Matthew Cross References - DouayRheims

¹ The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham: ² Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac begot Jacob. And Jacob begot Judas and his brethren. ³ And Judas begot Phares and Zara of Thamar. And Phares begot Esron. And Esron begot Aram. ⁴ And Aram begot Aminadab. And Aminadab begot Naasson. And Naasson begot Salmon. ⁵ And Salmon begot Booz of Rahab. And Booz begot Obed of Ruth. And Obed begot Jesse. ⁶ And Jesse begot David the king. And David the king begot Solomon, of her that had been the wife of Urias. ⁷ And Solomon begot Roboam. And Roboam begot Abia. And Abia begot Asa. ⁸ And Asa begot Josaphat. And Josaphat begot Joram. And Joram begot Ozias. ⁹ And Ozias begot Joatham. And Joatham begot Achaz. And Achaz begot Ezechias. ¹⁰ And Ezechias begot Manasses. And Manasses begot Amon. And Amon begot Josias. ¹¹ And Josias begot Jechonias and his brethren in the transmigration of Babylon. ¹² And after the transmigration of Babylon, Jechonias begot Salathiel. And Salathiel begot Zorobabel. ¹³ And Zorobabel begot Abiud. And Abiud begot Eliacim. And Eliacim begot Azor. ¹⁴ And Azor begot Sadoc. And Sadoc begot Achim. And Achim begot Eliud. ¹⁵ And Eliud begot Eleazar. And Eleazar begot Mathan. And Mathan begot Jacob. ¹⁶ And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. ¹⁷ So all the generations from Abraham to David, are fourteen generations. And from David to the transmigration of Babylon, are fourteen generations: and from the transmigration of Babylon to Christ are fourteen generations. ¹⁸ Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost. ¹⁹ Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately. ²⁰ But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost. ²¹ And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins. ²² Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying: ²³ Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. ²⁴ And Joseph rising up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took unto him his wife. ²⁵ And he knew her not till she brought forth her first born son: and he called his name Jesus.

⁴ These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth:

¹⁵ I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall cursh thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

¹ This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.

⁹ These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.

²² And Noe did all things which God commanded him.

⁵ And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.

³ I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

¹⁹ And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.

²¹ But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.

¹⁰ And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent.

² And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her. ³ And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him, Isaac. ⁴ And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him, ⁵ When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac born.

² He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision; and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will shew thee. ³ So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass, and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.

¹⁸ And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.

²⁶ Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto him.

³ And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father. ⁴ And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. ⁵ Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.

¹³ And the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed. ¹⁴ And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the earth SHALL BE BLESSED.

³² And she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Ruben, saying: The Lord saw my affliction: now my husband will love me. ³³ And again she conceived and bore a son, and said: Because the Lord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me: and she called his name Simeon. ³⁴ And she conceived the third time, and bore another son, and said: Now also my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons: and therefore she called his name Levi. ³⁵ The fourth time she conceived and bore a son, and said: Now will I praise the Lord: and for this she called him Juda. And she left bearing.

⁵ When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son. ⁶ And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son; and therefore she called his name Dan. ⁷ And again Bala conceived, and bore another, ⁸ For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephthali. ⁹ Lia perceiving that she had left of bearing, gave Zelpha, her handmaid, to her husband. ¹⁰ And when she had conceived, and brought forth a son, ¹¹ She said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad. ¹² Zelpha also bore another. ¹³ And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser. ¹⁴ And Ruben going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes. ¹⁵ She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandrakes? Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son's mandrakes. ¹⁶ And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee for my son's mandrakes. And he slept with her that night. ¹⁷ And God heard her prayers; and she conceived: and bore a fifth son: ¹⁸ And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar. ¹⁹ And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son, ²⁰ And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.

¹¹ And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob. And I answered: Here I am.

¹⁶ And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail, ¹⁷ By reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also. ¹⁸ And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right hand. ¹⁹ So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, this is Bethlehem.

⁶ And Juda took a wife for Her, his first born, whose name was Thamar.

¹¹ Wherefore Juda said to Thamar his daughter-in-law: Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Sela my son grow up: for he was afraid lest he also might die, as his brethren did. She went her way, and dwelt in her father's house.

²⁴ And behold, after three months, they told Juda, saying: Thamar, thy daughter-in-law, hath played the harlot, and she appeareth to have a big belly. And Juda said: Bring her out that she may be burnt.

²⁴ And behold, after three months, they told Juda, saying: Thamar, thy daughter-in-law, hath played the harlot, and she appeareth to have a big belly. And Juda said: Bring her out that she may be burnt. ²⁵ But when she was led to execution, she sent to her father in law, saying: By the man, to whom these things belong, I am with child. See whose ring, and bracelet, and staff this is. ²⁶ But he acknowledging the gifts, said: She is juster than I: because I did not give her to Sela, my son. However he knew her no more. ²⁷ And when she was ready to be brought to bed, there appeared twins in her womb: and in the very delivery of the infants, one put forth a hand, whereon the midwife tied a scarlet thread, saying:

²⁹ But he drawing back his hand, the other came forth: and the woman said: Why is the partition divided for thee? and therefore called his name Phares. ³⁰ Afterwards his brother came out, on whose hand was the scarlet thread: and she called his name Zara.

³ God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father; fear not, go down into Egypt, for I will make a great nation of thee there.

⁸ And these are the names of the children of Israel, that entered into Egypt, he and his children. His firstborn Ruben, ⁹ The sons of Ruben: Henoch and Phallu, and Hesron and Charmi. ¹⁰ The sons of Simeon: Jamuel and Jamin and Ahod, and Jachin and Sohar, and Saul, the son of a woman of Chanaan. ¹¹ The sons of Levi: Gerson and Caath, and Merari. ¹² The sons of Juda: Her and Onan, and Sela, and Phares and Zara. And Her and Onan died in the land of Chanaan. And sons were born to Phares: Hesron and Hamul.

¹² The sons of Juda: Her and Onan, and Sela, and Phares and Zara. And Her and Onan died in the land of Chanaan. And sons were born to Phares: Hesron and Hamul. ¹³ The sons of Issachar: Thola and Phua, and Job and Semron. ¹⁴ The sons of Zabulon: Sared, and Elon, and Jahelel. ¹⁵ These are the sons of Lia, whom she bore in Mesopotamia of Syria, with Dina, his daughter. All the souls of her sons and daughters, thirty-three. ¹⁶ The sons of Gad: Sephion and Haggi, and Suni and Esebon, and Heri and Arodi, and Areli. ¹⁷ The sons of Aser: Jamne and Jesua, and Jessuri and Beria, and Sara their sister. The sons of Beria: Heber and Melchiel. ¹⁸ These are the sons of Zelpha, whom Laban gave to Lia, his daughter. And these she bore to Jacob, sixteen souls. ¹⁹ The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁰ And sons were born to Joseph, in the land of Egypt, whom Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore him: Manasses and Ephraim. ²¹ The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Bechor, and Asbel and Gera, and Naaman and Echi, and Ross and Mophim, and Ophim and Ared. ²² These are the sons of Rachel, whom she bore to Jacob: all the souls, fourteen. ²³ The sons of Dan: Husim. ²⁴ The sons of Nephthali: Jaziel and Guni, and Jeser and Sallem. ²⁵ These are the sons of Bala, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter: and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls, seven. ²⁶ All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, and that came out of his thigh, besides his sons' wives, sixty-six. ²⁷ And the sons of Joseph, that were born to him in the land of Egypt, two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, that entered into Egypt, were seventy.

⁸ Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hand shall be on the necks of thy enemies; the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee. ⁹ Juda is a lion's whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up: resting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him? ¹⁰ The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations. ¹¹ Tying his foal to the vineyard, and his ass, O my son, to the vine. He shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape. ¹² His eyes are more beautiful than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.

² Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda, ³ Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin, ⁴ Dan, and Nephthali, Gad and Aser. ⁵ And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.

² Sanctify unto me every firstborn that openeth the womb among the children of Israel, as well of men as of beasts: for they are all mine.

²⁹ Thou shalt not delay to pay thy tithes and thy firstfruits: thou shalt give the firstborn of thy sons to me.

^{16 (40:14)} And Moses did all that the Lord had commanded.

^{19 (40:17)} And spread the roof over the tabernacle, putting over it a cover, as the Lord had commanded.

^{25 (40:23)} Placing the lamps in order, according to the precept of the Lord.

^{27 (40:25)} And burnt upon it the incense of spices, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

^{32 (40:30)} When they went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and went to the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

²⁰ If a man carnally lie with a woman that is a bondservant and marriageable, and yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they both shall be scourged: and they shall not be put to death, because she was not a free woman.

¹⁰ If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

⁷ Of Juda, Nahasson the son of Aminadab.

³ On the east Juda shall pitch his tents by the bands of his army: and the prince of his sons; shall be Nahasson the son of Aminadab.

¹² The first day Nahasson the son of Aminadab of the tribe of Juda offered his offering:

¹⁷ And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Nahasson the son of Aminadab.

¹⁴ The sons of Juda by their troops: whose prince was Nahasson the son of Aminadab.

⁶ He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream.

²⁰ And the sons of Juda by their kindreds were: Sela, of whom is the family of the Selaites: Phares, of whom is the family of the Pharesites: Zare, of whom is the family of the Zarites. ²¹ Moreover the sons of Phares were: Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Hamul, of whom is the family of the Hamulites.

²¹ They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee. ²² If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel. ²³ If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one find her in the city, and lie with her, ²⁴ Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, and they shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried not out, being in the city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife. And thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.

¹ If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. ² And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband, ³ And he also hateth her, and hath given her a bill of divorce, and hath sent her out of his house or is dead: ⁴ The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is defiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy land to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess.

¹ And Josue, the son of Nun, sent from Setim two men, to spy secretly: and said to them: Go, and view the land, and the city of Jericho. They went, and entered into the house of a woman that was a harlot, named Rahab, and lodged with her. ² And it was told the king of Jericho, and was said: Behold there are men come in hither, by night, of the children of Israel, to spy the land. ³ And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying: Bring forth the men that came to thee, and are entered into thy house: for they are spies, and are come to view all the land. ⁴ And the woman taking the men, hid them, and said: I confess they came to me, but I knew not whence they were: ⁵ And at the time of shutting the gate in the dark, they also went out together. I know not whither they are gone: pursue after them quickly, and you will overtake them. ⁶ But she made the men go up to the top of her house, and covered them with the stalks of flax, which was there. ⁷ Now they that were sent, pursued after them, by the way that leadeth to the fords of the Jordan: and as soon as they were gone out, the gate was presently shut. ⁸ The men that were hid were not yet asleep, when behold the woman went up to them, and said: ⁹ I know that the Lord hath given this land to you: for the dread of you is fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land have lost all strength. ¹⁰ We have heard that the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea, at your going in, when you came out of Egypt: and what things you did to the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan, Sehon and Og whom you slew. ¹¹ And at the hearing these things, we were affrighted, and our heart fainted away, neither did there remain any spirit in us, at your coming in: for the Lord your God he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath. ¹² Now, therefore, swear ye to me by the Lord, that as I have shewed mercy to you, so you also will shew mercy to my father's house: and give me a true token. ¹³ That you will save my father and mother, my brethren and sisters, and all things that are theirs, and deliver our souls from death. ¹⁴ They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will shew thee mercy and truth. ¹⁵ Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall. ¹⁶ And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three days, till they come back, and so you shall go on yonr way. ¹⁷ And they said to her: We shall be blameless of this oath, which thou hast made us swear, ¹⁸ If, when we come into the land, this scarlet cord be a sign, and thou tie it in the window, by which thou hast let us down: and gather together thy father and mother, and brethren, and all thy kindred into thy house. ¹⁹ Whosoever shall go out of the door of thy house, his blood shall be upon his own head, and we shall be quit. But the blood of all that shall be with thee in the house, shall light upon our head, if any man touch them. ²⁰ But if thou wilt betray us, and utter this word abroad, we shall be quit of this oath, which thou hast made us swear. ²¹ And she answered: As you have spoken, so be it done: and sending them on their way, she hung the scarlet cord in the window. ²² But they went and came to the mountains, and stayed there three days, till they that pursued them were returned. For having sought them through all the way, they found them not.

²² But Josue said to the two men that had been sent for spies: Go into the harlot's house, and bring her out, and all things that are hers, as you assured her by oath. ²³ And the young men went in, and brought out Rahab, and her parents, her brethren also, and all her goods, and her kindred, and made them to stay without the camp. ²⁴ But they burned the city, and all things that were therein; except the gold and silver, and vessels of brass and iron, which they consecrated unto the treasury of the Lord. ²⁵ But Josue saved Rahab the harlot, and her father's house, and all she had, and they dwelt in the midst of Israel until this present day: because she hid the messengers whom he had sent to spy out Jericho. At that time, Josue made an imprecation, saying:

² And he spoke thus to the people: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river, Thare the father of Abraham, and Nachor: and they served strange gods. ³ And I took your father Abraham from the borders of Mesopotamia: and brought him into the land of Chanaan: and I multiplied his seed, ⁴ And gave him Isaac: and to him again I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave to Esau mount Seir for his possession: but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

³ And an angel of the Lord appeared to her, and said: Thou art barren and without children: but thou shalt conceive and bear a son.

⁸ Then Manue prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, that the man of God, whom thou didst send, may come again, and teach us what we ought to do concerning the child, that shall be born. ⁹ And the Lord heard the prayer of Manue, and the angel of the Lord appeared again to his wife, as she was sitting in the field. But Manue her husband was not with her. And when she saw the angel,

⁴ And they took wives of the women of Moab, of which one was called Orpha, and the other Ruth. And they dwelt their ten years,

¹⁶ She answered: Be not against me, to desire that I should leave thee and depart: for whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where thou shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. ¹⁷ The land that shall receive thee dying, in the same will I die: and there will I be buried. The Lord do so and so to me, and add more also, if aught but death part me and thee.

²² So Noemi came with Ruth, the Moabitess, her daughter in law, from the land of her sojournment: and returned into Bethlehem, in the beginning of the barley harvest.

¹⁸ These are the generations of Phares: Phares begot Esron, ¹⁹ Esron begot Aram, Aram begot Aminadab,

¹⁹ Esron begot Aram, Aram begot Aminadab, ²⁰ Aminadab begot Nahasson, Nahasson begot Salmon,

²⁰ Aminadab begot Nahasson, Nahasson begot Salmon, ²¹ Salmon begot Booz, Booz begot Obed,

²¹ Salmon begot Booz, Booz begot Obed, ²² Obed begot Isai, Isai begot David.

²² Obed begot Isai, Isai begot David.

¹ And the Lord said to Samuel: How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, whom I have rejected from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and come, that I may send thee to Isai, the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

¹¹ And Samuel said to Isai: Are here all thy sons? He answered: There remaineth yet a young one, who keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said to Isai: Send, and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither. ¹² He sent therefore and brought him. Now he was ruddy and beautiful to behold, and of a comely face. And the Lord said: Arise, and anoint him, for this is he. ¹³ Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward: and Samuel rose up, and went to Ramatha.

¹² Now David was the son of that Ephrathite, of Bethlehem Juda, before mentioned, whose name was Isai, who had eight sons, and was an old man in the days of Saul, and of great age among men.

⁵⁸ And Saul said to him: Young man, of what family art thou? And David said: I am the son of thy servant Isai the Bethlehemite.

³⁰ Then Saul being angry against Jonathan, said to him: Thou son of a woman that is the ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest the son of Isai to thy own confusion, and to the confusion of thy shameless mother? ³¹ For as long as the son of Isai liveth upon earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Therefore now presently send, and fetch him to me: for he is the son of death.

⁸ That all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one to inform me, especially when even my son hath entered into league with the son of Isai? There is not one of you that pitieth my case, nor that giveth me any information: because my son hath raised up my servant against me, plotting against me to this day.

¹² And when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of the bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. ¹³ He shall build a house to my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom fore ever. ¹⁴ I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men. ¹⁵ But my mercy I will not take away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before my face. ¹⁶ And thy house shall be faithful, and thy kingdom for ever before thy face, and thy throne shall be firm for ever.

³ And the king sent, and inquired who the woman was. And it was told him, that she was Bethsabee the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urias the Hethite.

²⁶ And the wife of Urias heard that Urias her husband was dead, and she mourned for him. ²⁷ And the mourning being over, David sent and brought her into his house, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing which David had done, was displeasing to the Lord.

²⁴ And David comforted Bethsabee his wife, and went in unto her, and slept with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon, and the Lord loved him. ²⁵ And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name, Amiable to the Lord, because the Lord loved him.

¹ Now these are David's last words. David the son of Isai said: The man to whom it was appointed concerning the Christ of the God of Jacob, the excellent psalmist of Israel said:

³⁹ Urias the Hethite, thirty and seven in all.

¹¹ And Nathan said to Bethsabee, the mother of Solomon: Hast thou not heard that Adonias, the son of Haggith, reigneth, and our lord David knoweth it not? ¹² Now then, come, take my counsel, and save thy life, and the life of thy son Solomon. ¹³ Go, and get thee in to king David, and say to him: Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear to me, thy handmaid, saying: Solomon, thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then doth Adonias reign? ¹⁴ And while thou art yet speaking there with the king, I will come in after thee, and will fill up thy words. ¹⁵ So Bethsabee went in to the king into the chamber. Now the king was very old, and Abisag, the Sunamitess, ministered to him. ¹⁶ Bethsabee bowed herself, and worshipped the king. And the king said to her: What is thy will? ¹⁷ She answered, and said: My lord, thou didst swear to thy handmaid, by the Lord thy God, saying: Solomon, thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.

²⁸ And king David answered, and said: Call to me Bethsabee. And when she was come in to the king, and stood before him, ²⁹ The king swore, and said: As the Lord liveth, who hath delivered my soul out of all distress, ³⁰ Even as I swore to thee, by the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: Solomon thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead, so will I do this day. ³¹ And Bethsabee, bowing with her face to the earth, worshipped the king, saying: May my lord David live for ever.

¹⁵ And Solomon said: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David, my father, and with his own hands hath accomplished it, saying:

²⁴ Who hast kept with thy servant David, my father, what thou hast promised him: with thy mouth thou didst speak, and with thy hands thou hast performed, as this day proveth.

⁴³ And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David, his father; and Roboam, his son, reigned in his stead.

² And he cried out against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said: O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord: Behold a child shall be born to the house of David, Josias by name, and he shall immolate upon thee the priests of the high places, who now burn incense upon thee, and he shall burn men's bones upon thee.

³¹ And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with them, in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naama, an Ammonitess: and Abiam, his son, reigned in his stead.

⁵ Because David had done that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and had not turned aside from any thing that he commanded him, all the days of his life, except the matter of Urias, the Hethite.

⁸ And Abiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa, his son, reigned in his stead. ⁹ So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, reigned Asa, king of Juda, ¹⁰ And he reigned one and forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom. ¹¹ And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as did David, his father: ¹² And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made. ¹³ Moreover, he also removed his mother, Maacha, from being the princess in the sacrifices of Priapus, and in the grove which she had consecrated to him: and he destroyed her den, and broke in pieces the filthy idol, and burnt it by the torrent Cedron: ¹⁴ But the high places he did not take away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days: ¹⁵ And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and he had vowed, into the house of the Lord, silver and gold, and vessels. ¹⁶ And there was war between Asa, and Baasa, king of Israel, all their days. ¹⁷ And Baasa, king of Israel, went up against Juda, and built Rama, that no man might go out or come in of the side of Asa, king of Juda. ¹⁸ Then Asa took all the silver and gold that remained in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house, and delivered it into the hands of his servants: and sent them to Benadad, son of Tabremon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying: ¹⁹ There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: therefore I have sent thee presents of silver and gold: and I desire thee to come, and break thy league with Baasa, king of Israel, that he may depart from me. ²⁰ Benadad, hearkening to king Asa, sent the captains of his army against the cities of Israel, and they smote Ahion, and Dan, and Abeldomum Maacha, and all Cenneroth; that is all the land of Nephthali. ²¹ And when Baasa had heard this, he left off building Rama, and returned into Thersa. ²² But king Asa sent word into all Juda, saying: Let no man be excused: and they took away the stones from Rama, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasa had been building, and with them king Asa built Gabaa of Benjamin, and Maspha. ²³ But the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his strength, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet. ²⁴ And he slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, his father. And Josaphat, his son, reigned in his place.

¹³ And Elias said to her: Fear not; but go, and do as thou hast said but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, and bring it to me, and after make for thyself and thy son.

² And in the third year, Josaphat, king of Juda, came down to the king of Israel. ³ (And the king of Israel said to his servants: Know ye not that Ramoth Galaad is ours, and we neglect to take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?) ⁴ And he said to Josaphat: Wilt thou come with me to battle to Ramoth Galaad? ⁵ And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: As I am, so art thou: my people and thy people are one: and my horsemen are thy horsemen. And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: Inquire, I beseech thee, this day the word of the Lord. ⁶ Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them: Shall I go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or shall I forbear? They answered: Go up, and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king. ⁷ And Josaphat said: Is there not here some prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire by him? ⁸ And the king of Israel said to Josaphat. There is one man left, by whom we may inquire of the Lord; Micheas, the son of Jemla: but I hate him, for he doth not prophecy good to me, but evil. And Josaphat said: Speak not so, O king. ⁹ Then the king of Israel called an eunuch, and said to him: Make haste, and bring hither Micheas, the son of Jemla. ¹⁰ And the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, sat each on his throne, clothed with royal robes, in a court, by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them. ¹¹ And Sedecias, thc son of Chanaana, made himself horns of iron, and said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou destroy it. ¹² And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, saying: Go up to Ramoth Galaad, and prosper, for the Lord will deliver it into the king's hands. ¹³ And the messenger that went to call Micheas, spoke to him, saying: Behold the words of the prophets with one mouth declare good things to the king: let thy word, therefore, be like to theirs, and speak that which is good. ¹⁴ But Micheas said to him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever the Lord shall say to me, that will I speak. ¹⁵ So he came to the king, and the king said to him: Micheas, shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to battle, or shall we forbear? He answered him: Go up, and prosper, and the Lord shall deliver it into the king's hands. ¹⁶ But the king said to him: I adjure thee again and again, that thou tell me nothing but that which is true, in the name of the Lord. ¹⁷ And he said: I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, like sheep that have no shepherd; and the Lord said: These have no master: let every man of them return to his house in peace. ¹⁸ (Then the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not tell thee, that he prophesieth no good to me, but always evil?) ¹⁹ And he added and said: Hear thou, therefore, the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on the right hand and on the left: ²⁰ And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab, king of Israel, that he may go up, and fall at Ramoth Galaad? And one spoke words of this manner, and another otherwise. ²¹ And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said: I will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means? ²² And he said: I will go forth, and be a lying spirit, in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive him, and shalt prevail: go forth, and do so. ²³ Now, therefore, behold the Lord hath given a lying spirit in the mouth of all thy prophets that are here, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee. ²⁴ And Sedecias, the son of Chanaana, came, and struck Micheas on the cheek, and said: Hath then the spirit of the Lord left me, and spoken to thee? ²⁵ And Micheas said: Thou shalt see in the day when thou shalt go into a chamber within a chamber to hide thyself. ²⁶ And the king of Israel said: Take Micheas and let him abide with Amon, the governor of the city, and with Joas, the son of Amalech; ²⁷ And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and water of distress till I return in peace. ²⁸ And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people. ²⁹ So the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, went up to Ramoth-Galaad. ³⁰ And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Take thy armour, and go into the battle, and put on thy own garments. But the king of Israel changed his dress, and went into the battle. ³¹ And the king of Syria had commanded the two and thirty captains of the chariots, saying: You shall not fight against any, small or great, but against the king of Israel only. ³² So when the captains of the chariots saw Josaphat, they suspected that he was the king of Israel, and making a violent assault, they fought against him: and Josaphat cried out. ³³ And the captains of the chariots perceived that he was not the king of Israel, and they turned away from him. ³⁴ And a certain man bent his bow, shooting at a venture, and chanced to strike the king of Israel, between the lungs and the stomach. But he said to the driver of his chariot: Turn thy hand, and carry me out of the army, for I am grievously wounded. ³⁵ And the battle was fought that day, and the king of Israel stood in his chariot against the Syrians, and he died in the evening: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot. ³⁶ And the herald proclaimed through all the army, before the sun set, saying: Let every man return to his own city, and to his own country. ³⁷ And the king died, and was carried into Samaria: and they buried the king in Samaria. ³⁸ And they washed his chariot in the pool of Samaria and the dogs licked up his blood, and they washed the reins according to the word of the Lord which he had spoken. ³⁹ But the rest of the acts of Achab, and all that he did, and the house of ivory that he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel? ⁴⁰ So Achab slept with his fathers; and Ochozias, his son, reigned in his stead. ⁴¹ But Josaphat, the son of Asa, began to reign over Juda, in the fourth year of Acbab, king of Israel. ⁴² He was five and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned five and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Azuba, the daughter of Salai. ⁴³ And he walked in all the way of Asa, his father, and he declined not from it: and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. ^(22:44) Nevertheless, he took not away the high places for as yet the people offered sacrifice, and burnt incense in the high places. ^{44 (22:45)} And Josaphat had peace with the king of Israel. ^{45 (22:46)} But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, and his works which he did, and his battles, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? ^{46 (22:47)} And the remnant also of the effeminate, who remained in the days of Asa, his father, he took out of the land. ^{47 (22:48)} And there was then no king appointed in Edom. ^{48 (22:49)} But king Josaphat made navies on the sea, to sail into Ophir for gold: but they could not go, for the ships were broken in Asiongaber. ^{49 (22:50)} Then Ochozias, the son of Achab, said to Josaphat: Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. And Josaphat would not. ^{50 (22:51)} And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, his father: and Joram, his son, reigned in his stead.

¹ And Joram the son of Achab, reigned over Israel, in Samaria, in the eighteenth year of Josaphat, king of Juda. And he reigned twelve years.

¹⁶ He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life be in company, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid. ¹⁷ And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the time, and at the same hour that Eliseus had said.

¹¹ Naaman was angry, and went away, saying: I thought he would have come out to me, and standing, would have invoked the name of the Lord his God, and touched with his hand the place of the leprosy, and healed me. ¹² Are not the Abana, and the Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel, that I may wash in them, and be made clean? So as he turned, and was going away with indignation, ¹³ His servants came to him, and said to him: Father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it: how much rather what he now hath said to thee: Wash, and thou shalt be clean? ¹⁴ Then he went down, and washed in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored, like the flesh of a little child: and he was made clean.

¹⁶ In the fifth year of Joram, son of Achab, king of Israel, and of Josaphat, king of Juda, reigned Joram, son of Josaphat, king of Juda.

²¹ And all the people of Juda took Azarias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father, Amasias.

¹ In the seven and twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, reigned Azarias, son of Amasias, king of Juda. ² He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia, of Jerusalem. ³ And he did that which was pleasing before the Lord, according to all that his father, Amasias, had done. ⁴ But the high places he did not destroy, for the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places. ⁵ And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a free house apart: but Joatham, the king's son, governed the palace, and judged the people of the land. ⁶ And the rest of the acts of Azarias, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? ⁷ And Azarias slept with his fathers: and they buried him with his ancestors in the city of David, and Joatham, his son, reigned in his stead.

³² In the second year of Phacee, the son of Romelia king of Israel, reigned Joatham, son of Ozias, king of Juda.

¹ In the third year of Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel, reigned Ezechias, the son of Achaz, king of Juda. ² He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abi, the daughter of Zacharias. ³ And he did that which was good before the Lord, according to all that David, his father, had done ⁴ He destroyed the high places, and broke the statues in pieces, and cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had made: for till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called its name Nohestan. ⁵ He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel: so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Juda, nor any of them that were before him: ⁶ And he stuck to the Lord, and departed not from his steps, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses. ⁷ Wherefore the Lord also was with him, and in all things, to which he went forth, he behaved himself wisely. And he rebelled against the king of the Assyrians, and served him not. ⁸ He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza, and all their borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. ⁹ In the fourth year of king Ezechias, which was the seventh vear of Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel, Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians, came up to Samaria, and besieged it, ¹⁰ And took it. For after three years, in the sixth year of Ezechias, that is, in the ninth year of Osee, king of Israel, Samaria was taken: ¹¹ And the king of the Assyrians carried away Israel into Assyria, and placed them in Hala, and in Habor, by the rivers of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes. ¹² Because they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, their God, but transgressed his covenant: all that Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded, they would not hear, nor do. ¹³ In the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, came up against the fenced cities of Juda, and took them. ¹⁴ Then Ezechias, king of Juda, sent messengers to the king of the Assyrians, to Lachis, saying: I have offended, depart from me: and all that thou shalt put upon me, I will bear. And the king of the Assyrians put a tax upon Ezechias, king of Juda, of three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold. ¹⁵ And Ezechias gave all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the king's treasures. ¹⁶ At that time Ezechias broke the doors of the temple of the Lord, and the plates of gold which he had fastened on them, and gave them to the king of the Assyrians. ¹⁷ And the king of the Assyrians sent Tharthan, and Rabsaris, and Rabsaces, from Lachis, to king Ezechias, with a strong army, to Jerusalem: and they went up and came to Jerusalem, and they stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the way of the fuller's field. ¹⁸ And they called for the king: and there went out to them Eliacim, the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and Sobna, the scribe, and Joahe, the son of Asaph, the recorder. ¹⁹ And Rabsaces said to them: Speak to Ezechias: Thus saith the great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence, wherein thou trustest? ²⁰ Perhaps thou hast taken counsel, to prepare thyself for battle. On whom dost thou trust, that thou darest to rebel?

²¹ And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and Manasses, his son reigned in his stead.

²¹ And he walked in all the way in which his father had walked: and he served the abominations which his father had served, and he adored them. ²² And forsook the Lord, the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord. ²³ And his servants plotted against him, and slew the king in his own house. ²⁴ But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon: and made Josias, his son, their king in his stead. ²⁵ But the rest of the acts of Amon, which he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? ²⁶ And they buried him in his sepulchre, in the garden of Oza: and his son, Josias, reigned in his stead.

²¹ And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the Phase to the Lord your God, according as it is written in the book of this covenant. ²² Now there was no such a Phase kept from the days of the judges, who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Juda, ²³ As was this Phase, that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josias. ²⁴ Moreover the diviners by spirits, and soothsayers, and the figures of idols, and the uncleannesses, and the abominations, that had been in the land of Juda and Jerusalem, Josias took away: that he might perform the words of the law, that were written in the book, which Helcias the priest had found in the temple of the Lord. ²⁵ There was no king before him like unto him, that returned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, according to all the law of Moses: neither after him did there arise any like unto him. ²⁶ But yet the Lord turned not away from the wrath of his great indignation, wherewith his anger was kindled against Juda: because of the provocations, wherewith Manasses had provoked him. ²⁷ And the Lord said: I will remove Juda also from before my face, as I have removed Israel: and I will cast off this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the house, of which I said: My name shall be there. ²⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Josias, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? ²⁹ In his days Pharao Nechao, king of Egypt, went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josias went to meet him: and was slain at Mageddo, when he had seen him. ³⁰ And his servants carried him dead from Mageddo: and they brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Joachaz, the son of Josias: and they anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead. ³¹ Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna.

³ And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda, to remove them from before him for all the sins of Manasses which he did; ⁴ And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.

¹⁴ And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the valiant men of the army, to the number of ten thousand, into captivity: and every artificer and smith: and none were left, but the poor sort of the people of the land.

¹¹ And Nabuzardan, the commander of the army, carried away the rest of the people, that remained in the city, and the fugitives, that had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the common people.

²⁷ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Joachin, king of Juda, in the twelfth month, the seven and twentieth day of the month: Evilmerodach, king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Joachin, king of Juda, out of prison.

²⁸ And the sons of Abraham, Isaac and Ismahel.

³⁴ And Abraham begot Isaac: and his sons were Esau and Israel.

¹ And these are the sons of Israel: Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, and Zabulon,

¹ And these are the sons of Israel: Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, and Zabulon, ² Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Nephtali, Gad, and Aser.

² Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Nephtali, Gad, and Aser. ³ The sons of Juda: Her, Onan and Sela. These three were born to him of the Chanaanitess the daughter of Sue. And Her the firstborn of Juda, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he slew him.

³ The sons of Juda: Her, Onan and Sela. These three were born to him of the Chanaanitess the daughter of Sue. And Her the firstborn of Juda, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he slew him. ⁴ And Thamar his daughter in law bore him Phares and Zara. So all the sons of Juda were five.

⁴ And Thamar his daughter in law bore him Phares and Zara. So all the sons of Juda were five. ⁵ And the sons of Phares, were Hesron and Hamul.

⁵ And the sons of Phares, were Hesron and Hamul. ⁶ And the sons also of Zare: Zamri, and Ethan, and Eman, and Chalchal, and Dara, five in all.

⁶ And the sons also of Zare: Zamri, and Ethan, and Eman, and Chalchal, and Dara, five in all. ⁷ And the sons of Charmi: Achar, who troubled Israel, and sinned by the theft of the anathema.

⁷ And the sons of Charmi: Achar, who troubled Israel, and sinned by the theft of the anathema. ⁸ The sons of Ethan: Azarias,

⁸ The sons of Ethan: Azarias, ⁹ And the sons of Hesron that were born to him: Jerameel, and Ram, and Calubi. ¹⁰ And Ram begot Aminadab, and Aminadab begot Nahasson, prince of the children of Juda.

¹⁰ And Ram begot Aminadab, and Aminadab begot Nahasson, prince of the children of Juda. ¹¹ And Nahasson begot Salma, the father of Booz.

¹¹ And Nahasson begot Salma, the father of Booz. ¹² And Booz begot Obed, and Obed begot Isai.

¹² And Booz begot Obed, and Obed begot Isai. ¹³ And Isai begot Eliab his firstborn, the second Abinadab, the third Simmaa, ¹⁴ The fourth, Nathanael, the fifth Raddai, ¹⁵ The sixth Asom, the seventh David.

¹⁵ The sixth Asom, the seventh David.

⁵ And these sons were born to him in Jerusalem: Simmaa, and Sobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four of Bethsabee the daughter of Ammiel.

¹⁰ And Solomon's son was Roboam: whose son Abia begot Asa. And his son was Josaphat, ¹¹ The father of Joram: and Joram begot Ochozias, of whom was born Joas:

¹¹ The father of Joram: and Joram begot Ochozias, of whom was born Joas:

¹¹ The father of Joram: and Joram begot Ochozias, of whom was born Joas: ¹² And his son Amasias begot Azarias. And Joathan the son of Azarias

¹² And his son Amasias begot Azarias. And Joathan the son of Azarias ¹³ Begot Achaz, the father of Ezechias, of whom was born Manasses.

¹³ Begot Achaz, the father of Ezechias, of whom was born Manasses.

¹³ Begot Achaz, the father of Ezechias, of whom was born Manasses. ¹⁴ And Manasses begot Amon the father of Josias.

¹⁴ And Manasses begot Amon the father of Josias. ¹⁵ And the sons of Josias were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Joakim, the third Sedecias, the fourth Sellum.

¹⁵ And the sons of Josias were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Joakim, the third Sedecias, the fourth Sellum. ¹⁶ Of Joakim was born Jechonias, and Sedecias. ¹⁷ The sons of Jechonias were Asir, Salathiel,

¹⁷ The sons of Jechonias were Asir, Salathiel,

¹⁹ Of Phadaia were born Zorobabel and Semei. Zorobabel begot Mosollam, Hananias, and Salomith their sister: ²⁰ Hasaba also, and Ohol, and Barachias, and Hasadias, Josabhesed, five. ²¹ And the son of Hananias was Phaltias the father of Jeseias, whose son was Raphaia. And his son was Arnan, of whom was born Obdia, whose son was Sechenias. ²² The son of Sechenias was Semeia, whose sons were Hattus, and Jegaal, and Baria, and Naaria, and Saphat, six in number. ²³ The sons of Naaria, Elioenai, and Ezechias, and Ezricam, three. ²⁴ The sons of Elioenai, Oduia, and Eliasub, and Pheleia, and Accub, and Johanan, and Dalaia, and Anani, seven.

¹ The sons of Juda: Phares, Hesron, and Charmi and Hur, and Sobal.

¹ Now the sons of Ruben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was his firstborn: but forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his first birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and he was not accounted for the firstborn. ² But of the race of Juda, who was the strongest among his brethren, came the princes: but the first birthright was accounted to Joseph.)

⁶ And of the sons of Zara: Jehuel and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.

⁴¹ Urias a Hethite, Zabad the son of Oholi,

⁴ Now these are the names of them that were born to him in Jerusalem: Samua, and Sobad, Nathan, and Solomon,

⁵ And among my sons (for the Lord hath given me many sons) he hath chosen Solomon my son, to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

³¹ And he slept with his fathers: and they buried him in the city of David: and Roboam his son reigned in his stead.

¹ And when the kingdom of Roboam was strengthened and fortified, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

⁷ And there were gathered to him vain men, and children of Belial: and they prevailed against Roboam the son of Solomon: for Roboam was unexperienced, and of a fearful heart, and could not resist them.

¹ And Abia slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: an Asa his son reigned in his stead: in his days the land was quiet ten years. ² And Asa did that which was good and pleasing in the sight of his God, and he destroyed the altars of foreign worship, and the high places. ³ And broke the statues, and cut down the groves. ⁴ And he commanded Juda to seek the Lord the God of their fathers, and to do the law, and all the commandments. ⁵ And he took away out of all the cities of Juda the altars, and temples, and reigned in peace. ⁶ He built also strong cities in Juda, for he was quiet, and there had no wars risen in his time, the Lord giving peace. ⁷ And he said to Juda: Let us build these cities, and compass them with walls, and fortify them with towers, and gates, and bars, while all is quiet from wars, because we have sought the Lord the God of our fathers, and he hath given us peace round about. So they built, and there was no hinderance in building. ⁸ And Asa had in his army of men that bore shields and spears of Juda three hundred thousand, and of Benjamin that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred and eighty thousand, all these were most valiant men. ⁹ And Zara the Ethiopian came out against them with his army of ten hundred thousand men, and with three hundred chariots: and he came as far as Maresa. ¹⁰ And Asa went out to meet him, and set his army in array for battle in the vale of Sephata, which is near Maresa: ¹¹ And he called upon the Lord God, and said: Lord, there is no difference with thee, whether thou help with few, or with many: help us, O Lord our God: for with confidence in thee, and in thy name we are come against this multitude. O Lord thou art our God, let not man prevail against thee. ¹² And the Lord terrified the Ethiopians before Asa and Juda: and the Ethiopians fled. ¹³ And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them to Gerara: and the Ethiopians fell even to utter destruction, for the Lord slew them, and his army fought against them, and they were destroyed. And they took abundance of spoils, ¹⁴ And they took all the cities round about Gerara: for a great fear was come upon all men: and they pillaged the cities, and carried off much booty. ¹⁵ And they destroyed the sheepcotes, and took an infinite number of cattle, and of camels: and returned to Jerusalem.

¹ And Josaphat his son reigned in his stead, and grew strong against Israel. ² And he placed numbers of soldiers in all the fortified cities of Juda. And he put garrisons in the land of Juda, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. ³ And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim, ⁴ But in the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not according to the sins of Israel. ⁵ And the Lord established the kingdom in his hand, and all Juda brought presents to Josaphat: and he acquired immense riches, and much glory. ⁶ And when his heart had taken courage for the ways of the Lord, he took away also the high places and the groves out of Juda. ⁷ And in the third year of his reign, he sent of his princes Benhail, and Abdias, and Zacharias, and Nathanael, and Micheas, to teach in the cites of Juda: ⁸ And with them the Levites, Semeias, and Nathanias, and Zabadias, and Asael, and Semiramoth, and Jonathan, and Adonias, and Tobias, and Thobadonias Levites, and with them Elisama, and Joram priests. ⁹ And they taught the people in Juda, having with them the book of the law of the Lord: and they went about all the cities of Juda, and instructed the people. ¹⁰ And the fear of the Lord came upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Juda, and they durst not make war against Josaphat. ¹¹ The Philistines also brought presents to Josaphat, and tribute in silver, and the Arabians brought him cattle, seven thousand seven hundred rams, and as many he goats. ¹² And Josaphat grew, and became exceeding great: and he built in Juda houses like towers, and walled cities. ¹³ And he prepared many works in the cities of Juda: and he had warriors, and valiant men in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ Of whom this is the number of the houses and families of every one: in Juda captains of the army, Ednas the chief, and with him three hundred thousand most valiant men. ¹⁵ After him Johanan the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand. ¹⁶ And after him was Amasias the son of Zechri, consecrated to the Lord, and with him were two hundred thousand valiant men. ¹⁷ After him was Eliada valiant in battle, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield. ¹⁸ After him also was Jozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand ready for war. ¹⁹ All these were at the hand of the king, beside others, whom he had put in the walled cities, in all Juda.

¹ And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David: and Joram his son reigned in his stead.

¹ And all the people of Juda took his son Ozias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of Amasias his father. ² He built Ailath, and restored it to the dominion of Juda, after that the king slept with his fathers. ³ Ozias was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia of Jerusalem. ⁴ And he did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Amasias his father had done. ⁵ And he sought the Lord in the days of Zacharias that understood and saw God: and as long as he sought the Lord, he directed him in all things. ⁶ Moreover he went forth and fought against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Geth, and the wall of Jabnia, and the wall of Azotus: and he built towns in Azotus, and among the Philistines. ⁷ And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians, that dwelt in Gurbaal, and against the Ammonites. ⁸ And the Ammonites gave gifts to Ozias: and his name was spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt for his frequent victories. ⁹ And Ozias built towers in Jerusalem over the gate of the corner, and over the gate of the valley, and the rest, in the same side of the wall, and fortified them. ¹⁰ And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many cisterns, for he had much cattle both in the plains, and in the waste of the desert: he had also vineyards and dressers of vines in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he was a man that loved husbandry. ¹¹ And the army of his fighting men, that went out to war, was under the hand of Jehiel the scribe, and Maasias the doctor, and under the hand of Henanias, who was one of the king's captains. ¹² And the whole number of the chiefs by the families of valiant men were two thousand six hundred. ¹³ And the whole army under them three hundred and seven thousand five hundred: who were fit for war, and fought for the king against the enemy. ¹⁴ And Ozias prepared for them, that is, for the whole army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and slings to cast stones. ¹⁵ And he made in Jerusalem engines of diverse kinds, which he placed in the towers, and in the corners of the walls, to shoot arrows, and great stones: and his name went forth far abroad, for the Lord helped him, and had strengthened him. ¹⁶ But when he was made strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction, and he neglected the Lord his God: and going into the temple of the Lord, he had a mind to burn incense upon the altar of incense. ¹⁷ And immediately Azarias the priest going in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the Lord, most valiant men, ¹⁸ Withstood the king and said: It doth not belong to thee, Ozias, to burn incense to the Lord, but to the priests, that is, to the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated for this ministry: go out of the sanctuary, do not despise: for this thing shall not be accounted to thy glory by the Lord God. ¹⁹ And Ozias was angry, and holding in his hand the censer to burn incense, threatened the priests. And presently there rose a leprosy in his forehead before the priests, in the house of the Lord at the altar of incense. ²⁰ And Azarias the high priest, and all the rest of the priests looked upon him, and saw the leprosy in his forehead, and they made haste to thrust him out. Yea himself also being frightened, hasted to go out, because he had quickly felt the stroke of the Lord. ²¹ And Ozias the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a house apart being full of the leprosy, for which he had been cast out of the house of the Lord. And Joatham his son governed the king's house, and judged the people of the land.

²¹ And Ozias the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a house apart being full of the leprosy, for which he had been cast out of the house of the Lord. And Joatham his son governed the king's house, and judged the people of the land. ²² But the rest of the acts of Ozias first and last were written by Isaias the son of Amos, the prophet. ²³ And Ozias slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the field of the royal sepulchres, because he was a leper: and Joatham his son reigned in his stead.

¹ Joatham was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa the daughter of Sadoc. ² And he did that which was right before the Lord, according to all that Ozias his father had done, only that he entered not into the temple of the Lord, and the people still transgressed. ³ He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. ⁴ Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Juda, and castles and towers in the forests. ⁵ He fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and overcame them, and the children of Ammon gave him at that time a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and as many measures of barley: so much did the children of Ammon give him in the second and third year. ⁶ And Joatham was strengthened, because he had his way directed before the Lord his God. ⁷ Now the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all his wars, and his works, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Juda. ⁸ He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. ⁹ And Joatham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.

¹ Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord as David his father had done, ² But walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; moreover also he cast statues for Baalim. ³ It was he that burnt incense in the valley of Benennom, and consecrated his sons in the fire according to the manner of the nations, which the Lord slew at the coming of the children of Israel. ⁴ He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. ⁵ And the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Syria, who defeated him, and took a great booty out of his kingdom, and carried it to Damascus: he was also delivered into the hands of the king of Israel, who overthrew him with a great slaughter. ⁶ For Phacee the son of Romelia slew of Juda a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers. ⁷ At the same time Zechri a powerful man of Ephraim, slew Maasias the king's son, and Ezricam the governor of his house, and Elcana who was next to the king. ⁸ And the children of Israel carried away of their brethren two hundred thousand women, boys, and girls, and an immense booty: and they brought it to Samaria. ⁹ At that time there was a prophet of the Lord there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them: Behold the Lord the God of your fathers being angry with Juda, hath delivered them into your hands, and you have butchered them cruelly, so that your cruelty hath reached up to heaven. ¹⁰ Moreover you have a mind to keep under the children of Juda and Jerusalem for your bondmen and bondwomen, which ought not to be done: for you have sinned in this against the Lord your God. ¹¹ But hear ye my counsel, and release the captives that you have brought of your brethren, because a great indignation of the Lord hangeth over you. ¹² Then some of the chief men of the sons of Ephraim, Azarias the son of Johanan, Barachias the son of Mosollamoth, Ezechias the son of Sellum, and Amasa the son of Adali, stood up against them that came from the war. ¹³ And they said to them: You shall not bring in the captives hither, lest we sin against the Lord. Why will you add to our sins, and heap up upon our former offences? for the sin is great, and the fierce anger of the Lord hangeth over Israel. ¹⁴ So the soldiers left the spoils, and all that they had taken, before the princes and all the multitude. ¹⁵ And the men, whom we mentioned above, rose up and took the captives, and with the spoils clothed all them that were naked: and when they had clothed and shod them, and refreshed them with meat and drink, and anointed them because of their labour, and had taken care of them, they set such of them as could not walk, and were feeble, upon beasts, and brought them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their brethren, and they returned to Samaria. ¹⁶ At that time king Achaz sent to the king of the Assyrians asking help. ¹⁷ And the Edomites came and slew many of Juda, and took a great booty. ¹⁸ The Philistines also spread themselves among the cities of the plains, and to the south of Juda: and they took Bethsames, and Aialon, and Gaderoth, and Socho, and Thamnan, and Gamzo, with their villages, and they dwelt in them. ¹⁹ For the Lord had humbled Juda because of Achaz the king of Juda, for he had stripped it of help, and had contemned the Lord. ²⁰ And he brought against him Thelgathphalnasar king of the Assyrians, who also afflicted him, and plundered him without any resistance. ²¹ And Achaz stripped the house of the Lord, and the house of the kings, and of the princes, and gave gifts to the king of the Assyrians, and yet it availed him nothing. ²² Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt against the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself, ²³ Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him, and he said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them, and I will appease them with victims, and they will help me; whereas on the contrary they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. ²⁴ Then Achaz having taken away all the vessels of the house of God, and broken them, shut up the doors of the temple of God, and made himself altars in all the corners of Jerusalem. ²⁵ And in all the cities of Juda he built altars to burn frankincense, and he provoked the Lord the God of his fathers to wrath. ²⁶ But the rest of his acts, and all his works first and last are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel. ²⁷ And Achaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of Jerusalem: for they received him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel. And Ezechias his son reigned in his stead.

¹ Now Ezechias began to reign, when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abia, the daughter of Zacharias. ² And he did that which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done. ³ In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them. ⁴ And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the east street. ⁵ And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified, purify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away all filth out of the sanctuary. ⁶ Our fathers have sinned and done evil in the sight of the Lord God, forsaking him: they have turned away their faces from the tabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backs. ⁷ They have shut up the doors that were in the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burnt incense, nor offered holocausts in the sanctuary of the God of Israel. ⁸ Therefore the wrath of the Lord hath been stirred up against Juda and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, and to destruction, and to be hissed at, as you see with your eyes. ⁹ Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword, our sons, and our daughters, and wives are led away captives for this wickedness. ¹⁰ Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the Lord the God of Israel, and he will turn away the wrath of his indignation from us. ¹¹ My sons, be not negligent: the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, and to minister to him, and to worship him, and to burn incense to him. ¹² Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azarias, of the sons of Caath: and of the sons of Merari, Cis the son of Abdi, and Azarias the son of Jalaleel. And of the sons of Gerson, Joah the son of Zemma, and Eden the son of Joah. ¹³ And of the sons of Elisaphan, Samri, and Jahiel. Also of the sons of Asaph, Zacharias, and Mathanias. ¹⁴ And of the sons of Heman, Jahiel, and Semei: and of the sons of Idithun, Semeias, and Oziel. ¹⁵ And they gathered together their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and went in according to the commandment of the king, and the precept of the Lord, to purify the house of God. ¹⁶ And the priests went into the temple of the Lord to sanctify it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found within to the entrance of the house of the Lord, and the Levites took it away, and carried it out abroad to the torrent Cedron. ¹⁷ And they began to cleanse on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the same month they came into the porch of the temple of the Lord, and they purified the temple in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the same month they finished what they had begun. ¹⁸ And they went in to king Ezechias, and said to him: We have sanctified all the house of the Lord, and the altar of holocaust, and the vessels thereof, and the table of proposition with all its vessels, ¹⁹ And all the furniture of the temple, which king Achaz in his reign had defiled, after his transgression; and behold they are all set forth before the altar of the Lord. ²⁰ And king Ezechias rising early, assembled all the rulers of the city, and went up into the house of the Lord: ²¹ And they offered together seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats for sin, for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, for Juda: and he spoke to the priests the sons of Aaron, to offer them upon the altar of the Lord. ²² Therefore they killed the bullocks, and the priests took the blood, and poured it upon the altar; they killed also the rams, and their blood they poured also upon the altar, and they killed the lambs, and poured the blood upon the altar. ²³ And they brought the he goats for sin before the king, and the whole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them: ²⁴ And the priests immolated them, and sprinkled their blood before the altar for an expiation of all Israel: for the king had commanded that the holocaust and the sin offering should be made for all Israel. ²⁵ And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, and psalteries, and harps according to the regulation of David the king, and of Gad the seer, and of Nathan the prophet: for it was the commandment of the Lord by the hand of his prophets. ²⁶ And the Levites stood, with the instruments of David, and the priests with trumpets. ²⁷ And Ezechias commanded that they should offer holocausts upon the altar: and when the holocausts were offered, they began to sing praises to the Lord, and to sound with trumpets, and divers instruments which David the king of Israel had prepared. ²⁸ And all the multitude adored, and the singers, and the trumpeters, were in their office till the holocaust was finished. ²⁹ And when the oblation was ended, the king, and all that were with him bowed down and adored. ³⁰ And Ezechias and the princes commanded the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David, and Asaph the seer: and they praised him with great joy, and bowing the knee adored. ³¹ And Ezechias added, and said: You have filled your hands to the Lord, come and offer victims, and praises in the house of the Lord. And all the multitude offered victims, and praises, and holocausts with a devout mind. ³² And the number of the holocausts which the multitude offered, was seventy bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs.

³³ And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and they buried him above the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem celebrated his funeral: and Manasses his son reigned in his stead.

¹ Then the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of his father in Jerusalem. ² Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. ³ And the king of Egypt came to Jerusalem, and deposed him, and condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. ⁴ And he made Eliakim his brother king in his stead, over Juda and Jerusalem: and he turned his name to Joakim: but he took Joachaz with him and carried him away into Egypt. ⁵ Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did evil before the Lord his God. ⁶ Against him came up Nabuchodonosor king of the Chaldeans, and led him bound in chains into Babylon. ⁷ And he carried also thither the vessels of the Lord, and put them in his temple. ⁸ But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and his abominations, which he wrought, and the things that were found in him, are contained in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel. And Joachin his son reigned in his stead.

¹⁰ And at the return of the year, king Nabuchodonosor sent, and brought him to Babylon, carrying away at the same time the most precious vessels of the house of the Lord: and he made Sedecias his uncle king over Juda and Jerusalem.

²⁰ Whosoever escaped the sword, was led into Babylon, and there served the king and his sons, till the reign of the king of Persia,

¹ In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians: and he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and in writing also, saying:

² And Josue the son of Josedec rose up, and his brethren the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they built the altar of the God of Israel that they might offer holocausts upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

² Then rose up Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of Josedec, and began to build the temple of God in Jerusalem, and with them were the prophets of God helping them.

¹ Now these are the priests and the Levites, that went up with Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue: Saraia, Jeremias, Esdras,

¹³ In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men, ¹⁴ Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted: ¹⁵ And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up. ¹⁶ There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.

⁴ Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?

¹⁴ What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

¹⁵ By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds: ¹⁶ Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn. ¹⁷ That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.

⁸ The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore he will give a law to sinners in the way. ⁹ He will guide the mild in judgment: he will teach the meek his ways.

^{7 (46:8)} The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.

^{11 (46:12)} The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.

²⁰ The praises of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.

^{36 (89:37)} His seed shall endure for ever.

¹⁹ According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, thy comforts have given joy to my soul.

⁴ To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful, and compassionate and just. ⁵ Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall order his words with judgment:

¹²⁵ I am thy servant: give me understanding that I may know thy testimonies.

⁷ Because with the Lord there is mercy: and with him plentiful redemption. ⁸ And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

¹¹ The Lord hath sworn truth to David, and he will not make it void: of the fruit of thy womb I will set upon thy throne.

⁸ Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee have I hoped. Make the way known to me, wherein I should walk: for I have lifted up my soul to thee.

⁵ Have confidence in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not upon thy own prudence. ⁶ In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.

⁵ The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

¹ And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Joathan, the son of Ozias, king of Juda, that Rasin king of Syria and Phacee the son of Romelia king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem, to fight against it: but they could not prevail over it. ² And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath rested upon Ephraim, and his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.

² And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath rested upon Ephraim, and his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind. ³ And the Lord said to Isaias: Go forth to meet Achaz, thou and Jasub thy son that is left, to the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller's field. ⁴ And thou shalt say to him: See thou be quiet: fear not, and let not thy heart be afraid of the two tails of these firebrands, smoking with the wrath of the fury of Rasin king of Syria, and of the son of Romelia. ⁵ Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the evil of Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying: ⁶ Let us go up to Juda, and rouse it up, and draw it away to us, and make the son of Tabeel king in the midst thereof. ⁷ Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this shall not be. ⁸ But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rasin: and within threescore and five years, Ephraim shall cease to be a people: ⁹ And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Romelia. If you will not believe, you shall not continue. ¹⁰ And the Lord spoke again to Achaz, saying: ¹¹ Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God, either unto the depth of hell, or unto the height above. ¹² And Achaz said: I will not ask, and I will not tempt the Lord. ¹³ And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to be grievous to men, that you are grievous to my God also?

¹³ And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to be grievous to men, that you are grievous to my God also? ¹⁴ Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.

⁸ And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going over shall reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy, land, O Emmanuel. ⁹ Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, and be overcome, gird yourselves, and be overcome. ¹⁰ Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word, and it shall not be done: because God is with us.

⁶ For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace. ⁷ His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

¹ And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root.

¹ And thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, for thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is turned away, and thou hast comforted me. ² Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation.

² Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation.

³ The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee.

²¹ And thy ears shall hear the word of one admonishing thee behind thy back: This is the way, walk ye in it: and go not aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

¹ And it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, that Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came up against all the fenced cities of Juda, and took them. ² And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabsaces from Lachis to Jerusalem, to king Ezechias with a great army, and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller's field. ³ And there went out to him Eliacim the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder. ⁴ And Rabsaces said to them: Tell Ezechias: Thus saith the great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence wherein thou trustest? ⁵ Or with what counsel or strength dost thou prepare for war? on whom dost thou trust, that thou art revolted from me? ⁶ Lo thou trustest upon this broken staff of a reed, upon Egypt: upon which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharao king of Egypt to all that trust in him. ⁷ But if thou wilt answer me: We trust in the Lord our God: is it not he whose high places and altars Ezechias hath taken away, and hath said to Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before this altar? ⁸ And now deliver thyself up to my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give thee two thousand horses, and thou wilt not be able on thy part to find riders for them. ⁹ And how wilt thou stand against the face of the judge of one place, of the least of my master's servants? But if thou trust in Egypt, in chariots and in horsemen: ¹⁰ And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up against this land, and destroy it. ¹¹ And Eliacim, and Sobna, and Joahe said to Rabsaces: Speak to thy servants in the Syrian tongue: for we understand it: speak not to us in the Jews' language in the hearing of the people, that are upon the wall. ¹² And Rabsaces said to them: Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee, to speak all these words; and not rather to the men that sit on the wall; that they may eat their own dung, and drink their urine with you? ¹³ Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said: Hear the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians. ¹⁴ Thus saith the king: Let not Ezechias deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you. ¹⁵ And let not Ezechias make you trust in the Lord, saying: The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians. ¹⁶ Do not hearken to Ezechias: for thus said the king of the Assyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage, and come out to me, and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the water of his cistern, ¹⁷ Till I come and take you away to a land, like to your own, a land of corn and of wine, a land of bread and vineyards. ¹⁸ Neither let Ezechias trouble you, saying: The Lord will deliver us. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians? ¹⁹ Where is the god of Emath and of Arphad? where is the god of Sepharvaim? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? ²⁰ Who is there among all the gods of these lands, that hath delivered his country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? ²¹ And they held their peace, and answered him not a word. For the king had commanded, saying: Answer him not. ²² And Eliacim the son of Helcias, that was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder, went in to Ezechias with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces.

⁸ But thou Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend:

²¹ Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time? Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour, there is none besides me. ²² Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, all ye ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.

² Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sara that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

⁷ Hearken to me, you that know what is just, my people who have my law in your heart: fear ye not the reproach of men, and be not afraid of their blasphemies.

⁸ He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall declare his generation? because he is cut off out of the land of the living: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him.

² The word of the Lord which came to him in the days of Josias the son of Amon king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign. ³ And which came to him in the days of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, unto the end of the eleventh year of Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda, even unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive, in the fifth month.

¹⁰ Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see: and send into Cedar, and consider diligently: and see if there hath been done any thing like this. ¹¹ If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol. ¹² Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord. ¹³ For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. ¹⁴ Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave? why then is he become a prey? ¹⁵ The lions have roared upon him, and have made a noise, they have made his land a wilderness: his cities are burnt down, and there is none to dwell in them. ¹⁶ The children also of Memphis, and of Taphnes have defloured thee, even to the crown of the head. ¹⁷ Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God at that time, when he led thee by the way? ¹⁸ And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the troubled water? And what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of the river? ¹⁹ Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord the God of hosts. ²⁰ Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself. ²¹ Yet, I planted thee a chosen vineyard, all true seed: how then art thou turned unto me into that which is good for nothing, O strange vineyard? ²² Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God. ²³ How canst thou say: I am not polluted, I have not walked after Baalim? see thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift runner pursuing his course. ²⁴ A wild ass accustomed to the wilderness in the desire of his heart, snuffed up the wind of his love: none shall turn her away: all that seek her shall not fail: in her monthly filth they shall find her. ²⁵ Keep thy foot from being bare, and thy throat from thirst. But thou saidst: I have lost all hope, I will not do it: for I have loved strangers, and I will walk after them. ²⁶ As the thief is confounded when he is taken, so is the house of Israel confounded, they and their kings, their princes and their priests, and their prophets. ²⁷ Saying to a stock: Thou art my father: and to a stone: Thou hast begotten me: they have turned their back to me, and not their face: and in the time of their affliction they will say: Arise, and deliver us. ²⁸ Where are the gods, whom thou hast made thee? let them arise and deliver thee in the time of thy affliction: for according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda.

²⁴ As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda were a ring on my right hand, I would pluck him thence.

²⁸ Is this man Jechonias an earthen and a broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

⁵ Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise: and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. ⁶ In those days shall Juda be saved, and Israel shall dwell confidently: and this is the name that they shall call him: The Lord our just one.

²⁰ Which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon did not take, when he carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the great men of Juda and Jerusalem.

²² How long wilt thou be dissolute in deliciousness, O wandering daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing upon the earth: A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN.

¹⁵ In those days, and at that time, I will make the bud of justice to spring forth unto David, and he shall do judgment and justice in the earth. ¹⁶ In those days shall Juda be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell securely: and this is the name that they shall call him, The Lord our just one.

¹⁶ In those days shall Juda be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell securely: and this is the name that they shall call him, The Lord our just one. ¹⁷ For thus saith the Lord: There shall not be cut off from David a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel.

²⁶ Surely I will also cast off the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so as not to take any of his seed to be rulers of the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will bring back their captivity, and will have mercy on them.

⁹ And Nabuzardan the general of the army carried away captive to Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and the fugitives that had gone over to him, and the rest of the people that remained.

⁹ And Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan swore to them and to their companions, saying: Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

¹¹ And he put out the eyes of Sedecias, and bound him with fetters, and the king of Babylon brought him into Babylon, and he put him in prison till the day of his death. ¹² And in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, the same is the nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan the general of the army, who stood before the king of Babylon in Jerusalem. ¹³ And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire. ¹⁴ And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the general broke down all the wall of Jerusalem round about. ¹⁵ But Nabuzardan the general carried away captives some of the poor people, and of the rest of the common sort who remained in the city, and of the fugitives that were fled over to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

²⁸ This is the people whom Nabuchodonosor carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews. ²⁹ In the eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, eight hundred and thirty-two souls from Jerusalem. ³⁰ In the three and twentieth year of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuzardan the general carried away of the Jews seven hundred and forty five souls. So all the souls were four thousand six hundred.

²⁵ And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols. ²⁶ And I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will cause you to walk in my commandments, and to keep my judgments, and do them. ²⁸ And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. ²⁹ And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for corn, and will multiply it, and will lay no famine upon you.

² And the Lord delivered into his hands Joakim, the king of Juda, and part of the vessels of the house of God: and he carried them away into the land of Sennaar, to the house of his god, and the vessels he brought into the treasure house of his god.

²⁴ Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the Saint of saints may be anointed.

²⁸ And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy: your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

¹¹ In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, that is fallen: and I will close up the breaches of the walls thereof, and repair what was fallen: and I will rebuild it as in the days of old.

¹ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus the prophet, to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, governor of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, saying:

¹² Then Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and all the remnant of the people hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, and to the words of Aggeus the prophet, as the Lord their God sent him to them: and the people feared before the Lord.

¹⁴ And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zorobabel the son of Salathiel governor of Juda, and the spirit of Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people: and they went in, and did the work in the house of the Lord of Hosts their God.

^{2 (2:3)} Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel the governor of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and to the rest of the people, saying:

^{23 (2:24)} In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, I will take thee, O Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, my servant, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a signet, for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts.

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.

⁸ In that day shall the Lord protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and he that hath offended among them in that day shall be as David: and the house of David, as that of God, as an angel of the Lord in their sight.

² I have loved you, saith the Lord: and you have said: Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob, saith the Lord, and I have loved Jacob, ³ But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert.

¹ The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:

¹¹ And Josias begot Jechonias and his brethren in the transmigration of Babylon. ¹² And after the transmigration of Babylon, Jechonias begot Salathiel. And Salathiel begot Zorobabel.

¹⁸ Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost.

¹⁸ Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost. ¹⁹ Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately. ²⁰ But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost. ²¹ And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins.

²¹ And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins. ²² Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying: ²³ Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. ²⁴ And Joseph rising up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took unto him his wife. ²⁵ And he knew her not till she brought forth her first born son: and he called his name Jesus.

¹ When Jesus therefore was born in Bethlehem of Juda, in the days of king Herod, behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem, ² Saying: Where is he that is born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East, and are come to adore him.

¹³ And after they were departed, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph, saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and fly into Egypt: and be there until I shall tell thee. For it will come to pass that Herod will seek the child to destroy him.

¹⁵ That it might be fulfilled which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying: Out of Egypt have I called my son.

¹⁹ But when Herod was dead, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph in Egypt,

²² But hearing that Archclaus reigned in Judea in the room of Herod his father, he was afraid to go thither: and being warned in sleep retired into the quarters of Galilee. ²³ And coming he dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was said by the prophets: That he shall be called a Nazarene.

¹⁶ And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him.

¹⁷ Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

¹⁷ That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet Isaias, saying: He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.

²⁷ And as Jesus passed from thence, there followed him two blind men crying out and saying, Have mercy on us, O Son of David.

² Now when John had heard in prison the works of Christ: sending two of his disciples he said to him:

¹⁷ That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaias the prophet, saying:

²¹ Yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalized.

³⁵ That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

²² And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grievously troubled by a devil.

⁴² Saying: What think you of Christ? Whose son is he? They say to him: David's. ⁴³ He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying: ⁴⁴ The Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool? ⁴⁵ If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?

¹⁷ They therefore being gathered together, Pilate said: Whom will you that I release to You: Barabbas, or Jesus that is called Christ?

²² Pilate saith to them: What shall I do then with Jesus that is called Christ? They say all: Let him be crucified.

⁵ And the angel answering, said to the women: Fear not you: for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.

²⁰ Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

³ Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joseph, and Jude, and Simon? are not also his sisters here with us? And they were scandalized in regard of him.

²⁰ For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a just and holy man: and kept him, and when he heard him, did many things: and he heard him willingly.

⁴ Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce and to put her away.

¹⁰ And all the multitude of the people was praying without, at the hour of incense. ¹¹ And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense. ¹² And Zachary seeing him, was troubled: and fear fell upon him. ¹³ But the angel said to him: Fear not, Zachary, for thy prayer is heard: and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son. And thou shalt call his name John.

¹³ But the angel said to him: Fear not, Zachary, for thy prayer is heard: and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son. And thou shalt call his name John.

¹⁹ And the angel answering, said to him: I am Gabriel, who stand before God and am sent to speak to thee and to bring thee these good tidings.

²⁵ Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he hath had regard to take away my reproach among men. ²⁶ And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, ²⁷ To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David: and the virgin's name was Mary.

²⁷ To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David: and the virgin's name was Mary. ²⁸ And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. ²⁹ Who having heard, was troubled at his saying and thought with herself what manner of salutation this should be. ³⁰ And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God. ³¹ Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus.

³¹ Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus.

³¹ Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus.

³¹ Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. ³² He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father: and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever.

³² He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father: and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever.

³² He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father: and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever. ³³ And of his kingdom there shall be no end.

³³ And of his kingdom there shall be no end. ³⁴ And Mary said to the angel: How shall this be done, because I know not man?

³⁴ And Mary said to the angel: How shall this be done, because I know not man? ³⁵ And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

³⁵ And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

³⁵ And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. ³⁶ And behold thy cousin Elizabeth, she also hath conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her that is called barren.

³⁶ And behold thy cousin Elizabeth, she also hath conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her that is called barren. ³⁷ Because no word shall be impossible with God. ³⁸ And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it done to me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

⁶⁹ And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant. ⁷⁰ As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who are from the beginning.

⁴ And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem: because he was of the house and family of David.

⁴ And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem: because he was of the house and family of David. ⁵ To be enrolled with Mary his espoused wife, who was with child.

⁷ And she brought forth her first born son and wrapped him up in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger: because there was no room for them in the inn. ⁸ And there were in the same country shepherds watching and keeping the night watches over their flock. ⁹ And behold an angel of the Lord stood by them and the brightness of God shone round about them: and they feared with a great fear. ¹⁰ And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy that shall be to all the people:

¹⁰ And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy that shall be to all the people: ¹¹ For, this day is born to you a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David.

¹¹ For, this day is born to you a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David.

¹¹ For, this day is born to you a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David. ¹² And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger. ¹³ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God and saying: ¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest: and on earth peace to men of good will.

²¹ And after eight days were accomplished, that the child should be circumcised, his name was called JESUS, which was called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

²⁵ And behold there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon: and this man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Ghost was in him.

⁴⁸ And seeing him, they wondered. And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us? Behold thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.

²³ And Jesus himself was beginning about the age of thirty years: being (as it was supposed) the son of Joseph, who was of Heli, who was of Mathat,

²³ And Jesus himself was beginning about the age of thirty years: being (as it was supposed) the son of Joseph, who was of Heli, who was of Mathat, ²⁴ Who was of Levi, who was of Melchi. who was of Janne, who was of Joseph, ²⁵ Who was of Mathathias, who was of Amos, who was of Nahum, who was of Hesli, who was of Nagge, ²⁶ Who was of Mahath, who was of Mathathias, who was of Semei, who was of Joseph, who was of Juda, ²⁷ Who was of Joanna, who was of Reza, who was of Zorobabel, who was of Salathiel, who was of Neri,

²⁷ Who was of Joanna, who was of Reza, who was of Zorobabel, who was of Salathiel, who was of Neri, ²⁸ Who was of Melchi, who was of Addi, who was of Cosan, who was of Helmadan, who was of Her, ²⁹ Who was of Jesus, who was of Eliezer, who was of Jorim, who was of Mathat, who was of Levi, ³⁰ Who was of Simeon, who was of Judas, who was of Joseph, who was of Jona, who was of Eliakim, ³¹ Who was of Melea, who was of Menna, who was of Mathatha, who was of Nathan, who was of David, ³² Who was of Jesse, who was of Obed, who was of Booz, who was of Salmon, who was of Naasson,

³² Who was of Jesse, who was of Obed, who was of Booz, who was of Salmon, who was of Naasson, ³³ Who was of Aminadab, who was of Aram, who was of Esron, who was of Phares, who was of Judas,

³³ Who was of Aminadab, who was of Aram, who was of Esron, who was of Phares, who was of Judas,

³³ Who was of Aminadab, who was of Aram, who was of Esron, who was of Phares, who was of Judas, ³⁴ Who was of Jacob, who was of Isaac, who was of Abraham, who was of Thare, who was of Nachor,

³⁴ Who was of Jacob, who was of Isaac, who was of Abraham, who was of Thare, who was of Nachor, ³⁵ Who was of Sarug, who was of Ragau, who was of Phaleg, who was of Heber, who was of Sale, ³⁶ Who was of Cainan, who was of Arphaxad, who was of Sem, who was Of Noe, who was of Lamech, ³⁷ Who was of Mathusale, who was of Henoch, who was of Jared, who was of Malaleel, who was of Cainan, ³⁸ Who was of Henos, who was of Seth, who was of Adam, who was of God.

²² And all gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said: Is not this the son of Joseph?

²² For these are the days of vengeance, that all things may be fulfilled, that are written.

⁴⁴ And he said to them: These are the words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled which are written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms, concerning me.

¹⁴ And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.

²⁹ The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him; and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.

⁴¹ He findeth first his brother Simon and saith to him: We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.

⁵ His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye. ⁶ Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three measures apiece. ⁷ Jesus saith to them: Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. ⁸ And Jesus saith to them: Draw out now and carry to the chief steward of the feast. And they carried it.

²⁵ The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is called Christ): therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.

⁴² Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of David and from Bethlehem the town where David was?

⁴ And said to him: Master, this woman was even now taken in adultery. ⁵ Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what sayest thou?

³⁵ If he called them gods to whom the word of God was spoken; and the scripture cannot be broken:

³⁸ That the saying of Isaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said: Lord, who hath believed our hearing? And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹ Therefore they could not believe, because Isaias said again: ⁴⁰ He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart and be converted: and I should heal them.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.

²⁵ But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.

¹² While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept: and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition: that the scripture may be fulfilled.

⁹ That the word might be fulfilled which he said: Of them whom thou hast given me, I have not lost any one.

³⁶ For these things were done that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him. ³⁷ And again another scripture saith: They shall look on him whom they pierced.

³⁰ Whereas therefore he was a prophet and knew that God hath sworn to him with an oath, that of the fruit of his loins one should sit upon his throne.

¹⁸ But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

²⁶ To you first, God, raising up his Son, hath sent him to bless you: that every one may convert himself from his wickedness.

¹² Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.

³¹ Him hath God exalted with his right hand, to be Prince and Saviour. to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.

⁸ And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he begot Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day: and Isaac begot Jacob: and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs.

²² Who said: Cornelius, a centurion, a just man and one that feareth God, and having good testimony from all the nation of the Jews, received an answer of an holy angel, to send for thee into his house And to hear words of thee.

²² And when he had removed him, he raised them up David to be king: to whom giving testimony, he said: I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who shall do all my wills. ²³ Of this man's seed, God, according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour Jesus:

²³ Of this man's seed, God, according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour Jesus:

²⁷ For they that inhabited Jerusalem and the rulers thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, judging him, have fulfilled them. ²⁸ And finding no cause of death in him, they desired of Pilate that they might kill him. ²⁹ And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, taking him down from the tree, they laid him in a sepulchre.

³⁸ Be it known therefore to you, men, brethren, that through him forgiveness of sins is preached to you: and from all the things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. ³⁹ In him every one that believeth is justified.

⁹ And the Lord said to Paul in the night, by a vision: Do not fear, but speak. And hold not thy peace,

³ Concerning his Son, who was made to him of the seed of David, according to the flesh,

³ Concerning his Son, who was made to him of the seed of David, according to the flesh, ⁴ Who was predestinated the Son of God in power, according to the spirit of sanctification, by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead:

¹³ For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world: but through the justice of faith.

³ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh.

²⁹ For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son: that he might be the Firstborn amongst many brethren.

⁵ Whose are the fathers and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen.

⁷ Neither are all they that are the seed of Abraham, children: but in Isaac shall thy seed be called. ⁸ That is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh are the children of God: but they that are the children of the promise are accounted for the seed. ⁹ For this is the word of promise: According to this time will I come. And Sara shall have a son. ¹⁰ And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once of Isaac our father. ¹¹ For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil (that the purpose of God according to election might stand): ¹² Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger. ¹³ As it is written: Jacob I have loved: but Esau I have hated.

¹⁹ For God indeed was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their sins. And he hath placed in us the word of reconciliation.

¹⁶ To Abraham were the promises made and to his seed. He saith not: And to his seeds as of many. But as of one: And to thy seed, which is Christ.

⁴ But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law: ⁵ That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might receive the adoption of sons.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it: ²⁶ That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life: ²⁷ That he might present it to himself, a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

²⁰ And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth and the things that are in heaven. ²¹ And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works: ²² Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted and blameless before him: ²³ If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven: whereof I Paul am made a minister.

¹⁶ And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that by me the preaching may be accomplished and that all the Gentiles may hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

²² The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

¹⁴ Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

¹⁴ For it is evident that our Lord sprung out of Juda: in which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.

²⁵ Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us. ²⁶ For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

⁵ Wherefore, when he cometh into the world he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me.

⁷ By faith Noe, having received an answer concerning those things which as yet were not seen, moved with fear, framed the ark for the saving of his house: by the which he condemned the world and was instituted heir of the justice which is by faith. ⁸ By faith he that is called Abraham obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing whither he went.

¹¹ By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to conceive seed, even past the time of age: because she believed that he was faithful who had promised,

¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, ¹⁸ (To whom it was said: In Isaac shalt thy seed be called:)

²⁴ By faith Moses, when he was grown up, denied himself to be the son of Pharao's daughter: ²⁵ Rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God than to have the pleasure of sin for a time: ²⁶ Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasure of the Egyptians. For he looked unto the reward. ²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the fierceness of the king: for he endured, as seeing him that is invisible. ²⁸ By faith he celebrated the pasch and the shedding of the blood: that he who destroyed the firstborn might not touch them. ²⁹ By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry land: which the Egyptians attempting, were swallowed up. ³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, by the going round them seven days. ³¹ By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with the unbelievers, receiving the spies with peace.

³¹ By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with the unbelievers, receiving the spies with peace.

²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar? ²² Seest thou that faith did cooperate with his works and by works faith was made perfect? ²³ And the scripture was fulfilled, saying: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him to justice, and he was called the friend of God. ²⁴ Do you see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only? ²⁵ And in like manner also Rahab the harlot, was not she justified by works, receiving the messengers and sending them out another way?

²⁵ And in like manner also Rahab the harlot, was not she justified by works, receiving the messengers and sending them out another way? ²⁶ For even as the body without the spirit is dead: so also faith without works is dead.

⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

¹ My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just. ² And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

⁵ And you know that he appeared to take away our sins: and in him there is no sin.

⁵ And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth, who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood ⁶ And hath made us a kingdom, and priests to God and his Father. To him be glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.

⁵ Of the tribe of Juda, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of Ruben, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand signed:

¹⁴ And I said to him: My Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who are come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹⁷ For God hath given into their hearts to do that which pleaseth him: that they give their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God be fulfilled.

¹⁶ I, Jesus, have sent my angel, to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and stock of David, the bright and morning star.