of the land of
terday?’ 29 And Moses fled at this Egypt, we do not know what is be-
saying, and became a sojourner in come of him.’ 41 And they made a
the land of Midian, where he begot calf in those days, and brought a
two sons. 30 And when forty years sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in
were fulfilled, an angel appeared to the works of their hands. 42 But
him in the wilderness of Mount God turned, and gave them up to
Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. 31 serve the host of heaven; as it is
And when Moses saw it, he won- written in the book of the prophets,
dered at the sight: and as he drew ‘Did you offer to me slain
near to behold, there came a voice beasts and sacrifices
of the Lord, 32 ‘I am the God of Forty years in the wilderness, O
your fathers, the God of Abraham, house of Israel?
and of Isaac, and of Jacob.’ And 43 And you took up the tabernacle
Moses trembled, and dared not be- of Moloch,
hold. 33 And the Lord said to him, And the star of the god Rephan,
‘Loose the sandals from your feet: The figures which you made to
for the place on which you stand is worship them:
holy ground. 34 I have surely seen And I will carry you away
the affliction of my people that is in beyond Babylon.’
Egypt, and have heard their groan- 44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of
ing, and I have come down to de- the testimony in the wilderness,
liver them: and now come, I will even as he appointed who spoke to
send you into Egypt.’ 35 This Moses, that he should make it ac-
Moses whom they refused, saying, cording to the figure that he had
‘Who made you a ruler and a seen. 45 Which also our fathers, in
judge?’ him has God sent to be both their turn, brought in with Joshua
a ruler and a deliverer with the when they entered on the posses-
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sion of the nations, that God thrust Stephen, calling on the Lord, and
out before the face of our fathers, to saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my
the days of David; 46 who found fa- spirit.” 60 And he kneeled down,
vor in the sight of God, and asked and cried with a loud voice, “Lord,
to find a habitation for the God of do not lay this sin to their charge.”
Jacob. 47 But Solomon built him a And when he had said this, he fell
house. 48 However the Most High asleep. 1 And Saul was consenting
does not dwell in houses made with to his death.
hands; as the prophet says,
49 ‘The heaven is my throne,
And the earth the footstool of
8 And there arose on that day a
great persecution against the
church which was in Jerusalem;
my feet: and they were all scattered abroad
What manner of house will you throughout the regions of Judea
build me?’ says the Lord: and Samaria, except the apostles. 2
‘Or what is the place of my And devout men buried Stephen,
rest? and made great lamentation over
50 Did not my hand make all these him. 3 But Saul laid waste the
things?’ church, entering into every house,
51 You stiff-necked and uncir- and dragging men and women
cumcised in heart and ears, you al- committed them to prison.
ways resist the Holy Spirit: as your 4 Those therefore who were scat-
fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of tered abroad, went about preaching
the prophets did your fathers not the word. 5 And Philip went down
persecute? and they killed those to the city of Samaria, and pro-
who showed before of the coming claimed to them the Christ. 6 And
of the Righteous One; of whom you the multitudes gave heed with one
have now become betrayers and accord to the things that were spo-
murderers; 53 you who received ken by Philip, when they heard,
the law as it was ordained by an- and saw the signs which he did. 7
gels, and did not keep it.” For from many of those who had
54 Now when they heard these unclean spirits, they came out, cry-
things, they were cut to the heart, ing with a loud voice: and many
and they gnashed at him with their who were paralyzed, and who were
teeth. 55 But he, being full of the lame, were healed. 8 And there was
Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly much joy in that city.
into heaven, and saw the glory of 9 But there was a certain man, Si-
God, and Jesus standing at the right mon by name, who previously in
hand of God, 56 and said, “Behold, the city used sorcery, and amazed
I see the heavens opened, and the the people of Samaria, saying that
Son of Man standing at the right himself was someone great: 10 to
hand of God.” 57 But they cried out whom they all gave heed, from the
with a loud voice, and stopped least to the greatest, saying, “This
their ears, and rushed upon him man is that power of God which is
with one accord; 58 and they cast called Great.” 11 And they gave
him out of the city, and stoned him: heed to him, because for a long time
and the witnesses laid down their he had amazed them with his sor-
garments at the feet of a young man ceries. 12 But when they believed
named Saul. 59 And they stoned Philip preaching good tidings con-
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cerning the kingdom of God and
the name of Jesus Christ, they were
baptized, both men and women. 13
And Simon also himself believed:
and being baptized, he continued
with Philip; and beholding signs
and great miracles worked, he was
amazed.
14 Now when the apostles who
were in Jerusalem heard that
Samaria had received the word of
God, they sent to them Peter and
John: 15 who, when they had come
down, prayed for them, that they
might receive the Holy Spirit: 16 for
as yet it had fallen on none of them:
only they had been baptized into
the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then
they laid their hands on them, and
they received the Holy Spirit. 18
Now when Simon saw that through
the laying on of the apostles’ hands
the Holy Spirit was given, he
offered them money, 19 saying,
“Give me also this power, that on
whomsoever I lay my hands, he
may receive the Holy Spirit.” 20 But
Peter said to him, “Your silver per-
ish with you, because you have
thought to obtain the gift of God
with money. 21 You have neither
part nor lot in this matter: for your
heart is not right before God. 22 Re-
pent therefore of this your wicked-
ness, and pray the Lord, if perhaps
the thought of your heart will be
forgiven you. 23 For I see that you
are in the gall of bitterness and in
the bond of iniquity.” 24 And Si-
mon answered and said, “Pray for
me to the Lord, that none of the
things which you have spoken
come upon me.”
25 They therefore, when they had
¹⁹ Some ancient authorities insert, wholly or in part, ver. 37, And Philip said, “If you
believe with all your heart, you may.” And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is
the Son of God.”
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testified and spoken the word of the
Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and
preached the gospel to many vil-
lages of the Samaritans.
26 But an angel of the Lord spoke
to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go to-
ward the south to the way that goes
down from Jerusalem to Gaza”: this
is desert. 27 And he arose and went:
and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a
eunuch of great authority under
Candace, queen of the Ethiopians,
who was over all her treasure, who
had come to Jerusalem to worship;
28 and he was returning and sitting
in his chariot, and was reading the
prophet Isaiah. 29 And the Spirit
said to Philip, “Go near, and join
yourself to this chariot.” 30 And
Philip ran to him, and heard him
reading Isaiah the prophet, and
said, “Do you understand what
you are reading?” 31 And he said,
“How can I, except someone will
guide me?” And he beseeched
Philip to come up and sit with him.
32 Now the passage of the Scripture
which he was reading was this,
“He was led as a sheep to the
slaughter;
And as a lamb before his
shearer is mute,
So he does not open his mouth:
33 In his humiliation his judgment
was taken away:
His generation who will
declare?
For his life is taken from the
earth.”
34 And the eunuch answered
Philip, and said, “I ask you, of
whom does the prophet say this? of
himself, or of some other?” 35 And
Philip opened his mouth, and be-
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ginning from this Scripture,
preached to him Jesus. 36 And as
they went on the way, they came to
some water; and the eunuch says,
“Behold, here is water; what hinders
me from being baptized?”¹⁹ 38 And
he commanded the chariot to stand
still: and they both went down into
the water, both Philip and the eu-
nuch, and he baptized him. 39 And
when they came up out of the wa-
ter, the Spirit of the Lord caught
away Philip; and the eunuch saw
him no more, for he went on his
way rejoicing. 40 But Philip was
found at Azotus: and passing
through he preached the gospel to
all the cities, until he came to Cae-
sarea.
he was three days without sight,
and neither ate nor drank.
10 Now there was a certain disci-
ple at Damascus, named Ananias;
and the Lord said to him in a vision,
“Ananias.” And he said, “Behold, I
am here, Lord.” 11 And the Lord said
to him, “Arise, and go to the street
which is called Straight, and in-
quire in the house of Judas for one
named Saul, a man of Tarsus: for
behold, he is praying; 12 and he has
seen a man named Ananias coming
in, and laying his hands on him,
that he might receive his sight.” 13
But Ananias answered, “Lord, I
have heard from many about this
man, how much evil he did to your
saints in Jerusalem: 14 and here he
has authority from the chief priests

9 But Saul, still breathing to bind all who call on your name.”
threatening and slaughter 15 But the Lord said to him, “Go
against the disciples of the Lord, your way: for he is a chosen vessel
went to the high priest, 2 and asked to me, to bear my name before the
from him letters to Damascus to the Gentiles and kings, and the chil-
synagogues, that if he found any dren of Israel: 16 for I will show
who were of the Way, whether men him how many things he must
or women, he might bring them suffer for my name’s sake.” 17 And
bound to Jerusalem. 3 And as he Ananias departed, and entered into
journeyed, it came to pass that he the house; and laying his hands on
drew near Damascus: and sud- him said, “Brother Saul, the Lord,
denly there shone around him a even Jesus, who appeared to you in
light out of heaven: 4 and he fell the way which you came, has sent
upon the earth, and heard a voice me, that you may receive your
saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are sight, and be filled with the Holy
you persecuting me?” 5 And he Spirit.” 18 And immediately there
said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he fell from his eyes as it were scales,
said, “I am Jesus whom you are and he received his sight; and he
persecuting: 6 but rise, and enter arose and was baptized; 19 and he
into the city, and it shall be told you took food and was strengthened.
what you must do.” 7 And the men And he was some days with the
who journeyed with him stood disciples who were in Damascus.
speechless, hearing the voice, but 20 And immediately in the syna-
beholding no man. 8 And Saul gogues he proclaimed Jesus, that he
arose from the earth; and when his is the Son of God. 21 And all who
eyes were opened, he saw nothing; heard him were amazed, and said,
and they led him by the hand, and “Is not this he who in Jerusalem
brought him into Damascus. 9 And made havoc of those who called on
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this name? and he had come here was paralyzed. 34 And Peter said to
for this intent, that he might bring him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals
them bound before the chief you: arise and make your bed.”
priests.” 22 But Saul increased the And immediately he arose. 35 And
more in strength, and confounded all who dwelt in Lydda and in
the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, Sharon saw him, and they turned to
proving that this is the Christ. the Lord.
23 And when many days were 36 Now there was in Joppa a cer-
fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to- tain disciple named Tabitha, which
gether to kill him: 24 but their plot by interpretation is called Dorcas:
became known to Saul. And they this woman was full of good works
watched the gates also day and and alms which she did. 37 And it
night that they might kill him: 25 came to pass in those days, that she
but his disciples took him by night, fell sick, and died: and when they
and let him down through the wall, had washed her, they laid her in an
lowering him in a basket. upper room. 38 And as Lydda was
26 And when he had come to near Joppa, the disciples, hearing
Jerusalem, he attempted to join that Peter was there, sent two men
himself to the disciples: and they to him, entreating him, “Do not de-
were all afraid of him, not believing lay to come to us.” 39 And Peter
that he was a disciple. 27 But Barn- arose and went with them. And
abas took him, and brought him to when he had come, they brought
the apostles, and declared to them him into the upper room: and all
how he had seen the Lord in the the widows stood by him weeping,
way, and that he had spoken to and showing the tunics and gar-
him, and how in Damascus he had ments which Dorcas made, while
preached boldly in the name of Je- she was with them. 40 But Peter put
sus. 28 And he was with them go- them all out, and kneeled down
ing in and going out in Jerusalem, and prayed; and turning to the
29 preaching boldly in the name of body, he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And
the Lord: and he spoke and dis- she opened her eyes; and when she
puted against the Grecian Jews; but saw Peter, she sat up. 41 And he
they were seeking to kill him. 30 gave her his hand, and raised her
And when the brethren learned of up; and calling the saints and wid-
it, they brought him down to Cae- ows, he presented her alive. 42 And
sarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus. it became known throughout all
31 So the church throughout all Joppa: and many believed on the
Judea and Galilee and Samaria had Lord. 43 And it came to pass, that
peace, being edified; and, walking he stayed many days in Joppa with
in the fear of the Lord and in the one Simon a tanner.
comfort of the Holy Spirit, was
multiplied. 10 Now there was a certain
man in Caesarea, Cornelius
32 And it came to pass, as Peter by name, a centurion of the cohort
went throughout all parts, he came called the Italian Cohort, 2 a devout
down also to the saints who dwelt man, and one who feared God with
in Lydda. 33 And there he found a all his house, who gave many alms
certain man named Aeneas, who to the people, and prayed to God
had lain in bed eight years; for he always. 3 He saw in a vision openly,
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as it were about the ninth hour of mean, behold, the men who were
the day, an angel of God coming in sent by Cornelius, having made in-
to him, and saying to him, “Cor- quiry for Simon’s house, stood be-
nelius.” 4 And he, fastening his fore the gate, 18 and called and
eyes on him, and being frightened, asked whether Simon, who was
said, “What is it, Lord?” And he surnamed Peter, were lodging
said to him, “Your prayers and there. 19 And while Peter thought
your alms have gone up for a on the vision, the Spirit said to him,
memorial before God. 5 And now “Behold, three men seek you. 20
send men to Joppa, and fetch one But arise, and get down, and go
Simon, who is surnamed Peter: 6 he with them, nothing doubting: for I
is lodging with one Simon a tanner, have sent them.” 21 And Peter went
whose house is by the seaside.” 7 down to the men, and said, “Be-
And when the angel who spoke to hold, I am he whom you seek: what
him had departed, he called two of is the reason for which you are
his household-servants, and a de- coming?” 22 And they said, “Cor-
vout soldier of those who waited on nelius a centurion, a righteous man
him continually; 8 and having re- and one who fears God, and well
lated everything to them, he sent reported of by all the nation of the
them to Joppa. Jews, was warned of God by a holy
9 Now on the next day, as they angel to send for you into his
were on their journey, and drew house, and to hear words from
near the city, Peter went up on the you.” 23 So he called them in and
housetop to pray, about the sixth lodged them.
hour: 10 and he became hungry, And on the next day he arose and
and desired to eat: but while they went forth with them, and some of
were preparing, he fell into a the brethren from Joppa accompa-
trance; 11 and he sees the heaven nied him. 24 And on the next day
opened, and a certain vessel de- they entered into Caesarea. And
scending, as it were a great sheet, Cornelius was waiting for them,
let down by four corners upon the having called together his relatives
earth: 12 in which were all manner and his close friends. 25 And when
of four-footed beasts and creeping it came to pass that Peter entered,
things of the earth and birds of the Cornelius met him, and fell down
heaven. 13 And there came a voice at his feet, and worshipped him. 26
to him, “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” 14 But Peter raised him up, saying,
But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I “Stand up; I myself also am a man.”
have never eaten anything that is 27 And as he talked with him, he
common and unclean.” 15 And a went in, and finds many assem-
voice came to him again the second bled: 28 and he said to them, “You
time, “What God has cleansed, do yourselves know how it is an un-
not make common.” 16 And this lawful thing for a man who is a Jew
was done three times: and immedi- to join himself with or come to one
ately the vessel was received up of another nation; and yet to me has
into heaven. God showed that I should not call
17 Now while Peter was greatly any man common or unclean: 29
perplexed in himself what the vi- therefore also I came without con-
sion which he had seen might tradiction, when I was sent for. I ask
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therefore with what intent you sent he charged us to preach to the peo-
for me.” 30 And Cornelius said, ple, and to testify that this is he who
“Four days ago, until this hour, I is ordained of God to be the Judge of
was keeping the ninth hour of the living and the dead. 43 To him
prayer in my house; and behold, a all the prophets bear witness, that
man stood before me in bright ap- through his name every one who
parel, 31 and says, ‘Cornelius, your believes on him shall receive remis-
prayer is heard, and your alms are sion of sins.”
remembered in the sight of God. 32 44 While Peter was still speaking
Send therefore to Joppa, and call to these words, the Holy Spirit fell on
you Simon, who is surnamed Peter; all those who heard the word. 45
he is lodging in the house of Simon And those of the circumcision who
a tanner, by the seaside.’ 33 Imme- believed were amazed, as many as
diately therefore I sent to you; and came with Peter, because on the
you have well done that you have Gentiles also was poured out the
come. Now therefore we are all gift of the Holy Spirit. 46 For they
here present in the sight of God, to heard them speak with tongues,
hear everything that has been com- and magnify God. Then answered
manded you by the Lord.” 34 And Peter, 47 “Can any man forbid the
Peter opened his mouth and said, water, that these should not be bap-
“In truth I perceive that God is no tized, who have received the Holy
respecter of persons: 35 but in every Spirit as well as we?” 48 And he
nation he who fears him, and works commanded them to be baptized in
righteousness, is acceptable to him. the name of Jesus Christ. Then they
36 The word which he sent to the asked him to stay some days.
children of Israel, preaching good
tidings of peace by Jesus Christ (he 11 Now the apostles and the
brethren who were in Judea
is Lord of all) — 37 that saying you heard that the Gentiles also had re-
yourselves know, which was pub- ceived the word of God. 2 And
lished throughout all Judea, begin- when Peter had come up to
ning from Galilee, after the baptism Jerusalem, those who were of the
which John preached; 38 even Jesus circumcision contended with him, 3
of Nazareth, how God anointed saying, “You went in to men uncir-
him with the Holy Spirit and with cumcised, and ate with them.” 4
power: who went about doing But Peter began, and expounded
good, and healing all who were op- the matter to them in order, saying,
pressed by the devil; for God was 5 “I was in the city of Joppa pray-
with him. 39 And we are witnesses ing: and in a trance I saw a vision, a
of all things which he did both in certain vessel descending, as it
the country of the Jews, and in were a great sheet let down from
Jerusalem; whom also they slew, heaven by four corners; and it came
hanging him on a tree. 40 Him God even to me: 6 upon which when I
raised up the third day, and gave had fastened mine eyes, I consid-
him to be made known, 41 not to all ered, and saw the four-footed
the people, but to witnesses who beasts of the earth and wild beasts
were chosen before by God, even to and creeping things and birds of
us, who ate and drank with him af- the heaven. 7 And I heard also a
ter he rose from the dead. 42 And voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter; kill
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and eat.’ 8 But I said, ‘Not so, Lord: the Greeks also, preaching the Lord
for nothing common or unclean has Jesus. 21 And the hand of the Lord
ever entered into my mouth.’ 9 But was with them: and a great number
a voice answered the second time who believed turned to the Lord. 22
out of heaven, ‘What God has And the report concerning them
cleansed, do not make common.’ 10 came to the ears of the church
And this was done three times: and which was in Jerusalem: and they
all was drawn up again into sent forth Barnabas as far as Anti-
heaven. 11 And behold, immedi- och: 23 who, when he had come,
ately three men stood before the and had seen the grace of God, was
house in which we were, having glad; and he exhorted them all, that
been sent from Caesarea to me. 12 with purpose of heart they would
And the Spirit bid me go with cleave to the Lord: 24 for he was a
them, making no distinction. And good man, and full of the Holy
these six brethren also accompa- Spirit and of faith: and many peo-
nied me; and we entered into the ple were added to the Lord. 25 And
man’s house: 13 and he told us how he went forth to Tarsus to seek for
he had seen the angel standing in Saul; 26 and when he had found
his house, and saying, ‘Send to him, he brought him to Antioch.
Joppa, and fetch Simon, whose sur- And it came to pass, that even for a
name is Peter; 14 who will speak to whole year they were gathered to-
you words, by which you will be gether with the church, and taught
saved, you and all your house.’ 15 many people, and the disciples
And as I began to speak, the Holy were called Christians first in Anti-
Spirit fell on them, even as on us at och.
the beginning. 16 And I remem- 27 Now in these days there came
bered the word of the Lord, how he down prophets from Jerusalem to
said, ‘John indeed baptized with Antioch. 28 And there stood up one
water; but you shall be baptized in of them named Agabus, and signi-
the Holy Spirit.’ 17 If then God gave fied by the Spirit that there should
to them the same gift as he did also be a great famine over all the world:
to us, when we believed on the which came to pass in the days of
Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I Claudius. 29 And the disciples, ev-
could withstand God?” 18 And ery man according to his ability, de-
when they heard these things, they termined to send relief to the
held their peace, and glorified God, brethren who dwelt in Judea: 30
saying, “Then to the Gentiles also which also they did, sending it to
has God granted repentance unto the elders by the hand of Barnabas
life.” and Saul.
19 Those therefore who were scat-
tered abroad because of the tribula- 12 Now about that time Herod
the king put forth his hands
tion that arose over Stephen to afflict some from the church. 2
travelled as far as Phoenicia, and And he killed James the brother of
Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the John with the sword. 3 And when
word to no one but only to Jews. 20 he saw that it pleased the Jews, he
But there were some of them, men proceeded to seize Peter also. And
of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when those were the Days of Unleavened
they had come to Antioch, spoke to Bread. 4 And when he had taken
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him, he put him in prison, and de- recognized Peter’s voice, she did
livered him to four quaternions of not open the gate because of joy, but
soldiers to guard him; intending af- ran in, and reported that Peter
ter the Passover to bring him forth stood before the gate. 15 And they
to the people. 5 Peter therefore was said to her, “You are mad.” But she
kept in the prison: but prayer was confidently affirmed that it was
made earnestly by the church to even so. And they said, “It is his an-
God for him. 6 And when Herod gel.” 16 But Peter continued knock-
was about to bring him forth, the ing: and when they had opened,
same night Peter was sleeping be- they saw him, and were amazed. 17
tween two soldiers, bound with But he, motioning to them with the
two chains: and guards before the hand to keep silent, declared to
door kept the prison. 7 And behold, them how the Lord had brought
an angel of the Lord stood by him, him forth out of the prison. And he
and a light shined in the cell: and he said, “Tell these things to James,
struck Peter on the side, and awoke and to the brethren.” And he de-
him, saying, “Rise up quickly.” And parted, and went to another place.
his chains fell off from his hands. 8 18 Now as soon as it was day, there
And the angel said to him, “Gird was no small disturbance among
yourself, and tie on your sandals.” the soldiers, what had become of
And he did so. And he says to him, Peter. 19 And when Herod had
“Cast your garment around you, searched for him, and did not find
and follow me.” 9 And he went out, him, he examined the guards, and
and followed; and he did not know commanded that they should be
that it was real what was done by put to death. And he went down
the angel, but thought he saw a vi- from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed
sion. 10 And when they were past there.
the first and the second guard, they 20 Now he was highly displeased
came to the iron gate that leads into with those of Tyre and Sidon: and
the city; which opened to them of they came with one accord to him,
its own accord: and they went out, and, having made Blastus the
and passed on through one street; king’s chamberlain their friend,
and immediately the angel de- they asked for peace, because their
parted from him. 11 And when Pe- country was fed from the king’s
ter had come to himself, he said, country. 21 And on a set day Herod
“Now I know truly, that the Lord arrayed himself in royal apparel,
has sent forth his angel and deliv- and sat on the throne, and deliv-
ered me out of the hand of Herod, ered an oration to them. 22 And the
and from all the expectation of the people shouted, saying, “The voice
people of the Jews.” 12 And when of a god, and not of a man.” 23 And
he had considered the thing, he immediately an angel of the Lord
came to the house of Mary the struck him, because he did not give
mother of John whose surname was God the glory: and he was eaten by
Mark; where many were gathered worms, and breathed his last.
together and were praying. 13 And 24 But the word of God grew and
when he knocked at the door of the multiplied.
gate, a servant girl came to answer, 25 And Barnabas and Saul re-
named Rhoda. 14 And when she turned from Jerusalem, when they
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had fulfilled their service, taking there fell on him a mist and a dark-
with them John whose surname ness; and he went about seeking
was Mark. some to lead him by the hand. 12

13 Now there were at Antioch, Then the proconsul, when he saw

in the church that was there, what was done, believed, being as-
prophets and teachers, Barnabas, tonished at the teaching of the
and Symeon who was called Niger, Lord.
and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen 13 Now Paul and his companions
the foster-brother of Herod the set sail from Paphos, and came to
tetrarch, and Saul. 2 And as they Perga in Pamphylia: and John de-
ministered to the Lord, and fasted, parted from them and returned to
the Holy Spirit said, “Separate to Jerusalem. 14 But they, passing
me Barnabas and Saul for the work through from Perga, came to Anti-
to which I have called them.” 3 och of Pisidia; and they went into
Then, when they had fasted and the synagogue on the Sabbath Day,
prayed and laid their hands on and sat down. 15 And after the
them, they sent them away. reading of the law and the prophets
4 So they, being sent forth by the the rulers of the synagogue sent to
Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia; them, saying, “Brethren, if you
and from there they sailed to have any word of exhortation for
Cyprus. 5 And when they were in the people, say it.” 16 And Paul
Salamis, they proclaimed the word stood up, and motioning with the
of God in the synagogues of the hand said,
Jews: and they had also John as “Men of Israel, and you who fear
their attendant. 6 And when they God, listen: 17 The God of this peo-
had gone through the whole island ple Israel chose our fathers, and ex-
as far as Paphos, they found a cer- alted the people when they
tain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, sojourned in the land of Egypt, and
whose name was Bar-Jesus; 7 who with a high arm he led them forth
was with the proconsul, Sergius out of it. 18 And for about the time
Paulus, a man of understanding. of forty years as a nursing-father he
The same called to him Barnabas bore them in the wilderness. 19
and Saul, and sought to hear the And when he had destroyed seven
word of God. 8 But Elymas the sor- nations in the land of Canaan, he
cerer (for so is his name by interpre- gave them their land for an inheri-
tation) withstood them, seeking to tance, for about four hundred and
turn aside the proconsul from the fifty years: 20 and after these things
faith. 9 But Saul, who is also called he gave them judges until Samuel
Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fas- the prophet. 21 And afterward they
tened his eyes on him, 10 and said, asked for a king: and God gave to
“O full of all deceit and all villainy, them Saul the son of Kish, a man of
you son of the devil, you enemy of the tribe of Benjamin, for the space
all righteousness, will you not cease of forty years. 22 And when he had
to pervert the right ways of the removed him, he raised up David
Lord? 11 And now, behold, the to be their king; to whom also he
hand of the Lord is upon you, and bore witness and said, ‘I have
you shall be blind, not seeing the found David the son of Jesse, a man
sun for a time.” And immediately after my heart, who will do all my
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will.’ 23 Of this man’s seed has God the counsel of God, fell asleep, and
according to promise brought to Is- was laid to his fathers, and saw cor-
rael a Savior, Jesus; 24 when John ruption: 37 but he whom God
had first preached before his com- raised up saw no corruption. 38 Be
ing the baptism of repentance to all it known to you therefore, brethren,
the people of Israel. 25 And as John that through this man is proclaimed
was fulfilling his course, he said, to you remission of sins: 39 and by
‘Who do you suppose that I am? I him every one who believes is justi-
am not he. But behold, there comes fied from all things, from which
one after me the sandals of whose you could not be justified by the
feet I am not worthy to unloose. 26 law of Moses. 40 Beware therefore,
Brethren, children of the stock of lest that come upon you which is
Abraham, and those among you spoken in the prophets:
who fear God, to us the word of this 41 ‘Behold, you despisers, and
salvation has been sent forth. 27 For wonder, and perish;
those who dwell in Jerusalem, and For I work a work in your days,
their rulers, because they did not A work which you shall in no
know him, nor the voices of the way believe, if one declare it
prophets which are read every Sab- to you.’ ”
bath, fulfilled them by condemning 42 And as they went out, they be-
him. 28 And though they found no seeched that these words might be
cause of death in him, yet they spoken to them the next Sabbath. 43
asked Pilate that he should be slain. Now when the synagogue broke
29 And when they had fulfilled all up, many of the Jews and of the de-
things that were written of him, vout proselytes followed Paul and
they took him down from the tree, Barnabas; who, speaking to them,
and laid him in a tomb. 30 But God urged them to continue in the grace
raised him from the dead: 31 and he of God.
was seen for many days by those 44 And the next Sabbath almost
who came up with him from the whole city was gathered to-
Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now gether to hear the word of God. 45
his witnesses to the people. 32 And But when the Jews saw the multi-
we bring you good tidings of the tudes, they were filled with jeal-
promise made to the fathers, 33 that ousy, and contradicted the things
God has fulfilled the same to our which were spoken by Paul, and
children, in that he raised up Jesus; blasphemed. 46 And Paul and
as also it is written in the second Barnabas spoke out boldly, and
Psalm, ‘You are my Son, this day I said, “It was necessary that the
have begotten you.’ 34 And as con- word of God should first be spoken
cerning that he raised him up from to you. Seeing you thrust it from
the dead, now no more to return to you, and judge yourselves unwor-
corruption, he has spoken in this thy of eternal life, behold, we turn
way, ‘I will give you the holy and to the Gentiles. 47 For so has the
sure blessings of David.’ 35 Because Lord commanded us, saying,
he says also in another Psalm, ‘You ‘I have set you for a light of the
will not give your Holy One to see Gentiles,
corruption. 36 For David, after he That you should be for
had in his own generation served salvation to the uttermost
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part of the earth.’ ” ing his eyes on him, and seeing that
48 And as the Gentiles heard this, he had faith to be made whole, 10
they were glad, and glorified the said with a loud voice, “Stand up-
word of God: and as many as were right on your feet.” And he leaped
ordained to eternal life believed. 49 up and walked. 11 And when the
And the word of the Lord was multitude saw what Paul had done,
spread abroad throughout all the they lifted up their voice, saying in
region. 50 But the Jews urged on the the speech of Lycaonia, “The gods
devout women of prominence, and have come down to us in the like-
the chief men of the city, and stirred ness of men.” 12 And they called
up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mer-
Barnabas, and cast them out of their cury, because he was the chief
borders. 51 But they shook off the speaker. 13 And the priest of Jupiter
dust of their feet against them, and whose temple was before the city,
came to Iconium. 52 And the disci- brought oxen and garlands to the
ples were filled with joy and with gates, and would have offered sac-
the Holy Spirit. rifice with the multitudes. 14 But

14 And it came to pass in Ico- when the apostles, Barnabas and

nium that they entered to- Paul, heard of it, they tore their gar-
gether into the synagogue of the ments, and sprang forth among the
Jews, and so spoke that a great mul- multitude, crying out 15 and say-
titude both of Jews and of Greeks ing, “Sirs, why are you doing these
believed. 2 But the Jews who were things? We also are men of like pas-
disobedient stirred up the souls of sions with you, and bring you good
the Gentiles, and made them embit- tidings, that you should turn from
tered against the brethren. 3 A long these vain things to a living God,
time therefore they stayed there who made the heaven and the earth
speaking boldly in the Lord, who and the sea, and all that in them is:
bore witness to the word of his 16 who in the generations gone by
grace, granting signs and wonders allowed all the nations to walk in
to be done by their hands. 4 But the their own ways. 17 And yet he did
multitude of the city was divided; not leave himself without witness,
and part held with the Jews, and in that he did good and gave you
part with the apostles. 5 And when from heaven rains and fruitful sea-
there was made an assault both by sons, filling your hearts with food
the Gentiles and by the Jews with and gladness. 18 And with these
their rulers, to treat them shame- sayings they scarcely restrained the
fully and to stone them, 6 they be- multitudes from sacrificing to
came aware of it, and fled to the them.”
cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and 19 But there came Jews from Anti-
Derbe, and the surrounding region: och and Iconium: and having per-
7 and there they preached the suaded the multitudes, they stoned
gospel. Paul, and dragged him out of the
8 And at Lystra there sat a certain city, supposing that he was dead. 20
man, impotent in his feet, a cripple But as the disciples stood surround-
from his mother’s womb, who ing him, he rose up, and entered
never had walked. 9 The same into the city: and on the next day he
heard Paul speaking, who, fasten- went forth with Barnabas to Derbe.
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21 And when they had preached they were received by the church
the gospel to that city, and had and the apostles and the elders, and
made many disciples, they re- they rehearsed all things that God
turned to Lystra, and to Iconium, had done with them. 5 But there
and to Antioch, 22 confirming the rose up certain of the sect of the
souls of the disciples, exhorting Pharisees who believed, saying, “It
them to continue in the faith, and is necessary to circumcise them,
that through many tribulations we and to charge them to keep the law
must enter into the kingdom of of Moses.”
God. 23 And when they had ap- 6 And the apostles and the elders
pointed for them elders in every were gathered together to consider
church, and had prayed with fast- this matter. 7 And when there had
ing, they commended them to the been much questioning, Peter rose
Lord, on whom they had believed. up, and said to them,
24 And they passed through Pi- “Brethren, you know that a good
sidia, and came to Pamphylia. 25 while ago God chose among you,
And when they had spoken the that by my mouth the Gentiles
word in Perga, they went down to should hear the word of the gospel,
Attalia; 26 and from there they and believe. 8 And God, who
sailed to Antioch, from where they knows the heart, bore them wit-
had been committed to the grace of ness, giving them the Holy Spirit,
God for the work which they had even as he did to us; 9 and he made
fulfilled. 27 And when they had no distinction between us and
come, and had gathered the church them, cleansing their hearts by
together, they rehearsed all things faith. 10 Now therefore why do you
that God had done with them, and test God, that you should put a
that he had opened a door of faith yoke on the neck of the disciples
to the Gentiles. 28 And they stayed which neither our fathers nor we
no little time with the disciples. were able to bear? 11 But we believe

15 And certain men came that we shall be saved through the

down from Judea and taught grace of the Lord Jesus, in like man-
the brethren, saying, “Except you ner as they.”
be circumcised after the custom of 12 And all the multitude kept
Moses, you cannot be saved.” 2 silent; and they listened to Barn-
And when Paul and Barnabas had abas and Paul rehearsing what
no small dissension and question- signs and wonders God had
ing with them, the brethren ap- worked among the Gentiles
pointed that Paul and Barnabas, through them. 13 And after they
and certain other of them, should had held their peace, James an-
go up to Jerusalem to the apostles swered, saying, “Brethren, listen to
and elders about this question. 3 me: 14 Symeon has rehearsed how
They therefore, being brought on first God visited the Gentiles, to
their way by the church, passed take out of them a people for his
through both Phoenicia and name. 15 And to this agree the
Samaria, declaring the conversion words of the prophets; as it is writ-
of the Gentiles: and they caused ten,
great joy to all the brethren. 4 And 16 ‘After these things I will return,
when they had come to Jerusalem, And I will build again the
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tabernacle of David, which is
fallen;
And I will build again the ruins
of it,
And I will set it up:
17 That the remnant of men may
seek after the Lord,
And all the Gentiles, upon
whom my name is called,
18 Says the Lord, who makes these
things known from of old.’
19 Therefore my judgment is, that
we do not trouble those who from
among the Gentiles turn to God; 20
but that we write to them, that they
abstain from the pollutions of idols,
and from fornication, and from
what is strangled, and from blood.
21 For Moses from generations of
old has in every city those who
preach him, being read in the syna-
gogues every Sabbath.”
22 Then it seemed good to the
apostles and the elders, with the
whole church, to choose men out of
their company, and send them to
Antioch with Paul and Barnabas;
namely, Judas called Barsabbas,
and Silas, chief men among the
brethren: 23 and they wrote thus by
them, “The apostles and the elders,
brethren, to the brethren who are of
the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria
and Cilicia, greeting: 24 Since we
have heard that some who went out
from us have troubled you with
words, subverting your souls; to
whom we gave no commandment;
25 it seemed good to us, having
come to one accord, to choose out
men and send them to you with our
beloved Barnabas and Paul, 26 men
who have hazarded their lives for
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
27 We have sent therefore Judas
²⁰ Some ancient authorities insert, with variations, ver. 34 But it seemed good to Silas to
remain there.
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and Silas, who themselves also will
tell you the same things by word of
mouth. 28 For it seemed good to the
Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon
you no greater burden than these
necessary things: 29 that you ab-
stain from things sacrificed to idols,
and from blood, and from things
strangled, and from fornication;
from which if you keep yourselves,
it will be well with you. Farewell.”
30 So they, when they were dis-
missed, came down to Antioch; and
having gathered the multitude to-
gether, they delivered the epistle.
31 And when they had read it, they
rejoiced for the consolation. 32 And
Judas and Silas, being themselves
also prophets, exhorted the
brethren with many words, and
confirmed them. 33 And after they
had spent some time there, they
were dismissed in peace from the
brethren to those who had sent
them forth.20 35 But Paul and Barn-
abas stayed in Antioch, teaching
and preaching the word of the
Lord, with many others also.
36 And after some days Paul said
to Barnabas, “Let us return now
and visit the brethren in every city
in which we proclaimed the word
of the Lord, and see how they are.”
37 And Barnabas was minded to
take with them John also, who was
called Mark. 38 But Paul did not
think it was good to take with them
him who withdrew from them from
Pamphylia, and had not gone with
them to the work. 39 And there
arose a sharp contention, so that
they separated one from the other,
and Barnabas took Mark with him,
and sailed away to Cyprus; 40 but
Paul choose Silas, and went forth,
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being commended by the brethren nia, the first of the district, a Roman
to the grace of the Lord. 41 And he colony: and we were in this city
went through Syria and Cilicia, staying some days. 13 And on the
confirming the churches. Sabbath Day we went forth outside

16 And he came also to Derbe the gate by a riverside, where we

and to Lystra: and behold, a supposed there was a place of
certain disciple was there, named prayer; and we sat down, and
Timothy, the son of a Jewess who spoke to the women who came to-
believed; but his father was a gether. 14 And a certain woman
Greek. 2 The same was well re- named Lydia, a seller of purple
ported of by the brethren who were from the city of Thyatira, one who
in Lystra and Iconium. 3 Him worshipped God, heard us: whose
would Paul have to go forth with heart the Lord opened to give heed
him; and he took and circumcised to the things which were spoken by
him because of the Jews that were Paul. 15 And when she was bap-
in those parts: for they all knew that tized, and her household, she be-
his father was a Greek. 4 And as seeched us, saying, “If you have
they went on their way through the judged me to be faithful to the
cities, they delivered them the de- Lord, come into my house, and stay
crees to keep which had been or- there.” And she constrained us.
dained by the apostles and elders 16 And it came to pass, as we
who were in Jerusalem. 5 So the were going to the place of prayer,
churches were strengthened in the that a certain slave girl having a
faith, and increased in number spirit of divination met us, who
daily. brought her masters much gain by
6 And they went through the re- fortune-telling. 17 The same follow-
gion of Phrygia and Galatia, having ing after Paul and us cried out, say-
been forbidden by the Holy Spirit ing, “These men are servants of the
to speak the word in Asia; 7 and Most High God, who proclaim to
when they had come to Mysia, they you the way of salvation.” 18 And
attempted to go into Bithynia; and this she did for many days. But
the Spirit of Jesus did not allow Paul, being extremely troubled,
them; 8 and passing by Mysia, they turned and said to the spirit, “I
came down to Troas. 9 And a vision charge you in the name of Jesus
appeared to Paul in the night: there Christ to come out of her.” And it
was a man of Macedonia standing, came out that very hour.
beseeching him, and saying, 19 But when her masters saw that
“Come over into Macedonia, and the hope of their gain was gone,
help us.” 10 And when he had seen they laid hold on Paul and Silas,
the vision, immediately we sought and dragged them into the market-
to go forth into Macedonia, con- place before the rulers, 20 and
cluding that God had called us to when they had brought them to the
preach the gospel to them. magistrates, they said, “These men,
11 Setting sail therefore from being Jews, do exceedingly trouble
Troas, we made a straight course to our city, 21 and set forth customs
Samothrace, and the day following which it is not lawful for us to re-
to Neapolis; 12 and from there to ceive, or to observe, being Ro-
Philippi, which is a city of Macedo- mans.” 22 And the multitude rose
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up together against them: and the jailor reported the words to Paul,
magistrates tore their garments off saying, “The magistrates have sent
them, and commanded to beat to let you go: now therefore come
them with rods. 23 And when they forth, and go in peace.” 37 But Paul
had laid many blows on them, they said to them, “They have beaten us
cast them into prison, charging the publicly, uncondemned, men who
jailor to guard them securely: 24 are Romans, and have cast us into
who, having received such a prison; and do they now cast us out
charge, cast them into the inner secretly? no indeed; but let them
prison, and fastened their feet in come themselves and bring us out.”
the stocks. 25 But about midnight 38 And the sergeants reported these
Paul and Silas were praying and words to the magistrates: and they
singing hymns to God, and the feared when they heard that they
prisoners were listening to them; 26 were Romans; 39 and they came
and suddenly there was a great and beseeched them; and when
earthquake, so that the foundations they had brought them out, they
of the prison-house were shaken: asked them to go away from the
and immediately all the doors were city. 40 And they went out of the
opened: and everyone’s bonds prison, and entered into the house
were loosed. 27 And the jailor, be- of Lydia: and when they had seen
ing roused out of sleep and seeing the brethren, they comforted them,
the prison doors open, drew his and departed.
sword and was about to kill him-
self, supposing that the prisoners 17 Now when they had
passed through Amphipolis
had escaped. 28 But Paul cried with and Apollonia, they came to Thes-
a loud voice, saying, “Do yourself salonica, where was a synagogue of
no harm: for we are all here.” 29 the Jews: 2 and Paul, as his custom
And he called for lights and sprang was, went in to them, and for three
in, and, trembling for fear, fell Sabbath Days reasoned with them
down before Paul and Silas, 30 and from the Scriptures, 3 opening and
brought them out and said, “Sirs, alleging that it behooved the Christ
what must I do to be saved?” 31 to suffer, and to rise again from the
And they said, “Believe on the Lord dead; and that “This Jesus, whom,”
Jesus, and you will be saved, you he said, “I proclaim to you, is the
and your house.” 32 And they Christ.” 4 And some of them were
spoke the word of the Lord to him, persuaded, and joined with Paul
with all who were in his house. 33 and Silas, and of the devout Greeks
And he took them the same hour of a great multitude, and of the chief
the night, and washed their women not a few. 5 But the Jews,
wounds; and was baptized, he and being moved with jealousy, took to
all his, immediately. 34 And he them certain vile men of the rabble,
brought them up into his house, and gathering a crowd, set the city
and set food before them, and re- in an uproar; and assaulting the
joiced greatly, with all his house, house of Jason, they sought to bring
having believed in God. them forth to the people. 6 And
35 But when it was day, the mag- when they did not find them, they
istrates sent the sergeants, saying, dragged Jason and certain brethren
“Let those men go.” 36 And the before the rulers of the city, crying,
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“These who have turned the world “What would this babbler say?”
upside down have come here also; others, “He seems to be a pro-
7 whom Jason has received: and claimer of strange gods”: because
these all act contrary to the decrees he preached Jesus and the resurrec-
of Caesar, saying that there is an- tion. 19 And they took hold of him,
other king, one Jesus.” 8 And they and brought him to the Areopagus,
troubled the multitude and the saying, “May we know what this
rulers of the city, when they heard new teaching is, which is spoken by
these things. 9 And when they had you? 20 For you are bringing cer-
taken security from Jason and the tain strange things to our ears: we
rest, they let them go. would know therefore what these
10 And the brethren immediately things mean.” 21 (Now all the Athe-
sent away Paul and Silas by night to nians and the strangers sojourning
Berea: who when they arrived went there spent their time in nothing
into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 else, but either to tell or to hear
Now these were more noble than some new thing.) 22 And Paul
those in Thessalonica, in that they stood in the midst of the Areopa-
received the word with all readi- gus, and said,
ness of the mind, examining the “Men of Athens, in all things, I
Scriptures daily, whether these perceive that you are very religious.
things were so. 12 Many of them 23 For as I passed along, and ob-
therefore believed; also of the served the objects of your worship,
Greek women of honorable estate, I found also an altar with this in-
and of men, not a few. 13 But when scription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN
the Jews of Thessalonica had GOD’. What therefore you worship
knowledge that the word of God in ignorance, this I set forth to you.
was proclaimed by Paul at Berea 24 The God who made the world
also, they came there likewise, stir- and all things in it, he, being Lord
ring up and troubling the multi- of heaven and earth, does not dwell
tudes. 14 And then immediately the in temples made with hands; 25
brethren sent forth Paul to go as far neither is he served by men’s
as to the sea: and Silas and Timothy hands, as though he needed any-
remained there still. 15 But those thing, seeing he himself gives to all
who conducted Paul brought him life, and breath, and all things; 26
as far as Athens: and receiving a and he made of one every nation of
command for Silas and Timothy men to dwell on all the face of the
that they should come to him with earth, having determined their ap-
all speed, they departed. pointed seasons, and the bounds of
16 Now while Paul waited for their habitation; 27 that they should
them at Athens, his spirit was pro- seek God, if perhaps they might
voked within him as he beheld the feel after him and find him, though
city full of idols. 17 So he reasoned he is not far from each one of us: 28
in the synagogue with Jews and the for in him we live, and move, and
devout persons, and in the market- have our being; as certain even of
place every day with those who your own poets have said,
met him. 18 And certain also of the ‘For we are also his offspring.’ 29
Epicurean and Stoic philosophers Being then the offspring of God, we
encountered him. And some said, ought not to think that the God-
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head is like gold, or silver, or stone, the house of a certain man named
graven by art and device of man. 30 Titus Justus, one who worshipped
The times of ignorance therefore God, whose house bordered on the
God overlooked; but now he com- synagogue. 8 And Crispus, the
mands men that they should all ev- ruler of the synagogue, believed in
erywhere repent: 31 inasmuch as he the Lord with all his house; and
has appointed a day in which he many of the Corinthians hearing
will judge the world in righteous- believed, and were baptized. 9 And
ness by the man whom he has or- the Lord said to Paul in the night by
dained; of which he has given a vision, “Do not be afraid, but
assurance to all men, in that he has speak and do not hold your peace:
raised him from the dead.” 10 for I am with you, and no man
32 Now when they heard of the will attack you to harm you: for I
resurrection of the dead, some have many people in this city.” 11
mocked; but others said, “We will And he dwelt there a year and six
hear you concerning this yet months, teaching the word of God
again.” 33 Thus Paul went out from among them.
among them. 34 But certain men 12 But when Gallio was proconsul
joined him, and believed: among of Achaia, the Jews with one accord
whom also was Dionysius the Are- rose up against Paul and brought
opagite, and a woman named him before the judgment seat, 13
Damaris, and others with them. saying, This man persuades men to

18 After these things he de- worship God contrary to the law. 14

parted from Athens, and But when Paul was about to open
came to Corinth. 2 And he found a his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews,
certain Jew named Aquila, a man of “If indeed it were a matter of wrong
Pontus by race, recently come from or of wicked villainy, O Jews, there
Italy, with his wife Priscilla, be- would be reason why I should bear
cause Claudius had commanded all with you: 15 but if they are ques-
the Jews to depart from Rome: and tions about words and names and
he came to them; 3 and because he your own law, look to it yourselves;
was of the same trade, he stayed I am not minded to be a judge of
with them, and they worked; for by these matters.” 16 And he drove
their trade they were tentmakers. 4 them from the judgment seat. 17
And he reasoned in the synagogue And they all laid hold on Sos-
every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews thenes, the ruler of the synagogue,
and Greeks. and beat him before the judgment
5 But when Silas and Timothy seat. And Gallio cared for none of
came down from Macedonia, Paul these things.
was constrained by the word, testi- 18 And Paul, having stayed after
fying to the Jews that Jesus was the this yet many days, took his leave
Christ. 6 And when they opposed of the brethren, and sailed away for
themselves and blasphemed, he Syria, and with him Priscilla and
shook out his garments and said to Aquila: having his hair cut off in
them, “Your blood be on your own Cenchrea; for he had a vow. 19 And
heads; I am clean: from henceforth they came to Ephesus, and he left
I will go to the Gentiles.” 7 And he them there: but he himself entered
departed from there, and went into into the synagogue, and reasoned
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with the Jews. 20 And when they given.” 3 And he said, “Into what
asked him to stay a longer time, he then were you baptized?” And they
did not consent; 21 but taking his said, “Into John’s baptism.” 4 And
leave of them, and saying, “I will Paul said, “John baptized with the
return again to you if God wills,” baptism of repentance, saying to
he set sail from Ephesus. the people that they should believe
22 And when he had landed at on him who should come after him,
Caesarea, he went up and greeted that is, on Jesus.” 5 And when they
the church, and went down to Anti- heard this, they were baptized into
och. 23 And having spent some the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And
time there, he departed, and went when Paul had laid his hands on
through the region of Galatia, and them, the Holy Spirit came on
Phrygia, in order, establishing all them; and they spoke with tongues,
the disciples. and prophesied. 7 And they were in
24 Now a certain Jew named all about twelve men.
Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an 8 And he entered into the syna-
eloquent man, came to Ephesus; gogue, and spoke boldly for the
and he was mighty in the Scrip- space of three months, reasoning
tures. 25 This man had been in- and persuading as to the things
structed in the way of the Lord; and concerning the kingdom of God. 9
being fervent in spirit, he spoke and But when some were hardened and
taught accurately the things con- disobedient, speaking evil of the
cerning Jesus, knowing only the Way before the multitude, he de-
baptism of John: 26 and he began to parted from them, and separated
speak boldly in the synagogue. But the disciples, reasoning daily in the
when Priscilla and Aquila heard school of Tyrannus. 10 And this
him, they took him to them, and ex- continued for the space of two
pounded to him the way of God years; so that all those who dwelt in
more accurately. 27 And when he Asia heard the word of the Lord,
was minded to pass over into both Jews and Greeks. 11 And God
Achaia, the brethren encouraged worked special miracles by the
him, and wrote to the disciples to hands of Paul: 12 insomuch that to
receive him: and when he had the sick were carried away from his
come, he helped them greatly who body handkerchiefs or aprons, and
had believed through grace; 28 for the diseases departed from them,
he powerfully confuted the Jews, and the evil spirits went out. 13 But
and that publicly, showing by the certain also of the itinerant Jews,
Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. exorcists, attempted to name over

19 And it came to pass, that, those who had the evil spirits the
while Apollos was at name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “I
Corinth, Paul having passed adjure you by Jesus whom Paul
through the upper country came to preaches.” 14 And there were seven
Ephesus, and found certain disci- sons of one Sceva, a Jew, a chief
ples: 2 and he said to them, “Did priest, who did this. 15 And the evil
you receive the Holy Spirit when spirit answered and said to them,
you believed?” And they said to “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but
him, “No, we did not so much as who are you?” 16 And the man in
hear whether the Holy Spirit was whom the evil spirit was leaped on
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them, and mastered both of them, of no account, and that she should
and prevailed against them, so that even be deposed from her magnifi-
they fled out of that house naked cence whom all Asia and the world
and wounded. 17 And this became worships.” 28 And when they
known to all, both Jews and Greeks, heard this they were filled with
who dwelt at Ephesus; and fear fell wrath, and cried out, saying, “Great
on them all, and the name of the is Diana of the Ephesians.” 29 And
Lord Jesus was magnified. 18 Many the city was filled with the confu-
also of those who had believed sion: and they rushed with one ac-
came, confessing, and declaring cord into the theatre, having seized
their deeds. 19 And not a few of Gaius and Aristarchus, men of
them who practiced magical arts Macedonia, Paul’s companions in
brought their books together and travel. 30 And when Paul was
burned them in the sight of all; and minded to enter in to the people,
they counted the price of them, and the disciples would not allow him.
found it fifty thousand pieces of sil- 31 And certain also of the Asiarchs,
ver. 20 So mightily grew the word being his friends, sent to him and
of the Lord and prevailed. beseeched him not venture himself
21 Now after these things were into the theater. 32 Some therefore
ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, cried one thing, and some another:
when he had passed through Mace- for the assembly was in confusion;
donia and Achaia, to go to and the majority did not know why
Jerusalem, saying, “After I have they had come together. 33 And
been there, I must also see Rome.” they brought Alexander out of the
22 And having sent into Macedonia multitude, the Jews putting him
two of those who ministered to forward. And Alexander beckoned
him, Timothy and Erastus, he him- with the hand, and would have
self stayed in Asia for a while. made a defense to the people. 34
23 And about that time there But when they perceived that he
arose no small stir concerning the was a Jew, all with one voice about
Way. 24 For a certain man named the space of two hours cried out,
Demetrius, a silversmith, who “Great is Diana of the Ephesians.”
made silver shrines of Diana, 35 And when the town clerk had
brought no little business to the quieted the multitude, he says,
craftsmen; 25 whom he gathered to- “Men of Ephesus, what man is
gether, with the workmen of like there who does not know that the
occupation, and said, “Sirs, you city of the Ephesians is temple
know that by this business we have keeper of the great Diana, and of
our wealth. 26 And you see and the image which fell down from
hear; that not only in Ephesus, but Jupiter? 36 Seeing then that these
almost throughout all Asia, this things cannot be contradicted, you
Paul has persuaded and turned ought to be quiet, and do nothing
away many people, saying that rash. 37 For you have brought here
they are not gods, which are made these men, who are neither robbers
with hands: 27 and not only is there of temples nor blasphemers of our
danger that this our trade come into goddess. 38 If therefore Demetrius,
disrepute; but also that the temple and the craftsmen who are with
of the great goddess Diana be made him, have a matter against any
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man, the courts are open, and there with deep sleep; and as Paul dis-
are proconsuls: let them accuse one coursed yet longer, being borne
another. 39 But if you seek anything down by his sleep he fell down
about other matters, it shall be set- from the third story, and was taken
tled in the regular assembly. 40 For up dead. 10 And Paul went down,
indeed we are in danger of being and fell on him, and embracing him
accused concerning this day’s riot, said, “Do not be troubled; for his
there being no cause for it: and con- life is in him.” 11 And when he had
cerning it we shall not be able to gone up, and had broken the bread,
give account for this disorderly and eaten, and had talked with
gathering.” 41 And when he had them a long while, even until day-
thus spoken, he dismissed the as- break, so he departed. 12 And they
sembly. brought the boy alive, and were not

20 And after the uproar a little comforted.

ceased, Paul having sent for 13 But we, going ahead to the
the disciples and exhorted them, ship, set sail for Assos, there intend-
took leave of them, and departed to ing to take Paul in: for so had he ap-
go into Macedonia. 2 And when he pointed, intending himself to go by
had gone through those parts, and land. 14 And when he met us at As-
had given them much exhortation, sos, we took him on board, and
he came into Greece. 3 And when came to Mitylene. 15 And sailing
he had spent three months there, from there, we came the following
and a plot was laid against him by day opposite Chios; and the next
the Jews as he was about to set sail day we touched at Samos; and the
for Syria, he determined to return day after we came to Miletus. 16
through Macedonia. 4 And there For Paul had determined to sail
accompanied him as far as Asia, past Ephesus, that he might not
Sopater of Berea, the son of have to spend time in Asia; for he
Pyrrhus; and of the Thessalonians, was hastening, if it were possible
Aristarchus and Secundus; and for him, to be in Jerusalem the day
Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and of Pentecost.
of Asia, Tychicus and Troph-imus. 5 17 And from Miletus he sent to
But these had gone before, and Ephesus, and called to him the el-
were waiting for us at Troas. 6 And ders of the church. 18 And when
we sailed away from Philippi after they had come to him, he said to
the Days of Unleavened Bread, and them,
came to them to Troas in five days; “You yourselves know, from the
where we stayed seven days. first day that I set foot in Asia, in
7 And on the first day of the week, what manner I was with you all the
when we were gathered together to time, 19 serving the Lord with all
break bread, Paul discoursed with lowliness of mind, and with tears,
them, intending to depart the next and with trials which befell me by
day; and prolonged his speech until the plots of the Jews; 20 how I did
midnight. 8 And there were many not shrink from declaring to you
lights in the upper room where we anything that was profitable, and
were gathered together. 9 And there teaching you publicly, and from
sat in the window a certain young house to house, 21 testifying both to
man named Eutychus, borne down Jews and to Greeks repentance to-
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ward God, and faith toward our weak, and to remember the words
Lord Jesus Christ. 22 And now, be- of the Lord Jesus, who he himself
hold, I go bound in the spirit to said, ‘It is more blessed to give than
Jerusalem, not knowing the things to receive.’ ”
that will befall me there: 23 except 36 And when he had thus spoken,
that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in he kneeled down and prayed with
every city, saying that bonds and them all. 37 And they all wept
afflictions await me. 24 But I do not much, and fell on Paul’s neck and
hold my life of any account as dear kissed him, 38 sorrowing most of
to myself, so that I may accomplish all for the word which he had spo-
my course, and the ministry which ken, that they should behold his
I received from the Lord Jesus, to face no more. And they brought
testify the gospel of the grace of him on his way to the ship.
God. 25 And now, behold, I know
that you all, among whom I went 21 And when it came to pass
that we were parted from
about preaching the kingdom, will them and had set sail, we came
see my face no more. 26 Therefore I with a straight course to Cos, and
testify to you this day, that I am the next day to Rhodes, and from
pure from the blood of all men. 27 there to Patara: 2 and having found
For I did not shrink from declaring a ship crossing over to Phoenicia,
to you the whole counsel of God. 28 we went aboard, and set sail. 3 And
Take heed to yourselves, and to all when we had come in sight of
the flock, in which the Holy Spirit Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand,
has made you overseers, to feed the we sailed to Syria, and landed at
church of the Lord which he pur- Tyre; for there the ship was to un-
chased with his own blood. 29 I load her cargo. 4 And having found
know that after my departing the disciples, we stayed there seven
grievous wolves will enter in days: and they said to Paul through
among you, not sparing the flock; the Spirit, that he should not set
30 and from among your own foot in Jerusalem. 5 And when it
selves will men arise, speaking per- came to pass that we had com-
verse things, to draw away the dis- pleted the days, we departed and
ciples after them. 31 Therefore went on our journey; and they all,
watch, remembering that for the with wives and children, brought
space of three years I did not cease us on our way until we were out of
to admonish every one night and the city: and kneeling down on the
day with tears. 32 And now I com- beach, we prayed, and said farewell
mend you to God, and to the word to each other; 6 and we went on
of his grace, which is able to build board the ship, but they returned
you up, and to give you the inheri- home again.
tance among all those who are sanc- 7 And when we had finished the
tified. 33 I coveted no man’s silver, voyage from Tyre, we arrived at
or gold, or apparel. 34 You your- Ptolemais; and we greeted the
selves know that these hands min- brethren, and stayed with them one
istered to my necessities, and to day. 8 And on the next day we de-
those who were with me. 35 In all parted, and came to Caesarea: and
things I gave you an example, that entering into the house of Philip the
so laboring you ought to help the evangelist, who was one of the
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seven, we stayed with him. 9 Now who are among the Gentiles to for-
this man had four virgin daughters, sake Moses, telling them not to cir-
who prophesied. 10 And as we cumcise their children neither to
stayed there many days, there came walk after the customs. 22 What is
down from Judea a certain prophet, it therefore? they will certainly hear
named Agabus. 11 And coming to that you have come. 23 Do there-
us, and taking Paul’s belt, he bound fore this that we say to you: We
his own feet and hands, and said, have four men that have a vow on
“Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘So shall them; 24 these take, and purify
the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man yourself with them, and be at
who owns this belt, and shall de- charges for them, that they may
liver him into the hands of the Gen- shave their heads: and all will
tiles.’ ” 12 And when we heard know that there is no truth in the
these things, both we and those of things of which they have been in-
that place beseeched him not to go formed concerning you; but that
up to Jerusalem. 13 Then Paul an- you yourself also walk orderly,
swered, “What are you doing, keeping the law. 25 But concerning
weeping and breaking my heart? the Gentiles who have believed, we
for I am ready not only to be bound, wrote, giving judgment that they
but also to die in Jerusalem for the should keep themselves from
name of the Lord Jesus.” 14 And things sacrificed to idols, and from
when he would not be persuaded, blood, and from what is strangled,
we ceased, saying, “The will of the and from fornication.” 26 Then
Lord be done.” Paul took the men, and the next day
15 And after these days we took purifying himself with them went
up our baggage and went up to into the temple, declaring the ful-
Jerusalem. 16 And there went with fillment of the days of purification,
us also some of the disciples from until the offering was offered for
Caesarea, bringing with them one every one of them.
Mnason of Cyprus, an early disci- 27 And when the seven days were
ple, with whom we should lodge. almost completed, the Jews from
17 And when we had come to Asia, when they saw him in the
Jerusalem, the brethren received us temple, stirred up all the multitude
gladly. 18 And the day following and laid hands on him, 28 crying
Paul went in with us to James; and out, “Men of Israel, help: This is the
all the elders were present. 19 And man who teaches all men every-
when he had greeted them, he re- where against the people, and the
hearsed one by one the things law, and this place; and moreover
which God had worked among the he brought Greeks also into the
Gentiles through his ministry. 20 temple, and has defiled this holy
And they, when they heard it, glori- place.” 29 For they had before seen
fied God; and they said to him, with him in the city Trophimus the
“You see, brother, how many thou- Ephesian, whom they supposed
sands there are among the Jews of that Paul had brought into the tem-
those who have believed; and they ple. 30 And all the city was moved,
are all zealous for the law: 21 and and the people ran together; and
they have been informed concern- they took hold of Paul, and
ing you, that you teach all the Jews dragged him out of the temple: and
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immediately the doors were shut. 2 And when they heard that he
31 And as they were seeking to kill spoke to them in the Hebrew lan-
him, news came up to the comman- guage, they were the more quiet:
der of the cohort, that all Jerusalem and he says,
was in confusion. 32 And at once he 3 “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of
took soldiers and centurions, and Cilicia, but brought up in this city,
ran down upon them: and they, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed
when they saw the commander and according to the strict manner of
the soldiers, stopped beating Paul. the law of our fathers, being zeal-
33 Then the commander came near, ous for God, even as you all are this
and took hold of him, and com- day: 4 and I persecuted this Way to
manded him to be bound with two the death, binding and delivering
chains; and inquired who he was, into prisons both men and women.
and what he had done. 34 And 5 As also the high priest bears me
some shouted one thing, some an- witness, and all the estate of the el-
other, among the crowd: and when ders: from whom also I received let-
he could not know the certainty for ters to the brethren, and journeyed
the uproar, he commanded him to to Damascus to bring them also
be brought into the barracks. 35 who were there to Jerusalem in
And when he came upon the stairs, bonds to be punished. 6 And it
so it was that he was carried by the came to pass, that, as I made my
soldiers because of the violence of journey, and drew near Damascus,
the crowd; 36 for the multitude of about noon, suddenly there shone
the people followed after, crying from heaven a great light all around
out, “Away with him.” me. 7 And I fell to the ground, and
37 And as Paul was about to be heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul,
brought into the barracks, he says Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
to the commander, “May I say 8 And I answered, ‘Who are you,
something to you?” And he said, Lord?’ And he said to me, ‘I am Je-
“Do you know Greek? 38 Are you sus of Nazareth, whom you are per-
not then the Egyptian, who before secuting.’ 9 And those who were
these days stirred up to sedition with me beheld indeed the light,
and led out into the wilderness the but they did not hear the voice of
four thousand men of the Assas- him who spoke to me. 10 And I
sins?” 39 But Paul said, “I am a Jew, said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ And
of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go
insignificant city: and I beseech into Damascus; and there it will be
you, give me permission to speak to told you of all things which are ap-
the people.” 40 And when he had pointed for you to do.’ 11 And
given him permission, Paul, stand- when I could not see for the glory of
ing on the stairs, beckoned with the that light, being led by the hand by
hand to the people; and when there those who were with me I came
was made a great silence, he spoke into Damascus. 12 And one Ana-
to them in the Hebrew language, nias, a devout man according to the
saying, law, well reported of by all the Jews

22 “Brethren and fathers, hear that dwelt there, 13 came to me,

the defense which I now and standing by me said to me,
make to you.” ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight.’
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And in that very hour I looked up commander and told him, saying,
on him. 14 And he said, ‘The God of “What are you about to do? for this
our fathers has appointed you to man is a Roman.” 27 And the com-
know his will, and to see the Right- mander came and said to him, “Tell
eous One, and to hear a voice from me, are you a Roman?” And he
his mouth.’ 15 For you will be a wit- said, “Yes.” 28 And the commander
ness for him to all men of what you answered, “With a great sum I ob-
have seen and heard. 16 And now tained this citizenship.” And Paul
why are you delaying? arise, and be said, “But I am a Roman born.” 29
baptized, and wash away your sins, Those then who were about to ex-
calling on his name.’ 17 And it came amine him immediately departed
to pass, that, when I had returned from him: and the commander also
to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in was afraid when he knew that he
the temple, I fell into a trance, 18 was a Roman, and because he had
and saw him saying to me, ‘Make bound him.
haste, and get quickly out of 30 But on the next day, desiring to
Jerusalem; because they will not re- know the certainty why he was ac-
ceive your testimony concerning cused by the Jews, he loosed him,
me.’ 19 And I said, ‘Lord, they and commanded the chief priests
themselves know that I imprisoned and all the council to come to-
and beat in every synagogue those gether, and brought Paul down and
who believed on you: 20 and when set him before them.
the blood of Stephen your witness
was shed, I also was standing by, 23 And Paul, looking stead-
fastly on the council, said,
and consenting, and keeping the “Brethren, I have lived before God
garments of those who slew him.’ in all good conscience until this
21 And he said to me, ‘Depart: for I day.” 2 And the high priest Ananias
will send you forth far from here to commanded those who stood by
the Gentiles.’ ” him to strike him on the mouth. 3
22 And they listened until this Then Paul said to him, “God will
word; and they lifted up their voice, strike you, you whitewashed wall:
and said, “Away with such a fellow and do you sit to judge me accord-
from the earth: for it is not proper ing to the law, and command me to
that he should live.” 23 And as they be struck contrary to the law?” 4
cried out, and threw off their gar- And those who stood by said, “Do
ments, and cast dust into the air, 24 you revile God’s high priest?” 5
the commander commanded him And Paul said, “I did not know,
be brought into the barracks, bid- brethren, that he was high priest:
ding that he should be examined by for it is written, ‘You shall not speak
scourging, that he might know for evil of a ruler of your people.’ ” 6
what cause they so shouted against But when Paul perceived that the
him. 25 And when they had tied one part were Sadducees and the
him up with the thongs, Paul said other Pharisees, he cried out in the
to the centurion who stood by, “Is it council, “Brethren, I am a Pharisee,
lawful for you to scourge a man a son of Pharisees: concerning the
who is a Roman, and uncon- hope and resurrection of the dead I
demned?” 26 And when the centu- am called in question.” 7 And when
rion heard it, he went to the he had so said, there arose a dissen-
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sion between the Pharisees and 18 So he took him, and brought him
Sadducees; and the assembly was to the commander, and says, “Paul
divided. 8 For the Sadducees say the prisoner called me to him, and
that there is no resurrection, neither asked me to bring this young man
angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees to you, who has something to say to
confess both. 9 And there arose a you.” 19 And the commander took
great clamor: and some of the him by the hand, and going aside
scribes of the Pharisees part stood asked him privately, “What is it
up, and contended sharply, saying, that you have to tell me?” 20 And
“We find no evil in this man: and he said, “The Jews have agreed to
what if a spirit has spoken to him, ask you to bring down Paul tomor-
or an angel?” 10 And when there row to the council, as though you
arose a great dissension, the com- would inquire somewhat more ex-
mander, fearing lest Paul should be actly concerning him. 21 Do not
torn in pieces by them, commanded therefore yield to them: for there lie
the soldiers to go down and take in wait for him of them more than
him by force from among them, forty men, who have bound them-
and bring him into the barracks. selves under a curse, neither to eat
11 And the night following the nor to drink until they have slain
Lord stood by him, and said, “Be of him: and now they are ready, look-
good cheer: for as you have testi- ing for the promise from you.” 22
fied concerning me at Jerusalem, so So the commander let the young
must you bear witness also at man go, charging him, “Tell no man
Rome.” that you have signified these things
12 And when it was day, the Jews to me.” 23 And he called to him two
banded together, and bound them- of the centurions, and said, “Make
selves under a curse, saying that ready two hundred soldiers to go as
they would neither eat nor drink far as Caesarea, and seventy horse-
until they had killed Paul. 13 And men, and two hundred spearmen,
there were more than forty who at the third hour of the night”: 24
made this conspiracy. 14 And they and he bade them provide mounts,
came to the chief priests and the el- that they might set Paul on, and
ders, and said, “We have bound bring him safely to Felix the gover-
ourselves under a great curse, to nor. 25 And he wrote a letter having
taste nothing until we have killed this form:
Paul. 15 Now therefore you with 26 “Claudius Lysias to the most
the council, signify to the comman- excellent governor Felix, greeting.
der that he bring him down to you, 27 This man was seized by the Jews,
as though you would judge his case and was about to be slain by them,
more exactly: and we, before he when I came upon them with the
comes near, are ready to slay him.” soldiers and rescued him, having
16 But Paul’s sister’s son heard of learned that he was a Roman. 28
their ambush, and he came and en- And desiring to know the cause for
tered into the barracks and told which they accused him, I brought
Paul. 17 And Paul called to him one him down to their council: 29
of the centurions, and said, “Bring whom I found to be accused about
this young man to the commander; questions of their law, but to have
for he has something to tell him.” nothing laid to his charge worthy of
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death or of bonds. 30 And when it
was shown to me that there would
be a plot against the man, I sent him
to you immediately, charging his
accusers also to speak against him
before you.”
31 So the soldiers, as it was com-
manded them, took Paul and
brought him by night to Antipatris.
32 But on the next day they left the
horsemen to go with him, and re-
turned to the barracks: 33 and they,
when they came to Caesarea and
delivered the letter to the governor,
presented Paul also before him. 34
And when he had read it, he asked
of what province he was; and when
he understood that he was of Cili-
cia, 35 “I will hear you fully,” he
said, “when your accusers also
have come”: and he commanded
him to be kept in Herod’s palace.
24 And after five days the
high priest Ananias came
down with some elders, and with
an orator, one Tertullus; and they
informed the governor against
Paul. 2 And when he was called,
Tertullus began to accuse him, say-
ing,
“Seeing that by you we enjoy
much peace, and that by your prov-
idence evils are corrected for this
nation, 3 we accept it in all ways
and in all places, most excellent Fe-
lix, with all thankfulness. 4 But, that
I be not further tedious to you, I en-
treat you to hear us by your
clemency a few words. 5 For we
have found this man a pestilent fel-
low, and a mover of insurrections
among all the Jews throughout the
world, and a ringleader of the sect
of the Nazarenes: 6 who moreover
²¹ Many ancient authorities insert and we would have judged him according to our law. 7
But the commander Lysias came, and with great violence took him away out of our hands, 8
commanding his accusers to come before you.
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attempted to profane the temple:
whom also we seized:21 8 from
whom you will be able, by examin-
ing him yourself, ascertain all these
things of which we accuse him.” 9
And the Jews also joined in the
charge, affirming that these things
were so.
10 And when the governor had
beckoned to him to speak, Paul an-
swered, “Because I know that you
have been for many years a judge to
this nation, I cheerfully make my
defense: 11 seeing that you can as-
certain that it is not more than
twelve days since I went up to wor-
ship at Jerusalem: 12 and neither in
the temple did they find me disput-
ing with any man or stirring up a
crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor
in the city. 13 Neither can they
prove to you the things of which
they now accuse me. 14 But this I
confess to you, that after the Way
which they call a sect, so serve I the
God of our fathers, believing all
things which are according to the
law, and which are written in the
prophets; 15 having hope toward
God, which these also themselves
look for, that there shall be a resur-
rection both of the just and unjust.
16 In this I also exercise myself to
have a conscience void of offense
toward God and men always. 17
Now after many years I came to
bring alms to my nation, and offer-
ings: 18 in which they found me pu-
rified in the temple, with no crowd,
nor yet with tumult: but there were
certain Jews from Asia — 19 who
ought to have been here before you,
and to make accusation, if they had
anything against me. 20 Or else let
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these men themselves say what was kept in custody at Caesarea,
wrong doing they found when I and that he himself was about to
stood before the council, 21 except depart there shortly. 5 “Let those
it be for this one voice, that I cried therefore,” he says, “who are of
standing among them, ‘Concerning power among you go down with
the resurrection of the dead I am me, and if there is anything amiss
called in question before you this in the man, let them accuse him.”
day.’ ” 6 And when he had stayed among
22 But Felix, having more exact them not more than eight or ten
knowledge concerning the Way, de- days, he went down to Caesarea;
ferred them, saying, “When Lysias and on the next day he sat on the
the commander shall come down, I judgment seat, and commanded
will determine your matter.” 23 Paul to be brought. 7 And when he
And he gave order to the centurion had come, the Jews who had come
that he should be kept in custody, down from Jerusalem stood around
and should have liberty; and not to him, bringing against him many
forbid any of his friends to minister and grievous charges which they
to him. could not prove; 8 while Paul said
24 But after some days, Felix came in his defense, “Neither against the
with Drusilla, his wife, who was a law of the Jews, nor against the
Jewess, and sent for Paul, and temple, nor against Caesar, have I
heard him concerning the faith in sinned at all.” 9 But Festus, desiring
Christ Jesus. 25 And as he reasoned to gain favor with the Jews, an-
of righteousness, and self-control, swered Paul and said, “Will you go
and the judgment to come, Felix up to Jerusalem, and there be
was terrified, and answered, “Go judged concerning these things be-
your way for this time; and when I fore me?” 10 But Paul said, “I am
have a convenient time, I will call standing before Caesar's judgment
you to me.” 26 He hoped at the seat, where I ought to be judged: to
same time that money would be the Jews have I done no wrong, as
given him by Paul: therefore also he you also very well know. 11 If then
sent for him very often, and con- I am a wrongdoer, and have com-
versed with him. 27 But when two mitted anything worthy of death, I
years were fulfilled, Felix was suc- do not refuse to die; but if none of
ceeded by Porcius Festus; and de- those things is true of which these
siring to gain favor with the Jews, accuse me, no man can give me up
Felix left Paul in bonds. to them. I appeal to Caesar.” 12

25 Festus therefore, having Then Festus, when he had con-

come into the province, after ferred with the council, answered,
three days went up to Jerusalem “You have appealed to Caesar: to
from Caesarea. 2 And the chief Caesar shall you go.”
priests and the principal men of the 13 Now when some days had
Jews informed him against Paul; passed, Agrippa the King and Ber-
and they beseeched him, 3 asking a nice arrived at Caesarea, and
favor against him, that he would greeted Festus. 14 And as they
summon him to Jerusalem; laying a stayed there many days, Festus laid
plot to kill him on the way. 4 How- Paul’s case before the King, saying,
ever Festus answered, that Paul “There is a certain man left a pris-
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oner by Felix; 15 about whom, live any longer. 25 But I found that
when I was at Jerusalem, the chief he had committed nothing worthy
priests and the elders of the Jews in- of death: and as he himself ap-
formed me, asking for sentence pealed to the emperor I determined
against him. 16 To whom I an- to send him. 26 Of whom I have no
swered, that it is not the custom of certain thing to write to my lord.
the Romans to give up any man, be- Therefore I have brought him forth
fore the accused have the accusers before you, and especially before
face to face, and have had opportu- you, king Agrippa, that, after the
nity to make his defense concerning examination had taken place, I may
the matter laid against him. 17 have something to write. 27 For it
When therefore they had come to- seems to me unreasonable, in send-
gether here, I made no delay, but on ing a prisoner, not also to signify
the next day sat on the judgment the charges against him.”
seat, and commanded the man to
be brought. 18 Concerning whom, 26 And Agrippa said to Paul,
“You are permitted to speak
when the accusers stood up, they for yourself.” Then Paul stretched
brought no charge of such evil forth his hand, and made his de-
things as I supposed; 19 but had fense:
some questions against him about 2 “I think myself happy, king
their own religion, and about one Agrippa, that I am to make my de-
Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul fense before you this day concern-
affirmed to be alive. 20 And I, being ing all the things of which I am
perplexed how to inquire concern- accused by the Jews: 3 especially
ing these things, asked whether he because you are expert in all cus-
would go to Jerusalem and there be toms and questions which are
judged concerning these matters. among the Jews: therefore I beseech
21 But when Paul had appealed to you to hear me patiently. 4 My
be kept for the decision of the em- manner of life then from my youth
peror, I commanded him to be kept up, which was from the beginning
until I should send him to Caesar.” among my own nation and at
22 And Agrippa said to Festus, “I Jerusalem, know all the Jews; 5 hav-
also wish to hear the man myself. ing knowledge of me from the first,
Tomorrow,” he says, “you shall if they are willing to testify, that af-
hear him.” ter the strictest sect of our religion I
23 So on the next day, when lived a Pharisee. 6 And now I stand
Agrippa had come, and Bernice, here to be judged for the hope of the
with great pomp, and they had en- promise made by God to our fa-
tered into the place of hearing with thers; 7 to which promise our twelve
the commanders and principal men tribes, earnestly serving God night
of the city, at the command of Fes- and day, hope to attain. And con-
tus Paul was brought in. 24 And cerning this hope I am accused by
Festus says, “King Agrippa, and all the Jews, O king! 8 Why is it judged
men who are here present with us, incredible with you, if God raises
you behold this man, about whom the dead? 9 I truly thought with
all the multitude of the Jews peti- myself that I ought to do many
tioned me, both at Jerusalem and things contrary to the name of Jesus
here, crying that he ought not to of Nazareth. 10 And this I also did
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in Jerusalem: and I both shut up tance. 21 For this cause the Jews
many of the saints in prisons, hav- seized me in the temple, and at-
ing received authority from the tempted to kill me. 22 Having
chief priests, and when they were therefore obtained the help that is
put to death I gave my vote against from God, I stand to this day testi-
them. 11 And punishing them often fying both to small and great, say-
in all the synagogues, I tried to ing nothing but what the prophets
make them to blaspheme; and be- and Moses said would come; 23
ing exceedingly mad against them, how that the Christ must suffer, and
I persecuted them even to foreign how that he first by the resurrection
cities. 12 In which as I journeyed to of the dead would proclaim light
Damascus with the authority and both to the people and to the Gen-
commission of the chief priests, 13 tiles.”
at midday, O king, I saw on the way 24 And as he thus made his de-
a light from heaven, above the fense, Festus says with a loud voice,
brightness of the sun, shining “Paul, you are mad; your great
around me and those who jour- learning is turning you mad.” 25
neyed with me. 14 And when we But Paul says, “I am not mad, most
had all fallen to the earth, I heard a excellent Festus; but speak forth
voice saying to me in the Hebrew words of truth and soberness. 26
language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you For the king knows these things, to
persecuting me? it is hard for you to whom also I speak freely: for I am
kick against the goad.’ 15 And I persuaded that none of these things
said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the is hidden from him; for this has not
Lord said, ‘I am Jesus whom you been done in a corner. 27 King
are persecuting. 16 But arise, and Agrippa, do you believe the
stand on your feet: for to this end prophets? I know that you believe.”
have I appeared to you, to appoint 28 And Agrippa said to Paul, “With
you a minister and a witness both but little persuasion you would
of the things in which you have gladly make me a Christian.” 29
seen me, and of the things in which And Paul said, “I would to God,
I will appear to you; 17 delivering that whether with little or with
you from the people, and from the much, not you only, but also all
Gentiles, to whom I send you, 18 to who hear me this day, might be-
open their eyes, that they may turn come such as I am, except these
from darkness to light and from the bonds.”
power of Satan to God, that they 30 And the king rose up, and the
may receive remission of sins and governor, and Bernice, and those
an inheritance among those who who sat with them: 31 and when
are sanctified by faith in me.’ 19 they had withdrawn, they spoke to
Therefore, O king Agrippa, I was one another, saying, “This man is
not disobedient to the heavenly vi- doing nothing worthy of death or
sion: 20 but declared both to them of bonds.” 32 And Agrippa said to
of Damascus first and in Jerusalem, Festus, “This man might have been
and throughout all the country of set free, if he had not appealed to
Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that Caesar.”
they should repent and turn to
God, doing works worthy of repen- 27
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mined that we should sail
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for Italy, they delivered Paul and looking northeast and southeast. 13
some other prisoners to a centurion And when the south wind blew
named Julius, of the Augustan Co- softly, supposing that they had ob-
hort. 2 And embarking in a ship of tained their purpose, they weighed
Adramyttium, which was about to anchor and sailed along Crete, close
sail to the places on the coast of inshore. 14 But after no long time
Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a there beat down from it a tempestu-
Macedonian of Thessalonica, being ous wind, which is called Eu-
with us. 3 And the next day we raquilo: 15 and when the ship was
touched at Sidon: and Julius treated caught, and could not face the
Paul kindly, and gave him permis- wind, we gave way to it, and were
sion to go to his friends and refresh driven. 16 And running under the
himself. 4 And putting to sea from lee of a small island called Cauda,
there, we sailed under the lee of we were able, with difficulty, to se-
Cyprus, because the winds were cure the boat: 17 and when they
contrary. 5 And when we had sailed had hoisted it up, they used helps,
across the sea which is off Cilicia undergirding the ship; and, fearing
and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a lest they should be cast upon the
city of Lycia. 6 And there the centu- Syrtis, they lowered the gear, and
rion found a ship of Alexandria so were driven. 18 And as we la-
sailing for Italy; and he put us in it. bored exceedingly with the storm,
7 And when we had sailed slowly the next day they began to throw
many days, and had come with the freight overboard; 19 and the
difficulty adjacent to Cnidus, the third day they cast out with their
wind not further allowing us, we own hands the tackling of the ship.
sailed under the lee of Crete, adja- 20 And when neither sun nor stars
cent to Salmone; 8 and with diffi- shone upon us for many days, and
culty coasting along it we came to a no small tempest lay on us, all hope
certain place called Fair Havens; that we should be saved was now
near which was the city of Lasea. taken away. 21 And when they had
9 And when much time was been long without food, then Paul
spent, and the voyage was now stood forth in the midst of them,
dangerous, because the Fast was and said, “Sirs, you should have lis-
now already over, Paul admon- tened to me, and not have set sail
ished them, 10 and said to them, from Crete, and gained this injury
“Sirs, I perceive that the voyage and loss. 22 And now I exhort you
will be with injury and much loss, to be of good cheer; for there will be
not only of the cargo and the ship, no loss of life among you, but only
but also of our lives.” 11 But the of the ship. 23 For there stood by
centurion gave more heed to the me this night an angel of the God
master and to the owner of the ship, whose I am, whom also I serve, 24
than to those things which were saying, ‘Do not fear, Paul; you must
spoken by Paul. 12 And because the stand before Caesar: and behold,
harbor was not convenient to win- God has granted you all those who
ter in, the majority advised to put to sail with you.’ 25 Therefore, sirs, be
sea from there, if by any means they of good cheer: for I believe God,
could reach Phoenix, and winter that it will be even so as it has been
there; which is a harbor of Crete, spoken to me. 26 But we must be
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cast upon a certain island.” upon it. 40 And casting off the an-
27 But when the fourteenth night chors, they left them in the sea, at
had come, as we were driven to and the same time loosing the ropes of
fro in the Adriac Sea, about mid- the rudders; and hoisting up the
night the sailors surmised that they foresail to the wind, they made for
were drawing near to some coun- the beach. 41 But coming upon a
try: 28 and they sounded, and place where two seas met, they ran
found twenty fathoms; and after a the vessel aground; and the bow
little space, they sounded again, struck and remained unmovable,
and found fifteen fathoms. 29 And but the stern began to break up by
fearing lest perhaps we should be the violence of the waves. 42 And the
cast ashore on rocky ground, they soldiers’ counsel was to kill the
let go four anchors from the stern, prisoners, lest any of them should
and wished for the day. 30 And as swim out, and escape. 43 But the
the sailors were seeking to flee out centurion, desiring to save Paul,
of the ship, and had lowered the hindered them from their purpose;
boat into the sea, under pretense and commanded that those who
they would lay out anchors from could swim should cast themselves
the bow, 31 Paul said to the centu- overboard, and get first to the land;
rion and to the soldiers, “Except 44 and the rest, some on planks,
these stay in the ship, you cannot be and some on other things from the
saved.” 32 Then the soldiers cut ship. And so it came to pass, that
away the ropes of the boat, and let they all escaped safely to the land.
her fall off. 33 And while the day
was coming on, Paul beseeched 28 And when we had es-
caped, then we knew that
them all to take some food, saying, the island was called Malta. 2 And
“This day is the fourteenth day that the barbarians showed us no com-
you wait and continue fasting, hav- mon kindness: for they kindled a
ing taken nothing. 34 Therefore I fire, and received us all, because of
beseech you to take some food: for the present rain, and because of the
this is for your safety: for there will cold. 3 But when Paul had gathered
not a hair perish from the head of a bundle of sticks and laid them on
any of you.” 35 And when he had the fire, a viper came out by reason
said this, and had taken bread, he of the heat, and fastened on his
gave thanks to God in the presence hand. 4 And when the barbarians
of all; and he broke it, and began to saw the venomous creature hanging
eat. 36 Then were they all of good from his hand, they said to one an-
cheer, and themselves also took other, “No doubt this man is a mur-
food. 37 And we were in all in the derer, whom, though he has es-
ship two hundred and seventy-six caped from the sea, yet Justice has
souls. 38 And when they had eaten not allowed to live.” 5 However he
enough, they lightened the ship, shook off the creature into the fire,
throwing out the wheat into the and suffered no harm. 6 But they
sea. 39 And when it was day, they expected that he would have
did not know the land: but they swollen, or fallen down dead sud-
perceived a certain bay with a denly: but when they were long in
beach, and they took counsel expectation and beheld nothing
whether they could drive the ship amiss came to him, they changed
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their minds, and said that he was a
god.
7 Now in the region around that
place were lands belonging to the
chief man of the island, named
Publius, who received us, and en-
tertained us three days courteously.
8 And it was so, that the father of
Publius lay sick of fever and dysen-
tery: to whom Paul entered in, and
prayed, and laying his hands on
him healed him. 9 And when this
was done, the rest also who had
diseases on the island came, and
were cured: 10 who also honored us
with many honors; and when we
sailed, they put on board such
things as we needed.
11 And after three months we set
sail in a ship of Alexandria which
had wintered on the island, whose
figurehead was The Twin Brothers.
12 And touching at Syracuse, we
stayed there three days. 13 And
from there we circled around, and
arrived at Rhegium: and after one
day a south wind sprang up, and
on the second day we came to Pute-
oli; 14 where we found brethren,
and were entreated to stay with
them seven days: and so we came
to Rome. 15 And from there the
brethren, when they heard of us,
came to meet us as far as The Mar-
ket of Appius and The Three Tav-
erns; whom when Paul saw, he
thanked God, and took courage.
16 And when we entered into
Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by
himself with the soldier who
guarded him.
17 And it came to pass, that after
three days he called together those
who were the chief of the Jews: and
when they had come together, he
²² Some ancient authorities insert verse 29 And when he had said these words, the Jews
departed, having a great dispute among themselves.
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said to them, “I, brethren, though I
had done nothing against the peo-
ple, or the customs of our fathers,
yet was delivered prisoner from
Jerusalem into the hands of the Ro-
mans: 18 who, when they had ex-
amined me, desired to set me free,
because there was no cause of death
in me.
19 But when the Jews spoke
against it, I was constrained to ap-
peal to Caesar; not that I had any-
thing of which to accuse my nation.
20 For this cause therefore did I en-
treat you to see and to speak with
me: for because of the hope of Israel
I am bound with this chain.” 21
And they said to him, “We neither
received letters from Judea con-
cerning you, nor did any of the
brethren come here and report or
speak any harm of you. 22 But we
desire to hear from you what you
think: for as concerning this sect, it
is known to us that everywhere it is
spoken against.”
23 And when they had appointed
him a day, they came to him into his
lodging in great number; to whom
he expounded the matter, testifying
the kingdom of God, and persuad-
ing them concerning Jesus, both
from the law of Moses and from the
prophets, from morning until
evening. 24 And some believed the
things which were spoken, and
some disbelieved. 25 And when
they did not agree among them-
selves, they departed after Paul had
spoken one word, “Well spoke the
Holy Spirit through Isaiah the
prophet to your fathers, 26 saying,
‘Go to this people, and say,
“By hearing you will hear, and
shall in no way understand;
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And seeing you will see, and
shall in no
way perceive:
27 For this people’s heart has be-
come dull,
And their ears are dull of
hearing,
And their eyes they have
closed;
Lest, perhaps they should
perceive with their eyes,
And hear with their ears,
And understand with their
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heart,
And should turn again,
And I should heal them.” ’
28 Be it known therefore to you,
that this salvation of God is sent to
the Gentiles: they will also hear.”22
30 And he stayed two whole years
in his own rented dwelling, and re-
ceived all who went in to him, 31
preaching the kingdom of God, and
teaching the things concerning the
Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness,
no one forbidding him.
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R O MAN S

1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,

rant, brethren, that often I pur-
called to be an apostle, separated
to the gospel of God, 2 which he
posed to come to you (and was hin-
dered until now), that I might have
promised before through his some fruit in you also, even as in
prophets in the holy Scriptures, 3 the rest of the Gentiles. 14 I am
concerning his Son, who was born debtor both to Greeks and to Bar-
of the seed of David according to barians, both to the wise and to the
the flesh, 4 who was declared to be foolish. 15 So, as much as is in me, I
the Son of God with power, accord- am ready to preach the gospel to
ing to the spirit of holiness, by theyou also who are in Rome.
resurrection from the dead; even Je- 16 For I am not ashamed of the
sus Christ our Lord, 5 through gospel: for it is the power of God to
whom we received grace and apos- salvation to every one who be-
tleship, to obedience of faith among lieves; to the Jew first, and also to
all the nations, for his name’s sake;the Greek. 17 For in it is revealed a
6 among whom are you also, called righteousness of God from faith to
to be Jesus Christ’s: 7 to all who are
faith: as it is written, “But the right-
in Rome, beloved of God, called to eous shall live by faith.”
be saints: Grace to you and peace 18 For the wrath of God is re-
from God our Father and the Lord vealed from heaven against all un-
Jesus Christ. godliness and unrighteousness of
men, who hinder the truth in un-
8 First, I thank my God through righteousness; 19 because that
Jesus Christ for you all, that your which is known of God is evident
faith is proclaimed throughout the in them; for God made it known to
whole world. 9 For God is my wit- them. 20 For the invisible things of
ness, whom I serve in my spirit in him since the creation of the world
the gospel of his Son, how unceas- are clearly seen, being perceived
ingly I make mention of you, al- through the things that are made,
ways in my prayers 10 making even his everlasting power and di-
request, if by any means now at vinity; that they may be without ex-
length I may be prospered by the cuse: 21 because that, knowing
will of God to come to you. 11 For I God, they did not glorify him as
long to see you, that I may impart God, neither gave thanks; but be-
to you some spiritual gift, to the came vain in their reasonings, and
end you may be established; 12 that their senseless heart was darkened.
is, that I with you may be com- 22 Professing themselves to be
forted in you, each of us by the wise, they became fools, 23 and
other’s faith, both yours and mine. changed the glory of the incorrupt-
13 And I would not have you igno- ible God for the likeness of an im-
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age of corruptible man, and of the judgment of God is according to
birds, and four-footed beasts, and truth against those who practice
creeping things. such things. 3 And do you reckon
24 Therefore God gave them up in this, O man, who judge those who
the lusts of their hearts to unclean- practice such things, and do the
ness, that their bodies should be same, that you will escape the judg-
dishonored among themselves: 25 ment of God? 4 Or do you despise
because they exchanged the truth the riches of his goodness and for-
of God for a lie, and worshipped bearance and long-suffering, not
and served the creature rather than knowing that the goodness of God
the Creator, who is blessed for ever. leads you to repentance? 5 but in
Amen. accordance with your hardness and
26 For this cause God gave them impenitent heart treasure up for
up to vile passions: for their women yourself wrath in the day of wrath
changed the natural use into that and revelation of the righteous
which is against nature: 27 and like- judgment of God; 6 who will render
wise also the men, leaving the natu- to every man according to his
ral use of the woman, burned in works: 7 to those who by patience
their lust toward one another, men in well-doing seek for glory and
with men working unseemliness, honor and incorruption, eternal
and receiving in themselves that life: 8 but to those who are factious,
recompense of their error which and do not obey the truth, but obey
was due. unrighteousness, shall be wrath and
28 And even as they refused to indignation, 9 tribulation and an-
have God in their knowledge, God guish, upon every soul of man who
gave them up to a reprobate mind, works evil, of the Jew first, and also
to do those things which are not fit- of the Greek; 10 but glory and
ting; 29 being filled with all unrigh- honor and peace to every man who
teousness, wickedness, covetous- works good, to the Jew first, and
ness, maliciousness; full of envy, also to the Greek: 11 for there is no
murder, strife, deceit, malignity; respect of persons with God. 12 For
whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful as many as have sinned without
to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, law will also perish without the
inventors of evil things, disobedi- law: and as many as have sinned
ent to parents, 31 without under- under the law will be judged by the
standing, covenant-breakers, with- law; 13 for not the hearers of the
out natural affection, unmerciful: law are just before God, but the do-
32 who, knowing the ordinance of ers of the law will be justified: 14
God, that those who practice such (for when Gentiles who do not have
things are worthy of death, not only the law do by nature the things of
do the same, but also consent with the law, these, not having the law,
those who practice them. are the law to themselves; 15 in that

2 Therefore you are without ex- they show the work of the law writ-
cuse, O man, whosoever you ten in their hearts, their conscience
are who judge: for in what you bearing witness with it, and their
judge another, you condemn your- thoughts with one another accusing
self; for you who judge practice the or else excusing them); 16 in the day
same things. 2 And we know that when God will judge the secrets of
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men, according to my gospel, by Je- of all, that they were entrusted with
sus Christ. the oracles of God. 3 For what if
17 But if you bear the name of a some were without faith? will their
Jew, and rest upon the law, and want of faith make of no effect the
glory in God, 18 and know his will, faithfulness of God? 4 God forbid:
and approve the things that are ex- yes, let God be found true, but ev-
cellent, being instructed out of the ery man a liar; as it is written,
law, 19 and are confident that you “That you might be justified in
yourself are a guide of the blind, a your words,
light of those who are in darkness, And might prevail when you
20 a corrector of the foolish, a come into judgment.”
teacher of babes, having in the law 5 But if our unrighteousness com-
the form of knowledge and of the mends the righteousness of God,
truth; 21 you therefore who teach what shall we say? Is God unrigh-
another, do you not teach yourself? teous who visits with wrath? (I
you who preach a man should not speak according to the manner of
steal, do you steal? 22 you who say men.) 6 God forbid: for then how
a man should not commit adultery, will God judge the world? 7 But if
do you commit adultery? you who the truth of God through my lie
abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 abounded to his glory, why am I
you who glory in the law, through also still judged as a sinner? 8 and
your transgression of the law do why not (as we are slanderously re-
you dishonor God? 24 For the name ported, and as some affirm that we
of God is blasphemed among the say), “Let us do evil, that good may
Gentiles because of you, even as it come?” whose condemnation is
is written. 25 For circumcision in- just.
deed profits, if you are a doer of the 9 What then? are we better than
law: but if you are a transgressor of they? No, in no way: for we before
the law, your circumcision is be- laid to the charge both of Jews and
come uncircumcision. 26 If there- Greeks, that they are all under sin;
fore the uncircumcision keep the 10 as it is written,
ordinances of the law, will not his “There is none righteous, no,
uncircumcision be reckoned for cir- not one;
cumcision? 27 and will not the un- 11 There is none who understands,
circumcision which is by nature, if There is none who seeks after
it fulfills the law, judge you, who God;
with the letter and circumcision are 12 They have all turned aside, they
a transgressor of the law? 28 For he have together become un-
is not a Jew who is one outwardly; profitable;
neither is that circumcision which There is none who does good,
is outward in the flesh: 29 but he is no, not so much as one:
a Jew who is one inwardly; and cir- 13 Their throat is an open sepul-
cumcision is that of the heart, in the cher;
spirit not in the letter; whose praise With their tongues they have
is not of men, but of God. used deceit:

3 What advantage then has the

Jew? or what is the profit of cir-
The poison of asps is under
their lips:
cumcision? 2 Much every way: first 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing
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and bitterness: the circumcision by faith, and the
15 Their feet are swift to shed uncircumcision through faith.
blood; 31 Do we then make the law of no
16 Destruction and misery are in effect through faith? God forbid:
their ways; no, we establish the law.
17 And the way of peace they have
not known: 4 What then shall we say that
Abraham, our forefather, has
18 There is no fear of God before found according to the flesh? 2 For
their eyes.” if Abraham was justified by works,
19 Now we know that whatsoever he has something to glory about;
things the law says, it speaks to but not toward God. 3 For what
those who are under the law; that says the Scripture? “And Abraham
every mouth may be stopped, and believed God, and it was reckoned
all the world may be brought under unto him for righteousness.” 4
the judgment of God: 20 because by Now to him who works, the reward
the works of the law will no flesh be is not reckoned as of grace, but as of
justified in his sight; for through the debt. 5 But to him who does not
law comes the knowledge of sin. work, but believes on him who jus-
21 But now apart from the law a tifies the ungodly, his faith is reck-
righteousness of God has been oned for righteousness. 6 Even as
made known, being witnessed by David also pronounced blessing
the law and the prophets; 22 even upon the man, to whom God reck-
the righteousness of God through ons righteousness apart from
faith in Jesus Christ to all those who works, 7 saying,
believe; for there is no distinction; “Blessed are they whose iniqui-
23 for all have sinned, and fall short ties are forgiven,
of the glory of God; 24 being justi- And whose sins are covered.
fied freely by his grace through the 8 Blessed is the man to whom the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Lord will not reckon sin.”
25 whom God set forth to be a pro- 9 Is this blessing then pronounced
pitiation, through faith, in his upon the circumcision, or upon the
blood, to show his righteousness uncircumcision also? for we say,
because of the passing over of the “To Abraham his faith was reck-
sins done before, in the forbearance oned for righteousness.” 10 How
of God; 26 for the showing, I say, of then was it reckoned? when he was
his righteousness at this present in circumcision, or in uncircumci-
time: that he might himself be just, sion? Not in circumcision, but in
and the justifier of him who has uncircumcision: 11 and he received
faith in Jesus. 27 Where then is the the sign of circumcision, a seal of
glorying? It is excluded. By what the righteousness of the faith which
manner of law? of works? No: but he had while he was in uncircumci-
by a law of faith. 28 We reckon sion: that he might be the father of
therefore that a man is justified by all those who believe, though they
faith apart from the works of the be in uncircumcision, that right-
law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews eousness might be reckoned to
only? is he not the God of Gentiles them; 12 and the father of circumci-
also? Yes, of Gentiles also: 30 if in- sion to those who not only are of
deed God is one, and he will justify the circumcision, but who also walk
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in the steps of that faith of our fa- our trespasses, and was raised for
ther Abraham which he had in un- our justification.
circumcision. 13 For not through
the law was the promise to Abra- 5 Being therefore justified by
faith, we have peace with God
ham or to his seed that he should be through our Lord Jesus Christ; 2
heir of the world, but through the through whom also we have had
righteousness of faith. 14 For if our access by faith into this grace in
those who are of the law are heirs, which we stand; and we rejoice in
faith is made void, and the promise hope of the glory of God. 3 And not
is made of no effect: 15 for the law only so, but we also rejoice in our
works wrath; but where there is no tribulations: knowing that tribula-
law, neither is there transgression. tion works steadfastness; 4 and
16 For this cause it is of faith, that it steadfastness, approvedness; and
may be according to grace; to the approvedness, hope: 5 and hope
end that the promise may be sure to does not put to shame; because the
all the seed; not to that only which love of God has been shed abroad
is of the law, but to that also which in our hearts through the Holy
is of the faith of Abraham, who is Spirit which was given to us. 6 For
the father of us all 17 (as it is writ- while we were still weak, in due
ten, “A father of many nations have time Christ died for the ungodly. 7
I made you”) before him whom he For scarcely for a righteous man
believed, even God, who gives life will one die: for perhaps for the
to the dead, and calls the things that good man someone would even
are not, as though they were. 18 dare to die. 8 But God commends
Who in hope believed against hope, his own love toward us, in that,
to the end that he might become a while we were still sinners, Christ
father of many nations, according died for us. 9 Much more then, be-
to that which had been spoken, “So ing now justified by his blood, we
shall your seed be.” 19 And without shall be saved from the wrath of
being weakened in faith he consid- God through him. 10 For if, while
ered his own body now as good as we were enemies, we were recon-
dead (he being about a hundred ciled to God through the death of
years old), and the deadness of his Son, much more, being recon-
Sarah’s womb; 20 yet, looking to ciled, we shall be saved by his life;
the promise of God, he did not wa- 11 and not only so, but we also re-
ver through unbelief, but became joice in God through our Lord Jesus
strong through faith, giving glory Christ, through whom we have
to God, 21 and being fully assured now received the reconciliation.
that what he had promised, he was 12 Therefore, as through one man
able also to perform. 22 Therefore sin entered into the world, and
also it was reckoned to him for death through sin; and so death
righteousness. 23 Now it was not passed to all men, because all
written for his sake alone, that it sinned: — 13 for until the law sin
was reckoned to him; 24 but for our was in the world; but sin is not im-
sake also, to whom it shall be reck- puted when there is no law. 14 Nev-
oned, who believe on him who ertheless death reigned from Adam
raised Jesus our Lord from the until Moses, even over those who
dead, 25 who was delivered up for had not sinned according to the
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likeness of Adam’s transgression, newness of life. 5 For if we have be-
who is a figure of him who was to come united with him in the like-
come. 15 But not as the trespass, so ness of his death, we shall be also in
also is the free gift. For if by the the likeness of his resurrection; 6
trespass of the one the many died, knowing this, that our old man was
much more did the grace of God, crucified with him, that the body of
and the gift by the grace of the one sin might be done away, that so we
man, Jesus Christ, abound to the should no longer be in bondage to
many. 16 And not as through one sin; 7 for he who has died is justi-
who sinned, so is the gift: for the fied from sin. 8 But if we died with
judgment came from one unto con- Christ, we believe that we shall also
demnation, but the free gift came live with him; 9 knowing that
from many trespasses unto justifi- Christ being raised from the dead
cation. 17 For if, by the trespass of dies no more; death no more has
the one, death reigned through the dominion over him. 10 For the
one; much more will those who re- death that he died, he died to sin
ceive the abundance of grace and of once: but the life that he lives, he
the gift of righteousness reign in life lives to God. 11 Even so reckon you
through the one, even Jesus Christ. also yourselves to be dead to sin,
18 So then as through one trespass but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
the judgment came to all men to con- 12 Do not let sin therefore reign in
demnation; even so through one act your mortal body, that you should
of righteousness the free gift came to obey the lusts of it: 13 neither
all men to justification of life. 19 For present your members to sin as in-
as through the one man’s disobedi- struments of unrighteousness; but
ence the many were made sinners, present yourselves to God, as alive
even so through the obedience of from the dead, and your members
the one will the many be made as instruments of righteousness to
righteous. 20 And the law came in God. 14 For sin shall not have do-
besides, that the trespass might minion over you: for you are not
abound; but where sin abounded, under law, but under grace.
grace abounded more exceedingly: 15 What then? shall we sin, be-
21 that, as sin reigned in death, cause we are not under law, but un-
even so might grace reign through der grace? God forbid. 16 Do you
righteousness to eternal life not know, that to whom you
through Jesus Christ our Lord. present yourselves as servants to

6 What shall we say then? Shall obedience, his servants you are
we continue in sin, that grace whom you obey; whether of sin to
may abound? 2 God forbid. We death, or of obedience to righteous-
who died to sin, how shall we any ness? 17 But thanks be to God, that,
longer live in it? 3 Or are you igno- whereas you were servants of sin,
rant that all we who were baptized you became obedient from the
into Christ Jesus were baptized into heart to that form of teaching to
his death? 4 We were buried there- which you were delivered; 18 and
fore with him through baptism into being made free from sin, you be-
death: that like as Christ was raised came servants of righteousness. 19
from the dead through the glory of I speak according to the manner of
the Father, so we also might walk in men because of the infirmity of
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your flesh: for as you presented of the letter.
your members as servants to un- 7 What shall we say then? Is the
cleanness and to iniquity unto iniq- law sin? God forbid. On the other
uity, even so now present your hand, I had not known sin, except
members as servants to righteous- through the law: for I had not
ness unto sanctification. 20 For known coveting, except the law
when you were servants of sin, you had said, “you shall not covet”: 8
were free in regard to righteous- but sin, finding occasion, worked in
ness. 21 What fruit did you then me through the commandment all
have at that time in the things of manner of coveting: for apart from
which you are now ashamed? for the law sin is dead. 9 And I was
the end of those things is death. 22 alive apart from the law once: but
But now being made free from sin when the commandment came, sin
and having become servants to revived, and I died; 10 and the com-
God, you have your fruit unto sanc- mandment, which was to life, this I
tification, and the end eternal life. found to be to death: 11 for sin, find-
23 For the wages of sin is death; but ing occasion, through the com-
the free gift of God is eternal life in mandment deceived me, and
Christ Jesus our Lord. through it slew me. 12 So that the

7 Or are you ignorant, brethren law is holy, and the commandment

(for I speak to men who know holy, and righteous, and good. 13
the law), that the law has dominion Did then that which is good be-
over a man for as long as he lives? 2 come death to me? God forbid. But
For the woman who has a husband sin, that it might be shown to be sin,
is bound by law to the husband by working death to me through
while he lives; but if the husband that which is good; — that through
dies, she is discharged from the law the commandment sin might be-
of the husband. 3 So then if, while come exceedingly sinful. 14 For we
the husband lives, she be joined to know that the law is spiritual: but I
another man, she will be called an am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For
adulteress: but if the husband dies, that which I do I do not know: for
she is free from the law, so that she not what I would, that do I practice;
is no adulteress, though she be but what I hate, that I do. 16 But if
joined to another man. 4 Therefore, what I would not, that I do, I con-
my brethren, you also were made sent to the law that it is good. 17 So
dead to the law through the body of now it is no more I that do it, but sin
Christ; that you should be joined to which dwells in me. 18 For I know
another, even to him who was that in me, that is, in my flesh,
raised from the dead, that we might dwells no good thing: for to will is
bring forth fruit to God. 5 For when present with me, but to do that
we were in the flesh, the sinful pas- which is good is not. 19 For the
sions, which were through the law, good which I would I do not do:
worked in our members to bring but the evil which I would not, that
forth fruit to death. 6 But now we I practice. 20 But if what I would
have been discharged from the law, not, that I do, it is no more I that do
having died to that in which we it, but sin which dwells in me. 21 I
were held; so that we serve in new- find then the law, that, to me who
ness of the spirit, and not in oldness would do good, evil is present. 22
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For I delight in the law of God after dead will give life also to your mor-
the inward man: 23 but I see a tal bodies through his Spirit who
different law in my members, war- dwells in you.
ring against the law of my mind, 12 So then, brethren, we are
and bringing me into captivity un- debtors, not to the flesh, to live ac-
der the law of sin which is in my cording to the flesh: 13 for if you
members. 24 Wretched man that I live according to the flesh, you
am! who will deliver me out of the must die; but if by the Spirit you
body of this death? 25 I thank God put to death the deeds of the body,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. So you shall live. 14 For as many as are
then I of myself with the mind, in- led by the Spirit of God, these are
deed, serve the law of God; but sons of God. 15 For you did not re-
with the flesh the law of sin. ceive the spirit of bondage again to

8 There is therefore now no con- fear; but you received the spirit of
demnation to those who are in adoption, by which we cry, “Abba,
Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Father.” 16 The Spirit himself bears
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made witness with our spirit, that we are
me free from the law of sin and of children of God: 17 and if children,
death. 3 For what the law could not then heirs; heirs of God, and joint
do, in that it was weak through the heirs with Christ; if indeed we
flesh, God, sending his own Son in suffer with him, that we may be also
the likeness of sinful flesh and for glorified with him.
sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 18 For I reckon that the sufferings
that the ordinance of the law might of this present time are not worthy
be fulfilled in us, who walk not af- to be compared with the glory
ter the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 which shall be revealed toward us.
For those who are according to the 19 For the earnest expectation of the
flesh mind the things of the flesh; creation waits for the revealing of
but those who are according to the the sons of God. 20 For the creation
Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For was subjected to vanity, not of its
the mind of the flesh is death; but own will, but by reason of him who
the mind of the Spirit is life and subjected it, in hope 21 that the cre-
peace: 7 because the mind of the ation itself also will be delivered
flesh is enmity against God; for it is from the bondage of corruption
not subject to the law of God, nei- into the liberty of the glory of the
ther indeed can it be: 8 and those children of God. 22 For we know
who are in the flesh cannot please that the whole creation groans and
God. 9 But you are not in the flesh labors in pain together until now.
but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit 23 And not only so, but ourselves
of God dwells in you. But if any also, who have the first fruits of the
man does not have the Spirit of Spirit, even we ourselves groan
Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if within ourselves, waiting for our
Christ is in you, the body is dead adoption, that is to say, the redemp-
because of sin; but the spirit is life tion of our body. 24 For in hope
because of righteousness. 11 But if were we saved: but hope that is
the Spirit of him who raised up Je- seen is not hope: for who hopes for
sus from the dead dwells in you, he that which he sees? 25 But if we
who raised up Christ Jesus from the hope for that which we do not see,
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then do we with patience wait for it. more than conquerors through him
26 And in like manner the Spirit who loved us. 38 For I am per-
also helps our infirmity: for we do suaded, that neither death, nor life,
not know how to pray as we ought; nor angels, nor principalities, nor
but the Spirit himself makes inter- things present, nor things to come,
cession for us with groanings nor powers, 39 nor height, nor
which cannot be uttered; 27 and he depth, nor any other creature, shall
who searches the hearts knows be able to separate us from the love
what is the mind of the Spirit, be- of God, which is in Christ Jesus our
cause he makes intercession for the Lord.
saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that to those who 9 I say the truth in Christ, I do
not lie, my conscience bearing
love God all things work together witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
for good, even to those who are 2 that I have great sorrow and un-
called according to his purpose. 29 ceasing pain in my heart. 3 For I
For whom he foreknew, he also wish that I myself were accursed
foreordained to be conformed to the from Christ for my brethren’s sake,
image of his Son, that he might be my kinsmen according to the flesh:
the firstborn among many brethren: 4 who are Israelites; whose is the
30 and whom he foreordained, adoption, and the glory, and the
those he also called: and whom he covenants, and the giving of the
called, those he also justified: and law, and the service of God, and the
whom he justified, those he also promises; 5 whose are the fathers,
glorified. and of whom is Christ as concern-
31 What then shall we say to these ing the flesh, who is over all, God
things? If God is for us, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
against us? 32 He who did not 6 But it is not as though the word
spare his own Son, but delivered of God has come to nothing. For
him up for us all, how shall he not they are not all Israel, who are of Is-
also with him freely give us all rael: 7 neither, because they are
things? 33 Who shall lay anything Abraham’s seed, are they all chil-
to the charge of God’s elect? It is dren: but, “In Isaac shall your seed
God who justifies; 34 who is he who be called.” 8 That is, it is not the
condemns? It is Christ Jesus who children of the flesh who are chil-
died, yes rather, who was raised dren of God; but the children of the
from the dead, who is at the right promise are reckoned for a seed. 9
hand of God, who also makes inter- For this is a word of promise, “Ac-
cession for us. 35 Who shall sepa- cording to this time I will come, and
rate us from the love of Christ? Sarah shall have a son.” 10 And not
shall tribulation, or anguish, or per- only so; but Rebecca also having
secution, or famine, or nakedness, conceived by one, even by our fa-
or peril, or sword? 36 Even as it is ther Isaac — 11 for the children being
written, not yet born, neither having done
“For your sake we are killed all anything good or bad, that the pur-
the day long; pose of God according to election
We were accounted as sheep for might stand, not of works, but of
the slaughter.” him who calls, 12 it was said to her,
37 No, in all these things we are “The elder shall serve the younger.”
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13 Even as it is written, “Jacob I of the living God.”
loved, but Esau I hated.” 27 And Isaiah cries concerning Is-
14 What shall we say then? Is rael, “If the number of the children
there unrighteousness with God? of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it
God forbid. 15 For he says to is the remnant who will be saved:
Moses, “I will have mercy on 28 for the Lord will execute his
whom I have mercy, and I will have word upon the earth, finishing it
compassion on whom I have com- and cutting it short.” 29 And, as Isa-
passion.” 16 So then it is not of him iah has said before,
who wills, nor of him who runs, but “Unless the Lord of Sabaoth
of God who has mercy. 17 For the had left us a seed,
Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this We would have become as
very purpose did I raise you up, Sodom, and had been made
that I might show in you my power, like Gomorrah.”
and that my name might be pub- 30 What shall we say then? That
lished abroad in all the earth.” 18 So the Gentiles, who did not follow af-
then he has mercy on whom he ter righteousness, attained to right-
will, and whom he will he hardens. eousness, even the righteousness
19 You will say then to me, “Why which is of faith: 31 but Israel, fol-
does he still find fault? For who lowing after a law of righteousness,
withstands his will?” 20 No but, O did not arrive at that law. 32 Why?
man, who are you who replies Because they sought it not by faith,
against God? Will the thing formed but as it were by works. They stum-
say to him who formed it, “Why bled at the stone of stumbling; 33
did you make me thus?” 21 Or has even as it is written,
not the potter a right over the clay, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of
from the same lump to make one stumbling and a rock of
part a vessel to honor, and another offense:
to dishonor? 22 What if God, will- And he who believes on him
ing to show his wrath, and to make will not be put to shame.”
his power known, endured with
much long-suffering vessels of 10 Brethren, my heart’s desire
and my supplication to God
wrath fitted to destruction: 23 and is for them, that they may be saved.
that he might make known the 2 For I bear them witness that they
riches of his glory upon vessels of have a zeal for God, but not accord-
mercy, which he prepared before ing to knowledge. 3 For being igno-
unto glory, 24 even us, whom he rant of God’s righteousness, and
also called, not from the Jews only, seeking to establish their own, they
but also from the Gentiles? 25 As he did not subject themselves to the
says also in Hosea, righteousness of God. 4 For Christ
“I will call those my people, is the end of the law unto right-
who were not my people; eousness to every one who be-
And her beloved, who were not lieves. 5 For Moses writes that the
beloved. man who does the righteousness
26 And it shall be, that in the place which is of the law shall live by it. 6
where it was said to them, But the righteousness which is of
‘You are not my people,’ faith says thus, “Do not say in your
There shall they be called sons heart, ‘Who will ascend into
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heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ With a nation void of
down:) 7 or, ‘Who will descend into understanding will I anger
the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ you.”
up from the dead.)” 8 But what 20 And Isaiah is very bold, and
does it say? “The word is near you, says,
in your mouth, and in your heart”: “I was found by those who did
that is, the word of faith, which we not seek me;
preach: 9 because if you shall con- I became known to those who
fess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, did not ask of me.”
and shall believe in your heart that 21 But as to Israel he says, “All the
God raised him from the dead, you day long did I spread out my hands
will be saved: 10 for with the heart to a disobedient and contrary peo-
man believes unto righteousness; ple.”
and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation. 11 For the 11 I say then, Did God cast off
his people? God forbid. For I
Scripture says, “Whosoever be- also am an Israelite, of the seed of
lieves on him will not be put to Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
shame.” 12 For there is no distinc- 2 God did not cast off his people
tion between Jew and Greek: for the which he foreknew. Or do you not
same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich know what the Scripture says of
to all who call upon him: 13 for, Elijah? how he pleads with God
“Whosoever shall call upon the against Israel: 3 “Lord, they have
name of the Lord shall be saved.” killed your prophets, they have
14 How then shall they call on him dug down your altars; and I am left
in whom they have not believed? alone, and they seek my life.” 4 But
and how shall they believe in him what says the answer of God to
whom they have not heard? and him? “I have left for myself seven
how shall they hear without a thousand men, who have not
preacher? 15 and how shall they bowed the knee to Baal.” 5 Even so
preach, except they be sent? even as then at this present time also there
it is written, “How beautiful are the is a remnant according to the elec-
feet of those who bring glad tidings tion of grace. 6 But if it is by grace,
of good things!” it is no more of works: otherwise
16 But they did not all listen to the grace is no more grace. 7 What
glad tidings. For Isaiah says, “Lord, then? That which Israel seeks for,
who has believed our report?” 17 that he did not obtain; but the elec-
So belief comes from hearing, and tion obtained it, and the rest were
hearing by the word of Christ. 18 hardened: 8 according as it is writ-
But I say, “Did they not hear?” Yes, ten, “God gave them a spirit of stu-
truly, por, eyes that they should not see,
“Their sound went out into all and ears that they should not hear,
the earth, unto this very day.” 9 And David
And their words to the ends of says,
the world.” “Let their table be made a
19 But I say, “Did Israel not know?” snare, and a trap,
First Moses says, And a stumbling block, and a
“I will provoke you to jealousy recompense to them:
with that which is no nation, 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that
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they may not see, by nature a wild olive tree, and
And bow down their back were grafted contrary to nature into
always.” a good olive tree; how much more
11 I say then, did they stumble will these, which are the natural
that they might fall? God forbid: branches, be grafted into their own
but by their fall salvation is come to olive tree?
the Gentiles, to provoke them to 25 For I would not, brethren, have
jealousy. 12 Now if their fall is the you ignorant of this mystery, lest
riches of the world, and their loss you be wise in your own conceits,
the riches of the Gentiles; how that a hardening in part has be-
much more their fullness? 13 But I fallen Israel, until the fullness of the
speak to you who are Gentiles. Gentiles has come in; 26 and so all
Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Israel will be saved: even as it is
Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; 14 if written,
by any means I may provoke to “There will come out of Zion
jealousy those who are my flesh, and the Deliverer;
may save some of them. 15 For if He will turn away ungodliness
the casting away of them is the rec- from Jacob:
onciling of the world, what will the 27 And this is my covenant to
receiving of them be, but life from them,
the dead? 16 And if the first fruit is When I shall take away their
holy, so is the lump: and if the root sins.”
is holy, so are the branches. 17 But if 28 Concerning the gospel, they are
some of the branches were broken enemies for your sake: but concern-
off, and you, being a wild olive, ing the election, they are beloved
were grafted in among them, and for the fathers’ sake. 29 For the gifts
became partaker with them of the and the calling of God are not re-
root of the fatness of the olive tree; pented of. 30 For as you in time past
18 do not glory over the branches: were disobedient to God, but now
but if you glory, it is not you who have obtained mercy by their dis-
bear the root, but the root you. 19 obedience, 31 even so have these
you will say then, “Branches were also now been disobedient, that by
broken off, that I might be grafted the mercy shown to you they also
in.” 20 Well; by their unbelief they may now obtain mercy. 32 For God
were broken off, and you stand by has shut up all to disobedience, that
your faith. Do not be high-minded, he might have mercy upon all.
but fear: 21 for if God did not spare 33 O the depth of the riches both
the natural branches, neither will of the wisdom and the knowledge
he spare you. 22 Behold then the of God! how unsearchable are his
goodness and severity of God: to- judgments, and his ways past trac-
ward those who fell, severity; but ing out! 34 For who has known the
toward you, God’s goodness, if you mind of the Lord? or who has been
continue in his goodness: otherwise his counselor? 35 or who has first
you also will be cut off. 23 And they given to him, and it shall be recom-
also, if they do not continue in their pensed to him again? 36 For of him,
unbelief, will be grafted in: for God and through him, and unto him, are
is able to graft them in again. 24 For all things. To him be the glory for
if you were cut out of that which is ever. Amen.
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12 I beseech you therefore, 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice;

brethren, by the mercies of weep with those who weep. 16 Be
God, to present your bodies a living of the same mind toward one an-
sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, other. Do not set your mind on high
which is your spiritual service. 2 things, but accommodate to things
And do not be fashioned according that are lowly. Do not be wise in
to this world: but be transformed your own conceits. 17 Render to no
by the renewing of your mind, that man evil for evil. Take thought for
you may prove what is the good things honorable in the sight of all
and acceptable and perfect will of men. 18 If it is possible, as much as
God. lies in you, be at peace with all men.
3 For I say, through the grace that 19 Do not avenge yourselves,
was given me, to every man who is beloved, but give place to the wrath
among you, not to think of himself of God: for it is written, “Vengeance
more highly than he ought to think; belongs to me; I will repay,” says
but so to think as to think soberly, the Lord. 20 But if your enemy is
according as God has dealt to each hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty,
man a measure of faith. 4 For even give him to drink: for in so doing
as we have many members in one you will heap coals of fire upon his
body, and all the members do not head. 21 Do not be overcome by
have the same office: 5 so we, who evil, but overcome evil with good.
are many, are one body in Christ,
and individually members of one 13 Let every soul be in subjec-
tion to the higher powers: for
another. 6 And having gifts differ- there is no power but of God; and
ing according to the grace that was the powers that be are ordained of
given to us, whether prophecy, let God. 2 Therefore he who resists the
us prophesy according to the propor- power, withstands the ordinance of
tion of our faith; 7 or ministry, let us God: and those who withstand will
give ourselves to our ministry; or he receive to themselves judgment. 3
who teaches, to his teaching; 8 or he For rulers are not a terror to the
who exhorts, to his exhorting: he good work, but to the evil. And
who gives, let him do it with liberal- would you have no fear of the
ity; he who rules, with diligence; he power? do that which is good, and
who shows mercy, with cheerful- you will have praise from the same:
ness. 4 for he is a minister of God to you
9 Let love be without hypocrisy. for good. But if you do that which is
Abhor that which is evil; cleave to evil, be afraid; for he does not bear
that which is good. 10 In love of the the sword in vain: for he is a minis-
brethren be tenderly affectioned to ter of God, an avenger for wrath to
one another; in honor preferring him who does evil. 5 Therefore you
one another; 11 in diligence not must be in subjection, not only be-
slothful; fervent in spirit; serving cause of the wrath, but also for con-
the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope; pa- science’ sake. 6 For this cause you
tient in tribulation; continuing pay tribute also; for they are minis-
steadfastly in prayer; 13 sharing in ters of God’s service, attending con-
the necessities of the saints; given to tinually upon this very thing. 7
hospitality. 14 Bless those who per- Render to all their dues: tribute to
secute you; bless, and do not curse. whom tribute is due; custom to
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whom custom; fear to whom fear; the day, regards it to the Lord: and
honor to whom honor. he who eats, eats to the Lord, for he
8 Owe no man anything, except to gives God thanks; and he who does
love one another: for he who loves not eat, to the Lord he does not eat,
his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 and gives God thanks. 7 For none of
For this, “You shall not commit us lives to himself, and none dies to
adultery,” “You shall not kill,” “You himself. 8 For whether we live, we
shall not steal,” “You shall not live to the Lord; or whether we die,
covet,” and if there be any other we die to the Lord: whether we live
commandment, it is summed up in therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.
this word, namely, “You shall love 9 For to this end Christ died and
your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love lived again, that he might be Lord of
works no ill to his neighbor: love both the dead and the living. 10 But
therefore is the fulfillment of the you, why do you judge your
law. brother? or you again, why do you
11 And this, knowing the time, despise your brother? for we shall
that already it is time for you to all stand before the judgment seat
awake out of sleep: for now is sal- of God.
vation nearer to us than when we 11 For it is written,
first believed. 12 The night is far “As I live, says the Lord, to me
spent, and the day is at hand: let us every knee shall bow,
therefore cast off the works of dark- And every tongue shall confess
ness, and let us put on the armor of to God.”
light. 13 Let us walk becomingly, as 12 So then each one of us shall give
in the day; not in reveling and account of himself to God.
drunkenness, not in sexual excesses 13 Let us not therefore judge one
and wantonness, not in strife and another anymore: but judge this
jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Je- rather, that no man put a stumbling
sus Christ, and do not make provi- block in his brother’s way, or an oc-
sion for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts casion of falling. 14 I know, and am
of it. persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that

14 But he who is weak in faith nothing is unclean of itself: except

receive, yet not for judgment to him who accounts anything to be
of scruples. 2 One man has faith to unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 For
eat all things: but he who is weak if because of meat your brother is
eats herbs. 3 Do not let him who grieved, you walk no longer in
eats despise him who does not eat; love. Do not destroy with your
and do not let him who does not eat meat him for whom Christ died. 16
judge him who eats: for God has re- Do not let then your good be spo-
ceived him. 4 Who are you who ken of as evil: 17 for the kingdom of
judges the servant of another? to God is not eating and drinking, but
his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, righteousness and peace and joy in
he will be made to stand; for the the Holy Spirit. 18 For he who in
Lord has power to make him stand. this serves Christ is well-pleasing
5 One man esteems one day above to God, and approved by men. 19
another: another esteems every day So then let us follow after things
alike. Let each man be fully assured which make for peace, and things
in his own mind. 6 He who regards by which we may edify one an-
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other. 20 Do not overthrow for “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his
meat’s sake the work of God. All people.”
things indeed are clean; however it 11 And again,
is evil for that man who eats with “Praise the Lord, all you
offense. 21 It is good not to eat flesh, Gentiles;
nor to drink wine, nor to do anything And let all the peoples praise
by which your brother stumbles. 22 him.”
The faith which you have, have to 12 And again, Isaiah says,
yourself before God. Happy is he “There shall be the root of Jesse,
who does not judge himself in that And he who arises to rule over
which he approves. 23 But he who the Gentiles;
doubts is condemned if he eats, be- On him shall the Gentiles
cause he does not eat from faith; and hope.”
whatsoever is not from faith is sin. 13 Now the God of hope fill you

15 Now we who are strong with all joy and peace in believing,
ought to bear the infirmities that you may abound in hope, in
of the weak, and not to please our- the power of the Holy Spirit.
selves. 2 Let each one of us please 14 And I myself also am per-
his neighbor for that which is good, suaded of you, my brethren, that
unto edification. 3 For Christ also you yourselves are full of goodness,
did not please himself; but, as it is filled with all knowledge, able also
written, “The reproaches of those to admonish one another. 15 But I
who reproached you fell upon me.” write the more boldly to you in
4 For whatsoever things were writ- some measure, as putting you
ten before were written for our again in remembrance, because of
learning, that through patience and the grace that was given me by
through comfort of the Scriptures God, 16 that I should be a minister
we might have hope. 5 Now the of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, min-
God of patience and of comfort istering the gospel of God, that the
grant you to be of the same mind offering up of the Gentiles might be
with one another according to made acceptable, being sanctified
Christ Jesus: 6 that with one accord by the Holy Spirit. 17 I have there-
you may with one mouth glorify fore my glorying in Christ Jesus in
the God and Father of our Lord Je- things pertaining to God. 18 For I
sus Christ. 7 Therefore receive one will not dare to speak of any things
another, even as Christ also re- except those which Christ worked
ceived you, to the glory of God. 8 through me, for the obedience of
For I say that Christ has been made the Gentiles, by word and deed, 19
a minister of the circumcision for in the power of signs and wonders,
the truth of God, that he might con- in the power of the Holy Spirit; so
firm the promises given to the fa- that from Jerusalem, and all around
thers, 9 and that the Gentiles might even to Illyricum, I have fully
glorify God for his mercy; as it is preached the gospel of Christ; 20
written, yes, making it my aim so to preach
“Therefore I will give praise to the gospel, not where Christ was al-
you among the Gentiles, ready named, that I might not build
And sing to your name.” on another man’s foundation; 21
10 And again he says, but, as it is written,
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“They shall see, to whom no
tidings of him came,
And those who have not heard
shall understand.”
22 Therefore also I was hindered
these many times from coming to
you: 23 but now, having no more
any place in these regions, and hav-
ing these many years a longing to
come to you, 24 whensoever I go to
Spain (for I hope to see you in my
journey, and to be brought on my
way toward that place by you, if
first in some measure I shall have
been satisfied with your company)
— 25 but now, I say, I go to
Jerusalem, ministering to the saints.
26 For it has been the good pleasure
of Macedonia and Achaia to make a
certain contribution for the poor
among the saints who are in
Jerusalem. 27 Yes, it has been their
good pleasure; and their debtors
they are. For if the Gentiles have
been made partakers of their spiri-
tual things, they owe it to them also
to minister to them in carnal things.
28 When therefore I have accom-
plished this, and have sealed to
them this fruit, I will go on by you
to Spain. 29 And I know that, when
I come to you, I shall come in the
fullness of the blessing of Christ.
30 Now I beseech you, brethren,
by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the
love of the Spirit, that you strive to- labored much in the Lord. 13 Greet
gether with me in your prayers to
God for me; 31 that I may be deliv-
ered from those who are disobedi-
ent in Judea, and that my service
which I have for Jerusalem may be
acceptable to the saints; 32 that I
may come to you in joy through the
will of God, and together with you
find rest. 33 Now the God of peace
be with you all. Amen.
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16 I commend to you Phoebe
our sister, who is a servant of
the church that is in Cenchrea: 2
that you receive her in the Lord,
worthily of the saints, and that you
assist her in whatsoever matter she
may have need of you: for she her-
self also has been a helper of many,
and of myself.
3 Greet Prisca and Aquila my fel-
low workers in Christ Jesus, 4 who
for my life laid down their own
necks; to whom not only I give
thanks, but also all the churches of
the Gentiles: 5 and greet the church
that is in their house. Greet Epaene-
tus my beloved, who is the first
fruits of Asia to Christ. 6 Greet
Mary, who bestowed much labor
on you. 7 Greet Andronicus and Ju-
nias, my kinsmen, and my fellow
prisoners, who are of note among
the apostles, who also have been in
Christ before me. 8 Greet Amplia-
tus my beloved in the Lord. 9 Greet
Urbanus our fellow worker in
Christ, and Stachys my be loved. 10
Greet Apelles the approved in
Christ. Greet those who are of the
household of Aristobulus. 11 Greet
Herodion my kinsman. Greet those
of the household of Narcissus, who
are in the Lord. 12 Greet Tryphaena
and Tryphosa, who labor in the
Lord. Greet Persis the beloved, who
Rufus the chosen in the Lord, and
his mother and mine. 14 Greet
Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Pa-
trobas, Hermas, and the brethren
who are with them. 15 Greet Philo-
logus and Julia, Nereus and his sis-
ter, and Olympas, and all the saints
who are with them. 16 Greet one
another with a holy kiss. All the
churches of Christ greet you.
17 Now I beseech you, brethren,
mark those who are causing the di-
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visions and occasions of stumbling,
contrary to the doctrine which you
learned: and turn away from them.
18 For those who are such do not
serve our Lord Christ, but their
own belly; and by their smooth and
flattering speech they deceive the
hearts of the innocent. 19 For your
obedience has become known to all
men. I rejoice therefore over you:
but I would have you wise to that
which is good, and simple to that
which is evil. 20 And the God of
peace shall bruise Satan under your
feet shortly.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you.
21 Timothy my fellow worker
greets you; and Lucius and Jason
and Sosipater, my kinsmen. 22 I
²³ Some ancient authorities omit ver. 24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Amen, and omit the like words in ver. 20.
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Tertius, who write the epistle, greet
you in the Lord. 23 Gaius my host,
and of the whole church, greets
you. Erastus the treasurer of the
city greets you, and Quartus the
brother.²³ 25 Now to him who is
able to establish you according to
my gospel and the preaching of Je-
sus Christ, according to the revela-
tion of the mystery which has been
kept in silence through times eter-
nal, 26 but now is made known,
and by the Scriptures of the
prophets, according to the com-
mandment of the eternal God, is
made known to all the nations to
obedience of faith: 27 to the only
wise God, through Jesus Christ, to
whom be the glory for ever. Amen.
 THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE

C O R IN TH IAN S

1 Paul, called to be an apostle of you says, “I am of Paul;” and “I of

Jesus Christ through the will of Apollos;” and “I of Cephas;” and “I
God, and Sosthenes our brother, 2 of Christ.” 13 Is Christ divided?
to the church of God which is in was Paul crucified for you? or were
Corinth, even those who are sancti- you baptized into the name of
fied in Christ Jesus, called to be Paul? 14 I thank God that I baptized
saints, with all who call on the none of you, except Crispus and
name of our Lord Jesus Christ in Gaius; 15 lest any man should say
every place, their Lord and ours: 3 that you were baptized into my
Grace to you and peace from God name. 16 And I baptized also the
our Father and the Lord Jesus household of Stephanas: besides, I
Christ. do not know whether I baptized
4 I thank my God always concern- any other. 17 For Christ sent me not
ing you, for the grace of God which to baptize, but to preach the gospel:
was given you in Christ Jesus; 5 not in wisdom of words, lest the
that in everything you were en- cross of Christ should be made
riched in him, in all utterance and void. 18 For the word of the cross is
all knowledge; 6 even as the testi- to those who perish foolishness; but
mony of Christ was confirmed in to us who are saved it is the power
you: 7 so that you come behind in of God. 19 For it is written,
no gift; waiting for the revelation of “I will destroy the wisdom of the
our Lord Jesus Christ; 8 who will wise,
also confirm you to the end, that you And the discernment of the dis-
be unreprovable in the day of our cerning I will bring to nothing.”
Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, 20 Where is the wise? where is the
through whom you were called scribe? where is the disputer of this
into the fellowship of his Son Jesus world? has not God made foolish
Christ our Lord. the wisdom of the world? 21 For
10 Now I beseech you, brethren, seeing that in the wisdom of God
through the name of our Lord Jesus the world through its wisdom did
Christ, that you all speak the same not know God, it was God’s good
thing, and that there be no divisions pleasure through the foolishness of
among you; but that you be per- the preaching to save those who be-
fected together in the same mind lieve. 22 Seeing that Jews ask for
and in the same judgment. 11 For it signs, and Greeks seek after wis-
has been signified to me concerning dom: 23 but we preach Christ cruci-
you, my brethren, by those who are fied, to Jews a stumbling block, and
of the household of Chloe, that there to Gentiles foolishness; 24 but to
are contentions among you. 12 those who are called, both Jews and
Now this I mean, that each one of Greeks, Christ the power of God,
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and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the wisdom that has been hidden,
the foolishness of God is wiser than which God foreordained before the
men; and the weakness of God is ages to our glory: 8 which none of
stronger than men. the rulers of this world has known:
26 For behold your calling, for had they known it, they would
brethren, that not many wise after not have crucified the Lord of glo-
the flesh, not many mighty, not ry: 9 but as it is written,
many noble, are called: 27 but God “Things which eye did not see,
chose the foolish things of the and ear did not hear,
world, that he might put to shame And which did not enter into
those who are wise; and God chose the heart of man,
the weak things of the world, that Whatsoever things God
he might put to shame the things prepared for those who love
that are strong; 28 and the base him.”
things of the world, and the things 10 But to us God revealed them
that are despised, God chose, yes through the Spirit: for the Spirit
and the things that are not, that he searches all things, yes, the deep
might bring to nothing the things things of God. 11 For who among
that are: 29 that no flesh should men knows the things of a man, ex-
glory before God. 30 But of him are cept the spirit of the man, which is
you in Christ Jesus, who was made in him? even so the things of God
to us wisdom from God, and right- none knows, except the Spirit of
eousness and sanctification, and re- God. 12 But we received, not the
demption: 31 that, according as it is spirit of the world, but the spirit
written, “He who glories, let him which is from God; that we might
glory in the Lord.” know the things that were freely

2 And I, brethren, when I came given to us by God. 13 Which

to you, did not come with excel- things also we speak, not in words
lency of speech or of wisdom, pro- which man’s wisdom teaches, but
claiming to you the testimony of which the Spirit teaches; combining
God. 2 For I determined not to spiritual things with spiritual
know anything among you, except words. 14 Now the natural man
Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3 does not receive the things of the
And I was with you in weakness, Spirit of God: for they are foolish-
and in fear, and in much trembling. ness to him; and he cannot know
4 And my speech and my preaching them, because they are spiritually
were not in persuasive words of judged. 15 But he who is spiritual
wisdom, but in demonstration of judges all things, and he himself is
the Spirit and of power: 5 that your judged by no man. 16 For who has
faith should not stand in the wis- known the mind of the Lord, that
dom of men, but in the power of he should instruct him? But we
God. have the mind of Christ.
6 We speak wisdom, however,
among those who are full-grown: 3 And I, brethren, could not
speak to you as to spiritual, but
yet a wisdom not of this world, nor as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. 2
of the rulers of this world, who are I fed you with milk, not with meat;
coming to nothing: 7 but we speak for you were not yet able to bear it:
God’s wisdom in a mystery, even no, not even now are you able; 3 for
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you are still carnal: for whereas 18 Let no man deceive himself. If
there is among you jealousy and any man thinks that he is wise
strife, are you not carnal, and do among you in this world, let him
you not walk according to the man- become a fool, that he may become
ner of men? 4 For when one says, “I wise. 19 For the wisdom of this
am of Paul;” and another, “I am of world is foolishness with God. For
Apollos;” are you not men? 5 Who it is written, “He who takes the
then is Apollos? and who is Paul? wise in their craftiness”: 20 and
Ministers through whom you be- again, “The Lord knows the reason-
lieved; and each as the Lord gave to ings of the wise, that they are vain.”
him. 6 I planted, Apollos watered; 21 Therefore let no one glory in
but God gave the increase. 7 So men. For all things are yours; 22
then neither is he who plants any- whether Paul, or Apollos, or
thing, neither he who waters; but Cephas, or the world, or life, or
God who gives the increase. 8 Now death, or things present, or things
he who plants and he who waters to come; all are yours; 23 and you
are one: but each will receive his are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.
own reward according to his own
labor. 9 For we are God’s fellow 4 Let a man so account of us, as
of ministers of Christ, and stew-
workers: you are God’s cultivation, ards of the mysteries of God. 2
God’s building. Here, moreover, it is required in
10 According to the grace of God stewards, that a man be found
which was given to me, as a wise faithful. 3 But with me it is a very
master builder I laid a foundation; small thing that I should be judged
and another builds on it. But let by you, or by man’s judgment: yes,
each man take heed how he builds I do not judge myself. 4 For I know
on it. 11 For another foundation can nothing against myself; yet I am not
no man lay than that which is laid, by this justified: but he who judges
which is Jesus Christ. 12 But if any me is the Lord. 5 Therefore judge
man builds on the foundation gold, nothing before the time, until the
silver, costly stones, wood, hay, Lord comes, who will both bring to
stubble; 13 each man’s work will be light the hidden things of darkness,
made known: for the day will de- and make known the counsels of
clare it, because it is revealed in fire; the hearts; and then will each man
and the fire itself will prove each have his praise from God.
man’s work of what sort it is. 14 If 6 Now these things, brethren, I
any man’s work will remain which have in a figure transferred to my-
he built on it, he will receive a re- self and Apollos for your sakes; that
ward. 15 If any man’s work will be in us you might learn not to go be-
burned, he will suffer loss: but he yond the things which are written;
himself will be saved; yet so as that no one of you be puffed up for
through fire. the one against the other. 7 For who
16 Do you not know that you are makes you to differ? and what do
a temple of God, and that the Spirit you have that you did not receive?
of God dwells in you? 17 If any man but if you did receive it, why do
destroys the temple of God, him you glory as if you had not received
will God destroy; for the temple of it? 8 Already you are filled, already
God is holy, and such are you. you have become rich, you have
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come to reign without us: yes and I and such fornication as is not even
wish that you did reign, that we among the Gentiles, that one of you
also might reign with you. 9 For, I has his father’s wife. 2 And you are
think, God has set forth us the apos-
puffed up, and did not rather
tles last of all, as men doomed to mourn, that he who had done this
death: for we are made a spectacle deed might be taken away from
to the world, both to angels and among you. 3 For I truly, being ab-
men. 10 We are fools for Christ’s sent in body but present in spirit,
sake, but you are wise in Christ; wehave already as though I were
are weak, but you are strong; you present judged him who has so
have glory, but we have dishonor. worked this thing, 4 in the name of
11 Even to this present hour we our Lord Jesus, you being gathered
both hunger, and thirst, and are together, and my spirit, with the
naked, and are beaten, and have no power of our Lord Jesus, 5 to de-
certain dwelling place; 12 and we liver such a one to Satan for the de-
toil, working with our own hands: struction of the flesh, that the spirit
being reviled, we bless; being per- may be saved in the day of the Lord
secuted, we endure; 13 being de- Jesus. 6 Your glorying is not good.
famed, we entreat: we are made as Do you not know that a little leaven
the filth of the world, the offscour-
leavens the whole lump? 7 Purge
ing of all things, even until now. out the old leaven, that you may be
14 I do not write these things to a new lump, even as you are un-
shame you, but to admonish you as leavened. For our Passover also has
my beloved children. 15 For though been sacrificed, even Christ: 8 there-
you have ten thousand tutors in fore let us keep the feast, not with
Christ, yet you do not have many fa-old leaven, neither with the leaven
thers; for in Christ Jesus I begot you
of malice and wickedness, but with
through the gospel. 16 I beseech the unleavened bread of sincerity
you therefore, be imitators of me. 17
and truth.
For this cause I have sent to you 9 I wrote to you in my epistle to
Timothy, who is my beloved and have no company with fornicators;
faithful child in the Lord, who will10 not at all meaning with the forni-
put you in remembrance of my cators of this world, or with the
ways which are in Christ, even as I covetous and extortioners, or with
teach everywhere in every church. idolaters; for then you would need
18 Now some are puffed up, as to go out of the world: 11 but as it is,
though I were not coming to you. I wrote to you not to keep company,
19 But I will come to you shortly, if
if any man who is named a brother
the Lord wills; and I will know, notbe a fornicator, or covetous, or an
the word of those who are puffed idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard,
up, but the power. 20 For the king- or an extortioner; with such a one
dom of God is not in word, but in no, not to eat. 12 For what have I to
power. 21 What do you want? shall do with judging those who are out-
I come to you with a rod, or in loveside? Do you not judge those who
and a spirit of gentleness? are within? 13 But those who are
outside God judges. Put away the

5 It is actually reported that wicked man from among your-

there is fornication among you, selves.
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6 Dare any of you, having a body is not for fornication, but for
matter against his neighbor, go the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
to law before the unrighteous, and 14 and God both raised the Lord,
not before the saints? 2 Or do you and will raise up us through his
not know that the saints will judge power. 15 Do you not know that
the world? and if the world is your bodies are members of Christ?
judged by you, are you unworthy shall I then take away the members
to judge the smallest matters? 3 Do of Christ, and make them members
you not know that we shall judge of a harlot? God forbid. 16 Or do
angels? how much more, things you not know that he who is joined
that pertain to this life? 4 If then to a harlot is one body? for, “The
you have to judge things pertaining two,” he says, “shall become one
to this life, do you set those to judge flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to
who are of no account in the the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee forni-
church? 5 I say this to move you to cation. Every sin that a man does is
shame. What, cannot there be found outside the body; but he who com-
among you one wise man who will mits fornication sins against his
be able to decide between his own body. 19 Or do you not know
brethren, 6 but brother goes to law that your body is a temple of the
with brother, and that before unbe- Holy Spirit which is in you, which
lievers? 7 Indeed, already it is alto- you have from God? and you are
gether a defect in you, that you not your own; 20 for you were
have lawsuits with one another. bought with a price: glorify God
Why not rather take wrong? why therefore in your body.
not rather be defrauded? 8 No, but
you yourselves do wrong, and de-
fraud, and that your brethren. 9 Or 7 Now concerning the things of
which you wrote: It is good for
do you not know that the unrigh- a man not to touch a woman. 2 But,
teous will not inherit the kingdom because of fornications, let each
of God? Do not be deceived: neither man have his own wife, and let
fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adul- each woman have her own hus-
terers, nor effeminate, nor abusers band. 3 Let the husband render to
of themselves with men, 10 nor the wife her due: and likewise also
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunk- the wife to the husband. 4 The wife
ards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, does not have power over her own
will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 body, but the husband: and like-
And such were some of you: but wise also the husband does not
you were washed, but you were have power over his own body, but
sanctified, but you were justified in the wife. 5 Do not defraud one an-
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, other, except it be by consent for a
and in the Spirit of our God. time, that you may give yourselves
12 All things are lawful for me; to prayer, and may be together
but not all things are expedient. All again, that Satan not tempt you be-
things are lawful for me; but I will cause of your lack of self-control. 6
not be brought under the power of But this I say by way of concession,
any. 13 Food for the belly, and the not of commandment. 7 Yet I wish
belly for food: but God will bring to that all men were even as I myself.
nothing both it and them. But the However each man has his own gift
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from God, one after this manner, you called being a bondservant? do
and another after that. not care for it: but, even if you can
8 But I say to the unmarried and become free, use it rather. 22 For he
to widows, It is good for them if who was called in the Lord being a
they remain even as I. 9 But if they bondservant, is the Lord’s freed-
do not have self-control, let them man: likewise he who was called
marry: for it is better to marry than being free, is Christ’s bondservant.
to burn. 10 But to the married I give 23 You were bought with a price; do
charge, yet not I, but the Lord, That not become bondservants of men.
the wife not depart from her hus- 24 Brethren, let each man, in which
band 11 (but should she depart, let he was called, there remain with
her remain unmarried, or else be God.
reconciled to her husband); and 25 Now concerning virgins I have
that the husband not leave his wife. no commandment of the Lord: but
12 But to the rest I say, not the Lord: I give my judgment, as one who has
If any brother has an unbelieving obtained mercy of the Lord to be
wife, and she is content to dwell trustworthy. 26 I think therefore
with him, let him not leave her. 13 that this is good by reason of the
And the woman who has an unbe- distress that is upon us, namely, that
lieving husband, and he is content it is good for a man to be as he is. 27
to dwell with her, let her not leave Are you bound to a wife? do not
her husband. 14 For the unbeliev- seek to be loosed. Are you loosed
ing husband is sanctified in the from a wife? do not seek a wife. 28
wife, and the unbelieving wife is But should you marry, you have
sanctified in the brother: otherwise not sinned; and if a virgin marry,
your children would be unclean; she has not sinned. Yet such will
but now they are holy. 15 Yet if the have tribulation in the flesh: and I
unbelieving departs, let him de- would spare you. 29 But this I say,
part: the brother or the sister is not brethren, the time is shortened, that
under bondage in such cases: but henceforth both those who have
God has called us in peace. 16 For wives may be as though they had
how do you know, O wife, whether none; 30 and those who weep, as
you will save your husband? or though they did not weep; and
how do you know, O husband, those who rejoice, as though they
whether you will save your wife? did not rejoice; and those who buy,
17 Only, as the Lord has distributed as though they did not possess; 31
to each man, as God has called and those who use the world, as not
each, so let him walk. And so I or- using it to the full: for the fashion of
dain in all the churches. 18 Was any this world passes away. 32 But I
man called being circumcised? let would have you to be free from
him not become uncircumcised. cares. He who is unmarried is care-
Has any been called in uncircumci- ful for the things of the Lord, how
sion? let him not be circumcised. 19 he may please the Lord: 33 but he
Circumcision is nothing, and uncir- who is married is careful for the
cumcision is nothing; but the keep- things of the world, how he may
ing of the commandments of God. please his wife, 34 and is divided.
20 Let each man remain in that call- So also the woman who is unmar-
ing in which he was called. 21 Were ried and the virgin is careful for the
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things of the Lord, that she may be on earth; as there are gods many,
holy both in body and in spirit: but and lords many; 6 yet to us there is
she who is married is careful for the one God, the Father, of whom are
things of the world, how she may all things, and we to him; and one
please her husband. 35 And this I Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom
say for your own profit; not that I are all things, and we through him.
may cast a snare upon you, but for 7 However there is not in all men
that which is seemly, and that you that knowledge: but some, being
may attend upon the Lord without used until now to the idol, eat as of
distraction. 36 But if any man a thing sacrificed to an idol; and
thinks that he behaves himself un- their conscience being weak is de-
seemly toward his virgin daughter, filed. 8 But food will not commend
if she be past the flower of her age, us to God: neither, if we do not eat,
and if need so requires, let him do are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are
what he will; he does not sin; let we the better. 9 But take heed lest
them marry. 37 But he who stands by any means this liberty of yours
steadfast in his heart, having no ne- become a stumbling block to the
cessity, but has power concerning weak. 10 For if a man sees you who
his own will, and has determined have knowledge reclining for a
this in his own heart, to keep his meal in an idol’s temple, will not
own virgin daughter, will do well. his conscience, if he is weak, be em-
38 So then both he who gives his boldened to eat things sacrificed to
own virgin daughter in marriage idols? 11 For through your knowl-
does well; and he who does not edge he who is weak perishes, the
give her in marriage will do better. brother for whose sake Christ died.
39 A wife is bound for as long as her 12 And thus, sinning against the
husband lives; but if the husband brethren, and wounding their con-
has died, she is free to be married toscience when it is weak, you sin
whom she will; only in the Lord. 40 against Christ. 13 Therefore, if meat
But she is happier if she remains as causes my brother to stumble, I will
she is, after my judgment: and I eat no flesh for evermore, that I do
think that I also have the Spirit of not cause my brother to stumble.
God.
9 Am I not free? am I not an
apostle? have I not seen Jesus

8 Now concerning things sacri- our Lord? are you not my work in
ficed to idols: We know that we the Lord? 2 If to others I am not an
all have knowledge. Knowledge apostle, yet at least I am to you; for
puffs up, but love edifies. 2 If any the seal of my apostleship are you
man thinks that he knows any- in the Lord. 3 My defense to those
thing, he does not know yet as he who examine me is this. 4 Have we
ought to know; 3 but if any man no right to eat and to drink? 5 Have
loves God, the same is known by we no right to lead around a wife
him. 4 Concerning therefore the who is a believer, even as the rest of
eating of things sacrificed to idols, the apostles, and the brethren of the
we know that no idol is anything in Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or only I and
the world, and that there is no God Barnabas, do we not have a right to
but one. 5 For though there are so- refrain from working? 7 What sol-
called gods, whether in heaven or dier ever serves at his own ex-
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pense? who plants a vineyard, and For though I was free from all men,
does not eat the fruit of it? or who I brought myself under bondage to
feeds a flock, and does not eat of the all, that I might gain the more. 20
milk of the flock? 8 Do I speak these And to the Jews I became as a Jew,
things according to the manner of that I might gain Jews; to those who
men? or does not the law also say are under the law, as under the law,
the same? 9 For it is written in the not being myself under the law,
law of Moses, “You shall not muz- that I might gain those who are un-
zle the ox when he treads out the der the law; 21 to those who are
corn.” Is it for the oxen that God without law, as without law, not be-
cares, 10 or does he say it assuredly ing without law to God, but under
for our sake? Yes, for our sake it law to Christ, that I might gain
was written: because he who plows those who are without law. 22 To
ought to plow in hope, and he who the weak I became weak, that I
threshes, to thresh in hope of partak- might gain the weak: I am become
ing. 11 If we sowed to you spiritual all things to all men, that I may by
things, is it a great matter if we shall all means save some. 23 And I do all
reap your material things? 12 If oth- things for the gospel’s sake, that I
ers partake of this right over you, may be a joint partaker of it. 24 Do
do not we yet more? Nevertheless you not know that those who run in
we did not use this right; but we a race all run, but one receives the
bear all things, that we may cause prize? Even so run; that you may
no hindrance to the gospel of attain. 25 And every man who
Christ. 13 Do you not know that strives in the games exercises self-
those who minister about sacred control in all things. Now they do it
things eat of the things of the tem- to receive a corruptible crown; but
ple, and those who wait on the altar we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore
have their portion with the altar? 14 so run, as not uncertainly; so I fight,
Even so did the Lord ordain that as not beating the air: 27 but I disci-
those who proclaim the gospel pline my body, and bring it into
should live from the gospel. 15 But bondage: lest by any means, after I
I have used none of these things: have preached to others, I myself
and I do not write these things that should be rejected.
it may be so done in my case; for it
would be good for me rather to die, 10 For I would not, brethren,
have you ignorant, that our
than that any man should make my fathers were all under the cloud,
glorying void. 16 For if I preach the and all passed through the sea; 2
gospel, I have nothing to glory of; and were all baptized into Moses in
for necessity is laid on me; for woe the cloud and in the sea; 3 and all
is to me, if I do not preach the ate the same spiritual food; 4 and
gospel. 17 For if I do this of my own all drank the same spiritual drink:
will, I have a reward: but if not of for they drank of a spiritual rock
my own will, I have a stewardship that followed them: and the rock
entrusted to me. 18 What then is my was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, with
reward? That, when I preach the most of them God was not well
gospel, I may make the gospel pleased: for they were overthrown
without charge, so as not to use to in the wilderness. 6 Now these
the full my right in the gospel. 19 things were our examples, to the in-
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tent we should not lust after evil cannot drink the cup of the Lord,
things, as they also lusted. 7 Nei- and the cup of demons: you cannot
ther be idolaters, as were some of partake of the table of the Lord, and
them; as it is written, “The people of the table of demons. 22 Or do we
sat down to eat and drink, and rose provoke the Lord to jealousy? are
up to play.” 8 Neither let us commit we stronger than he?
fornication, as some of them com- 23 All things are lawful; but not
mitted, and fell in one day twenty- all things are expedient. All things
three thousand. 9 Neither let us put are lawful; but not all things edify.
to the test the Lord, as some of them 24 Let no man seek his own, but
tested, and perished by the ser- each his neighbor’s good. 25 What-
pents. 10 Neither murmur, as some soever is sold in the meat market,
of them murmured, and perished eat, asking no question for con-
by the destroyer. 11 Now these science’ sake; 26 for the earth is the
things happened to them by way of Lord’s, and the fullness of it. 27 If
example; and they were written for one of those who does not believe
our admonition, on whom the ends bids you to a feast, and you are will-
of the ages are come. 12 Therefore ing to go; whatsoever is set before
let him who thinks he stands take you, eat, asking no question for
heed lest he fall. 13 There has no conscience’ sake. 28 But if any man
temptation taken you but such as say to you, “This has been offered
man can bear: but God is faithful, in sacrifice,” do not eat, for his sake
who will not allow you to be who showed it, and for conscience’
tempted above what you are able; sake: 29 conscience, I say, not your
but will with the temptation make own, but the other’s; for why is my
also the way of escape, that you liberty judged by another con-
may be able to endure it. science? 30 If I partake with thank-
14 Therefore, my beloved, flee fulness, why am I spoken evil of for
from idolatry. 15 I speak as to wise that for which I give thanks? 31
men; judge what I say. 16 The cup Whether therefore you eat, or
of blessing which we bless, is it not drink, or whatsoever you do, do all
a communion of the blood of to the glory of God. 32 Give no oc-
Christ? The bread which we break, casion of stumbling, either to Jews,
is it not a communion of the body or to Greeks, or to the church of
of Christ? 17 seeing that we, who God: 33 even as I also please all
are many, are one bread, one body: men in all things, not seeking my
for we all partake of the one bread. own profit, but the profit of the
18 Behold Israel according to the
flesh: do not those who eat the sac- 11 many, that they may be
saved. 1 Be imitators of me,
rifices have communion with the even as I also am of Christ.
altar? 19 What do I say then? that a
thing sacrificed to idols is anything, 2 Now I praise you that you re-
or that an idol is anything? 20 But I member me in all things, and hold
say, that the things which the Gen- fast the traditions, even as I deliv-
tiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to ered them to you. 3 But I would
demons, and not to God: and I have you know, that the head of ev-
would not that you should have ery man is Christ; and the head of
communion with demons. 21 You the woman is the man; and the
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head of Christ is God. 4 Every man proved may be made known
praying or prophesying, having his among you. 20 When therefore you
head covered, dishonors his head. 5 assemble yourselves together, it is
But every woman praying or not possible to eat the Lord’s sup-
prophesying with her head un- per: 21 for in your eating each one
veiled dishonors her head; for it is takes before others his own supper;
one and the same thing as if she and one is hungry, and another is
were shaven. 6 For if a woman is drunk. 22 What, do you not have
not veiled, let her also be sheared: houses to eat and to drink in? or do
but if it is a shame to a woman to be you despise the church of God, and
sheared or shaven, let her be veiled. put those to shame who do not
7 For a man indeed ought not to have? What shall I say to you? shall
have his head veiled, since he is the I praise you? In this I do not praise
image and glory of God: but the you. 23 For I received from the Lord
woman is the glory of the man. 8 that which also I delivered to you,
For the man is not of the woman; that the Lord Jesus in the night in
but the woman of the man: 9 for which he was betrayed took bread;
neither was the man created for the 24 and when he had given thanks,
woman; but the woman for the he broke it, and said, “This is my
man: 10 for this cause ought the body, which is for you: this do in re-
woman to have a sign of authority membrance of me.” 25 In like man-
on her head, because of the angels. ner also the cup, after supper,
11 Nevertheless, neither is the saying, “This cup is the new
woman without the man, nor the covenant in my blood: this do, as
man without the woman, in the often as you drink it, in remem-
Lord. 12 For as the woman is of the brance of me.” 26 For as often as
man, so is the man also by the you eat this bread, and drink the
woman; but all things are of God. cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death
13 Judge in yourselves: is it seemly until he comes. 27 Therefore
that a woman pray to God un- whosoever shall eat the bread or
veiled? 14 Does not even nature it- drink the cup of the Lord in an un-
self teach you, that, if a man has worthy manner, shall be guilty of
long hair, it is a dishonor to him? 15 the body and the blood of the Lord.
But if a woman has long hair, it is a 28 But let a man test himself, and so
glory to her: for her hair is given let him eat of the bread, and drink
her for a covering. 16 But if any of the cup. 29 For he who eats and
man seems to be contentious, we drinks, eats and drinks judgment to
have no such custom, neither the himself, if he does not discern the
churches of God. body. 30 For this cause many
17 But in giving you this charge, I among you are weak and sickly,
do not praise you, because you and not a few sleep. 31 But if we
come together not for the better but discerned ourselves, we would not
for the worse. 18 For first of all, be judged. 32 But when we are
when you come together in the judged, we are chastened by the
church, I hear that divisions exist Lord, that we may not be con-
among you; and I partly believe it. demned with the world. 33 There-
19 For there must be also factions fore, my brethren, when you come
among you, that those who are ap- together to eat, wait one for an-
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other. 34 If any man is hungry, let made to drink of one Spirit. 14 For
him eat at home; that your coming the body is not one member, but
together not be to judgment. And many. 15 If the foot shall say, “Be-
the rest will I set in order whenso- cause I am not the hand, I am not of
ever I come. the body;” it is not therefore not of
the body. 16 And if the ear shall say,

12 Now concerning spiritual “Because I am not the eye, I am not

gifts, brethren, I would not of the body;” it is not therefore not
have you ignorant. 2 You know that of the body. 17 If the whole body
when you were Gentiles you were were an eye, where would be the
led away to those speechless idols, hearing? If the whole were hearing,
howsoever you might be led. 3 where would be the smelling? 18
Therefore I make known to you, But now has God set the members
that no man speaking in the Spirit each one of them in the body, even
of God says, “Jesus is accursed;” as it pleased him. 19 And if they
and no man can say, “Jesus is were all one member, where would
Lord,” but in the Holy Spirit. be the body? 20 But now they are
4 Now there are diversities of many members, but one body. 21
gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And And the eye cannot say to the hand,
there are diversities of ministries, “I have no need of you”: or again
and the same Lord. 6 And there are the head to the feet, “I have no need
diversities of workings, but the of you.” 22 No, much rather, those
same God, who works all things in members of the body which seem
all. 7 But to each one is given the to be more feeble are necessary: 23
manifestation of the Spirit to the and those parts of the body, which
profit of all. 8 For to one is given we think to be less honorable, upon
through the Spirit the word of wis- these we bestow more abundant
dom; and to another the word of honor; and our unseemly parts have
knowledge, according to the same more abundant seemliness; 24
Spirit: 9 to another faith, in the whereas our seemly parts have no
same Spirit; and to another gifts of need: but God tempered the body
healings, in the one Spirit; 10 and to together, giving more abundant
another workings of miracles; and honor to that part which lacked; 25
to another prophecy; and to an- that there should be no schism in
other discernings of spirits: to an- the body; but that the members
other various kinds of tongues; and should have the same care one for
to another the interpretation of another. 26 And whether one mem-
tongues: 11 but all these works the ber suffers, all the members suffer
one and the same Spirit, dividing to with it; or one member is honored,
each one individually even as he all the members rejoice with it. 27
wills. Now you are the body of Christ,
12 For as the body is one, and has and individually members of it. 28
many members, and all the mem- And God has set some in the
bers of the body, being many, are church, first apostles, second
one body; so also is Christ. 13 For in prophets, third teachers, then mira-
one Spirit were we all baptized into cles, then gifts of healings, helps,
one body, whether Jews or Greeks, governments, various kinds of
whether bond or free; and were all tongues. 29 Are all apostles? are all
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prophets? are all teachers? are all the greatest of these is love.
workers of miracles? 30 have all gifts
of healings? do all speak with 14 Follow after love; yet desire
earnestly spiritual gifts, but
tongues? do all interpret? 31 But rather that you may prophesy. 2 For
desire earnestly the greater gifts. he who speaks in a tongue does not
And moreover a most excellent speak to men, but to God; for no
way I show to you. man understands; but in the spirit

13 If I speak with the tongues he speaks mysteries. 3 But he who

of men and of angels, but do prophesies speaks to men edifica-
not have love, I am become sound- tion, and exhortation, and consola-
ing brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 tion. 4 He who speaks in a tongue
And if I have the gift of prophecy, edifies himself; but he who prophe-
and know all mysteries and all sies edifies the church. 5 Now I
knowledge; and if I have all faith, would have you all speak with
so as to remove mountains, but do tongues, but rather that you should
not have love, I am nothing. 3 And prophesy: and greater is he who
if I give all my goods to feed the prophesies than he who speaks
poor, and if I give my body to be with tongues, unless he interprets,
burned, but do not have love, it that the church may receive edifica-
profits me nothing. 4 Love suffers tion. 6 But now, brethren, if I come
long, and is kind; love does not to you speaking with tongues, what
envy; love does not boast, is not shall I profit you, unless I speak to
puffed up, 5 does not behave itself you either by way of revelation, or
unseemly, does not seek its own, is of knowledge, or of prophesying,
not provoked, does not take ac- or of teaching? 7 Even things with-
count of evil; 6 does not rejoice in out life, giving a voice, whether
unrighteousness, but rejoices with pipe or harp, if they do not give a
the truth; 7 bears all things, believes distinction in the sounds, how will
all things, hopes all things, endures it be known what is piped or
all things. 8 Love never fails: but harped? 8 For if the trumpet gives
whether there are prophecies, they an uncertain voice, who will pre-
will be done away; whether there pare himself for war? 9 So also you,
are tongues, they will cease; unless you utter by the tongue
whether there is knowledge, it will speech easy to be understood, how
be done away. 9 For we know in will it be known what is spoken?
part, and we prophesy in part; 10 for you will be speaking into the air.
but when that which is perfect has 10 There are, it may be, so many
come, that which is in part will be kinds of voices in the world, and no
done away. 11 When I was a child, I kind is without meaning. 11 If then I
spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I do not know the meaning of the
thought as a child: now that I am voice, I shall be to him who speaks
become a man, I have put away a barbarian, and he who speaks will
childish things. 12 For now we see be a barbarian to me. 12 So also
in a mirror, darkly; but then face to you, since you are zealous of spiri-
face: now I know in part; but then I tual gifts, seek that you may
shall know fully even as also I was abound to the edification of the
fully known. 13 But now abide church. 13 Therefore let him who
faith, hope, love, these three; and speaks in a tongue pray that he may
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interpret. 14 For if I pray in a has a psalm, has a teaching, has a
tongue, my spirit prays, but my un- revelation, has a tongue, has an in-
derstanding is unfruitful. 15 What terpretation. Let all things be done
is it then? I will pray with the spirit, to edification. 27 If any man speaks
and I will pray with the under- in a tongue, let it be by two, or at the
standing also: I will sing with the most three, and that in turn; and let
spirit, and I will sing with the un- one interpret: 28 but if there is no
derstanding also. 16 Else if you interpreter, let him keep silent in
bless with the spirit, how will he the church; and let him speak to
who fills the place of the unlearned himself, and to God. 29 And let the
say the “Amen” at your giving of prophets speak by two or three, and
thanks, seeing he does not know let the others discern. 30 But if a
what you say? 17 For you certainly revelation is made to another sit-
give thanks well, but the other is ting by, let the first keep silent. 31
not edified. 18 I thank God, I speak For you all can prophesy one by
with tongues more than you all: 19 one, that all may learn, and all may
nevertheless in the church I would be exhorted; 32 and the spirits of
rather speak five words with my the prophets are subject to the
understanding, that I might in- prophets; 33 for God is not a God of
struct others also, than ten thou- confusion, but of peace.
sand words in a tongue. As in all the churches of the
20 Brethren, do not be children in saints, 34 let the women keep silent
mind: yet in malice be babes, but in in the churches: for it is not permit-
mind be men. 21 In the law it is ted to them to speak; but let them
written, “By men of strange be in subjection, as also says the
tongues and by the lips of strangers law. 35 And if they would learn
will I speak to this people; and not anything, let them ask their own
even thus will they hear me,” says husbands at home: for it is shame-
the Lord. 22 Therefore tongues are ful for a woman to speak in the
for a sign, not to those who believe, church. 36 What? was it from you
but to the unbelieving: but proph- that the word of God went forth? or
esying is for a sign, not to the unbe- came it to you alone?
lieving, but to those who believe. 23 37 If any man thinks himself to be
If therefore the whole church is as- a prophet, or spiritual, let him take
sembled together and all speak knowledge of the things which I
with tongues, and there come in write to you, that they are the com-
men unlearned or unbelieving, will mandment of the Lord. 38 But if
they not say that you are mad? 24 any man is ignorant, let him be ig-
But if all prophesy, and there comes norant.
in one unbelieving or unlearned, he 39 Therefore, my brethren, desire
is reproved by all, he is judged by earnestly to prophesy, and do not
all; 25 the secrets of his heart are forbid to speak with tongues. 40
made known; and so he will fall But let all things be done decently
down on his face and worship God, and in order.
declaring that God is among you
indeed.
26 What is it then, brethren? 15 Now I make known to you
brethren, the gospel which I
When you come together, each one preached to you, which also you re-
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ceived, in which also you stand, 2 still in your sins. 18 Then those also
by which also you are saved, if you who have fallen asleep in Christ
hold fast the word which I have perished. 19 If we have only
preached to you, unless you be- hoped in Christ in this life, we are
lieved in vain. 3 For I delivered to of all men most pitiable.
you first of all that which also I re- 20 But now has Christ been raised
ceived: that Christ died for our sins from the dead, the first fruits of
according to the Scriptures; 4 and those who are asleep. 21 For since
that he was buried; and that he has by man came death, by man came
been raised on the third day accord- also the resurrection of the dead. 22
ing to the Scriptures; 5 and that he For as in Adam all die, so also in
appeared to Cephas; then to the Christ shall all be made alive. 23
twelve; 6 then he appeared to more But each in his own order: Christ
than five hundred brethren at once, the first fruits; then those who are
of whom the greater part remain Christ’s, at his coming. 24 Then
until now, but some have fallen comes the end, when he will deliver
asleep; 7 then he appeared to James; up the kingdom to God, even the
then to all the apostles; 8 and last of Father; when he has abolished all
all, as to the child untimely born, he rule and all authority and power. 25
appeared to me also. 9 For I am the For he must reign, until he has put
least of the apostles, that am not fit all his enemies under his feet. 26
to be called an apostle, because I The last enemy that will be abol-
persecuted the church of God. 10 ished is death. 27 For, “He put all
But by the grace of God I am what I things in subjection under his feet.”
am: and his grace which was be- But when he says, “All things are
stowed upon me was not found put in subjection,” it is evident that
vain; but I labored more abun- he is excepted who did subject all
dantly than them all: yet not I, but things to him. 28 And when all
the grace of God which was with things have been subjected to him,
me. 11 Whether then it is I or they, then will the Son also himself be
so we preach, and so you believed. subjected to him who did subject all
12 Now if Christ is preached that things to him, that God may be all
he has been raised from the dead, in all.
how do some among you say that 29 Otherwise, what will they do
there is no resurrection of the dead? who are baptized for the dead? If
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead are not raised at all, why
the dead, neither has Christ been then are they baptized for them? 30
raised: 14 and if Christ has not been why do we also stand in jeopardy
raised, then is our preaching vain, every hour? 31 I protest by that glo-
your faith also is vain. 15 Yes, and rying in you, brethren, which I have
we are found false witnesses of in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
God; because we witnessed of God 32 If after the manner of men I
that he raised up Christ: whom he fought with beasts at Ephesus,
did not raise up, if indeed the dead what does it profit me? If the dead
are not raised. 16 For if the dead are are not raised, let us eat and drink,
not raised, neither has Christ been for tomorrow we die. 33 Do not be
raised: 17 and if Christ has not been deceived: “Evil company corrupt
raised, your faith is vain; you are good morals.” 34 Awake to sober-
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ness righteously, and do not sin; for we shall also bear the image of the
some have no knowledge of God: I heavenly.
say this to move you to shame. 50 Now this I say, brethren, that
35 But someone will say, “How flesh and blood cannot inherit the
are the dead raised? and with what kingdom of God; neither does cor-
manner of body do they come?” 36 ruption inherit incorruption. 51 Be-
You foolish one, that which you hold, I tell you a mystery: We all
yourself sow is not made alive un- shall not sleep, but we shall all be
less it dies: 37 and that which you changed, 52 in a moment, in the
sow, you do not sow the body that twinkling of an eye, at the last
shall be, but a bare grain, it may be trumpet: for the trumpet will
of wheat, or of some other kind; 38 sound, and the dead will be raised
but God gives it a body even as it incorruptible, and we shall be
pleased him, and to each seed a changed. 53 For this corruptible
body of its own. 39 All flesh is not must put on incorruption, and this
the same flesh: but there is one flesh mortal must put on immortality. 54
of men, and another flesh of beasts, But when this corruptible shall
and another flesh of birds, and an- have put on incorruption, and this
other of fish. 40 There are also celes- mortal shall have put on immortal-
tial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: ity, then shall come to pass the say-
but the glory of the celestial is one, ing that is written, “Death is
and the glory of the terrestrial is an- swallowed up in victory.” 55 “O
other. 41 There is one glory of the death, where is your victory? O
sun, and another glory of the moon, death, where is your sting?” 56 The
and another glory of the stars; for sting of death is sin; and the power
one star differs from another star in of sin is the law: 57 but thanks be to
glory. 42 So also is the resurrection God, who gives us the victory
of the dead. It is sown in corrup- through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58
tion; it is raised in incorruption: 43 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be
it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in steadfast, immovable, always
glory: it is sown in weakness; it is abounding in the work of the Lord,
raised in power: 44 it is sown a nat- because you know that your labor
ural body; it is raised a spiritual is not vain in the Lord.
body. If there is a natural body,
there is also a spiritual body. 45 So
also it is written, “The first man 16 Now concerning the collec-
tion for the saints, as I gave
Adam became a living soul.” The order to the churches of Galatia, so
last Adam became a life-giving also do. 2 On the first day of the
spirit. 46 However, that is not first week let each one of you lay by him
which is spiritual, but that which is storing up, as he may prosper, that
natural; then that which is spiritual. no collections be made when I
47 The first man is of the earth, come. 3 And when I arrive, whom-
earthy: the second man is of soever you shall approve, those I
heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are will send with letters to carry your
those also who are earthy: and as is bounty to Jerusalem: 4 and if it is
the heavenly, such are those also fitting for me to go also, they will
who are heavenly. 49 And as we go with me. 5 But I will come to
have borne the image of the earthy, you, when I shall have passed
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through Macedonia; for I pass
through Macedonia; 6 but with you
it may be that I shall stay, or even
winter, that you may set me for-
ward on my journey wherever I go.
7 For I do not wish to see you now
on the way; for I hope to stay a
while with you, if the Lord permits.
8 But I will stay in Ephesus until
Pentecost; 9 for a great and effectual
door is opened to me, and there are
many adversaries.
10 Now if Timothy come, see that
he may be with you without fear;
for he works the work of the Lord,
as I also do: 11 let no man therefore
despise him. But set him forward
on his journey in peace, that he may
come to me: for I expect him with
the brethren. 12 But concerning
Apollos the brother, I beseeched
him much to come to you with the
brethren: and it was not at all his
will to come now; but he will come
when he shall have opportunity.
13 Watch, stand fast in the faith,
behave like men, be strong. 14 Let
all that you do be done in love.
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15 Now I beseech you, brethren
(you know the house of Stephanas,
that it is the first fruits of Achaia,
and that they have set themselves
to minister to the saints), 16 that
you also be in subjection to such,
and to every one who helps in the
work and labors. 17 And I rejoice at
the coming of Stephanas and Fortu-
natus and Achaicus: for that which
was lacking on your part they sup-
plied. 18 For they refreshed my
spirit and yours: acknowledge
therefore those who are such.
19 The churches of Asia greet you.
Aquila and Prisca greet you much
in the Lord, with the church that is
in their house. 20 All the brethren
greet you. Greet one another with a
holy kiss.
21 The greeting of me Paul with
my own hand. 22 If any man does
not love the Lord, let him be ac-
cursed. Maranatha. 23 The grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
24 My love be with you all in Christ
Jesus. Amen.
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C O R IN TH IAN S

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus

through the will of God, and
Timothy our brother, to the church
great a death, and will deliver: on
whom we have set our hope that he
will also still deliver us; 11 you also
of God which is in Corinth, with all helping together on our behalf by
the saints who are in the whole of your supplication; that, for the gift
Achaia: 2 Grace to you and peace bestowed upon us by means of
from God our Father and the Lord many, thanks may be given by
Jesus Christ. many persons on our behalf.
12 For our glorying is this, the tes-
3 Blessed be the God and Father timony of our conscience, that in
of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father holiness and sincerity of God, not
of mercies and God of all comfort; 4 in fleshly wisdom but in the grace
who comforts us in all our afflic- of God, we behaved ourselves in
tion, that we may be able to comfort the world, and more abundantly to-
those who are in any affliction, ward you. 13 For we write no other
through the comfort with which we things to you, than what you read
ourselves are comforted by God. 5 or even acknowledge, and I hope
For as the sufferings of Christ you will acknowledge to the end:
abound to us, even so our comfort 14 as also you did acknowledge us
also abounds through Christ. 6 But in part, that we are your glorying,
whether we are afflicted, it is for even as you also are ours, in the day
your comfort and salvation; or of our Lord Jesus.
whether we are comforted, it is for 15 And in this confidence I was
your comfort, which works in the minded to come first to you, that
patient enduring of the same suffer- you might have a second benefit; 16
ings which we also suffer: 7 and our and by you to pass into Macedonia,
hope for you is steadfast; knowing and again from Macedonia to come
that, as you are partakers of the to you, and by you to be set for-
sufferings, so also are you of the ward on my journey to Judea. 17
comfort. 8 For we would not have When I therefore was thus minded,
you ignorant, brethren, concerning did I show fickleness? or the things
our affliction which befell us in that I purpose, do I purpose accord-
Asia, that we were weighed down ing to the flesh, that with me there
exceedingly, beyond our power, so should be the yes yes and the no
that we despaired even of life: 9 no? 18 But as God is faithful, our
yes, we ourselves have had the sen- word toward you is not yes and no.
tence of death within ourselves, 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ,
that we should not trust in our- who was preached among you by
selves, but in God who raises the us, even by me and Silvanus and
dead: 10 who delivered us out of so Timothy, was not yes and no, but in
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him is yes. 20 For however many I forgive also: for what I also have
are the promises of God, in him is forgiven, if I have forgiven any-
the yes: therefore also through him thing, for your sakes I have forgiven
is the Amen, to the glory of God it in the presence of Christ; 11 that
through us. 21 Now he who estab- no advantage may be gained over
lishes us with you in Christ, and us by Satan: for we are not ignorant
anointed us, is God; 22 who also of his devices.
sealed us, and gave us the first in- 12 Now when I came to Troas for
stallment of the Spirit in our hearts. the gospel of Christ, and when a
23 But I call God for a witness door was opened to me in the Lord,
upon my soul, that to spare you I 13 I had no relief for my spirit, be-
refrained from coming to Corinth. cause I did not find Titus my broth-
24 Not that we have lordship over er: but taking my leave of them, I
your faith, but are helpers of your went forth into Macedonia.

2 joy: for in faith you stand fast. 1 14 But thanks be to God, who al-
But I determined this for my- ways leads us in triumph in Christ,
self, that I would not come again to and makes known through us the
you with sorrow. 2 For if I make savor of his knowledge in every
you sorry, who then is he who place. 15 For we are a sweet savor
makes me glad but he who is made of Christ to God, in those who are
sorry by me? 3 And I wrote this saved, and in those who perish; 16
very thing, lest, when I came, I to the one a savor from death to
should have sorrow from those of death; to the other a savor from life
whom I ought to rejoice; having to life. And who is sufficient for
confidence in you all, that my joy is these things? 17 For we are not as
the joy of you all. 4 For out of much the many, corrupting the word of
affliction and anguish of heart I God: but as of sincerity, but as of
wrote to you with many tears; not God, in the sight of God, we speak
that you should be made sorry, but in Christ.
that you might know the love
which I have more abundantly for
you.
3 Are we beginning again to
commend ourselves? or need
we, as do some, epistles of com-
5 But if any has caused sorrow, he mendation to you or from you? 2
has caused sorrow, not to me, but in You are our epistle, written in our
part (that I do not press too heavily) hearts, known and read by all men;
to you all. 6 Sufficient to such a one 3 being made known that you are
is this punishment which was in- an epistle of Christ, ministered by
flicted by the many; 7 so that on the us, written not with ink, but with
contrary you should rather forgive the Spirit of the living God; not in
him and comfort him, lest by any tables of stone, but in tables that are
means such a one should be swal- hearts of flesh. 4 And such confi-
lowed up with too much sorrow. 8 dence have we through Christ to-
Therefore I beseech you to confirm ward God: 5 not that we are
your love toward him. 9 For to this sufficient of ourselves, to account
end also did I write, that I might anything as from ourselves; but our
know the proof of you, whether sufficiency is from God; 6 who also
you are obedient in all things. 10 made us sufficient as ministers of a
But to whom you forgive anything, new covenant; not of the letter, but
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of the spirit: for the letter kills, but nor handling the word of God de-
the spirit gives life. 7 But if the min- ceitfully; but by the manifestation
istry of death, written, and en- of the truth commending ourselves
graved on stones, came with glory, to every man’s conscience in the
so that the children of Israel could sight of God. 3 And even if our
not look steadfastly upon the face gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those
of Moses for the glory of his face; who perish: 4 in whom the god of
which glory was passing away: 8 this world has blinded the minds of
how will not rather the ministry of the unbelieving, that the light of the
the spirit be with glory? 9 For if the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is
ministry of condemnation has the image of God, should not dawn
glory, much rather does the min- on them. 5 For we do not preach our-
istry of righteousness exceed in selves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and
glory. 10 For even that which has ourselves as your servants for Je-
been made glorious has not been sus’ sake. 6 Seeing it is God, who
made glorious in this respect, by said, “Light shall shine out of dark-
reason of the glory that surpasses. ness,” who shined in our hearts, to
11 For if that which passes away give the light of the knowledge of
was with glory, much more that the glory of God in the face of Jesus
which remains is in glory. Christ.
12 Having therefore such a hope, 7 But we have this treasure in
we use great boldness of speech, 13 earthen vessels, that the exceeding
and are not as Moses, who put a veil greatness of the power may be of
on his face, that the children of Is- God, and not from ourselves; 8 we
rael should not look steadfastly on are pressed on every side, yet not
the end of that which was passing straitened; perplexed, yet not to de-
away: 14 but their minds were spair; 9 pursued, yet not forsaken;
hardened: for until this very day at struck down, yet not destroyed; 10
the reading of the old covenant the always bearing about in the body
same veil remains, it not being re- the dying of Jesus, that the life also
vealed to them that it is done away of Jesus may be manifested in our
in Christ. 15 But to this day, when- body. 11 For we who live are always
soever Moses is read, a veil lies on delivered to death for Jesus’ sake,
their heart. 16 But whensoever it that the life also of Jesus may be
shall turn to the Lord, the veil is manifested in our mortal flesh. 12
taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the So then death works in us, but life
Spirit: and where the Spirit of the in you. 13 But having the same
Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, spirit of faith, according to that
with unveiled face beholding as in which is written, I believed, and
a mirror the glory of the Lord, are therefore I spoke; we also believe,
transformed into the same image and therefore also we speak; 14
from glory to glory, even as from knowing that he who raised up the
the Lord the Spirit. Lord Jesus will raise up us also with

4 Therefore seeing we have this Jesus, and will present us with you.
ministry, even as we obtained 15 For all things are for your sakes,
mercy, we do not faint: 2 but we that the grace, being multiplied
have renounced the hidden things through the many, may cause the
of shame, not walking in craftiness, thanksgiving to abound to the
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glory of God. 11 Knowing therefore the fear of
16 Therefore we do not faint; but the Lord, we persuade men, but we
though our outward man is decay- are made known to God; and I hope
ing, yet our inward man is renewed that we are made known also in
day by day. 17 For our light afflic- your consciences. 12 We are not
tion, which is for the moment, again commending ourselves to
works for us more and more ex- you, but speak as giving you occa-
ceedingly an eternal weight of sion of glorying on our behalf, that
glory; 18 while we do not look at you may be able to answer those
the things which are seen, but at the who glory in appearance, and not
things which are not seen: for the in heart. 13 For whether we are be-
things which are seen are temporal; side ourselves, it is for God; or
but the things which are not seen whether we are of sober mind, it is
are eternal. for you. 14 For the love of Christ

5 For we know that if the constrains us; because we thus

earthly house of our tabernacle judge, that one died for all, there-
is dissolved, we have a building fore all died; 15 and he died for all,
from God, a house not made with that those who live should no
hands, eternal, in the heavens. 2 For longer live for themselves, but for
indeed in this we groan, longing to him who for their sakes died and
be clothed with our habitation rose again. 16 Therefore we hence-
which is from heaven: 3 if indeed forth know no man according to the
being clothed we shall not be found flesh: even though we have known
naked. 4 For indeed we who are in Christ according to the flesh, yet
this tabernacle do groan, being bur- now we know him so no more. 17
dened; not because we would be Therefore if any man is in Christ, he
unclothed, but that we would be is a new creature: the old things are
clothed, that what is mortal may be passed away; behold, they are be-
swallowed up by life. 5 Now he come new. 18 But all things are of
who worked us for this very thing God, who reconciled us to himself
is God, who gave to us the first in- through Christ, and gave to us the
stallment of the Spirit. 6 Being ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is,
therefore always of good courage, that God was in Christ reconciling
and knowing that, while we are at the world to himself, not reckoning
home in the body, we are absent to them their trespasses, and hav-
from the Lord 7 (for we walk by ing committed to us the word of
faith, not by sight); 8 we are of good reconciliation.
courage, I say, and are willing 20 We are ambassadors therefore
rather to be absent from the body, on behalf of Christ, as though God
and to be at home with the Lord. 9 were entreating by us: we beseech
Therefore also we make it our aim, you on behalf of Christ, be recon-
whether at home or absent, to be ciled to God. 21 Him who knew no
well-pleasing to him. 10 For we sin he made to be sin on our behalf;
must all be made known before the that we might become the right-
judgment seat of Christ; that each
one may receive the things done in 6 eousness of God in him. 1 And
working together with him we
the body, according to what he has entreat also that you not receive the
done, whether it be good or bad. grace of God in vain 2 (for he says,
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“At an acceptable time I dwell in them, and walk in them;
listened to you, and I will be their God, and they
And in a day of salvation I shall be my people.” 17 Therefore
aided you”: “Come out from among them,
behold, now is the acceptable time; and be separate,”
behold, now is the day of salva- says the Lord,
tion): 3 giving no occasion of stum- “And touch no unclean thing;
bling in anything, that our ministry And I will receive you,
not be blamed; 4 but in everything 18 And will be to you a Father,
commending ourselves, as minis- And you shall be to me sons
ters of God, in much patience, in and daughters,”
afflictions, in necessities, in dis-
tresses, 5 in blows, in imprison- 7 says the Lord Almighty. 1 Hav-
ing therefore these promises,
ments, in tumults, in labors, in beloved, let us cleanse ourselves
sleeplessness, in fastings; 6 in pu- from all defilement of flesh and
rity, in knowledge, in long-suffer- spirit, perfecting holiness in the
ing, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, fear of God.
in love unfeigned, 7 in the word of 2 Open your hearts to us: we
truth, in the power of God; by the wronged no man, we corrupted no
armor of righteousness on the right man, we took advantage of no man.
hand and on the left, 8 by glory and 3 I say it not to condemn you: for I
dishonor, by evil report and good have said before, that you are in our
report; as deceivers, and yet true; 9 hearts to die together and live to-
as unknown, and yet well known; gether. 4 Great is my boldness of
as dying, and behold, we live; as speech toward you, great is my glo-
chastened, and not killed; 10 as sor- rying on your behalf: I am filled
rowful, yet always rejoicing; as with comfort, I overflow with joy in
poor, yet making many rich; as hav- all our affliction.
ing nothing, and yet possessing all 5 For even when we had come
things. into Macedonia our flesh had no re-
11 Our mouth is open to you, O lief, but we were afflicted on every
Corinthians, our heart is enlarged. side; outside were fightings, within
12 You are not restricted in us, but were fears. 6 Nevertheless he who
you are restricted in your own comforts the lowly, even God, com-
affections. 13 Now for a reward in forted us by the coming of Titus; 7
like kind (I speak as to my children), and not by his coming only, but also
be also enlarged. by the comfort with which he was
14 Do not be unequally yoked comforted in you, while he told us
with unbelievers: for what fellow- your longing, your mourning, your
ship have righteousness and iniq- zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still
uity? or what communion has light more. 8 For though I made you
with darkness? 15 And what agree- sorry with my epistle, I do not re-
ment has Christ with Belial? or gret it: though I did regret it (for I
what portion has a believer with an see that that epistle made you sorry,
unbeliever? 16 And what agree- though but for a time), 9 I now re-
ment has a temple of God with joice, not that you were made sorry,
idols? for we are a temple of the liv- but that you were made sorry unto
ing God; even as God said, “I will repentance; for you were made
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sorry according to a godly sort, that
riches of their liberality. 3 For ac-
you might suffer loss by us in noth-
cording to their power, I bear wit-
ing. 10 For godly sorrow works re-ness, yes and beyond their power,
pentance unto salvation, a
they gave of their own accord, 4 be-
repentance which brings no regret:seeching us with much entreaty in
but the sorrow of the world works regard of this grace and the fellow-
death. 11 For behold, this very same
ship in the ministering to the saints:
thing, that you were made sorry ac-
5 and this, not as we had hoped, but
cording to a godly sort, what first they gave their own selves to
earnest care it worked in you, yesthe Lord, and to us through the will
indeed what clearing of yourselves,
of God. 6 So we exhorted Titus, that
yes indeed what indignation, yes as he had made a beginning before,
indeed what fear, yes indeed what so he would also complete in you
longing, yes indeed what zeal, yesthis grace also. 7 But as you abound
indeed what avenging! In every- in everything, in faith, and utter-
thing you approved yourselves to ance, and knowledge, and in all
be pure in the matter. 12 So al- earnestness, and in your love to us,
though I wrote to you, I did not see that you abound in this grace
write for his cause who did the also. 8 I speak not by way of com-
wrong, nor for his cause who mandment, but as proving through
suffered the wrong, but that your the earnestness of others the sincer-
earnest care for us might be made ity also of your love. 9 For you
known to you in the sight of God. know the grace of our Lord Jesus
13 Therefore we have been comfort-Christ, that, though he was rich, yet
ed: and in our comfort we rejoicedfor your sakes he became poor, that
the more exceedingly for the joy of
you through his poverty might be-
Titus, because his spirit has been re-
come rich. 10 And in this I give my
freshed by you all. 14 For if in any-
judgment: for this is expedient for
thing I have gloried to him on your
you, who were the first to make a
behalf, I was not put to shame; but
beginning a year ago, not only to
as we spoke all things to you in do, but also to will. 11 But now
truth, so our glorying also which I
complete the doing also; that as
made before Titus was found to be there was the readiness to will, so
truth. 15 And his affection is more
there may be the completion also out
abundantly toward you, while he of your ability. 12 For if the readi-
remembers the obedience of you ness is there, it is acceptable accord-
all, how with fear and trembling ing as a man has, not according as he
you received him. 16 I rejoice that in
does not have. 13 For I do not say
everything I am of good courage this that others may be eased and
concerning you. you distressed; 14 but by equality:
your abundance being a supply at

8 Moreover, brethren, we make this present time for their want,

known to you the grace of God that their abundance also may be-
which has been given in the come a supply for your want; that
churches of Macedonia; 2 how that there may be equality: 15 as it is
in much proof of affliction the written, “He who gathered much
abundance of their joy and their had nothing over; and he who gath-
deep poverty abounded to the ered little had no lack.”
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16 But thanks be to God, who puts there come with me any of Macedo-
the same earnest care for you into nia and find you unprepared, we
the heart of Titus. 17 For he ac- (that we not say, you) should be put
cepted indeed our exhortation; but to shame in this confidence. 5 I
being himself very earnest, he went thought it necessary therefore to
forth to you of his own accord. 18 entreat the brethren, that they
And we have sent together with would go before to you, and make
him the brother whose praise in the up beforehand your previously
gospel is spread through all the promised bounty, that the same
churches; 19 and not only so, but might be ready as a matter of
who was also appointed by the bounty, and not of extortion.
churches to travel with us in the 6 But this I say, He who sows sparingly
matter of this grace, which is minis- will reap also sparingly; and he who sows
tered by us to the glory of the Lord, bountifully will reap also bountifully. 7 Let
and to show our readiness: 20 avoid- each man do according as he has purposed
ing this, that any man should blame in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity:
us in the matter of this bounty which for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is
is ministered by us: 21 for we take able to make all grace abound to you; that
thought for things honorable, not you, having always all sufficiency in
only in the sight of the Lord, but everything, may abound to every good
also in the sight of men. 22 And we work: 9 as it is written,
have sent with them our brother, “He has scattered abroad, he
whom we have many times proved has given to the poor;
earnest in many things, but now His righteousness remains for
much more earnest, by reason of ever.”
the great confidence which he has in 10 And he who supplies seed to the
you. 23 Whether any inquire about sower and bread for food, will sup-
Titus, he is my partner and my fel- ply and multiply your seed for
low worker toward you; or our sowing, and increase the fruits of
brethren, they are the messengers of your righteousness: 11 you being
the churches, they are the glory of enriched in everything for all liber-
Christ. 24 Show therefore to them ality, which works through us
in the face of the churches the proof thanksgiving to God. 12 For the
of your love, and of our glorying on ministry of this service not only fills
your behalf. up the measure of the wants of the

9 For concerning the minister- saints, but abounds also through

ing to the saints, it is superflu- many thanksgivings to God; 13 see-
ous for me to write to you: 2 for I ing that through the proving of you
know your readiness, of which I by this ministry they glorify God
glory on your behalf to those of for the obedience of your confes-
Macedonia, that Achaia has been sion to the gospel of Christ, and for
prepared since last year; and your the liberality of your contribution to
zeal has stirred up very many of them and to all; 14 while they them-
them. 3 But I have sent the brethren, selves also, with supplication on
that our glorying on your behalf your behalf, long after you by rea-
may not be made void in this re- son of the exceeding grace of God
spect; that, even as I said, you may in you. 15 Thanks be to God for his
be prepared: 4 lest by any means, if unspeakable gift.
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10 Now I Paul myself entreat by themselves, and comparing

you by the meekness and themselves with themselves, are
gentleness of Christ, I who in your without understanding. 13 But we
presence am lowly among you, but will not glory beyond our measure,
being absent am of good courage but according to the measure of the
toward you: 2 yes, I beseech you, sphere which God apportioned to
that I may not when present show us as a measure, to reach even to
courage with the confidence with you. 14 For we do not stretch our-
which I count to be bold against selves too much, as though we did
some, who count of us as if we not reach to you: for we came even
walked according to the flesh. 3 For as far as to you in the gospel of
though we walk in the flesh, we do Christ: 15 not glorying beyond our
not war according to the flesh 4 (for measure, that is, in other men’s
the weapons of our warfare are not labors; but having hope that, as
of the flesh, but mighty before God your faith grows, we shall be mag-
to the casting down of strong- nified in you according to our
holds), 5 casting down imagina- sphere to further abundance, 16 so
tions, and every high thing that is as to preach the gospel even to the
exalted against the knowledge of parts beyond you, and not to glory
God, and bringing every thought in another’s sphere in regard of
into captivity to the obedience of things ready to our hand. 17 But he
Christ; 6 and being in readiness to who glories, let him glory in the
avenge all disobedience, when Lord. 18 For not he who commends
your obedience shall be made full. himself is approved, but whom the
7 You look at the things that are be- Lord commends.
fore your face. If any man trusts in
himself that he is Christ’s, let him 11 Would that you could bear
with me in a little foolishness:
consider this again with himself, but indeed you do bear with me. 2
that, even as he is Christ’s, so also For I am jealous over you with a
are we. 8 For though I should glory godly jealousy: for I betrothed you
somewhat abundantly concerning to one husband, that I might
our authority (which the Lord gave present you as a pure virgin to
for building you up, and not for Christ. 3 But I fear, lest by any
casting you down), I shall not be means, as the serpent deceived Eve
put to shame: 9 that I may not seem in his craftiness, your minds should
as if I would terrify you by my let- be corrupted from the simplicity
ters. 10 For, “His letters,” they say, and the purity that is toward
“are weighty and strong; but his Christ. 4 For if he who comes
bodily presence is weak, and his preaches another Jesus, whom we
speech of no account.” 11 Let such a did not preach, or if you receive a
one reckon this, that, what we are in different spirit, which you did not
word by letters when we are ab- receive, or a different gospel, which
sent, such are we also in deed when you did not accept, you do well to
we are present. 12 For we are not bear with him. 5 For I reckon that I
bold to number or compare our- am not inferior to the very chiefest
selves with certain of those who apostles. 6 But though I be unskilled
commend themselves: but they in speech, yet I am not in knowl-
themselves, measuring themselves edge; no, in every way have we
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made this known to you in all on the face. 21 I speak by way of
things. 7 Or did I commit a sin in disparagement, as though we had
abasing myself that you might be been weak. Yet in whatsoever any is
exalted, because I preached to you bold (I speak in foolishness), I am
the gospel of God for nothing? 8 I bold also. 22 Are they Hebrews? so
robbed other churches, taking am I. Are they Israelites? so am I.
wages from them that I might minis- Are they the seed of Abraham? so
ter to you; 9 and when I was am I. 23 Are they ministers of
present with you and was in want, Christ? (I speak as one beside him-
I was not a burden on any man; for self) I more; in labors more abun-
the brethren, when they came from dantly, in prisons more abundantly,
Macedonia, supplied the measure in blows above measure, in deaths
of my want; and in everything I often. 24 Of the Jews five times I re-
kept myself from being burden- ceived forty blows save one. 25
some to you, and so will I keep my- Three times I was beaten with rods,
self. 10 As the truth of Christ is in once was I stoned, three times I
me, no man shall stop me of this suffered shipwreck, a night and a
glorying in the regions of Achaia. 11 day I have been in the deep; 26 in
Why? because I do not love you? journeyings often, in perils of
God knows. 12 But what I do, that I rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils
will do, that I may cut off occasion from my countrymen, in perils from
from those who desire an occasion; the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in
that in which they glory, they may perils in the wilderness, in perils in
be found even as we. 13 For such the sea, in perils among false
men are false apostles, deceitful brethren; 27 in labor and travail, in
workers, fashioning themselves sleeplessness often, in hunger and
into apostles of Christ. 14 And no thirst, in fastings often, in cold and
marvel; for even Satan fashions nakedness. 28 Besides those things
himself into an angel of light. 15 It that are outside, there is that which
is no great thing therefore if his presses upon me daily, anxiety for
ministers also fashion themselves all the churches. 29 Who is weak,
as ministers of righteousness, and I am not weak? who is caused
whose end will be according to to stumble, and I do not burn? 30 If
their works. I must glory, I will glory of the
16 I say again, “Let no man think things that concern my weakness.
me foolish;” but if you do, yet as 31 The God and Father of the Lord
foolish receive me, that I also may Jesus, he who is blessed for ever-
glory a little. 17 That which I speak, more knows that I do not lie. 32 In
I speak not according to the Lord, Damascus the governor under Are-
but as in foolishness, in this confi- tas the king guarded the city of the
dence of glorying. 18 Seeing that Damascenes in order to take me: 33
many glory according to the flesh, I and through a window I was let
will glory also. 19 For you bear with down in a basket by the wall, and
the foolish gladly, being wise your- escaped his hands.
selves. 20 For you bear with a man,
if he brings you into bondage, if he 12 I must glory, though it is
not expedient; but I will
devours you, if he takes you captive, come to visions and revelations of
if he exalts himself, if he strikes you the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ,
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fourteen years ago (whether in the made inferior to the rest of the
body, I do not know; or whether out churches, except it be that I myself
of the body, I do not know; God was not a burden to you? forgive
knows), such a one caught up even me this wrong.
to the third heaven. 3 And I know 14 Behold, this is the third time I
such a man (whether in the body, or am ready to come to you; and I will
apart from the body, I do not know; not be a burden to you: for I seek
God knows), 4 how that he was not yours, but you: for the children
caught up into Paradise, and heard ought not to lay up for the parents,
unspeakable words, which it is not but the parents for the children. 15
lawful for a man to utter. 5 On be- And I will most gladly spend and
half of such a one will I glory: but be spent for your souls. If I love you
on my own behalf I will not glory, more abundantly, am I loved the
except in my weaknesses. 6 For if I less? 16 But be it so, I did not myself
should desire to glory, I shall not be burden you; but, being crafty, I
foolish; for I shall speak the truth: caught you with cunning. 17 Did I
but I refrain, lest any man should take advantage of you by any one
account of me above that which he of those whom I have sent to you?
sees me to be, or hears from me. 7 18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the
And by reason of the exceeding brother with him. Did Titus take
greatness of the revelations, that I any advantage of you? Did we not
should not be exalted too much, walk in the same spirit? did we not
there was given to me a thorn in the walk in the same steps?
flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet 19 You think all this time that we
me, that I should not be exalted too are excusing ourselves to you. In
much. 8 Concerning this thing I be- the sight of God we speak in Christ.
seeched the Lord three times, that it But all things, beloved, are for your
might depart from me. 9 And he edifying. 20 For I fear, lest by any
has said to me, “My grace is suffi- means, when I come, I should find
cient for you: for my power is made you not such as I wish, and should
perfect in weakness.” Most gladly myself be found by you such as you
therefore I will rather glory in my do not wish; lest by any means there
weaknesses, that the power of should be strife, jealousy, wraths,
Christ may rest upon me. 10 There- factions, backbitings, whisperings,
fore I take pleasure in weaknesses, swellings, tumults; 21 lest again
in injuries, in necessities, in perse- when I come my God should hum-
cutions, in distresses, for Christ’s ble me before you, and I should
sake: for when I am weak, then am mourn for many of those who have
I strong. sinned before, and have not re-
11 I am become foolish: you com- pented of the uncleanness and for-
pelled me; for I ought to have been nication and licentiousness which
commended by you: for in nothing they committed.
was I behind the very chiefest apos-
tles, though I am nothing. 12 Truly 13 This is the third time I am
coming to you. At the mouth
the signs of an apostle were worked of two witnesses or three shall ev-
among you in all patience, by signs ery word be established. 2 I have
and wonders and mighty works. 13 said beforehand, and I do say be-
For what is there in which you were forehand, as when I was present the
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second time, so now, being absent,
to those who have sinned before,
and to all the rest, that, if I come
again, I will not spare; 3 seeing that
you seek a proof of Christ who
speaks in me; who toward you is
not weak, but is powerful in you: 4
for he was crucified through weak-
ness, yet he lives through the
power of God. For we also are weak
in him, but we shall live with him
through the power of God toward
you. 5 Test your own selves,
whether you are in the faith; prove
your own selves. Or do you not
know as to your own selves, that Je-
sus Christ is in you? unless indeed
you be reprobate. 6 But I hope that
you will know that we are not
reprobate. 7 Now we pray to God
that you do no evil; not that we may
appear approved, but that you may
do that which is honorable, though
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we be as reprobate. 8 For we can do
nothing against the truth, but for
the truth. 9 For we rejoice, when we
are weak, and you are strong: this
we also pray for, even your perfect-
ing. 10 For this cause I write these
things while absent, that I may not
when present deal sharply, accord-
ing to the authority which the Lord
gave me for building up, and not
for casting down.
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be
perfected; be comforted; be of the
same mind; live in peace: and the
God of love and peace will be with
you. 12 Greet one another with a
holy kiss.
13 All the saints greet you.
14 The grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and the love of God, and the
communion of the Holy Spirit, be
with you all.
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G ALATIAN S
1 Paul, an apostle (not from
men, neither through man, but
through Jesus Christ, and God the
Father, who raised him from the
dead), 2 and all the brethren who
are with me, to the churches of
Galatia: 3 Grace to you and peace
from God the Father, and our Lord
Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for
our sins, that he might deliver us
out of this present evil world, ac-
cording to the will of our God and
Father: 5 to whom be the glory for
ever and ever. Amen.
6 I marvel that you are so quickly
removing from him who called you
in the grace of Christ to a different flesh and blood: 17 neither did I go
gospel; 7 which is not another
gospel: only there are some who
trouble you, and would pervert the
gospel of Christ. 8 But though we,
or an angel from heaven, should
preach to you any gospel other than
that which we preached to you, let
him be accursed. 9 As we have said
before, so I say now again, If any
man preaches to you any gospel
other than that which you received,
let him be accursed. 10 For am I
now seeking the favor of men, or of
God? or am I striving to please
men? if I were still pleasing men, I
would not be a servant of Christ.
11 For I make known to you,
brethren, that the gospel which was
preached by me, that it is not ac-
cording to man. 12 For neither did I
receive it from man, nor was I
taught it, but it came to me through
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revelation of Jesus Christ. 13 For
you have heard of my manner of
life in time past in the Jews’ reli-
gion, how that beyond measure I
persecuted the church of God, and
made havoc of it: 14 and I advanced
in the Jews’ religion beyond many
of mine own age among my coun-
trymen, being more exceedingly
zealous for the traditions of my fa-
thers. 15 But when it was the good
pleasure of God, who separated
me, even from my mother’s womb,
and called me through his grace, 16
to reveal his Son in me, that I might
preach him among the Gentiles; im-
mediately I did not confer with
up to Jerusalem to those who were
apostles before me: but I went away
into Arabia; and again I returned to
Damascus.
18 Then after three years I went
up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas,
and stayed with him fifteen days.
19 But other of the apostles saw I
none, except James the Lord’s
brother. 20 Now concerning the
things which I write to you, behold,
before God, I do not lie. 21 Then I
came into the regions of Syria and
Cilicia. 22 And I was still unknown
by face to the churches of Judea
which were in Christ: 23 but they
only were hearing, “He who once
persecuted us now preaches the
faith of which he once made
havoc;” 24 and they glorified God
in me.
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2 Then after the space of four- ate with the Gentiles; but when
teen years I went up again to they came, he drew back and sepa-
Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Ti- rated himself, fearing those who
tus also with me. 2 And I went up were of the circumcision. 13 And
by revelation; and I laid before the rest of the Jews played a part
them the gospel which I preach likewise with him; insomuch that
among the Gentiles but privately even Barnabas was carried away
before those who were of repute, with their pretense. 14 But when I
lest by any means I should be run- saw that they did not walk up-
ning, or had run, in vain. 3 But not rightly according to the truth of the
even Titus who was with me, being gospel, I said to Cephas before them
a Greek, was compelled to be cir- all, “If you, being a Jew, live as do
cumcised: 4 and that because of the the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews,
false brethren secretly brought in, how do you compel the Gentiles to
who came in secretly to spy out our live as do the Jews?” 15 We being
liberty which we have in Christ Je- Jews by nature, and not sinners of
sus, that they might bring us into the Gentiles, 16 yet knowing that a
bondage: 5 to whom we gave place man is not justified by the works of
in the way of subjection, no, not for the law but through faith in Jesus
an hour; that the truth of the gospel Christ, even we believed on Christ
might continue with you. 6 But Jesus, that we might be justified by
from those who were reputed to be faith in Christ, and not by the
something (whatsoever they were, works of the law: because by the
it makes no matter to me: God does works of the law shall no flesh be
not accept man’s person) — they, I justified. 17 But if, while we sought
say, who were of repute imparted to be justified in Christ, we our-
nothing to me: 7 but on the con- selves also were found sinners, is
trary, when they saw that I had Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.
been entrusted with the gospel of the 18 For if I build up again those
uncircumcision, even as Peter with things which I destroyed, I prove
the gospel of the circumcision 8 (for myself a transgressor. 19 For I
he who worked for Peter to the through the law died to the law,
apostleship of the circumcision that I might live to God. 20 I have
worked for me also to the Gentiles); been crucified with Christ; and it is
9 and when they perceived the no longer I who live, but Christ
grace that was given to me, James lives in me: and that life which I
and Cephas and John, those who now live in the flesh I live in faith,
were reputed to be pillars, gave to the faith which is in the Son of God,
me and Barnabas the right hands of who loved me, and gave himself up
fellowship, that we should go to the for me. 21 I do not make void the
Gentiles, and they to the circumci- grace of God: for if righteousness is
sion; 10 only they desired that we through the law, then Christ died
should remember the poor; which for nothing.
very thing I was also zealous to do.
11 But when Cephas came to Anti-
och, I resisted him to the face, be- 3 O foolish Galatians, who be-
witched you, before whose eyes
cause he stood condemned. 12 For Jesus Christ was openly set forth
before certain came from James, he crucified? 2 This only would I learn
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from you, did you receive the Spirit ken, and to his seed. He does not
by the works of the law, or by the say, “And to seeds,” as of many; but
hearing of faith? 3 Are you so fool- as of one, “And to your seed,”
ish? having begun in the Spirit, are which is Christ. 17 Now this I say:
you now perfected in the flesh? 4 A covenant confirmed beforehand
Did you suffer so many things in by God, the law, which came four
vain? if it be indeed in vain. 5 He hundred and thirty years after, does
therefore who supplies to you the not annul, so as to make the prom-
Spirit, and works miracles among ise of no effect. 18 For if the inheri-
you, does he it by the works of the tance is of the law, it is no more of
law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 promise: but God has granted it to
Even as Abraham believed God, Abraham by promise. 19 What then
and it was reckoned to him for is the law? It was added because of
righteousness. 7 Know therefore transgressions, until the seed
that those who are of faith, the should come to whom the promise
same are sons of Abraham. 8 And has been made; and it was ordained
the Scripture, foreseeing that God through angels by the hand of a
would justify the Gentiles by faith, mediator. 20 Now a mediator is not
preached the gospel beforehand to a mediator of one; but God is one. 21
Abraham, saying, “In you shall all Is the law then against the promises
the nations be blessed.” 9 So then of God? God forbid: for if there had
those who are of faith are blessed been a law given which could make
with the faithful Abraham. 10 For alive, truly righteousness would
as many as are of the works of the have been of the law. 22 But the
law are under a curse: for it is writ- Scripture shut up all things under
ten, “Cursed is every one who does sin, that the promise by faith in Je-
not continue in all things that are sus Christ might be given to those
written in the book of the law, to do who believe.
them.” 11 Now that no man is justi- 23 But before faith came, we were
fied by the law before God, is evi- kept under guard under the law,
dent: for, “The righteous shall live shut up to the faith which should
by faith;” 12 And the law is not of afterwards be revealed. 24 So that
faith; but, “He who does them shall the law is become our tutor to bring
live in them.” 13 Christ redeemed us to Christ, that we might be justi-
us from the curse of the law, having fied by faith. 25 But now that faith
become a curse for us; for it is writ- has come, we are no longer under a
ten, “Cursed is every one who tutor. 26 For you are all sons of God,
hangs on a tree”: 14 that upon the through faith, in Christ Jesus. 27
Gentiles might come the blessing of For as many of you as were bap-
Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we tized into Christ have put on Christ.
might receive the promise of the 28 There can be neither Jew nor
Spirit through faith. Greek, there can be neither bond
15 Brethren, I speak according to nor free, there can be no male and
the manner of men: Though it be female; for you all are one man in
but a man’s covenant, yet when it Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are
has been confirmed, no one makes Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s
it void, or adds to it. 16 Now to seed, heirs according to promise.
Abraham were the promises spo-
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4 But I say that so long as the them to me. 16 So then am I become

heir is a child, he does not differ your enemy, by telling you the
at all from a bondservant though he truth? 17 They zealously seek you
is lord of all; 2 but is under in no good way; no, they desire to
guardians and stewards until the shut you out, that you may seek
day appointed by the father. 3 So them. 18 But it is good to be zeal-
we also, when we were children, ously sought in a good matter at all
were held in bondage under the times, and not only when I am
rudiments of the world: 4 but when present with you. 19 My little chil-
the fullness of the time came, God dren, of whom I am again in travail
sent forth his Son, born of a woman, until Christ is formed in you— 20
born under the law, 5 that he might but I wish to be present with you
redeem those who were under the now, and to change my tone; for I
law, that we might receive the am perplexed about you.
adoption of sons. 6 And because 21 Tell me, you who desire to be
you are sons, God sent forth the under the law, do you not hear the
Spirit of his Son into our hearts, cry- law? 22 For it is written, that Abra-
ing, “Abba, Father.” 7 So that you ham had two sons, one by the
are no longer a bondservant, but a maidservant, and one by the free
son; and if a son, then an heir woman. 23 However the son by the
through God. maidservant is born after the flesh;
8 However at that time, not but the son by the free woman is
knowing God, you were in bond- born through promise. 24 These
age to those who by nature are not things contain an allegory: for these
gods: 9 but now that you have women are two covenants; one from
come to know God, or rather to be mount Sinai, bearing children to
known by God, how do you turn bondage, which is Hagar. 25 Now
back again to the weak and beg- this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia
garly rudiments, to which you de- and corresponds to the Jerusalem
sire to be in bondage over again? 10 that now is: for she is in bondage
You observe days, and months, and with her children. 26 But the
seasons, and years. 11 I am afraid Jerusalem that is above is free,
for you, lest by any means I have la- which is our mother. 27 For it is
bored upon you in vain. written,
12 I beseech you, brethren, be- “Rejoice, you barren who do
come as I am, for I also am become as not bear;
you are. You did me no wrong: 13 Break forth and cry, you who
but you know that because of an in- are not in labor:
firmity of the flesh I preached the For more are the children of the
gospel to you the first time: 14 and desolate than of her who has
that which was a temptation to you the husband.”
in my flesh you did not despise, nor 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was,
reject; but you received me as an are children of promise. 29 But as
angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. then he who was born after the
15 Where then is that blessing of flesh persecuted him who was born
yourselves? for I bear you witness, after the Spirit, so also it is now. 30
that, if possible, you would have Nevertheless what does the Scrip-
plucked out your eyes and given ture say? “Cast out the maidservant
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and her son: for the son of the self.” 15 But if you bite and devour
maidservant shall not inherit with one another, take heed that you are
the son of the free woman.” 31 not consumed by one another.
Therefore, brethren, we are not chil- 16 But I say, Walk by the Spirit,
dren of a maid-servant, but of the and you shall not fulfill the lust of
free woman. the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts
against the Spirit, and the Spirit

5 For freedom did Christ set us against the flesh; for these are con-
free: stand fast therefore, and trary to one another; that you may
do not be entangled again in a yoke not do the things that you wish. 18
of bondage. But if you are led by the Spirit, you
2 Behold, I Paul say to you, that, if are not under the law. 19 Now the
you receive circumcision, Christ works of the flesh are evident,
will profit you nothing. 3 Yes, I tes- which are these: fornication, un-
tify again to every man who re- cleanness, licentiousness, 20 idola-
ceives circumcision, that he is a try, sorcery, enmities, strife, jeal-
debtor to do the whole law. 4 You ousies, outbursts of wrath, factions,
are severed from Christ, you who divisions, heresies, 21 envyings,
would be justified by the law; you drunkenness, revelings, and such
are fallen away from grace. 5 For like; of which I forewarn you, even
we through the Spirit by faith wait as I did forewarn you, that those
for the hope of righteousness. 6 For who practice such things will not
in Christ Jesus neither circumcision inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But
avails anything, nor uncircumci- the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
sion; but faith working through peace, long-suffering, kindness,
love. 7 You were running well; who goodness, faithfulness, 23 meek-
hindered you that you should not ness, self-control; against such
obey the truth? 8 This persuasion there is no law. 24 And those who
did not come from him who calls are of Christ Jesus have crucified
you. 9 A little leaven leavens the the flesh with the passions and the
whole lump. 10 I have confidence lusts of it.
toward you in the Lord, that you 25 If we live by the Spirit, by the
will be not otherwise minded: but Spirit let us also walk. 26 Let us not
he who troubles you shall bear his become vainglorious, provoking
judgment, whosoever he is. 11 But one another, envying one another.
I, brethren, if I still preach circumci-
sion, why am I still persecuted? 6 Brethren, even if a man is
overtaken in any trespass, you
Then has the stumbling-block of who are spiritual, restore such a
the cross been done away. 12 I wish one in a spirit of gentleness; looking
that those who unsettle you would to yourself, lest you also be
even go beyond circumcision. tempted. 2 Bear one another’s bur-
13 For you, brethren, were called dens, and so fulfill the law of
for freedom; only do not use your Christ. 3 For if a man thinks himself
freedom for an occasion to the flesh, to be something when he is noth-
but through love be servants to one ing, he deceives himself. 4 But let
another. 14 For the whole law is ful- each man test his own work, and
filled in one word, even in this: “You then will he have his glorying in re-
shall love your neighbor as your- gard of himself alone, and not of his
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neighbor. 5 For each man shall bear
his own burden.
6 But let him who is taught in the
word communicate to him who
teaches in all good things. 7 Do not
be deceived; God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man sows, that will
he also reap. 8 For he who sows to
his own flesh will of the flesh reap
corruption; but he who sows to the
Spirit will of the Spirit reap eternal
life. 9 And let us not be weary in
well-doing: for in due time we shall
reap, if we do not faint. 10 So then,
as we have opportunity, let us work
that which is good toward all men,
and especially toward those who
are of the household of the faith.
11 See with how large letters I
write to you with my own hand. 12
As many as desire to make a good
show in the flesh, they compel you
to be circumcised; only that they
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may not be persecuted for the cross
of Christ. 13 For not even those who
receive circumcision do themselves
keep the law; but they desire to
have you circumcised, that they
may glory in your flesh. 14 But far
be it from me to glory, save in the
cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
through which the world has been
crucified to me, and I to the world.
15 For neither is circumcision any-
thing, nor uncircumcision, but a
new creature. 16 And as many as
will walk by this rule, peace be
upon them, and
mercy, and upon the Israel of
God.
17 Henceforth let no man trouble
me; for I bear branded on my body
the marks of Jesus.
18 The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with your spirit, brethren.
Amen.
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EP HESIAN S

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus

through the will of God, to the
saints who are in Ephesus, and the
we who had before hoped in Christ:
13 in whom you also, having heard
the word of the truth, the gospel of
faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace to your salvation, — in whom, having
you and peace from God our Father also believed, you were sealed with
and the Lord Jesus Christ. the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who
is a first installment of our inheri-
3 Blessed be the God and Father of tance, to the redemption of God’s
our Lord Jesus Christ, who has own possession, to the praise of his
blessed us with every spiritual glory.
blessing in the heavenly places in 15 For this cause I also, having
Christ: 4 even as he chose us in him heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus
before the foundation of the world, which is among you, and the love
that we should be holy and without which you show toward all the
blemish before him in love: 5 hav- saints, 16 do not cease to give
ing foreordained us to adoption as thanks for you, making mention of
sons through Jesus Christ to him- you in my prayers; 17 that the God
self, according to the good pleasure of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father
of his will, 6 to the praise of the of glory, may give to you a spirit of
glory of his grace, which he freely wisdom and revelation in the
bestowed on us in the Beloved: 7 in knowledge of him; 18 having the
whom we have our redemption eyes of your heart enlightened, that
through his blood, the forgiveness you may know what is the hope of
of our trespasses, according to the his calling, what the riches of the
riches of his grace, 8 which he made glory of his inheritance in the
to abound toward us in all wisdom saints, 19 and what the exceeding
and prudence, 9 making known to greatness of his power toward us
us the mystery of his will, accord- who believe, according to that
ing to his good pleasure which he working of the strength of his
purposed in him 10 to a manage- might 20 which he worked in
ment of the fullness of the times, to Christ, when he raised him from
sum up all things in Christ, the the dead, and made him to sit at his
things in the heavens, and the right hand in the heavenly places, 21
things on the earth; in him, I say, 11 far above all rule, and authority,
in whom also we were made a her- and power, and dominion, and ev-
itage, having been foreordained ac- ery name that is named, not only in
cording to the purpose of him who this world, but also in that which is
works all things after the counsel of to come: 22 and he put all things in
his will; 12 to the end that we subjection under his feet, and gave
should be to the praise of his glory, him to be head over all things for
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the church, 23 which is his body, the wall of partition, 15 having abol-
fullness of him who fills all in all. ished in his flesh the enmity, even

2 And you were dead in your the law of commandments con-

trespasses and sins, 2 in which tained in ordinances; that he might
you once walked according to the create in himself of the two one new
course of this world, according to man, so making peace; 16 and
the prince of the powers of the air, might reconcile them both in one
of the spirit that now works in the body to God through the cross,
sons of disobedience; 3 among having slain the enmity by it: 17
whom we also all once lived in the and he came and preached peace to
lusts of our flesh, doing the desires you that were far off, and peace to
of the flesh and of the mind, and those who were near: 18 for
were by nature children of wrath, through him we both have our ac-
even as the rest: — 4 but God, being cess in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So
rich in mercy, for his great love with then you are no longer strangers
which he loved us, 5 even when we and sojourners, but you are fellow
were dead through our trespasses, citizens with the saints, and of the
made us alive together with Christ household of God, 20 being built on
(by grace have you been saved), 6 the foundation of the apostles and
and raised us up with him, and prophets, Christ Jesus himself be-
made us to sit with him in the heav- ing the chief corner stone; 21 in
enly places, in Christ Jesus: 7 that in whom each separate building, fitly
the ages to come he might show the framed together, grows into a holy
exceeding riches of his grace in temple in the Lord; 22 in whom you
kindness toward us in Christ Jesus: also are built together for a habita-
8 for by grace have you been saved tion of God in the Spirit.
through faith; and that not of your-
selves, it is the gift of God; 9 not of3 For this cause I Paul, the pris-
oner of Christ Jesus on behalf of
works, that no man should glory. 10 you Gentiles,— 2 if indeed you
For we are his workmanship, cre- have heard of the management of
ated in Christ Jesus for good works, that grace of God which was given
which God prepared beforehand me toward you; 3 how that by reve-
that we should walk in them. lation was made known to me the
11 Therefore remember, that once mystery, as I wrote before in brief, 4
you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who by which, when you read, you can
are called Uncircumcision by that perceive my understanding in the
which is called Circumcision, in the mystery of Christ; 5 which in other
flesh, made by hands; 12 that you generations was not made known
were at that time separate from to the sons of men, as it has now
Christ, alienated from the common- been revealed to his holy apostles
wealth of Israel, and strangers from and prophets in the Spirit; 6 that is
the covenants of the promise, hav- to say, that the Gentiles are fellow
ing no hope and without God in the heirs, and fellow members of the
world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus body, and fellow partakers of the
you who once were far off were promise in Christ Jesus through the
made near in the blood of Christ. 14 gospel, 7 of which I was made a
For he is our peace, who made both minister, according to the gift of
one, and broke down the middle that grace of God which was given
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me according to the working of his worthily of the calling with which
power. 8 To me, who am less than you were called, 2 with all lowli-
the least of all saints, was this grace
ness and meekness, with long-
given, to preach to the Gentiles the suffering, forbearing one another in
unsearchable riches of Christ; 9 and love; 3 giving diligence to keep the
to make all men see what is the unity of the Spirit in the bond of
management of the mystery which peace. 4 There is one body, and one
for ages has been hidden in God Spirit, even as also you were called
who created all things; 10 to the in- in one hope of your calling; 5 one
tent that now to the principalities Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one
and the powers in the heavenly God and Father of all, who is over
places might be made known all, and through all, and in all. 7 But
through the church the manifold to each one of us was the grace
wisdom of God, 11 according to the given according to the measure of
eternal purpose which he purposed the gift of Christ. 8 Therefore he
in Christ Jesus our Lord: 12 in says,
whom we have boldness and access “When he ascended on high, he
in confidence through our faith in led captivity captive,
him. 13 Therefore I ask that you And gave gifts to men.”
may not faint at my tribulations for 9 (Now this, “He ascended,” what
you, which are your glory. is it but that he also descended into
14 For this cause I bow my knees the lower parts of the earth? 10 He
to the Father, 15 from whom every who descended is the same also
family in heaven and on earth is who ascended far above all the
named, 16 that he would grant you, heavens, that he might fill all
according to the riches of his glory, things.) 11 And he gave some to be
that you may be strengthened with apostles; and some, prophets; and
power through his Spirit in the in- some, evangelists; and some, pas-
ward man; 17 that Christ may dwell tors and teachers; 12 for the perfect-
in your hearts through faith; to the ing of the saints, to the work of
end that you, being rooted and ministering, to the building up of
grounded in love, 18 may be strong the body of Christ: 13 until we all
to apprehend with all the saints attain to the unity of the faith, and
what is the breadth and length and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
height and depth, 19 and to know to a full-grown man, to the measure
the love of Christ which surpasses of the stature of the fullness of
knowledge, that you may be filled Christ: 14 that we may be no longer
to all the fullness of God. children, tossed to and fro and car-
20 Now to him who is able to do ried about with every wind of doc-
exceedingly abundantly above all trine, by the trickery of men, in
that we ask or think, according to craftiness, according to the schem-
the power that works in us, 21 to ing of error; 15 but speaking truth
him be the glory in the church and in love, may grow up in all things
in Christ Jesus to all generations forinto him, who is the head, even
ever and ever. Amen. Christ; 16 from whom all the body
fitly framed and knit together

4 I therefore, the prisoner in the through that which every joint sup-
Lord, beseech you to walk plies, according to the working in
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due measure of each separate part, one another, tenderhearted, forgiv-
makes the increase of the body for ing each other, even as God also in
the building up of itself in love. Christ forgave you.
17 This I say therefore, and testify
in the Lord, that you no longer 5 Be therefore imitators of God,
as beloved children; 2 and walk
walk as the Gentiles also walk, in in love, even as Christ also loved
the vanity of their mind, 18 being you, and gave himself up for us, an
darkened in their understanding, offering and a sacrifice to God for
alienated from the life of God, be- an odor of a sweet smell.
cause of the ignorance that is in 3 But fornication, and all unclean-
them, because of the hardening of ness, or covetousness, let it not
their heart; 19 who being past feel- even be named among you, as is fit-
ing, gave themselves up to licen- ting saints; 4 nor filthiness, nor fool-
tiousness, to work all uncleanness ish talking, or coarse jesting, which
with greediness. 20 But you did not are not befitting: but rather giving
so learn Christ; 21 if indeed you of thanks. 5 For this you know for
heard him, and were taught in him, certain, that no fornicator, nor un-
even as truth is in Jesus: 22 that you clean person, nor covetous man,
put away, as concerning your for- who is an idolater, has any inheri-
mer manner of life, the old man, tance in the kingdom of Christ and
which grows corrupt after the lusts God. 6 Let no man deceive you
of deceit; 23 and that you be re- with empty words: for because of
newed in the spirit of your mind, 24 these things comes the wrath of
and put on the new man, which ac- God upon the sons of disobedience.
cording to God has been created in 7 Do not be therefore partakers
righteousness and holiness of truth. with them; 8 for you were once
25 Therefore, putting away false- darkness, but are now light in the
hood, speak truth each one with his Lord: walk as children of light 9 (for
neighbor: for we are members one the fruit of the light is in all good-
of another. 26 Be angry, and do not ness and righteousness and truth),
sin: do not let the sun go down on 10 proving what is well-pleasing to
your wrath: 27 neither give place to the Lord; 11 and have no fellowship
the devil. 28 Let him who stole steal with the unfruitful works of dark-
no more: but rather let him labor, ness, but rather even reprove them;
working with his hands the thing 12 for the things which are done by
that is good, that he may have them in secret it is a shame even to
something to give to him who has speak of. 13 But all things when
need. 29 Let no corrupt speech pro- they are reproved are made known
ceed out of your mouth, but such as by the light: for everything that is
is good for edifying as the need made known is light. 14 Therefore
may be, that it may give grace to he says, “Awake, you who sleep,
those who hear. 30 And do not and arise from the dead, and Christ
grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in will shine on you.”
whom you were sealed for the day 15 Look therefore carefully how
of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, you walk, not as unwise, but as
and wrath, and anger, and clamor, wise; 16 redeeming the time, be-
and railing, be put away from you, cause the days are evil. 17 Therefore
with all malice: 32 and be kind to do not be foolish, but understand
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what the will of the Lord is. 18 And
do not be drunk with wine, in
which is riot, but be filled with the
Spirit; 19 speaking to one another in
psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs, singing and making melody
with your heart to the Lord; 20 giv-
ing thanks always for all things in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ
to God, even the Father; 21 subject-
ing yourselves to one another in the
fear of Christ.
22 Wives, be in subjection to your
own husbands, as to the Lord. 23
For the husband is the head of the
wife, as Christ also is the head of
the church, being himself the savior
of the body. 24 But as the church is
subject to Christ, so let the wives
also be to their husbands in every-
thing. 25 Husbands, love your
wives, even as Christ also loved the
church, and gave himself up for it;
26 that he might sanctify it, having
cleansed it by the washing of water
with the word, 27 that he might
present the church to himself a glo-
rious church, not having spot or
wrinkle or any such thing; but that
it should be holy and without blem-
ish. 28 Even so ought husbands also
to love their own wives as their
own bodies. He who loves his own
wife loves himself: 29 for no man
ever hated his own flesh; but nour-
ishes and cherishes it, even as
Christ also the church; 30 because
we are members of his body. 31 For
this cause shall a man leave his fa-
ther and mother, and shall cleave to
his wife; and the two shall become
one flesh. 32 This mystery is great:
but I speak in regard of Christ and
of the church. 33 Nevertheless you
also individually love his own wife
even as himself; and let the wife see
that she fear her husband.
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6 Children, obey your parents
in the Lord: for this is right. 2
Honor your father and mother
(which is the first commandment
with promise), 3 that it may be well
with you, and you may live long on
the earth. 4 And, you fathers, do not
provoke your children to wrath:
but nurture them in the chastening
and admonition of the Lord.
5 Servants, be obedient to those
who according to the flesh are your
masters, with fear and trembling, in
singleness of your heart, as to
Christ; 6 not in the way of eye-ser-
vice, as men-pleasers; but as ser-
vants of Christ, doing the will of
God from the heart; 7 with good
will doing service, as to the Lord,
and not to men: 8 knowing that
whatsoever good thing each one
does, the same will he receive again
from the Lord, whether he be bond
or free. 9 And, you masters, do the
same things to them, and give up
threatening: knowing that he who
is both their Master and yours is in
heaven, and there is no respect of
persons with him.
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord,
and in the strength of his might. 11
Put on the whole armor of God,
that you may be able to stand
against the schemes of the devil. 12
For our wrestling is not against
flesh and blood, but against the
principalities, against the powers,
against the world-rulers of this
darkness, against the spiritual hosts
of wickedness in the heavenly
places. 13 Therefore take up the
whole armor of God, that you may
be able to withstand in the evil day,
and, having done all, to stand. 14
Stand therefore, having girded
your loins with truth, and having
put on the breastplate of righteous-
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ness, 15 and having shod your feet
with the preparation of the gospel
of peace; 16 in all taking up the
shield of faith, with which you will
be able to quench all the fiery darts
of the evil one. 17 And take the hel-
met of salvation, and the sword of
the Spirit, which is the word of
God: 18 with all prayer and suppli-
cation praying at all seasons in the
Spirit, and watching to that end in
all perseverance and supplication
for all the saints, 19 and on my be-
half, that utterance may be given to
me in opening my mouth, to make
known with boldness the mystery
of the gospel, 20 for which I am an
ambassador in chains; that in it I
may speak boldly, as I ought to
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21 But that you also may know
my affairs, how I am doing, Tychi-
cus, the beloved brother and faith-
ful minister in the Lord, will make
known to you all things: 22 whom I
have sent to you for this very pur-
pose, that you may know our state,
and that he may comfort your
hearts.
23 Peace be to the brethren, and
love with faith, from God the Fa-
ther and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24
Grace be with all those who love
our Lord Jesus Christ with a love in-
corruptible.
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PH ILIP PIAN S

1 Paul and Timothy, servants of

Christ Jesus, to all the saints in
Christ Jesus that are in Philippi,
the progress of the gospel; 13 so
that my bonds became known in
Christ throughout the whole prae-
with the overseers and deacons: 2 torian guard, and to all the rest; 14
Grace to you and peace from God and that most of the brethren in the
our Father and the Lord Jesus Lord, being confident through my
Christ. bonds, are more abundantly bold to
speak the word of God without
3 I thank my God upon all my re- fear. 15 Some indeed preach Christ
membrance of you, 4 always in ev- even from envy and strife; and
ery supplication of mine on behalf some also from good will: 16 the
of you all making my supplication one do it from love, knowing that I
with joy, 5 for your fellowship in am set for the defense of the gospel;
furtherance of the gospel from the 17 but the other proclaim Christ
first day until now; 6 being confi- from faction, not sincerely, thinking
dent of this very thing, that he who to raise up affliction for me in my
began a good work in you will per- bonds. 18 What then? only that in
fect it until the day of Jesus Christ: every way, whether in pretense or
7 even as it is right for me to be thus in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and
minded on behalf of you all, be- in this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.
cause I have you in my heart, inas- 19 For I know that this will turn out
much as, both in my bonds and in to my salvation, through your sup-
the defense and confirmation of the plication and the supply of the
gospel, you all are partakers with Spirit of Jesus Christ, 20 according
me of grace. 8 For God is my wit- to my earnest expectation and
ness, how I long after you all in the hope, that in nothing shall I be put
tender mercies of Christ Jesus. 9 to shame, but that with all boldness,
And this I pray, that your love may as always, so now also Christ will
abound yet more and more in be magnified in my body, whether
knowledge and all discernment; 10 by life, or by death. 21 For to me to
so that you may approve the things live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22
that are excellent; that you may be But if to live in the flesh, — if this
sincere and void of offense until the will bring fruit from my work, then
day of Christ; 11 being filled with what I shall choose I do not know.
the fruits of righteousness, which 23 But I am in a strait between the
are through Jesus Christ, to the two, having the desire to depart
glory and praise of God. and be with Christ; for it is very far
12 Now I would have you know, better: 24 yet to abide in the flesh is
brethren, that the things which hap- more necessary for your sake. 25
pened to me have fallen out rather to And having this confidence, I know
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that I shall remain, yes, and remain him the name which is above every
with you all, for your progress and name; 10 that in the name of Jesus
joy in the faith; 26 that your glory- every knee should bow, of things in
ing may abound in Christ Jesus in heaven and things on earth and
me through my presence with you things under the earth, 11 and that
again. 27 Only let your manner of every tongue should confess that
life be worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of
Christ: that, whether I come and see God the Father.
you or be absent, I may hear of your 12 So then, my beloved, even as
state, that you stand fast in one you have always obeyed, not as in
spirit, with one soul striving for the my presence only, but now much
faith of the gospel; 28 and in noth- more in my absence, work out your
ing frightened by the adversaries: own salvation with fear and trem-
which is for them an evident token bling; 13 for it is God who works in
of destruction, but of your salva- you both to will and to work, for his
tion, and that from God; 29 because good pleasure. 14 Do all things
to you it has been granted on the without murmurings and question-
behalf of Christ, not only to believe ings: 15 that you may become
on him, but also to suffer on his be- blameless and harmless, children of
half: 30 having the same conflict God without blemish in the midst
which you saw in me, and now of a crooked and perverse genera-
hear to be in me. tion, among whom you are seen as

2 If there is therefore any exhor- lights in the world, 16 holding forth

tation in Christ, if any consola- the word of life; that I may have
tion of love, if any fellowship of the matter to glory in the day of Christ,
Spirit, if any tender mercies and that I did not run in vain neither la-
compassions, 2 make full my joy, bor in vain. 17 Yes, and if I am
that you be of the same mind, hav- offered on the sacrifice and service
ing the same love, being of one ac- of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice
cord, of one mind; 3 doing nothing with you all: 18 and in the same
through faction or through vain- manner do you also rejoice, and re-
glory, but in lowliness of mind each joice with me.
counting others better than himself; 19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to
4 not looking each of you to his own send Timothy shortly to you, that I
things, but each of you also to the also may be of good comfort, when
things of others. 5 Have this mind I know your state. 20 For I have no
in you, which was also in Christ Je- man likeminded, who will care
sus: 6 who, existing in the form of truly for your state. 21 For they all
God, counted not the being on an seek their own, not the things of Je-
equality with God a thing to be sus Christ. 22 But you know the
grasped, 7 but emptied himself, proof of him, that, as a child serves a
taking the form of a servant, being father, so he served with me in fur-
made in the likeness of men; 8 and therance of the gospel. 23 Him
being found in fashion as a man, he therefore I hope to send immedi-
humbled himself, becoming obedi- ately, so soon as I shall see how it
ent even unto death, yes, the death will go with me: 24 but I trust in the
of the cross. 9 Therefore also God Lord that I myself also shall come
highly exalted him, and gave to shortly. 25 But I counted it neces-
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sary to send to you Epaphroditus,
my brother and fellow worker and
fellow soldier, and your messenger
and minister to my need; 26 since
he longed after you all, and was ex-
tremely troubled, because you had
heard that he was sick: 27 for in-
deed he was sick near to death: but
God had mercy on him; and not on
him only, but on me also, that I
might not have sorrow upon sor-
row. 28 I have sent him therefore
the more diligently, that, when you
see him again, you may rejoice, and
that I may be the less sorrowful. 29
Receive him therefore in the Lord
with all joy; and hold such in hon-
or: 30 because for the work of
Christ he came near to death, haz-
arding his life to supply that which
was lacking in your service toward
me.
edge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for
whom I suffered the loss of all
things, and do count them but
refuse, that I may gain Christ, 9 and
be found in him, not having a right-
eousness of my own, even that
which is of the law, but that which
is through faith in Christ, the right-
eousness which is from God by
faith: 10 that I may know him, and
the power of his resurrection, and
the fellowship of his sufferings, be-
coming conformed to his death; 11
if by any means I may attain to the
resurrection from the dead. 12 Not
that I have already obtained, or am
already made perfect: but I press
on, if indeed I may lay hold on that
for which also I was laid hold on by
Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I do not
count myself yet to have laid hold:
but one thing I do, forgetting the
things which are behind, and

3 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in stretching forward to the things

the Lord. To write the same which are before. 14 I press on to-
things to you, to me indeed is not ward the goal to the prize of the
irksome, but for you it is safe. 2 Be- high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
ware of the dogs, beware of the evil 15 Let us therefore, as many as are
workers, beware of the false cir- perfect, be thus minded: and if in
cumcision: 3 for we are the circum- anything you are otherwise
cision, who worship by the Spirit of minded, this also will God reveal to
God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and you: 16 only, to which we have at-
have no confidence in the flesh: 4 tained, by that same rule let us
though I myself might have confi- walk.
dence even in the flesh: if any other 17 Brethren, be imitators together
man thinks to have confidence in of me, and mark those who so walk
the flesh, I yet more: 5 circumcised even as you have us for an example.
the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, 18 For many walk, of whom I told
of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew you often, and now tell you even
of Hebrews; concerning the law, a weeping, that they are the enemies
Pharisee; 6 concerning zeal, perse- of the cross of Christ: 19 whose end
cuting the church; concerning the is destruction, whose god is the
righteousness which is in the law, belly, and whose glory is in their
found blameless. 7 Nevertheless shame, who mind earthly things. 20
what things were gain to me, these For our citizenship is in heaven;
have I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yes from which also we wait for a Sav-
truly, and I count all things to be ior, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 who
loss for the excellency of the knowl- shall fashion anew the body of our
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humiliation, that it may be con-
formed to the body of his glory, ac-
cording to the working by which he
is able even to subject all things to
himself.
4 Therefore, my brethren belov-
ed and longed for, my joy and
crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my
beloved.
2 I exhort Euodia, and I exhort
Syntyche, to be of the same mind in
the Lord. 3 Yes, I beseech you also,
true yokefellow, help these women,
for they labored with me in the
gospel, with Clement also, and the
rest of my fellow workers, whose
names are in the book of life.
4 Rejoice in the Lord always:
again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your
forbearance be known to all men.
The Lord is at hand. 6 In nothing be
anxious; but in everything by
prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be
made known to God. 7 And the
peace of God, which surpasses all
understanding, will guard your
hearts and your thoughts in Christ
Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever
things are true, whatsoever things
are honorable, whatsoever things
are just, whatsoever things are
pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good re-
port; if there be any virtue, and if
there be any praise, think on these
things. 9 The things which you both
learned and received and heard
and saw in me, these things do: and
the God of peace will be with you.
10 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly,
that now at length you have re-
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vived your thought for me; in
which you did indeed take thought,
but you lacked opportunity. 11 Not
that I speak in respect of want: for I
have learned, in whatsoever state I
am, in that to be content. 12 I know
how to be abased, and I know also
how to abound: in everything and
in all things have I learned the se-
cret both to be filled and to be hun-
gry, both to abound and to be in
want. 13 I can do all things in him
who strengthens me. 14 Neverthe-
less you did well that you had fel-
lowship with my affliction. 15 And
you yourselves also know, you
Philippians, that in the beginning
of the gospel, when I departed from
Macedonia, no church had fellow-
ship with me in the matter of giving
and receiving but you only; 16 for
even in Thessalonica you sent once
and again to my need. 17 Not that I
seek for the gift; but I seek for the
fruit that increases to your account.
18 But I have all things, and
abound: I am filled, having re-
ceived from Epaphroditus the
things that came from you, an odor
of a sweet smell, a sacrifice accept-
able, well-pleasing to God. 19 And
my God shall supply every need of
yours according to his riches in
glory in Christ Jesus. 20 Now to our
God and Father be the glory for ever
and ever. Amen.
21 Greet every saint in Christ Je-
sus. The brethren who are with me
greet you. 22 All the saints greet
you, especially those who are of
Caesar’s household.
23 The grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ be with your spirit.
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C O LO SSIAN S

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus

through the will of God, and
Timothy our brother, 2 to the saints
fit to be partakers of the inheritance
of the saints in light; 13 who deliv-
ered us out of the power of dark-
and faithful brethren in Christ who ness, and translated us into the
are in Colossae: Grace to you and kingdom of the Son of his love; 14
peace from God our Father. in whom we have our redemption,
the forgiveness of our sins: 15 who
3 We give thanks to God the Fa- is the image of the invisible God,
ther of our Lord Jesus Christ, pray- the firstborn of all creation; 16 for in
ing always for you, 4 having heard him were all things created, in the
of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of heavens and on the earth, things
the love which you have toward all visible and things invisible,
the saints, 5 because of the hope whether thrones or dominions or
which is laid up for you in the heav- principalities or powers; all things
ens, of which you heard before in have been created through him,
the word of the truth of the gospel, and for him; 17 and he is before all
6 which is come to you; even as it is things, and in him all things con-
also in all the world bearing fruit sist. 18 And he is the head of the
and increasing, as it does in you body, the church: who is the begin-
also, since the day you heard and ning, the firstborn from the dead;
knew the grace of God in truth; 7 that in all things he might have the
even as you learned of Epaphras preeminence. 19 For it was the
our beloved fellow servant, who is good pleasure of the Father that in
a faithful minister of Christ on our him should all the fullness dwell;
behalf, 8 who also declared to us 20 and through him to reconcile all
your love in the Spirit. things to himself, having made
9 For this cause we also, since the peace through the blood of his
day we heard it, do not cease to cross; through him, I say, whether
pray and make request for you, that things on the earth, or things in the
you may be filled with the knowl- heavens. 21 And you, being in time
edge of his will in all spiritual wis- past alienated and enemies in your
dom and understanding, 10 to walk mind in your evil works, 22 yet
worthily of the Lord unto all pleas- now has he reconciled in the body
ing, bearing fruit in every good of his flesh through death, to
work, and increasing in the knowl- present you holy and without
edge of God; 11 strengthened with blemish and unreprovable before
all power, according to the might of him: 23 if indeed you continue in
his glory, unto all patience and the faith, grounded and steadfast,
long-suffering with joy; 12 giving and not moved away from the hope
thanks to the Father, who made us of the gospel which you heard,
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which was preached in all creation rooted and built up in him, and es-
under heaven; of which I Paul was tablished in your faith, even as you
made a minister. were taught, abounding in thanks-
24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings giving. 8 Take heed lest there will
for your sake, and fill up on my be any one who makes spoil of you
part that which is lacking of the through his philosophy and vain
afflictions of Christ in my flesh for deceit, after the tradition of men, af-
his body’s sake, which is the ter the rudiments of the world, and
church; 25 of which I was made a not after Christ: 9 for in him dwells
minister, according to the manage- all the fullness of the Godhead bod-
ment of God which was given me ily, 10 and in him you are made full,
toward you, to fulfill the word of who is the head of all principality
God, 26 even the mystery which has and power: 11 in whom you were
been hidden for ages and genera- also circumcised with a circumci-
tions: but now has it been disclosed sion not made with hands, in the
to his saints, 27 to whom God was putting off of the body of the flesh,
pleased to make known what is the in the circumcision of Christ; 12
riches of the glory of this mystery having been buried with him in
among the Gentiles, which is Christ baptism, in which you were also
in you, the hope of glory: 28 whom raised with him through faith in the
we proclaim, admonishing every working of God, who raised him
man and teaching every man in all from the dead. 13 And you, being
wisdom, that we may present every dead through your trespasses and
man perfect in Christ; 29 to which I the uncircumcision of your flesh,
labor also, striving according to his you, I say, did he make alive to-
working, which works in me gether with him, having forgiven
mightily. us all our trespasses; 14 having

2 For I would have you know blotted out the bond written in or-
how greatly I strive for you, dinances that was against us, which
and for those in Laodicea, and for was contrary to us: and he has
as many as have not seen my face in taken it out of the way, nailing it to
the flesh; 2 that their hearts may be the cross; 15 having despoiled the
comforted, they being knit together principalities and the powers, he
in love, and to all riches of the full made a show of them openly, tri-
assurance of understanding, that umphing over them in it.
they may know the mystery of 16 Let no man therefore judge you
God, even Christ, 3 in whom are all in meat, or in drink, or in respect of
the treasures of wisdom and a feast day or a new moon or a Sab-
knowledge hidden. 4 This I say, that bath Day: 17 which are a shadow of
no one may delude you with per- the things to come; but the body is
suasiveness of speech. 5 For though Christ’s. 18 Let no man rob you of
I am absent in the flesh, yet am I your prize by a voluntary humility
with you in the spirit, rejoicing and and worshipping of the angels,
beholding your order, and the dwelling in the things which he has
steadfastness of your faith in seen, vainly puffed up by his
Christ. fleshly mind, 19 and not holding
6 As therefore you received Christ fast the Head, from whom all the
Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 body, being supplied and knit to-
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gether through the joints and sion, barbarian, Scythian, bond-
bonds, increases with the increase man, freeman; but Christ is all, and
of God. in all.
20 If you died with Christ from 12 Put on therefore, as God’s elect,
the rudiments of the world, why, as holy and beloved, a heart of com-
though living in the world, do you passion, kindness, lowliness, meek-
subject yourselves to ordinances, 21 ness, long-suffering; 13 forbearing
“Do not handle, nor taste, nor one another, and forgiving each
touch” 22 (all which things are to other, if any man has a complaint
perish with the using), after the pre-
against any; even as the Lord for-
cepts and doctrines of men? 23 gave you, so also do you: 14 and
Which things have indeed a show above all these things put on love,
of wisdom in will-worship, and hu- which is the bond of perfection. 15
mility, and severity to the body; butAnd let the peace of Christ rule in
are not of any value against the in- your hearts, to which also you were
dulgence of the flesh. called in one body; and be thankful.

3 If then you were raised to-

gether with Christ, seek the
things that are above, where Christ
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in
you richly; in all wisdom teaching
and admonishing one another with
is, seated at the right hand of God. psalms and hymns and spiritual
2 Set your mind on the things that songs, singing with grace in your
are above, not on the things that arehearts to God. 17 And whatsoever
on the earth. 3 For you died, and you do, in word or in deed, do all in
your life is hidden with Christ in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving
God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, thanks to God the Father through
will be disclosed, then will you alsohim.
with him be disclosed in glory. 18 Wives, be in subjection to your
husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
5 Put to death therefore your 19 Husbands, love your wives, and
members which are on the earth: do not be bitter against them. 20
fornication, uncleanness, passion, Children, obey your parents in all
evil desire, and covetousness, things, for this is well-pleasing in
which is idolatry; 6 for which the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not pro-
things’ sake comes the wrath of voke your children, that they not be
God upon the sons of disobedience: discouraged. 22 Servants, obey in
7 in which you also once walked, all things those who are your mas-
when you lived in these things; 8 ters according to the flesh; not with
but now you also put them all eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in
away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, singleness of heart, fearing the
shameful speaking out of your Lord: 23 whatsoever you do, work
mouth: 9 do not lie to one another; heartily, as to the Lord, and not to
seeing that you have put off the old men; 24 knowing that from the
man with his doings, 10 and have Lord you will receive the reward of
put on the new man, that is being the inheritance: you serve the Lord
renewed to knowledge after the im- Christ. 25 For he who does wrong
age of him who created him: 11 will receive again for the wrong
where there cannot be Greek and that he has done: and there is no re-
Jew, circumcision and uncircumci- spect of persons. 4 Masters, render
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to your servants that which is just ceived commandments; if he comes
and equal; knowing that you also to you, receive him), 11 and Jesus
have a Master in heaven. who is called Justus, who are of the
2 Continue steadfastly in prayer, circumcision: these only are my fel-
watching in it with thanksgiving; 3 low workers for the kingdom of
at the same time praying for us God, men who have been a comfort
also, that God may open to us a to me. 12 Epaphras, who is one of
door for the word, to speak the you, a servant of Christ Jesus,
mystery of Christ, for which I am greets you, always striving for you
also in bonds; 4 that I may make it in his prayers, that you may stand
known, as I ought to speak. 5 Walk perfect and fully assured in all the
in wisdom toward those who are will of God. 13 For I bear him wit-
outside, redeeming the time. 6 Let ness, that he has much labor for
your speech be always with grace, you, and for those in Laodicea, and
seasoned with salt, that you may for those in Hierapolis. 14 Luke, the
know how you ought to answer beloved physician, and Demas
each one. greet you. 15 Greet the brethren
who are in Laodicea, and
7 All my affairs will Tychicus Nymphas, and the church that is in
make known to you, the beloved their house. 16 And when this epis-
brother and faithful minister and tle has been read among you, cause
fellow servant in the Lord: 8 whom that it be read also in the church of
I have sent to you for this very pur- the Laodiceans; and that you also
pose, that you may know our state, read the epistle from Laodicea. 17
and that he may comfort your And say to Archippus, “Take heed
hearts; 9 together with Onesimus, to the ministry which you have re-
the faithful and beloved brother, ceived in the Lord, that you fulfill
who is one of you. They will make it.”
known to you all things that are hap-
pening here. 18 The greeting of me Paul with
10 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner my own hand. Remember my
greets you, and Mark, the cousin of bonds. Grace be with you.
Barnabas (about whom you re-

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THESSALO N IAN S

1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timo- come.

thy, to the church of the Thessa-
lonians in God the Father and the 2 For you yourselves, brethren,
know our entrance to you, that
Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and it has not been found vain: 2 but
peace. having suffered before and been
shamefully treated, as you know, in
2 We give thanks to God always Philippi, we spoke boldly in our
for you all, making mention of you God to speak to you the gospel of
in our prayers; 3 remembering God in much conflict. 3 For our ex-
without ceasing your work of faith hortation is not of error, nor of un-
and labor of love and patience of cleanness, nor in deceit: 4 but even
hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, be- as we have been approved by God
fore our God and Father; 4 know- to be entrusted with the gospel, so
ing, brethren beloved of God, your we speak; not as pleasing men, but
election, 5 how that our gospel did God who proves our hearts. 5 For
not come to you in word only, but neither at any time were we found
also in power, and in the Holy using words of flattery, as you
Spirit, and in much assurance; even know, nor a cloak of covetousness,
as you know what manner of men God is witness; 6 nor seeking glory
we showed ourselves toward you from men, neither from you nor
for your sake. 6 And you became from others, when we might have
imitators of us, and of the Lord, claimed authority as apostles of
having received the word in much Christ. 7 But we were gentle in the
affliction, with joy of the Holy midst of you, as when a nurse cher-
Spirit; 7 so that you became an ex- ishes her own children: 8 even so,
ample to all who believe in Mace- being affectionately desirous of
donia and in Achaia. 8 For from you, we were well pleased to im-
you has sounded forth the word of part to you, not the gospel of God
the Lord, not only in Macedonia only, but also our own souls, be-
and Achaia, but in every place your cause you had become very dear to
faith toward God is gone forth; so us. 9 For you remember, brethren,
that we do not need to say any- our labor and travail: working
thing. 9 For they themselves report night and day, that we might not
concerning us what manner of en- burden any of you, we preached to
trance we had to you; and how you you the gospel of God. 10 You are
turned to God from idols, to serve a witnesses, and God also, how holily
living and true God, 10 and to wait and righteously and blamelessly
for his Son from heaven, whom he we behaved ourselves toward you
raised from the dead, even Jesus, who believe: 11 as you know how
who delivers us from the wrath to we dealt with each one of you, as a
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father with his own children, ex- these afflictions; for you yourselves
horting you, and encouraging you, know that to this we are appointed.
and testifying, 12 to the end that 4 For truly, when we were with
you should walk worthily of God, you, we told you beforehand that
who calls you into his own king- we are to suffer affliction; even as it
dom and glory. came to pass, and you know. 5 For
13 And for this cause we also this cause I also, when I could no
thank God without ceasing, that, longer endure, sent that I might
when you received from us the know your faith, lest by any means
word of the message, even the word the tempter had tempted you, and
of God, you accepted it not as the our labor should be in vain. 6 But
word of men, but, as it is in truth, when Timothy came even now to
the word of God, which also works us from you, and brought us glad
in you who believe. 14 For you, tidings of your faith and love, and
brethren, became imitators of the that you have good remembrance
churches of God which are in Judea of us always, longing to see us,
in Christ Jesus: for you also even as we also to see you; 7 for this
suffered the same things by your cause, brethren, we were comforted
own countrymen, even as they did over you in all our distress and
by the Jews; 15 who both killed the affliction through your faith: 8 for
Lord Jesus and the prophets, and now we live, if you stand fast in the
drove us out, and do not please Lord. 9 For what thanksgiving can
God, and are opposed to all men; 16 we render again to God for you, for
forbidding us to speak to the Gen- all the joy with which we rejoice for
tiles that they may be saved; to fill your sakes before our God; 10 night
up their sins always: but the wrath and day praying exceedingly that
has come upon them to the utter- we may see your face, and may per-
most. fect that which is lacking in your
17 But we, brethren, being be- faith?
reaved of you for a short time, in 11 Now may our God and Father
presence not in heart, endeavored himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct
the more exceedingly to see your our way to you: 12 and the Lord
face with great desire: 18 because make you to increase and abound
we would have come to you, I Paul in love one toward another, and to-
once and again; and Satan hindered ward all men, even as we also do to-
us. 19 For what is our hope, or joy, ward you; 13 to the end he may
or crown of glorying? Are not even establish your hearts blameless in
you, before our Lord Jesus at his holiness before our God and Father,
coming? 20 For you are our glory at the coming of our Lord Jesus
and our joy. with all his saints.

3 Therefore when we could no

longer endure, we thought it
good to be left behind in Athens 4 Finally then, brethren, we be-
seech and exhort you in the
alone; 2 and sent Timothy, our Lord Jesus, that, as you received
brother and God’s minister in the from us how you ought to walk and
gospel of Christ, to establish you, to please God, even as you do walk,
and to comfort you concerning your — that you abound more and more.
faith; 3 that no man be moved by 2 For you know what charge we
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gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 archangel, and with the trumpet of
For this is the will of God, even your God: and the dead in Christ will
sanctification, that you abstain rise first; 17 then we who are alive,
from fornication; 4 that each one of who are left, shall together with
you know how to possess himself them be caught up in the clouds, to
of his own vessel in sanctification meet the Lord in the air: and so
and honor, 5 not in the passion of shall we always be with the Lord.
lust, even as the Gentiles who do 18 Therefore comfort one another
not know God; 6 that no man trans- with these words.
gress, and wrong his brother in the
matter: because the Lord is an 5 But concerning the times and
the seasons, brethren, you have
avenger in all these things, as also no need that anything be written to
we forewarned you and testified. 7 you. 2 For you yourselves know
For God has not called us for un- perfectly that the day of the Lord so
cleanness, but in sanctification. 8 comes as a thief in the night. 3
Therefore he who rejects, does not When they are saying, “Peace and
reject man, but God, who gives his safety,” then sudden destruction
Holy Spirit to you. comes upon them, as travail upon a
9 But concerning love of the woman with child; and they shall
brethren you have no need that one in no way escape. 4 But you,
write to you: for you yourselves are brethren, are not in darkness, that
taught of God to love one another; that day should overtake you as a
10 for indeed you do it toward all thief: 5 for you are all sons of light,
the brethren who are in all Macedo- and sons of the day: we are not of
nia. But we exhort you, brethren, the night, nor of darkness; 6 so then
that you abound more and more; 11 let us not sleep, as do the rest, but
and that you study to be quiet, and let us watch and be sober. 7 For
to do your own business, and to those who sleep sleep in the night;
work with your hands, even as we and those who are drunk, are
charged you; 12 that you may walk drunk in the night. 8 But let us,
becomingly toward those who are since we are of the day, be sober,
without, and may have need of putting on the breastplate of faith
nothing. and love; and for a helmet, the hope
13 But we would not have you ig- of salvation. 9 For God did not ap-
norant, brethren, concerning those point us to wrath, but to the obtain-
who fall asleep; that you not grieve, ing of salvation through our Lord
even as the rest, who have no hope. Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us,
14 For if we believe that Jesus died that, whether we wake or sleep, we
and rose again, even so those also should live together with him. 11
who have fallen asleep in Jesus will Therefore exhort one another, and
God bring with him. 15 For this we build each other up, even as also
say to you by the word of the Lord, you do.
that we who are alive, who are left 12 But we beseech you, brethren,
until the coming of the Lord, shall to know those who labor among
in no way precede those who have you, and are over you in the Lord,
fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord him- and admonish you; 13 and to es-
self will descend from heaven, with teem them exceeding highly in love
a shout, with the voice of the for their work’s sake. Be at peace
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among yourselves. 14 And we ex-
hort you, brethren, admonish the
disorderly, encourage the faint-
hearted, support the weak, be long-
suffering toward all. 15 See that no
one render to anyone evil for evil;
but always follow after that which
is good, one toward another, and
toward all. 16 Rejoice always; 17
pray without ceasing; 18 in every-
thing give thanks: for this is the will
of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
19 Do not quench the Spirit; 20 Do
not despise prophesyings; 21 test
all things; hold fast that which is
good; 22 abstain from every form of
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23 And the God of peace himself
sanctify you wholly; and may your
spirit and soul and body be pre-
served entirely, without blame at
the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ. 24 Faithful is he who calls
you, who will also do it.
25 Brethren, pray for us.
26 Greet all the brethren with a
holy kiss. 27 I adjure you by the
Lord that this epistle be read to all
the brethren.
28 The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with you.
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THESSALO N IAN S

1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timo-

thy, to the church of the Thessa-
lonians in God our Father and the
you, that our God may count you
worthy of your calling, and fulfill
every desire of goodness and every
Lord Jesus Christ; 2 Grace to you work of faith, with power; 12 that
and peace from God the Father and the name of our Lord Jesus may be
the Lord Jesus Christ. glorified in you, and you in him, ac-
cording to the grace of our God and
3 We are bound to give thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ.
God always for you, brethren, even
as it is fitting, because your faith
grows exceedingly, and the love of 2 Now we beseech you,
brethren, concerning the com-
each one of you all toward one an- ing of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
other abounds; 4 so that we our- our gathering together to him; 2 to
selves glory in you in the churches the end that you not be quickly
of God for your patience and faith shaken from your mind, nor yet be
in all your persecutions and in the troubled, either by spirit, or by
afflictions which you endure; 5 word, or by epistle as from us, as
which is a plain token of the right- that the day of the Lord is just at
eous judgment of God; to the end hand; 3 let no man deceive you in
that you may be counted worthy of any way: for it will not be, unless the
the kingdom of God, for which you falling away comes first, and the
also suffer: 6 if indeed it is a right- man of sin be revealed, the son of
eous thing with God to repay afflic- destruction, 4 he who opposes and
tion to those who afflict you, 7 and exalts himself against all that is
to you who are afflicted rest with called God or that is worshipped;
us, at the revelation of the Lord Je- so that he sits in the temple of God,
sus from heaven with the angels of setting himself forth as God. 5 Do
his power in flaming fire, 8 render- you not remember, that, when I was
ing vengeance to those who do not still with you, I told you these
know God, and to those who do not things? 6 And now you know that
obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus: 9 which restrains, to the end that he
who shall suffer punishment, even may be revealed in his own time. 7
eternal destruction from the face of For the mystery of lawlessness al-
the Lord and from the glory of his ready works: only there is one who
might, 10 when he shall come to be restrains now, until he is taken out
glorified in his saints, and to be of the way. 8 And then will be re-
marveled at in all those who be- vealed the lawless one, whom the
lieved (because our testimony to Lord Jesus will slay with the breath
you was believed) in that day. 11 To of his mouth, and bring to nothing
which end we also pray always for by the manifestation of his coming;
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9 even he, whose coming is accord-
ing to the working of Satan with all
power and signs and lying won-
ders, 10 and with all deceit of un-
righteousness for those who perish;
because they did not receive the
love of the truth, that they might be
saved. 11 And for this cause God
sends them a working of error, that
they should believe a lie: 12 that
they all might be judged who did
not believe the truth, but had plea-
sure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give
thanks to God always for you,
brethren beloved of the Lord, be-
cause God chose you from the be-
ginning to salvation in
sanctification of the Spirit and be-
lief of the truth: 14 to which he
called you through our gospel, to
the obtaining of the glory of our
Lord Jesus Christ. 15 So then,
brethren, stand fast, and hold the
traditions which you were taught,
whether by word, or by epistle of
ours.
16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ
himself, and God our Father who
loved us and gave us eternal
comfort and good hope through
grace, 17 comfort your hearts and
establish them in every good work
and word.
love of God, and into the patience
of Christ.
6 Now we command you,
brethren, in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, that you withdraw
yourselves from every brother who
walks disorderly, and not according
to the tradition which they received
from us. 7 For you yourselves know
how you ought to imitate us: for we
did not behave ourselves disor-
derly among you; 8 neither did we
eat bread for nothing at any man’s
hand, but in labor and travail,
working night and day, that we
might not burden any of you: 9 not
because we do not have the right,
but to make ourselves an example
to you, that you should imitate us.
10 For even when we were with
you, this we commanded you, “If
any will not work, neither let him
eat.” 11 For we hear of some who
walk among you disorderly, who
do not work at all, but are busybod-
ies. 12 Now those who are such we
command and exhort in the Lord
Jesus Christ, that with quietness
they work, and eat their own bread.
13 But you, brethren, do not be
weary in well-doing. 14 And if any
man does not obey our word by
this epistle, note that man, that you
do not associate with him, to the
end that he may be ashamed. 15

3 Finally, brethren, pray for us,

that the word of the Lord may
run and be glorified, even as also it
And yet do not count him as an en-
emy, but admonish him as a
brother.
is with you; 2 and that we may be 16 Now the Lord of peace himself
delivered from unreasonable and give you peace at all times in all
evil men; for not all have faith. 3 ways. The Lord be with you all.
But the Lord is faithful, who will es-
tablish you, and guard you from 17 The greeting of me Paul with
the evil one. 4 And we have confi- my own hand, which is the token in
dence in the Lord concerning you, every epistle: so I write. 18 The
that you both do and will do the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be
things which we command. 5 And with you all.
the Lord direct your hearts into the
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1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus

according to the commandment
of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus
blessed God, which was committed
to my trust.
12 I thank him who enabled me,
our hope; 2 to Timothy, my true even Christ Jesus our Lord, because
child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, he counted me faithful, appointing
from God the Father and Christ Je- me to his service; 13 though I was
sus our Lord. before a blasphemer, and a persecu-
tor, and injurious: however I ob-
3 As I exhorted you to remain in tained mercy, because I did it
Ephesus, when I was going into ignorantly in unbelief; 14 and the
Macedonia, that you might charge grace of our Lord abounded ex-
certain men not to teach a different ceedingly with faith and love
doctrine, 4 neither to give heed to which is in Christ Jesus. 15 Faithful
fables and endless genealogies, is the saying, and worthy of all ac-
which cause questionings, rather ceptance, that Christ Jesus came
than a management of God which into the world to save sinners; of
is in faith; so I do now. 5 But the end whom I am chief: 16 however for
of the charge is love out of a pure this cause I obtained mercy, that in
heart and a good conscience and me as chief might Jesus Christ show
faith unfeigned: 6 from which forth all his long-suffering, for an
things some having swerved have example of those who should there-
turned aside to vain talking; 7 de- after believe on him for eternal life.
siring to be teachers of the law, 17 Now to the King eternal, immor-
though they understand neither tal, invisible, the only God, be honor
what they say, nor things which and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
they confidently affirm. 8 But we 18 This charge I commit to you,
know that the law is good, if a man my child Timothy, according to the
uses it lawfully, 9 as knowing this, prophecies which led the way to
that law is not made for a righteous you, that by them you may war the
man, but for the lawless and un- good warfare; 19 holding faith and
ruly, for the ungodly and sinners, a good conscience; which some
for the unholy and profane, for having thrust from them suffered
murderers of fathers and murder- shipwreck concerning the faith: 20
ers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 of whom is Hymenaeus and
for fornicators, for abusers of them- Alexander; whom I delivered to Sa-
selves with men, for slave-dealers, tan, that they might be taught not to
for liars, for false swearers, and if blaspheme.
there be any other thing contrary to
the sound doctrine; 11 according to 2 I exhort therefore, first of all,
that supplications, prayers, in-
the gospel of the glory of the tercessions, thanksgivings, be made
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for all men; 2 for kings and all who money; 4 one who rules well his
are in high place; that we may lead own house, having his children in
a tranquil and quiet life in all godli- subjection with all gravity; 5 (but if
ness and gravity. 3 This is good and a man does not know how to rule
acceptable in the sight of God our his own house, how will he take
Savior; 4 who would have all men care of the church of God?) 6 not a
to be saved, and come to the knowl- novice, lest being puffed up he fall
edge of the truth. 5 For there is one into the condemnation of the devil.
God, one mediator also between 7 Moreover he must have good tes-
God and men, himself man, Christ timony from those who are outside;
Jesus, 6 who gave himself a ransom lest he fall into reproach and the
for all; the testimony to be borne in snare of the devil. 8 Deacons in like
its own times; 7 for which I was ap- manner must be grave, not double-
pointed a preacher and an apostle (I tongued, not given to much wine,
am speaking the truth, I do not lie), not greedy for shameful gain; 9
a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and holding the mystery of the faith in a
truth. pure conscience. 10 And let these
8 I desire therefore that the men also first be proved; then let them
pray in every place, lifting up holy serve as deacons, if they be blame-
hands, without wrath and disput- less. 11 Women in like manner must
ing. 9 In like manner, that women be grave, not slanderers, temperate,
adorn themselves in proper ap- faithful in all things. 12 Let deacons
parel, with modesty and sobriety; be husbands of one wife, ruling
not with braided hair, and gold or their children and their own houses
pearls or costly clothing; 10 but well. 13 For those who have served
(which is becoming women pro- well as deacons gain to themselves
fessing godliness) through good a good standing, and great bold-
works. 11 Let a woman learn in si- ness in the faith which is in Christ
lence with all subjection. 12 But I do Jesus.
not permit a woman to teach, nor to 14 These things write I to you,
have dominion over a man, but to hoping to come to you shortly; 15
be in silence. 13 For Adam was first but if I delay, that you may know
formed, then Eve; 14 and Adam how men ought to behave them-
was not deceived, but the woman selves in the house of God, which is
being deceived has fallen into the church of the living God, the
transgression: 15 but she will be pillar and ground of the truth. 16
saved through her child-bearing, if And without controversy great is
they continue in faith and love and the mystery of godliness:
sanctification with sobriety. He who was manifested in the

3 Faithful is the saying, If a man

seeks the office of an overseer,
he desires a good work. 2 The over-
seer therefore must be without re-
proach, the husband of one wife,
temperate, sober-minded, orderly,
given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3
not a brawler, not a striker; but gen- 4
tle, not contentious, not a lover of away from the faith, giving heed to
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flesh,
Justified in the spirit,
Seen by angels,
Preached among the nations,
Believed on in the world,
Received up in glory.
But the Spirit says expressly,
that in later times some will fall
 I TIMOTHY
seducing spirits and doctrines of ing this you will save both yourself
demons, 2 through the hypocrisy of and those who hear you.
men that speak lies, branded in
their own conscience as with a hot 5 Do not rebuke an older man,
but exhort him as a father; the
iron; 3 forbidding to marry, and younger men as brethren: 2 the
commanding to abstain from meats, older women as mothers; the
which God created to be received younger as sisters, in all purity. 3
with thanksgiving by those who be- Honor widows who are widows in-
lieve and know the truth. 4 For ev- deed. 4 But if any widow has chil-
ery creature of God is good, and dren or grandchildren, let them
nothing is to be rejected, if it be re- learn first to show piety towards
ceived with thanksgiving: 5 for it is their own family, and to repay their
sanctified through the word of God parents: for this is acceptable in the
and prayer. sight of God. 5 Now she who is a
6 If you put the brethren in mind widow indeed, and desolate, has
of these things, you will be a good her hope set on God, and continues
minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in supplications and prayers night
in the words of the faith, and of the and day. 6 But she who gives her-
good doctrine which you have fol- self to pleasure is dead while she
lowed until now: 7 but refuse pro- lives. 7 These things also command,
fane and old wives’ fables. And that they may be without reproach.
exercise yourself unto godliness: 8 8 But if any does not provide for his
for bodily exercise is profitable for a own, and especially his own house-
little; but godliness is profitable for hold, he has denied the faith, and is
all things, having promise of the life worse than an unbeliever. 9 Let
which now is, and of that which is none be enrolled as a widow under
to come. 9 Faithful is the saying, sixty years old, having been the wife
and worthy of all acceptance. 10 For of one man, 10 well reported of for
to this end we labor and strive, be- good works; if she has brought up
cause we have our hope set on the children, if she has shown hospital-
living God, who is the Savior of all ity to strangers, if she has washed
men, especially of those who be- the saints’ feet, if she has relieved
lieve. 11 These things command the afflicted, if she has diligently
and teach. 12 Let no man despise followed every good work. 11 But
your youth; but be an example to younger widows refuse: for when
those who believe, in word, in man- they have grown wanton against
ner of life, in love, in faith, in purity. Christ, they desire to marry; 12 hav-
13 Until I come, give heed to read- ing condemnation, because they
ing, to exhortation, to teaching. 14 have rejected their first pledge. 13
Do not neglect the gift that is in And at the same time they learn
you, which was given to you by also to be idle, going about from
prophecy, with the laying on of the house to house; and not only idle,
hands of the presbytery. 15 Be dili- but tattlers also and busybodies,
gent in these things; give yourself speaking things which they ought
wholly to them; that your progress not. 14 I desire therefore that the
may be evident to all. 16 Take heed younger widows marry, bear chil-
to yourself, and to your teaching. dren, rule the household, give no
Continue in these things; for in do- occasion to the adversary for revil-
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ing: 15 for already some are turned doctrine, and does not consent to
aside after Satan. 16 If any woman sound words, even the words of our
who believes has widows, let her Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doc-
relieve them, and do not let the trine which is according to godli-
church be burdened; that it may re- ness; 4 he is puffed up, knowing
lieve those who are widows indeed. nothing, but obsessed about ques-
17 Let the elders who rule well be tionings and disputes about words,
counted worthy of double honor, from which comes envy, strife, rail-
especially those who labor in the ings, evil suspicions, 5 wranglings
word and in teaching. 18 For the of men corrupted in mind and
Scripture says, “You shall not muz- bereft of the truth, supposing that
zle the ox when he treads out the godliness is a way of gain. 6 But
corn.” And, “The laborer is worthy godliness with contentment is great
of his wages.” 19 Against an elder gain: 7 for we brought nothing into
do not receive an accusation, except the world, for neither can we carry
at the mouth of two or three wit- anything out; 8 but having food
nesses. 20 Those who sin reprove in and covering we shall be with these
the sight of all, that the rest also content. 9 But those who are
may be in fear. 21 I charge you in the minded to be rich fall into a tempta-
sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and tion and a snare and many foolish
the elect angels, that you observe and hurtful lusts, such as drown
these things without prejudice, do- men in ruin and destruction. 10 For
ing nothing by partiality. 22 Lay the love of money is a root of all
hands hastily on no man, neither be kinds of evil: which some reaching
partaker of other men’s sins: keep after have been led astray from the
yourself pure. 23 Be no longer a faith, and have pierced themselves
drinker of water, but use a little through with many sorrows.
wine for your stomach’s sake and 11 But you, O man of God, flee
your frequent infirmities. 24 Some these things; and follow after right-
men’s sins are evident, going before eousness, godliness, faith, love, pa-
to judgment; and some men also tience, meekness. 12 Fight the good
they follow after. 25 In like manner fight of the faith, lay hold on the life
also there are good works that are eternal, to which you were called,
evident; and such as are otherwise and confessed the good confession
cannot be hid. in the sight of many witnesses. 13 I

6 Let as many as are servants charge you in the sight of God, who
under the yoke count their own gives life to all things, and of Christ
masters worthy of all honor, that Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate
the name of God and the doctrine witnessed the good confession; 14
not be blasphemed. 2 And those that you keep the commandment,
who have believing masters, let without spot, without reproach, un-
them not despise them, because til the appearing of our Lord Jesus
they are brethren; but let them Christ: 15 which in its own times he
serve them all the more, because will show, who is the blessed and
those who partake of the benefit are only Potentate, the King of kings,
believing and beloved. These and Lord of lords; 16 who only has
things teach and exhort. immortality, dwelling in light un-
3 If any man teaches a different approachable; whom no man has
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seen, nor can see: to whom be
honor and power eternal. Amen.
17 Charge those who are rich in
this present world, that they not be
high-minded, nor have their hope
set on the uncertainty of riches, but
on God, who gives us richly all
things to enjoy; 18 that they do
good, that they be rich in good
works, that they be ready to distrib-
ute, willing to share; 19 laying up in
store for themselves a good founda-
tion against the time to come, that
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they may lay hold on the life which
is life indeed.
20 O Timothy, guard that which is
committed to you, turning away
from the profane babblings and op-
positions of the knowledge which
is falsely so called; 21 which some
professing have erred concerning
the faith.
Grace be with you.
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TIMO THY

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus

through the will of God, accord-
ing to the promise of the life which
to which I was appointed a
preacher, and an apostle, and a
teacher. 12 For this reason I suffer
is in Christ Jesus, 2 to Timothy, my also these things: yet I am not
beloved child: Grace, mercy, peace, ashamed; for I know him whom I
from God the Father and Christ Je- have believed, and I am persuaded
sus our Lord. that he is able to guard that which I
have committed to him unto that
3 I thank God, whom I serve from day. 13 Hold the pattern of sound
my forefathers in a pure conscience, words which you have heard from
how unceasing is my remembrance me, in faith and love which is in
of you in my supplications, night Christ Jesus. 14 That good thing
and day 4 longing to see you, re- which was committed to you guard
membering your tears, that I may through the Holy Spirit which
be filled with joy; 5 having been re- dwells in us.
minded of the unfeigned faith that 15 This you know, that all who are
is in you; which dwelt first in your in Asia turned away from me; of
grandmother Lois, and your whom are Phygelus and Hermo-
mother Eunice; and, I am per- genes. 16 The Lord grant mercy to
suaded, in you also. 6 For this rea- the house of Onesiphorus: for he of-
son I put you in remembrance that ten refreshed me, and was not
you stir up the gift of God, which is ashamed of my chain; 17 but, when
in you through the laying on of my he was in Rome, he sought me dili-
hands. 7 For God did not give us a gently, and found me 18 (the Lord
spirit of fearfulness; but of power grant to him to find mercy from the
and love and discipline. 8 Do not be Lord in that day); and in how many
ashamed therefore of the testimony things he ministered at Ephesus,
of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: you know very well.
but suffer hardship with the gospel
according to the power of God; 9 2 You therefore, my child, be
strengthened in the grace that is
who saved us, and called us with a in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things
holy calling, not according to our which you have heard from me
works, but according to his own among many witnesses, the same
purpose and grace, which was commit to faithful men, who will be
given us in Christ Jesus before able to teach others also. 3 Suffer
times eternal, 10 but has now been hardship with me, as a good soldier
manifested by the appearing of our of Christ Jesus. 4 No soldier in ser-
Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished vice entangles himself in the affairs
death, and brought life and immor- of this life; that he may please him
tality to light through the gospel, 11 who enlisted him as a soldier. 5
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And if also a man contends in the but also of wood and of earth; and
games, he is not crowned, unless he some for honor, and some for dis-
has contended lawfully. 6 The honor. 21 If a man therefore purge
farmer who labors must be the first himself from these, he will be a ves-
to partake of the fruits. 7 Consider sel for honor, sanctified, useful for
what I say; for the Lord will give the master, prepared for every good
you understanding in all things. 8 work. 22 But flee youthful lusts,
Remember Jesus Christ, risen from and follow after righteousness,
the dead, of the seed of David, ac- faith, love, peace, with those who
cording to my gospel: 9 in which I call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
suffer hardship unto bonds, as a 23 But foolish and ignorant ques-
criminal; but the word of God is not tionings refuse, knowing that they
bound. 10 Therefore I endure all engender strifes. 24 And the Lord’s
things for the elect’s sake, that they servant must not strive, but be gen-
also may obtain the salvation which tle towards all, apt to teach, for-
is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. bearing, 25 in meekness correcting
11 Faithful is the saying: For if we those who oppose themselves; if
died with him, we shall also live perhaps God may give them repen-
with him: 12 if we endure, we shall tance unto the knowledge of the
also reign with him: if we shall truth, 26 and they may recover
deny him, he also will deny us: 13 if themselves out of the snare of the
we are faithless, he remains faith- devil, having been taken captive by
ful; for he cannot deny himself. him to his will.
14 Of these things put them in re-
membrance, charging them in the 3 But know this, that in the last
days grievous times will come.
sight of the Lord, that they do not 2 For men will be lovers of self,
strive about words, to no profit, to lovers of money, boastful, haughty,
the subverting of those who hear. railers, disobedient to parents, un-
15 Give diligence to present your- thankful, unholy, 3 without natural
self approved to God, a workman affection, unappeasable, slander-
who does not need to be ashamed, ers, without self-control, fierce, no
handling rightly the word of truth. lovers of good, 4 traitors, head-
16 But shun profane babblings: for strong, puffed up, lovers of plea-
they will proceed further in ungod- sure rather than lovers of God; 5
liness, 17 and their word will eat as holding a form of godliness, but
does a gangrene: of whom is Hy- having denied the power of it: from
menaeus and Philetus; 18 men who these also turn away. 6 For of these
concerning the truth have erred, are those who creep into houses,
saying that the resurrection is past and take captive silly women laden
already, and overthrow the faith of with sins, led away by various
some. 19 Neverthe-less the firm lusts, 7 ever learning, and never
foundation of God stands, having able to come to the knowledge of
this seal, “The Lord knows those the truth. 8 And even as Jannes and
who are his”: and, “Let every one Jambres withstood Moses, so do
who names the name of the Lord these also withstand the truth; men
depart from unrighteousness.” 20 corrupted in mind, reprobate con-
Now in a great house there are not cerning the faith. 9 But they will
only vessels of gold and of silver, proceed no further: for their folly
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will be evident to all men, as theirs good fight, I have finished the
also came to be. 10 But you fol- course, I have kept the faith: 8 for
lowed my teaching, conduct, pur- the future there is laid up for me the
pose, faith, long-suffering, love, crown of righteousness, which the
patience, 11 persecutions, suffer- Lord, the righteous judge, will give
ings; what things befell me in Anti- to me on that day; and not to me
och, in Iconium, in Lystra; what only, but also to all those who have
persecutions I endured: and out of loved his appearing.
them all the Lord delivered me. 12 9 Give diligence to come shortly
Yes, and all who would live godly to me: 10 for Demas forsook me,
in Christ Jesus will suffer persecu- having loved this present world,
tion. 13 But evil men and impostors and went to Thessalonica; Crescens
will grow worse and worse, deceiv- to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. 11
ing and being deceived. 14 But re- Only Luke is with me. Take Mark,
main in the things which you have and bring him with you; for he is
learned and have been assured of, useful to me for ministering. 12 But
knowing of whom you have Tychicus I sent to Ephesus. 13 The
learned them; 15 and that from a cloak that I left at Troas with Car-
babe you have known the sacred pus, bring when you come, and the
writings which are able to make books, especially the parchments.
you wise unto salvation through 14 Alexander the coppersmith did
faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 Ev- me much evil: the Lord will render
ery Scripture inspired of God is also to him according to his works: 15 of
profitable for teaching, for reproof, whom you also beware; for he
for correction, for instruction which greatly withstood our words. 16 At
is in righteousness: 17 that the man my first defense no one stood by
of God may be complete, furnished me, but all forsook me: may it not
completely unto every good work. be laid to their account. 17 But the

4 I charge you in the sight of Lord stood by me, and strength-

God, and of Christ Jesus, who ened me; that through me the mes-
shall judge the living and the dead, sage might be fully proclaimed,
and by his appearing and his king- and that all the Gentiles might hear:
dom: 2 preach the word; be urgent and I was delivered out of the
in season, out of season; reprove, mouth of the lion. 18 The Lord will
rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffer- deliver me from every evil work,
ing and teaching. 3 For the time will and will save me unto his heavenly
come when they will not endure kingdom: to whom be the glory for
the sound doctrine; but, having ever and ever. Amen.
itching ears, will heap to them- 19 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and
selves teachers after their own the house of Onesiphorus. 20 Eras-
lusts; 4 and will turn away their tus remained in Corinth: but
ears from the truth, and turn aside Trophimus I left in Miletus sick. 21
to fables. 5 But you be sober in all Give diligence to come before win-
things, suffer hardship, do the ter. Eubulus greets you, and Pu-
work of an evangelist, fulfill your dens, and Linus, and Claudia, and
ministry. 6 For I am already being all the brethren.
offered, and the time of my depar- 22 The Lord be with your spirit.
ture is come. 7 I have fought the Grace be with you.
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TITUS

1 Paul, a servant of God, and an

apostle of Jesus Christ, accord-
ing to the faith of God’s elect, and
men who overthrow whole houses,
teaching things which they ought
not, for the sake of shameful gain.
the knowledge of the truth which is 12 One of themselves, a prophet of
according to godliness, 2 in hope of their own, said, “Cretans are al-
eternal life, which God, who cannot ways liars, evil beasts, idle glut-
lie, promised before times eternal; 3 tons.” 13 This testimony is true. For
but in his own seasons manifested this reason reprove them sharply,
his word in the message, with that they may be sound in the faith,
which I was entrusted according to 14 not giving heed to Jewish fables,
the commandment of God our Sav- and commandments of men who
ior; 4 to Titus, my true child after a turn away from the truth. 15 To the
common faith: Grace and peace pure all things are pure: but to
from God the Father and Christ Je- those who are defiled and unbeliev-
sus our Savior. ing nothing is pure; but both their
mind and their conscience are de-
5 For this cause left I you in Crete, filed. 16 They profess that they
that you should set in order the know God; but by their works they
things that were lacking, and ap- deny him, being abominable, and
point elders in every city, as I gave disobedient, and to every good
you charge; 6 if any man is blame- work reprobate.
less, the husband of one wife, hav-
ing children who believe, who are 2 But you speak the things
which befit the sound doctrine:
not accused of riot or unruly. 7 For 2 that aged men be temperate,
the overseer must be blameless, as grave, sober-minded, sound in
God’s steward; not self-willed, not faith, in love, in patience: 3 that
quick-tempered, not a brawler, not aged women likewise be reverent
a striker, not greedy for shameful in demeanor, not slanderers nor en-
gain; 8 but given to hospitality, a slaved to much wine, teachers of
lover of good, sober-minded, just, that which is good; 4 that they may
holy, self-controlled; 9 holding to train the young women to love
the faithful word which is accord- their husbands, to love their chil-
ing to the teaching, that he may be dren, 5 to be sober-minded, chaste,
able both to exhort in the sound workers at home, kind, being in
doctrine, and to convict those who subjection to their own husbands,
contradict. that the word of God not be blas-
10 For there are many unruly phemed: 6 the younger men like-
men, vain talkers and deceivers, es- wise exhort to be sober-minded: 7
pecially those of the circumcision, in all things showing yourself an
11 whose mouths must be stopped; example of good works; in your
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doctrine showing incorruption,
gravity, 8 sound speech, that cannot
be condemned; that he who is of the
opposition may be ashamed, hav-
ing no evil thing to say of us. 9 Ex-
hort servants to be in subjection to
their own masters, and to be well-
pleasing to them in all things; not
contradicting; 10 not pilfering, but
showing all good fidelity; that they
may adorn the doctrine of God our
Savior in all things. 11 For the grace
of God has appeared, bringing sal-
vation to all men, 12 instructing us,
to the intent that, denying ungodli-
ness and worldly lusts, we should
live soberly and righteously and
godly in this present world; 13
looking for the blessed hope and
appearing of the glory of the great
God and our Savior Jesus Christ; 14
who gave himself for us, that he
might redeem us from all iniquity,
and purify to himself a people for
his own possession, zealous of
good works.
15 These things speak and exhort
and reprove with all authority. Let
no man despise you.
3 Put them in mind to be in sub-
jection to rulers, to authorities,
to be obedient, to be ready for every
good work, 2 to speak evil of no
man, not to be contentious, to be
gentle, showing all meekness to-
ward all men. 3 For we also once
were foolish, disobedient, de-
ceived, serving various lusts and
pleasures, living in malice and
envy, hateful, hating one another. 4
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But when the kindness of God our
Savior, and his love toward man,
appeared, 5 not by works done in
righteousness, which we did our-
selves, but according to his mercy
he saved us, through the washing
of regeneration and renewing of the
Holy Spirit, 6 which he poured out
on us richly, through Jesus Christ
our Savior; 7 that, being justified by
his grace, we might be made heirs
according to the hope of eternal life.
8 Faithful is the saying, and con-
cerning these things I desire that
you affirm confidently, to the end
that those who have believed God
may be careful to maintain good
works. These things are good and
profitable to men: 9 but shun fool-
ish questionings, and genealogies,
and strifes, and fightings about the
law; for they are unprofitable and
vain. 10 A factious man after a first
and second admonition refuse; 11
knowing that such a one is per-
verted, and is sinning, being self-
condemned.
12 When I shall send Artemas to
you, or Tychicus, give diligence to
come to me to Nicopolis: for there I
have determined to spend the win-
ter. 13 Set forward Zenas the lawyer
and Apollos on their journey dili-
gently, that nothing be lacking to
them. 14 And let our people also
learn to maintain good works for
necessary uses, that they be not un-
fruitful.
15 All that are with me greet you.
Greet those who love us in faith.
Grace be with you all.
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PH ILEMO N
1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus,
and Timothy our brother, to Phile-
mon our beloved and fellow
worker, 2 and to Apphia our sister,
and to Archippus our fellow sol-
dier, and to the church in your
house: 3 Grace to you and peace
from God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God always, making
mention of you in my prayers, 5
hearing of your love, and of the
faith which you have toward the
Lord Jesus, and toward all the
saints; 6 that the fellowship of your
faith may become effectual, in the
knowledge of every good thing
which is in you, unto Christ. 7 For I
had much joy and comfort in your
love, because the hearts of the
saints have been refreshed through
you, brother.
8 Therefore, though I have all
boldness in Christ to command you
that which is befitting, 9 yet for
love’s sake I rather beseech, being
such a one as Paul the aged, and
now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:
10 I beseech you for my child,
whom I have begotten in my bonds,
Onesimus, 11 who once was un-
profitable to you, but now is
profitable to you and to me: 12
whom I have sent back to you in his
own person, that is, my very heart:
13 whom I would have kept with
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me, that in your behalf he might
minister to me in the bonds of the
gospel: 14 but without your consent
I would do nothing; that your
goodness should not be as of neces-
sity, but of free will. 15 For perhaps
he was therefore parted from you for
a time, that you should have him
for ever; 16 no longer as a servant,
but more than a servant, a brother
beloved, especially to me, but how
much rather to you, both in the
flesh and in the Lord. 17 If then you
count me a partner, receive him as
myself. 18 But if he has wronged
you at all, or owes you anything,
put that to my account; 19 I Paul
write it with my own hand, I will
repay it: that I not say to you that
you owe to me even your own self
besides. 20 Yes, brother, let me have
joy from you in the Lord: refresh
my heart in Christ.
21 Having confidence in your
obedience I write to you, knowing
that you will do even beyond what
I say. 22 But at the same time pre-
pare me also a lodging: for I hope
that through your prayers I shall be
granted to you.
23 Epaphras, my fellow prisoner
in Christ Jesus, greets you; 24 and so
do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke,
my fellow workers.
25 The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
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HEBR EWS

1 God, having in time past spo-

ken to the fathers in the
prophets by various portions and 10 And,
With the oil of gladness above
your fellows.”

in various manners, 2 has at the end “You, Lord, in the beginning

of these days spoken to us in his laid the foundation of the
Son, whom he appointed heir of all earth,
things, through whom also he And the heavens are the works
made the worlds; 3 who being the of your hands:
radiance of his glory, and the very 11 They will perish; but you con-
image of his substance, and up- tinue:
holding all things by the word of And they all will become old as
his power, when he had made pu- does a garment;
rification of sins, sat down at the 12 And as a mantle will you roll
right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 them up,
having become so much better than As a garment, and they will be
the angels, as he has inherited a changed:
more excellent name than they. 5 But you are the same,
For to which of the angels said he at And your years will not fail.”
any time, 13 But of which of the angels has
“You are my Son, he said at any time,
This day I have begotten you?” “Sit at my right hand,
and again, Until I make your enemies the
“I will be to him a Father, footstool of your feet?”
And he shall be to me a Son?” 14 Are they not all ministering spir-
6 And when he again brings in the its, sent forth to do service for the
firstborn into the world he says, sake of those who shall inherit sal-
“And let all the angels of God wor- vation?
ship him.” 7 And of the angels he
says,
“Who makes his angels winds,
2 Therefore we ought to give
the more earnest heed to the
things that were heard, lest perhaps
And his ministers a flame of fire”: we drift away from them. 2 For if the
8 but of the Son he says, word spoken through angels
“Your throne, O God, is forever proved steadfast, and every trans-
and ever; gression and disobedience received
And the scepter of uprightness is a just reward; 3 how shall we es-
the scepter of your kingdom. cape, if we neglect so great a salva-
9 You have loved righteousness, tion? which having at the first been
and hated iniquity; spoken through the Lord, was con-
Therefore God, your God, has firmed to us by those who heard; 4
anointed you God also bearing witness with
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them, both by signs and wonders, sharers in flesh and blood, he also
and by manifold powers, and by himself in like manner partook of
gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to the same; that through death he
his own will. might bring to nothing him who
5 For not to angels did he subject had the power of death, that is, the
the world to come, of which we devil; 15 and might deliver all those
speak. 6 But one has somewhere who through fear of death were all
testified, saying, their lifetime subject to bondage. 16
“What is man, that you are mind- For certainly not to angels does he
ful of him? give help, but he gives help to the
Or the son of man, that you visit seed of Abraham. 17 Therefore it
him? behooved him in all things to be
7 You made him a little lower than made like his brethren, that he
the angels; might become a merciful and faith-
You crowned him with glory and ful high priest in things pertaining
honor, to God, to make propitiation for the
And set him over the works of sins of the people. 18 For in that he
your hands: himself has suffered being tempted,
8 You put all things in subjection he is able to aid those who are
under his feet.” tempted.
For in that he subjected all things to
him, he left nothing that is not sub- 3 Therefore, holy brethren, par-
takers of a heavenly calling,
ject to him. But now we do not see consider the Apostle and High
yet all things subjected to him. 9 Priest of our confession, even Jesus;
But we behold him who has been 2 who was faithful to him who ap-
made a little lower than the angels, pointed him, as also was Moses in
even Jesus, because of the suffering all his house. 3 For he has been
of death crowned with glory and counted worthy of more glory than
honor, that by the grace of God he Moses, inasmuch as he who built
should taste of death for every man. the house has more honor than the
10 For it was fitting for him, for house. 4 For every house is built by
whom are all things, and through someone; but he who built all
whom are all things, in bringing things is God. 5 And Moses indeed
many sons to glory, to make the au- was faithful in all his house as a ser-
thor of their salvation perfect vant, for a testimony of those things
through sufferings. 11 For both he which were afterward to be spoken;
who sanctifies and those who are 6 but Christ as a son, over his
sanctified are all of one: for which house; whose house are we, if we
reason he is not ashamed to call hold fast our boldness and the glo-
them brethren, 12 saying, rying of our hope firm to the end. 7
“I will declare your name to my Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit
brethren, says,
In the midst of the congregation “Today if you will hear his voice,
will I sing your praise.” 8 Do not harden your hearts, as in
13 And again, “I will put my trust the provocation,
in him.” And again, “Behold, I and As in the day of the trial in the
the children whom God has given wilderness,
me.” 14 Since then the children are 9 Where your fathers tried me by
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testing me, heard. 3 For we who have believed
And saw my works forty years. enter into that rest; even as he has
10 Therefore I was displeased with said,
this generation, “As I swore in my wrath,
And said, ‘They always err in They shall not enter into my
their heart: rest”:
But they did not know my although the works were finished
ways;’ from the foundation of the world. 4
11 As I swore in my wrath, For he has said somewhere of the
‘They shall not enter into my seventh day in this way, “And God
rest.’ ” rested on the seventh day from all
12 Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps his works”; 5 and in this place again,
there will be in any one of you an “They shall not enter into my
evil heart of unbelief, in falling rest.”
away from the living God: 13 but 6 Seeing therefore it remains that
exhort one another day by day, so some should enter into it, and those
long as it is called “Today;” lest to whom the good tidings were for-
anyone of you be hardened by the merly preached failed to enter in
deceitfulness of sin: 14 for we are because of disobedience, 7 he again
become partakers of Christ, if we defines a certain day, “Today,” say-
hold fast the beginning of our confi- ing in David so long afterward
dence firm to the end: 15 while it is (even as has been said before),
said, “Today if you will hear his voice,
“Today if you will hear his Do not harden your hearts.”
voice, 8 For if Joshua had given them rest,
Do not harden your hearts, as he would not have spoken after-
in the provocation.” ward of another day. 9 There re-
16 For who, when they heard, pro- mains therefore a Sabbath rest for
voked? no, did not all those who the people of God. 10 For he who
came out of Egypt by Moses? 17 has entered into his rest has himself
And with whom was he displeased also rested from his works, as God
forty years? was it not with those did from his. 11 Let us therefore
who sinned, whose bodies fell in give diligence to enter into that rest,
the wilderness? 18 And to whom that no man fall according to the
did he swear that they should not same example of disobedience. 12
enter into his rest, but to those who For the word of God is living, and
were disobedient? 19 And we see active, and sharper than any two-
that they were not able to enter in edged sword, and piercing even to
because of unbelief. the division of soul and spirit, of

4 Let us fear therefore, lest per- both joints and marrow, and quick
haps, a promise being left of en- to discern the thoughts and inten-
tering into his rest, any one of you tions of the heart. 13 And there is no
should seem to have come short of creature that is hidden in his sight:
it. 2 For indeed we have had good but all things are naked and laid
tidings preached to us, even as also open before the eyes of him with
them: but the word of hearing did whom we have to do.
not profit them, because it was not 14 Having then a great high
united by faith with those who priest, who has passed through the
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heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let you are become dull of hearing. 12
us hold fast our confession. 15 For For when by reason of the time you
we do not have a high priest who ought to be teachers, you have need
cannot sympathize with our infir- again that someone teach you the
mities; but one who has been in all rudiments of the first principles of
points tempted like we are, yet with- the oracles of God; and are become
out sin. 16 Let us therefore draw such as have need of milk, and not
near with boldness to the throne of of solid food. 13 For every one who
grace, that we may receive mercy, partakes of milk is without experi-
and may find grace to help us in ence of the word of righteousness;
time of need. for he is a babe. 14 But solid food is

5 For every high priest, being for full-grown men, even those who
taken from among men, is ap- by reason of use have their senses
pointed for men in things pertain- exercised to discern good and evil.
ing to God, that he may offer both
gifts and sacrifices for sins: 2 who 6 Therefore leaving the doctrine
of the first principles of Christ,
can bear gently with the ignorant let us press on to perfection; not
and erring, since he himself also is laying again a foundation of repen-
encompassed with infirmity; 3 and tance from dead works, and of faith
by reason of it is bound, as for the toward God, 2 of the teaching of
people, so also for himself, to offer baptisms, and of laying on of
for sins. 4 And no man takes the hands, and of resurrection of the
honor to himself, but when he is dead, and of eternal judgment. 3
called by God, even as Aaron was. And this we will do, if God permits.
5 So Christ also did not glorify him- 4 For as concerning those who were
self to be made a high priest, but he once enlightened and tasted of the
who spoke to him, heavenly gift, and were made par-
“You are my Son, takers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and
This day have I begotten you”: tasted the good word of God, and
6 as he says also in another place, the powers of the age to come, 6
“You are a priest for ever and then fell away, it is impossible
According to the order of to renew them again to repentance;
Melchizedek.” seeing they crucify to themselves
7 Who in the days of his flesh, hav- the Son of God afresh, and put him
ing offered up prayers and suppli- to an open shame. 7 For the land
cations with strong crying and tears which has drunk the rain that
to him who was able to save him comes often upon it, and brings
from death, and having been heard forth herbs fit for those for whose
for his godly fear, 8 though he was sake it is also tilled, receives bless-
a Son, yet learned obedience by the ing from God: 8 but if it bears
things which he suffered; 9 and thorns and thistles, it is rejected and
having been made perfect, he be- near to a curse; whose end is to be
came to all those who obey him the burned.
author of eternal salvation; 10 9 But, beloved, we are persuaded
named by God a high priest accord- better things of you, and things that
ing to the order of Melchizedek. accompany salvation, though we
11 Of whom we have many things thus speak: 10 for God is not un-
to say, and hard to interpret, seeing righteous to forget your work and
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the love which you showed toward but made like the Son of God), re-
his name, in that you ministered to mains a priest continually.
the saints, and still do minister. 11 4 Now consider how great this
And we desire that each one of you man was, to whom Abraham, the
may show the same diligence to the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the
fullness of hope even to the end: 12 chief spoils. 5 And those indeed of
that you not be sluggish, but imita- the sons of Levi who receive the
tors of those who through faith and priest’s office have commandment
patience inherit the promises. to take tithes of the people accord-
13 For when God made promise ing to the law, that is, of their
to Abraham, since he could swear brethren, though these have come
by none greater, he swore by him- out of the loins of Abraham: 6 but
self, 14 saying, “Surely blessing I he whose genealogy is not counted
will bless you, and multiplying I from them has taken tithes from
will multiply you.” 15 And thus, Abraham, and has blessed him who
having patiently endured, he ob- has the promises. 7 But without any
tained the promise. 16 For men dispute the less is blessed by the
swear by the greater: and in every better. 8 And here men who die re-
dispute of theirs the oath is final for ceive tithes; but there one, of whom
confirmation. 17 In which God, be- it is witnessed that he lives. 9 And,
ing minded to show more abun- so to say, through Abraham even
dantly to the heirs of the promise Levi, who receives tithes, has paid
the immutability of his counsel, in- tithes; 10 for he was yet in the loins
terposed with an oath; 18 that by of his father, when Melchizedek
two immutable things, in which it met him.
is impossible for God to lie, we may 11 Now if there was perfection
have a strong encouragement, who through the Levitical priesthood
have fled for refuge to lay hold of (for under it have the people re-
the hope set before us: 19 which we ceived the law), what further need
have as an anchor of the soul, a hope was there that another priest should
both sure and steadfast and enter- arise according to the order of
ing into that which is within the Melchizedek, and not be reckoned
veil; 20 where as a forerunner Jesus according to the order of Aaron? 12
entered for us, having become a For the priesthood being changed,
high priest for ever according to the there is made of necessity a change
order of Melchizedek. also of the law. 13 For he of whom

7 For this Melchizedek, king of these things are said belongs to an-
Salem, priest of God Most other tribe, from which no man has
High, who met Abraham returning given attendance at the altar. 14 For
from the slaughter of the kings and it is evident that our Lord has
blessed him, 2 to whom also Abra- sprung out of Judah; as to which
ham divided a tenth part of all (be- tribe Moses spoke nothing concern-
ing first, by interpretation, King of ing priests. 15 And what we say is
righteousness, and then also King yet more abundantly evident, if ac-
of Salem, which is, King of peace; 3 cording to the likeness of
without father, without mother, Melchizedek there arises another
without genealogy, having neither priest, 16 who has been made, not
beginning of days nor end of life, according to the law of a carnal
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commandment, but according to We have such a high priest, who sat
the power of an endless life: 17 for down at the right hand of the
it is witnessed of him, throne of the Majesty in the heav-
“You are a priest for ever ens, 2 a minister of the sanctuary,
According to the order of and of the true tabernacle, which
Melchizedek.” the Lord pitched, not man. 3 For ev-
18 For there is an annulling of a pre- ery high priest is appointed to offer
ceding commandment because of both gifts and sacrifices: therefore it
its weakness and unprofitableness is necessary that this high priest also
19 (for the law made nothing per- have something to offer. 4 Now if
fect), and a bringing in of a better he were on earth, he would not be a
hope, through which we draw near priest at all, seeing there are those
to God. 20 And inasmuch as it is not who offer the gifts according to the
without the taking of an oath 21 (for law; 5 who serve that which is a copy
they indeed have been made priests and shadow of the heavenly things,
without an oath; but he with an even as Moses is warned by God
oath by him who says of him, when he is about to make the taber-
“The Lord swore and will not nacle: for, “See,” he says, “that you
repent himself, make all things according to the
You are a priest for ever);” pattern that was shown you on the
22 by so much also has Jesus be- mountain.” 6 But now he has ob-
come the surety of a better tained a ministry the more excel-
covenant. 23 And they indeed have lent, by so much as he is also the
been made priests many in number, mediator of a better covenant,
because that by death they are hin- which has been enacted on better
dered from continuing: 24 but he, promises. 7 For if that first covenant
because he remains for ever, has his had been faultless, then would no
priesthood unchangeable. 25 place have been sought for a sec-
Therefore also he is able to save to ond. 8 For finding fault with them,
the uttermost those who draw near he says,
to God through him, seeing he ever “Behold, the days come, says the
lives to make intercession for them. Lord,
26 For such a high priest became That I will make a new covenant
us, holy, innocent, undefiled, sepa- with the house of Israel and
rated from sinners, and made with the house of Judah;
higher than the heavens; 27 who 9 Not according to the covenant
does not need daily, like those high that I made with their fathers
priests, to offer up sacrifices, first In the day that I took them by the
for his own sins, and then for the hand to lead them forth out of
sins of the people: for this he did the land of Egypt;
once for all, when he offered up For they did not continue in my
himself. 28 For the law appoints covenant,
men high priests, having infirmity; And I did not regard them, says
but the word of the oath, which was the Lord.
after the law, appoints a Son, per- 10 For this is the covenant that I
fected for evermore. will make with the house of

8 Now in the things which we

are saying the chief point is this:
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I will put my laws into their not without blood, which he offers
mind, for himself, and for the errors of the
And on their heart I will also people: 8 the Holy Spirit signifying
write them: this, that the way into the holy
And I will be to them a God, place has not yet been made
And they shall be to me a known, while the first tabernacle is
people: still standing; 9 which is a figure for
11 And they shall not teach every the present time; according to
man his fellow citizen, which are offered both gifts and
And every man his brother, sacrifices that cannot, concerning
saying, ‘Know the Lord:’ the conscience, make the worship-
For all shall know me, per perfect, 10 being only (with
From the least to the greatest of meats and drinks and various
them. washings) carnal ordinances, im-
12 For I will be merciful to their in- posed until a time of reformation.
iquities, 11 But Christ having come a high
And their sins I will remember priest of the good things to come,
no more.” through the greater and more per-
13 In that he says, “A new fect tabernacle, not made with
covenant,” he has made the first old. hands, that is to say, not of this cre-
But that which is becoming old and ation, 12 nor yet through the blood
growing old is near to vanishing of goats and calves, but through his
away. own blood, entered in once for all

9 Now even the first covenant into the holy place, having obtained
had ordinances of divine ser- eternal redemption. 13 For if the
vice, and its sanctuary, a sanctuary blood of goats and bulls, and the
of this world. 2 For there was a ashes of a heifer sprinkling those
tabernacle prepared, the first, in who have been defiled, sanctify for
which were the candlestick, and the the cleanness of the flesh: 14 how
table, and the showbread; which is much more shall the blood of
called the Holy place. 3 And after Christ, who through the eternal
the second veil, the tabernacle Spirit offered himself without
which is called the Holy of Holies; blemish to God, cleanse your con-
4 having a golden altar of incense, science from dead works to serve
and the ark of the covenant over- the living God? 15 And for this
laid on all sides with gold, in which cause he is the mediator of a new
was a golden pot holding the covenant, that a death having taken
manna, and Aaron’s rod that bud- place for the redemption of the
ded, and the tables of the covenant; transgressions that were under the
5 and above it cherubim of glory first covenant, those who have been
overshadowing the mercy seat; of called may receive the promise of
which things we cannot now speak the eternal inheritance. 16 For
individually. 6 Now these things where a testament is, there must of
having been thus prepared, the necessity be the death of him who
priests go in continually into the made it. 17 For a testament is in
first tabernacle, accomplishing the force where there has been death:
services; 7 but into the second the for it never avails while he who
high priest alone, once in the year, made it lives. 18 Therefore even the
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first covenant has not been dedi- things, can never with the same
cated without blood. 19 For when sacrifices year by year, which they
every commandment had been offer continually, make perfect
spoken by Moses to all the people those who draw near. 2 Otherwise
according to the law, he took the would they not have ceased to be
blood of the calves and the goats, offered? because the worshippers,
with water and scarlet wool and having been once cleansed, would
hyssop, and sprinkled both the have had no more consciousness of
book itself and all the people, 20 sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is
saying, “This is the blood of the a remembrance made of sins year
covenant which God commanded by year. 4 For it is impossible that
toward you.” 21 Moreover the the blood of bulls and goats should
tabernacle and all the vessels of the take away sins. 5 Therefore when
ministry he sprinkled in like man- he comes into the world, he says,
ner with the blood. 22 And accord- “Sacrifice and offering you did
ing to the law, I may almost say, all not desire,
things are cleansed with blood, and But a body you prepared for me;
apart from shedding of blood there 6 In whole burnt offerings and sac-
is no remission. rifices for sin you had no plea-
23 It was necessary therefore that sure:
the copies of the things in the heav- 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I am come
ens should be cleansed with these; (In the roll of the book it is writ-
but the heavenly things themselves ten of me)
with better sacrifices than these. 24 To do your will, O God.’ ”
For Christ did not enter into a holy 8 Saying above, “Sacrifices and
place made with hands, like in pat- offerings and whole burnt offerings
tern to the true; but into heaven it- and sacrifices for sin you did not de-
self, now to appear before the face sire, neither had pleasure in them
of God for us: 25 nor yet that he (which are offered according to the
should offer himself often, as the law),” 9 then has he said, “Behold, I
high priest enters into the holy am come to do your will.” He takes
place year by year with blood not away the first, that he may establish
his own; 26 otherwise must he often the second. 10 By which will we
have suffered since the foundation have been sanctified through the
of the world: but now once at the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
end of the ages has he been mani- once for all. 11 And every priest in-
fested to put away sin by the sacri- deed stands day by day ministering
fice of himself. 27 And inasmuch as and offering often the same sacri-
it is appointed for men once to die, fices, which can never take away
and after this comes judgment; 28 so sins: 12 but he, when he had offered
Christ also, having been once one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat
offered to bear the sins of many, down at the right hand of God; 13
will appear a second time, apart from that time expecting until his
from sin, to those who wait for him, enemies are made the footstool of
for salvation. his feet. 14 For by one offering he

10 For the law having a has perfected for ever those who
shadow of the good things to are sanctified. 15 And the Holy
come, not the very image of the Spirit also bears witness to us; for
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after he has said, and has counted the blood of the
16 “This is the covenant that I will covenant by which he was sancti-
make with them fied an unholy thing, and has in-
After those days, says the Lord: sulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we
I will put my laws on their know him who said, “Vengeance
heart, belongs to me, I will repay.” And
And upon their mind also will I again, “The Lord shall judge his
write them;” people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to
then he says, fall into the hands of the living
17 “And their sins and their iniqui- God.
ties I will remember no more.” 32 But call to remembrance the
18 Now where remission of these is, former days, in which, after you
there is no more offering for sin. were enlightened, you endured a
19 Having therefore, brethren, great conflict of sufferings; 33
boldness to enter into the holy partly, being made a spectacle both
place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by by reproaches and afflictions; and
the way which he dedicated for us, partly, becoming partakers with
a new and living way, through the those who were so used. 34 For you
veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 and both had compassion on those who
having a great priest over the house were in bonds, and took joyfully
of God; 22 let us draw near with a the plundering of your possessions,
true heart in fullness of faith, hav- knowing that you have for your-
ing our hearts sprinkled from an selves a better possession and a
evil conscience: and having our lasting one. 35 Do not cast away
body washed with pure water, 23 therefore your boldness, which has
let us hold fast the confession of our great reward. 36 For you have need
hope that it does not waiver; for he of patience, that, having done the
is faithful who promised: 24 and let will of God, you may receive the
us consider one another to provoke promise.
to love and good works; 25 not for- 37 “For yet a very little while,
saking our own assembling to- He who comes will come, and
gether, as the custom of some is, but will not delay.
exhorting one another; and so much 38 But my righteous one shall live
the more, as you see the day draw- by faith:
ing near. And if he shrinks back, my soul
26 For if we sin willfully after we has no pleasure in him.”
have received the knowledge of the 39 But we are not of those who
truth, there remains no more a sac- shrink back to destruction; but of
rifice for sins, 27 but a certain fear- those who have faith to the saving
ful expectation of judgment, and a of the soul.
fierceness of fire which will devour
the adversaries. 28 A man who has 11 Now faith is assurance of
things hoped for, a conviction
set aside Moses’ law dies without of things not seen. 2 For in it the el-
compassion on the word of two or ders had witness borne to them. 3
three witnesses: 29 of how much By faith we understand that the
severer punishment, do you think, worlds have been framed by the
will he be judged worthy, who has word of God, so that what is seen
trodden under foot the Son of God, has not been made out of things
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which appear. 4 By faith Abel ing received the promises, but hav-
offered to God a more excellent sac- ing seen them and greeted them
rifice than Cain, through which he from afar, and having confessed
had witness borne to him that he that they were strangers and pil-
was righteous, God bearing wit- grims on the earth. 14 For those
ness in respect of his gifts: and who say such things make it clear
through it he being dead yet that they are seeking after a country
speaks. 5 By faith Enoch was trans- of their own. 15 And if indeed they
lated that he should not see death; had been mindful of that country
and he was not found, because God from which they went out, they
translated him: for he has had wit- would have had opportunity to re-
ness borne to him that before his turn. 16 But now they desire a bet-
translation he had been well-pleas- ter country, that is, a heavenly:
ing to God: 6 and without faith it is therefore God is not ashamed of
impossible to be well-pleasing to them, to be called their God; for he
him; for he who comes to God must has prepared for them a city.
believe that he is, and that he is a re- 17 By faith Abraham, being
warder of those who seek after him. tested, offered up Isaac: yes, he who
7 By faith Noah, being warned of had gladly received the promises
God concerning things not seen as was offering up his only begotten
yet, moved with godly fear, pre- son; 18 even he to whom it was said,
pared an ark to the saving of his “In Isaac shall your seed be called”:
house; through which he con- 19 accounting that God is able to
demned the world, and became raise up, even from the dead; from
heir of the righteousness which is which he did also in a figure receive
according to faith. 8 By faith Abra- him back. 20 By faith Isaac blessed
ham, when he was called, obeyed Jacob and Esau, even concerning
to go out to a place which he was to things to come. 21 By faith Jacob,
receive for an inheritance; and he when he was dying, blessed each of
went out, not knowing where he the sons of Joseph; and wor-
went. 9 By faith he became a so- shipped, leaning upon the top of his
journer in the land of promise, as in staff. 22 By faith Joseph, when his
a land not his own, dwelling in end was near, made mention of the
tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the departure of the children of Israel;
heirs with him of the same promise: and gave commandment concern-
10 for he looked for the city which ing his bones. 23 By faith Moses,
has the foundations, whose builder when he was born, was hid three
and maker is God. 11 By faith even months by his parents, because
Sarah herself received power to they saw he was an beautiful child;
conceive seed when she was past and they were not afraid of the
age, since she counted him faithful king’s commandment. 24 By faith
who had promised: 12 therefore Moses, when he was grown up, re-
also there sprang of one, and him as fused to be called the son of
good as dead, so many as the stars of Pharaoh’s daughter; 25 choosing
heaven in multitude, and as the rather to share ill treatment with
sand, which is by the seashore, in- the people of God, than to enjoy the
numerable. pleasures of sin for a time; 26 ac-
13 These all died in faith, not hav- counting the reproach of Christ
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greater riches than the treasures of And these all, having had witness
Egypt: for he looked to the reward. borne to them through their faith,
27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not did not receive the promise, 40 God
fearing the wrath of the king: for he having provided some better thing
endured, as seeing him who is in- concerning us, that apart from us
visible. 28 By faith he kept the they should not be made perfect.
Passover, and the sprinkling of the
blood, that the destroyer of the 12 Therefore let us also, seeing
we are surrounded with so
firstborn should not touch them. 29 great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside
By faith they passed through the every weight, and the sin which so
Red Sea as by dry land: which the easily beset us, and let us run with
Egyptians attempting to do were patience the race that is set before
swallowed up. 30 By faith the walls us, 2 looking to Jesus the author
of Jericho fell down, after they had and perfecter of our faith, who for
been encircled for seven days. 31 By the joy that was set before him en-
faith Rahab the harlot did not per- dured the cross, despising shame,
ish with those who were disobedi- and has sat down at the right hand
ent, having received the spies with of the throne of God. 3 For consider
peace. him who has endured such opposi-
32 And what more shall I say? for tion of sinners against himself, that
the time will fail me if I tell of you do not grow weary, fainting in
Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah; your souls. 4 You have not yet re-
of David and Samuel and the sisted unto blood, striving against
prophets: 33 who through faith sin: 5 and you have forgotten the
subdued kingdoms, worked right- exhortation which reasons with
eousness, obtained promises, you as with sons,
stopped the mouths of lions, 34 “My son, do not regard lightly
quenched the power of fire, es- the chastening of the Lord,
caped the edge of the sword, from Nor faint when you are reproved
weakness were made strong, be- by him;
came mighty in war, turned to 6 For whom the Lord loves he chas-
flight armies of aliens. 35 Women tens,
received their dead by a resurrec- And scourges every son whom
tion: and others were tortured, not he receives.”
accepting their deliverance; that 7 It is for chastening that you en-
they might obtain a better resurrec- dure; God deals with you as with
tion: 36 and others had trial of sons; for what son is there whom
mockings and scourgings, yes, his father does not chasten? 8 But if
moreover of bonds and imprison- you are without chastening, of
ment: 37 they were stoned, they which all have been made partak-
were sawn apart, they were ers, then you are bastards, and not
tempted, they were slain with the sons. 9 Furthermore, we had the fa-
sword: they went about in sheep- thers of our flesh to chasten us, and
skins, in goatskins; being destitute, we gave them respect: shall we not
afflicted, ill-treated 38 (of whom the much rather be in subjection to the
world was not worthy), wandering Father of spirits, and live? 10 For
in deserts and mountains and they indeed for a few days chas-
caves, and the holes of the earth. 39 tened us as seemed good to them;
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but he for our profit, that we may be church of the firstborn who are en-
partakers of his holiness. 11 All rolled in heaven, and to God the
chastening seems for the present to Judge of all, and to the spirits of just
be not joyous but grievous; yet af- men made perfect, 24 and to Jesus
terward it yields peaceable fruit to the mediator of a new covenant,
those who have been exercised by and to the blood of sprinkling that
it, even the fruit of righteousness. 12 speaks better than that of Abel. 25
Therefore lift up the hands that See that you do not refuse him who
hang down, and the enfeebled speaks. For if they did not escape
knees; 13 and make straight paths when they refused him who
for your feet, that that which is warned them on earth, much more
lame not be turned out of the way, shall we not escape who turn away
but rather be healed. from him who warns from heaven:
14 Follow after peace with all 26 whose voice then shook the
men, and the sanctification without earth: but now he has promised,
which no man will see the Lord: 15 saying, “Yet once more will I make
looking carefully lest there be any to tremble not only the earth, but
man who falls short of the grace of also the heaven.” 27 And this word,
God; lest any root of bitterness “Yet once more,” signifies the re-
springing up trouble you, and by it moving of those things that are
the many be defiled; 16 lest there be shaken, as of things that have been
any fornication, or profane person, made, that those things which are
as Esau, who for one meal sold his not shaken may remain. 28 There-
own birthright. 17 For you know fore, receiving a kingdom that can-
that even when he afterward de- not be shaken, let us have grace, by
sired to inherit the blessing, he was which we may offer service well-
rejected; for he found no place for a pleasing to God with reverence and
change of mind in his father, though awe: 29 for our God is a consuming
he sought it diligently with tears. fire.
18 For you are not come to a
mountain that might be touched, 13 Let love of the brethren
continue. 2 Do not forget to
and that burned with fire, and to show love to strangers: for by this
blackness, and darkness, and tem- some have entertained angels un-
pest, 19 and the sound of a trumpet, aware. 3 Remember those who are
and the voice of words; which voice in bonds, as bound with them;
those who heard entreated that no those who are ill-treated, as being
word more should be spoken to yourselves also in the body. 4 Let
them; 20 for they could not endure marriage be held in honor among
that which was commanded, “If all, and let the bed be undefiled: for
even a beast touch the mountain, it fornicators and adulterers God will
shall be stoned;” 21 and so fearful judge. 5 Be free from the love of
was the appearance, that Moses money; content with such things as
said, “I exceedingly fear and you have: for he himself has said, “I
quake”: 22 but you are come to will in no way fail you, neither will
Mount Zion, and to the city of the I in any way forsake you.” 6 So that
living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, with good courage we say,
and to innumerable hosts of angels, “The Lord is my helper; I will not
23 to the general assembly and fear:
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What will man do to me?”
7 Remember those who have the
rule over you, men who spoke to
you the word of God; and consider-
ing the issue of their life, imitate
their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday and today, yes and for
ever. 9 Do not be carried away by
various and strange teachings: for it
is good that the heart be established
by grace; not by foods, in which
those who occupied themselves
were not profited. 10 We have an al-
tar, from which they have no right
to eat who serve the tabernacle. 11
For the bodies of those beasts
whose blood is brought into the
holy place by the high priest as an
offering for sin, are burned outside
the camp. 12 Therefore Jesus also,
that he might sanctify the people
through his own blood, suffered
outside the gate. 13 Let us therefore
go forth to him outside the camp,
bearing his reproach. 14 For we do
not have here a lasting city, but we
seek after the city which is to come.
15 Through him then let us offer up
a sacrifice of praise to God continu-
ally, that is, the fruit of lips which
make confession to his name. 16
But to do good and to communicate
do not forget: for with such sacri-
fices God is well pleased. 17 Obey
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those who have the rule over you,
and submit to them: for they watch
on behalf of your souls, as those
who shall give account; that they
may do this with joy, and not with
grief: for this would be unprofitable
for you.
18 Pray for us: for we are per-
suaded that we have a good con-
science, desiring to live honorably
in all things. 19 And I exhort you the
more exceedingly to do this, that I
may be restored to you the sooner.
20 Now the God of peace, who
brought again from the dead the
great shepherd of the sheep with
the blood of an eternal covenant,
even our Lord Jesus, 21 make you
perfect in every good thing to do
his will, working in us that which is
well-pleasing in his sight, through
Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory
for ever and ever. Amen.
22 But I exhort you, brethren, bear
with the word of exhortation: for I
have written to you in few words.
23 Know that our brother Timothy
has been set free; with whom, if he
comes shortly, I will see you.
24 Greet all those who have the
rule over you, and all the saints.
Those of Italy greet you.
25 Grace be with you all. Amen.
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JAMES

1 James, a servant of God and of

the Lord Jesus Christ, to the
twelve tribes which are of the Dis-
cannot be tempted with evil, and he
himself temps no man: 14 but each
man is tempted, when he is drawn
persion, greeting. away by his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then the lust, when it has con-
2 Count it all joy, my brethren, ceived, gives birth to sin: and the
when you fall into manifold temp- sin, when it is full-grown, brings
tations; 3 knowing that the testing forth death. 16 Do not be deceived,
of your faith works patience. 4 And my beloved brethren. 17 Every
let patience have its perfect work, good gift and every perfect gift is
that you may be perfect and com- from above, coming down from the
plete, lacking in nothing. Father of lights, with whom can be
5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, no variation, neither shadow that is
let him ask of God, who gives to all cast by turning. 18 Of his own will
liberally and does not reproach; he brought us forth by the word of
and it will be given him. 6 But let truth, that we should be a kind of
him ask in faith, nothing doubting: first fruits of his creatures.
for he who doubts is like the surge 19 You know this, my beloved
of the sea driven by the wind and brethren. But let every man be swift
tossed. 7 For let not that man think to hear, slow to speak, slow to
that he will receive anything from wrath: 20 for the wrath of man does
the Lord; 8 a double-minded man, not work the righteousness of God.
unstable in all his ways. 21 Therefore putting away all filthi-
9 But let the brother of low degree ness and overflowing of wicked-
glory in his high estate: 10 and the ness, receive with meekness the
rich, in that he is made low: because implanted word, which is able to
as the flower of the grass he will save your souls. 22 But be doers of
pass away. 11 For the sun rises with the word, and not hearers only, de-
the scorching wind, and withers the luding your own selves. 23 For if
grass; and flower of it falls, and the anyone is a hearer of the word and
grace of the fashion of it perishes: not a doer, he is like a man behold-
so also will the rich man fade away ing his natural face in a mirror: 24
in his goings. for he looks at himself, and goes
12 Blessed is the man who en- away, and immediately forgets
dures temptation; for when he has what sort of man he was. 25 But he
been approved, he will receive the who looks into the perfect law, the
crown of life, which the Lord law of liberty, and so continues, not
promised to those who love him. 13 being a hearer who forgets but a
Let no man say when he is tempted, doer who works, this man will be
“I am tempted by God”; for God blessed in his doing. 26 If any man
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thinks himself to be religious, while of the law. 12 So speak, and so do,
he does not bridle his tongue but as men who are to be judged by a
deceives his heart, this man’s reli- law of liberty. 13 For judgment is
gion is vain. 27 Pure religion and without mercy to him who has
undefiled before our God and Fa- showed no mercy: mercy glories
ther is this, to visit the fatherless against judgment.
and widows in their affliction, and 14 What does it profit, my
to keep oneself unspotted from the brethren, if a man say he has faith,
world. but does not have works? can that

2 My brethren, do not hold the faith save him? 15 If a brother or sis-

faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, ter is naked and in lack of daily
the Lord of glory, with respect to food, 16 and one of you say to them,
persons. 2 For if there comes into “Go in peace, be warmed and
your synagogue a man with a gold filled;” and yet you do not give
ring, in fine clothing, and there them the things necessary for the
comes in also a poor man in vile body; what does it profit? 17 Even
clothing; 3 and you have regarded so faith, if it does not have works, is
for him who wears the fine cloth- dead in itself. 18 Yes, a man will say,
ing, and say, “Sit here in a good “You have faith, and I have works”:
place;” and you say to the poor show me your faith apart from your
man, “Stand there, or sit under my works, and I by my works will
footstool;” 4 do you not make dis- show you my faith. 19 you believe
tinctions among yourselves, and that God is one; you do well: the
become judges with evil thoughts? demons also believe, and shudder.
5 Listen, my beloved brethren; did 20 But will you know, O vain man,
not God choose those who are poor that faith apart from works is bar-
as to the world to be rich in faith, ren? 21 Was not Abraham our fa-
and heirs of the kingdom which he ther justified by works, in that he
promised to those who love him? 6 offered up Isaac his son on the al-
But you have dishonored the poor tar? 22 You see that faith was work-
man. Do not the rich oppress you, ing with his works, and by works
and themselves drag you before the was faith made perfect; 23 and the
courts? 7 Do they not blaspheme Scripture was fulfilled which says,
the honorable name by which you “And Abraham believed God, and
are called? 8 However if you fulfill it was reckoned to him for right-
the royal law, according to the eousness; and he was called the
Scripture, “You shall love your friend of God.” 24 You see that by
neighbor as yourself,” you do well: works a man is justified, and not
9 but if you have respect of persons, only by faith. 25 And in like manner
you commit sin, being convicted by was not also Rahab the harlot justi-
the law as transgressors. 10 For fied by works, in that she received
whosoever shall keep the whole the messengers, and sent them out
law, and yet stumble in one point, another way? 26 For as the body
he is become guilty of all. 11 For he apart from the spirit is dead, even
who said, “Do not commit adul- so faith apart from works is dead.
tery,” said also, “Do not kill.” Now
if you do not commit adultery, but 3 Let not many of you be teach-
ers, my brethren, knowing that
kill, you are become a transgressor we shall receive heavier judgment.
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2 For in many things we all stum- faction are, there is confusion and
ble. If any does not stumble in every vile deed. 17 But the wisdom
word, he is a perfect man, able to that is from above is first pure, then
bridle the whole body also. 3 Now peaceable, gentle, easy to be en-
if we put the horses’ bridles into treated, full of mercy and good
their mouths that they may obey fruits, without variance, without
us, we turn their whole body also. 4 hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of right-
Behold, the ships also, though they eousness is sown in peace for those
are so great and are driven by who make peace.
rough winds, are yet turned by a
very small rudder, wherever the 4 From where come wars and
from where come fightings
impulse of the steersman wills. 5 So among you? Do they not come from
the tongue also is a little member, here, even from your pleasures that
and boasts great things. Behold, war in your members? 2 You lust,
how much wood is kindled by how and do not have: you kill, and
small a fire! 6 And the tongue is a covet, and cannot obtain: you fight
fire: the world of iniquity among and war; you do not have, because
our members is the tongue, which you do not ask. 3 You ask, and do
defiles the whole body, and sets on not receive, because you ask amiss,
fire the wheel of nature, and is set that you may spend it in your plea-
on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of sures. 4 You adulteresses, do you
beasts and birds, of creeping things not know that the friendship of the
and things in the sea, is tamed, and world is enmity with God? Whoso-
has been tamed by mankind: 8 but ever therefore would be a friend of
the tongue can no man tame; it is a the world makes himself an enemy
restless evil, it is full of deadly poi- of God. 5 Or do you think that the
son. 9 With it we bless the Lord and Scripture speaks in vain? “Does the
Father; and with it we curse men, spirit which he made to dwell in us
who are made after the likeness of long unto envying?” 6 But he gives
God: 10 out of the same mouth more grace. Therefore the Scripture
comes forth blessing and cursing. says, “God resists the proud, but
My brethren, these things ought not gives grace to the humble.” 7 Be
to be so. 11 Does the fountain send subject therefore to God; but resist
forth from the same opening sweet the devil, and he will flee from you.
water and bitter? 12 Can a fig tree, 8 Draw near to God, and he will
my brethren, yield olives, or a vine draw near to you. Cleanse your
figs? neither can salt water yield hands, you sinners; and purify
sweet. your hearts, you double-minded. 9
13 Who is wise and understand- Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep:
ing among you? let him show by let your laughter be turned to
his good life his works in meekness mourning, and your joy to heavi-
of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter ness. 10 Humble yourselves in the
jealousy and faction in your heart, sight of the Lord, and he will exalt
do not glory and do not lie against you.
the truth. 15 This wisdom is not a 11 Do not speak against one an-
wisdom that comes down from other, brethren. He who speaks
above, but is earthly, sensual, de- against a brother, or judges his
monic. 16 For where jealousy and brother, speaks against the law, and
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judges the law: but if you judge the patient; establish your hearts: for
law, you are not a doer of the law, the coming of the Lord is at hand. 9
but a judge. 12 One only is the law- Do not murmur, brethren, one
giver and judge, even he who is able against another, that you not be
to save and to destroy: but who are judged: behold, the judge stands
you who judges your neighbor? before the doors. 10 Take, brethren,
13 Come now, you who say, “To- for an example of suffering and of
day or tomorrow we will go into patience, the prophets who spoke
this city, and spend a year there, in the name of the Lord. 11 Behold,
and trade, and make a profit”: 14 we call them blessed who endured:
whereas you do not know what you have heard of the patience of
shall be tomorrow. What is your Job, and have seen the end of the
life? For you are a vapor that ap- Lord, that the Lord is full of pity,
pears for a little time, and then van- and merciful.
ishes away. 15 Instead you ought to 12 But above all things, my
say, “If the Lord wills, we shall both brethren, do not swear, neither by
live, and do this or that.” 16 But the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by
now you glory in your boasts: all any other oath: but let your “yes”
such glorying is evil. 17 To him be yes, and your “no,” no; that you
therefore who knows to do good, do not fall under judgment.
and does not do it, to him it is sin. 13 Is any among you suffering? let

5 Come now, you rich, weep him pray. Is any cheerful? let him
and howl for your miseries that sing praise. 14 Is any among you
are coming upon you. 2 Your riches sick? let him call for the
are corrupted, and your garments elders of the church; and let them
are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and pray over him, anointing him with
your silver are rusted; and their oil in the name of the Lord: 15 and
rust will be for a testimony against the prayer of faith will save him
you, and will eat your flesh as fire. who is sick, and the Lord will raise
You have laid up your treasure in him up; and if he has committed
the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of sins, it will be forgiven him. 16 Con-
the laborers who mowed your fess therefore your sins to one an-
fields, which you kept back by other, and pray one for another,
fraud, cries out: and the cries of that you may be healed. The suppli-
those who reaped have entered into cation of a righteous man avails
the ears of the Lord of Hosts. 5 You much in its working. 17 Elijah was
have lived luxuriously on the earth, a man of like passions with us, and
and taken your pleasure; you have he prayed fervently that it might
nourished your hearts in a day of not rain; and it did not rain on the
slaughter. 6 You have condemned, earth for three years and six
you have killed the righteous one; months. 18 And he prayed again;
he does not resist you. and the heaven gave rain, and the
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, earth brought forth her fruit.
until the coming of the Lord. Be- 19 My brethren, if any among you
hold, the farmer waits for the pre- errs from the truth, and one turns
cious fruit of the earth, being him back; 20 let him know, that he
patient over it, until it receives the who turns a sinner from the error of
early and latter rain. 8 You also be his way will save a soul from death,
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PETER

1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus

Christ, to the elect who are so-
journers of the Dispersion in Pon-
gently, who prophesied of the grace
that should come to you: 11 search-
ing what time or what manner of
tus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and time the Spirit of Christ which was
Bithynia, 2 according to the fore- in them pointed to, when it testified
knowledge of God the Father, in beforehand the sufferings of Christ,
sanctification of the Spirit, unto and the glories that should follow
obedience and sprinkling of the them. 12 To whom it was revealed,
blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you that not to themselves, but to you,
and peace be multiplied. did they minister these things,
which now have been announced
3 Blessed be the God and Father to you through those who preached
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who ac- the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit
cording to his great mercy has be- sent forth from heaven; things
gotten us again to a living hope by which angels desire to look into.
the resurrection of Jesus Christ 13 Therefore girding up the loins
from the dead, 4 to an inheritance of your mind, be sober and set your
incorruptible, and undefiled, and hope perfectly on the grace that is
that does not fade away, reserved in to be brought to you at the revela-
heaven for you, 5 who by the power tion of Jesus Christ; 14 as children
of God are guarded through faith of obedience, not fashioning your-
unto a salvation ready to be re- selves according to your former
vealed in the last time. 6 In this you lusts in the time of your ignorance:
greatly rejoice, though now for a lit- 15 but like as he who called you is
tle while, if need be, you have been holy, be yourselves also holy in all
put to grief in manifold trials, 7 that manner of living; 16 because it is
the proof of your faith, being more written, “You shall be holy; for I am
precious than gold that perishes holy.” 17 And if you call on him as
though it is proved by fire, may be Father, who without respect of per-
found to praise and glory and sons judges according to each
honor at the revelation of Jesus man’s work, pass the time of your
Christ: 8 whom not having seen sojourning in fear: 18 knowing that
you love; on whom, though now you were redeemed, not with cor-
you do not see him, yet believing, ruptible things, with silver or gold,
you rejoice greatly with joy un- from your vain manner of life
speakable and full of glory: 9 re- handed down from your fathers; 19
ceiving the end of your faith, even but with precious blood, as of a
the salvation of your souls. 10 Con- lamb without spot, even the blood
cerning which salvation the of Christ: 20 who was foreknown
prophets sought and searched dili- indeed before the foundation of the
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world, but was manifested at the jected,
end of the times for your sake, 21 The same was made the head of
who through him are believers in the corner;”
God, who raised him from the 8 and,
dead, and gave him glory; so that “A stone of stumbling, and a rock
your faith and hope might be in of offense;” for they stumble at the
God. 22 Seeing you have purified word, being disobedient: to which
your souls in your obedience to the also they were appointed. 9 But you
truth unto unfeigned love of the are an elect race, a royal priesthood,
brethren, love one another from the a holy nation, a people for God’s
heart fervently: 23 having been be- own possession, that you may
gotten again, not of corruptible show forth the excellencies of him
seed, but of incorruptible, through who called you out of darkness into
the word of God, which lives and his marvelous light: 10 who in time
abides. 24 For, past were no people, but now are
“All flesh is as grass, the people of God: who had not ob-
And all the glory of it as the tained mercy, but now have ob-
flower of grass. tained mercy.
The grass withers, and the
flower falls: 11 Beloved, I beseech you as so-
25 But the word of the Lord abides journers and pilgrims, to abstain
for ever.” from fleshly lusts, which war
And this is the word of good tid- against the soul; 12 having your be-
ings which was preached to you. havior seemly among the Gentiles;

2 Putting away therefore all that, in which they speak against

wickedness, and all deceit, and you as evildoers, they may by your
hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil good works, which they behold,
speakings, 2 as newborn babes, glorify God in the day of visitation.
long for the spiritual milk which is 13 Be subject to every ordinance
without deceit, that you may grow of man for the Lord’s sake: whether
by it to salvation; 3 if you have to the king, as supreme; 14 or to
tasted that the Lord is gracious: 4 to governors, as sent by him for
whom coming, a living stone, re- vengeance on evildoers and for
jected indeed by men, but with God praise to those who do well. 15 For
elect, precious, 5 you also, as living so is the will of God, that by doing
stones, are being built up a spiritual good you should put to silence the
house, to be a holy priesthood, to ignorance of foolish men: 16 as free,
offer up spiritual sacrifices, accept- and not using your freedom for a
able to God through Jesus Christ. 6 cloak of wickedness, but as bond-
Because it is contained in Scripture, servants of God. 17 Honor all men.
“Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cor- Love the brotherhood. Fear God.
ner stone, elect, precious: Honor the king.
And he who believes on him 18 Servants, be in subjection to
shall not be put to shame.” your masters with all fear; not only
7 For you therefore who believe is to the good and gentle, but also to
the preciousness: but for such as the unjust. 19 For this is acceptable,
disbelieve, if for conscience toward God a man
“The stone which the builders re- endures griefs, suffering wrong-
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fully. 20 For what glory is it, if, knowledge, giving honor to the
when you sin, and are beaten for it, woman, as to the weaker vessel, as
you shall take it patiently? but if, being also joint heirs of the grace of
when you do well, and suffer for it, life; to the end that your prayers not
you take it patiently, this is accept- be hindered.
able with God. 21 For to this were 8 Finally, all of you be like-
you called: because Christ also minded, compassionate, loving as
suffered for you, leaving you an ex- brethren, tenderhearted, humble-
ample, that you should follow his minded: 9 not rendering evil for
steps: 22 who did no sin, neither evil, or reviling for reviling; but on
was deceit found in his mouth: 23 the contrary blessing; for to this
who, when he was reviled, did not were you called, that you should in-
revile again; when he suffered, did herit a blessing. 10 For,
not threaten; but committed him- “He who would love life,
self to him who judges righteously: And see good days,
24 who he himself bore our sins in Let him refrain his tongue from
his body on the tree, that we, hav- evil,
ing died to sins, might live to right- And his lips that they speak no
eousness; by whose wounds you deceit:
were healed. 25 For you were going 11 And let him turn away from
astray like sheep; but are now re- evil, and do good;
turned to the Shepherd and Over- Let him seek peace, and pursue
seer of your souls. it.

3 In like manner, wives, be in 12 For the eyes of the Lord are on

subjection to your own hus-
bands; that, even if any do not obey
the righteous,
And his ears to their
the word, they may without the supplication:
word be gained by the behavior of But the face of the Lord is on
their wives; 2 beholding your those who do evil.”
chaste behavior coupled with fear. 3 13 And who is he who will harm
Whose adorning let it not be the out- you, if you become zealous of that
ward adorning of braiding the hair, which is good? 14 But even if you
and of wearing jewels of gold, or of should suffer for righteousness’
putting on apparel; 4 but let it be the sake, blessed are you: and do not
hidden man of the heart, in the in- fear their fear, neither be troubled;
corruptible apparel of a meek and 15 but sanctify in your hearts Christ
quiet spirit, which is in the sight of as Lord: being ready always to give
God of great price. 5 For in this answer to every man who asks you
manner formerly the holy women a reason concerning the hope that is
also, who hoped in God, adorned in you, yet with meekness and fear:
themselves, being in subjection to 16 having a good conscience; that,
their own husbands: 6 as Sarah in which you are spoken against,
obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: they may be put to shame who re-
whose children you now are, if you vile your good manner of life in
do well, and are not put in fear by Christ. 17 For it is better, if the will
any terror. of God should so will, that you
7 Husbands, in like manner, dwell suffer for doing good than for do-
with your wives according to ing evil. 18 Because Christ also
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suffered for sins once, the righteous and be sober to prayer: 8 above all
for the unrighteous, that he might things being fervent in your love
bring us to God; being put to death among yourselves; for love covers a
in the flesh, but made alive in the multitude of sins: 9 using hospital-
spirit; 19 in which also he went and ity to one another without mur-
preached to the spirits in prison, 20 muring: 10 according as each has
who formerly were disobedient, received a gift, ministering it
when the long-suffering of God among yourselves, as good stew-
waited in the days of Noah, while ards of the manifold grace of God;
the ark was being prepared, in 11 if any man speaks, speaking as it
which few, that is, eight souls, were were oracles of God; if any man
saved through water: 21 which also ministers, ministering as of the
after a true likeness does now save strength which God supplies: that
you, even baptism, not the putting in all things God may be glorified
away of the filth of the flesh, but the through Jesus Christ, whose is the
interrogation of a good conscience glory and the dominion for ever
toward God, through the resurrec- and ever. Amen.
tion of Jesus Christ; 22 who is at the
right hand of God, having gone 12 Beloved, do not think it strange
into heaven; angels and authorities concerning the fiery trial among
and powers being made subject to you, which comes upon you to test
him. you, as though a strange thing hap-

4 Since therefore Christ suffer- pened to you: 13 but to the extent

ed in the flesh, arm yourselves that you are partakers of Christ’s
also with the same mind; for he sufferings, rejoice; that at the reve-
who has suffered in the flesh has lation of his glory you also may re-
ceased from sin; 2 that you no joice with exceeding joy. 14 If you
longer should live the rest of your are reproached for the name of
time in the flesh to the lusts of men, Christ, blessed are you; because the
but to the will of God. 3 For the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God
time past may suffice to have rests upon you. 15 For let none of
worked the desire of the Gentiles, you suffer as a murderer, or a thief,
and to have walked in licentious- or an evildoer, or as a meddler in
ness, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, other men’s matters: 16 but if a man
carousings, and abominable idola- suffer as a Christian, let him not be
tries: 4 in which they think it ashamed; but let him glorify God in
strange that you do not run with this name. 17 For the time is come
them into the same excess of dissi- for judgment to begin at the house
pation, speaking evil of you: 5 who of God: and if it begin first at us,
will give account to him who is what will be the end of those who
ready to judge the living and the do not obey the gospel of God? 18
dead. 6 For to this end was the And if the righteous is scarcely
gospel preached even to the dead, saved, where will the ungodly and
that they might be judged indeed sinner appear? 19 Therefore let
according to men in the flesh, but those also who suffer according to
live according to God in the spirit. the will of God commit their souls
7 But the end of all things is at in doing good to a faithful Creator.
hand: be therefore of sound mind,
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5 The elders therefore among
you I exhort, who am a fellow
elder, and a witness of the suffer-
ings of Christ, who am also a par-
taker of the glory that shall be
revealed: 2 Tend the flock of God
which is among you, exercising the
oversight, not by constraint, but
willingly, according to the will of
God; nor yet for dishonest gain, but
with a ready mind; 3 neither as
lording it over the charge allotted to
you, but making yourselves exam-
ples to the flock. 4 And when the
chief Shepherd shall be manifested,
you will receive the crown of glory
that does not fade away. 5 Likewise,
you younger, be subject to the elder.
Yes, all of you gird yourselves with
humility, to serve one another: for
God resists the proud, but gives
grace to the humble. 6 Humble
yourselves therefore under the
mighty hand of God, that he may
exalt you in due time; 7 casting all
your anxiety on him, because he
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cares for you. 8 Be sober, be watch-
ful: your adversary the devil, as a
roaring lion, walks about, seeking
whom he may devour, 9 whom
withstand steadfast in your faith,
knowing that the same sufferings
are accomplished in your brethren
who are in the world. 10 And the
God of all grace, who called you to
his eternal glory in Christ, after you
have suffered a little while, will
himself perfect, establish,
strengthen you. 11 To him be the
dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
12 By Silvanus, our faithful
brother, as I account him, I have
written to you briefly, exhorting,
and testifying that this is the true
grace of God: stand fast in it. 13 She
who is in Babylon, elect together
with you, greets you; and so does
Mark my son. 14 Greet one another
with a kiss of love.
Peace be to you all who are in
Christ.
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PETER

1 Simon Peter, a servant and supplied to you the entrance into

apostle of Jesus Christ, to those the eternal kingdom of our Lord
who have obtained a like precious and Savior Jesus Christ.
faith with us in the righteousness of 12 Therefore I will be ready al-
our God and the Savior Jesus Christ: ways to put you in remembrance of
2 Grace to you and peace be multi- these things, though you know
plied in the knowledge of God and them, and are established in the
of Jesus our Lord; 3 seeing that his truth which is with you. 13 And I
divine power has granted to us all think it right, as long as I am in this
things that pertain to life and godli- tabernacle, to stir you up by putting
ness, through the knowledge of you in remembrance; 14 knowing
him who called us by his own glory that the putting off of my taberna-
and virtue; 4 by which he has cle comes swiftly, even as our Lord
granted to us his precious and ex- Jesus Christ signified to me. 15 Yes,
ceedingly great promises; that I will give diligence that at every
through these you may become time you may be able after my de-
partakers of the divine nature, hav- cease to call these things to remem-
ing escaped from the corruption brance. 16 For we did not follow
that is in the world by lust. 5 Yes, cunningly devised fables, when we
and for this very cause adding on made known to you the power and
your part all diligence, in your faith coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
supply virtue; and in your virtue but we were eyewitnesses of his
knowledge; 6 and in your knowl- majesty. 17 For he received from
edge self-control; and in your self- God the Father honor and glory,
control patience; and in your pa- when there was borne such a voice
tience godliness; 7 and in your god- to him by the Majestic Glory, “This
liness brotherly kindness; and in is my beloved Son, in whom I am
your brotherly kindness love. 8 For well pleased”: 18 and this voice we
if these things are yours and ourselves heard borne out of heaven,
abound, they make you to be not when we were with him on the holy
idle nor unfruitful unto the knowl- mountain. 19 And we have the
edge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For word of prophecy made more sure;
he who lacks these things is blind, to which you do well that you take
seeing only what is near, having heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark
forgotten the cleansing from his old place, until the day dawn, and the
sins. 10 Therefore, brethren, give morning star arise in your hearts:
the more diligence to make your 20 knowing this first, that no
calling and election sure: for if you prophecy of Scripture is of private
do these things, you will never interpretation. 21 For no prophecy
stumble: 11 for thus will be richly ever came by the will of man: but
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men spoke from God, being moved do not bring a railing judgment
by the Holy Spirit. against them before the Lord. 12

2 But there arose false prophets But these, as creatures without rea-
also among the people, as son, born mere animals to be taken
among you also there will be false and destroyed, railing in matters of
teachers, who will secretly bring in which they are ignorant, will in
destructive heresies, denying even their destroying surely be de-
the Master who bought them, stroyed, 13 suffering wrong as the
bringing on themselves swift de- wage of wrongdoing; men who
struction. 2 And many will follow count it pleasure to revel in the day-
their licentious doings; by reason of time, spots and blemishes, reveling
whom the way of the truth will be in their deceptions while they feast
evil spoken of. 3 And in covetous- with you; 14 having eyes full of
ness they will with feigned words adultery, and who cannot cease
make merchandise of you: whose from sin; enticing unstable souls;
sentence now from of old is not lin- having a heart exercised in cov-
gering, and their destruction is not etousness; children of cursing; 15
slumbering. 4 For if God did not forsaking the right way, they went
spare angels when they sinned, but astray, having followed the way of
cast them down to hell, and com- Balaam the son of Beor, who loved
mitted them to pits of darkness, to the wage of wrongdoing; 16 but he
be reserved for judgment; 5 and did was rebuked for his own transgres-
not spare the ancient world, but sion: a speechless donkey spoke
preserved Noah with seven others, with man’s voice and restrained the
a preacher of righteousness, when madness of the prophet. 17 These
he brought a flood upon the world are springs without water, and
of the ungodly; 6 and turning the mists driven by a storm; for whom
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into the blackness of darkness has been
ashes condemned them with an reserved. 18 For, uttering great
overthrow, having made them an swelling words of vanity, they entice
example to those who would live in the lusts of the flesh, by licen-
ungodly; 7 and delivered righteous tious-ness, those who are just es-
Lot, extremely distressed by the li- caping from those who live in error;
centious life of the wicked 8 (for 19 promising them liberty, while
that righteous man dwelling they themselves are bondservants
among them, in seeing and hearing, of corruption; for of whom a man is
vexed his righteous soul from day overcome, of the same is he also
to day with their lawless deeds): 9 brought into bondage. 20 For if, af-
the Lord knows how to deliver the ter they have escaped the defile-
godly out of temptation, and to ments of the world through the
keep the unrighteous under pun- knowledge of the Lord and Savior
ishment for the day of judgment; 10 Jesus Christ, they are again entan-
but chiefly those who walk after the gled in them and overcome, the last
flesh in the lust of defilement, and state is become worse with them
despise dominion. Daring, self- than the first. 21 For it would be
willed, they do not tremble to rail at better for them not to have known
dignitaries: 11 whereas angels, the way of righteousness, than, af-
though greater in might and power, ter knowing it, to turn back from
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the holy commandment delivered
to them. 22 It has happened to them
according to the true proverb, “The
dog turning to his own vomit
again,” and “the sow that had
washed to wallowing in the mire.”
3 This is now, beloved, the sec-
ond epistle that I write to you;
and in both of them I stir up your
sincere mind by putting you in re-
membrance; 2 that you should re-
member the words which were
spoken before by the holy prophets,
and the commandment of the Lord
and Savior through your apostles: 3
knowing this first, that in the last
days mockers will come with
mockery, walking after their own
lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the
promise of his coming? for, from
the day that the fathers fell asleep,
all things continue as they were
from the beginning of the creation.”
5 For this they willfully forget, that
there were heavens from of old, and
an earth compacted out of water
and amidst water, by the word of
God; 6 by which means the world
that then was, being overflowed
with water, perished: 7 but the
heavens that now are, and the
earth, by the same word have been
stored up for fire, being reserved
against the day of judgment and
destruction of ungodly men.
8 But do not forget this one thing,
beloved, that one day is with the
Lord as a thousand years, and a
thousand years as one day. 9 The
Lord is not slow concerning his
promise, as some count slowness;
but is long-suffering toward you,
not wishing that any should perish,
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but that all should come to repen-
tance. 10 But the day of the Lord
will come as a thief; in which the
heavens will pass away with a great
noise, and the elements will be dis-
solved with fervent heat, and the
earth and the works that are in it
will be burned up. 11 Seeing that
these things are thus all to be dis-
solved, what manner of persons
ought you to be in all holy living
and godliness, 12 looking for and
earnestly desiring the coming of the
day of God, by reason of which the
heavens being on fire will be dis-
solved, and the elements will melt
with fervent heat? 13 But, accord-
ing to his promise, we look for new
heavens and a new earth, in which
dwells righteousness.
14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that
you look for these things, give dili-
gence that you may be found in
peace, without spot and blameless
in his sight. 15 And account that the
long-suffering of our Lord is salva-
tion; even as our beloved brother
Paul also, according to the wisdom
given to him, wrote to you; 16 as
also in all his epistles, speaking in
them of these things; in which are
some things hard to be understood,
which the ignorant and unstable
twist, as they do also the other Scrip-
tures, to their own destruction. 17
You therefore, beloved, knowing
these things beforehand, beware lest,
being carried away with the error
of the wicked, you fall from your
own steadfastness. 18 But grow in
the grace and knowledge of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To
him be the glory both now and for
ever. Amen.
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1 That which was from the be-

ginning, that which we have
heard, that which we have seen
sin. And if any man sin, we have an
Advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous: 2 and he is the
with our eyes, that which we be- propitiation for our sins; and not
held, and our hands handled, con- for ours only, but also for the whole
cerning the Word of life 2 (and the world. 3 And by this we know that
life was manifested, and we have we know him, if we keep his com-
seen, and bear witness, and declare mandments. 4 He who says, “I
to you the life, the eternal life, know him,” and does not keep his
which was with the Father, and was commandments, is a liar, and the
manifested to us); 3 that which we truth is not in him; 5 but whoever
have seen and heard we declare to keeps his word, in him truly has the
you also, that you also may have love of God been perfected. By this
fellowship with us: yes, and our fel- we know that we are in him: 6 he
lowship is with the Father, and who says he abides in him ought
with his Son Jesus Christ: 4 and himself also to walk even as he
these things we write, that our joy walked.
may be made full. 7 Beloved, no new commandment
write I to you, but an old com-
5 And this is the message which mandment which you had from the
we have heard from him and an- beginning: the old commandment
nounce to you, that God is light, is the word which you heard. 8
and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If Again, a new commandment I
we say that we have fellowship write to you, which thing is true in
with him and walk in the darkness, him and in you; because the dark-
we lie, and do not the truth: 7 but if ness is passing away, and the true
we walk in the light, as he is in the light already shines. 9 He who says
light, we have fellowship with one he is in the light and hates his
another, and the blood of Jesus his brother, is in the darkness even un-
Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we til now. 10 He who loves his brother
say that we have no sin, we deceive abides in the light, and there is no
ourselves, and the truth is not in us. occasion of stumbling in him. 11
9 If we confess our sins, he is faith- But he who hates his brother is in
ful and righteous to forgive us our the darkness, and walks in the
sins, and to cleanse us from all un- darkness, and does not know
righteousness. 10 If we say that we where he is going, because the
have not sinned, we make him a darkness has blinded his eyes.
liar, and his word is not in us. 12 I write to you, my little chil-

2 My little children, these things dren, because your sins are for-
I write to you that you may not given you for his name’s sake. 13 I
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write to you, fathers, because you abide in you which you heard from
know him who is from the begin- the beginning. If that which you
ning. I write to you, young men, be- heard from the beginning abides in
cause you have overcome the evil you, you also will abide in the Son,
one. I have written to you, little and in the Father. 25 And this is the
children, because you know the Fa- promise which he promised us,
ther. 14 I have written to you, fa- even the life eternal. 26 These things
thers, because you know him who I have written to you concerning
is from the beginning. I have writ- those who would lead you astray.
ten to you, young men, because you 27 And as for you, the anointing
are strong, and the word of God which you received from him
abides in you, and you have over- abides in you, and you do not need
come the evil one. 15 Do not love that anyone teach you; but as his
the world, neither the things that anointing teaches you concerning
are in the world. If any man love all things, and is true, and is not a
the world, the love of the Father is lie, and even as it taught you, you
not in him. 16 For all that is in the abide in him. 28 And now, my little
world, the lust of the flesh and the children, abide in him; that, if he
lust of the eyes and the vainglory of shall be manifested, we may have
life, is not of the Father, but is of the boldness, and not be ashamed be-
world. 17 And the world is passing fore him at his coming. 29 If you
away, and its lusts: but he who does know that he is righteous, you
the will of God abides for ever. know that everyone also who does
righteousness is begotten of him.
18 Little children, it is the last
hour: and as you heard that an-
tichrist is coming, even now have 3 Behold what manner of love
the Father has bestowed on us,
there arisen many antichrists; by that we should be called children of
which we know that it is the last God; and such we are. For this cause
hour. 19 They went out from us, but the world does not know us, be-
they were not of us; for if they had cause it did not know him. 2
been of us, they would have contin- Beloved, now we are children of
ued with us: but they went out, that God, and it has not yet made
they might be made known that known what we shall be. We know
they all are not of us. 20 And you that, if he shall be manifested, we
have an anointing from the Holy shall be like him; for we shall see
One, and you know all things. 21 I him even as he is. 3 And every one
have not written to you because who has this hope set on him puri-
you do not know the truth, but be- fies himself, even as he is pure. 4
cause you know it, and because no Every one doing sin also does law-
lie is of the truth. 22 Who is the liar lessness; and sin is lawlessness. 5
but he who denies that Jesus is the And you know that he was mani-
Christ? This is the antichrist, even fested to take away sins; and in him
he who denies the Father and the is no sin. 6 Whosoever abides in
Son. 23 Whosoever denies the Son, him does not sin: whosoever sins
the same does not have the Father: has not seen him, neither knows
he who confesses the Son has the him. 7 My little children, let no man
Father also. 24 As for you, let that lead you astray: he who does right-
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eousness is righteous, even as he is toward God; 22 and whatsoever we
righteous: 8 he who does sin is of ask we receive from him, because
the devil; for the devil sins from the we keep his commandments and
beginning. To this end was the Son do the things that are pleasing in
of God manifested, that he might his sight. 23 And this is his com-
destroy the works of the devil. 9 mandment, that we should believe
Whosoever is begotten of God does in the name of his Son Jesus Christ,
not sin, because his seed abides in and love one another, even as he
him: and he cannot sin, because he gave us commandment. 24 And he
is begotten of God. 10 In this the who keeps his commandments
children of God are evident, and abides in him, and he in him. And
the children of the devil: whoso- by this we know that he abides in
ever does not righteousness is not us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
of God, neither he who does not
love his brother. 11 For this is the
message which you heard from the 4 Beloved, do not believe every
spirit, but test the spirits,
beginning, that we should love one whether they are of God; because
another: 12 not as Cain was of the many false prophets are gone out
evil one, and slew his brother. And into the world. 2 By this you know
for what reason did he slay him? the Spirit of God: every spirit that
Because his works were evil, and confesses that Jesus Christ is come
his brother’s righteous. in the flesh is of God: 3 and every
13 Do not marvel, brethren, if the spirit that does not confess Jesus is
world hates you. 14 We know that not of God: and this is the spirit of
we have passed out of death into the antichrist, of which you have
life, because we love the brethren. heard that it comes; and now it is in
He who does not love abides in the world already. 4 You are of God,
death. 15 Whosoever hates his my little children, and have over-
brother is a murderer: and you come them: because greater is he
know that no murderer has eternal who is in you than he who is in the
life abiding in him. 16 By this we world. 5 They are of the world:
know love, because he laid down therefore they speak as of the
his life for us: and we ought to lay world, and the world hears them. 6
down our lives for the brethren. 17 We are of God: he who knows God
But whoever has the world’s goods, hears us; he who is not of God does
and beholds his brother in need, not hear us. By this we know the
and shuts up his compassion from spirit of truth, and the spirit of er-
him, how does the love of God ror.
abide in him? 18 My little children, 7 Beloved, let us love one another:
let us not love in word, neither with for love is of God; and every one
the tongue; but in deed and truth. who loves is begotten of God, and
19 By this shall we know that we knows God. 8 He who does not
are of the truth, and shall assure our love does not know God; for God is
heart before him: 20 because if our love. 9 In this was the love of God
heart condemn us, God is greater manifested in us, that God has sent
than our heart, and knows all his only begotten Son into the
things. 21 Beloved, if our heart does world that we might live through
not condemn us, we have boldness him. 10 In this is love, not that we
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loved God, but that he loved us, gotten of God overcomes the
and sent his Son to be the propitia- world: and this is the victory that
tion for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God has overcome the world, even our
so loved us, we also ought to love faith. 5 And who is he who over-
one another. 12 No man has beheld comes the world, but he who be-
God at any time: if we love one an- lieves that Jesus is the Son of God?
other, God abides in us, and his 6 This is he who came by water and
love is perfected in us: 13 by this we blood, even Jesus Christ; not with
know that we abide in him and he the water only, but with the water
in us, because he has given us of his and with the blood. 7 And it is the
Spirit. 14 And we have beheld and Spirit who bears witness, because
bear witness that the Father has the Spirit is the truth. 8 For there are
sent the Son to be the Savior of the three who bear witness, the Spirit,
world. 15 Whosoever shall confess and the water, and the blood: and
that Jesus is the Son of God, God the three agree in one. 9 If we re-
abides in him, and he in God. 16 ceive the witness of men, the wit-
And we know and have believed ness of God is greater: for the
the love which God has in us. God witness of God is this, that he has
is love; and he who abides in love borne witness concerning his Son.
abides in God, and God abides in 10 He who believes on the Son of
him. 17 In this is love made perfect God has the witness in him: he who
with us, that we may have boldness does not believe God has made him
in the day of judgment; because as a liar; because he has not believed
he is, even so are we in this world. in the witness that God has borne
18 There is no fear in love: but per- concerning his Son. 11 And the wit-
fect love casts out fear, because fear ness is this, that God gave to us
has punishment; and he who fears eternal life, and this life is in his
is not made perfect in love. 19 We Son. 12 He who has the Son has the
love, because he first loved us. 20 If life; he who does not have the Son
a man say, “I love God,” and hates of God does not have the life.
his brother, he is a liar: for he who
does not love his brother whom he 13 These things I have written to
has seen, cannot love God whom he you, that you may know that you
has not seen. 21 And this com- have eternal life, even to you who
mandment we have from him, that believe on the name of the Son of
he who loves God love his brother God. 14 And this is the boldness
also. which we have toward him, that, if

5 Whosoever believes that Jesus we ask anything according to his

is the Christ is begotten of God: will, he hears us: 15 and if we know
and whosoever loves him who be- that he hears us whatsoever we ask,
got loves him also who is begotten we know that we have the petitions
of him. 2 By this we know that we which we have asked of him. 16 If
love the children of God, when we any man see his brother sinning a
love God and do his command- sin not unto death, he shall ask, and
ments. 3 For this is the love of God, God will give him life for those
that we keep his commandments: who sin not unto death. There is a
and his commandments are not sin unto death: not concerning this
grievous. 4 For whatsoever is be- do I say that he should make re-
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quest. 17 All unrighteousness is sin: the evil one. 20 And we know that
and there is a sin not unto death. the Son of God is come, and has
18 We know that whosoever is be- given us an understanding, that we
gotten of God does not sin; but he know him who is true, and we are
who was begotten of God keeps in him who is true, even in his Son
himself, and the evil one does not Jesus Christ. This is the true God,
touch him. 19 We know that we are and eternal life. 21 My little chil-
of God, and the whole world lies in dren, guard yourselves from idols.

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1 The elder to the elect lady and
her children, whom I love in truth;
and not only I, but also all those
who know the truth; 2 for the
truth’s sake which abides in us, and
it will be with us for ever: 3 Grace,
mercy, peace will be with us, from
God the Father, and from Jesus
Christ, the Son of the Father, in
truth and love.
4 I rejoice greatly that I have
found certain of your children walk-
ing in truth, even as we received
commandment from the Father. 5
And now I beseech you, lady, not as
though I wrote to you a new com-
mandment, but that which we had
from the beginning, that we love
one another. 6 And this is love, that
we should walk after his com-
mandments. This is the command-
ment, even as you heard from the
beginning, that you should walk in
it. 7 For many deceivers have gone
forth into the world, even those who
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do not confess that Jesus Christ
comes in the flesh. This is the de-
ceiver and the antichrist. 8 Look to
yourselves, that you do not lose the
things which we have worked, but
that you receive a full reward. 9
Whosoever goes onward and does
not abide in the teaching of Christ,
does not have God: he who abides
in the teaching, the same has both
the Father and the Son. 10 If any
one comes to you, and does not
bring this teaching, do not receive
him into your house, and give him
no greeting: 11 for he who gives
him greeting partakes in his evil
works.
12 Having many things to write to
you, I would not write them with pa-
per and ink: but I hope to come to
you, and to speak face to face, that
your joy may be made full. 13 The
children of your elect sister greet
you.
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JO HN
1 The elder to Gaius the beloved,
whom I love in truth. 2 Beloved, I
pray that in all things you may
prosper and be in health, even as
your soul prospers. 3 For I rejoiced
greatly, when brethren came and
bore witness to your truth, even as
you walk in truth. 4 I have no
greater joy than this, to hear of my
children walking in the truth.
5 Beloved, you do a faithful work
in whatsoever you do toward those
who are brethren and strangers in
addition; 6 who bore witness to
your love before the church: whom
you will do well to set forward on
their journey worthily of God: 7 be-
cause who for the sake of the Name
they went forth, taking nothing
from the Gentiles. 8 We therefore
ought to welcome such, that we
may be fellow workers for the
truth.
9 I wrote somewhat to the church:
but Diotrephes, who loves to have
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the preeminence among them, does
not receive us. 10 Therefore, if I
come, I will bring to remembrance
his works which he does, talking
nonsense against us with wicked
words: and not content with this,
neither does he himself receive the
brethren, and those who wish to he
forbids and casts them out of the
church. 11 Beloved, do not imitate
that which is evil, but that which is
good. He who does good is of God:
he who does evil has not seen God.
12 Demetrius has the witness of all
men, and of the truth itself: yes, we
also bear witness; and you know
that our witness is true.
13 I had many things to write to
you, but I am unwilling to write
them to you with ink and pen: 14
but I hope shortly to see you, and
we shall speak face to face. Peace be
to you. The friends greet you. Greet
the friends by name.
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JUDE

1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, dreamings defile the flesh, and re-
and brother of James, to those who ject dominion, and rail at digni-
are called, beloved in God the Fa- taries. 9 But Michael the archangel,
ther, and kept for Jesus Christ: 2 when contending with the devil he
Mercy to you and peace and love be disputed about the body of Moses,
multiplied. did not dare bring against him a
railing judgment, but said, “The
3 Beloved, while I was giving all Lord rebuke you.” 10 But these rail
diligence to write to you of our at whatsoever things they do not
common salvation, I was con- know: and what they understand
strained to write to you exhorting naturally, like the creatures without
you to contend earnestly for the reason, in these things are they de-
faith which was once for all deliv- stroyed. 11 Woe to them! For they
ered to the saints. 4 For there are went in the way of Cain, and ran ri-
certain men crept in secretly, even otously in the error of Balaam for
those who were of old written of hire, and perished in the rebellion
beforehand for this condemnation, of Korah. 12 These are those who
ungodly men, turning the grace of are hidden rocks in your love feasts
our God into licentiousness, and when they feast with you, shep-
denying our only Master and Lord, herds who without fear feed them-
Jesus Christ. selves; clouds without water,
5 Now I desire to put you in re- carried along by winds; autumn
membrance, though you know all trees without fruit, twice dead,
things once for all, that the Lord, plucked up by the roots; 13 wild
having saved a people out of the waves of the sea, foaming out their
land of Egypt, afterward destroyed own shame; wandering stars, for
those who did not believe. 6 And whom the blackness of darkness
angels who did not keep their own has been reserved for ever. 14 And
principality, but left their proper to these also Enoch, the seventh
habitation, he has kept in everlast- from Adam, prophesied, saying,
ing bonds under darkness for the “Behold, the Lord came with ten
judgment of the great day. 7 Even thousands of his holy ones, 15 to ex-
as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the ecute judgment on all, and to con-
cities around them, having in the vict all the ungodly of all their
same manner with these given works of ungodliness which they
themselves over to fornication and have ungodly worked, and of all
gone after strange flesh, are set the hard things which ungodly sin-
forth as an example, suffering the ners have spoken against him.” 16
punishment of eternal fire. 8 Yet in These are murmurers, complainers,
like manner these also in their walking after their lusts (and their
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mouth speaks great swelling mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto
words), showing respect of persons eternal life. 22 And on some have
for the sake of advantage. mercy, who are in doubt; 23 and
some save, snatching them out of
17 But you, beloved, remember the fire; and on some have mercy
the words which have been spoken with fear; hating even the garment
before by the apostles of our Lord spotted by the flesh.
Jesus Christ; 18 that they said to
you, “In the last time there shall be 24 Now to him who is able to
mockers, walking after their own guard you from stumbling, and to
ungodly lusts.” 19 These are those set you before the presence of his
who make separations, sensual, not glory without blemish in exceeding
having the Spirit. 20 But you, joy, 25 to the only God our Savior,
beloved, building up yourselves on through Jesus Christ our Lord, be
your most holy faith, praying in the glory, majesty, dominion and
Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in power, before all time, and now,
the love of God, looking for the and for evermore. Amen.

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1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ,

which God gave him to show to
his servants, even the things which
and the testimony of Jesus. 10 I was
in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and
I heard behind me a great voice, as
must shortly come to pass: and he of a trumpet 11 saying, “What you
sent and signified it by his angel to see, write in a book and send it to
his servant John; 2 who bore wit- the seven churches: to Ephesus, and
ness of the word of God, and of the to Smyrna, and to Pergamum, and
testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to
things that he saw. 3 Blessed is he Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.” 12
who reads, and those who hear the And I turned to see the voice that
words of the prophecy, and keep spoke with me. And having turned
the things that are written in it: for I saw seven golden candlesticks; 13
the time is at hand. and in the midst of the candlesticks
one like a son of man, clothed with
4 John to the seven churches that a garment down to the foot, and
are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, girded around at the chest with a
from him who is and who was and golden belt. 14 And his head and
who is to come; and from the seven his hair were white as white wool,
Spirits who are before his throne; 5 white as snow; and his eyes were as
and from Jesus Christ, who is the a flame of fire; 15 and his feet like
faithful witness, the firstborn of the burnished brass, as if it had been re-
dead, and the ruler of the kings of fined in a furnace; and his voice as
the earth. To him who loves us, and the voice of many waters. 16 And
loosed us from our sins by his he had in his right hand seven stars:
blood; 6 and he made us to be a and out of his mouth proceeded a
kingdom, to be priests to his God sharp two-edged sword: and his
and Father; to him be the glory and countenance was as the sun shining
the dominion for ever and ever. in his strength. 17 And when I saw
Amen. 7 Behold, he comes with the him, I fell at his feet as one dead.
clouds; and every eye will see him, And he laid his right hand on me,
and those who pierced him; and all saying, “Do not fear; I am the first
the tribes of the earth will mourn and the last, 18 and the Living one;
over him. Even so, Amen. and I was dead, and behold, I am
8 “I am the Alpha and the alive for evermore, and I have the
Omega,” says the Lord God, “who keys of death and of Hades. 19
is and who was and who is to come, Write therefore the things which
the Almighty.” you saw, and the things which are,
9 I John, your brother and par- and the things which shall come to
taker with you in the tribulation pass after this; 20 the mystery of the
and kingdom and patience which seven stars which you saw in my
are in Jesus, was on the isle that is right hand, and the seven golden
called Patmos, for the word of God candlesticks. The seven stars are the
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angels of the seven churches: and what the Spirit says to the churches.
the seven candlesticks are seven He who overcomes shall not be
churches. hurt by the second death.’

2 To the angel of the church in

Ephesus write:
‘These things says he who holds
12 And to the angel of the church
in Pergamum write:
‘These things says he who has the
the seven stars in his right hand, he sharp two-edged sword: 13 I know
who walks in the midst of the seven where you dwell, even where Sa-
golden candlesticks: 2 I know your tan’s throne is; and you hold fast
works, and your toil and patience, my name, and did not deny my
and that you cannot bear evil men, faith, even in the days of Antipas
and tested those who call them- my witness, my faithful one, who
selves apostles, and they are not, was killed among you, where Satan
and found them false; 3 and you dwells. 14 But I have a few things
have patience and bore for my against you, because you have
name’s sake, and have not grown there some who hold the teaching
weary. 4 But I have this against you, of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast
that you left your first love. 5 Re- a stumbling block before the chil-
member therefore from where you dren of Israel, to eat things sacri-
are fallen, and repent and do the ficed to idols, and to commit
first works; or else I come to you, fornication. 15 So have you also
and will move your candlestick out some who hold the teaching of the
of its place, except you repent. 6 But Nicolaitans in like manner. 16 Re-
this you have, that you hate the pent therefore; or else I come to you
works of the Nicolaitans, which I quickly, and I will make war
also hate. 7 He who has an ear, let against them with the sword of my
him hear what the Spirit says to the mouth. 17 He who has an ear, let
churches. To him that overcomes, to him hear what the Spirit says to the
him will I give to eat of the tree of churches. To him who overcomes,
life, which is in the Paradise of to him will I give of the hidden
God.’ manna, and I will give him a white
8 And to the angel of the church in stone, and on the stone a new name
Smyrna write: written, which no one knows but he
‘These things says the first and who receives it.’
the last, who was dead, and lived 18 And to the angel of the church
again: 9 I know your tribulation, in Thyatira write:
and your poverty (but you are rich), ‘These things says the Son of God,
and the blasphemy of those who who has his eyes like a flame of fire,
say they are Jews, and they are not, and his feet are like burnished
but are a synagogue of Satan. 10 Do brass: 19 I know your works, and
not fear the things which you are your love and faith and ministry
about to suffer: behold, the devil is and patience, and that your last
about to cast some of you into works are more than the first. 20
prison, that you may be tempted; But I have this against you, that you
and you will have tribulation ten allow the woman Jezebel, who calls
days. Be faithful until death, and I herself a prophetess; and she
will give you the crown of life. 11 teaches and seduces my servants to
He who has an ear, let him hear commit fornication, and to eat
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things sacrificed to idols. 21 And I But you have a few names in Sardis
gave her time that she should re- who did not defile their garments:
pent; and she does not will to re- and they shall walk with me in
pent of her fornication. 22 Behold, I white; for they are worthy. 5 He
cast her into a bed, and those who who overcomes shall thus be ar-
commit adultery with her into great rayed in white garments; and I will
tribulation, except they repent of in no way blot his name out of the
her works. 23 And I will kill her book of life, and I will confess his
children with death; and all the name before my Father, and before
churches shall know that I am he his angels. 6 He who has an ear, let
who searches the reins and hearts: him hear what the Spirit says to the
and I will give to each one of you churches.’
according to your works. 24 But to 7 And to the angel of the church in
you I say, to the rest who are in Thy-Philadelphia write:
atira, as many as do not have this ‘These things says he who is holy,
teaching, who do not know the he who is true, he who has the key
deep things of Satan, as they are ac- of David, he who opens and none
customed to say; I cast upon you no will shut, and who shuts and none
other burden. 25 Nevertheless that opens: 8 I know your works (be-
which you have, hold fast until I hold, I have set before you a door
come. 26 And he who overcomes, opened, which none can shut), that
and he who keeps my works to the you have a little power, and kept
end, to him will I give authority my word, and have not denied my
over the nations: 27 and he shall name. 9 Behold, I give of the syna-
rule them with a rod of iron, as the gogue of Satan, of those who say
vessels of the potter are broken to they are Jews, and they are not, but
pieces; as I also have received from lie; behold, I will make them to
my Father: 28 and I will give him come and worship before your feet,
the morning star. 29 He who has an and to know that I have loved you.
ear, let him hear what the Spirit 10 Because you kept the word of
says to the churches.’ my patience, I also will keep you
from the hour of trial, that hour

3 And to the angel of the church which is to come upon the whole
in Sardis write: world, to test those who dwell on
‘These things says he who has the the earth. 11 I come quickly: hold
seven Spirits of God, and the seven fast that which you have, that no
stars: I know your works, that you one take your crown. 12 He who
have a name that you live, and you overcomes, I will make him a pillar
are dead. 2 Be watchful, and estab- in the temple of my God, and he
lish the things that remain, which shall go out from there no more:
were ready to die: for I have found and I will write upon him the name
no works of yours perfected before of my God, and the name of the city
my God. 3 Remember therefore of my God, the new Jerusalem,
how you have received and heard; which comes down out of heaven
and keep it, and repent. If therefore from my God, and my own new
you shall not watch, I will come as name. 13 He who has an ear, let him
a thief, and you shall not know hear what the Spirit says to the
what hour I will come upon you. 4 churches.’
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14 And to the angel of the church
in Laodicea write:
‘These things says the Amen, the
faithful and true witness, the begin-
ning of the creation of God: 15 I
know your works, that you are nei-
ther cold nor hot: I wish you were
cold or hot. 16 So because you are
lukewarm, and neither hot nor
cold, I will spew you out of my
mouth. 17 Because you say, “I am
rich, and have gotten riches, and
have need of nothing;” and do not
know that you are the wretched one
and miserable and poor and blind
and naked: 18 I counsel you to buy
from me gold refined by fire, that
you may become rich; and white
garments, that you may clothe
yourself, and that the shame of your
nakedness not be made known; and
eye salve to anoint your eyes, that
you may see. 19 As many as I love,
I reprove and chasten: be zealous
therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I
stand at the door and knock: if any
man hear my voice and open the
door, I will come in to him, and will
dine with him, and he with me. 21
He who overcomes, I will give to
him to sit down with me on my
throne, as I also overcame, and sat
down with my Father on his
throne. 22 He who has an ear, let
him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches.’ ” and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders
4 After these things I saw, and
behold, a door opened in
heaven, and the first voice that I
heard, a voice as of a trumpet speak-
ing with me, one saying, “Come up
here, and I will show you the things
which must come to pass after
this.” 2 Immediately I was in the
Spirit: and behold, there was a
throne set in heaven, and one sit-
ting on the throne; 3 and he who sat
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was to look upon like a jasper stone
and a sardius: and there was a rain-
bow all around the throne, like an
emerald to look upon. 4 And all
around the throne were twenty-four
thrones: and upon the thrones I saw
twenty-four elders sitting, arrayed
in white garments; and on their
heads crowns of gold. 5 And out of
the throne proceed lightnings and
voices and thunders. And there were
seven lamps of fire burning before
the throne, which are the seven
Spirits of God; 6 and before the
throne, as it were a sea of glass like
crystal; and in the midst of the
throne, and all around the throne,
four living creatures full of eyes be-
fore and behind. 7 And the first
creature was like a lion, and the sec-
ond creature like a calf, and the
third creature had a face as of a
man, and the fourth creature was
like a flying eagle. 8 And the four
living creatures, having each one of
them six wings, are full of eyes all
around and within: and they have
no rest day and night, saying,
“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God,
the Almighty, who was and who
is and who is to come.”
9 And when the living creatures
shall give glory and honor and
thanks to him who sits on the
throne, to him who lives for ever
will fall down before him who sits
on the throne, and will worship
him who lives for ever and ever,
and will cast their crowns before
the throne, saying,
11 “Worthy are you, our Lord and
our God, to receive the glory and
the honor and the power: for you
created all things, and because of
your will they were, and were
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5 And I saw in the right hand of ten thousand times ten thousand,
him who sat on the throne a and thousands of thousands; 12
book written within and on the saying with a great voice,
back, sealed with seven seals. 2 “Worthy is the Lamb who has
And I saw a strong angel proclaim- been slain to receive the power,
ing with a great voice, “Who is wor- and riches, and wisdom, and
thy to open the book, and to loose might, and honor, and glory, and
the seals of it?” 3 And no one in the blessing.”
heaven, or on the earth, or under 13 And every created thing which is
the earth, was able to open the in the heaven, and on the earth, and
book, or to look on it. 4 And I wept under the earth, and on the sea, and
much, because no one was found all things that are in them, I heard
worthy to open the book, or to look saying,
on it: 5 and one of the elders says to “To him who sits on the throne,
me, “Do not weep; behold, the Lion and to the Lamb, be the blessing,
who is of the tribe of Judah, the and the honor, and the glory, and
Root of David, has overcome to the dominion, for ever and ever.”
open the book and the seven seals 14 And the four living creatures
of it.” 6 And I saw in the midst of said, “Amen.” And the elders fell
the throne and of the four living down and worshipped.
creatures, and in the midst of the el-
ders, a Lamb standing, as though it
had been slain, having seven horns, 6 And I saw when the Lamb
opened one of the seven seals,
and seven eyes, which are the seven and I heard one of the four living
Spirits of God, sent forth into all the creatures saying as with a voice of
earth. 7 And he came, and he takes thunder, “Come.” 2 And I saw, and
it out of the right hand of him who behold, a white horse, and he who
sat on the throne. 8 And when he sat on it had a bow; and there was
had taken the book, the four living given to him a crown: and he came
creatures and the twenty-four el- forth conquering, and to conquer.
ders fell down before the Lamb, 3 And when he opened the sec-
having each one a harp, and golden ond seal, I heard the second living
bowls full of incense, which are the creature saying, “Come.” 4 And an-
prayers of the saints. 9 And they other horse came forth, a red horse:
sing a new song, saying, and to him who sat on it, it was
“Worthy are you to take the book, given to take peace from the earth,
and to open the seals of it: for you and that they should slay one an-
were slain, and purchased to God other: and there was given to him a
with your blood men of every great sword.
tribe, and tongue, and people, 5 And when he opened the third
and nation, 10 and made them to seal, I heard the third living crea-
be to our God a kingdom and ture saying, “Come.” And I saw,
priests; and they reign on the and behold, a black horse; and he
earth.” who sat on it had a balance in his
11 And I saw, and I heard a voice of hand. 6 And I heard as it were a
many angels all around the throne voice in the midst of the four living
and the living creatures and the el- creatures saying, “A measure of
ders; and the number of them was wheat for a denarius, and three
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measures of barley for a denarius; selves in the caves and in the rocks
and the oil and the wine do not of the mountains; 16 and they say to
hurt.” the mountains and to the rocks,
7 And when he opened the fourth “Fall on us, and hide us from the
seal, I heard the voice of the fourth face of him who sits on the throne,
living creature saying, “Come.” 8 and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17
And I saw, and behold, a pale for the great day of their wrath is
horse: and he who sat on him, his come; and who is able to stand?”
name was Death; and Hades fol-
lowed with him. And there was 7 After this I saw four angels
standing at the four corners of
given to them authority over the the earth, holding the four winds of
fourth part of the earth, to kill with the earth, that no wind should blow
sword, and with famine, and with on the earth, or on the sea, or on
death, and by the wild beasts of the any tree. 2 And I saw another angel
earth. ascend from the sun-rising, having
9 And when he opened the fifth the seal of the living God: and he
seal, I saw underneath the altar the cried with a great voice to the four
souls of those who had been slain angels to whom it was given to hurt
for the word of God, and for the tes- the earth and the sea, 3 saying, “Do
timony which they held: 10 and not hurt the earth, neither the sea,
they cried with a great voice, say- nor the trees, until we shall have
ing, “How long, O Master, the holy sealed the servants of our God on
and true, do you not judge and their foreheads.” 4 And I heard the
avenge our blood on those who number of those who were sealed,
dwell on the earth?” 11 And there a hundred and forty-four thousand,
was given them to each one a white sealed out of every tribe of the chil-
robe; and it was said to them, that dren of Israel:
they should rest yet for a little time, 5 Of the tribe of Judah were sealed
until their fellow servants also and twelve thousand:
their brethren, who should be Of the tribe of Reuben twelve
killed even as they were, should thousand;
have fulfilled their course. Of the tribe of Gad twelve thou-
12 And I saw when he opened the sand;
sixth seal, and there was a great 6 Of the tribe of Asher twelve thou-
earthquake; and the sun became sand;
black as sackcloth of hair, and the Of the tribe of Naphtali twelve
whole moon became as blood; 13 thousand;
and the stars of the heaven fell to Of the tribe of Manasseh twelve
the earth, as a fig tree casts her un- thousand;
ripe figs when she is shaken by a 7 Of the tribe of Simeon twelve
great wind. 14 And the heaven was thousand;
removed as a scroll when it is rolled Of the tribe of Levi twelve thou-
up; and every mountain and island sand;
were moved out of their places. 15 Of the tribe of Issachar twelve
And the kings of the earth, and the thousand;
princes, and the commanders, and 8 Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve
the rich, and the strong, and every thousand;
bondman and freeman, hid them- Of the tribe of Joseph twelve
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thousand;
Of the tribe of Benjamin were
sealed twelve thousand.
8 And when he opened the sev-
enth seal, there followed a si-
lence in heaven about the space of
9 After these things I saw, and be- half an hour. 2 And I saw the seven
hold, a great multitude, which no angels who stand before God; and
man could number, out of every na- there were given to them seven
tion and of all tribes and peoples trumpets.
and tongues, standing before the 3 And another angel came and
throne and before the Lamb, ar- stood over the altar, having a
rayed in white robes, and palms in golden censer; and there was given
their hands; 10 and they cry with a to him much incense, that he
great voice, saying, should add it to the prayers of all
“Salvation to our God who sits on the saints on the golden altar which
the throne, and to the Lamb.” was before the throne. 4 And the
11 And all the angels were standing smoke of the incense, with the
all around the throne, and around prayers of the saints, went up be-
the elders and the four living crea- fore God out of the angel’s hand. 5
tures; and they fell before the And the angel takes the censer; and
throne on their faces, and wor- he filled it with the fire of the altar,
shipped God, 12 saying, and cast it upon the earth: and there
“Amen: Blessing, and glory, and followed thunders, and voices, and
wisdom, and thanksgiving, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
honor, and power, and might, be 6 And the seven angels who had
to our God for ever and ever. the seven trumpets prepared them-
Amen.” selves to sound.
13 And one of the elders answered, 7 And the first sounded, and there
saying to me, “These who are ar- followed hail and fire, mingled
rayed in the white robes, who are with blood, and they were cast
they, and from where have they upon the earth: and the third part of
come?” 14 And I say to him, “My the earth was burnt up, and the
lord, you know.” And he said to third part of the trees was burnt up,
me, “These are those who come out and all green grass was burnt up.
of the great tribulation, and they 8 And the second angel sounded,
washed their robes, and made them and as it were a great mountain
white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 burning with fire was cast into the
Therefore they are before the throne sea: and the third part of the sea be-
of God; and they serve him day and came blood; 9 and there died the
night in his temple: and he who sits third part of the creatures which
on the throne shall spread his taber- were in the sea, even those that had
nacle over them. 16 They shall life; and the third part of the ships
hunger no more, neither thirst any were destroyed.
more; neither shall the sun strike 10 And the third angel sounded,
upon them, nor any heat: 17 for the and there fell from heaven a great
Lamb who is in the midst of the star, burning as a torch, and it fell
throne shall be their shepherd, and upon the third part of the rivers,
shall guide them to fountains of and upon the fountains of the wa-
waters of life: and God shall wipe ters; 11 and the name of the star is
away every tear from their eyes.” called Wormwood: and the third
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part of the waters became worm- horses prepared for war; and on
wood; and many men died from their heads as it were crowns like
the waters, because they were gold, and their faces were as men’s
made bitter. faces. 8 And they had hair as the
12 And the fourth angel sounded, hair of women, and their teeth were
and the third part of the sun was as the teeth of lions. 9 And they had
smitten, and the third part of the breastplates, as it were breastplates
moon, and the third part of the of iron; and the sound of their
stars; that the third part of them wings was as the sound of chariots,
should be darkened, and the day of many horses rushing to war. 10
should not shine for the third part And they have tails like scorpions,
of it, and the night in like manner. and stings; and in their tails is their
13 And I saw, and I heard an ea- power to hurt men five months. 11
gle, flying in mid heaven, saying They have over them as king the
with a great voice, “Woe, woe, woe, angel of the abyss: his name in He-
for those who dwell on the earth, brew is Abaddon, and in the Greek
by reason of the other voices of the tongue he has the name Apollyon.
trumpet of the three angels, who 12 The first Woe is past: behold,
are yet to sound.” there come yet two Woes after these

9 And the fifth angel sounded, things.

and I saw a star from heaven 13 And the sixth angel sounded,
fallen to the earth: and there was and I heard a voice from the horns
given to him the key of the pit of the of the golden altar which is before
abyss. 2 And he opened the pit of God, 14 one saying to the sixth an-
the abyss; and there went up a gel that had the trumpet, “Loose
smoke out of the pit, as the smoke the four angels who are bound at
of a great furnace; and the sun and the great river Euphrates.” 15 And
the air were darkened by reason of the four angels were loosed, that
the smoke of the pit. 3 And out of had been prepared for the hour and
the smoke came forth locusts upon day and month and year, that they
the earth; and power was given should kill the third part of men. 16
them, as the scorpions of the earth And the number of the armies of
have power. 4 And it was said to the horsemen was twice ten thou-
them that they should not hurt the sand times ten thousand: I heard
grass of the earth, neither any green the number of them. 17 And thus I
thing, neither any tree, but only saw the horses in the vision, and
such men as do not have the seal of those who sat on them, having
God on their foreheads. 5 And it breastplates as of fire and of hy-
was given them that they should acinth and of brimstone: and the
not kill them, but that they should heads of the horses are as the heads
be tormented five months: and of lions; and out of their mouths
their torment was as the torment of proceeds fire and smoke and brim-
a scorpion, when it strikes a man. 6 stone. 18 By these three plagues
And in those days men will seek was the third part of men killed, by
death, and will in no way find it; the fire and the smoke and the
and they will desire to die, and brimstone, which proceeded out of
death flees from them. 7 And the their mouths. 19 For the power of
shapes of the locusts were like the horses is in their mouth, and in
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their tails: for their tails are like ser- speaking with me, and saying, “Go,
pents, and have heads; and with take the book which is open in the
them they hurt. 20 And the rest of hand of the angel who stands on
mankind, who were not killed with the sea and on the earth.” 9 And I
these plagues, did not repent of the went to the angel, saying to him
works of their hands, that they that he should give me the little
should not worship demons, and book. And he says to me, “Take it,
the idols of gold, and of silver, and and eat it up; and it will make your
of brass, and of stone, and of wood; belly bitter, but in your mouth it
which can neither see, nor hear, nor will be sweet as honey.” 10 And I
walk: 21 and they did not repent of took the little book out of the an-
their murders, nor of their sor- gel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was
ceries, nor of their fornication, nor in my mouth sweet as honey: and
of their thefts. when I had eaten it, my belly was

10 And I saw another strong made bitter. 11 And they say to me,
angel coming down out of “You must prophesy again over
heaven, arrayed with a cloud; and many peoples and nations and
the rainbow was on his head, and tongues and kings.”
his face was as the sun, and his feet
as pillars of fire; 2 and he had in his11 And there was given me a
reed like a rod: and one said,
hand a little book open: and he set “Rise, and measure the temple of
his right foot on the sea, and his left God, and the altar, and those who
on the earth; 3 and he cried with a worship in it. 2 And the court
great voice, as a lion roars: and which is outside the temple leave
when he cried, the seven thunders out, and do not measure it; for it has
uttered their voices. 4 And when been given to the nations: and the
the seven thunders uttered their holy city will they tread under foot
voices, I was about to write: and I forty-two months. 3 And I will give
heard a voice from heaven saying, to my two witnesses, and they will
“Seal up the things which the seven prophesy a thousand two hundred
thunders uttered, and do not write and sixty days, clothed in sack-
them.” 5 And the angel that I saw cloth.” 4 These are the two olive
standing on the sea and on the trees and the two candlesticks,
earth lifted up his right hand to standing before the Lord of the
heaven, 6 and swore by him who earth. 5 And if any man desires to
lives for ever and ever, who created hurt them, fire proceeds out of their
the heaven and the things that are mouth and devours their enemies;
in it, and the earth and the things and if any man shall desire to hurt
that are in it, and the sea and the them, in this manner must he be
things that are in it, that there shall killed. 6 These have the power to
be delay no longer: 7 but in the days shut the heaven, that it does not
of the voice of the seventh angel, rain during the days of their
when he is about to sound, then is prophecy: and they have power
finished the mystery of God, ac- over the waters to turn them into
cording to the good tidings which blood, and to strike the earth with
he declared to his servants the every plague, as often as they shall
prophets. 8 And the voice which I desire. 7 And when they shall have
heard from heaven, I heard it again finished their testimony, the beast
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that comes up out of the abyss will God, the Almighty, who are and
make war with them, and over- who was; because you have taken
come them, and kill them. 8 And your great power, and reigned. 18
their dead bodies lie in the street of And the nations were angry, and
the great city, which spiritually is your wrath came, and the time of
called Sodom and Egypt, where the dead to be judged, and the
also their Lord was crucified. 9 And time to give their reward to your
from among the peoples and tribes servants the prophets, and to the
and tongues and nations do men saints, and to those who fear your
look upon their dead bodies three name, the small and the great;
and a half days, and do not allow and to destroy those who destroy
their dead bodies to be laid in a the earth.”
tomb. 10 And those who dwell on 19 And there was opened the tem-
the earth rejoice over them, and cel- ple of God that is in heaven; and
ebrate; and they will send gifts to there was seen in his temple the ark
one another; because these two of his covenant; and there followed
prophets tormented those who lightnings, and voices, and thun-
dwell on the earth. 11 And after the ders, and an earthquake, and great
three and a half days the breath of hail.
life from God entered into them,
and they stood on their feet; and 12 And a great sign was seen
in heaven: a woman arrayed
great fear fell on those who beheld with the sun, and the moon under
them. 12 And they heard a great her feet, and on her head a crown of
voice from heaven saying to them, twelve stars; 2 and she was with
“Come up here.” And they went up child; and she cries out, travailing
into heaven in the cloud; and their in birth, and in pain to be delivered.
enemies beheld them. 13 And in 3 And there was seen another sign
that hour there was a great earth- in heaven: and behold, a great red
quake, and the tenth part of the city dragon, having seven heads and
fell; and there were killed in the ten horns, and on his heads seven
earthquake seven thousand per- diadems. 4 And his tail draws the
sons: and the rest were frightened, third part of the stars of heaven,
and gave glory to the God of and cast them to the earth: and the
heaven. dragon stands before the woman
14 The second Woe is past: be- who is about to be delivered, that
hold, the third Woe comes quickly. when she is delivered he may de-
15 And the seventh angel vour her child. 5 And she was de-
sounded; and there followed great livered of a son, a male child, who
voices in heaven, and they said, is to rule all the nations with a rod
“The kingdom of the world has of iron: and her child was caught
become the kingdom of our Lord, up to God, and to his throne. 6 And
and of his Christ: and he shall the woman fled into the wilderness,
reign for ever and ever.” where she has a place prepared
16 And the twenty-four elders, who from God, that there they may
sit before God on their thrones, fell nourish her a thousand two hun-
on their faces and worshipped God, dred and sixty days.
17 saying, 7 And there was war in heaven:
“We give you thanks, O Lord Michael and his angels going forth
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to war with the dragon; and the the woman, and went away to
dragon warred and his angels; 8 make war with the rest of her seed,
and they did not prevail, neither who keep the commandments of
was their place found any more in God, and hold the testimony of Je-
heaven. 9 And the great dragon sus: 1 and he stood on the sand of
was cast down, the old serpent, he the sea.
who is called the Devil and Satan,
the deceiver of the whole world; he 13 And I saw a beast coming
up out of the sea, having ten
was cast down to the earth, and his horns and seven heads, and on his
angels were cast down with him. 10 horns ten diadems, and on his
And I heard a great voice in heaven, heads names of blasphemy. 2 And
saying, the beast which I saw was like a
“Now has come the salvation, and leopard, and his feet were as the feet
the power, and the kingdom of of a bear, and his mouth as the
our God, and the authority of his mouth of a lion: and the dragon
Christ: for the accuser of our gave him his power, and his throne,
brethren was cast down, who and great authority. 3 And I saw one
accuses them before our God day of his heads as though it had been
and night. 11 And they overcame struck to death; and his death-
him because of the blood of the stroke was healed: and the whole
Lamb, and because of the word of earth wondered after the beast; 4
their testimony; and they did not and they worshipped the dragon,
love their life even unto death. 12 because he gave his authority to the
Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and beast; and they worshipped the
you who dwell in them. Woe for beast, saying, “Who is like the
the earth and for the sea: because beast? and who is able to war with
the devil is gone down to you, him?” 5 and there was given to him
having great wrath, knowing that a mouth speaking great things and
he has but a short time.” blasphemies; and there was given
13 And when the dragon saw that to him authority to continue forty-
he was cast down to the earth, he two months. 6 And he opened his
persecuted the woman who mouth for blasphemies against
brought forth the male child. 14 And God, to blaspheme his name, and
there were given to the woman the his tabernacle, even those who
two wings of the great eagle, that dwell in the heaven. 7 And it was
she might fly into the wilderness to given to him to make war with the
her place, where she is nourished saints, and to overcome them: and
for a time, and times, and half a there was given to him authority
time, from the face of the serpent. over every tribe and people and
15 And the serpent cast out of his tongue and nation. 8 And all who
mouth after the woman water as a dwell on the earth will worship
river, that he might cause her to be him, every one whose name has not
carried away by the stream. 16 And been written from the foundation
the earth helped the woman, and of the world in the book of life of
the earth opened her mouth and the Lamb who has been slain. 9 If
swallowed up the river which the any man has an ear, let him hear. 10
dragon cast out of his mouth. 17 If any man is for captivity, into cap-
And the dragon became angry with tivity he goes: if any man shall kill
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with the sword, with the sword written on their foreheads. 2 And I
must he be killed. Here is the pa- heard a voice from heaven, as the
tience and the faith of the saints. voice of many waters, and as the
11 And I saw another beast com- voice of a great thunder: and the
ing up out of the earth; and he had voice which I heard was as the voice
two horns like a lamb, and he spoke of harpers harping with their harps:
as a dragon. 12 And he exercises all 3 and they sing as it were a new
the authority of the first beast in his song before the throne, and before
sight. And he makes the earth and the four living creatures and the el-
those who dwell in it to worship ders: and no man could learn the
the first beast, whose death-stroke song except the hundred and forty-
was healed. 13 And he does great four thousand, even those who had
signs, that he should even make fire been purchased out of the earth. 4
to come down out of heaven upon These are those who were not de-
the earth in the sight of men. 14 filed with women; for they are vir-
And he deceives those who dwell gins. These are those who follow the
on the earth by reason of the signs Lamb wherever he goes. These
which it was given him to do in the were purchased from among men,
sight of the beast; saying to those to be the first fruits to God and to
who dwell on the earth, that they the Lamb. 5 And in their mouth
should make an image to the beast was found no lie: they are without
who has the stroke of the sword blemish.
and lived. 15 And it was given to 6 And I saw another angel flying
him to give breath to it, even to the in mid-heaven, having eternal good
image of the breast, that the image tidings to proclaim to those who
of the beast should both speak, and dwell on the earth, and to every na-
cause that as many as should not tion and tribe and tongue and peo-
worship the image of the beast ple; 7 and he says with a great
should be killed. 16 And he causes voice, “Fear God, and give him
all, the small and the great, and the glory; for the hour of his judgment
rich and the poor, and the free and has come: and worship him who
the bond, that there be given them made the heaven and the earth and
a mark on their right hand, or on sea and fountains of waters.”
their forehead; 17 and that no man 8 And another, a second angel,
should be able to buy or to sell, ex- followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is
cept he who has the mark, even the Babylon the great, that has made all
name of the beast or the number of the nations to drink of the wine of
his name. 18 Here is wisdom. He the wrath of her fornication.”
who has understanding, let him 9 And another angel, a third, fol-
count the number of the beast; for it lowed them, saying with a great
is the number of a man: and his voice, “If any man worships the
number is Six hundred and sixty- beast and his image, and receives a
six. mark on his forehead, or on his

14 And I saw, and behold, the hand, 10 he also shall drink of the
Lamb standing on the Mount wine of the wrath of God, which is
Zion, and with him a hundred and prepared unmixed in the cup of his
forty-four thousand, having his anger; and he shall be tormented
name, and the name of his Father, with fire and brimstone in the pres-
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ence of the holy angels, and in the unto the bridles of the horses, as far
presence of the Lamb: 11 and the as a thousand, six hundred fur-
smoke of their torment goes up for longs.
ever and ever; and they have no
rest day and night, those who wor- 15 And I saw another sign in
heaven, great and mar-
ship the beast and his image, and velous, seven angels having seven
whoever receives the mark of his plagues, which are the last, for in
name.” 12 Here is the patience of them is finished the wrath of God.
the saints, those who keep the com- 2 And I saw as it were a sea of
mandments of God, and the faith of glass mingled with fire; and those
Jesus. who come off victorious from the
13 And I heard a voice from beast, and from his image, and
heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are from the number of his name,
the dead who die in the Lord from standing by the sea of glass, having
henceforth: yes, says the Spirit, that harps of God. 3 And they sing the
they may rest from their labors; for song of Moses the servant of God,
their works follow with them.’ ” and the song of the Lamb, saying,
14 And I saw, and behold, a white “Great and marvelous are your
cloud; and on the cloud I saw one works, O Lord God, the
sitting like a son of man, having on Almighty; righteous and true are
his head a golden crown, and in his your ways, King of the ages. 4
hand a sharp sickle. 15 And another Who shall not fear, O Lord, and
angel came out from the temple, glorify your name? for you only
crying with a great voice to him are holy; for all the nations shall
who sat on the cloud, “Send forth come and worship before you; for
your sickle, and reap: for the hour your righteous acts have been
to reap has come; for the harvest of made known.”
the earth is ripe.” 16 And he who 5 And after these things I saw, and
sat on the cloud cast his sickle upon the temple of the tabernacle of the
the earth; and the earth was reaped. testimony in heaven was opened: 6
17 And another angel came out and there came out from the temple
from the temple which is in heaven, the seven angels who had the seven
he also having a sharp sickle. 18 plagues, arrayed with precious
And another angel came out from stone, pure and bright, and girded
the altar, he who has power over about their chests with golden
fire; and he called with a great voice belts. 7 And one of the four living
to him who had the sharp sickle, creatures gave to the seven angels
saying, “Send forth your sharp seven golden bowls full of the
sickle, and gather the clusters of the wrath of God, who lives for ever
vine of the earth; for her grapes are and ever. 8 And the temple was
fully ripe.” 19 And the angel cast filled with smoke from the glory of
his sickle into the earth, and gath- God, and from his power; and none
ered the vintage of the earth, and was able to enter into the temple,
cast it into the winepress, the great until the seven plagues of the seven
winepress, of the wrath of God. 20 angels should be finished.
And the winepress was trodden
outside the city, and there came out 16 And I heard a great voice
out of the temple, saying to
blood from the winepress, even the seven angels, “Go, and pour out
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the seven bowls of the wrath of from the sun-rising. 13 And I saw
God into the earth.” coming out of the mouth of the
2 And the first went, and poured dragon, and out of the mouth of the
out his bowl into the earth; and it beast, and out of the mouth of the
became a loathsome and grievous false prophet, three unclean spirits,
sore upon the men who had the as it were frogs: 14 for they are spir-
mark of the beast, and who wor- its of demons, working signs;
shipped his image. which go forth to the kings of the
3 And the second poured out his whole world, to gather them to-
bowl into the sea; and it became gether to the war of the great day of
blood as of a dead man; and every God, the Almighty. 15 (“Behold, I
living soul died, even the things that come as a thief. Blessed is he who
were in the sea. watches, and keeps his garments,
4 And the third poured out his lest he walk naked, and they see his
bowl into the rivers and the foun- shame.”) 16 And they gathered
tains of the waters; and it became them together into the place which
blood. 5 And I heard the angel of is called in Hebrew Har-Magedon.
the waters saying, “Righteous are 17 And the seventh poured out
you, who are and who was, O Holy his bowl upon the air; and there
One, because you thus judged: 6 for came forth a great voice out of the
they poured out the blood of saints temple, from the throne, saying, “It
and prophets, and blood have you is done”: 18 and there were light-
given them to drink: they are wor- nings, and voices, and thunders;
thy.” 7 And I heard the altar saying, and there was a great earthquake,
“Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, such as was not since there were
true and righteous are your judg- men on the earth, so great an earth-
ments.” quake, so mighty. 19 And the great
8 And the fourth poured out his city was divided into three parts,
bowl upon the sun; and it was and the cities of the nations fell: and
given to it to scorch men with fire. 9 Babylon the great was remembered
And men were scorched with great in the sight of God, to give to her
heat: and they blasphemed the the cup of the wine of the fierceness
name of God who has the power of his wrath. 20 And every island
over these plagues; and they did fled away, and the mountains were
not repent to give him glory. not found. 21 And great hail, every
10 And the fifth poured out his stone about the weight of a talent,
bowl upon the throne of the beast; comes down out of heaven upon
and his kingdom was darkened; men: and men blasphemed God be-
and they gnawed their tongues for cause of the plague of the hail; for
pain, 11 and they blasphemed the the plague of it is exceedingly great.
God of heaven because of their
pains and their sores; and they did
nor repent of their works.
17 And there came one of the
seven angels who had the
seven bowls, and spoke with me,
12 And the sixth poured out his saying, “Come here, I will show
bowl upon the great river, the river you the judgment of the great har-
Euphrates; and the water of it was lot who sits upon many waters; 2
dried up, that the way might be with whom the kings of the earth
made ready for the kings who come committed fornication, and those
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who dwell in the earth were made 12 And the ten horns that you saw
drunk with the wine of her fornica- are ten kings, who have received no
tion.” 3 And he carried me away in kingdom as yet; but they receive
the Spirit into a wilderness: and I authority as kings, with the beast,
saw a woman sitting on a scarlet- for one hour. 13 These have one
colored beast, full of names of blas- mind, and they give their power
phemy, having seven heads and ten and authority to the beast. 14 These
horns. 4 And the woman was ar- will war against the Lamb, and the
rayed in purple and scarlet, and Lamb will overcome them, for he is
decked with gold and precious Lord of lords, and King of kings;
stone and pearls, having in her and they also shall overcome who are
hand a golden cup full of abomina- with him, called and chosen and
tions, even the unclean things of faithful.” 15 And he says to me,
her fornication, 5 and on her fore- “The waters which you saw, where
head a name written, MYSTERY, the harlot sits, are peoples, and
BABYLON THE GREAT, THE multitudes, and nations, and
MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS tongues. 16 And the ten horns
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS which you saw, and the beast, these
OF THE EARTH. 6 And I saw the will hate the harlot, and will make
woman drunk with the blood of the her desolate and naked, and will
saints, and with the blood of the eat her flesh, and will burn her ut-
martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw terly with fire. 17 For God has put
her, I wondered with a great won- in their hearts to do his mind, and
der. 7 And the angel said to me, to come to one mind, and to give
“Why did you wonder? I will tell their kingdom to the beast, until the
you the mystery of the woman, and words of God should be accom-
of the beast who carries her, which plished. 18 And the woman whom
has the seven heads and the ten you saw is the great city, which
horns. 8 The beast who you saw reigns over the kings of the earth.”
was, and is not; and is about to
come up out of the abyss, and to go 18 After these things I saw an-
other angel coming down
into destruction. And those who out of heaven, having great author-
dwell on the earth will wonder, ity; and the earth was illuminated
those whose name has not been with his glory. 2 And he cried with
written in the book of life from the a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen,
foundation of the world, when they fallen is Babylon the great, and has
behold the beast, how that he was, become a habitation of demons,
and is not, and will come. 9 Here is and a prison of every unclean
the mind that has wisdom. The spirit, and a prison of every un-
seven heads are seven mountains, clean and hateful bird. 3 For by the
on which the woman sits: 10 and wine of the wrath of her fornication
they are seven kings; the five are all the nations are fallen; and the
fallen, the one is, the other has not kings of the earth committed forni-
yet come; and when he comes, he cation with her, and the merchants
must continue a little while. 11 And of the earth became rich by the
the beast who was, and is not, is power of her wantonness.”
himself also an eighth, and is of the 4 And I heard another voice from
seven; and he goes into destruction. heaven, saying, “Come forth, my
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people, out of her, that you have no were luxurious and sumptuous are
fellowship with her sins, and that perished from you, and men shall
you do not receive of her plagues: 5 find them no more at all. 15 The
for her sins have reached even to merchants of these things, who
heaven, and God has remembered were made rich by her, will stand
her iniquities. 6 Render to her even afar off for the fear of her torment,
as she rendered, and double to her weeping and mourning; 16 saying,
the double according to her works: ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who
in the cup which she mingled, min- was arrayed in fine linen and pur-
gle to her double. 7 However much ple and scarlet, and decked with
she glorified herself, and became gold and precious stone and pearl!
wanton, so much give her torment 17 for in one hour such great riches
and mourning: for she says in her is made desolate.’ And every ship-
heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no master, and every one who sails
widow, and shall in no way see anywhere, and mariners, and as
mourning.’ 8 Therefore in one day many as gain their living by sea,
shall her plagues come, death, and stood afar off, 18 and cried out as
mourning, and famine; and she they looked upon the smoke of her
shall be utterly burned with fire; for burning, saying, ‘What city is like
strong is the Lord God who judged the great city?’ 19 And they cast
her. 9 And the kings of the earth, dust on their heads, and cried,
who committed fornication and weeping and mourning, saying,
lived wantonly with her, will weep ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which
and wail over her, when they look all who had their ships in the sea
upon the smoke of her burning, 10 were made rich by reason of her
standing afar off for the fear of her costliness! for in one hour is she
torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the made desolate.’ 20 Rejoice over her,
great city, Babylon, the strong city! O heaven, and you saints, and you
for in one hour has your judgment apostles, and you prophets; for God
come.’ 11 And the merchants of the has judged your judgment on her.”
earth weep and mourn over her, for 21 And a strong angel took up a
no man buys their merchandise stone as it were a great millstone
anymore; 12 merchandise of gold, and cast it into the sea, saying,
and silver, and precious stone, and “Thus with a mighty fall shall
pearls, and fine linen, and purple, Babylon, the great city, be cast
and silk, and scarlet; and all citron down, and shall be found no more
wood, and every vessel of ivory, at all. 22 And the voice of harpers
and every vessel made of most pre- and minstrels and flute players and
cious wood, and of brass, and iron, trumpeters shall be heard no more
and marble; 13 and cinnamon, and at all in you; and no craftsman, of
spice, and incense, and ointment, whatsoever craft, shall be found
and frankincense, and wine, and anymore at all in you; and the voice
oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and of a mill shall be heard no more at
cattle, and sheep; and merchandise all in you; 23 and the light of a lamp
of horses and chariots and slaves; shall shine no more at all in you;
and souls of men. 14 And the fruits and the voice of the bridegroom
which your soul lusted after are and of the bride shall be heard no
gone from you, and all things that more at all in you: for your mer-
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chants were the princes of the earth; are true words of God.” 10 And I
for with your sorcery were all the fell down before his feet to worship
nations deceived. 24 And in her him. And he says to me, “See you
was found the blood of prophets do not do it: I am a fellow servant
and of saints, and of all who have with you and with your brethren
been slain upon the earth.” who hold the testimony of Jesus:

19 After these things I heard worship God: for the testimony of

as it were a great voice of a Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
great multitude in heaven, saying, 11 And I saw the heaven opened;
“Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory, and behold, a white horse, and he
and power, belong to our God: 2 who sat on it called Faithful and
for true and righteous are his True; and in righteousness he
judgments; for he has judged the judges and makes war. 12 And his
great harlot, she who corrupted eyes are a flame of fire, and on his
the earth with her fornication, head are many diadems; and he has
and he has avenged the blood of a name written which no one
his servants at her hand.” knows but he himself. 13 And he is
3 And a second time they say, “Hal- arrayed in a garment sprinkled
lelujah.” And her smoke goes up with blood: and his name is called
for ever and ever. 4 And the The Word of God. 14 And the
twenty-four elders and the four liv- armies which are in heaven fol-
ing creatures fell down and wor- lowed him on white horses, clothed
shipped God who sits on the in fine linen, white and pure. 15
throne, saying, “Amen; Hallelu- And out of his mouth proceeds a
jah.” 5 And a voice came forth from sharp sword, that with it he should
the throne, saying, strike the nations: and he will rule
“Give praise to our God, all you them with a rod of iron: and he
his servants, you who fear him, treads the winepress of the fierce-
the small and the great.” ness of the wrath of God, the
6 And I heard as it were the voice of Almighty. 16 And he has on his gar-
a great multitude, and as the voice ment and on his thigh a name writ-
of many waters, and as the voice of ten, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD
mighty thunders, saying, OF LORDS.
“Hallelujah: for the Lord our God, 17 And I saw an angel standing in
the Almighty, reigns. 7 Let us the sun; and he cried with a loud
rejoice and be exceedingly glad, voice, saying to all the birds that fly
and let us give the glory to him: in mid-heaven, “Come and be gath-
for the marriage of the Lamb has ered together to the great supper of
come, and his wife has made God; 18 that you may eat the flesh
herself ready. 8 And it was given of kings, and the flesh of comman-
to her that she should array ders, and the flesh of mighty men,
herself in fine linen, bright and and the flesh of horses and of those
pure: for the fine linen is the who sit on them, and the flesh of all
righteous acts of the saints.” men, both free and bond, and small
9 And he says to me, “Write, and great.”
‘Blessed are those who are bidden 19 And I saw the beast, and the
to the marriage supper of the kings of the earth, and their armies,
Lamb.’ ” And he says to me, “These gathered together to make war
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against him who sat on the horse, 7 And when the thousand years
and against his army. 20 And the are finished, Satan will be loosed
beast was taken, and with him the out of his prison, 8 and will come
false prophet who worked the signs forth to deceive the nations which
in his sight, with which he deceived are in the four corners of the earth,
those who had received the mark of Gog and Magog, to gather them to-
the beast and those who wor- gether to the war: the number of
shipped his image: these two were whom is as the sand of the sea. 9
cast alive into the lake of fire that And they went up over the breadth
burns with brimstone: 21 and the of the earth, and surrounded the
rest were killed with the sword of camp of the saints, and the beloved
him who sat on the horse, even the city: and fire came down out of
sword which came forth out of his heaven, and devoured them. 10
mouth: and all the birds were filled And the devil who deceived them
with their flesh. was cast into the lake of fire and

20 And I saw an angel coming brimstone, where are also the beast
down out of heaven, having and the false prophet; and they will
the key of the abyss and a great be tormented day and night for
chain in his hand. 2 And he laid ever and ever.
hold on the dragon, the old serpent, 11 And I saw a great white throne,
which is the Devil and Satan, and and he who sat on it, from whose
bound him for a thousand years, 3 face the earth and the heaven fled
and cast him into the abyss, and away; and there was found no
shut it, and sealed it over him, that place for them. 12 And I saw the
he should deceive the nations no dead, the great and the small,
more, until the thousand years standing before the throne; and
should be finished: after this he books were opened: and another
must be loosed for a little time. book was opened, which is the book
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat of life: and the dead were judged
on them, and judgment was given out of the things which were writ-
to them: and I saw the souls of those ten in the books, according to their
who had been beheaded for the tes- works. 13 And the sea gave up the
timony of Jesus, and for the word of dead who were in it; and death and
God, and such as did not worship Hades gave up the dead who were
the beast, neither his image, and in them: and they were judged ev-
did not receive the mark on their ery man according to their works.
forehead and on their hand; and 14 And death and Hades were cast
they lived, and reigned with Christ into the lake of fire. This is the sec-
a thousand years. 5 The rest of the ond death, even the lake of fire. 15
dead did not live until the thou- And if any was not found written in
sand years should be finished. This the book of life, he was cast into the
is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed lake of fire.
and holy is he who has part in the
first resurrection: over these the 21 And I saw a new heaven
and a new earth: for the first
second death has no power; but heaven and the first earth had
they shall be priests of God and of passed away; and the sea is no
Christ, and shall reign with him a more. 2 And I saw the holy city,
thousand years. new Jerusalem, coming down out
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of heaven from God, made ready as twelve angels; and names written
a bride adorned for her husband. 3 on them, which are the names of the
And I heard a great voice out of the twelve tribes of the children of Is-
throne saying, “Behold, the taber- rael: 13 on the east were three gates;
nacle of God is with men, and he and on the north three gates; and on
will dwell with them, and they the south three gates; and on the
shall be his peoples, and God him- west three gates. 14 And the wall of
self shall be with them, and be their the city had twelve foundations,
God: 4 and he will wipe away every and on them twelve names of the
tear from their eyes; and death shall twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15
be no more; neither shall there be And he who spoke with me had for
mourning, nor crying, nor pain, a measure a golden reed to measure
any more: the first things are the city, and the gates of it, and the
passed away.” 5 And he who sits on wall of it. 16 And the city lies
the throne said, “Behold, I make all foursquare, and the length of it is as
things new.” And he says, “Write: great as the breadth: and he mea-
for these words are faithful and sured the city with the reed, twelve
true.” 6 And he said to me, “They thousand furlongs: the length and
are come to pass. I am the Alpha the breadth and the height of it are
and the Omega, the beginning and equal. 17 And he measured the wall
the end. I will give to him who is of it, a hundred forty-four cubits,
thirsty from the fountain of the wa- according to the measure of a man,
ter of life freely. 7 He who over- that is, of an angel. 18 And the
comes shall inherit these things; building of the wall of it was jasper:
and I will be his God, and he shall and the city was pure gold, like
be my son. 8 But for the fearful, and pure glass. 19 The foundations of
unbelieving, and abominable, and the wall of the city were adorned
murderers, and fornicators, and with all manner of precious stones.
sorcerers, and idolaters, and all The first foundation was jasper; the
liars, their part shall be in the lake second, sapphire; the third, chal-
that burns with fire and brimstone; cedony; the fourth, emerald; 20 the
which is the second death.” fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius;
9 And there came one of the seven the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth,
angels who had the seven bowls, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth,
who were laden with the seven last chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth;
plagues; and he spoke with me, the twelfth, amethyst. 21 And the
saying, “Come here, I will show twelve gates were twelve pearls;
you the bride, the wife of the each one of the separate gates was
Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away of one pearl: and the street of the
in the Spirit to a mountain great city was pure gold, as it were trans-
and high, and showed me the holy parent glass. 22 And I saw no tem-
city Jerusalem, coming down out of ple in it: for the Lord God the
heaven from God, 11 having the Almighty, and the Lamb, are the
glory of God: her light was like a temple of it. 23 And the city has no
stone most precious, as it were a need of the sun, neither of the
jasper stone, clear as crystal: 12 hav- moon, to shine upon it: for the glory
ing a wall great and high; having of God illuminated it, and the lamp
twelve gates, and at the gates of it is the Lamb. 24 And the nations
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shall walk amid the light of it: and And he says to me, “See you do not
the kings of the earth bring their do it: I am a fellow servant with you
glory into it. 25 And the gates of it and with your brethren the
shall in no way be shut by day (for prophets, and with those who keep
there shall be no night there): 26 the words of this book: worship
and they shall bring the glory and God.”
the honor of the nations into it: 27
and there shall in no way enter into 10 And he says to me, “Do not
it anything unclean, or he who seal up the words of the prophecy
makes an abomination and a lie: of this book; for the time is at hand.
but only those who are written in 11 He who is unrighteous, let him

22 the Lamb’s book of life. 1

And he showed me a river of
do unrighteousness still: and he
who is filthy, let him be made filthy
water of life, bright as crystal, pro-
still: and he who is righteous, let
ceeding out of the throne of God him do righteousness still: and he
and of the Lamb, 2 in the midst of who is holy, let him be made holy
the street of it. And on this side ofstill. 12 Behold, I come quickly; and
the river and on that was the tree ofmy reward is with me, to render to
life, bearing twelve manner of fruits,
each man according as his work is.
yielding its fruit every month: and 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the leaves of the tree were for the the first and the last, the beginning
healing of the nations. 3 And there and the end. 14 Blessed are those
shall be no curse anymore: and the who wash their robes, that they
throne of God and of the Lamb may have the right to come to the
shall be in it: and his servants shall
tree of life, and may enter in by the
serve him; 4 and they shall see his gates into the city. 15 Outside are
face; and his name shall be on their the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the
foreheads. 5 And there shall be fornicators, and the murderers, and
night no more; and they need no the idolaters, and every one who
light of lamp, neither light of sun; loves and makes a lie.
for the Lord God shall give them 16 I Jesus have sent my angel to
light: and they shall reign for ever testify to you these things for the
and ever. churches. I am the root and the off-
spring of David, the bright, the
6 And he said to me, “These morning star.
words are faithful and true: and the 17 And the Spirit and the bride
Lord, the God of the spirits of the say, ‘Come.’ And he who hears, let
prophets, sent his angel to show to him say, ‘Come.’ And he who is
his servants the things which must thirsty, let him come: he who will,
shortly come to pass. 7 And behold, let him take the water of life freely.
I come quickly. Blessed is he who 18 I testify to every man who
keeps the words of the prophecy of hears the words of the prophecy of
this book.” this book, If any man shall add to
8 And I John am he who heard them, God shall add to him the
and saw these things. And when I plagues which are written in this
heard and saw, I fell down to wor- book:
ship before the feet of the angel 19 and if any man shall take away
who showed me these things. 9 from the words of the book of this
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prophecy, God shall take away his says, “Yes: I come quickly. Amen:
part from the tree of life, and out of come, Lord Jesus.”
the holy city, which are written in
this book.” 21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be
20 He who testifies these things with the saints. Amen.

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