Numbers 31 Cross References - CLV

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying. ² Avenge the sons of Israel with vengeance on the Midianites; and afterward you shall be gathered to your people. ³ Then Moses spoke to the people, saying:Outfit men from among you as a militia host that they may come against Midian to deliver the vengeance of Yahweh on Midian. ⁴ A thousand per stock, a thousand per stock from all the stocks of Israel shall you send as the militia host. ⁵ So they withdrew from the thousands of Israel a thousand per stock, twelve thousand outfitted as the militia host. ⁶ Then Moses sent them out, a thousand per stock, as the militia host, and with them Phineas son of Eleazar the priest for the militia host, with the furnishings of the sanctuary and the bugles for the blast in his hand. ⁷ They rallied against the Midian just as Yahweh had instructed Moses, and they killed every male. ⁸ As for the kings of Midian, they killed them along with their men wounded to death:Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba, five kings of Midian. Also Balaam son of Beor they killed with the sword. ⁹ The sons of Israel captured the women of Midian and their little ones; they plundered all their beasts, all their cattle and all their estate. ¹⁰ All their walled cities with their dwellings and all their nomadic domiciles they burned with fire. ¹¹ They took all the loot and all the booty, including human and beast. ¹² Then they brought the captives and the booty and the loot, to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, at the camp, on the plains of Moab which are along the Jordan across from Jericho. ¹³ Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the congregation went forth to meet them outside the camp. ¹⁴ Moses was wrathful with the officers of the army, chiefs of the thousands and chiefs of the hundreds, coming back from the militia host of the war. ¹⁵ And Moses said to them:You have kept every female alive? ¹⁶ Behold, they, by the word of Balaam, came to be for the sons of Israel the reason for a withdrawal from and an offense against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, so that the stroke came to be in the congregation of Yahweh. ¹⁷ And now, kill every male among the little ones, and every woman having known a man (at bed with a male), kill. ¹⁸ Yet every little one among the womenfolk who have not known bed with a male keep alive for yourselves. ¹⁹ As for you, encamp outside the camp seven days. All of you having killed a soul and all having touched a man wounded to death shall purify yourselves from sin on the third day and on the seventh day, both you and your captives;" ²⁰ and every garment and every article of leather and every handiwork of goats' hair and every article of wood shall you purify for yourselves from sin. ²¹ Eleazar the priest said to the men of the militia host who had come into the battle:This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has instructed Moses. ²² Yea, the gold and the silver, the copper, the iron, the tin and the lead, ²³ everything which may come through fire you shall cause to pass through fire, and it will be clean. Nevertheless, by the water of impurity shall it purify itself from sin. And everything which may not come through fire you shall cause to pass through water. ²⁴ You will rinse your garments on the seventh day, and you will be clean. And thereafter you may come into the camp. ²⁵ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying. ²⁶ Obtain the sum of the booty, of the captives among human and among beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers of the congregation. ²⁷ And you will divide the booty between those handing the war, those going forth with the militia host, and the whole congregation. ²⁸ Raise up an assessment for Yahweh from the men of war, those going forth with the militia host:one soul out of five hundred from the human and from the beast, from the herd, from the donkeys and from the flock. ²⁹ From their half-share shall you take it, and you will give it to Eleazar the priest as a heave offering to Yahweh. ³⁰ And from the half-share of the sons of Israel you shall take one to be withheld out of fifty, from the human, from the herd, from the donkeys and from the flock, from every beast, and you will give them to the Levites, the ones keeping charge of Yahweh's tabernacle. ³¹ So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh had instructed Moses. ³² The booty, the rest of the plunder which the people of the militia host had plundered came to be:a flock of six hundred seventy-five thousand, ³³ a herd of seventy-two thousand, ³⁴ sixty-one thousand donkeys. ³⁵ As for the human souls of womenfolk who had not known bed with a male, all the souls were thirty-two thousand. ³⁶ The half-share, the portion of those going forth with the militia host, came to number a flock of three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred. ³⁷ And the assessment for Yahweh came to be, from the flock, six hundred seventy-five. ³⁸ The herd was thirty-six thousand, and their assessment for Yahweh was seventy-two. ³⁹ The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, and their assessment for Yahweh was sixty-one. ⁴⁰ The human souls were sixteen thousand, and their assessment for Yahweh was thirty-two souls. ⁴¹ Moses gave the assessment as a heave offering of Yahweh, to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh had instructed Moses. ⁴² As for the half-share of the sons of Israel which Moses had divided from that of the mustered militiamen, ⁴³ the half-share of the congregation came to be, from the flock, three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred. ⁴⁴ And the herd was thirty-six thousand, ⁴⁵ the donkeys thirty thousand five hundred, ⁴⁶ and the human souls sixteen thousand. ⁴⁷ Moses took from the half-share of the sons of Israel one to be withheld out of fifty from the human and from the beast; and he gave them to the Levites, the ones keeping charge of Yahweh's tabernacle just as Yahweh had instructed Moses. ⁴⁸ Then the officers who were for thousands of the militia host, the chiefs of thousands and the chiefs of hundreds, came near to Mose. ⁴⁹ and said to Moses:Your servants have obtained the total of the men of war who are under our hand, and not a man is missing from us. ⁵⁰ So we have brought near as an approach present to Yahweh, whatever articles of gold each man found:armlets and bracelets, rings, earrings and plaited ornaments to make a propitiatory shelter over our souls before Yahweh. ⁵¹ Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all articles of handiwork. ⁵² All the gold of the heave offering which they raised up to Yahweh was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels from the chiefs of thousands and from the chiefs of hundreds. ⁵³ (The men of the militia host had plundered, each man for himself.. ⁵⁴ And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the chiefs of thousands and hundreds and brought it to the tent of appointment, a reminder for the sons of Israel before Yahweh.

¹⁷ And forth is faring the king of Sodom to meet him, after his return from smiting Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the vale Shaveh (It is now the vale of the king).

²⁰ And blessed is the El Supreme, Who awards your foes into your hands.And giving is he to him tithes from all.

¹⁵ Yet you shall come to your forefathers in peace, and be entombed at a good grey-haired age.

¹ And continuing is Abraham, and taking is he a wife, and her name is Keturah. ² And bearing is she for him Zimran and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuch. ³ And Jokshan generates Sheba, and Thumun and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan come to be Raguel and Nabdeel and Ashurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. ⁴ And the sons of Midian are Ephah and Apher and Enoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.

⁸ And expiring is Abraham, and dying in a good grey-haired age, old and satisfied with days. And gathered is he to his people.

¹⁶ These, they are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, in their environs and in their domiciles--twelve princes for their clans. ¹⁷ And these are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred and thirty seven years. And expiring is he, and died, and is gathered to his people.

² And saying is Jacob to his household and to all who are with him, "Take away the foreign elohim which are in your midst, and clean yourselves, and change your garments.

¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came, drew out water and filled the troughs to let their father's flock drink.

⁹ And Moses said to Joshua: Choose men for us and go forth. Fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will be stationed on the summit of the hill with the rod of Elohim in my hand. ¹⁰ Joshua did just as Moses said to him, to fight with Amalek. As for Moses, Aaron and Hur, they ascended the summit of the hill. ¹¹ Now it came to be just as Moses was raising high his hands that Israel had the mastery, and just as he was giving his hands rest then Amalek had the mastery. ¹² When the hands of Moses became heavy, they took a stone and placed it beneath him, and he sat on it. As for Aaron and Hur, they upheld his hands, from this side one and and from that side one. So it came to be that his hands were constant until sunset. " ¹³ Thus Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

¹⁶ and said: For a hand is against the throne of Yah; Yahweh has a war with Amalek from generation to generation!

¹⁰ Then Yahweh said to Moses: Go to the people, and you will hallow them today and tomorrow; let them rinse their garment.

⁹ According to all that I am showing you, the model of the tabernacle and the model of all its furnishings, thus shall you make it.

²⁷ Then you will hallow the chest of the wave offering and the leg of the heave offering, which is waved and what is heaved from the ram of consecrations which is for Aaron and which is for his sons.

¹² When you take up the sum of the sons of Israel by their mustered ones then each man will give a sheltering ransom for his soul to Yahweh while one is mustering them, so that no stroke may come among them when mustering them.

¹⁵ The rich shall not increase it, and the poor shall not decrease it from half a shekel, to give as Yahweh's heave offering to shelter your souls. ¹⁶ You will take the sheltering ransom silver from the sons of Israel and give it to the service of the tent of appointment that it become for the sons of Israel a memorial before Yahweh to shelter your souls.

¹⁶ You will take the sheltering ransom silver from the sons of Israel and give it to the service of the tent of appointment that it become for the sons of Israel a memorial before Yahweh to shelter your souls.

¹⁹ And it came to be just as he drew near to the camp and saw the calf and the choruses that Moses' anger grew hot, and he flung from his hands the tablets and broke them below the mountain.

²² And Aaron said: The anger of my lord must not grow hot. You know the people that they are unbridled,

¹⁶ Now as to the hairy goat of the sin offering, Moses inquired, yea inquired, but behold, it had been burned up. He was wrathful at Eleazar and at Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying.

²⁵ everyone carrying some of their carcass shall rinse his garments and will be unclean until the evening.)

³² And everything on which any of them should fall in their death shall be unclean; from every article of wood or garment or leather or sackcloth, to every article in which work is done, into water shall it be brought, and it will be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.

⁹ Then it will come to be on the seventh day that he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair shall he shave off; when he has rinsed his garments and bathed his flesh in water, then he will be clean.

¹³ When the one discharging is clean from his discharge he will count off for himself seven days for his cleansing and will rinse his garments and bathe his flesh in live water and be clean.

¹⁷ Every garment and all leather on which his emission of semen has come, he will rinse in water, and it will be unclean until the evening.

¹¹ for the soul of the flesh, it is in the blood, and I Myself have assigned it to you to make a propitiatory shelter over your souls on the altar; for the blood, in the soul it makes a propitiatory shelter.

⁴⁴ As for your servants and your maidservants who become yours from the nations which are round about you, from them you may buy servants or maidservants.

⁸ five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you shall pursue a myriad, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

²⁵ I will bring the sword on you avenging the vengeance of the covenant. When you will be gathered into your cities then I will send the plague into your midst, and you will be given into the hand of the enemy.

⁷ For they will keep charge for him and charge for the whole congregation before the tent of appointment to serve in the service of the tabernacle. ⁸ They will keep all the furnishings of the tent of appointment and the charge for the sons of Israel to serve in the service of the tabernacle.

²⁵ The charge of the sons of Gershon at the tent of appointment was the tabernacle and the tent, its covering and the portiere of the opening of the tent of appointment,

³¹ And their charge was the coffer and the table and the lampstand and the altars and the furnishings of the holy place with which they shall minister and the portiere and all its service.

³⁶ And the supervision, the charge of the sons of Merari, was the hollow tapers of the tabernacle and its bars, its columns and its sockets, all its furnishings and all its service, ³⁷ also the columns of the court round about and their sockets, their pegs and their cords. ³⁸ Those encamping before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of appointment, toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, the ones keeping charge of the sanctuary as the charge of the sons of Israel. But any alien who comes near shall be put to death. ³⁹ All the ones being mustered of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron mustered at the bidding of Yahweh by their families, every male from a month old and upward were twenty-two thousand.

² Instruct the sons of Israel that they shall send away from the camp every leprous human and everyone having a discharge and everyone defiled by a deceased soul.

⁹ Also every heave offering pertaining to all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel which they may bring near to the priest, his shall it become.

² then the princes of Israel (the heads of their fathers' house, they, princes of the twelve stocks, they who had been standing over the ones being mustered) made an offerin. ³ and brought their approach present before Yahweh:six coach carts and twelve oxen, a cart for two of the princes and a bull for each one. They brought them near before the tabernacle. ⁴ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying. ⁵ Take them from them so that they will come to serve for the service of the tent of appointment, and give them to the Levites, to each man corresponding to his service. ⁶ So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

⁷ Thus shall you do to them to cleanse them:spatter water of purification from sin over them, let them pass a razor over all their flesh, let them rinse their garments and so cleanse themselves.

⁸ The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the bugles. And they will be to you as an eonian statute throughout your generations. ⁹ In case you enter a war in your land with the foe who is distressing you then you will blast on the bugles, and you will be remembered before Yahweh your Elohim, and you will be saved from your enemies.

³ Now the man Moses was exceedingly humble, more than any human who was on the surface of the ground.

⁴⁴ Yet they presumed to go up to the summit of the hill-country though the coffer of the covenant of Yahweh, and Moses, were not removed from within the camp.

⁴⁰ a reminder for the sons of Israel so that no alien man who is not of the seed of Aaron might come near to try to fume incense before Yahweh so that he does not become as Korah and his congregation, just as Yahweh had spoken to him by means of Moses.

¹ Yahweh said to Aaron:You and your sons and your father's house with you shall bear any depravity committed against the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear any depravity in connection with your priesthood. ² Moreover, bring near with you your brothers of the stock of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be obligated to you and may minister to you when you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony. ³ They will keep guard of you and guard of the entire tent; only to the furnishings of the holy place and to the altar they shall not come near so that they may not die, both they and you. ⁴ They will be obligated to you and will keep guard of the tent of appointment for all the service of the tent. Yet no alien may come near to you. ⁵ You will keep guard of the holy place and guard of the altar so that no more wrath shall come on the sons of Israel.

⁸ Yahweh spoke to Aaron:As for Me, behold, I give you charge of My heave offerings of all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel. To you I give them for a share of the anointing, and to your sons, as an eonian statute.

¹⁹ All the heave offering shares of the holy gifts which the sons of Israel shall raise up to Yahweh I give to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you as an eonian statute. An eonian covenant of salt shall it be before Yahweh, for you and for your seed with you.

²¹ As for the sons of Levi, behold, I give all the tithe in Israel as an allotment in exchange for their service in which they are serving, the service of the tent of appointment.

²¹ As for the sons of Levi, behold, I give all the tithe in Israel as an allotment in exchange for their service in which they are serving, the service of the tent of appointment. ²² The sons of Israel shall not come near again to the tent of appointment to bear sin so as to die. ²³ He, the Levite, will serve in the service of the tent of appointment, and they shall bear any depravity of theirs. It shall be an eonian statute throughout your generations so that in the midst of the sons of Israel they shall not be allotted an allotment,

²³ He, the Levite, will serve in the service of the tent of appointment, and they shall bear any depravity of theirs. It shall be an eonian statute throughout your generations so that in the midst of the sons of Israel they shall not be allotted an allotment, ²⁴ for it is the tithe of the sons of Israel which they shall raise up as a heave offering to Yahweh which I give to the Levites as an allotment. Therefore I say concerning them:No allotment in the midst of the sons of Israel shall they be allotted.

²⁴ for it is the tithe of the sons of Israel which they shall raise up as a heave offering to Yahweh which I give to the Levites as an allotment. Therefore I say concerning them:No allotment in the midst of the sons of Israel shall they be allotted. ²⁵ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying. ²⁶ As for the Levites, you shall speak and say to them:When you take from the sons of Israel the tithe which I give to you from them as your allotment, then you will raise up from it as a heave offering to Yahweh, a tenth of the tithe.

²⁶ As for the Levites, you shall speak and say to them:When you take from the sons of Israel the tithe which I give to you from them as your allotment, then you will raise up from it as a heave offering to Yahweh, a tenth of the tithe. ²⁷ Your heave offering will be reckoned to you like the grain from the threshing site and like the fullness from the wine vat. ²⁸ So shall you also raise up the heave offering of Yahweh from all your tithes which you take from the sons of Israel; and from it you will offer the heave offering of Yahweh to Aaron the priest.

⁹ Then a clean man will gather the ashes of the young cow and leave them outside the camp in a clean place. And they will be for safekeeping for the congregation of the sons of Israel for water of impurity; they are a burnt sin offering.

¹¹ The one touching the dead body of any human soul will be unclean seven days.

¹¹ The one touching the dead body of any human soul will be unclean seven days. ¹² He shall purify himself from sin with it on the third day; then on the seventh day he shall be clean. And if he does not purify himself from sin on the third day, then on the seventh day he shall not be clean. ¹³ Anyone touching a dead body, a human soul who died, and who does not purify himself from sin defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh; that soul will be cut off from Israel, for water of impurity was not sprinkled on him. He shall be unclean; his uncleanness will still be in him. ¹⁴ This is the law in case a human should die in a tent:Everyone entering the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days.

¹⁴ This is the law in case a human should die in a tent:Everyone entering the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days. ¹⁵ Every open vessel on which there is no leather-cap fastened with twine, it is unclean.

¹⁵ Every open vessel on which there is no leather-cap fastened with twine, it is unclean. ¹⁶ Anyone who touches, on the surface of the field, one wounded to death by the sword or a dead body or a human bone or a tomb, he shall be unclean seven days.

¹⁶ Anyone who touches, on the surface of the field, one wounded to death by the sword or a dead body or a human bone or a tomb, he shall be unclean seven days. ¹⁷ They will take for the unclean from the soil of the burning place of the sin offering and put living water on it in a vessel.

¹⁷ They will take for the unclean from the soil of the burning place of the sin offering and put living water on it in a vessel. ¹⁸ A clean man will take hyssop, dip it in the water and spatter it on the tent and on all the vessels and on the souls which are there and on the one touching a bone or one wounded to death or a dead body or a tomb. ¹⁹ The clean one will spatter on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day and thus expiate him on the seventh day. He will then rinse his garments and bathe in water and will be clean in the evening.

¹⁹ The clean one will spatter on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day and thus expiate him on the seventh day. He will then rinse his garments and bathe in water and will be clean in the evening. ²⁰ If anyone who is unclean does not purify himself from sin, then that soul will be cut off from the midst of the assembly, for the sanctuary of Yahweh has he defiled; water of impurity was not sprinkled on him, he is unclean. ²¹ It will be to them an eonian statute that the one spattering the water of impurity shall also rinse his garments, and the one touching the water of impurity shall be unclean until the evening. ²² All that the unclean one touches is unclean, and the soul of the one touching shall be unclean until the evening.

²² All that the unclean one touches is unclean, and the soul of the one touching shall be unclean until the evening.

²⁴ Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not come to the land which I will give to the sons of Israel, because you rebelled against My bidding at the waters of Meribah.

²⁶ Strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. As for Aaron, he shall be gathered and will die there.

¹ Then the sons of Israel journeyed and encamped in the plains of Moab along the Jordan across from Jericho.

⁴ Moab said to the elders of Midian:Now this assembly shall lick up all around us like a bull licks up the green grass of the field. So Balak son of Zippor who was king of Moab at that time

¹⁰ And Balaam said to the One, Elohim:Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent them to me, saying.

¹⁴ And now, behold me going to my people. Come now! I shall counsel you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.

²⁵ Then Balaam arose and went away and returned to his place. And Balak also went his way.

¹ While Israel dwelt in Shittim, the people started to commit prostitution with the daughters of Moab, ² who called the people to the sacrifices of their elohim. The people ate their sacrifices and bowed themselves down to their elohim. ³ Thus Israel was paired with Baal-peor, and the anger of Yahweh grew hot against Israel. ⁴ Yahweh said to Moses:Take all heads of the people and gibbet them before Yahweh in front of the sun so that the heat of Yahweh's anger might turn back from Israel. ⁵ So Moses said to the judges of Israel:Kill each one his men who are pairing themselves with Baal-peor. ⁶ Behold, a man from the sons of Israel was coming in, and he brought near to his brothers a Midianite woman before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of the whole congregation of the sons of Israel while they were lamenting at the opening of the tent of appointment.

⁶ Behold, a man from the sons of Israel was coming in, and he brought near to his brothers a Midianite woman before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of the whole congregation of the sons of Israel while they were lamenting at the opening of the tent of appointment. ⁷ When Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he arose from the midst of the congregation and took a lance in his hand.

⁷ When Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he arose from the midst of the congregation and took a lance in his hand. ⁸ He came after the man of Israel to the alcove and stabbed the two of them, the man of Israel and the woman, into her pelvis. Then the stroke was restrained from the sons of Israel.

⁸ He came after the man of Israel to the alcove and stabbed the two of them, the man of Israel and the woman, into her pelvis. Then the stroke was restrained from the sons of Israel. ⁹ Those dying in the stroke were twenty-four thousand.

⁹ Those dying in the stroke were twenty-four thousand. ¹⁰ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying. ¹¹ Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, reversed My fury from the sons of Israel in his zeal for My jealousy in their midst so I did not finish the sons of Israel in My jealousy.

¹¹ Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, reversed My fury from the sons of Israel in his zeal for My jealousy in their midst so I did not finish the sons of Israel in My jealousy. ¹² Therefore say:Behold Me giving to him My covenant of peace; ¹³ it will be his and his seed's after him, the covenant of an eonian priesthood, inasmuch as he was zealous for his Elohim and made a propitiatory shelter over the sons of Israel.

¹³ it will be his and his seed's after him, the covenant of an eonian priesthood, inasmuch as he was zealous for his Elohim and made a propitiatory shelter over the sons of Israel. ¹⁴ The name of the smitten man of Israel, who was smitten with the Midianite woman, was Zimri son of Salu, a prince of a father's house of the Simeonite. ¹⁵ And the name of the smitten Midianite woman was Cozbi daughter of Zur. He was a head of clans of a father's house in Midian.

¹⁵ And the name of the smitten Midianite woman was Cozbi daughter of Zur. He was a head of clans of a father's house in Midian. ¹⁶ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying. ¹⁷ Distress the Midianites and smite them, ¹⁸ for they were distressing you in their plots which they plotted against you over the matter of Peor and over the matter of their sister Cozbi, daughter of a prince of Midian, who was smitten on the day of the stroke over the matter of Peor.

¹⁸ for they were distressing you in their plots which they plotted against you over the matter of Peor and over the matter of their sister Cozbi, daughter of a prince of Midian, who was smitten on the day of the stroke over the matter of Peor.

¹³ When you have seen it you will be gathered to your people, you too, just as Aaron your brother was gathered.

¹⁶ These are the statutes which Yahweh had instructed Moses between a man and his wife and between a father and his daughter in her youth in her father's house.

³ Then Moses spoke to the people, saying:Outfit men from among you as a militia host that they may come against Midian to deliver the vengeance of Yahweh on Midian.

¹² Then they brought the captives and the booty and the loot, to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, at the camp, on the plains of Moab which are along the Jordan across from Jericho.

¹⁵ And Moses said to them:You have kept every female alive? ¹⁶ Behold, they, by the word of Balaam, came to be for the sons of Israel the reason for a withdrawal from and an offense against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, so that the stroke came to be in the congregation of Yahweh.

²² Yea, the gold and the silver, the copper, the iron, the tin and the lead, ²³ everything which may come through fire you shall cause to pass through fire, and it will be clean. Nevertheless, by the water of impurity shall it purify itself from sin. And everything which may not come through fire you shall cause to pass through water. ²⁴ You will rinse your garments on the seventh day, and you will be clean. And thereafter you may come into the camp.

²⁸ Raise up an assessment for Yahweh from the men of war, those going forth with the militia host:one soul out of five hundred from the human and from the beast, from the herd, from the donkeys and from the flock. ²⁹ From their half-share shall you take it, and you will give it to Eleazar the priest as a heave offering to Yahweh. ³⁰ And from the half-share of the sons of Israel you shall take one to be withheld out of fifty, from the human, from the herd, from the donkeys and from the flock, from every beast, and you will give them to the Levites, the ones keeping charge of Yahweh's tabernacle.

³⁰ And from the half-share of the sons of Israel you shall take one to be withheld out of fifty, from the human, from the herd, from the donkeys and from the flock, from every beast, and you will give them to the Levites, the ones keeping charge of Yahweh's tabernacle. ³¹ So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh had instructed Moses. ³² The booty, the rest of the plunder which the people of the militia host had plundered came to be:a flock of six hundred seventy-five thousand,

⁴⁷ Moses took from the half-share of the sons of Israel one to be withheld out of fifty from the human and from the beast; and he gave them to the Levites, the ones keeping charge of Yahweh's tabernacle just as Yahweh had instructed Moses. ⁴⁸ Then the officers who were for thousands of the militia host, the chiefs of thousands and the chiefs of hundreds, came near to Mose.

²⁰ They journeyed from Rimmon-perez and encamped at Libnah. ²¹ They journeyed from Libnah and encamped at Rissah. ²² They journeyed from Rissah and encamped at Kehelathah.

³⁴ We seized all his cities at that time, and we doomed every city--adult males, women and little ones--we let not one survivor remain.

³ Your eyes were the ones seeing all that Yahweh did with regard to Baal-peor, for every man who went after Baal-peor, Yahweh your Elohim exterminated from among you.

² when Yahweh your Elohim gives them up before you, and you smite them, then you shall doom, yea doom them. You shall neither contract a covenant with them nor be gracious to them,

¹² You will rejoice before Yahweh your Elohim, you, your sons and your daughters, your servants, your maidservants and the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion or allotment among you.

¹⁷ You cannot eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, of your grape juice and of your clarified oil, neither the firstlings of your herd and your flock nor any of your vow offerings which you shall vow, neither your voluntary offerings nor the heave offerings of your hand. ¹⁸ But rather you shall eat it before Yahweh your Elohim in the place that Yahweh your Elohim shall choose, you, your son and your daughter, your servant and your maidservant and the Levite who is within your gates. Then you will rejoice before Yahweh your Elohim in every undertaking of your hand. ¹⁹ Guard yourself lest you should forsake the Levite any of your days on your ground.

¹⁹ Guard yourself lest you should forsake the Levite any of your days on your ground.

¹³ When Yahweh your Elohim delivers it into your hand, then you will smite every adult male of it with the edge of the sword;"

¹³ When Yahweh your Elohim delivers it into your hand, then you will smite every adult male of it with the edge of the sword;" ¹⁴ but the women, the little ones, the domestic beasts and all that is in the city, all its loot, you may plunder for yourself; and you may eat from the loot of your enemies which Yahweh your Elohim gives to you.

¹⁴ but the women, the little ones, the domestic beasts and all that is in the city, all its loot, you may plunder for yourself; and you may eat from the loot of your enemies which Yahweh your Elohim gives to you.

¹⁶ But in the cities of these peoples which Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you as an allotment you shall not keep alive anything that has breath, ¹⁷ for you shall doom, yea doom them, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Girgashite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as Yahweh your Elohim had instructed you, ¹⁸ that they may not teach you to act according to all their abhorrences which they do for their elohim so that you might sin against Yahweh your Elohim.

¹⁰ When you go forth for battle against your enemy, and Yahweh your Elohim delivers him into your hand, and you capture his captives, ¹¹ and you see among the captives a woman of lovely shape and are attached to her and take her to yourself as a wife, ¹² then you will bring her into the midst of your household, where she will shave her head and pare her nails. ¹³ She will put away the garment of her captivity from her and dwell in your house. Then she will lament her father and her mother a month of days, and afterward you may come to her and may possess her, and she will become yours as a wife. ¹⁴ Should it come to be that you find no delight in her, then you will dismiss her to go at her soul's desire. You shall not sell, yea sell her for silver; you shall not make a chattel of her, inasmuch as you have humiliated her.

³⁵ for the day of vengeance and repayment, for the season when their foot shall slip? For the day of their calamity is near, and impending doom hurries upon them.

⁷ that you have said to them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off, at the presence of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh; in its passing over into the Jordan were the waters of the Jordan cut off; and these stones have been for a memorial to the sons of Israel--to the eon..

⁴ and seven priests do bear seven trumpets of the jubilee before the ark, and on the seventh day you compass the city seven times, and the priests blow with the trumpets, ⁵ and it has been, in the prolongation of the horn of the jubilee, in your hearing the voice of the trumpet, all the people shout--a great shout, and the wall of the city has fallen under it, and the people have gone up, each over-against him.. ⁶ And Joshua son of Nun calls unto the priests, and said unto them, `Bear you the ark of the covenant, and seven priests do bear seven trumpets of the jubilee before the ark of Yahweh;.

¹³ and seven priests bearing seven trumpets of the jubilee before the ark of Yahweh are walking, going on, and they have blown with the trumpets--and he who is armed is going before them, and he who is gathering up is going behind the ark of Yahweh--going on and blowing with the trumpets. ¹⁴ And they compass the city on the second day once, and turn back to the camp; thus they have done six days. ¹⁵ And it comes to pass, on the seventh day, that they rise early, at the ascending of the dawn, and compass the city, according to this manner, seven times; (only, on that day they have compassed the city seven times);"

¹⁹ and all the silver and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, holy they [are] to Yahweh; into the treasury of Yahweh they come..

²¹ and they devote all that [is] in the city, from man even unto woman, from young even unto aged, even unto ox, and sheep, and ass, by the mouth of the sword.

²⁴ And the city they have burnt with fire, and all that [is] in it; only, the silver and the gold, and the vessels of brass, and of iron, they have given [to] the treasury of the house of Yahweh;"

² and you have done to Ai and to her king as you have done to Jericho and to her king; only, its spoil and its cattle you spoil for yourselves; set for you an ambush for the city at its rear..

²⁵ and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand--all men of Ai.

⁴⁰ And Joshua smites all the land of the hill-country, and of the south, and of the low-country, and of the springs, and all their kings--he has not left a remnant, and all that does breathe he has devoted, as Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, commanded.

¹⁴ and all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, have the sons of Israel spoiled for themselves; only, every human being they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, till their destroying them; they have not left any one breathing.

²¹ and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorite, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote, with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, princes of Sihon, inhabitants of the land. ²² And Balaam, son of Beor, the diviner, have the sons of Israel slain with the sword, among their wounded ones.

⁸ and speak unto them, saying, `With great riches turn you back unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren..

¹⁷ Is the iniquity of Peor little to us, from which we have not been cleansed till this day--and the plague is in the company of Yahweh,

¹⁰ and also all that generation have been gathered unto their fathers, and another generation rises after them who have not known Yahweh, and even the work which He has done to Israel.

² `For freeing freemen in Israel, For a people willingly offering themselves Bless you Yahweh.

²³ Curse Meroz--said a messenger of Yahweh, Cursing, curse you its inhabitants, For they came not to the help of Yahweh, To the help of Yahweh among the mighty!"

¹ And the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh gives them into the hand of Midian seven years, ² and the hand of Midian is strong against Israel, from the presence of Midian have the sons of Israel made for themselves the flowings which [are] in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.

³³ And all Midian and Amalek and the sons of the east have been gathered together, and pass over, and encamp in the valley of Jezreel,

² And Yahweh said unto Gideon, `Too many [are] the people who [are] with you for My giving Midian into their hand, lest Israel beautify itself against Me, saying, My hand has given salvation to me;"

²⁴ And the people see him, and praise their elohim, for they said, `Our elohim has given in our hand our enemy, and he who is laying waste our land, and who multiplied our wounded..

²⁸ And Samson calls unto Yahweh, and said, `Lord Yahweh, remember me, I pray You, and strengthen me, I pray You, only this time, O Elohim; and I am avenged--vengeance at once--because of my two eyes, on the Philistines.. <sup>29</sup> And Samson turns aside [to] the two middle pillars, on which the house is established, and on which it is supported, [to] the one with his right hand, and one with his left;" <sup>30</sup> and Samson said, `Let me die with the Philistines,' and he inclines himself powerfully, and the house falls on the princes, and on all the people who [are] in it, and the dead whom he has put to death in his death are more than those whom he put to death in his life.

¹¹ And this [is] the thing which you do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, you devote..

¹¹ And this [is] the thing which you do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, you devote.. ¹² And they find out of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who have not known man by the lying of a male, and they bring them in unto the camp at Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan.

⁴ And the people sends to Shiloh, and they take up thence the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Hosts, inhabiting the cherubs, and there [are] two sons of Eli, with the ark of the covenant of Elohim, Hophni and Phinehas. ⁵ And it comes to pass, at the coming in of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh unto the camp, that all Israel shout--a great shout--and the earth is moved.

¹⁷ And he who is bearing tidings answers and said, `Israel has fled before the Philistines, and also a great slaughter has been among the people, and also your two sons have died--Hophni and Phinehas--and the ark of Elohim has been captured..

⁶ And Jonathan said unto the young man bearing his weapons, `Come, and we pass over unto the station of these uncircumcised; it may be Yahweh does work for us, for there is no restraint to Yahweh to save by many or by few..

¹⁸ And Saul said to Ahiah, `Bring nigh the ark of Elohim;' for the ark of Elohim has been on that day with the sons of Israel.

³ Now, go, and you have smitten Amalek, and devoted all that it has, and you have no pity on it, and have put to death from man unto woman, from infant unto suckling, from ox unto sheep, from camel unto ass..

¹² And Samuel rises early to meet Saul in the morning, and it is declared to Samuel, saying, `Saul has come in to Carmel, and lo, he is setting up to himself a monument, and goes round, and passes over, and goes down to Gilgal.. <sup>13</sup> And Samuel comes in unto Saul, and Saul said to him, `Blessed [are] you of Yahweh; I have performed the word of Yahweh.. ¹⁴ And Samuel said, `And what [is] the noise of this flock in mine ears--and the noise of the herd which I am hearing?.

⁹ And David knows that against him Saul is devising the evil, and said unto Abiathar the priest, `Bring nigh the ephod..

⁹ and David has smitten the land, and does not keep alive man and woman, and has taken sheep, and oxen, and asses, and camels, and garments, and turns back, and comes in unto Achish.

¹ And it comes to pass, in the coming in of David and his men to Ziklag, on the third day, that the Amalekites have pushed unto the south, and unto Ziklag, and smite Ziklag, and burn it with fire,

⁴ And David lifts up--and the people who [are] with him--their voice and weep, till that they have no power to weep.

¹⁸ And David delivers all that the Amalekites have taken; also his two wives has David delivered. ¹⁹ And there has not lacked to them [anything], from small unto great, and unto sons and daughters, and from the spoil, even unto all that they had taken to themselves, the whole has David brought back,

²¹ And David comes in unto the two hundred men who were too faint to go after David, and whom they cause to abide at the brook of Besor, and they go out to meet David, and to meet the people who [are] with him, and David approaches the people, and asks of them of welfare.

²⁴ and who does hearken to you in this thing? for as the portion of him who was brought down into battle, so also [is] the portion of him who is abiding by the vessels--alike they share.. ²⁵ And it comes to pass from that day and forward, that he appoints it for a statute and for an ordinance for Israel unto this day.

¹¹ also them did king David sanctify to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold which he sanctified of all the nations which he subdued. ¹² of Aram, and of Moab, and of the Bene-Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer son of Rehob king of Zobah.

¹¹ And Uriah said unto David, `The ark, and Israel, and Judah, are abiding in booths, and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, on the face of the field are encamping; and I--I go in unto my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife! --your life, and the life of your soul--if I do this thing..

¹⁶ (Pharaoh king of Egypt has gone up and does capture Gezer, and does burn it with fire, and the Canaanite who is dwelling in the city he has slain, and gives it [with] presents to his daughter, wife of Solomon..

¹⁵ and it comes to pass, in David's being with Edom, in the going up of Joab head of the host to bury the slain, that he smites every male in Edom-. ¹⁶ for six months did Joab abide there, and all Israel, till the cutting off of every male in Edom-.

⁴² and he said unto him, `Thus said Yahweh, Because you have sent away the man I devoted, out of [your] hand, even your life has been for his life, and your people for his people;.

⁷ and you have smitten the house of Ahab your lord, and I have required the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, from the hand of Jezebel;"

³⁰ And Yahweh said unto Jehu, `Because that you have done well, to do that which [is] right in Mine eyes--according to all that [is] in My heart you have done to the house of Ahab--the sons of the fourth [generation] do sit for you on the throne of Israel..

¹⁹ And the man of Elohim is wroth against him, and said, `By smiting five or six times then you hadst smitten Aram till consuming; and now, three times you do smite Aram..

²⁷ and round about the house of Elohim they lodge, for on them [is] the watch, and they [are] over the opening, even morning by morning. ²⁸ And [some] of them [are] over the vessels of service, for by number they bring them in, and by number they take them out. ²⁹ And [some] of them are appointed over the vessels, even over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.

¹¹ also them has king David sanctified to Yahweh with the silver and the gold that he has taken from all the nations, from Edom, and from Moab, and from the sons of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.

⁸ and the word of Yahweh [is] against me, saying, Blood in abundance you have shed, and great wars you have made:you do not build a house to My name, for much blood you have shed to the earth before Me.

³² And they have kept the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brethren, for the service of the house of Yahweh.

²⁰ And of the Levites, Ahijah [is] over the treasures of the house of Elohim, even for the treasures of the holy things. ²¹ Sons of Laadan:sons of the Gershonite, of Laadan, heads of the fathers of Laadan the Gershonite:Jehieli. ²² Sons of Jehieli:Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of the house of Yahweh, ²³ for the Amramite, for the Izharite, for the Hebronite, for the Uzzielite. ²⁴ And Shebuel son of Gershom, son of Moses, [is] president over the treasures. ²⁵ And his brethren, of Eliezer, [are] Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son. ²⁶ This Shelomith and his brethren [are] over all the treasures of the holy things, that David the king, and heads of the fathers, even heads of thousands, and of hundreds, and heads of the host, sanctified;" ²⁷ from the battles, even from the spoil they sanctified to strengthen the house of Yahweh;"

¹² `And lo, with us--at [our] head--[is] Elohim, and His priests and trumpets of shouting to shout against you; O sons of Israel, do not fight with Yahweh, Elohim of your fathers, for you do not prosper.. ¹³ And Jeroboam has brought round the ambush to come in from behind them, and they are before Judah, and the ambush [is] behind them. ¹⁴ And Judah turns, and lo, against them [is] the battle, before and behind, and they cry to Yahweh, and the priests are blowing with trumpets, ¹⁵ and the men of Judah shout--and it comes to pass, at the shouting of the men of Judah, that Elohim has smitten Jeroboam, and all Israel, before Abijah and Judah.

⁵ And Yahweh his Elohim gives him into the hand of the king of Aram, and they smite him, and take captive from him a great captivity, and bring [them] in to Damascus, and also into the hand of the king of Israel he has been given, and he smites him--a great smiting.

⁸ And the sons of Israel take captive of their brethren, two hundred thousand, wives, sons and daughters, and also much spoil they have seized from them, and they bring in the spoil to Samaria. ⁹ And there has been there a prophet of Yahweh (Oded [is] his name), and he goes out before the host that has come in to Samaria, and said to them, `Lo, in the fury of Yahweh Elohim of your fathers against Judah, He has given them into your hand, and you slay among them in rage--unto the heavens it has come;" ¹⁰ and now, sons of Judah and Jerusalem you are saying to subdue for men-servants and for maid-servants to you; but are there not with you causes of guilt before Yahweh your Elohim?

¹⁶ Yahweh is known by the judgment He executes; The wicked are trapped by the deed of His palms. {Chant, Interlude{ "

² In his pride, the wicked one is dashing after the humble; Let them be grabbed in the schemes that they have devised.

⁴⁹ Therefore, I shall acclaim You among the nations, O Yahweh, And to Your Name shall I make melody."

¹² Kings of hosts, they bolted away; they bolted away, And she in the homestead house apportioned the loot."

¹⁴ From fraud and from violence shall He redeem their soul, And their blood shall be precious in His eyes."

¹ O El of avenging, Yahweh, El of avenging, shine forth!" ² Lift Yourself up, O Judge of the earth; Turn back a requital upon the proud." ³ How long shall the wicked, O Yahweh, How long shall the wicked be joyous,

¹ {Davidic{ Bless Yahweh, O my soul, And all within me, bless His holy Name!" ² Bless Yahweh, O my soul, And do not forget any of His well-dealings,

¹⁵ Let them acclaim Yahweh for His benignity And His marvelous works to the sons of humanity.

²¹ Let them acclaim Yahweh for His benignity And His marvelous works to the sons of humanity. ²² And let them sacrifice sacrifices of acclamation And recount His deeds with jubilant song.

¹ Not to us, O Yahweh, not to us, But to Your Name give glory, On account of Your benignity, Your faithfulness."

¹² What can I restore to Yahweh For all His bountiful dealings toward me?

¹⁷ I shall sacrifice to You a sacrifice of acclamation And call on the Name of Yahweh.

¹ {A Song of Ascents{ Behold, bless Yahweh, all servants of Yahweh, Who are standing in Yahweh's House by night."

⁸ Daughter of Babylon, the devastator, Happy is he who shall repay you With your dealing which you dealt to us." ⁹ Happy is he who shall hold and shatter your unweaned children Against the crag.

⁷ The remembrance of Your great goodness, may they utter, And in Your righteousness may they be jubilant."

⁹ Glorify Yahweh with your wealth And with the firstfruits of all your income; ¹⁰ Then your granaries shall be filled to satisfaction, And grape juice shall breach your wine-vats."

²⁷ For the prostitute is a deep pit, And the foreign woman is a narrow well."

²⁶ I found more bitter than death:That kind of woman whose heart is like weir traps and seine nets, And her hands like bonds; The man doing well before the One, Elohim, he shall escape from her, And the sinner, he shall be seized by her."

⁷ Your land is a desolation, and your cities are burned with fire. Your ground--in front of you aliens are devouring it, and desolation is on it as an overturning by alien peoples."

²⁴ Wherefore avers the Lord Yahweh of hosts, the Sturdy One of Israel, "Woe! I shall be comforted over My foes, and avenged on My enemies."

² And many peoples take them, and they bring them to their ground and to their place. And the house of Israel allots them on the ground of Yahweh for servants and for maids. And they come to be captors of their captors, and they sway over their exactors."

⁷ In that era, an indemnity shall be fetched to Yahweh of hosts from the people in suspense and trepidation, and from a people fearful, from its boundary and beyond, a nation at the confluences of waters and eroding, from which the streams plunder its land, to the place of the Name of Yahweh of hosts, called mount Zion."

¹⁸ And it comes that her merchandise and her fee will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor safeguarded. For all her merchandise shall come to dwellers before Yahweh, for eating and drinking to satisfaction, and for shiftable covering."

² In case you are passing through the waters, I am with you. And through the streams, they shall not overflow you. In case you are going through fire, you shall not be scorched, and the blaze shall not consume among you."

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind, all of them. They do not know to call. All of them are mute curs. They can not bark. They are having nightmares while lying, loving to slumber, ¹¹ and curs strongly soulish. No satisfaction do they know. And they are evil. They do not know to understand. All of them face to their own way, each man for his own gain, for his own end."

⁹ For to Me the boats of the coastlands are stretching, and the ships of Tharshish among the first, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of Yahweh, your Elohim, and to the Holy One of Israel, for He beautifies you."

¹⁰ And that day [is] to the Lord Yahweh of Hosts A day of vengeance, To be avenged of His adversaries, And the sword has devoured, and been satisfied, And it has been watered from their blood, For a sacrifice [is] to the Lord Yahweh of Hosts, In the land of the north, by the river Phrat."

¹⁰ Cursed [is] he who is doing the work of Yahweh slothfully, And cursed [is] he Who is withholding his sword from blood."

²⁸ A voice of fugitives and escaped ones [Is] from the land of Babylon, To declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our Elohim, The vengeance of His temple."

⁶ aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, you do slay--to destruction; and against any man on whom [is] the mark you do not go nigh, and from My sanctuary you begin.'"

² An El, jealous and avenging, is Yahweh. An avenger is Yahweh, and possessor of fury. An avenger is Yahweh to His foes, and a transporter is He of his enemies."

¹⁴ And the crowns shall come to be for Heldai, and for Tobijah, and for Jedaiah, and for Hen, the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Yahweh."

⁹ And I will bring the third into the fire. And I will refine them as silver is refined. And I will test them as gold is tested. It shall call in My name, and I will answer it. I will say, My people is it. And it will say, Yahweh is my Elohim."

² If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart to give glory to My name, says Yahweh of hosts, then I will send among you the curse. And I will curse your blessings. And, moreover, I have cursed them, and I will annul them, for you are not taking it to heart, and it shall not come among you." ³ Behold Me rebuking your seed. And I winnow dung on your faces, the dung of your celebrations, and I carry you away with it."

¹¹ For I, indeed, am baptizing you in water for repentance, yet He Who is coming after me is stronger than I, Whose sandals I am not competent to bear. He will be baptizing you in holy spirit and fire,

¹⁰ Nor yet two tunics, nor yet sandals, nor yet a club; for worthy is the worker of his nourishment."

²¹ They are saying, "Caesar's.Then He is saying to them, "Be paying, then, Caesar's to Caesar, and God's to God."

¹ Now after these things the Lord indicates seventy-two others also, and He dispatches them two by two before His face into every city and place where He was about to be entering." ² Now He said to them, "The harvest, indeed, is vast, yet the workers are few. Beseech, then, the Lord of the harvest, so that He should be ejecting workers into His harvest." ³ Go! Lo! I am dispatching you as lambs in the midst of wolves." ⁴ Bear no purse not beggar's bag nor yet sandals, and you should be greeting no one by the way." ⁵ Now into whatever house you may be entering, first say, 'Peace to this household!'" ⁶ And if a son of peace should be there, your peace will be resting on it; otherwise, surely it will come back on you." ⁷ Now in the same house, remain, eating and drinking what they have, for worthy is the worker of his wages. Do not proceed from house to house." ⁸ And into whatever city you may be entering, and they may be receiving you, eat what is placed before you,

²² for days of vengeance are these, to fulfill all that is written."

¹⁹ And, taking bread, giving thanks, He breaks it and gives to them, saying, "Take. This is My body, given for your sakes. This do for a recollection of Me."

⁹ that fulfilled may be the saying which He said, that "Of those whom Thou hast given Me, of them I do not lose anyone."

⁴ Now he, looking intently at him, and becoming affrighted, said, "What is it, lord?Now he said to him, "Your prayers and your alms ascended for a memorial in front of God."

³⁶ For David, indeed, subserving his own generation by God's counsel, was put to repose, and was added to his fathers, and was acquainted with decay;"

²⁸ Take heed to yourselves and to the entire flocklet, among which the holy spirit appointed you supervisors, to be shepherding the ecclesia of God, which He procures through the blood of His Own."

¹⁹ you are not avenging yourselves, beloved, but be giving place to His indignation, for it is written, Mine is vengeance! I will repay! the Lord is saying. "

⁴ For it is God's servant for your good. Now if you should be doing evil, fear, for not feignedly is it wearing the sword. For it is God's servant, an avenger for indignation to him who is committing evil."

¹³ each one's work will become apparent, for the day will make it evident, for it is being revealed by fire. And the fire, it will be testing each one's work - what kind it is."

² Here, furthermore, it is being sought in administrators that any such may be found faithful."

¹⁰ Or is He undoubtedly saying it because of us? Because of us, for it was written that the plower ought to be plowing in expectation, and the thresher to partake of his expectation." ¹¹ If, in expectation, we sow the spiritual in you, is it a great thing if we shall reap of your fleshly things? ¹² If others are partaking of this right from you, are not rather we? Nevertheless we do not use this right, but we are forgoing all, lest we may be giving any hindrance to the evangel of Christ" ¹³ Are you not aware that the workers at the sacred things are eating of the things of the sanctuary? Those settling beside the altar have their portion with the altar. ¹⁴ Thus the Lord also prescribes that those who are announcing the evangel are to be living of the evangel.

⁶ Now let him who is being instructed in the word be contributing to him who is instructing, in all good things."

²⁶ Are you indignant, and not sinning? Do not let the sun be sinking on your vexation,

²⁶ that He should be hallowing it, cleansing it in the bath of the water (with His declaration),

¹⁷ And say to Archippus: "Look to the service which you accepted in the Lord, that you may be fulfilling it."

⁶ No one is to be circumventing and overreaching his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the Avenger of all these, according as we said to you before also, and certify,

¹² Now we are asking you, brethren, to perceive those who are toiling among you and presiding over you in the Lord and admonishing you, ¹³ and to deem them exceedingly distinguished in love, because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves."

¹⁷ Let elders who have presided ideally be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who are toiling in word and teaching,

⁹ Now, those intending to be rich are falling into a trial and a trap and the many foolish and harmful desires which are swamping men in extermination and destruction." ¹⁰ For a root of all of the evils is the fondness for money, which some, craving, were led astray from the faith and try themselves on all sides with much pain."

⁵ not for works which are wrought in righteousness which we do, but according to His mercy, He saves us, through the bath of renascence and renewal of holy spirit, ⁶ which He pours out on us richly through Jesus Christ, our Saviour,

⁴ Now, behold how eminent this one is to whom the patriarch Abraham gives a tithe also of the best of the booty." ⁵ And, indeed, those of the sons of Levi who obtain the priestly office have a direction to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, their brethren even those who also have come out of the loins of Abraham." ⁶ Yet he who is not of their genealogy has tithed Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises."

⁹ And so to say, through Abraham, Levi also, who is obtaining the tithes, has been tithed, ¹⁰ for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek meets with him. ¹¹ If, indeed, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for the people have been placed under law with it), what need is there still for a different priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not said to be according to the order of Aaron? ¹² For, the priesthood being transferred, of necessity there is coming to be a transference of law also,

³⁰ For we are acquainted with Him Who is saying, Mine is vengeance! I will repay! the Lord is saying, and again, "The Lord will be judging His people"

¹⁷ Be persuaded by your leaders, and be deferring to them, for they are vigilant for the sake of your souls, as having to render an account, that they may be doing this with joy, and not with groaning, for this is disadvantageous for you."

⁷ that the testing of your faith, much more precious than gold which is perishing, yet, being tested by fire, may be found for applause and glory and honor at the unveiling of Jesus Christ,

²¹ the representation of which, baptism, is now saving you also (not the putting off of the filth of the flesh, but the inquiry of a good conscience to God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

¹² Beloved, do not think strange the conflagration among you, which is becoming a trial to you, as of something strange befalling you,

¹⁵ Leaving the straight path, they were led astray, following out the path of Balaam of Beor, who loves the wages of injustice,

¹¹ Woe to them! for they went in the way of Cain, and in the deception of Balaam's wages were they poured out, and in the contradiction of Korah they perished."

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, that you have there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the sons of Israel, to be eating idol sacrifices, and to commit prostitution."

¹⁸ I am advising you to buy of Me gold refined by the fire, that you should be rich, and white garments, that you may be clothed and the shame of your nakedness may not be made manifest, and eye-salve to anoint your eyes, that you may be observing."

¹⁰ And they cry with a loud voice, saying, "Till when, O Owner, holy and true, art Thou not judging and avenging our blood on those dwelling on the earth?

⁸ Therefore in one day shall her calamities be arriving; death and mourning and famine. And she shall be burned up with fire, for strong is the Lord God Who judges her."

²⁰ Make merry over her, O heaven, and ye saints and apostles and prophets, seeing that God judges by passing your sentence upon her."

² for true and just is His judging, for He judges the great prostitute who corrupts the earth with her prostitution, and avenges the blood of His slaves at her hand."

²⁰ And the wild beast is arrested, and with it the false prophet who does the signs in its sight, by which he deceives those getting the emblem of the wild beast, and those worshiping its image. Living, the two were cast into the lake of fire burning with sulphur."