Hebrews 9 Cross References - BBE

¹ Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order. ² For the first Tent was made ready, having in it the vessels for the lights and the table and the ordering of the bread; and this is named the holy place. ³ And inside the second veil was the place which is named the Holy of holies; ⁴ Having a vessel of gold in it for burning perfumes, and the ark of the agreement, which was covered with gold and which had in it a pot made of gold for the manna, and Aaron's rod which put out buds, and the stones with the writing of the agreement; ⁵ And over it were the winged ones of glory with their wings covering the mercy-seat; about which it is not possible now to say anything in detail. ⁶ Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first Tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings. ⁷ But only the high priest went into the second, once a year, not without making an offering of blood for himself and for the errors of the people: ⁸ The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being; ⁹ And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean, ¹⁰ Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right. ¹¹ But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world, ¹² And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean: ¹⁴ How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God? ¹⁵ And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage. ¹⁶ Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it. ¹⁷ For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living? ¹⁸ So that even the first agreement was not made without blood. ¹⁹ For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people, ²⁰ Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you. ²¹ And the blood was put on the Tent and all the holy vessels in the same way. ²² And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness. ²³ For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these. ²⁴ For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us. ²⁵ And he did not have to make an offering of himself again and again, as the high priest goes into the holy place every year with blood which is not his; ²⁶ For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself. ²⁷ And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged; ²⁸ So Christ, having at his first coming taken on himself the sins of men, will be seen a second time, without sin, by those who are waiting for him, for their salvation.

¹⁹ With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

²¹ Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.

¹⁰ The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule.

²² And take some hyssop and put it in the blood in the basin, touching the two sides and the top of the doorway with the blood from the basin; and let not one of you go out of his house till the morning.

³² And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has given: Let one omer of it be kept for future generations, so that they may see the bread which I gave you for your food in the waste land, when I took you out from the land of Egypt. ³³ And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer of manna in it, and put it away before the Lord, to be kept for future generations. ³⁴ So Aaron put it away in front of the holy chest to be kept, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

³ Then Moses came and put before the people all the words of the Lord and his laws: and all the people, answering with one voice, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do. ⁴ Then Moses put down in writing all the words of the Lord, and he got up early in the morning and made an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. ⁵ And he sent some of the young men of the children of Israel to make burned offerings and peace-offerings of oxen to the Lord.

⁵ And he sent some of the young men of the children of Israel to make burned offerings and peace-offerings of oxen to the Lord. ⁶ And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins; draining out half of the blood over the altar.

⁶ And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins; draining out half of the blood over the altar. ⁷ And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the hearing of the people: and they said, Everything which the Lord has said we will do, and we will keep his laws.

⁷ And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the hearing of the people: and they said, Everything which the Lord has said we will do, and we will keep his laws. ⁸ Then Moses took the blood and let it come on the people, and said, This blood is the sign of the agreement which the Lord has made with you in these words.

⁸ Then Moses took the blood and let it come on the people, and said, This blood is the sign of the agreement which the Lord has made with you in these words.

⁸ Then Moses took the blood and let it come on the people, and said, This blood is the sign of the agreement which the Lord has made with you in these words. ⁹ Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the chiefs of Israel went up: ¹⁰ And they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there was, as it seemed, a jewelled floor, clear as the heavens. ¹¹ And he put not his hand on the chiefs of the children of Israel: they saw God, and took food and drink.

⁸ And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever present among them.

⁸ And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever present among them. ⁹ Make the House and everything in it from the designs which I will give you. ¹⁰ And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high. ¹¹ It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with an edge of gold all round it ¹² And make four rings of gold for it, to be fixed on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two on the other. ¹³ And make rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. ¹⁴ And put the rods through the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it. ¹⁵ The rods are to be kept in the rings, and never taken out. ¹⁶ Inside the ark you are to put the record which I will give you. ¹⁷ And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. ¹⁸ And at the two ends of the cover you are to make two winged ones of hammered gold, ¹⁹ One at one end and one at the other; the winged ones are to be part of the cover. ²⁰ And their wings are to be outstretched over the cover, and the winged ones are to be opposite one another, facing the cover. ²¹ And put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the record which I will give you. ²² And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel. ²³ And you are to make a table of the same wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high, ²⁴ Plated with the best gold, with a gold edge all round it; ²⁵ And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame. ²⁶ And make four gold rings and put them at the four angles, on the four feet of the table; ²⁷ The rings are to be fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table is to be lifted. ²⁸ Make rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for lifting the table. ²⁹ And make the table-vessels, the spoons and the cups and the basins for liquids, all of the best gold. ³⁰ And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread.

²³ With two boards for the angles of the House at the back. ²⁴ The two are to be joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, forming the two angles. ²⁵ So there are to be eight boards, with their sixteen silver bases, two bases under every board. ²⁶ And make rods of the same wood, five for the boards on the one side, ²⁷ And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the west side of the House at the back. ²⁸ And the middle rod is to go through the rings of all the boards from end to end. ²⁹ And the boards are to be plated with gold, having gold rings for the rods to go through: and the rods are to be plated with gold. ³⁰ And you are to make the House from the design which you saw on the mountain. ³¹ And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman: ³² Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases. ³³ And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put inside it the ark of the law: the veil is to be a division between the holy place and the most holy.

³³ And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put inside it the ark of the law: the veil is to be a division between the holy place and the most holy.

³⁵ And outside the veil you are to put the table, and the support for the lights opposite the table on the south side of the House; and the table is to be on the north side.

²¹ Let Aaron and his sons put this in order, evening and morning, before the Lord, inside the Tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the ark; this is to be an order for ever, from generation to generation, to be kept by the children of Israel.

¹² And the two stones are to be placed on the ephod, over the arm-holes, to be stones of memory for the children of Israel: Aaron will have their names on his arms when he goes in before the Lord, to keep the Lord in mind of them.

²⁹ And so Aaron will have the names of the children of Israel on the priest's bag over his heart whenever he goes into the holy place, to keep the memory of them before the Lord.

¹ This is what you are to do to make them holy, to do the work of priests to me: Take one young ox and two male sheep, without any mark on them,

⁴ And let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting, and there let them be washed with water.

¹² Then take some of the blood of the ox, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, draining out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

²⁰ You are to put the sheep to death, and take some of its blood and put it on the point of Aaron's right ear, and of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands and the great toes of their right feet, dropping the rest of the blood on the sides of the altar.

³⁵ All these things you are to do to Aaron and his sons as I have given you orders: for seven days the work of making them priests is to go on. ³⁶ Every day an ox is to be offered as a sin-offering, to take away sins: and by this offering on it, you will make the altar clean from sin; and you are to put oil on it and make it holy.

¹ And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made. ² The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high, and its horns are to be made of the same. ³ It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it. ⁴ Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take the rods for lifting it. ⁵ And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.

⁷ And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights. ⁸ And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever.

¹⁰ And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with the blood of the sin-offering he is to make it clean once every year from generation to generation: it is most holy to the Lord.

¹⁹ That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing their hands and feet; ²⁰ Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord, ²¹ Their hands and feet are to be washed. so that they may be safe from death: this is an order to them for ever; to him and his seed from generation to generation.

²⁹ Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two stones in his hand, he was not conscious that his face was shining because of his talk with God.

⁸ Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers. ⁹ Every curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure. ¹⁰ And five curtains were joined together, and the other five curtains were joined together. ¹¹ And they put twists of blue cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and in the same way on the outside curtain of the second group. ¹² Fifty twists on the one curtain and fifty on the edge of the curtain of the other group; the twists being opposite to one another. ¹³ And they made fifty hooks of gold, joining the curtains one to another with the hooks; and so the House was made. ¹⁴ And they made curtains of goats' hair for the tent; eleven curtains were made. ¹⁵ Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure. ¹⁶ Five curtains were joined together to make one group, and six curtains were joined together to make the other group. ¹⁷ And they put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and fifty twists on the edge of the outside curtain of the second group, ¹⁸ And fifty hooks of brass for joining them together to make the tent. ¹⁹ And they made a cover of sheepskins coloured red, to go over the tent, and a cover of leather over that. ²⁰ And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood. ²¹ The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide. ²² Every board had two tongues fixed into it; all the boards were made in this way. ²³ They made twenty boards for the south side of the House: ²⁴ And for these twenty boards, forty silver bases, two bases under every board, to take its tongues. ²⁵ And for the second side of the House, on the north, they made twenty boards, ²⁶ With their forty silver bases, two bases for every board. ²⁷ And for the west side of the House, at the back, they made six boards, ²⁸ And two boards for the angles at the back. ²⁹ These were joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, so forming the two angles. ³⁰ So there were eight boards with sixteen bases of silver, two bases under every board. ³¹ And they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards on one side of the House, ³² And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the boards at the back, on the west. ³³ The middle rod was made to go right through the rings of all the boards from one end to the other. ³⁴ All the boards were plated with gold, and the rings through which the rods went were of gold, and the rods were plated with gold. ³⁵ And he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with winged ones designed by expert workmen. ³⁶ And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases. ³⁷ And they made a curtain for the door of the tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red; ³⁸ And five pillars for the curtain, with their hooks; the heads of the pillars were of gold and they were circled with bands of gold; and their five bases were of brass.

¹ And Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high; ² Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and putting an edge of gold all round it. ³ And he made four gold rings for its four angles, two on one side and two on the other, ⁴ And rods of the same wood plated with gold. ⁵ These rods he put in the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it. ⁶ And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. ⁷ And he made two winged ones, hammered out of one bit of gold, for the two ends of the cover; ⁸ Placing one at one end and one at the other; the winged ones were part of the cover. ⁹ And their wings were stretched out over the cover; the faces of the winged ones were opposite one another and facing the cover. ¹⁰ And he made the table of hard wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high; ¹¹ Plating it with the best gold and putting a gold edge all round it. ¹² And he made a frame all round it about as wide as a man's hand, edged with gold all round. ¹³ And he made four gold rings, and put the rings at the angles of its four feet. ¹⁴ The rings were fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table was to be lifted. ¹⁵ The rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood plated with gold. ¹⁶ And all the table-vessels, the plates and spoons and basins and the cups for liquids, he made of the best gold. ¹⁷ Then he made the support for the lights, all of the best gold; its base and its pillar were of hammered gold; its cups and buds and flowers were all made out of the same metal: ¹⁸ It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three from the other; ¹⁹ Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower on all the branches; ²⁰ And on its pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower; ²¹ And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all six branches of it. ²² The buds and the branches were made of the same metal, all together one complete work of the best hammered gold. ²³ And he made the seven vessels for the lights, and all the necessary instruments for it, of gold. ²⁴ A talent of the best gold was used for the making of it and its vessels.

³² So all the work on the House of the Tent of meeting was done; as the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did it. ³³ Then they took the House to Moses, the tent with all the things for it; its hooks, its boards, its rods, its pillars, and its bases; ³⁴ The outer cover of sheepskins coloured red, and the cover of leather, and the veil for the doorway; ³⁵ The ark of the law, with its rods and its cover; ³⁶ The table, with all its vessels and the holy bread; ³⁷ The support for the lights, with the vessels for the lights to be put in their places on it, and all its vessels, and the oil for the lights; ³⁸ And the gold altar, and the holy oil, and the sweet perfume for burning, and the curtain for the doorway of the tent;

² On the first day of the first month you are to put up the House of the Tent of meeting. ³ And inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil before it. ⁴ And put the table inside, placing all the things on it in order; and put in the support for the lights, and let its lights be burning.

¹² Then let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting; and after washing them with water,

¹⁸ Moses put up the House; placing its bases in position and lifting up its uprights, putting in the rods and planting the pillars in their places; ¹⁹ Stretching the outer tent over it, and covering it, as the Lord had given him orders. ²⁰ And he took the law and put it inside the ark, and put the rods at its side and the cover over it;

²⁰ And he took the law and put it inside the ark, and put the rods at its side and the cover over it; ²¹ And he took the ark into the House, hanging up the veil before it as the Lord had given him orders.

²¹ And he took the ark into the House, hanging up the veil before it as the Lord had given him orders. ²² And he put the table in the Tent of meeting, on the north side outside the veil. ²³ And he put the bread on it in order before the Lord, as the Lord had said. ²⁴ The support for the lights he put in the Tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side:

² Give these orders to the children of Israel: When anyone of you makes an offering to the Lord, you are to take it from the cattle, from the herd or from the flock. ³ If the offering is a burned offering of the herd, let him give a male without a mark: he is to give it at the door of the Tent of meeting so that he may be pleasing to the Lord.

¹⁰ And if his offering is of the flock, a burned offering of sheep or goats, let him give a male without a mark.

⁶ And if what he gives for a peace-offering to the Lord is of the flock, let him give a male or female, without any mark on it.

²⁰ Let him do with the ox as he did with the ox of the sin-offering; and the priest will take away their sin and they will have forgiveness.

²⁶ And all the fat of it is to be burned on the altar like the fat of the peace-offering; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.

³⁵ And let him take away all its fat, as the fat is taken away from the lamb of the peace-offerings; and let it be burned by the priest on the altar among the offerings made by fire to the Lord: and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.

¹⁰ And the second is for a burned offering, in agreement with the law; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.

¹² And let him come to the priest with it, and the priest will take some of it in his hand, to be burned on the altar as a sign, among the offerings of the Lord made by fire: it is a sin-offering.

¹⁸ Let him come to the priest with a sheep, a male without any mark out of the flock, of the value fixed by you, as an offering for his error; and the priest will take away the sin which he did in error, and he will have forgiveness.

⁷ And the priest will take away his sin from before the Lord, and he will have forgiveness for whatever crime he has done

² Take Aaron, and his sons with him, and the robes and the holy oil and the ox of the sin-offering and the two male sheep and the basket of unleavened bread;

¹⁵ And he put it to death; and Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar and round it with his finger, and made the altar clean, draining out the blood at the base of the altar; so he made it holy, taking away what was unclean.

¹⁹ And he put it to death; and Moses put some of the blood on and round the altar.

⁸ So Aaron came near to the altar and put to death the ox for the sin-offering for himself; ⁹ And the sons of Aaron gave him the blood and he put his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar, draining out the blood at the base of the altar;

¹⁵ And he made an offering for the people and took the goat of the sin-offering for the people and put it to death, offering it for sin, in the same way as the first.

¹⁸ And he put to death the ox and the sheep, which were the peace-offerings for the people; and Aaron's sons gave him the blood and he put some of it on and round the altar;

¹⁷ Why did you not make a meal of the sin-offering in the holy place? For it is most holy and he has given it to you, so that the sin of the people may be put on it, to take away their sin before the Lord.

² Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth. ³ You may have as food any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot, and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again. ⁴ But, at the same time, of those beasts, you may not take for food the camel, because its food comes back but the horn of its foot is not parted in two; it is unclean to you. ⁵ And the rock-badger, for the same reason, is unclean to you. ⁶ And the hare, because the horn of its foot is not parted in two, is unclean to you. ⁷ And the pig is unclean to you, because though the horn of its foot is parted, its food does not come back. ⁸ Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you. ⁹ These you may have for food of all things living in the water: anything living in the water, in the seas or rivers, which has special parts for swimming and skin formed of thin plates, may be used for food. ¹⁰ All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you; ¹¹ They may not be used for food, and their dead bodies are disgusting to you. ¹² Anything in the water which has no special parts for swimming and no thin plates on its skin is disgusting to you. ¹³ And among birds these are to be disgusting to you, and not to be used for food: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray; ¹⁴ And the kite and the falcon, and birds of that sort; ¹⁵ Every raven, and birds of that sort; ¹⁶ And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort; ¹⁷ And the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl; ¹⁸ And the water-hen and the pelican and the vulture; ¹⁹ The stork and the heron, and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat. ²⁰ Every winged four-footed thing which goes on the earth is disgusting to you; ²¹ But of the winged four-footed things, those which have long legs for jumping on the earth you may have for food; ²² Such as all the different sorts of locust. ²³ But all other winged four-footed things which go on the earth are disgusting to you. ²⁴ By these you will be made unclean; anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean till evening: ²⁵ Whoever takes away the dead body of one of them is to have his clothing washed, and will be unclean till evening. ²⁶ Every beast, in the horn of whose foot there is not a complete division, and whose food does not come back, is unclean to you: anyone touching one of these will be unclean. ²⁷ Any four-footed beast which goes on the ball of its foot, is unclean to you: anyone touching the dead body of one of these will be unclean till evening. ²⁸ Anyone who takes away the dead body of one of these is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening. ²⁹ And these are unclean to you among things which go low down on the earth; the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard, and animals of that sort; ³⁰ And the ferret and the land crocodile and the lizard and the sand-lizard and the chameleon. ³¹ All these are unclean to you: anyone touching them when they are dead will be unclean till evening. ³² The dead body of any of these, falling on anything, will make that thing unclean; if it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or bag, whatever it is, if it is used for any purpose, it will have to be put into water, and will be unclean till evening; after that it will be clean. ³³ And if one of them gets into any vessel of earth, whatever is in the vessel will be unclean and the vessel will have to be broken. ³⁴ Any food in it, and anything on which water from it comes, will be unclean: any drink taken from such a vessel will be unclean. ³⁵ Any part of the dead body of one of these, falling on anything, will make it unclean; if it is an oven or a cooking-pot it will have to be broken: they are unclean and will be unclean to you. ³⁶ But at the same time a fountain or a place where water is stored for use will be clean; but anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean. ³⁷ If any part of the dead body of one of these gets on to any seed for planting, it is clean; ³⁸ But if water is put on the seed, and any part of the dead body gets on to it, it will be unclean to you. ³⁹ And if any beast which may be used for food comes to a natural death, anyone touching its dead body will be unclean till evening. ⁴⁰ And he who makes use of any part of its body for food is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening; and anyone taking away its body is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening. ⁴¹ Everything which goes flat on its body on the earth is disgusting, and is not to be used for food. ⁴² Whatever goes on its stomach or on four feet or has a great number of feet, even all those going flat on the earth, may not be used for food, for they are disgusting. ⁴³ You are not to make yourselves disgusting with anything which goes about flat on the earth; you may not make yourselves unclean with them, in such a way that you are not holy to me. ⁴⁴ For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth. ⁴⁵ For I am the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; so be you holy, for I am holy. ⁴⁶ This is the law about beasts and birds and every living thing moving in the waters, and every living thing which goes flat on the earth: ⁴⁷ Marking out the unclean from the clean, and the living thing which may be used for food from that which may not.

⁴ Then the priest is to give orders to take, for him who is to be made clean, two living clean birds and some cedar wood and red thread and hyssop. ⁵ And the priest will give orders for one of the birds to be put to death in a vessel made of earth, over flowing water. ⁶ And he will take the living bird and the wood and the red thread and the hyssop and put them in the blood of the bird which was put to death over flowing water.

⁶ And he will take the living bird and the wood and the red thread and the hyssop and put them in the blood of the bird which was put to death over flowing water. ⁷ And shaking it seven times over the man who is to be made clean, he will say that he is clean and will let the living bird go free into the open country. ⁸ And he who is to be made clean will have his clothing washed and his hair cut and have a bath, and he will be clean. And after that he will come back to the tent-circle; but he is to keep outside his tent for seven days. ⁹ And on the seventh day he is to have all the hair cut off his head and his chin and over his eyes--all his hair is to be cut off--and he will have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and he will be clean.

¹⁴ And let the priest take some of the blood of the offering for wrongdoing and put it on the point of the right ear of him who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot;

²⁵ And he will put to death the lamb of the offering for wrongdoing and the priest will take some of the blood of the offering for wrongdoing and put it on the point of the right ear of him who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot;

⁴⁹ And in order to make the house clean, let him take two birds and cedar-wood and red thread and hyssop; ⁵⁰ And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water; ⁵¹ And take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread and the living bird and put them in the blood of the dead bird and in the flowing water, shaking it over the house seven times. ⁵² And he will make the house clean with the blood of the bird and the flowing water and with the living bird and with the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread.

² The Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, your brother, that he may not come at all times into the holy place inside the veil, before the cover which is on the ark, for fear that death may overtake him; for I will be seen in the cloud on the cover of the ark.

² The Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, your brother, that he may not come at all times into the holy place inside the veil, before the cover which is on the ark, for fear that death may overtake him; for I will be seen in the cloud on the cover of the ark.

² The Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, your brother, that he may not come at all times into the holy place inside the veil, before the cover which is on the ark, for fear that death may overtake him; for I will be seen in the cloud on the cover of the ark. ³ Let Aaron come into the holy place in this way: with an ox for a sin-offering and a male sheep for a burned offering.

³ Let Aaron come into the holy place in this way: with an ox for a sin-offering and a male sheep for a burned offering. ⁴ Let him put on the holy linen coat, and the linen trousers on his body, and the linen band round him, and the linen head-dress on his head; for this is holy clothing, and before he puts them on his body is to be washed with water.

⁴ Let him put on the holy linen coat, and the linen trousers on his body, and the linen band round him, and the linen head-dress on his head; for this is holy clothing, and before he puts them on his body is to be washed with water.

⁴ Let him put on the holy linen coat, and the linen trousers on his body, and the linen band round him, and the linen head-dress on his head; for this is holy clothing, and before he puts them on his body is to be washed with water. ⁵ And let him take from the children of Israel two he-goats for a sin-offering and one male sheep for a burned offering.

⁵ And let him take from the children of Israel two he-goats for a sin-offering and one male sheep for a burned offering.

⁵ And let him take from the children of Israel two he-goats for a sin-offering and one male sheep for a burned offering. ⁶ And Aaron is to give the ox of the sin-offering for himself, to make himself and his house free from sin.

⁶ And Aaron is to give the ox of the sin-offering for himself, to make himself and his house free from sin.

⁶ And Aaron is to give the ox of the sin-offering for himself, to make himself and his house free from sin. ⁷ And he is to take the two goats and put them before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting.

⁷ And he is to take the two goats and put them before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting.

⁷ And he is to take the two goats and put them before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting. ⁸ And Aaron will make selection from the two goats by the decision of the Lord, one goat for the Lord and one for Azazel.

⁸ And Aaron will make selection from the two goats by the decision of the Lord, one goat for the Lord and one for Azazel.

⁸ And Aaron will make selection from the two goats by the decision of the Lord, one goat for the Lord and one for Azazel. ⁹ And the goat which is marked out for the Lord, let Aaron give for a sin-offering.

⁹ And the goat which is marked out for the Lord, let Aaron give for a sin-offering.

⁹ And the goat which is marked out for the Lord, let Aaron give for a sin-offering. ¹⁰ But the goat for Azazel is to be placed living before the Lord, for the taking away of sin, that it may be sent away for Azazel into the waste land.

¹⁰ But the goat for Azazel is to be placed living before the Lord, for the taking away of sin, that it may be sent away for Azazel into the waste land.

¹⁰ But the goat for Azazel is to be placed living before the Lord, for the taking away of sin, that it may be sent away for Azazel into the waste land. ¹¹ And Aaron is to give the ox of the sin-offering for himself and take away sin from himself and his house, and put to death the ox of the sin-offering which is for himself.

¹¹ And Aaron is to give the ox of the sin-offering for himself and take away sin from himself and his house, and put to death the ox of the sin-offering which is for himself. ¹² And he is to take a vessel full of burning coal from the altar before the Lord and in his hand some sweet perfume crushed small, and take it inside the veil;

¹² And he is to take a vessel full of burning coal from the altar before the Lord and in his hand some sweet perfume crushed small, and take it inside the veil;

¹² And he is to take a vessel full of burning coal from the altar before the Lord and in his hand some sweet perfume crushed small, and take it inside the veil; ¹³ And let him put the perfume on the fire before the Lord so that the ark may be covered with a cloud of the smoke of the perfume, in order that death may not overtake him.

¹³ And let him put the perfume on the fire before the Lord so that the ark may be covered with a cloud of the smoke of the perfume, in order that death may not overtake him.

¹³ And let him put the perfume on the fire before the Lord so that the ark may be covered with a cloud of the smoke of the perfume, in order that death may not overtake him. ¹⁴ And let him take some of the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it from his finger on the cover of the ark on the east side, and before it, seven times.

¹⁴ And let him take some of the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it from his finger on the cover of the ark on the east side, and before it, seven times.

¹⁴ And let him take some of the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it from his finger on the cover of the ark on the east side, and before it, seven times.

¹⁴ And let him take some of the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it from his finger on the cover of the ark on the east side, and before it, seven times.

¹⁴ And let him take some of the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it from his finger on the cover of the ark on the east side, and before it, seven times. ¹⁵ Then let him put to death the goat of the sin-offering for the people, and take its blood inside the veil and do with it as he did with the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it on and before the cover of the ark.

¹⁵ Then let him put to death the goat of the sin-offering for the people, and take its blood inside the veil and do with it as he did with the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it on and before the cover of the ark.

¹⁵ Then let him put to death the goat of the sin-offering for the people, and take its blood inside the veil and do with it as he did with the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it on and before the cover of the ark.

¹⁵ Then let him put to death the goat of the sin-offering for the people, and take its blood inside the veil and do with it as he did with the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it on and before the cover of the ark.

¹⁵ Then let him put to death the goat of the sin-offering for the people, and take its blood inside the veil and do with it as he did with the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it on and before the cover of the ark. ¹⁶ And let him make the holy place free from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel and from their wrongdoing in all their sins; and let him do the same for the Tent of meeting, which has its place among an unclean people.

¹⁶ And let him make the holy place free from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel and from their wrongdoing in all their sins; and let him do the same for the Tent of meeting, which has its place among an unclean people.

¹⁶ And let him make the holy place free from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel and from their wrongdoing in all their sins; and let him do the same for the Tent of meeting, which has its place among an unclean people.

¹⁶ And let him make the holy place free from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel and from their wrongdoing in all their sins; and let him do the same for the Tent of meeting, which has its place among an unclean people.

¹⁶ And let him make the holy place free from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel and from their wrongdoing in all their sins; and let him do the same for the Tent of meeting, which has its place among an unclean people. ¹⁷ And no man may be in the Tent of meeting from the time when Aaron goes in to take away sin in the holy place till he comes out, having made himself and his house and all the people of Israel free from sin.

¹⁷ And no man may be in the Tent of meeting from the time when Aaron goes in to take away sin in the holy place till he comes out, having made himself and his house and all the people of Israel free from sin.

¹⁷ And no man may be in the Tent of meeting from the time when Aaron goes in to take away sin in the holy place till he comes out, having made himself and his house and all the people of Israel free from sin.

¹⁷ And no man may be in the Tent of meeting from the time when Aaron goes in to take away sin in the holy place till he comes out, having made himself and his house and all the people of Israel free from sin. ¹⁸ And he is to go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make it free from sin; and he is to take some of the blood of the ox and the blood of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar and round it;

¹⁸ And he is to go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make it free from sin; and he is to take some of the blood of the ox and the blood of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar and round it;

¹⁸ And he is to go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make it free from sin; and he is to take some of the blood of the ox and the blood of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar and round it;

¹⁸ And he is to go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make it free from sin; and he is to take some of the blood of the ox and the blood of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar and round it; ¹⁹ Shaking drops of the blood from his finger on it seven times to make it holy and clean from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel.

¹⁹ Shaking drops of the blood from his finger on it seven times to make it holy and clean from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel.

¹⁹ Shaking drops of the blood from his finger on it seven times to make it holy and clean from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel. ²⁰ And when he has done whatever is necessary to make the holy place and the Tent of meeting and the altar free from sin, let him put the living goat before the Lord;

²⁰ And when he has done whatever is necessary to make the holy place and the Tent of meeting and the altar free from sin, let him put the living goat before the Lord; ²¹ And Aaron, placing his two hands on the head of the living goat, will make a public statement over him of all the evil doings of the children of Israel and all their wrongdoing, in all their sins; and he will put them on the head of the goat and send him away, in the care of a man who will be waiting there, into the waste land.

²¹ And Aaron, placing his two hands on the head of the living goat, will make a public statement over him of all the evil doings of the children of Israel and all their wrongdoing, in all their sins; and he will put them on the head of the goat and send him away, in the care of a man who will be waiting there, into the waste land. ²² And the goat will take all their sins into a land cut off from men, and he will send the goat away into the waste land.

²² And the goat will take all their sins into a land cut off from men, and he will send the goat away into the waste land. ²³ Then let Aaron come into the Tent of meeting and take off the linen clothing which he put on when he went into the holy place, and put them down there; ²⁴ And after bathing his body in water in a holy place, he is to put on his clothing and come out and give his burned offering and the burned offering of the people, to take away his sin and the sin of the people.

²⁴ And after bathing his body in water in a holy place, he is to put on his clothing and come out and give his burned offering and the burned offering of the people, to take away his sin and the sin of the people. ²⁵ And the fat of the sin-offering is to be burned by him on the altar. ²⁶ And the man who takes away the goat for Azazel is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and then he may come back to the tent-circle. ²⁷ And the ox of the sin-offering and the goat of the sin-offering, whose blood was taken in to make the holy place free from sin, are to be taken away outside the tent-circle and their skins and their flesh and their waste are to be burned with fire. ²⁸ And the man by whom they are burned is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water, and then he may come back to the tent-circle. ²⁹ And let this be an order to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day, you are to keep yourselves from pleasure and do no sort of work, those who are Israelites by birth and those from other lands who are living among you: ³⁰ For on this day your sin will be taken away and you will be clean: you will be made free from all your sins before the Lord. ³¹ It is a special Sabbath for you, and you are to keep yourselves from pleasure; it is an order for ever. ³² And the man on whose head the holy oil has been put, and who has been marked out to be a priest in his father's place, will do what is necessary to take away sin, and will put on the linen clothing, even the holy robes: ³³ And he will make the holy place and the Tent of meeting and the altar free from sin; he will take away sin from the priests and from all the people. ³⁴ And let this be an order for ever for you, so that the sin of the children of Israel may be taken away once every year. And he did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

³⁴ And let this be an order for ever for you, so that the sin of the children of Israel may be taken away once every year. And he did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

¹¹ For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it.

¹⁵ And anyone who takes as food anything which has come to a natural end, or anything which has been put to death by beasts, if he is one of you by birth, or of another nation, will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening, and then he will be clean. ¹⁶ But if his clothing is not washed and his body bathed, his sin will be on him.

³ You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules. ⁴ But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.

³⁰ So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

⁶ Any person touching any such unclean thing will be unclean till evening, and may not take of the holy food till his flesh has been bathed in water;

⁹ So then, let them keep what I have put into their care, for fear that sin may come on them because of it, so causing their death because they have made it common: I am the Lord, who make them holy.

²⁰ But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord.

⁵ And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake. ⁶ And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord. ⁷ And on the lines of cakes put clean sweet-smelling spices, for a sign on the bread, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ⁸ Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever.

⁸⁹ And when Moses went into the Tent of meeting to have talk with him, then the Voice came to his ears from over the cover which was on the ark of witness, from between the two winged ones. And he had talk with him.

⁷ And this is how you are to make them clean: let the holy water which takes away sin be put on them, and let the hair all over their bodies be cut off with a sharp blade, and let their clothing be washed and their bodies made clean.

¹² Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the Passover.

⁵ And the rod of that man who is marked out by me for myself will have buds on it; so I will put a stop to the outcries which the children of Israel make to me against you.

⁸ Now on the day after, Moses went into the Tent of witness; and he saw that Aaron's rod, the rod of the house of Levi, had put out buds, and was covered with buds and flowers and fruit.

¹⁰ And the Lord said to Moses, Put Aaron's rod back in front of the ark of witness, to be kept for a sign against this false-hearted people, so that you may put a stop to their outcries against me, and death may not overtake them.

¹ And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's family are to be responsible for all wrongdoing in relation to the holy place: and you and your sons are to be responsible for the errors which come about in your work as priests.

²³ But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

² This is the rule of the law which the Lord has made, saying, Give orders to the children of Israel to give you a red cow without any mark on her, and on which the yoke has never been put: ³ Give her to Eleazar the priest and let him take her outside the tent-circle and have her put to death before him. ⁴ Then let Eleazar the priest take some of her blood on his finger, shaking the blood seven times in the direction of the front of the Tent of meeting: ⁵ And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and her flesh and her blood and her waste are to be burned: ⁶ Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning.

⁶ Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning. ⁷ And the priest, after washing his clothing and bathing his body in water, may come back to the tent-circle, and will be unclean till evening. ⁸ And he who does the burning is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. ⁹ Then let a man who is clean take the dust of the burned cow and put it outside the tent-circle in a clean place, where it is to be kept for the children of Israel and used in making the water which takes away what is unclean: it is a sin-offering. ¹⁰ And he who takes up the dust of the burned cow is to have his clothing washed with water and be unclean till evening: this is to be a law for ever, for the children of Israel as well as for the man from another country who is living among them. ¹¹ Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days: ¹² On the third day and on the seventh day he is to make himself clean with the water, and so he will be clean: but if he does not do this on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean. ¹³ Anyone touching the body of a dead man without making himself clean in this way, makes the House of the Lord unclean; and that man will be cut off from Israel: because the water was not put on him, he will be unclean; his unclean condition is unchanged. ¹⁴ This is the law when death comes to a man in his tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, will be unclean for seven days. ¹⁵ And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean. ¹⁶ And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days. ¹⁷ And for the unclean, they are to take the dust of the burning of the sin-offering, and put flowing water on it in a vessel: ¹⁸ And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the resting-place was touched.

¹⁸ And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the resting-place was touched. ¹⁹ Let the clean person do this to the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he is to make him clean; and after washing his clothing and bathing himself in water, he will be clean in the evening. ²⁰ But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean. ²¹ This is to be a law for them for ever: he who puts the water on the unclean person is to have his clothing washed; and anyone touching the water will be unclean till evening.

³ Say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you are to give to the Lord; he-lambs of the first year without any mark, two every day as a regular burned offering.

⁹ And on the Sabbath day, two he-lambs of the first year, without any mark, and two tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering:

¹¹ And on the first day of every month you are to give a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark;

²⁶ For what man is there in all the earth, who, hearing the voice of the living God as we have, out of the heart of the fire, has been kept from death?

² And I will put on the stones the words which were on the first stones which were broken by you, and you are to put them into the ark. ³ So I made an ark of hard wood, and had two stones cut like the others, and went up the mountain with the stones in my hands. ⁴ And he put on the stones, as in the first writing, the ten rules which the Lord gave you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the great meeting: and the Lord gave the stones to me. ⁵ And turning round I came down from the mountain and put the stones in the ark which I had made; and there they are as the Lord gave me orders.

³ No disgusting thing may be your food. ⁴ These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat; ⁵ The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep. ⁶ Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food. ⁷ But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two. ⁸ And the pig is unclean to you, because though it has a division in the horn of its foot, its food does not come back; their flesh may not be used for food or their dead bodies touched by you. ⁹ And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates. ¹⁰ But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you. ¹¹ All clean birds may be used for food. ¹² But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray; ¹³ The falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort; ¹⁴ Every raven, and all birds of that sort; ¹⁵ And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort; ¹⁶ The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen; ¹⁷ And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant; ¹⁸ The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat. ¹⁹ Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food. ²⁰ But all clean birds you may take. ²¹ You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

²¹ But if it has any mark on it, if it is blind or has damaged legs, or if there is anything wrong with it, it may not be offered to the Lord your God.

¹ No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

⁶ And all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man, washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley,

¹¹ But when evening comes near, let him take a bath: and after sundown he may come back to the tents.

¹² With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his oath which he makes with you today:

²⁷ For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?

²⁷ The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let destruction overtake them.

⁶ And they came to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country: so now make an agreement with us.

⁴ So the people sent to Shiloh and got the ark of the agreement of the Lord of armies whose resting-place is between the winged ones; and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were there with the ark of God's agreement.

²⁶ And David said to the men near him, What will be done to the man who overcomes this Philistine and takes away the shame from Israel? for who is this Philistine, a man without circumcision, that he has put shame on the armies of the living God?

¹¹ How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?

⁷ And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God.

¹³ And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.

¹⁴ For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.

¹⁰ And after the people had been numbered, David's heart was troubled. And David said to the Lord, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, O Lord, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly

⁵⁰ And the cups and the scissors and the basins and the spoons and the fire-trays, all of gold; and the pins on which the doors were turned, the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and the doors of the Temple, all of gold.

⁶ And the priests took the ark of the agreement of the Lord and put it in its place in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones.

⁶ And the priests took the ark of the agreement of the Lord and put it in its place in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones. ⁷ For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.

⁹ There was nothing in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.

²¹ In it I have made a place for the ark, in which is the agreement which the Lord made with our fathers, when he took them out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁵ And Hezekiah made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. ¹⁶ Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord, and let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see; take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.

¹¹ Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;

¹⁴ And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones.

¹⁰ Nothing was in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.

¹⁶ But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes. ¹⁷ And Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty of the Lord's priests, who were strong men; ¹⁸ And they made protests to Uzziah the king, and said to him, The burning of perfumes, Uzziah, is not your business but that of the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been made holy for this work: go out of the holy place, for you have done wrong, and it will not be to your honour before God. ¹⁹ Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes.

¹⁹ And all the vessels which were turned out by King Ahaz in his sin while he was king, we have put in order and made holy, and now they are in their places before the altar of the Lord. ²⁰ Then Hezekiah the king got up early, and got together the great men of the town, and went up to the house of the Lord. ²¹ And they took with them seven oxen and seven male sheep and seven lambs and seven he-goats as a sin-offering for the kingdom and for the holy house and for Judah. And he gave orders to the sons of Aaron, the priests, that these were to be offered on the altar of the Lord. ²² So they put the oxen to death and their blood was given to the priests to be drained out against the altar; then they put the male sheep to death, draining out their blood against the altar, and they put the lambs to death, draining out their blood against the altar.

¹⁹ Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

⁹ And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.

²¹ And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

⁵ If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

¹⁶ How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

²⁵ But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

²³ For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

¹² Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.

¹⁸ The days of the upright are numbered by the Lord, and their heritage will be for ever.

⁶ You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request. ⁷ Then I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book,

⁷ Then I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book,

⁷ Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

¹⁶ You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings. ¹⁷ The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you. ¹⁸ Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem. ¹⁹ Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.

¹⁸ You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.

¹ To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm. Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

⁴⁸ What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? Selah.

¹⁰ For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

¹ The Lord is King; let the peoples be in fear: his seat is on the winged ones; let the earth be moved.

² The Lord will send out the rod of your strength from Zion; be king over your haters. ³ Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.

²⁰ All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

⁵ The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

¹⁰ Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

⁹ Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

⁷ And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

¹⁴ God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.

² And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.

¹² As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

¹⁶ For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.

⁷ And in this mountain he will put an end to the shade covering the face of all peoples, and the veil which is stretched over all nations.

⁹ And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.

⁷ And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

¹⁴ For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.

¹ See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.

¹⁵ So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.

⁴ But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come. ⁵ But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well. ⁶ We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.

⁹ And they put his body into the earth with sinners, and his last resting-place was with the evil-doers, though he had done no wrong, and no deceit was in his mouth. ¹⁰ And the Lord was pleased (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) see a seed, long life, (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) will do well in his hand (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) . ¹¹ (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) made clear his righteousness before men (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) had taken their sins on himself. ¹² For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.

¹⁵ For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

²⁰ And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord.

¹ The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;

¹¹ Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,

¹⁰ But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.

¹⁴ Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.

²⁵ And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

¹¹ And they will be shamed by what they have done; so give them the knowledge of the form of the house and its structure, and the ways out of it and into it, and all its laws and its rules, writing it down for them: so that they may keep all its laws and do them.

¹⁸ And he said to me, Son of man, the Lord God has said, These are the rules for the altar, when they make it, for the offering of burned offerings on it and the draining out of the blood. ¹⁹ You are to give to the priests, the Levites of the seed of Zadok, who come near to me, says the Lord God, to do my work, a young ox for a sin-offering. ²⁰ You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns and on the four angles of the shelf and on the edge all round: and you are to make it clean and free from sin. ²¹ And you are to take the ox of the sin-offering, and have it burned in the special place ordered for it in the house, outside the holy place. ²² And on the second day you are to have a he-goat without any mark on it offered for a sin-offering; and they are to make the altar clean as they did with the young ox. ²³ And after you have made it clean, let a young ox without a mark be offered, and a male sheep from the flock without a mark. ²⁴ And you are to take them before the Lord, and the priests will put salt on them, offering them up for a burned offering to the Lord. ²⁵ Every day for seven days you are to give a goat for a sin-offering: and let them give in addition a young ox and a male sheep from the flock without any mark on them. ²⁶ For seven days they are to make offerings to take away sin from the altar and to make it clean; so they are to make it holy.

²⁶ It is my order that in all the kingdom of which I am ruler, men are to be shaking with fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, unchanging for ever, and his kingdom is one which will never come to destruction, his rule will go on to the end.

¹¹ It made itself great, even as great as the lord of the army; and by it the regular burned offering was taken away, and the place overturned and the holy place made waste.

²⁴ Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.

²⁴ Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place. ²⁵ Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork. ²⁶ And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no (UNTRANSLATED TEXT);and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.

²⁶ And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no (UNTRANSLATED TEXT);and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.

¹⁴ Now I have come to give you knowledge of the fate of your people in the later days; for there is still a vision for the days.

¹² My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.

¹⁴ And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:

¹ But in the last days it will come about that the mountain of the Lord's house will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and peoples will be flowing to it.

¹ And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against him.

⁹ For see, the stone which I have put before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: see, the design cut on it will be my work, says the Lord of armies, and I will take away the sin of that land in one day.

¹¹ And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.

⁵ And the valley will be stopped (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) and you will go in flight as you went in flight from the earth-shock in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him.

¹ See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.

⁶ You Beth-lehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the chiefs of Judah: out of you will come a ruler, who will be the keeper of my people Israel.

¹¹ If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?

³ To say to him, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?

²⁸ But if I by the Spirit of God send out evil spirits, then is the kingdom of God come on you.

²⁹ And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

²⁸ Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.

³¹ But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he be seated in his glory: ³² And before him all the nations will come together; and they will be parted one from another, as the sheep are parted from the goats by the keeper. ³³ And he will put the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. ³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was:

³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was: ³⁵ For I was in need of food, and you gave it to me: I was in need of drink, and you gave it to me: I was wandering, and you took me in; ³⁶ I had no clothing, and you gave it to me: when I was ill, or in prison, you came to me.

³⁶ I had no clothing, and you gave it to me: when I was ill, or in prison, you came to me. ³⁷ Then will the upright make answer to him, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food, and give it to you? or in need of drink, and give it to you? ³⁸ And when did we see you wandering, and take you in? or without clothing, and give it to you? ³⁹ And when did we see you ill, or in prison, and come to you? ⁴⁰ And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me. ⁴¹ Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels: ⁴² For I was in need of food, and you gave it not to me; I was in need of drink, and you gave it not to me: ⁴³ I was wandering, and you took me not in; without clothing, and you gave me no clothing; ill, and in prison, and you came not to me. ⁴⁴ Then will they make answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food or drink, or wandering, or without clothing, or ill, or in prison, and did not take care of you? ⁴⁵ Then will he make answer to them, saying, Truly I say to you, Because you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me. ⁴⁶ And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.

²⁸ Take of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the testament, which is given for men for the forgiveness of sins.

²⁸ And they took off his clothing, and put on him a red robe.

⁵¹ And the curtain of the Temple was parted in two from end to end; and there was an earth-shock; and the rocks were broken;

²⁹ But whoever says evil things against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but the evil he has done will be with him for ever:

⁴ And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.

¹⁷ And while he was going out into the way, a man came running to him, and went down on his knees, saying, Good Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?

⁵⁸ He said in our hearing, I will put an end to this Temple which is made with hands, and in three days I will make another without hands.

¹⁷ And they put a purple robe on him, and twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on him;

²⁰ And when they had made sport of him, they took the purple robe off him and put his clothing on him. And they took him out to put him to death on the cross.

¹⁹ So then the Lord Jesus, after he had said these words to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God.

⁶ They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.

⁸ Now it came about that in his turn he was acting as priest before God, ⁹ And as was the way of the priests, he had to go into the Temple to see to the burning of perfumes. ¹⁰ And all the people were offering prayers outside, at the time of the burning of perfumes. ¹¹ And he saw an angel of the Lord in his place on the right side of the altar.

⁷⁴ That we, being made free from the fear of those who are against us, might give him worship,

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,

²⁴ Give thought to the ravens; they do not put seeds into the earth, or get together grain; they have no store-houses or buildings; and God gives them their food: of how much greater value are you than the birds!

²⁸ But if God gives such clothing to the grass in the field, which today is living, and tomorrow will be burned in the oven, how much more will he give clothing to you, O men of little faith?

¹⁸ And a certain ruler put a question to him, saying, Good Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?

²⁶ Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory?

⁴⁶ And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;

⁵¹ And while he was doing so, he went from them and was taken up into heaven.

¹⁴ And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.

²⁹ The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

¹⁹ And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days. ²⁰ The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days! ²¹ But his words were about that holy building which was his body.

³⁴ For he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit by measure.

²⁵ The woman said to him, I am certain that the Messiah, who is named Christ, is coming; when he comes he will make all things clear to us.

²⁶ For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he has given him authority to be judge because he is the Son of man. ²⁸ Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead, ²⁹ And they will come out; those who have done good, into the new life; and those who have done evil, to be judged.

⁶² What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before?

⁷ So Jesus said again, Truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

⁹ I am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will go in and go out, and will get food.

²⁸ And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand.

³ And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.

⁶ Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.

²⁷ May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.

²⁸ I came out from the Father and have come into the world: again, I go away from the world and go to the Father.

²⁴ Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

² And the men of the army made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a purple robe on him.

⁵ Then Jesus came out with the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, Here is the man!

² Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection:

⁹ And when he had said these things, while they were looking, he was taken up, and went from their view into a cloud. ¹⁰ And while they were looking up to heaven with great attention, two men came to them, in white clothing, ¹¹ And said, O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.

¹¹ And said, O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.

²¹ Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times.

⁴⁸ But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,

⁵¹ You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. ⁵² Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

¹³ And a voice came to him, saying, Come, Peter; take them for food. ¹⁴ But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean. ¹⁵ And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

³⁸ About Jesus of Nazareth, how God gave the Holy Spirit to him, with power: and how he went about doing good and making well all who were troubled by evil spirits, for God was with him.

¹⁵ Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

⁹ Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.

²⁴ The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands; ²⁵ And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;

³¹ Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.

²⁸ Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.

²⁵ And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the Holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,

⁴ But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord,

²⁰ For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

⁵ But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

²⁴ And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus: ²⁵ Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment; ²⁶ And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.

⁶ For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.

⁸ But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

¹⁰ For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;

¹² For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:

¹⁴ But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come. ¹⁵ But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.

¹⁰ For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.

¹³ And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

²² But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life. ²³ For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

³ For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:

²³ And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.

²⁸ And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.

³⁰ And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory.

³³ Who will say anything against the saints of God? It is God who makes us clear from evil;

²⁴ Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?

¹² Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?

²⁴ For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?

⁹ And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living. ¹⁰ But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge. ¹¹ For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God. ¹² So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.

⁷ So that having every grace you are living in the hope of the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁵ For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.

¹¹ Now these things were done as an example; and were put down in writing for our teaching, on whom the last days have come.

⁵⁴ But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.

⁶ Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.

¹ For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

¹⁰ For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.

²¹ For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

¹⁶ And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

¹⁹ For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

⁸ And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.

¹³ Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree: ¹⁴ So that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; in order that we through faith might have the Spirit which God had undertaken to give. ¹⁵ Brothers, as men would say, even a man's agreement, when it has been made certain, may not be put on one side, or have additions made to it.

²¹ Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

¹ But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;

³ So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world; ⁴ But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

⁹ But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

⁷ In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

¹⁰ The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say,

²⁰ By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven, ²¹ Far over all rule and authority and power and every name which is named, not only in the present order, but in that which is to come: ²² And he has put all things under his feet, and has made him to be head over all things to the church,

⁵ Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ by grace you have salvation,

¹⁵ Having in his flesh put an end to that which made the division between us, even the law with its rules and orders, so that he might make in himself, of the two, one new man, so making peace;

¹⁸ Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁰ So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,

⁸ For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men. ⁹ {\I Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete.} ¹¹ And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;

² And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

²⁰ For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ: ²¹ By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.

¹⁴ In whom we have our salvation, the forgiveness of sins:

⁸ Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

¹¹ In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

¹⁶ For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths: ¹⁷ For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

²⁰ If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders ²¹ Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands, ²² Rules which are all to come to an end with their use after the orders and teaching of men?

² Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth.

⁹ For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God, ¹⁰ Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come.

¹⁴ For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power. ¹⁵ For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping. ¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first; ¹⁷ Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord.

⁵ Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain; ⁶ For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you, ⁷ And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire, ⁸ To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus: ⁹ Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength, ¹⁰ At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith because our witness among you had effect in that day.

¹ Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers,

¹⁴ And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ Now to the King eternal, ever-living, unseen, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. So be it.

⁵ For there is one God and one peacemaker between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

¹⁵ But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.

¹⁰ But I undergo all things for the saints, so that they may have salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

¹ I give you orders, before God and Christ Jesus, who will be the judge of the living and the dead, and by his revelation and his kingdom;

⁸ From now on, the crown of righteousness is made ready for me, which the Lord, the upright judge, Will give to me at that day: and not only to me, but to all those who have had love for his revelation.

² In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;

¹³ Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ; ¹⁴ Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

⁷ So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.

² But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations; ³ Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;

⁵ For he did not make the angels rulers over the world to come, of which I am writing.

¹⁴ And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;

¹⁷ Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.

¹ For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;

⁷ And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

³ For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.

¹⁵ For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin.

¹⁵ For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin. ¹⁶ Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

¹⁶ Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

¹ Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins. ² He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble; ³ And being feeble, he has to make sin-offerings for himself as well as for the people.

⁵ In the same way Christ did not take for himself the glory of being made a high priest, but was given it by him who said, You are my Son, this day I have given you being: ⁶ As he says in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

⁹ And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;

¹ For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God, ² The teaching of baptisms, and of the putting on of hands, and of the future life of the dead, and of the judging on the last day.

⁵ With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time,

¹³ For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,

¹⁹ And this hope is like a strong band for our souls, fixed and certain, and going in to that which is inside the veil; ²⁰ Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

¹ For this Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who gave Abraham his blessing, meeting him when he came back after putting the kings to death,

¹¹ Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi for the law was given to the people in connection with them, what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?

¹¹ Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi for the law was given to the people in connection with them, what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron? ¹² Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law. ¹³ For he of whom these things are said comes of another tribe, of which no man has ever made offerings at the altar. ¹⁴ Because it is clear that our Lord comes out of Judah, and Moses said nothing about priests from that tribe. ¹⁵ And this is even more clear if a second priest has come up who is like Melchizedek, ¹⁶ That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:

¹⁶ That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end: ¹⁷ For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. ¹⁸ So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.

¹⁸ So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit. ¹⁹ Because the law made nothing complete, and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.

¹⁹ Because the law made nothing complete, and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God. ²⁰ And as this is not without the taking of an oath ²¹ For those were made priests without an oath, but this one was made a priest with an oath by him who says of him, The Lord gave his oath, which he will not take back, that you are a priest for ever; ²² By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.

²² By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus. ²³ And it is true that there have been a great number of those priests, because death does not let them go on for ever; ²⁴ But this priest, because his life goes on for ever, is unchanging. ²⁵ So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.

²⁵ So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them. ²⁶ It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

²⁶ It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens: ²⁷ Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself.

²⁷ Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself.

¹ Now of the things we are saying this is the chief point: We have such a high priest, who has taken his place at the right hand of God's high seat of glory in heaven, ² As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.

² As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.

⁵ Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain. ⁶ But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things. ⁷ For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

⁷ For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

⁷ For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second. ⁸ For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah;

⁸ For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah; ⁹ Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord.

¹³ When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.

¹³ When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.

¹ Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order.

¹ Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order. ² For the first Tent was made ready, having in it the vessels for the lights and the table and the ordering of the bread; and this is named the holy place. ³ And inside the second veil was the place which is named the Holy of holies;

³ And inside the second veil was the place which is named the Holy of holies; ⁴ Having a vessel of gold in it for burning perfumes, and the ark of the agreement, which was covered with gold and which had in it a pot made of gold for the manna, and Aaron's rod which put out buds, and the stones with the writing of the agreement; ⁵ And over it were the winged ones of glory with their wings covering the mercy-seat; about which it is not possible now to say anything in detail. ⁶ Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first Tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings. ⁷ But only the high priest went into the second, once a year, not without making an offering of blood for himself and for the errors of the people:

⁷ But only the high priest went into the second, once a year, not without making an offering of blood for himself and for the errors of the people: ⁸ The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being;

⁸ The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being; ⁹ And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,

⁹ And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,

⁹ And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean, ¹⁰ Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

¹⁰ Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right. ¹¹ But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,

¹¹ But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world, ¹² And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.

¹² And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean:

¹³ For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean: ¹⁴ How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?

¹⁴ How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God? ¹⁵ And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage. ¹⁶ Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it.

²² And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness. ²³ For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.

²³ For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these. ²⁴ For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.

²⁴ For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.

²⁴ For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.

²⁴ For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us. ²⁵ And he did not have to make an offering of himself again and again, as the high priest goes into the holy place every year with blood which is not his;

²⁵ And he did not have to make an offering of himself again and again, as the high priest goes into the holy place every year with blood which is not his;

²⁵ And he did not have to make an offering of himself again and again, as the high priest goes into the holy place every year with blood which is not his; ²⁶ For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

²⁶ For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

²⁸ So Christ, having at his first coming taken on himself the sins of men, will be seen a second time, without sin, by those who are waiting for him, for their salvation.

¹ For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

¹ For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean. ² For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?

² For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins? ³ But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings.

³ But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings. ⁴ Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

⁴ Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

⁹ Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place. ¹⁰ By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.

¹⁰ By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.

¹⁰ By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever. ¹¹ And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins.

¹¹ And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins.

¹¹ And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins. ¹² But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;

¹² But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;

¹² But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God; ¹³ And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet.

¹³ And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet. ¹⁴ Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.

¹⁴ Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy. ¹⁵ And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,

¹⁵ And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said, ¹⁶ This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said, ¹⁷ And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings.

¹⁹ So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus,

¹⁹ So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus,

¹⁹ So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ By the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

²⁰ By the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; ²¹ And having a great priest over the house of God, ²² Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

²² Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

²⁶ For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,

³⁶ For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

¹³ All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

¹⁹ Judging that God was able to give life even to the dead; and because of this he did get him back as if from death.

²¹ By faith Jacob gave a blessing to the two sons of Joseph, when he was near to death; and gave God worship, supported by his stick.

³⁹ And not one of these got the good things of the agreement, though they all had a good record through faith, ⁴⁰ Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

² Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.

²⁴ And to Jesus by whom the new agreement has been made between God and man, and to the sign of the blood which says better things than Abel's blood.

⁹ Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

²⁰ Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,

¹² There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

² Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure. ³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

¹¹ Attempting to see what sort of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them was pointing to, when it gave witness to the pains which Christ would undergo and the glories which would come after them. ¹² And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.

¹² And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.

¹⁸ Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction, ¹⁹ But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ:

¹⁹ But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ:

¹⁹ But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ: ²⁰ Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,

²⁰ Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you, ²¹ Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God. ²² And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

²² Who did no evil, and there was no deceit in his mouth:

²⁴ He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.

¹⁸ Because Christ once went through pain for sins, the upright one taking the place of sinners, so that through him we might come back to God; being put to death in the flesh, but given life in the Spirit;

²¹ And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead; ²² Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.

² So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

¹⁰ And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;

²¹ For these words did not ever come through the impulse of men: but the prophets had them from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

¹² Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?

⁷ But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

¹ My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one: ² He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.

²⁵ And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.

² My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

⁵ And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.

² By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God: ³ And every spirit which does not say this is not from God: this is the spirit of Antichrist, of which you have had word; and it is in the world even now.

²⁰ And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

⁷ Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and Antichrist.

¹⁵ To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.

⁵ And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;

⁷ See, he comes with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those by whom he was wounded; and all the tribes of the earth will be sorrowing because of him. Yes, so be it.

⁹ And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,

³ And another angel came and took his place at the altar, having a gold vessel for burning perfume; and there was given to him much perfume, so that he might put it with the prayers of all the saints on the gold altar which was before the high seat.

⁸ And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death.

³ And they made as it seemed a new song before the high seat, and before the four beasts and the rulers: and no man might have knowledge of the song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, even those from the earth whom God has made his for a price. ⁴ These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

⁸ The beast which you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the great deep, and to go into destruction. And those who are on the earth, whose names have not been put in the book of life from the first, will be full of wonder when they see the beast, that he was, and is not, and still will be.

¹¹ And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was no place for them.