Leviticus 25 Cross References - ACV

¹ And LORD spoke to Moses at mount Sinai, saying, ² Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to LORD. ³ Six years thou shall sow thy field, and six years thou shall prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits of it, ⁴ but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to LORD. Thou shall neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. ⁵ That which grows of itself of thy harvest thou shall not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. ⁶ And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you: for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger, who sojourns with thee. ⁷ And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, all the increase of it shall be for food. ⁸ And thou shall number seven sabbaths of years to thee, seven times seven years, and there shall be to thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years. ⁹ Then thou shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. In the day of atonement ye shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land. ¹⁰ And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants of it. It shall be a jubilee to you, and ye shall return every man to his possession, and ye shall return every man to his family. ¹¹ That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. Ye shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather in it of the undressed vines. ¹² For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. Ye shall eat the increase of it out of the field. ¹³ In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man to his possession. ¹⁴ And if thou sell anything to thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong each other. ¹⁵ According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shall buy of thy neighbor, and according to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to thee. ¹⁶ According to the multitude of the years thou shall increase the price of it, and according to the fewness of the years thou shall diminish the price of it, for the number of the crops he sells to thee. ¹⁷ And ye shall not wrong each other, but thou shall fear thy God, for I am LORD your God. ¹⁸ Therefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them, and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. ¹⁹ And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell in safety in it. ²⁰ And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase, ²¹ then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years. ²² And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old storage, until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, ye shall eat the old storage. ²³ And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For ye are strangers and sojourners with me. ²⁴ And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. ²⁵ If thy brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possession, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and shall redeem that which his brother has sold. ²⁶ And if a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes rich and finds sufficient to redeem it, ²⁷ then let him reckon the years of the sale of it, and restore the excess to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession. ²⁸ But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then that which he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the year of jubilee. And in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession. ²⁹ And if a man sells a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption. ³⁰ And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not go out in the jubilee. ³¹ But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee. ³² Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time. ³³ And if a man purchases from the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee. For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel. ³⁴ But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession. ³⁵ And if thy brother becomes poor, and his hand fails with thee, then thou shall uphold him; he shall live with thee as a stranger and a sojourner. ³⁶ Take thou no interest from him or increase, but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee. ³⁷ Thou shall not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy food for profit. ³⁸ I am LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. ³⁹ And if thy brother becomes poor with thee, and sells himself to thee, thou shall not impose upon him servile labor. ⁴⁰ He shall be with thee as a hired servant, and as a sojourner. He shall serve with thee to the year of jubilee. ⁴¹ Then he shall go out from thee, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his own family. And he shall return to the possession of his fathers. ⁴² For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as bondmen. ⁴³ Thou shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear thy God. ⁴⁴ And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shall have, from the nations that are round about you, ye shall buy bondmen and bondmaids from them. ⁴⁵ Moreover of the sons of the strangers who sojourn among you, ye shall buy from them, and from their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they shall be your possession. ⁴⁶ And ye shall make them an inheritance for your sons after you, to hold for a possession. Ye shall take your permanent bondmen from them, but over your brothers the sons of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor. ⁴⁷ And if a stranger or sojourner with thee becomes rich, and thy brother becomes poor beside him, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family, ⁴⁸ he may be redeemed after he is sold. One of his brothers may redeem him. ⁴⁹ Or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him. Or any who is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him. Or if he becomes rich, he may redeem himself. ⁵⁰ And he shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the year of jubilee. And the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years. He shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant. ⁵¹ If there be yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. ⁵² And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him. He shall give back the price of his redemption according to his years. ⁵³ He shall be with him as a servant hired year by year. He shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight. ⁵⁴ And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his sons with him. ⁵⁵ For the sons of Israel are servants to me. They are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am LORD your God.

¹ In the third month after the sons of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

¹ And LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, saying,

¹¹ And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony. ¹² And the sons of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.

²⁴ Which things are allegorized, for these are two covenants, indeed one from mount Sinai giving birth for bondage, which is Hagar. ²⁵ For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, and is in bondage with her children.

¹⁰ And six years thou shall sow thy land, and shall gather in the increase of it,

³⁴ When ye have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a leprous disease in a house of the land of your possession,

³² It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, ye shall keep your sabbath.

³⁴ Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and ye are in your enemies' land, even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths. ³⁵ As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

⁸ When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.

⁴⁹ Get thee up onto this mountain of Abarim, to mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is opposite Jericho, and behold the land of Canaan, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession.

⁴ And LORD said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to thy seed. I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shall not go over there.

²¹ to fulfill the word of LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths; as long as it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

¹ The earth is LORD's, and the fullness thereof, the world, and those who dwell therein. ² For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

¹⁶ The heavens are the heavens of LORD, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.

⁸ and it shall sweep onward into Judah. It shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

⁵ I have made the earth, the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and I give it to whom it seems right to me.

¹⁰ And six years thou shall sow thy land, and shall gather in the increase of it, ¹¹ but the seventh year thou shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shall deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

²⁰ And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase, ²¹ then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years. ²² And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old storage, until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, ye shall eat the old storage. ²³ And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

⁴³ The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. And they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity, because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

²⁹ And this shall be the sign to thee: Ye shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same. And in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of it.

³⁰ And this shall be the sign to thee. Ye shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same, and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of it.

¹¹ but the seventh year thou shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shall deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

²⁰ And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase,

⁴⁴ And all who believed were together, and had all things common.

³² And the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. And not even one man said that anything of the things that was possessed by him was his own, but all things were common to them.

³⁴ For not even any needy was among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses, selling, they brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, ³⁵ and placed them at the apostles' feet. And it was distributed to each, according as any man had need.

² And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

¹⁵ And ye shall count to you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering, there shall be complete seven sabbaths.

²⁰ And when he has made an end of atoning for the holy place, and the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.

³⁰ For on this day atonement shall be made for you, to cleanse you. Ye shall be clean from all your sins before LORD.

²⁴ Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

²⁷ However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you, and ye shall afflict your souls, and ye shall offer an offering made by fire to LORD.

¹⁰ And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants of it. It shall be a jubilee to you, and ye shall return every man to his possession, and ye shall return every man to his family. ¹¹ That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. Ye shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather in it of the undressed vines. ¹² For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. Ye shall eat the increase of it out of the field.

¹⁷ If he sanctifies his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy estimation it shall stand.

²⁴ In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.

¹⁰ Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. And they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am LORD your God.

⁴ And when the jubilee of the sons of Israel shall be, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

¹⁵ Blessed is the people who know the joyful sound. They walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

³⁸ Be it known to you therefore, men, brothers, that through this man remission of sins is proclaimed to you. ³⁹ And from all things of which ye could not be make righteous by the law of Moses, in this man every man who believes is made righteous.

¹⁸ But I say, did they, no, not hear? Rather, Their voice went forth into all the earth, and their sayings to the limits of the inhabited world.

¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of a Spirit of God, so that for me, from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum, to fully preach the good news of Christ.

¹⁹ How that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are therefore, ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were calling through us. We plead on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God. ²¹ For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

⁸ For the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything.

² I am LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

¹³ In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man to his possession.

²⁶ And if a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes rich and finds sufficient to redeem it, ²⁷ then let him reckon the years of the sale of it, and restore the excess to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession. ²⁸ But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then that which he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the year of jubilee. And in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.

³³ And if a man purchases from the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee. For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel. ³⁴ But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.

¹⁷ If he sanctifies his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy estimation 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 thy estimation. ¹⁹ And if he who sanctified the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy 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 LORD, as a field set apart; the possession of it shall be the priest's. ²² And if he sanctifies to LORD 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 thy estimation to the year of jubilee, and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing to LORD. ²⁴ In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.

² And they said, LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel. And my lord was commanded by LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. ³ And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. ⁴ And when the jubilee of the sons of Israel shall be, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. ⁵ And Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the word of LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak right. ⁶ This is the thing which LORD commands concerning the daughters 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 no inheritance of the sons of Israel shall remove from tribe to tribe, for the sons of Israel shall cling each one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. ⁸ And every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the sons of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the sons of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. ⁹ So no inheritance shall move from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall cling each one to his own inheritance.

³ Whoever there is among you of all his people, his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of LORD, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.

⁷ who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. LORD releases the prisoners.

⁹ saying to those who are bound, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pasture shall be on all bare heights.

²⁴ Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? ²⁵ But thus says LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered. For I will contend with him who contends with thee, and I will save thy sons.

¹ The Spirit of the lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, and the opening of bonds to those who are bound, ² to proclaim the acceptable year of LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, ³ to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of LORD, that he may be glorified.

⁴ For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.

⁸ The word that came to Jeremiah from LORD, after the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them,

¹³ Thus says LORD, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying, ¹⁴ At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to thee, and has served thee six years. Thou shall let him go free from thee. But your fathers hearkened not to me, nor inclined their ear. ¹⁵ And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor. And ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name. ¹⁶ But ye turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had let go free at their pleasure, to return. And ye brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids. ¹⁷ Therefore thus says LORD: Ye have not hearkened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says LORD-to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. And I will make you to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.

¹¹ As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit in which is no water. ¹² Turn you back to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will render double to thee.

⁷⁴ without fear from the hand of our enemies, having been saved to serve him

¹⁶ And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up. And according to that which was customary to him, he entered into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read. ¹⁷ And the book of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. And having opened the book, he found the place where it was written, ¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to sent forth in deliverance those who have been broken, ¹⁹ to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. ²⁰ And having closed the book, having given it back to the attendant, he sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were focused on him. ²¹ And he began to say to them, Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your ears.

³² and ye will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. ³³ They answered to him, We are Abraham's seed, and have been in bondage to no man, ever. How can thou say, Ye will become free? ³⁴ Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, that every man who does the sin is a bondman of the sin. ³⁵ And the bondman does not remain in the house into the age. The Son remains into the age. ³⁶ If therefore the Son should make you free, ye will truly be free.

¹⁷ But thanks to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but ye obeyed from the heart a model of doctrine for which ye were delivered. ¹⁸ And having been set free from sin, ye were made servile to righteousness

¹⁷ Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

²⁵ For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, and is in bondage with her children.

¹³ For ye, brothers, were called to liberty, only not liberty for an opportunity to the flesh, but be servants to each other through love.

¹⁶ As free, and not having your freedom as a cover-up of evil, but as bondmen of God.

¹⁹ promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved. ²⁰ For if, having escaped the defilements of the world by knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and, having been again entangled in these, they are overcome, the last things have become worse for them than the first.

⁴ but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to LORD. Thou shall neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. ⁵ That which grows of itself of thy harvest thou shall not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. ⁶ And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you: for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger, who sojourns with thee. ⁷ And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, all the increase of it shall be for food.

¹⁰ And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants of it. It shall be a jubilee to you, and ye shall return every man to his possession, and ye shall return every man to his family.

¹³ Thou shall not oppress thy neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

¹⁷ And ye shall not wrong each other, but thou shall fear thy God, for I am LORD your God.

¹⁹ Thou shall not distort justice. Thou shall not respect persons, neither shall thou take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous. ²⁰ Thou shall follow that which is altogether just, that thou may live, and inherit the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

³ And the sons of Israel cried to LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel twenty years.

³ Here I am. Witness against me before LORD, and before his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or of whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you. ⁴ And they said, Thou have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have thou taken anything of any man's hand.

¹⁰ Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison-house. For he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

³⁶ Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that thou gave to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good of it, behold, we are servants in it. ³⁷ And it yields much increase to the kings whom thou have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

¹⁹ For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. ²⁰ Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save any of that in which he delights.

¹⁸ to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may no more be terrible.

³¹ He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.

¹³ He who stops his ears at the cry of a poor man, he also shall cry, but shall not be heard.

¹⁶ He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, and he who gives to a rich man, comes only to want.

³ A needy man who oppresses the poor is a sweeping rain which leaves no food.

⁸ He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.

¹⁶ The ruler who lacks understanding is also a great oppressor, but he who hates covetousness shall prolong his days.

⁸ If thou see the oppression of a poor man, and the violent wresting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. For a man higher than the high is observing, and there are higher men than they.

¹⁷ Learn to do good. Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

¹² As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, those who lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. ¹³ LORD stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples. ¹⁴ LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the rulers of it. It is ye who have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of a poor man is in your houses. ¹⁵ What do ye mean that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? says the Lord, LORD of hosts.

⁷ For the vineyard of LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. And he looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

¹⁵ He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly. He who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes away his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil.

⁶ Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

¹⁷ But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

⁷ In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

¹² In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the lord LORD. ¹³ Behold, therefore, I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain which thou have made, and at thy blood which has been in the midst of thee.

¹¹ Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof. ¹² For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins-ye who afflict the just man, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the gate.

⁴ Hear this, O ye who would swallow up a needy man, and cause the poor of the land to fail, ⁵ saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit, ⁶ that we may buy the poor for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat? ⁷ LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

² And they covet fields, and seize them, and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. ³ Therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I devise an evil against this family, from which ye shall not remove your necks, nor shall ye walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.

¹⁰ Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable? ¹¹ Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights? ¹² For the rich men of it are full of violence, and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

³ Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler asks, and the judge asks for a bribe. And the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul. Thus they weave it together.

¹⁴ And men who were soldiers also questioned him, saying, And we, what should we do? And he said to them, Do violence to no man, nor accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.

⁸ Instead ye do wrong, and defraud, and these things to brothers.

¹ Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching. ² Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and your silver have cankered, and their corrosion will be testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. Ye have hoarded in the last days. ⁴ Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. ⁵ Ye have lived in luxury on the earth, and were self-indulgent. Ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

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 thy estimation. ¹⁹ And if he who sanctified the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy 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 LORD, as a field set apart; the possession of it shall be the priest's. ²² And if he sanctifies to LORD 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 thy estimation to the year of jubilee, and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing to LORD.

⁵ Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is near.

²⁷ then let him reckon the years of the sale of it, and restore the excess to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession.

⁵¹ If there be yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

¹² And he said, Do not lay thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything to him. For now I know that thou fear God, since thou have not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

⁹ He is not greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

¹⁸ And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live, for I fear God:

²⁰ And Moses said to the people, Fear not, for God has come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye not sin.

¹⁴ Thou shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but thou shall fear thy God. I am LORD.

³² Thou shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shall fear thy God. I am LORD.

¹⁴ And if thou sell anything to thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong each other.

⁴³ Thou shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear thy God.

¹⁸ how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all who were feeble behind thee, when thou were faint and weary, and he feared not God.

²⁴ Only fear LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart, for consider what great things he has done for you.

⁷ Now therefore let the fear of LORD be upon you. Take heed and do it. For there is no iniquity with LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.

⁹ Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

¹⁵ But the former governors who were before me charged the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.

⁹ The fear of LORD is clean, enduring forever. The ordinances of LORD are true, and righteous altogether.

⁷ The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

²² Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate.

⁵ For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor, ⁶ if ye do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own hurt,

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy man, then it was well. Was not this to know me? says LORD.

⁵ And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says LORD of hosts.

⁵ But I will show you whom ye should fear. Fear him, who, after killing, has power to cast into hell. Yes, I say to you, fear ye him.

³¹ Indeed therefore the congregations throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified. And, going in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

² a devout man, and fearing God with all his house, and doing many charities for the people, and beseeching God always.

³⁵ but in every nation, he who fears him, and works righteousness, is acceptable to him.

¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes.

²⁰ Correct! They were broken off for their unbelief, and thou stand by thy faith. Be not high-minded but fear,

⁶ not to transgress and to cheat his brother in the affair, because the Lord is vengeful about all these things, as also we forewarned you and solemnly testified.

³⁷ And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am LORD.

³ If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them, ⁴ then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. ⁵ And your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time, and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. ⁶ And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, nor shall the sword go through your land. ⁷ And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. ⁸ And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. ⁹ And I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you. ¹⁰ And ye shall eat old storage long kept, and ye shall bring forth the old because of the new. ¹¹ And I will set my tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. ¹² And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

¹⁰ But when ye go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which LORD your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety,

¹ And it shall come to pass, if thou shall hearken diligently to the voice of LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that LORD thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth, ² and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee, if thou shall hearken to the voice of LORD thy God: ³ Blessed shall thou be in the city, and blessed shall thou be in the field. ⁴ Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy beasts, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock. ⁵ Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. ⁶ Blessed shall thou be when thou come in, and blessed shall thou be when thou go out. ⁷ LORD will cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thee. They shall come out against thee one way, and shall flee before thee seven ways. ⁸ LORD will command the blessing upon thee in thy barns, and in all that thou put thy hand to. And he will bless thee in the land which LORD thy God gives thee. ⁹ LORD will establish thee for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to thee, if thou shall keep the commandments of LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. ¹⁰ And all the peoples of the earth shall see that thou are called by the name of LORD, and they shall be afraid of thee. ¹¹ And LORD will make thee plenteous for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which LORD swore to thy fathers to give thee. ¹² LORD will open to thee his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand. And thou shall lend to many nations, and thou shall not borrow. ¹³ And LORD will make thee the head, and not the tail. And thou shall only be above, and thou shall not be beneath, if thou shall hearken to the commandments of LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do, ¹⁴ and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

¹² Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of LORD shall dwell in safety by him. He covers him all the day long, and he dwells between his shoulders.

²⁸ And Israel dwells in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, in a land of grain and new wine. Yea, his heavens drop down dew.

⁸ In peace I will both lie down and sleep, for thou, LORD, alone make me dwell in safety.

¹⁸ to such as keep his covenant, and to those who remember his precepts to do them.

³³ But he who hearkens to me shall dwell securely, and shall be quiet without fear of evil.

³ Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. ⁴ Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of LORD, the temple of LORD, the temple of LORD, are these. ⁵ For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor, ⁶ if ye do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own hurt, ⁷ then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from of old even for evermore.

⁶ In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is his name by which he shall be called: LORD our righteousness.

⁵ saying, Return ye now each one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that LORD has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even for evermore.

¹⁶ In those days Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely. And this is the name whereby she shall be called: LORD our righteousness.

²⁴ Son of man, those who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land, but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance. ²⁵ Therefore say to them, Thus says the lord LORD: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. And shall ye possess the land? ²⁶ Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every man his neighbor's wife. And shall ye possess the land?

²⁹ Then they shall know that I am LORD when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.

²⁵ And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. ²⁶ And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing, and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing. ²⁷ And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land. And they shall know that I am LORD when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made bondmen of them. ²⁸ And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the earth devour them, but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.

²⁴ For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. ²⁵ And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols. ²⁶ I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my ordinances, and do them. ²⁸ And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

⁵ And your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time, and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

⁶ The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.

¹² Yea, LORD will give that which is good, and our land shall yield its increase.

²³ And he will give the rain for thy seed, with which thou shall sow the ground, and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day thy cattle shall feed in large pastures.

²¹ And they shall build houses, and inhabit them. And they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. ²² They shall not build, and another inhabit. They shall not plant, and another eat. For as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

³⁰ And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye may no more receive the reproach of famine among the nations.

²⁴ And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.

²⁶ And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied. And shall praise the name of LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never be put to shame.

⁴ but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to LORD. Thou shall neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

⁴ And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly. And the sons of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

¹³ From where should I have flesh to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

¹⁵ And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an army with horses and chariots was round about the city. And his servant said to him, Alas, my master! What shall we do? ¹⁶ And he answered, Fear not, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them. ¹⁷ And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see. And LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

² Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if LORD should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shall see it with thine eyes, but shall not eat of it.

⁹ And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, LORD is able to give thee much more than this.

¹⁹ Yea, they spoke against God. They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? ²⁰ Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?

² Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for LORD has spoken. I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me.

²⁵ Because of this I say to you, be not anxious about your life, what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, nor yet for your body, what ye may wear. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the clothing? ²⁶ Look to the birds of the sky, because they sow not, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not more valuable then they? ²⁷ And which man of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his life span? ²⁸ And why are ye anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, nor do they spin, ²⁹ yet I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed like one of these. ³⁰ And if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into an oven, will he not much more you, O ye of little faith? ³¹ Be not therefore anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we wear? ³² For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that ye need all these things. ³³ But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. ³⁴ Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow will be anxious about things of itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil of it.

²⁶ And he says to them, Why are ye cowardly, O ye of little faith? Then after rising, he rebuked the winds and the sea, and there became a great calm.

²⁹ And do not seek what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, and do not be unsettled.

⁶ Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thankfulness make your requests known to God.

⁵ The Way of life is to be without love of money, being content with the things that are present, for he has said, I will, no, not leave thee, and also, I will, no, not forsake thee. ⁶ So then we have confidence to say, The Lord is a helper to me, and I will not fear. What will man do to me?

¹² And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold. And LORD blessed him.

⁴⁷ And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

²⁹ See, because LORD has given you the sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Abide ye every man in his place. Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

⁸ And thou shall number seven sabbaths of years to thee, seven times seven years, and there shall be to thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years. ⁹ Then thou shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. In the day of atonement ye shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land. ¹⁰ And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants of it. It shall be a jubilee to you, and ye shall return every man to his possession, and ye shall return every man to his family. ¹¹ That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. Ye shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather in it of the undressed vines.

³ Blessed shall thou be in the city, and blessed shall thou be in the field.

⁸ LORD will command the blessing upon thee in thy barns, and in all that thou put thy hand to. And he will bless thee in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

³ like the dew of Hermon, that comes down upon the mountains of Zion. For there LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

²² The blessing of LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

¹⁰ And he who supplies seed to the man who sows, and bread for eating, may he supply and multiply your seed, and may he increase the fruits of your righteousness,

¹⁰ And ye shall eat old storage long kept, and ye shall bring forth the old because of the new.

¹¹ And they ate of the produce of the land on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes and parched grain, in the selfsame day. ¹² And the manna ceased on the morrow, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. Neither had the sons of Israel manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

⁴ I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

⁹ And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

⁵ Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine,

⁴³ Rejoice, O ye Gentiles, with his people. For he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will recompense those who hate him, and will make expiation for his land, for his people.

³ And Naboth said to Ahab, LORD forbid it of me that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to thee.

¹⁵ For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

²⁰ then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them. And this house, which I have hallowed for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

¹ The earth is LORD's, and the fullness thereof, the world, and those who dwell therein.

¹² Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry. Keep not silent at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

¹ LORD, thou have been favorable to thy land. Thou have brought back the captivity of Jacob.

¹⁹ I am a sojourner in the earth. Hide not thy commandments from me.

¹⁴ And they shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first-fruits of the land be alienated, for it is holy to LORD.

³ They shall not dwell in LORD's land, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

¹⁸ Then LORD was jealous for his land, and had pity on his people.

² I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. And they have parted my land,

⁹ By faith he lived alien in the land of promise as a foreigner, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he anticipated the city that has the foundations, whose builder and architect is God. ¹¹ By faith even Sarah herself received power for conception of seed, and she gave birth beyond the time of age, because she considered him faithful who promised. ¹² And therefore from one man, and these things having become deadened, were begotten as the stars of the heaven for multitude, and as the sand of the seashore, countless. ¹³ All these died in faith, not having taken the promises, but who saw and greeted them from afar, and who confessed that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth.

¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

³¹ But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

⁵¹ If there be yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. ⁵² And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him. He shall give back the price of his redemption according to his years. ⁵³ He shall be with him as a servant hired year by year. He shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.

²³ And not only so, but also ourselves who have the first fruit of the Spirit. And we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

³⁰ But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

⁷ In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, according to the wealth of his grace,

¹⁴ which is a pledge of our inheritance, for the redemption of the acquired possession, for appreciation of his glory.

³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye are sealed for a day of redemption.

²⁰ And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of LORD who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said to her, The man is near of kin to us, one of our near kinsmen.

² And now is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens thou were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing-floor.

⁹ And he said, Who are thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thy handmaid. Spread therefore thy skirt over thy handmaid, for thou are a near kinsman.

¹² And now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However there is a kinsman nearer than I.

⁴ And I thought to disclose it to thee, saying, Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people. If thou will redeem it, redeem it, but if thou will not redeem it, then tell me that I may know, for there is none to redeem it besides thee, and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it. ⁵ Then Boaz said, That day thou buy the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance. ⁶ And the near kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself lest I mar my own inheritance. Take thou my right of redemption on thee, for I cannot redeem it.

⁷ Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come to thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth. For the right of redemption is thine to buy it. ⁸ So Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of LORD, and said to me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin. For the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine. Buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of LORD.

⁹ For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich he became poor for your sakes, so that by that man's poverty ye might become rich.

¹³ And again, I will be a man who has trusted in him. And again, Behold, I and the children that God has given me. ¹⁴ Since therefore the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might make him who has the power of death impotent, that is, the devil.

⁹ And they sing a new song, saying, Thou are worthy to take the book and to open the seals of it, because thou were killed and purchased us from God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.

⁷ And if his means is not sufficient for a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that by which he has sinned, two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to LORD, one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

⁹ No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up in it. They shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there. ¹⁰ And the ransomed of LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion. And everlasting joy shall be upon their heads. They shall obtain gladness and joy. And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

¹⁵ For thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land.

⁵² in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For it will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be transformed. ⁵³ For this perishable must put on imperishability, and this mortal put on immortality. ⁵⁴ But when this perishable will have put on imperishability, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come to pass the saying that is written, Death was swallowed up in victory.

¹³ But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope. ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and arose, so also those who became asleep through Jesus, God will bring with him. ¹⁵ For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain for the coming of the Lord, will no, not precede those who became asleep. ¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of the arch-agent, and with a trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first, ¹⁷ then we who are alive, who remain, will be caught up simultaneously with them in clouds to the Lord's gathering in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. ¹⁸ Therefore encourage each other with these words.

⁴ for an inheritance imperishable, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heavens for you, ⁵ men being kept by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

⁷ none 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 forever),

¹ And LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, ² Command the sons of Israel, that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in. And ye shall give suburbs for the cities round about them to the Levites. ³ And they shall have the cities to dwell in, and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts. ⁴ And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. ⁵ And ye shall measure outside the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities. ⁶ And of the cities which ye shall give to the Levites, there shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall give for the manslayer to flee to. And besides them ye shall give forty-two cities. ⁷ All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, them with their suburbs. ⁸ And concerning the cities which ye shall give of the possession of the sons of Israel, from the many ye shall take many, and from the few ye shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.

¹ Then the heads of fathers of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel. ² And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, LORD commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it for our cattle. ³ And the sons of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of LORD, these cities with their suburbs: ⁴ And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. And the sons of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities. ⁵ And the rest of the sons of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities. ⁶ And the sons of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. ⁷ The sons of Merari according to their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. ⁸ And the sons of Israel gave these cities by lot to the Levites with their suburbs, as LORD commanded by Moses. ⁹ And they gave out of the tribe of the sons of Judah, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name, ¹⁰ and they were for the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the sons of Levi, for theirs was the first lot. ¹¹ And they gave them Kiriath-arba, Arba was the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs of it round about it. ¹² But the fields of the city, and the villages of it, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. ¹³ And to the sons of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Libnah with its suburbs, ¹⁴ and Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs, ¹⁵ and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs, ¹⁶ and Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes. ¹⁷ And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs, ¹⁸ Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities. ¹⁹ All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs. ²⁰ And the families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the sons of Kohath, they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim. ²¹ And they gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs, ²² and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs; four cities. ²³ And out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its suburbs, Gibbethon with its suburbs, ²⁴ Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; four cities. ²⁵ And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; two cities. ²⁶ All the cities of the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath were ten with their suburbs. ²⁷ And to the sons of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Be-eshterah with its suburbs; two cities. ²⁸ And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, ²⁹ Jarmuth with its suburbs, En-gannim with its suburbs; four cities. ³⁰ And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its suburbs, Abdon with its suburbs, ³¹ Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities. ³² And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Hammoth-dor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities. ³³ All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs. ³⁴ And to the families of the sons of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, and Kartah with its suburbs, ³⁵ Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs; four cities. ³⁶ And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, and Jahaz with its suburbs, ³⁷ Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities. ³⁸ And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs, ³⁹ Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all. ⁴⁰ All these were the cities of the sons of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities. ⁴¹ All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel were forty-eight cities with their suburbs. ⁴² These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them. Thus it was with all these cities. ⁴³ So LORD gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers, and they possessed it, and dwelt in it. ⁴⁴ And LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he swore to their fathers. And there stood not a man of all their enemies before them. LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand. ⁴⁵ There failed not anything of any good thing which LORD had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.

²⁰ And LORD said to Aaron, Thou shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall thou have any portion among them. I am thy portion and thine inheritance among the sons of Israel. ²¹ And to the sons of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting. ²² And henceforth the sons of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. ²³ But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. And among the sons of Israel they shall have no inheritance. ²⁴ For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they offer as a heave offering to LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, Among the sons of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

¹ The priests the Levites, even all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of LORD made by fire, and his inheritance. ² And they shall have no inheritance among their brothers. LORD is their inheritance as he has spoken to them.

²³ And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

² Command the sons of Israel, that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in. And ye shall give suburbs for the cities round about them to the Levites. ³ And they shall have the cities to dwell in, and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts. ⁴ And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. ⁵ And ye shall measure outside the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

³⁶ And Joses, who was surnamed by the apostles, Barnabas (which is, being translated, son of encouragement), a Levite, a Cypriot by nationality, ³⁷ having sold a field that was possessed by him, brought the money and placed it at the apostles' feet.

⁹ And thou shall not oppress a sojourner, for ye know the heart of a sojourner, since ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

³⁴ The stranger that sojourns with you shall be to you as the home-born among you, and thou shall love him as thyself, for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt. I am LORD your God.

²⁵ If thy brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possession, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and shall redeem that which his brother has sold.

¹⁸ He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner in giving him food and raiment. ¹⁹ Love ye therefore the sojourner, for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

⁷ If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brothers, within any of thy gates in thy land which LORD thy God gives thee, thou shall not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother, ⁸ but thou shall surely open thy hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need which he wants.

¹⁴ Thou shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brothers, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates. ¹⁵ Thou shall give him his hire in his day, neither shall the sun go down upon it, for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it, lest he cry against thee to LORD, and it be sin to thee.

²⁶ All the day long he deals graciously, and lends, and his seed is blessed.

¹ Blessed is he who considers a poor man. LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

⁵ It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He shall maintain his cause in judgment,

⁹ He has scattered, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn shall be exalted with honor.

²⁰ The poor man is regarded inferior even by his own neighbor, but the rich man has many friends. ²¹ He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor, happy is he.

⁵ He who mocks a poor man reproaches his maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

¹⁷ He who has pity upon a poor man lends to LORD, and he will repay him his good deed.

³⁵ For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat. I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink. I was a stranger, and ye took me in,

⁷ For ye always have the poor with you, and whenever ye may desire ye can do them well, but ye do not always have me.

³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad.

⁸ For ye always have the poor with you, but ye do not always have me.

²⁹ And the disciples, as any man prospered, determined, each of them regarding aid, to send to the brothers who dwell in Judea,

¹³ sharing for the needs of the sanctified, pursuing love for strangers.

¹⁸ If possible from you, keeping peace with all men,

²⁰ Therefore if thine enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him to drink. For by doing this thou will heap coals of fire upon his head.

¹ For indeed it is superfluous for me to write to you about the service for the sanctified.

¹² Because the service of this ministry is not only supplying the needs of the sanctified, but also abounding through many thanksgivings to God ¹³ through the evidence of this service, glorifying God at the subjection of your confession toward the good news of the Christ, and at the generosity of the participation, for them and for all, ¹⁴ and by their supplication about you, yearning for you because of the transcending grace of God in you. ¹⁵ And thanks to God for his indescribable gift.

¹⁰ only that we should remember the poor, which this same thing I also was eager to do.

² Do not forget love for strangers, for by this some lodged agents, unaware.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to those who love him? ⁶ But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich exploit you, and they themselves drag you into courts?

¹⁷ But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

²⁵ If thou lend money to any of my people with thee who is poor, thou shall not be to him as a creditor, neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

¹⁹ Thou shall not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent upon interest. ²⁰ To a foreigner thou may lend upon interest, but to thy brother thou shall not lend upon interest, that LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou put thy hand to, in the land where thou go in to possess it.

⁷ Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the ranking men and the rulers, and said to them, Ye exact usury, everyone of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them. ⁸ And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers the Jews, who were sold to the nations, and would ye even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and found not a word. ⁹ Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? ¹⁰ And I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

⁵ he who puts not his money out to interest, nor takes a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

⁸ he who has not given forth upon interest, nor has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

¹³ has given forth upon interest, and has taken increase, shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood shall be upon him.

¹⁷ who has withdrawn his hand from a poor man, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes, he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.

¹² In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the lord LORD.

⁷ And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.

⁴⁵ For I am LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. Ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

³² And ye shall not profane my holy name, but I will be hallowed among the sons of Israel. I am LORD who hallows you, ³³ who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am LORD.

⁴¹ I am LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am LORD your God.

¹ At that time, says LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

³³ But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says LORD: I will give my laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

³⁸ And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

¹⁶ But now they aspire for a superior one, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

¹⁴ And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, with which they made them serve with rigor.

² If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

³ If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him. A thief shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

⁴⁶ And ye shall make them an inheritance for your sons after you, to hold for a possession. Ye shall take your permanent bondmen from them, but over your brothers the sons of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.

¹² If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to thee, and serves thee six years, then in the seventh year thou shall let him go free from thee. ¹³ And when thou let him go free from thee, thou shall not let him go empty. ¹⁴ Thou shall furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress. As LORD thy God has blessed thee thou shall give to him.

²² But of the sons of Israel Solomon made no bondservants, but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his rulers, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

¹ Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou know that thy servant feared LORD, and the creditor has come to take my two children to him to be bondmen.

⁵ Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons as their sons. And, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already. Neither is it in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

¹⁴ For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.

⁷ And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land comes. And then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondman.

⁸ And it shall come to pass in that day, says LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds. And strangers shall no more make him their bondman,

¹⁴ At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to thee, and has served thee six years. Thou shall let him go free from thee. But your fathers hearkened not to me, nor inclined their ear.

² If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ³ If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

³ If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

²⁸ But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then that which he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the year of jubilee. And in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.

³² and ye will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.

¹⁴ for sin will not have dominion over you. For ye are not under law, but under grace.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a special people, a zealot of good works.

⁵⁵ For the sons of Israel are servants to me. They are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am LORD your God.

²² But now having been made free from sin, and having become servile to God, ye have your fruit for sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

²¹ Were thou called being a bondman? It should not concern thee. However if also thou are able to become free, take advantage of it instead. ²² For he who was called in the Lord a bondman is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise also he who was called a free man is a bondman of Christ. ²³ Ye were bought with a price, become not bondmen of men.

¹³ And the Egyptians made the sons of Israel to serve with rigor. ¹⁴ And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, with which they made them serve with rigor.

¹⁷ But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.

²¹ And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them households.

²³ And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

⁷ And LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

⁹ And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

¹⁴ And the officers of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Why have ye not fulfilled your task both yesterday and today, in making brick as formerly?

⁵³ He shall be with him as a servant hired year by year. He shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.

⁶ I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into thy hand. Thou showed them no mercy. Upon the aged thou have laid thy yoke very heavily.

³ Why have we fasted, they say, and thou see not? We have afflicted our soul, and thou take no knowledge. Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact from all your laborers.

⁴ Ye have not strengthened the diseased, nor have ye healed that which was sick, nor have ye bound up that which was broken, nor have ye brought back that which was driven away, nor have ye sought that which was lost, but ye have ruled over them with force and with rigor.

⁹ And ye masters, do the same things to them, easing up the threats, knowing also that the master of you yourselves is in the heavens, and there is no partiality from him.

¹ Masters, present to the bondmen what is right and equitable, knowing that ye also have a Master in heavens.

⁴⁴ but every man's servant who is bought for money, when thou have circumcised him, then he shall eat of it.

⁸ Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance, and the outermost parts of the earth for thy possession. ⁹ Thou shall break them with a rod of iron, thou shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

¹ For LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. And the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cling to the house of Jacob. ² And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place. And the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of LORD for servants and for handmaids. And they shall take them captive whose captives they were, and they shall rule over their oppressors.

²⁶ And he who overcomes, and he who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations. ²⁷ And he will tend them with a rod of iron (they will be shattered like ceramic vessels), as I also have received from my Father.

³ Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to LORD, speak, saying, LORD will surely separate me from his people, nor let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. ⁴ For thus says LORD of the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: ⁵ To them I will give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. ⁶ Also the foreigners who join themselves to LORD, to minister to him, and to love the name of LORD, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant,

² And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place. And the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of LORD for servants and for handmaids. And they shall take them captive whose captives they were, and they shall rule over their oppressors.

²⁶ And if a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes rich and finds sufficient to redeem it,

⁷ LORD makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up. ⁸ He raises up the poor out of the dust, he lifts up the needy from the dunghill, to make them sit with rulers, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to those who love him?

³⁵ And if thy brother becomes poor, and his hand fails with thee, then thou shall uphold him; he shall live with thee as a stranger and a sojourner.

⁸ And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers the Jews, who were sold to the nations, and would ye even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and found not a word.

⁴ But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born from a woman, born under law, ⁵ so that he might redeem those under law, so that we might receive the sonship.

¹¹ For both he who sanctifies and those being sanctified are all of one, because of which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers, ¹² saying, I will declare thy name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing praise to thee. ¹³ And again, I will be a man who has trusted in him. And again, Behold, I and the children that God has given me.

⁴⁰ He shall be with thee as a hired servant, and as a sojourner. He shall serve with thee to the year of jubilee.

¹⁸ It shall not seem hard to thee when thou let him go free from thee, for he has been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years. And LORD thy God will bless thee in all that thou do.

¹ Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? ² As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling who looks for his wages,

⁶ look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

¹⁴ But now LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude. And the remnant shall be very small and of no account.

¹⁶ For thus the Lord has said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail.

⁴⁰ He shall be with thee as a hired servant, and as a sojourner. He shall serve with thee to the year of jubilee. ⁴¹ Then he shall go out from thee, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his own family. And he shall return to the possession of his fathers.

²⁵ But thus says LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered. For I will contend with him who contends with thee, and I will save thy sons.

³ For thus says LORD: Ye were sold for nothing, and ye shall be redeemed without money.

³ And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for by strength of hand LORD brought you out from this place. There shall no leavened bread be eaten.

⁴² For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as bondmen.

¹⁶ O LORD, truly I am thy servant. I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid. Thou have loosed my bonds.

³ For I am LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior. I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead.

⁷⁴ without fear from the hand of our enemies, having been saved to serve him ⁷⁵ in piety and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

¹⁹ For although being free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that I might gain the more.

²¹ to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ), so that I might gain men without law.