Deuteronomy 21 Cross References - EJ2000

¹ ¶ When one is found dead in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit, lying in the field, and it is not known who has slain him, ² then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is dead; ³ and it shall be that the elders of the city which is next unto the dead man shall take a heifer, which has not served, and which has not drawn in the yoke; ⁴ and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which has neither been plowed nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley. ⁵ And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for the LORD thy God has chosen them to minister unto him and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be determined. ⁶ And all the elders of that closest city next to the dead man shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley. ⁷ And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. ⁸ Reconcile thy people Israel, whom thou hast ransomed, O LORD, and impute not the innocent blood shed in the midst of thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them. ⁹ So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD. ¹⁰ ¶ When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God has delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, ¹¹ and seest among the captives a beautiful woman and hast a desire unto her that thou would have her to thy wife, ¹² then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head and pare her nails, ¹³ and she shall put off the clothing of her captivity and shall remain in thine house and bewail her father and her mother a full month, and after that thou shalt go in unto her and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. ¹⁴ And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go free, but thou shalt not sell her at all for money; thou shalt not make merchandise of her because thou hast humbled her. ¹⁵ ¶ When a man has two wives, one beloved and the other hated, and they have born him sons, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is of the one that was hated, ¹⁶ then it shall be, when he makes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the right of the firstborn unto the son of the beloved in preference over the son of the hated, who is indeed the firstborn; ¹⁷ but he shall acknowledge the son of the hated as the firstborn by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his. ¹⁸ ¶ When anyone has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them, ¹⁹ then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him and bring him out unto the elders of his city and unto the gate of his place; ²⁰ and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not hear our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard. ²¹ Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear and fear. ²² And when a man shall have committed a sin worthy of death, and he is to be put to death, and thou shall have hung him on a tree, ²³ his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt without fail bury him that same day (for he that is hanged is accursed of God) that thy land not be defiled, which the LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance.

² that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took for themselves wives of all whom they chose.

¹⁴ ¶ And it came to pass that when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. ¹⁵ The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

⁵ And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. ⁶ But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

³¹ And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. ³² And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit shall this birthright do to me? ³³ And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he swore unto him and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. ³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau of the bread and of the pottage of lentils; and he ate and drank, and rose up, and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy younger daughter.

¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy younger daughter. ¹⁹ And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee than that I should give her to another man; abide with me. ²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

³⁰ And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah and served with him yet another seven years. ³¹ ¶ And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

³³ And she conceived again and gave birth to a son; and said, Because the LORD has heard that I was hated, he has therefore given me this son also; and she called his name Simeon.

² And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her and lay with her and defiled her. ³ And his soul was joined unto Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he fell in love with the damsel and spoke unto her heart.

⁸ And Hamor spoke with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem is joined to your daughter; I pray you give her to him as wife.

³ Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, principal in dignity, and the principal in power.

¹² ¶ Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be lengthened upon the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.

⁷ And if a man should sell his daughter to be a maidslave, she shall not go out as the menslaves do. ⁸ If she pleases not her master, who therefore took her not unto himself to wife, then it is permitted that she be ransomed; and he may not sell her unto a strange nation when he rejects her. ⁹ And if he has betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. ¹⁰ If he takes another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall not diminish. ¹¹ And if he does not do these three things unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

¹⁵ And he that smites his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

¹⁷ In the same manner he that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

⁹ But it shall be that on the seventh day he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows; finally he shall shave off all his hair, and he shall wash his clothes; also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.

²⁵ and the land became defiled; therefore, I visited its iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomited out her inhabitants.

³ Ye shall fear, every man his mother and his father and keep my sabbaths. I AM your God.

⁹ And the daughter of the man who is a priest, if she begins to fornicate, she profanes her father; she shall be burnt with fire.

¹⁶ And he that pronounces the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him; the same with the stranger as with the natural, if he pronounces the Name, he shall be put to death.

¹⁹ And the priest shall charge her by an oath and say unto the woman, If no man has lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone astray from thy husband to uncleanness, thou shalt be clean from this bitter water that brings the curse. ²⁰ But if thou hast gone astray from thy husband and hast defiled thyself and some man has placed seed in thee other than thine husband, ²¹ (the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing) and the priest shall say unto the woman, Let the LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people when the LORD makes thy thigh to fail and thy belly to swell, ²² and this water that causes the curse shall go into thy bowels and cause thy belly to swell and thy thigh to fail. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. ²³ And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water; ²⁴ and he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her as bitter. ²⁵ Then the priest shall take the present of jealousy out of the woman’s hand and shall wave the offering before the LORD and offer it before the altar. ²⁶ And the priest shall take a handful of the present, in memory of her, and incense it upon the altar and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water. ²⁷ He shall give her, therefore, the water to drink, and it shall come to pass, that if she is defiled and has betrayed her husband, that the water that works the curse shall enter into her in bitterness, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fail; and that woman shall be a curse among her people. ²⁸ But if the woman is not defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free and shall conceive seed.

⁹ And if anyone dies very suddenly beside them, and they have defiled the head of their Nazariteship, then they shall shave their head in the day of their cleansing; on the seventh day shall they shave it.

²² ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, ²³ Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, Thus shall ye bless the sons of Israel, saying unto them, ²⁴ The LORD bless thee and keep thee; ²⁵ the LORD make his face shine upon thee and have mercy on thee; ²⁶ the LORD lift up his face upon thee, and place peace in thee. ²⁷ And they shall place my name upon the sons of Israel, and I will bless them.

² This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak unto the sons of Israel that they bring thee a red heifer, perfect, in which there is no blemish, and upon which there has never been placed a yoke;

⁴ And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the princes of the people and disjoint them before the LORD hanging them from a tree against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.

¹⁸ But all the female children that have not known a man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.

³³ So ye shall not pollute the land where ye are, for this blood shall defile the land; and the land cannot be reconciled of the blood that is shed therein except by the blood of the one that shed it. ³⁴ Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD dwell among the sons of Israel.

²⁶ Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house lest thou become an anathema like it, but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is anathema.

⁵ And know in thine heart, that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD thy God chastens thee.

⁸ At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.

⁵ And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death because he has spoken rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and ransomed you out of the house of slavery, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.

¹⁰ And thou must stone him with stones, and he shall die because he has sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt from the house of slavery; ¹¹ so that all Israel shall hear and fear and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

¹⁸ when thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, keeping all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

¹⁸ ¶ Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all the gates of thy cities, which the LORD thy God shall give thee throughout thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with just (and righteous) judgment.

¹⁸ ¶ Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all the gates of thy cities, which the LORD thy God shall give thee throughout thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with just (and righteous) judgment. ¹⁹ Thou shalt not twist that which is right; thou shalt not respect persons neither take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

⁵ then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman who has committed that wicked thing unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones until they die.

⁸ ¶ If a matter arises that is too difficult for thee in judgment between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates, then thou shalt arise and go up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, ⁹ and thou shalt come unto the priests, the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days and enquire, and they shall show thee the word of judgment. ¹⁰ And thou shalt do according to the word which those of that place which the LORD shall choose shall show thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall show thee. ¹¹ According to the word of the law which they shall show thee and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not decline from the word which they shall show thee, to the right hand nor to the left. ¹² And the man that will act presumptuously and will not hearken unto the priest that stands to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die; and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

⁵ for the LORD thy God has chosen him out of all thy tribes to stand to minister unto the name of the LORD, him and his sons all the days.

⁶ lest the avenger {Heb. redeemer} of the blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him, whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.

¹² then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger {Heb. redeemer} of blood, and he shall die. ¹³ Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with thee.

¹⁷ then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, who shall be in those days;

¹⁹ then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother; so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. ²⁰ And those who remain shall hear and fear and shall never again commit any such evil among you.

¹⁰ ¶ When thou comest near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. ¹¹ And it shall be, if it makes thee an answer of peace and opens unto thee, that all the people that are found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. ¹² And if it will make no peace with thee but will make war against thee, and if thou should besiege it, ¹³ and if the LORD thy God should deliver it into thine hands, then thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword. ¹⁴ Only the women and the little ones and the animals and all that is in the city, all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat of the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God has given thee. ¹⁵ Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these Gentiles. ¹⁶ Only of the cities of these peoples, which the LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breathes;

² then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is dead;

¹⁹ and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them unto the father of the damsel because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

²¹ then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die because she has wrought folly in Israel, to fornicate in her father’s house; so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

²⁴ then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones, and they shall die; the damsel because she did not cry out, being in the city, and the man because he has humbled his neighbour’s wife; so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

²⁶ but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbour and murders him, even so is this matter.

²⁹ then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver and she shall be his wife; because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

⁷ And if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate unto the elders and say, My husband’s brother refuses to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.

¹⁶ Cursed is he that dishonours his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

¹² Therefore, the sons of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but shall turn their backs before their enemies because they have been in the anathema; neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the anathema from among you.

²⁹ And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city and raise a great heap of stones upon it, that remains unto this day.

²⁶ And afterward Joshua smote them and slew them and caused them to be hanged on five trees; and they hung upon the trees until the evening.

²⁶ And afterward Joshua smote them and slew them and caused them to be hanged on five trees; and they hung upon the trees until the evening. ²⁷ And at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded that they take them down off the trees and cast them into the cave in which they had been hid, and they laid great stones in the cave’s mouth, which remain until this very day.

⁴⁴ And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he had sworn unto their fathers; and none of their enemies could stand before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hands.

² And he came up and told his father and his mother, saying, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore get her for me to wife. ³ Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren or among all my people that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleases me well.

²⁴ Behold, here is my virgin daughter and his concubine; I will bring them out now, humble them, and do with them what seems good unto you, but unto this man do not commit this vile folly.

⁴ And when the day would come, Elkanah would sacrifice, and he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters. ⁵ But unto Hannah he would give a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah, even though the LORD had shut up her womb.

¹⁶ This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD lives, ye are worthy to die because ye have not kept your master, the LORD’s anointed. And now see where the king’s spear is and the cruse of water that was at his head.

²⁸ And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner, the son of Ner.

¹² Then David commanded his young men, and they slew them and cut off their hands and their feet and hung them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

¹⁴ I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the sons of men;

⁸ the LORD has returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom, thy son; and, behold, thou art taken in thy evil because thou art a bloody man.

⁶ Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will disjoint them, hanging them from a tree, unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.

⁹ and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they disjointed them hanging them from a tree in the hill before the LORD; and they fell all seven together and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

³⁰ And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in my eyes and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. ³¹ But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart; neither did he depart from the sins of Jeroboam, who had caused Israel to sin.

⁴ and also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.

¹ ¶ Now the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; and he was not counted as the firstborn. ² For Judah prevailed above his brethren and was their prince, but the birthright was Joseph’s:)

² For Judah prevailed above his brethren and was their prince, but the birthright was Joseph’s:)

¹³ The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was separated, that he should be dedicated to the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto him and to bless in his name for ever.

¹⁰ Of Hosah, of the sons of Merari: Simri, the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief)

¹⁹ who bore him sons: Jeush and Shamariah and Zaham. ²⁰ And after her he took Maachah, the daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah and Attai and Ziza and Shelomith. ²¹ But Rehoboam loved Maachah, the daughter of Absalom, above all his wives and his concubines (for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines and begat twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.) ²² And Rehoboam made Abijah, the son of Maachah, as head and prince among his brethren, for he thought to make him king.

³ And their father had given them great gifts of silver and of gold and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.

³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water and make my hands never so clean;

²¹ For what delight shall he have in his house after him, being cut off in the number of his months? ²² Shall he teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those that are high? ²³ This one shall die in the full strength of his beauty, being completely at ease and quiet.

³¹ Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he has done? ³² He shall yet be brought to the grave and shall remain in the tomb. ³³ The clods of the river valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall be drawn after him, as there were innumerable before him. ³⁴ How then do ye comfort me in vain, given that your answers remain as falsehood?

⁶ Thou shalt destroy those that speak lies: the LORD will abominate the bloody and deceitful man.

³ O LORD my God, if I have done this: if there is iniquity in my hands, ⁴ if I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me, then let my persecutor escape without retribution.

¹² When he makes requirement for blood, he remembers them; he does not forget the cry of the humble.

¹² Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.

⁶ ¶ I will wash my hands in innocency, so I will walk near unto thine altar, O LORD:

¹⁰ ¶ Hearken, O daughter, and consider and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house; ¹¹ so shall the king greatly desire thy beauty; and bow before him, for he is thy Lord.

² Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

⁷ ¶ Remove the sin in me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

¹⁴ ¶ Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

¹³ Verily, in vain have I cleansed my heart and washed my hands in innocency

³⁶ He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.

⁸ My son, hearken unto the chastening of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

²⁵ Lust not after her beauty in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eyes.

²⁴ ¶ He that cuts short chastening hates his son, but he that loves him chastens him early.

⁵ ¶ The fool despises his father’s chastening, but he that regards reproof shall become prudent.

¹⁸ ¶ Chasten thy son while there is hope, but do not stir up thy soul to destroy him.

²⁶ ¶ He that steals from his father and chases away his mother is a son that causes shame and brings reproach.

¹ ¶ Wine makes a mocker, and beer a reveler, and whoever errs concerning them shall never be wise.

²⁰ ¶ Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his fire shall be put out in obscure darkness.

¹⁵ ¶ Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

¹³ Do not withhold correction from the child; for if thou shall beat him with the rod, he shall not die. ¹⁴ Thou shalt beat him with the rod and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

¹⁹ ¶ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and straighten thy heart in the way. ²⁰ Do not be among those who are drunk with wine; nor among gluttonous eaters of food; ²¹ for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall cause them to wear rags.

²⁹ ¶ For who shall be the woe? for who shall be the woe? for who contention? for who quarrels? for who the wounds without cause? who shall have redness of eyes? ³⁰ For those that tarry long at the wine; those that go to seek mixed wine. ³¹ Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its colour in the cup, it goes down smoothly. ³² At the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. ³³ Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. ³⁴ Yea, thou shalt be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea or as he that sleeps at the rudder. ³⁵ They have stricken me, thou shalt say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not; when I shall awake, I will seek it yet again.

¹⁷ ¶ A man that does violence to the blood of any person shall flee all the way to the grave, and no one shall sustain him.

²⁴ ¶ Whosoever robs his father or his mother and says, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of the destroyer.

¹⁷ ¶ Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; he shall give delight unto thy soul.

¹¹ There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

¹⁷ The eye that mocks at his father, and despises the teaching of his mother, the ravens shall pluck it out of the river, and the young eagles shall eat it.

¹⁰ ¶ Aleph Who can find a valiant woman? for her price is far above precious stones.

³⁰ Schin Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but the woman that fears the LORD shall be praised.

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

⁵ Why should I chastise you any more? Ye will revolt more and more; every head is sick, and every heart faint.

²¹ For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against himself: the earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no longer cover her slain.

²² For though thou wash thee with nitre and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is sealed before me, saith the Lord GOD.

³ O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they did not feel it; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive chastisement; they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

¹⁵ But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and upon its inhabitants; for of a truth the LORD has sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

¹⁸ ¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast afflicted me, and I was chastised as an indomitable bullock: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

⁷ In thee they have despised father and mother; in the midst of thee they have dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee they have vexed the fatherless and the widow.

³ And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

²⁴ And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with a multitude of peoples, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about, and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their laws. ²⁵ And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in furor; they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and what is left shall fall by the sword; they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy remnant shall be devoured by the fire.

¹³ In thy perverse filthiness thou shalt die because I have cleansed thee, and thou didst not cleanse thyself from thy uncleanness; thou shalt never cleanse thyself again, until I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

¹¹ I have overthrown some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the fire; and ye never returned unto me, said the LORD. ¹² Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I must do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

¹⁴ And they cried unto the LORD and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for the soul of this man, and do not lay upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.

³ And it shall come to pass, that when anyone else shall prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD; and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesies.

⁷ For the priest’s lips keep wisdom, and they seek the law at his mouth; for he is an angel of the LORD of the hosts.

²⁸ Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and humble of heart, and ye shall find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye murdered between the temple and the altar.

⁶⁶ What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.

²⁴ When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it. ²⁵ Then all the people answered and said, His blood be on us and on our children.

⁶⁴ Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.

²⁶ If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and even his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁷ And whosoever does not bear his cross {Gr. stauros – stake} and come after me cannot be my disciple.

³³ And when they were come to the place, which is called of the Skull, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

³¹ ¶ The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross {Gr. stauros – stake} on the sabbath day (for that sabbath day was a high day) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.

³¹ ¶ The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross {Gr. stauros – stake} on the sabbath day (for that sabbath day was a high day) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. ³² Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who were crucified with him. ³³ But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already, they did not break his legs, ³⁴ but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith blood and water came out. ³⁵ And he that saw it gives testimony, and his testimony is true, and he knows that he says the truth, that ye also might believe. ³⁶ For these things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. ³⁷ And again another scripture says, They shall look on him whom they pierced. ³⁸ ¶ After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore and took the body of Jesus.

²⁹ whom I found to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

¹¹ For if I am an offender or have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if there are none of these things of which these accuse me, no one may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.

²⁵ But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death and that he himself has appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.

³¹ and when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.

⁴ And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet vengeance does not suffer him to live.

²⁹ ¶ For unto those whom he knew beforehand, he also marked out beforehand the way that they might be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

³ For I could wish that myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren, those who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,

³ For the magistrates are not a terror unto those who do good, but to the doer of evil. Is thy desire therefore to not fear the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same; ⁴ for he is a minister of God for thy good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain, for he is a minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil.

⁶ For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn; but if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

²² If any man does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema. Our Lord has come.

²¹ For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

¹³ Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree),

²² that ye put off everything concerning the old way of life, that is, the old man who corrupts himself according to deceitful desires,

¹ ¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ² Honour thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise), ³ that it may be well with thee, and thou may live long on the earth.

⁸ and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross {Gr. stauros – stake}.

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, exercise yourselves in these things.

¹⁵ who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted us, and they do not please God and are contrary to all men, ¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up the measure of their sins always, for the wrath of God has come upon them to the uttermost.

¹⁰ but in foods and drinks and different washings and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of correction.

⁹ Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence; is it not much better to be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live? ¹⁰ For they verily for a few days chastened us as it seemed good unto them, but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ It is true that no chastening at present seems to be cause for joy, but rather for grief; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto those who are exercised by it.

¹⁶ lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. ¹⁷ For ye know how that afterward, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

²¹ Because for this were ye called: for the Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps ²² who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth, ²³ who, when he was cursed, did not return the curse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but committed himself to him that judges righteously; ²⁴ he himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose wound ye were healed.

¹⁸ ¶ For the Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in spirit,